I am so thankful RP doesn't play their more memorable songs, as I'm pretty sure the DMB was one of the core artists that killed rock radio in the 80's. I can't name a DMB song off the top of my head, nor have I ever noticed liking one of their songs...but this one I actually like enough to give a 6!
I am sure they did not kill rock radio in the 1980s, as they were founded in 1991 and released their first major album in 1994.
Interesting choice for a Townes song. So far it has been difficult to get Bill to add Townes to the library. I guess he is going for the lesser known songs by Townes.
Thanks to the 'loudness war' obsession, a recording like this is unlistenable. I hear distortion on it throughout and that is completely unnecessary.
bluematrix wrote:
I bet there's a soft rock station you could find somewhere. These guys can blow the roof of a concert hall - all that loud goodness is quite welcome now and then.
I don't think nottheusualkind is complaining about the fact that this is loud. The problem with many of the contemporary production is that it is all "loud" or "up-front", which means there is no or little volume dynamic in the sound. It just all sounds loud and up-front. Which a) takes away, well, dynamics from the recording and b) can lead to distortion because it is all in the red (or close to it). The background is that too many people listen to music in compressed formats (MP3 etc) and on devices where recording quality does not matter much. If something is "up-front" and "loud" on these devices and as MP3 it initially and instantly sounds "better", so people click and download (or so the producers hope). However, upon repeated listening and certainly on better equipment you will hear that the quality is actually worse (sometimes there are distortions) and if you are used to the more elaborate and dynamic productions of the more audiophile times you will be missing the dynamics. This can also apply to remixes and reissues by the way.
Initially the German producer of the Boney-M version, Frank Farian had not credited the two Melodians who worte this song - only added them to the credits (and presumably only then accepted that they would at least get paid for Boney M butchering their song) when they protested. Should have been a sign. Farian later on "produced" Milli Vanilli ...
Was anyone else infuriated when Hermione acted like this was the most obscure, hard to find song in the world in The Perks of Being a Wallflower?
Yes. But then I got to thinking: the story is set in the early to mid-90s in a Pittsburgh suburb - internet was available, but not used every day (no smart phones ...), if your friends or siblings did not listen to something cool you woudl have to be lucky to find it on a mainstream rock station or one of the "alternative" stations or maybe hear it in a record store. It seems possible that one of these guys caught the song on a radio station, did not know who it was ... And Bowie wasn't exactly at the peak of his commercial success in the early 1990s.
Or Chabosky just liked the song, thought it fit the theme and then did not care much that it wasn't an obscure song.
Why Ella! I never knew you toked...Her voice sounds so young.
"Then it's bandstand, disneyland, growin up fast Drinkin on a fake i.d. Yeah, and rama of the jungle was everyones bawana But only jazz musicians were smokin marijuana Yeah, I wish I had a pencil thin mustache Then I could solve some mysteries too" Jimmy Buffett (Pencil Thin Mustache) apparently knew that Jazz musicans liked that particular kind of smoke.
Anything is an improvement on Patti Smith, the most over-rated artist since ... well, Pet Shop Boys.
This order of artists makes little sense, as Patti Smith was around quite a few years before the Pet Shop Boys. I also disagree with your assessemnt of Patti (and the Pet Shop Boys for that matter) but that is a different topic and a matter of opinion.
The music's all nice and peppy, and it's Eels, so - without reading - I'm assuming it's some sort of subtle nastiness.
Wouldn't call it "nastiness", but certainly not nice and peppy: refers to him dealing with the suicides of a relative, i.e. having to pack up the things left behind and moving on.
OK, does the title mean that a person is packing blankets as in putting them away, or maybe has blankets on their person much in the same way that a person "packing heat" is carrying a gun. Wait, maybe we're talking about when the moving company shows up and uses packing blankets to protect your funiture in the moving van.
I wish I would have heard the song. I'm so confused.
It's about the singer having to clean up and pack the stuff his relative who committed suicide left behind. Based on Mark Everett's personal experience dealing with his sister's suicide.
What business you had in my country? Did you ever ask yourself that question? The same business you have as in Iraq and Afganistan and 150 other innocent countries on the actual map?
Go HOME, YANKEE!
Nobody needs and wants you in uniform!
Hmmh, let's see: oh, helping to get rid of the Nazis for one thing. Also the terminology seems a bit off: What's an "actual" map? What's an "innocent" country? Are these 3 situations (Afghanistan, Iraq, Germany) really comparable? Do they necessarily involve an attack of US troops on "innocent" countries?
Aside from all of this: seems to be a confusion of the solider statitioned in Germany with the politics surrounding his being there.
Oh and neen49: Thanks for being there, even if I do not think that the US motivation to statition troops in Germany post-WW II was all laudable at all times, the overall commitment definitely was (to me).
crockydile wrote:This guy has been listening to Death Cab and trying to write lyrics like them. I dislike Death Cab partially for their hyper intellectual lyrics, but at least they have some in that area. This guy's lyrics just suck.
AliGator wrote:
You mean Death Cab has been trying to write lyrics like Lloyd Cole.
Anyone else thinks its funny that AliGator is correcting Crockydile? By the way AliGator has a point. When the first Lloyd Cole and the Commotions album rattlesnakes came out in 1984 Ben Gibbard was 8 years old.
Immediately recognized this one, had to rate it a 10 and then have lowered ratings for multiple songs on RP today since, because while they are great they are not 10s (or 9s ...) for me. It is just one of those songs for me that are unquestionably a 10. And "no" I am not expecting everyone else to see it the same way, just a personal favorite of mine.
Good grief... Germans claiming they wrote Psalm 137 is beyond belief - thus nonsense. THE song is almost a verbatim copy of the King James translation What on earth were you smoking when you wrote this? Neither Melodians nor Germans can claim authorship of these timeless lyrics.
Whether it is beyond belief or not, both the Melodians and Farian claimed to have written this song, or in the case of the Melodians having adapted the lyrics from the King James translation of the bible psalm to music. Farian did not credit the Melodians although he used bascially the same music as did the Melodians. From my understanding writing a song involves both the creation of lyrics (in this case the adaptation of existing lyrics) and a musical form (harmony, melody ...) for presentation. While Psalms seemed to have orignated as "words accompanying music" I don't believe that the melody, rhythmn etc. used when this psalm originally was written nor when it was translated for the King James bible where set to the music written by the Melodians.
Returning to my desk at work after a few days of travelling for work, going through my emails ... starting to feel like this "running on empty, but running on"
I am so thankful RP doesn't play their more memorable songs, as I'm pretty sure the DMB was one of the core artists that killed rock radio in the 80's. I can't name a DMB song off the top of my head, nor have I ever noticed liking one of their songs...but this one I actually like enough to give a 6!
Why would he/she/they have an adam's apple only whenever you hear this song?
nottheusualkind wrote:
Thanks to the 'loudness war' obsession, a recording
like this is unlistenable. I hear distortion on it throughout and that
is completely unnecessary.
bluematrix wrote:
I bet there's a soft rock station you could find somewhere. These guys can blow the roof of a concert hall - all that loud goodness is quite welcome now and then.
I don't think nottheusualkind is complaining about the fact that this is loud. The problem with many of the contemporary production is that it is all "loud" or "up-front", which means there is no or little volume dynamic in the sound. It just all sounds loud and up-front. Which a) takes away, well, dynamics from the recording and b) can lead to distortion because it is all in the red (or close to it). The background is that too many people listen to music in compressed formats (MP3 etc) and on devices where recording quality does not matter much. If something is "up-front" and "loud" on these devices and as MP3 it initially and instantly sounds "better", so people click and download (or so the producers hope). However, upon repeated listening and certainly on better equipment you will hear that the quality is actually worse (sometimes there are distortions) and if you are used to the more elaborate and dynamic productions of the more audiophile times you will be missing the dynamics. This can also apply to remixes and reissues by the way.
They are songs of love AND hate, not songs of love and songs of hate.
"Then it's bandstand, disneyland, growin up fast
Drinkin on a fake i.d.
Yeah, and rama of the jungle was everyones bawana
But only jazz musicians were smokin marijuana
Yeah, I wish I had a pencil thin mustache
Then I could solve some mysteries too"
Jimmy Buffett (Pencil Thin Mustache) apparently knew that Jazz musicans liked that particular kind of smoke.
Anything is an improvement on Patti Smith, the most over-rated artist since ... well, Pet Shop Boys.
I also disagree with your assessemnt of Patti (and the Pet Shop Boys for that matter) but that is a different topic and a matter of opinion.
Wouldn't call it "nastiness", but certainly not nice and peppy: refers to him dealing with the suicides of a relative, i.e. having to pack up the things left behind and moving on.
agree
I wish I would have heard the song. I'm so confused.
It's about the singer having to clean up and pack the stuff his relative who committed suicide left behind. Based on Mark Everett's personal experience dealing with his sister's suicide.
bachbeet wrote:
I feel the same way.
Stingray wrote:
What business you had in my country? Did you ever ask yourself that question?
The same business you have as in Iraq and Afganistan and 150 other innocent
countries on the actual map?
Go HOME, YANKEE!
Nobody needs and wants you in uniform!
Hmmh, let's see: oh, helping to get rid of the Nazis for one thing.
Also the terminology seems a bit off: What's an "actual" map? What's an "innocent" country? Are these 3 situations (Afghanistan, Iraq, Germany) really comparable? Do they necessarily involve an attack of US troops on "innocent" countries?
Aside from all of this: seems to be a confusion of the solider statitioned in Germany with the politics surrounding his being there.
Oh and neen49: Thanks for being there, even if I do not think that the US motivation to statition troops in Germany post-WW II was all laudable at all times, the overall commitment definitely was (to me).
AliGator wrote:
You mean Death Cab has been trying to write lyrics like Lloyd Cole.
Anyone else thinks its funny that AliGator is correcting Crockydile?
By the way AliGator has a point. When the first Lloyd Cole and the Commotions album rattlesnakes came out in 1984 Ben Gibbard was 8 years old.
Good grief... Germans claiming they wrote Psalm 137 is beyond belief - thus nonsense. THE song is almost a verbatim copy of the King James translation What on earth were you smoking when you wrote this? Neither Melodians nor Germans can claim authorship of these timeless lyrics.