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Forgotten Music

Saturday, 29 August 2015, 22:19 BFH Uncategorized 244

I hate Jack FM, or whatever that stupid radio franchise is called.

“We play what we want!!”

It just so happens they want to play Billy Joel, Eddie Money, Pink Floyd and Bryan Adams alllllllll friggin dayyyyyyy long.

Wouldn’t it be nice to find a station that plays songs and bands where you go, “oh yeah, I remember that”? Instead, I’m forced to flick off the radio saying, “that again????”

Okay. HERE ARE THE RULES FOR THIS THREAD.

Post in the comments SONGS THAT NEED TO BE PLAYED ON THE RADIO MORE.

DO NOT POST A SONG THAT IS HEARD ALL THE TIME ON THE RADIO. DO NOT POST A SONG THAT HAS NEVER BEEN PLAYED ON THE RADIO. (We should at least be somewhat familiar with either the artist or the song.)

MOST IMPORTANT   —>  If you post a youtube link, YOU MUST HIT RETURN AND PUT A PERIOD ON THE LINE AFTER THE LINK. THIS WILL KEEP IT FROM BEING EMBEDDED IN THE COMMENT. WE DO NOT WANT EMBEDDED VIDEOS IN THE COMMENTS. IF THE YOUTUBE VIDEO SHOWS UP IN THE COMMENTS THE COMMENT WILL BE DELETED. NO HARD FEELINGS.

244 Comments on Forgotten Music

  13. Every now and then Joe Dan makes me crazy on Intellectual Froglegs and I have to rack my brain (or use Soundhound if he’s not talking over it) to figure out what some of that stuff is.

    Thanks to Joe Dan, I now have The Atlanta Rhythm Section’s “So Into You” as my ringtone, and I downloaded “I’m Not the One” by the Cars. He also reminded me how great the Alan Parson’s Project was — but I already had most of that.

  24. I don’t listen to radio anymore. I stopped over 20 years ago. I hate the DJ
    Format. I listen to my own mix ‘tapes’ what I want to hear, when I want to here it.
    I have a large vinyl collection that I make ‘tapes’ from. Sometimes I want to hear
    50’s music all day. Sometimes big band. Sometimes I don’t want to hear any music. I also prefer old time radio over tv.
    ‘Tapes’ might mean CD or flash drive or other.

  49. The Tubes should have more play on the radio PERIOD.

    Side note- back up singer was the creepy nurse in The Right Stuff.
    She became a traffic copter reporter and died on air in a crash.
    Jane Dornacker

  57. There used to be a bar band out of Cincinnati called “Pike 27.” Decidedly leftist, questionably communist. But yet, they did a tune called “Devil’s Radio” back around 2002 that would explain a bit of the root of this thread.

    Google it, it’s out there.

    (5 minutes later)

    Never mind. They didn’t carry over as well as I thought they would.

    Commie Kentucky liberal bastards as they are.

  65. Oh yeah I love this song!!!! It’s one of three I “discovered” almost three years ago from hearing it (them) being played on the radio–**not** BOB FM (as it’s called in Alaska).

    It was a little hard to find at first because apparently it’s a cover version, but tbh I like this one way better.

  77. Two of the three songs I talked about earlier in the thread are already mentioned: “The Year of the Cat” and “Spooky,” and the last is “Couldn’t Get it Right.” I never heard any of them until a couple of years ago, and now I love them. This last song led me to being a Pete Haycock fan about a year or so before he passed away. From everything I’ve heard, simply a marvelous human being.

    Kafir, I wrote a review on YotC–there’s so much to say about it, the lyrics are fantastic and the music mesmerizing.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwnC_8_ZeYE
    .

    Hope I got the no-embedded thingie right.

  81. I had a Landcruiser to drive inside the wire over in the desert. Someone had left an Al Stewart tape in it, endlessly looping for six months. That song must have been on the oldies station because I dreamed last night about being at that chopper pad. Now its stuck in my head.

    It is a great song.

  87. Shawn Colvin: – Every Little Thing, Twilight, You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome, One Cool Remove, This Must Be The Place, Twilight, There’s A Rugged Road.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cJGuGXSMdk
    .

    They just don’t play any of those in Arkansas. If I could broadcast a signal from my truck, you’d hear those every day. I have an SD card with about 1600 songs on it, so I don’t get my music from the radio any more. I’d have to wait years to hear just one of my favorite songs.

  93. A lot of music that I like is not only forgotten, it was seldom heard to begin with. Here is a sample:

    Savoy Brown, Hellbound Train
    Boz Skaggs, Loan me a dime
    Jefferson Airplane, 30 Seconds over Winterland
    BB King, most of
    Lou Reed, Rock and Roll Animal
    Buddy Guy, a lot of
    Fleet wood Mac, before Stevie Nicks

    There is a lot more, just can’t think of them right now.

  97. I grew up on WMMR stand back.

    The Tubes Mondo Bondage for one. What do you want from life, classis real rock.

    Cooper, hey stupid, feed my Frankenstein, billion dollar babies.

    Renaissance, carpet of the sun, mother Russia, ashes are burning.

    Anything from Todd

    How about Yes?

    And Genesis , the old stuff. Fly on a windshield, lamb, carpet crawlers, selling England by the pound.

    Robin thrower, everything with Bruce singing.

    Be Bop Delux, sister seagull

    Return to forever, the whole collection, especially Romantic Warrior.

  116. Procal Harum ‘A Whiter Shade of Pale’ think I was 12 when that came out.

    I miss Devo. Too bad 2 of the original deevolutionized band members are dead.
    It’s A Beautiful World, Whip It, etc Found an antique shop (!!!!) in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio that had some Devo memorabilia for sale so I finally got a flower pot hat. But damn! An antique shop.

    Warren Zevon, never hear any of his music any more.

  124. Love the Supremes and still have the vinyl. I used to stay with my Aunt in the summers. Saturday mornings she would blast Johnny Cash, Aretha or The Supremes (Stop In The Name of Love was a favorite) really loud and we would house clean. She wore capris which were called pedal pushers back in the dark ages and danced with the dust mop. So much more fun than my sour, dour mother.

  132. Uncle Al –
    If you saw my Spotify you’d think I was a poor black boy born in 1960.

    Here are my favs –

    The Dramatics-
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8krq5V1C03I
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux8gZuvTVR8

    The Delfonics –
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4lSjIl96Sc

    The Chi-lites
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdT–4er8jQ
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjN8huzS2Nc

    The Dells
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs8OxUlIFEk

    Harold Melvin
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STs1QlyawpY

    The Floaters
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT_9OUvmb5I

    Bloodstone
    Natural High

  149. Claudia,
    I have about twenty A-P cd’s.

    Tales Of Mystery & Imagination
    The Turn Of a Friendly Card
    Ammonia Avenue
    I-Robot
    are my faves.

    I saw them live, front row in Houston years ago.
    They were quite chatty with me.
    Many connections to the Beatles these guys.
    Excellent music.

  156. Ya don’t have to be an octogenarian to like good music. I’m early 50’s and love the old stuff like Jim Reeves, Patsy Cline, Ernest Tubb, The Platters, The Mills Brothers and lots of others. I like the old stuff much better than anything these days.

  165. “Professional sounding” is what I said about Judy’s steel player. If you want to hear some of the best country steel you need to scroll down a hundred posts or so to my Hank Williams Lost Highway link. 😉
    Now That is real country!

  166. T’Pau
    “Heart and Soul”

    Kate Bush
    “Don’t Give Up”

    Elton John
    “Friends (from the Friends movie soundtrack)

    John Mellencamp
    “Mansions in Heaven”

    Adam Ant
    “Stand and Deliver”

    (and the Housemartins are the UK group from 1987 on YouTube if you look it up- not the woman singing “Build” as a cover song).

  170. After reading some more about Buddy Emmons, it’s quite possible that he was on the steel on the Judy Collins song. He did a whole lot of studio work and recorded with a bunch of different people. Apparently if you wanted a pedal steel guitar in your song, Buddy Emmons was the man to get. I just noticed at this link that he did work with Judy Collins.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Emmons

    Hank’s steel player was Don Helms – I always liked his sound too.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Helms

  172. I think you’re right about Emmons, I have that album somewhere but I’m way too lazy to try to dig it out right now.
    I left you a reply about Buddy Emmons and another Tubbs steel player, Buddy Charleton a while ago but it never posted. They were both great. Didn’t know that Emmons had died.
    I had to exit and restart and clear my cache. Youtube always causes problems on this computer. And speaking of those assholes at utube, they banned Joe Dan’s new Froglegs video about Trump before it even posted. Must be a great video! Just got the email a while ago.

    You have good taste in Country, Bubba’s Brother.
    My dad was a big Tubbs fan. He liked Bob Wills too.

  181. OK – no vids (‘cuz there are so few), but when was the last time you heard anything by Buddy Holly – with or without Crickets – except on commercials sung by wanna-be imitators?

  184. Somewhat I suppose–the songs are catchy and most easy to get me to sing along. When my son was a baby I used to sing made up songs to him to the tunes of SoM songs. There’s one that has stayed with us all these years and occasionally one or the other of us will sing it.

  189. My Little Red Book – Love
    Some Velvet Morning – Lee Hazelwood, Nancy Sinatra
    Live For Today – The Grass Roots
    Pushin’ Too Hard – The Seeds
    Nights In White Satin – The Moody Blues
    Comin’ Back To Me – Jefferson Airplane
    First Time Ever I Saw Your Face – Roberta Flack
    Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow – The Shirelles
    Genesis – Quah

  195. Up here in Canada-Triumph is way overplayed on FM, Power of the Music is the worst of the lot. Sad thing is they play Triumph’s cover of Rocky Mountain Way, to get their “Canadian Content” requirement, and never play the Joe Walsh version- which is far superior.

  199. Deep Tracks on XM on channel 27 plays all the good stuff sort of like the progressive FM stations played back in the early to mid 70’s. Freeman, you had me on Renaissance it’s still one of my favorite bands. Also Moody Blues, Hot Tuna, AL Stewart, Take A Pebble by ELP, all the good stuff. Johnny Cash just because, his newer music just prior to his death was some of his best music ever and Patsy Cline who I hated when I was a kid because my Dad liked her, love her music now.

  208. Being a former late-night FM DJ, I’ll be gentle:

    Stones – Country Honk (acoustic studio ver of Honky Tonk Woman)
    Pure Prairie League – Amy
    Head East – Never Been Any Reason
    Jethro Tull – Nursie, Reasons For Waiting, and about 20 more
    ZZ Top – entire Rio Grande Mud album
    Allman Bros – In Memory of Elizabeth Reed (live at the Filmore)
    Traveling Wilburys – every dayum song
    Marshall Tucker Band – Ramblin’, Where A Country Boy Belongs
    Greg Allman – Please Call Home, Midnight Rider

    ‘Nuff…..for day one’s programming

  215. Not familiar with that one, Thirdtwin. I think the Beat Farmers buddy Mojo Nixon has some commie sympathies…funny guy – he co-wrote Baby’s Liquored Up. He’s gone from being a wild young man to the Pillsbury Dough Boy.

  232. Now you’re talking. Good ones, Fur.
    BTW, even mid and upper class black kids loved this music. A lot of people liked these songs, they were chart burners.

  235. Y’know, I never hear anything by Donovan any more.

    Oh, yeah, that’s right. He was awful unless you were seriously self-medicated. Then, he was still awful but you didn’t have the energy to change the music.

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