dots man gets paid?
― mookieproof, Friday, 30 April 2021 04:43 (three years ago) link
Irmin Schmidt used to tell people CAN stood for Communism Anarchism Nihilism.
― Authoritarian Steaks (Tom D.), Friday, 30 April 2021 07:54 (three years ago) link
Political Unrest Stabilize Society, YES
― Filibuster Poindexter (Neanderthal), Friday, 30 April 2021 12:32 (three years ago) link
KMFDM really means what I think it means and nobody will ever convince me otherwise.
― pplains, Friday, 30 April 2021 12:46 (three years ago) link
That the first word in King Kong is the royal title and the name of the ape is simply Kong. I guess it's understandable that it wasn't translated into Norwegian, as "kong Kong" might look a bit silly.
― anatol_merklich, Friday, 30 April 2021 13:49 (three years ago) link
In clearly specious name origin claims, there was also “ In an early promotional interview, Vedder said that the name "Pearl Jam" was a reference to his great-grandmother Pearl, who was married to a Native American and had a special recipe for peyote-laced jam.”
― Kim, Friday, 30 April 2021 14:04 (three years ago) link
There's a whole lot of speculation about that name, another origin (from Jeff Ament) gives Neil Young credit for the "Jam" part:
Neil Young, of course, would go on to be one of Pearl Jam’s biggest mentors.And on this one night in 1991, the three band members watched in amazement as Young stretched a few key songs on and on for hours. “He played, like, nine songs over three hours. Every song was like a fifteen- or twenty-minute jam," Ament told Rolling Stone in 2006. "So that's how 'jam' got added on.”Ament soon turned to his longtime bandmate Gossard and simply said, “What about Pearl Jam?”
And on this one night in 1991, the three band members watched in amazement as Young stretched a few key songs on and on for hours. “He played, like, nine songs over three hours. Every song was like a fifteen- or twenty-minute jam," Ament told Rolling Stone in 2006. "So that's how 'jam' got added on.”
Ament soon turned to his longtime bandmate Gossard and simply said, “What about Pearl Jam?”
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 30 April 2021 14:10 (three years ago) link
it's cum
― Filibuster Poindexter (Neanderthal), Friday, 30 April 2021 14:10 (three years ago) link
https://www.xxlmag.com/shelley-fka-dram-interview/
― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Friday, 30 April 2021 14:10 (three years ago) link
Thin white rope was already taken.As was 10cc.
― Stevolende, Friday, 30 April 2021 15:45 (three years ago) link
Lovin spoonful too.
― Stevolende, Friday, 30 April 2021 15:46 (three years ago) link
God, rock is awful
― Alba, Friday, 30 April 2021 15:46 (three years ago) link
Do we need a 'bands whose names are probably references to semen' thread? I think we almost certainly do.
― You Can't Have the Woogie Without a Little Boogie (Old Lunch), Friday, 30 April 2021 16:09 (three years ago) link
the jizz is on mary chain
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 30 April 2021 16:11 (three years ago) link
Threads you were shockingly old when you clicked Remove Bookmark
― Bobo Honk, real name, no gimmicks (Doctor Casino), Friday, 30 April 2021 16:14 (three years ago) link
jesus, had never made that connection with 10cc or lovin spoonful, ick
― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Friday, 30 April 2021 17:39 (three years ago) link
Cream was actually named after Jack Bruce's family's dairy farm iirc
― Frumious Cumberbatch (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 30 April 2021 17:49 (three years ago) link
what do u think the "Wall Street Shuffle" alluded to
― Filibuster Poindexter (Neanderthal), Friday, 30 April 2021 17:49 (three years ago) link
i was so naive
― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Friday, 30 April 2021 17:58 (three years ago) link
RUSH = running under satan's house
Or so I was told on the school playground
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 30 April 2021 18:03 (three years ago) link
weirdly I knew that about 10cc without having much of a clue what they even sound like
― rob, Friday, 30 April 2021 18:09 (three years ago) link
wait till you hear their reggae track
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 30 April 2021 18:18 (three years ago) link
The song "Coffee Blues" is a tribute to Maxwell House Coffee, which Hurt describes, "rapping" in the beginning of the song, as being two or three times any other brand, ergo, he only needs one spoonful to make him feel all right, what he describes as "my lovin' spoonful" in the song. The song is part of a group of songs with a long history in recorded blues that generally use the term "a spoonful" to suggest sex, and in some cases use of a drug such as cocaine.[36] The term "lovin' spoonful" has been conjectured as referring to the amount of ejaculate released by a human male during a typical orgasm.
... Mississippi John that is, not William or, er, John.
― Authoritarian Steaks (Tom D.), Friday, 30 April 2021 18:25 (three years ago) link
xpactually I looked them up after posting that and naturally I know a bunch of their songs, including Dreadlock Holiday ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
― rob, Friday, 30 April 2021 18:26 (three years ago) link
I just learned that Cardi B.'s real name is apparently Belcalis, but she often went by the nickname "Bacardi." Bacardi, B. Cardi, Cardi. B.
(Coincidence or no, her sister's actual name is Hennessy.)
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 30 April 2021 18:27 (three years ago) link
I'm sure this is the kind of thing everybody on this board knows this already but I only learned today that the Ramones did not come up with "Second verse, same as the first"
― silverfish, Friday, 30 April 2021 18:58 (three years ago) link
pretty sure that was the violent femmes
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 30 April 2021 19:00 (three years ago) link
boy scouts iirc
― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Friday, 30 April 2021 19:01 (three years ago) link
It was Herman's Hermits! I didn't know that until I googled it right now.
― Authoritarian Steaks (Tom D.), Friday, 30 April 2021 19:03 (three years ago) link
Or to be more accurate it was Fred Murray and R.P. Weston, who wrote the song in question in 1910!
― Authoritarian Steaks (Tom D.), Friday, 30 April 2021 19:04 (three years ago) link
Yesterday I learned that ILX comment boxes--like the one I'm typing in now--can be enlarged or minimized using a tiny little doodad in the bottom right corner. Very exciting.
― clemenza, Friday, 30 April 2021 19:06 (three years ago) link
Whoa! When did that happen?
― peace, man, Friday, 30 April 2021 19:44 (three years ago) link
I had never noticed that!
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 30 April 2021 19:46 (three years ago) link
Members of 10cc disagree about the origin of the band's name. I will note that early singles written by them include "When He Comes" and "Come on Plane".
― European Stupor League (Lee626), Friday, 30 April 2021 19:47 (three years ago) link
(with each other I meant, not with us)
― European Stupor League (Lee626), Friday, 30 April 2021 19:50 (three years ago) link
Pixel = picture element. Probably everybody other than me knew that.
― irked at the fact I know who Jordan Rudess is (Matt #2), Friday, 30 April 2021 19:58 (three years ago) link
I went to school for graphic design and I did not know that.
It probably wasn't the best school for graphic design, though, tbrr.
― You Can't Have the Woogie Without a Little Boogie (Old Lunch), Friday, 30 April 2021 20:00 (three years ago) link
I didn't know that
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Friday, 30 April 2021 20:53 (three years ago) link
Isn't that more of a browser function kind of thing?
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Saturday, 1 May 2021 13:27 (three years ago) link
Loved the song for 35 years, but only just discovered that in ‘West End Girls’, when Tennant sings ‘ Call the police, there's a mad man around, Running down underground to a dive bar, In a West End town’ he’s actually referring to a bar called The Dive Bar in Gerrard Street, Soho.
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 1 May 2021 15:26 (three years ago) link
It gets a brief mention here https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/may/17/london-soho-stories-sex-drugs-rock-and-roll
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 1 May 2021 15:27 (three years ago) link
That reminds me, I wasn't old at the time but it didn't immediately click that Kelis' 'Trick Me' has a line referencing that - 'Call the police there's a mad girl in town'
― kinder, Saturday, 1 May 2021 15:35 (three years ago) link
I don't know: it's there on both Chrome and Edge.
― clemenza, Saturday, 1 May 2021 15:38 (three years ago) link
It is. It's probably been like that forever.
― I took drugs recently and why doesn't the UK? (ledge), Saturday, 1 May 2021 15:48 (three years ago) link
loquats are a thing.Blooming tasty too.& i THink heavily sweetening.Saw some in the chinese place and at the time assumed they were the apricots I'd been looking for. Opened one yesterday and found out it had seeds not a stone.So bunged one into a stew and ate one and they seem pretty sublime.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 2 May 2021 09:16 (three years ago) link
I learned about loquats last week when I had a Lebanese colleague over for diner! His sister had sent him a picture of her trying to harvest them from a huge tree in her garden. They look so tasty, will have to find a place where to get them.
― willem, Sunday, 2 May 2021 11:57 (three years ago) link
you can actually put french toast in the toaster the day after you make it, yummm
― "Gaspar? No way." (sleeve), Tuesday, 4 May 2021 00:44 (two years ago) link
When is French toast ever left over!!!
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 4 May 2021 00:50 (two years ago) link
literally just figured out the pun in clue’s “mr. boddy”
― the mai tai quinn (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 5 May 2021 00:11 (two years ago) link
Oto is japanese for Sound, hence Cafe Oto.
― koogs, Wednesday, 5 May 2021 12:12 (two years ago) link