RE: OT: CUSA board Music thread (what are you listening to right now?)
So many good memories set to the tune of Volbeat. I used to run with a crew that basically used this album as their soundtrack. Spent a couple of summers way back doing nothing but homebrew, Volbeat, and bocce ball out on the eastern shore. We all scattered to the wind and I miss each of them dearly, but the BH/AH album sure does bring back memories.
RE: OT: CUSA board Music thread (what are you listening to right now?)
(11-09-2019 08:08 PM)stinkfist Wrote:
(11-08-2019 10:57 PM)SoMs Eagle Wrote: Triple post? Don’t know how I did that...
b/c gts' personal 'codec' is on tilt....
the 'workaround' is > click reply > refresh....
I can't help on the thumbtapper side of the equation....
fwiw, you can delete the redundant posts....
also, when 'tubing, you can pop that refresh button like it's a biatch that owes ya money to skip the ad bs....those kuntss will figure that out one day too...
RE: OT: CUSA board Music thread (what are you listening to right now?)
Artist: The Fixx
Album: Phantoms
Song: "Lost In Battle Overseas"
August 1984 MCA Records
although....this next one is the one most people know the band for. A song about relationship with a Liar; vocalist Cy Curnin has described the song as an indictment of dishonest politicians. Here is the Extended Mix, wherein you can hear separated all the parts that went into the production of this massive hit:
Artist: The Fixx
Album: Reach The Beach
Song: "One Thing leads To Another (Extended Mix)"
May 15, 1983 MCA Records
RE: OT: CUSA board Music thread (what are you listening to right now?)
this one's a bit more esoteric, artsy and deep:
Artist: Pete Wylie
Album: Sinful
Song: "Four Eleven Forty Four"
1987 MDM Records, Eternal/Siren Records
"4-11-44" is a phrase that has been used repeatedly in popular music and as a reference to numbers allegedly chosen by poor African Americans for the purpose of gambling on lotteries. It was a well-known phrase in the 19th and early 20th century in the United States. The roots of the phrase can be traced to the illegal lottery known as "policy" in the nineteenth-century U.S. Numbers were drawn on a wheel of fortune, ranging from 1 to 78. A three-number entry was known as a "gig", and a bet on 4, 11, and 44 was popular by the time of the Civil War. The combination became known as the "washerwoman's gig" which was featured on the cover of Aunt Sally's Policy Players' Dream Book, published by H. J. Wehman of New York in the 1880s. The stereotypical player of the washerwoman's gig was a poor black male.
Quote:Of all the temptations that beset him, the one that troubles him and the police most is his passion for gambling. The game of policy is a kind of unlawful penny lottery specially adapted to his means, but patronized extensively by poor white players as well. It is the meanest of swindles, but reaps for its backers rich fortunes wherever colored people congregate. Between the fortune-teller and the policy shop, closely allied frauds always, the wages of many a hard day's work are wasted by the negro; but the loss causes him few regrets. Penniless, but with undaunted faith in his ultimate "luck," he looks forward to the time when he shall once more be able to take a hand at "beating policy." When periodically the negro's lucky numbers, 4-11-44, come out on the slips of the alleged daily drawings, that are supposed to be held in some far-off Western town, intense excitement reigns in Thompson Street and along the Avenue, where someone is always the winner. An immense impetus is given then to the bogus business that has no existence outside of the cigar stores and candy shops where it hides from the law, save in some cunning Bowery "broker's" back office, where the slips are printed and the "winnings" apportioned daily with due regard to the backer's interests.
Charles Fey, inventor of the slot machine, called his second machine which he created in 1895 the "4-11-44". The phrase was used in many later blues and jazz recordings; practically without exception the phrase had nothing to do with gambling, but rather with sex.
(This post was last modified: 11-18-2019 10:42 PM by GoodOwl.)
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