The Mighty Musical Observations Thread
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Flipping thru channels today and I stumbled upon the video for Dionne Warwick et al, "That's What Friends Are For." It was so much worse than what I remembered that I couldn't turn away. It has a decent claim against WBTC for worst song of the 80s.
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keep smilingDr. Medulla wrote: ↑26 May 2018, 7:03pmFlipping thru channels today and I stumbled upon the video for Dionne Warwick et al, "That's What Friends Are For." It was so much worse than what I remembered that I couldn't turn away. It has a decent claim against WBTC for worst song of the 80s.
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At least it was for charity. It's awful, but hopefully some strides were made in AIDS research because of it. Unlike WBTCORAR, which has likely driven people to suicide. Speaking of WBTCORAR, today is the 7th anniversary of this:Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑26 May 2018, 7:03pmFlipping thru channels today and I stumbled upon the video for Dionne Warwick et al, "That's What Friends Are For." It was so much worse than what I remembered that I couldn't turn away. It has a decent claim against WBTC for worst song of the 80s.
"You're missing the irony in the song. Like I've stressed many times here, the song is deliberately played in a horrendous mid-80s production style, it's part of a multi-faceted critique of the 80s music scene." -- John Heston on We Built This City on Rock and Roll
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Read: Seven years ago, Heston smoked some pesticide-soaked weed and fried his brain like an egg.JennyB wrote: ↑31 May 2018, 9:57amAt least it was for charity. It's awful, but hopefully some strides were made in AIDS research because of it. Unlike WBTCORAR, which has likely driven people to suicide. Speaking of WBTCORAR, today is the 7th anniversary of this:Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑26 May 2018, 7:03pmFlipping thru channels today and I stumbled upon the video for Dionne Warwick et al, "That's What Friends Are For." It was so much worse than what I remembered that I couldn't turn away. It has a decent claim against WBTC for worst song of the 80s.
"You're missing the irony in the song. Like I've stressed many times here, the song is deliberately played in a horrendous mid-80s production style, it's part of a multi-faceted critique of the 80s music scene." -- John Heston on We Built This City on Rock and Roll
"I never doubted myself for a minute for I knew that my monkey-strong bowels were girded with strength, like the loins of a dragon ribboned with fat and the opulence of buffalo dung." - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
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served on a biscuit with hollandaise sauce.
We reach the parts other combos cannot reach
We beach the beachheads other armies cannot beach
We speak the tongues other mouths cannot speak
We beach the beachheads other armies cannot beach
We speak the tongues other mouths cannot speak
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No, the pesticide-soaked weed fugue was much earlier when I first realized I dug the song, maybe 1999 or thereabouts. The above claim (which I stand by) was made much later when sober(ish).Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑31 May 2018, 10:08amRead: Seven years ago, Heston smoked some pesticide-soaked weed and fried his brain like an egg.JennyB wrote: ↑31 May 2018, 9:57amAt least it was for charity. It's awful, but hopefully some strides were made in AIDS research because of it. Unlike WBTCORAR, which has likely driven people to suicide. Speaking of WBTCORAR, today is the 7th anniversary of this:Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑26 May 2018, 7:03pmFlipping thru channels today and I stumbled upon the video for Dionne Warwick et al, "That's What Friends Are For." It was so much worse than what I remembered that I couldn't turn away. It has a decent claim against WBTC for worst song of the 80s.
"You're missing the irony in the song. Like I've stressed many times here, the song is deliberately played in a horrendous mid-80s production style, it's part of a multi-faceted critique of the 80s music scene." -- John Heston on We Built This City on Rock and Roll
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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So were Oasis imo.Silent Majority wrote: ↑26 May 2018, 6:37pmFast forwarding through a Noel Gallagher festival set on the BBC. What a dull live act.
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Good lord.Heston wrote: ↑31 May 2018, 4:10pmNo, the pesticide-soaked weed fugue was much earlier when I first realized I dug the song, maybe 1999 or thereabouts. The above claim (which I stand by) was made much later when sober(ish).Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑31 May 2018, 10:08amRead: Seven years ago, Heston smoked some pesticide-soaked weed and fried his brain like an egg.JennyB wrote: ↑31 May 2018, 9:57amAt least it was for charity. It's awful, but hopefully some strides were made in AIDS research because of it. Unlike WBTCORAR, which has likely driven people to suicide. Speaking of WBTCORAR, today is the 7th anniversary of this:Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑26 May 2018, 7:03pmFlipping thru channels today and I stumbled upon the video for Dionne Warwick et al, "That's What Friends Are For." It was so much worse than what I remembered that I couldn't turn away. It has a decent claim against WBTC for worst song of the 80s.
"You're missing the irony in the song. Like I've stressed many times here, the song is deliberately played in a horrendous mid-80s production style, it's part of a multi-faceted critique of the 80s music scene." -- John Heston on We Built This City on Rock and Roll
"I never doubted myself for a minute for I knew that my monkey-strong bowels were girded with strength, like the loins of a dragon ribboned with fat and the opulence of buffalo dung." - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
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Why do I always end up crying when I watch this drunk...
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Because my sister is going into bankruptcy, they're taking control of her royalties and withholding them. She can only get the rights to her music back if there's no appreciable uptick in the amount of royalties over an undefined period of time. Intellectual property laws, everybody!
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The history of copyright is so much horseshit, benefiting publishers and other intermediaries, not actual creators. None of that mattered until it became profitable to reproduce a work for the consumer and then reproducers demanded control of the work.eumaas wrote: ↑14 Jun 2018, 5:17pmBecause my sister is going into bankruptcy, they're taking control of her royalties and withholding them. She can only get the rights to her music back if there's no appreciable uptick in the amount of royalties over an undefined period of time. Intellectual property laws, everybody!
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Giving away so much for bankruptcy. Somebody who had nothing to do with the song gets control over it because one's debt has become unmanageable--in a society that forces down wages to the point where debt is necessary.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑14 Jun 2018, 5:38pmThe history of copyright is so much horseshit, benefiting publishers and other intermediaries, not actual creators. None of that mattered until it became profitable to reproduce a work for the consumer and then reproducers demanded control of the work.eumaas wrote: ↑14 Jun 2018, 5:17pmBecause my sister is going into bankruptcy, they're taking control of her royalties and withholding them. She can only get the rights to her music back if there's no appreciable uptick in the amount of royalties over an undefined period of time. Intellectual property laws, everybody!
Yet when a banker destroys the economy, they get a huge bonus...
I feel that there is a fascistic element, for example, in the Rolling Stones . . .
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I've studied the phenomenon of neo-provincialism in self-isolating online communities but this place takes the fucking cake.
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I'm just finishing up reading a history of the song "Louie Louie." Richard Berry, desperate for cash, signed away the rights in the late 50s for, I think, $750. Took him literally decades to regain control over his song.eumaas wrote: ↑14 Jun 2018, 5:40pmGiving away so much for bankruptcy. Somebody who had nothing to do with the song gets control over it because one's debt has become unmanageable--in a society that forces down wages to the point where debt is necessary.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑14 Jun 2018, 5:38pmThe history of copyright is so much horseshit, benefiting publishers and other intermediaries, not actual creators. None of that mattered until it became profitable to reproduce a work for the consumer and then reproducers demanded control of the work.eumaas wrote: ↑14 Jun 2018, 5:17pmBecause my sister is going into bankruptcy, they're taking control of her royalties and withholding them. She can only get the rights to her music back if there's no appreciable uptick in the amount of royalties over an undefined period of time. Intellectual property laws, everybody!
Bankers have vital skills that can't be reproduced (except for all the business school degrees that are pumped out). They're too important to be punished. (I overheard a student of mine this past term make this argument to another student to justify the immense chasm between executive pay and factory chump wages—they make that much money because their skills are so rare.)Yet when a banker destroys the economy, they get a huge bonus...
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