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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 18, 2019 15:45:39 GMT -5
Most listened to songs of 2018
#10 - "3321 Las Mentiras Blvd." - Andy's Automatics
They're back with the first entry in the top ten. I guess you could say I like these guys.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 18, 2019 17:01:31 GMT -5
Most listened to songs of 2018
#9 - "If I Had a Boat" - Lyle Lovett
If I had a boat...I'd have this song playing on it a lot. I was reasonably late to the altar of Lyle Lovett. But he is indeed the real deal as a songwriter and as a performer. I really love this song. I suspect it's been in the top twenty for well over a decade.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 21, 2019 14:22:17 GMT -5
Most listened to songs of 2018
#8 - "Let's Kill Saturday Night" - Robbie Fulks
This song hits my nostalgia buttons. Feels like weekends with my high school buddies. Yeah, there's a bit more there than that. But the song still feels like good times.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 21, 2019 14:26:55 GMT -5
Most listened to songs of 2018
#7 - "12 Inch 3 Speed Oscillating Fan" - Red Meat
I'm a bit surprised this one is so high. It's a fun song by a great group that is certainly underappreciated. And odes to home appliances are few and far between. I suspect it may be because it was so damn hot in the summer.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 21, 2019 19:53:25 GMT -5
Most listened to songs of 2018
#6 - "Time Flies" - Jim Lauderdale
The title track off Lauderdale's newest album just hits all the right buttons. This certainly fits into the "damn I'm getting old" genre. Definitely one of the best singles from the last year for me.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 21, 2019 20:07:16 GMT -5
Most listened to songs of 2018
#5 - "Molotov" - Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
Molotov starts at 6:02 on this one. But the whole damn video just belongs on repeat.
This was my first favorite song on the "Nashville Sound" album. I'm not sure if it still is. But damn it's a great track. It's all about growing older and possibly growing up. And maybe not being quite what you wanted to be...and maybe not being what you want to be right now.
Have I mentioned that Isbell is the best songwriter we have working right now. Because he is.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 22, 2019 16:50:38 GMT -5
Most listened to songs of 2018
#4 - "Mr. Jukebox" - Joshua Hedley
The title track from one of my two favorite albums of 2018. Hedley is the poster child for neo-classic country. Equally adept at honky-tonk and countrypolitan. Loved this track from the second I first heard it.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 22, 2019 17:14:15 GMT -5
Most listened to songs of 2018
#3 - "Rollin' With the Flow" - Charlie Rich
Ahhh...Charlie Rich. Such incredible talent and completely unsure what to do with it. Rich started out with Rockabilly (and I like his Sun and Smash work quite a bit). Found his greatest success with Countrypolitan filtered through Billy Sherrill's production. And was largely forgotten when he released his last, and in my opinion, greatest album...which was perilously close to being a vocal standards album.
This song belongs to the "Damn I'm getting old" playlist and is like an old friend. It was Rich's last Country #1. And it's just a great song about not giving up to encroaching age.
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Post by berkley on Jan 23, 2019 1:35:19 GMT -5
I have a nice Charlie Rich compilation that spans his whole career from the rockabilly days - which was something of a revelation to me when I bought it in the mid-90s, I believe it was. Not sure if this particular track is on it, doesn't sound familiar on listening to the youtube. It was the earlier stuff that impressed me when I was listening to it a lot. But he's one of the handful of big-name country artists whose 70s stuff I can enjoy - most of it was too over-produced for my taste. But Rich had the kind of voice that could still sound good over a string arrangement, and the right material, too.
I also remember being struck by his personality, as conveyed in the liner notes - he was an interesting character, prone to depression and very sensitive to criticism - not at all the sort of "hard man" type of image that a lot of country (and R & B) artists of the era seemed to project.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 23, 2019 13:23:33 GMT -5
Most listened to songs of 2018
#2 - "Photograph" - Ringo Starr
Not necessarily the song that one would expect for me to have at #2. But I've had a lot of shit going on in the last couple of years and there you have it.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 23, 2019 13:37:45 GMT -5
I have a nice Charlie Rich compilation that spans his whole career from the rockabilly days - which was something of a revelation to me when I bought it in the mid-90s, I believe it was. Not sure if this particular track is on it, doesn't sound familiar on listening to the youtube. It was the earlier stuff that impressed me when I was listening to it a lot. But he's one of the handful of big-name country artists whose 70s stuff I can enjoy - most of it was too over-produced for my taste. But Rich had the kind of voice that could still sound good over a string arrangement, and the right material, too. I also remember being struck by his personality, as conveyed in the liner notes - he was an interesting character, prone to depression and very sensitive to criticism - not at all the sort of "hard man" type of image that a lot of country (and R & B) artists of the era seemed to project. Rich developed a very serious drinking problem when he was at his peak in the 70s. It took a toll on his career and he basically went into retirement for most of the 80s. He also wasn't producing hits, but I think the two went hand in hand. In 1992 he released "Pictures and Paintings" which was jazzy and closer to a vocal standards album than country. Rich had always had eclectic influences and I consider it his best album and the best representation of him as an all-around artist.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 23, 2019 13:51:30 GMT -5
Most listened to songs of 2018
#1 "If You Could Read My Mind" - Gordon Lightfoot
So...yeah...not really what one would expect. Seriously the craftsmanship of the lyrics on this song just boggle my mind. This is as well crafted lyrically as any song I can think of.
"If I could read your mind, love, What a tale your thoughts could tell. Just like a paperback novel, The kind the drugstores sell. Then you reached the part where the heartaches come, The hero would be me. But heroes often fail"
Yeah. That last line kills me. Heroes aren't supposed to fail. But they do.
Lotta shit going on the last couple of years.
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Post by berkley on Jan 24, 2019 1:34:16 GMT -5
I've always loved Lightfoot's stuff. This is one of his best tunes and, I agree, definitely one of his best lyrics. He was never going to be the kind of wizard wordsmith Bob Dylan was but he was more than capable of coming up with a few inspired lines from time to time, though perhaps more prone to fall into the banal on occasion as well. But this was one of his most inspired efforts, and fit the melancholy of the melody so well. One of the best Canadian pop musicians and songwriters of all time - I'd say one of the best from anywhere, period.
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Post by berkley on Jan 24, 2019 2:03:06 GMT -5
Not to interrupt Slam's thread - which I want to comment on in detail later, right now I'm limiting myself to the songs or artists I already know - but quick question: does anyone have a recommendation for a comprehensive Hank Williams collection, whether a box set or "deluxe edition" multi-disc cd? I know you can find all the hits on youtube or wherever, but I'm interested in something that goes beyond that (if such a thing exists).
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 24, 2019 10:27:58 GMT -5
Not to interrupt Slam's thread - which I want to comment on in detail later, right now I'm limiting myself to the songs or artists I already know - but quick question: does anyone have a recommendation for a comprehensive Hank Williams collection, whether a box set or "deluxe edition" multi-disc cd? I know you can find all the hits on youtube or wherever, but I'm interested in something that goes beyond that (if such a thing exists). It's definitely not my thread. It used to be Ish's. As far as Hank Williams...the gold standard has always been 40 Greatest Hits which was put out by Mercury in '78. But I'm guessing you want something more comprehensive than that. Mercury put out a boxed set in 1998 called The Complete Hank Williams. That's probably what you're looking for, if you can find it and want to drop the coin for it. Though I did just check and it is on Spotify.
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