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Late Night Musical Interlude Open Thread

by Anne Laurie|  April 2, 202011:40 pm| 48 Comments

This post is in: Music, Open Threads

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Gordon Lightfoot, at the age of 81, is still touring (although that’s been postponed for the moment, of course). An inspiration to us all!

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YouTube’s right-hand list ‘suggested’ this, as something that might be enjoyed by someone listening to Leonard Cohen’s You Want It Darker… which I guess makes sense, to an algorithm:

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  1. 1.

    Mnemosyne

    April 2, 2020 at 11:48 pm

    There’s been kind of a fun meme on Facebook saying that the #1 song of the year when you were 12 years old is your quarantine song. This is mine:

    https://youtu.be/EPOIS5taqA8

  2. 2.

    burnspbesq

    April 2, 2020 at 11:56 pm

    My favorite Fountains of Wayne song, from what turned out to be their last album. R.I.P.

    https://youtu.be/NcGpsxmo-AE

  3. 3.

    Another Scott

    April 2, 2020 at 11:58 pm

    @Mnemosyne: You shouldn’t have gone there…

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDPMmaHWj1I (2:58)

    Hehe.  :-)

    Rest easy, everyone.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  4. 4.

    scav

    April 2, 2020 at 11:59 pm

    @Mnemosyne: If that is true, I may need to go rogue.

  5. 5.

    burnspbesq

    April 3, 2020 at 12:02 am

    @Mnemosyne:

    ugh. It’s not “Respect” or “Light My Fire,” or even “The Letter.”

    Nope.

    ”To Sir With Love.”

    ?

     

  6. 6.

    debbie

    April 3, 2020 at 12:05 am

    @Mnemosyne:

    Huh. Guess I was an early adopter of mopiness.

  7. 7.

    Another Scott

    April 3, 2020 at 12:05 am

    How Hillary's Superdelegates Caused the Pandemic

    by H. A. Goodman

    — New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) April 3, 2020

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  8. 8.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    April 3, 2020 at 12:11 am

    @Mnemosyne: 1) I thought it was the year you were born?

    2) what do you do, just google number one song, a hundred years ago

    ETA: My birth year song is Ode to Billie Joe, which I’m okay with, my 12th birthday song is My Sharona, which… could be worse.

  9. 9.

    Amir Khalid

    April 3, 2020 at 12:25 am

    @Another Scott:

    Is that tiresome loon HA Goodman still out there posting his harangues?

  10. 10.

    Amir Khalid

    April 3, 2020 at 12:32 am

    Top song of 1973 was Tie A Yellow Ribbon ‘Round The Old Oak Tree. It’s not among my favourites, but I understand it’s why the released Tehran hostages were welcomed home in 1981with yellow ribbons tied around trees and stuff.

  11. 11.

    Major Major Major Major

    April 3, 2020 at 12:32 am

    I’m sitting here in my ok apartment in midtown, cat sleeping peacefully, radiator rattling contentedly, and it’s so weird to absolutely know that things are going to be very bad very soon outside.

  12. 12.

    Major Major Major Major

    April 3, 2020 at 12:35 am

    My mother knew this and she runs *several* Facebook pages about UFOs. https://t.co/dHZJZxkGbZ

    — Geraldine (@everywhereist) April 3, 2020

  13. 13.

    different-church-lady

    April 3, 2020 at 12:36 am

    Ellis Marsalis and Bucky Pizzarelli have both been claimed by the Corona-Reaper.

  14. 14.

    Anne Laurie

    April 3, 2020 at 12:37 am

    @Amir Khalid: Is that tiresome loon HA Goodman still out there posting his harangues?

    Probably, but I think the NYTimes Pitchbot is a satire tweet-site.

  15. 15.

    different-church-lady

    April 3, 2020 at 12:38 am

    @Anne Laurie: Poe’s Law.

  16. 16.

    Citizen Alan

    April 3, 2020 at 12:39 am

    @Mnemosyne:  I got Jessie’s Girl, which is a vast improvement over the #1 song on the day I was actually born — In The Year 2525.

  17. 17.

    Mike in NC

    April 3, 2020 at 12:40 am

    Currently watching a Canadian movie called “The Decline” about feuding Survivalists on Netflix. Odd how we’ve heard very little in the media about real-life Survivalists and Doomsday Preppers. They must be ecstatic these days, with all those guns and gold coins buried in their backyards.

  18. 18.

    Adam L Silverman

    April 3, 2020 at 12:42 am

    @Major Major Major Major: You know what you did!//

  19. 19.

    Adam L Silverman

    April 3, 2020 at 12:43 am

    @Another Scott: @Amir Khalid: @Anne Laurie: NYTimes Pitchbot is DougJ’s twitter account.

  20. 20.

    Origuy

    April 3, 2020 at 12:44 am

    On my 12th birthday, the top song was “Hey, Jude”. Not bad.

  21. 21.

    Anne Laurie

    April 3, 2020 at 12:55 am

    @Adam L Silverman: Nobody tells me anything!

  22. 22.

    Another Scott

    April 3, 2020 at 12:59 am

    @Adam L Silverman: Um, yeah, it says so in the tagline.

    rofl.  :-)

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  23. 23.

    CaseyL

    April 3, 2020 at 1:02 am

    Mine is Hey, Jude, which isn’t bad.

    #1 song in the year of my birth was Heartbreak Hotel. Also not bad.

    (These are Billboard choices.  Is Billboard considered definitive?)

  24. 24.

    joel hanes

    April 3, 2020 at 1:05 am

     

    Rewritten :

    Oh.  On your twefth birthday.

    For me that’s  Manfred Mann’s Doo-Wah Diddy Diddy

    Six early Beatles #1 songs that year.

  25. 25.

    Jackie

    April 3, 2020 at 1:08 am

    The year I was born: Davy Crockett. When I was 12: Groovin. ?

  26. 26.

    Yutsano

    April 3, 2020 at 1:09 am

    @Mnemosyne:
    Okay we can play this game…

    TBH I expected much worse.

  27. 27.

    SectionH

    April 3, 2020 at 1:23 am

    12? Beats “the yr you were born”. I mean, I srsly didn’t care about music when I was born. And no, I’ve never posted anything like a real answer anywhere before.

    This was #1 when I was 12. I was still all about ballet and classical music then. A year later… heh. And heh, I still listened to more than half of That song when I went looking for the YouTube link.

  28. 28.

    divF

    April 3, 2020 at 1:24 am

    @burnspbesq: I did better.

  29. 29.

    prostratedragon

    April 3, 2020 at 1:29 am

    1964 was a pop/rock explosion year. Since this is America, experience of the number one song varied by who was asking. There were “I Wanna Hold Your Hand” and “Where Did Our Love Go?” —you can guess that breakdown. Intersectionality was represented by “Oh Pretty Woman.”

  30. 30.

    Rusty

    April 3, 2020 at 1:37 am

    Rod Stuart, Tonight’s the Night (It’s Gonna Be All Right).  Not a great song, but the title is reassuring during a pandemic.

  31. 31.

    frosty

    April 3, 2020 at 1:41 am

    @Citizen Alan: Both of those were better than mine: “Too Young” by Nat King Cole, and “Sugar Shack”. One year before the Beatles. OTOH, the R&B and Country #1 for birth year were good: “Sixty-Minute Man” and “Cold Cold Heart” … there’s a pair for you!

  32. 32.

    delk

    April 3, 2020 at 1:58 am

    (You’re) Having My Baby

    though to be honest by 12 I knew this wasn’t ever going to happen.

  33. 33.

    piratedan

    April 3, 2020 at 2:15 am

    @burnspbesq: mine was this one…

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp9i3zm_64A&list=RDEMyncnYEkOCIwcX7aI2WVOCw&index=23

     

    Gonna miss these guys, like most power pop guys that knew what they were doing, seriously underrated…

  34. 34.

    NotMax

    April 3, 2020 at 2:18 am

    Sabbath music: The Ch-ch-ch-cholent Song.

    :)

    Oldies but goodies: 1980s music, 1930s style

    Flashmob* Ode to Joy
    *a phenomenon we won't be seeing for quite a while

    A forcetissimo rendition.

    Harp trek.

  35. 35.

    Mary G

    April 3, 2020 at 2:24 am

    Did these both on Twitter – 16 Tons by Tennessee Ernie Ford was #1 on my DOB and The Byrds’ Turn Turn Turn was #1 on my 12th birthday

    OT This article Parenting in a pandemic: Chaos, control, and an Animal Crossing meltdown is by the daughter of a loved and lost jackal.

  36. 36.

    NotMax

    April 3, 2020 at 2:24 am

    Never a hit, yet in 1963 and into 1964 every place I found myself in which had a jukebox sooner or later played this.

    I’m rough
    I’m tough
    Don’t take no guff
    .

  37. 37.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    April 3, 2020 at 2:33 am

    @Mnemosyne:  NOOOOOOOO!

    (Looks up 3rd week of January, “American Pie”….ARRRG!)

  38. 38.

    joel hanes

    April 3, 2020 at 2:36 am

    I’m going to have to reject the premise

    This is my quarantine song :
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZFhnzTriqU

    I know it’s all broken
    …
    Is it well, is it hell, can anyone even tell ?

    All I ever wonder
    Will we make it through ?

  39. 39.

    NotMax

    April 3, 2020 at 2:45 am

    @BillinGlendaleCA

    You lucked out somewhat. “American Pie” replaced Melanie’s “Brand New Key” as #1.

    ;)

  40. 40.

    James E Powell

    April 3, 2020 at 2:47 am

    Billboard has “To Sir, With Love” and Cashbox has “The Letter” . There are a lot of really great songs in the top 100. On my 12th birthday, it was “Happy Together.”

    It was a damn good year for albums.  If I were going to be stuck in isolation with the music from one year, this would not be a bad year to choose.

  41. 41.

    NotMax

    April 3, 2020 at 3:01 am

    @James E Powell

    ’67 was an… eclectic year, what with the #1s running from Frank Sinatra to The Monkees, from Tom Jones to The Temptations

    ;)

  42. 42.

    frosty

    April 3, 2020 at 3:16 am

    @Mary G:

    Nice pair of songs!

  43. 43.

    frosty

    April 3, 2020 at 3:21 am

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Oh, do we have to look up the actual week of the 12th birthday, not just #1 for the year?

    … still Sugar Shack, dammit! But at least it wasn’t Dominque. One year later and the Beatles hit the airwaves and everything changed. That’s what I remember growing up. All of a sudden our hair was too short!

  44. 44.

    NotMax

    April 3, 2020 at 3:32 am

    @frosty

    And looking back now, theirs wasn’t all that long.

    ;)

  45. 45.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    April 3, 2020 at 3:33 am

    @NotMax: “Missed it my that much…”

  46. 46.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    April 3, 2020 at 3:34 am

    @frosty: The song for the actual week of my 12th b-day is much better than the year.

  47. 47.

    PST

    April 3, 2020 at 5:28 am

    Week of my 12th:

    Yesterday
    All my troubles seemed so far away
    Now it looks as though they’re here to stay
    Oh, I believe in yesterday

    Also a week with Hang on Sloopy, Do You Believe in Magic?, Eve of Destruction, and Liar Liar by the Castaways, all of which seem evocative.

  48. 48.

    Uncle Cosmo

    April 3, 2020 at 8:40 am

    Another Scott: Ran across this Cole tweet in the replies to that:

    John Cole @Johngcole 10h

    I found an unopened container of yogurt in my fridge that says best by 5 february and that is useless information I don’t need “best by” what I need is a “lethal after” date

    Hoo coulda node that Cole & I were blood-brothers in thoughtcrime?? :^D

    Also, the #1 song the year of my 12th berfday was “Are You Lonesome Tonight?” After 14 days of self-imposed hermitage, I can state with great confidence that the answer is NO – I don’t miss most of you at all.

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