Music Mount Rushmores by state

[uconnbaseball]

If you lean on sales, charts, and awards I submit
Indiana:
Michael Jackson
Janet Jackson
Babyface
Axl Rose or John Mellencamp

Michigan:
Stevie Wonder
Madonna
Smokey
Eminem

Tennessee:
Aretha
Dolly
Tina Turner
Justin Timberlake

But Jersey has good case.

I would put Elvis over Timberlake for Tennessee.

 

[WhiteDressWes]

Bon Jovi is totally going to fade into the background. Everyone and everything fades into the background.

My daughter is 10. She has never heard a Sinatra song and I’m not sure I see a path where she does.

Get some Sinatra, Kind of Blue, Stravinsky CDs at the library. Play them when she's home. Her brain will figure it out with a lot less effort than that of people who've learned to like AW. When she's older, she may thank you for exposing her to this music

The Godfather is awesome. But it’s going to be lost to time too - people muttering on an island in Europe 100 years ago isn’t going to keep the attention of people born in 2010 or 2020 or 2030.

Stuff like the Maltese Falcon and North by Northwest are technically great - there is no way in the world I can sit through them. Film buffs and nerds watch Hitchcock today - everyone else is watching some superhero movie they crank out every 15 minutes.

Look at how many posters here don’t have any idea about UConn basketball before 1999 or 1990. It doesn’t take long.

 

[Guapo]

Amazing how many cars you see with UConn and Cuse stickers

Disgusting

 

[Alibi Ike]

I never realized I really liked Bruce Springsteen because I'm white and middle aged. Thank you.
Now I just need to figure out why I really like Bob Marley.

Springsteen performed in Memphis after his Born To Run album came out. After the concert he got in a cab and went to Graceland. He is a big Elvis Presley fan and wanted to meet him.

He jumped the fence and made it to the Graceland front door before security stopped him. Springsteen told security who he was and that he had been on the cover of Time magazine.

Security told him they didn't care who he was, and that Elvis was not at home. They escorted Springsteen off the Graceland property.

Over the years, Springsteen has told this story in concert, often serving as an introduction to one of his songs. "I couldn’t imagine anyone not wanting to be Elvis Presley," he once said, pinpointing the source of his musical obsessions and relentless drive. Look closely at the cover of Born to Run, and you'll see a button – which says "Elvis the King, King's Court, Elvis Presley, Fan Club of N.Y.C." – hanging from Springsteen's guitar strap.

 

[MilliniumPrince]

I would put Elvis over Timberlake for Tennessee.

Elvis was born in Mississippi

 

[alphasigko]

Rizzuto, tops

He's still waiting for the HOF....

 

[alphasigko]

Yeah Billy Joel stinks - he just sells out the Garden at huge prices anytime he wants to take a chopper into the city.

Anyone who has been to one of those shows and didn’t have a great time has something very wrong with them.

Saw him in Houston in like 1980...loved the show...hated the fact that he refused to come back for an encore despite the huge ovation, lighted BiC lighters and chanting. Since then I have always called him the short form of Richard, but still like his music. The writer of that article is just jealous that BJ got to know Christy B in the classic "biblical sense".

 

[Ewekon]

Saw him in Houston in like 1980...loved the show...hated the fact that he refused to come back for an encore despite the huge ovation, lighted BiC lighters and chanting. Since then I have always called him the short form of Richard, but still like his music. The writer of that article is just jealous that BJ got to know Christy B in the classic "biblical sense".

And Food Network hottie Katie Lee when she was like 20. Damn.

 

[FatElvis]

Elvis was born in Mississippi

You're damn right I was.

 

[billybud]

Florida....

Jim Morrison
Ray Charles
Tom Petty
Allman Brothers

Debra Harry
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Gloria Estafon...Miami Sound Machine
Backstreet Boys
N'Sync
Matchbox 20
Creed

2 Live Crew
Pitbull
Marilyn Manson
Cannonball Adderly

Mel Tillis
Slim Whitman
Bellamy Brothers
Gram Parsons

 

[MilliniumPrince]

You're damn right I was.

You ain't never caught a rabbit, and you ain't no friend of mine

 

[joober jones]

I never knew the Carpenters were from CT. When healthy, Karen Carpenter was one of the most beautiful women on the planet and was arguably the best female vocalist of the 20th century. Of all the tragic stories of musicians who died young, she's right near the top.

 

[ZooCougar]

A CT Rushmore without Rivers Cuomo is illegitimate.

 

[billybud]

Amazing how many cars you see with UConn and Cuse stickers

You have to really look at that Cuse sticker in context, and up close.

The Cuse is right above the Maine sticker...making it "Cuse Me".

Probably another wry but obtuse statement that some folks favor.

 

[ZooCougar]

Florida....

Jim Morrison
Ray Charles
Tom Petty
Allman Brothers

Debra Harry
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Gloria Estafon...Miami Sound Machine
Backstreet Boys
N'Sync
Matchbox 20
Creed

2 Live Crew
Pitbull
Marilyn Manson
Cannonball Adderly

Mel Tillis
Slim Whitman
Bellamy Brothers
Gram Parsons

Lol. Pit bull. You really want to advertise that?

 

[billybud]

Pitbull..Bon Jovi

All a matter of taste...

 

[billybud]

NYC has Tiny Tim, Barry Manilow and Neil Diamond....

Ground center of where it's happening.

 

[ZooCougar]

Pitbull..Bon Jovi

All a matter of taste...

Yes. I imagine the same people that enjoy being electrocuted also enjoy pit bull. NOBODY.

 

[billybud]

So you say....but I would rather be drawn apart by four draft horses than have to listen to Bon Jovi....electrocution would seem kind.

 

[billybud]

But then again...they are polar opposites...the Jersey hair salon boys and the bald latino rapper.

Nobody has to like everything....I like beach volleyball and have never watched a hockey game.

 

[joober jones]

But then again...they are polar opposites...the Jersey hair salon boys and the bald latino rapper.

Nobody has to like everything....I like beach volleyball and have never watched a hockey game.

I too despise hockey. That trait didn't help me much growing up in Canada.

 

[Yardigan]

I forgot Freddie Paris and the 5 Satins and Big Bill Anderson of NRBQ.

Haven't read through the whole thread, but...NRBQ is playing close to where I live tonite. Not that familiar with them, but YT'd them up and wow, at least the stuff posted that I saw was really good. One of the videos I watched was with Al Anderson and I don't know the guy that played keyboard, but he kinda sang like Stevie Ray Vaughn. Anyone seen them recently? Worth the ticket?

 

[upstater]

Haven't read through the whole thread, but...NRBQ is playing close to where I live tonite. Not that familiar with them, but YT'd them up and wow, at least the stuff posted that I saw was really good. One of the videos I watched was with Al Anderson and I don't know the guy that played keyboard, but he kinda sang like Stevie Ray Vaughn. Anyone seen them recently? Worth the ticket?

Saw them in 1982 opening up for the Ramones at a former car dealership at the bottom of Branford Hill.

It was a no alcohol venue, plenty of teenagers (I was one myself), and what impressed me about NRBQ is that they had maybe 15 fans against the stage who knew every word and knew what to do in a call and response with the band. I remember one of their songs well, "It was an accident," but I've only ever heard it once, and it was live, and the fans reacted to that song more than any other.

Oh yeah, the Ramones were the Ramones, but it must have been depressing for them to play in a car dealership showroom in Branford in front of a couple hundred people at best, given what they were doing just five years earlier.

Also, I believe that Captain Lou Albano may have managed NRBQ at that time.

EDIT: the club's name was "Sneakers" and they served orange and cranberry juice to patrons. I suppose the idea was that you snuck your own vodka in.

 

[Yardigan]

The more I watch late 80's Big Al Anderson, the more I ask myself - growing up in New England - how did I miss that til now?