Passive: http://youtu.be/vFw9fHN6Bhc
I loved that movie!nakatago wrote:Passive: http://youtu.be/vFw9fHN6Bhc
Puscifer "The Humbling River": http://youtu.be/dIjUtzWrCeArajagainstthemachine wrote:I loved that movie!nakatago wrote:Passive: http://youtu.be/vFw9fHN6Bhc
By the time Vienna was released I was in between punk and New Wave, and Ultravox were steering themselves rapidly off my radar. I remember it was on the radio incessantly for seemingly weeks. It's a shame in a way, as it would have put me off hoping to hear the rest of the album which would have required me having a friend who had gone to the trouble of buying it.Brah wrote:That is the one song on the album I could only listen to a few times. If that's all you heard, I can understand completely. And the albums that followed had a few listenable parts of songs, but their basic premise became unashamedly overindulgent to the point of comical. One of the "New Romantics" movement.
But the rest of Vienna is really good, especially Astradyne, which is an instrumental. And maybe because it's an instrumental..... Good clips of that live in recent years all over YT.
Calls for happiness and celebration! http://youtu.be/7N28FRdCs3k?t=1m18sJR8 wrote:100 page topic..... high-5 and beers all around for that!
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JR8 wrote:By the time Vienna was released I was in between punk and New Wave, and Ultravox were steering themselves rapidly off my radar. I remember it was on the radio incessantly for seemingly weeks. It's a shame in a way, as it would have put me off hoping to hear the rest of the album which would have required me having a friend who had gone to the trouble of buying it.Brah wrote:That is the one song on the album I could only listen to a few times. If that's all you heard, I can understand completely. And the albums that followed had a few listenable parts of songs, but their basic premise became unashamedly overindulgent to the point of comical. One of the "New Romantics" movement.
But the rest of Vienna is really good, especially Astradyne, which is an instrumental. And maybe because it's an instrumental..... Good clips of that live in recent years all over YT.
I may have been lucky that there were a couple of good New Wave radio stations where I was living at the time.
Maybe the genre 'New Romantics' might be split? The mawkish introverts that ultimately disappeared up their own wazoo. Japan/Davis Sylvian went that way too.
Probably, according to Wiki there is a mix of the Romantics and the SynthPop groups, but those lines blur as it was all synths back then, and although I disagree with some of their lists, I was more in the latter camp.
Then the likes of Duran Duran who always were (and still are) quite uplifting, if not outright fun (which they most certainly are live!).
As poorly as 80s music travels in the future, there was a lot of very creative things happening then, and I think that was probably the last wave of really creative things. As years later I still don't find myself wanting to listen to Rap or its derivatives, I am admittedly biased.
Language does fail here, I grapple with this more when speaking than writing though.JR8 wrote:I recall being aware of but not hearing the Grateful Dead back in the 70's. With their name, album sleeves etc of skeletons, skulls, and constant references to drugs, I'd built up in my mind an image of them being a really heavy/psychedelic band.rajagainstthemachine wrote:I have a lot of grateful dead on my playlist
... so when I started to later get into heavy/psychedelic music in the early 80s I took the time to check them out, only to find that rather than being a hippy/stoner version of Black Sabbath, or similar, they're closer to Cliff Richard, er kinda doing a holiday special from some cutesy beach party... quite a shocker!
p.s. I actually, and this is hard for me to verbalise, find the overall proposition impenetrable, or perhaps rather offensive to sensibilities of mature and adult taste. Adult themes to such childish composition. Meanwhile, death-symbolism everywhere (their fans are called Deadheads right?) = Weird
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6Sxv-sUYtMnakatago wrote: Calls for happiness and celebration! http://youtu.be/7N28FRdCs3k?t=1m18s
Someone in the comments noted that it's open C tuning.
Hey, I like that guitar hook they played for that song.JR8 wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6Sxv-sUYtMnakatago wrote: Calls for happiness and celebration! http://youtu.be/7N28FRdCs3k?t=1m18s
Someone in the comments noted that it's open C tuning.
Pharrell Williams - Happy (Official Music Video)
Sometimes simple is best
Sometimes the original will always be best.
A bunch of beardos (note 12 string gittar + 5 string bass) think they had to try and improve on it... well, they're missing the point, and they have about the collective magnetic personality of the Ebola Virus (IMHO).
Thank Nile Rodgers for that, he wrote the original.nakatago wrote:Hey, I like that guitar hook they played for that song.JR8 wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6Sxv-sUYtMnakatago wrote: Calls for happiness and celebration! http://youtu.be/7N28FRdCs3k?t=1m18s
Someone in the comments noted that it's open C tuning.
Pharrell Williams - Happy (Official Music Video)
Sometimes simple is best. Sometimes the original will always be best.
A bunch of beardos (note 12 string gittar + 5 string bass) think they had to try and improve on it... well, they're missing the point, and they have about the collective magnetic personality of the Ebola Virus (IMHO).
Alright; geez...you don't have to respond like I'm recommending Nickelback. It's a one-off thing.JR8 wrote: Thank Nile Rodgers for that, he wrote the original.
The vocalist can't cope with what's required.
The mix/recording is lousy.
All I see is a bunch of back-of-the beach beach-bums who think they're doing an oh-so-cool version of a good song, whereas they're massacring it.
They're just not very good.
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