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Music that doesn't suck

True enough. I love that lp. Was just listening to that the other day, along with Trout Mask Replica...gotta love:

Ole Chicago she's uh woman thata
Make uh young man uh bum
She howl like the wind
Make m' heart grow cold
Make me long for that little red fum!

She makes things fly 'n she makes things roll
She got me way over here 'n I'm hungry 'n cold
I remember m' mother told me I oughta be choosey
That was way back when I thought she was m' friend
Now I find out she's uh floosey

Edited to add...

And although I mentioned my love of his work earlier...you only gotta listen to the Captain to hear where Tom Waits got his inspiration for his Raindogs, Swordfishtrombones and Frank's Wild Years lp's...outside of Kurt Weil that is.

Same can be said for Nick Cave too. Listen to the Captain on the song "Well" from Trout Mask...then tell me ol' Nick didn't play that a few hundred times back in his Birthday Party days, before falling in line to what he's doing now.

The Captain's influence is far and wide...deservedly so. :thumbs:
 
In memory of my grand-dad...who used to tell me this one when I was a kid, along with Giddy-Up Go, and played me just about every song Johnny Cash, Lefty Frizell, Marty Robbins, etc ever did...years later, I would hear this same song by another fella (I mentioned on this thread before), and it still give me chills:

Well you see I happened to be back on the east coast
a few years back tryin' to make me a buck
like everybody else, well you know
times get hard and well I got down on my luck.
And I got tired of just roamin' and bummin'
around, so I started thumbin' my way
back to my old hometown.
You know I made quite a few miles
in the first couple of days, and I
figured I'd be home in a week if my
luck held out this way,
but you know it was the third night
I got stranded, it was out at a cold lonely
crossroads, and as the rain came
pouring down, I was hungry, tired
freezin', caught myself a chill.
But it was just about that time that
the lights of an old semi topped the hill
you should of seen me smile when I
heard them air brakes come on.
And I climbed up in that cab where I
knew it'd be warm at the wheel...
well at the wheel sat a big man
I'd have to say he must of weighed 210,
the way he stuck out a big hand and
said with a grin "Big Joe's the name
and this here rig's called Phantom 309."
Well I asked him why he called his
rig such a name, but he just turned to me
and said "Why son don't you know this here
rig'll be puttin' 'em all to shame, why
there ain't a driver on this
or any other line for that matter
that's seen nothin' but the taillights of Big Joe
and Phantom 309."
So we rode and talked the better part of the night
and I told my stories and Joe told his and
I smoked up all his Viceroys as we rolled along
he pushed her ahead with 10 forward gears.
Man that dashboard was lit like the old
Madam La Rue pinball, a serious semi truck
until almost mysteriously, well it was the
lights of a truck stop that rolled into sight.
Joe turned to me and said "I'm sorry son
but I'm afraid this is just as far as you go.
You see I kinda gotta be makin' a turn
just up the road a piece," but I'll be
damned if he didn't throw me a dime as he
threw her in low and said "Go on in there
son, and get yourself a hot cup of coffee
on Big Joe."
And when Joe and his rig pulled off into
the night, man in nothing flat they was
clean outa sight.
So I walked into the old stop and
ordered me up a cup of mud sayin'
"Big Joe's settin' this dude up" but
it got so deathly quiet in that
place, you could of heard a pin drop.
As the waiter's face turned kinda
pale, I said "What's the matter did
I say somethin' wrong?" I kinda
said with a half-way grin.
He said, "No son, you see It'll happen every
now and then. You see every driver in
here knows Big Joe, but let me
tell you what happened just 10 years
ago. Yeah it was 10 years ago
out there at that cold lonely crossroads
where you flagged Joe down, and
there was a whole bus load of kids
and they were just comin' from school
and they were right in the middle when
Joe topped the hill, and could
have been slaughtered except
Joe turned his wheels, and
he jack-knifed, and went
into a skid. And folks around here
say he gave his life to save that bunch
of kids out there at that cold
lonely crossroads, well they say it
was the end of the line for
Big Joe and Phantom 309. But it's
funny you know, cause every now and then
yea every now and then, when the
moon's holdin' water, they say old Joe
will stop and give you a ride, and
just like you, some hitchhiker will be
comin' by."
"So here son," he said to me, "get
yourself another cup of coffee, it's on the
house, you see I want you to hang on
to that dime, yea you hang on to that
dime as a kind of souvenir, a
souvenir of Big Joe and Phantom 309."
 
Nobody has added to this in a while...figgered it's been a month since the last post (i.e., my last post) in this thread, so here ya go. Enjoy...was listening to this baby today...over and over and over and over.

If you're gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough
when you get knocked down, you gotta get back up
I ain't the sharpest knife in the drawer
but I know enough, to know
If you're gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough

I lit my brain with rotgut whiskey
'till my pain was chicken-fried,
I've had dudes with badges frisk me,
teach me how to swallow pride
I took advice no fool would take
I got some habits I can't shake
I ain't the sharpest knife in the drawer
but I know enough, to know
If you're gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough
When you get knocked down you gotta get back up
That's the way it is in life and love
If you're gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough

I've been in up and down and down and out
I've been left and right and wrong
Will walk the walk and run my mouth
Been on the short end for too long
But if they gave medals for honky tonk wars
Hell I'd keep mine in my chest o' drawers
With my IRS bills and divorce papers and all that stuff
If you're gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough...
 
MiamiCubano said:
Nobody has added to this in a while...figgered it's been a month since the last post (i.e., my last post) in this thread, so here ya go. Enjoy...was listening to this baby today...over and over and over and over.

If you're gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough
when you get knocked down, you gotta get back up
I ain't the sharpest knife in the drawer
but I know enough, to know
If you're gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough

I lit my brain with rotgut whiskey
'till my pain was chicken-fried,
I've had dudes with badges frisk me,
teach me how to swallow pride
I took advice no fool would take
I got some habits I can't shake
I ain't the sharpest knife in the drawer
but I know enough, to know
If you're gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough
When you get knocked down you gotta get back up
That's the way it is in life and love
If you're gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough

I've been in up and down and down and out
I've been left and right and wrong
Will walk the walk and run my mouth
Been on the short end for too long
But if they gave medals for honky tonk wars
Hell I'd keep mine in my chest o' drawers
With my IRS bills and divorce papers and all that stuff
If you're gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough...
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Roger Alan Wade - "If you're gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough"

Lets go hang out in a mall, or a morgue,
A smorgasbord
Lets go hang out in a church
Well go find lurch
Then well haul ass down through the abbey
Is it money, is it fame whats in a name, shame?
Is it money, is it fame or were they always this lame?
 
Looks like we're all stumped, but since I'm such a rebel (haha) I'm gonna break the rules and shock this thread back to life...

It's the mountain air we breathe
Goodbye it's time to fly
Sparrow climb the air gets thinner
Open wings cast this valley in the shade...
 
Zeebra said:
Lets go hang out in a mall, or a morgue,
A smorgasbord
Lets go hang out in a church
Well go find lurch
Then well haul ass down through the abbey
Is it money, is it fame whats in a name, shame?
Is it money, is it fame or were they always this lame?
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"Rattlesnake" - Live.

stewa070 said:
Looks like we're all stumped, but since I'm such a rebel (haha) I'm gonna break the rules and shock this thread back to life...

It's the mountain air we breathe
Goodbye it's time to fly
Sparrow climb the air gets thinner
Open wings cast this valley in the shade...
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Widespread Panic - "Surpise Valley"


To add my latest to this thread, I was going through an old box of vinyl the other day...came across volumes an volumes of old records, from back in the day...found this one, by the original (another band did cover it later on)...

Have been playing this LP NON-STOP, along with all the other LPs by other excellent bands in this category...and remembering my misspent youth...half-pipes...empty pools...underpass embankments by Del Monte, skating with Cab in SJ...watching Agah learn how to skate (who later turned pro) and bust his ass while his family ran "Our Daily Bread" in Almaden...having East Bay Ray and Bod Boyle come over to skate my half-pipe..."Frankenchrist" Geiger posters still included in the LP...ah the glory days...

"Needles were stabbed in to the walls
The executioner's curtain call
Fighting back he found his life drowning
And there was no way out...

It happened just the other day
Jesus come and pushed him off the shelf
He thought he'd find a better way than
Stealing and slamming and maiming and ramming
The death who wears black curtains wears clothes what's right
The roof kicked out the rope tied to the rafters
A quick kick of the chair and it was all through..."

And also...to add another (why the hell not)...I found this LP too...has got to be, hands-down, one of my favorites of ALL time, period. Seen these guys live so many times, it's crazy. Still around too...though nothing, nothing tops this one of theirs...

"Sometimes i think of old friends but they all seem the same
then i see them, and they can't remember my name
i guess i'm just like them, i guess i'm just a bore
i could hate them, but i've never done that before
i've got lots of good friends, i don't need any more
and sometimes when you lie to me, sometimes i'll lie to you
and there isn't a thing you could possibly do
all these half destroyed lives aren't as bad as they seem
and then i see blood and i hear people scream
then i wake up and it's just another bad dream..."
 
I must be getting old, I have never heard most of this stuff. You guys know:

Could this be magic my dear my hearts all aglow.
Could this be magic my dear loving you so.


Never mind, nost of you would'nt understand.
 
Thats easy BT...

All 4 One - Could this be magic


How about this one...

On the seventh hours
On the seventh day
On the seventh month
The seven doctors say
He was born for good luck
And that you'll see
I got seven hundred dollars
Don't you mess with me
But you know I'm him
Everybody knows I'm him


Fish
 
Sorry All 4 One was not born when the Dubs recorded it in 1959. I don't know the lyrics you posted, sorry.
 
Currently watching on PBS the Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival. Right now they're playing "Rock Me Baby" performed by Eric Clapton, B.B. King, Buddy Guy and Jimmie Vaughn ..... THIS is music that doesn't suck :cool:

:cool:
 
AngryFishH said:
How about this one...

On the seventh hours
On the seventh day
On the seventh month
The seven doctors say
He was born for good luck
And that you'll see
I got seven hundred dollars
Don't you mess with me
But you know I'm him
Everybody knows I'm him


Fish
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Hoochie Coochie Man -Willie Dixon


How's about...

When I hear that big black whistle they blow
I feel inside that it's time for me to be going
Fortunately baby I'd already gone before

When they say I'm worth ten pieces of coal
And you shouting hey what about when you are an old man
Fortunately baby I'd already locked the door

They say there are men who are blue like me in the stars
Beards for the weird and bars for bizarre guitarmen
Fortunately baby I'd already joined the force

Good time train well it does not need any track
It wins the race to the place where I'm gonna pack up
Fortunately baby I'd already grabbed the sky

All the days that the road has spent on me
Judges shout you've got to slave to be a freeman
Fortunately baby I am never coming back
 
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