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Post by Slam_Bradley on Dec 3, 2020 11:00:53 GMT -5
Whether you want to or not.
That's what this thread is for, right?
I was just joshing.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Dec 3, 2020 11:02:12 GMT -5
Most listened to songs of 2020
#99 - My Wife Thinks You're Dead - Junior Brown
Junior Brown is just the definition of fun. Add to that he's a great guitarist and invented his unique guit-steel. This was the second single off his 1993 album "Guit With It" following Highway Patrol. Just a super fun song.
I'm so happy I got to see Junior live with my wife and friends before the music stopped.
BTW, that's Mrs. Brown on rhythm guitar.
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Post by impulse on Dec 3, 2020 11:27:36 GMT -5
That's what this thread is for, right?
I was just joshing. Right, I'm just saying.. prattling on about music no one else cares about is why I post here at least. But being a metal fan in 2020 I am used to being the only one in the room who cares about my music.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2020 12:30:06 GMT -5
Right, I'm just saying.. prattling on about music no one else cares about is why I post here at least. But being a metal fan in 2020 I am used to being the only one in the room who cares about my music. I lurk. Not sure if that counts as being "in the room" We had cause to deal with Comcast this past week, and one thing we ended up with is a new cable box with a new remote. The new remote has a microphone button, so the first thing I did was hold it down and say "play heavy metal" (which surprised neither my wife nor daughter). I was pleasantly surprised with the results. I had to scroll past a few channels that weren't for me, but the "classic metal" channel is like 90% of my music collection put on shuffle. It beats the old single metal channel I had from Comcast, which mostly played the modern growly-vocals garbage.
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Post by impulse on Dec 3, 2020 13:41:13 GMT -5
Two of us! Two of us! Two of us!
There you go! It took me a long time and a lot of effort to develop a tolerance* to some of the growly stuff. I will say there is some good music now open to me that was unlistenable before, but there's just as much crap as in any other sub category.
*tolerate, not enjoy per se.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Dec 4, 2020 10:53:21 GMT -5
Most listened to songs of 2020
#98 - Live Forever - Joe Ely
Yes, this is Billy Joe and Eddy Shaver's song. But I really love Joe Ely and I really love his version of this song. Ely released it on his 2011 album "Satisfied at Last" but he'd been playing it for a while before that, because I had found this Music Fog video from 2010 before the album was released. Here's hoping Joe Ely lives forever.
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Post by impulse on Dec 4, 2020 13:44:02 GMT -5
Well, two of my favorite things recently combined. A supergroup cover of Captain Beyond's "I Can't Feel Nuthin" with Marty Friedman, my favorite guitar player most known in the US for his tenure with Megadeth, playing lead guitar.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Dec 6, 2020 17:46:50 GMT -5
Most listened to songs of 2020
#97 - El Paso City - Marty Robbins
If this had been El Paso it would have made a lot more sense. If it had been Faleena then I'd have known there were shenanigans going on.
Actually I like this one a fair bit. According to Robbins he wrote it while flying over El Paso in about the amount of time it takes to sing the song. He had also written El Paso as quickly as he could get the words down.
Love Robbins and love that voice. He easily could have been a pop crooner.
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Post by beccabear67 on Dec 6, 2020 23:54:06 GMT -5
Love Robbins and love that voice. He easily could have been a pop crooner. I thought he was at one time. A White Sport Coat etc. This guy's back catalog is full of some great recordings, I'd have to call him overlooked at this time! He sure wasn't up to the '70s got a lot of radio and tv then that I saw. I did get kind of sick of the original El Paso, a movie theater used to have that on a loop before the curtain went up and we went to a lot of movies (Mona Lisa by Nat King Cole was another they played), but never got tired of the sequel song... I wondered if it might have been an influence on the Highwayman song which also strongly hinted at reincarnation. Ha, just realized, he started with a pink carnation in that White Sport Coat song and later went into rein carnation! And he drove purple-pink race cars...
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Dec 7, 2020 11:40:08 GMT -5
Most listened to songs of 2020
#96 - If I Needed You - Townes Van Zandt
This is probably Townes' most covered tune, most memorably by Emmylou Harris and Don Williams. This was off his 1972 album, The Late Great Townes Van Zandt. Most of the tracks were produced by Kevin Eggers, rather than Jack Clement and the quieter hand worked far better for Townes.
I love this video. This is Townes the way he sounds best. Just he and his guitar and no extraneous frills. While he was drinking a lot at the time he was mostly clean and you can certainly tell in the video that he was at a fairly high point physically.
The song is just a beautiful meditation and love and need. Townes' plaintive voice makes it that much more poignant.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2020 23:03:25 GMT -5
Well I just signed up for the free version of Spotify and created my first play list (now playing in the background as I type this). First song played, a live version of Congo Square by Sonny Landreth...
-M
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Dec 8, 2020 11:10:34 GMT -5
Most listened to songs of 2020
#95 - Lot Lizard - Joshua Ray Walker
This one was a bit of a surprise. Walker's first album "Wish You Were Here" may well have been my favorite of 2019. But this was definitely not among the songs I singled out to listen to. It's structurally interesting, but not a favorite. I suspect this is a result of the algorithm putting it in to a number of playlists over the year.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2020 14:12:23 GMT -5
Just saw that Bob Dylan sold his entire song catalog to universal music for upwards of $300 million. That's a nice payday to cap off a career's worth of work.
-M
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Dec 8, 2020 14:36:12 GMT -5
Just saw that Bob Dylan sold his entire song catalog to universal music for upwards of $300 million. That's a nice payday to cap off a career's worth of work. -M Good for him, I guess. But I have a hard time seeing this as anything other than another step in our cultural heritage being consolidated in the control of a handful of multinational corporations.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2020 17:32:55 GMT -5
I've heard the name Karen O. before in the context of a musician existing. Her doing a duet with Willie Nelson of that song is now the most I know about her. Surprised no one followed up - Karen O is the lead singer of the YeahYeahYeahs this is probably my favorite song by them:
tho I think this is their biggest "hit"
but she also does a TON of collaborations with other artists. . . this one is particularly good (with Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross from "the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" soundtrack:
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