I haven't heard Brodyquest in a very, very long time.

Let's never grow up, my fellow millenials.

>>14627

This track has been haunting me since it came out. In an odd way, it reminds me of Victoria Wood's work - something about the deep melancholy of everyday life, of the very narrow margin between being bored senseless and being totally overwhelmed, of how the spectre of our inevitable death heightens the most mundane moments into profound drama.

Heart 80s plays this song a lot. They're one of my favourite radio stations at the moment.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8D4hcrkI2xU

It's always weird when you look up a one-hit wonder, whose name is synonymous with precisely one song, on Wikipedia and read that they've
>released eleven studio albums, thirteen compilation albums, and thirty-four singles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Rush_discography

And what's happening at the end of the video, at 3:40? Are those meant to be her legs? How does she do that?

>>14632

>what's happening at the end of the video, at 3:40? Are those meant to be her legs?

They're the boots of the bloke she's thinking about in the black-and-white bits (0:30). Presumably Wilford Brimley picked him up on the way through town.

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

For a brief time in the 80s, Sigue Sigue Sputnik were vanguards of cyberpunk culture. Their music and band image were heavily influenced by Blade Runner, Max Headroom, Terminator 1, all that kind of thing.

Their debut album "Flaunt It" was produced by Giorgio Moroder, whose style was a perfect fit for the band. Just two years later, they switched to Stock/Aitken/Waterman, from which point everything tanked.

"Flaunt It" deserves to be listened to from beginning to end as a droll outlier of 80s pop culture that doesn't disappoint. Including the pioneering use of audio adverts for real products in between songs. You wonder why that didn't catch on.

Nothing to say about this one, it's just a banger.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVL-zZnD3VU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FziicPt9cs

Another Martha Wash classic.

I want to fill my soul with this, if only my speakers would play loud enough

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqaAs_3azSs

Mwahahahahahah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU6f8aJD1Z8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTnmvM0bSYs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sNHoNCroJ0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPlb9HoOCxs

I saw the Fugees live, back in the day. Can't remember if I liked it or not.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzIE4j3TOlE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU513suJZzY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5eBAQGhEHY

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



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGy5tp_CDU0

Yin and Yang.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhLOOdI23bE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qObzgUfCl28

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2g-3M3CiHU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RUIeX6UCT8

One of my favourite 80s songs about summer. I liked it even as a younglad, but now that I'm middle aged, I understand its underlying theme much more profoundly, as this is meant to be a song about passing into middle age and reminiscing about being young and in love.

Alvvays have a cringe name and I hate that pseudo-‘90s faux-retro visual style that both these videos have, but the songs are great.

Apparently, this entirely innocuous bit of eurodance has become a far-right anthem. We're living in a simulation coded by Bethesda, it's the only plausible explanation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cQlVww0zKo

The Spanish in this song is appallingly incorrect.

>>14657
Sash! are unique in that their first four hits were in four different languages. Encore Une Fois (French), Ecuador (Spanish), Stay (English), and La Primavera (Italian), possibly even in that order. They also released Together Again a couple of years later, which was partly in English and partly in Danish. Meanwhile, the group themselves are German.(I am a huge Sash! fan).

I guess my point is: what did you expect?

>>14657
It's not too bad. There's only really one line I'd sake issue wtih, though in fairness there are only about four lines in the entire song.

Something about vámonos al viaje doesn't really feel right, I think more usually you'd say de, though even then that's still clumsy when followed by para buscar. Probably better if that whole first half just became vámonos a buscar or vámonos en busca de. Maybe the guest vocalist was being paid by the word or something.

>>14659

I find the opening line more bewildering.

"Dáme tu mano y venga conmiga".

He's switching from "tú" to "usted" all in the same sentence. "Venga" as an imperative goes together with the more formal "usted", not with the second-person singular of "tú". Either you're going to address somebody with "tú" or with "usted". You don't jumble the two together in the same sentence. So you'd either say "Dáme tu mano y ven conmigo", or "Déme su mano y venga conmigo". And, of course, it's "conmigo", not "conmiga". The latter is just gibberish.

IIRC, the backstory with the song at the time was that the singer was an Austrian or Bavarian calling himself "Rodriguez" who was the son of Hispanic immigrant parents. Which makes the whole thing even more unforgivable. But this was before social media and Twitter, probably even before halfway capable online dictionaries. So it flew under almost everybody's radar.

The official lyrics in the album booklet say "conmigo". I went off just now to find my CD and take a picture of it, but alas I couldn't find it. I did, however, rediscover this indie banger:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN7jEzk7ocs

Do you two think Viola Beach would have been successful on their own merit?

>>14666

They wouldn't have a big brass plaque on the Parr Hall, I'll tell you that for nowt.

>>14666
I could see them appearing on Later With Jools Holland, and me wondering who the fuck they are and why so many shit bands are all shit in the exact same way. But then, I am still bitter about the landfill-indie scene of 2004-2012ish. Viola Beach are worse than Yard Act, but that wouldn't have stopped them from being equally famous, if not slightly more famous. They probably would have a ceiling around the level of the Sleaford Mods. So I guess the answer to your question boils down to whether or not you consider Yard Act and the Sleaford Mods to be successful bands.

>>14668

Who the fuck are Yard Act?

>>14669
They're your new favourite indie band, but unfortunately for them, they are all currently still alive.

>>14666
To make me a revanant one must create a music video that godawful to honour me post-mortem.

>>14669
I think they're a Vic Reeves novelty group.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKA8irLaeVk

Compared to the single version, this extended mix features a beefed up bass and more of the glorious tom fills. As well as giving the quietly chugging Linn Drum a bit more room.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC4aTTf1tw4

Play is an incredible album to listen back to. A lot of that is probably to do with the musical influences of the late 90s coming together and it suffers in the second-half of the album but it's still an textbook example of what a great album is where you have a clear sound across the album but each track can stand on its own and it never gets boring.

Also the same artist >>14627 managed to also do bustin' which will probably become an example of a lost artform now that AI can just stitch together a song about whatever you want song by whoever you want. Still it captures the act of busting and then going to sleep - an activity I suspect we'll all undertake tonight but which has received a frightful lack of cultural recognition and isn't even a bad song.

>>14676
>the same artist >>14627 managed to also do bustin' which will probably become an example of a lost artform
I was thinking earlier that the ability to Photoshop joke images might be about to die out now that it's trivial to ask a machine to just fake it for you. I hope that doesn't happen, which means it definitely will.

Anyway, Neil Cicierega has done some very impressive things. He was also behind the Harry Potter Puppet Pals, and he released a whole series of concept albums in the same mash-up style as Bustin'. The first one was called Mouth Sounds, where a selection of songs are inspired or influenced by Smash Mouth's All Star:

Then came Mouth Silence, an album where no songs have any influence whatsoever from Smash Mouth's All Star. It's a much better album:

...and it's also full of Easter eggs about Smash Mouth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jw135y5IL7c

Russ Ballard is virtually unknown to wider audiences, but he has an extensive back catalogue and wrote many hit songs for very well known bands.

This is from series 1 of Miami Vice, early on from the two-parter Calderone's Return.

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

What I like about lady armpits is that they're subversive but they very rarely grow into a proper bush of armpit hair and even if they have some muscle it's usually still pretty androgenous. It feels like you have a real woman on your hands almost. I don't know why women bother shaving their underarms honestly but maybe that's my fetish.

>>14680

>I don't know why women bother shaving their underarms

Because Big Razor convinced them that hairy armpits - and legs - are filthy.

The precussion on this is so crisp it almost defies belief. The whole thing's great, best Bond track by far, but the drumming; amazing.

>>14682

Paul McCartney's songcraft was always legendary. When you really get into certain Beatles songs, the sheer genius of him and John Lennon is just hard to miss. My favourite is probably Strawberry Fields. It's so intricate and layered and nuanced that you discover something new within it almost everytime you listen to it again.

>>14680

I would definitely have a go on their thussy, but I imagine they would be quite annoying.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah6OHcUTIco

Everybody thinks Kayleigh is the standout track on Misplaced Childhood, but Blind Curve takes me back to all manner of younglad existential dread and emotional hurt that I went through and brooded over in my early 20s. Especially the first part of Blind Curve was the perfect soundtrack to that.

Katy Hudon (Perry before she got a famous) is good. Her whole album is here - quite valuable in originalcopy, over £600 last time I checked, though there seem to be reprints available these days.

>>14689
Ah, a fellow heterosexual male GFOTY enjoyer, a pleasure to meet you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E90_aL870ao

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2OjVFp54po

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emOKaGi8u5U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqyjQ6-avK8

Early Tiamat sounded like a goth Roxette. They're a bit grittier than that nowadays. This track from 1999 was more or less the only single that had some mainstream success.

This must contain one of the most gratuitous racial slurs I have ever encountered. My mum used to sing the first verse of this song, without the no-no word, to me all the time as a child.

>>14696

Could be worse.

>song that plays when you encounter a caterpillar

>>14698
I was expecting something more like this (minus the phone ringing because what sort of caterpillar would have a phone?!);
https://youtu.be/S_kxr-erXB8

If we're all currently "feeling" novelty lift music, legendary anime Lucky Star has you covered:

>>14700
I've recently enjoyed working to some... kawaii music from a zoologist who has made tracks for various bugs in the world around us. And there's a sequel album about the creatures of the Cambrian:

People talk a lot about the internet destroying humanity and remaking us into something far darker but it also sometimes enables exactly the right level of autism.

>>14701
And obligatory:

Fcukers make me want to buy a complete shitbox of a car and badly install a sound system.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlJeEZ6Qq98

I absolutely love this kind of retro 80s sound.

Literally cannot stop listening to this, YouTube has given up recommending me other things and just plonks this on my front page as my default video for waking up to.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A_tSyJBsRQ

Fresh summer vibes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lfgf9HatIHI

Jan Hammer was on top of his game during the mid-80s Miami Vice years. He created a profoundly recognisable sound mainly on the Fairlight CMI, the Memorymoog and the Yamaha DX7, and his MV instrumental soundtrack albums still hold up today.

He lost his edge in the 90s and after that, structuring his music mainly around MIDI samples that sound utterly generic and forgettable today.

Some of you might get a kick out of this;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMdibdxzu0c

Hans Zimmer's finest work:

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

This song was never released in the U.S..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXnR7iZy0ZM

Possibly the sexiest tooth gap ever.


This was well after her nonce bait days.

When are we going to do something about inflatable orange frog-men stealing our women?

>>14725
I felt her technique playing Trophy Hunter was highly dubious, so much so it seemed almost contrived to be sexually suggestive. He's welcome to her.

>>14725

In order to defeat inflatable orange frog man, you must become inflatable orange frog man.

>>14727
Just like in my animes.

Can't remeber who posted them originally but thanks for putting me on to Magdalena Bay. Absolute top-tier stuff and the new album looks like it's going to slap.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfcWOPpmw14

>>14729
I like this. It's probably my favourite track of the year so far, but there's not been too many songs released in 2024 as of yet that I really like.

Norman Cook is still ace after all these years.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SEvHcgvt8M


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBTZmk3fJvM

>no views

Shame, it's cheeky narrative about dying, partners and getting trashed on wine.

Questionable record artwork aside this is very good "the evenings are getting shorter" music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qjii1Awrh8

>>14741

The GLC are really committed to making me feel old. I bet some of them are granddads now.

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

It's rare to see an actual wizard on the drums. I believe they disolved since, I believe, and a recording doesn't quite capture it but seeing them live was a revelation in terms of what is possible in technical drumming.

Chippy Nonstop is back with some huge bangers.

I danced to this song on the millennium.

People underestimate how much change there was between 1999 and 2009 I reckon. In 2009 you would be listening to Black Eyed Peas I Gotta Feeling and drinking a watered down jack and coke.

>>14748

I deeply miss that sort of music. I'm a metalhead but I drive a Corsa with tinted windows and like to blast Mr Oizo and Daft Punk to confuse people.

I normally dismiss Calvin Harris as a cheap hack and copycat but he put out this one last year, which I kept hearing on the radio at work, and really gives me the vibe of that era. Very catchy track.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNqQZ6bKzzI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V4AscLidWg

Back in those days, I once saw Ville Vallo outside a nightclub when he arrived there with his entourage. A couple of equally goth looking band members plus a few insanely hot models who all emerged from one or two black Mercedes vans parked on the side of the road. There was a VIP party there at that club that night, which meant that common folk like my mate and me weren't allowed in. Which we only realised when we got there.

Probably a bit early for this sort of thing.

>>14752

I like a bit of Industrial.


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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cnOvMFnRvs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlR9JqRFTZo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8b4xYbEugo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUg3rl4adDI

That's it for now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBAF55YMTfE
Not sure what language I should have taken as GCSE, but taking german was not enough.

>>14759


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPZC7JY6ziI


This is a bit more slow paced. German rap is probably not a good starting point to brush up your listening comprehension.