Contemporary pop music thru the filter of a gentler, more segregated age: Postmodern Jukebox etc

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I tried to persuade a group of nursery staff one time that toddlers love Melt-Banana but they wouldn't listen

put your hands on the car and get ready to die (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 3 August 2017 14:51 (six years ago) link

(xp) Turns out it's by Cake, so somebody here probably likes it.

weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Thursday, 3 August 2017 14:53 (six years ago) link

I have complex moral qualms about KFC using DMX on that new advert

put your hands on the car and get ready to die (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 3 August 2017 14:58 (six years ago) link

XP The Cake "IWS" cover was a big radio song in the states for them around 20 years ago.

to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 3 August 2017 15:04 (six years ago) link

I like the Cake cover. (I'm probably a representative of the people this thread is railing against tbh.)

smug dinner-jazz atrocity (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 3 August 2017 15:12 (six years ago) link

cake's "i will survive" cover is truly the antecedent of this execrable lineage

dyl, Friday, 4 August 2017 16:56 (six years ago) link

I'm trying desperately to remember what it was not, but I saw yet another movie trailer using yet another slow, piano-y, "emotional" version of an up-tempo rock song for what seems like the zillionth time and I wanted to burn down the theater with myself and everyone else trapped inside.

Old Lynch's Sex Paragraph (Phil D.), Friday, 4 August 2017 17:02 (six years ago) link

the cake i will survive cover was on the same album as the distance, which was popular in the uk, but i can't remember if i will survive charted

-_- (jim in vancouver), Friday, 4 August 2017 17:08 (six years ago) link

i thought this was funny in 1983.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaufhdtVCJ8

scott seward, Friday, 4 August 2017 17:14 (six years ago) link


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