AArdvark drops 20 favorite songs

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Thu Nov 03, 2016 5:34 pm

Because now it's trend. I don't have 'favorite' songs and I could never make a list of top 100 songs because they'd all plateau around #8 and that's that. But I do like the funny, so many of the songs I like are funny. Not all, but many. So here are (or will be) 20 songs I like.

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Thu Nov 03, 2016 5:34 pm

This is one of the funniest pieces of classical music ever. And classical isn't known for teh funny. I found this on vinyl at the HOG and still have it in my record bin.

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Thu Nov 03, 2016 5:36 pm

Doctor Demento rules! What more to say? Grew up listening to his show and this was almost always in the Funny Five.

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Thu Nov 03, 2016 5:51 pm

Well at least this video has clips from HWY in it. The best song ever. After the Soft Parade they ditched their producer and orchestra and went back to being a blues band. Which is what they were all the time. Brilliant!

Flack · Post by **Flack** » Thu Nov 03, 2016 9:39 pm

AArdvark wrote:[youtube][/youtube]

Doctor Demento rules! What more to say? Grew up listening to his show and this was almost always in the Funny Five.

That's where I heard this one too, and it's also on my phone. I think it was included on one of the Dr.'s anniversary CD collections.

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Fri Nov 04, 2016 3:34 pm

These guys did it better than the Animals. Too bad they never did anything else.

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Fri Nov 04, 2016 5:34 pm

Because Tchaikovsky used cannons in a piece of music and it was way before AC/DC did it. My mom had this big 10 record Reader's Digest collection of classical works on vinyl and I stole it away to my room where I played them over and over. now I'm all cultured and everything because of it. This was the best piece out of all of them.

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Fri Nov 04, 2016 5:47 pm

As you know, one of my best friends was a roadie for these guys on their east coast tours. This was back in the late 80's. I never liked them until I got to hang out with them at The Ritz one wild night in New York. Then I started listening harder to their music. I'm not a deadhead (god no!) but some of the music is pretty good.

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Fri Nov 04, 2016 5:54 pm

The bass in this is so hypnotic that I got dizzy the first time I heard it with headphones. Then Gilmour comes screaming in with those whammy bar power dives. Incredible stuff.

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Fri Nov 04, 2016 6:00 pm

I can't pick the best song from this album so here's the whole thing. It was either this or Who's Next.

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Fri Nov 04, 2016 6:04 pm

And now... a commercial.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Fri Nov 04, 2016 10:49 pm

AArdvark wrote:[youtube][/youtube]

The bass in this is so hypnotic that I got dizzy the first time I heard it with headphones. Then Gilmour comes screaming in with those whammy bar power dives. Incredible stuff.

Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah this was my top Pink Floyd song, and in the 105-110 range. Excellent pick.

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Sat Nov 05, 2016 6:33 pm

This one fell into the list almost by accident. I don't love country music, buuuuut....

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Sat Nov 05, 2016 6:43 pm

The epic that is Dire Straits.

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Sat Dec 03, 2016 10:35 am

I know it aint 20 but that's all folks.

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Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sat Dec 03, 2016 2:49 pm

I'm a bit behind listening to everyone's lists. You, Flack and Greg all posted at once and then I left for a week. I wish that I had your playlists for the trip, but, alas I did not. I had to listen to dubstep on the plane.

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Sat Nov 10, 2018 5:55 pm

This is the first piece of music that actually painted a picture for me. It was Halloween time in 1975 and my fourth grade music teacher played this and explained the story that the music was telling. Utterly fascinating and just a little bit spooky because I have a vivid imagination.

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Wed Nov 14, 2018 6:32 pm

Well I had this one a long time ago and I played it until my brother threw the record out the front upstairs window. Might have had the volume on my portable record player up too loud or something. There's a couple three songs that will make you want to drink Draino but back when I was small they were cool.

Oh yeah, I just remembered something. Over time a skip developed on the record so it would play:

"Me too," said Old Man Thunder.
"Me too," said Old Man Thunder.
"Me too," said Old Man Thunder.
"Me too," said Old Man Thunder.

Perhaps that's the reason why my brother flung it to the sidewalk of death.

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Fri Dec 28, 2018 3:11 pm

I had heard this great song for years on WCMF but it was one of those few that I never learned the name and artist.
Finally (this must have been around 1990) I called Dave Kane, the on-air DJ at the time and just asked him. It was that easy.

So now you know the rest of the story.

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Sat Feb 02, 2019 4:36 pm

I just noticed that in all these 100 song lists there is not one show tune

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