80s Album Draft - Part Too Shy Too Shy

[Ismitje]

(Part 1 of this Draft can be found in this thread. -- Mod) (http://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?t=592319)


Sorry, Sachsen, I looked for another "C" band, but ended up with this instead:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002LAT.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

While there are some songs I like, this was always more about the album for me, and what it evoked when it was on when we were outside with a group of people. Talking, laughing, eating - Los Lobos is the band for that!

Set Me Free (Rosa Lee) - Motown sound from East LA:

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One Time, One Night - Like Springsteen's Born in the USA, an anthemic song about the USA, but not altogether what it seems at first listen:

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Something with a little more Lobos-esque funk - All I Wanted to do Was Dance (live):

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The Spanish-only release from the following year (1988), La Pistola y El Corazon, is arguably better, but it doesn't "mean" as much to me or evoke the same sorts of memories (and you know what the album means is what my draft is all about!).

[JeremyEritrea]

Does the Pogues' lead singer have the worst teeth in history, or what? He's even got Austin Powers beat.

You never heard of Shane MacGowan?

[frasermc]

if i should fall from grace with god is a good shout. thousands are sailing is a terrific pogues song.

simple minds - once upon a time - another good shout. being scottish i will pick a scottish band before the end of this draft. not sure if this would have been the simple minds album i'd have chosen though..

[sch2383]

You never heard of Shane MacGowan?
I was going to post a picture of what MacGowan looks like now, but I like you all too much to do that.

[taosjohn]

Sorry, Sachsen, I looked for another "C" band, but ended up with this instead:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002LAT.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg


Great great album; my AOY for '87. :D

[voyager]

simple minds - once upon a time - another good shout. being scottish i will pick a scottish band before the end of this draft. not sure if this would have been the simple minds album i'd have chosen though..

I'm not as familiar with ther other works, and this is the only one CD I own. Made my decision a LOT easier. :D
But I have heard through the grapevine that previous albums were just as good, or better, and less commercial sounding.

[frasermc]

i'd like to ask all the 80's drafters a quick question.

i'd like to submit a live album.

it isn't a super group by any means and none of the tracks on the album are from the 90's as the album in question was released in 1989.

i feel it was a landmark album in their career but if anyone has any objections to it then i won't post it.

please let me know how you feel on the subject.

thanks.

[Sachsen]

i'd like to ask all the 80's drafters a quick question.

i'd like to submit a live album.

it isn't a super group by any means and none of the tracks on the album are from the 90's as the album in question was released in 1989.

i feel it was a landmark album in their career but if anyone has any objections to it then i won't post it.

please let me know how you feel on the subject.

thanks.

Well, live albums are generally greatest hits, which are not allowed.

[SirManchester]

You wanted synth, you got synth

Floodland
by
The Sisters of Mercy

http://www.gothic.com.ua/ukrrus/articles/images/gothic_bands/the_sisters_of_mercy/floodland.jpg

Innovators of the goth genre. Plus, their videos ruled!

Lucretia, my reflection
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Dominion
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This Corrosion
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[YanksFC]

Great picks with De La Soul and Los Lobos.

[StiltonFC]

Floodland
by
The Sisters of Mercy

http://www.gothic.com.ua/ukrrus/articles/images/gothic_bands/the_sisters_of_mercy/floodland.jpg
This Corrosion slays. I don't like the entire CD, but Floodland has some drippin' tracks.

[nancyb]

Sorry, Sachsen, I looked for another "C" band, but ended up with this instead:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002LAT.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

While there are some songs I like, this was always more about the album for me, and what it evoked when it was on when we were outside with a group of people. Talking, laughing, eating - Los Lobos is the band for that!



Why did it take so long for these guys to appear? I hope I've missed an earlier pick.

[nancyb]

I was going to post a picture of what MacGowan looks like now, but I like you all too much to do that.

I was gonna say, at least he had teeth back then.

[StiltonFC]

Why did it take so long for these guys to appear? I hope I've missed an earlier pick.
while back there was a PBS broadcast of Los Lobos in concert. they are amazing. played a Beatles tune, forget which, and it was killer. musicians all, and can handle any genre. it they wanted to, i bet they could do grindcore. ;)

[Crimen y Castigo]

Everyone should see Los Lobos live, as often as possible.

Aside from being all kinds of awesome, they routinely play a handful of great, surprising and always exhilarating covers. Frequently it seems like they play whatever pops into Cesar Rojas or David Hidalgo's head. One will nod his head and say "How about....?" and toss out a lick and if the others nod, off they go.

Plus you've got a more than better chance of high-powered cameos depending on who else is playing in town.

[Sachsen]

Why did it take so long for these guys to appear? I hope I've missed an earlier pick.

I picked Graceland in the 1st round - they're on there with Paul :)

[Claymore]

Damn you, Crimen - now I have that stupid KajoGooGoo song in my head. 'Scuse me while I powerdrill my brain.

[Crimen y Castigo]

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...ehxxx-cellent....

[taosjohn]

Why did it take so long for these guys to appear? I hope I've missed an earlier pick.

Nope. I imagine others, like myself figured that if we lost one of their two great albums of the decade we'd get the other. I was a bit surprised (but pleased) that "Light" went first-- I thought I'd "wind up" with it and have to explain why it was the greater album... now- how sad-- I'm forced to "stoop" instead to taking:

Los Lobos-- "Will the Wolf Survive" (1984)

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Winter never came that year; it did not snow. We had cold and fog and set records for frost hair on barbed wire fences. (I measured one strand at sixteen inches in the few minutes between light and direct sun.) We all got used to the sound of frozen grass between the pestle of our boots and the mortar of frozen caliche... it did not snow again. It did not snow yet again. The town drunk froze in the gutter outside the bar on the plaza, but it did not snow.

A man came to town with a lifetime of probably ill-gotten gains and proceeded to demonstrate that you make a small fortune in Taos by starting with a large one. He promoted shows like other men snort cocaine. He'd come to me and ask "What do you think of so-and-so on sunday evening the 20th," and I'd say "I'll come, but you'll draw twenty people and I'll write their names on this paper here." He'd say "You're always negative" and book the band. The evening would come and 24 people would be there including fifteen of the folk from my list. I'm not really brilliant-- its pretty easy to do in a town of 1250...

The man went broke in four, maybe five years; but we got to see some amazing music. His first big score was booking Freddy Fender for a Sunday, and then getting this band that was poised on the crest of this huge buzz in California to play Friday and Saturday in our little dance hall-- because they wanted to meet Freddy. Me, I went to the show because I'd been painting in town, it was Friday, and what else was I gonna do with the $ 15.00? It just involved staying in town for a couple of hours and going to the show in painting pants, which nobody thought twice about in those days.

We drank a lot and smoked a lot and coke use was high back then-- the jammed room heated up from body heat, the ceiling was blotted out by swirls of smoke, and inhibitions were blotted out by chemical means. Several bad marriages were made that night. Frost on the roof melted and the roof, as always, leaked.

The band underestimated the travel time; we were standing around forty minutes or so sort of idly flirting, scoring, griping, talking about the lack of snow and the effects of the bitter cold on our cars.

I got a second beer and looked at my watch. I talked to a local architect, the girl from the record store, and a young bass player, drank a third of my beer, turned and faced the stage to see how long it would be. A spotlight came on, drums and guitars whipped into that Rolling Stones-caliber-intro and this stubby guy in supervillain shades opened his mouth and sang "Got no money but we've got our lives..." and I was Blown Away Again.

They played the album and the EP and some of the next album and likely covers and unlikely covers -- didn't know the song at the time, but I believe they played "One Red Rose." They did not play "La Bamba" --but they did play "Twist and Shout." Hidalgo was a God, and Rosas with a forty-foot lead cord looked like the devil, spending a quarter of his time prowling in the audience. My memory is they played three and a half hours with one break, played "Wolf" a second time to close the show, and vanished as suddenly as they came.

I couldn't go the next night-- but I stopped at four houses on my way home to tell other folks not to miss it.

It started snowing my last few miles home... eight squeaky-under-your-feet, dazzling-in-the-light-of-the-full-moon-the-next-night inches... I stood in my driveway and caught flakes in my mouth...









The album itself should need no explanation; nor do I regret leaving the even better one to someone else.

[StiltonFC]

Los Lobos-- "How Will the Wolf Survive" (1984)


Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh!

Two of my favorite songs of all time have the same name: Don't Worry Baby

For completely different reasons.

Los Lobos because it is a completely kickass opening number to a great album. The Beach Boys because it's a dopey love song about cars and stuff, with harmonies that can melt anything.

Again tj, your text is sublime.

...you must spread, etc...