u/TheBestMePlausible

I am looking for a song or 6 to cover, preferably something obscure and not well known. For example, "I Love Rock And Roll", as covered by Joan Jet, was first recorded by the Arrows, and was a top 20 hit in the UK in the 60s. In other words, basically no one in the US had heard it, but it was catchy enough to chart *somewhere*, so was a good candidate for a cover. I'm hoping to finds some similar songs, which will require a certain amount of virtual crate digging, and a fairly efficient way to do that would be to just go through, listening to, say, the billboard top 40 for any given week, any number of decades ago, one song at a time, probably via Youtube, possibly Spotify or similar.

The question is, where to find these lists. I was considering subscribing to Billboard.com, but they are very cagey about what you get with that ($187 a year!) subscription, and I see nothing about access to historical charts. someone on another reddit thread suggested www.thechartbook.co.uk, but it's just difficult to tell what you get for your money - the samples they show never actually list the hits, in order, by week, it's all collated in these very random ways as far as I can tell. Meanwhile, if I just download a single issue of billboard from ages ago, I have to dig though pages and pages of fairly useless articles and ephemera to find the actual charts, which are then hard to cut and paste into youtube to find the songs.

Does know where I could consistently find historical pop/r&b charts in an easy to parse manner? Where I could easily get from "May 8 1963" to listening to the songs on that chart, with the least effort?

As it stands there are between 1-8 thousand plays on Spotify for maybe five tracks on their album. But, am I crazy, or is the album just \*fantastic\*? I’ve been playing it a LOT for a couple of weeks now, if not more. I keep coming back to it, it’s scratching an itch I didn’t know I had.

I hope I’m not overhyping them, maybe more serious progheads will have a different opinion, but, wow. If you like the classic 70s output of Supertramp and or Styx, you’re gonna love this album.

The lead singer sounds uncannily like the singers of both of those bands, which I imagine was somewhat de rigeur at the time. But dude is more than solid, great voice, hits the high notes, puts some oomf and expression into it. And the backup harmonies are similarly on point.

Meanwhile, the band is tight af, I bet these guys blew minds live, lots of syncopated punctuations and flawless fills at just the right spots, interspersed with pretty, delicate, gossamer stuff then back into high grandiosity. The guitars interact with each other along with the great synths and electric pianos, which are as classic Styx/Supertramp as you could ask for.

On top of all that, the songs are very hooky. Like, almost all of them. Great melodies that stick around, the single-y one is an earworm and a half.

Unfortunately, they were clearly a band lost to time, and it’s a shame. Maybe the label didn’t promote them enough, maybe they did but it was just a regional hit as designed. Maybe it was a 1978 sounding album released in 1979. Maybe the label pushed Sooner Or Later, when they should have pushed Turn Around. Maybe the band broke up the week after the album came out, who knows. I can hear that this was recorded in a regional Seattle studio and not a big major label joint. But the band is so huge and tight, it sounds like a million bucks anyway, it’s impressive. I imagine they only had so much money for publicity the first time around, and probably this time as well. I think I heard them on a college radio station that specializes in incredibly obscure music.

So, I’m gonna throw them a bit of word-of-mouth. This album is really really good! A catchy time capsule from 1979, recently unearthed and uploaded. Am I allowed to leave links?

As it stands there are between 1-8 thousand plays on Spotify for maybe five tracks on their album. But, am I crazy, or is the album just *fantastic*? I’ve been playing it a LOT for a couple of weeks now, if not more. I keep coming back to it, it’s scratching an itch I didn’t know I had.

I hope I’m not overhyping them, maybe more serious progheads will have a different opinion, but, wow. If you like the classic 70s output of Supertramp and or Styx, you’re gonna love this album.

The lead singer sounds uncannily like the singers of both of those bands, which I imagine was somewhat de rigeur at the time. But dude is more than solid, great voice, hits the high notes, puts some oomf and expression into it. And the backup harmonies are similarly on point.

Meanwhile, the band is tight af, I bet these guys blew minds live, lots of syncopated punctuations and flawless fills at just the right spots, interspersed with pretty, delicate, gossamer stuff then back into high grandiosity. The guitars interact with each other along with the great synths and electric pianos, which are as classic Styx/Supertramp as you could ask for.

On top of all that, the songs are very hooky. Like, almost all of them. Great melodies that stick around, the single-y one is an earworm and a half.

Unfortunately, they were clearly a band lost to time, and it’s a shame. Maybe the label didn’t promote them enough, maybe they did but it was just a regional hit as designed. Maybe it was a 1978 sounding album released in 1979. Maybe the label pushed Sooner Or Later, when they should have pushed Turn Around. Maybe the band broke up the week after the album came out, who knows. I can hear that this was recorded in a regional Seattle studio and not a big major label joint. But the band is so huge and tight, it sounds like a million bucks anyway, it’s impressive. I imagine they only had so much money for publicity the first time around, and probably this time as well. I think I heard them on a college radio station that specializes in incredibly obscure music.

So, I’m gonna throw them a bit of word-of-mouth. This album is really really good! A catchy time capsule from 1979, recently unearthed and uploaded. Am I allowed to leave links?

Hi all! I’ve recently moved to Chiang Mai and I’m looking for a guitar teacher who speaks passable English. I’m planning to swing by Green Music today and ask there, as I understand they have practice rooms and can probably recommend someone, or maybe have someone on staff. Are there other music stores or schools I could ask at? Or maybe you guys can directly recommend someone?

I play rusty rhythm guitar, but want to learn to play lead. I already have an electric guitar (a nice Gusta I really like)

Ever since I watched Better Off Dead with the 2 Chinese guys who learned English by listening to Howard Cossell, I’ve wanted to pick an interesting Thai movie star to emulate as I learn Thai. Sort of like if I learned to speak english by watching Clint Eastwood or Al Pacino movies over and over again, until I’m ordering my burger with a distinctive raspy drawl or whatever.

So, are there any Thai film stars of the past, with a distinct speaking style, that everybody still knows and loves today? Bonus points if their movies are actually fun to watch!