Tropical Island IPOD Singles Draft Thread - Pending playoffs

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ipod wants me to select....


Faithfully - Journey - Frontiers

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This was one of my favorite Journey albums, and DEFINITELY is one of my top 5 Journey songs and certainly one of my favorite to karaoke to. The line "I get the joy of rediscovering you" is DEFINITELY one of my top 3 lyrics EV-ER. I have fond memories of using this song to convey that feeling at the heart of that line to someone...mmmm thank you Journey :)
 
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Awesomely fun song, theres a ton of versions floating around but this ones my fav .. If you havent herd it I suggest you give it a listen ..
 
Sorry, but I absolutely hate that cover of the song. Cooler heads are prevailing and I won't pick the 7 Seconds cover as an immediate response, though I had kicked it around my list earlier.

I'll have my pick once I get settled into my morning.
 
My next pick is "Hot Hot Hot" - Buster Poindexter.

I kid, I just couldn't let David Johansen off so easily... but really I'm going with "Personality Crisis" - New York Dolls (New York Dolls - 1973)
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This tune is the perfect blend of old time piano & guitar driven rock and roll and the early dawn of punk rock in glam packaging. I had the New York Dolls album on and off my album list and its hard to just pick one tune, but if I have to this is the one.
 
Okay, to end Round 17 I'm going with another "country" song...

Independence Day - Martina McBride

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To start Round 18, I'm going with another Miami Vice-influenced selection. (If you're not sure what I'm referring to, check my selections in the Classic Ride thread.) :)

In The Air Tonight - Phil Collins

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Wow, pdx...I actually thought you were going to choose Hot, Hot, Hot...that is probably my least favorite song of all time.

And I agree with your assessment of the cover of 99 Red Balloons...it's got to be the original German version 99 Luftballoons by Nina...or at least the English translation. But hey, to each his own...
 
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And I agree with your assessment of the cover of 99 Red Balloons...it's got to be the original German version 99 Luftballoons by Nina...or at least the English translation. But hey, to each his own...
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Agreed.
 
I was originally going to follow up the Dolls with a Heartbreakers tune, but I couldn't find a good video except for this video of this dude that does all these silly dances. Well that guy I had happened to already have discovered because of a song I am saving for later. So I guess I'll just leave them both be for now since I had queued this one up as well. My next pick:
"People Who Died" - Jim Carroll Band (Catholic Boy - 1980)
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Jim Carroll wrote this song about people he knew that kicked the bucket. It was used a decade later in the movie The Basketball Diaries which was taken from his journal accounts during the time he spent in NY's drug scene as a heroin addict in the 60s and 70s.

I had a bowling team named the 8-Ballaz and we all assumed bowling identities of drug casualties. I got a friend to help me re-work this tune into our theme song.
http://www.ladieschoicepdx.com/8ballaz/bowlaz_who_died.mp3
 
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Wow, pdx...I actually thought you were going to choose Hot, Hot, Hot...that is probably my least favorite song of all time.
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No, I am not a fan of that tune. Though I find it more amusing than anything else. Kind of like Chuck Berry's only no. 1 being My Ding-a-ling, to have a musical pioneer reduced to a gimmick persona to score a hit... well. At least he got one. The success of that tune really did a number on Dolls bassist Arthur Kane though.
And I agree with your assessment of the cover of 99 Red Balloons...it's got to be the original German version 99 Luftballoons by Nina...or at least the English translation. But hey, to each his own...
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Yeah I like the original as well, German or English works. The 7 Seconds cover has a special place in my heart as that was my first all ages show and first concert without my parents.
 
I Obv disagree with the hate on my last pick, but I also like the origional version of that song aswell .. anyways, next pick ..


Jason Mraz - Im Yours

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This has kind of been my song of the summer, I live right by the water in a beach town and some of the resturants on the beach play music and stuff, this song comes on alot and its just a real chill song .. the kind that puts you in a good mood ..
 
ipod wants me to select...

Closer - Goapele - Closer

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original video

Another artist/song I was led to in a round about way. She's a bay area product done good. I just love this particular song, which I "discovered" after searching for a download of another of her songs "First Love" from a later album. Closer is one the more deeply sensual songs I've got permanent rolling on multiple playlists I think because it has very special meaning for me, with its sensual self..;) I put both videos up because I like elements of both visually.

re-released version of the song/video
 
VF21 said:
To start Round 18, I'm going with another Miami Vice-influenced selection. (If you're not sure what I'm referring to, check my selections in the Classic Ride thread.) :)

In The Air Tonight - Phil Collins

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That was off an one of my alternates lists. Had a cool vibe to it, with or without the Miami Vice association.
 
Pick #18, and finally time to invite the ladies to my island. This lady won't be on any babe draft, but wow, she has a great voice. Touching song about her losing her mom, but can be easily generalized as a song about any type of loss, kids, lover, parents, friends, etc.


Pick #18: Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinead O'Conner - I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v56TYgG8Mzw

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Oh, lookie...I'm up!

Beast of Burden - The Rolling Stones - Some Girls

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I'm not a huge Stones fan, but I've always had an affinity for this song. I didn't find a live performance that struck my fancy, so you'll have to deal with someone's cheesy homage via still images.
 
No, I'm here.

Well, I have taken almost all the classics I can handle. Which was sort of my plan, as my more contemporary picks probably have less other suitors. I have a few classics in waiting, but there are lesser-knowns. At least I think.

Time to take my first rap choice. The only question is which one....and from who....this pick was suppose to be California Love, but someone messed that up. So instead of taking some other Dr. Dre song or some other 2Pac song, I think I'll switch gears.

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The Way I Am - Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP

I missed out on this track and album in the other draft, so I'll make up for it here. One of the strongest Eminem songs in its rhyming, Eminem can be really amazing at that when he is trying to make a real song and not some pop rap garbage piece that he tends to stack his CD's with more and more lately. One of his most gritty and real tracks out there and probably my favorite of all of his.
 
Time to slow it down a bit with a moving song by one of my favorite artists (Sara Evans) with an awesome voice. Probably my favorite song of hers.

You Don't - Sara Evans - Born to Fly

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My next pick is.....

Beast and the Harlot - Avenged Sevenfold - City of Evil


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I've never actually seen the video til now...its kinda wierd. Still the song rocks.
 
Tell Me 'Bout It - Joss Stone - Introducing Joss Stone

I love this song turned up really, really loud. Its got a great funky groove and Joss has an amazing voice. Warhawk would like this I think. I am surprised that it did not do better on the charts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJ0xwvKG_EI

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Let me be the first to select a song by this band (:confused:). Not their most popular song, but quite possibly my favorite.

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Spoonman - Soundgarden - Superunknown
 
Hard as it is to believe...

Here I am, more than halfway through this draft, and I'm just now selecting my first Stevie Wonder song... With my eighteenth pick, I select:




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Don't You Worry 'bout a Thing - Stevie Wonder - Innervisions - 1973
 
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