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~~Flower Child~~ · 04-28-2009, 02:34 PM

I'm not even going to try to compete with some of these brilliant in-depth journals with highly detailed reviews (Comus's for example)---but I'll throw out some of my humble little reviews about songs I'm diggin at the moment. Feel free to cuss and discuss my choices.

SONG: Highway Song
ARTIST: Blackfoot
ALBUM: Strikes

Blackfoot's retort of Skynyrd's "Free Bird". Never did get the recognition Free Bird did, but probably deserves just as much.

Starts off with a steady guitar riff that gives away its Southern rock influence, then throws out some powerful strings out of nowhere that really sets the mood lonely as hell. Rickey Medlocke's vocals really shine through on this song. He has a really masculine bluesy voice that intensifies the loneliness of this song. That, paired with some really quality lyrics--

First line of the song, also my favorite:
"Another day, 'nother dollar, after I've sang and hollered. Oh... It's my way of livin' and I can't change a thing.."

---makes one hell of a great song.
The timing of the guitar solo in this song is perfect. It hits a climax that makes you feel every bit of what he is feeling and singing about. It will really put you in a zone. When I play this song everybody know just to leave me the hell alone until its over, which is 7 minutes and some odd seconds haha. I listen to this a lot when I ride the bus to school, I see alot of truckers on the road and I think about how far away from home they are and how appropriate this song is for them.

The songs I've reviewed thus far:
A
Don't Follow by Alice In Chains
B
Highway Song by Blackfoot
Chan Chan by Buena Vista Social Club
C
Jackson by Johnny Cash & June Carter
Walkin' After Midnight by Patsy Cline
Fire Woman by The Cult
D
Mother by Danzig
Rocky Mountain High by John Denver
Sunshine Superman by Donovan
The Watcher by Dr. Dre
Subterranean Homesick Blues by Bob Dylan
E
September by Earth, Wind, & Fire
I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night) by The Electric Prunes
Rock On by David Essex
F
Mami Me Gusto by Ibrahim Ferrer
Mil Congojas by Ibrahim Ferrer
I Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In) by The First Addition
Foggy Mountain Breakdown by Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs
Gypsy by Fleetwood Mac
Waiting For a Girl Like You by Foreigner
G
Worrisome Heart by Melody Gardot
Let's Stay Together by Al Green
H
The Wind Cries Mary by Jimi Hendrix
I
Who Is She by I Monster
J
Mary Jane by Rick James
K
As the Years Go Passing By by Albert King
Sunny Afternoon by The Kinks
L
Lightning Crashes by Live
Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, Hey Hey What Can I Do, I Can't Quit You Babe, What is and What Should Never Be, Bron-Yr-Aur-Stomp all by Led Zeppelin
Was I Right Or Wrong by Lynyrd Skynyrd
Four Walls of Raiford by Lynyrd Skynyrd
M
Long Gone Day by Mad Season
Can't You See by The Marshall Tucker Band
Sway by Dean Martin
Come Mek We Run by Pablo Moses
I Feel Like Going Home by Muddy Waters
N
A Good Hearted Woman by Willie Nelson & Waylon Jennings
Blue Drag by New Orleans Jazz Vipers
Everybody's Talkin' by Harry Nilsson
P
Me and the I.R.S. by Johnny Paycheck
R
Paris Blues by Django Reinhardt
Mother's Little Helper by The Rolling Stones
S
Against the Wind by Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band
The Pusher by Steppenwolf
Winter Time by Steve Miller Band
T
Hold The Line by Toto
W
Life's Been Good by Joe Walsh
Ramblin' Man by Hank Williams Jr.
Just the Two of Us by Bill Withers and Grover Washington
Z
Time Of the Season by The Zombies

Comus · 04-29-2009, 05:56 AM

I love this album, band and song, on seeing this post I just had to run over to Spotify and pop on Highway Song, brings back loads of memories. The Southern Rock sound gets so much bad press due to excessive radio play of Lynyrd Skynyrd (Who I still consider a great band) and the like. I'll be keeping an eye on this journal, see if we can't find some more gems, thank you very much for reminding me about this band.

~~Flower Child~~ · 04-29-2009, 09:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Comus

I love this album, band and song, on seeing this post I just had to run over to Spotify and pop on Highway Song, brings back loads of memories. The Southern Rock sound gets so much bad press due to excessive radio play of Lynyrd Skynyrd (Who I still consider a great band) and the like. I'll be keeping an eye on this journal, see if we can't find some more gems, thank you very much for reminding me about this band.

Hey thanks man for taking a gander at my page, I'm looking to add a song to it today.

Yeah, I feel ya about Southern rock, I wish Lynyrd Skynyrd (who I also consider a great band) had never put out Sweet Home Alabama. Of all the songs for America to pick from of Lynyrd Skynyrds to play over and over and over they pick the the worst one.

~~Flower Child~~ · 04-29-2009, 10:52 AM

SONG: I Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)
ARTIST: The First Edition
ALBUM: The First Edition

One trippy song, you can definitely tell it was recorded in '68. The lyrics are great in this song "I tripped on a cloud and fell 8 miles high". How can you not appreciate that madness? This is one of those songs that sounds best when it is blaring at max volume.

Forever, before actually having this song, I thought the band sounded like Ten Years After and I though Alvin Lee was doing the vocals in it. But believe it or not KENNY FREAKIN ROGERS did the vocals for this song. (I did a lot of research because I couldn't bring myself to believe that this is true, but sure as hell, it's him) I guess everybody has their wilder days.

~~Flower Child~~ · 05-01-2009, 10:39 AM

SONG:Everybody's Talkin'
ARTIST: Harry Nilsson
ALBUM: Aerial Ballet

A real beauty of a song. Another one released in '68. That was one hell of a good year for music.

This song is one of my personal favorites. Its got such a soothing effect to it, I just melt when I listen to it. The mixture of the acoustic guitar, his folksy hippie voice, and the beautiful lyrics, makes a for a winner.
You have to really appreciate the lyrics in this song. I think everyone has felt this way at one time or another. I really have to hand it to Fred Neil for writing this one.

My choice lyric:

"I'm going where the sun keeps shining
Thru' the pouring rain,
Going where the weather suits my clothes.."

4ZZZ · 05-01-2009, 05:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Flower Child

SONG:Everybody's Talkin'
ARTIST: Harry Nilsson

Though a dark and sad movie, Midnight Cowboy used Everybody's Talkin' to wonderful effect in the sense that there was a wonderful future to look forward to no matter the circumstances. I got that film on DVD a couple of years back and think I should dig it out again.

Great song!

Guybrush · 05-02-2009, 06:35 AM

Everybody's talking is a great song .. You should consider adding youtube vids to your posts for instant sampling.

~~Flower Child~~ · 05-04-2009, 01:59 PM

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Originally Posted by toretorden

Everybody's talking is a great song .. You should consider adding youtube vids to your posts for instant sampling.

Sure, I think I can manage that. I'll do it when I get home where youtube isn't blocked

SONG: Hold The Line
ARTIST: Toto
ALBUM: Toto

I'm not an extremely huge '80s fan but there are a few songs I really enjoy. I find this song to be one of them. I would hate think how many times I've played this and people argue with me that this is Foreigner. Well, it is not. It is Toto. And Toto has my full respect because of this little number.

Hold The Line was technically released in '79 but it really sets off some of the upcoming beats and rhythm of the eighties. Pretty awesome piano intro. If I ever learned how to play piano this would be my first thing to learn.

Then it goes right into some intense '80s guitar. (I don't know much about guitars but the electric guitars in the '80s had a such a specific sound and they played them in a certain way that you can really tell apart from the other eras, I guess its just like anything though).

Well, this gets the song off to a pretty good start. The song then sinks into the smooth voice of Bobby Kimball. If you don't feel the need to sing along with this song then you are weird. The lyrics aren't the deepest by any means, but all around, its just a really fun song to rock out to.

The second song I'm really feeling today is.......

SONG: Mother
ARTIST: Danzig
ALBUM: Danzig

This song is gold. Pure and simple. This is hard rock at its finest. Not TOO huge on anything else of Danzig's (even though they are a cool band) but this song is BAD ASS. The Danzig Mother video I will post is even more far out. Probably the best rock video I have ever seen. I would have given anything to be at this concert. I probably would have been eaten alive though, all 100 pounds of me haha.

Guitar = genius. Starts off slow and steady and so does Danzig's vocals then he starts getting a little crazy and so does John Christ (awesome dude) on guitar. Everything gets harder and faster as the song progresses.

I have to pause here for a minute to express to everyone how much I love Danzig's voice. I will not explain it, you can experience it for yourself.

I qualify this to be one of the best head banging songs in history.

That is all for today.

Unknown Soldier · 09-04-2009, 06:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Flower Child

Sure, I think I can manage that. I'll do it when I get home where youtube isn't blocked

SONG: Hold The Line
ARTIST: Toto
ALBUM: Toto

I'm not an extremely huge '80s fan but there are a few songs I really enjoy. I find this song to be one of them. I would hate think how many times I've played this and people argue with me that this is Foreigner. Well, it is not. It is Toto. And Toto has my full respect because of this little number.

Hold The Line was technically released in '79 but it really sets off some of the upcoming beats and rhythm of the eighties. Pretty awesome piano intro. If I ever learned how to play piano this would be my first thing to learn.

Then it goes right into some intense '80s guitar. (I don't know much about guitars but the electric guitars in the '80s had a such a specific sound and they played them in a certain way that you can really tell apart from the other eras, I guess its just like anything though).

Well, this gets the song off to a pretty good start. The song then sinks into the smooth voice of Bobby Kimball. If you don't feel the need to sing along with this song then you are weird. The lyrics aren't the deepest by any means, but all around, its just a really fun song to rock out to.

The second song I'm really feeling today is.......

SONG: Mother
ARTIST: Danzig
ALBUM: Danzig

This song is gold. Pure and simple. This is hard rock at its finest. Not TOO huge on anything else of Danzig's (even though they are a cool band) but this song is BAD ASS. The Danzig Mother video I will post is even more far out. Probably the best rock video I have ever seen. I would have given anything to be at this concert. I probably would have been eaten alive though, all 100 pounds of me haha.

Guitar = genius. Starts off slow and steady and so does Danzig's vocals then he starts getting a little crazy and so does John Christ (awesome dude) on guitar. Everything gets harder and faster as the song progresses.

I have to pause here for a minute to express to everyone how much I love Danzig's voice. I will not explain it, you can experience it for yourself.

I qualify this to be one of the best head banging songs in history.

That is all for today.

Toto recently split up, Steve Lukather said that one of his reasons for the split, was that he was sick and tired of playing "Hold the Line" after 30 years!!!

The piano/keyboards of David Paich were always the magical substance of Toto, as was the voice of Bobby Kimball.

Mother was probably the best thing Danzig did and Glenn Danzig does have a pretty amazing voice, the only vocalist that sounds very similiar to him and who comes straight to mind is Keith Caputo of Life of Agony.

~~Flower Child~~ · 09-05-2009, 08:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier

Toto recently split up, Steve Lukather said that one of his reasons for the split, was that he was sick and tired of playing "Hold the Line" after 30 years!!!

Wow, that cracks me up

. Suck it up Lukather, and play your damn song!

Quote:

The piano/keyboards of David Paich were always the magical substance of Toto, as was the voice of Bobby Kimball.

agreed.

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Mother was probably the best thing Danzig did and Glenn Danzig does have a pretty amazing voice, the only vocalist that sounds very similiar to him and who comes straight to mind is Keith Caputo of Life of Agony.

Yeah, Danzig's voice is so powerful and masculine and great. It didn't hurt that he had some major charisma either. You know, I'll have to check Life of Agony out. I'm not familiar with them.

04-28-2009, 02:34 PM	#1 (permalink)
~~Flower Child~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: classified Posts: 639	Flower Child's I'm not even going to try to compete with some of these brilliant in-depth journals with highly detailed reviews (Comus's for example)---but I'll throw out some of my humble little reviews about songs I'm diggin at the moment. Feel free to cuss and discuss my choices. SONG: Highway Song ARTIST: Blackfoot ALBUM: Strikes Blackfoot's retort of Skynyrd's "Free Bird". Never did get the recognition Free Bird did, but probably deserves just as much. Starts off with a steady guitar riff that gives away its Southern rock influence, then throws out some powerful strings out of nowhere that really sets the mood lonely as hell. Rickey Medlocke's vocals really shine through on this song. He has a really masculine bluesy voice that intensifies the loneliness of this song. That, paired with some really quality lyrics-- First line of the song, also my favorite: "Another day, 'nother dollar, after I've sang and hollered. Oh... It's my way of livin' and I can't change a thing.." ---makes one hell of a great song. The timing of the guitar solo in this song is perfect. It hits a climax that makes you feel every bit of what he is feeling and singing about. It will really put you in a zone. When I play this song everybody know just to leave me the hell alone until its over, which is 7 minutes and some odd seconds haha. I listen to this a lot when I ride the bus to school, I see alot of truckers on the road and I think about how far away from home they are and how appropriate this song is for them. The songs I've reviewed thus far: A Don't Follow by Alice In Chains B Highway Song by Blackfoot Chan Chan by Buena Vista Social Club C Jackson by Johnny Cash & June Carter Walkin' After Midnight by Patsy Cline Fire Woman by The Cult D Mother by Danzig Rocky Mountain High by John Denver Sunshine Superman by Donovan The Watcher by Dr. Dre Subterranean Homesick Blues by Bob Dylan E September by Earth, Wind, & Fire I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night) by The Electric Prunes Rock On by David Essex F Mami Me Gusto by Ibrahim Ferrer Mil Congojas by Ibrahim Ferrer I Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In) by The First Addition Foggy Mountain Breakdown by Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs Gypsy by Fleetwood Mac Waiting For a Girl Like You by Foreigner G Worrisome Heart by Melody Gardot Let's Stay Together by Al Green H The Wind Cries Mary by Jimi Hendrix I Who Is She by I Monster J Mary Jane by Rick James K As the Years Go Passing By by Albert King Sunny Afternoon by The Kinks L Lightning Crashes by Live Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, Hey Hey What Can I Do, I Can't Quit You Babe, What is and What Should Never Be, Bron-Yr-Aur-Stomp all by Led Zeppelin Was I Right Or Wrong by Lynyrd Skynyrd Four Walls of Raiford by Lynyrd Skynyrd M Long Gone Day by Mad Season Can't You See by The Marshall Tucker Band Sway by Dean Martin Come Mek We Run by Pablo Moses I Feel Like Going Home by Muddy Waters N A Good Hearted Woman by Willie Nelson & Waylon Jennings Blue Drag by New Orleans Jazz Vipers Everybody's Talkin' by Harry Nilsson P Me and the I.R.S. by Johnny Paycheck R Paris Blues by Django Reinhardt Mother's Little Helper by The Rolling Stones S Against the Wind by Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band The Pusher by Steppenwolf Winter Time by Steve Miller Band T Hold The Line by Toto W Life's Been Good by Joe Walsh Ramblin' Man by Hank Williams Jr. Just the Two of Us by Bill Withers and Grover Washington Z Time Of the Season by The Zombies Last edited by Flower Child; 08-31-2010 at 09:38 PM.

05-02-2009, 06:35 AM	#7 (permalink)
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04-29-2009, 10:52 AM	#4 (permalink)
~~Flower Child~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: classified Posts: 639	SONG: I Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In) ARTIST: The First Edition ALBUM: The First Edition One trippy song, you can definitely tell it was recorded in '68. The lyrics are great in this song "I tripped on a cloud and fell 8 miles high". How can you not appreciate that madness? This is one of those songs that sounds best when it is blaring at max volume. Forever, before actually having this song, I thought the band sounded like Ten Years After and I though Alvin Lee was doing the vocals in it. But believe it or not KENNY FREAKIN ROGERS did the vocals for this song. (I did a lot of research because I couldn't bring myself to believe that this is true, but sure as hell, it's him) I guess everybody has their wilder days.

05-01-2009, 10:39 AM	#5 (permalink)
~~Flower Child~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: classified Posts: 639	SONG:Everybody's Talkin' ARTIST: Harry Nilsson ALBUM: Aerial Ballet A real beauty of a song. Another one released in '68. That was one hell of a good year for music. This song is one of my personal favorites. Its got such a soothing effect to it, I just melt when I listen to it. The mixture of the acoustic guitar, his folksy hippie voice, and the beautiful lyrics, makes a for a winner. You have to really appreciate the lyrics in this song. I think everyone has felt this way at one time or another. I really have to hand it to Fred Neil for writing this one. My choice lyric: "I'm going where the sun keeps shining Thru' the pouring rain, Going where the weather suits my clothes.."