-- hstencil (hstenc!...), September 30th, 2005.
― , Saturday, 1 October 2005 20:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― sal mineo (aarana), Saturday, 1 October 2005 21:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― xhuxk, Saturday, 1 October 2005 22:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 2 October 2005 00:53 (eighteen years ago) link
"Amy" by Pure Prairie League vs. "Jackie Blue" by Ozark Mountain Daredevils!
Didn't we do that one already?
― mike a, Sunday, 2 October 2005 01:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jack Dee, Sunday, 2 October 2005 23:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Paco, Thursday, 20 October 2005 03:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― xhuxk, Thursday, 20 October 2005 11:47 (eighteen years ago) link
Alternatively, I propose "Jackie Blue" vs "Brother Louie" by Stories.
King Harvest and Looking Glass (of "Brandy" fame) always sound like the same band to me. Heck, it's all Moustache Rock to me.
Oh, how about "Sweet City Woman" by The Stampeders vs. "Signs" by Five Man Electrical Band...or failing that, put it up against Mungo Jerry "In The Summertime"
Both "Moonlight" songs evoke '70s cocaine-infested wife-swapping parties when I listen to 'em now - the leery vocals, the smarmy come-on lyrics.
So true, particularly as regards the Starbuck song. And sonically, that song kills me...must be something in the keyboard and xylophone parts, as noted above.
― Dell (Dell), Thursday, 20 October 2005 20:49 (eighteen years ago) link
A country-rock band vs. a sorta glammish power-pop group - not a good match. Stick with the Pure Prarie League; "Amie" is way more compatible with "Jackie Blue."
― Rev. Hoodoo (Rev. Hoodoo), Friday, 21 October 2005 00:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Friday, 21 October 2005 00:17 (eighteen years ago) link
But "Jackie Blue" (which I guess was a bit of an anomaly for them?) is way more Todd Rundgren than it is country. I agree with the Good Doctor that it slays everything in this thread, although "Moonlight Feels Right" is close!
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 21 October 2005 01:35 (eighteen years ago) link
Hot Chocolate "Brother Louie" vs Janis Ian "Society's Child"
All versions of "Brother Louie" vs All versions of "Louie Louie"
― xhuxk, Friday, 21 October 2005 12:03 (eighteen years ago) link
Hmm. Both have the same weird lead-in on the skin color -- "she was black as the night" / "your face is clean and shining black as night" -- but I'll take Ms. Ian just for the weird baroque and Wurlitzer pieces that are jammed in.
P.S. Chuck, have you ever heard Hot Chocolate's version of "Give Peace a Chance"?
― Joe McCombs, Friday, 21 October 2005 20:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 21 October 2005 20:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rev. Hoodoo (Rev. Hoodoo), Saturday, 22 October 2005 00:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Saturday, 22 October 2005 00:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― jack dee, Tuesday, 25 October 2005 16:41 (eighteen years ago) link
Nope!
>Chuck, did Earthquake cover "Emma"?<
Yup! (So did Sisters of Mercy, I think.)
― xhuxk, Tuesday, 25 October 2005 16:57 (eighteen years ago) link
(The AristoCATS. Not the documentary with Bob Saget in it.)
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:55 (eighteen years ago) link
moonlight feels right now one of my total fave 70's calypso synth-pop albums. its so great!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r73DHkY0s0A&feature=related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q4oF-myFIM&feature=relmfu
― scott seward, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 15:53 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaWg4klMLTM
― scott seward, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 19:22 (eleven years ago) link
the masters. your beardodisco better be PRETTY good to match this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gzWAq-H4J8
― scott seward, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 01:31 (eleven years ago) link
your electro marimba disco better be PRETTY good to mess with this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj5sjcLm2ig
― scott seward, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 01:35 (eleven years ago) link
some tastee pickin' in that first one...
― Thus Sang Freud, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 14:53 (eleven years ago) link
Stamford Symphony Principal Percussionist Dan Haskins Tribute to Bo Wagner (1945 -2017)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp628Vi_B58
― meisenfek, Thursday, 26 August 2021 07:02 (two years ago) link
Oh my god, I was sincerely intending to make a 'Dancing in the Moonlight' vs. 'Moonlight Feels Right' poll a while back. Two of the most sublime radio rock hits of the '70s.
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Thursday, 26 August 2021 12:14 (two years ago) link