Once you realize Dr Dre has never written lyrics
As a teenager, I once rang the radio annoyed after the classic-rock-announcer-and-morning-TV-host-who-had-moved-to-the-youth-station back-announced Express Yourself with "Ice Cube there, out front of N.W.A." Ten years in broadcasting had apparently failed to impress upon him that (bracketed names) under a song title on the back of a record jacket meant writing credits, not a helpful explanation of who the lead singer on each song was. The Pinball Number Count got a 12" release on Ninja Tune in 2003, c/w the Larry Levan remix of C Is For Cookie:
https://imgur.com/a/YiyI5qw
― Elon's musk (sic), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 19:20 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/XL5OHnI.jpg
keith jarrett is a white dude
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 20:00 (four years ago) link
well I'll be damned
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 20:02 (four years ago) link
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/seinfeld/images/3/3b/Darryl.jpg/revision/latest/top-crop/width/360/height/450?cb=20120415174020
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 20:03 (four years ago) link
yeah I remember years ago seeing a picture of Keith Jarrett nowadays, having only seen pictures of him in black and white from the 70s with an afro or a natural and being quite surprised that he was an old white man
― COVID and the Gang (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 20:45 (four years ago) link
Huh, did not know this either
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 20:45 (four years ago) link
Nor I, but wiki says French or Scots-Irish father so maybe there's some North African ancestry.
― nickn, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 20:47 (four years ago) link
Whereas Davey Graham was not a white dude.
― Angry Question Time Man's Flute Club Band (Tom D.), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 20:48 (four years ago) link
MR. JARRETT: Yeah, Ornette Coleman. One of the earliest times I was in the same room with him, he said something like, `Man, you've got to be black. You just have to be black.' I said, `I know. I know. I'm working on it.'
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 20:49 (four years ago) link
lmao
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 21:18 (four years ago) link
His brother, who is also a pianist, looks like a white Keith Jarrett.
― Angry Question Time Man's Flute Club Band (Tom D.), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 21:21 (four years ago) link
As a teenager, I once rang the radio annoyed
― Elon's musk (sic), Tuesday, May 5, 2020 12:20 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
You've always been like this!?
― silby, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 21:55 (four years ago) link
I used to be but they kept stealing my backpack and throwing it in the girls’ restroom in high school
― mh, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 21:56 (four years ago) link
who is Keith Jarrett?get me Keith Jarrettget me a white Keith Jarrettwho is Keith Jarrett?
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 22:16 (four years ago) link
I also called up when an announcer played something off dubnobasswithmyheadman and said "Nothing to do with the group that had a #1 single with Underneath The Radar! Completely different band."
― Elon's musk (sic), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 22:36 (four years ago) link
Lol, GD.
― My Chess Hustler (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 23:49 (four years ago) link
there are no hummingbirds in europe or uk
― inveterate practitioner of antisocial distancing (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 18:08 (four years ago) link
I was quite delighted when after living in Vancouver for a year or so - having lived in Scotland all my life - I spotted a hummingbird out my window while doing the dishes. my ex-wife was very amused at how delighted I was as she'd seen them hundreds of times
― COVID and the Gang (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 18:09 (four years ago) link
we just minutes ago had our second visitor of the season. they don't always sing, but when they do around here, it is a very very high-pitched, non-directional trilling combined with the wing buzzing and it is _magical sounding_. it sounds very much like this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROT6cM3wY0Eat seconds 0-20. that is how i even knew to look at the feeder this evening-- i heard the sound in the house.
if you go into a field with multiple hummingbirds sounding it is wonderful. because they are so very very tiny it just looking for needles in a haystack.
― inveterate practitioner of antisocial distancing (Hunt3r), Saturday, 9 May 2020 00:45 (four years ago) link
John McLaughlin taught Jimmy Page as a teenager.
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Saturday, 9 May 2020 00:57 (four years ago) link
Dr Dre has never written lyrics
Well, I feel like this is my new entry for this thread. Like, that's something I should have known, right?
― emil.y, Saturday, 9 May 2020 01:02 (four years ago) link
It's possible he wrote some of his lines circa 1984 when they were things like
I'm the physician who's gonna start dishin'All them things that you've been missin'If it's for answers that you have been fishin'Take a bite of this for your nutritionI'm the real doctor, that is finalAll you other suckers are made of vinyl
and
I'm Doctor Dre, that's who i amCome with me and your body I'll examDon't try to fight it, you can't resistI'll hypnotize you with just one kiss
― Elon's musk (sic), Saturday, 9 May 2020 05:36 (four years ago) link
This and Dr. Dre tbh.
― Frank Bough: I Took Drugs with Vice Girls (Tom D.), Saturday, 9 May 2020 11:54 (four years ago) link
Always Something There to Remind Me by Naked Eyes was a cover song
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Saturday, 9 May 2020 16:58 (four years ago) link
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Saturday, May 9, 2020 1:57 AM (sixteen hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
Bathed in Lightning the biography that came out a couple of years ago was an interesting read.turned up a lot of stuff i hadn't know about him before
― Stevolende, Saturday, 9 May 2020 17:11 (four years ago) link
sarahell is a 6th generation Californian!
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 9 May 2020 17:29 (four years ago) link
"Funeral Blues" AKA "Stop all the clocks" by W.H. Auden was originally written as "a satiric poem of mourning for a political leader, written for the verse play The Ascent of F6, by Auden and Christopher Isherwood"
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 11 May 2020 07:25 (four years ago) link
That Jerry Stiller was Ben Stiller's dad.
― Alba, Monday, 11 May 2020 14:07 (four years ago) link
The once-popular saying "real men don't eat quiche" was originally meant satirically and was the title of a bestselling book.
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Monday, 11 May 2020 14:28 (four years ago) link
Always struck me as odd - quiche lorraine is eggs, cheese, bacon and pastry, if it didn't have a French name it would be a greggs staple.
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 11 May 2020 15:11 (four years ago) link
Yeah, it came to mind after having quiche for breakfast this morning and remarking that it was actually pretty hearty.
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Monday, 11 May 2020 15:28 (four years ago) link
I am dimmer for having skimmed through this 'article':
https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/14-manliest-foods-ever_n_55e5d720e4b0b7a9633a56d2
― pomenitul, Monday, 11 May 2020 15:34 (four years ago) link
I remember that book. There was also a sequel called "Real Women Don't Pump Gas".
All these years later, I didn't realize it was satire!
― pplains, Monday, 11 May 2020 16:21 (four years ago) link
That not only was Roman Polanski born in France and not Poland, but his birth name was Raymond Thierry Liebling.
― zoom séance goes tits up (Matt #2), Monday, 11 May 2020 17:33 (four years ago) link
ONly discovering on watching a bit of the 1970 Roberta Flack video I d/lded last week that it was an episode of Boboquivari. I'd only come across the title in relation to a nearly 1/2 hour performance by Tim Buckley and teh Starsailor band taht I wish would be released in full somewhere instead of being excerpted for My Fleeting House. It is a continuoyus performance with the horns picking up at the end of each song so it becomes more of a medley than a sequence of songs taht start and stop.So hadn't realised it was a series of performances. Haven't found a list of what the individual ones are yet.seems from what is popping up on the screen as text mid perfomrmance that somebody retransmitted at least this Roberta flack edition so wonder if there are any others being shown. Flack may have been more significant since her first Take lpjust got a 50th anniversary edition released. BUt great to hear shows like this still exist and can be reshown.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 12 May 2020 13:00 (four years ago) link
How to play pinch harmonics
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 18:16 (four years ago) link
How?
― Louder Than Bach's Bottom (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 18:22 (four years ago) link
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Saturday, May 9, 2020 9:58 AM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink
naked eyes, though they're a British group, were only successful in North America (I never heard "always something there to remind me" by naked eyes until I moved to Canada)
― COVID and the Gang (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 18:22 (four years ago) link
isn't that where you play the string with partially your pick and partially your thumb
huh, I wasn't aware of that in guitar playing but ran across the violin equivalent back in the day, although it's not incredibly common in annotated music
― mh, Tuesday, 12 May 2020 18:26 (four years ago) link
just checked out the naked eyes song, I did not realise that quiet riot weren't the only group covering old UK pop hits for americans who hadn't heard them before, are there any more examples?
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 18:32 (four years ago) link
Yeah, it turns out that i) they're just artificial harmonics but plucked with a pick instead of the ring finger and ii) it's all in the angle of the picking hand.
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 18:48 (four years ago) link
xp 'tainted love'
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 12 May 2020 18:53 (four years ago) link
It took me 20+ years of casual playing to get good at them. Not great at them by any means but louder amplification helps with them too.
I finally got the chorus riff of "How the Gods Kill" to sound like Jon Christ and I giggled a little, ngl
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 18:54 (four years ago) link
xp nah, don't think that fits, original wasn't a hit in uk and Soft Cell version was
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 18:55 (four years ago) link
Burt Bacharach & Hal David are Americans FYI
― Elon's musk (sic), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 19:25 (four years ago) link
(well, David was, Bacharach is)
was surprised to learn that the Flamingos' "I Only Have Eyes For You" was originally a 1930s show tune
― it me, Tuesday, 12 May 2020 19:28 (four years ago) link
(xp) Yes, but the song was a no. 1 hit for Sandie Shaw in the 60s in the UK, and that's undoubtedly the version Naked Eyes would have been familiar with.
― Frank Bough: I Took Drugs with Vice Girls (Tom D.), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 19:36 (four years ago) link