for pure powerpop rush it's always "Tonight", for me
― I wanna publish memes and rage against machimes (rip van wanko), Friday, 31 January 2020 22:08 (four years ago) link
'Come Around And See Me' keeps popping into my head, particularly the delightfully vari-speed 'Don't ever think I'll be cruel to you / I'm a fool for you / Come a-round, and, seee mmeeeeee' part
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Thursday, 6 August 2020 09:48 (three years ago) link
Posting here as well as Rolling Music Theory:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epqYft12nV4
― No Particular Place to POLL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 14 August 2021 16:18 (two years ago) link
Reposting here so I don’t forget:https://observer.com/2017/08/eric-carmen-raspberries-pop-art-live-interview/
“Whose songs are the hardest?” and the entire band swirled around and pointed at me and said, “Eric’s!”People thought the Raspberry stuff was real simple. I remember I was trying to teach the band Go All The Way and Dave Edmunds looked at me at some point and he said, “For God’s sake there is a fucking chord for every word! I’ve never seen anything like this
― Raw Like Siouxsie (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 10 December 2021 01:12 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0lHlczRwz0
― Mardi Gras Mambo Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 20 March 2022 14:40 (two years ago) link
^I've never seen this before, unless of course it's upthread and I forgot.
― Mardi Gras Mambo Sun (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 20 March 2022 14:48 (two years ago) link
RIP Eric Carmen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqdiSN8aVIg
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 01:17 (one month ago) link
kind of insane how many great songs this dude wrote, absolute genius
just the other day I heard Hey Deanie and thought "dang this is really good who wrote this"
my opo is probably I Saw the Light
― Florin Cuchares, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 01:28 (one month ago) link
I wouldn't call him a genius, but he reminds me of Tom Petty in that he was a master of his genre and no more but unlike Petty was prone to distraction. As a teen I was shocked that the guy responsible for "Make Me Lose Control" and "Hungry Eyes" wrote "Go All the Way."
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 01:37 (one month ago) link
aw man RIP! amazing artist — my discovery of the raspberries is probably upthread. shame he didn’t live to see america great once again
― brony james (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 01:50 (one month ago) link
"Overnight Sensation" has more hooks than many bands manage in one song.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 01:51 (one month ago) link
xp blech didn't realize that. His Twitter account no longer exists, but someone blogged in 2019 that "most of his feed is right wing nut jobbery now."
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 02:17 (one month ago) link
You’re right, I didn’t realize that!
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 03:10 (one month ago) link
74-year-old white guy from Cleveland, checks out.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 03:13 (one month ago) link
Ah. RIP Eric. V. talented dude.
― man in suit and red tie raising his fist (Tom D.), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 07:10 (one month ago) link
recently picked up the first raspberries record at a thrift store, really great RIP
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 13:11 (one month ago) link
i mentioned it upthread and it's atypical for carmen/the raspberries but "i don't know what i want" rules so hard
― na (NA), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 13:24 (one month ago) link
^^ that one's a pretty successful Who rip
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 13:32 (one month ago) link
Had no idea Hungry Eyes was this dude.
― (ㅇㅇ) (+ +), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 13:50 (one month ago) link
the followup "Make Me Lose Control" is a shameless late '80s yuppie-smarm move that works imo
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 14:11 (one month ago) link
xp I can't stand the film enough to sit through it, but one of the most horrid conceits about Dirty Dancing is how they anachronistically shove mucusy '80s shlock into a story that plays out in the summer of 1963. Anachronisms can be brilliant, but not in the service of horrendous taste.
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 22:40 (one month ago) link
yeah, you are way wrong. The movie's rather good, especially since it foregrounds the young heroine's sexuality: she wants this dancer and she gets him. And there's an abortion in this movie! And no one apologizes for it.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 22:42 (one month ago) link
If you don't think "I've Had the Time of My Life" works in context as beautifully as Solomon Burke's "Cry to Me" does in the seduction scene, then *throws hands up*
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 22:43 (one month ago) link
Movie not bad, but some people complain that for authenticity the music really should have been Latin, had the Latin Tinge.
― There Will Come Claude Rains (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 22:59 (one month ago) link
The abortion was probably done well. It's not likely I've seen the whole movie - I've seen large chunks at different times - but the earliest bit of plot I can remember from the film was Orbach's father character finding out because they need his help and he gets really angry about it. But it sounds like I missed some crucial context and that would mean a lot in 1987.
Hate to say it, but I didn't enjoy the ending...again, given the way I probably saw it, maybe it needed some context or some kind of build because as-is it just seemed formulaic and corny.
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 23:05 (one month ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSaC8X7oNiA
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 23:05 (one month ago) link
(re: mean a lot in 1987, the idea that abortion is okay even if the elders don't think so )
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 23:06 (one month ago) link
Yeah sorry forgot about that mambo. I think some people wanted even more of that.
― There Will Come Claude Rains (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 23:07 (one month ago) link
Formulaic and corny are the point of a musical!
Sorry. Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze have genuine chemistry, and it was and remains fascinating that the liberal Jewish gamine seduces the Irish blockhead while an abortion happens around her.
And, to put a period on this discussion, for millions of us '80s kids we learned about "Be My Baby," "Stay," Otis Redding's great obscurity "Love Man," "Do You Love Me?" and Solomon Burke's "Cry to Me" thanks to how forward this film was about sex.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 23:08 (one month ago) link
I mean, I'm younger and gayer than you guys, so this film codes differently.
And ask the millions of young women who made it a staple of their coming-of-age.
the liberal Jewish gamine seduces the Irish blockhead while an abortion happens around her
To be fair, this does indeed sound interesting. Was Swayze's character Catholic?
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 23:10 (one month ago) link
It doesn't come up. All he wants to do is dance. And make romance. That's part of this film's queerness too: dancing is his life like it isn't for the women, in part b/c he can love'em and leave'em.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 23:12 (one month ago) link
Was Swayze's character Catholic?
Is the Pope an Irish blockhead?
― man in suit and red tie raising his fist (Tom D.), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 23:14 (one month ago) link
Does a bear eat Raspberries in the woods?
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 12 March 2024 23:28 (one month ago) link
Is that what’s bothering you, Bunkie?
― There Will Come Claude Rains (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 23:33 (one month ago) link
who’s coming in here saying anything against my beloved Dirty Dancing… ESPECIALLY not having seen the whole thing? cmon. Dirty Dancing a)rules ii)is awesome thirdly) is unimpeachable and 4) perfect in every way Besmirch the excellence of Ms Grey, Mr Swayze and Cynthia Rhodes aka the former Mrs Richard Marx AT YOUR PERILhonestly it’s very good
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 23:41 (one month ago) link
DD rules in every possible respect
― Hippie Ernie (morrisp), Tuesday, 12 March 2024 23:49 (one month ago) link
I mean
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtZFfEy_Eyk
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 00:07 (one month ago) link
pass the kleenex i’m bawling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxL84qrV_LU
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 00:40 (one month ago) link
ORBACH THE GOAT
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 00:41 (one month ago) link
“When I’m wrong, I say I’m wrong”
― Hippie Ernie (morrisp), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 00:49 (one month ago) link
only Gene Hackman could've said the line besides Orbach.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 01:09 (one month ago) link
On my Mt Rushmore of best movie dadsalong with Gregory Peck, Steve Martin & Tom Hanks
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 01:19 (one month ago) link
This thread has become the equivalent of all the "Dirty Dancing Singer Dies" obit leads.
However, on that tip TIL Carmen co-wrote "Almost Paradise" from Footloose.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 01:54 (one month ago) link
see! he wrote everything! so many good songs
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 02:04 (one month ago) link
I had forgotten about his solo song “Never Gonna Fall in Love Again,” which I kind of used to have a little bit of a sweet spot for.
― There Will Come Claude Rains (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 05:15 (one month ago) link
yeah i like that one too!
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 05:29 (one month ago) link
Also forgot how much I like “Don’t Want To Say Goodbye.”
― There Will Come Claude Rains (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 05:35 (one month ago) link
“I Don’t Know What I Want” does indeed sound a lot like “Won’t Get Fooled Again” but it also sounds a bit like “No More Mr. Nice Guy.”
― There Will Come Claude Rains (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 05:42 (one month ago) link
... which was inspired by "Substitute", and then later covered by Roger Daltrey on an Alice Cooper tribute album!
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 13 March 2024 12:28 (one month ago) link