Day #24 of the 30 Day Song Challenge
Aug. 27th, 2020 05:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatDay 24 of the 30 Day Song Challenge - a song by a band that you wish were still together..
There so many. I guess the operative bit would be that it's impossible for them to get back together? Also, some bands really seemed to be more about the front man than anything else. And had run their course - I may miss them, but I'm not sure there's much juice left.
People have already posted a lot of songs by The Who, who I adore. I actually met Roger Daltry during a marketing event. And got to see him reunite with a manager or band player he had a major falling out with. I also got a lot of inside intell on the Who by their friend and marketing manager rep, Martin Lewis. I don't remember any of it, by the way. And I found him less impressive in person. Actually the only member of The Who that impresses me is Eric Clapton, who created even better music post Who.
Feel somewhat the same way about the Runaways and the Doors. I thought about the Doors - but really that was just Jim Morrison.
Okay enough of that.
I'm going with...a band that I felt everyone gelled perfectly together and was insanely versatile - as this song proves.
And..mainly because it's a happy tune and makes me smile, and I kind of want to smile at the moment. Whether it really fits the rules of the meme or not? Eh. I'll let you decide.
There so many. I guess the operative bit would be that it's impossible for them to get back together? Also, some bands really seemed to be more about the front man than anything else. And had run their course - I may miss them, but I'm not sure there's much juice left.
People have already posted a lot of songs by The Who, who I adore. I actually met Roger Daltry during a marketing event. And got to see him reunite with a manager or band player he had a major falling out with. I also got a lot of inside intell on the Who by their friend and marketing manager rep, Martin Lewis. I don't remember any of it, by the way. And I found him less impressive in person. Actually the only member of The Who that impresses me is Eric Clapton, who created even better music post Who.
Feel somewhat the same way about the Runaways and the Doors. I thought about the Doors - but really that was just Jim Morrison.
Okay enough of that.
I'm going with...a band that I felt everyone gelled perfectly together and was insanely versatile - as this song proves.
And..mainly because it's a happy tune and makes me smile, and I kind of want to smile at the moment. Whether it really fits the rules of the meme or not? Eh. I'll let you decide.
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Date: 2020-08-28 11:08 pm (UTC)But...
This kind of falls into the category in which the band is mainly the frontman or frontwoman in this case...the rest of the band doesn't really matter that much as far as I can tell. I fell somewhat the same way about The Who and The Rolling Stones, to be honest - which are really just one or two people, and the others...eh.
With the Beatles you have four people really making the music, and adding to it - each of them wrote and participated.
But I'm not sure it matters if a band breaks up - if it's really just the front man? I mean no one really misses Queen - they miss Freddy Mercury. And no one really misses The Doors - they miss Jim Morrison. Same with Nirvana - it's really just the front man.
I thought about the Cranberries - but it's really just the one singer, the front-man, I miss.
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Date: 2020-08-29 01:20 am (UTC)For The Who: they weren't just Daltrey on vocals and Townshend on guitar; the rhythm section of Entwistle (on bass) and Moon (drums) were a key part of their sound.
The Stones aren't really the Stones without Charlie Watts on drums; and I miss John Deacon on bass for Queen almost (almost) as much as I miss Freddie. (Deacon wrote both "Another One Bites the Dust" and "You're My Best Friend.")
Renaissance, in its classic 70s incarnation, was a five person band with Annie out front. All five members wrote music, especially on long form cuts like "Scheherezade." Yeah, now it's Annie and a Buncha New Guys, but that wasn't always the case.
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Date: 2020-08-29 02:11 am (UTC)And Renaissance - I listened to it? Any band could have played with her, there's nothing distinctive there. Nor is the song that distinctive - I've listened to a lot that sound like it - the only thing distinctive in that was the woman's voice. Similar to the Doors and Queen. (I know I tried to listen to Queen with Adam Lambert...ugh or without Mercury. Ugh.)
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Date: 2020-08-29 02:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-08-29 02:24 pm (UTC)Actually ironically, that was my major takeaway from the movie that Queen's remaining band members produced.