Czech = Bohemia
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 5 January 2021 16:47 (three years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemia
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 5 January 2021 16:48 (three years ago) link
Sure, but politically, as opposed to historically, the name "Czech Republic" includes the lands of Moravia and Bohemia in the same way as the name "the Netherlands" includes all of its lands.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Tuesday, 5 January 2021 17:09 (three years ago) link
No, it's different, everyone knows it just means Bohemia really, it's literally "Bohemian Republic" vs "Bohemia-land" - it's like when people used to casually refer to Scotland and Wales as "England" a century ago, only there's no real separatist movement in Moravia and nobody seems to make much of a fuss about it really.
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 5 January 2021 17:43 (three years ago) link
...and no good alternative name being used
― ٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 5 January 2021 17:45 (three years ago) link
Maybe "shockingly old" is a bit of a stretch, but I had no idea until today that artist Ken Kelly, of Conan and Tarzan and metal album cover fame, is the nephew of artist Frank Franzetta.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 17:25 (three years ago) link
I mean I must've heard 'Major Tom (Coming Home)' dozens of times in my life but I'm somehow only just now hearing the accent and discovering that Peter Schilling is German.
― Meat Chew All the Way (Old Lunch), Thursday, 7 January 2021 14:07 (three years ago) link
there's a German-language version, worth checking out if you only know the English one! i would suggest we poll it against the German versions of "99 Red Balloons" and "Der Kommissar," but i'm pretty sure Nena would take it in a walk (even if Falco has the best video).
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 7 January 2021 16:37 (three years ago) link
Cool, will check out! This grave oversight is all the more inexcusable because I'm at least passingly familiar with Neue Deutsche Welle in general. It really should've come to my attention sooner.
― Meat Chew All the Way (Old Lunch), Thursday, 7 January 2021 16:46 (three years ago) link
Doc, that is an interesting idea but I would be physically unable to rank those three. All three are essential.
― cilantro vs. wade (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 7 January 2021 17:17 (three years ago) link
Due to only slight interest in the band via classic rock radio I didn't realize that Benjamin Orr sang lots of the Cars' hits. I always assumed it was just Ric Ocasek, the only guy in the band I could recognize by sight. Relatedly, I discovered extremely late what a major fox Orr was.
― Sam Weller, Friday, 8 January 2021 15:14 (three years ago) link
I think this is a pretty common one because Ocasek was so visible in the MTV era and there's some similarity in their voices.
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Friday, 8 January 2021 15:19 (three years ago) link
Okay, I knew about 'Drive' but didn't know he was also lead vocalist 'Just What I Needed' and 'Let's Go' as well. So count me among the shockingly old.
― Meat Chew All the Way (Old Lunch), Friday, 8 January 2021 15:21 (three years ago) link
that's not ric ocasek on just what i needed??? 🤯
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 8 January 2021 15:24 (three years ago) link
Wowza: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsPh-EgH65M
― Sam Weller, Friday, 8 January 2021 15:32 (three years ago) link
Also Moving In Stereo and Candy-O
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Friday, 8 January 2021 15:38 (three years ago) link
Yeah, I started to wonder about those two, as well, given the similarity of pronunciation. 'let's gao' and 'moving in stere-ao' and 'Candy-ao'. Orr, you sneaky sonofagun.
― Meat Chew All the Way (Old Lunch), Friday, 8 January 2021 15:42 (three years ago) link
The easiest way to tell Ocasek's vocals from Orr's on any given Cars song is to ask yourself "do I want to add 'garsh!' to the end of this vocal line?"
If the answer is yes, it's an Ocasek vocal
― Totino's Fortnite Training Room (DJP), Friday, 8 January 2021 15:44 (three years ago) link
Orr's voice is chesty and Ocasek's is throaty. Same range though, and since they're Rik's melodies, that adds to the similarity.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 8 January 2021 15:58 (three years ago) link
Excellent topic
― Next Time Might Be Hammer Time (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 8 January 2021 16:24 (three years ago) link
Orr's an overlooked giant, 'tis true.
Of course if you'd watched the video back in the day, you'd know both that Ocasek was not singing lead AND that Orr was a lovely man and a fine musician
― cilantro vs. wade (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 8 January 2021 17:26 (three years ago) link
(of "Drive" I mean, but it goes for some of the others as well)
― cilantro vs. wade (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 8 January 2021 17:28 (three years ago) link
and DJP's diagnostic test is A+
― cilantro vs. wade (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 8 January 2021 17:29 (three years ago) link
idgi
― budo jeru, Friday, 8 January 2021 17:53 (three years ago) link
Ric Ocasek sounds like Goofy when he sings
― Totino's Fortnite Training Room (DJP), Friday, 8 January 2021 17:54 (three years ago) link
have always had a hard time telling orr and ocasek apart, but i've known there were two vocalists for some time.
― budo jeru, Friday, 8 January 2021 17:54 (three years ago) link
xp ooh lol
Add "Just What I Needed" starting like "Yummy Yummy Yummy" to the roll call.
― Eggbreak Hotel (Tom D.), Friday, 8 January 2021 17:56 (three years ago) link
in late high school and college my friends and I ended up using 'ben orr' as a verb for crashing overnight at someone's house due to this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ySLmwsfP4Q
― joygoat, Friday, 8 January 2021 18:18 (three years ago) link
DJP goofygawsh vocal criterion is utterly otm & hilarious I find on reviewing a few tracks!
― anatol_merklich, Friday, 8 January 2021 19:25 (three years ago) link
― Totino's Fortnite Training Room (DJP), Friday, January 8, 2021 11:54 AM bookmarkflaglink
Oh gawd, I won't be able to listen to "You Might Think" the same way again.
Hee-yuk, you might think it's hishterical!
― pplains, Friday, 8 January 2021 19:47 (three years ago) link
I was today years old when I learned that "Ric Ocasek sounds like Goofy when he sings" wasn't a universal truism
― Totino's Fortnite Training Room (DJP), Friday, 8 January 2021 20:11 (three years ago) link
Well I only just recently figured out that Rob Thomas sings like Mr. Ed so I'm incredibly slow on the 'anthropomorphized animals as inspiration of famed singers' uptake.
― Meat Chew All the Way (Old Lunch), Friday, 8 January 2021 20:19 (three years ago) link
Rob Thomas sings like he enjoys fucking horses
― Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Friday, 8 January 2021 20:21 (three years ago) link
I see no contraction with my own assertion.
― Meat Chew All the Way (Old Lunch), Friday, 8 January 2021 20:22 (three years ago) link
it's 3 pm, you must be lonely
― Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Friday, 8 January 2021 20:33 (three years ago) link
I'm not sure what Goofy sounds like, but after this thread I may have also never heard Ric Ocasek sing
― shivers me timber (sic), Friday, 8 January 2021 21:34 (three years ago) link
I know what Goofy sounds like but, as Benjamin Orr seems to have sung all the Cars' songs I know, I don't know what Ric Ocasek sounds like either.
― Eggbreak Hotel (Tom D.), Friday, 8 January 2021 21:44 (three years ago) link
would've been a better 'wikipedia factoid' post but it's not on wikipedia
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/roald-dahl-owned-francis-bacon-triptych-could-fetch-56m-at-auction-35479363.html
in short, roald dahl owned several francis bacon paintings, at least this tryptic and one of freud (and they went for $51.7M in the end)
― koogs, Wednesday, 13 January 2021 14:22 (three years ago) link
I have only just this minute realised that Wilford Brimley is called Wilford and not Wilfred. Wilford not being a name you ever see in the UK is my excuse for this cognitive mishap.
― prize-winning marconi bakery (Matt #2), Wednesday, 13 January 2021 15:11 (three years ago) link
tbf it's not a name you ever see in the USA either, apart from references to Wilford Brimley
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 13 January 2021 15:21 (three years ago) link
That Kate Pierson of the B52s is 72 (shockingly old, I guess)
― Alba, Sunday, 17 January 2021 03:11 (three years ago) link
Maybe doesn't quite fit itt (inasmuch as it's pretty random trivia and I don't know that it was particularly publicized at the time) but Peter Billingsley was onsite when the Challenger exploded.
― Looks like I'm gonna be the filling in a missile sandwich! (Old Lunch), Sunday, 17 January 2021 05:11 (three years ago) link
...with his BB gun
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 17 January 2021 05:22 (three years ago) link
rip
― mookieproof, Sunday, 17 January 2021 05:26 (three years ago) link
He said "fudge" when it exploded
― Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Sunday, 17 January 2021 07:20 (three years ago) link
meaning of the term Upper decker. yuk
― Stevolende, Thursday, 21 January 2021 11:55 (three years ago) link
This was me but with The Beautiful South. Only recently learned they had a male singer other than Paul Heaton. No opinion on his vulpinity.
― mahb, Thursday, 21 January 2021 12:36 (three years ago) link
xpost Many years back my wife and I were at the movies, and while I can't remember what movie it was, beforehand was the trailer for "MacGruber," which had a fleeting "upper decker" joke in which I think he defines it, and my wife cracked up so much, for several hysterical minutes, that she almost had to leave the theater.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 21 January 2021 14:01 (three years ago) link
Heaton brought the second drummer from the Housemartins over to the South just for his voice, but wrote fewer and fewer songs for him as the band went on. A Little Time is a big single that the other bloke is male lead on, off the top of my head.
― shivers me timber (sic), Thursday, 21 January 2021 19:02 (three years ago) link