The Mighty Musical Observations Thread
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Hated it at the time. In 2008 I spent hours trapped on a party boat (wow, I was a different person then) where the DJ played it four times. Now, I've got nostalgia for it and, I guess, that boat where it was four pounds for a tiny bottle of beer. The only Black Eyed Peas that's any good is Where Is the Love.
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Hate it.
I hate anything that resembles forced fun.
I hate anything that resembles forced fun.
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I had a disagreement with a friend a few days ago — I put this on
and said something to the effect of how I prefer this sort of stuff to the Buckingham/Nicks coke fantasies. My point was while Rumours/etc are great, there's nothing "special" about them to me — those songs and albums have achieved a sort of Bob Marley dorm-room-poster cultural ubiquity and are getting kind of tiresome. He didn't see it that way.
So today, while doing grocery rounds, I heard Don't Stop in one supermarket and Dreams in another.
lol
and said something to the effect of how I prefer this sort of stuff to the Buckingham/Nicks coke fantasies. My point was while Rumours/etc are great, there's nothing "special" about them to me — those songs and albums have achieved a sort of Bob Marley dorm-room-poster cultural ubiquity and are getting kind of tiresome. He didn't see it that way.
So today, while doing grocery rounds, I heard Don't Stop in one supermarket and Dreams in another.
lol
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I cannot measure the level of eye rolling that I go through every time it’s played at any wedding or bar mitzvah on Ali’s sure of the family and a room full of Jews sing “MAZEL TOV” like it’s “LEONARD BERNSTEIN” from End of the World. It’s like “look! They’re pandering to us!”Silent Majority wrote: ↑20 Feb 2018, 5:10amHated it at the time. In 2008 I spent hours trapped on a party boat (wow, I was a different person then) where the DJ played it four times. Now, I've got nostalgia for it and, I guess, that boat where it was four pounds for a tiny bottle of beer. The only Black Eyed Peas that's any good is Where Is the Love.
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Great stuff of course credited to "Earl Vince & The Valiants" and not to forget the great version by the Rezillos.Inder wrote: ↑22 Feb 2018, 5:03pmI had a disagreement with a friend a few days ago — I put this on
and said something to the effect of how I prefer this sort of stuff to the Buckingham/Nicks coke fantasies. My point was while Rumours/etc are great, there's nothing "special" about them to me — those songs and albums have achieved a sort of Bob Marley dorm-room-poster cultural ubiquity and are getting kind of tiresome. He didn't see it that way.
So today, while doing grocery rounds, I heard Don't Stop in one supermarket and Dreams in another.
lol
Forces have been looting
My humanity
Curfews have been curbing
The end of liberty
We're the flowers in the dustbin...
No fuchsias for you.
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I feel like it's possible to appreciate both.Marky Dread wrote: ↑22 Feb 2018, 5:40pmGreat stuff of course credited to "Earl Vince & The Valiants" and not to forget the great version by the Rezillos.Inder wrote: ↑22 Feb 2018, 5:03pmI had a disagreement with a friend a few days ago — I put this on
and said something to the effect of how I prefer this sort of stuff to the Buckingham/Nicks coke fantasies. My point was while Rumours/etc are great, there's nothing "special" about them to me — those songs and albums have achieved a sort of Bob Marley dorm-room-poster cultural ubiquity and are getting kind of tiresome. He didn't see it that way.
So today, while doing grocery rounds, I heard Don't Stop in one supermarket and Dreams in another.
lol
Honestly, a lot of the early Fleetwood Mac blues numbers feel pretty by the book. I'd rather hear weird, nervy, coked up Buckingham Tusk songs than another white British blooze number from the late 60s. There are some massive numbers from the early days, but there is just as much filler as killer.
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Sure. I think my point was vaguely along the lines of "they're great, but I don't really ever play them on because they're already everywhere, whereas you can still dig around in the Peter Green stuff and find the odd interesting gem."
The Rezillos version is fab. I'm partial to this DMZ cover — rougher and meaner.Marky Dread wrote: ↑22 Feb 2018, 5:40pm
Great stuff of course credited to "Earl Vince & The Valiants" and not to forget the great version by the Rezillos.
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Never heard that version before.Inder wrote: ↑23 Feb 2018, 12:52pmSure. I think my point was vaguely along the lines of "they're great, but I don't really ever play them on because they're already everywhere, whereas you can still dig around in the Peter Green stuff and find the odd interesting gem."
The Rezillos version is fab. I'm partial to this DMZ cover — rougher and meaner.Marky Dread wrote: ↑22 Feb 2018, 5:40pm
Great stuff of course credited to "Earl Vince & The Valiants" and not to forget the great version by the Rezillos.
Forces have been looting
My humanity
Curfews have been curbing
The end of liberty
We're the flowers in the dustbin...
No fuchsias for you.
"Without the common people you're nothing"
Nos Sumus Una Familia
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And the thing is, they technically should be saying "L'Chaim."Wolter wrote: ↑22 Feb 2018, 5:33pmI cannot measure the level of eye rolling that I go through every time it’s played at any wedding or bar mitzvah on Ali’s sure of the family and a room full of Jews sing “MAZEL TOV” like it’s “LEONARD BERNSTEIN” from End of the World. It’s like “look! They’re pandering to us!”Silent Majority wrote: ↑20 Feb 2018, 5:10amHated it at the time. In 2008 I spent hours trapped on a party boat (wow, I was a different person then) where the DJ played it four times. Now, I've got nostalgia for it and, I guess, that boat where it was four pounds for a tiny bottle of beer. The only Black Eyed Peas that's any good is Where Is the Love.
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Me neither. It is what it is and is sufficiently catchy.Heston wrote: ↑19 Feb 2018, 4:32pmI don't mind that song.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑19 Feb 2018, 4:08pmSay, what's more annoying than that Black-eyed Peas "I Gotta Feeling" song? How about "I Gotta Feeling" as an instrumental with strings and piano while on hold? Just that little extra fuck you from corporate customer service.
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.
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People, no matter what Big Brother tells you, do not forget this: We have always been at war with Hoyston.
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Songwriters: I'm killing myself trying to think of the term for when a chorus is way, way late in the song, which sets up tension until it explodes in catchy hellfire. I heard it once years ago and now I can't remember the name for it.
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Chorjaculation.
As heard in Don't Stop Believin'.
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board
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Ooh yeah that's a great one. Is it called delayed something or other?drowninghere wrote: ↑23 Feb 2018, 3:49pmLove those songs - Swamp Thing is a great example
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