there's some hipster component to it too, like I've always loved "The Rubberband Man" and played it frequently at parties, now everyone's just like "oh cool it's that song from Guardians of the Galaxy" and my kneejerk reaction is "I knew of it way before that!!"
― frogbs, Wednesday, June 1, 2022 3:28 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
I remember a period about ten years ago when I was astonished to learn that all the 9-13 year old kids in my family knew Danzig and QOTSA songs, and then one day it dawned on me: Guitar Hero.
Not that that somehow lessens the coolness of talking to a ten year old born in 2005 about a Danzig riff from 1988. It beats talking to them about Power Rangers
― Paul Ponzi, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 20:34 (one year ago) link
I definitely remember it happening with Tony Hawk Pro Skater
― frogbs, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 20:39 (one year ago) link
some 10 year old was talking to me about the lana del rey song "video games" the other day, like what, that song came out the year you were born. and then it hit me .... video games.
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 20:49 (one year ago) link
I posted a list of favorite songs here recently and I think calstars replied “do you live in vice city?”
― brimstead, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 20:53 (one year ago) link
At first I thought you were talking about a Placebo cover of Tarzan Boy.
― peace, man, Wednesday, June 1, 2022 6:17 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
Just saying it could even make it happen....
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 21:07 (one year ago) link
Suddenly I thought of a Doja Cat cover of "Tarzan Boy."
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 21:10 (one year ago) link
paul otm and totally skippable sidebar of a post BUT— instant rapport builder for me because i'm in that weird interzone where i missed some classics the first time around and know them from the revival but share the same amount of enthusiasm as the og fans (ex: "bohemian rhapsody" in wayne's world).
and heck, it goes both ways. someone on the spotify topic pointed out that public enemy's most popular song is some recent thing used on a film soundtrack (or something else similar). i never would have heard it otherwise because i checked out from pe years ago, but the song is really good!
anyway. as you were.
(i enjoy my occasional trips through vice city, btw)
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 21:15 (one year ago) link
i first got into "running up that hill"/hounds of love around 2009 or so and i distinctly recall that at the time, the youtube comments for the music video were full of messages along the lines of 'hmmm i guess this is good and i appreciate her for writing the song, but i just think placebo did it WAY better!!' seemed outrageous to me even then
― dyl, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 21:20 (one year ago) link
i think i developed an irrational hatred for the placebo cover based on that alone. syncing a song to shots of ppl in eyeliner exhaling deeply with their eyes closed does not make a recording more emotionally resonant!
― dyl, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 21:24 (one year ago) link
the chromatics cover isn't bad, but the aesthetic is similar enough that the much weaker vocal makes me not really need to hear it ever
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 21:45 (one year ago) link
*similar enough to the original
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 21:46 (one year ago) link
the placebo cover, on the other hand, is movie trailer-core before that regrettably became a thing
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 21:47 (one year ago) link
there's some hipster component to it too, like I've always loved "The Rubberband Man" and played it frequently at parties, now everyone's just like "oh cool it's that song from Guardians of the Galaxy" and my kneejerk reaction is "I knew of it way before that!!"― frogbs, Wednesday, June 1, 2022 3:28 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― frogbs, Wednesday, June 1, 2022 3:28 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
"I knew about it from the OfficeMax commercial!"
― peace, man, Thursday, 2 June 2022 11:54 (one year ago) link
Yet another RUTH cover (by Kim Petras):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3WQ7RxIiII
I like it because it's kind of my thing but really it's just the original with maybe a louder beat and fuller vocals.
― daavid, Thursday, 2 June 2022 17:42 (one year ago) link
I posted a list of favorite songs here recently and I think calstars replied “do you live in vice city?”― brimstead
― brimstead
It always felt a little weird to me when I hear people who are my age (mid-30s) who say "Oh I was introduced to that song through Vice City", with even the most popular of 80s songs.
― MarkoP, Thursday, 2 June 2022 18:19 (one year ago) link
that makes sense, I'm mid-30s too and don't really remember those tracks at the time. the first new song I remember hearing on the radio was probably "U Can't Touch This". by the time I became aware of this stuff they were oldies
― frogbs, Thursday, 2 June 2022 18:26 (one year ago) link
Oh wow now I really want a Placebo cover of Tarzan Boy.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 2 June 2022 18:31 (one year ago) link
True, I'm just thinking there's a lot of stuff that to me feels like standard radio/vh1/grocery store fodder that it surprises me that it took Grand Theft Auto to discover the song. Then again I might be in the rare group of people that takes notice to what is playing in a grocery store.
― MarkoP, Thursday, 2 June 2022 18:34 (one year ago) link
Aren't ppl often the most clueless about stuff that came out in the decade they were born (with exceptions, of course)? I was born in the '70s, and knew almost nothing about '70s music/culture growing up... there were big, mainstream aspects of it that I was only introduced to via Pulp Fiction, or whatever.
― subject matter expert (morrisp), Thursday, 2 June 2022 18:57 (one year ago) link
(for context - I originally heard that "decade you were born" theory expressed by a coworker who was born in the '80s, and didn't know much about '80s stuff... and it rang true to me)
― subject matter expert (morrisp), Thursday, 2 June 2022 19:00 (one year ago) link
I knew a lot of that stuff because I watched VH1 & sometimes listened to "classic rock" radio. feel like most people did neither. definitely had some "what is that playing in the grocery store" moments but it was always hard to figure out!! very difficult to make out lyrics over the loudspeaker sometimes.
― frogbs, Thursday, 2 June 2022 19:01 (one year ago) link
doesn't really hold up if you were born in the first few years of the decade lol
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Thursday, 2 June 2022 19:11 (one year ago) link
signed, 1990 baby
well, sure
― subject matter expert (morrisp), Thursday, 2 June 2022 19:50 (one year ago) link
yep, `81 here and have lots of (admittedly mostly late) 80s pop culture memories.
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Thursday, 2 June 2022 19:56 (one year ago) link
I was born in 1979 and obv don't have firsthand memories of the 70s but I certainly knew more about 70s music and culture growing up than about 40s or 50s music and culture or tbh even early 80s stuff. A lot of 70s stuff already seemed canonical when I was young.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Thursday, 2 June 2022 19:59 (one year ago) link
one of the first 80's songs I remember was "Roam" by the B-52s. I remember hearing it in 2nd grade and thinking it was something from the past. this would be like my 7 year old thinking "Despacito" was an oldie
― frogbs, Thursday, 2 June 2022 20:03 (one year ago) link
xxp I guess you could technically make it a five-year cushion after your birth or something (i.e., before you start paying attn to pop culture).
― subject matter expert (morrisp), Thursday, 2 June 2022 20:03 (one year ago) link
If even a small subset of these Stranger Things Kate Bush fans discover The Dreaming and Kick Inside and understand what a timeless gem she is, all the better.
― octobeard, Thursday, 2 June 2022 20:22 (one year ago) link
BTW the Kate Bush ballot poll is one of my all time favorite threads here - the passion and exuberance expressed is peak ILM (in a good way)
― octobeard, Thursday, 2 June 2022 20:23 (one year ago) link
As is the thread anticipating Aerial. So much joy!
― octobeard, Thursday, 2 June 2022 20:24 (one year ago) link
mmm yes
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 2 June 2022 20:33 (one year ago) link
I made a playlist of 192 covers of "Running Up That Hill"...
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0YKKJNEkFYeKdfkueMomgG
― glenn mcdonald, Thursday, 2 June 2022 20:45 (one year ago) link
I just want to know what Big Boi think about all of this.
― MarkoP, Thursday, 2 June 2022 21:07 (one year ago) link
Oh, that makes more sense, yeah.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Saturday, 4 June 2022 17:28 (one year ago) link
I was born in 1979... A lot of 70s stuff already seemed canonical when I was young.
This dynamic probably changes, depending on the year you were born and the demographics surrounding it. Boomer culture was predominant well into the adulthood of many Gen Xers.
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 4 June 2022 19:28 (one year ago) link
i was born in '76 and grew up surrounded by, immersed in, and related _most_ to "classic rock" of the '60s and '70s. to this day i'm _much_ more familiar with the music of the 1970s than i am with the music of any other decade, though '70s music long ago stopped meaning "classic rock" to me.
― Kate (rushomancy), Saturday, 4 June 2022 20:00 (one year ago) link
I admit to a certain degree it also depends on the vagaries of personal upbringing. My parents were still living a hippie lifestyle until the early ‘80s, so they weren’t exposed to ‘70s culture either (and it certainly didn’t filter down to me). I remember seeing a kid wearing a Saturday Night Fever T-shirt at summer camp, sometime in the mid-‘80s, and thinking: “What is that, is it like Saturday Night Live? “
― subject matter expert (morrisp), Saturday, 4 June 2022 20:03 (one year ago) link
But I def had the sense that the 70s were not at all cool in the 80s, like the whole thing about pegging/rolling our jeans in middle school… to avoid even a hint of “bell bottoms.”
― subject matter expert (morrisp), Saturday, 4 June 2022 20:05 (one year ago) link
Tying this back to Kate Bush, I think Marcello Carlin suggested that she was effectively the last "pre-punk" UK artist, and that one reason she was able to get away with breaking the music press "rules of punk" was being a young woman. She was raised on her older brothers' 60s records and middle-class hippie culture.
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 4 June 2022 20:15 (one year ago) link
from her FB page:
Kate has entered the Official UK Charts at NUMBER 8, announced just now on BBC Radio 1! This means (as far as we can gather!) that Kate is the first female artist to have had Top 12 UK hit singles in 6 consecutive decades; the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s and 2020s! (And for those that might ask “hey, okay we know about King of the Mountain hitting number 4 in 2005 but what hit single did she have in the 2010s? The answer is her 2012 remix / new vocal of Running Up That Hill from the closing ceremony of the London Olympics which reached number 6. We say “top 12” and not top 10 for this record, because in the 1990s her highest UK singles chart position was 12, with Rubberband Girl in 1993). This is Kate’s 7th Top Ten single overall in the UK, or 8th if you also count her duet with Peter Gabriel, Don’t Give Up in 1986. Amazing - congratulations, Kate!
― thinkmanship (sleeve), Saturday, 4 June 2022 20:45 (one year ago) link
wasn't quite one at the time so I can't recall but were there any hits from the late 40s that popped up again all of a sudden in 1985?
― Florin Cuchares, Sunday, 5 June 2022 15:40 (one year ago) link
Kate speaks:
https://www.katebush.com/news/stranger-things
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 5 June 2022 15:57 (one year ago) link
'That Ole Devil Called Love' (written in 1944), got to number 2 in the UK in 1985
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Sunday, 5 June 2022 16:39 (one year ago) link
Sung by Alison Moyet of Yazoo / Yaz fame btw
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Sunday, 5 June 2022 16:40 (one year ago) link
"Shaving Cream," an actual recording from 1946 suddenly popped up as a US hit single in 1975. Not sure how well known it was in 1946.
― Josefa, Sunday, 5 June 2022 16:51 (one year ago) link
There's also "Unforgettable" from 51 that charted in 91 when sung by Natalie Cole with the original recording of her father.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Sunday, 5 June 2022 16:52 (one year ago) link
There were some swing songs like "In The Mood" and "Pennsylvania 6-5000" that became popular again (albeit not on the charts) through commercials and films.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 5 June 2022 17:50 (one year ago) link
...and of course there was the standards craze with Linda Ronstadt, Carly Simon, Barry Manilow, Dr. John and others Songbook albums.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 5 June 2022 17:53 (one year ago) link
Am I missing something, or was Taco's "Puttin' On The Ritz" a hit in basically every corner of the world except for the UK?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puttin%27_On_the_Ritz#Chart_history
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 5 June 2022 19:36 (one year ago) link