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Post by Charlie O. on Sept 27, 2020 20:14:53 GMT
I really thought we had one of these threads here, but I couldn't find it, so here's (another) one.
Regardless of what you think of his singing/records/face/whatever... Peter Noone's a seriously great interviewee, at least when he has a halfway intelligent interviewer - eloquent, effusive, very funny (often deadpan - "We gave 'Bus Stop' to The Hollies, and when it was number one we stopped talking to them..."), self-effacing, and with great recall - although he is given to sweeping generalizations and sudden tangents (but that's part of the fun).
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Post by Charlie O. on Oct 1, 2020 20:18:36 GMT
Billboard Magazine sends me daily e-mails which I usually delete without opening. The subject line of today's gave me pause, though: "The 100 Greatest Mariah Carey Songs". Fuck me, how many songs does she have??
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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2020 21:18:29 GMT
Billboard Magazine sends me daily e-mails which I usually delete without opening. The subject line of today's gave me pause, though: "The 100 Greatest Mariah Carey Songs". Fuck me, how many songs does she have?? Apparently she's getting in to grunge or light rock. Restrain yourself from the excitement. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2020 8:18:21 GMT
I really like some of Mariah Carey's stuff. Not 100 of them, but y'all are so dismissive. Good quality top girlie pop has its place (not here, obs), sometimes in my headphones.
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Post by Charlie O. on Oct 2, 2020 8:25:29 GMT
Oh, that's fine. It just threw me. When I stopped to think about it I realized, well, her first album came out 30 years ago, she probably does have hundreds of songs.
But still - a hundred "greatest" does seem a bit much!
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Post by Charlie O. on Oct 23, 2020 23:12:13 GMT
Just learned that the late great John Prine got his first ever review from legendary film critic Roger Ebert. |
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Post by Charlie O. on Nov 6, 2020 6:07:47 GMT
This is four years old, but I hadn't seen it before - thought it was kinda sweet:
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Post by jeffk on Nov 6, 2020 7:08:45 GMT
This is four years old, but I hadn't seen it before - thought it was kinda sweet:
That was nice. Mick seemed to have a sharper memory of how everything was back then. |
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Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on Nov 14, 2020 18:50:38 GMT
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Post by Charlie O. on Nov 14, 2020 18:59:29 GMT
Just to put some perspective on this: when I was 3 years old, I'd have been hard pressed to correctly name any members of any band that had broken up in 1919. Heck, I couldn't do it now. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2020 19:28:43 GMT
Well I remember Ambrose and his orchestra and the mighty Vince Giordano and the nighthawks. I used to know the names of all of the Sweet Hollywaiians but I take your point
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Post by Charlie O. on Nov 24, 2020 7:30:50 GMT
Currently listening to a rendition of Terry Riley's "In C" that is so plainly under-rehearsed (possibly unrehearsed - or maybe it's just beyond the skill level of these players) that I can't believe they dared to release it, even as a download. Within the first 90 seconds of the 43-minute performance it's apparent that the pulse-player has chosen a tempo far too fast for some of the instrumentalists to keep up with (and it gets faster); it doesn't take long for them to give up listening to the pulse, and (much of the time) to each other. On top of that, a number of the players have difficulty hitting their notes cleanly and in tune. Not quite Portsmouth Sinfonia-level amateurishness, but close enough to make me think of them. What a mess. As if to underline the insult, the group is called "minimaLIST ENsemble" - a moniker that would seem to suggest an affinity for minimalist music, and an ability to LISTEN. They are conducted ( how?, one wonders) by Alexander Campkin, a young composer whose cv looks reasonably impressive on paper. Ah, it just ended. It never got any better. Thank you for allowing me to vent. |
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Post by sloopjohnc on Nov 24, 2020 13:39:39 GMT
I really thought we had one of these threads here, but I couldn't find it, so here's (another) one. Regardless of what you think of his singing/records/face/whatever... Peter Noone's a seriously great interviewee, at least when he has a halfway intelligent interviewer - eloquent, effusive, very funny (often deadpan - "We gave 'Bus Stop' to The Hollies, and when it was number one we stopped talking to them..."), self-effacing, and with great recall - although he is given to sweeping generalizations and sudden tangents (but that's part of the fun). My previous car had satellite radio and he had a great show on the Little Steven's Underground Garage channel, as did Andrew Loog Oldham. I looked forward to it every week. |
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Post by sloopjohnc on Nov 24, 2020 13:40:29 GMT
Billboard Magazine sends me daily e-mails which I usually delete without opening. The subject line of today's gave me pause, though: "The 100 Greatest Mariah Carey Songs". Fuck me, how many songs does she have?? About 990 too many and that's being more than fair. |
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Post by sloopjohnc on Nov 24, 2020 15:13:35 GMT
I often think of "what ifs" in sports and music. What if Terry Reid had joined Led Zeppelin. I think he would have been a better choice, but of course he declined. All in all, he seemed to have a pretty steady music career, but what if?
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