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Author:  Dignified Rube [ Wed Jan 01, 2020 9:19 pm ]
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Top 5 or 10.

1. Invisible Touch - Genesis
2. Baby You're A Rich Man – Beatles
3. Pink Floyd – Us and Them
4. Substitute – The Who
5. Sunshine Of Your Love/White Room (Tie) – Cream

Thank You - Led Zeppelin (Honorable Mention)
Author:  Frank Coztansa [ Wed Jan 01, 2020 9:36 pm ]
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Dignified Rube wrote:
Thank You - Led Zeppelin (Honorable Mention)
John Paul Jones played organ on that song.
Author:  GoldenJet [ Wed Jan 01, 2020 9:37 pm ]
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Too many WHO sings to list
Author:  Zippy-The-Pinhead [ Wed Jan 01, 2020 9:43 pm ]
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The Real Me...The Who
Mystery Achievement...The Pretenders
Town Called Malice...The Jam
Author:  Dignified Rube [ Wed Jan 01, 2020 10:46 pm ]
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Frank Coztansa wrote:
Dignified Rube wrote:
Thank You - Led Zeppelin (Honorable Mention)
John Paul Jones played organ on that song.


And bass. On Stairway JPJ played bass, too, along with the mellotron. Very well I might add.
Author:  Dignified Rube [ Wed Jan 01, 2020 10:47 pm ]
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Anything James Brown in the category is pretty darn good. Sex Machine is probably the best.
Author:  Dignified Rube [ Wed Jan 01, 2020 11:01 pm ]
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Sweet Home Chicago.

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Author:  Jaw Breaker [ Wed Jan 01, 2020 11:08 pm ]
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Rush - YYZ
Boston - Don't Look Back
Seventh Wonder - Break the Silence
Author:  chaspoppcap [ Wed Jan 01, 2020 11:25 pm ]
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Hell almost any Rush or Blues
Author:  shirtless driver [ Wed Jan 01, 2020 11:27 pm ]
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Christmas Wrapping - The Waitresses.
Author:  redskingreg [ Wed Jan 01, 2020 11:27 pm ]
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This is a fishy thread.
Author:  Darkside [ Wed Jan 01, 2020 11:32 pm ]
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Southbound pachyderm.
Author:  Telegram Sam [ Thu Jan 02, 2020 12:27 am ]
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"We've Gotta Get Out of This Place" - The Animals
"Walk on the Wild Side" - Lou Reed
Author:  Curious Hair [ Thu Jan 02, 2020 12:45 am ]
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The Smiths - "Barbarism Begins At Home"
The Pretenders - "Mystery Achievement"
The Police - "Driven To Tears"
Interpol - "Specialist"
Tindersticks - "People Keep Comin' Around"
The Afghan Whigs - "Debonair"
Author:  Harvard Dan [ Thu Jan 02, 2020 1:15 am ]
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Victoria--The Kinks
Tommy the Cat--Primus
Spirits in the Material World--The Police (CH, Driven to Tears is a fave)
(Nothing but) Flowers--Talking Heads
Glamour Boys--Living Colour
Author:  Curious Hair [ Thu Jan 02, 2020 1:18 am ]
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Zenyatta Mondatta has to be the best Police album, right? For all the great songs they had, they're more or less evenly distributed; no album towers above the rest and there's not a terrible one, either. It's that or Outlandos d'Amour, which is diamond-solid (more than rock-solid, you see) up through "Truth Hits Everybody" and then falls off a cliff. Synchronicity is about two-thirds classic and one-third crap.
Author:  Harvard Dan [ Thu Jan 02, 2020 1:25 am ]
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Curious Hair wrote:
Zenyatta Mondatta has to be the best Police album, right? For all the great songs they had, they're more or less evenly distributed; no album towers above the rest and there's not a terrible one, either. It's that or Outlandos d'Amour, which is diamond-solid (more than rock-solid, you see) up through "Truth Hits Everybody" and then falls off a cliff. Synchronicity is about two-thirds classic and one-third crap.


Yeah, I'd agree only because of the gratuitous sax Sting added to Ghost. Synch...eh...I understand why but could pass. Danny Mac said that Outlandos is a favorite of his.
Author:  Curious Hair [ Thu Jan 02, 2020 1:43 am ]
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Recently I downloaded the remastered Outlandos that fixes the warble in the beginning of "Roxanne." It's so weird to hear it as it was meant to be heard without the pitch shift.

I love the beginning of Ghost in the Machine but lose interest after "Invisible Sun." Upon further consideration, I'd call it a three-way tie on Outlandos/Zenyatta/Synchronicity, then Ghost in the Machine, then Reggatta de Blanc.
Author:  MongoMuller [ Thu Jan 02, 2020 5:00 am ]
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Barney Miller Theme - Chuck Berghofer
Author:  badrogue17 [ Thu Jan 02, 2020 5:46 am ]
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Curious Hair wrote:
Synchronicity is about two-thirds classic and one-third crap.


:lol: :lol: While the math doesn’t work out perfectly the 2 songs Sting didn’t write certainly are the main contributors towards the 1/3 crap .
Author:  Jaw Breaker [ Thu Jan 02, 2020 8:07 am ]
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Curious Hair wrote:
Zenyatta Mondatta has to be the best Police album, right? For all the great songs they had, they're more or less evenly distributed; no album towers above the rest and there's not a terrible one, either. It's that or Outlandos d'Amour, which is diamond-solid (more than rock-solid, you see) up through "Truth Hits Everybody" and then falls off a cliff. Synchronicity is about two-thirds classic and one-third crap.


I still hold a grudge that Behind My Camel beat YYZ for the Grammy that year.
Author:  Curious Hair [ Thu Jan 02, 2020 9:02 am ]
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badrogue17 wrote:
Curious Hair wrote:
Synchronicity is about two-thirds classic and one-third crap.


:lol: :lol: While the math doesn’t work out perfectly the 2 songs Sting didn’t write certainly are the main contributors towards the 1/3 crap .

Is "Mother" the worst song on a canonical album? Could be. That or "Dr. Robert."
Author:  Frank Coztansa [ Thu Jan 02, 2020 9:16 am ]
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Dignified Rube wrote:
Frank Coztansa wrote:
Dignified Rube wrote:
Thank You - Led Zeppelin (Honorable Mention)
John Paul Jones played organ on that song.
And bass. On Stairway JPJ played bass, too, along with the mellotron. Very well I might add.
'Thank You' isn't even his best performance on that album. 'Ramble On' is, possibly 'What Is And What Should Never Be'.


Telegram Sam wrote:
"We've Gotta Get Out of This Place" - The Animals
Great bass line. Very fun to play. I'll list some of the ones I enjoyed playing the most back when I played a ton of bass;

'Disco Inferno'
'Will It Go Round In Circles'
'Got A Line On You'
'Gretzky' and 'Taller' (both Darkside/B51 originals)
'Twilight Zone'
'Sonic Reducer'
'I Loved You More Today Than Yesterday'
'Riding The Storm Out'


A couple of my favorites are;
'Crossroads' - Cream
'Dazed and Confused' - Led-Zeppelin
'Jeremy' -Pearl Jam
Author:  badrogue17 [ Thu Jan 02, 2020 9:25 am ]
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You Can’t Get What You Want - Joe Jackson ( Graham Maby on bass)

Mayor of Simpleton XTC ( Colin Moulding)

Rio- Duran Duran ( John Taylor )

Every Kind of People - Robert Palmer ( Bob Babbitt )
Author:  GoldenJet [ Thu Jan 02, 2020 9:28 am ]
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Curious Hair wrote:
Recently I downloaded the remastered Outlandos that fixes the warble in the beginning of "Roxanne." It's so weird to hear it as it was meant to be heard without the pitch shift.

I love the beginning of Ghost in the Machine but lose interest after "Invisible Sun." Upon further consideration, I'd call it a three-way tie on Outlandos/Zenyatta/Synchronicity, then Ghost in the Machine, then Reggatta de Blanc.


I saw them pre-Synchronicity at Alpine Valley. One of the best shows I've ever seen. They totally blew me away.

I really didn't like Synchronicity. They had become a huge band and the album just felt over the top. I saw them at Comiskey and fell out of love with them that day.
Author:  pittmike [ Thu Jan 02, 2020 10:07 am ]
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I love the Police. As others have said not every LP is all great songs and certainly that is true of Synchronicity. I really feel though they stopped at exactly the right time. The only Sting possibility to be a Police record was Dream of the Blue Turtles.
Author:  sjboyd0137 [ Thu Jan 02, 2020 10:13 am ]
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Is there a band in existence where every album was, front to back, awesome? I feel like everyone comes up with some clunkers here and there.
Author:  Frank Coztansa [ Thu Jan 02, 2020 10:15 am ]
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Blind Faith, but they only put out one record.
Author:  sjboyd0137 [ Thu Jan 02, 2020 10:16 am ]
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Frank Coztansa wrote:
Blind Faith, but they only put out one record.


Ugh
Author:  pittmike [ Thu Jan 02, 2020 10:16 am ]
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sjboyd0137 wrote:
Is there a band in existence where every album was, front to back, awesome? I feel like everyone comes up with some clunkers here and there.


Not every one but there are a few bands (normally the hall of famers or whatever status you wish to give) that have 3 record run of almost perfect. Example for me Springsteen: BTR, Darkness and the River.
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