Mike Teacher
08-23-2004, 10:15 PM
R+F had a segment where people were calling in with, I cant remember exactly, but it was a lot of 1970s stuff. Sheesh cant remember the fucking segment. He was making a Mix Tape or something.
ANYway; with all the 'Best ___' music threads and That segment I wondered: Is there a Single Song that can adequately Define a Group?
Simply: If you could only play One song from a group or artist to show someone else: 'This is what they were about' What would that song be for a given group.
Example: Someone called in and mentioned ELO, Electric Light Orchestra. Huge in the 70s, then pffffft. Well, Ron was talking about the huge string of hits they had in the 70s, and up fades...
"Don't Bring Me Down' which is quite possibly the Shittiest ELO song ever.
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Is it possible? Zep? Metallica? How you gonna show someone One song from a group that put out 'Achilles Last Stand' and 'All of My Love? Or 'Seek and Destroy' and 'Nothing Else Matters'?
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Ministry was light, synthy dance music, and evolved into the Beast that put out 'Filth Pig' [the song].
One Group: One Song. Not the 'Best', or Most Popular necesarily, but the One Song that you can say: 'now THATS What They were All About!'
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I'll go back to the Shitty ELO. Actually, I loved them, and would have 'Do Ya' as the song. Weird, coz first, technically, its a cover of The Move, and it's definately not my fave, but it strikes a balance.
And if I play 'Nutshell' by Alice In Chains one more time its gonna explode, and thats an acoustic song, but DAMN, those lyrics and that plodding sense of dread in that song... that's a Lot of what AIC was about, and that song aint even Electric.
Or Maybe 'Them Bones'? Fuck! Breaking thread rule in the Original Post!
Ok gotta pick only one: Them Bones
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ANYway; with all the 'Best ___' music threads and That segment I wondered: Is there a Single Song that can adequately Define a Group?
Simply: If you could only play One song from a group or artist to show someone else: 'This is what they were about' What would that song be for a given group.
Example: Someone called in and mentioned ELO, Electric Light Orchestra. Huge in the 70s, then pffffft. Well, Ron was talking about the huge string of hits they had in the 70s, and up fades...
"Don't Bring Me Down' which is quite possibly the Shittiest ELO song ever.
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Is it possible? Zep? Metallica? How you gonna show someone One song from a group that put out 'Achilles Last Stand' and 'All of My Love? Or 'Seek and Destroy' and 'Nothing Else Matters'?
=
Ministry was light, synthy dance music, and evolved into the Beast that put out 'Filth Pig' [the song].
One Group: One Song. Not the 'Best', or Most Popular necesarily, but the One Song that you can say: 'now THATS What They were All About!'
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I'll go back to the Shitty ELO. Actually, I loved them, and would have 'Do Ya' as the song. Weird, coz first, technically, its a cover of The Move, and it's definately not my fave, but it strikes a balance.
And if I play 'Nutshell' by Alice In Chains one more time its gonna explode, and thats an acoustic song, but DAMN, those lyrics and that plodding sense of dread in that song... that's a Lot of what AIC was about, and that song aint even Electric.
Or Maybe 'Them Bones'? Fuck! Breaking thread rule in the Original Post!
Ok gotta pick only one: Them Bones
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