Electric Light Orchestra
― Alba, Monday, 2 November 2020 13:14 (three years ago) link
idgi
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Monday, 2 November 2020 14:56 (three years ago) link
Light orchestra as in 'soft' and also as in 'electric light'?
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Monday, 2 November 2020 14:58 (three years ago) link
a "light orchestra" is a generally amateur orchestra that plays pops and well-known tunes rather than full blown heavy symphonic stuff
― big man on scampus (Noodle Vague), Monday, 2 November 2020 14:59 (three years ago) link
i'd never noticed before either tho
i mean there's a reason most of the puns in this thread have gone unnoticed
― big man on scampus (Noodle Vague), Monday, 2 November 2020 15:00 (three years ago) link
holy shit i got something right.
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Monday, 2 November 2020 15:01 (three years ago) link
remember where u were this day etc
it truly is the most impressive pun of the century
― Welcome to Nonrock (breastcrawl), Monday, 2 November 2020 15:09 (three years ago) link
a new world record
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 2 November 2020 15:30 (three years ago) link
Obviously a British phenomenon.
― Young Boys of Bernie (Tom D.), Monday, 2 November 2020 15:31 (three years ago) link
https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/the-real-meaning-of-the-name-electric-light-orchestra.67239/
During the late sixties a light orchestra was very popular, similar tothose of the BBC string quartets. Inspired by Denny Laines ElectricString Band, Roy Wood had the idea to incorporate the electric partusing more traditional rock instruments with the light orchestrainstruments, hence The Electric Light Orchestra.
Classic Roy
― Alba, Monday, 2 November 2020 16:11 (three years ago) link
compare "light opera"
― Kabob Dylan (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 2 November 2020 18:53 (three years ago) link
Is there a doctor in the ... ?― pplains, Thursday, October 29, 2020 8:00 PM bookmarkflaglinkElectric Light Orchestra― Alba, Monday, November 2, 2020 8:14 AM bookmarkflaglink
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― Alba, Monday, November 2, 2020 8:14 AM bookmarkflaglink
this made me giggle
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Monday, 2 November 2020 19:35 (three years ago) link
^eeeeevil poster
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Monday, 2 November 2020 21:19 (three years ago) link
I don't know how, but I only just got thishttps://img.discogs.com/NyZ3xhFFUQW22-Tnv9_ieOm3tE4=/fit-in/600x596/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-499100-1580382213-2044.jpeg.jpg
― assert (MatthewK), Friday, 13 November 2020 20:34 (three years ago) link
oooooooooh
― budo jeru, Friday, 13 November 2020 20:53 (three years ago) link
;hlksafdlkhasf
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Friday, 13 November 2020 20:59 (three years ago) link
i literally just spent thirty seconds repeating the title in my head until i ...................... you know ..............
haha today i learned...
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 13 November 2020 20:59 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyiGHFGCf2U
― budo jeru, Friday, 13 November 2020 21:09 (three years ago) link
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0)
ditto
― nickn, Friday, 13 November 2020 21:10 (three years ago) link
I loved that song for ages, just like th e blindman god gave back his sight ..... Praise the Lord ...That and May You Be Alone really resonated with me.
But i think the Drifting Cowboys were areal archetype when it came to the formation of the band
― Stevolende, Friday, 13 November 2020 23:14 (three years ago) link
Soon over Babaluma is another country related word play thing.Been running through my head during the election, Moon over alabama. Or at least been thinking babaluma when i hear alabama
― Stevolende, Friday, 13 November 2020 23:20 (three years ago) link
oh wow
― budo jeru, Friday, 13 November 2020 23:43 (three years ago) link
voodoo chili
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 21 November 2020 21:54 (three years ago) link
occurred to me on watching the last Last Week Tonight last week that there is almost inevitably going to be a spate of shows at the end of the year called 2020 Hindsight.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 21 November 2020 22:08 (three years ago) link
Or 2020 Vision
― nickn, Sunday, 22 November 2020 06:37 (three years ago) link
"mick signals"
― budo jeru, Monday, 23 November 2020 03:02 (three years ago) link
Since 1988 I've thought that Prince's track "Anna Stesia" was a Prince-ified version of the name Anastasia, so I always heard him sing it "Anna Staysia". Today I read a piece suggesting it was a play on "anaesthesia" - sure enough I now hear "Anna Steesia" and the whole track suddenly makes more sense. I don't know what's weirder, the change in perception or the fact that I've been listening to Lovesexy for 32 years.
― assert (MatthewK), Sunday, 29 November 2020 21:38 (three years ago) link
Oh wow me too
― Alba, Sunday, 29 November 2020 21:39 (three years ago) link
waht and also lol and I sincerely mean that in the least mocking way possible; I've never even imagined the possibility of Anastasia
― anatol_merklich, Monday, 30 November 2020 01:49 (three years ago) link
I think it's as simple as the fact that I had a friend called Anastasia at the time and she claimed the song as her own, and I never thought about it since!
― assert (MatthewK), Monday, 30 November 2020 04:07 (three years ago) link
I only got this when I said the title out loud for the first time, like 25 years after it came out.
https://i.imgur.com/yC6HO55.jpg
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 30 November 2020 04:15 (three years ago) link
Not so sure I buy "Anna Stesia" as "Anesthesia," but I've also never decided whether "Annie Christian" is supposed to be a half-assed play on "anti-Christian." Because if it is, it's awful.
― Hideous Lump, Monday, 30 November 2020 07:02 (three years ago) link
"Anna Stesia" is absolutely 100% "anesthesia" and "Annie Christian" is absolutely 100% "anti-Christian" (the chorus goes "Annie Christian / Antichrist / Until I'm crucified / I'll live my life in taxicabs" so it's not like it's subtle)
― DJP, Monday, 30 November 2020 15:32 (three years ago) link
how could Anna Stesia be anything other than "anesthesia"
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Monday, 30 November 2020 15:33 (three years ago) link
"anus thieves here"?
I mean, it is Prince, who knows what that was a temple for
― DJP, Monday, 30 November 2020 15:34 (three years ago) link
I don't think Anastasia is such a reach! Surely he was at least punning on that name?
― Alba, Monday, 30 November 2020 15:46 (three years ago) link
For a long time I didn't realise that 'Finger FOC' was spelled like that because it was by Friends of Carlotta..... DURRR
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 30 November 2020 15:49 (three years ago) link
I am 41 and have had this book since I was 8 or 9, have read it maybe 15 times and never twigged any of these apart from "Ed Banger"
32 years late, I am suddenly realising that all the names on Murder on the Midnight Plane are puns, including this one. pic.twitter.com/oko5R0e1mO— Centuries of Sound (@Centuries_Sound) November 30, 2020
― discogs marketplace of ideas (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 30 November 2020 15:52 (three years ago) link
Secretary of State nominee A. Blinken.
― a certain derecho (brownie), Monday, 30 November 2020 16:21 (three years ago) link
HAHA
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Monday, 30 November 2020 16:26 (three years ago) link
!
― early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 30 November 2020 20:14 (three years ago) link
Can I introduce you to Silverchair's "Anna's Song," which makes a very deep and important point with the lyric
"'Cos Anna wrecks ya heartLike Anna wrecksya"
― huge rant (sic), Monday, 30 November 2020 20:22 (three years ago) link
we're about two seconds away from posting "If You Seek Amy" in here
― DJP, Monday, 30 November 2020 20:24 (three years ago) link
oh christ, I always hated that fucking lyric. I liked the song ok enough until I heard that
the full second lyric is actually "and Ana wrecks your life/like an anorexia life"
and the opening is "Please die Ana/for as long as you're here, we're not"
ugh
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Monday, 30 November 2020 20:24 (three years ago) link
dang, my sneered-at but misheard version is actually better
― huge rant (sic), Monday, 30 November 2020 20:43 (three years ago) link
Annie Areyouokay
― velcro-magnon (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 30 November 2020 20:50 (three years ago) link
poor ol' Annie Ruok
― DJP, Monday, 30 November 2020 21:03 (three years ago) link