USCHO Music Thread 4: Songs She Sang to Me, Songs She Brang to Me

[Gurtholfin]

Re: USCHO Music Thread 4: Songs She Sang to Me, Songs She Brang to Me

As far as being irritated about the culture surrounding a band, this is true of every popular band. Think about the fingernails on a chalkboard irritation of Beatles fans, or KISS fans, or the Dead, or Radiohead, or Jimmy Buffet for god's sake.

Those people irritate you? When do you even encounter them and how is it frequent enough to be bothersome?

 

[Gurtholfin]

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I'm just not that crazy about Pink Floyd. I know too many people who worship them on the level that some people worship the Beatles or the Dead. Maybe I didn't smoke enough pot back in college to "get it". Sue me.

Don't sweat it.

There are Floyd fans who think The Wall is bloated - especially the last side... the Trial.

I just disagree.

 

[Kepler]

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Those people irritate you? When do you even encounter them and how is it frequent enough to be bothersome?

The mindset can be irritating. No, not to me personally -- it's all arguing over matters of taste which is absurd. Live and let live. Or that fancypants French saying, "as we cannot agree on taste, let us speak only of what we enjoy and pass over the rest in silence."

 

[Kepler]

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Don't sweat it.

There are Floyd fans who think The Wall is bloated - especially the last side... the Trial.

I just disagree.

Exactly so.

 

[Slap Shot]

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The Wall is far from bloated for me (but respect anyone's disagreement) and I love listening to it start to finish. I'll also watch any, "making of" I can get my hands onto.

Referencing the above Who remarks I listed Quadraphenia as my 1st Who choice for a reason but I don't discredit Tommy as much as others seem to do.

Here's a possible fun endeavor - pick 10 albums that you think are very likely to end up on the "island list" with high frequency from the general public that if you were stuck on that same island with them would make you drown yourself.

Bieber and Swift immediately come to mind but I'll have to give it more thought later.

 

[Kepler]

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Referencing the above Who remarks I listed Quadraphenia as my 1st Who choice for a reason but I don't discredit Tommy as much as others seem to do.

Here's a possible fun endeavor - pick 10 albums that you think are very likely to end up on the "island list" with high frequency from the general public that if you were stuck on that same island with them would make you drown yourself.

Bieber and Swift immediately come to mind but I'll have to give it more thought later.

The top ten weekly selling albums at any given time is not a bad place to start. Sturgeon's Law.

BTW, it appears from that list that your best sales strategy remains: dying.

 

[Kepler]

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The Wall is far from bloated for me (but respect anyone's disagreement) and I love listening to it start to finish. I'll also watch any, "making of" I can get my hands onto.

"Bloat" isn't the word I'd use. It's hamfisted, and it seems to be the point at which Roger Waters' ego swallowed the rest of the band and their music became his narcissistic ejecta.

 

[St. Clown]

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My brothers were big into Pink Floyd back in the day, and one was into the life a bit too much. (wink, win, nudge, nudge) For Xmas one year, my brother Kurt gave my father a copy of the London Symphony Orchestra performing The Wall on cassette.

So I'm on a three-hour car ride with father, and he's playing the tape in the middle of traffic that was quickly going nowhere, Sunday afternoon heading home from the cabin. Of course I'd recognized it, even if I was only 10 or 11 at the time, and started singing along with the occasional verse. So I start up, "We don't need no education..." Immediately my father interrupts me, and starts yelling, "Oh yes, you do! Don't you ever start in with that sort of talk ever again!" I then explain that it's the lyrics to the song, and his retort was the classic "I don't give a sh--. I don't ever want hear that coming from you ever again!" "Fine."

The next time I saw Kurt, I was quick to thank him for that experience.

 

[Gurtholfin]

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Here's a possible fun endeavor - pick 10 albums that you think are very likely to end up on the "island list" with high frequency from the general public that if you were stuck on that same island with them would make you drown yourself.

Bieber and Swift immediately come to mind but I'll have to give it more thought later.

Bob Marley - Legend

I've wanted to murder so many tourist Deadheads in the lots over the years because of that album. They always seem to have an incredibly loud car stereo too with seemingly limitless battery life and play it for everyone within a hundred yards while they pound Bud Light and ask if anyone has any buds.

Mother ****ers.

Greatly contributed to my general disdain for Mr. Marley's hits.

That and the Jamaica commercials.

 

[Gurtholfin]

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"Bloat" isn't the word I'd use. It's hamfisted, and it seems to be the point at which Roger Waters' ego swallowed the rest of the band and their music became his narcissistic ejecta.

Actually, that was The Final Cut which is essentially the first of his solo albums.

The Wall still sounds like Pink Floyd and many of their most iconic songs are from it - Another Brick... Numb... Run... Mother...

The problem with it at the time was the concurrent projects of album, movie and possible live shows. The band, from all accounts, enjoyed doing those live shows and enjoyed the end result of the album.

Of course Roger saw fit o fire Rick, but he still played the live shows because he wanted to.

 

[Gurtholfin]

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My brothers were big into Pink Floyd back in the day, and one was into the life a bit too much. (wink, win, nudge, nudge) For Xmas one year, my brother Kurt gave my father a copy of the London Symphony Orchestra performing The Wall on cassette.

So I'm on a three-hour car ride with father, and he's playing the tape in the middle of traffic that was quickly going nowhere, Sunday afternoon heading home from the cabin. Of course I'd recognized it, even if I was only 10 or 11 at the time, and started singing along with the occasional verse. So I start up, "We don't need no education..." Immediately my father interrupts me, and starts yelling, "Oh yes, you do! Don't you ever start in with that sort of talk ever again!" I then explain that it's the lyrics to the song, and his retort was the classic "I don't give a sh--. I don't ever want hear that coming from you ever again!" "Fine."

The next time I saw Kurt, I was quick to thank him for that experience.

I still have the 45 of that somewhere.

My parents were not fans.

 

[Kepler]

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albums that you think are very likely to end up on the "island list" with high frequency from the general public that if you were stuck on that same island with them would make you drown yourself.

Terrapin Station
Tapestry
Anything by the Eagles
The Wall
Clapton Acoustic
Tracy F-cking Chapman
The Les Mis Broadway cast album
The Les Mis Movie cast album

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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Terrapin Station
The Wall
Clapton Acoustic
Tracy F-cking Chapman
The Les Mis Broadway cast album
The Les Mis Movie cast album

The Rent Broadway & Movie cast albums
Jimmy Buffett - Songs You Know By Heart

I can listen to him a couple times a year, but Parrotheads drive me insane.

EDIT: Oh, and don't forget - ANYTHING by Toby Keith.

 

[Slap Shot]

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Here's a possible fun endeavor - pick 10 albums that you think are very likely to end up on the "island list" with high frequency from the general public that if you were stuck on that same island with them would make you drown yourself.

Garth Brooks - Ropin the Wind
Aerosmith - Permanent Vacation or Pump
Doobie Brothers - Minute by Minute
Starship - Knee Deep in the Hoopla (F##k you Grace Slick!, although I doubt anyone actually brings this one)
Matchbox 20 - More Than You Think You Are
Staind - Break the Cycle
Barenaked Ladies - Stunt
Michael Jackson - Dangerous
Prince - Diamonds and Pearls

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory?

 

[Kepler]

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EDIT: Oh, and don't forget - ANYTHING by Toby Keith.

Any country since Hank Sr. croaked.

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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Any country since Hank Sr. croaked.

I wouldn't go that far. I don't hate George Strait. Unlike some around here, I also don't hate the Eagles (though they're hardly pure country). And Brad Paisley can be clever with his pop culture/self-deprecating songwriting.

 

[Kepler]

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I wouldn't go that far. I don't hate George Strait. Unlike some around here, I also don't hate the Eagles (though they're hardly pure country). And Brad Paisley can be clever with his pop culture/self-deprecating songwriting.

I'm sure I'm being overly harsh. Country has good bones. The commercial crossover crap that has dominated the industry for 30 years is unlistenable pop pablum, and the harder stuff is entangled with socio-politics that needs an acid bath.

But there has to be some that isn't sh-t. The flipside of Sturgeon: the 10%.

 

[Slap Shot]

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Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory?

One less person on my island.

(Although that one probably wouldn't make my Top 10. Definitely Maybe, maybe...)

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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I'm sure I'm being overly harsh. Country has good bones, it's the crossover crap that has dominated the industry for 30 years is unlistenable pop pablum, and the harder stuff is entangled with socio-politics that needs an acid bath.

You are being too harsh, but I'm overly harsh on a lot of artsy-fartsy 70s dreck, and not harsh enough on a lot of 80s "fretwanking & spandex" schlock. So, we're even.

Crossover crap like Taylor Swift and "bro-country" acts like Florida-Georgia Line, Blake Shelton, Luke Bryan, etc. They can go to hell.

One less person on my island.

(Although that one probably wouldn't make my Top 10. Definitely Maybe, maybe...)

I have a deep, visceral hatred of all things Oasis. I can remember in middle school when every guy with peach fuzz and an acoustic would hack away at "Wonderwall" whenever girls requested it. Pretty sure that's where it started.