The Dead Thread: Yep. Still Dead.

[St. Clown]

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Was that Cranston?

I don't know. It was for a senator from California, that much I can tell you.

 

[St. Clown]

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Oh, my god, I wish I hadn't thought of Jackson Browne. How did he miss being in the Eagles?

He co-wrote some of the Eagles first hits - Take It Easy was mostly Browne, with exception to the line "With a girl, my lord, in a flatbed Ford, slowing down to take a look at me," which was Frey.

 

[Gurtholfin]

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Let's just say the 70s has the greatest inversion of talent to sales of any decade in history. No wonder they thought rock was dead.

Every decade has it's godawful pop music that outsells whatever is thought of as THE cool music.

The 70s is not unique in that sense.

The Footloose Soundtrack spawned 6 Top 40 hits for ****s sake.


Don't get me wrong, when I view the 70s as the greatest decade of rock (based almost entirely on 68-75), I'm conveniently blocking out the mountains of garbage that were the Billboard Top 100 songs from each of those years.

Recently grabbed all 1000 songs (70-79) in an effort to look for diamonds in the rough that I might have missed in my vast collection.

Wading through that crap was a real test and I found very little that I didn't already have.


I'm sure I could do the same for the 80s and 90s and be met with much the same result.

 

[St. Clown]

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Every decade has it's godawful pop music that outsells whatever is thought of as THE cool music.

The 70s is not unique in that sense.

The Footloose Soundtrack spawned 6 Top 40 hits for ****s sake.


Don't get me wrong, when I view the 70s as the greatest decade of rock (based almost entirely on 68-75), I'm conveniently blocking out the mountains of garbage that were the Billboard Top 100 songs from each of those years.

Recently grabbed all 1000 songs in an effort to look for diamonds in the rough that I might have missed in my vast collection.

Wading through that crap was a real test and I found very little that I didn't already have.


I'm sure I could do the same for the 80s and 90s and be met with much the same result.

One of my hockey buddies used to work for [redacted], and when he was there they had a media server upon which someone had also loaded the Billboard Top 100 for each year going back to sometime in the 1940s. When he was getting laid off, he tossed a copy of the whole thing onto a thumb drive. He had much the same reaction you just described. The best stuff isn't necessarily the top selling work.

 

[Gurtholfin]

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One of my hockey buddies used to work for [redacted], and when he was there they had a media server upon which someone had also loaded the Billboard Top 100 for each year going back to sometime in the 1940s. When he was getting laid off, he tossed a copy of the whole thing onto a thumb drive. He had much the same reaction you just described. The best stuff isn't necessarily the top selling work.

It was a form or torture for someone like me to get through all of that.

 

[St. Clown]

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It was a form or torture for someone like me to get through all of that.

Yeah, my buddy is a musician, so he hit a few hard patches. His favorite ear for music was the 80s, as he's only four or five years older than me. He works computer tech support, but has a full recording studio in his basement - some assembly required since his recent move.

 

[SteveP]

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Was that Cranston?

Yep. The benefit concert for him was when Frey and Felder were cursing at each other during the show and threatening to kick the chit out of each other. Almost happened afterward.

 

[Slap Shot]

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I don't know anyone with a wider variety of music in their catalog than myself and the vast majority of it would never sniff Top 40. Not saying that to pat myself on the back, but to say despite all that I loved The Eagles. It wasn't deep, it wasn't all that meaningful and Glen/Frey were a-holes. Don't care - I just enjoyed listening to it. Sometimes s**t doesn't need to be analyzed, categorized, summarized or compartmentalized. Just listen an enjoy. Eff sake Steve Miller was as empty as Bieber but you couldn't hit a party in the early 80's without The Joker getting played at least once.

 

[Gurtholfin]

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You'd think living in the tropics would have improved your disposition.

Crabby as ever.

 

[Slap Shot]

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Not sure what I posted = crabby but you are from the land of paint thinner...

 

[Kepler]

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He co-wrote some of the Eagles first hits - Take It Easy was mostly Browne, with exception to the line "With a girl, my lord, in a flatbed Ford, slowing down to take a look at me," which was Frey.

This is hysterical. I swear on a stack of International Workingmen's Association pamphlets I did not know this.

 

[Kepler]

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Every decade has it's godawful pop music that outsells whatever is thought of as THE cool music.

The 70s is not unique in that sense.

This is actually a good question: what period of time saw the best music as the best selling music? I would immediately grab for the second half of the 50s and the second half of the 60s as two periods in which the top 40 actually had a host of great songs, but that is completely non-rigorous. I'm leaving out the 30s, which has unbelievably great music, because there isn't a good way to cross-compare yet and I strongly suspect for every Lucille Bogan, Annette Hanshaw and Ruth Etting there were probably ten the equivalent of any decade's Andrews Sisters syrup.

 

[rufus]

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There's maybe three or four Eagles songs I really like, and that's it. To me they epitomize everything that was bad about the 70's and rock music. That laid-back, southern California country-rock thing. What Clapton turned into during that time. What the movie Almost Famous was about, when the music ceased being about the music and became a business.

Ok, on reflection, it's like 8 songs. And only half of those are Frey/Henley tunes.

Try and Love Again-Randy Meisner
Ol' 55-Tom Waits
In The City-Joe Walsh, for The Warriors soundtrack
I Can't Tell You Why-Timothy B. Schmit, with Frey and Henley

Then,

Wasted Time
The Last Resort
Best of My Love
One of These Nights

 

[unofan]

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Not a celebrity, but one of my college roommates passed away this last weekend at the ripe old age of 33. Did not expect to have to read an obit for a college friend for another 30 years or so.

RIP, John.

 

[leswp1]

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Different crowd. The Eagles were the official band of middle class parents -- the house band at United Colors of Benetton. They waved the AM flag with Elton John and god knows who else -- Seals and Croft maybe? Dan Fogelberg? Jesus, what a horrid decade...

Zep, the Who, Pink Floyd and the Dead all had their bite of the apple, assuming the apple is only white people (which you could safely assume if you were talking about anything with national breadth). Even the Stones were diddling around in the top 40 of all places, although they were running on empty for half the decade. Oh, my god, I wish I hadn't thought of Jackson Browne. How did he miss being in the Eagles?

Anyway, Elvis probably outsold them all -- a sad lounge act who checked out about the time the ABA folded. Heck, the Beatles may have outsold them on sheer nostalgia.

Let's just say the 70s has the greatest inversion of talent to sales of any decade in history. No wonder they thought rock was dead.

My parents didn't likethem but I was in HS and loved them. They were good listenin music in college when I was um, relaxing.

I don't know anyone with a wider variety of music in their catalog than myself and the vast majority of it would never sniff Top 40. Not saying that to pat myself on the back, but to say despite all that I loved The Eagles. It wasn't deep, it wasn't all that meaningful and Glen/Frey were a-holes. Don't care - I just enjoyed listening to it. Sometimes s**t doesn't need to be analyzed, categorized, summarized or compartmentalized. Just listen an enjoy. Eff sake Steve Miller was as empty as Bieber but you couldn't hit a party in the early 80's without The Joker getting played at least once.

I never really follow all the drek about celebs. I just listen to music. I have very eclectic tastes too. Not particulary fond of head banger music but even that can have its time.

Not a celebrity, but one of my college roommates passed away this last weekend at the ripe old age of 33. Did not expect to have to read an obit for a college friend for another 30 years or so.

RIP, John.

sorry to hear. That is young.

 

[Kepler]

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In The City-Joe Walsh, for The Warriors soundtrack

Crap. That's a good song. Had no idea it was them. It's like finding a Seinfeld joke that's funny.

 

[Kepler]

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On a related tack.

 

[rufus]

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Crap. That's a good song. Had no idea it was them. It's like finding a Seinfeld joke that's funny.

Well, technically, it's not. He recorded it for the movie first, and they later included it on The Long Run. I'm not even sure if they re-recorded it with the other members of The Eagles, or just stuck his version on there.

 

[Kepler]

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Well, technically, it's not. He recorded it for the movie first, and they later included it on The Long Run. I'm not even sure if they re-recorded it with the other members of The Eagles, or just stuck his version on there.

It sounds just like them. In retrospect I should absolutely have known.

 

[Gurtholfin]

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Not sure what I posted = crabby but you are from the land of paint thinner...

Just giving you a little **** for your rant.

You're a ray of sunshine around here.