Hard to hear without thinking of Homer Simpson.
― Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 30 May 2018 17:11 (five years ago) link
the kick drum action on "more today than yesterday" is fucking crazy
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Wednesday, 30 May 2018 17:17 (five years ago) link
beyond that it's one of my favorite songs of all time since i was a kid
Great series, got that original batch pretty much out of the gate and played these quite often -- good education, really, had only heard a few of these songs before then. Going to have to give this a relisten but I kinda love the Sandpipers's full cheese.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 17:25 (five years ago) link
For those of us who weren’t around for these songs at the time, its kind of interesting to map out how we first encountered them. For me,
“More Today Than Yesterday” - my sister’s endless rewatchings of the Macauley Culkin sap-fest My Girl.
“Na Na Na Hey Hey Hey” - baseball games, undoubtedly; also, didn’t someone cover this in the 80s?
“Venus” - Bananarama. I’m sure my parents informed me at some point that it was a cover.
“Mississippi Queen” - Homer rockin’ out.
I can’t remember where I first heard “Smile a Little Smile For Me” (probably oldies radio), “Baby It’s You” I probably know from some other version, and “Arizona” was a random discovery for me a few years back. The other’s aren’t sounding familiar.
― Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 30 May 2018 17:30 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3zLfjwzpnA
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 17:35 (five years ago) link
OMG this is so great. I love this stuff. Leaning 'More Today Than Yesterday'.
― campreverb, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 17:54 (five years ago) link
Going over the playlist, the only one I'm sure I haven't heard before was "Early In The Morning". I do know the other Vanity Fare hit, which we'll get to in a subsequent volume.
Strike the Flying Machine as another "Oh, that song!".
First heard "Mississippi Queen" in a beer ad: https://youtu.be/WNoK-m7_-IE
Everything else via oldies radio and/or grocery store muzaks, except maybe the Sandpipers, which I picked up from the movie.
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 30 May 2018 17:58 (five years ago) link
What movie is the Sandpipers song from?
― Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 30 May 2018 18:03 (five years ago) link
The Sterile Cuckoo.
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 30 May 2018 18:06 (five years ago) link
https://dyn1.heritagestatic.com/lf?set=path%5B1%2F1%2F7%2F1%2F3%2F11713035%5D%2Csizedata%5B850x600%5D&call=url%5Bfile%3Aproduct.chain%5D
Fun Fact: Wendell Burton ended up working for Joel Osteen as a Drama Director for Lakewood Church.
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 30 May 2018 18:09 (five years ago) link
I'm kind of surprised that "Mississippi Queen" clocks in at only 2:31, as it always struck me as one of those quintessentially 7+ minute 70s cock-rock epics (I even looked it up on Wiki to make sure that Rhino wasn't just using a radio edit).
Anyway, voting for "Arizona" because I feel like it'll receive a lot less love than "More Today Than Yesterday," but it really is a toss-up.
― Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 30 May 2018 23:16 (five years ago) link
Neither of those Youtubes @ the top of the page work in the UK btw.
― Poisoned by Johan's pea soup. (Tom D.), Wednesday, 30 May 2018 23:19 (five years ago) link
They're not working here either, at least as links. Search this album on YouTube and it might come up. However, there may be blocked videos.
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 30 May 2018 23:45 (five years ago) link
I'm kind of surprised that "Mississippi Queen" clocks in at only 2:31, as it always struck me as one of those quintessentially 7+ minute 70s cock-rock epics
Same here. It's when you listen that you realize it's basically a Hard Rock Bubblegum song, and the length and chart placement make perfect sense.
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 30 May 2018 23:49 (five years ago) link
I love this series so much.
This one will be a tough choice but not as tough as it'll get with some of the subsequent volumes. 'Mississippi Queen' and the Smith tune are solid jams but feel a little out of sync of what I think of as the AM gold sound. Might have to go Starecase.
― I really like the acting, dialogue and especially the scenes (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 30 May 2018 23:56 (five years ago) link
i actually own the 7 disc box set called Have A Nice Decade and ran that poll on ILM in the past. glad that C. Grisso/McCain is taking on the full series as this should be a lot of fun. none of these above songs are on that box set and will have to listen to that Spotify playlist before voting. i only know three of these.
― Bee OK, Thursday, 31 May 2018 01:45 (five years ago) link
Ahhhh I love these cd’s, I have the whole series. Smile A Little Smile For Me - pure gem, def my #1 pick. Arizona also great, Mississippi Queen total classicCherry Hill Park has that gr8 horn section that i love, kinda like a really dope old Chicago track Am i the only one who didnt know til today that Venus was sung by a woman? i always thought it was a dude! https://youtu.be/aPEhQugz-Ew
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 31 May 2018 02:04 (five years ago) link
Whoa, I didn't know that, either!
― I really like the acting, dialogue and especially the scenes (Old Lunch), Thursday, 31 May 2018 02:07 (five years ago) link
I'm...startled you all didn't know that. (I guess I thought Shocking Blue was more well known not merely for that but for "Love Buzz" thanks to Nirvana.)
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 31 May 2018 02:19 (five years ago) link
Anyway, relistening to this disc now. Yup, good stuff! "Arizona" is so amazingly ridiculous.
I think also the thing about this series/collection is that it aesthetically beat Tarantino to the punch in my mind; this was a couple of years before Reservoir Dogs and all.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 31 May 2018 02:21 (five years ago) link
shocking blue had some pretty good lesser-known cuts - i'm not super into dutch rock but "send me a postcard" and "long and lonesome road" are both jams, though i won't go as far as to say any of their albums are worth listening to. anyway voting "venus".
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Thursday, 31 May 2018 02:27 (five years ago) link
Venus was sung by a woman
...and what a woman!
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/4b/2e/a3/4b2ea38aa82ce103ffc51cb90ec16b9b.jpg
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 31 May 2018 02:28 (five years ago) link
She looks like the venn diagram overlap of Liza Minnelli & Cher <3
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 31 May 2018 02:30 (five years ago) link
venus is a def love/hate song for me
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 31 May 2018 02:31 (five years ago) link
"send me a postcard" and "long and lonesome road" are both jams
Cosign.
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 31 May 2018 02:36 (five years ago) link
first of all thanks for doing this
secondly all these songs are bangers and I think picking volume to volume will be harder than Just Can't Get Enough. The extra 10+ years removed really culls the herd.
also:
"'Mississippi Queen' and the Smith tune are solid jams but feel a little out of sync of what I think of as the AM gold sound. Might have to go Starecase.
― I really like the acting, dialogue and especially the scenes (Old Lunch)"
^ this is a great point and will probably use this mindset when picking. Mississippi Queen is an all time riff AFAIC and Na Na Hey Hey is the best not Stevie Wonder song but "Arizona" is probably closest to AM Gold/Have a Nice Day. There's a certain camp value to these that I really enjoy.
― YouTube_-_funy_cats.flv (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 31 May 2018 02:43 (five years ago) link
http://https%3A//img.discogs.com/HO2_ja6nsMOmY6Oc7ngU8pHIfUY%3D/fit-in/600x600/filters%3Astrip_icc%28%29%3Aformat%28jpeg%29%3Amode_rgb%28%29%3Aquality%2890%29/discogs-images/R-3310495-1367840738-8835.jpeg.jpg
What is wrong with this man
― YouTube_-_funy_cats.flv (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 31 May 2018 02:46 (five years ago) link
http://https%3A//cdn-s3.allmusic.com/release-covers/500/0002/090/0002090345.jpg
― YouTube_-_funy_cats.flv (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 31 May 2018 02:47 (five years ago) link
whatever the man is here:
https://cdn-s3.allmusic.com/release-covers/500/0002/090/0002090345.jpg
I love all of these but between Venus and Baby It’s You. Probably Venus today.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 31 May 2018 02:51 (five years ago) link
I love how Lindsay decided to step away from the Paul Revere image and go full sleaze. Appropriate for a song that pure WTF lyrically:
She must belong to San FranciscoShe must have lost her wayPostin' a poster of Poncho and CiscoOne California dayShe said she believes in Robin Hood and brotherhoodAnd colours of green and greyAnd all you can do is laugh at herDoesn't anybody know how to pray?Arizona, take off your rainbow shadesArizona, have another look at the worldMy myyyArizona, cut off your Indian braidsArizona, hey won'tcha go my wayMmmm strip off your pride you're acting like a teeny-bopper run away childAnd scrape off the paint from the face of a little town saintArizona, take off your hobo shoesArizona, hey won'tcha go my wayFollow me up to San FranciscoI will be guide your wayI'll be the Count of Monte CristoYou'll be the Countess MayAnd you can believe in Robin Hood and brotherhood and rolling the ball in the hayAnd I will be reading you an Aesop's fableAnything to make you stay-ay-ay
Arizona, take off your rainbow shadesArizona, have another look at the worldMy myyyArizona, cut off your Indian braidsArizona, hey won'tcha go my way
Mmmm strip off your pride you're acting like a teeny-bopper run away childAnd scrape off the paint from the face of a little town saintArizona, take off your hobo shoesArizona, hey won'tcha go my way
Follow me up to San FranciscoI will be guide your wayI'll be the Count of Monte CristoYou'll be the Countess MayAnd you can believe in Robin Hood and brotherhood and rolling the ball in the hayAnd I will be reading you an Aesop's fableAnything to make you stay-ay-ay
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 31 May 2018 03:08 (five years ago) link
More Today Than Yesterday
Runners-up: Cherry Hill Park, Early in the Morning, Arizona
The Rapper - Fun but stupidNa Na Hey Hey - At least a minute too longMississippi Queen - Feels out of placeTracy - Generic example of smooth bubblegum, outclassed by at least 2 songs on Super Hits Vol. 2 (My Baby Loves Lovin', Hitchin' a Ride)Come Saturday Morning - It would win if this were a compilation of the "Beautiful Music" easy listening radio format of the '60s/'70s
― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 31 May 2018 03:08 (five years ago) link
xpost "Oh hippie child, please stop looking like trash so I can take you to the Bay Area anyway and fuck you."
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 31 May 2018 03:09 (five years ago) link
i mean it doesn't make a lick of sense on ANY level!
― YouTube_-_funy_cats.flv (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 31 May 2018 03:14 (five years ago) link
“doesnt anybody know how to pray” is *the* good uber 70’s line though, feels very post-war idk
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 31 May 2018 03:22 (five years ago) link
Yeah especially the way he sings it. Somewhere between actually outraged and randomly nettled.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 31 May 2018 03:25 (five years ago) link
it's strange to contemplate how different these songs must sound to people who heard them in 1970 vs. people who heard them later
the best track here is "Mississippi Queen," but it's a ringer, not really in the spirit of the compilation ... I voted for "The Rapper" as least played out to my old ears
― Brad C., Thursday, 31 May 2018 03:35 (five years ago) link
Seeing those "Arizona" lyrics written out makes it come off a little like a Father John Misty song.
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 31 May 2018 03:42 (five years ago) link
That...makes sense.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 31 May 2018 03:46 (five years ago) link
https://i.pinimg.com/474x/9c/f5/9c/9cf59c10da4abcd2c1ef4986d59dfba6--paul-revere-raiders.jpg
"I Love You, Honey bear Arizona"
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 31 May 2018 03:48 (five years ago) link
AIRIZOWNAH
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 31 May 2018 04:09 (five years ago) link
Where's the brass section in the pop hits of today, is what I wanna know, dagnabbit.
― I really like the acting, dialogue and especially the scenes (Old Lunch), Thursday, 31 May 2018 04:21 (five years ago) link
I'm damn glad that I already have a dedicated AM gold playlist parked on my iPod.
― I really like the acting, dialogue and especially the scenes (Old Lunch), Thursday, 31 May 2018 04:31 (five years ago) link
also kinda partial to Early in the MorningI love Vanity Fare’s “Hitchin a Ride”, one of the few songs featuring a recorder that doesnt make me want to kill
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 31 May 2018 04:38 (five years ago) link
Gotta go with Venus. No idea when I first heard it & didn’t recognize it until I played it. Came back to me immediately though. Weirdly those first strummed chords sounds a bit like Pinball Wizard
― that's not my post, Thursday, 31 May 2018 05:04 (five years ago) link
I love how Lindsay decided to step away from the Paul Revere image and go full sleaze.
He was even sleazing it up with the Raiders by then! Check "Just Seventeen", their Zep/Grand Funk move that hit #82 around the time "Arizona" was sliding off the charts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnk2R5FLMVM
The lyric finds our hero succumbing to the charms of an underage girl ("Just 17...but she looked fine!) in Missoula, MT, and getting busted by the cops a few hours later.
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 31 May 2018 07:16 (five years ago) link
Think I could vote for almost any of these except of course The Jaggerz, “The Rapper.” Really going to have a tough time with later volumes.
― omgneto and ittanium mayne (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 31 May 2018 11:36 (five years ago) link
You know the whole thing about “Shannon” and Casey Kasem, right? And about the fact that it was about Carl Wilson’s dog, I think.Used to hate it but eventually grew on me. “Honey” is pretty bad, as noted above.And yes, thanks to Hideous Lump for preemptively creating that list so the rest of us don’t feel we have to.
― omgneto and ittanium mayne (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 June 2018 16:16 (five years ago) link
my old boss knew how much I hated Shannon - every once in a while he’d wander by my desk singing the chorus in a high-pitched voice. the worst! RAGH
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 2 June 2018 16:54 (five years ago) link
My friend and I were recently discussing this and started riffing on Steve Coogan and the other guy in The Trip imitating Michael Caine talking about this song “And when he sings high, he sings very high.”
― omgneto and ittanium mayne (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 June 2018 17:04 (five years ago) link
You know the whole thing about “Shannon” and Casey Kasem, right?
Do tell...
― Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Saturday, 2 June 2018 18:41 (five years ago) link
Well, you see, Casey was alone with Shannon one day when he starts eying this jar of peanut butter...
― On the Wingers of Love: The Kip & Debra Story (Old Lunch), Saturday, 2 June 2018 18:45 (five years ago) link
Actually has nothing to do with “Shannon,” sorry.
― omgneto and ittanium mayne (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 June 2018 19:07 (five years ago) link
Thanks to C.G/McC for starting this thread/series and to cryptosicko for the Spotify playlist.
This stuff is def. *my* music, although this particular Volume is variable in quality and full of things that made no impression whatsoever in the UK. Steam and Shocking Blue are the most familiar and deservedly so. "Tracy" too, from numerous bubblegum pop comps, but it doesn't quite fit in that company - or here either for that matter. The Flying Machine and Vanity Fare were actually Brits, so I know these too, but... meh (the latter have better songs as mentioned upthread).
Didn't know this Sandpipers tune but it's reliable easy listening. Of the unfamiliar acts, Spiral Staircase and The Jaggerz were the nicest surprises. Think I'll vote for the latter.
― Jeff W, Sunday, 3 June 2018 16:30 (five years ago) link
these comps do occasionally yield great non-US hits that I remember as a kid growing up in Australia, like Smokie, Brotherhood of Man, and my favorite: Sister Janet Mead’s version of The Lord’s Prayer :DEurovision content scattered throughout which is always good
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 3 June 2018 17:22 (five years ago) link
How could it be anything else but "The Rapper"?
― bodacious ignoramus, Sunday, 3 June 2018 19:02 (five years ago) link
Eurovision content scattered throughout which is always good
Ignorant American here--which songs were from Eurovision?
― Hideous Lump, Monday, 4 June 2018 00:34 (five years ago) link
Save Your Kisses for Me was oneI’ll have to look up the others as memory is failing me but there are a few in the compilation
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 4 June 2018 00:43 (five years ago) link
Been obsessed with this series for the last few years. I've even replaced some of my cassette copies with CDs just to get some of the bonus tracks. "Come Saturday Morning" was also used to great creepy effect in the movie Clara's Ghost.
― Real Compton City G, Monday, 4 June 2018 04:09 (five years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Tuesday, 5 June 2018 00:01 (five years ago) link
Get yer last votes in folks.
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 5 June 2018 23:05 (five years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Wednesday, 6 June 2018 00:01 (five years ago) link
(...I kinda think 'Venus' is just okay. Sorry.)
― On the Wingers of Love: The Kip & Debra Story (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 00:03 (five years ago) link
Ha, "Venus" ended up w/my vote, although I was close to going with Mountain.
V2 tomorrow!
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 00:13 (five years ago) link
Kind of shocking that "MTTY" didn't do better, as it's pretty well-loved in general.
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 00:20 (five years ago) link
It got my vote.
― On the Wingers of Love: The Kip & Debra Story (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 00:23 (five years ago) link
It was probably my #3.
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 00:25 (five years ago) link
ilx needs to get down with the Flying Machine, clearly
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 00:30 (five years ago) link
Debated whether to vote for “Tracy,” Ron Dante stan that I am. Ended up missing the vote altogether. Ah well.
― omgneto and ittanium mayne (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 00:39 (five years ago) link
Listening to vol. 2 now. Such a great mix of finesse, clunk and horribleness.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 6 June 2018 00:57 (five years ago) link
James: have you heard this?
https://www.gilbertpodcast.com/ron-dante/
― Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 00:58 (five years ago) link
No, thanks!
― omgneto and ittanium mayne (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 01:10 (five years ago) link
Fear not "Tracy" fans, I'm considering running a "Spinsters" (tracks with no votes) poll in addition to the trad Bridesmaids and #1 polls run at the conclusion of the volume polls.
A lot of that will hinge on how many no-vote getters we'll have (remember this is a 25 volume series of 300 songs, so there could be >50 eligible at the end).
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 03:41 (five years ago) link
:D
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 04:35 (five years ago) link
Super Hits of The 70s: Have A Nice Day, Vol. 2
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 17:06 (five years ago) link
The Rapper has such a great chorus with the fuzz riff, cowbell and that little guitar lick.
― earlnash, Wednesday, 6 June 2018 20:48 (five years ago) link
Okay, jusr relistened and have to say I underestimated “The Rapper.”
― omgneto and ittanium mayne (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 23:25 (five years ago) link
Moves Like Jaggerz
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 23:29 (five years ago) link
so bummed i missed this, especially the extensive discussion of "Arizona." wasn't so long ago it felt like we "Arizona" lovers were a nearly extinct breed on this board.
― noel gallaghah's high flying burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 23:32 (five years ago) link
Indeed. Probably haven’t thought about that song since it first came out and was a hit and don’t think I ever knew who the artist was.
― omgneto and ittanium mayne (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 23:43 (five years ago) link
Really digging the drums on “Tracy,” wondering which studio pro played them.
― And Nobody POLLS Like Me (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 7 June 2018 01:52 (five years ago) link
"Arizona" feels like the theme song for a reactionary grindhouse film where Charles Bronson travels from his small town to San Francisco to get revenge on the hippies that got his daughter addicted.
The narrator of "Cherry Hill Park" def a minor baddie who gets killed fifteen minutes into this film.
― Daniel_Rf, Sunday, 5 June 2022 10:23 (one year ago) link
lol, yes to both.Now do 'The Rapper'.
― When the Pain That You Feel is the Bite of an Eel, That's a Moray (Old Lunch), Sunday, 5 June 2022 10:55 (one year ago) link
!
― The Way Dub Used to Be (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 5 June 2022 11:50 (one year ago) link