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Gonna listen to the Joan Jett and The Blackhearts version and then immediately listen to the original by Tommy James/The Shondells and decide which one I want to put on my "any/all genre" playlist.
As I do so, I will write other stuff
Been listening to "We Didn't Start The Fire" by Billy Joel nightly for the past few nights, and it seems to be even more climactic/powerful each time I listen to it. Like a Pop song that gets stuck in one's head, only instead of the "catchy-ness" being the draw, it's the energy and catharsis of listening to it that makes me want to keep coming back.
It's a tragic song, too. Like a fast checklist of relevant cultural events that were brought on by media...existing! LOL! Some were "happy" events, most were negative, undoubtedly. But all "relevant" in their own way. Cool song :)
Verdict: I will add the Joan Jett version to the playlist, because there's a fairly repetitive (nearly intolerable) part of the Tommy James version that I couldn't see listening to again and again :/ I suck for this, I know, but...whatever. The Tommy James/The Shondells version (the original) is pretty great, all the same.
Now, "The Rain The Park And Other Things" by The Cowsills is playing as I wrap up this post. I remember it as the song playing when Lloyd meets Mary in his fantasy in the movie Dumb & Dumber. Trippy/hippy song, indeed.
~bartender, I'll have a Coca-Cola, as I think they won "the Cola Wars" ;)
hope all are well
check out a.g. cook's version of crimson and clover..his usual work is far outside the genre, but he's such a fantastic producer. especially love how he did the tremolo vocals at the end. cheers!
I've written before how one of my favourite songs is Star One's "Digital Rain", not because it's a good song -- but because there's a nursery rhyme-esque repetitiveness to it that gives me enough energy to play it on loop and get things done. Mannfred Man's "Blinded By the Light" has the same effect.