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USCHO Music: From Queen to The Beatles to Lady Gaga

Let's all bow our heads for the Tempe Innings Festival final day lineup:
  • Blink 182
  • Sublime
  • Public Enemy
  • Big Boi
  • Bowling for Soup
 
A group of kids playing some classic rock, very talented group , The lead singer in this song has a real future if you ask me. They have a youtube channel with other covers, some aren't so good but this one is spot on
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🗻 Fleetwood Friday: A Landslide is coming 🗻 The Graystones are taking on one of Fleetwood Mac's most timeless songs, Landslide, with their own sound and soul. Get ready for a version that feels both...
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I've been listening to "Give Me Back My Man" by The B-52's for 40 years without fully understanding it. What a genius song.

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I also came across this which is unrelated but holy shit:

In one legend Sedna is a giant, the daughter of the creator-god Anguta, with a great hunger that causes her to attack her parents. Angered, Anguta takes her out to sea and throws her over the side of his kayak. As she clings to the sides, he chops off her fingers and she sinks to the underworld, becoming the ruler of the monsters of the deep. Her huge fingers become the ringed seals, walruses, and whales hunted by Inuit.[4]

In another version of the legend, she is dissatisfied with men found for her by her father and so marries a dog. Her father is so angry at this that he throws her into the sea and, when she tries to climb back into the boat, he cuts off her fingers. Her fingers become the first seals and she becomes a mighty sea goddess.[2] When she is angered, the angakkuq (shaman) travels to wash and comb her hair for her, after which she is placated and releases the animals to the hunters.[5] In other versions, she is unable to comb her hair because she lacks fingers, so a shaman must brush it for her.[6]

In the Netsilik region, the story states that Nuliayuk was a mistreated orphan. One day the people tried to get rid of her by attempting to drown her by chopping off her fingertips, which transformed into seals and walruses.[7] Eventually, Nuliayuk marries a sculpin and lives in the sea controlling all sea mammals.

Other versions of the legend depict Sedna as a beautiful maiden who rejects marriage proposals from the hunters of her village. When an unknown hunter appears, Sedna's father agrees to give her to him as wife in return for fish. Sedna's father gives Sedna a sleeping potion and gives her to the hunter who takes her to a large nest on a cliff, revealing his true form: a great bird-spirit (variously described as a raven, a fulmar or a Kokksaut / petrel-spirit). She wakes surrounded by birds. Her father attempts to rescue her, but the bird-spirit becomes angry, causing a great storm. In desperation, Sedna's father throws her into the raging sea. Attempting to cling to the kayak, her hands freeze and her fingers fall off becoming the creatures of the sea. She falls to the bottom of the sea and grows a fishtail.

Sedna is kidnapped or deceived by a different bird creature in yet another version. Her father then leaves in his kayak to rescue her from the floating ice-island where she is imprisoned while the bird creature is away. The creature, enraged by her disappearance, calls to a spirit of the sea to help him. The sea spirit locates the kayak with the two humans aboard and creates huge waves to kill them. Her father throws Sedna overboard in the hope that this will appease the angry god. Sedna clings to the kayak but her father grabs a little axe and chops three of her fingers off before striking her on the head. The three fingers each become a different species of seal. The stroke to her head sends Sedna to the ocean floor where she resides, commanding the animals of the sea.[8]

In an additional version of the story Sedna marries a man who claims to be a fantastic hunter. He then takes her away to a distant island and once there he reveals himself to be a birdman. Being a birdman he was not a good hunter and could only hunt fish. Unable to escape the island she resigned herself to her situation, until her father came to visit one day. Her father decided to kill the birdman upon realizing he lied about who he was, attempting to rescue his daughter. They left the island on her father's kayak, when the birdman's friends attacked them in retaliation. They flew above the kayak and created great waves to attack the kayak with. Sedna's father was so frightened he threw her overboard; she then grabbed onto the edge of the kayak holding on for her life. Fearing she would tip over the boat her father cut off her fingers, making her fall into the water. The fingers that were cut off then became sea animals and she sank to the ocean floor where she became a spirit of the ocean.[9]

In one Baffin Island tradition, Sedna was in a kayak with her family when a storm started. Her parents thought she was to blame for the storm and threw her into the sea. She clung to the kayak, but her father cut her fingers off: first the tips, then the second knuckle, then the last knuckle. Her disembodied fingers turned into sea creatures. Sedna gained control over the animals. If humans angered her, she could stop the animals from coming to their hunting sites, thus causing famine.[10]

The varying legends each give different rationales for Sedna's death. Yet, in each version, her father takes her to sea in his kayak, chopping off her fingers.[11] In each version she sinks to the bottom of the sea, worshipped by hunters who depend on her goodwill to supply food. She is generally considered a vengeful goddess, and hunters must placate and pray to her to release the sea animals from the ocean depths for their hunt.[12] At Killiniq, people threw worn-out harpoon-heads, broken knives, and morsels of meat and bone into the sea as offerings.[2]
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Every once in awhile, I enjoy a guilty pleasure day. Today it's big hair butt rock.

Generally speaking, this genre is only 'good' when it's really, really cheesy and shitty, and can be played for laughs. So I've got all the second and third string bands going. Firehouse, Warrant, Winger, Slaughter, Britny Fox, etc.

There are, of course, a few exceptions to this. Tesla were considerably better than they got credit for. Extreme were fairly talented musicians on their later, early 90s albums if you overlook Gary Cherone's preening. KIX and Cinderella were pretty solid AC/DC imitators.
 
ScoobyDoo said:
Tesla is a little different. Not really that category. Mechanical Resonance holds up today and every day going forward.
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Agreed. IIRC, Mechanical Resonance was a compromise between them and their label - the first half was cheese and the second half is their genuine sound. After it took off on the strength of "Modern Day Cowboy", they got a lot more creative freedom.
 
FadeToBlack&Gold said:
Agreed. IIRC, Mechanical Resonance was a compromise between them and their label - the first half was cheese and the second half is their genuine sound. After it took off on the strength of "Modern Day Cowboy", they got a lot more creative freedom.
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Well, not sure about that myself but as far as I am concerned that entire album is cheeseless and still sits in my personal top 10 of all time. I never tire of listening to it.
 
What's really funny is when King's X gets thrown into a big hair playlist by music service algorithms. Back when I paid for it, the Sirius XM Hair Nation channel would play their chunkier stuff, but they're more often cited as a band that helped "invent" grunge, and rightfully so if you've ever listened to Gretchen Goes to Nebraska. I am convinced that album is the basis for Alice in Chains' entire sound shift from suburban big hair to grunge-metal.
 
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