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Post by Celebith on Mar 12, 2024 3:09:33 GMT -5
The first three Bleachers albums had a bunch of catchy tracks, but the latest is incredibly boring. I'll still probably give it a few more listens and check out the lyrics, but it did the opposite of keep me awake at work.
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Post by pantsgoblin on Mar 14, 2024 17:53:24 GMT -5
"The crippled songs of an age that won't dawn" is a lyric, from Beck's "Bottle of Blues", that rings in my head all the time and I don't know why. I guess there are worse songs and musicians to have rattling around your head.
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Post by ganews on Mar 15, 2024 12:04:21 GMT -5
"The crippled songs of an age that won't dawn" is a lyric, from Beck's "Bottle of Blues", that rings in my head all the time and I don't know why. I guess there are worse songs and musicians to have rattling around your head. Actually the line is "The crippled psalms of an age that won't thaw" according to Whiskeyclone.
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Post by The Sensational She-Hulk on Mar 29, 2024 9:53:33 GMT -5
The "Jolene" rewrite is fucking BAD. Girl, why in hell didn't you just pick "Fist City"?
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Post by ganews on Mar 29, 2024 14:55:55 GMT -5
The "Jolene" rewrite is fucking BAD. Girl, why in hell didn't you just pick "Fist City"? Well, because "Fist City" is a pretty corny song. But there are certainly other options that would have been better.
This is the same problem as the much-vaunted live cover of "Creep" by Prince. It's a well-executed musical performance, but the choice of song clashes so entirely with the persona of the performer that the only thing to do is radically change the lyrics. Jack White had the sense to perform "Jolene" without changing even the sex of the characters.
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Post by Desert Dweller on Mar 29, 2024 18:02:53 GMT -5
The "Jolene" rewrite is fucking BAD. Girl, why in hell didn't you just pick "Fist City"? Dolly Parton seemed to give it her vote of approval on social media. Shrug. I'll stick with Dolly's.
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Post by The Sensational She-Hulk on Mar 30, 2024 13:55:51 GMT -5
The "Jolene" rewrite is fucking BAD. Girl, why in hell didn't you just pick "Fist City"? Dolly Parton seemed to give it her vote of approval on social media. Shrug. I'll stick with Dolly's. Well, she's on the album and she's known for being generous and kind, so of course she did. The rewrite misses the entire point of the song, when there are literally hundreds out there to cover that fit the "fuck you, stay off my man, trash" theme. Also, the actual writing is fucking terrible. It's giving P!nk circa 2007.
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Post by Rainbow Rosa on Mar 30, 2024 14:36:40 GMT -5
The "Jolene" rewrite is fucking BAD. Girl, why in hell didn't you just pick "Fist City"? Because Beyonce's interest in signaling I AM RECORDING COUNTRY MUSIC far outpaces her actual knowledge of or desire to record country music, and even if it didn't, Zoomers don't know who Loretta Lynn is anyway.
The real question is, is Beyonce's cover of "Jolene" more embarrassing than the Fall Out Boy "We Didn't Start the Fire" rewrite?
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Post by ganews on Mar 30, 2024 15:33:37 GMT -5
The "Jolene" rewrite is fucking BAD. Girl, why in hell didn't you just pick "Fist City"? Because Beyonce's interest in signaling I AM RECORDING COUNTRY MUSIC far outpaces her actual knowledge of or desire to record country music, and even if it didn't, Zoomers don't know who Loretta Lynn is anyway.
The real question is, is Beyonce's cover of "Jolene" more embarrassing than the Fall Out Boy "We Didn't Start the Fire" rewrite?
Less embarrassing, because at least it began with appreciation of a *good* song.
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Post by Jean Luc de Lemur on Mar 30, 2024 19:38:02 GMT -5
I guess I should not have expected better from the former CEO of Ticketmaster, but
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Post by Some Kind of Munster on Apr 4, 2024 8:55:22 GMT -5
Woke up yesterday morning with a snippet of a song in my head – just the phrase "When my life is over... " in a sort of plaintive voice – and I spent all day trying to place what song it was from. I knew it wasn't a major part of the song, more of an aside as it came out of an instrumental break but I could not for the life of me figure out what it was. I had a hunch that it was some late '80s indie/college rock thing, like maybe the Pixies or Jane's Addiction or Jesus and Mary Chain, but then I'd start second-guessing myself and thinking it was some huge classic rock act like Zeppelin or Neil Young. And of course the harder I tried to think about it the further away I got, so I'd try to sneak up on it – while I was thinking about something else I'd quickly run it through my head again, and a couple of times I ALMOST felt like I was gonna hear the rest of the song, but then it faded out of reach. Anyway, woke up this morning and my first thought was "It's fucking 'Tunic'."
(Relevant part around the 4:15 mark)
Brains, man. They're weird
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Post by ganews on Apr 5, 2024 17:42:33 GMT -5
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Post by Jean Luc de Lemur on Apr 7, 2024 18:48:42 GMT -5
Guy just walked up to me and asked me what music was playing in the coffeeshop, like I’d obviously lnow (some kind of 80s British smart-edge-of-mainstream thing)
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Post by pantsgoblin on Apr 11, 2024 11:47:45 GMT -5
At the totality viewing party, someone put together an eclipse-themed playlist. What you'd expect--"Total Eclipse of the Heart", "Moondance", Floyd, etc.--and then comes on "You're So Vain". I'm racking my brain trying to figure out how it fits and then she sings "total eclipse of the sun" in the 3rd verse. You win again, Carly.
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Post by Celebith on Apr 22, 2024 0:34:21 GMT -5
The "Jolene" rewrite is fucking BAD. Girl, why in hell didn't you just pick "Fist City"? Well, because "Fist City" is a pretty corny song. But there are certainly other options that would have been better.
This is the same problem as the much-vaunted live cover of "Creep" by Prince. It's a well-executed musical performance, but the choice of song clashes so entirely with the persona of the performer that the only thing to do is radically change the lyrics. Jack White had the sense to perform "Jolene" without changing even the sex of the characters.
Other people can cover Prince, but Prince shouldn't cover other people. His cover of Whole of the Moon is awful. I can't think of anything he's done as well as the original artists. He's the incarnation of Harris' pineapple bit.
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Post by Ben Grimm on Apr 22, 2024 12:58:35 GMT -5
I'm not a Taylor Swift fan, but my wife likes her stuff enough to keep buying her albums, and I don't find her current music actively annoying (some of her early stuff, especially that Romeo and Juliet song, drove me up the wall), so she's been playing the new album. And I've always thought her voice is fine for the kind of music she writes - not especially strong, but not so weak that it's distracting. Just a perfectly cromulent pop music voice.
But it's also not really strong enough to survive a duet with Florence Welch. It reminds me of the cover of "Jackson" Welch did with Josh Homme where she just completely overwhelmed him. And Welch is more subdued in this, but still, it's night and day.
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Post by Desert Dweller on Apr 24, 2024 2:14:06 GMT -5
I listen to so much orchestral and classical vocal music that it has become so hard for me to tolerate listening to modern music which uses so much pitch correction and auto-tune. I heard a producer once explain that he uses this so much because it is the "expected" sound in modern music and audiences want to hear something that is perfectly in tune.
Except this software doesn't leave voices (or instruments) perfectly in tune. It is aligning them to a tempered scale, as the piano uses. That is inherently NOT in tune, by definition. And this producer who said this KNEW that it isn't, because at the beginning of this quote he talked about the difference between true tuning and tempered tuning. How on earth can anyone who knows the difference between those two then claim that pitch correction makes it "perfectly in tune"?
Could not stop thinking about this tonight as I sat in my apartment rehearsing music, trying to make every note perfectly in tune. Come on. Real singers can sing in tune. If they are that far off, give them another take, or get a real singer.
On YouTube you can find loads of classical choirs singing dissonant music perfectly in tune! This is perfect tuning. NOT TEMPERED TUNING. No auto-tune or pitch correction. Case example:
I have performed this piece conducted by the composer, Eric Whitacre. We rehearsed this concert for a week ahead of time. He was very picky about tempo and tuning. Especially from 1:39 to the end. This is an *extremely* dissonant piece. You have to be perfectly in tune in order for this sound good.
And you know what? I've heard HIGH SCHOOL CHOIRS perform this and get it right. So, it drives me crazy that producers think pro singers need auto-tune and pitch correction.
Edited to add: Also want to say that the bit from 3:07 to 3:53ish is one of the coolest bits of music I've ever performed.
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Post by pantsgoblin on May 2, 2024 10:14:18 GMT -5
Periodic concert billboard update from the local tribal casino circuit
Here's a head-scratcher of a double bill for you: Marshall Tucker Band and Jefferson Starship. No telling who even owns the JS name these days and who their audience is. Obviously there's "Miracles" but, looking it up, they didn't have another crack the Top 10. Craven attempt to trick a few who think they're going to hear "We Built This City" and "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now"?
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Post by Desert Dweller on May 2, 2024 16:05:31 GMT -5
Periodic concert billboard update from the local tribal casino circuitHere's a head-scratcher of a double bill for you: Marshall Tucker Band and Jefferson Starship. No telling who even owns the JS name these days and who their audience is. Obviously there's "Miracles" but, looking it up, they didn't have another crack the Top 10. Craven attempt to trick a few who think they're going to hear "We Built This City" and "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now"? I had no idea who is control of the JS name now. I looked up the Wiki entry. Whew, that is a mess.
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Post by Jean Luc de Lemur on May 3, 2024 19:32:33 GMT -5
I’ve been on-and-off packing up LPs and CDs to sell for a few months now and in that time I’ve probably listened to music I’m iffy about more than stuff I unabashedly like.
I’m glad I didn’t do the Marie Kondo thing of “if you haven’t listened to it for a while it’s not worth keeping,” though. Pulled up a CD Henri Dutilleux and immediately knew it was a keeper (I remember our erstwhile admin was enthused when I first picked it up). I’m also pleased to find I hadn’t culled Public Service Broadcasting’s Every Valley, which I’d assumed was already gone and was bummed a couple of times I felt like revisiting it.
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