Currently sitting in the st theresas parking lot waiting to pick the kid up from school listening to slowly we rot
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Dave's Song of the Day
Lovefool – The Cardigans
Friday song of the day: Today’s song was written while waiting for a plane.
The Cardigans were popular in their native Sweden and in other parts of Europe but were largely unknown in the United States until their third album, 1996’s First Band on the Moon. That album contained their biggest hit, Lovefool.
Lovefool was written by the band’s guitarist Peter Svensson and the singer Nina Persson. Persson wrote the lyrics while sitting in an airport waiting for a plane. Initially the song was slower and darker, but then the drummer came up with a more disco-flavored drumbeat, and the band rearranged Lovefool into more of a pop song.
Becoming known in the United States actually took a bit longer for the band. The album was released in the late summer of 1996, and Lovefool was released as a single in Sweden and a large part of Europe about a month afterward. It was a moderate hit there but was not even released in the United States at the time.
Then in 1997 the song was used in the soundtrack of the film Romeo + Juliet and the single was re-released. It hit the charts again in Europe and attained higher positions the second time. It still wasn’t released as a single in the US, but the use in Romeo + Juliet led to MTV putting the song’s video into heavy rotation, and radio stations began playing the song. As a result, Lovefool reached #2 on the Billboard Radio Airplay chart. It did not place on the overall Hot 100 because the rules at the time required songs to be released as a single in the United States to be eligible. While it had no sales as a single in the US, the popularity of Lovefool did help the Cardigans’ album sales, with First Band on the Moon being certified as Platinum in the U.S. and selling over 2.5 million copies worldwide.
View: https://youtu.be/NI6aOFI7hms
Tomorrow: My social life’s a dud
Lovefool – The Cardigans
Friday song of the day: Today’s song was written while waiting for a plane.
The Cardigans were popular in their native Sweden and in other parts of Europe but were largely unknown in the United States until their third album, 1996’s First Band on the Moon. That album contained their biggest hit, Lovefool.
Lovefool was written by the band’s guitarist Peter Svensson and the singer Nina Persson. Persson wrote the lyrics while sitting in an airport waiting for a plane. Initially the song was slower and darker, but then the drummer came up with a more disco-flavored drumbeat, and the band rearranged Lovefool into more of a pop song.
Becoming known in the United States actually took a bit longer for the band. The album was released in the late summer of 1996, and Lovefool was released as a single in Sweden and a large part of Europe about a month afterward. It was a moderate hit there but was not even released in the United States at the time.
Then in 1997 the song was used in the soundtrack of the film Romeo + Juliet and the single was re-released. It hit the charts again in Europe and attained higher positions the second time. It still wasn’t released as a single in the US, but the use in Romeo + Juliet led to MTV putting the song’s video into heavy rotation, and radio stations began playing the song. As a result, Lovefool reached #2 on the Billboard Radio Airplay chart. It did not place on the overall Hot 100 because the rules at the time required songs to be released as a single in the United States to be eligible. While it had no sales as a single in the US, the popularity of Lovefool did help the Cardigans’ album sales, with First Band on the Moon being certified as Platinum in the U.S. and selling over 2.5 million copies worldwide.
View: https://youtu.be/NI6aOFI7hms
Tomorrow: My social life’s a dud
Trying to learn this one. I can't tell you the amount of videos that have the mic stand right in front of the finger placements on the fretboard.
It infuriates me to no end.
Hauler: "Oh nice. A close up acoustic version of the song I'm trying to learn"
*Clicks play and the mic stand is hiding the fretboard*
Also Hauler: "You motherfucker."
Anyways...Good tune by a great band...
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEowNtkP1No&ab_channel=RealLife%2CRealMusic
It infuriates me to no end.
Hauler: "Oh nice. A close up acoustic version of the song I'm trying to learn"
*Clicks play and the mic stand is hiding the fretboard*
Also Hauler: "You motherfucker."
Anyways...Good tune by a great band...
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEowNtkP1No&ab_channel=RealLife%2CRealMusic
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Dave's Song of the Day
Talk Talk – The Music Machine
Saturday song of the day: Today’s song cost $150 to record.
The Music Machine was a garage rock band from Los Angeles. Before signing to record a their debut single, they routinely played gigs at the Hollywood Legion Lanes bowling alley. They recorded their first record for $150, doing two takes of Talk Talk, and one take of the B-side, Come on In. In all, the session took under three hours. Originally, Come on In was slated to be the A-side, but after hearing the recorded results, the producers decided to go with Talk Talk instead.
Talk Talk had a heavier sound than most other music heard in 1966, sounding a bit like Punk before it even existed. The song clocked in at under two minutes, and had some fairly dark lyrics, written by The Music Machine’s lead singer Sean Bonniwell. The record was released in November 1966 and became a hit in the Los Angeles area before breaking nationwide. Eventually it climbed to #15 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
View: https://youtu.be/gqxE_W1e3Vk
On Where the Action Is, 1967
View: https://youtu.be/iZExWt-bj-k
Tomorrow: They’re peeling off the bandages
Talk Talk – The Music Machine
Saturday song of the day: Today’s song cost $150 to record.
The Music Machine was a garage rock band from Los Angeles. Before signing to record a their debut single, they routinely played gigs at the Hollywood Legion Lanes bowling alley. They recorded their first record for $150, doing two takes of Talk Talk, and one take of the B-side, Come on In. In all, the session took under three hours. Originally, Come on In was slated to be the A-side, but after hearing the recorded results, the producers decided to go with Talk Talk instead.
Talk Talk had a heavier sound than most other music heard in 1966, sounding a bit like Punk before it even existed. The song clocked in at under two minutes, and had some fairly dark lyrics, written by The Music Machine’s lead singer Sean Bonniwell. The record was released in November 1966 and became a hit in the Los Angeles area before breaking nationwide. Eventually it climbed to #15 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
View: https://youtu.be/gqxE_W1e3Vk
On Where the Action Is, 1967
View: https://youtu.be/iZExWt-bj-k
Tomorrow: They’re peeling off the bandages
Not gonna lie. That sounds like shit.
The internet is a wonderful tool.
One of these days I'm gonna dust off the guitars and pick away again.
The Statesboro Revue - Huck Finn (Chords)
Solander - Huckleberry Finn (Chords)
Love ultimate guitar. They don't always get it right though.
That's a bastardized version of what he's actually playing.
Yeah but it's a starting point, your ear will usually figure out the rest.
Dave's Song of the Day
Gary Gilmore’s Eyes – The Adverts
Sunday song of the day: Today’s song is about an eye transplant.
Among the English punk bands formed in the wake of the Sex Pistols was The Adverts. Guitarist TV Smith and bassist Gaye Advert formed the band in 1976 and promptly started playing gigs in London clubs. They released their first single, One Chord Wonders, in early 1977, but they are best known for their second single, Gary Gilmore’s Eyes.
Gary Gilmore was big news during late 1976 and early 1977. He had been convicted of murder in Utah, and unlike most people on Death Row, he didn’t try to avoid or delay his execution. In fact, he demanded that the state carry out his death sentence as soon as possible. In Utah the method was not the electric chair or gas chamber like some states, but the old-fashioned firing squad. Thus, on January 17th, 1977, Gary Gilmore was placed before a firing squad and shot.
In the preparation for his own death, Gilmore had donated some body parts for transplant or scientific study. Among those were his corneas. This is what inspired the Adverts’ song. Gary Gilmore’s Eyes tells the story of someone who had just undergone eye transplant surgery and slowly realizes that he must have had Gary Gilmore’s eyes transplanted into him. In reality, the corneas rather than his entire eyes were used as transplants, and they went to two people, not just one.
The Adverts single was released in August 1977, and quickly became popular in the United Kingdom. Gary Gilmore’s Eyes eventually rose to #18 on the UK singles chart. It is by far the best known of the Adverts’ records. The band broke up in 1979.
View: https://youtu.be/XxxcJzma-Is
On Top of the Pops, August 1977
View: https://youtu.be/fmdHDD2G008
Tomorrow: I’m feelin’ dizzy and weak
Gary Gilmore’s Eyes – The Adverts
Sunday song of the day: Today’s song is about an eye transplant.
Among the English punk bands formed in the wake of the Sex Pistols was The Adverts. Guitarist TV Smith and bassist Gaye Advert formed the band in 1976 and promptly started playing gigs in London clubs. They released their first single, One Chord Wonders, in early 1977, but they are best known for their second single, Gary Gilmore’s Eyes.
Gary Gilmore was big news during late 1976 and early 1977. He had been convicted of murder in Utah, and unlike most people on Death Row, he didn’t try to avoid or delay his execution. In fact, he demanded that the state carry out his death sentence as soon as possible. In Utah the method was not the electric chair or gas chamber like some states, but the old-fashioned firing squad. Thus, on January 17th, 1977, Gary Gilmore was placed before a firing squad and shot.
In the preparation for his own death, Gilmore had donated some body parts for transplant or scientific study. Among those were his corneas. This is what inspired the Adverts’ song. Gary Gilmore’s Eyes tells the story of someone who had just undergone eye transplant surgery and slowly realizes that he must have had Gary Gilmore’s eyes transplanted into him. In reality, the corneas rather than his entire eyes were used as transplants, and they went to two people, not just one.
The Adverts single was released in August 1977, and quickly became popular in the United Kingdom. Gary Gilmore’s Eyes eventually rose to #18 on the UK singles chart. It is by far the best known of the Adverts’ records. The band broke up in 1979.
View: https://youtu.be/XxxcJzma-Is
On Top of the Pops, August 1977
View: https://youtu.be/fmdHDD2G008
Tomorrow: I’m feelin’ dizzy and weak
Dave's Song of the Day
Thunder and Lightning – Chi Coltrane
Monday song of the day: Today’s song was the only US hit for this artist.
Chi Coltrane was a singer and piano player in Chicago clubs when she signed to Columbia Records in 1972. She released her self-titled first album in August of that year, and the first single was a blues-pop sing called Thunder and Lightning. The song likened a relationship to the tumult of a thunderstorm. It became a hit and rose to #17 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
Unfortunately, Chi Coltrane never had another US hit. She had the talent and looks to be a star, but for whatever reason, her second album didn’t sell well in the United States despite being moderately popular in Europe. She moved to Germany for several years to perform there, then returned to the United States. She still performs and occasional records, but so far has not repeated her early success.
View: https://youtu.be/xze0QhGBidc
Tomorrow: Nature’s takin’ over my one-track mind
Thunder and Lightning – Chi Coltrane
Monday song of the day: Today’s song was the only US hit for this artist.
Chi Coltrane was a singer and piano player in Chicago clubs when she signed to Columbia Records in 1972. She released her self-titled first album in August of that year, and the first single was a blues-pop sing called Thunder and Lightning. The song likened a relationship to the tumult of a thunderstorm. It became a hit and rose to #17 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
Unfortunately, Chi Coltrane never had another US hit. She had the talent and looks to be a star, but for whatever reason, her second album didn’t sell well in the United States despite being moderately popular in Europe. She moved to Germany for several years to perform there, then returned to the United States. She still performs and occasional records, but so far has not repeated her early success.
View: https://youtu.be/xze0QhGBidc
Tomorrow: Nature’s takin’ over my one-track mind
Dave's Song of the Day
Lightnin’ Strikes – Lou Christie
Tuesday song of the day: The head of the record label didn’t like today’s song and thought it wouldn’t sell.
Like yesterday’s Thunder and Lightning by Chi Coltrane, today’s song uses lightning as a metaphor for love.
Lou Christie had had two Top 40 hits in the early 1960s, The Gypsy Cried at #24 in 1962 and Two Faces Have I at #6 the following year. In 1965 he recorded the song Lightnin’ Strikes that he had written with his songwriting partner Twyla Herbert. Lightnin’ Strikes was about the singer telling a girl how he has fallen for her and wants her to be with him.
Once recorded, the head of MGM Records, Lenny Shear, wouldn’t put much marketing support behind the record. As Christie later recounted, “And they didn’t even like it! Lenny Shear threw it in the wastebasket and said it was a piece of crap! So we put up our own money to get it played around the country, and it started taking off once it got played. Three months later, Lenny was taking a picture with me for Billboard magazine, handing me a gold record. I loved that.”
The song ended up being Lou Christie’s biggest hit, selling over a million copies and placing at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. He had a few more hits in the 1960s, and continues to perform in 2020.
In 1982, A very odd partly operatic version of Lightnin’ Strikes was recorded by the bizarre German singer Klaus Nomi.
Lou Christie, 1965
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Klaus Nomi, 1982
View: https://youtu.be/gma5IUNMTn0
Tomorrow: Like having a motorcycle stuck inside you
Lightnin’ Strikes – Lou Christie
Tuesday song of the day: The head of the record label didn’t like today’s song and thought it wouldn’t sell.
Like yesterday’s Thunder and Lightning by Chi Coltrane, today’s song uses lightning as a metaphor for love.
Lou Christie had had two Top 40 hits in the early 1960s, The Gypsy Cried at #24 in 1962 and Two Faces Have I at #6 the following year. In 1965 he recorded the song Lightnin’ Strikes that he had written with his songwriting partner Twyla Herbert. Lightnin’ Strikes was about the singer telling a girl how he has fallen for her and wants her to be with him.
Once recorded, the head of MGM Records, Lenny Shear, wouldn’t put much marketing support behind the record. As Christie later recounted, “And they didn’t even like it! Lenny Shear threw it in the wastebasket and said it was a piece of crap! So we put up our own money to get it played around the country, and it started taking off once it got played. Three months later, Lenny was taking a picture with me for Billboard magazine, handing me a gold record. I loved that.”
The song ended up being Lou Christie’s biggest hit, selling over a million copies and placing at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. He had a few more hits in the 1960s, and continues to perform in 2020.
In 1982, A very odd partly operatic version of Lightnin’ Strikes was recorded by the bizarre German singer Klaus Nomi.
Lou Christie, 1965
View: https://youtu.be/BwngALfkXYU
Klaus Nomi, 1982
View: https://youtu.be/gma5IUNMTn0
Tomorrow: Like having a motorcycle stuck inside you
You a Hillsong fan bruddah? Hillsong, Bethel, and Elevation are all solid...
This is Rory Macdonald's walkout song...
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf8Zzn4nOzc
Hillsong are probably my favourite Christian group tbh. I love Elevation too.
