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Here I am at White Sox Star Wars night, gang:
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liamcool
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Kerbler - checked out the Courtney Barnett EPs today. They're not bad (if a bit single mooded)
david
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My work, a year ago, hosted a 1930s themed fundraiser at a local mansion in the town I live in.. We wanted a live band for the evening.. Someone referred us a band, but no one actually listened to the bands music, did any check.. So as the fundraiser started the music was playing from the band... Uhh they weren't playing anything remotely '30s in style.. We apparently hired a local Chicago cover band. All Chicago.. All night..
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Here I am at White Sox Star Wars night, gang:
Love it. Even if it was at a dirty, dirty White Sox game.
Hewson
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Here I am at White Sox Star Wars night, gang:
Dude you can't be friendly with Vader...he's the dark side...you must fight him...
GirlsAloudFan
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Anakin is my fave. Sorry! I got to walk with him in the pregame parade. I posted a video of it to Facebook but can't seem to get it here.
cobl04
45:33
is that that star fights thing
PhilsFan
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Just heard Beach House in a restaurant which was cool.
mikal
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Of all songs to hear in public "Crazy Tonight" was played at the sports bar I was at last night. I just tried it pretend that it wasn't U2.
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david
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iron yuppie
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And to think they're concerned about relevance!
djerdap
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Well it is a song about climbing!
GirlsAloudFan
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Star Fox, actually. Star Fox 64.
cobl04
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Was never a fan of him on Smash Bros. But his level is probably my favourite, aside from Link's castle.
lazarus
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Are you going to claim that you haven't hearrrrrd it?
Also, The Other Place. What was I thinking returning to that wretched HIVE MIND of scum and idiocy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPw-3e_pzqU
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david
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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.
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.
cobl04
45:33
Sounds like Turn Down For What.
iron yuppie
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The mid/uptempo thing probably eliminates The XX. Maybe Cults? Though their vocals are usually pretty high in the mix.
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liamcool
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Cobbler, you have played Lylat Wars, yes?
cobl04
45:33
Never heard of it.
iron yuppie
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So this Jick character is usually held up as Interference's asshole par excellence. How bad was this guy? Because I find it hard to believe he could have been worse than some of the current regulars in EYKIW.
Hewson
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Well he managed to offend Interference's own "the Edge", so there's that.
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liamcool
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Dude what the fuck. One of the best N64 games. Get on that, stat.
lazarus
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I knew him from the old "Wire" email subscriber days.
He really was that bad. Would attack Pop for being "trip-hop" and upon the release of ATYCLB said that the band had finally seen the light again and were influenced by Bon Jovi.
Kieran McConville
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Is Fisher actually Jick? I get so confused. Frankly to paraphrase Selena Myer I'd rather get shot in the fucking face than wade through another album speculation thread.
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He was pretty bad, although any sort of communication I had with them was only when I still posted on atu2 several years ago. He was unbearable in the sense that he had no real personality in his writing, like a robot, and his hatred of Pop was ridiculously exhausting.
Nah, Jick usually signs off his posts with "Cheers, J"
Kieran McConville
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Perhaps Jick was actually Sting2.
corianderstem
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(I tried to make a joke about "Brazilian" being a racist slur, but I can't seem to get it right.)
david
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I remember he tried to compare an Avril Lavigne video to Streets, and somehow tried to make her a more important artist than U2.. Somehow.
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