Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is another man’s Poison
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Russell Brown, in reply to
What goes around comes around, eh
Funny thing is, that stunt was what encouraged RWP producer Brent Hansen to go to London for a look-see. He got a producing job at the fledgling MTV Europe that led to him become President and CEO of MTV Networks Europe and then MTV's VP of Global Branding. Worked out very well for him!
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When I was about 19 some mates from Uni and I went to Oz for the summer break to have a look and earn some dosh. We decided to go to the Gold Coast for New Years and we were there for a week sleeping on the beach (having to get up early b4 the morning patrol came along to clean up vagrants like us). It's a crap place but we were young and loved most of it.
However, they had a "beach radio" that had about 6 songs on rotation (maybe it was more but that's how I rememeber it) blasting from loud speakers. And remember we were literally living on the beach.
One of them was "Lady in Red". I was so fucking sick of that song - I think we would have stayed longer if they had changed to some other (**any** other) banal crap. To this day (and that was a loooong time ago) I cannot hear that song without gritting my teeth a little. -
Hebe,
For Jackie: some more and better Feargal Sharkey
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Tom Ackroyd, in reply to
Competition for no redeeming features:
I quite like that.
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Danielle, in reply to
Up where? On top of Mount Fantastic? I like to think Kate Bush is hanging out there too.
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Jackie Clark, in reply to
Oh Hebe, no! I'm afraid the punky/rocky thing does not do it for me at all!
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Scott Chris, in reply to
Bob Seger. The zedir of mediocrity.
Har har. Have to disagree though. Seasoned pro was Bob who wrote one of the best "on-the-road-melancholia" songs of all time:
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Simon Grigg, in reply to
For Jackie: some more and better Feargal Sharkey
Still perhaps the most perfect pop song ever recorded.
You know you're getting on when Feargal Sharkey retires - he did two weeks back
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Hebe, in reply to
Still perhaps the most perfect pop song ever recorded.
You know you're getting on when Feargal Sharkey retires - he did two weeks backThe best. I thought Feargal was some kind of important suit these days?
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Holy 28 pages Batman!
I've already had it determined that my musical taste is crap, so listing what I hate is perhaps moot.
But I have one experience that seems relevant. I've found as time goes by that songs that I loved, passionately loved for a long period, can become songs that I just don't want to hear again. It's as if there is an absolute number of times I can hear any song before I will eventually hate it - no matter how much I loved it when it first released. As a result there are some radio stations I just can't listen to at all.
The other thing I've noticed is that the more times a lyric is repeated within one song the quicker that song reaches my threshold of tolerance.
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Simon Grigg, in reply to
I thought Feargal was some kind of important suit these days?
He was head of a UK music industry association until two weeks back when he announced he was retiring.
From what I understand he's made a lot of dosh over the years from property too.
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Lilith __, in reply to
the more times a lyric is repeated within one song the quicker that song reaches my threshold of tolerance.
…certain ideas gestures
rhymes, like Gillette Razor Blades
having been used and reused
to the mystical moment of dullness emphatically are
Not To Be Resharpened."Mystical moment of dullness" -- I love that :-)
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Danielle
Up where? On top of Mount Fantastic?
No. Bloody disco bloody land.
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DexterX, in reply to
Ewww here is some:
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Did someone mention Feargal Sharkey? Oh, lots of you did. Add one massively underrated pop genius, in the form of Vince Clarke, and listen:
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DexterX, in reply to
It is more perfect than most as it is finished with a turnaround and not a fade out.
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Danielle, in reply to
I declare that parody song to be 'mildly amusing'. It's no 'Dick in a Box', mind.
Bloody disco bloody land.
How I wish that was a real place...
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Tom Beard, in reply to
The other thing I've noticed is that the more times a lyric is repeated within one song the quicker that song reaches my threshold of tolerance.
Then this should reach it quickly.
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DexterX, in reply to
Tie that mother down and .............
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Russell Brown, in reply to
Bob Seger. The zedir of mediocrity.
Har har. Have to disagree though. Seasoned pro was Bob who wrote one of the best "on-the-road-melancholia" songs of all time:
That's a great song. Although for years I thought it was written by, um, Jon English.
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DexterX, in reply to
For me, it's that particular tone she maintains throughout, and the repetitive structure that highlights it. Not the lyrics.
That is how I found it - the Moo Moo Whining song.
She has talent.
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Hebe,
The most bad shirts in any video award ( with a supplementary for 80s stay-and-sway dancing)
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Russell Brown, in reply to
Bloody disco bloody land.
How I wish that was a real place...
It is in all of our hearts.
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Russell Brown, in reply to
Oh Hebe, no! I'm afraid the punky/rocky thing does not do it for me at all!
You should hear Feargal's country rap metal stuff.
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Russell Brown, in reply to
I might have asked you this before, but have you seen the Once Upon A Time in New York doco? It's the story of how punk rock, rap and dance/disco music all emerged from the crumbling boroughs of the Big Apple in the mid-70s and pretty much reshaped popular culture. Is awesome.
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