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Were Ponkine and Jick the same person? I know there's a Ponkine character on the Steve Hoffman forums that I frequent and anytime a U2 thread comes up he is generally very negative.
 
So I'm really getting into Modest Mouse. What's the go with them at the moment? I see they haven't released an album in seven years, but they're touring at the moment...
 
david said:
Were Ponkine and Jick the same person? I know there's a Ponkine character on the Steve Hoffman forums that I frequent and anytime a U2 thread comes up he is generally very negative.
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I'm pretty sure ponkine was South American (Chilean?) and adored Pop.
 
david said:
Some dude posted this on another board.. I am thinking it is the XX... But, I have a feeling it's a song that I've heard a couple times which actually I can't identify either, but it totally fits his description and it's bugging the hell out of me too:

It's something current or at least from the past few years. It's definitely not old. It's mid/uptempo and while you could dance to it, it's not (imo) a pure dance song or disco or anything like that. If anything, it's instrumentation is from a 70's approach (Fleetwood Mac), but more of a driving boogie sound..... but not R&B. It's also not "You're Having My Baby" by Paul Anka (ha).

I heard it a month ago at a Von's store, then last week at about 3 in the morning at a Fitness 24, then there again yesterday, and then about a half hour ago at a Carls Jr. I THINK there are lyrics and my brain processes that there are lyrics , but in general, every SINGLE time I hear it, it's on its way to the ending so I only catch about two minutes of it which by that point, is all instrumental. If I could catch a couple of words, I could Google them to figure out what the song is. Here's what I hear as the song is winding to its conclusion-

1. a nice moving Rhodes chord figure (maybe imagine Fleetwood Mac's Brown Eyes at points where it's mostly the Rhodes you hear rather than the cp30)

2. A nicely melodic bass guitar moving contra to the Rhodes. A great riff from what I can hear. The Rhodes and bass guitar are the two things doing some really nice melodic moves together.

3. A very solid backbeat drum figure that for lack of a better description, would fit the tempo and general feel of either Boogie Down (Kendricks) or even Stayin Alive.... but it's not disco or dance or R&B.... more straight ahead rock/pop feel

4. I haven't yet picked up on what any guitars are doing and I haven't yet picked up that there are any synths going on.

5. With the "groove" going on for a while, instruments start dropping out. I think the bass drops out first. Eventually, it's down to a hihat and the Rhodes and just sort of softly ends on a final sustained chord.

Okay, don't have the title yet but I heard it at 3am at Fitness24 again this morning after I got out of the studio. This time, I caught it earlier in the song and -

1. It alternates between (what seems to me to be a 20-something and white) girl and a guy singing.... both of them singing WAY buried in the mix at diff times (uggh I hate that)
2. The girl and guy are really full of angst, singing against this pretty cool background groove I mentioned in the first post.
3. When the guy is singing, he's mumbling something about "hideaway" or "hide away" and then later something sounding like "world to see"
4. The girl comes in with her lines and I can't make out ANY of her words..... yet.

The thing is probably at about 112 bpm. Just a constant, driving thing with bass/drums/rhodes etc. I'm starting to think the motowny-funk-boogiedown-upbeat-heard-grapevine vibe never changes in the song. I asked the guy at Fitness where their music comes from and he said "I think from DMX". Dunno how one would search for songs through that outfit.
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Passion Pit's got a song called Hideaway, but that''s about all I can think of.
 
don't ever forget a gmail password, people. they won't reset it without knowing when you created the account, who your top 5 most often emailed people are (ok, i think i've sent 5 emails in the last 5 years and 3 of them were probably to the same supervisor at work asking for vacation time), or on what day did you last use google calendar (and never isn't even an option, which is horseshit since i don't even know what google calendar is).

"when were you last able to access your account" was probably my favorite. why is there no check box for "i can access it right now from my phone because the pw is saved. i just need to actually write an email for once, and wish to log in from a computer."

fuck you, gmail. i don't remember you sucking this much when gmail was first introduced.
 
david said:
Some dude posted this on another board.. I am thinking it is the XX... But, I have a feeling it's a song that I've heard a couple times which actually I can't identify either, but it totally fits his description and it's bugging the hell out of me too:

It's something current or at least from the past few years. It's definitely not old. It's mid/uptempo and while you could dance to it, it's not (imo) a pure dance song or disco or anything like that. If anything, it's instrumentation is from a 70's approach (Fleetwood Mac), but more of a driving boogie sound..... but not R&B. It's also not "You're Having My Baby" by Paul Anka (ha).

I heard it a month ago at a Von's store, then last week at about 3 in the morning at a Fitness 24, then there again yesterday, and then about a half hour ago at a Carls Jr. I THINK there are lyrics and my brain processes that there are lyrics , but in general, every SINGLE time I hear it, it's on its way to the ending so I only catch about two minutes of it which by that point, is all instrumental. If I could catch a couple of words, I could Google them to figure out what the song is. Here's what I hear as the song is winding to its conclusion-

1. a nice moving Rhodes chord figure (maybe imagine Fleetwood Mac's Brown Eyes at points where it's mostly the Rhodes you hear rather than the cp30)

2. A nicely melodic bass guitar moving contra to the Rhodes. A great riff from what I can hear. The Rhodes and bass guitar are the two things doing some really nice melodic moves together.

3. A very solid backbeat drum figure that for lack of a better description, would fit the tempo and general feel of either Boogie Down (Kendricks) or even Stayin Alive.... but it's not disco or dance or R&B.... more straight ahead rock/pop feel

4. I haven't yet picked up on what any guitars are doing and I haven't yet picked up that there are any synths going on.

5. With the "groove" going on for a while, instruments start dropping out. I think the bass drops out first. Eventually, it's down to a hihat and the Rhodes and just sort of softly ends on a final sustained chord.

Okay, don't have the title yet but I heard it at 3am at Fitness24 again this morning after I got out of the studio. This time, I caught it earlier in the song and -

1. It alternates between (what seems to me to be a 20-something and white) girl and a guy singing.... both of them singing WAY buried in the mix at diff times (uggh I hate that)
2. The girl and guy are really full of angst, singing against this pretty cool background groove I mentioned in the first post.
3. When the guy is singing, he's mumbling something about "hideaway" or "hide away" and then later something sounding like "world to see"
4. The girl comes in with her lines and I can't make out ANY of her words..... yet.

The thing is probably at about 112 bpm. Just a constant, driving thing with bass/drums/rhodes etc. I'm starting to think the motowny-funk-boogiedown-upbeat-heard-grapevine vibe never changes in the song. I asked the guy at Fitness where their music comes from and he said "I think from DMX". Dunno how one would search for songs through that outfit.
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I can't help you at all, but this is a really great, interesting post. I'm an amateur musician myself and your knowledge seems on point. Do you write your own music or anything?
 
IWasBored said:
don't ever forget a gmail password, people. they won't reset it without knowing when you created the account, who your top 5 most often emailed people are (ok, i think i've sent 5 emails in the last 5 years and 3 of them were probably to the same supervisor at work asking for vacation time), or on what day did you last use google calendar (and never isn't even an option, which is horseshit since i don't even know what google calendar is).

"when were you last able to access your account" was probably my favorite. why is there no check box for "i can access it right now from my phone because the pw is saved. i just need to actually write an email for once, and wish to log in from a computer."

fuck you, gmail. i don't remember you sucking this much when gmail was first introduced.
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The frustrating thing about Google is they make their products worse with each upgrade. They seem to be on a mission to have each program use as much ram as possible by loading endless pointless apps.
 
david said:
Some dude posted this on another board.. I am thinking it is the XX... But, I have a feeling it's a song that I've heard a couple times which actually I can't identify either, but it totally fits his description and it's bugging the hell out of me too:

It's something current or at least from the past few years. It's definitely not old. It's mid/uptempo and while you could dance to it, it's not (imo) a pure dance song or disco or anything like that. If anything, it's instrumentation is from a 70's approach (Fleetwood Mac), but more of a driving boogie sound..... but not R&B. It's also not "You're Having My Baby" by Paul Anka (ha).

I heard it a month ago at a Von's store, then last week at about 3 in the morning at a Fitness 24, then there again yesterday, and then about a half hour ago at a Carls Jr. I THINK there are lyrics and my brain processes that there are lyrics , but in general, every SINGLE time I hear it, it's on its way to the ending so I only catch about two minutes of it which by that point, is all instrumental. If I could catch a couple of words, I could Google them to figure out what the song is. Here's what I hear as the song is winding to its conclusion-

1. a nice moving Rhodes chord figure (maybe imagine Fleetwood Mac's Brown Eyes at points where it's mostly the Rhodes you hear rather than the cp30)

2. A nicely melodic bass guitar moving contra to the Rhodes. A great riff from what I can hear. The Rhodes and bass guitar are the two things doing some really nice melodic moves together.

3. A very solid backbeat drum figure that for lack of a better description, would fit the tempo and general feel of either Boogie Down (Kendricks) or even Stayin Alive.... but it's not disco or dance or R&B.... more straight ahead rock/pop feel

4. I haven't yet picked up on what any guitars are doing and I haven't yet picked up that there are any synths going on.

5. With the "groove" going on for a while, instruments start dropping out. I think the bass drops out first. Eventually, it's down to a hihat and the Rhodes and just sort of softly ends on a final sustained chord.

Okay, don't have the title yet but I heard it at 3am at Fitness24 again this morning after I got out of the studio. This time, I caught it earlier in the song and -

1. It alternates between (what seems to me to be a 20-something and white) girl and a guy singing.... both of them singing WAY buried in the mix at diff times (uggh I hate that)
2. The girl and guy are really full of angst, singing against this pretty cool background groove I mentioned in the first post.
3. When the guy is singing, he's mumbling something about "hideaway" or "hide away" and then later something sounding like "world to see"
4. The girl comes in with her lines and I can't make out ANY of her words..... yet.

The thing is probably at about 112 bpm. Just a constant, driving thing with bass/drums/rhodes etc. I'm starting to think the motowny-funk-boogiedown-upbeat-heard-grapevine vibe never changes in the song. I asked the guy at Fitness where their music comes from and he said "I think from DMX". Dunno how one would search for songs through that outfit.
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You're Having My Baby by Paul Anka, perhaps?
 
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