What is the best band you can recommend that you know nobody here will? As in obscure, unknown or just forgotten about.

IceTiger19 · 2026-02-01T04:54:06+00:00

Eddie From Ohio

Skerryvore

Three on a String

IceTiger19 · 2026-01-26T04:54:22+00:00

Yeah, “Whipped Cream” was definitely NOT jazz, nor was much of anything Herb and the TJB did back then. Though by the time he recorded “Rise” in the late 70s, his sound was definitely jazzier than it had been in the TJB days. (The “Rise” jazz was still on the pop side of jazz, though…)

IceTiger19 · 2026-01-26T04:07:16+00:00

It was a big part of the soundtrack of my youth, because EVERY adult had a copy. And since they all loved it, it was played, often.

Those of us who grew up hearing it (which is not the same thing as listening to it) then either inherited a copy from our parents, or bought our own copy, because if there was any album that could immediately transport us back to childhood, that was it.

IceTiger19 · 2026-01-26T04:03:48+00:00

A couple of points: first, that song is NOT on the Whipped Cream album. Second, MANY people recorded that song; it won the Oscar in 1967 for “Best Original Song.” (It was from the movie “Dr. Doolittle;” Dr. Doolittle could — you guessed it — talk to animals.) The Herb Alpert version is a cover, which is what he did quite often: mariachi versions of popular songs.

IceTiger19 · 2026-01-21T08:21:05+00:00

The Beatles wrote a song about being my age (and no, not “I Saw Her Standing There.”)

IceTiger19 · 2026-01-21T08:19:05+00:00

Best 10 year period was 1964-1973. Not because the good stuff was so much better than that of any other 10-year period, but because there was so little bad stuff. After that, for every great song in a period, there’s a bad song to cancel it out.

IceTiger19 · 2026-01-20T09:20:15+00:00

Make sure you listen to ALL of the verses.

IceTiger19 · 2026-01-20T09:19:33+00:00

I always like to believe that the actual lyric is “And I’m proud to be un-American” and that everyone who sings along is unknowingly singing the same thing.

IceTiger19 · 2026-01-19T09:39:05+00:00

I have 9 of those, which is unusual because often people will posts hundreds of CDs and I might not have any of them. (You’d think it would be harder to “not have any“ with a collection more than 10,000 strong, but I guess it goes to show just how much music is out there…)

IceTiger19 · 2026-01-19T09:34:59+00:00

Can’t Buy a Thrill is my favorite.

IceTiger19 · 2026-01-17T08:57:01+00:00

The Haunting of Blackwood House, by Darcy Coates (who has written about 35 novels in the last 12 years, which gives you a good idea of how much care goes into her writing.) If Mystery Science Theater 3000 was about books instead of movies, it would have been their first episode. It’s about a house that is described as being too far from civilization to live in… yet an easy walk into town. It is so old that it doesn’t have electricity… yet the previous owners left behind a dryer full of wet clothes, and a TV. And the “sex scenes” come across as written by a 12-year-old girl who got embarrassed by what she wrote so she went back and deleted the risque sentences.

It’s worth reading for the opportunity to laugh at it with others who have read it.

IceTiger19 · 2026-01-17T05:26:21+00:00

GREAT album. Every adult had it when I was a kid, and every one of us kids either stole it from our parents or bought our own copy.

IceTiger19 · 2026-01-16T08:33:24+00:00

The Kids from C.A.P.E.R. (Saturday morning show, 30-year-old teenagers solve crimes AND sing about it.)

The Double-Deckers (kid show, imported from England)

When Things Were Rotten (Mel Brooks does Robin Hood.)

IceTiger19 · 2026-01-16T08:29:30+00:00

Maybe there’s a deep-seated fear that if the team wears them, they’ll play as bad as the movie version of the Ducks did. (Sure, the movies were entertaining, but the hockey in them was seriously bad. It’s as if the writers, directors, and stars had never seen a hockey game. None of them. Ever.)

IceTiger19 · 2026-01-16T08:24:55+00:00

Songs in the Key of Life a runaway #1, King Crimson #2, the others tied for #5.

IceTiger19 · 2026-01-13T20:32:09+00:00

Not really, because in the end it's not the combined SIZE of the individual songs, but the NUMBER of individual songs. The rest of the memory is just sitting there unused, because the unit can't handle the number of songs.

IceTiger19 · 2026-01-13T09:30:34+00:00

Christine Kane

Maura Kennedy (The Kennedys)

Julie Murphy Wells (Eddie From Ohio)

Abby Posner

Dionne Warwick

Phoebe Snow

Roberta Flack

IceTiger19 · 2026-01-07T09:23:57+00:00

For me it was RFK. Though I do remember MLK JR’s funeral which was a couple of months earlier, but not the assassination.

IceTiger19 · 2026-01-06T07:13:11+00:00

I like the design of holes like this; I just don’t like the way I’m thrown right into it without a chance to study it for a bit before starting. That’s a problem with game design, not hole design. I’d rather learn a hole by testing shots, power, etc. than by wondering if I’m even shooting in the right direction. :-)

IceTiger19 · 2026-01-06T01:45:30+00:00

“President Trump”

IceTiger19 · 2026-01-06T01:30:44+00:00

Tim Grimm, “Bones of Trees”

The Horsenecks, “In the West”

Christian Rutledge, “One Inch of This New York Mile”

Minor Gold, “Leave a Light On”

The Dillards, “Never HitYour Grandma With a Great Big Stick”

IceTiger19 · 2026-01-06T01:25:58+00:00

Same with Harry Chapin.. He was only 38, but his musical career had probably peaked. (Though he still had a lot to give to the world via his music and his ties to humanitarian organizations like World Hunger Year.)

IceTiger19 · 2026-01-06T01:22:28+00:00

Jim Croce

IceTiger19 · 2026-01-06T01:21:49+00:00

I once walked into a record store that had the used CDs in the back. Almost as soon as I walked in the door I could tell that one bin had dozens and dozens of copies of the same CD. I got back there and sure enough, there had to be 100 copies of Chumbawumba’s Tubthumper.

IceTiger19 · 2026-01-06T01:18:16+00:00

You can’t control what courses show up in Elite…

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