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Anyone Remember This One?

No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach's In) by the T-Bones

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I used to hear this song a lot on an oldies station that did not give song titles or artists. It wasn't until the Shazam app that I ever found out the name and the artist. I vaguely remember hearing the riff in the Alka-Seltzer ads back in the day.

For some reason I always liked this song even though I never cared for 'surf' music. The strange things is that to me this song has a sinister feel to it. I know that sounds crazy. But during the chorus when the girls are singing my mind goes to some strange Quentin Tarantino-esque scene where something dark and awful is happening that is incongruous to the "happy" music with the slightly sinister undertone.
n80

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n80 OP
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Sounds like the T-Bones were the West Coast version of The Swampers at Muscle Shoals.
n80 OP
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I saw one documentary that centered on the guy who owned Muscle Shoals (FAME). Not sure if that's the one you're talking about but it was a good one and focused on the Swampers as well.

I particularly liked the part where Aretha was in the studio and they were trying to make something of I Never Loved a Man that wasn't developing when Spooner Oldham played the chords that opened the song and it took off from there. Wikipedia says Aretha played those chords initially and Oldham picked them up but I didn't think that was the way they recounted it in the documentary. Either way, it was cool.
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