Things you were shockingly old when you learned

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(There's)_Always_Something_There_to_Remind_Me#Naked_Eyes_version

I learned today it charted higher in Australia than in the US! :)

I've only heard that version since moving to canada. wiki says it didn't chart in the uk so that checks out

fyi the snarky part was "of the 972 versions"? I get it's something to snark on because there are a shitload of covers, but it comes off as "you dummy, this has a zillion covers, why would you think you were hearing the original" when obviously OL hadn't been exposed to or didn't remember hearing other ones

I learned today it charted higher in Australia than in the US! :)

ha! I guess I've heard it before, those syndrums have a tiny dash of proust, but I'd bet it just prompted the radio station to which my parents listened to play Dionne Warwick and Jose Feliciano

I only saw two music videos prior to 1987 iirc

fyi the snarky part was "of the 972 versions"?

hmm okay but it's not "DUH you should have known because of the 972 versions of this song by a songwriter OL YOU GIANT DUMMY," it's "ooh, how about a little more context for those of us who know this as a song by a songwriter, OL, you l'il dickens"

fair

vincent gallo and vincent cassel are not the same person

America honestly isn't the entire world

I was shockingly old when etc.

(It's not unusual to see sic and I giving one another the business, all in good fun and with a refreshing lightness of heart.)

(At least that's my take. Could be that he'd love to sock my nose.)

mea culpa, I've had a week

fuck you mh

going to assume I’m getting better at reading tone and that was in jest

"Didn't know it was a cover" topic incomplete without Tainted Love btw

just now realizing (as I did only a couple years back when I heard the Warwick version) that 'Always Something There to Remind Me' is also a cover.

What, you mean the Sandie Shaw song?

"Didn't know it was a cover" topic incomplete without Tainted Love btw

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Gloria Jones surviving the crash that killed Marc Bolan is the tidbit that always connects to that isn't it?

this one was pretty surprising to me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ5OtnBdcWw

I didn't keep much vinyl but I do still have a Sandie Shaw record that the song is on. It's my favorite version.

Bette Davis Eyes, Always Something There, and Ray of Light being covers is kind of blowing my mind right now.

Ha, the Sandie Shaw version charted higher than the Naked Eyes version in Canada acc to Wikipedia (#1 vs #9). I don't think I ever thought of the Naked Eyes version as the original tbh, although you do hear it more these days.

had a similar "bette davis eyes" moment a year or so ago with "the crying game." have always loved boy george/pet shop boys version and had no reason not to assume it was the og.

I've never even heard of Naked Eyes, so I guess I was shockingly old when I learnt that Americans have an '80s version of 'Always Something There...' that they think of as the original. (And apparently it's a British band one of whom went on to be half of Climie Fisher?)

I have news for y'all about "Red Red Wine"

Meanwhile Promises Promises, while NOT a cover version, is the most blatant ABC pastiche imaginable.

holy cow at Ray of Light

I've never even heard of Naked Eyes

Ditto.

unperson was a nihilistic teenager.

I didn't know that Toni Basil's "Mickey" and Blondie's "Hanging On The Telephone" were covers up until a couple of years ago ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

not sure if this is common knowledge but 'it's oh so quiet' is a cover. I was shockingly young when I learned this, though, as I heard the original when I was on a French exchange just before the Bjork one came out, and got a bit confused by it sounding so different in different countries

pretty shocked I didn't know about Ray of Light until now though

What i hate are people who post demo/scratch recordings of a song a songwriter was shopping around and not a real release (ie Robert Hazard "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun") and go BETCHA YOU DIDN'T KNOW THIS WAS A COVER?

I have news for y'all about "Red Red Wine"

now do the other 53 songs from the four Labour Of Love records

The revelation of most of these songs as covers is news to me, tbh. How many original songs are there, anyway? Twelve?

unperson was a nihilistic teenager.

where did Morbs learn this?

There are some things a son can't hide from his father.

"Love Is All Around" is not a Wet Wet Wet original. Oh boy.

pozidriv and phillips are different things. may explain a number of stripped screw heads over the years.

i've never even heard of pozidriv but that word looks kinda awesome like it was created for sputnik

That I have aphantasia. 😭

Aphantasia must be weird and limiting. Would be interested in finding out how old you are on discovering it. & how you'd avoided hearing things like using your mind's eye or imagination or whatever. Or what you would take something like that to mean if you didn't have the facility.

Have also heard of visual agnosia where people's vision only processes in black and white and they are not aware of it.
Not sure how you translate from one epistemology to another and therefore approach something like that in a way that would highlight it.

Also does everybody with synaesthesia assume that everybody else experiences things in exactly the same way they do until its pointed out that other people's sense experiences are more atomistic.

Well that woman who feels no pain apparently didn’t figure it out until she was 65

Aphex Twin - Flim, that's MILF in reverse.

Flim is MILF in reverse but who's to say that's got anything to do with the Aphex Twin track? A misspelling or mispronunciation of 'film' seems more likely.

Especially as Come To Daddy was released two years before the movie American Pie popularised the term.

Yeah, wasn't sure when the term first came into common usage.

Plus I work(ed) with a guy, from Bangladesh, who pronounces 'microfilm' as 'microflim' and it was the first thing I thought of.

It never really crossed my mind until I heard it mentioned. I realized I could never do a witness statement but it didn't seem like it was bec I had this condition. I do dream vividly but to voluntary conjure up a mental image: nope.

I'm 45. So it's a bit late. 😂

Flim = phlegm, surely, if we've begun the quixotic task of assigning meanings to Aphex Twin song titles.

He's lost his flam.

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