Why does my favorite song never make it on any all time best songs lists?

NNN0LHI

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Thu Apr-28-05 09:09 AM
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Why does my favorite song never make it on any all time best songs lists?

Edited on Thu Apr-28-05 09:12 AM by NNN0LHI

One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer (Some may know it better as "The House Rent Blues")

--by George Thorogood & the Destroyers--

Do I have bad taste in music or something?

Don

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Joe Power

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Thu Apr-28-05 09:09 AM
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1. Yes

;)

Just kidding, although I prefer John Lee Hooker's version.

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NNN0LHI

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Thu Apr-28-05 09:11 AM
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3. JLH does a fantastic job too

Just something about Thorogood's voice gets to me.

Don

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patcox2

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Thu Apr-28-05 09:11 AM
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2. "House Rent Blues."

Edited on Thu Apr-28-05 09:12 AM by patcox2

House RENT, as in "I didn't have enough money to pay the rent, so out the door I went."

Yes, you have very bad taste. Northern redneck music. But I like it too, just what you want to listen to on a methamphetamine binge at a nascar track.

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NNN0LHI

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Thu Apr-28-05 09:14 AM
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5. Thanks. I fixed it. Don't know what came over me?

I kind of consider myself a northern redneck. Never much cared for crank though.

Don

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Bonhomme Richard

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Thu Apr-28-05 09:13 AM
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4. Good Old Three Chord George.............

I do like some of his stuff, especially his cover of Who Do You Love, but it always amazed me that he got as far as he did.

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NNN0LHI

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Thu Apr-28-05 09:19 AM
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6. Its not the guitar work that gets to me

Edited on Thu Apr-28-05 09:19 AM by NNN0LHI

Its the way he uses his voice to tell the story. It grabs me. If I am in my car and late for an appointment I just can't turn it off. I can't say that about any other song I know of.

Don

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patcox2

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Thu Apr-28-05 09:52 AM
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7. Do ya know the one about the german girl from england

who was going to school in france? I think thats called "It aint me." And he did a great "cocaine blues."

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NNN0LHI

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Thu Apr-28-05 10:19 AM
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14. Don't think I ever heard either of them. Thanks for the tip n/t

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ChavezSpeakstheTruth

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Thu Apr-28-05 09:57 AM
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8. Cause it's a sucky song

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NNN0LHI

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Thu Apr-28-05 10:09 AM
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13. I'm listening to 50 Cent right now (/ducking)

Edited on Thu Apr-28-05 10:20 AM by NNN0LHI

I really am though.

Don

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ChavezSpeakstheTruth

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Thu Apr-28-05 11:43 AM
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16. Dude!

Put some Coltrane on STAT to wash that stuff out of your brain!

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NNN0LHI

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Thu Apr-28-05 12:44 PM
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18. I like jazz. Just wouldn't want a steady diet of it

Variety is the spice of life. And by the way, 50 Cent didn't impress me. Listened to him for the first time today. Listening to Audioslave now. Audioslave is good.

Don

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XNASA

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Thu Apr-28-05 10:00 AM
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9. That song is not realistic.

Anyone who sits around and mixes bourbon, scotch and beer could still probably play guitar better than George Thorogood.

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RandomKoolzip

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Thu Apr-28-05 10:02 AM
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10. Did you know he almost replaced Mick Taylor in the Stones?

Suicide would have been preferable.

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driver8

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Thu Apr-28-05 10:06 AM
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12. Peter Frampton was also being considered to join the Stones...

That could have been interesting because Frampton can play!!

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ChavezSpeakstheTruth

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Thu Apr-28-05 11:44 AM
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17. Deicide

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driver8

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Thu Apr-28-05 10:06 AM
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11. Man, I love that song!! In college, we took the term "gassed" and

used it for "being drunk". Not that I ever had cause to use it, but many of my friends did.

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Redstone

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Thu Apr-28-05 10:40 AM
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15. Dunno why. But I must be old, because

I remember when his band was called the Delaware Destroyers, not just "Destroyers."

Used to see him in bars on South Street in Philly, way, WAY back when.

Redstone

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