Things you were shockingly old when you learned

That Minnesota Fats was a real guy. My grandpa once said he played pool with him, but I thought he was bullshitting, he liked to pull my leg a lot.

Hfs @ positive k! I had no idea

thought it was a young Hurricane G lol

Courtesy of mark s:

it took half a century but i finally realised that the red death in "masque of the red death" is a play on "black death", well done E.A.Poe

i.e. cosign (minus the half a century part).

Blue Swede's "Hooked on a Feeling" isn't a creative cover of BJ Thomas's "Hooked on a Feeling", but a practically note for note cover of the Jonathan King cover, right down to the ooga chakas and horn arrangements.

The original of "Hooked on a Feeling" was by BJ Thomas.

U learned that?

Just now. Typical of Jonathan King to ruin a perfectly good song.

Just listened to the BJ Thomas version, I'd never heard it till now, it is quite different.

The Jonathan King version is sort of reggae, which was a good idea, the ooga chakas were not a good idea. What a terrible cunt though.

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The D in Covid stands for disease. Thought that would be tautological so wouldn't be that.
So not a disease caught from misspelt crows then?

you can carry a number of viruses that stay dormant for years, possibly the rest of your life, with disease not flaring up or being actively contagious

infection and disease are two different things

Yeah think of it like hiv/aids, you can have the virus without having the disease

That the symbols on the cover of Slowdive's Pygmalion are adapted from Ligeti's graphical score for Artikulation.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/7b/41/0c/7b410c1f96ab225a1b4fccbec13e9bb3.jpg

Using the rona lockdown to finally work my way through Berlin Alexanderplatz. Had to check something on the Wiki and had a D'Oh moment when I read this titbit:

NME and The Wire journalist Chris Bohn wrote under the pseudonym "Biba Kopf" from 1984 onwards in tribute to its central character.

Lol of course and I've actually watched it and didn't make the connection.

Oh you two.

MY dad was a senior systems analyst in the Apollo moonshot and taught at one of Kenya's early Universities alongside Ngugi Wa Thiongo both of which I only found out in the memorial tribute my brother posted to Facebook a couple of days ago.

Oh & that Kenya's under a 7.30 curfew since last friday.

I think Bohn may have announced it at the time . Certainly was aware of it from around the time he started.
Saw bits of the tv series at the time and probably should go back and watch it through myself. Think I intended to before so may already have it on a hardrive from a couple of years ago.

I know nothing of Ligeti or Artikulation but I am entranced at the beauty of that graphic. I vaguely recall the Slowdive image.

OK I just listened to http://www.openculture.com/2018/01/watch-gyorgy-ligetis-electronic-masterpiece-artikulation-get-brought-to-life-by-rainer-wehingers-brilliant-visual-score.html

That's so interesting. Is the graphical score actually useful, or simply a visual impression of what is happening sonically? Also, segment 210-214 (at least) sounds just like R2D2 to me.

Ah, I just learnt that the graphical score was by a different person, Rainer Wehinger.

Ah! I remember I did wonder about the Biba Kopf name at the time. (Not read/seen any Berlin Alexanderplatz though.)

The main character in Fassbinder's "Fox and His Friends" - played by Fassbinder, of course - is called Franz Biberkopf too.

The Aretha Franklin recording of 'Let It Be' was released before the Beatles version.

The Judy Collins recording of 'Both Sides, Now' was released before the Joni Mitchell version.

I'm willing to bet there are more examples like this.

Pretty sure Judy Collins also recorded "Suzanne" before Leonard Cohen.

She did "Dress Rehearsal Rag" about 5 years before Cohen did it.

Along quasi-similar lines: Davy Jones had charting solo singles before he joined the Monkees.

diana anaid is a palindrome

tbf she was Diana Ah Naid during the years she was actually mildly famous, and changed to the strict palindrome later

I just learned that Roy Orbison was a mere 52 when he died, not 72 or something like I had assumed for the last 3 decades.

whoa really? Yeah I would have guess much older

I thought he was like 70 in the Wilbury's

I thought he was like 70 too, but damn, that would've set him born in 1918.

The Aretha Franklin recording of 'Let It Be' was released before the Beatles version.

― Unparalleled Elegance (Old Lunch), Wednesday, April 1, 2020 12:54 PM (yesterday)

huh, i didn't know this either

on a related note, i had always assumed the stones' let it bleed was a sarcastic reference to let it be, but i can't find anything to back that up, and the stones album came out first -- so i'm guessing not?

^ Me too, I was gonna mention that. But the "Let It Be" song was basically in the can about 12 months ahead of release, during which time hipsters like the Stones probably heard about it, maybe "Let It Bleed" it was a sneaky reference

The Judy Collins recording of 'Both Sides, Now' was released before the Joni Mitchell version.

― Unparalleled Elegance (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 12:54 (yesterday) link

Pretty sure Judy Collins also recorded "Suzanne" before Leonard Cohen.

― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 13:40 (yesterday) link

Let's make it a three-fer: Judy Collins' rendition of "Who Knows Where the Time Goes" was the first to be released, well before Sandy Denny's own take with Fairport Convention.

Didn't a few Dylan songs from the Big Pink sessions get covered before he released (npi) them?

^ yes, Brian Auger put out "This Wheel's on Fire" and "I Am a Lonesome Hobo" before Dylan/The Band. Manfred Mann released "Mighty Quinn (Quinne the Eskimo)" first. The Byrds released "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere" first. Probably other examples.

I'm surprised there's not a thread for this?

Marianne Faithful recorded As Tears Go By a couple years before the Stones...

Peggy Lee and Cher among others put out versions of Ray Davies' "I Go to Sleep" years before Davies' original demo version appeared on a Kinks reissue

This occasionally makes the rounds:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DUVL3rrUMAAwZJG?format=jpg&name=medium

dunno who these guys are but they have aged poorly

wear a dark suit and have frizzy dark hair and you will live to see the 2020s, Willburries.

dark suit jacket. and jeans

(silby: those are the members of a 1980s rock "supergroup" made up of Robert Zimmerman, Jeff Lynne from Electric Light Orchestra, Tom Petty, Roy Orbison, and George Harrison, formerly of the Beatles)

Who's this Zimmerman character then?

Owns a deli, iirc.

Allan Clarke (of the Holies) released “Born to Run” before Bruce did. And it’s fucking great!

Mentioned on the Rogers thread, but Johnny Cash released "The Gambler" before Kenny Rogers did (and two others released it before either of them).