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Main Discussion Area => KFOG's 10@10 => Topic started by: RGMike on June 14, 2012, 07:49:36 PM
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We're getting 10 songs about Fathers (and not a "dad's favorite songs" with recorded dedicatons like last year).
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We're getting 10 songs about Fathers (and not a "dad's favorite songs" with recorded dedicatons like last year).
Lemme guess: Cat Stevens, John Hiatt, maybe Mike & the Mechanics. All pretty meh. But please, lawd, no Harry Chapin!
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But please, lawd, no Harry Chapin!
But pa, that one always makes me cry. :o
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Possibly Everclear. But probably not Madonna.
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Perry Como leads off. Definite gearchange from 1995.
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Papa loves mambo! BOS1 Perry Como!
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BCOS, Wally and Ward.
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"oh daddy, when ya gonna put on some stretch pants?" er... what??
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BOS2 Homer.
VHM Mr Simon. Still say Eminem roobed him of his only shot at an Oscar that year.
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Who's this following Paul Simon? Ben Folds?
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surprise BOS3 Ben Folds.
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surprise BOS3 Ben Folds.
Definitely. It seems as if Folds was/is heavily influenced by Joe Jackson.
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VHM Cos.
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Cosby falls under "semi-guilty displeasure".
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sounds like Hiatt.
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Cosby falls under "semi-guilty displeasure".
I'll admit that went on a bit long. Not one of his best bits.
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sounds like Hiatt.
and smells like it too. WOS1, AL played this one 2 years ago and it is just fucking ENDLESS.
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sounds like Hiatt.
and smells like it too. WOS1, AL played this one 2 years ago and it is just fucking ENDLESS.
Totally disagree. I found it very entertaining.
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sounds like Hiatt.
and smells like it too. WOS1, AL played this one 2 years ago and it is just fucking ENDLESS.
I think the Hiatt tune is a good explanation for why single versions are made.
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ah, but the Cat Man: sublime. BOS4.
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LN: Living Years. Sorry, I do realize that 'promotes' me one ring of hell.
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What was that movie clip? Sounded like Michael J. Fox.
I'll ditto the LN for Living Years. Snoooooze...
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Tony Soprano: not a great father. But he'd be a helluva "daddy", if you get my drift.
BOS5 Mike + Mechanics, best song of its kind, ever
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LN: Living Years. Sorry, I do realize that 'promotes' me one ring of hell.
I totally understand -- it is rather overplayed. I just think that, as songs intended to get you a bit choked up go, it's actually very well-written and restrained. A *smart* tearjerker.
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BOS6 Chuck Berry just because he's Chuck Berry.
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I should WOS "Family Guy" since I think it's one of the worst-written shows, like, ever. Seth McFarlane: luckiest mediocre talent since Ringo.
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Hope I didn't miss Adrian Belew
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Fathead. Oy. WOS3.
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Hope I didn't miss Adrian Belew
Yes. Yes you did.
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Fathead. Oy. WOS3.
Yeah, it's putting this boy back into snoozeland.
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OMFG: "Peppermint Lump"!!! uber-BOS7 and a most welcome bustout, methinks.
If you're not aware this early-'80s 1979 gem was a little British girl named Angie... produced by Pete Townshend.
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New to Me
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LN: Living Years. Sorry, I do realize that 'promotes' me one ring of hell.
I totally understand -- it is rather overplayed. I just think that, as songs intended to get you a bit choked up go, it's actually very well-written and restrained. A *smart* tearjerker.
Strangely enough, I agree with Mike! For me, it also happens that whatever year this song was out, I attended a memorial for a father of a preschool friend of my daughters, who died suddenly of heart failure. I heard the song on the radio on the way home after the wake.
Enjoy every sandwich!
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LN: Living Years. Sorry, I do realize that 'promotes' me one ring of hell.
I totally understand -- it is rather overplayed. I just think that, as songs intended to get you a bit choked up go, it's actually very well-written and restrained. A *smart* tearjerker.
Strangely enough, I agree with Mike! For me, it also happens that whatever year this song was out, I attended a memorial for a father of a preschool friend of my daughters, who died suddenly of heart failure. I heard the song on the radio on the way home after the wake.
Enjoy every sandwich!
Indeed!
I still remember the first time I heard it, one morning while getting ready for work. It was the "Z-100 Morning Zoo" in NYC and the deejay prefaced by saying it was very moving. I thought "yeah, whatever" -- songs almost never get me choked up -- but it got to me. And yet stepping back and looking at it it really isn't maudlin in the manner of Bobby Goldsboro's "Honey" or (gawd help us) "The Christmas Shoes". It's just exceptionally well-written, sez me.
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6/15/12: a set for Dad!
1. Perry Como - Papa Loves Mambo
(TV: Leave It To Beaver: A woman's place is in the home. How come you do the outside cookin'?)
2. Adrian Belew - Oh Daddy
(TV: Simpsons - Homer: Has anyone seen my little girl? I'll come down and save you.)...
3. Paul Simon - Father and Daughter
4. Ben Folds Five - Gracie
(Comedy: Bill Cosby - "Got to cook breakfast. Chocolate Cake.")
5. John Hiatt - Like Your Dad Did
(TV: Happy Days - Howard Cunningham - No that he's older we should be closer. Marion: Invite him to the Leopard Convention")
6. Cat Stevens - Father and Son
(TV: Sopranos - Tony (James Gandolfini) Everybody's an idiot to you .. You spend all your time sitting on the couch perfecting that pissy look on your face.")
7. Mike & the Mechanics - The Living Years
(TV: Family Guy - Real men have a beer and project their inadequacies on others.")
8. Chuck Berry - Dear Dad
(TV: Family Guy - Meg, are you implying that Rosie O'Donnell can't drive?:)
9. John Mayer - Daughters
(TV: Little House on the Prairie - TV: Little House on the Prairie - Charles (Michael Landon) tells Laura (Melissa Gilbert) "Now that's what life's all about: laughing and loving each other. And knowing that people aren't really gone when they die.")
10. Angie feat. Pete Townsend - Peppermint Lump