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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Apr 22, 2016 19:21:08 GMT -5
I unfortunately heard the Joan Jett version of probably my favorite song ever written. I don't think I've heard the Billy Joel cover. But Mony Mony isn't a favorite of mine anyway.
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Post by Phil Maurice on Apr 22, 2016 19:50:18 GMT -5
I had the great good fortune to see Tommy James and (presumably, but probably not) The Shondells at Denver's Mile High Stadium on Father's Day 1988, where they played my favorite TJ&S song, Crystal Blue Persuasion. It was an extraordinary show that also featured Steppenwolf (really just John Kay and a pick-up band), The Four (actually two) Tops, and a Righteous Brother (Bill Medley). The fireworks display that ended the proceedings was Reagan-era muscular, such that burning pieces of cardboard plummeted down through the thin, Colorado air into the stands, setting fire to the hair of one woman two rows ahead of us (she was unharmed) and causing a near-panic. Good times.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Apr 22, 2016 19:54:09 GMT -5
Draggin The Line and Crystal Blue Persuasion are another two of their greats.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Apr 22, 2016 19:58:41 GMT -5
I unfortunately heard the Joan Jett version of probably my favorite song ever written. I don't think I've heard the Billy Joel cover. But Mony Mony isn't a favorite of mine anyway. Billy Idol. Definitely not Billy Joel.
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Post by Prince Hal on Apr 22, 2016 20:11:19 GMT -5
Welcome to my world. But I'm fine with you being on my lawn. It was in good jest between the three of us. But I really had never know it got covered. It's probably cause in the 80's I was listening to my folks music on vinyl and not the radio. That's why you're a man of wealth and taste.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Apr 22, 2016 20:54:12 GMT -5
It was in good jest between the three of us. But I really had never know it got covered. It's probably cause in the 80's I was listening to my folks music on vinyl and not the radio. That's why you're a man of wealth and taste. My folks had quite an assortment of 45's that I remember. Blue Swede's Hooked on a Feeling; Lobo's Me, You & a Dog Named Boo & I'd Love You To Want Me; Roger Whittaker's The Last Farewell & Paradise; the a fore mentioned Tommy James & the Shondell songs; were among my favorites. One of my aunts was a HUGE John Denver fan. I mean she owned his music like I do Prince. And I like quite a lot of John Denver's music. From the beauty of Annie's Song, to the fun of Grandma's Feather Bed and Thank God I'm a Country Boy. Another aunt was a big fan of Neil Diamond and a lot of that stayed with me. I have several CDs of his. My mother was a Monkees fan. I remember her telling me she just missed the Beatles, and was too young to know their music. But the Monkees were the Beatles for the gals that were teens at that time. While I don't own any, I recognize a lot of their music and always liked I'm Not Your Stepping Stone. All this before I even started listening to the radio and exploring things out of new emerging music. But all these favorites are still with me, and many among my favorite songs ever. The music that I discovered as an adult, 23 plus or so, must have been the music my folks thought was degenerate in the vein of Wertham with comics. I say that not at a stab at the music itself, but based on my folks personality and strict grip on what entertainment I consumed. My teens and early 20's in the 90's were the most tumultuous as I was introduced to rap with A Tribe Called Quest, a genre of music that my parents were adamant was bad. R&B was a cover for a lot of rap and something I in addition started to like. Especially the great and late Barry White and Marvin Gaye. There were a few up and coming artist in R&B that I enjoyed then, but not many of them survived my change in taste, save a few songs from selected artists. But anyway, after I was out of high school and moved out of my folks, and being exposed to more and different people, I had a co-worker give me two CDs to borrow. Two that ended up being a door to a whole new musical experience for me. Joe Satriani's Surfing With The Alien and Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here. Two artists that stayed forever with me as musical greats. This too lead me to find Led Zeppelin, another of my favorites. I dunno if bands like Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin were just not in my folks taste, or by that time it didn't appeal to them at their age. I don't think if I had discovered them sooner, when at home, they would have been banned. If anything they weren't rap. :-) Lastly on my musical tour, in my early to mid 20's I met a guy with some very bizarre taste in music. While he did lead me to some music that has stuck with me; select Chemical Bros songs, Portishead, Helmet and Rollins Band. While Portishead is the only one I listen to now, I still enjoy some of the other bands songs I was introduced to then like Chemical Bros' One Too Many Mornings, which is amazing. Sorry Phil, you got me started. :-)
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Apr 22, 2016 21:02:10 GMT -5
I unfortunately heard the Joan Jett version of probably my favorite song ever written. I don't think I've heard the Billy Joel cover. But Mony Mony isn't a favorite of mine anyway. Billy Idol. Definitely not Billy Joel. I have defiantly heard that before. That was a song I do remember hearing on the radio. I just didn't know who sang it back then.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Apr 22, 2016 21:09:33 GMT -5
Billy Idol. Definitely not Billy Joel. I have defiantly heard that before. That was a song I do remember hearing on the radio. I just didn't know who sang it back then. That version was ubiquitous for bar bands in 80s.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Apr 22, 2016 23:06:06 GMT -5
That's why you're a man of wealth and taste. My folks had quite an assortment of 45's that I remember. Blue Swede's Hooked on a Feeling; Lobo's Me, You & a Dog Named Boo Right there are 2 of, IMHO, the WORST songs in creation. The opening chant of Blue Swede's remake of the BJ Thomas hit makes me want to puke and that Lobo song is how I would define the word "mewly" .Those were 2 songs that I ,thank the heavens, FM rock radio avoided
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Post by realjla on Apr 23, 2016 0:38:21 GMT -5
I have defiantly heard that before. That was a song I do remember hearing on the radio. I just didn't know who sang it back then. That version was ubiquitous for bar bands in 80s. Either Mad or Cracked magazine made a joke that "We'd pay mony, mony not to have to listen to that song again."
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Post by Prince Hal on Apr 23, 2016 7:10:35 GMT -5
My folks had quite an assortment of 45's that I remember. Blue Swede's Hooked on a Feeling; Lobo's Me, You & a Dog Named Boo Right there are 2 of, IMHO, the WORST songs in creation. The opening chant of Blue Swede's remake of the BJ Thomas hit makes me want to puke and that Lobo song is how I would define the word "mewly" .Those were 2 songs that I ,thank the heavens, FM rock radio avoided Also awful: "Honey" by Bobby Goldsboro. Frankly, anything by Bobby Goldsboro is awful. PS: Maybe the Lobo grup was high when they wrote that song; after all, look what they named their dog.
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Post by Cei-U! on Apr 23, 2016 7:55:28 GMT -5
Those of us who grew up in the Seattle-Tacoma area have a whole different attachment to Blue Suede's "Hooked On A Feeling" than the rest of the world. It's opening chant was the unofficial theme music for Gorst the Friendly Frpl, a character on the childrens' TV show J.P. Patches. Gorst lived in a secret room under J.P's shack at the City Dump with his sisters Patty, Maxine and Laverne (a joke I got as a kid because I liked listening to my parents' Andrews Sisters 78s). It was the never seen sisters who sang "ooka chaka" whenever the door to the secret room was opened.
Cei-U! I summon the childhood (well, adolescence since I was in high school when "HoaF" came out) memories!
PS: Bobby Goldsboro was the WORST!!! Recording "Watching Scotty Grow" oughtta be a war crime!
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Post by spoon on Apr 23, 2016 9:52:21 GMT -5
There were a bunch of Tommy James and the Shondells covers in the 1980s. Off the top of my head there was Billy Idol and Mony, Mony as well as Joan Jett and her version of Crimson and Clover. I'm sure the list goes on An interesting piece of trivia: the Tiffany cover of I Think We're Alone Now reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1987, and was then replaced by Billy Idol's cover of Mony Mony. So there were back-to-back covers of songs originally recorded by the same band about 20 years earlier. That period of 1987 was apparently a good one for cover songs on the charts, because the Los Lobos version of La Bamba hit #1 a couple months earlier.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Apr 23, 2016 10:28:28 GMT -5
Right there are 2 of, IMHO, the WORST songs in creation. The opening chant of Blue Swede's remake of the BJ Thomas hit makes me want to puke and that Lobo song is how I would define the word "mewly" .Those were 2 songs that I ,thank the heavens, FM rock radio avoided Also awful: "Honey" by Bobby Goldsboro. Frankly, anything by Bobby Goldsboro is awful. PS: Maybe the Lobo grup was high when they wrote that song; after all, look what they named their dog. One should not be reminded of Bobby Goldsboro and "Honey" so early in the day However, I'll see your "Honey" and raise you "Little Green Apples" by O.C.SmithI also have " The Candy Man by Sammy Davis" as my hold card
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Post by the4thpip on Apr 23, 2016 11:14:17 GMT -5
Also awful: "Honey" by Bobby Goldsboro. Frankly, anything by Bobby Goldsboro is awful. PS: Maybe the Lobo grup was high when they wrote that song; after all, look what they named their dog. One should not be reminded of Bobby Goldsboro and "Honey" so early in the day However, I'll see your "Honey" and raise you "Little Green Apples" by O.C.SmithI also have " The Candy Man by Sammy Davis" as my hold card O.C. Smith recorded some really good stuff, but I don't get why people bought (and other artists covered!) Little Green Apples. Nobody mentioned MacArthur Park yet?
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