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The Subdudes

The Subdudes (styled lowercase as The subdudes) are an American roots rock group from New Orleans. Their music blends folk, swamp pop, New Orleans rhythm and blues, Louisiana blues, country, cajun/zydeco, funk, soul and gospel with harmonic vocals. Their sound is notable for the band's substitution of a tambourine player for a drummer. The subdudes formed in 1987 through a music venue in New Orleans called Tipitina's.

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albums by The Subdudes
Songs by The Subdudes
(You'll Be) Satisfied
Annunciation
length: 3:46
6.5
(44)
Angel to Be
Annunciation
length: 3:32
6.7
(439)
Late at Night
Annunciation
length: 3:36
6.4
(453)
Message Man
Annunciation
length: 4:20
6.9
(17)
Save Me
Annunciation
length: 3:58
7.1
(16)
Sugar Pie
Annunciation
length: 3:33
5.4
(36)
Why Can't I Forget About You
Annunciation
length: 4:16
6.7
(128)
All the Time in the World
Primitive Streak
length: 4:31
7
(1500)
Carved in Stone
Primitive Streak
length: 3:07
7
(11)
Do Me a Favor
Primitive Streak
length: 3:52
6.6
(5)
Don't Let 'em
Primitive Streak
length: 3:38
6
(5)
Love Somebody
Primitive Streak
length: 5:01
7
(26)
Why Do You Hurt Me So
Primitive Streak
length: 3:02
6.7
(11)
Next to Me
Behind the Levee
length: 4:10
6.5
(81)
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Comments ( 390 )
All the Time in the World - The Subdudes
Posted 7 years ago by passsion8:
horstman wrote:
passsion8 wrote:
I was the art director for the NBC Olympics in '96. They were working me to death & I was doing 14 hour shifts, missing time for friends & exercise & home-cooked meals. Taking naps under consoles to stay awake. One day (July 6th, actually), I walked in and they had replaced all the chairs with crates since the furniture had to be sent ahead to Atlanta to be set up. I asked how long we were expected to sit on crates and they said about a month. And they said no more days off for the remainder of the job. (3 months!) That did it. I quit. Went out to Central Park in NYC and played Frisbee for hours on a sunny day. Loved it. This song was playing on a boom box nearby. REALLY loved it then. I had all the time in the world......
I'm a Landscape Architect. My summers are like this all the time and my winters aren't much better. We do what we love and endure the hours as hubris for our craft. You missed out on a great life changing event because you couldn't deal with it. Poor fella!


Not exactly the end of the story. I was set free for a reason. The next morning I got a call from my father's wife (not my mother) that my father had hit his head and was in a coma. I flew down to see him one last time. He passed 3 days later.

I needed to be free to deal with that scenario, and No, correlation is not causation here. No bad juju. Besides, I had been the Art Director for the '88 Olympics already, won 4 Emmys and knew EXACTLY what I was missing! I went on to a very lucrative freelance career thereafter.


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Posted 17 years ago by siandbeth:
passsion8 wrote:
I was the art director for the NBC Olympics in '96. They were working me to death & I was doing 14 hour shifts, missing time for friends & exercise & home-cooked meals. Taking naps under consoles to stay awake. One day (July 6th, actually), I walked in and they had replaced all the chairs with crates since the furniture had to be sent ahead to Atlanta to be set up. I asked how long we were expected to sit on crates and they said about a month. And they said no more days off for the remainder of the job. (3 months!) That did it. I quit. Went out to Central Park in NYC and played Frisbee for hours on a sunny day. Loved it. This song was playing on a boom box nearby. REALLY loved it then. I had all the time in the world......
Great story! Thanks for sharing
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Posted 8 years ago by skindy:
Oh man, does this bring back memories! The ex and I were HUGE fans of the subdudes (lower case!) when the original group was together and touring. Saw them live multiple times. Such musicianship, and hard not to smile, tap yer feet (or all-out dance) when listening to them!
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Posted 4 years ago by Bert7:
Don't know how I missed these guys, but never to late to learn...
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Posted 4 years ago by KASzmed_Pradio:
siandbeth wrote:
passsion8 wrote:
I was the art director for the NBC Olympics in '96. They were working me to death & I was doing 14 hour shifts, missing time for friends & exercise & home-cooked meals. Taking naps under consoles to stay awake. One day (July 6th, actually), I walked in and they had replaced all the chairs with crates since the furniture had to be sent ahead to Atlanta to be set up. I asked how long we were expected to sit on crates and they said about a month. And they said no more days off for the remainder of the job. (3 months!) That did it. I quit. Went out to Central Park in NYC and played Frisbee for hours on a sunny day. Loved it. This song was playing on a boom box nearby. REALLY loved it then. I had all the time in the world......
Great story! Thanks for sharing
 
Posting to an 8 year old post?... talk about a message from the past. For all the people who've felt like this listener in '96 working for the man... Thanks for sharing your story.  And thanks to PR for their wonderfully eclectic mix that just WORKS and simply defies an algorithm. K
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Posted 5 years ago by apparatuspdx:
Pretty fitting at the moment.
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Posted 3 years ago by zenhead:
The solo reminds me of ol' Lowell George.
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Angel to Be - The Subdudes
Posted 10 years ago by WonderLizard:
If you could arrange it, please, to have them play at my funeral—along with the Wailin' Jennys. Perhaps they could do some stuff together. I wouldn't know either way of course, but I'll betcha everyone else would have a pretty good time.
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Posted 18 years ago by passsion8:
I was the art director for the NBC Olympics in '96. They were working me to death & I was doing 14 hour shifts, missing time for friends & exercise & home-cooked meals. Taking naps under consoles to stay awake. One day (July 6th, actually), I walked in and they had replaced all the chairs with crates since the furniture had to be sent ahead to Atlanta to be set up. I asked how long we were expected to sit on crates and they said about a month. And they said no more days off for the remainder of the job. (3 months!) That did it. I quit. Went out to Central Park in NYC and played Frisbee for hours on a sunny day. Loved it. This song was playing on a boom box nearby. REALLY loved it then. I had all the time in the world......
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Posted 1 year ago by awhfman:
I miss The Subdudes.
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Posted 2 years ago by QuantumShaman:
Kinda surprised that -- among all the "sounds like" comments -- no one mentioned Honky Tonk Women.  Not a bad sound to have...
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Posted 4 years ago by carmelmik:
a great band. vocals, musicianship and stage presence is great.  a special sound.
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Posted 5 years ago by DW4554:
The hook is the guitar riff at 4:12. Kind of a diminished 5th or some such, AKA the Devil's chord. 

The Devil's chord is a chord that has the root note of a minor scale, the flatted fifth of the same scale and the root note of the scale an octave higher.

Perfect.

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Posted 8 years ago by skindy:
passsion8 wrote:
I was the art director for the NBC Olympics in '96. They were working me to death & I was doing 14 hour shifts, missing time for friends & exercise & home-cooked meals. Taking naps under consoles to stay awake. One day (July 6th, actually), I walked in and they had replaced all the chairs with crates since the furniture had to be sent ahead to Atlanta to be set up. I asked how long we were expected to sit on crates and they said about a month. And they said no more days off for the remainder of the job. (3 months!) That did it. I quit. Went out to Central Park in NYC and played Frisbee for hours on a sunny day. Loved it. This song was playing on a boom box nearby. REALLY loved it then. I had all the time in the world......
 
Love this story. {#Clap}
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Angel to Be - The Subdudes
Posted 11 years ago by Mikey1:
Now I understand why I could never find this song in the Los Lobos catalogue..
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Posted 1 year ago by lily34:
love this whole album. so good. 
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Posted 3 years ago by gottclay:
 horstman wrote:
passsion8 wrote: I'm a Landscape Architect. My summers are like this all the time and my winters aren't much better. We do what we love and endure the hours as hubris for our craft. You missed out on a great life changing event because you couldn't deal with it. Poor fella!


No one ever proclaims on their deathbed that they wished they worked longer hours.  Live your one life while you have it.  The olympics are a horrible scam - set pieces for autocrats and multi-national corporations.  I'd consider a badge of honor to quit them.
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Posted 4 years ago by Jelani:
This song is so great!
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Posted 6 years ago by zillah:
OceanBlue wrote:
Awesome band name, awesome song, awesome comment by an awesome listener of an awesome radio station.

 
Nothing more to add to this.
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Posted 12 years ago by lily34:
i had the pleasure of seeing these guys live a few times. so very much fun. love this song.
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