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Post by berkley on Mar 4, 2017 1:01:17 GMT -5
Disco song by non-disco artist - this has to be one of my favourites:
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 4, 2017 1:08:58 GMT -5
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 4, 2017 1:14:42 GMT -5
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Post by berkley on Mar 4, 2017 2:43:52 GMT -5
Speaking of Rod Stewart's Do Ya Think I'm Sexy, has everyone heard the Bobby Womack song I assume he lifted the riff from (unless Womack took it from somewhere else himself)?
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 5, 2017 20:50:06 GMT -5
Music Poll #2Tell us about your music collection What formats are your current collection-vinyl/ cd/ mp3 files etc. Are you still actively building your collection? Roughly how big is your collection? What music genres do you collect? I'll be back later with my info.You go first
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Post by Rob Allen on Mar 6, 2017 18:55:33 GMT -5
I always thought of this song as "Disco Dead":
Here's a more recent version, from their 50th anniversary shows in July 2015 with Trey Anastasio:
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 6, 2017 20:18:48 GMT -5
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 6, 2017 21:24:43 GMT -5
Some music related items:
Watched the DVD documentary Oasis:Supersonic which covers the band from their beginnings until their peak in 1997 and the Knebworth festival. It's an authorized film, and you get to see everything from home video, recording studio footage, TV appearances, live concerts and just them monkeying around. I liked the band in the late nineties, didn't agree with their claim that they were the greatest back then, but do now understand why Liam Gallegher is considered one of the biggest douche-bags of modern rock
Put a reserve request for the DVD documentary Gimme Danger by director Jim Jarmusch that tells the story of Iggy Pop and the Stooges
Picked up two audiobooks from the library this week
Testimony by Robbie Robertson
Not Dead Yet by Phil Collins
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Post by berkley on Mar 6, 2017 23:58:27 GMT -5
BTW, that version of Daddy's Little Girl by the usually reliable Al Martino was truly awful, but I like this one by the Mills Brothers:
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 7, 2017 0:12:25 GMT -5
Tell us about your music collection
My, we got some bashful folks around here
As for me, I built up my vinyl album collection over the course of 20 years throughout the 1970's and 1980's. Before that my music was on reel-to-reel tape and 45RPM singles. By the end of the 80's, I lost interest in keeping up with the latest music. Pretty much disenchanted by then, radio stations were predictable and unexciting, tired of MTV and didn't want to get into re-buying albums on CD. By that time I had about 3,000 albums
But in the late 90's I was bitten by the music bug again. This time, of course there was no choice, I started catching up with CDs. And started converting my collection to CD format as well. When all was said and done, by about 2005, I had replaced everything I owned on CD plus more. Albums not available on CD I was able to get someone who did a great job scanning the LP over for the CD case as well as the CD label. You'd think it was professionally released. Sold all my vinyls to save space and recoup some money.
Haven't bought a CD since 2005. After another breather of close to 8 years I began to back up everything to MP3 files as well as scoured the public libraries for CDs to download. Fortunately, the NYC libraries are a treasure trove for CDs including all the newest releases. I've pretty much gotten everything available that interests me. The tally at this point is about 4,000 CDs and 10,000 albums in MP3 files
Rock is my fav but I have quite a few jazz, blues and r&b as well. Comedy albums, soundtracks..since the library offerings are free I just grab it. Own about 200 CDs of classical music too. Country and Hip Hop is where I'm deficient based on my tastes but I have a representation of those.
As I said, I'm pretty much finished with what I can find at the library (still keeping an eye out with new releases) and I can never see myself buying any more CDs. I have many years of listening to get through the pile of files I've yet to hear. And a huge task of typing up a list of what I do own
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 7, 2017 0:24:38 GMT -5
BTW, that version of Daddy's Little Girl by the usually reliable Al Martino was truly awful, but I like this one by the Mills Brothers: Thank you for sharing the barbershop quartet version of that piece of sentimental slop-I think  |
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Post by berkley on Mar 7, 2017 0:32:42 GMT -5
I knew you'd love it!
I pride myself on my deep psychological insight into other people's tastes.
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Post by berkley on Mar 7, 2017 2:40:25 GMT -5
Music collections:
At first we used to have this mono record player in the form of a suitcase and a collection of 45s. Some my older brother bought, then myself later on, and also a bunch of coverless 45s that friends of my parents threw out. I particularly recall a version of Mule Skinner Blues that I can still hear in my head, but by whom I can't recall. Also some Elvis, naturally - not the earliest stuff like Hound Fog, but Fame and Fortune, things like that. We had a lot of CCR and Beatles and early Beatles solo singles, amongst other things.
We didn't have many LPs - the Beatles Red album collection Confessor talked about earlier was one of the few, and I remember playing it to death on that suitcase record player. The diameter of the LP was greater than the square suitcase so if the lid had ever come down by accident it would have been good-bye Beatles Red album.
The we got a cheap stereo - this would have been around 1973 or 1974, I would say. After that I bought mostly albums. By the late 70s we had around 300 albums, mostly bought by myself and my older brother, who were the main music nuts in the family.
Like Ish, I felt out of tune with the 80s radio music, for the most part. Also I didn't have much spare change to buy records until I got out of school. Partly for those reasons, but even more because I mistrusted the new technology, I didn't buy any cds until the early 90s - I thought some other totally different format might supplant it at any moment, so why spend money on them?
What eventually made me break down and buy one was seeing a Badfinger cd in a record store: Badfinger's albums had long been out of print and almost impossible to find even in used record stores, so I immediately became a late convert to cds. I actually had 3 or 4 cds before I found a cheap 2nd-hand "ghetto-blaster" to play them on.
Skipping ahead several years, I stopped buying cds for the most part because the internet. But less than a year ago a friend of mine moved out west and sold me his stereo system cheap. Now that I have a half-decent sound system I find myself motivated to buy cds again, so I've become a regular browser of cd shops.
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Post by brutalis on Mar 7, 2017 10:10:58 GMT -5
Music collections:
Growing up never had the dollars for collecting so it was always the radio playing.
Once into my teen years and forward again it was life and bills and comic books with very little in the way of purchasing. Created a small vinyl collection of some fave rock and roll (now classic rock?) of the time with a mix of some jazz, soundtracks and comedy albums.
Once the CD's took over and the larger style record stores all started closing up i started buying up any collected hits of rock and roll, country music and classical music that i had grown up listening too. With the advent of used stores i now go about every 2-3 months and browse. Filling in collected hits of those groups or acts i don't yet have being the main goal now.
With the power of the internet and Youtube i have been exposed to all sorts of other musical styling's and now try to seek out different creative and interesting music which appeals to me. Apocalyptica, Nightwish, Kamelot, Steam Powered Giraffe, David Garret, Lacuna Coil, Vanessa Storm and such. Also now i am slowly increasing my jazz collection focusing upon distinct individual artists which speak to me. Get lot's of grief from several friends due to my eclectic tastes as they tend to follow classic rock they grew up with and little else.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 7, 2017 13:50:20 GMT -5
50 Years Ago Today-March Week 2 1967
The Stone's Ruby Tuesday was only able to hold the top spot for 1 week. We now have a new champ, Diana Ross and the Supremes. But watch out, the new Beatles single as broke into the top 10 at #5
Should have posted this one a few weeks earlier but let me do so before it falls off the charts. Nancy Sinatra had a career that must have surprised folks for it's longevity and impact. Easily could have been written off as a one-hit celebrity offspring novelty act. Her brother Frank Sinatra Jr., try as he may, never really scored on his own. Nancy was recording for 5 years before These Boots Were Made For Walkin' smashed it's way to the top of the charts. She would have 6 more Top 20 hits, sung the theme song to a James Bond film, appeared in beach party films, had TV specials and enjoyed a quality collaboration with singer/songwriter Lee Hazelwood. At the age of 54, she posed nude for Playboy.
Sugar Town came out the end of 1966 and peaked at #5 in early Feb 1967. She still got those boots
Everybody Needs Somebody To Love was written by Solomon Burke in 1964 and performed by him as well as The Rolling Stones and The Blues Brothers. Wilson Pickett's version of this classic R&B song charted the highest, at #29 in March 1967. Look who's playing guitar
Back in January I posted The Royal Guardmen's ode to Charles Schulz with Snoopy Vs. The Red Baron. Snoopy gets another crack at that German ace in March 1967. Red Baron, please put a seatbelt around your co-pilot Schatzi. #29 this week
We'll end this week with a noteworthy song. This single by The Rainy Daze made the charts this week and would climb to #70 before it was realized that it was a pro-marijuana song. It was subsequently banned
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