Felonious Spunk
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Post by Felonious Spunk on Jul 25, 2019 21:24:37 GMT
Jesus. H. Mother. Fucking. Christ. On. A. Goddamn. Pogostick. Welcome to the forum where someone named “Wouldn’t Want to Be Like You” by Alan Parsons one of their favorite funk songs.
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Post by gobshite on Jul 26, 2019 0:37:48 GMT
Jesus. H. Mother. Fucking. Christ. On. A. Goddamn. Pogostick. Welcome to the forum where someone named “Wouldn’t Want to Be Like You” by Alan Parsons one of their favorite funk songs. Fuck that guy. Over "Coming Up" or "Say Say Say"? Not to mention "Silly Love Songs" with the funkiest bass line of all time.
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Post by Chicken in Black on Jul 26, 2019 0:43:24 GMT
Jesus. H. Mother. Fucking. Christ. On. A. Goddamn. Pogostick. Based on your reaction, I’ve tried to listen to the song itself, but all I’m getting on YouTube for “Goodnight Tonight” appears to be a clumsy shred vidéo à la Julian Lennon or Toto. Am I missing something?
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Post by mintyjackhole on Jul 26, 2019 1:35:30 GMT
It certainly is a disco song for people who hate disco. The Beatles always make the bestest music to these assholes because they have calibrated their aesthetic sensibilities to what most sounds like one of the Beatles made it. If that is your sole criteria Donna Summers or Sylvester are always going to come up short. That's the only way you can get to a place where "Goodnight, Tonight" is listenable, much less the bestest of all Disco songs. Same with Ringo and fucking country music or whatever. Forget approaching music from anything other than those seven golden years when the Beatles recorded, and the long, glorious fade of post-Beatles music. I'm beginning to believe the Beatles are the Anti-life Equation.
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Post by bigmuff on Jul 26, 2019 2:05:56 GMT
Well, let me rephrase/resituate here just a tad. I actually enjoy "Goodnight Tonight". (And, for that matter, "Wouldn't Want To Be Like You") However, the "list" - were I to have one, or care about making one - that both of those would appear on would be the "harmless pop songs that remind me of my youth" list. They would certainly NOT be appearing on any lists called "best disco record ever made" or "funkiest bass line of all time".
Or to put it in the sort of terms I usually veer towards - you can say anything, just don't say it's the best disco record ever made.
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Post by gobshite on Jul 26, 2019 2:23:14 GMT
Well, let me rephrase/resituate here just a tad. I actually enjoy "Goodnight Tonight". (And, for that matter, "Wouldn't Want To Be Like You") However, the "list" - were I to have one, or care about making one - that both of those would appear on would be the "harmless pop songs that remind me of my youth" list. They would certainly NOT be appearing on any lists called "best disco record ever made" or "funkiest bass line of all time". Or to put it in the sort of terms I usually veer towards - you can say anything, just don't say it's the best disco record ever made. I'm right there with you -- just about any McCartney A-side from the 70s gets my happy nostalgia feelings going. It's apparent that some of us Maccatards kept enjoying and seeking other music after age 12, while others just didn't want to ever go outside the comfort zone.
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Post by FabGear Prophylactic on Jul 26, 2019 2:39:19 GMT
And yet there's one very sound reason for having given up on McCartney back in the day: the lifeless, dreary, lazy exercise in anti-rock called "Let 'Em In". Fucking hell - very likely the worst song ever by a major artiste.
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Post by bigmuff on Jul 26, 2019 3:44:53 GMT
And yet there's one very sound reason for having given up on McCartney back in the day: the lifeless, dreary, lazy exercise in anti-rock called "Let 'Em In". Fucking hell - very likely the worst song ever by a major artiste. Well, I'm sure I could argue that, but I don't feel like it. More important is the fact, as alluded to by my esteemed colleague above, when you're 11-12 years old, you're not really thinking in terms of "worst songs ever by major artistes". You're bopping around to songs on the radio. (Or were. Brief crotchety aside - fuck knows what kids today are doing...)
But then, as also alluded to, you get older, and you do then develop the ability to think in those terms. (Or, rather, some of us do.) And then you slice, dice, evaluate and file away or discard to taste. Rinse. Lather. Repeat. Use in whatever way you want, regardless of directions. But if it's 2019 and you still find it impossible to frame anything outside the context of the goddamn Beatles, then you really need to consult your doctor. 'Cause you be all kinds of fucked up.
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Post by Disgraced Ex-Prez Agent Orange on Jul 26, 2019 4:51:47 GMT
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Post by Boozin' Susan on Jul 26, 2019 10:44:39 GMT
Proof positive that the song is utterly resistant to any degree of blackness. However, you can dollop on as much whiteness as you want and it just doesn’t seem to get any worse.
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Post by Aural Relations on Jul 26, 2019 12:28:37 GMT
Proof positive that the song is utterly resistant to any degree of blackness. However, you can dollop on as much whiteness as you want and it just doesn’t seem to get any worse. I think this is as close to blackface as one can get without the use of make-up.
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Post by FabGear Prophylactic on Jul 27, 2019 2:58:05 GMT
And yet there's one very sound reason for having given up on McCartney back in the day: the lifeless, dreary, lazy exercise in anti-rock called "Let 'Em In". Fucking hell - very likely the worst song ever by a major artiste. Well, I'm sure I could argue that, but I don't feel like it. More important is the fact, as alluded to by my esteemed colleague above, when you're 11-12 years old, you're not really thinking in terms of "worst songs ever by major artistes". You're bopping around to songs on the radio. (Or were. Brief crotchety aside - fuck knows what kids today are doing...)
But then, as also alluded to, you get older, and you do then develop the ability to think in those terms. (Or, rather, some of us do.) And then you slice, dice, evaluate and file away or discard to taste. Rinse. Lather. Repeat. Use in whatever way you want, regardless of directions. But if it's 2019 and you still find it impossible to frame anything outside the context of the goddamn Beatles, then you really need to consult your doctor. 'Cause you be all kinds of fucked up.
I know; you're right. Especially the part I bolded. But my context is that, as an (apparently very?) old person who was 4 when the Beatles first hit in s-w Ontario, I loved their music to a Jeatleboe degree. (That whole "self-contained-group-that-generates-its-own-approach" thing was quite exciting at the time.) But ten years later that particularly miserable dirge finally shut 'er down. It remains the sonic equivalent of slamming my fingers in a car door, repeatedly. Now, I still enjoy the old songs and even watch the Beatles cartoons (well, it was my childhood) but with the same sense of closure as when I think of friends and family who've passed away. It's in the past. Anyway, it's all worked out fine; later that summer I first heard The Dictators' "Go Girl Crazy" which confirmed that something new was Happening.
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Post by FabGear Prophylactic on Jul 27, 2019 3:08:41 GMT
But McCartney had already had big hits with lifeless, dreary, lazy exercise in anti-rock before "Let 'Em In". Namely, garbage like "My Love" and last gasp Beatles bullshit à la "The Long and Winding Road".... But I can find some elements of those other songs that aren't worthless. Surely the endless, narcoleptic roll call of names of those "knockin' at [Paul's] door", set to a martial fife-and-drum, was the confirmation that there's absolutely no point at all in hoping that he'd turn things around? [Btw I don't hate Paul. I appreciate that with all the absurd idolisation he received/s he could be much much more of a demagogue than Trump and Putin combined. And he isn't. So there's that. But I've never even bought "Band on the Run" which others try to tell me is a great rekkid.]
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Post by mintyjackhole on Jul 27, 2019 3:23:25 GMT
I only hate Sir Macca so that when the SHiTEs complain about haters I know they are talking about me!
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Post by FabGear Prophylactic on Jul 27, 2019 3:30:43 GMT
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