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Miss American Pie by Don McLean

Let the debates about the song's meaning begin!

RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:Miss American Pie by Don McLean

Let the debates about the song's meaning begin!

Here's The Humbling River by Puscifer; I think a lot of folks here will really dig this one.

RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:Miss American Pie by Don McLean

Let the debates about the song's meaning begin!

http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~jdevor/link ... canPie.htm

This sums it up pretty well

Since I just saw the show, here is the eponymously titled Hair - and since I've seen Tsu's FB pic, I dedicate it to him. While this clip is from the Tonies, the interaction with the audience is identitcal to the stage performance. And BTW, the light-skinned girl onstage in the vest and red sports bra... looks amazing naked.

Mikey wrote:Since I just saw the show, here is the eponymously titled Hair - and since I've seen Tsu's FB pic, I dedicate it to him. While this clip is from the Tonies, the interaction with the audience is identitcal to the stage performance. And BTW, the light-skinned girl onstage in the vest and red sports bra... looks amazing naked.

Proof?

Now, please enjoy the pleasant Christian stylings of Testament -

Trail of Tears (one of my favorite songs of all time, BTW. One of the best guitar parts ever also IMO.)

Low

Legions

Hail Mary

P.C.

Dog Faced Gods

All I Could Bleed

Urotsukidoji

Chasing Fear

Ride

Last Call

Pleasant Christian stylings? Don't make me roll you to a link to Stryper. GK - sorry, no recording allowed in the theater. She played Dionne, and her versions of "Aquarius" and "White Boys" were incredible. To be fair, I don't believe hippie women of 1967 were quite as... shaven.

Mikey wrote:Pleasant Christian stylings? Don't make me roll you to a link to Stryper.

At least someone recognized the irony.

OK, so while cleaning my closet, I actually found my old pork-pie and skinny ties. Reminiscing over my rude boy days, I thought I'd share some fave 3rd-wave. Forgive any repetitions from the old music thread.

Dance Hall Crashers - nice 3rd-wave/rock combo from Maryland (until they later went all bubblegum.)
In this one listen to the choruses, where the lead singers actually sing in octaves of each other - Othello
obligatory social commentary - Blind Leading the Blind
State of Mind

other faves -
The Insteps, Shotgun Jimmy
Long Island's own The Scofflaws' tribute to the greatest TV CO ever... William Shatner
Dirty Jersey's own Mephiskapheles with Doomsday, Saba; a truly virtuosic use of dissonance called Break Your Ankle Punk, and the greatest cover of a commercial jingle ever.
For something a little harder and more Irish, Dropkick Murphys and Barroom Hero, a cover of The Dubliner's The Fields of Athenry
Good ol' baldy English oi!/ska from the Skoidats
The classic band Bad Manners with Lip Up Fatty
The greatest German ska/rocksteady band ever, Dr. Ring Ding and the Senior AllStars with Ram Di Dance, Bad Company, and My Sound
Let's Go Bowling with Spy Market
Isaac Green and the Skalars with High School

erm... I guess that's enough for now.

For some ol-time music: I've been listening to Mona Lisa a lot recently

An old favorite of mine.

Madness, Our House

RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:An old favorite of mine.

Madness, Our House

Don't get me started on 2-Tone...

But yeah, Madness was great. My fave of theirs was One Step Beyond.

Mikey wrote:

RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:An old favorite of mine.

Madness, Our House

Don't get me started on 2-Tone...

But yeah, Madness was great. My fave of theirs was One Step Beyond.

What I 'love' is they were a one-hit wonder in the US, but effin' huge in Britain. Shows the Brits have better taste there, methinks.

Well, in a particular niche genre, anyway. 2-Tone was never really big in the States, and was a particularly English phenomenon with the much more prevalent emigration of Jamaicans to England rather than to the U.S. (at the time) as well as English colonial ties to the Carribean. It's much the same as the fact of soca, bachata, salsa, and merengue being bigger in the U.S. than in England. Interestingly enough, early ska in Jamaica was heavily shaped by an admixture of American R&B. In the U.S., there was also resistance due to lingering bigotry about the integration of pop music acts (even though Charlie Christian played with white bands as early as the 1920's.) America at the time could never stomach a musical movement whose very name referenced the racial integration of the bands. Get it? "2-Tone?"

Got it, Mikey. Thanks for the little lesson.

Still wish they had broken through, though.