Things you were shockingly old when you learned

The Orb produced the track four version of Higher Than The Sun, Weatherall and Hugoth produced the track 10 version

Paterson and who, though

Thrash

I only recently learned that ICI is no longer a company.

This thread reminds me I only found out a few months ago that Dr Dre's "Still DRE" was written by Jay-Z... after loving this track for 20 years !

That the Pointer Sisters were actual sisters called Pointer. I don't know why I didn't imagine this to be the case. There's actually a lot I learned reading their Wikipedia page. They had a soft rock phase in the 70s!

This thread reminds me I only found out a few months ago that Dr Dre's "Still DRE" was written by Jay-Z... after loving this track for 20 years !

― AlXTC from Paris, Sunday, 3 May 2020 10:33 (thirty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

now I know this too

i thought it was like scott storch or something

This isn't a newly discovered fact so much as a realisation of my own lack of attention to detail:

Since our oldest son was a child (he's now 20) we've been reading an illustrated book named Gorf's Pond to him and then his brother and sister and eventually his little cousins.
It's a bit like The Ugly Duckling meets The Fly where lonely fish Gorf in his little pond is increasingly disturbed by the growth of lumps then limbs and by his tail falling off until he eventually realises (SPOILER) he's a frog.

After 20 years I just noticed last week that Gorf is Frog backwards.

https://pictures.abebooks.com/isbn/9781858543765-uk.jpg

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The Piano riff is Torch's, yeah.
And the lyrics are from Jay-Z. Which is kinda funny since it's all about bragging how he (Dre) is best in the game !

Also, the Pointer Sisters sang the famous pinball countdown song from Sesame Street

Wow.

That pleases me greatly.

Once you realize Dr Dre has never written lyrics, it’s fun to listen to individual songs and guess who the writer was. I mean, 90% of the time it’s one of the guest artists on the track, but not always

Right, I didn't know that either!

That Satyajit Ray wrote young adult science fiction as well as directing films.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor_Shonku

xposts The Pointer Sisters sang the most well-known number song from Sesame Street but there was another one that my fellow olds might remember which was sung by Grace Slick.

http://www.youtube.com/-WSHvbGM6oE

Up against the playground wall motherfuckers?

Guy Debord shot himself.

the ultimate spectacle

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

https://i.imgur.com/XL5OHnI.jpg

keith jarrett is a white dude

well I'll be damned

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/seinfeld/images/3/3b/Darryl.jpg/revision/latest/top-crop/width/360/height/450?cb=20120415174020

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

Huh, did not know this either

Nor I, but wiki says French or Scots-Irish father so maybe there's some North African ancestry.

Whereas Davey Graham was not a white dude.

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.'

lmao

His brother, who is also a pianist, looks like a white Keith Jarrett.

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!?

I used to be but they kept stealing my backpack and throwing it in the girls’ restroom in high school

who is Keith Jarrett?
get me Keith Jarrett
get me a white Keith Jarrett
who is Keith Jarrett?

You've always been like this!?

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."

Lol, GD.

there are no hummingbirds in europe or uk

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

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=ROT6cM3wY0E
at 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.

John McLaughlin taught Jimmy Page as a teenager.

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?

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 nutrition
I'm the real doctor, that is final
All you other suckers are made of vinyl

and

I'm Doctor Dre, that's who i am
Come with me and your body I'll exam
Don't try to fight it, you can't resist
I'll hypnotize you with just one kiss

there are no hummingbirds in europe or uk

This and Dr. Dre tbh.

Always Something There to Remind Me by Naked Eyes was a cover song

John McLaughlin taught Jimmy Page as a teenager.

― 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

sarahell is a 6th generation Californian!

"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"

That Jerry Stiller was Ben Stiller's dad.

The once-popular saying "real men don't eat quiche" was originally meant satirically and was the title of a bestselling book.