I think they mostly just added facial hair and sunglasses to the other four.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 21 April 2023 22:22 (one year ago) link
It's Christopher Lee, James Coburn and Michael Parkinson
― Hideous Lump, Friday, 21 April 2023 22:44 (one year ago) link
first time i saw it as a kid (on my stepmother's 8-track!) i assumed everyone on the cover was in the group, and i was like dang that is one big, tough-looking band
― orifex, Friday, 21 April 2023 22:56 (one year ago) link
I definitely never realized that their faces were just pasted in there
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Saturday, 22 April 2023 00:03 (one year ago) link
same
― Perverted By Linguiça (sleeve), Saturday, 22 April 2023 00:11 (one year ago) link
also xxp that is amazing, ty
― Perverted By Linguiça (sleeve), Saturday, 22 April 2023 00:12 (one year ago) link
I think the first physical LZ release I saw was also an 8-track, circa 1975
LZII was the second album of theirs I bought (after HoTH). The label on side 1 was off-center, so the end of "Thank You" had an added "tsss . . . tsss . . . tsss." I can still hear it, even in digital format.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 22 April 2023 00:20 (one year ago) link
― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 22 April 2023 01:25 (one year ago) link
Joe Cocker sang the co-lead on "Up Where We Belong"
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Sunday, 23 April 2023 04:59 (one year ago) link
The Louvin Brothers and John D. Loudermilk were cousins (the Louvins' real name was Loudermilk).
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Sunday, 23 April 2023 11:52 (one year ago) link
!
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 23 April 2023 13:34 (one year ago) link
I knew this but not surprised others are shockingly old when they learn it.
― The Lubitsch Touchscreen (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 23 April 2023 17:32 (one year ago) link
among his many crimes
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Sunday, 23 April 2023 17:35 (one year ago) link
I didn't realize until about a year ago that the chorus of Run-DMC "It's Tricky" was interpolating the chant from Toni Basil "Hey Mickey"[...]— jay smooth (@jsmooth995) September 3, 2018
— jay smooth (@jsmooth995) September 3, 2018
Me, last week
― anatol_merklich, Monday, 24 April 2023 11:45 (one year ago) link
It me as well.
― The Lubitsch Touchscreen (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 24 April 2023 14:56 (one year ago) link
yeah, despite hearing both songs a million times since I was a child, this somehow never occurred to me
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Monday, 24 April 2023 18:20 (one year ago) link
Similarly I recently realised that on Money For Nothing, Sting sings “I want my MTV" to the tune of Don't Stand So Close To Me. Is this common knowledge to other people?
― nate woolls, Monday, 24 April 2023 23:08 (one year ago) link
Turns out I am entirely deaf to tunes being reused elsewhere. Thanks, these last couple of posts, for blowing my mind.
― ailsa, Monday, 24 April 2023 23:10 (one year ago) link
I had no idea about both “Money For Nothing”/“Don’t Stand So Close” nor “It’s Tricky”/“Mickey” until just now.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 24 April 2023 23:12 (one year ago) link
It was a dirty trick by Sting, since he later got royalties and songwriting credit for that.
― pplains, Monday, 24 April 2023 23:40 (one year ago) link
Wikipedia says that Knopfler wrote that line with that melody, thought it would be funny if Sting sung it so he asked him and he agreed.
― nate woolls, Monday, 24 April 2023 23:42 (one year ago) link
And MTV used that bit as an ident for I don't know how long. Did they share the perf monies?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 07:23 (one year ago) link
Sting blames his publishing company. OK, Sting.
― pplains, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 13:58 (one year ago) link
the Wise Man in Army of Darkness is Pitt from Seinfeld
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 14:17 (one year ago) link
Today I learned that Sting sings the "I want my MTV" parts of "Money For Nothing"
― silverfish, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 15:17 (one year ago) link
That's shocking.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 15:31 (one year ago) link
LOL indeed
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 15:36 (one year ago) link
I mean, that song is a bit before my time and I never paid much attention to it (I remember seeing and liking the video as a kid though). I guess it would be super obvious and well known to people ~3 years older than me.
― silverfish, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 15:54 (one year ago) link
i listened to it absolutely loads as a kid and never knew until now!
― kinder, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 20:27 (one year ago) link
Sting singing it with Dire Straits at Live Aid kinda spelled it out, but only at the time — it’s not a performance many have regularly referenced or returned to in the years since.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 20:32 (one year ago) link
If you listen to the album version, you can hear Sting doing some extremely in character vamping during the fade out.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 20:36 (one year ago) link
"Stew Copeland'sAn assholeThat prick isDead to me"
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 20:38 (one year ago) link
Willie Nelson’s name is Willie. It’s not short for William or Willard or anything. So that means 90 years ago there was a newborn baby named Willie Nelson. Happy birthday @WillieNelson— Jason Isbell (@JasonIsbell) April 29, 2023
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 29 April 2023 19:01 (one year ago) link
Damn, I did not know that! Thanks Josh and by extension Jason.
One of my childhood friends was named Max (pointedly NOT Maxwell) but he is also a professional actor whose stage name is Maxwell, for sonic reasons.
― Ice cubist (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 29 April 2023 19:40 (one year ago) link
I love that and Stevie being short for "Steveland" re: Stevie Wonder
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Saturday, 29 April 2023 20:17 (one year ago) link
ditto Frank Zappa, he thought his name was "Francesco" but it turned out to just be "Frank" on his birth certificate
― frogbs, Saturday, 29 April 2023 20:21 (one year ago) link
I love when pretentious people in convo try to be faux-professional and calling celebrities by their perceived full name, only to get it wildly wrong when the celebrity's name either isn't short for anything or isn't short for what they thought it was
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Saturday, 29 April 2023 20:25 (one year ago) link
Mickstopher Jagger
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Saturday, 29 April 2023 20:28 (one year ago) link
Pinktopolous McFloydison
― Ice cubist (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 29 April 2023 22:23 (one year ago) link
I find it funny that songwriter Fred Ebb of Kander and Ebb was just named Fred Ebb. No middle name. Just a seven letter full name.
In the fictional realm, I’ve noticed that Bobby Ewing on Dallas is just a Bobby, no one calls him Robert, and on official documents his name just reads Bobby.
― Josefa, Saturday, 29 April 2023 23:12 (one year ago) link
Also J.R.s name was actually pronounced JER
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Sunday, 30 April 2023 00:22 (one year ago) link
Jerry Tolkien
― budo jeru, Sunday, 30 April 2023 02:23 (one year ago) link
Pauldo McCartney
― frogbs, Sunday, 30 April 2023 02:45 (one year ago) link
Lemmington Kilmister
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Sunday, 30 April 2023 02:52 (one year ago) link
Hahaha!
― Because the Nighttoad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 30 April 2023 04:18 (one year ago) link
I have a friend called Paddy and I always lengthen it to Paddington because that's a way better name than Patrick.
― ailsa, Sunday, 30 April 2023 09:53 (one year ago) link
Re: Sting, I can't find evidence for it, but I recall a story wherein Stewart Copeland was venting, in an interview, about how frustrating it was that Sting collected the immense royalties for "I'll Be Missing You" (Puff Daddy) despite the fact that it was Stewart's guitar part that constituted the actual sample. Stewart said, "Sting has his Italian villa. Where is my Italian villa?" Sting's response: "first of all, it's not a 'villa', it's a palazzo"
― flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, 30 April 2023 14:42 (one year ago) link
lmao
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Sunday, 30 April 2023 14:42 (one year ago) link
I know this seems ridiculous to be shockingly old to learn, but having never owned a pet who has had a litter of anything, I only learned this past week that dogs (for example) typically have a two-month-and-a-bit duration of pregnancy. Being the human-centric shithead I am, I guess I just assumed dogs and cats were, like us, pregnant for nine month periods
― flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, 30 April 2023 14:44 (one year ago) link