frank 2,306 Posted March 22, 2007 Stevie Ray Vaughn - Couldn't Stand the Weather Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
guitarmonkiy 0 Posted March 23, 2007 Legal? Metallica - Garage Inc. I was thinking about that but figured it wouldn't be allowed. Strongly believe that it is their best album. And it is time to get some new stuff on here, everyone is picking oldies...this is the first album from the 2000s. Works for me. I wasn't bashing the pick or anything, I'm just a much bigger fan of their older stuff than the new stuff. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RicemanX 20 Posted March 23, 2007 I was thinking about that but figured it wouldn't be allowed. Works for me. I wasn't bashing the pick or anything, I'm just a much bigger fan of their older stuff than the new stuff. Yea, I was definitely juggling between this and one of their old ones Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
football_scooter 0 Posted March 23, 2007 Stevie Ray Vaughn - Couldn't Stand the Weather nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RicemanX 20 Posted March 23, 2007 nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! how about nooooooing yourself to a pick? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
football_scooter 0 Posted March 23, 2007 how about nooooooing yourself to a pick? 1. didn't know I was up 2. that was my #^!(#&^#@(!! pick. The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band This is my "sleeper" pick. Honestly, while I love Rubber Soul and wanted that as an early pick, but Sgt Peppers is an incredible album. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is the most important rock & roll album ever made, an unsurpassed adventure in concept, sound, songwriting, cover art and studio technology by the greatest rock & roll group of all time. From the title song's regal blasts of brass and fuzz guitar to the orchestral seizure and long, dying piano chord at the end of "A Day in the Life," the thirteen tracks on Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band are the pinnacle of the Beatles' eight years as recording artists. John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr were never more fearless and unified in their pursuit of magic and transcendence. Issued in Britain on June 1st, 1967, and a day later in America,Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is also rock's ultimate declaration of change. For the Beatles, it was a decisive goodbye to matching suits, world tours and assembly-line record-making. "We were fed up with being Beatles," McCartney said decades later, in Many Years From Now, Barry Miles' McCartney biography. "We were not boys, we were men . . . artists rather than performers." At the same time, Sgt. Pepper formally ushered in an unforgettable season of hope, upheaval and achievement: the late 1960s and, in particular, 1967's Summer of Love. In its iridescent instrumentation, lyric fantasias and eye-popping packaging, Sgt. Pepper defined the opulent revolutionary optimism of psychedelia and instantly spread the gospel of love, acid, Eastern spirituality and electric guitars around the globe. No other pop record of that era, or since, has had such an immediate, titanic impact. This music documents the world's biggest rock band at the very height of its influence and ambition. "It was a peak," Lennon confirmed in his 1970 Rolling Stone interview, describing both the album and his collaborative relationship with McCartney. "Paul and I definitely were working together," Lennon said, and Sgt. Pepper is rich with proof: McCartney's burst of hot piano and school-days memoir ("Woke up, fell out of bed . . . ") in Lennon's "A Day in the Life," a reverie on mortality and infinity; Lennon's impish rejoinder to McCartney's chorus in "Getting Better" ("It can't get no worse"). "Sgt. Pepper was our grandest endeavor," Starr said, looking back, in the 2000 autobiography The Beatles Anthology. "The greatest thing about the band was that whoever had the best idea - it didn't matter who -- that was the one we'd use. No one was standing on their ego, saying, 'Well, it's mine,' and getting possessive." It was Neil Aspinall, the Beatles' longtime assistant, who suggested they reprise the title track, just before the grand finale of "A Day in the Life," to complete Sgt. Pepper's theatrical conceit: an imaginary concert by a fictional band, played by the Beatles. The first notes went to tape on December 6th, 1966: two takes of McCartney's music-hall confection "When I'm Sixty-Four." (Lennon's lysergic reflection on his Liverpool childhood, "Strawberry Fields Forever," was started two weeks earlier but issued in February 1967 as a stand-alone single.) But Sgt. Pepper's real birthday is August 29th, 1966, when the Beatles played their last live concert, in San Francisco. Until then, they had made history in the studio -- Please Please Me (1963), Rubber Soul (1965), Revolver (1966) -- between punishing tours. Off the road for good, the Beatles were free to be a band away from the hysteria of Beatlemania. McCartney went a step further. On a plane to London in November '66, as he returned from a vacation in Kenya, he came up with the idea of an album by the Beatles in disguise, an alter-ego group that he subsequently dubbed Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. "We'd pretend to be someone else," McCartney explained in Anthology. "It liberated you -- you could do anything when you got to the mike or on your guitar, because it wasn't you." Only two songs on the final LP, both McCartney's, had anything to do with the Pepper character: the title track and Starr's jaunty vocal showcase "With a Little Help From My Friends," introduced as a number by Sgt. Pepper's star crooner, Billy Shears. "Every other song could have been on any other album," Lennon insisted later. Yet it is hard to imagine a more perfect setting for the Victorian jollity of Lennon's "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!" (inspired by an 1843 circus poster) or the sumptuous melancholy of McCartney's "Fixing a Hole," with its blend of antique shadows (a harpsichord played by the Beatles' producer George Martin) and modern sunshine (double-tracked lead guitar executed with ringing precision by Harrison). The Pepper premise was a license to thrill. It also underscored the real-life cohesion of the music and the group that made it. Of the 700 hours the Beatles spent making Sgt. Pepper (engineer Geoff Emerick actually tallied them) from the end of 1966 until April 1967, the group needed only three days' worth to complete Lennon's lavish daydream "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds." "A Day in the Life," the most complex song on the album, was done in just five days. (The oceanic piano chord was three pianos hit simultaneously by ten hands belonging to Lennon, McCartney, Starr, Martin and Beatles roadie Mal Evans.) No other Beatles appear with Harrison on his sitar-perfumed sermon on materialism and fidelity, "Within You Without You," but the band wisely placed the track at the halfway point of the original vinyl LP, at the beginning of Side Two: a vital meditation break in the middle of the jubilant indulgence. The Beatles' exploitation of multitracking on Sgt. Pepper transformed the very act of studio recording (the orchestral overdubs on "A Day in the Life" marked the debut of eight-track recording in Britain: two four-track machines used in sync). And Sgt. Pepper's visual extravagance officially elevated the rock album cover to a Work of Art. Michael Cooper's photo of the Beatles in satin marching-band outfits, in front of a cardboard-cutout audience of historical figures, created by artist Peter Blake, is the most enduring image of the psychedelic era. Sgt. Pepper was also the first rock album to incorporate complete lyrics to the songs in its design. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is simply the best of everything the Beatles ever did as musicians, pioneers and pop stars, all in one place. A 1967 British print ad for the album declared, "Remember Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Is the Beatles." As McCartney put it, the album was "just us doing a good show." The show goes on forever. Total album sales: 11.7 million Peak chart position: 1 Steal of the draft. Love listening to it as well and couldn't be on a desert isle without it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bostonlager 2,665 Posted March 23, 2007 Updates will be coming soon. Have to wake up first. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kutulu 1,676 Posted March 23, 2007 Let's get a round or two in today. Yeah, I'm thinking no way. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Big Blue 06 195 Posted March 23, 2007 Agreed, great pick. Big_Pete is up! SUX is on deck, with Big Blue behind him. Let's get a PICK or two in today. I'm thinking no way as well. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Big Blue 06 195 Posted March 23, 2007 Bump for Big Pete! I believe this is the longest that he's ever been away from this board. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kutulu 1,676 Posted March 23, 2007 Bump for Big Pete! I believe this is the longest that he's ever been away from this board. He musta had that sleep over at the playboy mansion. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
football_scooter 0 Posted March 23, 2007 He musta had that extra large bottle of lotion and this month's "sheep lover's digest". agreed! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Big_Pete 0 Posted March 23, 2007 Ludwig van Beethoven's - Symphony No. 5 in C Minor (Op. 67) sorry boys, slept in today. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SUXBNME 1,499 Posted March 23, 2007 Creedence Clearwater Revival Cosmo's Factory "Ramble Tamble" (J. Fogerty) – 7:10 "Before You Accuse Me" (Bo Diddley) – 3:27 "Travelin' Band" (J. Fogerty) – 2:07 "Ooby Dooby" (Wade Moore, ###### Penner) – 2:07 "Lookin' out My Back Door" (J. Fogerty) – 2:35 "Run Through the Jungle" (J. Fogerty) – 3:10 "Up Around the Bend" (J. Fogerty) – 2:42 "My Baby Left Me" (Arthur Crudup) – 2:19 "Who'll Stop the Rain" (J. Fogerty) – 2:29 "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" (Norman Whitfield, Barrett Strong) – 11:07 "Long as I Can See the Light" (J. Fogerty) – 3:33 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bostonlager 2,665 Posted March 23, 2007 Ludwig van Beethoven's - Symphony No. 5 in C Minor (Op. 67) sorry boys, slept in today. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
frank 2,306 Posted March 23, 2007 Ludwig van Beethoven's - Symphony No. 5 in C Minor (Op. 67) sorry boys, slept in today. Unless the mushrooms are kicking in, that post was originally authored by sawlison. alias busted? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kutulu 1,676 Posted March 23, 2007 Creedence Clearwater Revival Love CCR ...almost makes up for the Suxpistols pick Al Most Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bostonlager 2,665 Posted March 23, 2007 Unless the mushrooms are kicking in, that post was originally authored by sawlison. alias busted? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SUXBNME 1,499 Posted March 23, 2007 Love CCR ...almost makes up for the Suxpistols pick Al Most The Sux Pistols kicked some serious ass...I'm very suprised you don't like them. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bostonlager 2,665 Posted March 23, 2007 Big Blue... yer UP! Good pick on the CCR, Sux. I would have taken it with one of the picks in the next round. you awake yet? where's the update? I'm trying to find the motivation to update. Hangover is still lingering. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
phillybear 366 Posted March 23, 2007 Beethoven? BEETHOVEN????? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Big_Pete 0 Posted March 23, 2007 CCR is one of my top 10 favorite bands ever. Yet somehow, unless I hear them on the radio (which happens every now and then), I forget to think about them pertaining to this post :ashamed: Unless the mushrooms are kicking in, that post was originally authored by sawlison. alias busted? I can promise you that I'm no alias. all the times I've been at work, who do you think I'd call in the picks and have post for me? kinda hard to post when you're not at a computer and out patrolling Beethoven? BEETHOVEN????? yeah, bringing in the sleepers to help diversify this draft Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Big Blue 06 195 Posted March 23, 2007 My Picks: Snoop Doggy Dog - Doggy Style 1. Bathtub 2. G Funk Intro 3. Gin And Juice - (with Dat Nigga Daz) 4. Tha Shiznit 5. Lodi Dodi - (with Nancy Fletcher) 6. Murder Was The Case (Death After Visualizing Eternity) - (with Dat Nigga Daz) 7. Serial Killa - (featuring The D.O.C./RBX/Tha Dogg Pound) 8. Who Am I (What's My Name)? 9. For All My Niggaz & Bitches - (featuring Tha Dogg Pound/The Lady Of Rage) 10. Ain't No Fun (If The Homies Can't Have None) - (featuring Nate Dogg/Warren G/Kurupt) 11. Doggy Dogg World - (featuring Tha Dogg Pound/The Dramatics) 12. Gz And Hustlas - (with Nancy Fletcher) 13. Pump Pump - (featuring Lil Malik aka Lil Hershey Loc) Green Day - Dookie 1. Burnout 2. Having a Blast 3. Chump 4. Longview 5. Welcome to Paradise 6. Pulling Teeth 7. Basket Case 8. She 9. Sassafras Roots 10. When I Come Around 11. Coming Clean 12. Emenius Sleepus 13. In the End 14. F.O.D./All By Myself Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bostonlager 2,665 Posted March 23, 2007 My Picks: Snoop Doggy Dog - Doggy Style Pearl Jam - Ten Pearl Jam - Ten went 3 rounds ago. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Big Blue 06 195 Posted March 23, 2007 Pearl Jam - Ten went 3 rounds ago. Sh1t. I'm changing my pick then. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SUXBNME 1,499 Posted March 23, 2007 Joe Satriani : Flying in a Blue Dream 1) Flying In A Blue Dream 2) The Mystical Potato Head Groove Thing 3) Can't Slow Down 4) Headless 5) Strange 6) I Believe 7) One Big Rush 8) Big Bad Moon 9) The Feeling 10) The Phone Call 11) Day at The Beach 12) Back to Shalla-Bal 13) Ride 14) The Forgotten 15) The Forgotten 16) The Bells of Lal (Part1) 17) The Bells of Lal (Part 2) 18) Into the Light Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Big_Pete 0 Posted March 23, 2007 I'll wait for Big Blue 06 to re-pick before I throw out my pick. Not that he'd pick mine in his wildest dreams, but still... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
frank 2,306 Posted March 23, 2007 I'll wait for Big Blue 06 to re-pick before I throw out my pick. Not that he'd pick mine in his wildest dreams, but still... He did repick. He changed the original post. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
football_scooter 0 Posted March 23, 2007 I think Dookie is a better pick than Pearl Jam, though I'm not the fond of either band. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Big_Pete 0 Posted March 23, 2007 Bob Dylon - Blonde On Blonde Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kutulu 1,676 Posted March 23, 2007 What round is this, 400? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Big_Pete 0 Posted March 23, 2007 BTW, I think this should be 10 rounds now. Originally I wanted 15, but this is taking WAYYYYY too focking long. I don't think I could handle another 2 weeks of this waiting. We're in round 7 right? I say 10 is plenty. Anything over, and a few of us might turn suicidal What round is this, 400? don't like the pick? or are you just like me and feeling the strain of this thread being drawn out for over a week already? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Big Blue 06 195 Posted March 23, 2007 BTW, I think this should be 10 rounds now. Originally I wanted 15, but this is taking WAYYYYY too focking long. I don't think I could handle another 2 weeks of this waiting. We're in round 7 right? I say 10 is plenty. Anything over, and a few of us might turn suicidal don't like the pick? or are you just like me and feeling the strain of this thread being drawn out for over a week already? I HATE Bob Dylan. Just my opinion, but if I was stuck on an island with just his music, I'd off myself...with the quickness. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kutulu 1,676 Posted March 23, 2007 don't like the pick? or are you just like me and feeling the strain of this thread being drawn out for over a week already? Both. just busting balls....find it pointless to argue about musical tastes....unless yer really gay and pick something like the Cure Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Big_Pete 0 Posted March 23, 2007 Both. just busting balls....find it pointless to argue about musical tastes....unless yer really gay and pick something like the Cure although Dylon isn't my particular cup 'o tea, I had to throw him in there, just cause of his popularity and standing in the music world Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
football_scooter 0 Posted March 23, 2007 BTW, I think this should be 10 rounds now. Originally I wanted 15, but this is taking WAYYYYY too focking long. I don't think I could handle another 2 weeks of this waiting. We're in round 7 right? I say 10 is plenty. let's go 15. Don't be a phag. it's not like we're in a hurry - I couldn't care less how long this takes. Let's go 15 rounds if we can. 10 is just not enough to capture all the varying styles and really dig into the "sleepers" and corner cases. 10 picks and we all just get the cliche 60s/70s/80s rock and some rap mixed in. Let's do 15 - come on guys. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bostonlager 2,665 Posted March 23, 2007 let's go 15. Don't be a phag. it's not like we're in a hurry - I couldn't care less how long this takes. Let's go 15 rounds if we can. 10 is just not enough to capture all the varying styles and really dig into the "sleepers" and corner cases. 10 picks and we all just get the cliche 60s/70s/80s rock and some rap mixed in. Let's do 15 - come on guys. I originally said 10, but if everyone is cool with it we can go 15. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
football_scooter 0 Posted March 23, 2007 just making sure you know - you're up. Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
frank 2,306 Posted March 23, 2007 Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes 1. Blister in the Sun 2. Kiss Off 3. Please Do Not Go 4. Add It Up 5. Confessions 6. Prove My Love 7. Promise 8. To the Kill 9. Gone Daddy Gone 10. Good Feeling 11. Ugly 12. Gimme the Car Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
