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I'm pretty sure I commented on "Time" here several years ago. My anecdotes about this song abound:
1. We had some huge metal cone speakers set up for psychological warfare operations at Phu Bai, Viet Nam. They were monsters, about 1,200 lbs apiece, 8 feet on a side (they were square, you see), driven by a set of amplifiers which used huge metal triode amplifier tubes. All in all about 50,000 watts RMS at 80 ohms (yes, RMS watts). One day, after this came out, a cassette player was hitched to the input mixer. The gain was cranked up, and the 100 Kilowatt dedicated generator running 3-phase 440 volts cranked up. The sound was audible out to about 50 miles, and considering the Inverse Square Law of Audio, it was ear-drum destruction at close ranges. Didn't last too long, the water cooling pump failed and somewhere around $10,000 worth of amplifier equipment became a crispy critter. Well, a few years back, the VA finally issued me new hearing aids, so it wasn't all that bad.
1.5 This track was used by the same PsyOps folks in Panama blasting at the Noriega HQ. We wore hearing protectors then.
2. The Chambers Brothers never received a single penny in royalties from this song â they were fucked out of it by their "managers" by means of inflated "advances".
The children these days need a lot more rock'cation than I realized. As the always brill Blake Aued of Athens, GA's Flagpole Magazine recently reminded them, "Joy Division, while a great band, are not punk. Punk does not have synthesizers." They need to hear that kinda stuff outta their elders more often. Example: I recently tried to explain Psychedelic Furs value to a John Hughes movie to my 18-year old. Kid looked at me like I was older than dirt under a Jack White mattress.
Man, that sax is so cool it really sends me.
But, do the merciful thing and fade out on the drum solo.
It goes on for so long that even the drummer gets bored,
listlessly and randomly banging around his drum set. By the time the sax player gets back (from the head?) I've ceased to care. What a waste of a beautiful melody.
Iâve been reading the complaints below about Neilâs singing. Besides being an old complaint I find it ironic considering the point of view of this particular song. A scared young man, a kid really, tentatively doing what he thinks he has to do, which quickly turns out very badly. I think Neilâs voice couldnât be more perfect for it.
Some voices are just beautiful; smooth as warm chocolate pudding and they are a thing to behold. Others impress us with range or skilled technique. And then there are the voices that simply have a character of their own. They often have an everyman (or woman) quality that remind us that the emotions expressed therein are felt by and can come from any of us. I treasure such voices.
She might be a nice person, but RAP is not Music. Roger Daltry, Keith Richards and Noel Gallagher agree with me.
I dont know about the song in reference, but some rap may not qualify as music....especially a lot of early rap, which has plenty of rhythm, pitch...but lacked melody.
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Well, that may be true if you subscribe to Ben Shapiro's inaccurate theory that "music" must contain rhythm, melody, and harmony in order to be considered "music".
I only posted the video because it's the one the comment was on and you said you didn't know it. So there, I just heard it again and it's really good. JFW bought the Bad Bunny album and it irritates the hell out of me. **doesn't mean the music sucks** **or isn't music**
I dont know about the song in reference, but some rap may not qualify as music....especially a lot of early rap, which has plenty of rhythm, pitch...but lacked melody.
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Wrong on all counts. Just say you don't care for itâthat's valid and incontestable.
She might be a nice person, but RAP is not Music. Roger Daltry, Keith Richards and Noel Gallagher agree with me.
I dont know about the song in reference, but some rap may not qualify as music....especially a lot of early rap, which has plenty of rhythm, pitch...but lacked melody.
She might be a nice person, but RAP is not Music. Roger Daltry, Keith Richards and Noel Gallagher agree with me.
Exebeche wrote:
I once dated a soprano who made the same comment about Roger Daltry, Keith Richards, Noel Gallagher and pretty much all other guitar tuning musicians.
We didn't last, but by the end of it she had a nice collection of non-classical music she'd grown very fond of, while my own collection had been expanded with some impressive classical singers and cello players I had never heard of but still play to this day.
The heart of music I believe is not to negate and judge each other, but to listen to each other, to all that creative inspiration that goes around in all directions.
You do like/you don't like?
Discuss, argue, educate yourself, connect and converse, share, grow.
Don't chuck music out like garbage while clinging to what you think to be "the only true Music". That just seems totally counter-intuitive to the phenomenon music and the eclecticism of RP.
No, that'll be Lebanese Red, which was my favourite brand of hash way back when. Smooth, soft, mellow, and with a real Clang! Honk! Tweet! hit in the tail. If dope were legal, Red Leb would have been a DOCG. Now it's all bloody skunk, which to good blow is what Carlsberg Special Brew is to a fine Bordeaux :(
