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    Hell yeah: 9/10

    More live music, Brian Setzer covers Caravan:

    http://youtu.be/TFL5OZln_XI
    Uhhhh...

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    10/10 Jack. Now for something a lil' different. Amazing song, powerful video:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iczaDcixBj4

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack of Hearts View Post
    Now for something a lil' different. Amazing song, powerful video:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iczaDcixBj4

    I'm afraid neither the song nor the video held my attention. 4/10

    Quote Originally Posted by Sancho View Post

    More live music, Brian Setzer covers Caravan:

    http://youtu.be/TFL5OZln_XI
    I liked that, by the way. Though from your intro, I thought it might be Setzer bringing a rockabilly vibe to Caravan. Which would have boggled my mind


    But moving swiftly on from obscure English 70s prog, to mainstream English 70s glam...


    ...put your raygun to my head....
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    I'll be honest, I just like looking at Bowie, I don't really like his music all that much. 4/10

    This I like.
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    Hahaha. Been a while since I've heard that one. C'mon, hit me, hit me.

    El Sancho digs tacky 70s pop tunes. 8 out of 10 open-collared, floral-print, polyester shirts, and a wide-brimmed pimp hat with a peacock feather thrown in for good measure.

    Let's back up twenty more years, when trombones and saxophones could still rock the joint.

    Stan Kenton, 23 north 82 west:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdiWw..._gdata_player*

    (the title refers to a lat/long roughly locating Havana.)
    Uhhhh...

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    Snazzy Sancho, real snazzy. I'd have a ball if that came on at a club. 8/10

    All this year I worked at a hotel sort of thing, and they play the radio perpetually in all of the business sections. I hated everything they played for the most part, but this one radio song I really liked. If I were ever a stripper (hey, you've got to admire their work ethic) this would be my jam:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Edwsf-8F3sI
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    I like it - I didn't think I would. It has a crisp sound.

    7/10

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP2EvSNHqh0

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    Quote Originally Posted by Paulclem View Post

    The production on that - the drum sound, the bass style, the zingy harmonics - really dates it to a specific Thursday afternoon in the late Eighties, doesn't it? I'm not sure I can get past the generic vision of wine bars done out with reclaimed pews and pastel jackets with the sleeves rolled up. 6/10

    However, when you remember the specific song from the time, you can get past the datedness and listen to it with the same feeling immediacy and relevance that you felt back then.

    For instance....

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    Quote Originally Posted by MarkBastable View Post
    The production on that - the drum sound, the bass style, the zingy harmonics - really dates it to a specific Thursday afternoon in the late Eighties, doesn't it? I'm not sure I can get past the generic vision of wine bars done out with reclaimed pews and pastel jackets with the sleeves rolled up. 6/10

    However, when you remember the specific song from the time, you can get past the datedness and listen to it with the same feeling immediacy and relevance that you felt back then.

    For instance....
    Exactly - the feeling of immediacy is spot on. It's as if for an instant you're that person again.

    I get it with this - I suppose in my mind it's a generic image of a particular nightclub where I heard this numerous times, but the feeling is unmistakeable:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgMhMRC4Fr8

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    Took my batteries out my mysticism and put em in my thinking cap

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    6/10, just because I hate it when the video doesn't sync up perfectly with the sound, although I do like the inexplicable chef in the crowd.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFKUnfwBPTU
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    Quote Originally Posted by JuniperWoolf View Post

    I think that song tries really hard hard, and I tried equally hard to like it, but in the end it sounds like the number they reluctantly dropped from a retro musical during the pre-Broadway try-outs in Hoboken because it slowed down the action of the plot and no one could whistle the tune. 4/10


    As Paul decided not to rate this one a few posts back, I'm going to give it another shot.

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    I listened to their 2nd, 3rd, and 4th albums obsessively, so it gets a 9.8/10.

    Now, if you'll allow me to drain the passion out of things, and just stand by while whatever.

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