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Post by The Ocean on Mar 8, 2021 13:03:32 GMT
Loverboy also doesn't get the credit they deserve for keeping the worldwide headband industry afloat. Like Steven Tyler and his scarves lol
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Post by The Ocean on Mar 9, 2021 0:55:54 GMT
Deep Track of the Day #83 - 3/8/21 Concrete Blond "Bloodletting (The Vampire Song)" from Bloodletting (European Single)
This song is great enough and underappreciated as it is in its English-language format, but it is positively entrancing in French. Much like hearing David Bowie's Heroes in German or the Rolling Stones' As Tears Go By in Italian, this serves as a fantastic counterpoint to the original that only helps you get more lost in the universe of the song.
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Post by The Ocean on Mar 10, 2021 2:29:07 GMT
Deep Track of the Day #84 - 3/9/21 J Geils Band - "Somebody" from Monkey Island
No, not Monkey Island as in Guybrush Threepwood. Monkey Island as in the J Geils Band album. And this particular track i can't help but love with it's funky sensibility and Peter Wolf's always iconic vocals. I don't have much to say except that i love this song, this album, and this band, who are judged upon too few songs from their catalogue. They made hits in the 80s with Freeze Frame, Centerfold, and Love Stinks, but there is a lot more rough-edged rockin' goodness in this band than those songs, as fun as they are, would lead you to believe.
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Post by The Ocean on Mar 11, 2021 3:54:59 GMT
Deep Track of the Day #85 - 3/10/21 Pink Floyd - "Welcome to the Machine" from Wish You Were Here
From 1970 through 1979, Pink Floyd put out their most commercially and critically well-recieved work. I could have chosen music from outside of this era, but quite honestly this era is well-regarded for a reason. Welcome to the Machine is a hypnotizing journey of synthesized madness. It is trippy and harsh and hypnotizing, and I love every second of it.
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Post by The Ocean on Mar 12, 2021 0:26:19 GMT
Deep Track of the Day #86 - 3/11/21 Coldplay - "Don't Panic" from Parachutes
Don't panic didn't chart in the United States, while knockout hits like Yellow and Clocks did, deservedly so. It's only in retrospect that I grew to like Coldplay. I shouldn't have followed the trend of bashing them at the height of their popularity.* There are a LOT of artists I didn't like at the beginning. I suppose I've mellowed out over time to the point where I'm as mellow as the music as I'm starting to enjoy.
Don't Panic is a beautiful soundscape of a song, with the guitar's subtle wah enveloping the listener (see what I did there?). I'm transfixed and hypnotized by this one.
*As always, Nickelback still sucks and that is my own opinion, not just because a lot of people hate them, too.
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Post by The Ocean on Mar 13, 2021 3:33:35 GMT
Deep Track of the Day #87 - 3/12/21 The Marshall Tucker Band - "Bob Away My Blues" from Searchin' for a Rainbow
A few years after my uncle's untimely passing, my father put on this record for me to play one of my uncle's favorite songs. My father does not typically cry, and I can only recall a few times in my life when I saw him do so, but sitting there listening to that record we both did.
The grief of loss is a hard road to travel, and it isn't a straight line, either. But I travel it better honoring the great things about a person. Remembering the things that THEY loved makes it easier over time. The loss is still there, but the grief lessens.
He loved this song, and now I love it, too.
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Post by The Ocean on Mar 14, 2021 2:56:27 GMT
Deep Track of the Day #88 - 3/13/21 The Doors - "Ships w/ Sails" from Other Voices
Other Voices was produced with Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger pulling vocal duties. It.... doesn't always work. But Ships w/ Sails is a standout track on the album, by far the best in my view, and it has all the classic Doors hallmarks aside from Jim Morrison's vocals. You always know Robby Krieger's guitar playing, and Ray Manzarek is nothing if not a distinctive keyboard player. Here, Ray provides the vocals and it works for the song.
Other Voices isn't a good album, but this song surely should end up on compilations. Thank goodness for the streaming age.
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Post by luxexterior on Mar 14, 2021 16:59:03 GMT
Deep Track of the Day #88 - 3/13/21 The Doors - "Ships w/ Sails" from Other Voices Other Voices was produced with Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger pulling vocal duties. It.... doesn't always work. But Ships w/ Sails is a standout track on the album, by far the best in my view, and it has all the classic Doors hallmarks aside from Jim Morrison's vocals. You always know Robby Krieger's guitar playing, and Ray Manzarek is nothing if not a distinctive keyboard player. Here, Ray provides the vocals and it works for the song. Other Voices isn't a good album, but this song surely should end up on compilations. Thank goodness for the streaming age. You're right Other Voices isn't a great album but Ships with Sails is terrific. Shame there is nothing close to it on the rest of the album or for that matter Full Circle. Losing Jim Morrison was a pretty hard blow maybe we shouldn't have expected anymore.
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Post by The Ocean on Mar 15, 2021 1:25:30 GMT
Deep Track of the Day #89 - 3/14/21 The Charlie Daniels Band - "Tennessee" from High Lonesome
My dad played records for me since I was a baby, and for whatever reason, this song in particular song always made me happy. Then again, I had no idea what they were singing about as a four year old, outside of knowing that Tennessee was the name of a state.
This whole album is actually very interesting musically, something I didn't appreciate as a child. I was really only interested in classical music until I was 14, outside of the records my dad played for me, and this was one of them that I really loved, and it's always stayed with me.
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Post by The Ocean on Mar 16, 2021 1:31:36 GMT
Deep Track of the Day #90 - 3/15/21 James Gang - "Tend My Garden" from James Gang Rides Again
James Gang is known well for being a Joe Walsh vehicle and for producing the iconic 70's classic Funk #49, but that song is but one of many highlights on their sophomore album James Gang Rides Again. Ashes, The Rain, and I would be an obvious choice for me as a low key final track, but I am going to go with Tend My Garden which is yet another highlight on this album. There isn't much for me to say, just good old fashioned classic rock.
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Post by The Ocean on Mar 17, 2021 2:02:46 GMT
Deep Track of the Day #91 - 3/16/21 Nazareth - "Changin' Times" from Hair of the Dog
Nazareth and AC/DC have insured that Scottish classic rock bands have a distinctive sound (yes, AC/DC were formed in Australia, but most of the core members were Scotsmen). Hair of the Dog was a breakout album for the title track and their cover of the Everly Bros.' Love Hurts, but the whole album is a beast!
I'd be hard-pressed to choose a favorite track because all of it from the rifftastic title track, Miss Misery, and Changin' Times to the more layered album closer Please Don't Judas Me are prime tracks. What I love about Changin' Times is the starting and stopping, the riffage, the stomping refrains, and that beautiful harmonized guitar outro. It isn't flashy, just fun. A great track on a great album.
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Post by luxexterior on Mar 17, 2021 10:29:11 GMT
Great band.They were fantastic live & although huge over here in the seventies (sell out tours,hit records etc) they were largely ignored by the media & music press so probably didn't get the recognition they deserved. The best I saw them was on their No Mean City tour in I think 1978. Two hour plus set with acoustic interlude & Zal Clemison of SAHB playing guitar. Fantastic!
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Post by The Ocean on Mar 17, 2021 14:00:20 GMT
Great band.They were fantastic live & although huge over here in the seventies (sell out tours,hit records etc) they were largely ignored by the media & music press so probably didn't get the recognition they deserved. The best I saw them was on their No Mean City tour in I think 1978. Two hour plus set with acoustic interlude & Zal Clemison of SAHB playing guitar. Fantastic! Great indeed. They are yet another band who deserved far more credit than they ever got.
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Post by The Ocean on Mar 17, 2021 23:24:41 GMT
Deep Track of the Day #92 - 3/17/21 Kiss - "Comin' Home (Live)" from Kiss Unplugged
Kiss Unplugged was a comeback album of epic proportions for a band who had been creatively running on fumes for more than a decade by that point. They were making money hand over fist to be sure, but I don't think I've ever heard somebody say "I need to listen to Hot in the Shade RIGHT NOW." But at the same time, how can you argue with a band that released albums like Destroyer, Rock and Roll Over, and Love Gun? They have more than proven themselves capable of writing entertaining rock music and they were gods upon the stage. They don't have to prove anything to anybody.
All the same, they were in a slump and Kiss Unplugged pulled them out of it. The very first track of the album was originally on Hotter than Hell, which is a relatively mediocre album with horrible production. The original arrangement of this song makes it seem boring and forgettable. But on this album, it's reinvented as a catchy pop rock song with a great hook and killer vocals. You can tell they are really enjoying themselves playing it. The song was ripe for reinvention and they succeeded. The whole album is full of many reinventions that to me are far superior than the originals.
I picked this CD up on my one trip to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, along with a copy of Blue Öyster Cult's Club Ninja. I'm not a Kiss superfan, and really I can do without any of their studio albums after Dynasty, but Kiss Unplugged shows that their live magic translates to any setting and any arrangement. Also check out Alive IV with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra for something a little different.
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Post by The Ocean on Mar 19, 2021 2:08:38 GMT
Deep Track of the Day #93 - 3/18/21 Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers - "Flowering" from Native Heart
Roger Clyne and Paul Naffah were the lead songwriters of the band The Refreshments, responsible for one of the 90's greatest albums, Fizzy Fuzzy Big & Buzzy. After The Refreshments called it quits, they formed Roger Clyne & the Peacemakers with Scotty Johnson of the Gin Blossoms.
The Peacemakers, sans Gin Blossume alum Johnson, still tour and record to this day. The opening track of their most recent album, Native Heart, is a simple piece of pop happiness. It is beyond catchy, and has a tendency to make one want to whistle along.
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