Current song you are listening to(or the Last song you listened to) - by Andarthiel
taffernicus on 25/8/2024 at 13:56
[video=youtube_share;OhuNtCzQsVQ]https://youtu.be/OhuNtCzQsVQ?si=ilMETpjd89EJMKez[/video]
[video=youtube_share;85drl9-lqRU]https://youtu.be/85drl9-lqRU?si=E3RVmttuezFPbTUW[/video]
[video=youtube_share;9Gor6z_AN1c]https://youtu.be/9Gor6z_AN1c?si=yNfXi4k75I94G5wI[/video]
I always have butterfly in my stomach whenever i listen to this song, borderline beautiful, i have no words to describe it. Never get sick hearing it times and times again...
[video=youtube_share;C8GS10x_LsI]https://youtu.be/C8GS10x_LsI?si=JoQyXfim132RJDeM[/video]
bjack on 26/8/2024 at 02:00
Birdhouse is one of my favorite songs that is wonderful, annoying, silly, pretty, wonderful, and supremely autistic in character. I wrote a few songs back in the late 70's and early 80's that sound similar, but never played them to the others in my band. I found them too silly and thought no one would ever listen to them. TMBG and NIN, among many others, proved me wrong.
Considering the transistor radio quality recording and the alternate lyrics, was this example a demo track?
And doubleplusgood on Duran Duran, especially this cut.
heywood on 26/8/2024 at 16:27
My favorite Stereolab album! I really like their mid-90s work, from Mars Audiac Quintet through Cobra and Phases. Dots and Loops in particular has an avant-garde lounge sound that brings back memories of house parties with best friends when we were just finishing school and starting our careers.
That's also my favorite Duran Duran song by a long ways. Those guys never tickled my ear in the 80s, but wow, what a ballad. For me, it foreshadows the Coldplay hits that would come a decade later.
Quote Posted by bjack
Birdhouse is one of my favorite songs that is wonderful, annoying, silly, pretty, wonderful, and supremely autistic in character. I wrote a few songs back in the late 70's and early 80's that sound similar, but never played them to the others in my band. I found them too silly and thought no one would ever listen to them. TMBG and NIN, among many others, proved me wrong.
You might have been a decade too early. In my memory of the late 70s/early 80s, odd silly songs were the purview of Dr. Demento.
There's always people making quirky music, fun, funny or sarcastic music. But there's not always a wide audience for it. Novelty songs were a thing in the late 1950s and early 1960s, then people moved on. The start of MTV created an audience for quirky new wave acts like DEVO, the Buggles, and the Talking Heads, but only briefly. By the end of the 1980s, the radio had gotten extremely stale, even the "alternative radio" stations which were still spinning the Cure, Smiths, et al. My generation were hungry for something different and college radio exploded. Punk music started crossing over again too. TMBG played a concert at my college in 1990, and people were moshing to it. I heard a lot of fun, quirky music in coffee houses in the early 90s too. It was the start of a good decade where many different styles of music made comebacks or crossed over into the mainstream.
bjack on 27/8/2024 at 03:03
Ah, Dr Demento, a little bit of heaven, 94.7, KMET, Tweedle Dee. Also KROQ for new wave, then techno, then grunge. A great time for new music. Today is also that time. We have access to tunes from many eras that one could only dream of 40 years ago. What is old is new. I've seen younger people flock to great music from the past for that last 30 years.
Into Jethrow Tull at the moment.
Tocky on 27/8/2024 at 21:31
A few quirky songs hit in the nineties. One of my favorites-
[video=youtube_share;TL5ofVC0EDQ]https://youtu.be/TL5ofVC0EDQ[/video]
heywood on 28/8/2024 at 11:15
I agree it's a great time to enjoy music now because of the near-unlimited online access. With decades of recordings at our fingertips and AI pattern matching, discovering music has never been easier.
But there's also something missing today that we had back in the 1980s and 1990s. It's a common soundtrack to our lives. Although I'm not a big fan of 1980s music, especially not the second half, I can still talk about it with pretty much anyone of my generation from an English speaking country. We heard mostly the same stuff on radio and watched the same music videos. And watched lot of the same movies too. The limited media choices we had pre-internet provided a common cultural bond.
heywood on 28/8/2024 at 11:32
And since we're talking about quirky hit songs, I recently stumbled into the original version of Men at Work's Down Under. It started as a downtempo reggae song. I like it better than the album version, but they sure do borrow a lot:
[video=youtube;D2lhmqKLais]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2lhmqKLais[/video]
Tomi on 31/8/2024 at 18:52
I discovered this Welsh duo the other day, and I think this is the coolest new song that I've heard in a while. :cool:
BRRDS - Tread Gently:
[video=youtube;BmHtyNt5G9o]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmHtyNt5G9o[/video]
taffernicus on 4/9/2024 at 07:08
Quote Posted by bjack
Considering the transistor radio quality recording and the alternate lyrics, was this example a demo track?
It sounds like listening to music through a phone speaker, doesn't it :D? For some reason, I really like raw recording like this before the final recording. Musicians are also free to choose the arrangement style and express their ideas in demo track
