You've never heard either "Fire & Water" or "Mr. Big", Pete?Originally Posted by Garden Dreamer
They both did get airplay, ("Fire etc") on AM as well.
"Fire & water, must have made you their daughter, you've got what it takes, to make a poor man's heart break"
"My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician, and to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference"
President Harry S. Truman
That is funny. Never heard that one before, but it is a cover of a Joe Jackson song. Know the Joe Jackson song well.
The Troggs: Wild Thing
Radiohead: Creep
Journey: The Wheel in the Sky
The Looking Glass: Brandy
Stealer's Wheel: Stuck in the Middle with You
The Hollywood Argyles: Alley Oop
"Creep" is the song that is to blame for my avoiding Radiohead for many years. I would be willing to bet that I am not the only one.
The fact that it steals a melody line from The Hollies did not help matters either.
Okay, yeah, Rock On by David Essex is the only one I know by him. Which brings to mind Gary Glitter, "Rock and Roll Part 2".
And someone mentioned Miley Cyrus -- mine is When I Look At You, Paulstretched out to 8x.
rcarlberg: Is there anything sadder than a song that has never been played?
Plasmatopia: Maybe a song in D minor that has never been played?
bob_32_116: That would be a terrific triple bill: Cyan, Magenta and Yello.
trurl: The Odyssey: "He's trying to get home."
I understand this is played in American Football games in the US? Over here Glitter is persona non grata and has been for years.
Journey to the Center of Your Mind- Amboy Dukes
Time Has Come Today - Chambers Brothers
Blank Frank - Eno
High Tide and Green Grass- Outlaws
I checked both of these out on Youtube and didn't recognize either. Listened to all the New York FM stations in the 70's and only ever remember hearing All Right Now. After hearing these tunes, I really should have investigated their albums back then, good stuff. Sounds like Bad Company reworked "Fire and Water" to come up with "Ready for Love" though.
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I'm Your Captain (Closer to Home) - Grand Funk Railroad
Used to like more from this band. Now, this is the only one.
Love is Like Oxygen - Sweet
Almost sounds like it could be a 10CC song. Quite a bit of the rest of their catalog is just silly.
And if there were a god, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence - Russell
Madness-One step beyond
Michael Schenker Group-Lost Horizons
Aerosmith-Dude (looks like a lady)
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Wouldn't know about football, I'm totally un-American when it comes to sports (acerbically avoid the lot).
He's persona non grata over here, too (that sort of !@#$%^&* is unforgivable here), but I associate the two because I had a K-tel record way back when that had (abbreviated versions of) both tracks on it. I try not to think about that other stuff because it makes me cringe.
rcarlberg: Is there anything sadder than a song that has never been played?
Plasmatopia: Maybe a song in D minor that has never been played?
bob_32_116: That would be a terrific triple bill: Cyan, Magenta and Yello.
trurl: The Odyssey: "He's trying to get home."
It was played at just about every sports event for a while here, but it was quickly canned once the truth about him got out.
Music isn't about chops, or even about talent - it's about sound and the way that sound communicates to people. Mike Keneally
Yes, there is a definite similarity between the two tracks- not just the titles but the productions are similar I guess, with all the slapback echo etc. Jeff Wayne produced 'Rock On', Mike Leander did 'Rock And Roll'.
Billy Joel- Captain Jack
Listen to the song's composer play it:
We're trying to build a monument to show that we were here
It won't be visible through the air
And there won't be any shade to cool the monument to prove that we were here. - Gene Parsons, 1973
Excellent call. Such an amazing song. Bought the album and, well, you know the rest of the story.
The Prog Corner
My list isn't really fair, because I haven't everything any of these artists have done, but based on that imperfect criteria:
Rickie Lee Jones - Last Chance Texaco
Sweet - Love Is Like Oxygen
Loggins & Messina - Pathway To Glory (oh, and 'be free', woops, I guess that's two)
Edgar Winter - Frankenstein
Pretty sure there are others, especially with 'arena rock' type of stuff I don't like, doing one 'melodic' or 'proggy' song.
Got two for ya'll:
Nazareth "Hair Of The Dog"
Miley Cyrus "Wrecking Ball"
The Prog Corner
I'm really enjoying the posts in this thread and especially how some of the replies are almost confession-like. It speaks volumes about our diversity here on PE to hear of members who like only only one Beatles track or who are particularly enamoured of a song by a pop diva!
Here's a few more of mine.
Thom Yorke: Black Swan - Great song but the rest of The Eraser is pretty forgettable and I haven't bothered with his latest.
Japan: Ghosts - I think this is sheer brilliance but nothing else of theirs has ever really grabbed me.
Eskimo Joe: Foreign Land - IMHO this is pure pop rock genius but I didn't like the rest of the album and I'm not fussed on their other singles so that's it for me.
Yorke
Japan
Eskimo Joe
"One should never magnify the harsh light of reality with the mirror of prose onto the delicate wings of fantasy's butterfly"
Thumpermonkey - How I Wrote The French Lieutenant's Woman
"I'm content to listen to what I like and keep my useless negative opinions about what I don't like to myself -- because no one is interested in hearing those anyway, and it contributes absolutely nothing to the conversation."
aith01
Pearl Jam: BLACK
Here is the version with Lyrics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV2iYFl5eSk
The power & passion is in his voice overwhelming, don't ya think?
Yes. But I love a lot of their songs. Rearviewmirror, for example.
I never realized the theft, but I love the Hollies songs I've heard.
Toyah (Ms. Fripp) - Angel and Me
Ace of Base - The Sign
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I have quite a few one hit wonders that I really love but just can't get into the band/artists other stuff...
The 5th Dimension - Wedding Bell Blues
Sylvain & Fripp - Jean the Birdman
Adrian Belew - The Momer (sp?)
The Cowsills - The Rain, the Park, and Other Things
The Small Faces - Itchycoo Park
Bloodrock - DOA
Chambers Brothers - Time
Elliot Easton - Wide Awake
Madonna - Material Girl
Mountain - Mississippi Queen
Tom Petty - The Waiting
Fleetwood Mac - Hold Me
INXS - The One Thing
Simple Minds - Don't You Forget About Me
ZZ Top - La Grange
The Turtles - She'd Rather Be with Me (now Flo & Eddie with Zappa is another story!
XTC - Senses Working Overtime
Synergy - Metropolitan Theme
Spooky Tooth - I am the Walrus
OMD - Enola Gay
Manfred Mann - Father of Day, Father of Night
Richard Harris - Macarthur Park
Billy Idol - White Wedding
Tori Amos - Thank You (Led Zep cover)
Laurie Anderson - Smoke Rings
The Mama's and the Papa's - Creeque Alley
Def Leppard - Rock of Ages
Pat Travers - Boom Boom Out go the Lights
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If I hear Free on the radio, it will most likely be All Right Now, or (less commonly) Wishing Well. The only other song I remember from back in the day is my Brother Jack (Jake?) which was a minor hit in this country. They were an OK band for what they were, but it's not the sort of music I buy.
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