Mal ,'War Stories'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
After playing some metal xmas songs for my next door neighbors they urged me to check out Steel Panther's "Community Property."
Which I dedicate to Jilli and Cass and anybody else with a hair metal past.
(Not exactly work safe as the power ballad lyric goes: "Well my heart belongs to you/ Yeah my heart belongs to you / but my cock's community property...")
This has been around for a couple of years, but I hadn't seen it. Day-umm, Prince can play guitar: [link]
I'm linking to Bill Janovitz's post because his commentary nails it.
Yeah, he's always been a fantastic player but you get the feeling he's been plugging in every day for the last fifteen years when we weren't looking.
He's putting together some pretty legendary performances later in his career.
You have Stevie Winwood -- arguably the most soulful Englishman next to Jagger, Rod Stewart (and who else?)
Paul Rogers.
Nice to hear Jeff Lynne singing without buckets of echo on his voice too. Not that he's got a lot of range, but his voice is much warmer than you'd expect from the ELO records.
Loves me some Paul Rogers.
Steel Panther's "Community Property."
That never stops being hysterical to me.
So. The Stranglers. They have a few songs that I totally love, so a while back I bought some greatest hits CD and didn't like anything on it at all. Here are The Stranglers' songs I have and love:
So, what else by The Stranglers is similar?
I don't know, but I could certainly use "Duchess" for my "A Royal Pain in the A**" mix
Musically they could be great, but they were so damned obnoxious lyrically.
No More Heroes would be their acknowledged classic.
There's some great stuff on Black and White.
I never cared much for them. I've only played them three times on the radio, and none of those songs stick with me (Peaches, Hanging Around, Tank). I don't know why I've never played Grip. I like that one!
My brother plays The Stranglers a lot but they've never really stuck with me. I keep getting them confused with The Blasters.
Has there ever been a really good biopic of Elvis?