defend the indefensible: Hall and Oates

see i was thinking more tom townshend but i think you're right, the tone is taylor nichols

Of course you'd say that Hall and Oates are good. You have the brainpan of a stagecoach tilter.

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"Also, i'm not a pop hater; radio can make any type of music unlistenable if they play it too often; i mean, flip through the dial of your areas classic rock stations and you can pretty much guarantee that you'll find one of a very short list of Zeppelin/Floyd/AD-DC tracks (seriously, does it ALWAYS have to be "Wish You Were Here" and "Money")?"

hahaha thank you so much

i thought neophyte was a scene from The Matrix tbh

Tom Townsend seemed kinda otm. i was thinking about this:

Audrey Rouget: What Jane Austen novels have you read?
Tom Townsend: None. I don't read novels. I prefer good literary criticism. That way you get both the novelists' ideas as well as the critics' thinking. With fiction I can never forget that none of it really happened, that it's all just made up by the author.

well novels at one time were dismissed as the pastime of women and children. dunno about neophytes or the infirm.

Okay what the shit happened here.

And who is suspecterrain really, then? Because even Startrekman is in on the joke.

i am on iphone in taco shop. "i can't go for that" just came on the radio!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

people are dancing on tables

tell us about Lionel Richie, Ned

xpost haha

Love will conquer all.

Lionel Richie is A Man. He sings about things.

and you looooooooooooooove him and you want to maaaarrrrry him

Don't we all. For we are truly in love. With you, Grrl.

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What, you guys getting bored not having Geir to kick around anymore?

we are getting bored not having geir to kick around anymore

i mean he still posts here frequently

is geir back? i thought he'd disappeared...

(loving yr work on this thread btw balls)

Dhrupad chant, Tuvan throat music, Mississippi field hollers, hippie drum circles, essays, poetry, sculpture, painting...... Please clarify; what is the basis for not participating in these mediums as it relates to commercialism?

not how you spell pottery

Lionel Richie's last name has been mangled itt too

I remember the day when I was 15 and Cleveland's Tuvan throat singing FM station announced it was changing formats to all Hall & Oates/Captain & Tenille. Saddest day of my high school life.

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just an hour ago a link to an article regarding Duran and Japan was posted on this thread. The original article is posted here. Original Duran vocalist Stephen Duffy says in regards to "the scene" in 1979 as...

“It was exciting because we started the band at a point before music started repeating itself… since then music has become more or less derivative..."

lol case closed

IN OUR FACE

suspectterrain your whole stance on this issue has been reminding me of a story one of my best friends once told me. he was young & dumb and was working construction for an older guy. at some point, he decided to go on an extended rant about "country music" and how bad it all was and how stupid the people who listened to it were. after he was done, his boss looked at him and said with a mix of pity and scorn "why don't you say the only thing you CAN say about it, which is that YOU don't like it?" your assumptions of objectivitiy itt are particularly jarring coming from somebody who has been around the board for a while. there's a big difference between "I don't like this band and here's why" vs. "all the people who listen to this are stupid."

also, objectivity doesn't exist and I thought that had been common knowledge since the early 90's, get with it.

So the dumped.lead singer of a treading-water Duran sez music is derivative.

you don't appear to have read the entirety of the post; and as for those inbred country posers..... we need to save that for another time:)

fp

your terrain is suspect, sir

Duffy jumped from Duran, not the other way round. Talk about thread-drift.

.... and Stephen Duffy is a fantastic pop stylist.

I think you mean COMMERCE stylist

knowing it's just some sad middle aged durranie trolling kinda kills it, you'll never measure up to the queen

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This thread revive is full of magic and worms.

i heard Stephen Duffy made records to try and sell them so i can't take him seriously as an artist

did he form some kind of noize collective that I'm unaware of

.... and Stephen Duffy is a fantastic pop stylist.

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srs lmao at commentary on "the scene"

i listened to "voices," "private eyes" and "h2o" yesterday while driving to the city, so thanks to everyone for inspiring that.

helluva streak -- one of the most underrated of streaks if you toss in Big Bam Boom.

hadn't heard "I Can't Go For That" for a long time, & when it came on the airplane radio station last week I was startled by the dryness of the beat; hadn't ever really "gotten" why H&O charted on R&B radio before

and it was a demo!

Daryl Hall sketched out the basic song one evening at a music studio in New York City in 1981 after a recording session for the Private Eyes album. Hall began to play a bass line on a Korg organ, and sound engineer Neil Kernon recorded the result. Hall then came up with a guitar riff, which he and Oates worked on together. The next day, Hall and Sara Allen worked on the lyrics.[1]

suspecterrain has inspired me to, at long last, create the followup to POLLin' My Head Above Water: "Private Eyes" by Hall & Oates . Pop fans, I give you: How Does It POLL To Be Back: "Voices" by Hall & Oates !

oooh

yeah!