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Some folks in my neck of the woods have been a real pain in the ass for the last six to eight years for me and my colleagues. Serious needs-to-be-investigated stuff, and we've barely gotten started. Of course I've got a playlist that I've put together to help me through, and about half of them are good "bring it" songs.

 

Heard the one above about the time it came out and it's been a favorite ever since, but Largo is a project I'd never heard of until about four years ago. Apparently that album was one musicians everywhere raved about. Among the folks who've covered "Gimme A Stone" are Roger Daltrey and Little Feat. Pretty impressive bunch of contributing musicians, including Joan Osborne, Carole King, Taj Mahal, and Willie Nile, among others. No official video, but here's Levon Helm and David Forman seeing the Largo version, along with lots of cheesy illustrations:

What are your "bring it" songs? Bonus: I'll buy a beer at your favorite brewpub for whoever first posts the Willie Nile song I've got on my playlist.

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5 minutes ago, Hayduke said:

Bonus: I'll buy a beer at your favorite brewpub for whoever first posts the Willie Nile song I've got on my playlist.

You've only got one?

 

I'd guess something like Blood is on Your Hands, but I'm posting this song because I just like it.

 

 

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11 minutes ago, G650 said:

You've only got one?

I'd guess something like Blood is on Your Hands, but I'm posting this song because I just like it.

 

That's a bad-ass song, but not it. Thanks for posting it.  Yeah, only one song of his on that particular playlist. I'm a little old-school on playlists -- it's always stuff I own, at least digitally, and I was rather late to discover Willie Nile, so I've only got a couple of his albums.

I'm at the point of not being able to manage all my music easily, or listen to it enough. So I don't buy a lot any more, but that's an album I'm going to have to listen to thoroughly. Good stuff, @G650.

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7 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

Man, I love big American guitar rock like that.  Rabbit hole, here I come.

Yeah, I'm actually kind of worried about that, too. I don't come to this particular forum as much as I could, or would like to, and partly because of that. There's a hell of a lot of great threads on this one and I've enjoyed a few new things, but it's a little too easy just to click on a video and suddenly find my wife hollering at me from next Tuesday.

6 minutes ago, Iceman said:

How much you wanna bring?
 

See above. I don't know, but I'm probably going to be late for dinner just clicking on your links. Not much of a metal guy myself, but I can appreciate it. Sorta like IPAs for you. 

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1 hour ago, Hayduke said:

I was rather late to discover Willie Nile, so I've only got a couple of his albums

Yeah Willie was really undercover for a long time, I heard about him through guys who play in NYC, he always had a good underground following up there. Such a good songwriter 

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58 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

So, can you define a "bring it" song?

For me, it's a song about not backing down from the assholes. Persevering, standing on principle ... but much of the fun is what it means to others. I listened to all four of @Iceman's contributions above and there's less of that and a lot more Fuck You

But I think the Willie Nile song from @G650 is a little more FAFO-for-everybody vibe -- a little less in someone particular's face. But I missed some of the lyrics on my first go-round and there doesn't seem to be a good place to find them right away.

I'm sure they're out there somewhere, so I'll probably run over to evil Spotify and see if they've got 'em posted (not my streaming choice -- it's for our kids, so I got the family plan; their reliance on Spotify may be my biggest failure as a parent, but fortunately, they've got a lot more good points than bad).

 

 

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1 hour ago, G650 said:

Yeah Willie was really undercover for a long time, I heard about him through guys who play in NYC, he always had a good underground following up there. Such a good songwriter 

I was driving back home from Pardeeville on a fine Wisconsin summer afternoon when I first heard "American Ride" and thought, "who's that guy?" Been hooked ever since.

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19 minutes ago, Hayduke said:

For me, it's a song about not backing down from the assholes.

Well, you're almost begging for a clip I've posted several times, one that literally made me cry in anger and sadness when it aired live shortly after 9/11.  Petty didn't write it about 9/11, but it damn sure fit, and his anger was palpable.  The band is more subdued than I've ever seen them, the whole thing was very personal, and definitely a "bring it" moment.

 

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20 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

Well, you're almost begging for a clip I've posted several times, one that literally made me cry in anger and sadness when it aired live shortly after 9/11.  Petty didn't write it about 9/11, but it damn sure fit, and his anger was palpable.  The band is more subdued than I've ever seen them, the whole thing was very personal, and definitely a "bring it" moment.

That is indeed the obvious response and often pops up on my mental soundtrack. Interestingly enough, I thought I had it on the aforementioned playlist but don't. Adding it now.

9/11 made us hear a lot of songs differently. Bought this CD when it came out and several of those live versions still move me. Springsteen's "The Rising," too. Wonder how many albums like the latter were in response to that day.

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37 minutes ago, Rimbo said:

Not backing down from assholes?

Bringing it?

I mean... 

FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHATCHA WANNN

Never a big RATM fan, but I occasionally listen to Morello's radio show on Sirius XM and like it. My son and his buddies went to the opening session of the reunion tour for RATM three years ago. 

32 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

Well, if we're going RATM, then NWA meets that bar:

 

29 minutes ago, Da Fino said:

The first guy that called out diddy

Again stuff that's not in my normal wheelhouse, but definitely classics that I've always been aware of, and listening to them all now in this context increases my appreciation of them.

Lots of good stuff. Time to get out of the rabbit hole for a while, though.

 

 

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3 hours ago, Hayduke said:

Some folks in my neck of the woods have been a real pain in the ass for the last six to eight years for me and my colleagues.

I felt like my quad addressed the situation at hand.  People/ entities like that deserve a real FUCK YOU.

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I'm not sure I know what you're looking for but I would love to participate. 

4 hours ago, Hayduke said:

For me, it's a song about not backing down from the assholes. Persevering, standing on principle ... but much of the fun is what it means to others.

Something like this maybe?

 

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7 hours ago, ztejas said:

I'm not sure I know what you're looking for but I would love to participate. 

Something like this maybe?

 

"It's better to burn out than to fade away" is definitely in the ballpark. Maybe even standing at home plate. I've seen some interviews with Neil Young about why he wrote that; in one he talks about "fighting the corrosion," and I think a lot of folks see resistance as a theme in that song.

A great deal of music is the personal stories behind these songs, both for the musicians and the listeners. Surly posters always have great stories, and a lot of those can be told in a line or two, or maybe a paragraph or two. That's part of what I hope comes out of this. A lot of it is clearly personal interpretation -- somehow, I've never heard Lennon's "God," so I'm curious about what is going on in that one for @honolulu horn. But the lyrics in "Perseverance" are easier to link -- they are my daily life since our stuff started back in the late teens.

That kind of anger and disappointment aren't something I can allow to consume me, but I maintain a low-level, background rage that sustains fighting back while staying sane. My colleagues and I are in a unique position of being able to resist in ways that others can't. Without music it would be harder. Family, friends, finally having the Horns back where they belong ... all that stuff helps.

I know your fear of loss
And your struggles with faith
And how it takes everything that you have to face the day
The virtues you possess now bring you eternal pain
All you have is contempt for a life you can't obtain
All your heroes have failed you
Yet you try and prevail
Face your torment and dismantle your doubt
Refuse this legacy of shame and deceit
Cause the only real truth in your life that you know is hostility
Your world is coming apart
Remain steadfast
Perseverance
Against all opposition
Crushing all limitations
Pure strength through solitude
Discipline and determination
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11 hours ago, Hayduke said:

That is indeed the obvious response and often pops up on my mental soundtrack. Interestingly enough, I thought I had it on the aforementioned playlist but don't. Adding it now.

9/11 made us hear a lot of songs differently. Bought this CD when it came out and several of those live versions still move me. Springsteen's "The Rising," too. Wonder how many albums like the latter were in response to that day.

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Jagger/Richards doing Salt of the Earth on this was fire.

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5 minutes ago, Celery Man said:

You can throw me in the Colbert County jailhouse, you can throw me off the Wilson Dam, but there ain’t much difference between the man I want to be and the man who I really am.

I have a hard time listening to those guys. Most of their stuff takes me to some pretty dark places. It's a conundrum of music -- why some painful, even tragic stuff is easy to listen to over and over, yet other stuff makes me want to jump off a building.

I'll listen to "Club XIII" any time, though. And "Ugly Buildings, Whores and Politicians" is a great album name.

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This is a smooth take on the "Try to stop me and I'll still make it" theme.

"I don't worry about people in my face, I hit 'em with the style and grace and watch their ankles break"

 

 

And a throwback to "old" Austin (for me). RIP Jonny Walker.

 

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1 hour ago, gofuckyourself said:

This is a smooth take on the "Try to stop me and I'll still make it" theme.

"I don't worry about people in my face, I hit 'em with the style and grace and watch their ankles break"

 

And a throwback to "old" Austin (for me). RIP Jonny Walker.

 

Those two are a study in contrasts. Good stuff.

Hadn't heard the name Soulhat in a long time, but I left Texas right around the end of their heyday. "A song for my mother ... " -- the lyrics are a hoot:

I got a Ph.D. in knife fighting and saying fuck, yeah ... Got a big long middle finger, shaped just like a ball-peen hammer.

 

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Hayduke, great thread and I will say a little about the songs I chose because you so foolishly asked. 
 

Shut Em Down is pretty easy, as would have been Fight the Power, Party for your Right to Fight, Can’t Truss It, or so many PE songs. Easy to understand why they were adamant about staying strong in the face of everything facing Black people in this country. 
 

Hatebreed is easy, no comment. 
 

Hornet’s Nest is more political and all about being resolute while everything else around you is crumbling. RIP Riley Gale; dude was very forward thinking in his lyrics. 
 

God was written after the Beatles broke up. He was totally scared and insecure about what would happen next. He was an insecure guy through and through. But that song is strong as hell - proclaiming that he will no longer be tied to anyone’s ideas of who he should be (a rockstar, a poet, an icon, whatever). Just him stripping off every role that could be tagged to him, and telling everyone “I’m just a guy, I’m scared, and that’s it.” Rebellious in a most unusual way. 

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I have a single "bring it song". It's very vulgar and visceral but speaks to me on an animalian and preternatural level. It's a song that you put in a "Break Glass in Case of Emergency" because you I can only listen to it if I'm really going to slide.

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20 hours ago, Vegas64 said:

I have a single "bring it song". It's very vulgar and visceral but speaks to me on an animalian and preternatural level. It's a song that you put in a "Break Glass in Case of Emergency" because you I can only listen to it if I'm really going to slide.

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If you're just going to have one, it's probably better for it to be visceral and animalian (good word -- a variant I haven't seen much, so good to be reminded it's out there). 

Part of the interest factor of this thread is seeing how many metal and urban/rap songs there are. As I've noted, not really where my tastes lie, but it's great to see the way different genres use things like lyrical approaches (including extensive profanity), instrumentation, volume, tempo, and various characteristics that many others on this thread are far more knowledgeable about.

The stuff I started off with seems kinda tame in comparison. 

Also, I think you should tell everybody what happens when you put this on. 😁

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