Music and DISCUSSION Thread

Amarok · Feb 25, 2021

Inferno Mike said:
My growing partner keeps telling me she grew up around those guys. I keep ignoring her, even though I enjoy them moderately. ? I'm a dick sometimes.

I don't love everything they've done, but they have a lot of tunes I really enjoy. There are a few too many beta-male, woe is me, songs in their repertoire, but I can always skip ahead.
At least they aren't as bipolar as someone like the Austin Lounge Lizards, who, in my experience, have songs that are either goofy and fun or cringy and awful with very little in between.

Z71banshee · Feb 25, 2021

To go along with the Faith No More song and the art depicting pain and suffering. The sad thing about a lot of music, no one listens to the messages. Faith No More, System of A Down, Rage Against The Machine, Avicii and many others paint a vivid portrait, yet everyone turns a blind eye. People were surprised at the recent allegations against Marilyn Manson of womanizing and being abuse.......have these people ever actually LISTENED to his lyrics?!? Most everyone is oblivious to the fact that these artists lyrics are about real life....situations they’ve lived through or dealt with. Most of Korns songs are about being bullied.....Linkin Park wrote a lot about demons in your head.
Here’s the song that allegedly got Avicii “suicided”.

Amarok · Feb 26, 2021

In a singing' mood this morning. Apologies to my neighbors if my personal volume control is turned a little high, sometimes I get lost for a minute.

This was in a movie soundtrack in the 90's and had a minor revival. I remember feeling protective and jealous, like "this is my song, leave it alone you hipster bastards!"

( I got over it, if you're wondering.

)

Amarok · Feb 26, 2021

Some more of my favorite singalongs, from a bunch of Irish expats who met-up in Canada. Here's a perfect display of Irish logic and humour:

One day my ma's relations came round to visit me
Just as my father's kinfolk were all sittin' down to tea
We tried to smooth things over, but they all began to fight
And me being strictly neutral, I bashed everyone in sight

Another fun one:

These kilted boys in the last war
Were named The Ladies From Hell,
So you had to be terrible careful.
If you ever get curious about the kilts....

Amarok · Feb 26, 2021

Here's two that somehow made it past my Metal Detector back in the 80's. Even though it was mostly about Maiden, Metallica, and the rest of the Unholy Ones back then, I still liked quirky stuff. Hence being a huge Devo fan, as well as thoroughly enjoying these two unlikely pop hits.

Amarok · Feb 26, 2021

Another great one that a lot of folks here can relate to.

He turned thirty-five last Sunday
In his hair he found some gray
But he still ain't changed his lifestyle
He likes it better the old way

So he grows a little garden in the back yard by the fence
He's consuming what he's growing nowadays in self defense
He gets out there in the twilight zone
Sometimes when it just don't make no sense

Primal · Feb 26, 2021

Primal · Feb 26, 2021

Amos Otis · Feb 26, 2021

Z71banshee said:
To go along with the Faith No More song and the art depicting pain and suffering. The sad thing about a lot of music, no one listens to the messages. Faith No More, System of A Down, Rage Against The Machine, Avicii and many others paint a vivid portrait, yet everyone turns a blind eye.

Here's what singer and lyricist Mike Patton said about the lyrics he writes in a 2015 interview:

What I wanted to ask you is whether or not you've seen your experiences and your growing up and maturing causing your own perspectives to change and by proxy having an effect on how you approach your lyrics?

Mike Patton: Nah. Not at all. I hate to be unromantic here, but the lyrics to me are just another instrument. I see them as such, and there's a reason we don't really print them on our records. I don't think we ever have. Maybe we did once or twice and that was just under duress. [laughs] I feel that the words are really up to you. I'm giving them to the public, and I think that, you know, whoever's listening should be able to interpret them the way they want. From word to word and sentence to sentence, if there's a grand meaning, you come up with it, because I certainly can't. I don't have one. I'll tell you. I don't have a grand plan. I write lyrics based on music, on a musical flow, and what sounds good at the time. If I can fit a them into that, then hey, I'm lucky. If not? I don't care. They're just words. If they're political, if they're antisocial or god knows what — if they were, then that's not my problem. I just write them, and it's up to the world to decide what they are. That's my position.

Faith No More's Mike Patton: 'You Create Your Own Freedom'

The lead singer of the mercurial rock (and funk and rap and whatever else will fit) band talks about the long path to Sol Invictus, the first Faith No More album in 18 years.

www.npr.org

Caddis · Feb 26, 2021

Agent Trent Hauser said:
Another great one that a lot of folks here can relate to.

He turned thirty-five last Sunday
In his hair he found some gray
But he still ain't changed his lifestyle
He likes it better the old way

So he grows a little garden in the back yard by the fence
He's consuming what he's growing nowadays in self defense
He gets out there in the twilight zone
Sometimes when it just don't make no sense

“consuming what he’s growing nowadays in self defense”

Amarok · Feb 26, 2021

Caddis said:
“consuming what he’s growing nowadays in self defense”

So many great lyrics in this one:

He's an old hippie and he don't know what to do
Should he hang on to the old
Should he grab on to the new
He's an old hippie...his new life is just a bust
He ain't trying to change nobody
He's just trying real hard to adjust

Don't have to be a hippie to relate to feeling out of touch and a bit baffled some days.

Lockedin · Feb 26, 2021

Emotion evoking songs. I've known this one since I was a kid; but since 40 passed up this pirate some time ago it hits me a bit differently now.

As much as I love songs that pull at those deeper emotional strings - I think songs like this pull just as many strings...just different ones!

Amarok · Feb 26, 2021

As much as I enjoy Why Don't We Get Drunk and Screw, I've learned it doesn't go over well in a karaoke bar. Or maybe you just have to be more purty than I am to make it work. Ah well, lesson learned.

Lockedin · Feb 26, 2021

Gusts to 50 kts yesterday.

Good "heavy weather" song. (the whole bass track is missing on laptops.....)

Amarok · Feb 27, 2021

Lockedin said:
As much as I love songs that pull at those deeper emotional strings - I think songs like this pull just as many strings...just different ones!

Some people fantasize about hood mounted missiles, Jimmy B writes a song.

Were you born an asshole?
Or did you work at it your whole life?

Amarok · Feb 27, 2021

Lockedin said:
Gusts to 50 kts yesterday.

I get used to you folks using miles, and then you have to mess me up with knots.

Lockedin · Feb 27, 2021

Agent Trent Hauser said:
I get used to you folks using miles, and then you have to mess me up with knots.

Didn't notice I typed kts - meant mph! lol

I always laugh at us using the imperial system (wasn't breaking from imperialism the whole idea anyway???

):
I grow in gallon containers
but measure my water in liters

I try to grow a pound of weed
and weigh it in grams!

I've heard this is a California thing, but if you ask me how far it is to Los Angeles from here I'll tell you how much time it takes instead and throw in the caveat, "depending on traffic"

I love my contradictions. ?

Amarok · Feb 27, 2021

Lockedin said:
Didn't notice I typed kts - meant mph! lol

I always laugh at us using the imperial system (wasn't breaking from imperialism the whole idea anyway??? ):
I grow in gallon containers
but measure my water in liters

I try to grow a pound of weed
and weigh it in grams!

I've heard this is a California thing, but if you ask me how far it is to Los Angeles from here I'll tell you how much time it takes instead and throw in the caveat, "depending on traffic"

I love my contradictions. ?

Be assured, it's not just you folks.

Metric has been our official system here since the 70's, but we're still all over the place. Temperature is pretty much all Celsius, other than a few of the old timers. For everything else, we're a mess. We mostly measure our height in feet and inches, but if you give me a distance in miles, I'll convert to km and if you tell me km, my mind will provide the mile equivalent.

A person's weight is in pounds, but everything else is a mish-mash. It doesn't help that some packages weren't changed for metric, so a one quart jar of something may be labeled 1.13L. Booze bottles will always be called two-sixes and 40-pounders (26 and 40 oz respectively).

But NOBODY except you coastal weirdos use knots. ?

Z71banshee · Feb 27, 2021

Lockedin said:
Didn't notice I typed kts - meant mph! lol

I always laugh at us using the imperial system (wasn't breaking from imperialism the whole idea anyway??? ):
I grow in gallon containers
but measure my water in liters

I try to grow a pound of weed
and weigh it in grams!

I've heard this is a California thing, but if you ask me how far it is to Los Angeles from here I'll tell you how much time it takes instead and throw in the caveat, "depending on traffic"

I love my contradictions. ?

This is a common practice in Michigan. If I look up directions to a place, the first thing I look at is time.....actually, I never even look at how many miles the trip is! Lol. Here, instead of the caveat ‘depending on traffic’ (which is used in cities), we would follow the time of travel with ‘depending on the weather’.

Amarok · Feb 27, 2021

Can't believe it took me so long to check out more than the singles. First time I listened to this one, I gained a new respect for these guys.

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