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Post by jk on Dec 25, 2020 21:08:33 GMT
Thanks jk to like previous cool music reply.😎 Jolly Christmas.🌲👊🥳 Going back to twins who cheer up with their funny cute reactions (besides fact I get to hear 1st time with them new songs by new people) - this song is really good. 8/10 good. Never listened to Huey Lewis/The News till recently. Main singer's voice is really-really cool (fits his face/style). Can't stand husky voices usually but I like his type of husky (I believe there's few types of husky, I frankly like when girl singers possess husky voices, not everytime but imo it's cooler when girls sing like it). Harmonies in song shine. It's positive song, could fit musical with cool song line-up. You're welcome, zz. Have a good Christmas yourself. I used to play this song by Huey Lewis & The News in a short-lived band I was in during the '90s. "Hip To be Square" brings back some cool memories:
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Post by zinczag on Dec 26, 2020 1:19:26 GMT
^ Good tune, thank ya.
Everybody, this is seriously cool music wow, new IMMEDIATE favorite. Been ignoring Talking Heads everytime I'd see band name, figured it's heavy metal band (genre not cup of tea). "Instruments keep adding up" thing is my jam! Cool intro, cool-cool vocals, cool yells, everything cool, "pssycho killer kes ke se (French phrase spelling?) far far far far far far far far far far better" bit is insanely catchy AND cool. Gotta check this band's catalog.
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Post by zinczag on Dec 27, 2020 0:06:29 GMT
"Listened to single time, will not get back to it" song. Definite 0/10. Funny reaction by twins made it easy to hear it start to finish (& in fact, gave them like to support their channel, in addition to getting Youtube algorithm in their favor). Somebody in youtube replies says it's "Motown". Figures - hate it.
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Post by jk on Dec 27, 2020 10:39:25 GMT
^ Good tune, thank ya. Everybody, this is seriously cool music wow, new IMMEDIATE favorite. Been ignoring Talking Heads everytime I'd see band name, figured it's heavy metal band (genre not cup of tea). "Instruments keep adding up" thing is my jam! Cool intro, cool-cool vocals, cool yells, everything cool, "pssycho killer kes ke se (French phrase spelling?) far far far far far far far far far far better" bit is insanely catchy AND cool. Gotta check this band's catalog.Great idea, zz. My favourite TH song (and video) is "Once In A Lifetime" (can't beat David Byrne).
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Post by zinczag on Dec 27, 2020 13:41:14 GMT
New fave ("Brown-Eyed Girl") by new musician Van Morrison (is he kin to Jim?) - cute catchy cheery tune, like "Daydream Believer" but differently. Fun reaction as usual, twins' scat singing will give you at least big smile:
THE best psychedelic'y jazz to date - "Everybody Loves Sunshine" by Roy Ayers. Title & music match PERFECTLY. It really captures sun images, lyrics chanting song title. Huge sun fan, frequently seek trippy sun pics at pinterest, decor, sun-shaped cakes yada yada. Listened to just this song today by Roy Ayers, yet dubbing him fave musician - NO CAP. I must hear catalog. Somebody advised to twins in youtube replies to check next "Running Away". Btw, fun reaction too:
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Post by jk on Dec 27, 2020 22:23:57 GMT
New fave ("Brown-Eyed Girl") by new musician Van Morrison (is he kin to Jim?) - cute catchy cheery tune, like "Daydream Believer" but differently. zz, Van Morrison is from Northern Ireland, so he's no kin of Jim's. But this is interesting (thank you, Wikipedia): "In June 1966, [Jim] Morrison and the Doors were the opening act at the Whisky a Go Go in the last week of the residency of Van Morrison's band Them. Van's influence on Jim's developing stage performance was later noted by Brian Hinton in his book Celtic Crossroads: The Art of Van Morrison: 'Jim Morrison learned quickly from his near namesake's stagecraft, his apparent recklessness, his air of subdued menace, the way he would improvise poetry to a rock beat, even his habit of crouching down by the bass drum during instrumental breaks.'" I played "Brown-Eyed Girl" with a singer-guitarist at an exhibition last year. As you say, a cute catchy cheery tune!
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Post by jk on Jan 3, 2021 14:25:02 GMT
For years -- ever since my son gave it to me as an album I had to hear -- I've been struggling with Daft Punk's Random Access Memories (2013).
The one track that grabbed me straight away was "Doin' It Right", featuring the dulcet tones of Animal Collective mastermind Panda Bear. That first chord in the vocoder loop intrigued me: the bottom note was not the tonic but the supertonic. Most unusual, as if it were avoiding an important issue:
One thing that kept throwing me off course was whenever the vocoders started singing emotional stuff -- I found it hysterically funny, like clowns trying desperately to be taken seriously.
Maybe not listening to any of RAM for years has allowed me to take a fresh perspective on it. Yesterday I played it all the way through and was pretty impressed. Now it will forever remind me of a recent online mishap and the unfortunate disappearance from view of the victim of that mishap, something I'm still processing and will be for a while yet, I fear. Perhaps it's time to lose oneself to dance...
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Post by Kapitan on Jan 3, 2021 19:45:14 GMT
Finishing up my 2020 playlist--I think it's done--and it just struck me again how much I love this song (and album, really). Earlier in the year I first heard the album Been Around by A Girl Called Eddy, and this is one of my three or four favorites from the album. It's definitely got a '60s girl-group vibe to it, while other songs on the album call to mind '70s soft pop. I can imagine it being something produced by Darian Sahanaja.
(It was actually produced by Daniel Tashian, who also produced Kacey Musgraves' Golden Hour among many more traditional country and singer-songwriter pop like Josh Rouse along the way.)
As good as the production is, the real standout is the singing of Erin Moran. Not the Erin Moran who played Joanie Cunningham on Happy Days: she's deceased. A different Erin Moran.
Here is the delightful "Someone's Gonna Break Your Heart."
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Post by zinczag on Jan 5, 2021 7:00:23 GMT
jk - haha, Daft Punk. Now here's music I can't stand.😆
Going thru the twins' playlist, today they reacted to this song (youtube link). Talk about hearing something you didn't expect. Seriously been like "it's going to be either jazz or punk rock" (title Sugarhill Gang gets these associations). Funny bit is everybody replied they grew up with this song. Like the twins, I didn't hear it till today. Where do/did they play it?🤔 Many stated it's "1st rap song in history". I disliked it but it's kinda catchy beat-wise. Especially seeing the twins jigging to it.
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Post by zinczag on Jan 5, 2021 11:36:33 GMT
The twins will get this music fan listening to bands/artists I wouldn't usually. Interestingly, I really like everything about this MTV Unplugged video featuring Nirvana "The Man Who Sold The World". People state in replies that it's David Bowie cover. Shall def listen to it to compare. But as is, I like the way Kurt sings it - half-indifferent/half-annoyed, mixed with melancholy. Good musicianship, guitars toned down its grungeyness which is plus, Dave Grohl's great.
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Post by jk on Jan 5, 2021 12:13:27 GMT
Going thru the twins' playlist, today they reacted to this song (youtube link). Talk about hearing something you didn't expect. Seriously been like "it's going to be either jazz or punk rock" (title Sugarhill Gang gets these associations). Funny bit is everybody replied they grew up with this song. Like the twins, I didn't hear it till today. Where do/did they play it?🤔 Many stated it's "1st rap song in history". I disliked it but it's kinda catchy beat-wise. Especially seeing the twins jigging to it. Not a fan of rap, generally speaking. Not because of the genre -- it's only because once the words/lyrics become more important than the music (this can be a protest song, a "ballad of", etc) I lose interest. I much prefer the song that gave "Rapper's Delight" that wonderful Bernard Edwards bass line, namely Chic's "Good Times": Oh, and although I do appreciate what Cobain does with "TMWSTW", Bowie's original, which I first heard on a jukebox in 1973, has something magical about it for me.
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Post by zinczag on Jan 5, 2021 13:11:57 GMT
Yes, you too dislike rap with Nirvana. Good brains think alike.✊👊 Will you link to David's TMWSTW? Ta in advance.
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Post by jk on Jan 5, 2021 14:22:55 GMT
Yes, you too dislike rap with Nirvana. Good brains think alike.✊👊 Will you link to David's TMWSTW? Ta in advance. Here you go, zz: I believe it was the B-side of "Life On Mars"...
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Post by zinczag on Jan 6, 2021 3:01:38 GMT
^Nice. Btw, LOM is single David Bowie song I listened. Wait...& song that Mary Hopkin sang back-ups. Based at these 2 songs, then TMWSTW, I can definitely say David's music doesn't bring interest to check his entire canon. NB: really like David's dress in video's still image.
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Post by jk on Jan 6, 2021 9:54:01 GMT
^Nice. Btw, LOM is single David Bowie song I listened. Wait...& song that Mary Hopkin sang back-ups. Based at these 2 songs, then TMWSTW, I can definitely say David's music doesn't bring interest to check his entire canon. NB: really like David's dress in video's still image.Ha, yes. Back in the early '70s, David used to wander around NYC wearing a dress. When asked "Why are you wearing a woman's dress?" he would answer "It's not a woman's dress, it's a man's dress."
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