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Caught this one on XM tonight.

Probably had been 30 years since I heard this song.

Live version from mid 80's is outstanding. No background singers. No autotune. No background dancers. Helluva voice.


 
And same song 20 years later. Same lack of background singers or autotune.

 
between the loony weather, and sum looney fans here ('we're great! we stink!' pick a board, any board...) this one jumped for me this am.


sumone should tell that cartoon kid to put some pants on.
 
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I learned this week that the Mighty Mighty Bosstones are breaking up.

In my middle school years, they were a seminal band for me. I played saxophone in school, liked punk music and was teaching myself bass. At the time, the Bosstones were a perfect conglomerate for my musical development and their pop sensibilities helped me appreciate their music past my angsty punk middle school years.

"The Impression That I Get" was their one-hit wonder that got them international radio play but when I listen to it now in my mid-30s, I see it as a brilliant song. The narrator is a sheltered white man who's lived a life of relative ease and he's dealing with mixed feelings about whether or not he can handle real life pressures if/when faced with it. Just a genius narrative to explore in a pop song.

 
Loved that song as well. Had no idea they'd been around for almost 40 years.

If this is true, it's a sad way to go out for both the band and its fans.
 
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Hey Adrien! said:
I learned this week that the Mighty Mighty Bosstones are breaking up.

In my middle school years, they were a seminal band for me. I played saxophone in school, liked punk music and was teaching myself bass. At the time, the Bosstones were a perfect conglomerate for my musical development and their pop sensibilities helped me appreciate their music past my angsty punk middle school years.

"The Impression That I Get" was their one-hit wonder that got them international radio play but when I listen to it now in my mid-30s, I see it as a brilliant song. The narrator is a sheltered white man who's lived a life of relative ease and he's dealing with mixed feelings about whether or not he can handle real life pressures if/when faced with it. Just a genius narrative to explore in a pop song.

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The true genius is the dude getting paid just to dance. I love that.

Let me guess: they are breaking up because of his solo career.
 
Husky Alien said:
Bez was in the band Black Grape one of the better funk electronic rock genre bands for just their 1st album which this song is on. I can acutely say is one of my favorites.

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Best album of the 90s, IMHO.
 
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HuskyHawk said:
Heard this yesterday in the car. Not sure I have really appreciated what a great song this is, but yesterday it just registered. Guess I'm getting older too.

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It's an awesome song. Funny, I saw a New Orleans supergroup of sorts called Dragon Smoke at Stage One in Fairfield a few years ago and Ivan Neville, a pretty tough dude, covered it. He introduced it by saying something like "All you dudes out there, you know you sing this when it comes on the radio and you're driving in your car alone." And I absolutely do (but not afraid to sing it with others around either...).

Sometime in the past two years or so it dawned on me while singing it that what she's describing is actually an avalanche, or snow slide, but not a landslide. Since that time I have floated this theory twice when it came on around a fire with different groups of friends, and both times much comedy ensued as we tried to sing it with "avalanche" in place of "landslide" each time the refrain came around.
 
HuskyHawk said:
Heard this yesterday in the car. Not sure I have really appreciated what a great song this is, but yesterday it just registered. Guess I'm getting older too.

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8893 said:
It's an awesome song. Funny, I saw a New Orleans supergroup of sorts called Dragon Smoke at Stage One in Fairfield a few years ago and Ivan Neville, a pretty tough dude, covered it. He introduced it by saying something like "All you dudes out there, you know you sing this when it comes on the radio and you're driving in your car alone." And I absolutely do (but not afraid to sing it with others around either...).

Sometime in the past two years or so it dawned on me while singing it that what she's describing is actually an avalanche, or snow slide, but not a landslide. Since that time I have floated this theory twice when it came on around a fire with different groups of friends, and both times much comedy ensued as we tried to sing it with "avalanche" in place of "landslide" each time the refrain came around.
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Are you kidding! When this song comes on you have to sing to it, it's just one of those songs. As for anyone in hearing distance? Oh well..... Like avalanche, too funny.

Yes @HuskyHawk we are all getting older too.
 
Hey Adrien! said:
I learned this week that the Mighty Mighty Bosstones are breaking up.

In my middle school years, they were a seminal band for me. I played saxophone in school, liked punk music and was teaching myself bass. At the time, the Bosstones were a perfect conglomerate for my musical development and their pop sensibilities helped me appreciate their music past my angsty punk middle school years.

"The Impression That I Get" was their one-hit wonder that got them international radio play but when I listen to it now in my mid-30s, I see it as a brilliant song. The narrator is a sheltered white man who's lived a life of relative ease and he's dealing with mixed feelings about whether or not he can handle real life pressures if/when faced with it. Just a genius narrative to explore in a pop song.

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Not to derail the thread, but I googled the song and what I read was that Barrett wrote the song after attending a funeral. I don't know if it's about a "sheltered white man," but that's not the impression that I get.

Great tune nevertheless.
 
This song came out in 1980 but I only found it about two years ago. Better late than never.

 
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Speaking of covers, don’t remember if I’ve posted any Scary Pockets covers here before, but here’s one that got me started down that rabbit hole:

 
8893 said:
Just heard this for the first time in a while on Meg Griffin’s weekly “Disorder” show; always loved this cover and now I am thinking I’d love to hear Alison Krauss and Robert Plant cover her cover:

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Yes, can absolutely hear them doing this song, tbo I never heard Dolly's version of Shine by Collective Soul, she does a nice job with it.
 
8893 said:
Just heard this for the first time in a while on Meg Griffin’s weekly “Disorder” show; always loved this cover and now I am thinking I’d love to hear Alison Krauss and Robert Plant cover her cover:

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Very nice rendition. Had not heard this. Lyrics are a bit more gospel than I ever really noticed in the Collective Soul version. I think you could do all sorts of variations on this tune. Jazzy, metal, reggae.
 
Dolly Parton's cover of Stairway to Heaven - as a bluegrass song - is really great.

 
Seems like you can turn just about anything into bluegrass. You can also turn just about anything into metal.
 
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