i always love when a singer miscalculates their starting note on that song. creates such anticipation - will they be able to reach the high notes? will they scream "fuck" on the microphone?
― Lady Antibody (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 19:22 (three years ago) link
ok that finally makes me think maybe "the star spangled banner" is good
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 19:23 (three years ago) link
this is my platonic ideal for a Star-Spangled Banner performance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWP8ZJ6674Y
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 19:33 (three years ago) link
This is pretty spectacular too:
https://youtu.be/8SHnpWohrg0
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 19:35 (three years ago) link
I find "pomp and circumstance" a bit...pompous and suggest Nelly's "country grammar" as a replacement
― this has been the best year fuiud (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 19:39 (three years ago) link
one of the few anthems I've heard that approximated Bleeding Gums Murphy's 26 minute version on The Simpsons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cf1HMZbTcz0
― Lady Antibody (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 19:40 (three years ago) link
nothing will EVER beat that hockey game one though.
I love how Kat Deluna breathes about three times in each phrase. my choir teacher would have vivisected her
― Lady Antibody (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 19:42 (three years ago) link
Also don't sleep on Carl Lewis(!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPhKAQi2hNI
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 19:44 (three years ago) link
Kat Deluna's interpretation of pitch is amazing
I would have said "breathtaking" but she took all of them for me
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 19:45 (three years ago) link
when i was in college i wrote a column for my university paper arguing that we should replace the national anthem because it was too difficult to sing and the lyrics were militaristic and dumb, and i got an angry two-page letter from the university chief of police telling me i was a bad american.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 19:46 (three years ago) link
IRL lols at the "uh oh" on Carl Lewis's
― Lady Antibody (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 19:47 (three years ago) link
can this be the thread where ILXors all psot their renditions of the SSB
― Lady Antibody (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 19:48 (three years ago) link
Kat Deluna has some pipes but seems to have pitch control issues, I'll defer to Dang's judgement
Lol xxxp
― this has been the best year fuiud (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 19:49 (three years ago) link
lol JD
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 19:51 (three years ago) link
i wish i still had that letter
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 19:56 (three years ago) link
This one's heartwarming.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmQzVQza9Ak
― jmm, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 20:06 (three years ago) link
Mo Cheeks was a gentleman during that
― Lady Antibody (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 20:24 (three years ago) link
This one... is not heartwarming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNEUekIPrmU
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 20:26 (three years ago) link
In the related vids:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SHnpWohrg0
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 20:31 (three years ago) link
What are people's thoughts on the Red House Painters version of the Star Spangled Banner? It's the only version of the anthem that I'll actively seek out and listen to...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QPS1Bs1lIk
― J. Sam, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 20:34 (three years ago) link
Eric, that's the second video I posted!
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 20:37 (three years ago) link
Write-in:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VsmF9m_Nt8
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 20:39 (three years ago) link
the hendrix thread cited a pretty good academic article on his SSB:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-the-society-for-american-music/article/this-is-america-jimi-hendrixs-star-spangled-banner-journey-as-psychedelic-citizenship/0029FB312D1A8A9C61C0345C6DB59525
i think it's interesting that he originally titled it "this is america"!
― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 21:12 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9nnnM-__JQ
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 21:12 (three years ago) link
almost clicked but nah
― this has been the best year fuiud (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 21:29 (three years ago) link
thank you all for justifying this poll's existence
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 21:30 (three years ago) link
Ope, scrolled too fast.
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 21:33 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePQ9_re7f1A
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 21:35 (three years ago) link
i sang really louduntil i riled up the crowdand then a horse fell
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 21:43 (three years ago) link
Can't fuck with this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3qD1jKNYaU
― peace, man, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 22:14 (three years ago) link
Without consulting social media or even reading the last 40+ posts itt I will now predict three possible reactions to this:
MAGA: Bad message! USA is not about "leaning" on anyone but picking yourself up by the bootstraps and ask not what your country can do for you and blah blah blah
Leftists: Hmm, can we make it say "call on me sister?"
Old libs: Hooray! I love Otis Redding
― Paul Ponzi, Wednesday, 15 July 2020 22:17 (three years ago) link
I keep coming back to Lean On Me has too much sadness and pathos, it's an anthem for truly the end of the world tbh
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Friday, 17 July 2020 17:15 (three years ago) link
It reminds me of the argument I had with someone years ago about the end of Orbital’s “Out There Somewhere Pt 2” and how he heard it as indescribably sad because the last melodic theme is made of descending notes, even though the entire coda is in a major key after close to 20 minutes of minor key, which really just goes to show that you can build up as much theorycrafting as you desire around how people respond to musical cues and someone is going to come along to be the glaring exception to conventional wisdom
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Friday, 17 July 2020 17:20 (three years ago) link
i think the real problem for "lean on me" as an anthem is that the help we offer when we sing LoM must be freely and sincerely offered for the song to have the meaning it does. once made compulsory, it loses everything. in conclusion the answer is "use me."
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 21 July 2020 04:56 (three years ago) link
Excellent point
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 05:09 (three years ago) link
*doesn't watch a sporting event w/o belting Go Your Own Way at the top of their lungs first*
― weekly shopper helper (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 21 July 2020 09:11 (three years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Friday, 31 July 2020 00:01 (three years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Saturday, 1 August 2020 00:01 (three years ago) link
I only just read the DJP's last post, of course "Out There Somewhere" is impossibly sad, it's longing for infinity and escape
― À la recherche du scamps perdu (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 1 August 2020 00:25 (three years ago) link
It's tempered with other feelings tho sure
― À la recherche du scamps perdu (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 1 August 2020 00:26 (three years ago) link
should "Take On Me" replace "Funeral Fog" as the Norwegian national anthem?
― the burrito that defined a generation, Saturday, 1 August 2020 03:52 (three years ago) link
should "literally anybody else" replace "burrito" as ILX poster
― XVI Pedicabo eam (Neanderthal), Saturday, 1 August 2020 04:10 (three years ago) link
should "sucking my dick" replace "smoking meth" as your mother's main mouth use
― the burrito that defined a generation, Saturday, 1 August 2020 04:28 (three years ago) link
wtf? flagging post.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 1 August 2020 04:32 (three years ago) link
be sure to get both insults!
― the burrito that defined a generation, Saturday, 1 August 2020 04:34 (three years ago) link
well that took a turn.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Saturday, 1 August 2020 04:55 (three years ago) link
I'll tell ya who else took a turn... if you know what I mean... and I mean on my dong... like as in took a turn going down on that shit... if you catch my drift... *high fives Austin*
― the burrito that defined a generation, Saturday, 1 August 2020 05:03 (three years ago) link
the burrito that defined a generation has been banned permanently again.
― the burrito that defined a generation, Saturday, 1 August 2020 05:08 (three years ago) link