OT: Watcha Listenin' To? Part VIII: All I Wanted was a Pepsi

[Rebels57]

Thanks good to know. I have listened to XPN in the past and didn't like much of it. I will have to give it another try.

XPN is f***ing spectacular. You just have to listen at the right time, because they will dedicate certain parts of the day/week to different programming. For example, Friday nights is Funky Friday starting at 6 PM so if you don't like Funk/Soul music and tuned in at that time, then you might come away thinking it's not the station for you. The majority of the week though is dedicated to just excellent music from every decade, all genres, without minimal commercials, and no Top 40 garbage.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

@Captain Dave Poulin “Bat Out of Hell” kind of night.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

@Captain Dave Poulin “Bat Out of Hell” kind of night.

My favorite thing is how big old gross Meatloaf is like "I want you, I need you, but there ain't no way I'm ever gonna love you" - because he's such a player and everything.

 

[Beef Invictus]

@Captain Dave Poulin “Bat Out of Hell” kind of night.

It's a spectacular album. My favorite anecdote from it is that the piano player read a review of it where the reviewer mixed praise and criticism by saying he did a great impression of the E Street Band pianist, but tried too hard to sound like him.

Both pianists were Roy Bittan.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

It's a spectacular album. My favorite anecdote from it is that the piano player read a review of it where the reviewer mixed praise and criticism by saying he did a great impression of the E Street Band pianist, but tried too hard to sound like him.

Both pianists were Roy Bittan.

He is spectacular, never moreso than on "Jungleland."

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

My dad had his vinyl records & player still when I was a little kid. I just always remember the “Bat Out of Hell” album cover because it was just so out there compared to the others.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

My dad had his vinyl records & player still when I was a little kid. I just always remember the “Bat Out of Hell” album cover because it was just so out there compared to the others.

The one I remember that all my friends had was Kiss "Destroyer." Scared the living shit out of me.

 

[swami24]

XPN is f***ing spectacular. You just have to listen at the right time, because they will dedicate certain parts of the day/week to different programming. For example, Friday nights is Funky Friday starting at 6 PM so if you don't like Funk/Soul music and tuned in at that time, then you might come away thinking it's not the station for you. The majority of the week though is dedicated to just excellent music from every decade, all genres, without minimal commercials, and no Top 40 garbage.

Funky Fri runs 4 to 7p., and is appointment listening every week. Perfect way to end every week.

 

[Rebels57]

Funky Fri runs 4 to 7p., and is appointment listening every week. Perfect way to end every week.

Yeah my mistake, not sure why I said 6 since it's always on in my car when I get done work at 5 lol

 

[swami24]

I work 8 to 4, and now work from home on Fri, so I catch the start, with a beverage and stogie!

 

[trostol]

 

[SolidSnakeUS]

 

[trostol]

My dad had his vinyl records & player still when I was a little kid. I just always remember the “Bat Out of Hell” album cover because it was just so out there compared to the others.

would love to have that on vinyl..such a great album

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

The one I remember that all my friends had was Kiss "Destroyer." Scared the living shit out of me.

I don’t know why but this album cover scared the shit out of me when I was a little kid.

 

[trostol]

song that terrified me when i was a kid...the beginning of Fire on High

 

[MiamiScreamingEagles]

I have "Sixes and Sevens" going now but...



@BiggE

Anything the Beastie Boys can do, Robert Plant can do better. That was more or less Plant's thought process in 1988 when he was putting together the pieces of "Tall Cool One."

Two years earlier, Beastie Boys sampled three Led Zeppelin songs on their debut album, Licensed to Ill: "When the Levee Breaks," "The Ocean" and "Custard Pie." Plant took those same three songs, plus guitar parts from "Black Dog," "Whole Lotta Love" and "Dazed and Confused," and incorporated them into "Tall Cool One," which appeared on his fourth solo album, Now and Zen.

Read More: How the Beastie Boys Inspired Robert Plant's 'Tall Cool One' | How the Beastie Boys Inspired Robert Plant's 'Tall Cool One'​

 

[BiggE]

I have "Sixes and Sevens" going now but...



@BiggE

Anything the Beastie Boys can do, Robert Plant can do better. That was more or less Plant's thought process in 1988 when he was putting together the pieces of "Tall Cool One."

Two years earlier, Beastie Boys sampled three Led Zeppelin songs on their debut album, Licensed to Ill: "When the Levee Breaks," "The Ocean" and "Custard Pie." Plant took those same three songs, plus guitar parts from "Black Dog," "Whole Lotta Love" and "Dazed and Confused," and incorporated them into "Tall Cool One," which appeared on his fourth solo album, Now and Zen.

Read More: How the Beastie Boys Inspired Robert Plant's 'Tall Cool One' | How the Beastie Boys Inspired Robert Plant's 'Tall Cool One'​

I’m a big fan of Plant’s solo work. I especially like that he developed his own sound rather than trying to be Led Zep lite.

 

[wankstifier]

A song about a gato:

This one is so cool:

 

[dragonoffrost]

My favorite thing is how big old gross Meatloaf is like "I want you, I need you, but there ain't no way I'm ever gonna love you" - because he's such a player and everything.

Remember Mr Loaf was only the conduit for those songs...

Was the genius behind them and some other huge songs.

 

[Rebels57]

Its a good morning for some X-Ray Spex - arguably the first female led Punk band (either them or the recently posted Slits, depending on who you ask).

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

Remember Mr Loaf was only the conduit for those songs...

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Was the genius behind them and some other huge songs.

I know, but that guy doesn't have much of a leg to stand on either.

Its a good morning for some X-Ray Spex - arguably the first female led Punk band (either them or the recently posted Slits, depending on who you ask).

That is some good shit.

 

[dragonoffrost]

I know, but that guy doesn't have much of a leg to stand on either.



That is some good shit.

In the 70's that was high fashion

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

In the 70's that was high fashion

You don't have to tell me.

 

[Rebels57]

I know, but that guy doesn't have much of a leg to stand on either.



That is some good shit.

Hell yeah it is. The entire album is great. The lead singer Poly Styrene is a legend. She was 19 when the group formed in 76. Half Scotch-Irish and half Somalian, and the lead singer of one of the first punk bands? She rules.

 

[dragonoffrost]

You don't have to tell me.

And I learned today he wrote Making Love Out of Nothing at All for Air Supply