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It's not just Elmer Fudd, I think Bowie's Changes ("...ch-ch-ch-changes...") is also rubbing it into the face of people who stutter.

Wonder if "this guy" liked Hendrix kissing him?

has Engleburt Humperdink been released yet?

He is saying "kiss the sky".  :bouncegiggle:

No, no, that's what everyone thinks because the record company re-dubbed it, but originally the song was all about his love for some man known only unto his heart..... Poor Jimi, had to live in an age when his affections dared not speak their name.   :teddyr:

(I have actually known people who thought he was saying "kiss this guy" though, lol.)

One of my favorite lyrics was from Zombie Ritual by Death

"Living with the Living
Dying with the dead"

except I recently re listened to it and that's not what he says at all

I wonder if Buddy Holly liked pizza?

I wonder if KISS removed their Kabuki makeup before having at all those supposed groupies they were all with?

They are on tour just now. Go see them and you can find out.  :bouncegiggle:

I always noticed Johnny and Joey (of the Ramones) stood still, while DeeDee jumped all over the place, and Marky killed it!

Live in 77!


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I wonder how many of his tee-shirts Keith Moon put his name on?

In his autobiography, Gene Simmons says he had encounters with numerous groupies who insisted that he leave his make up on while they did the deed.

And "Billie Jean" is about Michael Jackson disowning paternity of a chair.

I think Jim Morrison faked his death and returned as the lead role on Grizzly Adams.

The Police was a perfect name for that group. That's about how much fun they were. Sting took punk, pop, ska, progressive rock and turned it into yuppie slop.

I been mostly using this thread for blindfolded stabs at satire, but for once I will offer legit thoughts on music.

I often harp about how much bad music has taken over the charts in this century, and do believe that. I try to filter it through the lens of me being in a different generation, different values, but the problem with that is I love a lot of music written well before I was born, and recognize quality output from musicians born long after me, so I don't think that's it.

I truly do think we are going through a decades-long desert wherein bad music prevails, and bear with me, I bring new evidence.

I know the Rev suggested a counterpoint some months back by posting the top songs from past years and showing how much vanilla existed at any given point, but to that I'd offer this....

Pick a year, any year in the 1960s, the 1970s, the 1980s, even across the 1990s, and amid the bubblegum on the charts you'll find great bands. There'd be Elvis, The Beatles, The Who, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Queen, Dire Straits, Genesis, Foo Fighters, Smashing Pumpkins, Journey, The Ramones, Bruce Springsteen, there'd be The Cure, The Cars, The Police, Van Halen, Nirvana, Eminem. Even in the second tier you'd have talented people cranking out great songs. The Pet Shop Boys, Depeche Mode, R.E.M., The Cars, Weezer, RHCP, Green Day, Pixies, Sublime. And even the one-hit wonders gave us many great songs.

Where are the great bands today to balance out the embracing of mediocrity?

Think as long as you like, except for great old bands hanging around, there aren't any. Who has come out in the last twenty years that is equal to the great bands of the twenty years that came before that, let alone the fifty years?

We are living in, hopefully passing through, a wasteland in which the talentless prevail, and I think the case is made.

As I was living through the 80s, I wondered what had happened to the great bands of the 60s. There are periods in history that randomly have a greater concentration of great musicians than others. I still think the 80s were a musical desert. Tom Waits, a lot of meaningless but catchy bubblegum pop, and that's it. I don't like a lot of the "great" bands ER named at all.

I favor jazz over rock, so I mourn the loss of the Miles Davises, John Coltranes, Thelonious Monks, and Charles Minguses of the world. Overall, I think music got worse with the dominance of rock. If you prefer rock, you probably see music as slipping, since it's currently losing ground to hip-hop and R&B.

I've made a concerted effort to listen to new music this year. I don't love most of it, but I don't love most music of any era.

Current popular musicians I like: PJ Harvey, Sigur Ros, Drive-by Truckers, Arctic Monkeys. Bjork, Allison Krauss and Neko Case still going strong. Wilco and Animal Collective have new albums out this week. Don't like Foo Fighters, but they're still producing music. There are promising new discoveries like Lankum and Kelela. Even Lana del Rey isn't bad.

Taylor Swift is no worse than Madonna. The Weeknd is no worse than Michael Jackson. (I'll concede that Kanye West is probably worse than any popular musician who ever existed.)

I'm pretty sure the problem is we're old, and we sound like our parents did when we were growing up and discovering music.

Music and technology go hand in hand. A lot of music is being created for modern car stereos with tons of low end and ear pods.