13 August 2010: 13 Lucky Songs

[Lightnin' Rod]

WOS2 "Lucky Man," which is silly poetry and contradicts AL's unironic "luck" theme.

Pretty melody though.  Guilty pleasure, in my case.

[radical347]

Well I must say I would have liked to hear "Lucky" in its entirety, although I did have the feeling she was going to cut it off as soon as it came on.  Especially since she played it after everything else.  Not that I can complain too much; she's thrown us more than enough curveballs lately.

[Big Fingers McGee]

Well I must say I would have liked to hear "Lucky" in its entirety, although I did have the feeling she was going to cut it off as soon as it came on.  Especially since she played it after everything else.  Not that I can complain too much; she's thrown us more than enough curveballs lately.

Did she seriously play Britney Spears?

BOS Mick

[radical347]

Well I must say I would have liked to hear "Lucky" in its entirety, although I did have the feeling she was going to cut it off as soon as it came on.  Especially since she played it after everything else.  Not that I can complain too much; she's thrown us more than enough curveballs lately.

Did she seriously play Britney Spears?

BOS Mick

She played about the first five seconds and then she was like "sorry Britney, we already played our 13 lucky songs."  I think she did something like this with the Macarena awhile back.

[Tinka Cat]

8/13/10-Friday The 13th!! An all lucky songs "Lucky 13 Set"!!

 1.  Lene Lovich- Lucky Number
 2.  Elvis Presley- Good Luck Charm
(Movie: Austin Powers-Dr Evil)
 3.  Paul McCartney & Wings- With A Little Luck
 4.  Rod Stewart- Some Guys Have All The Luck
(News: Lucky the cat survives 26 story fall)
 5.  JoBoxers- Just Got Lucky
 6.  Turtles- She'd Rather Be With Me
(Movie: Lucky Number Slevin)
 7.  Madonna- Lucky Star
(TV: Golden Girls)
 8.  Mick Jagger- Lucky In Love
(Movie: Guys and Dolls-Brando)
 9.  Frank Sinatra- Luck Be A Lady Tonight (BOS!!)
10.  Tom Petty- Even The Losers
(News: Lucky Lotto)
11.  Emerson Lake & Palmer- Lucky Man
(Ad: Lucky Strikes)
12.  John Lee Hooker w/Robert Cray- Mr Lucky
13.  Social Distortion- Bad Luck

[Big Fingers McGee]

Well I must say I would have liked to hear "Lucky" in its entirety, although I did have the feeling she was going to cut it off as soon as it came on.  Especially since she played it after everything else.  Not that I can complain too much; she's thrown us more than enough curveballs lately.

Did she seriously play Britney Spears?

BOS Mick

She played about the first five seconds and then she was like "sorry Britney, we already played our 13 lucky songs."  I think she did something like this with the Macarena awhile back.

That's pretty funny - I bet she played the part that goes "This is a song about a girl named Lucky", and that was it.

[RGMike]

WOS Frankie's "Luck Be a Lady."  I hate big-band vocal delivery.

er, wha??  Frank was long past his big band period by then, so I dunno *what* that means, unless you hate swingin' Nelson Riddle-ish arrangements.

Kudos to AL for one of several inspired choices there  -- gotta love the Madonna too. And the Lovich tune was making its 2nd appearance in the AL era. Gawd bless AL's love of late-'70s New Wave.  And while I don't dislike Rod's cover of "SGHATL", the orig by the Persuaders would've really blown my mind, I consider it as underrated as I consider "Thin Line Between Love & Hate" overrated. Looking forward to the replay.

[Gazoo]

WOS Frankie's "Luck Be a Lady."  I hate big-band vocal delivery.

er, wha??  Frank was long past his big band period by then, so I dunno *what* that means, unless you hate swingin' Nelson Riddle-ish arrangements.

I don't draw (or even know) a distinction between the two; I dislike it all.  Sorry.   

[ggould]

WOS Frankie's "Luck Be a Lady."  I hate big-band vocal delivery.

er, wha??  Frank was long past his big band period by then, so I dunno *what* that means, unless you hate swingin' Nelson Riddle-ish arrangements.

I don't draw (or even know) a distinction between the two; I dislike it all.  Sorry.   

While I don't normally agree with you guys awarding points for rarity, this is so out of the ordinary, it really intrigues me.  Hope to hear it on the replay tomorrow.

[RGMike]

WOS2 "Lucky Man," which is silly poetry and contradicts AL's unironic "luck" theme.

you don't like the kitty cat synthesizer sounds?   (sorry, I always picture my cat playing the Moog here...)

indeed, that rivals Daryl Dragon's "Muskrat Love" noodling for anthropomorphic musicality.

[RGMike]

Just got off BART and turned on the radio to...Just Got Lucky - JoBoxers.  A good sign indeed!  BOS2

"I'm feeling easy and I'm feeling Jake"

[ggould]

WOS2 "Lucky Man," which is silly poetry and contradicts AL's unironic "luck" theme.

you don't like the kitty cat synthesizer sounds?   (sorry, I always picture my cat playing the Moog here...)

indeed, that rivals Daryl Dragon's "Muskrat Love" noodling for anthropomorphic musicality.

This is a sample clip of the song I always think of when I hear "Lucky Man"  I may have talked about it before, but I was finally able to extract a sample clip.

http://ggould.com/mp3/Minotaur.mp3

from "Moog: The Electric Eclectics of Dick Hyman" 1969.  The song is called The Minotaur

[RGMike]

This is a sample clip of the song I always think of when I hear "Lucky Man"  I may have talked about it before, but I was finally able to extract a sample clip.

http://ggould.com/mp3/Minotaur.mp3

from "Moog: The Electric Eclectics of Dick Hyman" 1969.  The song is called The Minotaur

Damn -- Hyman shoulda sued. And ELP's Tarkus LP is full of that kinda stuff.

[ggould]

This is a sample clip of the song I always think of when I hear "Lucky Man"  I may have talked about it before, but I was finally able to extract a sample clip.

http://ggould.com/mp3/Minotaur.mp3

from "Moog: The Electric Eclectics of Dick Hyman" 1969.  The song is called The Minotaur

Damn -- Hyman shoulda sued. And ELP's Tarkus LP is full of that kinda stuff.

Well, partly that's just the way the Moog sounded, but you do hear the resemblance I've heard too, right?  He seems to cop some licks pretty directly.

[ggould]

too little, too late

I just remebered what would have been a good choice: Alan Price Set, title song from "O Lucky Man"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK3P97RfVaI