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Started by The Six, November 11, 2011, 10:32:51 AM

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jut1972

Lots of pap there Sarge  ;)  but seriously... think of the impact that song had... unpopular but undeniable!


Brian


Sergeant Rock

the phone rings and somebody says,
"hey, they made a movie about
Mahler, you ought to go see it.
he was as f*cked-up as you are."
                               --Charles Bukowski, "Mahler"

Parsifal

Quote from: Sergeant Rock on August 13, 2013, 10:51:12 AM
Unpopular indeed  :D

These are all better:

SOPHIE B. HAWKINS   AS I LAY ME DOWN  1994
STONE ROSES   LOVE SPREADS  1994
HEATHER NOVA   WALK THIS WORLD  1995
SMASHING PUMPKINS   BULLET WITH BUTTERFLY WINGS  1995
ALANIS MORISSETTE   YOU OUGHTA KNOW  1995 
THE CONNELLS   '74-'75  1995
SMASHING PUMPKINS   TONIGHT TONIGHT  1996
DEANNA CARTER   STRAWBERRY WINE  1996
SUBLIME   WHAT I GOT  1996
SUBLIME   WRONG WAY  1997
JEWEL   FOOLISH GAMES  1997
TONI BRAXTON   UN-BREAK MY HEART  1997
FLEETWOOD MAC/STEVIE NICKS   LANDSLIDE  1997
CHUMBAWAMBA   TUBTHUMPING  1998
NATALIE IMBRUGLIA   TORN  1998
MADONNA   FROZEN  1998
WILLIE NELSON with EMMYLOU HARRIS   I NEVER CARED FOR YOU  1998
GOO GOO DOLLS   IRIS  1998
BLONDIE   MARIA  1999
JOHN PRINE and IRIS DEMENT   IN SPITE OF OURSELVES  1999
THE CORRS   BREATHLESS  2000


Sarge

You forgot, "The Night Chicago Died," Paper Lace, 1974.

modUltralaser

'I mean how many folks actually remember LMFAO's hit(s)? Honestly, I recall Weird Al more than the New Kids.

Sergeant Rock

Quote from: Scarpia on August 13, 2013, 11:32:04 AM
You forgot, "The Night Chicago Died," Paper Lace, 1974.

I was just going back twenty years, responding to jut's post.

Quote from: Philo (Artist formerly known as) on August 13, 2013, 11:33:52 AM
'I mean how many folks actually remember LMFAO's hit(s)? Honestly, I recall Weird Al more than the New Kids.

I love pop. I keep a list of my favorite songs starting with "Candy Kisses" from 1949, the year I was born  ;D

Sarge
the phone rings and somebody says,
"hey, they made a movie about
Mahler, you ought to go see it.
he was as f*cked-up as you are."
                               --Charles Bukowski, "Mahler"

modUltralaser

I love pop as well but none of it sticks and all of it is replaceable. Popular and pop are distinct.

Sergeant Rock

Quote from: Philo (Artist formerly known as) on August 13, 2013, 11:38:32 AM
I love pop as well but none of it sticks and all of it is replaceable. Popular and pop are distinct.

Maybe it's the time you live in. I feel sorry for you. Pop today sucks big time. For me, though, I had fifty years of great music; the good songs certainly do stick (of course I grew in the golden age: 50s, 60s, so maybe that has something to do with it). Song has always been part of my life; I've always had favorites (and few have faded into insignificance). Hearing a song from years ago transports me instantly back in time. Hearing Joplin sing "Me and Bobby McGee" takes me to Wisconsin, 1971, preparing for my first marriage. "Love is Blue" takes me back to Athens Ohio, 1968, mourning a lost relationship. "Tubthumping" (I wish I could forget! :D ) I'm on my way to BASF and a hellish 8 hours working with corrosive and explosive chemicals for minimum wage in 1997.

Sarge
the phone rings and somebody says,
"hey, they made a movie about
Mahler, you ought to go see it.
he was as f*cked-up as you are."
                               --Charles Bukowski, "Mahler"

DavidW

Ha that tubthumping takes me back to my freshman year in the dorms! :laugh:

Brian

Quote from: Sergeant Rock on August 13, 2013, 11:29:46 AM
And this  :D

http://www.youtube.com/v/lNYcviXK4rg


Sarge

Holy shit. My father brought a cassette of that song back from Germany when he was studying in Hannover in college. It's been a family favorite ever since, and as a teenager I used to freak out more or less any music fan by making them watch the official and very violent Da Da Da music video.

Sergeant Rock

Quote from: DavidW on August 13, 2013, 11:57:02 AM
Ha that tubthumping takes me back to my freshman year in the dorms! :laugh:

Quote from: Brian on August 13, 2013, 03:14:28 PM
Holy shit....Da Da Da

And this is another thing pop music does: connects us  :D

Sarge
the phone rings and somebody says,
"hey, they made a movie about
Mahler, you ought to go see it.
he was as f*cked-up as you are."
                               --Charles Bukowski, "Mahler"

Karl Henning

Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

pencils

Piano music sucks. But I have already said that in another thread.

Plinky plinky Satans.

The Six

Non-classical edition:

Butthole Surfers' "Electriclarryland" and Failure's "Fantastic Planet" are the best '90s albums.

Japan has produced a big chunk of the world's best rock music, and if it (the good bands) were given serious playtime overseas, it would succeed, despite the language barrier.

If, instead of being a video game song, "Natural Playboy" from Bust a Groove were released during the '70s, it would be considered one of the all-time classics.

"One Hot Minute" is the RHCP's best.

Many modern songs are too long. I'm talking about ones that follow a standard rock/pop song structure. The oldies had it right. You don't need to go longer than 3 minutes, and any songs that are longer do so using tactics like needlessly repeating the chorus again, or dropping in an easy key change. Songs should leave you wanting more, so that you want to replay them, as opposed to exhausting all of their material.

The new erato

Quote from: The Six on August 15, 2013, 04:44:38 PM
any songs that are longer do so using tactics like needlessly repeating the chorus again, or dropping in an easy key change.
Yes, like the Beatles' A Day in the Life.  >:( >:(

Karl Henning

Woke up, fell out of bed . . . .
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Ten thumbs

Quote from: pencils on August 15, 2013, 11:33:40 AM
Piano music sucks. But I have already said that in another thread.

Plinky plinky Satans.

Reminds me of my wife's opinion of violin music:

Squeaky squeak, scrape, scrape.
A day may be a destiny; for life
Lives in but little—but that little teems
With some one chance, the balance of all time:
A look—a word—and we are wholly changed.

pencils

Quote from: Ten thumbs on August 16, 2013, 01:58:35 PM
Reminds me of my wife's opinion of violin music:

Squeaky squeak, scrape, scrape.

:D

Beorn

Quote from: pencils on August 15, 2013, 11:33:40 AM
Piano music sucks. But I have already said that in another thread.

Plinky plinky Satans.

We are no longer friends.  :)

Beorn