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Post by rizzuto on Mar 31, 2022 21:33:47 GMT -5
Those tunes would make me think I'm in a movie while I'm walking. The last couple of days going to work, I have been playing Tears for Fears - they are better than I remember. Lots of musicality. Last week, it was all Rolling Stones. Sympathy for the Devil is just a great driving song, along with Gimmie Shelter and Street Fighting Man. I have Everybody Wants to Rule the World on my playlist. Anything else you'd recommend from them?
I love Sympathy for the Devil and Gimme Shelter is one of my most played songs. Always reminds of the Scorsese movies.
Inger thinks the Rolling Stones are overrated.  Inger also defended the Jonathan Davis acquisition and thought Greg Allen had a "noodle arm." Absolutely the lowest rated posts of his lifetime, unless we count that last Top Ten List.  I just tell Siri to access Spotify and play Tears for Fears - I haven't heard a bad song yet: "Shout," "Woman in Chains," "The Seeds of Love." Their music creates a certain mood that just lends itself to driving focus and daydreaming. |
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Post by kaybli on Mar 31, 2022 21:37:18 GMT -5
I have Everybody Wants to Rule the World on my playlist. Anything else you'd recommend from them?
I love Sympathy for the Devil and Gimme Shelter is one of my most played songs. Always reminds of the Scorsese movies.
Inger thinks the Rolling Stones are overrated. Inger also defended the Jonathan Davis acquisition and thought Greg Allen had a "noodle arm." Absolutely the lowest rated posts of his lifetime, unless we count that last Top Ten List.  I just tell Siri to access Spotify and play Tears for Fears - I haven't heard a bad song yet: "Shout," "Woman in Chains," "The Seeds of Love." Their music creates a certain mood that just lends itself to driving focus and daydreaming. lol, poor inger. 
I'll check those songs out from Tears for Fears.  |
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Post by inger on Apr 1, 2022 0:13:51 GMT -5
Inger also defended the Jonathan Davis acquisition and thought Greg Allen had a "noodle arm." Absolutely the lowest rated posts of his lifetime, unless we count that last Top Ten List. I just tell Siri to access Spotify and play Tears for Fears - I haven't heard a bad song yet: "Shout," "Woman in Chains," "The Seeds of Love." Their music creates a certain mood that just lends itself to driving focus and daydreaming. lol, poor inger.
I'll check those songs out from Tears for Fears.  I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. The truth will set you free is a bullshit phrase. The truth will get you ridiculed and slammed… |
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Post by kaybli on Apr 1, 2022 3:31:43 GMT -5
I have to admit this one of the best sappy songs ever written. That was high school "parking" music. Love that song. Lots of sweaty, sticky nights parked with a cheerleader in some remote rice field with nothing but moonlight and the light from the radio. During those times, the laws of physics were temporarily suspended, as the privacy of a truck seat seemed to expand into a Four Seasons' hotel room with all other living beings vanished from existence, and hours passed like minutes. Memorable times for a young boy discovering and rediscovering the singularly breath-taking female form - every single one unique and tantalizingly mesmerizing. The absolute magic of youth. young Rizzuto workin on his Night Moves:
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Post by pippsheadache on Apr 1, 2022 13:21:15 GMT -5
I My favorite is Jive Talkin': I have to admit this one of the best sappy songs ever written. I like both of those songs -- I don't think the Bee Gees made too many bad ones. I have to admit "How Deep Is Your Love" is one of my favorites, but those guys were so prolific and outstanding in a variety of styles. Probably my favorite is their second US release "To Love Somebody" from 1967, but I love how they successfully adapted from the early Robin Gibb-dominated stuff like "Massachusetts" and "New York Mining Disaster 1941" (first US release) through the melodramatic efforts like "Gotta Get A Message To You" and "I Started A Joke" and to mournful ballads ("Lonely Days" and "How Can You Mend A Broken Heart") before transitioning to mid-70s proto-disco ("Jive Talkin" and "Nights On Broadway" and another of my favorites "Fanny Be Tender With My Love") to the "Saturday Night Fever" era of "Stayin' Alive" etc. About ten years after all of that died down, they hit the charts one last time in 1989 with another good song "One." Like the Wilson brothers with the Beach Boys and the Everly Brothers, they had that impossibly tight brother harmony. I think their music from both the pre-disco and disco era is all outstanding and holds up well. I certainly was no fan of disco in general, but the Bee Gees were just making good music. Plus I believe the movie "Saturday Night Fever" is a great period piece. Other than the Beatles dominance in the mid-60s, no vocal group overwhelmed the airwaves as much as the Bee Gees from the mid to late 70s. Among vocal groups, only The Beatles and The Supremes had more Billboard Number One songs than the nine churned out by the Bee Gees. If you've ever seen any of their live performances -- and that stuff is all over YouTube, including from when they were little kids performing on Australian television -- you can see what naturals they are. A song of theirs from the late 60s, "The First Of May," is another I really like. It was a big hit in its day, but seems to be one of the forgotten ones. Same with "Words" from that period. |
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Post by rizzuto on Apr 1, 2022 19:01:44 GMT -5
That was high school "parking" music. Love that song. Lots of sweaty, sticky nights parked with a cheerleader in some remote rice field with nothing but moonlight and the light from the radio. During those times, the laws of physics were temporarily suspended, as the privacy of a truck seat seemed to expand into a Four Seasons' hotel room with all other living beings vanished from existence, and hours passed like minutes. Memorable times for a young boy discovering and rediscovering the singularly breath-taking female form - every single one unique and tantalizingly mesmerizing. The absolute magic of youth. young Rizzuto workin on his Night Moves:
When you live in an unincorporated area miles south of the nearest town of 1800 people, distractions are few and male teen interest is even more hyper-focused than normal on physicality of the fairer sex. When you grow up without a mother or affection, the need for female attention and touch dominates, especially in pubescence. I was pretty lucky once I turned fifteen, shed of awkwardness and the pimple-stage. There was only one thing on my mind, and happily and unbelievably to me at the time, girls showed interest, which was fortunate since I was painfully shy at initiating interaction. Once that interest was confirmed in my mind, I turned into a lech and a rue in no time. Quite honestly, without those "Night Moves," the melancholia due to the lack of nurture and in my nature, I doubt I would have made it past my teens. |
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Post by rizzuto on Apr 1, 2022 19:05:41 GMT -5
I I have to admit this one of the best sappy songs ever written. I like both of those songs -- I don't think the Bee Gees made too many bad ones. I have to admit "How Deep Is Your Love" is one of my favorites, but those guys were so prolific and outstanding in a variety of styles. Probably my favorite is their second US release "To Love Somebody" from 1967, but I love how they successfully adapted from the early Robin Gibb-dominated stuff like "Massachusetts" and "New York Mining Disaster 1941" (first US release) through the melodramatic efforts like "Gotta Get A Message To You" and "I Started A Joke" and to mournful ballads ("Lonely Days" and "How Can You Mend A Broken Heart") before transitioning to mid-70s proto-disco ("Jive Talkin" and "Nights On Broadway" and another of my favorites "Fanny Be Tender With My Love") to the "Saturday Night Fever" era of "Stayin' Alive" etc. About ten years after all of that died down, they hit the charts one last time in 1989 with another good song "One." Like the Wilson brothers with the Beach Boys and the Everly Brothers, they had that impossibly tight brother harmony. I think their music from both the pre-disco and disco era is all outstanding and holds up well. I certainly was no fan of disco in general, but the Bee Gees were just making good music. Plus I believe the movie "Saturday Night Fever" is a great period piece. Other than the Beatles dominance in the mid-60s, no vocal group overwhelmed the airwaves as much as the Bee Gees from the mid to late 70s. Among vocal groups, only The Beatles and The Supremes had more Billboard Number One songs than the nine churned out by the Bee Gees. If you've ever seen any of their live performances -- and that stuff is all over YouTube, including from when they were little kids performing on Australian television -- you can see what naturals they are. A song of theirs from the late 60s, "The First Of May," is another I really like. It was a big hit in its day, but seems to be one of the forgotten ones. Same with "Words" from that period. This song reminds me of long summer nights in my teens. Another song that illustrates the lack of harmony in music today: |
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Post by pippsheadache on Apr 1, 2022 19:20:58 GMT -5
Yeah, "Too Much Heaven" is another good one from 1978. Released after the run of songs from "Saturday Night Fever" had finally ended. I was reading an article that mentioned that the producers of that movie, in post-production, contacted the Bee Gees about doing some songs for it. They were busy recording somewhere in France, but over the course of a long weekend dashed off demos for "Stayin' Alive," "More Than A Woman," "Night Fever," "How Deep Is Your Love" and "If I Can't Have You." The film wound up using Yvonne Elliman's version of "If I Can't Have You," but of course the Bee Gees were used for the rest. According to Barry Gibb, "Stayin' Alive" was originally titled "Saturday Night," but the producers changed it to the title we know because there were already too many songs with Saturday Night in the title, including a then fairly-recent one by the Tiger Beat favorites Bay City Rollers.
"Tragedy" and "You Should Be Dancin'" are two more by them that just popped into my noggin. "Run To Me" is another. It goes on and on.
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Post by pippsheadache on Apr 1, 2022 19:34:18 GMT -5
This must be disco night 2022. When we were living in NYC, around 2002 I guess, I read an article in "Time Out New York" where they interviewed Karen Lynn Gorney, who played John Travolta's dancing partner Stephanie Mangano. They were commemorating the 25th anniversary of the movie, and went with her to the club in Brooklyn where some of the shooting was done for the dance sequences. By then it had become a gay bar. She did a little dancing, but nobody seemed to recognize her. She seemed like a pretty good sport about it.
She must have had the worst agency in history for not being able to turn that role into anything bigger. After it was filmed in 1977, she did not have another film appearance until 1991, when she had an unbilled role in some movie I never heard of. She's done a few TV shows since then, but has mostly been inactive in the industry. She was running an art gallery in Manhattan when we were living there.
Of course my wife and I had to check out the club from the movie. It was I believe in Bensonhurst. Or maybe Bay Ridge, can't remember now. I wasn't going to a gay bar by myself or with another guy. It was pretty dead in there, nothing like when Tony Manero was gliding across the floor after a hard day at the paint store.
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Post by inger on Apr 1, 2022 21:46:38 GMT -5
I like the old BeeGees stuff, but that disco stuff was mind alteringly disturbing to me. All I could picture was Dave Seville and his chipmunks. “I still want a hoola hoop!” “Alvin!” “Yes, Dave!”…
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Post by pippsheadache on Apr 2, 2022 6:38:40 GMT -5
I like the old BeeGees stuff, but that disco stuff was mind alteringly disturbing to me. All I could picture was Dave Seville and his chipmunks. “I still want a hoola hoop!” “Alvin!” “Yes, Dave!”… But I liked The Chipmunks too. Especially their version of "Ragtime Cowboy Joe." Alvin, you were a little flat.... I remember hearing somebody -- I think it was Amy Grant -- just doing a straight version of "The Chipmunk Song." It actually wasn't bad. I also remember Wilson Pickett claiming he could make any song soulful, and proving it by covering The Archies' "Sugar Sugar" and having it be a big hit on the R&B charts. |
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Post by rizzuto on Apr 2, 2022 7:58:55 GMT -5
I like the old BeeGees stuff, but that disco stuff was mind alteringly disturbing to me. All I could picture was Dave Seville and his chipmunks. “I still want a hoola hoop!” “Alvin!” “Yes, Dave!”… But I liked The Chipmunks too. Especially their version of "Ragtime Cowboy Joe." Alvin, you were a little flat.... I remember hearing somebody -- I think it was Amy Grant -- just doing a straight version of "The Chipmunk Song." It actually wasn't bad. I also remember Wilson Pickett claiming he could make any song soulful, and proving it by covering The Archies' "Sugar Sugar" and having it be a big hit on the R&B charts. My siblings tell me my favorite songs as a little tyke were “Sugar, Sugar” and “Red Rubber Ball.” My brother told me that they used me as their DJ for the record player, telling me to play whatever 45 song and I would put it on the spindle. He said they never knew how I did it because it was before I learned to read. I don’t really remember, other than being a willing fetch-it role. |
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Post by inger on Apr 2, 2022 8:37:39 GMT -5
But I liked The Chipmunks too. Especially their version of "Ragtime Cowboy Joe." Alvin, you were a little flat.... I remember hearing somebody -- I think it was Amy Grant -- just doing a straight version of "The Chipmunk Song." It actually wasn't bad. I also remember Wilson Pickett claiming he could make any song soulful, and proving it by covering The Archies' "Sugar Sugar" and having it be a big hit on the R&B charts. My siblings tell me my favorite songs as a little tyke were “Sugar, Sugar” and “Red Rubber Ball.” My brother told me that they used me as their DJ for the record player, telling me to play whatever 45 song and I would put it on the spindle. He said they never knew how I did it because it was before I learned to read. I don’t really remember, other than being a willing fetch-it role. There was a simplicity to Red Rubber Ball that made it so popular to sing with as a young kid. I still find myself singing a line or two once in a while… |
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Post by inger on Apr 2, 2022 8:41:36 GMT -5
I like the old BeeGees stuff, but that disco stuff was mind alteringly disturbing to me. All I could picture was Dave Seville and his chipmunks. “I still want a hoola hoop!” “Alvin!” “Yes, Dave!”… But I liked The Chipmunks too. Especially their version of "Ragtime Cowboy Joe." Alvin, you were a little flat.... I remember hearing somebody -- I think it was Amy Grant -- just doing a straight version of "The Chipmunk Song." It actually wasn't bad. I also remember Wilson Pickett claiming he could make any song soulful, and proving it by covering The Archies' "Sugar Sugar" and having it be a big hit on the R&B charts. I liked the chipmunks, too. We all did. I just didn’t like them coming out of the BeeGees and being about every fourth song on the radio for two years (so it seemed). Faddish music can be so annoying at times. Unless you’re into the fad. One of my brother in laws was always so excited at the next “Rocky” movie. The theme songs would get played until The record broke up into rings. Then he’d play the rings…. |
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Post by rizzuto on Apr 2, 2022 8:46:39 GMT -5
But I liked The Chipmunks too. Especially their version of "Ragtime Cowboy Joe." Alvin, you were a little flat.... I remember hearing somebody -- I think it was Amy Grant -- just doing a straight version of "The Chipmunk Song." It actually wasn't bad. I also remember Wilson Pickett claiming he could make any song soulful, and proving it by covering The Archies' "Sugar Sugar" and having it be a big hit on the R&B charts. I liked the chipmunks, too. We all did. I just didn’t like them coming out of the BeeGees and being about every fourth song on the radio for two years (so it seemed). Faddish music can be so annoying at times. Unless you’re into the fad. One of my brother in laws was always so excited at the next “Rocky” movie. The theme songs would get played until The record broke up into rings. Then he’d play the rings…. I deployed the disco era, but I thought The Bee Gees were much more than that period and still do. To me, their songs hold up and if you watch YouTube videos of young bucks listening to their music for the first time, it proves the point. |
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