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Post by Kapitan on Apr 17, 2021 12:08:34 GMT
Of the four, I only knew Mike Portnoy.
It was a decent discussion: I love that kind of thing generally, as long as the people are at least semi-well informed and interesting. I don't need uber-geek perfection (which is good since they bungled quite a few "facts" throughout the show about various acts), but you don't want just some random guys saying random nonsense, either.
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Post by kds on Apr 17, 2021 13:40:40 GMT
I was surprised to see Popoff on that topic, considering he's often critical of heavy rock bands' lighter or more commercial output. I guess he's one of those "I like lighter music, but not from my heavy bands" guys.
My one gripe with Pete's channel is some of the videos are super long, some close to 2 hours. Usually, I get my YouTube / geek out time on weekends when I have the TV to myself. By then, its past 10p, and I've had a few drinks, so feature length discussions aren't really my thing.
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Post by Kapitan on Apr 17, 2021 13:42:43 GMT
What I like about long ones is that I can often have them running while I do something else: I rarely focus on this kind of thing for two hours straight, sitting and watching. It's more like I'm working, cooking, cleaning, or whatever else, while it runs.
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Post by Kapitan on May 5, 2021 18:50:37 GMT
I just popped in to the liquor store down the street to grab some beer (Cinco de Mayo warrants a couple this evening, I say!), and what was playing on the sound system? "Bad Medicine," by Bon Jovi. That's not a song I think of, much less hear, often.
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Post by kds on May 5, 2021 19:22:05 GMT
Nice. That BJ hit does seem to have fallen off the radar.
I heard a couple more good ones at my grocery store recently, but I've forgotten them, except Like a Hurricane by Neil Young.
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Post by Kapitan on Jun 15, 2021 12:58:59 GMT
I just heard a bit of "Busy Doin' Nothin'" as a bit of transitional music on NPR.
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Post by kds on Jun 15, 2021 15:48:52 GMT
I'm sad to say that my local Weis Grocery Store has switched from a really good classic rock playlist to a fairly generic 80s, 90s, 00s pop playlist over the PA.
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Post by jk on Jun 16, 2021 18:48:35 GMT
I'm sad to say that my local Weis Grocery Store has switched from a really good classic rock playlist to a fairly generic 80s, 90s, 00s pop playlist over the PA. A familiar story, unfortunately. Years ago on a visit to the UK I was escorted to a pub where they had this fantastic jukebox of old r'n'r stuff. We got there to find the last of the 45s being sold off and a brand new jukebox full of generic shit. A few days ago I heard "Purple Rain" blasting at my off-license (US: liquor store). It sounded good. I still have to "get" Prince -- maybe one day. I know I was shocked by his death, more so than by David Bowie's...
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Post by kds on Jun 16, 2021 20:17:15 GMT
I'm sad to say that my local Weis Grocery Store has switched from a really good classic rock playlist to a fairly generic 80s, 90s, 00s pop playlist over the PA. A familiar story, unfortunately. Years ago on a visit to the UK I was escorted to a pub where they had this fantastic jukebox of old r'n'r stuff. We got there to find the last of the 45s being sold off and a brand new jukebox full of generic shit. A few days ago I heard "Purple Rain" blasting at my off-license (US: liquor store). It sounded good. I still have to "get" Prince -- maybe one day. I know I was shocked by his death, more so than by David Bowie's... I miss the days of old juke boxes. Bars could more or less regulate what's heard at the bar. The watering hole I used to frequent had a great one. Granted, after going there for a while, there's some repetition. I remember being excited at first when they installed the digital Touch Tunes because it basically allowed access to an unlimited music library. However, it didn't take long to realize that the juke box was horrible because it basically allowed access to an unlimited music library.
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Post by jk on Aug 25, 2021 13:44:26 GMT
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Post by Kapitan on Aug 25, 2021 14:36:02 GMT
That was a (UK)#1? I don't think I've ever heard it before, which I suppose makes sense because when I read that wiki entry, it seems it wasn't a single in the US at all.
The only Frankie Goes to Hollywood song I ever recall having heard was "Relax," which did somehow get quite a lot of airplay even as it was being "banned" and criticized for its oh-so-shocking lyrics (which I never understood the controversy over anyway, having been 7-8 years old...).
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Post by jk on Aug 25, 2021 18:40:30 GMT
That was a (UK)#1? I don't think I've ever heard it before, which I suppose makes sense because when I read that wiki entry, it seems it wasn't a single in the US at all.
The only Frankie Goes to Hollywood song I ever recall having heard was "Relax," which did somehow get quite a lot of airplay even as it was being "banned" and criticized for its oh-so-shocking lyrics (which I never understood the controversy over anyway, having been 7-8 years old...).
That whole business is hilarious. A decade before banning "Relax" from its airwaves for its use of the word "come" (cum?), the prim-and-proper BBC blithely played Lou Reed's "Walk On the Wild Side" day and night: "But she never lost her head / Even when she was giving head"). Clearly no one of authority there had a clue what "giving head" meant.
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Post by Kapitan on Aug 25, 2021 19:05:49 GMT
I would suspect it was an issue of anti gay bias, but the media were also up in arms over George Michael's "I Want Your Sex" not long after. Granted, he was also gay, but they didn't recognize it at the time!
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Post by Kapitan on Oct 30, 2021 16:25:38 GMT
I was at the T-Mobile store talking about getting a new phone when what did I hear? A very familiar guitar riff from my youth...
"Ride the Wind," by Poison. That is not something you hear every day. Or year. Or decade.
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Post by Kapitan on Nov 26, 2021 16:04:51 GMT
Usually this thread is for songs you are surprised to hear in stores, etc., but if you'll grant me a little topic expansion...
...I was really surprised to learn that Jeff "Skunk" Baxter (Steely Dan, Doobie Brothers) has been working as a defense industry consultant for more than three decades after having developed an amateur interest in the topic in the '80s and writing a paper about missile defense that caught the industry's attention.
Obviously I can see it wasn't exactly a secret, so those of you more familiar with him generally may well have known this for a long time. But I didn't know until today and was quite surprised. You don't see many similar situations. Musician becomes painter or sculptor or writer or professor or marketing executive? OK, all those I can more easily visualize; but defense contractor/consultant?
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