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The Eagles Greatest Hits Volume Two.

My first Zep album was Physical Graffiti... For me, nostalgically, nothing tops that one.. But for an easy 'in' I'd say start with either II or IV, they're the most familiar to the casual radio listener. But, once you start, you'll want them all, like everyone's saying, so just start!

Hendrix didn't write the song, but he did do what is most likely the version people think of first.. Myself, I really enjoy Robert Plant's version as well off his last album.. Anyway, thought this might be interesting, it's from this site. There are good reasons to study the song "Hey Joe". As Lester Bangs said, for a few years in the 1960's everybody and his ...brother not only recorded but claimed to have written" "Hey Joe". Between 1966 and 1969 countless rockbands included the song in their repertoire because of it's catchy, continuous cord progression, not to mention the machismo of its text. Dave Marsh suggests another reason to study "Hey Joe": the song "probably fit the academic definition of the folk process better than any rock and roll song." Anyone who wants to see how a song can come to belong to everyone - and no one - as it travels from artist to artist. To post - World War II Americans the name "Joe"seemed to represent everyman. A typical male was an "average Joe"; a decent fellow was "a good Joe". "Hey Joe"is a crime ballad with a question and answer format. It depicts a series of encouters between the singer and Joe: each verse consisted of a single couplet, like: Hey Joe, where you going with that money in your hand? Chasin' my woman, she run off with another man. The harmonic accompaniment to these words consists of the same four-measure major-chord progression under each line F-C-G-D-A.

Wow, and all this time I thought that was a Kemper Van Beethoven original.. Who, incidentally are now known as Cracker......

No, it makes perfect sense, Keith made that joke, and then Robert Plant said they should spell it Led instead of Lead because otherwise us "bloody Americans" would mispronounce it and not get the joke.

Billy Joel and Sarah McLachlan get my vote.

Marillion offers a "crash course" CD sampler free to anyone who asks for it, how can you go wrong with that? They even just updated it to include two songs off their brand new album that isn't even in shops yet! If you like Rush, Genesis, Yes, Floyd, Beatles, Radiohead, U2, you'd definitely like these guys. Give it a try, you've got nothing to lose! Click here for the cd.

Bonham helped create a great sound with Zeppelin, no denying that, but he would've gone nowhere if it weren't for Keith Moon's influence. Neil Peart is very fast, and very technically flawless, but I just end up bored by him most times.. I prefer Manu Katche, who drums for Peter Gabriel, and Ian Mosely of Marillion when I want to listen to good percussion. I'm not a big fan of just fast and tight, I'd rather listen to a darn good beat with a good amount of flair and ghosted notes...

Here I thought they just wrote a super-silly song.. I think looking for meaning in that song is a bit of a stretch, but that's just me.

Sounds like a tiggeriffic idea to me.

The original Tubular Bells album was released in 1973, and pretty much singlehandedly launched Virgin Records as an international label.

I'm actually not sure at all that there's no band named Tubular Bells, but I'd be willing to put alot of money on it.. They'd likely have to have paid a bit of royalties to Mike Oldfield to use the name, as his song was rather famous.. Wasn't it used in Clockwork Orange?

Why do people always say that? I thought the point of PUNK was anti-establishment... The idea of rock was just to have fun! Besides, what does the origin of rock have to do with the origin of hip-hop? They're very different cultures.

Tubular Bells was a song by Mike Oldfield.. Not a group.

I'd tend to agree with that one. I don't use the artist search all that much, but when I have, I've often been a little grumpy about it too.

Chaff asked me privately for references, just out of curiousity, and I was going to reply, but then thought maybe others would like to read this stuff too.. I know I found alot more interesting stuff than what I was looking for! http://www.floydianslip.com/discs/wywh.htm http://www.sydbarrett.net/subpages/articles/wish_you_were_here_mojo.htm on that one, it's an interesting read all the way through, but for what we're discussing, check out the second to last paragraph in the right column. And, to back up what Chaff was saying, go here: http://home.mchsi.com/%7Ettint/Intro.html The last paragraph before he gets into the song by song breakdown mentions that some of the Wall was influenced by Syd.. So, with just a quick look around (I by no means did much looking) it looks like we're both right, The Wall and Wish You Were Here are both in some sense or another dedicated to Syd Barret. Hope ya'll find something interesting here!

I'm not trying to argue that the Wall could be about Syd. I've never heard that, always heard it was about Waters' father, but who knows... But, I will say that I too have heard and read interviews with the band, and the album "Wish you were here" is specifically about Syd. It was written shortly after he was committed to an asylum. Incidentally, Wish you were here came out before the Wall. And, just as an amusing side note, Have a Cigar, one of the songs on regular rotation for most classic rock stations, is off of Wish You Were Here, and is the only Floyd song not sung by one of their members. It was sung by Roy Harper who happened to be recording nearby.

And, it's the album and title track "Wish you were here" that is about Syd, not Comfortably Numb, or Is there anybody out there.. Which are two different songs, by the way.

Actually Tim Burton had nothing to do with Batman and Robin, that was Joel Schumacher.

Incidentally, Patty Smythe also sang on the Hooters hit single "Where do the children go?"

Is this a trick question? Are all the names artists who appear on the album? Or are they just names.....

Maybe, but Gahan doesn't really write the songs, does he? It's all about Martin Gore..

I proudly wear my songfacts T-shirt quite often, and get lots of questions about it! Just do the quiz, Floydman, these guys are clever, but it's not impossible! ::

Sounds like you are into progressive rock.. You should take a listen to Marillion.. What Rush and Yes do you like, specifically? Old, classic stuff, or the newer, more pop stuff? Marillion from '81 to '87 were very much like classic Yes, and Genesis wrapped up in one.. They actually opened for Rush on one of their American tours, back in '85 I think it was.. Great stuff! www.marillion.com