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USCHO Music Thread 4: Songs She Sang to Me, Songs She Brang to Me

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Funkadelic -- Cholly.

Now that's what I call music theory.
 
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Seeing a lot of cliched hate for Billy Joel the past few days. I get it. Slightly derivative, wasn't a rock and roller, too snobbish I don't effing care. Piano Man will forever be a guilty pleasure for me and if you disparage it again I will cut you!
 
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Slap Shot said:
Seeing a lot of cliched hate for Billy Joel the past few days. I get it. Slightly derivative, wasn't a rock and roller, too snobbish I don't effing care. Piano Man will forever be a guilty pleasure for me and if you disparage it again I will cut you!
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Joel's double disc of greatest hits gives one pretty much anything good he did, minus a newer song here and there (I really liked River Of Dreams; We Didn't Start The Fire was okay, but way overplayed).
 
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Might as well:

Did a Jukebox takeover yesterday at Old Chicago. The theme? Foreign-language, one minor exception, which would be the first song listed here, but it is a French artist who is rather worldly, and I consider it an Africa song of sorts.

Jain: Makeba
Los Lobos: Cancion Del Mariachi
Gipsy Kings: A Mi Manera
2NE1: I Am The Best
Franky Perez: Los Tiempos Van Cambiando
Ana Tijoux: 1977
Plastic Bertrand: Ca Plane Pour Moi
Tres Deliquentes: Deliquent Habits

Tried to find Ashley MacIsaac's stuff, but the songs I wanted were not in the system. :( I recommend Sleepy Maggie and The Devil In The Kitchen.
 
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Slap Shot said:
Seeing a lot of cliched hate for Billy Joel the past few days. I get it. Slightly derivative, wasn't a rock and roller, too snobbish I don't effing care. Piano Man will forever be a guilty pleasure for me and if you disparage it again I will cut you!
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You'll never hear any hate from me. Saw him at Target Center once. He's fantastic.
 
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Slap Shot said:
Seeing a lot of cliched hate for Billy Joel the past few days. I get it. Slightly derivative, wasn't a rock and roller, too snobbish I don't effing care. Piano Man will forever be a guilty pleasure for me and if you disparage it again I will cut you!
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His first three albums are brilliant. Then he turns, practically overnight, to sh-t.

I have strong negative feelings about him because he's from the town literally next to my hometown and there's a level of the locals crawling up his as-s that one typically only sees in parochial backwaters like Boston. But his awful mature output really obscures the fact that he was one helluva talent before he got money. From what I have heard (although it is difficult to untangle the Liberty Valence legend) before he got his recording contract his barnstorming days were even better -- truly a sight to behold in the tradition of Callahan's Crosstime Saloon.
 
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Kepler said:
His first three albums are brilliant. Then he turns, practically overnight, to sh-t.

I have strong negative feelings about him because he's from the town literally next to my hometown and there's a level of the locals crawling up own as-s that one typically only sees in parochial backwaters like Boston. But his awful mature output really obscures the fact that he was one helluva talent before he got money. From what I have heard (although it is difficult to untangle the Liberty Valence legend) before he got his recording contract his barnstorming days were even better -- truly a sight to behold in the tradition of Callahan's Crosstime Saloon.
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I love Glass Houses. Probably too poppy for most but it was one of those albums from the right time in my adolescence.
 
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ScoobyDoo said:
it was one of those albums from the right time in my adolescence.
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Timing is everything. If you say Linda Ronstadt's Simple Dreams sucks I will fight you (admission: it does suck; Heart Like a Wheel is her great album) because I was 14 and that voice launched a thousand wet dreams.

I have been trying hard just to restrict my opinions on matters of taste to things I like. I'm sure there are people out there who hate The Gang of Four and I have no interest in their opinion at all, so why would a BJ fan care what I think?
 
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I love Glass Houses. Probably too poppy for most but it was one of those albums from the right time in my adolescence.
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Glass Houses is when he started going downhill.Stopped doing what he was good at, and tailoredhis sound to be sorta new-wave aggressive pop, and been trend surfing ever since
 
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rufus said:
Glass Houses is when he started going downhill.Stopped doing what he was good at, and tailoredhis sound to be sorta new-wave aggressive pop, and been trend surfing ever since
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Agreed in hindsight but I was only 12 when it came out and I hadn't bought any of his previous records yet. However, Piano Man not long after became my personal standard bearer for BJ.
 
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rufus said:
Glass Houses is when he started going downhill.Stopped doing what he was good at, and tailoredhis sound to be sorta new-wave aggressive pop, and been trend surfing ever since
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I disagree. I like when artist change or take chances. Take Pat Benatar for example. It immediately comes to mind because I've heard her interviewed about my favorite album of hers (Seven The Hard Way) and she's stated her hatred of it. I love it. One of my faves. I think it's vastly underrated.

KISS has had a career of taking chances and going other directions. Although Paul Stanley, and Gene Simmons and most of their fair weather fans hate the departures. I love them.

And what if the Beatles had stayed the same? Never ventured. Would we have gotten Sgt. Peppers or Revolver? Probably not.
 
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Did you just compare Glass Houses to Sgt. Peppers?



(j/k Scoobs I just had to take the opportunity :))
 
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ScoobyDoo said:
I disagree. I like when artist change or take chances. Take Pat Benatar for example. It immediately comes to mind because I've heard her interviewed about my favorite album of hers (Seven The Hard Way) and she's stated her hatred of it. I love it. One of my faves. I think it's vastly underrated.

KISS has had a career of taking chances and going other directions. Although Paul Stanley, and Gene Simmons and most of their fair weather fans hate the departures. I love them.

And what if the Beatles had stayed the same? Never ventured. Would we have gotten Sgt. Peppers or Revolver? Probably not.
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And there's your problem. You like Pat Benatar and Kiss.
 
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Slap Shot said:
Seeing a lot of cliched hate for Billy Joel the past few days. I get it. Slightly derivative, wasn't a rock and roller, too snobbish I don't effing care. Piano Man will forever be a guilty pleasure for me and if you disparage it again I will cut you!
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I like a good chunk of his stuff. I don't love it, but I do like it.
 
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