This is harder than I'd imagined, but:
BLUES IMAGE - Take Me To The Sunrise
DSCHINN - Never, Never
GREENSLADE - Little Red Fry Up
LEE MICHAELS - Do You Know What I Mean ?
THE OSMONDS - Mirror Mirror
HAYSTACKS BALBOA - Bruce's Twist
STEELY DAN - Aja
This is harder than I'd imagined, but:
BLUES IMAGE - Take Me To The Sunrise
DSCHINN - Never, Never
GREENSLADE - Little Red Fry Up
LEE MICHAELS - Do You Know What I Mean ?
THE OSMONDS - Mirror Mirror
HAYSTACKS BALBOA - Bruce's Twist
STEELY DAN - Aja
Julio Eglesias - To All The Girls I've Loved Before
Hey, he got Willie Nelson to participate in this cheesy load of crap!
I actually have an album by Julio iglesias: "Emociones", from about 1979, recorded well before he got famous in the English speaking world. It's all in Spanish, of course, and most of the songs are much better than that one, or indeed, than any other I've heard him sing in English.
Its no surprise to me that Edgar Winter's Frankenstein gets repeated mentions in this thread.
I loved it from first listen back in the 70s and seeing it performed on TOGWT was a delight.
I never owned a copy though until many years later - I had a cover of it on a live Phish album and decided I must get a copy of the original.
The only album I could find with it on locally was a greatest hits package so I bought that - but couldn't find anything else at all that I enjoyed on it.
If there's a true Frankenstein follow up out there, please let me know...
I loved the theme tune to Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence which was by Ryuichi Sakamoto (had to check that one using Wikipedia!) but I haven't got a clue what else he's recorded - just one of those artists that I've never followed up on.
..and here's a real embarrassing one: Joe le Taxi by Venessa Paradis. I love the instrumental work (saxes and keys), melodies and the cha-cha rhythm - its a real earworm for me - totally outside my usual sphere of music appreciation. Call me blinkered but I can't for one minute imagine that there could be anything else in her repertoire that I could even be bothered to listen to. Cha-cha-cha...
Really, I've heard many 70's E Winter album (including his White Trash stuff... ans outside Frankenstein, there is nothing I like... very different beast from his brother Johnny, where I like most of his music.... except when he's playing with lil'bro
As for Vanessa, it's difficult to like more than one tune from her, since she's slept with most of the songwriters of her different albums... therefore there is little continuity between her albums... I would've thought that I'd like better the Lenny Krevitz album rather than her previous two , but it ends up that I prefer some songs from her second album (written by Sege Gainsbourg) and a.o. Tandem
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
Someone else on another thread reminded me of this one:
It’s not that I dislike the rest of their output (it seems to be a big, gray area of mediocrity for the most part, that I’m mostly indifferent to), but nothing else they’ve done is outstanding. This song, on the other hand, is outstanding.
Confirmed Bachelors: the dramedy hit of 1883...
Steely Dan - My Old School
Soul Survivors - Expressway to Your Heart
Hall & Oates - She's Gone
McCartney - This One
Lennon - How Do You Sleep?
Arthur Conley - Sweet Soul Music
James Carr - Dark End of the Street
Guess Who - Undun
Norman Greenbaum - Spirit In the Sky
Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood - Some Velvet Morning
Hell, they ain't even old-timey ! - Homer Stokes
Norman Greenbaum-Spirit In The Sky
^^ I don't think the intention of this thread was to mention one-hit wonders, of which Greenbaum is probably one, but rather acts of whom you have heard quite a few songs and dislike them all except one.
Never really liked Bruce Springsteen, until I heard his song American Skin (41 shots ) sung by Jackson Browne at the Tribute to Bruce
AMERICAN SKIN (41 SHOTS)
Album version
(41 shots)
(41 shots)
(41 shots)
(41 shots)
41 shots, and we'll take that ride
'Cross the bloody river to the other side
41 shots, cut through the night
You're kneeling over his body in the vestibule
Praying for his life
Is it a gun, is it a knife
Is it a wallet, this is your life
It ain't no secret (it ain't no secret)
It ain't no secret (it ain't no secret)
No secret my friend
You can get killed just for living in your American skin
(41 shots)
(41 shots)
(41 shots)
(41 shots)
41 shots, Lena gets her son ready for school
She says, "On these streets, Charles
You've got to understand the rules
If an officer stops you, promise me you'll always be polite
And that you'll never ever run away
Promise Mama you'll keep your hands in sight"
Is it a gun (is it a gun), is it a knife (is it a knife)
Is it a wallet (is it a wallet), this is your life (this is your life)
It ain't no secret (it ain't no secret)
It ain't no secret (it ain't no secret)
No secret my friend
You can get killed just for living in your American skin
(41 shots)
(41 shots)
(41 shots)
(41 shots)
Is it a gun (is it a gun), is it a knife (is it a knife)
Is it in your heart (is it in your heart), is it in your eyes (is it in your eyes)
It ain't no secret (it ain't no secret)
It ain't no secret (it ain't no secret)
It ain't no secret (it ain't no secret)
41 shots, and we'll take that ride
'Cross this bloody river to the other side
41 shots, I got my boots caked with this mud
We're baptized in these waters (baptized in these waters)
And in each other's blood (and in each other's blood)
Is it a gun (is it a gun), is it a knife (is it a knife)
Is it a wallet (is it a wallet), this is your life (this is your life)
It ain't no secret (it ain't no secret)
It ain't no secret (it ain't no secret)
No secret my friend
You can get killed just for living in
You can get killed just for living in
You can get killed just for living in your American skin
41 shots
41 shots
41 shots
41 shots
41 shots
41 shots
41 shots
41 shots
41 shots (you can get killed just for living in)
41 shots (you can get killed just for living in)
41 shots (you can get killed just for living in)
41 shots (you can get killed just for living in)
41 shots (you can get killed just for living in)
41 shots (you can get killed just for living in)
41 shots (you can get killed just for living in)
41 shots (you can get killed just for living in)
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Page last updated: 19 May 2014
Intro
Music and lyrics by Bruce Springsteen, AMERICAN SKIN (41 SHOTS) is the third track on Springsteen's 2014 album High Hopes. The above lyrics are for Springsteen's studio version of AMERICAN SKIN (41 SHOTS) as released on High Hopes.
The song is a scathing comment on the New York City police fatal shooting (with 41 shots) of the unarmed Bronx resident Amadou Diallo in February 1999.
Background
AMERICAN SKIN (41 SHOTS) was inspired from the incident that took place on 04 Feb 1999, when four white New York City plainclothes police officers (Richard Murphy, Kenneth Boss, Sean Carroll, and Edward McMellon) shot dead Amadou Diallo, a 22 year old black West African immigrant. The four men suspected Diallo to match the profile of a rapist that had committed crimes in the Bronx area then, and when he tried to pull out what they later found out to be his wallet (which they presumed to be a gun), they opened fire, 41 shots, 19 of which hit the target. The officers were later tried for murder, but were found innocent by the jury. The verdict was not welcomed by many groups which created an atmosphere of tension in the city.
If Genesis is less heavy, it's only because they used guitar for more subtle textures; there wasn't a lot of "power chord" guitar in their stuff. But harmonically and melodically, Genesis was much heavier than Rush. Actually my favorite Rush moments are generally the ones where they've obviously been influenced by Genesis.
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