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Post by inger on Dec 30, 2020 23:51:09 GMT -5
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Post by Renfield on Dec 31, 2020 0:01:37 GMT -5
Guess his letter from Hiro came too late. Good to see you Renfield. The mail around here is terrible, too. I just got my draft notice from 1971... inger, my man. I finally made a musical reference too obscure for even you. As for the mail, it has been slow--was even slower around the election. Good to be back, though. I look in every now and then, but man this has been a slow off season. |
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Post by rizzuto on Dec 31, 2020 0:10:15 GMT -5
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Post by Renfield on Dec 31, 2020 0:14:20 GMT -5
Touche! My favorite song on that album. |
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Post by inger on Dec 31, 2020 0:22:05 GMT -5
Good to see you Renfield. The mail around here is terrible, too. I just got my draft notice from 1971... inger, my man. I finally made a musical reference too obscure for even you. As for the mail, it has been slow--was even slower around the election. Good to be back, though. I look in every now and then, but man this has been a slow off season. That you certainly did. I had to Google it (while Rizzuto was apparently doing the same). Pretty decent song, I must say. Though I don’t recall it having a run on FM rock. I especially enjoyed some of the strings... As for the mail here in Pueblo West, I’m thinking about buying some ponies and starting a competing company. Maybe I’ll call it the “Pony Express”. Even Amazon, UPS, and Fed Ex are pushing their product around like a boll weevil pushes it’s big ball of excrement. I constantly see posts on the local Facebook about people getting each other’s packages around as the entire system appears to be randomly dropping packages so the locals can finish sorting them themselves... |
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Post by rizzuto on Dec 31, 2020 0:22:20 GMT -5
Touche! My favorite song on that album. Thank goodness for new wave, ushering out the era of disco. KLSU was the radio station of Louisiana State University, and the only way a boy from the sticks could hear anything other than Top 40. What a world college radio opened up for me and so many others, who still only had AM radios in our first vehicles! |
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Post by Renfield on Dec 31, 2020 0:45:38 GMT -5
Touche! My favorite song on that album. Thank goodness for new wave, ushering out the era of disco. KLSU was the radio station of Louisiana State University, and the only way a boy from the sticks could hear anything other than Top 40. What a world college radio opened up for me and so many others, who still only had AM radios in our first vehicles! Amen! I spent most of my earnings from my summer job one year to buy an 8-track player for my car so I didn't have to listen to disco any more. Disco did give us Donna Summer, though. So there's that. |
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Post by rizzuto on Dec 31, 2020 1:00:22 GMT -5
Thank goodness for new wave, ushering out the era of disco. KLSU was the radio station of Louisiana State University, and the only way a boy from the sticks could hear anything other than Top 40. What a world college radio opened up for me and so many others, who still only had AM radios in our first vehicles! Amen! I spent most of my earnings from my summer job one year to buy an 8-track player for my car so I didn't have to listen to disco any more. Disco did give us Donna Summer, though. So there's that. My brother had an eight track player in his 1973 Plymouth Satellite, and my other brother had one in his bedroom. I was much younger and bought record albums and cassette tapes. That wasn’t until 1979-80, though. |
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Post by inger on Dec 31, 2020 12:09:45 GMT -5
Amen! I spent most of my earnings from my summer job one year to buy an 8-track player for my car so I didn't have to listen to disco any more. Disco did give us Donna Summer, though. So there's that. My brother had an eight track player in his 1973 Plymouth Satellite, and my other brother had one in his bedroom. I was much younger and bought record albums and cassette tapes. That wasn’t until 1979-80, though. The very worst of disco was the conversion of the BeeGees from a decent band into David Seville’s chipmunks. That was godawful noise. When the new wave hit, I was barely listening to music on the radio because every time I did, there would be those damned BeeGees again. It was a shame because I enjoyed some of the early music they put out. New York Mining Disaster (1941), How Can You Mend A Broken Heart... |
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Post by Renfield on Dec 31, 2020 13:38:28 GMT -5
How Can You Mend a Broken Heart was a great old Bee Gees song. Like you, I couldn't stand their morphing into the face of disco. However, Marty Stuart's band does an interesting country version of Stayin' Alive. Check it out on YouTube. It actually works pretty well--even the mandolin.
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Post by chiyankee on Dec 31, 2020 13:44:30 GMT -5
How ironic, I just heard the Bee Gees "Nights on Broadway" on radio about an hour ago. The song was from the days before they turned into the kings of disco.
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Post by inger on Dec 31, 2020 14:06:45 GMT -5
How ironic, I just heard the Bee Gees "Nights on Broadway" on radio about an hour ago. The song was from the days before they turned into the kings of disco. I feel like we’re all a group of closeted pre-disco Bee Gees fans. Lol... I’m sure those fellers made a helluva a lot more money with that chatter than they would have by staying with their former style. I suppose they were being true to themselves, it’s hard to say. An artist that stays completely true will often starve... |
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Post by Renfield on Dec 31, 2020 14:26:50 GMT -5
Not a commonly known fact, but Islands in the Stream, the Dolly Parton/Kenny Rodgers mega-hit, was a Bee Gees song.
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Post by BeeGeesFan on Dec 31, 2020 16:15:49 GMT -5
In the beginning, there were:
"NY Mining Disaster 1941"
"I Just Gotta Get a Message to You"
"Massachusetts"
"To Love Somebody"
"Holiday"
AND I LOVED THEM ALL
And then there were:
"I Started a Joke"
"How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?" (way better by Al Green)
"Lonely Days"
AND THEN.....there was the discocrap
But they had some TERRIFIC songs early on with some EXTRAORDINARY singing. Maurice Gibb was a GREAT bass player. Barry Gibb was a GREAT writer.
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Post by rizzuto on Dec 31, 2020 18:11:30 GMT -5
How Can You Mend a Broken Heart was a great old Bee Gees song. Like you, I couldn't stand their morphing into the face of disco. However, Marty Stuart's band does an interesting country version of Stayin' Alive. Check it out on YouTube. It actually works pretty well--even the mandolin. I have to admit...even with my distaste for disco, I liked Jive Talkin’. It’s not on my iPod playlist, but it has enough funk to hold my attention. |
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I have a feeling Nestor and Waren is going to be our newest meme, and I'm down for it! Though nothing will top Igawa, Melky, and IPK trade deals. 
