iPod II--The Albums

[MJD]

>Anybody can copy a list of songs with women's names in them. Who are the
>"real-life women" each of those songs are named after? (I don't think you get
>to claim Venus, unless you also worship Zeus)

One that is kind of easy and not on malmo's list but who did the Hollies sing about?

[Guest]

Maggie May by Rod Stewart (and Blur did a cover). Possibly also the Killing of Georgie by Rod the Mod, not sure if Georgie was male or female though.

[MJD]

>Maggie May by Rod Stewart (and Blur did a cover). Possibly also the Killing of
>Georgie by Rod the Mod, not sure if Georgie was male or female though.

Female!!! You gotta know that to get the song.

[Guest]

>>Maggie May by Rod Stewart (and Blur did a cover). Possibly also the Killing
>of
>Georgie by Rod the Mod, not sure if Georgie was male or female
>though.

Female!!! You gotta know that to get the song.

I haven't heard that song for at least 25 years and can't remember the lyrics at all... Just a memorable title.

[gh]

I give up, who was the "Long Cool Woman In A Black Dress"?

Or Carrie-Anne? (Although i suppose you could forge a tortured trail from Carrie-Anne through Graham Nash and his move from the Hollies to Crosby, Stills & Nash, which then became CSN & Neil Young, and he was married to Carrie Snodgress!)

[MJD]

>Or Carrie-Anne?

I didn't say her name was in the title just that the song was about her(and she is still releasing some pretty good stuff). Who's that girl?

[MJD]

Female!!! You gotta know that to get the song.

I haven't
>heard that song for at least 25 years and can't remember the lyrics at all...
>Just a memorable title.

..and "Female!!!" as in that's far from it:

"In these days of changing ways
So called liberated days
A story comes to mind of a friend of mine

Georgie boy was gay I guess
Nothin’ more or nothin’ less
The kindest guy I ever knew

His mother’s tears fell in vain
The afternoon george tried to explain
That he needed love like all the rest

Pa said there must be a mistake
How can my son not be straight
After all I’ve said and done for him

Leavin’ home on a greyhound bus
Cast out by the ones he loves
A victim of these gay days it seems

Georgie went to new york town
Where he quickly settled down
And soon became the toast of the great white way

Accepted by manhattan’s elite
In all the places that were chic
No party was complete without george

Along the boulevards he’d cruise
And all the old queens blew a fuse
Everybody loved georgie boy

The last time I saw george alive
Was in the summer of seventy-five
He said he was in love I said I’m pleased

George attended the opening night
Of another broadway hype
But split before the final curtain fell

Deciding to take a short cut home
Arm in arm they meant no wrong
A gentle breeze blew down fifth avenue

Out of a darkened side street came
A new jersey gang with just one aim
To roll some innocent passer-by
There ensued a fearful fight
Screams rang out in the night
Georgie’s head hit a sidewalk cornerstone

A leather kid, a switchblade knife
He did not intend to take his life
He just pushed his luck a little too far that night

The sight of blood dispersed the gang
A crowd gathered, the police came
An ambulance screamed to a halt on fifty-third and third

Georgie’s life ended there
But I ask who really cares
George once said to me and I quote

He said ’never wait or hesitate
Get in kid, before it’s too late
You may never get another chance
’cos youth a mask but it don’t last
Live it long and live it fast’
Georgie was a friend of mine

Oh georgie stay, don’t go away
Georgie please stay you take our breath away
Oh georgie stay, don’t go away
Georgie please stay you take our breath away
Oh georgie stay, don’t go away
Georgie, georgie please stay you take our breath away
Oh georgie stay"

When I knocked off those 100 spongewrothy tracks, couldn't decide between Georgie and Maggie for Rod. Maggie just got played too much so Georgie always sounds great.

[gh]

What's a Rod Stewart song got to do with the Hollies?

[vaulter83]

I can't believe nobody has mentioned Johnny Cash. I would have to take "Live at Folsom Prison" I think.

[MJD]

>What's a Rod Stewart song got to do with the Hollies?

Replying to marknhj although there is likely some connection that malmo will shortly tell us about.

[MJD]

>I can't believe nobody has mentioned Johnny Cash. I would have to take "Live
>at Folsom Prison" I think.

His NIN remake was better IMHO.

[Guest]

>I can't believe nobody has mentioned Johnny Cash. I would have to take "Live
>at Folsom Prison" I think.>>

And after hearing "Boy Named Sue" for the 50th time in the first month you'd smash your iPod!

[Guest]

Pity Sue wasn't around to protect Georgie...

[Guest]

1. Dylan: Blonde on Blonde
2. Springsteen: Greetings from Asbury Park
3. Stones: Begars Banquet
4. Morrison: Astral Weeks
5. Robert Johnson: Complete recordings (note that Love in Vain is upbeat by RJ, not the dirge of the Stones)
6. Mississippi Fred McDowell: I Do Not Play No Rock and Roll
7. The Band: Music from Big Pink
8. Rod Stewart: Gasoline Alley
9. The Who: Who's Next
10. Wagner: Parsifal. Because a) it's the best thing he ever wrote; b) I can sit through the 6 hours without my butt giving out (try that with Tristan); c) Jan Eaglen hasn't felt compelled to play Kundry.

On the songs for ID'd folks, Dylan has some. The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll & Sara (for/against his ex) for sure. Some people think Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands was for Baez. I think that view is probably BS (my guess is Sara, but that is without knowledge) but I do think that Positivly 4th Street is a slap at Baez, but that is probably BS as well.

[gh]

OK, finally made the tough choices! In no preferential order:

Past Masters--Volume 1 (Beatles)
(since it wasn't stuff off other albums, I don't considerit a "greatest hits" DQ, but if you do, I can live--like so many others--w/ Rubber Soul)

And Justice For All (Metallica)

Sounds of Silence (Simon & Garfunkel)

Brothers In Arms (Dire Straits)

Astral Weeks (Van Morrison)

Highway 61 Revisited---Bob Dylan
(close win over Blood On The Tracks)

The Doors (The Doors)
(or is it vice versa?)

Songs (Leonard Cohen)
(everybody has to have at least one album by a bisexual French-Canadian Jew!) (talk about your basic minority group)

Surrealistic Pillow (Jefferson Airplane)

Classical, of course, has to be Götterdämmerung
(over Ludwig van 9, as Alexander de Large would call him)

[Guest]

The problem with Leonard Cohen is that after listing for 1/2 hour or so, you need to go out and commit suicide.

[Guest]

I guess he considers Cohen a safety valve in case it's a particularly boring desert island.

[Guest]

>I give up, who was the "Long Cool Woman In A Black Dress"?

Who was BB King's guitar(s) named after?

[gh]

You think Cohen songs are depressing, try reading a book of his like "Beautiful Losers." Aiyeeee! I only mention this because it has a (tenuous) track link--I was turned on to the book by Kate Schmidt, then the WR holder in the javelin.

(Father Brebeuf and the Iroquois, you don't want to know)

[Guest]

>And after hearing "Boy Named Sue"
>for the 50th time in the first month you'd smash your iPod!

It could be worse - 50th time listening to "...el oh el-lay, Lola!"

Or worser and worserer...being stuck with only one DVD to watch - over and overer - "Run Lola Run"

[Bob Duncan]

vaulter83 wrote:
>I can't believe nobody has mentioned Johnny Cash. I would have to take "Live at Folsom Prison" I think.

It was on my list posted earlier. In fact, Cash was well-represented in the other music list, too.
And for the record, "Boy Named Sue" is not on that particular album (it's on the San Quentin album).

Although Cash covered Leonard Cohen's "Bird On A Wire" on "American Recordings", there have been no reported suicides after listening to it.

[Guest]

Yeah, but "Bird On A Wire" isn't on the "Songs" album, it's on the much more upbeat "Songs From A Room" collection. Who could get depressed with such uplifting lyrics as these:

<<Like a bird on the wire,
like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free.
Like a worm on a hook,
like a knight from some old fashioned book
I have saved all my ribbons for thee.
If I, if I have been unkind,
I hope that you can just let it go by.
If I, if I have been untrue
I hope you know it was never to you.

Like a baby, stillborn,
like a beast with his horn
I have torn everyone who reached out for me.
But I swear by this song
and by all that I have done wrong
I will make it all up to thee.
I saw a beggar leaning on his wooden crutch,
he said to me, "You must not ask for so much."
And a pretty woman leaning in her darkened door,
she cried to me, "Hey, why not ask for more?"

Oh like a bird on the wire,
like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free. >>

Whew! I feel better already!

[MJD]

>>I give up, who was the "Long Cool Woman In A Black Dress"?

Who was BB
>King's guitar(s) named after?

Lucille. He damn near lost his guitar in a fire caused by two guys fighting who knocked over a kerosene lamp. He found out later that they were fighting over a woman named Lucille. Probably just left Kenny. Who is Carrie-Anne about? Still no answer.

[Guest]

B B King's guitar was named after Chuck Berry's car.

[gh]

Man, much as I have loved these two musical interludes, I gotta get back to cranking out the February issue for you guys! No more from me!

But in passing I have to mention one final music-related thing. Maybe this is old news to some, but was driving my wife's car today and discovered that on certain FM stations, the digital readout not only gives the frequency of the station, but also gives the call-letters, then the name of the artist playing, then the name of the song! Very handy when you're going nuts trying to figure out what the name of that moldy oldie is that they're playing. Good thing our desert island iPods all come with that feature!

[MJD]

>B B King's guitar was named after Chuck Berry's car.

Ok malmo. Who's right?

[Guest]

1. The Doors- First Album

2. Neil Young- Everybody Knows this is nowhere

3. Eagles -Desperado

4. Townes Van Zandt- Rain on a Conga Drum

5. Tom petty- The album with Runnin down a dream

6. Rolling Stones- Get Yer Ya-Ya's out

7. Led Zeppelin- 4

8. Bob Dylan- Blood on the Tracks

9. Mozart- Piano Concerto's

10. Velvet Underground- the one with Heroin on it

[Guest]

>>B B King's guitar was named after Chuck Berry's car.

Ok malmo. Who's
>right?

Gee, MJD, you know the answer to your qyestion.

[hammer forever]

I have the Tower of Power album on which Bruce Conte is a musician- We Came To Play..

How about other top ten albums with drug users/dealers??

[Guest]

>I have the Tower of Power album on which Bruce Conte is a musician- We Came To
>Play..

Was the tag line?..."But wanted to make sure we won"

[Guest]

Bruce Conte is Victor (the dealer) Conte's brother. Believe Bruce was on many albums, Victor only one. Is he on the one you have, or is it just Bruce?

[Olegi2]

Haven't been marooned on a desert island but have lived in the Libyan desert for a coupla years with and old windup gramophone (phongraph?)
and about six 78s. Artie Shaw Gramercy 5(Summit ridge drive, Gloomy Sunday) Harry James(Trumpet Blues and Cantabile) Benny Goodman(can't remember) Knew every note and drumbeat. Sharpening needles was a problem.

[Guest]

what's good about the beattles?

[Guest]

"what's good about the beattles?"

Never heard of them. But there's a similarly named group, The Beatles, that dominated the years 64-70, because they crafted simple melodies and added some technical touches, which resulted in pop songs with universal appeal.

[MJD]

>"what's good about the beattles?"

Never heard of them. But there's a
>similarly named group, The Beatles, that dominated the years 64-70, because
>they crafted simple melodies and added some technical touches, which resulted
>in pop songs with universal appeal.

Don't even really consider myself a major fan and I have 230 tracks by them-probably more than double anyone else.