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Post by repulsionist on Jan 15, 2024 21:21:26 GMT -5
Criminy, Stiv Bators is the most copied frontman in affronting rock. I mean, yeah, Bators took his cues from Pop. Alright, fine then. Pop is the most copied frontman in opprobrious rock.
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Post by LazBro on Jan 16, 2024 8:26:02 GMT -5
The local mix stations have boiled the late 90's and early 00's down into four songs:
"Santeria" by Sublime "Semi-Charmed Life" by Third Eye Blind "My Own Worst Enemy" by Lit "Bring Me to Life" by Evanescence
These are the only ones they play, and if I'm driving somewhere, even for a short distance, flipping stations, I will encounter at least one of these songs every single time.
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Post by pantsgoblin on Jan 16, 2024 9:56:54 GMT -5
The local mix stations have boiled the late 90's and early 00's down into four songs:
"Santeria" by Sublime "Semi-Charmed Life" by Third Eye Blind "My Own Worst Enemy" by Lit "Bring Me to Life" by Evanescence
These are the only ones they play, and if I'm driving somewhere, even for a short distance, flipping stations, I will encounter at least one of these songs every single time.
No "Inside Out"? Maybe because that guy's such an outspoken lefty on Twitter.
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Post by ganews on Jan 16, 2024 10:42:56 GMT -5
The local mix stations have boiled the late 90's and early 00's down into four songs:
"Santeria" by Sublime "Semi-Charmed Life" by Third Eye Blind "My Own Worst Enemy" by Lit "Bring Me to Life" by Evanescence
These are the only ones they play, and if I'm driving somewhere, even for a short distance, flipping stations, I will encounter at least one of these songs every single time.
Those monsters, have they no respect for Seattle? Or even Stone Temple Pilots and Red Hot Chili Peppers?
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Post by Rainbow Rosa on Jan 16, 2024 15:01:48 GMT -5
The local mix stations have boiled the late 90's and early 00's down into four songs:
"Santeria" by Sublime "Semi-Charmed Life" by Third Eye Blind "My Own Worst Enemy" by Lit "Bring Me to Life" by Evanescence
These are the only ones they play, and if I'm driving somewhere, even for a short distance, flipping stations, I will encounter at least one of these songs every single time.
I'm humming along with this list until we get to "Bring Me to Life" - not a bad tune (or, I mean... you know what I mean) but it's a pretty bizarre choice in the context of the other three.
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Post by ganews on Jan 16, 2024 15:25:03 GMT -5
The local mix stations have boiled the late 90's and early 00's down into four songs:
"Santeria" by Sublime "Semi-Charmed Life" by Third Eye Blind "My Own Worst Enemy" by Lit "Bring Me to Life" by Evanescence
These are the only ones they play, and if I'm driving somewhere, even for a short distance, flipping stations, I will encounter at least one of these songs every single time.
I'm humming along with this list until we get to "Bring Me to Life" - not a bad tune (or, I mean... you know what I mean) but it's a pretty bizarre choice in the context of the other three. The terrestrial radio landscape is bleak as hell. There were never many women on rock radio, a lot of millennial women really liked that song, and the station needs every ear it can get.
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Post by Jimmy James on Jan 18, 2024 11:00:54 GMT -5
Not sure if I've shared this before, but the discussion of Northern Exposure in the TV threads got me thinking. My main point of reference for the show is the soundtrack album my mother owned (I do not remember her actually watching the show). All I know is it's about a doctor up in the Alaskan wilderness so I have no clue for what context could have brought up this song:
But it did get me thinking of how long of a playlist I could make out of songs with phone calls in the middle of them. First thought was this
Weird Al's "Phony Calls" feels like cheating. But lying in bed unable to sleep, I realized I forgot the OG:
I think he goes to the same barber as Dicky Barrett of the Mighty Mighty Bosstones.
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Post by Some Kind of Munster on Jan 18, 2024 12:01:09 GMT -5
But it did get me thinking of how long of a playlist I could make out of songs with phone calls in the middle of them. First thought was this Is "Smoko" disqualified since it's an outgoing call?
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Post by ganews on Jan 18, 2024 16:47:29 GMT -5
But it did get me thinking of how long of a playlist I could make out of songs with phone calls in the middle of them. First thought was this Weird Al's "Phony Calls" feels like cheating. But lying in bed unable to sleep, I realized I forgot the OG: I think he goes to the same barber as Dicky Barrett of the Mighty Mighty Bosstones. I go right to the Guns n' Roses cover of "Knocking on Heaven's Door", even though that is not actually a phone call but an (incredibly annoying) series of touchtones.
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Post by pantsgoblin on Jan 19, 2024 12:52:05 GMT -5
My 79-year-old mother-in-law is the daughter of a woman who fled the Dresden bombing on bicycle and, as such, is understandably fascinated by German post-war culture. I sent her this BBC article on Krautrock and now she's into Neu!
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Post by Celebith on Jan 26, 2024 1:26:40 GMT -5
I get Rodney Crowell and Radney Foster confused with each other when I see songwriting credits or other print type media. It's not like they sound similar or anything.
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Post by Celebith on Jan 26, 2024 1:37:45 GMT -5
Remember when the olds used to be annoyed by new music because it was too loud, or naughty or offensive? And now anyone over age 30 hates new music because it is so freaking boring. Seriously. Listen to Olivia Rodrigo's breakout single "Driver's License". It is the dreariest, most boring hit ballad since "Wrecking Ball". I'm bored and zombifying old discussions, so apologies in advance for posts coming up. Driver's License isn't the worst, but it's just a worse version of Missing, so it gave me an excuse to force my daughter to listen to EBTG, and she liked a few of their tracks. Tracey Thorn is pretty good, and few of their songs are about some guy they broke up with, so overall I think they have an edge on Rodrigo.
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Post by pantsgoblin on Jan 29, 2024 11:01:05 GMT -5
An old friend who's a local journalist submitted a music playlist for some ongoing series. I loved her anecdote about Wilco.
2. "Misunderstood" by Wilco: "Always loved this song, but this specific version helped me cope with the obfuscatory PIOs (public servants who refused to talk with or provide documents to reporters like me) and attorneys in the Susana Martinez administration. I would listen whenever feeling particularly frustrated with former [New Mexico Environment Department] Secretary Ryan Flynn or the governor's office and feel much better by the end."
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Post by Desert Dweller on Feb 2, 2024 12:56:59 GMT -5
In the spirit of another thread here, today I learned that Paul Anka has a cover of "Smells Like Teen Spirit". I learned this from Will Harris of Ye Old Country, who put it on a Q magazine playlist today.
I listened to it. ...Wow.
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Post by Ben Grimm on Feb 2, 2024 14:20:42 GMT -5
In the spirit of another thread here, today I learned that Paul Anka has a cover of "Smells Like Teen Spirit". I learned this from Will Harris of Ye Old Country, who put it on a Q magazine playlist today. I listened to it. ...Wow. Every day we move further from god.
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Post by Desert Dweller on Feb 2, 2024 14:36:25 GMT -5
In the spirit of another thread here, today I learned that Paul Anka has a cover of "Smells Like Teen Spirit". I learned this from Will Harris of Ye Old Country, who put it on a Q magazine playlist today. I listened to it. ...Wow. Every day we move further from god. I do not know what Will's intent was in putting this on a playlist. But he certainly got me to tell several people that this exists. A couple of co-workers listened to it over lunch and I could hear them laughing as it played. This is from 2005! I do not know if I am happy or not that I found this out. It is definitely one of the weirdest covers I've ever heard.
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Post by ganews on Feb 2, 2024 16:43:17 GMT -5
Lurky McLurk I listened to the previous Sleater-Kinney album twice in advance of seeing them live for the second time. Enjoyed the show but it's hard to look past the ouster of Janet Weiss. Is the new one a return to form?
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Post by MyNameIsNoneOfYourGoddamnBusin on Feb 2, 2024 17:23:58 GMT -5
In the spirit of another thread here, today I learned that Paul Anka has a cover of "Smells Like Teen Spirit". I learned this from Will Harris of Ye Old Country, who put it on a Q magazine playlist today. I listened to it. ...Wow. I remember hearing it when the album came out. He performed on Letterman to promote and for everything else questionable about this version, I can at least say that from it I could finally understand what the words were.
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Post by Rainbow Rosa on Feb 4, 2024 21:27:26 GMT -5
Every day we move further from god. I do not know what Will's intent was in putting this on a playlist. But he certainly got me to tell several people that this exists. A couple of co-workers listened to it over lunch and I could hear them laughing as it played. This is from 2005! I do not know if I am happy or not that I found this out. It is definitely one of the weirdest covers I've ever heard. It really does bother me that the arrangement here doesn't make even the vaguest attempt at copying features of the original song. Yes, whoosh, Rosa, that's the joke - but there's two obvious things you could ape that would really hammer home that joke:
1) Have a solo instrument play a deliberately warbly line following the new chord progression, and then have those big band drums play a "pah duh duh... pah duh duh... pa duh duh..." a la Dave Grohl before kicking in to the *real* arrangement
2) Have the brass section mimic the six-note guitar riff that concludes the chorus - possibly even have Paul punctuate it with an a "ooh!"
Anyway, my main opinion of this song is that it really made me appreciate the artistry of Richard Cheese by comparison.
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Post by Desert Dweller on Feb 4, 2024 23:36:42 GMT -5
Anyway, my main opinion of this song is that it really made me appreciate the artistry of Richard Cheese by comparison.
I have a co-worker who is a jazz musician, and I told him at about this. When I described it, he said, "That sounds like Richard Cheese". I told him he should definitely listen to it. He did, and then he said, "It is exactly like what Richard Cheese does". And then a few minutes later said, "Except without being fun".
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Post by Desert Dweller on Feb 4, 2024 23:53:01 GMT -5
Apparently Taylor Swift said at the Grammys tonight that her lucky number is 13. My lucky number is also 13. She also apparently said she has an album coming out on Apr 19th. Apr 19th is my birthday.
I think this would all be very important and meaningful somehow if I liked Taylor Swift's music at all.
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Post by King Charles’s Butterfly on Feb 5, 2024 3:18:02 GMT -5
I’ll always associate Paul Anka with the 1959 classic Girls Town, although I think it’s more notable for: 1. The Platters 2. Mel Tormé in a purely dramatic role, playing a forty year-old juvenile delinquent
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Feb 5, 2024 12:27:56 GMT -5
Lurky McLurk I listened to the previous Sleater-Kinney album twice in advance of seeing them live for the second time. Enjoyed the show but it's hard to look past the ouster of Janet Weiss. Is the new one a return to form? I liked it a bit better than Path of Wellness, but I’m still not wild about it. I think Sleater-Kinney has officially become a “it’ll be a pleasant surprise if they release a new album that I like” band. Which is fine, to be clear; their debut is like 30 years old or something, and they have at least half a dozen albums that I absolutely love.
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Post by King Charles’s Butterfly on Feb 5, 2024 13:15:36 GMT -5
I’ve been listening through the Beatles’s singles (and b-sides)—I enjoyed the Beatles when I was young, by the end of high school I thought I’d outgrown them, and listening again (and without anything to prove about my taste) I’m really impressed. Big, unoriginal observations:
1. I really did not appreciate Paul as a bassist, he’s pretty great. I am not sure anything is “underrated” with the Beatles but the rhythm section is pretty great as a whole.
2. The Beatles were louder than I remembered. This is obviously partly a consequence of listening environment, but a lot of the early stuff is clearly composed to hit the back of a loud crowd (if not so loud as the ones they’d face during Beatlesmania) and I did not realize how early their sound started getting heavier…sometimes. While they go across a full range of sounds and volumes as they approach the end, Paul’s bimodality—hard stuff on one hand, “granny music”—is kind of weird.
3. I can imagine what a bolt that early stuff must have been. Not only is it louder than what I typically think of as early 60s American pop music, but it’s also more direct, both in terms of how the individual instruments reach you and the lyrics. With “She Loves You” they were trying to make a song that would provoke an Elvis-grade emotional reaction without aping Elvis, and they more than succeeded (also kind of odd in that it’s addressed to a guy, or the singer himself, rather than the girl like so many of those early ones).
4. The evolution from 1965-67 is rapid and incredible (two days short of two years between the studio sessions for “Ticket to Ride” and “Strawberry Fields Forever”). By the time they’re recording the White Album, I think, things have stopped truly progressing and more wandering.
5. Lennon & McCartney are better when there’s some interchange between them, even if it’s indirect. Looking through info on these songs they’re also depressingly petty about each other.
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Post by Nudeviking on Feb 5, 2024 19:29:11 GMT -5
The local mix stations have boiled the late 90's and early 00's down into four songs:
"Santeria" by Sublime "Semi-Charmed Life" by Third Eye Blind "My Own Worst Enemy" by Lit "Bring Me to Life" by Evanescence
These are the only ones they play, and if I'm driving somewhere, even for a short distance, flipping stations, I will encounter at least one of these songs every single time.
No STP? The singles from STP's first two albums is apparently in permanent rotation on the "modern" rock stations in my ancestral homeland. Like any time I visited my parents I'd arrive at the regional airport about 15 minutes away from where my parents live and get a rental car and in that short drive from the airport they always play an STP song. I don't know how many times in the 2010s and 2020s I have heard "Vaseline" or "Sex Type Thing" or "Creep" while driving back to my hometown from an airport.
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Post by Lurky McLurk on Feb 6, 2024 5:06:17 GMT -5
Lurky McLurk I listened to the previous Sleater-Kinney album twice in advance of seeing them live for the second time. Enjoyed the show but it's hard to look past the ouster of Janet Weiss. Is the new one a return to form? Funny you mention it - having spent most of the weekend continuing to listen to Little Rope I'd been thinking about going back to that post to qualify it a bit. Depends what you consider to be a return to form. I like Path of Wellness just fine as a St Vincent album (ironically not the one produced by St Vincent). I'm not especially keen on The Centre Won't Hold (despite it being the one which actually was produced by St Vincent). This one's like neither of those two; it's the classic rock band Sleater-Kinney always had inside them bursting its way out, leaving a trail of three minute bangers in its wake. Which is fine by me - three minute rock bangers being one of my favourite genres, and some of them (Say It Like You Mean It, Six Mistakes, Dress Yourself, Untidy Creature) really fucking bang. My reservation though is just thinking how much better it would be if they still had Janet Weiss in the band. It's not that the drums are an afterthought - on some tracks they're front and centre - but they never really amount to much more than being A Beat, and don't have that interplay with Corin Tucker's (I think) guitars that was one of the reasons the second half of their first run of albums was so good. (So, so good).
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Post by LazBro on Feb 6, 2024 11:09:56 GMT -5
The local mix stations have boiled the late 90's and early 00's down into four songs:
"Santeria" by Sublime "Semi-Charmed Life" by Third Eye Blind "My Own Worst Enemy" by Lit "Bring Me to Life" by Evanescence
These are the only ones they play, and if I'm driving somewhere, even for a short distance, flipping stations, I will encounter at least one of these songs every single time.
No STP? The singles from STP's first two albums is apparently in permanent rotation on the "modern" rock stations in my ancestral homeland. Like any time I visited my parents I'd arrive at the regional airport about 15 minutes away from where my parents live and get a rental car and in that short drive from the airport they always play an STP song. I don't know how many times in the 2010s and 2020s I have heard "Vaseline" or "Sex Type Thing" or "Creep" while driving back to my hometown from an airport. Oh you'll definitely hear some STP from time to time, especially "Creep" and "Interstate Love Song", and plenty of Alice in Chains too. I didn't consider them for my list, because they're just a little too old, and feel even older.
I'd have to think about what mid-90's rock has been reduced to here, but STP is definitely on the list. Nirvana. Pearl Jam. Live. Alice in Chains. Soundgarden. Chili Peppers. I feel like I still hear more variety from that era than late 90s, early aughts.
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Post by pantsgoblin on Feb 6, 2024 12:53:48 GMT -5
Apparently, Lords of Acid are still around and will be playing my town in April. If I weren't already going to the Slowdive show that day I might have caught this one out of churlish curiosity.
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Post by ganews on Feb 7, 2024 11:57:34 GMT -5
Lurky McLurk I listened to the previous Sleater-Kinney album twice in advance of seeing them live for the second time. Enjoyed the show but it's hard to look past the ouster of Janet Weiss. Is the new one a return to form? Funny you mention it - having spent most of the weekend continuing to listen to Little Rope I'd been thinking about going back to that post to qualify it a bit. Depends what you consider to be a return to form. I like Path of Wellness just fine as a St Vincent album (ironically not the one produced by St Vincent). I'm not especially keen on The Centre Won't Hold (despite it being the one which actually was produced by St Vincent). This one's like neither of those two; it's the classic rock band Sleater-Kinney always had inside them bursting its way out, leaving a trail of three minute bangers in its wake. Which is fine by me - three minute rock bangers being one of my favourite genres, and some of them (Say It Like You Mean It, Six Mistakes, Dress Yourself, Untidy Creature) really fucking bang. My reservation though is just thinking how much better it would be if they still had Janet Weiss in the band. It's not that the drums are an afterthought - on some tracks they're front and centre - but they never really amount to much more than being A Beat, and don't have that interplay with Corin Tucker's (I think) guitars that was one of the reasons the second half of their first run of albums was so good. (So, so good). Both you and Roy Batty's Pet Dove mention Path of Wellness and I clearly forgot that record existed. I had listened to The Center Won't Hold a couple times and consigned the band to history. (And I stopped listening to St. Vincent albums after Masseduction.)
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Post by King Charles’s Butterfly on Feb 7, 2024 14:30:09 GMT -5
Ended up talking about Ralf Hütter with my therapist and she said I should reevaluate how I consider his post-bike-accident career.
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