August '22 - N&G VINYL SPINS CHALLENGE - Don’t tell @MikeH

13. Fire and Rain

Fellow Carolina grad. James gets lumped into the "lightweight" category by some folks, but this is a song about death and heroin. Ain't nothing lightweight about that. Plus, for better or worse, my hair looks exactly like James' at this moment. Low hanging fruit, proudly plucked...

3/247. Mark it down...



James Taylor - Sweet Baby James

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10. Dancing Days

Led Zeppelin - Houses Of The Holy

Whoops, someone already played this, just didn’t show up when I searched because they didn’t list the name. Stay tuned…

Okay:

LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening

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Features “Dance Yrself Clean.” If someone already played this one, well that’s just too bad
 

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12. Misunderstood

I was at this guy's first "live" show. He was the first opening act, not on the ticket and one of my friends was hooking up with him. He came on stage, plugged in his iPod, hit play, and awkwardly danced alone on stage until the music stopped playing. I thought it was terrible, because how the hell is that a live show, and that he'd disappear into the ether like so many other hipsters who thought they could live on their shitty GarageBand music. I clearly misunderstood how many people were willing to pay to see a guy hit play on an iPod, because he got semi-famous. I assumed he'd put on more of a show, so when he opened at another concert I figured he'd do something. He did not. It was just hit play and look stupid on stage for 30 minutes. Apparently I was old, because a bunch of the people in the audience loved it. Go figure. So when Newbury had this on clearance I snagged a copy and never played it. Today it gets that honor so I can remember how terrible he was live all over again. I might text my friend who I haven't spoken to in years and make fun of her for banging him a bunch when she was young, since she's now almost 40.

Pictureplane - Dopamine
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13. Fire and Rain

My Morning Jacket - Okonokos
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I’ve gotten really into 70s Rock over the past decade, even shit I fucking hated when I was a kid, That being said, I have yet to discover the charm of Sweet Baby James. There is a cover version of “Fire & Rain that The Pat McGee Band, a quasi-jam band from the 90s would play that I was kinda fond of but beyond that, I’ve never been much of a fan of his work. So I started scrolling through my collection for ideas and came up with this…

This scene from Cameron Crowe’s Elizabethtown, a movie that I thought was great (I know the “Manic Pixie Dream Girl” thing had been done to death by this point but so what, I likes what I likes); features a killer cover of “Free Bird” performed partially by MMJ, in which there is a fire and rain (well, sprinklers) and throughout all the chaos the band keeps shredding. So yeah, the connection is a bit tenuous but it’s a brilliant scene performed with the help of this brilliant band!
 
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Day 13 - Fire and Rain

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Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Waters

Going with an album released the same year! And at that year’s Grammy Awards “Bridge” Swept the awards and left Taylor empty handed for “Sweet Baby James” and this song

Also! This gives me the excuse to recommend the book “Fire and Rain: The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, James Taylor, CSNY, and the Lost Story of 1970” by David Browne, which is easily my favorite music related book I’ve ever read!
 
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