Pip's Invitation
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For anyone that cares, here's a vague schedule of the rest of what I plan to post and when, as things will be thrown for a loop Saturday through Tuesday, when I have to cover a virtual conference in the morning and afternoon each day.
Tomorrow morning: Song #6
Tomorrow evening: Song #5
Friday morning: Song #4
Friday afternoon or evening: Song #3
TBD: Song #2. Since I will be busy on Saturday morning and afternoon, it may make sense for me to post this before I go to bed on Friday night, and space things out by posting Song #3 in mid-afternoon instead of late afternoon or evening.
Saturday evening: Song #1. (Obligatory Fugazi clip, lyrics NSFW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLhONsoN3xc)
Starting on Sunday evening, I will post a few of these items, likely in this order, on each of the next few days. Sun-Mon-Tue posts would all be in the evening.
Final list of where each of my top 101 appears on the Rolling Stone countdown.
Breakdown by album for the top 101.
Writeups of the songs that made Rolling Stone's top 100 but did not make my top 204 (there are a lot). Here is where the snark (mostly directed at Rolling Stone) will come out at times.
The 102-204 list. This will take a long time to read so it may be my only material of that day.
Breakdown by album for the top 204.
Results of the Neil song draft I did in 2011.
Writeups of notable cover songs Neil has performed, in some cases with comments on where an entry would have ranked had I included cover songs on my list. While he has not recorded or performed a ton of covers over his career, there are some that are definitely worth talking about. This is not a list of every cover he has ever performed, only the ones I have something to say about. If you were itching for more content from Americana or A Letter Home, which are all covers, or Everybody's Rockin', which is half covers, here you go. (I promise there will be stuff from good albums/notable tours as well.) I have not written this yet.
And there will be a writeup whose format I'm not exactly sure of yet, but the theme is "Neil the guitarist." This was inspired by his guitar playing on two songs written by other people that don't qualify as covers by Neil per se but for which I wanted to say something about his playing. I will probably go into some songs beyond these two. Also inspired by @krista4's "McCartney minus McCartney," "Harrison minus Harrison," etc. posts. Obviously this has not been written yet.
Somewhere in there, I will share sugarmtn.org's list of the 50 Neil songs with the most known live performances. There is one song in there that no one would ever have predicted, probably not even Neil himself. It won't have come up in any of the other posts and, as you might imagine, it has a very strange history.
Maybe there will be some more stuff. I'm always open to suggestions.
Tomorrow morning: Song #6
Tomorrow evening: Song #5
Friday morning: Song #4
Friday afternoon or evening: Song #3
TBD: Song #2. Since I will be busy on Saturday morning and afternoon, it may make sense for me to post this before I go to bed on Friday night, and space things out by posting Song #3 in mid-afternoon instead of late afternoon or evening.
Saturday evening: Song #1. (Obligatory Fugazi clip, lyrics NSFW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLhONsoN3xc)
Starting on Sunday evening, I will post a few of these items, likely in this order, on each of the next few days. Sun-Mon-Tue posts would all be in the evening.
Final list of where each of my top 101 appears on the Rolling Stone countdown.
Breakdown by album for the top 101.
Writeups of the songs that made Rolling Stone's top 100 but did not make my top 204 (there are a lot). Here is where the snark (mostly directed at Rolling Stone) will come out at times.
The 102-204 list. This will take a long time to read so it may be my only material of that day.
Breakdown by album for the top 204.
Results of the Neil song draft I did in 2011.
Writeups of notable cover songs Neil has performed, in some cases with comments on where an entry would have ranked had I included cover songs on my list. While he has not recorded or performed a ton of covers over his career, there are some that are definitely worth talking about. This is not a list of every cover he has ever performed, only the ones I have something to say about. If you were itching for more content from Americana or A Letter Home, which are all covers, or Everybody's Rockin', which is half covers, here you go. (I promise there will be stuff from good albums/notable tours as well.) I have not written this yet.
And there will be a writeup whose format I'm not exactly sure of yet, but the theme is "Neil the guitarist." This was inspired by his guitar playing on two songs written by other people that don't qualify as covers by Neil per se but for which I wanted to say something about his playing. I will probably go into some songs beyond these two. Also inspired by @krista4's "McCartney minus McCartney," "Harrison minus Harrison," etc. posts. Obviously this has not been written yet.
Somewhere in there, I will share sugarmtn.org's list of the 50 Neil songs with the most known live performances. There is one song in there that no one would ever have predicted, probably not even Neil himself. It won't have come up in any of the other posts and, as you might imagine, it has a very strange history.
Maybe there will be some more stuff. I'm always open to suggestions.
) but when I was in my college fraternity when a brother would enter the pledge room the pledges would all say in unison: “Pledges Mr. X...good afternoon Mr X” and there was some kind of good-bye chant also.
Come Together was really polarizing, though. For as many people who love it, there seem to be those who despise it. It ended up in the bottom of my top half, so I guess splitting the difference (not intentionally). Penny Lane is almost universally beloved, so I expected that to create controversy.
