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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jan 29, 2019 1:52:33 GMT -5
The Chemical Brother's "The Devil's in the Details" off the Hanna soundtrack. No idea why. Haven't listened to the album in a while.
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Jan 29, 2019 6:16:15 GMT -5
Try having a 23-minute-long song running through your head on and off. Every time it makes an appearance, it takes a long time, 'cause there's so many fucking parts to circulate among.
I know you disdain such material, Kobb, but try cultivating a nice strong high some day, sit back, and listen to this whole thing. Submit to it, if you will. It's actually basically seven different songs stitched together, with themes that recur throughout. (A good example of the way British education instilled a monumentally greater sense of the classical in their rock scene than we have ever seen over here.)
You know, I know next to nothing about Genesis apart from their brief resurgence with Collins lead singing/drums. As far as the legendary Peter Gabriel years - I've hardly heard anything. Excellent point that you made about the classical elements that our chums across the pond brought to rock & roll. And I know just what you mean about getting an overlong song stuck in your head from parts of Tull's Thick as a Brick concept album. As far as Gabriel, I was nuts for his double live album. Played it to death on vinyl. Fuck, I'm old! Beyond that I know little about him besides rumors that he lost it for a bit at the height of Genesis's first run. Never got a real diagnosis on that. Then of course was the live album I just mentioned. Then he had that run of hits from the Sledgehammer album there in the, what - late 80's? Early 90's? I forget. Actually, the Collins years lasted almost three times as long as the Gabriel years. They started off around 1967 with Gabriel, Mike Rutherford and Tony Banks (the only two to be in the band from start to finish) and a guitarist and drummer whose names elude me at the moment. After two albums, Collins came in as drummer and the original guitarist was replaced by a guy named Steve Hackett. They did three LPs and one double LP with this line-up, after which Pete called it a day, as depicted in his first single, 'Solsbury Hill.'
The story goes that Gabriel had been approached by filmmaker William Friedkin after Friedkin read a short story Gabriel wrote that had been featured on the back of their first live album (a freaky little tale at that) and wanted to work with him. Gabriel apparently considered leaving then and did spend some time away, but ultimately decided to come back. Needless to say, this caused the sessions for their final album together to be strained, but supposedly they parted, circa '75 I believe, in actually pretty good standing with each other. Collins later played drums on a couple of songs from Gabriel's third solo album, debuting the booming drum sound that became one of his signatures.
The now foursome went on with Phil taking over vocals because it was easier than hiring someone else. They did two albums with that line-up, then Hackett left, and the threesome did a bunch of albums after that, all of their most famous ones actually. And there's a little more but that's enough of that for now.
The initial post-Gabriel albums mark the first step in their transition from the kind of material they had been doing to something slightly less esoteric. Sort of. Here's the thing about that. While it's undeniable that they gradually moved more and more towards pop as time went by, it actually took a long, LONG - like glacially long - time for it happen. They maintained a lot of the magical/madrigal/medieval theme at first, and supernatural and mystical elements were present for the lion's share of their run. To be honest, they lost me a bit with Invisible Touch, but that was the first time they did at all. Up to that point, no matter how much they played with pop, there was always something, shall we say, unusual about Genesis. A lot of that probably comes from the offbeat compositional style and tonality of Tony Banks, their keyboardist and probably the most prolific songwriter in the band.
I've just been typing all of this off the top of my head because I'm stoned, but I can't seem to find the words to describe what made their music so different, even as they became more accessible, or at least less prog. Lemmy, you want to take crack at it?
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Post by Lemmy Caution on Jan 30, 2019 9:42:23 GMT -5
Speed makes me do interesting things. Yes it do.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Feb 1, 2019 10:32:52 GMT -5
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Feb 1, 2019 18:44:51 GMT -5
Beethoven's "Symphony No 7 in A major, Op 92, II Allegretto". It's my favorite of all his music and was put to good use during a scene in the movie The Man from Earth.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Feb 2, 2019 13:47:44 GMT -5
Of all things:
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Feb 3, 2019 23:35:01 GMT -5
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Post by El Santo on Feb 5, 2019 1:13:55 GMT -5
BONUS CONTENT, NOT CURRENTLY STUCK IN MY HEAD:
Cliffie's video above brings me to the astonishing realization that Ian Hunter looks rather like a less revolting version of Animal from the Anti-Nowhere League!
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Feb 5, 2019 14:17:51 GMT -5
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Feb 6, 2019 7:38:37 GMT -5
What a great song to have in your head when you wake up to an ice storm:
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Feb 7, 2019 19:57:42 GMT -5
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Post by Lemmy Caution on Feb 7, 2019 23:16:21 GMT -5
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Post by Lemmy Caution on Feb 7, 2019 23:53:32 GMT -5
Oh yeah. And also this one:
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Feb 8, 2019 14:22:27 GMT -5
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Post by Lemmy Caution on Feb 8, 2019 21:30:07 GMT -5
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Feb 9, 2019 5:57:54 GMT -5
I have a lot of Meat Puppets, but the Out My Way EP had long eluded me for some reason, a pity, as it meant I was missing out on this gem. (Fortune willing, I will be seeing the Pups in May.)
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Feb 10, 2019 15:36:27 GMT -5
This has been loud and insistent in my head since I woke up this morning.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Feb 17, 2019 8:27:36 GMT -5
"Father Figure" by George Michael. Christ.
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Post by Lemmy Caution on Feb 17, 2019 11:01:08 GMT -5
"Father Figure" by George Michael. Christ. Take one of these and call me in the morning... |
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Feb 18, 2019 16:20:38 GMT -5
I listened in the car this morning to Christopher Lee's rock opera Charlemagne: The Omens Of Death to get friggin' George Michael out of my head.
Now the song in my head is "Muskrat Love," for funk sakes. |
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