And anoher wonderful edition of MAA, the MAA8. I would like to thank again Brad for his awesome work as host of the game. And as an homage to him I include here the songs where his quotes come from, I hope to have guessed them right. Again (like the previous years) we have a fantastic collection of quotes and a fantastic collection of songs. Thank you very much, Brad!
If you click on the following links you will find live versions or official clips of the songs to showcase the look of the artists. If you prefer to listen to the original studio versions (except on two cases in which Brad alluded to two famous live versions, "does anybody remember laughter?" and "lotta freaks!") this year I've included a gorgeous Spotify playlist.
1.1
Let's go crazy / Let's get nuts! (Prince & the Revolution | Let's Go Crazy | 1984)
1.2
Think (think, think) / Let your mind go, let yourself be free! (Aretha Franklin | Think | 1968)
1.3
Does anybody remember laughter? (Led Zeppelin | Stairway to Heaven (Live) | 1976)
1.4
Maybe someday your name will be in lights / Saying 'Johnny B. Goode Tonight' (Chuck Berry | Johnny B. Goode | 1958)
1.5
Look at That Caveman Go! (The Hollywood Argyles | Alley-Oop | 1960)
1.6
Friends say it's fine, friends say it's good / Everybody says it's just like rock 'n' roll (T. Rex | 20th Century Boy | 1973)
1.7
We'll go back in time to that mystic land / Where the dew drops cry and the cats meow! (Spinal Tap | Stonehenge | 1984)
1.8
Strike another match, go start anew! (Bob Dylan | It's All Over Now, Baby Blue | 1965)
1.9
Children of tomorrow live in the tears that fall today / Will the sun rise up tomorrow bringing peace in any way? (Black Sabbath | Children of the Grave | 1971)
1.10
Hey you, don't watch that / Watch this! / This is the heavy heavy monster sound / The nuttiest sound around! (Madness | One Step Beyond | 1979)
1.11
Come Fly With Me! (Frank Sinatra | Come Fly with Me | 1958)
1.12
Bass for your face! (Public Enemy | Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos | 1988)
1.13
She gon' bring that attitude home! (Disclosure | When a Fire Starts to Burn | 2013)
1.14
Legalize It! (Peter Tosh | Legalize It | 1976)
1.15
Lost on the Freeway Again! (Meat Puppets | Lost | 1984)
1.16
Giant steps are what you take! (The Police | Walking on the Moon | 1979)
2.1
Get up, get out, get into something new! (The Rolling Stones | Dance (Pt. 1) | 1980)
2.2
You need a busload of faith to get by (Lou Reed | Busload of Faith | 1989)
2.3
It's like that, and that's the way it is (Run-D.M.C. | It's Like That | 1983)
2.4
New York, London, Paris, Munich / Everybody talk about pop muzik! (M | Pop Muzik | 1979)
2.5
Have you seen junior's grades?! (Van Halen | And the Cradle Will Rock... | 1980)
2.6
Music ain't nothin' but a people's jam! (Run-D.M.C. | King of Rock | 1985)
2.7
Take a klondike bar from the pop machine / Hey it's ice cream, no not coke! (The Fiery Furnaces | Tropical Ice-Land | 2003)
2.8
Riding out on a horse in a star-spangled rodeo... (Glen Campbell | Rhinestone Cowboy | 1975)
3.1
Oh, but Mama, that's where the fun is! (Bruce Springsteen | Blinded by the Light | 1973)
3.2
You got to pick up every stitch (Donovan | Season of the Witch | 1966)
3.3
Remove your shoes, enjoy some fruit! (Devendra Banhart | Fig in Leather | 2016)
3.4
Lotta freaks! (Arlo Guthrie | Walking Down the Line | 1994)
4.1
Up on heaven hill is where I wanna be / That girl that bottle that mattress and me (Hüsker Dü | The Girl Who Lives on Heaven Hill | 1985)
4.2
This world is going up in flames / And nobody wanna take the blame (Charles Bradley & Menahan Street Band | The World (Is Going Up in Flames) | 2007)
Quarter-Finals
You can stand me up at the gates of hell / But I won't back down (Tom Petty | I Won't Back Down | 1989)
Semi-Finals
Get up and boogie! (Silver Convention | Get Up and Boogie | 1976)
Finals
Be true to your school! (The Beach Boys | Be True to Your School | 1963)
And now my vote...
This year I couldn't be more ambivalent on this final. Like I said before it doesn't feel right to me to have The Beatles winning this kind of game and I'm delighted to see Saint Etienne winning for a quite wide margin. But on the other side, and paraphrasing the last song on Brad's list, I feel the need of being true to my school. And my school in Pop music is The Beatles. When I was a kid I used to go in summer to play with my neighbour Vicent Lluís in his backyard. Sometimes we played some records from the collection of Pepe Toni, his older brother. Our two favourite albums were "A Hard Day's Night" and "Help!" and we mimed to the songs playing imaginary guitars with our tennis rackets. I still can remember the back cover of the album, with the rings of Ringo and the cowboy hat of George and with the Spanish credits translating the titles and stating the lead singers of every song (I found this back cover on the Internet). Now those albums are not my favourites by the Fab Four, after elementary school it came high school and then college. But I can't deny that I still enjoy early Beatles a lot. So I can't help! it, I'll vote for...
1.
The Beatles - Help! (1965) vs. 2. Saint Etienne - So Tough (1993)
Currently sits at my #110 AT.
