tbh those of you who don't grocery shop to the strains of delilah are missing out
― maura, Thursday, 17 April 2014 15:05 (ten years ago) link
I loved the post of all magazine covers. We can all relate to those times when you walk past a news stand and the cover blares Katy Perry's "Dark Horse" at you at a deafening volume
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 17 April 2014 15:15 (ten years ago) link
Christ what a nightmarish vision
― forum enthusiast (wins), Thursday, 17 April 2014 15:18 (ten years ago) link
Lady Gaga puking on a human face, forever
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 17 April 2014 15:21 (ten years ago) link
http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=101
― When I Get To The Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 17 April 2014 15:25 (ten years ago) link
They should make Us Weekly with that little chip they put in greeting cards that play 30 secs of a tune
― Juelz Fantano (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 17 April 2014 15:55 (ten years ago) link
ums, you shouldn't be giving that stuff away like that!
― keep calm and nahkchivan (how's life), Thursday, 17 April 2014 15:58 (ten years ago) link
here's happy and blurred lines for those who still haven't heard them yet
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 17 April 2014 17:23 (ten years ago) link
forks, what are those links? I keep getting a weird error message about "unusual traffic from your computer".
― keep calm and nahkchivan (how's life), Thursday, 17 April 2014 17:38 (ten years ago) link
i love the big showstopping frozen song. it's the best part of the movie!
my kids and their school have a talent/variety show tonight at the grange hall. i'll report back. got a lot of adele last year. rufus and his friend are doing ANOTHER of monsters and men song. *sigh* that's two years in a row. kinda hoping for a "wrecking ball". little kid solo at a keyboard doing stuff like that can make you cry like a baby a la langley music school.
― scott seward, Thursday, 17 April 2014 17:57 (ten years ago) link
sigh, they're youtube links to "don't worry be happy" and "got to give it up"youtube doesn't think i'm funny either
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 17 April 2014 21:40 (ten years ago) link
Is Bobby McFerrin some kind of joke to you?
― Sufjan Cougar Mellencamp (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 17 April 2014 21:49 (ten years ago) link
YouTube otm
jk don't worry be happy now
― Sufjan Cougar Mellencamp (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 17 April 2014 21:57 (ten years ago) link
*whistles a sad tune*
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Friday, 18 April 2014 05:43 (ten years ago) link
y'know i was working a show that bobby mcferrin headlined last year and at the end a couple of ushers wouldn't stop yelling "don't worry be happy!" during the encore applause and i thought at first they were making fun of him but as it happened they were just telling him to sing it. he completely ignored them.
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Friday, 18 April 2014 05:46 (ten years ago) link
So you could go and watch Bobby McFerrin live and not even get to see 'Don't Worry, Be Happy'? What kind of next level bullshit is that?
― Doran, Friday, 18 April 2014 07:55 (ten years ago) link
i'm assuming you're being facetious but on the off chance you're not: mcferrin has had a 25 year career since 'don't worry be happy' that includes about twenty albums and multiple grammy wins. don't worry will likely be the first line of his obit but it's not at all indicative of the range, scope and excellence of his work or of his pretty spectacular live performance
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Friday, 18 April 2014 08:20 (ten years ago) link
Bollocks to that
― recommend me a new bagman (darraghmac), Friday, 18 April 2014 08:48 (ten years ago) link
songs the kids did at the school talent show last night:
"wiccan lullaby" (!!!)
"ode to joy" (zzzzz...)
"falling slowly"
"shady grove" (bluegrass fever)
"letters i never sent"
"i am not a robot"
"up above my head" (trad gospel)
"i like to moo" (think this might have been an original...)
"gentle arms of eden" (commie folk)
"fur elise" (zzzz...)
"turning tables"
"the lion sleeps tonight" (trad zulu)
"maxwell's silver hammer"(trad paul)
"pompeii" (i dug this. never heard it. death rock.)
"royals"
"mountain sound"
"say something"
"drive by" (trad train)
"wagon wheel" (old crow song. the girl who sang it can really sing!)
"sing together" (more train!)
― scott seward, Friday, 18 April 2014 11:46 (ten years ago) link
and there was more. it was endless. it was like 3 & a half hours of sitting in the grange hall. i took multiple smoke breaks.
― scott seward, Friday, 18 April 2014 11:47 (ten years ago) link
sounds awesome
― waterbabies (waterface), Friday, 18 April 2014 13:07 (ten years ago) link
don't worry, will likely
― Vinnie, Friday, 18 April 2014 13:14 (ten years ago) link
For the record, I was being facetious. Being a fan of Wire, The Fall and suchlike, I'm all about bands not 'playing the hits' if they so wish. (Although I can't say I know much about Bobby M.)
― Doran, Saturday, 19 April 2014 01:26 (ten years ago) link
Post of magazine covers was a direct response to a poster saying that pop stars are not on magazine covers fwiw.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Saturday, 19 April 2014 21:10 (ten years ago) link
And my original point was not that pop music is absolutely inescapable for everyone as much as that it still seems relatively prevalent in the environment in a similar way as it used to be; I was also saying, just as much, that pop music was escapable before the Internet. I actually thought ums made some fair points in response to this btw (particularly to do with the limits on purchasing options for people in smaller markets pre-Internet) so thanks to him.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Saturday, 19 April 2014 21:16 (ten years ago) link
https://metro.co.uk/2014/04/13/nine-things-the-kids-of-today-will-never-understand-about-britpop-4696887/
― ۩, Monday, 28 April 2014 11:41 (ten years ago) link
oh yeah, i read that article a couple of weeks ago. half those things have nothing to do with Britpop. also - do kids these days not try and sneak into drinking establishments?
― 1 pONO 3v3Ry+h1n G!!!1 (dog latin), Monday, 28 April 2014 11:43 (ten years ago) link
vshttp://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/apr/27/britpop-and-me-looking-back-not-in-anger-eva-wiseman
Britpop was our moon landing, except janglier. It was our Summer of Love, our Nelson Mandela's presidential years, our fall of the wall. It was the awkward suburban girl's Wonderful World of Colour. The never-kissed's big bang.
― ۩, Monday, 28 April 2014 11:44 (ten years ago) link
gonna venture that was not written with an entirely straight face
― From Tha Crouuuch To Da Palacios (DJ Mencap), Monday, 28 April 2014 11:50 (ten years ago) link
The ATP news feed on my fb posted a link to some Anthony bourdain yells at cloud piece on dance music and all the comments were ppl telling them off, lol. I suspect mischief on ATP's part. Didn't read the piece but seems like a candidate for this thread.
― paolo amusing eclectic revivals (wins), Monday, 28 April 2014 12:30 (ten years ago) link
oh yeah I skipped that one too
― popchips: the next snapple? (seandalai), Monday, 28 April 2014 12:35 (ten years ago) link
This kinda makes me want to back in time and not get bored w Britpop after a year or so purely to annoy Taylor Parkes
http://thequietus.com/articles/15092-blur-parklife-anniversary-review
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Monday, 28 April 2014 12:44 (ten years ago) link
related to earlier discussions: how editor's choices of title skews author's meaninghttp://www.pajiba.com/think_pieces/how-saloncom-rewrote-my-headline-and-turned-me-into-an-internet-troll.php
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Monday, 28 April 2014 14:40 (ten years ago) link
that taylor parkes article is briliant and doesnt belong here
― ۩, Monday, 28 April 2014 16:15 (ten years ago) link
The quest for clicks overrides the intentions of the author. Probably happens all the time.
― Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Monday, 28 April 2014 16:17 (ten years ago) link
Those shiny compact discs were seriously expensive in 1994. We’ve since spent a fortune buying them again as downloads.
uhhh you know that you can rip a cd into your computer, right?
― marcos, Monday, 28 April 2014 16:21 (ten years ago) link
lol
― What is wrong with songs? Absolutely nothing. Songs are great. (DL), Monday, 28 April 2014 16:44 (ten years ago) link
what??!
― 1 pONO 3v3Ry+h1n G!!!1 (dog latin), Monday, 28 April 2014 16:46 (ten years ago) link
XXXP: Taylor writes his own headlines. It was a fair assumption as most don't but wrong in this case.
― Doran, Monday, 28 April 2014 16:47 (ten years ago) link
I love Taylor Parkes and agree that his article does not belong here, but at the same time his prose style remains so redolent of Melody Maker circa 1995 that it produces a weird sense of discombobulation. Every sentence makes me more nostalgic for Britpop (maybe even the experience of hating Britpop at the time) than most of the other shit I've read about it in these terrible weeks.
― Eyeball Kicks, Monday, 28 April 2014 21:52 (ten years ago) link
is there another thread where we're discussing this article? there's lots there to unpack (and i really like it). his fixation with the obnoxiousness of blur is really useful. did make me want to listen to lots of pulp and bbr and the other also-rans that don't fit in his (or britpop's) narrative.
― wat is teh waht (s.clover), Monday, 28 April 2014 21:57 (ten years ago) link
(of course there's an impt sense in which pulp are hardly an 'also ran' so forgive me) (and then how does this then pivot into B&S idk)
― wat is teh waht (s.clover), Monday, 28 April 2014 21:58 (ten years ago) link
why are there so many articles about Britpop lately?
― smhphony orchestra (crüt), Monday, 28 April 2014 21:58 (ten years ago) link
100-year WWI anniversary. It's all linked
― imago, Monday, 28 April 2014 21:59 (ten years ago) link
trench warfare = Melody Maker magazine
lord kitchener = jo whiley
― imago, Monday, 28 April 2014 22:01 (ten years ago) link
the somme = ok computer
― imago, Monday, 28 April 2014 22:03 (ten years ago) link
Somme less wasteful
― james lipton and his francs (darraghmac), Monday, 28 April 2014 22:33 (ten years ago) link
Sterling the discussions over on the britpop thread. Cant link from here tho, sorry
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 28 April 2014 22:36 (ten years ago) link