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Hahaha. Been a while since I've heard that one. C'mon, hit me, hit me.
El Sancho digs tacky 70s pop tunes. 8 out of 10 open-collared, floral-print, polyester shirts, and a wide-brimmed pimp hat with a peacock feather thrown in for good measure.
Let's back up twenty more years, when trombones and saxophones could still rock the joint.
Stan Kenton, 23 north 82 west:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdiWw..._gdata_player*
(the title refers to a lat/long roughly locating Havana.)
Snazzy Sancho, real snazzy. I'd have a ball if that came on at a club. 8/10
All this year I worked at a hotel sort of thing, and they play the radio perpetually in all of the business sections. I hated everything they played for the most part, but this one radio song I really liked. If I were ever a stripper (hey, you've got to admire their work ethic) this would be my jam:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Edwsf-8F3sI
I like it - I didn't think I would. It has a crisp sound.
7/10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP2EvSNHqh0
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Originally Posted by Paulclem
The production on that - the drum sound, the bass style, the zingy harmonics - really dates it to a specific Thursday afternoon in the late Eighties, doesn't it? I'm not sure I can get past the generic vision of wine bars done out with reclaimed pews and pastel jackets with the sleeves rolled up. 6/10
However, when you remember the specific song from the time, you can get past the datedness and listen to it with the same feeling immediacy and relevance that you felt back then.
For instance....
Exactly - the feeling of immediacy is spot on. It's as if for an instant you're that person again.Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkBastable
I get it with this - I suppose in my mind it's a generic image of a particular nightclub where I heard this numerous times, but the feeling is unmistakeable:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgMhMRC4Fr8
it's ok, 7.5/10.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y47G-Wa4qfs
Haha, good performance. 7/10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f18jP...eature=related
6/10, just because I hate it when the video doesn't sync up perfectly with the sound, although I do like the inexplicable chef in the crowd.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFKUnfwBPTU
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Originally Posted by JuniperWoolf
I think that song tries really hard hard, and I tried equally hard to like it, but in the end it sounds like the number they reluctantly dropped from a retro musical during the pre-Broadway try-outs in Hoboken because it slowed down the action of the plot and no one could whistle the tune. 4/10
As Paul decided not to rate this one a few posts back, I'm going to give it another shot.
I listened to their 2nd, 3rd, and 4th albums obsessively, so it gets a 9.8/10.Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkBastable
Now, if you'll allow me to drain the passion out of things, and just stand by while whatever.
All I've ever heard of Anderson's before is O Superman.Quote:
Originally Posted by billl
I rather liked that for about two minutes and then I got bored for thirty seconds, and then it irritated me and I stopped it. Which doesn't necessarily mean I didn't think it was any good or, actually, that I thought it was boring. In fact, I'm tempted to write several hundred words about the ways in which it was interesting. Which, in turn, doesn't necessarily mean that I liked it.
7/10
Here's a scary thing: today, that could be conceived, recorded and mixed on an iPhone. Using the Thumbjam app I've done some very similar stuff to pass the time while commuting to work. Which doesn't mean that I think I'm an influential urban avant gardiste, by the way. The innovative techniques she was using are now a standard part of the contemporary musical vocabulary. But that loop and sequencer thing is a lot of fun to play around with.
Meanwhile, in another part of the forest....
You may not be an old-fashioned girl, but you're gonna get dated.
That one also didn't used to run so long back then, and has a good video, considering.Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkBastable
9/10Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkBastable
I wasn't really into those guys and that scene as much as a particular girl I liked (if ya know what I mean), but she was wiser than me, and even though those guys sounded "old style" and didn't dress half as looney as Adam Ant, they were, in retrospect, great and I get to look back and imagine that I was into that stuff (again, if ya know what I mean), and have great memories, etc. I mean, she didn't have a car, but I did, nothing to brag about though, just something to get me started off with, but I was doing better than a lot of buddies, etc. That clip is particularly great, nice video and nice playing, cool song.
Here's something else I remembered, from after I knew better what's what, a time when there's no longer any reason to wear people out with mysteries about what I might've meant. I mean I really liked this music at the time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__GbqPyXmJ8#t=8m17s
Well, if only one could say they weren't acquainted with whatever brand of awful that was... but having grown up in it, 2/10. For the five string childhood ma, and the tear in your beer. (What's disturbing is that this poster is also acquainted with the sentiment that surely must precipitate these godawful songs-- godawful lyrically speaking, at least).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TbmP...=results_video
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Excellent 8/10
I was introduced to JJ Cale in the 1980s. Fantastic music. This was on the first album of his i heard.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlppIdtLw5A
Just a shade twangy for my taste, pero me gusta mucho nunca menos. 8/10. Don’t’cha just dig it when you hear a tune by the dude who wrote it (J.J. Cale) and it’s better than the one you hear on the radio all the time (Skynyrd)?
But then, every once in a while somebody covers/interprets a tune and you wind up liking it more than the pop version.
Bad Case of Lovin’ You, Billy Gibbons:
http://youtu.be/M8rjBH3-KaQ
3 out of 10, Jack, you idiot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOIsYA1QDuk
Sorry, Jack. I’ve been busy-busy-busy.
That Weezer tune right there is a real toe tapper. 8/10 The Muppets really take me back. Do you remember Jim Henson’s Muppets in The Land of Gorch from early SNL seasons? Probably not. He had a hilarious cast of characters: King Ploobis, Queen Peuta, Scred, and of course, The Mighty Favog – “It’s gonna cost ya.”
Yes, well, so anyway, I think I’m dating myself, but I first saw this guy around about that time. I was in high school and madly in love with a girl, who I took to the show. She later dumped me hard and I haven’t seen her since around 1980. But I’ve had an idealized image of her in my head for the past 30 years. (I’m still a little bit smitten)
I know, it’s kinda weird.
I have no idea what she looks like now and, for that matter, I don’t really remember what she looked like then. I kept her photo for a while, but my wife found it and ripped it up, which made for a chilly couple of nights around the old homestead.
Anyway, here’s Springsteen from his ’05 studio album, Devils & Dust:
http://youtu.be/Xe-5Z3YzVcs
Eh, never been a fan of the Boss. His music isn't bad, just really not my thing. 3/10.
How about another cultural icon?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvKRbi2ovDY
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Originally Posted by Lokasenna
I'm too appalled even to rate it.
:lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkBastable
I know you are a medievalist, but this is taking it to far.
Boy Howdy!Quote:
Originally Posted by Lokasenna
Charlemagne deserved better. Much better.
I’m getting my cow bell and going back down to New Orleans to try and expunge that video from my brain.
Cakewalk anybody?
Dave Bartholomew, Shrimp Gumbo:
http://youtu.be/WxVcNYsKwLA
6/10
UB40 - Johnny Too Bad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MJNSoRNX4Q
I was exactly the right age for UB40, and I was a white kid from precisely the multicultural background to which they ought to appeal. But they gave me an ache behind the eyes then, and they still do now. It just all sounds so unconvincing and utterly devoid of balls. Nah..... 2/10Quote:
Originally Posted by Volya
Before my time, this, but timelessly moving....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11fFE9lR56U
6. That one failed to move me like some of her other stuff. Well, okay, I felt it move a little bit.
This one always moves me. Similarly, it’s from before our time, and another song about lost love:
Ella Fitzgerald, Begin the Beguine:
http://youtu.be/boJ2RZ545Ik
Bravo, Sancho, Bravo. That woman had the voice of an angel. I’ll give Ella 10 out of 10 only because an 11 would be mathematically ambiguous.
Thanks, Sancho. What say we change gears? Here’s a little number by Fatboy Slim, Weapon of Choice. I love the look of pure bliss Christopher Walken wears as he dances on the table.
http://youtu.be/aZbckwYY9r4
Blocked in France. Sry El Sanch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3Fa4lOQfbA
EDIT: Found it. 8/10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6MT20SW9Z0
Ah, a little bit boring for me, and I don't understand much apart from j't'aime: 4/10
Die Antwoord: Fatty Boom Boom http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIXUgtNC4Kc Not my favorite but it's ...interesting...
It's... Honestly not that funny. It's just kind of annoying. 1.5/5
The Distance - Tonedeff
2/10. That guy should post on the poetry board here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--BTGqJmhow
Eh... It just doesn't make me feel all that strongly, maybe it's just because I don't understand the language. 5/10
The Singing Sea
Neh. 4/10.
I just discovered a Welsh version of Rush, I'm loving them:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DzkIWN9qKU
It's not bad, it is a lot like 80s Rush, 6/10.
Since Silas posted Die Antwoord, I'll post a different South African Band:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-tNU...feature=relmfu
Not my taste, but I would rate it 6/10.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh-ACkYmdc4
Might be a popular ONE, but it so good.....
3/10, shove it Bono!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjZMhzGkghw
10/10 Jack, you sex kitten. What are you doing later?
Stop it, Jack. This is a literature forum and that's an unwanted sexual advance.
Wow, probably the only time that sentence will ever be uttered...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmAAaXI8riY
1. Jack, Jack, Jack. Yuk. El Sancho would rather have his balls pounded flat with a wooden mallet than have to listen to phony tough-guy music. So, let us all try to forget Trace Atkins now, and move along to something else.
Every time I think Rock-n-Roll is dead, a couple of guys come along who can raise the freakin’ roof:
http://youtu.be/a_426RiwST8
The Black Keys, Lonely Boy
I discovered the Black Keys about six months ago, and I was delighted. 9/10
I've been drooling.
You’ll never get an argument out of me when you’re crankin’ some Zep’. In fact, just the other day I got into a stereo war with a guy in the car next to me at a stop light; He was thumping out Hip Hop from a pair of subwoofers that were more powerful than his Honda engine, and I was blasting Zeppelin from a pair of speakers nowhere near as powerful as my 455cu V8.
I won.
A-! The A is for the full-throttle, balls-to-the-wall, Rock-N-Roll. And the minus is for (allegedly) ripping off so many riffs from guys on the Chitlin’ Circuit and never really ‘fessing up to it.
Okay then, The Powerball (that’s the lottery for you non-US Litnetters) is up to something like a half BILLION dollars for Wednesday’s drawing.
And…You can buy a ticket at the local grocery store, and pray, 4-11-44.
The Blasters, 4-11-44
http://youtu.be/Udx5xhlOFDg