The Swamp

rass wrote:I feel that brian generally underestimates in his "I don't care if only X people get this reference" posts, but he included me this time, so YEAH!


Sirius/XM did a pretty good job of expanding the playlist a bit this summer (though I'm not really a fan of Chuck E's In Love).

EnochRoot wrote:why am I a giant question mark?

Gunpowder wrote:This series is awesome, if you have an hour or so.

Shirley wrote:

Gunpowder wrote:This series is awesome, if you have an hour or so.

I've only watched a couple, but I'd agree that it's pretty awesome. Much better than the music (although I do like me some Steely Dan).

brian wrote:

EnochRoot wrote:why am I a giant question mark?

In the "Back Again" thread. You need to re-load your avatar. Dave/Shirley had to do some fixing up around here.

EnochRoot wrote:Dig deeper and you unearth gems like Steve Forbert. You can also stay on the surface and appreciate the depths of guys like Al Stewart. The Year of the Cat is freaking brilliant, yet so are On the Border and Flying Sorcery...

howard wrote:Yeah, Year of the Cat is amazing. You can hear the Alan Parsons' in the production.
Go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre; Contemplating a crime

On a morning from a Bogart movie
In a country where they turn back time
You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre
Contemplating a crime
She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running
Like a watercolor in the rain
Don't bother asking for explanations
She'll just tell you that she came
In the year of the cat

She doesn't give you time for questions
As she locks up your arm in hers
And you follow 'till your sense of which direction
Completely disappears
By the blue tiled walls near the market stalls
There's a hidden door she leads you to
These days, she says, I feel my life
Just like a river running through
The year of the cat

While she looks at you so cooly
And her eyes shine like the moon in the sea
She comes in incense and patchouli
So you take her, to find what's waiting inside
The year of the cat

Well morning comes and you're still with her
And the bus and the tourists are gone
And you've thrown away your choice you've lost your ticket
So you have to stay on
But the drum-beat strains of the night remain
In the rhythm of the new-born day
You know sometime you're bound to leave her
But for now you're going to stay
In the year of the cat

sancarlos wrote:When I think of Yacht Rock (btw, I got the reference too, Brian), I don't include Bob Welch or Steve Forbert. The former too bluesy, the latter too folky. For me the classic example of yacht rock would be Christopher Cross. Also, Kenny Loggins and the Michael McDonald songs of the Doobies. Al Stewart for sure.

I'm not a fan of yacht rock, fwiw.

brian wrote:That would be what a fool believes.

brian wrote:No one made him wear Houston Oilers jerseys on TV though.

Giff wrote:

brian wrote:No one made him wear Houston Oilers jerseys on TV though.

Great fucking look.

rass wrote:WTF with the drive-by on Hornsby (and the Range) in the Yacht Rock thread?

govmentchedda wrote:Hornsby's cover of Black Muddy River on Day of the Dead is fantastic as well.

govmentchedda wrote:Hornsby's cover of Black Muddy River on Day of the Dead is fantastic as well.

String up Pruitt!

DaveInSeattle wrote:

govmentchedda wrote:Hornsby's cover of Black Muddy River on Day of the Dead is fantastic as well.

I saw Hornsby sit in with the Dead after Brent Mydland died. He was a pretty good fit.