Song of the week

This is my all-time favourite Billy Joel song and video.....

Mortte wrote: Jaketejas wrote: Mortte wrote: I have now listened both new pieces Grumpy & Paul put here, both are not bad, but not my beef at all. There is new music I really love and could put here, but when I have mentioned those bands in PA, there has come very little or not at all response. Specially Finnish bands seems to interest very little people (I know there are few fans of Finnish prog in PA). So I think for me to put some new song here is just waste of time, also listening new stuff from Grumpy or Paul, just because we have so different music tastes. Go for it! Put “Song of the Week #2” as the thread like Grumpy said, and we’ll take a gander at it. My problem is that I don’t listen to a whole lot of music beyond 1989, let alone 2000, mainly because I don’t understand a lot of it. But, I can lend you my ears and keep an open mind. I usually try to find at least some positive aspects in music of any genre, but like anyone I do have my faves. I generally care more about composition and phrasing rather than who has the best voice, etc., (the crap you’d find on talent shows). I love how songs are put together and like variety. Well, this was Grumpys thread and he closed this. So I think you should really start another thread if you want me to put something here. If you really do it, it can take me a while when I join that, got some "Summer-busy" at the moment. I am not going to start new thread, I have started all kinds of threads enough this moment.

I’m kind of in the same boat. Maybe we should try the interactive polls, although I’m not sure how they work to be quite honest. I see a bunch of letters there arranged in a vertical pattern and it seems like a cross between some sort of Prog Sudoku and Music Pub Trivia. Can someone please explain it to me in simple terms?

Jaketejas wrote: ZZ Top! Amazing Texas blues/rock band that managed to transition into the 80s by adding keyboards no less. Funny, because that’s often an aspect of prog but no one really classifies them that way. Favorite songs: Jesus Just Left Chicago, Waitin’ for the Bus, Just Got Paid, La Grange and Sharp Dressed Man.

Mortte wrote: I have now listened both new pieces Grumpy & Paul put here, both are not bad, but not my beef at all. There is new music I really love and could put here, but when I have mentioned those bands in PA, there has come very little or not at all response. Specially Finnish bands seems to interest very little people (I know there are few fans of Finnish prog in PA). So I think for me to put some new song here is just waste of time, also listening new stuff from Grumpy or Paul, just because we have so different music tastes.

Go for it! Put “Song of the Week #2” as the thread like Grumpy said, and we’ll take a gander at it. My problem is that I don’t listen to a whole lot of music beyond 1989, let alone 2000, mainly because I don’t understand a lot of it. But, I can lend you my ears and keep an open mind. I usually try to find at least some positive aspects in music of any genre, but like anyone I do have my faves. I generally care more about composition and phrasing rather than who has the best voice, etc., (the crap you’d find on talent shows). I love how songs are put together and like variety.

I have now listened both new pieces Grumpy & Paul put here, both are not bad, but not my beef at all. There is new music I really love and could put here, but when I have mentioned those bands in PA, there has come very little or not at all response. Specially Finnish bands seems to interest very little people (I know there are few fans of Finnish prog in PA). So I think for me to put some new song here is just waste of time, also listening new stuff from Grumpy or Paul, just because we have so different music tastes.

Edited by Mortte - June 26 2020 at 00:10

Logan wrote: ^^^ much appreciated. ^^ I love lots of Neil Young as well. ^ There is ZZ Top that I like, but that’s a song I got so sick of hearing on the radio, and I actually never liked. This I like, for instance

Really great song from the Gran Ol beard men!!!!

^^^ much appreciated.

^^ I love lots of Neil Young as well.

^ There is ZZ Top that I like, but that’s a song I got so sick of hearing on the radio, and I actually never liked.

This I like, for instance

Dedicated to Paul.
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I’d rename it Dregs by SnooZee Plop if I could. I honestly hate that song.

I think I may now be getting the hang of this whole diplomacy thing. ;)

Grumpyprogfan wrote: Sorry that song wasn't to your specs, Logan. Marco's music is far from vanilla. Try another tune, perhaps? No need to scold me about a previous poll and crap on this idea.

It’s not my taste, which is fine. I like a lot of music that people have openly ridiculed.

I am not as diplomatic as I would like. I don’t like to see people insulted or ignored, and I hadn’t meant to insult so much as I was thinking conceptually. I think the idea could work better for me if it was done a little differently. My impatience is my deficiency. That I might have to wait a month or more to do my choice is my problem. I had thought about that issue of mentioning this track in Friede’s poll when you brought up the issue of lack of response to your choice in this topic, and then probably wisely thought better than to mention it as I wasn’t sure how to express the idea in a way that wouldn’t seem rude or patronizing, It came out much harsher than I intended.   I have wondered sometimes why people fail to be interested in checking out music that I post in various topics, even though I have thought that I showed an interest in what they posted.   Ultimately, perhaps it is because I’m kind of an a****le and a bore lacking in social grace. I do apologise for my lack of tact.   Sometime I think I should stick to my brand of absurdity, but not many people to riff off here in that way.