I don't have anything quippy to add for the fifteenth installment. But I wonder, if Toto were still making albums, would they have used, "The Fifteenth One"? Deep.
"Lido Shuffle" by Boz Skaggs (1977)
And speaking of Toto...The Boz strikes again!
"Would I Lie To You?" by Eurythmics (1985)
I stated a while back that I'd stop this crazy thing when I hit a repeat. For a second I thought I did but NO. This technically isn't a dupe since I have two versions of this song in ye olde music library. Why, you ask? Back in an ancient time, I was a member of this thing called a Listserv (kids, ask your parents about these) devoted to audiophile turntables and vinyl. Oddly enough, kids do know what these are! For a time, I found it entertaining to read a lot of discussion about a hobby I could barely afford but made my best effort at it participating in.
There were a number of somewhat well-known audiophile magazine reviewers who contributed there and one of them was reviewing this super high-end turntable setup that cost north of $100,000 (in early 2000s dollars) and he made a CD-R (Do kids know what these are? Never mind, no kids are reading this anyhow) that was a sampling of tracks he played back from a lot of different LPs to give people an idea of what this machine could do with everyday ordinary vinyl. The guy asked the membership of this list to reply with an address and he'd mail a copy of this CD to the first one. That guy (let's be honest, it was a dude) would mail the CD to the next person down and so on after presumably listening to it and, like me, making a copy. The songs sounded fantastic and had virtually no "noise" even though some of them were decades old even then. The Eurythmics song was slightly better, to my ears, than the regular CD version I had, perhaps more bass if I remember that right. In any case, Apple Music doesn't consider it the "legit" version in their database so it's in there twice and does sound slightly different. Aren't you glad you asked?
"Caught in the Rain" by Revis (2003)
While we're on an early 'aughts mode, here's a one-hit wonder of post grunge. I have this track because I once stayed at the Hard Rock Resort hotel in the Orlando Universal park and in the room, along with the bars of soap, shampoo and bible, there was a sampler CD (what's with all the sampler CDs?!) that, if memory serves, was created for the hotel with tracks of...rock. It was a bit more legal than the previous CD, I'm thinking. This is the only reason I would have this song and probably didn't listen to it since then. It was also "notable" for being on the soundtrack to the 2003 Daredevil movie that no one liked.
"Do You Realize" by The Flaming Lips (2002)
This is getting to be as bad as the 1978 pattern. This song works pretty well on its own even though it's part of a concept album. Cool.
"When You Come" by Crowded House (1988)
Out of all the solid Crowded House hits, this one flies under the radar a bit but very solid.
"Candela" by Buena Vista Social Club (1997)
One of these days I should look up the English lyrics for these tunes.
"Urge For Going" by Joni Mitchell (1972)
A classic among classics for JM that expresses the constant movement in life so well.
"Cool Yule" by Louis Armstrong and The Commanders (1953)
Yeah, it's a holiday song but one of my favorites; written by Steve Allen, who wrong a lot of songs (8,500 supposedly)! The recording has the horns sounding like they are coming from Grant's Tomb, but still great.
"Skating Away on the Thin Ice of the New Day" by Jethro Tull (1975)
A song (supposedly) about climate change...in 1975!
"Loneliest Star" by Seal (2003)
OK, so I stopped paying attention to Seal not long after this song came out but this is mid-shelf Seal. Very slickly produced, shiny pop.
"It's Now Or Never" by Elvis Presley (1960)
To be honest, I lingered on this one with the thought that it's be a good tune to do at ballroom dance gigs; Elvis cha-cha.
"Walking The Long Miles Home" by Richard Thompson (1999)
I could imagine this being a bitter sequel to the previous song.
"Toolmaster of Brainerd" by Trip Shakespeare (1989)
If there's one song in all of these posts you should go check out, it's this one. "Up in Brainerd where the children go to milking school. " It sounds like a Midwestern Jefferson Airplane.
"Son of Your Father" by Elton John (1970)
It's nice to hear one of the EJ songs that doesn't come up very often, from one of his "American" style LPs.
"Ride Captain Ride" by Blues Image (1970)
A classic one-hitter who's membership went on to play in a number of notable 1970s rock acts.
"I Sat by the Ocean" by Queens of the Stone Age (2013)
2013? That's like super contemporary for this list!
"Imposter" by Oingo Boingo (1981)
Gee Danny, tell us what you really think.
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