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.

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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

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Silent Majority wrote:
20 Feb 2018, 5:10am
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.
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!”
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Inder wrote:
22 Feb 2018, 5:03pm
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
Great stuff of course credited to "Earl Vince & The Valiants" and not to forget the great version by the Rezillos.
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Marky Dread wrote:
22 Feb 2018, 5:40pm
Inder wrote:
22 Feb 2018, 5:03pm
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
Great stuff of course credited to "Earl Vince & The Valiants" and not to forget the great version by the Rezillos.
I feel like it's possible to appreciate both.

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."
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.
The Rezillos version is fab. I'm partial to this DMZ cover — rougher and meaner.


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Inder wrote:
23 Feb 2018, 12:52pm
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."
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.
The Rezillos version is fab. I'm partial to this DMZ cover — rougher and meaner.

Never heard that version before. :cool:
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Wolter wrote:
22 Feb 2018, 5:33pm
Silent Majority wrote:
20 Feb 2018, 5:10am
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.
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!”
And the thing is, they technically should be saying "L'Chaim."
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Heston wrote:
19 Feb 2018, 4:32pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
19 Feb 2018, 4:08pm
Say, 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. X(
I don't mind that song. :shifty:
Me neither. It is what it is and is sufficiently catchy.
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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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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Kory wrote:
23 Feb 2018, 2:54pm
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.
Chorjaculation.

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Heston wrote:
23 Feb 2018, 3:24pm
Kory wrote:
23 Feb 2018, 2:54pm
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.
Chorjaculation.

As heard in Don't Stop Believin'.
Love those songs - Swamp Thing is a great example

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drowninghere wrote:
23 Feb 2018, 3:49pm
Heston wrote:
23 Feb 2018, 3:24pm
Kory wrote:
23 Feb 2018, 2:54pm
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.
Chorjaculation.

As heard in Don't Stop Believin'.
Love those songs - Swamp Thing is a great example
Ooh yeah that's a great one. Is it called delayed something or other?
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