He's good (moneywise).
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 14 April 2016 05:25 (eight years ago) link
The internet says Steve Miller has $40 million. Whether that is exactly accurate or not, I think he's doing pretty well for someone whose best known song includes the line, "I really love your peaches, want to shake your tree."
he wrote and produced the songs and was the manager, so I've no trouble thinking hes a 1 percenter. In one of those Billboard books of #1 hits some guy is quoted saying he saw Miller receive the biggest royalty check he'd ever seen.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 14 April 2016 06:23 (eight years ago) link
"I really love your peaches, want to shake your tree."
This lyric is lifted from "Lovey Dovey" by The Clovers btw
― ejemplo (crüt), Thursday, 14 April 2016 06:49 (eight years ago) link
.. All the time..
― Mark G, Thursday, 14 April 2016 07:05 (eight years ago) link
I just heard Ella Fitzgerald sing that lyric the other day, it goes back further than the Clovers. Just googled and found discussion under Lyrics rubric here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitting_on_Top_of_the_World
― Freakshow At The Barn Dance (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 14 April 2016 08:05 (eight years ago) link
The peaches part. The "lovey dovey" part I guess Ahmet Ertegun earned his songwriting credit for that.
― Freakshow At The Barn Dance (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 14 April 2016 08:13 (eight years ago) link
far be it from me to defend the black keys, but this seems like a simple matter of steve miller just kind of being an ungracious jerk in person
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 14 April 2016 12:56 (eight years ago) link
speaking of miles...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6vVOXztFW4
― scott seward, Thursday, 14 April 2016 13:56 (eight years ago) link
a steve miller mashup...
this is fun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLCwJbJyjQY
― scott seward, Thursday, 14 April 2016 14:01 (eight years ago) link
I agree.. but the way the black keys whined about it was.. dumb.
― lute bro (brimstead), Thursday, 14 April 2016 17:30 (eight years ago) link
otm
― μpright mammal (mh), Thursday, 14 April 2016 17:32 (eight years ago) link
Steve Miller Band's Greatest Hits is still the best selling compilation album of all time in the US
ahead of the Eagles? or Legend? no way
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 14 April 2016 17:33 (eight years ago) link
the eagles greatest hits vol 1 is the second greatest selling album of all time in the us. stever miller band's greatest hits is not #1.
― balls, Thursday, 14 April 2016 17:43 (eight years ago) link
same diff?
― dc, Thursday, 14 April 2016 17:58 (eight years ago) link
Indeed. First 5 Steve Miller Band albums-produced by Glyn Johns. Most of Eagles Their Greatest Hits-produced by Glyn Johns.
― everything, Thursday, 14 April 2016 18:06 (eight years ago) link
steve miller records much more entertaining to me than eagles records. it's scary to think of how many times i've heard those songs. thousands of times since the 70's.
― scott seward, Thursday, 14 April 2016 18:09 (eight years ago) link
I've heard, like, four Steve Miller songs in my life. The ones from that Greatest Hits album that got the most radio play, and "Abracadabra," which I used to like when it was on American Top 40.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Thursday, 14 April 2016 18:18 (eight years ago) link
OK, looking at the track listing for the Greatest Hits album, I've actually heard seven Steve Miller songs including "Abracadabra."
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Thursday, 14 April 2016 18:20 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, me too, which is amazing, given I have never listened to him on purpose. Though "Fly Like an Eagle" is all time. Who is the drummer on that one?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 14 April 2016 18:26 (eight years ago) link
Ah, Gary Mallaber! Session-rific.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 14 April 2016 18:28 (eight years ago) link
eh, fuck Gary Mallaber he can pony up $10,000 to see the show like the rest of us
― sheesh, Thursday, 14 April 2016 19:59 (eight years ago) link
"Fly Like an Eagle" was really cool I remember discovering that song right when the Deion Sanders song came out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMdBCMpAlSM
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 14 April 2016 21:47 (eight years ago) link
i've probably heard as many Black Keys songs as Steve Miller songs and none of the former has ever made an impression on me.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 14 April 2016 21:49 (eight years ago) link
whether or not steve miller is rich or not is beside the point, the industry was (and is) crooked as hell, for every million he made the labels made 10, that's just facts
― rockpalast '82 (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 14 April 2016 21:56 (eight years ago) link
"I'm going to wrap you up" = tot fuckin great
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 15 April 2016 20:38 (eight years ago) link
the industry was (and is) crooked as hell,
remember when the internet was gonna fix this? good times.
― Οὖτις, Friday, 15 April 2016 20:53 (eight years ago) link
lol no i don't. did anyone ever make that claim?
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 15 April 2016 21:20 (eight years ago) link
Prince did, iirc.
― Now I Know How Joan of Arcadia Felt (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 15 April 2016 21:24 (eight years ago) link
abracadabra is a truly creepy song
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Saturday, 22 July 2017 00:18 (six years ago) link
Midnight tokers ugh: https://wp.me/pzXeC-7Hg
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 5 May 2018 05:50 (five years ago) link
lol christ the black keys are such enormous fucking dorks.
― constitutional crises they fly at u face (will), Saturday, 5 May 2018 16:00 (five years ago) link
I want to say "do you even know what makes a song good?" but it's you. So I guess idgi. This song is a ton of fun even while it grossly offends any reasonable person's sensibilities
― I am Larry Bird I always make the trey (rip van wanko), Saturday, 5 May 2018 16:22 (five years ago) link
challops: somehow i've got a copy of the "Best of 1968–1973" and i think i like it more than the "1974–78" comp
but tbh prob bc of the latter's irritating ubiquity
― constitutional crises they fly at u face (will), Saturday, 5 May 2018 16:23 (five years ago) link
STEVE MILLER: The Black Keys have two members, and they're both women!
DON: Well, yeah.
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 5 May 2018 16:49 (five years ago) link
I want to say "do you even know what makes a song good?" but it's you. So I guess idgi.
- I am Larry Bird I always make the trey (rip van wanko)
I don't. Does anyone? Miller's other hits are more tolerable.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 5 May 2018 16:58 (five years ago) link
Well that's subjective and I don't personally agree. Big Ol Jet Airliner or whatever it's called is my kryptonite. Same hokey lyrical sensibility and never gets it's hooks in me
― I am Larry Bird I always make the trey (rip van wanko), Saturday, 5 May 2018 17:10 (five years ago) link
Steve Miller and I were kicked out of the same high school! #funfact
― I am Larry Bird I always make the trey (rip van wanko), Saturday, 5 May 2018 17:14 (five years ago) link
Alfred, I just don't know how you give a pass to "Take the Money and Run" — a song that rhymes taxes with Texas — over the American "Rock On".
― pplains, Saturday, 5 May 2018 18:19 (five years ago) link
'taxes' and 'facts is' as well.
I like how vague a story song "TTMAR" is--he sets the scene, introduces the main characters and their antagonist whom they never encounter, throw in a quickly resolved twist, and it's over.
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 5 May 2018 18:25 (five years ago) link
he sets the scene, introduces the main characters and their antagonist whom they never encounter, throw in a quickly resolved twist, and it's over.
Oh right, "Pine Barrens."
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 5 May 2018 18:53 (five years ago) link
a song that rhymes taxes with Texas
but the two go together!
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 5 May 2018 18:58 (five years ago) link
*clap clap clap clap clap clap*
― pplains, Saturday, 5 May 2018 19:05 (five years ago) link
What's your opinion of this zygote?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu7FBcyyUqw
― pplains, Saturday, 5 May 2018 19:06 (five years ago) link
Still think this song secretly invented the Stone Roseshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELcTJZLxhFU
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 5 May 2018 19:50 (five years ago) link
dude likes to shout out his previously recorded tunes
― constitutional crises they fly at u face (will), Saturday, 5 May 2018 20:56 (five years ago) link
/when you unthinkingly reflexively bookmark a thread, just out of habit
― DACA Flocka Flame (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 6 May 2018 16:48 (five years ago) link
Don’t know if this has been posted already on another thread: https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/young-musician-growing-up-with-steve-miller/
― And Nobody POLLS Like Me (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 9 June 2018 01:47 (five years ago) link
The hand claps can’t come fast enough in Take the Money
― calstars, Sunday, 20 December 2020 05:33 (three years ago) link
such a weird song.
The lyrics don't rhyme. The handclaps don't happen on specific bars, just when he ever makes a Texas reference. Just a mess, but worth it just for that opening drum roll.
― pplains, Sunday, 20 December 2020 05:49 (three years ago) link