Robert Hunter, lyricist for The Greatful Dead
On That Note: Reflections of My Life
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In my mind, The Cars' best song - Ric was a huge loss:
A seasonally-relevant Leon Redbone song - his voice was amazing:
Daniel Johnston - early grunge-ish singer, great song:
And I honestly really enjoyed "Firestarter" in the 90s (with Keith Flint):
A seasonally-relevant Leon Redbone song - his voice was amazing:
Daniel Johnston - early grunge-ish singer, great song:
And I honestly really enjoyed "Firestarter" in the 90s (with Keith Flint):
Hal Blaine was the legendary Wrecking Crew drummer. He was known to exaggerate from time to time, but he claimed to be the most recorded artist of all time...and that might be true. Below is a partial list of hit songs he played on...take your pick...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recordings_of_songs_Hal_Blaine_played_on
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recordings_of_songs_Hal_Blaine_played_on
I didn't realize Ginger Baker had died. Here's a great song from Blind Faith:
And here's a great song from Cream:
And here's a great song from Cream:
I thought of this song the minute I saw the partial title of the thread in the new threads box (It shows "On That Note: Reflections of My..."). I love that song.
I wonder why they never made it big over here?
I once saw Ric Ocasek in Valley West Mall with Paulina Porizkova. Yep. Cool story bro.
Johnston probably is known more for impact on indie/low-fi/alt-rock and his influence on notable artists such as Kurt Cobain, Yo La Tengo, Sonic Youth and Tom Waits. Most of his music was recorded on cassette tapes at home. He used to hand out free tapes when he worked at McDonald's in the '80s.
Paulina had it bad for those Orange Juliuses.
I was such a "British Invasion" guy I have done some research and found some real gems by looking at British Charts of the past to see what made it there that didn't make it here. Another one of their big UK hits was a cover of Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da.
If you go on Youtube and just search Marmalade most will come up thanks to Brit posters.
My best research is to just go to the Wikipedia site for the band and they usually have some kind of a discography. Check the singles releases. Most have their chart info in at least the US and UK. Some many many more countries. So, yeah, the music geekiness is strong in this one.
Has Wiki changed the way it does the discographies? I looked at several artists this morning (including Roxette) and they're only listing albums, and not what singles charted on which charts. Me no likey...
Yeah, I agree that he is alternative - I just meant that the early 90s iteration of that (Cobain, Sonic Youth) was considered "grunge." It didn't have another name yet, really.
If I may jump into the conversation (don't mind if I do!), depth of Wiki discography can vary from artist to artist. In some cases, on the main page it has a segment for discography, and that may have list of links to album releases only. Above that, sometimes, is a separate link "Band XYZ discography and list of recorded songs" -- that takes you to another page with an expanded singles & albums listing.
