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Gr00vus's Favorite 50 Songs - 1: Synchronicity II (1 Viewer)
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Gr00vus
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"Dancing in the rain, hiding in the back, loosening my grip, wading in the water, just trying not to crack under the pressure"
37: Under The Pressure, The War Against Drugs, 2013
Maybe it's a bit of recency bias and 50 years from now I'll wonder what I was thinking putting this in my top 50. Right now, I really, really dig this song. Under seventy thousand layers of bitter-sweet instrumentation is an admission that we're often right on the verge of breaking down just from the weight of our own neuroses, loneliness, and disappointments. In truth, he probably could have put any lyrics on this thing and I'd like it quite a bit because of the music, but the message is biting. You don't really listen to this song - it sort of seeps in and stays with you for a long time. I find myself humming the guitar line, or the piano line, or the synth line, or the horn line at random moments (while not "listening" to the song). Taken separately they're each pretty simple, but put altogether and you get this beautiful, beautiful song. It moves me close to tears more often than not.
The "band" is really Adam Granduciel. He writes everything and plays just about everything too. The album and song deal with the immense depression he felt after he came off the road from the tour prior to writing this material.
If you don't listen to anything else you haven't already heard among the songs on my list here, listen to this one. I recommend headphones.
And now, thanks to this song, I no longer have to wonder what a collaboration between Bob Dylan and Brian Eno would sound like.
37: Under The Pressure, The War Against Drugs, 2013
Maybe it's a bit of recency bias and 50 years from now I'll wonder what I was thinking putting this in my top 50. Right now, I really, really dig this song. Under seventy thousand layers of bitter-sweet instrumentation is an admission that we're often right on the verge of breaking down just from the weight of our own neuroses, loneliness, and disappointments. In truth, he probably could have put any lyrics on this thing and I'd like it quite a bit because of the music, but the message is biting. You don't really listen to this song - it sort of seeps in and stays with you for a long time. I find myself humming the guitar line, or the piano line, or the synth line, or the horn line at random moments (while not "listening" to the song). Taken separately they're each pretty simple, but put altogether and you get this beautiful, beautiful song. It moves me close to tears more often than not.
The "band" is really Adam Granduciel. He writes everything and plays just about everything too. The album and song deal with the immense depression he felt after he came off the road from the tour prior to writing this material.
If you don't listen to anything else you haven't already heard among the songs on my list here, listen to this one. I recommend headphones.
And now, thanks to this song, I no longer have to wonder what a collaboration between Bob Dylan and Brian Eno would sound like.
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wikkidpissah
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Well put. A little Cure on the side, too. All of a sudden, i'm amidst The War On Drugs again. Thx for that. What's with the Bojack Horseman references in the comments? Should i be watching those? i'm hearing an awful lot about em.
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Gr00vus
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They closed the last episode of season 5 (the most recent one) with this song.
I really like the show, it's unlike anything I've seen. I think it's the most creative show I've watched since Flight Of The Conchords. It is both deeply depressing and hilarious.
simey
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I remember Elton John calling them out on it saying it was a total disgrace that she wasn't in the R&R HOF, and then the chairman of the nominating committee said it was an "error" on the voting groups part that she hadn't been inducted yet. They inducted her the next year. <_<
Uruk-Hai
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Yeah, the year after she died.
Look, I know the RRHOF is a meaningless exercise that's set up so Jann Wenner has something to masturbate to. I also know that rock critic Dave Marsh - who was part of the nominating group for years - can be a self-important blowhard. But he championed her induction for decades. Good on him and shame on the Boomer racists who kept Donna out for 3 decades.
Their worst ongoing omission is Chic. They threw a bone to Nile Rodgers after Bowie died, but they are leaving out a band that had a ton to do with how music sounded for about a decade.
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
I owned this single at one time. Always thought it would made a high quality replacement for the awful porn music of the time.
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Gr00vus
Footballguy
"I feel her comin' in the middle of the night, screamin' "harder!""
36: Shake Me, Cinderella, 1986
For those feeling some uncertainty about the thrust of this song, it's about #######. Brazen, wild, epic, sweaty, #######. I bet at one point the name and lyric for the song were actually "#### me" but the band figured out they wouldn't get much airplay that way. Turns out it didn't get as much airplay as it should have, as it didn't ever chart in the Billboard top 100. But it's still a great straight ahead rock song. Monster guitar riffs, a huge drum sound, just the right touch of organ, Tom Keifer screaming his head off, and plenty of cowbell on the numbers.
The video, which did get heavy play in the MTV rotation when it came out back when I was a high schooler, is somewhat painful to watch, the 80's hair band thing, well it doesn't age well visually. I do really enjoy the guitar spins though.
36: Shake Me, Cinderella, 1986
For those feeling some uncertainty about the thrust of this song, it's about #######. Brazen, wild, epic, sweaty, #######. I bet at one point the name and lyric for the song were actually "#### me" but the band figured out they wouldn't get much airplay that way. Turns out it didn't get as much airplay as it should have, as it didn't ever chart in the Billboard top 100. But it's still a great straight ahead rock song. Monster guitar riffs, a huge drum sound, just the right touch of organ, Tom Keifer screaming his head off, and plenty of cowbell on the numbers.
The video, which did get heavy play in the MTV rotation when it came out back when I was a high schooler, is somewhat painful to watch, the 80's hair band thing, well it doesn't age well visually. I do really enjoy the guitar spins though.
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Gr00vus
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rockaction
Footballguy
I met this girl about quarter to ten/she said "make me once and make me again"
IIRC.
Loved this album as a ninth-grader little pubescent doof.
Gr00vus
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There definitely was a formula. I can distinguish between Keifer, Pearcy, Neil, etc., but they are all somewhat peas in a pod. I'd put Axl Rose in there too, though for whatever reason his band didn't get tagged as "hair metal" - did they?
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Leroy Hoard
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Never a huge hair metal fan, but this song really does rock. Just enough AC/DC sound mixed in to tough it up.
wikkidpissah
Footballguy
cool. my travel days have so far fallen when Gr00vy picked songs i dont relate to. keep up the good work -
Gr00vus
Footballguy
"His white shirts, still hanging in rows on the closet door. She still hurts, fragments of you live on, why do you stay home?"
35: Underbart, Little Dragon, 2014
Underbart is a Swedish word for "wonderfully" (at least that's what online translation sites tell me). That's how this Swedish band does stuff - wonderfully. If you're not familiar with their work, make it part of your homework to give them a listen.
This track almost got left off the album it first appeared on (Nabuma Rubberband), but they thought better of it at the last minute and kept it on. Good choice. It's a mournful song of abandonment and loss. Great rhythm tracks here courtesy of Frederick Wallin (synth bass) and Erik Bodin (drums). Yes that's mostly a live drum track. He's playing some triggered sounds and using effects cymbals (basically cymbals with holes cut in them), but I'm fairly certain he's playing the core rhythm, it's not a drum program. And it's a great drum track, particularly the interplay between the hi-hats and the bass drum. Hakan Wirestrand covers everything in washes of acidic keyboard synths. And then there's Yukimi Nagano's vocals. Hooo boy. One of the best voices I've ever heard. Huge range, deceptively powerful, sweet, soulful, sensual, with a hint of raspiness every now and then. When they multitrack her, she's almost like a human horn section. That run she does singing "he's leaving for good" in this one always gives me chills. In this song the overall effect is a sugar coated slice of melancholy, but the underlying feel is nothing less than wonderfully sinister.
35: Underbart, Little Dragon, 2014
Underbart is a Swedish word for "wonderfully" (at least that's what online translation sites tell me). That's how this Swedish band does stuff - wonderfully. If you're not familiar with their work, make it part of your homework to give them a listen.
This track almost got left off the album it first appeared on (Nabuma Rubberband), but they thought better of it at the last minute and kept it on. Good choice. It's a mournful song of abandonment and loss. Great rhythm tracks here courtesy of Frederick Wallin (synth bass) and Erik Bodin (drums). Yes that's mostly a live drum track. He's playing some triggered sounds and using effects cymbals (basically cymbals with holes cut in them), but I'm fairly certain he's playing the core rhythm, it's not a drum program. And it's a great drum track, particularly the interplay between the hi-hats and the bass drum. Hakan Wirestrand covers everything in washes of acidic keyboard synths. And then there's Yukimi Nagano's vocals. Hooo boy. One of the best voices I've ever heard. Huge range, deceptively powerful, sweet, soulful, sensual, with a hint of raspiness every now and then. When they multitrack her, she's almost like a human horn section. That run she does singing "he's leaving for good" in this one always gives me chills. In this song the overall effect is a sugar coated slice of melancholy, but the underlying feel is nothing less than wonderfully sinister.
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wikkidpissah
Footballguy
If this gives you pleasure, i'm happy
BUT
It's snowing here so i aint going anywhere, so i might as well get this out of the way. I have previously stated on these boards that i could write an LCD Soundsystem album every two wks til the end of time so my general dismissal of single-groove music hangs out there farther and fatter than any appendage i got.
There's music that's entertainment and music that's art. I argue this all the time with me ol' Da, who hasn't enjoyed a new song since Perry Como got his first grey hair. He's pathologically stuck pre-1950, doesnt respect anything that wasnt scratched out of the ground by rough hands, strong arms & broad backs or the food and liniments fashioned from them by womenfolk. He wants to be comforted, not challenged, by his entertainments.
I am the opposite. if fear, however, that i am similarly stuck in my own construct. There was a rule, often ten rules, for every ###### aspect of life in the world i entered. Broke every frikkin one of em in my path. Twice. Even when once was enough. Essentially, my entire life was artistic because i've considered putting battery acid in my Cheerios in the morning and screwing on broken glass at night. Nothing goes unconsidered, never has. Now that i'm old i expect my criteria in something anyone tells me i'm supposed to enjoy to pass my organic muster just like my old man does.
Songs are art. I write songs regularly because they are art and because i can. I started writing songs because i was frustrated by the projects i was working on and had a revelation "Write your Wizard of Oz - that which gives you the most joy" which i've been doing this whole decade. That oddly happened to include writing songs and i found out i was good at it. As my last arranger - who had known me since i was 13 - said "You're the first person i've ever heard of who got his "book" (def: came upon the beginning of his musical oeuvre) @ 60yo. It's really quite weird" He couldnt understand how, with no musical skills, i could conceive new songs or solve song problems almost instantly, as required. Without an axe to hammer it out on. "All i know is it's based on something different than the last idea every time. Maybe it's because you know all the music but none of the rules of music."
I only tell you this to establish that i have required from myself knowledge of what i see, what of that might interest you, what of that might disturb you, how you might see what i show you and what God thinks of it all before i share it with you. Every word i've written in this post considers what i, you, they, God might find in it. It's art, even if it aint good art. My ego allows that even if it aint good yet, it might one day be.
I hear almost none of that in single-groove music. SGM places one's identity upon a chosen media without necessarily having worked on one's identity. No matter how pleasing or interesting, that's not art to me. I want 95% of my media intake to be art and 5% to be entertainment. I am therefore verrrrry choosy about my entertainment and, as a result, really dont have spacetime to consider single-groove music (to music what christmas-tree decorating is to fine art) anymore. nufced.
wikkidpissah
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My passive insult to EDM, any music which considers production over creation and the "this is what i got" music that has pervaded the industry in the last gen. It establishes it's groove then throws tinsel at it. Additions, no abstractions, the difference between arithmetic and mathematics.
Gr00vus
Footballguy
Ahh, o.k. Well, good/bad news, there will be a few more such tracks along the way here.
wikkidpissah
Footballguy
Kinda figgered. Natural extension from Moroder for you, really. Since there won't be a lot of anectodal stuff from that anyway, maybe i can use your selections to deepen my points about the form. All good, baby - I like Perry Como too.
Gr00vus
Footballguy
Maybe, but I'm concerned you're implying there's no creativity, feeling or musicality to the form. I'll never agree with that.
wikkidpissah
Footballguy
I will freely stipulate that i am spoiled by having seen the popular song thru most of its evolutions and taken part in its most revolutionary period and that my own age makes me less flexible in my stances.
Of course there is not NO creativity, feeling or musicality to the form. I just dont see anyone challenging God, which we used to do regularly and is a big part of the id of music. It flat killed jazz and prog (and classical never really found their cubist either) because the forms had been ####ed out to the point where only the pretentious (or overschooled 2nd gen imitators) would have them any longer. @rockaction and i have contested at length on these pages how the posterity of possible musical Prometheuses - such as Jack White and Sufjan Stevens - has suffered by not being put to the yoke of the fearsome responsibility their brilliant talents dictate.
Revolution is at the heart of art & rock. Revolutionairies do not take selfies, judge talent shows, develop their brands, know'm'sayin? They also see music three-dimensionally (or is it dementionally?). Single-groove rarely shows me more than two. I'll be happy to be proved wrong, so have your way with me...
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Gr00vus
Footballguy
All I can do is point out the songs. If you don't find what you need in them, there's no cajoling of mine that will change things.
wikkidpissah
Footballguy
dood - i wrote all those posts with War On Drugs going in my headphones. that wouldnta happened a wk ago. we love things hard, are not selfish with that love, good things happen
rockaction
Footballguy
The only problem I ever saw with this is that once the challenge has been won and the taboos are overthrown, what is left?
Nothing. There's a void. That's why so much modern music has a nihilistic and distant element to it. We overthrew God and taboos, and now we're left without a certain creative impulse anymore because there's noting to either revere or fear. Reaching for the heavens or avoiding hell has such potential for creativity among individuals that these constant challenges could never sustain themselves because it tore down the very creative impulse it sought to replace. The only way to replace a communitarian spirit, then, is a reverence for the secular or the human and both of those are more rational-based than creative and inspiring.
That's my two cents, anyway.
wikkidpissah
Footballguy
We blowed it up, Blowed it up real good. The constituent blocks of God's temples lie scattered around us and from them we build Barcaloungers? The work has just begun. Free from God, the victory over our selves is there to be won. I even know how it will be done.
Ever been to the cathedral at Chartres or Cologne? O, how those halls and spires ache to shoot us altogether at God. For, if we be not gods, we are bugs.
rockaction
Footballguy
Nope. Never. Would love to, though.
I think the thing about us being gods or bugs is a little drastic - according to Christian theology, to use an example, we are imbued with God's spirit and grace, made in his own image, just lesser beings than he, but we're getting way to the side of a music countdown now. I was simply popping into say something I'm pretty sure we agree on, the death of God and tradition. But whenever I think about that death and how liberating the actions taken to do so might have edified us, at the end of the night, we're left with simply nothing to aspire to nor fear, which is, IMHO, a significant (though not all-encompassing) part of the creative impulse.
I think that is something we agree upon.
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
Just for the record, I like both kinds of music. Country AND Western.
wikkidpissah
Footballguy
Gr00vus
Footballguy
While I'm obviously narcissistic and arrogant enough to embark on this thread, foisting the things I like on the rest of this community to enjoy or ignore, I am not narcissistic or arrogant enough to think that anyone else would or should have the same top 50 favorite songs as me. If there were no challenges, life would be quite boring.
Gr00vus
Footballguy
I've been to the one in Cologne. I hadn't planned on going there. I was taking the train up from Darmstadt up to Mettmann, my end goal being the Neanderthal museum and excavation site. I'm a sucker for all things pre-history, and have always been fascinated by the Neanderthals and their fate in particular. That train route spends most of its time running nearly on top of the Rhine river, passing hundred of castles, abandoned Roman guard towers and such along the way. As I got to the northern end of the trip through the window I saw this incredible, immense cathedral, dominating the city of Cologne. It was magnificent. I didn't have time to stop there that day, but I was so impressed by it I made a second trip a few days later just to visit that Cathedral. Truly awe inspiring. I think I wandered around, through, up, down that thing slack jawed the entire time.wikkidpissah said:
Gr00vus
Footballguy
Addressing the post-theistic subject matter, I feel that once you've put mythical/institutional gods and devils aside, when you have no fictitious, external, omnipotent moral authorities and intelligent designers to blame stuff on - that's when you have to come to grips with what it means to be human. It can be liberating, it can also be terrifying, depressing, encouraging and a whole host of other emotions. Being confronted with that kind of reality, without the aid of crutches, can and does spark its own kind of creativity.
wikkidpissah
Footballguy
Gr00vus
Footballguy
"All alone, in my bed at night, I grab my pillow and squeeze it tight"
34: I Want Your Love, Chic, 1978
Not a wrong note in this song. Every layer a perfect component of the overall composition, one thing less/one thing more and it wouldn't be as good. The cloying vocals, the mesmerizing strings, the rollicking horns, the syncopated piano, and the bells - the bells! At its heart though, there beats possibly the best rhythm section that's ever put notes to music. Nile Rodgers and his funky ### rhythm guitar, Bernard Edwards and his lights out groovetastic bass, and of course Tony Thompson, one of the greatest drummers of all time. In this particular song, it's the bass line that does the busy work, Edwards laying out yet another track for the ages. Rodgers plays around the edges, and Thompson lays the foundation that keeps your feet moving. Listen to those accents he's putting on the uh-3s with just the 16th notes on the hi-hat. Such a perfect pocket, something you never hear anyone else do, and he did it all the time. (Spoiler alert, we will see Tony Thompson again later in this countdown, and I will wax even more poetic about him then).
This band is criminally underrated and underappreciated by the general public. Musicians know this team, how many tracks they've created and laid down for themselves and others, and how influential they've been to music at large. I'll leave it to the other musos on here like @Uruk-Hai to expound on just how important this band was/is and how shortchanged they've been over the years.
I couldn't have a top 50 sans Chic, and this is my favorite tune of theirs. Good Times would be pretty close, but again I've heard it so many times (and heard it stolen/sampled so many times) I've kind of burned out on it.
34: I Want Your Love, Chic, 1978
Not a wrong note in this song. Every layer a perfect component of the overall composition, one thing less/one thing more and it wouldn't be as good. The cloying vocals, the mesmerizing strings, the rollicking horns, the syncopated piano, and the bells - the bells! At its heart though, there beats possibly the best rhythm section that's ever put notes to music. Nile Rodgers and his funky ### rhythm guitar, Bernard Edwards and his lights out groovetastic bass, and of course Tony Thompson, one of the greatest drummers of all time. In this particular song, it's the bass line that does the busy work, Edwards laying out yet another track for the ages. Rodgers plays around the edges, and Thompson lays the foundation that keeps your feet moving. Listen to those accents he's putting on the uh-3s with just the 16th notes on the hi-hat. Such a perfect pocket, something you never hear anyone else do, and he did it all the time. (Spoiler alert, we will see Tony Thompson again later in this countdown, and I will wax even more poetic about him then).
This band is criminally underrated and underappreciated by the general public. Musicians know this team, how many tracks they've created and laid down for themselves and others, and how influential they've been to music at large. I'll leave it to the other musos on here like @Uruk-Hai to expound on just how important this band was/is and how shortchanged they've been over the years.
I couldn't have a top 50 sans Chic, and this is my favorite tune of theirs. Good Times would be pretty close, but again I've heard it so many times (and heard it stolen/sampled so many times) I've kind of burned out on it.
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rockaction
Footballguy
Uruk-Hai
Footballguy
So should "Another One Bites The Dust" and "The Adventures Of Grandmaster Flash & The Wheels Of Steel", plus an untold number of New Wave tunes
Uruk-Hai
Footballguy
I mini-ranted about Chic's lack of respect in Groovus' Donna Summer post.
In my mind, they are the best mainstream eligible band not in the R&R HOF and I can't for the life of me understand why. Other musicians of all stripes love them, they sold a bazillion records, and half the hit records of the '80s owe a ton to them (understandable, since Rodgers, Edwards, and Thompson were personally involved in about half of THOSE).
Sister Sledge (which was Chic with different singers), Diana Ross' massive comeback album (Chic with a diva out front), Let's Dance (Chic with different kind of diva out front), Like A Virgin (Chic with a diva-in-training out front), The Honeydrippers, Power Station, Debbie Harry's debut solo record, one of Duran Duran's when they were hot. These are all records and acts that owe their very existence to Chic (as opposed to "only" being influenced by them).
Chic only had about a 3 year run as a hit-making performing act under their own name. About the same length as Buddy Holly's, by the way, and I'd offer up that Chic had as least as much influence (& bigger hits) than Holly.
Most of their songs - even with the weird instruments they sometimes used - were spare in the extreme. The opposite of most disco records and a lot closer to what the punks were doing (makes sense since Rodgers & Edwards were in as rock band before, and Thompson drummed more like a rocker). The New Wave bands took note and spent about a decade rewriting Chic songs. Prince was obviously paying attention. The skinny-tie bands flat stole Chic's stage look and act.
Bernard Edwards was among the 4 or 5 best/most-influential bass players in rock history (he's GOT to be the most-imitated and -sampled).
Rodgers' updating of the "Shaft" guitar lick is almost as influential. And musicians are STILL beating down his door to work with him.
I'll let Groovus and the drummers here talk sensibly about Thompson. All I know is, that dude was a powerhouse - like if Bonham & Al Jackson had a kid together.
Also, their singers were some of the best in the business. They weren't given a lot of showy things to do, but that "disembodied diva" thing carried other acts DEEP into the '80s.
"I Want Your Love" is my 2nd favorite Chic hit. "Everybody Dance" is #1.
ETA: Chic actually got LESS ornate as they went on. By the time of "Good Times", they treated everything on their records except bass as a drum - including the singers.
In my mind, they are the best mainstream eligible band not in the R&R HOF and I can't for the life of me understand why. Other musicians of all stripes love them, they sold a bazillion records, and half the hit records of the '80s owe a ton to them (understandable, since Rodgers, Edwards, and Thompson were personally involved in about half of THOSE).
Sister Sledge (which was Chic with different singers), Diana Ross' massive comeback album (Chic with a diva out front), Let's Dance (Chic with different kind of diva out front), Like A Virgin (Chic with a diva-in-training out front), The Honeydrippers, Power Station, Debbie Harry's debut solo record, one of Duran Duran's when they were hot. These are all records and acts that owe their very existence to Chic (as opposed to "only" being influenced by them).
Chic only had about a 3 year run as a hit-making performing act under their own name. About the same length as Buddy Holly's, by the way, and I'd offer up that Chic had as least as much influence (& bigger hits) than Holly.
Most of their songs - even with the weird instruments they sometimes used - were spare in the extreme. The opposite of most disco records and a lot closer to what the punks were doing (makes sense since Rodgers & Edwards were in as rock band before, and Thompson drummed more like a rocker). The New Wave bands took note and spent about a decade rewriting Chic songs. Prince was obviously paying attention. The skinny-tie bands flat stole Chic's stage look and act.
Bernard Edwards was among the 4 or 5 best/most-influential bass players in rock history (he's GOT to be the most-imitated and -sampled).
Rodgers' updating of the "Shaft" guitar lick is almost as influential. And musicians are STILL beating down his door to work with him.
I'll let Groovus and the drummers here talk sensibly about Thompson. All I know is, that dude was a powerhouse - like if Bonham & Al Jackson had a kid together.
Also, their singers were some of the best in the business. They weren't given a lot of showy things to do, but that "disembodied diva" thing carried other acts DEEP into the '80s.
"I Want Your Love" is my 2nd favorite Chic hit. "Everybody Dance" is #1.
ETA: Chic actually got LESS ornate as they went on. By the time of "Good Times", they treated everything on their records except bass as a drum - including the singers.
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El Floppo
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You've completely missed the mark with this stuff. Which is fine- all music isn't for everybody. Select bands like LCD manages to tightrope minimalism and indie/other genres. Minimalism- in art, design, architecture- is about the details being exactly right...which is incredibly difficult to pull off. But even when pulled off, some people don't get or like it. Sounds like you don't...fine.wikkidpissah said:
wikkidpissah
Footballguy
hospital bed corners are not art. you going to have the make a better case for minimalism than that if you want me on board. btw, i LOVE arguing aesthetics because, unlike arguing politics, belief or taste, all participants gain something no matter what
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Uruk-Hai
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I made mine above in reference to Chic, though I generally lean towards ornate and melodic (Chic did both of these too compared to someone playing a washboard, but were positively spartan compared to their peers).
wikkidpissah
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Eephus
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Covers covers covers
39. Highway to Hell: Chanson cover by the former First Lady of France. You can't beat that.
Carla Bruni https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFTBzRUxSGQ
38. Bad Girls: I know Groovus likes Jamiroquai but it's a shame the Bolsheviks missed when shooting Anastacia
Anastacia & Jamiroquai https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xyyJIFrr2w
37. Under the Pressure: Sorry to come off like an old grump but I've sparred with the cool kids about this band before. It's a decent four minute song stretched out to nine.
No covers available
36. Shake Me: The sound is pure 80s excess. Enormous drums, crunching power chords, wailing vocals. There's something oddly reassuring about 80s hair metal cliches; the listener knows exactly what's going to happen next.
Surprisingly no covers
35. Underbart: Pleasant ear candy but kind of forgettable
No covers but Sweden's entry in the 2010 Eurovision song competition was also named Underbart https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6f-7qhWbY0
34. I Want Your Love: Such a simple four note chorus on top of a locked in bottom.
Paul Rutherford A very 80s Stock Aitken Watermanesque cover from a former member of Frankie Goes to Hollywood with production by Martin Fry of ABC. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XadHP0m4vQE
39. Highway to Hell: Chanson cover by the former First Lady of France. You can't beat that.
Carla Bruni https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFTBzRUxSGQ
38. Bad Girls: I know Groovus likes Jamiroquai but it's a shame the Bolsheviks missed when shooting Anastacia
Anastacia & Jamiroquai https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xyyJIFrr2w
37. Under the Pressure: Sorry to come off like an old grump but I've sparred with the cool kids about this band before. It's a decent four minute song stretched out to nine.
No covers available
36. Shake Me: The sound is pure 80s excess. Enormous drums, crunching power chords, wailing vocals. There's something oddly reassuring about 80s hair metal cliches; the listener knows exactly what's going to happen next.
Surprisingly no covers
35. Underbart: Pleasant ear candy but kind of forgettable
No covers but Sweden's entry in the 2010 Eurovision song competition was also named Underbart https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6f-7qhWbY0
34. I Want Your Love: Such a simple four note chorus on top of a locked in bottom.
Paul Rutherford A very 80s Stock Aitken Watermanesque cover from a former member of Frankie Goes to Hollywood with production by Martin Fry of ABC. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XadHP0m4vQE
Uruk-Hai
Footballguy
My God, this guy can't sing at all. He just sings the same note over and over. Was this a hit?
Eephus
Footballguy
It's pretty meh. The original verse doesn't have a lot of melody to begin with and Rutherford sings it in a lower register which doesn't help at all.
It hit #82 in the UK which doesn't say a lot about all the other songs of 1989.
Uruk-Hai
Footballguy
I posted above that the Chic singers weren't given a lot to do, but this dude makes whoever sang on this one for Chic - Norma Jean or Alfa - sound like Pavarotti. There is SOME vocal melody on the original. Zippo with this guy.
Gr00vus
Footballguy
Alfa is credited with the lead on I Want Your Love, and I believe their live/televised performances confirm that.
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