What song are you listening to?

Even kookier, the Melanie track inspired/was ripped off for this '76 UK No. 1 single -

the more I listen I wonder what the hell everyone was so happy about in the 80's
and what the hell was everyone so depressed about in the 90s?

The 80s were great. A final guttering of the Western candle. My memories from that decade are good, although it wasn't entirely peaches n' cream.

I actually liked the 90s, too, although they were terribly generic. The 90s were a dull decade without an identity, and every decade since has been the same, only more so, as Ms. Moneypenny memorably said to Bond in OHMSS.

I'm liking the glam. It might not be the most talented but the message is right.

Recently saw a Fleetwood Mac tribute band and they played this (as well as Rooms On Fire and the collab with Tom Petty, Stop Draggin' My Heart Around).

Sarai wrote:

8 minutes!? Will listen to this tomorrow. Dig this song and really like her teaming up with Miley for the Midnight Sky mashup.

it's one of those rare magical songs you remember exactly where you were the first time you heard it

Blunt Instrument wrote:

and the collab with Tom Petty, Stop Draggin' My Heart Around).

Here she is singing backup vocals on a great live rendition of Learning to Fly.



There are very, very few people who wrote as many good songs as Tom Petty.

Stevie once said (might have been in that four hour long documentary about Petty) she was willing to leave Fleetwood Mac and begged him to join the Heartbreakers. He said, “Sorry, boys only.”

Supposedly they were incredibly close friends.

'Incredibly close' ... in other words, he probably tapped .

he is that good and while not his fault suffers from overplay

there are a handful of his songs I've heard so many times I never want to hear him again

Won't Back Down the worst

That’s fair enough.

Listening in full through an album you’ll hit some gems that never made it to radio.

I think it was last year or in 2020 the second half of Wildflowers finally got released. In some alternate universe the album got released in the 90s as a double album like originally intended and there’s probably a song or two more of his that would be somewhere on the radio all the time.

It's probably a pretty good bet the majority if not all the albums are gems.

d/l discography. delete the few over played songs and start fresh

Rare example of a great rock song in the last decade.

do you like NWA? I just put on Straight Outta Compton and it occurred to me that I can't think of any other band that hits so hard. It's a punch in the mouth.
the anger, attitude, aggression they captured is hard to match
They outpunked, out metalled, and out rocked everybody in terms of in your face attitude.

R.I.P. to the Foos' drumming powerhouse Taylor Hawkins.

For, if you praise Jah, you live, an' if you hate him, you die
You praise Jah, you live, an' if you hate him, you die