https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_uS0aT0bG8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UfsEj7AOGI

Been on a bit of a stoner rock youtube journey. Few good ones:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xes3655g8bI

>>12989
Spekaing of The Brave Little Toaster, the AC unit had something to say:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWRaRiuMa9o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO_FzRjmXiY

Horslips are Ireland's greatest ever rock band. They shit all over U2, and I would say they slightly edge out the Cranberries.

By the way, when do you think that last song came out? It sounds 20 years more recent than the other two, but from my research, it actually came out in 1979.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wN6X0tAK_HE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77rZO6sp4mY

Posting this because I love the simple punchy beat and woozy instrumentation.

I didn't like it at first, but it's grown on me.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atGAcKt3ZQg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1ysoohV_zA

Derided at its time as a tepid, contrived synthpop piece from New Romantic's tail end through which singer Phil Oakey was allegedly staggering listlessly and with audible disinterest in the lyrics, it's arguably nowadays looked on as an 80s music staple.

The Human League didn't really drop the ball until their 1990 album "Romantic?", which was a failed attempt to revert to early 80s synthpop soundscapes, at a time when grunge was already on the horizon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AZWFUY0RAE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GG7fLOmlhYg

WTF...a popular modern song that I actually enjoy.

I for one, welcome the 70s R&B revival.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuXDpo-8_zY

I hope the 'rona didn't kill the sound system. No longer in the scene, just occasionally happened upon them. A guaranteed good night if I found one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwazAGUJ2c0

Top tier Japanamerican video game cheese, but it's so sincere that I love it.

>>13037
I think I used to listen to this on GamingFM, that online radio station with about 4 or 5 channels of videogame music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv82_ZSwa4Y


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W41ClvHmWY


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MESON_4z9eA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzsCDsR1SBc


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C-2AqRD8io

https://petrolbastard.bandcamp.com/track/two-pounds-off-whisky-at-lidl-feat-petrol-hoers-boycott-the-baptist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB4gBtMpUIs

"Slave to the Rhythm" was actually written for Frankie Goes To Hollywood by Trevor Horn. The latter then decided at the last minute before he let FGTH have a go that it was more suited for Grace Jones. A ground-up reworking of the track then resulted in the swingin' little number that became one of the most iconic pop music singles of the mid-80s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bOg3aSRexo

>>13049

Where have I heard this, was it on an advert?

>>13049
>>13050
Everyone now and again you lot remind me of the music I listened to when I was 15. What happened to it?

>>13052
>What happened to it?

>>13052

That's easy, >>8980 is the key. Every genre of music from every decade you ever enjoyed has a foreign language equivalent somewhere, just waiting for you to discover it as though it's new releases. Best of all, they sing in mucky foreign languages so if the lyrics are as embarrassing as the lyrics of the stuff you listened to as a teenager, you don't have to find out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcYhYO02f98

What's some decent novelty rock?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2qsU8FGU_E

>>13056
I really like Night Flight Orchestra for throwback yacht rock.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhkllJN3SUk

It's not the most amazing album but it does have some crackers. Cookie if you can identify the dialogue at 4:25 on Flowers In The Desert.

Been watching Babylon 5 as of late and this song has been stuck in my head.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvdnT4esPzQ
I've been digging a lot of goth rock recently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6on1U8imwo

Not sure if this belongs here or in the decent covers thread, but this absolutely does it for my inner ADHD 10 year old.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vBKI3ya-l0
There's some mildy obnoxious fannying about until 2:12, but in my addled state I think it adds rather than detracts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUPxEUdI4HE

Listening to this is like discovering a hidden DMX album.

THIS WEEK, I AR BEEN MOSTLY LISTENING TO 80s CORPORATE LIBRARY MUSIC.

>>13076
You may appreciate this absolute banger:

>>13076
>>13078
I got a read Neil Yardley vibe from these.

The first tracks of these albums are tip top.

Then they seem to lose their way a bit.

You're all plebs.

>>13080

That's just a shitty rip-off of this.

RIP Skibadee.

THIS WEEK I AR BEEN MOSTLY LISTENING TO SOUNDTRACKS FROM '70s ITALIAN SOFT PORN FILMS.

Nice video etc. I must admit that the new generation are much more impressive than electroclash.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm6hDWBZXc4

Never realised that anti-depressants stop all emotions - that seems quite counter-intuitive.

>>13098

Emotional blunting and/or apathy is a common but not universal side-effect of antidepressants. We aren't really sure if it's an effect of the drug or a residual symptom of partly-resolved depression, i.e. you don't feel miserable any more but you don't feel good either. Research ethics rules make it very difficult to give healthy patients antidepressants just to see what happens.

Unrelated banger:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78VApX2tl6A
I just discovered this crazy track. I think I'm gonna jizz in my pants.

>>13102

Is this Brian playing silly buggers again?

>>13103
Let's try that again, shall we?

Does bodypaint count as body covering?

>>13104
Was this intentional?

>>13105
Direct shot of breasts, but they're painted so that's okay.

>Was this intentional?
No.

I had an opportunity to see Skunk Anansie live recently, which I declined because I'm not really a live-music person, but now I can't stop listening to their songs and being reminded of how enormously fantastic Skunk Anansie are.

Here is Skin from Skunk Anansie, singing one of their ballads with none other than Luciano Pavarotti himself. Not only is it great because it's a good song which showcases Skin's incredible voice, but because it's Pavarotti, she just sings it in Italian with him. That's phenomenal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3i7tcZ-szI

>>13108
I saw her like 8 years ago in the Newcastle O2, and that was mildly disappointing because it was all new stuff. Has she conceded and realised that's what people want or are her gigs more oriented towards the new stuff?

She crowdsurfed a bit and I think I touched her at some point which was nice.

Saw the Smashing Pumpkins at the same venue around the same time and Billy Corgan told an audience member that he was ruining the vibe, then I looked into the smashing pumpkins documentaries and found out he was an egomaniacal bellend but still, good craic.

>>13110

I love small gigs with relatively big bands, like when they're well known amongst music people but not necessarily massive commercially, it's such a unique vibe.

My favourite is when I went to see Exodus about 10 years ago, and Gary Holt asked for a show of hands how many people bought the new album, then how many people downloaded it. There were far more hands for the latter, so he said "What the fuck, guys?" and someone yelled with the most perfect comedic timing "It's ten quid, ya cunt!"

>>13111
I saw Arctic Monkeys at the Leadmill the night their second album launched at midnight. They ended with Old Yellow Bricks, and sure enough everyone was bouncing around and singing along to a song that wasn't out yet. Alex Turner got a laugh out of it, at least, and they used to give out their music for free at gigs anyway.

>>13111
My favourite small gig, and it wasn't that small but it felt it, was seeing Queens of the Stone Age in 2018 in Tokyo. For a band you would think can sell out big arenas, this was a really intimate venue. I remember practically smelling Josh Homme and his er, drunken rambling.

Only real OGs will remember this.

I miss electronic music like this.

German Reggae, the video has Beastie Boys vibes.

>>13133


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GU5TaDR1zc

>>13160

Also:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X3jrsljTtw

>>13160

I can't make out the lyrics any better in English than in German.

>>13162

Jamaican Patois can be pretty unintelligible at the best of times, and being sung by a German, it's not going to help much.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcFmo_v81IU

>>13164

Reminds me of


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkqDK-i-smM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kd3wLR_UUeo


The percussion was later recycled for Spiller's Groove Jet (probably around 5:47).



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npJTeRjRX-8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EKspREtVZQ



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGNK-cOtxSs

I'm sorry.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Bw2dTY3SsQ

>>13173
I'll never really know how that song sounds after the 40 second mark.

>>13174
You'll have those 40 seconds stuck in your head for the rest of the week.

>>13173


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ropn_kwpFDU


Good times.

Finally an attainable male physique in music.

>>13176
I thought this guy looked and sounded familiar. How does he get away with it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonny_Jakobsen
>Due to the failure of Johnny Moonshine, Jakobsen moved on in search of a newer, more 'annoying' sound.[5] He chose the style of eurodance, which was just becoming popular in the mid 1990s, and began his career as the fake Indian "Dr. Bombay"

>>13178

>How does he get away with it?


Brownfacing and cultural appropriation hadn't been invented yet in the late 90s.

Although in the case of "Dr. Bombay", olivefacing might be the correct term.


The past always was a different country.

>>13169
I can't believe you didn't post this version - same tune, but the dancers are more appropriate for here.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKwnAkm71zk

>>13180

I don't want to veer off-topic, so I'll say it in song:

>>13180

I don't know, looks a bit unpolished. Like it's what people at Leeds Community Centre get up to after their day job.


>>13181


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2mU6USTBRE

Quite likely, another song and video that couldn't be made today.

>>13182

Argh. Fine. Look for "Fat" by Weird Al Yankovic on youtube.

>>13182

Brian May was ahead of his time in celebrating ample posteriors, but I think naughty nannies aren't PC any more.

>>13184


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X53ZSxkQ3Ho

>>13185
When are we making the .gs charity cover album?

>>13186

Do we really want to act as fat enablers?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDSK91mUNLU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmpRLQZkTb8

From the days when you could listen to Oasis unironically because they were the stuff.

Curiously, there appears to be an Oasis tribute band stateside who call themselves Sally Can Wait.

https://twitter.com/oasistributeusa

>>13188
Do you reckon tribute band members have fights over who gets to dress up as which of the original band members?

I'm fascinated by how bad this video is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQlAEiCb8m0

A one-hit wonder from the peak of classic French House, one of Stardust's members went on to form Daft Punk.

>>13187
>Do we really want to act as fat enablers?
Have you seen this place? Yes, yes we do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzOI_IxB7NA

A surprisingly obscure record from the early days of Disco.

>>13203
I always get Demis Roussos mixed up with Glenn Medeiros. But you can have a lot of fun with obscure disco music; I think I have already spammed the "Songs in foreign languages" thread with the stuff I often listen to, so I won't post it here, but I've always thought The Ultimate Warlord by The Immortals needs more attention:

And German pop star Sandra (foreign, but sang in English) used to be in a disco group called Arabesque, whom I have recently started listening to but not always enjoying:

>>13204

Veering into space disco a bit there, eh.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZavwtJxmqJI


> But you can have a lot of fun with obscure disco music

There's loads of modern club music these days which contains obscure disco samples. My guess is it's both because the rights to the sample will be cheap to obtain as it wasn't a big hit in its day, and most people won't know immediately that you've ripped off an old disco track.

A good place to investigate when a song sounds suspiciously 70s or even 80s is whosampled.com. It is by now a huge database of songs that sample other songs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBhqMwOl_ZE

This song was playing on the radio once while I was in the dying stages of a relationship with a lass. We were sitting on her couch on a Sunday night, in dead silence after a weekend of massively getting on each other's tits, but at that point in time I guess we were both still coming to grips with the realisation, you know, that point where you're looking down the barrel of inevitability but still can't believe your relationship is running through your hands like that. Where you know something's very wrong but you've run out of ideas how to fix it. So what wasn't helping at all was that this song suddenly came on, very accurately summing up our situation. I was going to ask her if I should change the station, but was worried that that would look like I was acknowledging it. So I just sat there waiting for the moment to pass, knowing full well that she was probably thinking the same.

We did break up the following weekend. And she told me that listening to that song with me was the moment she realised that it was actually over. Maybe I should have changed the station.

>>13206

>I guess we were both still coming to grips with the realisation, you know, that point where you're looking down the barrel of inevitability but still can't believe your relationship is running through your hands like that. Where you know something's very wrong but you've run out of ideas how to fix it.

I was talking to one of the younger lasses at work the other week about my most recent ex, like you do, just passing time filling them in on the gossip from your life and so on. I mentioned pretty much exactly this, how there's always that bit towards the end of a relationship where you've had an argument or some Big Event occured, and deep down, you know it's over from that moment on., but it takes a while to sink in.

I realised, when she responded with "Really? That's quite sad..." that she has never experienced it herself. She couldn't relate, because she's never been through it, the lad she's with now is her first proper relationship and she still has all that to come. For some reason that made me feel quite emotional, partially I think because it sort of puts the weariness and jading process of age into perspective. But also part of me just hopes she never does. I don't even really like this lass, she's a bit of a cunt frankly, but it's a horrible thing to go through and I remember how it was the first time I did. I wish nobody had to.

Anyway. Shite song, I've always thought it was quite impressive how massive Robbie Williams was at one point in the late 90s, and then just completely vanished into thin air over the turn of the millenium.

>>13207

>that she has never experienced it herself. She couldn't relate, because she's never been through it, the lad she's with now is her first proper relationship and she still has all that to come.

Ignorance is bliss. There's just a magic about your first love that's impossible to replicate with subsequent relationships. You'll never be as naive wide eyed again, the more relationships you enter and break up again, the more there's always that sense of jadedness. Even if it's like, wow, this person is just so great, this is really going great, I've really met someone good this time, I'm so in love. In the back of your head, there'll always be that nagging thought that it could all just end badly again despite everybody's best intentions.

That was something that was absent from my first relationship. It was like the possibility of a breakup was just a distant rumour. Something that happened to other people, but not us. How could it. Because we were so perfect for each other. Which is why it knocked the shit out of me all the more when after two years, she suddenly told me she simply didn't love me anymore and no longer wanted to be with me. Pretty straightforward stuff really, there was no other lad in the picture (and believe me, I checked), she just didn't want me anymore. Something that millions of people deal with every day. But it was like a fall from paradise. Took me another two years and a few lukewarm romances and one night stands to get that out of my system again.



Self sage for rambling.

>>13208
>Which is why it knocked the shit out of me all the more when after two years, she suddenly told me she simply didn't love me anymore and no longer wanted to be with me.

You're giving me flashbacks to similar happening to me, to my mates and having to tell someone the same after I'd just grown apart from her. It equally hurts you over the long-term as well, loving someone is harder as you get older because you build up defences to the hurt that can come with it.

If only a 90s pop-superstar had a song for just such a predicament...

>>13209

I guess ARE Robs was the soundtrack to untold masses of relationships. Another one of my exes absolutely loved the song "Angels". As a result, I have many memories of us bonking each other's brains out to it.

Good times.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luwAMFcc2f8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJAfLE39ZZ8

Hard to believe she's been dead almost eleven years now.

Still very powerful stuff.

Try and have a bad time with this album in the sunshine. I dare you.

It even has a song about feeling sentimental for love you once had with someone after you've grown apart for our resident Robbie fanatics:
https://youtu.be/yQgsdhXkoSs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jMlFXouPk8

This song has always been special to me. I was a younglad when it came out and I've enjoyed listening to it ever since. I've always liked the long winded, epic nature of many of Pink Floyd's songs and lyrics, and this track is no exception.

I want it played at my funeral one day, because it just has those lyrics that can be taken as somebody looking back on their life and the magic of their lost youth, and it just seems ideally suited for such an occasion.

>>13214
>it just seems ideally suited for such an occasion

Mate, nobody is going to want to stand in silence for nearly 8 minutes. You need something that can be played for about 30 seconds while the cremation curtain goes down and someone breaks down in tears to make it all about them.

I'm fairly confident an old mate will put on Making Plans for Nigel unless I can be arsed to make it explicit. Lyrics about being happy in his world and that. Unless I kill myself I suppose as then it gets quite macabre.

>>13215

I don't know if you have been to many funerals, but the ones I've been to, they were playing either some sort of generic moody music or a specific song that the deceased had requested. In any case, that song was then usually played in full at the beginning of the ceremony before the pastor or vicar or whoever else said a few words. I don't think it's asking too much to have people sitting through a few minutes worth of a song that may not mean much to them but which was special to you.

The last two to three minutes of High Hopes are kind of self repetitive anyway, so I'll forgive them if they fade it out before people get impatient.

A family member who was very dear to me requested My Way by Frank Sinatra. Also a good song for a funeral. For some reason, they were playing some kind of easy listening instrumental version of it, which really felt like it was missing the mark. Not sure why they did that. But it's probably best if I put down in writing somewhere that I want the actual song High Hopes played as it appeared on the album. Not some sort of Mike Flowers Pops ersatz.

>>13216

This is the song you wanted, right?

>>13217

I would personally come back from beyond the grave to haunt whoever fucked it up like that.

>>13217
7am, Monday, and the week's already fucked. Thanks.
Why would they do that? Just why?

I looked up the surfers because I'd like to piss up one their arses. Turns out they're a Hawaiian successionist or some such.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxX2gA18grk

Just the right kind of inoffensive mid-80s polished AOR summer sound.


Not the worst use of the Fairlight ARR1 patch.

>>13222
I'm weird about Billy Ocean; I really love two of his songs and don't care at all about the others. Depending on the Billy Ocean song I am currently listening to, I either love or despise him. Here are his two classics:

>>13222

>Not the worst use of the Fairlight ARR1 patch.

Far from the best though:

Crockett's Theme is sublime, but Moments in Love is better and I'll fight anyone who says otherwise.

>>13224


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye7FKc1JQe4


Also though, I like Paranoimia better.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6epzmRZk6UU

Always been a big fan of Matt Frewer.


>>13223

Billy Ocean had a decent career as a talented mainstream pop musician, but I wouldn't say that his contributions to music were groundbreaking.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n3sUWR4FV4

>>13225

>Always been a big fan of Matt Frewer.

Literally just twigged to the fact that he played Moloch in Watchmen.

>Billy Ocean

Am I being a massive racialist if I admit to confusing him with Ray Parker Jr?

>>13226

That is a weird version of the song Ghostbusters. The single version back in the day sounded markedly different.

>>13227
If you've never heard the experimental comedy mashups of Neil Cicierega before, you're about to go on an amazing adventure.

>>13228

That was... erm... interesting.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrlWWrSwaB8

>>13226

I showed one of my mates Bustin' a few years ago, then he posted it on Facebook and it ended up a popular "meme" within our circle. But people attributed it's discovery to him, when it was me who'd shown him it, and I was always quite resentful about that.

>>13230

Get your own back by playing Wonderwall at his wedding.

>>13231


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTfZshkNZRw

>>13232
I remember hearing that when it was new, and believing it genuinely was the original version.

>>13231
There's an excellent clip on Soundcloud somewhere of Kanye West's Niggas in Paris please don't ban me for saying it which is very similar to this, but I can't find it because it has some random title and any search for "Kanye West Soundcloud parody" brings up such awful shit that I refuse to look too hard.

>>13233

It's a shame that Mike Flowers didn't have more hits. But I guess you can only take ironic easy listening to a certain point before it becomes annoying. He did a collaboration with Cornershop a few years later but not much came of it.

Speaking of Cornershop -


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u29Dc9AUBvk

And from the same era -


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWissIWxqKk

- which was nicked from Ad Gloriam by Le Orme:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CYvwN843cI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6gIfZ27pCY

Den Harrow was the height of Italo Disco in the 1980s, shortly before the genre fizzled out, not without being a precursor to late-80s Eurodance and Hi-NRG.

Similarly to Milli Vanilli, Den Harrow alias Stefano Zandri couldn't sing for toffee but had the looks, so the producers hired studio musicians to sing his songs. Something which Zandri denies to this day, although there is ample proof.

>>13236
Italodisco was incredibly popular in the old Soviet countries as well. Eddy Huntington is from North-East England, but he cashed in on the perestroika gravy train with a song all about the USSR:

I'm pretty sure that's really him singing, although he's obscure enough that I can't be sure.

>>13237

Italo Disco really deserves credit for a certain kind of sound that you don't just associate with summer holidays in Italy circa 1985 as a weelad like I do, but it was a fresh take on early 1980s chiefly British synthpop from the likes of OMD, Human League and Yazoo, and even some early Depeche Mode before Vince Clarke left.

It ended up becoming somewhat formulaic, but it did establish many sound tropes that are to us today idiosyncratically "80s", like the octave bass or the synth arpeggio, or clean, smooth synth stabs and harmonies.

Some examples -


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Fs3UcO_JhU


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_TQjEn6cpQ

Laura Branigan and Raf released their versions almost at the same time, and they were neck and neck in some mainland European charts.

>>13238
I really can't get over my discovery that famous pop star Laura Branigan was effectively a tribute band for Italian music. Besides Self-Control, she also released Gloria, which was another Italian song.

Wikipedia says she had other hits, but I don't know them.

>>13238

I think you've got the influences partially backwards. There was a two-way street between Italo and synthpop, driven in part by the limitations of technology - everyone's sound took a huge leap forward every time they got their hands on a new piece of equipment. In the late 70s, Moroder and Marouani were making records that sounded incredibly modern. At the same time, OMD were basically a rock band with synths and The Human League were still breaking out from the shadow of Kraftwerk.

>>13240

Cock, I got one of the embeds wrong. Here:

>>13239

The melody hook from "Gloria" was then arguably nicked by Jarvis Cocker. I say arguably; I don't think Umberto Tozzi ever asked him for a share, although it's blatantly obvious.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJS3xnD7Mus

>>13240

> driven in part by the limitations of technology - everyone's sound took a huge leap forward every time they got their hands on a new piece of equipment

A lot of synth music by unknown and upcoming synth bands of that time was created on a Yamaha DX-7 which debuted in 1983, and possibly a handful of more expensive studio-owned synths. The DX-7 democratised early 80s synthpop, in that for the first time, it offered an affordable big-sounding digital synthesizer to semiprofessional acts on a shoestring budget hoping to make it big. Most bands stuck with the factory sounds of the DX-7 because while it was a technological mavel, it was notoriously difficult to program and elicit your own original sounds from it. Which in turn means that if you know a bit about the DX-7, you can spot a whole host of its factory sound patches in mid-80s synth music.

That said, it's worth noting that Italo Disco was mainly a producer-driven genre, in that there was no real grassroots Italo Disco movement of small upcoming bands creating a new sound or anything like that. It was more like a handful of Italian studio producers came up with this sound which then permutated throughout a string of different artists they produced over the years. A bit like Stock Aitken and Waterman did from the late 80s, although not quite with the stringent late-80s yuppie capitalist mass production ethic as SAW. Italo Disco was just a bit of southern European fun.

Speaking of 80s vibes -


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mmc8UWo0xL8

[yt]39RIl3mhpT0/yt]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39RIl3mhpT0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULx9k2QkL94

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkziaWwrXCU

It was only just now while looking up the song on youtube that I found out that it wasn't sung by Melanie Thornton of La Bouche.

Oh well.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViP87WipSm0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YgevxRGXIU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3288sRVCMjA

>>13252

Very odd.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyyGRh19r_k

>>13252
>How Much is the Fish?
I guess it's entertaining when she calls it that, but that's hardly the original version. The tune itself is decades, if not centuries old.

Here it is in Dutch in the 1970s:

I think the original is this one here, but I've never known if Alan Stivell made a career of reviving ancient music or if he was just writing it himself and passing it off as ancient Breton folk music:

>>13254
The tune dates back to the late 1920s.

Also, the fish was DM3.80, or about €3 in today's money.

>>13255
You can get it for less than that these days.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_miGclPFGs

>>13258
He got deported years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BURM7l6_pvg

A friend spotted Andrew Eldritch at a bar in London once. He was just sitting in a corner booth by himself, with his mirror glasses on, having one Jack and Coke after the other and burning through a packet of fags like they were sweets.

Your mum's really come out of her shell since the divorce.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpuR7zT33p4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKxkY37ZUGw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLYHLW-xfhs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzG-qji05Lc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUoOF6ddhYk

A one-off Australian music project from 1988. I bought their album a while ago because it was the only way to get this song in good audio quality, but the rest of the album isn't really noteworthy.

>>13267
The entire album is a good listen if you're I to stoner doom metal.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iTuDvk45Qk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7tdn8eaUfs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OC2aPCuzjo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB9NZkKJoGo

Somewhat nicked from "Justify My Love" by Madonna.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoESSG6iSAI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cYcdBVQ8NM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFLhGq0060w

Daft Punk are the real stars of this track.

One of their best works ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIxsPBbZ_b8

>>13293

>gets by with an entire catalogue of collaborations with much better artists.

That's your answer right there.


And now for something entirely unrelated -


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed1tv_gCOUA

>>12985

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hkgik4edDpY
If you cannot nod your head to this, I'm not sure who you are.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC_zffOenk8

"The White Room" was arguably one of the best albums of the early 1990s. It was both a high watermark of acid house and a jumping-off point for 90s eurodance.

>>13296

From the same era -


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVw7fzIP6cQ


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRgtzZ-mOQo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7K-pr9ZinY

Very quintessentially mid-80s.

Including Mike Oldfield's increasing blandness as a musician.

>>13298
He's the man; they just should not let him sing. Ever, under any circumstances. Get someone else to sing and that song's no worse than his other not-famous pop releases.

>>13298
I'm struggling to find a reason for the blandness. I know he found himself in a really awful position with his contract with Virgin, signed at a time when neither he nor Richard Branson knew any better, and Virgin wanted him to be a bit more middle-of-the-road mainstream than the sort of thing he wanted to make, but this wasn't even a track from one of the particularly boring mid-80s albums he churned out to just to fill out the contract. It was a single released independently of any album or tour or anything excusable.

In the end, when he got to a point of having to still crank out three albums to complete the contract at the end of the decade, he put out two okay-but-still-bland albums and one massive "fuck you" to Virgin and Branson, which has some interesting stories to it in itself.

>>13298

I was with you until the guitar solo bit in the middle, which is actually pretty rad.

I've never understood the hype with him though. Maybe because I'm my age, not my dad's age, but I just don't get it with Mike Oldfield. Even Tubular Bells is just boring.

>>13301

It's still a pretty standard solo though. It's like he thought, ok, I need something to make this song just a smidgen less forgettable without going out of my way.

The problem with him wasn't that it was bad music as such. But it just had no "edge". It ticked all the boxes of mainstream pop of its era, but it just wasn't memorable. You just didn't want to listen to it over and over.

Even Trevor Horn, who was pulling pleasant, mainstream pop tunes out of his arse in the 80s by the dozens as producer for a whole host of acts, is still widely remembered for unique works like Slave To The Rhythm by Grace Jones, Frankie Goes To Hollywood's Relax, or ABC's Look of Love.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhzhcutAPx0
80's rock revival when?

>>13303
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>>13302
Mike's mid/late 80s were a bit of a downer. His early stuff is decent, and his later stuff after he got out of his enslavement contract with Virgin is a bit more interesting.

The first five minutes of this is him deliberately fucking with the executives at Virgin, including Branson himself. He has stated that his intentions were quite literally to put them off listening to it and, if they were still going after about three minutes, blow out their speakers. Also, YouTube now has a thing that shows you which parts people are rewatching and jumping to. Can you guess where he uses Morse to tell Branson to fuck off?

Mike Oldfield did Moonlight Shadow, and I think he has wanted to make another one like that for most of his career because it was a huge hit and it's fantastic. I discovered this song of his on foreign online radio, and I think it was a massive hit in lots of European countries, but not this one at all. It's basically Moonlight Shadow all over again. I've probably posted it here before at some point, because not only do I absolutely love it, but also, this is one of the greatest fan-made YouTube music videos made from clips of other things that I have ever seen. It truly is a masterpiece.

If I haven't written this exact post before, when do you think "Man in the Rain" came out? Like I say, it sounds just like Moonlight Shadow so I would have guessed 1986 or thereabouts, but it actually came out in 1998.

>>13305

About the only song I really liked by Mike Oldfield from the late 80s was Earth Moving.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zJLpF7YetE

It's again not really a groundbreaking song, but as a socially awkward young teenlad who didn't know any better at the time, it kind of stuck with me. My nan, of all people, gave me the album for my birthday and it ended up becoming the soundtrack to my life for a brief time.

You can just imagine how that conversation went at the record shop. "Yes, can you tell me what kind of music young people today enjoy?" - "Well we have a big stack of unsold Mike Oldfield cassetes and I think your grandson will like this album".

"Earth Moving" was decidedly not his worst album of that time period ("Islands" was probably the low point). While one or two songs on Earth Moving are absolute shite (including "Innocent" featuring his girlfriend Anita Hegerland, who is also in the video to Pictures In The Dark), there are some that really aren't bad and are a break from the blandness. Even Maggie Reilly returned for one song with a decent effort.


Here's a playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP59Fs_hB7C1NkUuijSkIJhJlaUdleHqv

>>13306
It was written to be both a sort of follow-up to Moonlight Shadow and a radio-friendly single to promote the album it's from, which is best summed up as what if Tubular Bells but in turn of the century Ibiza.

After the discussion of Mike Oldfield above, I have been recommended another pop song of his and it's honestly damn good. You can tell he's a brilliant musician, even if you don't like the song itself.

And the more I learn about Mike Oldfield, the more I think he's similar to Chris de Burgh. Chris de Burgh is also an extremely accomplished songwriter with close to zero musical credibility and only two hits that anyone has heard of, but who has an extensive back catalogue of perfectly good songs that you never hear. They feel like they should have been much bigger hits, but again, like Mike Oldfield, they're often pretty generic somehow.

>>13309

Chris de Burgh did have some pretty good songs in the 80s. But he was a bit of a budget Phil Collins.

Chris Rea is another artist who was kind of similar at the time.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcW-BSEB3ng

This song always reminds me of evenings spent barrelling up the M1 with my older brother and his BMW E30, putting the lavish sound system he had just installed through its paces.

We're talking 12'' Magnat drivers on the tiny parcel shelf of an E30 coupe. Madness.

Other songs at the time that sounded great on that car hi fi system included Left To My Own Devices by the Pet Shop Boys and Holding Out For A Hero by Bonnie Tyler. And Find My Love by Fairground Attraction. Anybody remember Fairground Attraction?

I'm not sure if Mark Knopfler is sufficiently uncool for this conversation, but he certainly fits in the category of "CDs your dad bought from a petrol station but you actually quite like".

On the topic of artists who had one big hit but a phenomenal back catalogue, Gerry Rafferty deserves your attention if you only know Baker Street. I think he's a man after our own hearts - a night owl, a drinker, sometimes a recluse, but only because he felt things too deeply.

>>13311

Dire Straits were a great band, with many iconic songs, but Mark Knopfler couldn't sing for toffee. Seriously, name one Dire Straits song where he gives a memorable singing performance.


In terms of "your dad's favourite music", there were still a few other artists from the 70s who branched out in the 80s into solo careers.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8WSSG3UzwU


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3k3y7dykx0

>>13312

Sultans of Swing, obviously. But then, I would argue they are a total one hit wonder and that song, while a masterpiece, was the only truly great one they ever put out.

It's pretty disappointing actually. I spent nearly 15 years honing my guitar playing abilities to the point I was able to perform a passable rendition of that song. Mark Knopfler is an extremely talented guitarist with an incredibly unique and recognisable playing style, but all that ever came out of it is that one song. Crying shame.

But I mean, it's fine. Sometimes a musician peaks early and never quite reaches the same heights again. A victim of their own lightning-bolt success. I feel much the same about my band's first "hit", which was actually meant as a bit of a piss-take pastiche of tropes on the scene we played in, but people lapped it up, and demanded more like it for the rest of our short lived career.

Anyway.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbhCPt6PZIU

I've been thinking lately about how... For lack of a better word... Sexy Robert Plant is in this. He's verging on what the youngins these days call a femboy. I'm only about 10% gay max, on a good day, but I'd go there.

Was this acceptable back then, or did it provoke the same controversy and indignation as Ed Sheeran being non-binary or whatever the fuck nowadays?

>>13313

You seem to have forgotten about Brothers in Arms and Going Home.

>Was this acceptable back then, or did it provoke the same controversy and indignation as Ed Sheeran being non-binary or whatever the fuck nowadays?

You would 100% get your head kicked in for dressing like that, but getting your head kicked in was basically our national pastime in the 70s. Rock stars dressed like weirdos, but everyone expected them to dress like weirdos. Old people hated it because they hated everything about young people; young people loved it because old people hated it. That sort of thing has become controversial rather than simply a generational divide, because baby boomers refuse to acknowledge that they're old.

Once upon a time, people who hated gender-bending pop stars saw it as just another symptom of a society in an endless decline towards Sodom and Gomorrah; they were the same sort of people who hated swearing on TV, women expressing opinions and The Blacks. They had a secure personal identity as a common-sense defender of traditional values and heard voices in society that validated their identity.

These days practically everyone sees themselves as an open-minded liberal on most social issues, which causes massive amounts of cognitive dissonance when they find themselves being repulsed by something. Prudish people haven't gone away, they've just had to construct identities that allow them to believe that they aren't prudes.

My vote for the most fuckable glam rock femboy has to go to Steve Priest, the bassist out of Sweet. I cannot begin to imagine the number of confusing semis and sexual awakenings that man must have caused.

>>13314

Ahh, glam rock is kind of cheating really though, it doesn't count if they're practically in drag anyway. It has to be natural.

Burke Shelley out of Budgie had it in his younger days mind, in that "shy nerdy girl who reads Michael Moorecock novels" kind of way.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54H3EUAzpVg

Maybe I'm just projecting and need a wank now though.

>>13313

I think David Gilmour is equally gifted as a guitar player, although his style is markedly different.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOyk5qnamjc

The second guitar solo at the end of "Comfortably Numb" is widely regarded as one of the best solos ever created. And I would agree.

Also, while a lot of people moan about recent 4K remasters of classic music videos, I think this one turned out quite well.


>>13314

>Once upon a time, people who hated gender-bending pop stars saw it as just another symptom of a society in an endless decline towards Sodom and Gomorrah

I was a weelad in the 80s when Culture Club had their heyday, and it's hard for young people today to get an idea what kind of an impact Boy George's genderfluid, flamboyant homosexual persona had. Not few in the older generation were completely apoplectic and wanted to have him banned from TV entirely, or failing that, have him put in some kind of gulag to get all that sissy boy stuff out of him.

Nowadays, you could obviously say that he was decades ahead of his time.

>>13316

>Also, while a lot of people moan about recent 4K remasters of classic music videos, I think this one turned out quite well.


ok scrap that, I just watched it on my big TV screen, and it looks awful. All of the charm of the original 35mm film print is gone, it basically looks like they filmed it yesterday using a low-grade HD camera. It takes away the authenticity of it in a certain way.

I see the problem that many people have with these remasters.

>>13313
You can very clearly see which way he dresses.

The best (and only) song about falling in love with an effeminate glam rocker.

>>13316

Gilmour is definitely one of the legends, very big personal influence for me actually, but in truth his playing style is quite conventional honestly. It's all pretty standard blues scale stuff with big long bends, rooted in that era of music where guitarists were just making the jump between BB King and Jimi Hendrix.

With Knopfler, what's impressive is that he has a quite unusual fingerpicking style that you'd normally hear in country or folk. He's picking the strings not just independently with his fingers, but sometimes with totally independent rhythms. I can't think of another player who does that for rock music. The dude has some serious chops, he just doesn't play the kind of big flashy solos that would get him recognised for it. And that's why I find it so weird that Dire Straits are almost totally shit.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG__SwkV3wg

Where Gilmour's work is pioneering (as is Floyd in general) is just achieving the effects and huge soundscapes they did, considering the technology of the time was so comparably primitive. Even their really early stuff does the kind of thing modern artists do by looping and manipulating samples, only achieved manually, in the late 60s. Lightyears ahead of their time.

Especially playing live- It's easy to forget they didn't have any AxeFX Quad Cortex Helix processors to take care of everything back then (although I suspect Gilmour might have been one of the people who pioneered wet/dry rigs, basically using multiple amps so you can blend the "clean" sound with effects at different levels), so they had to work for those sounds. People think Dave Gilmour's set up must have been crazy and complex, but he basically just had a couple of HiWatt heads, a Binson EchoRec and a Big Muff, and a lot of creativity.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TToiePXjuR8

>>13320

>Even their really early stuff does the kind of thing modern artists do by looping and manipulating samples, only achieved manually, in the late 60s. Lightyears ahead of their time.

I think that is also why Pink Floyd's music from that time sounds so authentic. You don't need to understand the finer points of sound editing to notice that an analog production sounds vastly different from most digital setups as they are used today.

One of the last artists to celebrate analog sound before the digital age was Lenny Kravitz on his 1991 album Mama Said. It was recorded entirely on analog instruments and equipment and has a unique warm acoustic feel which, at least in the beginning of digital sound processing in the early 90s, couldn't have been achieved using digital technology. From what a friend told me, there are nowadays many filter plugins for studio workstations that let you simulate analog sound, but they're apparently not quite the same if you have a frame of reference how analog sound actually sounded in the 70s and early 80s.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmENMZFUU_0

>>13321

I'd imagine there's some money to be made these days opening a very hipster "all analogue" recording studio. Lots of musicians are snobs about using all analogue vintage-style (if not genuinely antique) guitars and amps and what have you, but when they get into the studio it's all going through ProTools with a set of expensive Waves plugins anyway.

I suppose the trouble with that is nobody in the industry has the skills required to operate the old gear nowadays, and buying miles and miles of tape for your sessions must really eat into your margins. Plus it's an almost completely pointless exercise because most people are listening through digital mediums now, so only the handful of hardcore audiophiles buying your limited 100 print vinyl at the end of it will truly get to appreciate all the effort.