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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 15, 2020 14:07:10 GMT -5
Nice. So, those are 10" records then, running at 78rpm? I love a good old 10-incher (fnarr fnarr)...a very underused format these days. I assume these are vinyl and not shellac though, right? It would likely be too late for shellac. Looks like they are ex-radio station property, maybe? I have a Country Joe & The Fish LP with "WOR" scrawled across the label like that (WOR-AM was a New York based radio station). Love how someone, possibly a radio station archivist, has written "Fox Trot" on the label in pencil to describe the style of music that "I Walk The Line" is or maybe the recommended dance step. I suppose the song's "boom-chicka-boom" rhythm is somewhat similar to a Fox Trot, but not really. 😄 Yep. 10-inch 78 single. But it is shellac. A lot of 78s even this late were still being produced on shellac as it was still cheaper than vinyl. I think Rob Allen is right and this came out of a Veterans of Foreign Wars hall (possibly off a jukebox). I've got a number of records that came from radio stations and they are usually printed rather than the sketchy paint that's on this one.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 15, 2020 14:10:37 GMT -5
There actually was a jukebox in the storage unit sale (along with a couple of different record players). But it was pretty trashed and I knew it was well beyond my ability to repair or afford to have repaired. Not to mention I'd almost certainly end up divorced if I showed up with another "project."
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 16, 2020 9:43:28 GMT -5
Top songs of 2019
#7 - The Good Luck Thrift Store Outfit - The Very Best
I know this was fairly high on last years list as well. This is one of those groups that slipped under my radar until fairly recently (not super hard since they only did three albums over eight years). This is just a great song by a seriously underappreciated band.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 17, 2020 9:15:43 GMT -5
Top songs of 2019
#6 - Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit - Alabama Pines
It's Isbell again. This song is a great meditation on small towns and loneliness.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 18, 2020 9:40:23 GMT -5
Top songs of 2019
#5 - The Drive-By Truckers - Carl Perkins' Cadillac
This has likely been in the top ten for the last fifteen years. Just a great song about the history of early rock & roll.
"Dammit Elvis, I swear son I think it's time you came around Making money you can't spend ain't what being dead's about You gave me all but one good reason not to do all the things you did Now Cadillacs are fiberglass, if you were me you'd call it quits"
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 19, 2020 9:42:01 GMT -5
Top songs of 2019
#4 - Jason Isbell - 24 Frames
More great stuff from Isbell.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 20, 2020 12:10:22 GMT -5
Top songs of 2019
#3 - Jason Isbell - If it Takes a Lifetime
Have I mentioned I'm a big fan of Jason Isbell?
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 22, 2020 13:19:13 GMT -5
Top songs of 2019
#2 - Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - If We Were Vampires
Last one up from Isbell is off "The Nashville Sound" and is, in my opinion, the stand-out track. Great song about love and the ephemeral nature of life.
"It's knowing that this can't go on forever Likely one of us will have to spend some days alone Maybe we'll get forty years together But one day I'll be gone Or one day you'll be gone"
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 23, 2020 9:21:10 GMT -5
Top songs of 2019
#1 - Vern Gosdin - Set 'Em Up Joe
So we finally come to the top song of 2019 (for me). On the one hand I was a little surprised, just because I would have expected Isbell or Mike & the Moonpies or maybe old-school Merle or Waylon.
But this is just a fabulous song and it really is one of my favorites. I've never been a huge fan of Vern Gosdin. He's perfectly fine, but I never found him to be special. But this song, a tribute to Ernest Tubb is just damn perfect. And given the timing it was a great old-school honky-tonk song that anticipated the neo-traditionalists while playing in a sea of Urban Cowboy detritus.
Time for one more round and some E. T. And I don't mean the extraterrestrial.
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Post by rberman on Jul 6, 2020 8:23:40 GMT -5
I find The Rolling Stones interesting in the sense that they're a band which seems to have immense appeal for one particular generation but somehow didn't translate beyond that. Generations past the boomers seem to keep rediscovering The Beatles and Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd and Rush and Nirvana. But the Stones don't get put in that group for whatever reason, just as U2's appeal to Generation X far exceeds their interest to other generations.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2020 8:45:43 GMT -5
I think that’s true. Oasis is another one that some young folk seem to embrace (part of that could be due to the fact the former members are still active). But I definitely know of more people rediscovering all of the names on your list. Mind you, as The Dark Side of the Moon is the best rock album ever (scientifically proven}, I am not surprised Pink Floyd continues to find an audience.
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Post by impulse on Jul 6, 2020 10:25:16 GMT -5
I think that’s true. Oasis is another one that some young folk seem to embrace (part of that could be due to the fact the former members are still active). But I definitely know of more people rediscovering all of the names on your list. Mind you, as The Dark Side of the Moon is the best rock album ever (scientifically proven}, I am not surprised Pink Floyd continues to find an audience. Pink Floyd is monstrously overrated. There, I said it.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2020 10:28:57 GMT -5
Don’t you realise that they were the first band to sell a trillion albums? It might have even been a quadrillion.
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Post by rberman on Jul 6, 2020 11:03:47 GMT -5
Mind you, as The Dark Side of the Moon is the best rock album ever (scientifically proven}, I am not surprised Pink Floyd continues to find an audience. Pink Floyd is monstrously overrated. There, I said it. It would be hard for them to be underrated! Dark Side of the Moon has been on the Billboard charts for approximately a zillion weeks.
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Post by impulse on Jul 6, 2020 11:05:51 GMT -5
Don’t you realise that they were the first band to sell a trillion albums? It might have even been a quadrillion. Even further reinforces my point.
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