I can’t stand Rush. I never liked them and never will, so I can’t really say I’ve “had” it with them.
My college room mate played “Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys” over and over. I can not listen to it to this day. I’m 64.
The summer I was 16, I thought Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” was the greatest piece of music ever made, and starting a couple years later, I cannot stand to listen to any of it. This may have been in part because it was a very difficult time of my life, which included the biggest betrayal I’ve had to date.
Thanks to this thread, I went and bought Eo17. I thank you, and Stevie thanks you.
Also thanks to this thread, I learned about analog guitar delay devices. I don’t know how I never heard of them, but I hadn’t. And considering how many songs must use them, that’s a large hole of ignorance.
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Dang. And all this time I thought it was “the ONE-winged dove.” I always imagined this poor bird flapping around in a circle.
Now you know how easy it is to have had it with it!
To make it up to you, try a little of this (Stevie covers some Tom Petty).
Me, too. I still hear it that way.
Interesting that the title itself is a mondegreen. Tom Petty’s wife was telling Stevie that they met at the “age of seventeen”, but her accent made it come out sounding like “edge”.
My boss has a very strict “NO U2 IN THE KITCHEN!” rule.
:o I LOVE that song. LOVE.
Do “JACK” or “Mix Hits” (those are the terms I recall) stations still exist? There was a type of station that played the “hits of the 80s, 90s, and today.”
Eminem is all over the radio where I live. His early stuff gets play on classic Hip-Hop AND Alternative rock stations (they also like the Beasties… hmm).
I haven’t heard “Baby Got Back” lately, but my local classic Hip-Hop station even plays Vanilla Ice and they are heavy on pop hits like Heavy D, so I’m surprised I haven’t heard any Sir Mix-A-Lot or Hammer. They also have a good mix of stuff that didn’t crossover but is familiar to fans of the genre.
These stations don’t exist in Chicago. Even Peoria in downstate Illinois has stations that play this music, though. I listen to them when I visit my parents.
There was one that would come on between here and NYC, probably in Mass. Yeah, that was a good one – a lot of variety.
Ah yes, another song about rock stars fucking teenage groupees.
“Edge of 17” would be 16 then. Or maybe 15 if they look older. Kinda like the Beatles song “She was just 17, if you know what I mean”, which means she wasn’t 17 yet.
Then again Paul was, what, 19 when he wrote it? In which case it’s entirely appropriate if he meant she IS 17 and, shall we say, is rarin’ ta go.
When Tiffany remade it, she sang, “He was just 17…” but then again, so was she.
Minor update: I’m kinda wrong about Edge of Seventeen’s delay-based guitar riff not being exhausting. I was being a guitar geek online (shocking I know) and watched an interview of Waddy Wachtel the guitarist who played it. He commented that, yeah, it could get exhausting tracking with the delay, esp when on tour and Stevie would use it as her opener - Waddy might be playing for six minutes before she even came on stage, let alone making it through the song. I can’t imagine; I would have to find a Zen place where I could just zone out while locked into the groove. And playing the next song after that would be brutal.
You don’t mean to tell me that Stevie Nicks would try to make a grand entrance on her own time
I’m reveling - reveling, I tell you - in the Bob Seger hate. “Turn the Page” is a particularly loathsome example of the “Man, it sucks to be a famous rock star” genre.
Go be a Walmart greeter, and shut the fuck up.
Me - I do the Micheal O’Donohue route, but instead of through the eyes, I just plunge those 18" suckers deep into both ears.
Nothing gave me greater masochistic glee back in the 80’s than going “Pour, some sugar on meeeeeah.”
Or “fa-fa-fa-foo-ooo-li-i-in…uuuhhh-a fa-fa-fa-foo-ooo-li-i-in.”
Again - more 80’s hideousness, expanding my repetoire to “heard it from a friend who-o-o-o X 2, heard it from another you’ve been messin arou-ou-ound…They say ya got a boy-frie-eh-end…You’re out late every week-eh-eh-end…They’re talkin about ya and it’s bringing me do-ow-own.”
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(slight derail) Played this for non-Rush fans - some liked, some didn’t. Usually it’s Geddy’s high voice that’s the source of dislike, but here it stays in a lower register:
Jacob’s Ladder