Andy and Alex think they give too many high scores, but they need to understand that, for the most part, they are reviewing the best of the best songs of the rock era (mostly 70s and 80s), and there are thousands and thousands more well known songs (and album cuts) for them to review. The grade inflation that they think they have will level off as time goes on.
Agree. And they haven't even listen too soul music, blues, country rock, old style country, and more. There are many more great songs out for them to review.
I also pointed this out a couple of months ago. There definitely were crap songs back in the day. Some of them I even still listen to for nostalgia reasons but I wouldn’t recommend them…unless they were doing a schlock song episode. 😏
Yeah. They're just scratching the surface. It'll take them forever to get to everything great in the 70s & 80s. They haven't done anything by Huey Lewis, Great White and Bryan Adams, just to name a few and only a couple by Journey and they _STILL_ have a shitload of Queen, Steely Dan, the Eagles, Cheap Trick and many more, not to mention the R&B and funk genres like, Kool & the Gang, Sade, the Gap Band and Ohio Players (again, just to name a few).
This is my generation's music. I came of age in the 70s and I'm SO HAPPY I did. We had the best music. Can you imagine what it's like to be 65 and still rockin' to Led Zeppelin?? Thank you guys so much for playing songs without stopping, then reacting. Help keep classic rock alive forever!! Love you guys so much - you definitely understand music.
A&A, you'll love their "Swingtown" and "Rock 'n Me" !!! Steve's godfather was Les Paul, was one of the pioneers of the solid-body electric guitar. Les Paul and Mary Ford were a married superstar musical group, both playing guitar and singing.
T-Bone Walker, one of the pioneers of modern blues, and a friend of Steve's dad, starting teaching a nine year old Steve Miller how to play the guitar behind his head.
Boz Scaggs played and sang on the first couple Steve Miller Band albums. That's Boz singing harmony behind Steve on the immortal SMB classic "Living in the U.S.A."
Steve Miller is just one of those musicians that always writes catchy songs and he has a great band with him too! I had the privilege of listening to him in the 70's when I was growing up and into the 80's! Jungle love is just another fun song from Steve Miller!
Here's the thing. I never put Steve Miller on. But there are so many catchy tunes of his that come on the radio that I always turn it up and enjoy myself thoroughly. One of those bands that may not have die hard followers but pretty much everybody likes (except music snobs and metalheads). And that's why you hear it so often on robot-run classic rock radio stations. They basically can't go wrong throwing in a couple Steve Miller songs every single day. Like Elton John and The Eagles.
@@edvonblue SMB bassist Lonnie Turner was actually the co-writer of the song. He wrote it with journeyman Bay Area guitarist Greg Douglass. In fact, it's Douglass who ended up playing guitar on the song rather than Miller himself. I'm not sure whether it's Turner or Douglass who thus deserves credit for the song's immortal line, "Everything's better when wet."
I guess any journey into Steve Miller has to include "Rock'n' Me", because it's one of his biggest hits and best known songs. However, my favorite song of his that you haven't heard yet is "Serenade".
Agree. In case you don't know it, here is the link to the Spanish version by M Clan, a group from Murcia, Spain. th-cam.com/video/o40AF3uOLiY/w-d-xo.html
u will always know the song 2 secs in. Adore this song and the BAND ! saw them live 40 yrs ago didnt know how lucky I was at the time as they werent the headliners !
Such a fun, nutty, perfect song. Brings back so many memories of being a kid and just enjoying hearing fantastic new music every week. That was the 70s, young'ns. Oh! Yeah!
I've listened to this song a million times and always enjoy it. But this time, knowing you guys are getting ready to react, I found myself listening closer. What really struck me this time was the harmonic arpeggio he hits in the 3rd chorus (When everything's peaches and cream). I don't know why I never really appreciated that before.
This played at every single college party I went to, even decades after it was released. Frankly, I'm a little surprised you made it through college without ever hearing this one!
Fun fact: Steve Miller taught Boz Scaggs to play the guitar. They were high school friends and played in several bands together with Boz being in the Steve Miller Band for two albums ("Sailor" and "Children of the Future").
If you can find a copy of Steve Miller's "Anthology" album, I think it came out in the 90's, you get to hear Steve playing with Boz Scaggs as well as Paul McCartney and a few others as well. It's can be hard to locate, but if you find a copy of that anthology you'll be very happy you searched
Thanks, Andy! Thanks, Alex! 💎 I can't describe how much I loved this one when I was 9.... and it's still delightful. #AndyAndAlex #SteveMillerBand #JungleLove
Right! Jungle Love was recorded in 1975-76 and came out in 1977…Whole Foods was founded in 1980…but I understood what you were getting at Alex!👍 I love your analogies…some of them are so crazy and “out there” I laugh my ass off!🤣
@@peterjongsma1782 So very true about the analogies! 🤣 They're so layered and unexpected. Sometimes I'm wondering if we listened to the same song 😁 I have to remind myself that I grew up in a different time. Steve Miller would have more likely been toking on a doobie and sippin a beer rather than an ice coffee 😁 The beauty of musical interpretation is the way it touches everyone differently. I find it fascinating. To me, the guys reactions and comments are fresh, thought provoking and wonderfully entertaining. It's like hearing the songs I love in a new way with fresh ears 😊 ❤
Steve Miller Band was hitting its stride at this time. If I remember correctly, the "Fly Like an Eagle" and "Book of Dreams" albums were recorded at the same time and were originally scheduled for release as a double album until the record company imagined it could make more money with separate releases. Try "Swingtown" or "The Stake" or get buzzed and hear "Wild Mountain Honey."
the steve miller band is the definition of a good time. you can't help tapping your toes,snapping your fingers and smiling the whole way through a show. his greatest hits album is just that,not a clunker in the bunch.
Saw them love in 96 at Eastern Washington University. The love show was over 3 hours and a mix of classics and some jamming blues. Still one of the best concerts I have seen.
Steve Miller has rocked it from the word Go. My first ever concert was Eagles - Hotel California tour in 1978, and Steve Miller was the main opening act. In 2018 I got to see him on a double-bill with Peter Framptom... the only thing that changed was that we both got 40 years older. He still is as tight as ever, and has to be one of the best blues-rock guitarists out there. And he knows how to write a good hook and a solid banger
I was just luke warm about Steve Miller until I saw him in concert in the 90s. Great show, he is a phenomenal guitarist and was really bluesy. I was there as a cynical music reviewer and he won me over.
This album was 1 of 11 that I purchased for $.01 Columbia House in 1977? Steve Miller was the first concert I took my kids to see in early 2000s at Wolf Trap in VA. SMB rocks.
A proper banger is right on. A+, glad you both liked this one. I really hope you will also do "Billion Dollar Babies"-Alice Cooper and "King of Pain"-The Police from this poll...eventually. Thanks guys!✌
When I drive on long trips, one of my go-to pick me up music to drive to is the albums Fly Like an Eagle and Book of Dreams. Which makes sense as both albums songs come from the same sessions. What an amazing period of creativity!
I also like to listen to Steve Miller Band when traveling in a car across state lines. I remember gas stations in the middle of nowhere selling Steve Miller Band cassettes back in the day.
First time I heard this song was several years ago me and my sister set up my moms record player and speakers from college and after hours trying to make it work we finally got it working and my mom put this record on and just hearing that opening riff for the first time sent chills down my spine and we all danced ahh good times
You guys would have loved the ‘70s, the music never stopped. Every week something new and incredible to listen to. In 1977, Rumours, Aja, Animals, The Stranger, Bat Out of Hell, Running on Empty, Rocket to Russia, The Clash, Talking Heads 77, Bowie Heroes, Heart Little Queen, Let There Be Rock, Slowhand, The Grand Illusion, Livin’ On The Fault Line, I Robot, Farewell To Kings, Peter Gabriel, Point of Know Return, Terrapin Station…
The Riff Gods smile gleefully whenever this song is played. The "Poem" section of the lyrics: "Written my life on your skin."!!! BTW, the guitar guy and the singer are the same guy.
Speaking of sing along, when I saw SMB live at an outdoor amphitheater he opened with "Swingtown". 22,000 people going "oh OH, oh oh oh OH oh oh oh" Epic!
Top tier songwriting and performance! As a kid rehearsing vocals I'd sing with this, and I also realized how similar Steve and Ace's (Frehley) voices were LOL
@@jcroston3266Yeah, but believe it or not, it was a co #1 with Chicago on Casey Casums top 40. I think it stayed there for 1 or 2 weeks. I remember it to this day.
This song always reminds me of going on our pontoon boat at the river! Best line: The question to everyone's answer Is usually asked from within But the patterns of the rain And the truth they contain Have written my life on your skin
The tone of those Toms is delicious. And those lyrics !! "You probably wouldn't remember, I probably couldn't forget" and "You treat my like I was your Ocean, you swim in my blood when it's warm" Steve Miller was having a good time for sure and he is not afraid to experiment but he also has the knack to write catchy tunes. "Living In the USA" is an early funky groove from 1968, or "Abracadabra" if you want to hear his hit from the 80's, lol, I like it (I was there) , but it does have some 80's production.
Part of the official “road-trip play list” for young people everywhere back in the day. Banger indeed. In fact you’d just play Steve Miller Greatest Hits in its entirety.
One of the things I always loved about this song is Steve is constantly riffing-not just hitting power chords over and over-but throwing cool riffs in between strums. Gives this song a lot of energy and motion. 👍🎸
These are some of the best rock songs in history... they are A+ - S all day long, and when the pool of great songs starts fading away theres no going back... so please give these classic songs the real grades they deserve & no more nit-picking of a 99% perfect song !
My younger brother got invited to a Steve Miller concert somewhere around 1990. Afterwards he told me, "I only went because I was invited. I liked Steve Miller OK but never really thought I was a fan. Then the concert started and about a half hour later I realized that I knew all the words to all the songs. I guess I was a fan and didn't know it."
It’s a perfect pop-rock song. High energy with nothing wasted. Fantastic guitar riff, driving bass line, and punchy drums. Plus the actual lyrics, vocal phrasing and treatment on the voice make this another brilliant feature of the song. It’s an S.
The sound effect that begins this song is an example of what dispersion of a wave sounds like. If you run the single "pew" noise through a long enough slinky, the high frequency parts of the sound travel through it faster than the low frequency parts, which causes them to arrive at different times, and you get a dispersed sound that sounds like it's repeating, like an audio version of a light signal sent through a prism.
Turn it up to 11. The true test of a song is if you still enjoy it as much decades from now after hundreds of listens and I guarantee you will with this one.
So you guys , people around my age of 62 were just alive teens used to this music,,, it was our everyday thing.. we loved but watching the now younger generation appreciate this music so much makes me realize we sort of took it for granted…but what else would we do this was our life….Steve Miller grew up for at least part of his middle school or high school years in my home town Milwaukee.. he was ahead of his time with the papaya..no Whole Foods back then
One of Steve Miller's best lines--"You treat me like I was your ocean, you swim in blood when it's warm." Got a nice smile from Alex it seems. Again, I'll recommend for next time--"Livin in the USA" Yall like harmonica and it has some of the best of that you'll ever want to hear.
@Andy & Alex - Thanks for all the great reviews & reactions over the years! Steve Miller was raised in an environment of Rock & Roll royalty. His real life God Parent is the IMMORTAL LES PAUL!!! Yes, that Les Paul - The guitar creator extraordinaire! I think as you explore SMB music you'll be impressed with his versatility. I highly recommend checking out one of his earliest charting songs "Living in the USA". All the best, Mo-
Andy and Alex think they give too many high scores, but they need to understand that, for the most part, they are reviewing the best of the best songs of the rock era (mostly 70s and 80s), and there are thousands and thousands more well known songs (and album cuts) for them to review. The grade inflation that they think they have will level off as time goes on.
100%. I've noticed they are restraining themselves grade wise recently, but there is no harm in handing out A+'s to outstanding songs like this.
I agree, alot of what they listen to is A+ rock!!! Rock on!
Agree. And they haven't even listen too soul music, blues, country rock, old style country, and more. There are many more great songs out for them to review.
I also pointed this out a couple of months ago. There definitely were crap songs back in the day. Some of them I even still listen to for nostalgia reasons but I wouldn’t recommend them…unless they were doing a schlock song episode. 😏
Yeah. They're just scratching the surface. It'll take them forever to get to everything great in the 70s & 80s. They haven't done anything by Huey Lewis, Great White and Bryan Adams, just to name a few and only a couple by Journey and they _STILL_ have a shitload of Queen, Steely Dan, the Eagles, Cheap Trick and many more, not to mention the R&B and funk genres like, Kool & the Gang, Sade, the Gap Band and Ohio Players (again, just to name a few).
This is my generation's music. I came of age in the 70s and I'm SO HAPPY I did. We had the best music. Can you imagine what it's like to be 65 and still rockin' to Led Zeppelin?? Thank you guys so much for playing songs without stopping, then reacting. Help keep classic rock alive forever!! Love you guys so much - you definitely understand music.
I'm right there with you brother
✌️🙂
Agree! Our era just expected great Rock all the time because it waa delivered to us over and over again and from every direction! Poor younger people!
I'm right there with you. This music never gets old.
Brothers, let us not forget that the '70s also delivered to us, Paul Anka's "(You're) Having My Baby," as well as Rick Dee's immortal "Disco Duck"
I’ll be 64 in July. I used to play this cassette to death my first year in college
There is no sitting down at a Steve Miller concert. Every song is a Rocker! Thanks Fellas. Cheers!
I don’t sit down at any concert I attend!
I had a religious experience at a Steve Miller concert!
@@jannsmart7005 right
A&A, you'll love their "Swingtown" and "Rock 'n Me" !!! Steve's godfather was Les Paul, was one of the pioneers of the solid-body electric guitar. Les Paul and Mary Ford were a married superstar musical group, both playing guitar and singing.
That’s awesome! Never knew that! 😮
Never knew that- thanks
@@actuariallurker9650 you're welcome
T-Bone Walker, one of the pioneers of modern blues, and a friend of Steve's dad, starting teaching a nine year old Steve Miller how to play the guitar behind his head.
Hashtag Today I Learned!
Y'all don't forget that Stevie and Boz were high school friends and rocked out together 🤯
In Dallas, Texas!
Boz Scaggs played and sang on the first couple Steve Miller Band albums. That's Boz singing harmony behind Steve on the immortal SMB classic "Living in the U.S.A."
Bozzzzzzz,👍
Steve Miller is just one of those musicians that always writes catchy songs and he has a great band with him too! I had the privilege of listening to him in the 70's when I was growing up and into the 80's! Jungle love is just another fun song from Steve Miller!
Millers bass player wrote this song
Here's the thing. I never put Steve Miller on. But there are so many catchy tunes of his that come on the radio that I always turn it up and enjoy myself thoroughly. One of those bands that may not have die hard followers but pretty much everybody likes (except music snobs and metalheads). And that's why you hear it so often on robot-run classic rock radio stations. They basically can't go wrong throwing in a couple Steve Miller songs every single day. Like Elton John and The Eagles.
@David love the eagles, but not Elton John.
@@edvonblue SMB bassist Lonnie Turner was actually the co-writer of the song. He wrote it with journeyman Bay Area guitarist Greg Douglass. In fact, it's Douglass who ended up playing guitar on the song rather than Miller himself. I'm not sure whether it's Turner or Douglass who thus deserves credit for the song's immortal line, "Everything's better when wet."
@@karlschmitt6359 Then you're a snob :D
That whole album is worth a listen. Miller never overplays, but he is more than capable.
I guess any journey into Steve Miller has to include "Rock'n' Me", because it's one of his biggest hits and best known songs. However, my favorite song of his that you haven't heard yet is "Serenade".
Agreed!
My fave is “Saving Grace”
Agree. In case you don't know it, here is the link to the Spanish version by M Clan, a group from Murcia, Spain. th-cam.com/video/o40AF3uOLiY/w-d-xo.html
I love Serenade!❤
I love 'Serenade', but at the same level I love ''Abracadabra'.
The entire book Of dreams album is fire. Jungle Love, Swingtown and Jet Airliner-the triumvirate of bangers!!
Also The Stake was on there which is my favorite Steve Miller Band. His guitar on that track is so good.
Also “my own space” is fire
I saw Steve Miller in 1976 with Heart and ELO it was a great show by all the bands
"Jungle Love in the surf, in the pouring rain...everything's better when wet" - words to live by.
u will always know the song 2 secs in. Adore this song and the BAND ! saw them live 40 yrs ago didnt know how lucky I was at the time as they werent the headliners !
Such a fun, nutty, perfect song. Brings back so many memories of being a kid and just enjoying hearing fantastic new music every week. That was the 70s, young'ns. Oh! Yeah!
I've listened to this song a million times and always enjoy it. But this time, knowing you guys are getting ready to react, I found myself listening closer. What really struck me this time was the harmonic arpeggio he hits in the 3rd chorus (When everything's peaches and cream). I don't know why I never really appreciated that before.
SO FUN.......The perfect description of their music.
This played at every single college party I went to, even decades after it was released.
Frankly, I'm a little surprised you made it through college without ever hearing this one!
Haha we are SO much older than these guys. Rock is mostly dead unless it's numetal/doomrock, power pop or whatever.
He's soooooo good in concert! Everybody sings every song out loud. So fun!
I love this song, it always lifts my spirits and my mood. ❤
Fun fact: Steve Miller taught Boz Scaggs to play the guitar. They were high school friends and played in several bands together with Boz being in the Steve Miller Band for two albums ("Sailor" and "Children of the Future").
If you can find a copy of Steve Miller's "Anthology" album, I think it came out in the 90's, you get to hear Steve playing with Boz Scaggs as well as Paul McCartney and a few others as well. It's can be hard to locate, but if you find a copy of that anthology you'll be very happy you searched
What an absolutely fun song to hear! Glad you two got the chance to react to it. Love you guys!
Just watched this guy in Dallas last weekend in 104 degree weather and for an 81 year old man he can still rock it hard!
Thanks, Andy! Thanks, Alex! 💎 I can't describe how much I loved this one when I was 9.... and it's still delightful. #AndyAndAlex #SteveMillerBand #JungleLove
He always leaves you in s great mood! So much fun!
Steve Miller knows how to do the thang, he does the thang, we like the thang.
So many others don't know how to do the thang.
Steve Miller Band is definitely in my top 5 favorite all time bands. Love the early years……
Love that whistle at the beginning...and the end...
THIS is a proper summer song... sun's out, windows down, driving to The Shore.
This was my fav song summer of '77
Guys - no Whole Foods back then 😁
Great reaction ❤
Haha also no cell phones. Waiting outside her door with the papaya hoping to charm her was totally realistic. No texting. You had to have a plan :D
Right! Jungle Love was recorded in 1975-76 and came out in 1977…Whole Foods was founded in 1980…but I understood what you were getting at Alex!👍
I love your analogies…some of them are so crazy and “out there” I laugh my ass off!🤣
@@peterjongsma1782 So very true about the analogies! 🤣 They're so layered and unexpected. Sometimes I'm wondering if we listened to the same song 😁 I have to remind myself that I grew up in a different time. Steve Miller would have more likely been toking on a doobie and sippin a beer rather than an ice coffee 😁
The beauty of musical interpretation is the way it touches everyone differently. I find it fascinating. To me, the guys reactions and comments are fresh, thought provoking and wonderfully entertaining. It's like hearing the songs I love in a new way with fresh ears 😊 ❤
Steve Miller Band was hitting its stride at this time. If I remember correctly, the "Fly Like an Eagle" and "Book of Dreams" albums were recorded at the same time and were originally scheduled for release as a double album until the record company imagined it could make more money with separate releases. Try "Swingtown" or "The Stake" or get buzzed and hear "Wild Mountain Honey."
His big Fly Like a Eagle tour was my wife and I first date back in 1977. Great concert.
This band is so underrated and so solid. I was able to catch them live in a very casual setting, up close and personal and they were fantastic.
the steve miller band is the definition of a good time. you can't help tapping your toes,snapping your fingers and smiling the whole way through a show. his greatest hits album is just that,not a clunker in the bunch.
Rhythm n' Strats!
Not only is this banging rocker but Miller's lyrics are outstanding. Very impressive and not something you see every day.
Lots and lots more of Steve Miller band!! 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
Saw them love in 96 at Eastern Washington University. The love show was over 3 hours and a mix of classics and some jamming blues. Still one of the best concerts I have seen.
One of the most underrated guitarist, steeped in blues
Steve Miller has rocked it from the word Go. My first ever concert was Eagles - Hotel California tour in 1978, and Steve Miller was the main opening act. In 2018 I got to see him on a double-bill with Peter Framptom... the only thing that changed was that we both got 40 years older. He still is as tight as ever, and has to be one of the best blues-rock guitarists out there. And he knows how to write a good hook and a solid banger
I was just luke warm about Steve Miller until I saw him in concert in the 90s. Great show, he is a phenomenal guitarist and was really bluesy. I was there as a cynical music reviewer and he won me over.
This album was 1 of 11 that I purchased for $.01 Columbia House in 1977? Steve Miller was the first concert I took my kids to see in early 2000s at Wolf Trap in VA. SMB rocks.
The SMB has never been one of my favorites.
Saw Steve Miller in 1976, at Nelson's ledges racetrack with ELO and Heart. Great 2 day concert.
FUN!! Haven't listened to this in forever - love it. ♥♥♥
I saw Steve Miller Band with Jethero Tull as the main act around 2000. Great concert. Both were great
A proper banger is right on. A+, glad you both liked this one. I really hope you will also do "Billion Dollar Babies"-Alice Cooper and "King of Pain"-The Police from this poll...eventually. Thanks guys!✌
King of Pain is an awesome tune!
Super fun band to see live. Everyone singing and dancing the whole time
Steve Miller deep cut -- Quicksilver Girl
Shows another side of him -- soft and psychedelic
such charismatic and catchy tunes......nails it every time! He had the formula all figured out...and never missed.
I went to a dance at Notre Dame in 1986 and this was the OOONNLLY song that was played the entire night!! We laughed, we cried, it was EPIC.
When I drive on long trips, one of my go-to pick me up music to drive to is the albums Fly Like an Eagle and Book of Dreams. Which makes sense as both albums songs come from the same sessions. What an amazing period of creativity!
I also like to listen to Steve Miller Band when traveling in a car across state lines. I remember gas stations in the middle of nowhere selling Steve Miller Band cassettes back in the day.
First time I heard this song was several years ago me and my sister set up my moms record player and speakers from college and after hours trying to make it work we finally got it working and my mom put this record on and just hearing that opening riff for the first time sent chills down my spine and we all danced ahh good times
When I was a kid growing up this album's songs were on the radio every day. What great music to grow up listening to. Such a great album too.
You guys would have loved the ‘70s, the music never stopped. Every week something new and incredible to listen to. In 1977, Rumours, Aja, Animals, The Stranger, Bat Out of Hell, Running on Empty, Rocket to Russia, The Clash, Talking Heads 77, Bowie Heroes, Heart Little Queen, Let There Be Rock, Slowhand, The Grand Illusion, Livin’ On The Fault Line, I Robot, Farewell To Kings, Peter Gabriel, Point of Know Return, Terrapin Station…
Saw SM open for the Eagles at Folsom Field at U of CO in Boulder in the Summer of '78. GREAT day
The Riff Gods smile gleefully whenever this song is played. The "Poem" section of the lyrics: "Written my life on your skin."!!! BTW, the guitar guy and the singer are the same guy.
My favorite song by Steve Miller!
Yes! I love this! You can't go wrong with Steve Miller.
THIS is the way to start the weekend!! 😁🤙🙌🫶
This song is even more fun when you can sing along!
And whistle! I’ll come over and lip-synch!
Speaking of sing along, when I saw SMB live at an outdoor amphitheater he opened with "Swingtown". 22,000 people going "oh OH, oh oh oh OH oh oh oh" Epic!
@@timgeary4550 Yeah I love when that happens!
Man the 70's rocked!
Yes it did!! 🔥
So lucky to have been alive when this was played regularly on the radio.
This album was released when I was in HS. I still love it!!!
Such a unique one of a kind song. A “proper banger” is a perfect description!
This is such a fun, playful song. I’ve always loved the hell out of it.
This is driving me wild and making me crazy love you guys
Love Steve Miller Band!
Maybe my fav Steve Miller song. So many to choose from……
Saw them 5 times in the early 70tys open air summer time great fun by all
Lots of fun was too be had during this time. Bonfires in the middle of nowhere, with the best car stereo available. Lovely times.
Top tier songwriting and performance! As a kid rehearsing vocals I'd sing with this, and I also realized how similar Steve and Ace's (Frehley) voices were LOL
The Steve Miller Band was so consistently good, I can’t think of many songs that would rate below an A.
Abracadabra. 😂
@@radar0412 I said I can’t think of “many” LOL. I chose my words carefully 🤣 (Abracadabra does quite suck!)
@@jcroston3266 I know you did. I couldn't help myself. 😂
@@jcroston3266Yeah, but believe it or not, it was a co #1 with Chicago on Casey Casums top 40. I think it stayed there for 1 or 2 weeks. I remember it to this day.
his mercury blues is a banger!
This song always reminds me of going on our pontoon boat at the river!
Best line:
The question to everyone's answer
Is usually asked from within
But the patterns of the rain
And the truth they contain
Have written my life on your skin
This is one of those songs best enjoyed by listening to the entire album.
Rock radio in the 70s used to be so fun. Always a party anytime of day.
The tone of those Toms is delicious. And those lyrics !! "You probably wouldn't remember, I probably couldn't forget" and "You treat my like I was your Ocean, you swim in my blood when it's warm"
Steve Miller was having a good time for sure and he is not afraid to experiment but he also has the knack to write catchy tunes.
"Living In the USA" is an early funky groove from 1968, or "Abracadabra" if you want to hear his hit from the 80's, lol, I like it (I was there) , but it does have some 80's production.
Need to listen to this for 8 years,, or 20 years, or for ever
Multiple layers
Many experiences
Makes all sound awesome
Song came out 3 years prior to Whole Foods existence. Have a great weekend boys! L💞ve from Canada.
Part of the official “road-trip play list” for young people everywhere back in the day. Banger indeed. In fact you’d just play Steve Miller Greatest Hits in its entirety.
Definitely one of Steve’s best!
One of the things I always loved about this song is Steve is constantly riffing-not just hitting power chords over and over-but throwing cool riffs in between strums. Gives this song a lot of energy and motion. 👍🎸
Steve had plenty of hits that rocked our world. The Stake is a great deep cut that jams.
These are some of the best rock songs in history... they are A+ - S all day long, and when the pool of great songs starts fading away theres no going back... so please give these classic songs the real grades they deserve & no more nit-picking of a 99% perfect song !
My younger brother got invited to a Steve Miller concert somewhere around 1990. Afterwards he told me, "I only went because I was invited. I liked Steve Miller OK but never really thought I was a fan. Then the concert started and about a half hour later I realized that I knew all the words to all the songs. I guess I was a fan and didn't know it."
Another great song from the 70's!
Swingtown's probably the next step on the Steve Miller journey. One of the coolest sounding drum tracks to me.
It’s a perfect pop-rock song. High energy with nothing wasted. Fantastic guitar riff, driving bass line, and punchy drums. Plus the actual lyrics, vocal phrasing and treatment on the voice make this another brilliant feature of the song.
It’s an S.
When I was 13, this was the first album I ever bought myself. I got it the week it was released.
When ever I hear this song I think of “Everybody Loves Raymond”.
Me too!
can't think of it without thinking of robert dancing
The sound effect that begins this song is an example of what dispersion of a wave sounds like. If you run the single "pew" noise through a long enough slinky, the high frequency parts of the sound travel through it faster than the low frequency parts, which causes them to arrive at different times, and you get a dispersed sound that sounds like it's repeating, like an audio version of a light signal sent through a prism.
Guys, Serenade is A Cooker! Just Rocks! A Must Hear!
Great selections this week. Have a great weekend everyone!!
Great job! I guess I am the only one who wants you to hear "Living in the USA" by Steve Miller. It was one of the first of his songs to hit the radio.
Turn it up to 11. The true test of a song is if you still enjoy it as much decades from now after hundreds of listens and I guarantee you will with this one.
My three favorite Greatest Hits albums: Steve Miller, The Pointer Sisters, Billy Idol. Just fun party music.
I'll have this song in my head all day now, and I don't mind at all! In fact, I'm glad. This song always puts me in a good mood!
So you guys , people around my age of 62 were just alive teens used to this music,,, it was our everyday thing.. we loved but watching the now younger generation appreciate this music so much makes me realize we sort of took it for granted…but what else would we do this was our life….Steve Miller grew up for at least part of his middle school or high school years in my home town Milwaukee.. he was ahead of his time with the papaya..no Whole Foods back then
I love the horse whistles sprinkled throughout!
One of Steve Miller's best lines--"You treat me like I was your ocean, you swim in blood when it's warm." Got a nice smile from Alex it seems.
Again, I'll recommend for next time--"Livin in the USA" Yall like harmonica and it has some of the best of that you'll ever want to hear.
@Andy & Alex -
Thanks for all the great reviews & reactions over the years!
Steve Miller was raised in an environment of Rock & Roll royalty. His real life God Parent is the IMMORTAL LES PAUL!!!
Yes, that Les Paul - The guitar creator extraordinaire!
I think as you explore SMB music you'll be impressed with his versatility. I highly recommend checking out one of his earliest charting songs "Living in the USA".
All the best,
Mo-
Seasons, Going to the Country, Wintertime, I Love You.
There was no Whole Foods in 70s but they do have plenty of papayas in the jungle. Love you guys!
That whole album is great! Love the sound of he guitar on this one.