Interractive Poll #? - Oldies rocking goldies

JD wrote: Saw them on Colbert this week. They still rock, although the vocals were a little weak.

I saw that clip. You should consider Robin Zander is 68 and Rick Nielsen is 70. And Tom Peterssen was masked and seated because he had open heart surgery a month ago! They are supposed to be touring Australia in May.

Edited by mathman0806 - April 18 2021 at 04:47

JD wrote: I think the rules are pretty "loosey goosey" as we say around these parts. I was going to ask for further clarification but decided, what the hell, just pick some tunes from a later album of the artist, what more do they want from us?? No...Really,please...someone... WHAT THE HELL DO THEY WANT FROM US ?????? (and now...back to our regularly scheduled posts)

Cristi wrote: JD wrote: I think the rules are pretty "loosey goosey" as we say around these parts. I was going to ask for further clarification but decided, what the hell, just pick some tunes from a later album of the artist, what more do they want from us?? No...Really,please...someone... WHAT THE HELL DO THEY WANT FROM US ?????? (and now...back to our regularly scheduled posts)  yes, that's exactly what i asked - songs you love from later day albums, you got it.  "loosey goosey"  - I giggled, the expression sounds really funny to me.

I thought some might get a chuckle. Maybe a thread dedicated to local slang terms from members across the globe?

There's some blocking in the States with Suitkee's selections.

These play for me.

Golden Earring "Flowers in the Mud:

Says it's album version at 4:10 playing time.

OMD "Ghost Star"

6:18 playing time

Nits are okay.

Edited by mathman0806 - April 18 2021 at 06:54

Thanks Geo! GE plays fine and is the same, but the OMD one does not play for me... Suppose it's OK (the duration is the same).

Raff wrote: I'm also going to nominate just one song, which in this case is truly a shoe-in:

Regardless of where Bowie resides on this site (and I think one could present a fair case for Bowie in Crossover or in the Art Rock sub when we still had that category), I chose one from Blackstar that I would not call Prog. I do consider the album to be progressive (in an experimental art rock way) as a whole, and I do think of the title track as Prog in its way. I wanted to avoid the best known and talked about tracks of his from Blackstar (the title track and "Lazarus" are the ones I have seen being talked about the most). I know many people's other favourite is the final "I Can't Give Everything Away", which I also love, but the other one from that album that I would have considered for this poll is "Girl Loves Me", which I have not noticed attention being given to, but I love especially in the context of the whole album. Some say that the Blackstar album is not cohesive enough, but I like the flow and contrasts and how it draws on different parts of his career stylistically. An excellent album to go out on and it may well be my favourite album of the last decade (course it was voted collab album of the year).



I worried a bit about going for a track from such an iconic and obvious album that is the last, and is highly acclaimed, from a long illustrious career that was made more poignant by the circumstances surrounding it.

While this is not rockin', although Morricone could rock, and I thought it better to focus on an actual song rather than an instrumental track, another that I wish to mention is Ennio Morricone's The Hateful Eight soundtrack from 2015, which was his last major original soundtrack and one of his very last period, and I think it's terrific.



As to the mention of Art Zoyd, I love Art Zoyd and the different periods of AZ music. Were non-Prog not being discouraged, then I might have thought to add something from 2018's Phase 5. If Prog to the behearer was expected, but not according to PA classification, then I would have hoped to go with Bowie's "Blackstar" track.

^ Interesting how different people interpret posts. I wouldn't have thought that the Kaleidoscope track would fit how I took the "later day songs you love from veteran/long career artists" theme, nor would I interpret is as "artists who had a long hiatus between recordings". The band's Greetings from Kartoonistan... (We Ain't Dead Yet) from 1990 or 1991 would come closer. Sounds dated to these ear too, though I still like it. Love the others and the Zeitgeist one (Frank Wyatt) would be my choice (for my reading I think it being the most modern, it works best too).

An artist or band could only release two albums, but sixty years apart, but I wouldn't call that a long a career in a sense since to me that would imply that it hasn't been much of a life-long career (might have kept involved in music, though while not releasing albums....)

EDIT: I haven't listened to most of the choices but I loved Cristi's Depeche Mode one, and while that Bauhaus track is not includable, I wanted to mention how much I enjoyed it. I posted another Bauhaus track in a poll before, but I like the one mentioned in this topic considerably more (the In the Flat Fields one I mentioned in a past poll just has some sentimental attachment).

Edited by Logan - April 18 2021 at 12:28

Ok, you can put me down for Joe Jackson - Fool please.

Logan wrote: Snicolette wrote: Logan wrote: ^ Interesting how different people interpret posts. I wouldn't have thought that the Kaleidoscope track would fit how I took the "later day songs you love from veteran/long career artists" theme, nor would I interpret is as "artists who had a long hiatus between recordings". The band's Greetings from Kartoonistan... (We Ain't Dead Yet) from 1990 or 1991 would come closer. Sounds dated to these ear too, though I still like it. Love the others and the Zeitgeist one would be my choice (for my reading I think it being the most modern, it works best too). An artist or band could only release two albums, but sixty years apart, but I wouldn't call that a long a career in a sense since to me that would imply that it hasn't been much of a life-long career (might have kept involved in music, though while not releasing albums....)    I could see it that way, as well...it's kind of open to interpretation, I think, and note that people did look at it from different angles. Each one of these artists did have several recordings under their belts for a stretch, originally, however, some more than others, I just took a long span from the previous studio recording to the next one.  None of them only had one release in their time.  All, apparently, were still writing/playing music even if they weren't released at the time of writing.   "Songs you love," of course, can be songs that may sound dated to others, or that others may actually loathe.  I do love each of these, for very different reasons. I don't mind dated -- a lot of my favourite music has dated (like with many of my exotica and tropica and lounge faves). And yes, there is room for interpretation.

  Oh, I figured that, no umbrage taken.