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Dec 27, 2020 14:36:56 GMT -5
Post by rozenn on Dec 27, 2020 14:36:56 GMT -5
rozenn , a really shitty national anthem plays at the start of this   |
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Dec 27, 2020 15:08:38 GMT -5
Post by Strewthless on Dec 27, 2020 15:08:38 GMT -5
Eurovision was a lot different back then, it was actually good!
She released a great hit in the 80's, Ella, Ella.
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60's
Dec 27, 2020 17:20:40 GMT -5
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Post by Strewthless on Dec 27, 2020 17:20:40 GMT -5
A good thing about the White Album being so big was that unusual songs such as this, that probably wouldn't have made the cut in normal circumstances, were included.
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Post by snj90 on Dec 27, 2020 19:06:26 GMT -5
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Dec 27, 2020 20:26:22 GMT -5
Post by Strewthless on Dec 27, 2020 20:26:22 GMT -5
The most famous opening chord in pop music. Musicologists still debate over exactly how it was created.
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Dec 29, 2020 5:45:17 GMT -5
Post by Strewthless on Dec 29, 2020 5:45:17 GMT -5
Good cover. In North America, people often think this was the original.
There's also a recording of Led Zeppelin playing it during a warm-up.
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60's
Dec 30, 2020 7:14:20 GMT -5
Post by Strewthless on Dec 30, 2020 7:14:20 GMT -5
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Dec 30, 2020 9:04:42 GMT -5
Post by Strewthless on Dec 30, 2020 9:04:42 GMT -5
Yahya Sinwar, this explains how Ringo looks so good for his age. He's been working out since the 60's.
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Dec 30, 2020 9:26:34 GMT -5
Post by Strewthless on Dec 30, 2020 9:26:34 GMT -5
Sounds like a modern hip-hop drumbeat.
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Dec 30, 2020 20:31:49 GMT -5
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Post by Strewthless on Dec 30, 2020 20:31:49 GMT -5
rozenn , this won won lots of awards in the 60's, but you may be suprised to find from a Beatle bummer like myself that I don't care all that much for it much. Musicially beautiful but lyrically I find it lazy and simplistic. I suspect the French phrases are gibberish. It's written in a French style, can you suggest songs in the same style in French?
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Post by snj90 on Dec 30, 2020 20:34:58 GMT -5
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Post by rozenn on Dec 30, 2020 21:10:51 GMT -5
rozenn , this won won lots of awards in the 60's, but you may be suprised to find from a Beatle bummer like myself that I don't care all that much for it much. Musicially beautiful but lyrically I find it lazy and simplistic. I suspect the French phrases are gibberish. It's written in a French style, can you suggest songs in the same style in French? Au contraire ! The French sentence is the translation of the English one in the first verse. A friend of mine at uni used to sing it to me when he was drunk as Michel is my father's name. Unfortunately we were often drunk.  Not sure what you have in mind when saying French style. Here are a few French songs/tunes from that era: Best lyricist ever. Everyone should learn French to listen to his songs. |
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Dec 31, 2020 12:07:19 GMT -5
Post by Strewthless on Dec 31, 2020 12:07:19 GMT -5
rozenn , this won won lots of awards in the 60's, but you may be suprised to find from a Beatle bummer like myself that I don't care all that much for it much. Musicially beautiful but lyrically I find it lazy and simplistic. I suspect the French phrases are gibberish. It's written in a French style, can you suggest songs in the same style in French? Au contraire ! The French sentence is the translation of the English one in the first verse. A friend of mine at uni used to sing it to me when he was drunk as Michel is my father's name. Unfortunately we were often drunk. Not sure what you have in mind when saying French style. Here are a few French songs/tunes from that era: Best lyricist ever. Everyone should learn French to listen to his songs. I've read from numerous sources that the composition style was French? You should post more French music, it rarely gets played here. I always assumed foreign music was good as our music, but gets overlooked if it's not performed in English, a bit of cultural ignorance. Daft Punk wouldn't be as big if they only performed in French. Swedish bands often do well for a country of that size, I assume because they have no issue with singing in English. |
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Dec 31, 2020 12:19:08 GMT -5
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Post by Strewthless on Dec 31, 2020 12:19:08 GMT -5
Weird to think that the Beatles had a very hard time at first. Mainly just played to a modest crowd in the Cavern Club, with some occasional residencies in Hamburg. About a dozen record labels rejected them, they weren't interested in the idea of a band from Liverpool, there was also perception that rock music was just a short-lived fad that was on the way out! The biggest rock n' roll stars were in decline. Even George Martin, who as their final hope, thought they sounded crap, but only took a gamble on them because he liked their personalities and sense of humour, he thought they had the charisma to be stars.
George Martin suggested that they recorded cover songs, which was the norm at the time. But the band insisted on recording songs that they had written themselves, which was very unsual. Martin reluctantly agreed, so they released Love Me Do in 1962, only a modest success in the UK, reaching number 17 in the charts. They then returned with another song in early-1963, Please Please Me. Martin was skeptical once again.
After they recorded the track, George Martin looked at them and said, "Gentleman, you've just made your first Number 1 record". The rest is history, Beatlemania and the age of rock bands had begun.
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Jan 2, 2021 16:21:59 GMT -5
Post by Strewthless on Jan 2, 2021 16:21:59 GMT -5
Merseybeat produced a bunch of other big acts, Brian Epstein brought them all down from Liverpool and gave them to George Martin.
My dad's met this singer, he went to play rugby against a side on Anglesey. Gerry Marsden owned the club, and sang this famous song for them. Best known as the anthem for Liverpool and Celtic football clubs.
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Post by rozenn on Jan 2, 2021 17:22:00 GMT -5
Au contraire ! The French sentence is the translation of the English one in the first verse. A friend of mine at uni used to sing it to me when he was drunk as Michel is my father's name. Unfortunately we were often drunk. Not sure what you have in mind when saying French style. Here are a few French songs/tunes from that era:
I've read from numerous sources that the composition style was French? You should post more French music, it rarely gets played here. I always assumed foreign music was good as our music, but gets overlooked if it's not performed in English, a bit of cultural ignorance. Daft Punk wouldn't be as big if they only performed in French. Swedish bands often do well for a country of that size, I assume because they have no issue with singing in English. I post French tunes from time to time, though I guess mostly in the rap thread. Traditionally French music focuses on lyrics mainly, so if you don't understand French most of the chansons don't hold much interest. Kinda what you think of Bob Dylan. The most blatant example of that is Brassens, in the last video of my previous post. It's my favorite artist and I could listen to his chansons for days but there's no denying the music is shit. He describes himself as a poet, not a musician, and that attitude was shared among a few of his peers. Of course, nowadays, there's no shortage of artists that come up with both crap music and lyrics! As for the style of the Beatles' Michelle, I guess it's somehow reminiscent of jazz manouche, popular then with Django Rheinhardt's songs. Anyway, here's a song about Paris (Paname's a nick for "Paris"), complete with even a bit of accordion! |
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Jan 2, 2021 18:08:47 GMT -5
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Post by Strewthless on Jan 2, 2021 18:08:47 GMT -5
I've read from numerous sources that the composition style was French? You should post more French music, it rarely gets played here. I always assumed foreign music was good as our music, but gets overlooked if it's not performed in English, a bit of cultural ignorance. Daft Punk wouldn't be as big if they only performed in French. Swedish bands often do well for a country of that size, I assume because they have no issue with singing in English. I post French tunes from time to time, though I guess mostly in the rap thread. Traditionally French music focuses on lyrics mainly, so if you don't understand French most of the chansons don't hold much interest. Kinda what you think of Bob Dylan. The most blatant example of that is Brassens, in the last video of my previous post. It's my favorite artist and I could listen to his chansons for days but there's no denying the music is shit. He describes himself as a poet, not a musician, and that attitude was shared among a few of his peers. Of course, nowadays, there's no shortage of artists that come up with both crap music and lyrics! As for the style of the Beatles' Michelle, I guess it's somehow reminiscent of jazz manouche, popular then with Django Rheinhardt's songs. Anyway, here's a song about Paris (Paname's a nick for "Paris"), complete with even a bit of accordion! ^^^ I like the accordion! Do you ever find it weird that a French instrument, the harmonica, is mostly associated with American blues? I have a lot of time tonight, and I've had a few drinks, so I'm going to go off on a big ramble. Admittedly, I do tend to focus on the music itself over the lyrics, unless they're particularly poetic, but I have come to appreciate Bob Dylan a lot more recently, although he can sometimes be a boring as a performer, often outperformed by covers of his songs. He did become better over time, and is possibly the finest songwriter of them all. Just a couple of years ago he won the Nobel Prize for literature, based on his song lyrics! "Dylan" was also a reference to his favourite poet, Dylan Thomas, a Welshman All the big rock bands upped their game in terms of lyrics thanks to him. His influence was part of a big chain of important musical events. People stopped singing just catchy love songs and branched out into other subjects. Rubber Soul by the Beatles, their first truly great album IMO, they'd recently met Dylan and he'd introduced them to pot, his influence on them led to them singing about far more subjects. Lennon's songs in particular became very poetic because of Dylan. The sound of the Byrds was also influential, Rolling Stones, the Kinks, The Who, etc. Were introducing some harder sounds and some serious edge, things just started to click for the genre. Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys said they really upped their game after hearing Rubber Soul, they came out with Pet Sounds in 1966, often named as a candidate for the best album ever. Great lyrics are now being used alongside great musical production. The Beatles soon responded with Revolver a month or two later. Another album often said to be among the best ever. LSD began to creep in here. Beach Boys hit back with this masterpiece: Then the Beatles with Strawberry Fields Forever/Penny Lane, and the Sgt Pepper album. Rock bands now tried to make great albums rather than just great songs, mixing great lyrics with much higher production values. I think this is when pop music really entered stride as an art form. Bands like Pink Floyd then emerged, along with others such as LZ, who would take heavy rock music well into the territory of genuine art. I think this is when rock music later peaked, with songs like Stairway to Heaven, Bohemian Rhapsody, and Comfortably Numb. |
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Jan 2, 2021 22:49:37 GMT -5
Post by Strewthless on Jan 2, 2021 22:49:37 GMT -5
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Jan 2, 2021 23:23:43 GMT -5
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Post by Strewthless on Jan 2, 2021 23:23:43 GMT -5
Insane that Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Jimmy Page had all been members of the same band.
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Jan 6, 2021 17:30:28 GMT -5
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Post by Strewthless on Jan 6, 2021 17:30:28 GMT -5
The first song Paul wrote, aged 15.
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