Best Songs For Cruising The Strip

I snipped this from a post I made on RGP. BTW I left the late Eric Carr off of my "Best Drummers" & "Best Musicians of the 80's" lists down below.


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BTW isn't "In The City" from The Long Run album one of the greatest

songs to hear on the radio when you're driving down the deserted Strip

at 4 am on a Tuesday after a lil' 16-36 hour extravaganza at Bellagio

or the Mirage?


Other songs on that list would be:


- No Quarter(esp. cool when coming from downtown if you can time it so

the first big view of neon hits right as the song picks up during the

first chorus)

- Hey, Jude

- Comfortably Numb

- Us And Them

- Neon Knights

- You Can't Always Get What You Want (duh) /images/smile.gif

Okay, Bill, here's one nobody's ever heard of; well, you rock and roll guys might not know it anyway: "Sweet Kentucky Ham" by Dave Frishberg.


Sample lyric: "It's 6:00pm; they're rolling up the sidewalks of Milwaukee/And the only place to eat/Is just across the street/So you order up a bowl of navy bean/You know you want to quit while you're behind/Cause you've got sweet Kentucky Ham on you're mind/Nothing but seet Kentucky Ham on your mind.


Sad, plaintive, utterly convincing.


John


PS. I may have disremembered the lyrics slightly.

money for nothing - dire straits (i think)

welcome to the jungle - G'NFN'R

superstition - stevie wonder

surfing safari


little GTO


rock around the clock


great balls of fire


black denim trousers

I saw AC/DC in LV in 1996 and could not believe they didn't play it.


"Hello, Cleveland, er, Philadelphia!"

Ray-


I'm sorry, but those are all horrible songs.


Here's the list you meant to put up.


"She Sells Sanctuary" by the Cult.

"Bad Luck" by Social Distortion

"Highway to Hell" by AC/DC

"The Boxer" by Simon and Garfunkel

"Sundown" and "Carefree Highway" by Gordon Lightfoot.


hope this helps /images/smile.gif


Guy

John-


I forgot to put Chris Whitley on my list-- a glaring omission.


How's this for lyrics:


Brother's runnin' powder money

Daddy's somewhere on a drunk

In the hours

After washin'

I do my dreamin with a gun

When I come down from the country lands

I find a lesson in the draw

Ain't no secrets, in the city

It's hard living with the law.


This is the best cruising song of all time, although nobody's ever heard it. If I hit the 'Big Game' jackpot tonight (200 mil) I'm going to rent the Goodyear Blimp, buy 500,000 copies of this CD, then hook little parachutes to all of 'em and send 'em down to you philistines in Cali.. /images/smile.gif


Guy

saw em in concert once here in chicago about 2 years ago. excellent.

hot rod lincoln

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two more good ones


yours i dont know except the boxer and sundown, but wouldnt be caught dead playing them with the window open. oh, did i say its still 1968 in my mind.

If you can find a CD by the "Bad Examples" entitled "Bad is Beautiful" you are in for a cruising smorgasbord. Trust me - hunt this CD down. I play it at max volume and the opening song "Not Dead Yet" is one of the best rock n' roll tunes of all time.


Bad Examples - Bad is Beautiful

1991 Waterdog Music

Hunted down the CD - Check out the Bad Examples Fan Club on the net. You can check out the music for yourself.

Just so you know, GD, I'm a philistine from Massachusetts.


John

steely dan makes me vomit. cool if you like them. not many bands i dislike with as much vehemence.

probably youre just not old enough. i like janet jackson (well some of her songs anyway. i downloaded 'thats the way love goes', for example.) too.


maybe it just reminds me of being young.


brad

i like plenty of classic rock, just steely dan blows goats. (janet jackson aint my thing either...)

you have to be old enough to have heard it playing in the background somewhere when you were really really excited because you thought you might be close to getting laid. (classical conditioning, i think)


brad

i'm not a great fan of steely dan either, but it's a time and place specific song. a good fantasy background. like the eagles 'take it easy' driving through the southwestern desert.

the reality of the strip is more fitting to jimi hendrix 'crosstown traffic' or better yet, black sabbath 'paranoid'


aaron

now you're talkin!!


i can't believe I didn't come up with those!!

I believe they shot the videoclip there too.

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"Luck be a Lady Tonight" - Frank Sinatra


"Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground" - Blind Willie Johnson


"Sweet Jane" - Loe Reed


"Yer Blues" - The Beatles


"Boogie Chillun" - John Lee Hooker


"Mannish Boy" - Muddy Waters


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Good Luck


Howard