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I looked at this thread with the honest intention of Rickrolling people. I just don't have it in me anymore, I'm gonna put on the Offspring and curl into a fetal ball.
feeder wrote: Frazz's mind is like a wiener dog in a rabbit warren. Dark, twisting tunnels, and full of the certainty that just around the next bend will be the quarry he seeks.
Fafnir wrote: It's not like King Crimson or Pink Floyd were ever chart toppers.
Yeah, I'm sure nobody has ever heard of Dark Side of The Moon or The Wall.
One in 4 households in the UK owns Dark Side of the Moon. In fact, so many people throughout the world now own that record that it's practically impossible for it not to be being played at any given moment somewhere in the globe. Which is awesome.
Also, if memory serves, both 'Arnold Layne' and 'See Emily Play' were top 10 hits for Pink Floyd in the 60s, in addition to 'Another Brick in the Wall (part II)' being Christmas number one. So they were singles chart-toppers (which is what Fafnir meant, I think), but not compared to say, The Spice Girls. Floyd hardly released any UK singles, and certainly none off Dark Side..., though they did release 'Money' as a US single. Again, if memory serves.
Wait, was '21st Century Schizoid Man' a single? I wonder where it charted...
I'm going to check.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Hmm.. seems it was released as a double a-side with 'Epitaph' in '76. Could'nt be arsed to find a chart position for it....
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It's actually pretty funny, but I remember in David Bowie's biography (the one by Marc Spitz), it mention's how his manager paid 140 pounds to a chart rigger just to get Space Oddity on the charts.
Did you know that Robert Fripp (from King Crimson) played on 'Heroes'? He was told just to start playing, without being told what key or time signature the piece was in allegedly...
Yep. Never knew about how he was told to just start playing, but I knew he did the guitar bits (which sound awesome, by the way), and that they recorded from various points in the room in order to get a really cool, distorted sound.
I love little interesting bits of music trivia - that's why I decided to do my degree!
A particular favourite - on 'Tomorrow Never Knows', to get the vocal sound, Lennon wanted to place a mic in the center of the room and swing around in a circle on a tarzan swing whillst singing extracts from the Tibetan Book of the Dead (which is where the lyrics come from). They eventually settled for a Leslie rotating speaker from a Hammond (iirc) organ.
John Bonham recorded the drum part of 'When The Levee Breaks' at the bottom of a flight of stairs in the hall at Headley Grange, with the mics place at the top of the stairs.
So did everyone that went on Top of the Pops. Everyone lips syncs on shows like that
Rick Wakeman played piano on Clive Dunn's chart topping hit, "Grandad" in an old folks' home while the mic was thirty miles away in the Abbey Road studio. He then played Rolf Harris's Stylophone on Space Oddity.
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Fafnir wrote:Did you know that David Bowie did MIME of all things?
No, but I did know that he used to be a grave-digger.
RE: John Bonham - Yeah, I read about that. You can tell, like. It's a fething MONSTROUS drum sound!
RE: Top of the Pops - Actually, the vocals are the only part that aren't lip-synched in a lot of more modern TOTP performances (cf. Nirvana debacle...)
Fafnir wrote:Did you know that David Bowie did MIME of all things?
No, but I did know that he used to be a grave-digger.
Holy crap. That's not in the biography (but then again, I'm only halfway through, havn't gotten enough time to finish the damn thing, just got to where Ziggy Stardust was released)!
There's a particularly funny story in it where he's at a party, and goes to have sex with this one girl in the toilets. A bunch of drag queens chase after them and start banging on the toilet door screaming about how they can do better than a girl ever could.
Oh, and did you know that this is one of the worst songs to listen too when you're suffering from a massive hangover?
I have a class with the most absurdly uninteligent sociology professor and feminazi you could ever imagine in 25 minutes, I need to get rid of this hangover ASAP!
Listening to stupid people talk is painful. Listening to stupid people talk while you're hungover is torture.
Early Beatles music is important, not for the actual music, but for the technologies used in their production. They were one of the first to employ multi-track recording (starting with 2-track, initially developed by Les Paul). Much of the later stuff, like reversing the playback, came from them experimenting with that early technology.
Of all the races of the universe the Squats have the longest memories and the shortest tempers. They are uncouth, unpredictably violent, and frequently drunk. Overall, I'm glad they're on our side!
Office of Naval Intelligence Research discovers 3 out of 4 sailors make up 75% of U.S. Navy.
"Madness is like gravity... All you need is a little push."
Fafnir wrote: It's not like King Crimson or Pink Floyd were ever chart toppers.
Yeah, I'm sure nobody has ever heard of Dark Side of The Moon or The Wall.
One in 4 households in the UK owns Dark Side of the Moon. In fact, so many people throughout the world now own that record that it's practically impossible for it not to be being played at any given moment somewhere in the globe. Which is awesome.
Also, if memory serves, both 'Arnold Layne' and 'See Emily Play' were top 10 hits for Pink Floyd in the 60s, in addition to 'Another Brick in the Wall (part II)' being Christmas number one. So they were singles chart-toppers (which is what Fafnir meant, I think), but not compared to say, The Spice Girls. Floyd hardly released any UK singles, and certainly none off Dark Side..., though they did release 'Money' as a US single. Again, if memory serves.
Brian Eno is probably the most important individual in modern music history. His influence could even be considered more important than the Beatles in some ways.
I know very few people who actually know who Brian Eno is (sadly). Even plenty of fans of his collaborative works don't even know who he is.
Fafnir wrote: Here, try this on for size. Not quite so monotone, but I swear, if you don't want to get up and move to this, you have no soul.
Better certainly. Still rates at 'meh' for my personal preferences though. Then again I'm in a bit of a down mood so that could be why. The background music is significantly more in-depth and isn't... generic? Not sure if that's the proper word for the background in the 'Friday' video.
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Brian Eno is probably the most important individual in modern music history. His influence could even be considered more important than the Beatles in some ways.
I wouldn't say they're so outrageous. His role in the development of music production is huge. Sure, on the level of musical style he may not be as influential, but as far as production and editing aspects are concerned, you'd be hard pressed to find someone who's done as much.
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