USCHO Music Thread: We All Have A Crush On Shirley Manson

Slap Shot · Dec 23, 2021

Kepler said:
Really?

That seems... kind of combative towards music.

I can think of very few artists I've hated, and then not for musical reasons. The fans, now. Different story.

I didn't say I hate anyone IN TOTAL, although your statement is pretty comical considering your history of 'hate' towards the Beatles and REM.

I hated when The Cure released Mixed Up, I hated REM for Shiny Happy People, I hated the Stones for pretty much everything after Tattoo You, etc.

To be fair again 'hate' is used pretty loosely here because I don't know that I would say I actually HATE the aforementioned.

btw if you and I ever had a sit down together I guarantee I could change your mind on The Beatles.

MissThundercat · Dec 23, 2021

I don't hate the Beatles. More like I don't think they're the world's greatest band ever.

Slap Shot · Dec 23, 2021

MissThundercat said:
I don't hate the Beatles. More like I don't think they're the world's greatest band ever.

The Beatles are the greatest band of all time and it's not even up for debate. Ingenuity, influence, innovation, popularity. cultural influences and sales as a whole are not even remotely touched. It's freaking indisputable regardless of one's personal tastes. Listen from Rubber Soul through Abbey Road song for song and come back and tell me you're not impressed by the variety, melody, harmony, grit, lack of repetition, the joy and love they invoke. Seriously people that only know them by the radio are missing out.

Enter, "Beatles influence" in the search bar of YouTube and come back after a few hours. Dave Grohl of all people cites the Beatles and particularly Ringo as being massively influential on him. Listen to composer Howard Goodall express his admiration for their work.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBCAyTU-sYA

“In 2003 an article by The Independent explained that a third of all Beatles records are being bought people under the age 24 despite the fact the group split up before these people were even born."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCmLtxJCkeM

If Bob Dylan of all people is saying they were doing things that no one else was doing and Jimmy Page is saying people like him wouldn't be around without them? "I think the Beatles are the reason I'm a musician" - Sting. Joe Perry said they were cool, Kurt Vonnegut, Alice Cooper, Gene Simmons, Brian Wilson said, "Sgt. Peppers is probably the greatest album I've ever heard", Tommy Hilfiger talks about their influence on fashion, Brian May, Joe Walsh, Robin Gibb, Keith Richards...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL4AAH1ua8o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkCJcbeeTE4

https://www.theodysseyonline.com/the-influence-the-beatles

https://www.billboard.com/music/the-beatles/chart-history/top-album-sales

Sgt. Peppers reached #1 on Billboard albums sales in 2017, the White Album #3 in 2018, Live at the Hollywood Bowl #4 in 2016, Live at the BBC:2 # 7 in 2013, Abbey Road #29 this year...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/hughmcintyre/2018/01/05/even-in-2017-the-beatles-dominate-the-bestselling-vinyl-albums-list/#4bd8457433a6

Even In 2017, The Beatles Dominate The Bestselling Vinyl Albums List

https://www.billboard.com/articles/n...ata-age-groups

“OK, the generation-spanning love for the Fab Four is nothing shocking, but just how popular the Beatles have proven to be in the streaming realm might surprise you. In less than a month, the Beatles racked up over 250 million streams on Spotify. But among those quarter-of-a-million plays, who is listening to what?

Today, Spotify helpfully shared an assortment of data pertaining to the Beatles and Spotify listeners. According to the premier music streaming service, 79 percent of listeners were born after the band broke up in 1970.”

Like them or not their place is undeniable and if you write them off without a deep dive you're seriously missing out. Nothing invokes more emotion and joy than when I listen to them.

Slap Shot · Dec 23, 2021

Slap Shot · Dec 23, 2021

Slap Shot · Dec 24, 2021

ffs they went from I Want To Hold Your Hand to Helter Skelter in 4 years and wrote half of Abbey Road while recording Let It Be.

This is just one freaking fourth of the band: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdcSGxXJ8vM&list=PLfOpmyHttjbMg46lYHx4IeFlMncQ-JTTa&index=2

And by the way they accomplished all that they did before the age of 30. :mind blown:

walrus · Dec 24, 2021

Slap Shot said:
ffs they went from I Want To Hold Your Hand to Helter Skelter in 4 years and wrote half of Abbey Road while recording Let It Be.

This is just one freaking fourth of the band: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdcSGxXJ8vM&list=PLfOpmyHttjbMg46lYHx4IeFlMncQ-JTTa&index=2

And by the way they accomplished all that they did before the age of 30. :mind blown:

I started watching some of the other videos from that concert, freakin' awesome. I'm not old enough to have grown up with the beatles but my brothers were and I was exposed at a young age. They changed music, thats for sure.

walrus · Dec 25, 2021

Started watching Get back today, wow.. Creative genius on display

Slap Shot · Dec 25, 2021

walrus said:
Started watching Get back today, wow.. Creative genius on display

It's breathtaking. At one point Paul creates (Get Back?) out of thin air while playing his bass like a guitar. John once they move to Abbey Road shows his creative genius each time he comes into the studio, they write half of Abbey Road at the same time they are recording Let it Be, and then George has nearly a complete triple album All Things Must Pass in his back pocket. It's just stunning.

Slap Shot · Dec 30, 2021

I've been on an album kick the past few days:

LCD Soundsystem - American Dream
Mattew Sweet - 100% Fun
Fanny - First Time in a Long Time
Paul Weller - Wild Wood
The Heavy - The House That Dirt Built
RHCP - The Uplift Mofo Party Plan
AIC - Jar of Flies
Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
The Yardbirds - Roger the Engineer
Tab Benoit - These Blues are all Mine
Flamingosis - Bright Moments
Supertramp - Breakfast in America
Freddie King - Texas Cannonball

Kepler · Jan 3, 2022

Reverse cultural appropriation: the song Chuck Berry copied for "Maybellene."

Kepler · Jan 4, 2022

I can't tell whether Style Council is great or awful. They aren't anything in the middle.

(It's probably that they're awful but fuck it I have fond memories.)

Slap Shot · Jan 6, 2022

Delvon Lamar Organ Trio – Pull Your Pants Up
Little Feat – Fat Man in the Bathtub
The Band – Don’t Do It
Faces – Flying
Spoon – The Fitted Shirt
John Cale – Hello, There
The Dandy Warhols – Catcher in the Rye
Johnny Jenkins – I Walk on Guilded Splinters
Jame Gang – Stop
Boz Scaggs – I’m Easy
Bill Callahan – Diamond Dancer
Mick Ronson – Only After Dark

Kepler · Jan 6, 2022

Slap Shot said:
John Cale – Hello, There

Songs like this are why it doesn't matter John Cale is such an as-shole.

Slap Shot · Jan 6, 2022

Kepler said:
Songs like this are why it doesn't matter John Cale is such an as-shole.

I honestly am not aware of his backstory - only that he was a suggested listen on Spotify for me many moons ago and really enjoy listening to him.

Kepler · Jan 6, 2022

Slap Shot said:
I honestly am not aware of his backstory - only that he was a suggested listen on Spotify for me many moons ago and really enjoy listening to him.

He is what we politely refer to as "difficult." It makes me gigle to imagine him at the Factory with Andy and Halston and Bill Burroughs and Edie Sedgewick and International Velvet and Warhol's Nazi Twiggy and Richard Hell. He may have been the least irritating person in that room.

Slap Shot · Jan 6, 2022

Been on a rabbit hole with The Police and I am fucking digging it. The first time I bought any of their music was with Columbia House and both Zenyatta Mondatta and Outlanos D'Amour were in my initial buy way back when. And just like Purple Rain was basically the soundtrack of our school my junior year, Synchronicity was the same my sophomore year.

If I had to name an underrated band The Police would definitely be on that list. A song like So Lonely is so freaking good yet I wonder how many would name it in their Top 10?

Anyway if I had to rank their 5 albums top to bottom:

1. Synchronicity
2. Reggatta de Blanc
3. Ghost in the Machine
4. Zenydatta Mondatta
5. Outlandos D'Amour

It was such a trajectory and I was so pissed when they broke up but they sure as fuck did not flame out.

Kepler · Jan 6, 2022

Slap Shot said:
Been on a rabbit hole with The Police and I am fucking digging it. The first time I bought any of their music was with Columbia House and both Zenyatta Mondatta and Outlanos D'Amour were in my initial buy way back when. And just like Purple Rain was basically the soundtrack of our school my junior year, Synchronicity was the same my sophomore year.

If I had to name an underrated band The Police would definitely be on that list. A song like So Lonely is so freaking good yet I wonder how many would name it in their Top 10?

Anyway if I had to rank their 5 albums top to bottom:

1. Synchronicity
2. Reggatta de Blanc
3. Ghost in the Machine
4. Zenydatta Mondatta
5. Outlandos D'Amour

It was such a trajectory and I was so ****ed when they broke up but they sure as fuck did not flame out.

I can't disagree with a single word of this post. Just one letter. Bravo.

My late high school was The Police, The Clash, and Gang of Four.

Slap Shot · Jan 6, 2022

Kepler said:
I can't disagree with a single word of this post. Just one letter. Bravo.

My late high school was The Police, The Clash, and Gang of Four.

You got The Clash before they wrecked it. Although I have a soft spot for Big Audio Dynamite.

MissThundercat · Jan 7, 2022

Green Day- Basket Case
Maggie Rogers- Light On
Nina Gordon- Tonight and the Rest of My Life
Fiona Apple- Oh Well
4 Non Blondes- What's Up?
Anna Nalick- Breathe
Taylor Swift- Look What You Made Me Do
Sara Bareilles- She Used to be Mine
One Direction- Night Changes
Demi Lovato and Sam Fischer- What Other People Say

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