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Post by edog40 on Oct 21, 2020 20:28:52 GMT
In a John Denver mood today I remember watching a show about his death. Airplanes seem to take out a larger percentage of singers/musicians than any other profession(maybe not pilots, LOL!). I could not get into the nuts and berries thing, but a very good singer In 1974 the great Charlie Rich won Country Musician of the Year. In 1975 he had to pass that award on and do you know to who? Mr. Sunshine-on-my-g*d-damn-shoulders, John Denver! Yeah, can you believe it? Replaced by John f*cking Denver! Well, I'll be damned if Mr. Rich didn't take out his lighter and light that award on fire in front of everybody right there ... you get it?
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Post by The Ocean on Oct 21, 2020 20:55:59 GMT
I remember watching a show about his death. Airplanes seem to take out a larger percentage of singers/musicians than any other profession(maybe not pilots, LOL!). I could not get into the nuts and berries thing, but a very good singer In 1974 the great Charlie Rich won Country Musician of the Year. In 1975 he had to pass that award on and do you know to who? Mr. Sunshine-on-my-g*d-damn-shoulders, John Denver! Yeah, can you believe it? Replaced by John f*cking Denver! Well, I'll be damned if Mr. Rich didn't take out his lighter and light that award on fire in front of everybody right there ... you get it? Meow
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Post by The Ocean on Oct 22, 2020 1:15:06 GMT
I really love the Beach Boys with the London Symphony Orchestra album. Decided to give it a listen tonight and I find i like some of the versions on this better than the original, such as Sloop John B, Heroes and Villains, and this one:
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Post by sirrastus on Oct 22, 2020 1:23:51 GMT
I remember watching a show about his death. Airplanes seem to take out a larger percentage of singers/musicians than any other profession(maybe not pilots, LOL!). I could not get into the nuts and berries thing, but a very good singer In 1974 the great Charlie Rich won Country Musician of the Year. In 1975 he had to pass that award on and do you know to who? Mr. Sunshine-on-my-g*d-damn-shoulders, John Denver! Yeah, can you believe it? Replaced by John f*cking Denver! Well, I'll be damned if Mr. Rich didn't take out his lighter and light that award on fire in front of everybody right there ... you get it? LOL Charlie Rich's best song was in 1960 Lonely Weekends.Then Mohair Sam in '65.The Most Beautiful Girl In The World was a nice tune but Denver's music at that time IMO was better.Rich like Conway Twitty and Brenda Lee were rockers who moved over to country when their Top 40 careers dried up.IMO Buddy Holly might have ended up a country singer too.
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Post by sirrastus on Oct 22, 2020 1:26:24 GMT
I really love the Beach Boys with the London Symphony Orchestra album. Decided to give it a listen tonight and I find i like some of the versions on this better than the original, such as Sloop John B, Heroes and Villains, and this one: Beautiful.I'm not familiar with this album.I love The Beach Boys but hated their version of Rock N Roll Music.
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Post by The Ocean on Oct 22, 2020 1:37:58 GMT
I really love the Beach Boys with the London Symphony Orchestra album. Decided to give it a listen tonight and I find i like some of the versions on this better than the original, such as Sloop John B, Heroes and Villains, and this one: Beautiful.I'm not familiar with this album.I love The Beach Boys but hated their version of Rock N Roll Music. Some of their songs were boring or goofy to me, but so much of it was genius. Like, their stuff is hit or miss for me, but when it hit, it REALLY fuckin' hit.
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Post by The Ocean on Oct 22, 2020 5:57:14 GMT
Listening to the OTHER Cult at the moment
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Post by wrax on Oct 23, 2020 0:09:36 GMT
I've got a stack of albums I need to listen to over the next few days, it's not been a bad few months for new releases, all things considered. However, this evening I decided to play the deluxe edition of Ramones by Ramones, nearly two plus hours of three chord, high speed wonderfulness. Just the thing to prepare me for the land of nod.
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Post by The Ocean on Oct 23, 2020 5:38:29 GMT
I only discovered Dream Theater after picking up a G3 album that had John Petrucci on it and thinking one of his solo songs was really damn good. So I bought Live at Budakon and it was spectacular. This song convinced me to buy their most newly released at the time studio album Octavarium and I was hooked.
After buying more, this became my favorite overall song of theirs for many reasons. I could write an essay about everything I love about this song, but the short version is just that I think it's structurally perfect, to me.
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Post by wrax on Oct 23, 2020 8:39:03 GMT
After buying more, this became my favorite overall song of theirs for many reasons. I could write an essay about everything I love about this song, but the short version is just that I think it's structurally perfect, to me. You know Lauren, I loved DT since I first heard Lie on the old MTV Headbangers Ball in 1995. I was a little late getting into them in the early 90s and managed to completely bypass Images and Words and When Dream and Day Unite when they were first released thinking they were just another hair metal band. Looking at the back cover of Images and Words, it's not difficult to think they were hair metal and I hated hair metal in the 80s. Hair metal was what stopped me listening to rock and metal in the 80s and 90s. It was DT's blend of metal and progressive styles then got me back and hooked. I absorbed everything I could from Awake onwards, loving the previous albums (particularly Images and Words) and the later albums. That is up until Six Degrees of Inner Flatulence. The first side (Glass Prison, Misunderstood, The Great Debate), all classic DT with intelligent lyrics and super crunchy chords. However, the title track was when the cheese arrived. I couldn't get out of my head that Six Degrees itself sounded like a bad off-Broadway musical, complete with corny motifs and jazz hands. The next album Train of Thought was a return to form and one of my three favourite DT albums but after that it was so inconsistent. There is always one standout track (exception) on subsequent albums but it wasn't the same. It certainly hasn't been the same since Mike Portnoy left. And don't get me started on the loathesome, riff-free The Astonishing - if there were ever an album whose title was the exact opposite of the album itself this would be a top contender for the #1 slot.
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Post by frog on Oct 23, 2020 9:36:08 GMT
that :
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Post by The Ocean on Oct 23, 2020 13:54:04 GMT
Oh dear god..... that filter for the voice of the aliens..... that's really not good
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Post by zenman on Oct 23, 2020 14:31:02 GMT
It's okay by me. No worse than Black Blade, Joan Crawford or the Marshall Plan.
<INSERT SPECIAL EFFECTS HERE>
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Post by The Ocean on Oct 23, 2020 16:25:34 GMT
Tp me the voice in Black Blade is a familiar vocoder sound that fits in with a song that already has multiple synths. This sound is more like a turd in the punch bowl to be crude. It REALLY takes me out of an otherwise good recording every time I hear it.
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Post by The Ocean on Oct 23, 2020 16:32:16 GMT
After buying more, this became my favorite overall song of theirs for many reasons. I could write an essay about everything I love about this song, but the short version is just that I think it's structurally perfect, to me. You know Lauren, I loved DT since I first heard Lie on the old MTV Headbangers Ball in 1995. I was a little late getting into them in the early 90s and managed to completely bypass Images and Words and When Dream and Day Unite when they were first released thinking they were just another hair metal band. Looking at the back cover of Images and Words, it's not difficult to think they were hair metal and I hated hair metal in the 80s. Hair metal was what stopped me listening to rock and metal in the 80s and 90s. It was DT's blend of metal and progressive styles then got me back and hooked. I absorbed everything I could from Awake onwards, loving the previous albums (particularly Images and Words) and the later albums. That is up until Six Degrees of Inner Flatulence. The first side (Glass Prison, Misunderstood, The Great Debate), all classic DT with intelligent lyrics and super crunchy chords. However, the title track was when the cheese arrived. I couldn't get out of my head that Six Degrees itself sounded like a bad off-Broadway musical, complete with corny motifs and jazz hands. The next album Train of Thought was a return to form and one of my three favourite DT albums but after that it was so inconsistent. There is always one standout track (exception) on subsequent albums but it wasn't the same. It certainly hasn't been the same since Mike Portnoy left. And don't get me started on the loathesome, riff-free The Astonishing - if there were ever an album whose title was the exact opposite of the album itself this would be a top contender for the #1 slot. The Astonishing is their worst. Ive listened to it twice, and that second time was me giving it another chance after disliking it the first time. However, I think that Mike Portnoy was one of the worst elements of the band towards the end. His horrendous "singing" was becoming more commonplace, the worst offenses occurring on his last album with them, Black Clouds and Silver Linings. I admire Mangini as a drummer and think that aside from The Astonishing he has been a welcome change. A Dramatic Turn of Events, Dream Theater, and Distance Over Time have all surprised me. None reach the heights of DT at their best for me, but also are a vast improvement over Black Clouds and Silver Linings and other of their most indulgent crap that was occurring towards the end of his tenure. Those albums aren't their best for sure, but they are much better than their worst, too, in my opinion.
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