Billie Eilish

Charles R

Charles R

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kuksul08 said:
I like obscure depressing music and none of billie eilish's songs do it for me. Sounds like she's mumbling too.
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So... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5oyjCEK7_A ?
(the first song I heard from this guy was, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlbatERfNbw good stuff)

How about one about a battered Prostitute? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-FzN81ik4U
(I like this extended version better. The original feels too upbeat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gDS6ula2Qw )

Here's a couple that might choke up a parent... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD-631ti5ho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmLPvEn0E8M
 
littlebeast

littlebeast

get it while it's easy
interesting timing of this thread. watched a documentary on the bee gees yesterday (wouldn’t have, but it came on and i was hooked before i knew it). never knew much about them, but their story and the ups and downs of their career and the family dynamic was fascinating. ended up watching the whole thing.

apparently there was a long portion before they hit it big with saturday night fever and the whole disco thing (completely different music). but disco was huge for them - and it caused a backlash when an ‘anti disco’ movement really heated up.

anyway, i thought while watching it - if people don’t like disco, don’t listen to it. why go out of your way to disparage music you don’t like? just play something you’d rather hear. no?

WRT to billie - i don’t know much about her music, but have seen her interviewed and singing songs during quarantine with her brother. she comes across as very independent. i like that. it’s especially admirable in such a young girl.
 
afm199

afm199

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littlebeast said:
interesting timing of this thread. watched a documentary on the bee gees yesterday (wouldn’t have, but it came on and i was hooked before i knew it). never knew much about them, but their story and the ups and downs of their career and the family dynamic was fascinating. ended up watching the whole thing.

apparently there was a long portion before they hit it big with saturday night fever and the whole disco thing (completely different music). but disco was huge for them - and it caused a backlash when an ‘anti disco’ movement really heated up.

anyway, i thought while watching it - if people don’t like disco, don’t listen to it. why go out of your way to disparage music you don’t like? just play something you’d rather hear. no?

WRT to billie - i don’t know much about her music, but have seen her interviewed and singing songs during quarantine with her brother. she comes across as very independent. i like that. it’s especially admirable in such a young girl.
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Ahh the Bee Gees, the band with 42 teeth each.
 
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littlebeast said:
interesting timing of this thread. watched a documentary on the bee gees yesterday (wouldn’t have, but it came on and i was hooked before i knew it). never knew much about them, but their story and the ups and downs of their career and the family dynamic was fascinating. ended up watching the whole thing.

apparently there was a long portion before they hit it big with saturday night fever and the whole disco thing (completely different music). but disco was huge for them - and it caused a backlash when an ‘anti disco’ movement really heated up.

anyway, i thought while watching it - if people don’t like disco, don’t listen to it. why go out of your way to disparage music you don’t like? just play something you’d rather hear. no?

WRT to billie - i don’t know much about her music, but have seen her interviewed and singing songs during quarantine with her brother. she comes across as very independent. i like that. it’s especially admirable in such a young girl.
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I have a salient memory of hearing "Staying Alive" the first time and really loving it - while also knowing that it was popular to hate disco - but without knowing it was disco.

And here I am thinking "This is a fucking JAM!" and my older sister coming in going "Ew why are you listening to Disco?"

Then decades later, Daft Punk's album "Random Access Memories" blew the fuck up, and everyone loved it, and it reminded me of those old disco jams. But every time I mentioned that people got mad.

People are weird about music genres. Esepcially if that genre is disco. Thanks for coming to my ted talk.
 
littlebeast

littlebeast

get it while it's easy
afm199 said:
Ahh the Bee Gees, the band with 42 teeth each.
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not sure why it reminds me - but it does. when i was a little kid i lived with my grandparents and my great grandmother. she was ancient in my mind, and watched tv all day long and constantly talked back to it - mostly bitching about what she saw and heard.

i was like probably 5 years old when i saw all this. i asked my mom why she did it, and my mom said ‘she’s old’. not realizing it was an inevitable function of time, i promised myself then and there if that’s what getting old was, i would never get old lol. as a state of mind - it’s worked out so far.
 
Maddevill

Maddevill

KNGKAW
Charles R said:
The first time I listened to the album Ænima from Tool, I just thought, Meh. And I didn't listen to it again for about 3 months. When a second song from the album hit the radio airwaves, I thought, "I don't remember this". I went back and re-listened to the album... and basically left it on repeat for the next 6 months! lol.
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You have excellent taste.

Mad
 
Kurosaki

Kurosaki

Akai Suisei - 赤い彗星
Never heard any of her music. Not trying to be a hater I just don't listen to the radio, have cable/satellite TV, etc. There's no way I'd normally come across her music. Maybe a friend played some of her music while riding in one of their cars, I wouldn't know.

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Nickelback is one of the most commercially successful Canadian rock bands, having sold more than 50 million albums worldwide.[1] In 2009, Billboard ranked them the most successful rock group of that decade; their song "How You Remind Me" was listed as the best-selling rock song and the fourth best-selling song of the decade overall. They were listed number seven on the Billboard top artist of the decade, with four albums listed on the Billboard top albums of the decade.
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Johndicezx9

Johndicezx9

Rolls with it...
Kurosaki said:
Never heard any of her music. Not trying to be a hater I just don't listen to the radio, have cable/satellite TV, etc. There's no way I'd normally come across her music. Maybe a friend played some of her music while riding in one of their cars, I wouldn't know.

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You know what I'm rockin' in MY car! :thumbup
 

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scootergmc

scootergmc

old and slow
littlebeast said:
not sure why it reminds me - but it does. when i was a little kid i lived with my grandparents and my great grandmother. she was ancient in my mind, and watched tv all day long and constantly talked back to it - mostly bitching about what she saw and heard.

i was like probably 5 years old when i saw all this. i asked my mom why she did it, and my mom said ‘she’s old’. not realizing it was an inevitable function of time, i promised myself then and there if that’s what getting old was, i would never get old lol. as a state of mind - it’s worked out so far.
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The TV has been replaced by the internet. Congrats- you're old.
 
Pushrod

Pushrod

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BeeGee's?

Committed musical suicide with their remake of Sgt. Peppers. What were they thinking?

I'll give a pass for any musician or group that generates original content in any genre. I'll even give a pass if they do a credible effort on someone else's composition (think; the Jimi Hendrix cover of Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower".)

But the BeeGees covering a landmark like the Beatle's "Sgt Pepper's" using sub par effort was an insult to slackers the world over.

Oh. . .Eilish? The Bond theme was worthwhile, I would like her to generate more of a library though. She is so very young.
 
afm199

afm199

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My fave playlist has no Beatles songs and one Stones song, "Little Indian Girl."

Lots of Springsteen, Dylan, Winehouse, Blood Sweat and Tears, Zevon, Vangelis, ELO, a bit of U2, Tracy Chapman, Tom Waits, and a bunch of others.

I realize that my indifference to Eilish is that I have lost part of my hearing and can't hear the high sounds and phrasing she uses, very well.
 
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afm199

afm199

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Pushrod said:
BeeGee's?

Committed musical suicide with their remake of Sgt. Peppers. What were they thinking?

I'll give a pass for any musician or group that generates original content in any genre. I'll even give a pass if they do a credible effort on someone else's composition (think; the Jimi Hendrix cover of Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower".)

But the BeeGees covering a landmark like the Beatle's "Sgt Pepper's" using sub par effort was an insult to slackers the world over.

Oh. . .Eilish? The Bond theme was worthwhile, I would like her to generate more of a library though. She is so very young.
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The Bee Gees committed musical suicide when they had their teeth capped with some strange paper white substance.
 
Climber

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There are plenty of 1-2 year wonders in music, which qualifies as a fad.

There's a handful of bands/singers who are popular decade after decade from each year.
 
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