Rock Evolution – The History of Rock & Roll - 1985 - (page 203)

Black&White&BlueMoon Town said:
Alright, I've been thinking about this all week, and like Al Stewart's classic track (sorry, spires), this song MUST be on this playlist to give us "the playlist the year deserves" to quote the correct 1.

But what if I could tie in the AOR classic rock song in with the punk rockers given the recent banter on the last few pages? Well, that would be truly special as The Church Lady would say on a Sunday.

So for Rob and many of us, I'll put this out here and hope I hit the right track, because there is many to love off Miller's classic 1976 album. After just moving to the Philly region that year, you couldn't escape this song being a Philadelphia Eagles fans favourite, and was a constant FM radio staple in that market as a result. "Rocky" united the city in 1976 and took Elton John's 1975 song I nominated for the last playlist of "Philadelphia Freedom" to the next level as well, but this song with that organ seemed other worldly and a musical breakthrough to me.

Though the song was often linked to drug use and "flying high", I and many always looked at this based on the lyrics about having the power within people to rise above, to help one another, in the midst of the passing of time, to make things better for those around you. To seek freedom as the soaring eagle does.

Oh, oh there’s a solution...

And here comes the link - the guitar riffs on this song were pulled from Miller’s 1966 song “My Dark Hour,” which was co-written with and features Paul McCartney on backing vocals, guitar, bass, and drums. However that earlier song was credited as "Paul Ramon", a name McCartney often used to check into hotels. And of course that pseudonym is what was used to also inspire punk pioneers The Ramones their band name and with everyone taking on that last name in their releases.

So, here it is, the title track (a 3rd for me this week, I might add ;) to Steve Miller's truly breakthrough album where 6 tracks would appear on his highly successful GHs 74-78 album. You can't deny the Hammond B3 organ on this song as it takes center stage.

"Fly Like An Eagle" - Steve Miller Band

Time keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin', into the future
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I’ll cross that off my list.
 
Mancitydoogle said:
I hardly ever kept the ticket stubs unfortunately, but I remember going to see
in no particular order

Peter Frampton Kings Hall

Dr Feelgood FTH

KISS FTH

10cc FTH

Be Bob Deluxe FTH

Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel both FTH and The Palace
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I have kept a lot of tickets; got a couple of photograph albums full of them and a box that I should get another album or two for.
 
threespires said:
I wasn't planning to go 'full OB1' but I do think there's a handful of songs that are representative of the times that should be there. One of them I really disliked at the time but I now consider to redolent of a simpler and more innocent time that it's grown in my affections.




Ah caught out! I might have already gone "a bit OB1" and slipped that one in myself this morning. My excuse m'lud is that OB1 had in fact behaved himself so far(!) and that something from Rocks did need to go in. Fully expect him to now announce we've picked the wrong song to include :-)
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Nah, that is the one I had on my extras list.
 
Out on blue 6 said:
I think there is a song probably totally different from what has gone on so far that merits thinking about including and I thought was later in the seventies

Joan Armatrading - Love and Affection
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Excellent, another one I don't have to try and sneak in myself. I've seen her a couple of times albeit years ago, she has that great asset for a musician, especially a singer/songwriter, of sounding very distinctive and arguably completely unique.

Her and Valerie Singleton were one of the first targets of random misinformation bollocks on the internet too I think.
 
RobMCFC said:
Things is, I already know everything about my life because I’ve lived it/am living it.

I want to hear about other people’s lives in the lyrics - some guy in the Australian desert or somebody down on their luck in Seattle. I also want to hear some decent music played by proper musicians.

I’m sure there will be some punkish songs I like as the years roll on but the examples in the list so far are pretty poor compared to what else is on offer. Considering that they feature on millions of T-Shirts across the world, the Ramones effort is pretty poor. They must have done better.
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Not punk per se but the NY Godmother of Punk followed up her famous 75 album with another in 76 which I suspect is more to your taste if someone wants to nominate something?
 
OB1 said:
Always happy to oblige if needed :-)
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Depends on threespires - he’s the list master this week.

I was going to nominate one more track that was just edged out of my top 4 but there’s no need to now that B&W has scored a bullseye.

Black&White&BlueMoon Town said:
So, here it is, the title track (a 3rd for me this week, I might add ;) to Steve Miller's truly breakthrough album where 6 tracks would appear on his highly successful GHs 74-78 album. You can't deny the Hammond B3 organ on this song as it takes center stage.

"Fly Like An Eagle" - Steve Miller Band

Time keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin', into the future
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BOOM! A direct hit, well done. Superb song that I’ve loved for a long time.
 
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RobMCFC said:
Depends on threespires - he’s the list master this week.

I was going to nominate one more track that was just edged out of my top 4 but there’s no need to now that B&W has scored a bullseye.


BOOM! A direct hit, well done. Superb song that I’ve loved for a long time.
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There’s two other tracks from that album that are among the 100 best songs of the year.
 
OB1 said:
I’ll cross that off my list.
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I was hoping I was providing some cover for you by putting this up there.

RobMCFC said:
I was going to nominate one more track that was just edged out of my top 4 but there’s no need to now that B&W has scored a bullseye.

BOOM! A direct hit, well done. Superb song that I’ve loved for a long time.
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And I was also hoping that great minds were reading each other across the pond too with my guess to your hope of nominating. I considered that a shared nomination, but I wanted to give it the write-up it deserved courtesy of Mr. Ramon. ;-)
 
I guess I'll have to nominate a 4th song then - this was Bob Seger's first album with the Silver Bullet Band, although it seems they might not have played on this particular song, which seems somewhat ironic, given that it's the title track.

Night Moves - Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
 
Black&White&BlueMoon Town said:
I don't know many artists more discovered, known and loved for their live performances than him. Which is something I really never got back in the day being too young to be a fan, but there was that Comes Alive! album of 1976 that took FM radio and the soon-to be fans that had never heard of him by storm.

I had even gone back in the 80's to listen to his original studio versions to see what the fuss was all about, and it WAS real - the live versions really kicked and the studio versions have never seen a US FM radio station to this day that I'm aware of.

I can't think of many/any? bands that get that type of sole treatment since. Sure, there's a few of Seger or Jackson Browne or Skynyrd songs that get the live treatment, but those are select few - that's the only way you'll ever hear Frampton on the radio in my experience.

Never seen him live either.
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It feels wrong to ignore one of the biggest live albums of all time so I was going to be basic and put Show Me The Way in the playlist - but anyone want to suggest an alternative track?
 
We were watching Jeopardy last night, and not one of the three contestants could recognize several lines from Werewolves of London, arguably Warren Zevon's best known (but by no means best) song. It once again brought home how under rated, under appreciated and unknown Zevon actually is.

For my 4 picks, i am going with songs from his 1976 major label debut album "Warren Zevon." That album had a bit of everything; folk, rock, anthems, ballads, classical influences, mariachi influences, etc. Throughout the album, you always had Zevon's unmistakable lyrics that could be tender, loving, whimsical, ironic or twisted:

From Desperadoes Under the Eaves
"And if California slides into the ocean
Like the mystics and statistics say it will
I predict this motel will be standing
Until I pay my bill"

From Hasten Down the Wind
"She's so many women
He can't find the one who was his friend
So he's hanging on to half a heart
But he can't have the restless part
So he tells her to hasten down the wind"

The music and vocals were amazing as well with some of the best LA session men performing while the backup singers featured Phil Everly, Stevie Nicks, Don Henley, Glen Frey, Bonnie Raitt and a host of others.

So, for those of you not familiar with Warren Zevon I offer you:

Hasten Down the Wind
Poor Poor Pitiful Me
The French Inhaler
Desperadoes Under the Eaves

If the powers that be would allow a fifth, it would have been Carmeilita, but I still have to leave out a couple of other favourites.
 
RandolphMABlue said:
We were watching Jeopardy last night, and not one of the three contestants could recognize several lines from Werewolves of London, arguably Warren Zevon's best known (but by no means best) song. It once again brought home how under rated, under appreciated and unknown Zevon actually is.

For my 4 picks, i am going with songs from his 1976 major label debut album "Warren Zevon." That album had a bit of everything; folk, rock, anthems, ballads, classical influences, mariachi influences, etc. Throughout the album, you always had Zevon's unmistakable lyrics that could be tender, loving, whimsical, ironic or twisted:

From Desperadoes Under the Eaves
"And if California slides into the ocean
Like the mystics and statistics say it will
I predict this motel will be standing
Until I pay my bill"

From Hasten Down the Wind
"She's so many women
He can't find the one who was his friend
So he's hanging on to half a heart
But he can't have the restless part
So he tells her to hasten down the wind"

The music and vocals were amazing as well with some of the best LA session men performing while the backup singers featured Phil Everly, Stevie Nicks, Don Henley, Glen Frey, Bonnie Raitt and a host of others.

So, for those of you not familiar with Warren Zevon I offer you:

Hasten Down the Wind
Poor Poor Pitiful Me
The French Inhaler
Desperadoes Under the Eaves

If the powers that be would allow a fifth, it would have been Carmeilita, but I still have to leave out a couple of other favourites.
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Another conspicuous by their absence, now resolved. Poor Poor Pitiful Me is in my family's top 10 'please, please stop singing Dad' songs.
 
homerdog said:
I guess I'll have to nominate a 4th song then - this was Bob Seger's first album with the Silver Bullet Band, although it seems they might not have played on this particular song, which seems somewhat ironic, given that it's the title track.

Night Moves - Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
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Another one crossed off :-)
 
RandolphMABlue said:
We were watching Jeopardy last night, and not one of the three contestants could recognize several lines from Werewolves of London, arguably Warren Zevon's best known (but by no means best) song. It once again brought home how under rated, under appreciated and unknown Zevon actually is.

For my 4 picks, i am going with songs from his 1976 major label debut album "Warren Zevon." That album had a bit of everything; folk, rock, anthems, ballads, classical influences, mariachi influences, etc. Throughout the album, you always had Zevon's unmistakable lyrics that could be tender, loving, whimsical, ironic or twisted:

From Desperadoes Under the Eaves
"And if California slides into the ocean
Like the mystics and statistics say it will
I predict this motel will be standing
Until I pay my bill"

From Hasten Down the Wind
"She's so many women
He can't find the one who was his friend
So he's hanging on to half a heart
But he can't have the restless part
So he tells her to hasten down the wind"

The music and vocals were amazing as well with some of the best LA session men performing while the backup singers featured Phil Everly, Stevie Nicks, Don Henley, Glen Frey, Bonnie Raitt and a host of others.

So, for those of you not familiar with Warren Zevon I offer you:

Hasten Down the Wind
Poor Poor Pitiful Me
The French Inhaler
Desperadoes Under the Eaves

If the powers that be would allow a fifth, it would have been Carmeilita, but I still have to leave out a couple of other favourites.
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4 tracks from one album, even I only put four from Physical Graffiti on the 1975 playlist and that’s a double album by the greatest band of all time.

I have all Zevon’s albums BTW.
 
RobMCFC said:
Things is, I already know everything about my life because I’ve lived it/am living it.

I want to hear about other people’s lives in the lyrics - some guy in the Australian desert or somebody down on their luck in Seattle. I also want to hear some decent music played by proper musicians.

I’m sure there will be some punkish songs I like as the years roll on but the examples in the list so far are pretty poor compared to what else is on offer. Considering that they feature on millions of T-Shirts across the world, the Ramones effort is pretty poor. They must have done better.
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Went to see The Beach Boys play on someone’s front lawn in Berkshire tonight (it was a big lawn at a stately home) and they covered a Ramones, no prizes for guessing it was Rockaway Beach.
 
OB1 said:
I have kept a lot of tickets; got a couple of photograph albums full of them and a box that I should get another album or two for.
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I wish I’d kept some of my musical memorabilia, too many house moves.
Anyway if I had I’d have remembered I also saw Widow Maker, a short lived rock supergroup led by Steve Ellis of Love Affair.I thought it was 75 but checking it was 76 and it was the first gig I went to to just see the support band , I left a few songs after the headliners Nazareth came on, again it was a TFH.
They only made one album with Steve Ellis and it’s not available on Spotify so can be added to the list as my bonus track.

 
RandolphMABlue said:
We were watching Jeopardy last night, and not one of the three contestants could recognize several lines from Werewolves of London, arguably Warren Zevon's best known (but by no means best) song. It once again brought home how under rated, under appreciated and unknown Zevon actually is.

For my 4 picks, i am going with songs from his 1976 major label debut album "Warren Zevon." That album had a bit of everything; folk, rock, anthems, ballads, classical influences, mariachi influences, etc. Throughout the album, you always had Zevon's unmistakable lyrics that could be tender, loving, whimsical, ironic or twisted:

From Desperadoes Under the Eaves
"And if California slides into the ocean
Like the mystics and statistics say it will
I predict this motel will be standing
Until I pay my bill"

From Hasten Down the Wind
"She's so many women
He can't find the one who was his friend
So he's hanging on to half a heart
But he can't have the restless part
So he tells her to hasten down the wind"

The music and vocals were amazing as well with some of the best LA session men performing while the backup singers featured Phil Everly, Stevie Nicks, Don Henley, Glen Frey, Bonnie Raitt and a host of others.

So, for those of you not familiar with Warren Zevon I offer you:

Hasten Down the Wind
Poor Poor Pitiful Me
The French Inhaler
Desperadoes Under the Eaves

If the powers that be would allow a fifth, it would have been Carmeilita, but I still have to leave out a couple of other favourites.
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I’m a massive Warren Zevon fan, I nominated this album on the album review thread so I was hoping someone was going to pick a track or four!
 
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