IdRatherBeSkiing's Top 20 (Sunday, June 21st, 2020 version)

Whoa! I take a day and a half off and I have so much to catch up on! I'll quickly drop this and try to catch up tomorrow....

ELO

1. Calling America
2. All Over The World
3. Don't Bring Me Down
4. Xanadu
5. Evil Woman

Quick story. When I was 10 I loved Xanadu (the movie and soundtrack), mostly because of my crush on ONJ at the time, I assume. One time I was at a friend's house with the cub scout troop and the dad said "What do you want to listen to? How about this?" and held up the Xanadu soundtrack. A split second before I could say, "Yeah!" all of the other kids went "NO! THAT SUCKS! IT'S LAME! NO WAY!" so I just shut up and thought, "Phew! Glad my reaction time was slow...."
 
sadchild said:
Whoa! I take a day and a half off and I have so much to catch up on! I'll quickly drop this and try to catch up tomorrow....

ELO

1. Calling America
2. All Over The World
3. Don't Bring Me Down
4. Xanadu
5. Evil Woman

Quick story. When I was 10 I loved Xanadu (the movie and soundtrack), mostly because of my crush on ONJ at the time, I assume. One time I was at a friend's house with the cub scout troop and the dad said "What do you want to listen to? How about this?" and held up the Xanadu soundtrack. A split second before I could say, "Yeah!" all of the other kids went "NO! THAT SUCKS! IT'S LAME! NO WAY!" so I just shut up and thought, "Phew! Glad my reaction time was slow...."
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I forgot about Xanadu. That is under ONJ in my library. If it was not, it would have been in my list somewhere near the top.

I never saw the movie. Everybody said it was bad.
 
I saw about 5 minutes of it a few years ago on YouTube and thought "Even at 10, how the hell did I find this watchable?" But the music is... well, back then it was great. Today, it's a mixed bag.
 
WHEW! A lot to catch up on. Love it!

BBC, Hansie, Pumps & Aerial are fun ones. Jon Astley too. I probably would've taped them off the radio back in the day.

Didn't know there was a band Kix before the hair band Kix. Their keyboard licks in the verses made me chuckle. They're like a timestamp of a big bold "1981". Same with the vox on Aerial, timestamp that one 1979! Knack, Cars...

In going through my old cassettes I see how I changed the way I made them.
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When I was 12, I just taped off the radio, and that became the song order. Later, I made planned mixtapes from my albums (and borrowed albums & tapes) with a flow (or at least a specific genre). In the 90s, I would make mixtapes for friends that had comedy bits between the songs. I'd usually cut the joke right at the end of the punch line (before the laughter) then have a song start immediately after (sometimes eliminating the song intro, just to give it a 1-2 punch from punchline into guitar riff). For example, I remember using a joke from Larry 'Uncle Larr' Reeb, "What's the point of scented toilet paper? What do you do, say, 'Hey honey! Come smell my lemony-fresh ass!!'" Then BANG, into a killer guitar riff. I had a lot of fun making those, and the people enjoyed them too.

Fleetwood Mac

1. (TBA on the 333)
2. (TBA on the 333)
3. (TBA on the 333)
4. Second Hand News (#306)
5. Dreams (on my 'for expanding beyond 500)
6. Songbird
7. Gold Dust Woman
8. Big Love
9. Tango In The Night
10. I'm So Afraid
11. Seven Wonders
12. When I See You Again
13. Monday Morning
14. The Chain
15. Rhiannon
16. Little Lies
17. Hold Me
18. Caroline
19. Oh Daddy
20. Blue Letter
 
These 2 movie songs always blend together. I can never tell them apart by sound. And if I do tell them apart I can never tell which movie each was from. Both are Molly Ringwald Movies (Pretty In Pink and Sixteen Candles).



The both have the same texture and tone to this theme of another Molly Ringwald movie (Breakfast Club):


Anyway that was my thought of the day (I heard one of the first 2 on the radio today). And yes, I had a thing for Molly Ringwald in the day.

Top 10 coming ....
 
Today's top 10 from a rather straight forward rock artist: Foreigner. I tend to like their rockier pieces rather than their slow ballads.

10. Long Long Way From Home
9. Cold As Ice
8. Feels Like the First Time
7. Urgent
6. Juke Box Hero
5. Blue Morning, Blue Day
4. Head Games
3. Double Vision
2. Dirty White Boy
1. Hot Blooded
 
I like all 3 of those movie songs! One will show up on my 333 list.

Foreigner

1. Juke Box Hero
2. Dirty White Boy
3. Blue Morning, Blue Day
4. Double Vision
5. Heart Turns To Stone

I like these two better than all five of those...
Lou Gramm "Midnight Blue"
Lou Gramm "Just Between You And Me"

And this one ain't too shabby either...
Lou Gramm "Lost In The Shadows"
 
Not surprisingly, I like the ballads.

Waiting for a Girl like You
Urgent
That was Yesterday
Long, Long Way from Home
I Don't Want to Live Without You
Head Games
Blue Morning, Blue Day
Cold as Ice
Say You Will
I want to Know what Love Is
 
sadchild said:
I like these two better than all five of those...
Lou Gramm "Midnight Blue"
Lou Gramm "Just Between You And Me"

And this one ain't too shabby either...
Lou Gramm "Lost In The Shadows"
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I have only heard Midnight Blue before (of those 3). It is not considered on my top 10 since I have not been considering solo work with the group. It was hard enough picking 10 Fleetwood Mac songs without having to consider solo work from Stevie Nicks, Lindsay Buckingham and Christine McVee. Or the Eagles and Don Henley, Glenn Frey and Joe Walsh. The other 2 songs are not unpleasant but they don't hook me.
 
Yeah I separate solo work too, but figured there's a slim chance there'll be a Lou Gramm top 10 coming along on anyone's threads, so I took the opportunity.
 
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Yeah I separate solo work too, but figured there's a slim chance there'll be a Lou Gramm top 10 coming along on anyone's threads, so I took the opportunity.
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He's be like a Dexy's Midnight Runners to me. And it's a good point for discussion so take whatever opportunity presents. I am enjoying the discussion here, on your thread or Aaron's or scotch's.
 
My band wayyyy back in the day used to play Midnight Blue. I haven’t heard it in a while, but it must have been pretty simple, because I don’t remembering it sounding too bad.
 
"Midnight Blue" is one of those that's so simple, yet so effective at just being a quintessential rock and roll song. Perfect for top-down cruisin' along the shoreline on a beautiful evening.
 
Good description. I just watched the video. It takes me back to 87 and the year after high school. Another example of how to keep it simple, stay out of the way, and just let the hook do it’s work.
 
Today's artist is Guns'N'Roses. Like Heart I only count 9. There are other good songs but not one i consider top 10 worthy.

9. Don't Cry
8. Patience
7. Live and Let Die
6. You Could Be Mine
5. Knockin' On Heaven's Door
4. November Rain
3. Welcome To The Jungle
2. Paradise City
1. Sweet Child O' Mine

Those 3 songs from Appetite for Destruction are absolutely their best work.
 
I am jumping ahead. We will return to my alphabetical list at some point.

Today is Queen. This one is tough. Here are my Honourable Mentions. Each are Top 10 worthy but there just isn't room. Queen is my son's favourite band btw.

Tie Your Mother Down
Somebody To Love
You're My Best Friend
Don't Stop My Now
'39
A Kind of Magic
I'm Going Slightly Mad
I Want to Break Free

And here are the top 10:
10. Killer Queen
9. Headlong (my son's #3)
8. Keep Yourself Alive
7. Bicycle Race
6. We Will Rock You / We Are The Champions (only time I have ever heard them separate is on old AT40 countdowns -- and sadchild's top 333)
5. Crazy Little Thing Called Love (Freddie wrote this catchy ditty in the bathtub. Took him 10 mins)
4. Another One Bites The Dust
3. Fat Bottom Girls
2. Radio Ga Ga (my son's #1)
1. Bohemian Rhapsody (my son's #2)

You may notice a prominent hit missing. Under Pressure is my least favourite Queen hit (my son's as well). Not a channel changer but not to our liking.
 
Nice to see (two people) who also love Radio Gaga and Headlong. I don't think those songs get enough praise/credit.

I"ve said it somewhere else, I forget where, but Freddie Mercury is #1 on my list of 'best rock singers of all time'.
 
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