Top Contender for "I Just Don't Get it..."?
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generationx said:
That f
king dirge "Fairytale of New York" by the Pogues and Kirsty McColl.
Every year either this or "Last fking Christmas" is consistently at the top of every Greatest Christmas Hits list and I just don't understand why. If I hear it in a shop in the festive period I'm likely to leave.
king dirge "Fairytale of New York" by the Pogues and Kirsty McColl.Every year either this or "Last f
king Christmas" is consistently at the top of every Greatest Christmas Hits list and I just don't understand why. If I hear it in a shop in the festive period I'm likely to leave.
Lighten up, it's January!
M.
generationx said:
That fking dirge "Fairytale of New York" by the Pogues and Kirsty McColl.
Every year either this or "Last fking Christmas" is consistently at the top of every Greatest Christmas Hits list and I just don't understand why. If I hear it in a shop in the festive period I'm likely to leave.
I consider it a success if I manage not to hear that song, Slade or Wizzard over the festive period.king dirge "Fairytale of New York" by the Pogues and Kirsty McColl.Every year either this or "Last f
king Christmas" is consistently at the top of every Greatest Christmas Hits list and I just don't understand why. If I hear it in a shop in the festive period I'm likely to leave.Bullett said:
We call it vocal gymnastics.
You have an impressive range, we get it. You don't have to use it every fricking line.
Another vocal tick is that sort of urg/grrr sound these type of singers often make. You hear this a lot on xfactor type shows/singers. Around 1:20 on this video - https://youtu.be/mU_A1uvyLRQ?t=76
Stevie Wonder could get away with it, because he was so vocally talented, it always fitted the song - such as in All In Love is Fair (Innervisions) - and it was not so common. These days it is just cringey.You have an impressive range, we get it. You don't have to use it every fricking line.
Another vocal tick is that sort of urg/grrr sound these type of singers often make. You hear this a lot on xfactor type shows/singers. Around 1:20 on this video - https://youtu.be/mU_A1uvyLRQ?t=76
W124 said:
Joe Bonnamassa. No emotion. He’s not that good technically either.
I agree with the first bit but not the second - he is I think technically very proficient.I didn;t like the fact that tickets to his last UK shows were £100 each and those weren't from a reseller.
on a side note Satrianis new album is out
Nom de ploom said:
W124 said:
Joe Bonnamassa. No emotion. He’s not that good technically either.
I agree with the first bit but not the second - he is I think technically very proficient.I didn;t like the fact that tickets to his last UK shows were £100 each and those weren't from a reseller.
on a side note Satrianis new album is out
Never got Pink Floyd, the kids at school who were into them were the more "Studious" kids. It's was the Beastie Boys for me when I was a teen. Loved them then, I'm 45 (tomorrow) and still love them now.
Sleaford Mods. I'm from Nottingham and I wish they wouldn't refer to them as "Nottingham Band, Sleaford Mods". I endure the same feeling that I suspect people from Leicester feel when their town is linked to Kasabian.
Kate Tempest. My favourite form of entertainment is to attend gigs. I went to see Kate Tempest last year and in about 30 years of going to gigs, hers is the only one I have ever left before it had finished. I want to be entertained, not be told between every song how rubbish everything is. Political dullard.
Mac DeMarco. Give him a listen. The guitar makes me feel seasick.
Sleaford Mods. I'm from Nottingham and I wish they wouldn't refer to them as "Nottingham Band, Sleaford Mods". I endure the same feeling that I suspect people from Leicester feel when their town is linked to Kasabian.
Kate Tempest. My favourite form of entertainment is to attend gigs. I went to see Kate Tempest last year and in about 30 years of going to gigs, hers is the only one I have ever left before it had finished. I want to be entertained, not be told between every song how rubbish everything is. Political dullard.
Mac DeMarco. Give him a listen. The guitar makes me feel seasick.
Stan the Bat said:
Nom de ploom said:
W124 said:
Joe Bonnamassa. No emotion. He’s not that good technically either.
I agree with the first bit but not the second - he is I think technically very proficient.I didn;t like the fact that tickets to his last UK shows were £100 each and those weren't from a reseller.
on a side note Satrianis new album is out
BeastieBoy73 said:
Kate Tempest. My favourite form of entertainment is to attend gigs. I went to see Kate Tempest last year and in about 30 years of going to gigs, hers is the only one I have ever left before it had finished. I want to be entertained, not be told between every song how rubbish everything is. Political dullard.
Holy resurrection!But yes, she's dreadful. Of course, being a lithping leftwing lethbian wasn't enough so she/it is now gender neutral/fluid and is now Kae Tempest. Either way she is a talentless loon that sounds like a retarded Dalek, and any one of her awful droning misery dirges is the cue for the 'off' button. Thankfully only R6 seems to play her/it.
Sleaford Mods are excellent and I've seen them live. As least there is a glimmer of humour.
Greenmantle said:
For me as a teenager it was Kate Bush.
Some OK songs but no hero worshiping.
Have to agree on Ms Bush.Some OK songs but no hero worshiping.
I remember watching her on Pebble Mill at One (I have a recollection I'd just finished my O levels!) and thinking "she's clearly a really talented young woman (And rather easy on the eye too - I was 16, that was important), but what the hell is that horrible noise she's making?"
I still feel exactly the same.
Rap - It's just talking, usually over somebody else's music (which required a modicum of talent to produce). That said I never liked 'performance poetry either' - I've just been watching some old 'The Tube's on YT and they have this annoying ginger bloke who does that - God he's tiresome! What, though, really beggars belief for me is how middle classed white men feel there's something to associate with in Gangsta-Rap - If you live in East LA, maybe it speaks to your life, but not if you live in Wokingham!
I know why I don't like Dire Straits. It's the same reason I don't like UB40, they have s
te singers...M
marcosgt said:
Rap - It's just talking, usually over somebody else's music (which required a modicum of talent to produce). That said I never liked 'performance poetry either' - I've just been watching some old 'The Tube's on YT and they have this annoying ginger bloke who does that - God he's tiresome! What, though, really beggars belief for me is how middle classed white men feel there's something to associate with in Gangsta-Rap - If you live in East LA, maybe it speaks to your life, but not if you live in Wokingham!
M
I find myself agreeing with this 99.9% of the time (100% when we talk Gangsta Rap or 'Drill' or 'Grime').M
But, very occasionally, someone comes along and does something good. Probably because they incorporate other elements of music in what they do. Things that come to mind are:
Prince, he could make most styles sound good:
Pitbull, singing / rapping about the joys of threesomes, definitely NSFW, the fusion of Tango / Samba rhythm with Pitbull's vocal somehow works well for my ears:
Hackney said:
What. The. F**k.
That’s hideous.
You'd probably hate what I'm listening to today then. I'm up to my neck in writing a long and complex proposal for some cloud migration work for a client, so to distract the part of my brain that isn't interested in the client proposal, I have this on:That’s hideous.
marcosgt said:
Greenmantle said:
For me as a teenager it was Kate Bush.
Some OK songs but no hero worshiping.
Have to agree on Ms Bush.Some OK songs but no hero worshiping.
I remember watching her on Pebble Mill at One (I have a recollection I'd just finished my O levels!) and thinking "she's clearly a really talented young woman (And rather easy on the eye too - I was 16, that was important), but what the hell is that horrible noise she's making?"
I still feel exactly the same.
But I still play all the LPs on a regular basis, Lionheart & The Kick Inside are brilliant.
Revisiting old favourites is always a gamble.
I've long been a big fan of New Order, but I'd not seen them play in their heyday.
When they did a benefit gig for a roadie at Brixton I went to see them and I thought it was great, but I went to see them there again after they released "Music Complete" and they were night and day better.
As we left, I heard someone say "I've seen them loads of time and they've never been that good!"
Personally, I enjoy pretty much all live music, but I've certainly seen a few acts that were better in their heyday!
M
I've long been a big fan of New Order, but I'd not seen them play in their heyday.
When they did a benefit gig for a roadie at Brixton I went to see them and I thought it was great, but I went to see them there again after they released "Music Complete" and they were night and day better.
As we left, I heard someone say "I've seen them loads of time and they've never been that good!"
Personally, I enjoy pretty much all live music, but I've certainly seen a few acts that were better in their heyday!
M
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