Good night
Goodnight everyone 🤗
Quote from Lois Hi on October 13, 2022, 11:40 pmQuote from Barney Rubble on October 13, 2022, 1:47 amAlright, Alright, I’ll go to me bed now !
But first…..
60s I needed the main vocals to kick in to get this so most of my skips were used.
70s What can I say ? Love the song but really didn’t know the intro at the first couple of skips. But once the piano, preceded by the guirar kick in it’s oh so familiar.
80s instantly recognisable.
So I’ve got all 3 but only 1 with no skips. Now I’ll just polish the dash of my car and then straight to bed!
Chamois Charlene has made a start on it for you, Barney 😘
You can see by the shoes in the boot that she’s ready to change your spark plugs 😉😅
I'm not sure if this would be classed as posting very late or very early. The mind works in strange ways in the wee small hours. The polishing my dash wasn't an euphemism btw, simply a reference to Son of a Gun that Carly whispers at the start of the song. I'd never actually noticed the intro before and it reminded me of a car cleaning product from a few years ago.
Tonight I've been waxing the car exterior with Turtle Wax.🐢
Quote from Hot Lips Houlihan on October 13, 2022, 11:30 pmQuote from Barney Rubble on October 13, 2022, 12:42 pm3/3 with no skips Major !
Nobody does it better!
Thanks Major. I’d say you’re miles ahead at this stage. I think you haven’t had hit skip on the 80s since 1974. 🤘👏🏆
Well I have managed the 80s with no skips once again tonight Margaret as I have with the 70s track.
However the 60s has evaded me. Yeah I've probably heard the song before and the intro did seem vaguely familiar but I would never have guessed the title or the artist.
Now that I've my car polished I'll just hit the hay here. Goodnight/morning folks !😴
Today suited the same as yesterday in terms of the result but not in the same way where I actually loved the songs. Today, I love one.
60s, total déjà vu again. Heardle must be reading what we posted a couple of weeks ago. I think we mentioned this song as being a more famous one than the one they posted by the same band. But there is so much déjà vu going around at this stage I’ve no idea if that’s all in my head.
70s, they’re back with the producer responsible for the Milli Vanilli debacle. I think Top Of The Tops used to skip 90% of the Pringles’ ad-like scenic route to the actual singing.
80s, I was dreading trying to spell what I thought would be the 6-syllable name but it’s actually just the first two syllables. Delighted I managed to not have to listen to a second longer of the song, although in fairness a bigger hit of theirs makes my skin crawl even more. Can’t help it- it may be an ok song but it makes me break out in hives.
Heardle will have it next week.
Heardle 60s #155
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https://60s.heardledecades.com/
Heardle 70s #159
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https://70s.heardledecades.com
Heardle '80s Number 1's #115
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https://80s.heardledecades.com
I could write an essay about why I'm allergic to so much 80s production but that brings us back to
Quote from Hot Lips Houlihan on October 14, 2022, 2:59 pmToday suited the same as yesterday in terms of the result but not in the same way where I actually loved the songs. Today, I love one.
60s, total déjà vu again. Heardle must be reading what we posted a couple of weeks ago. I think we mentioned this song as being a more famous one than the one they posted by the same band. But there is so much déjà vu going around at this stage I’ve no idea if that’s all in my head.
70s, they’re back with the producer responsible for the Milli Vanilli debacle. I think Top Of The Tops used to skip 90% of the Pringles’ ad-like scenic route to the actual singing.
80s, I was dreading trying to spell what I thought would be the 6-syllable name but it’s actually just the first two syllables. Delighted I managed to not have to listen to a second longer of the song, although in fairness a bigger hit of theirs makes my skin crawl even more. Can’t help it- it may be an ok song but it makes me break out in hives.
Heardle will have it next week.
Heardle 60s #155
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https://60s.heardledecades.com/
Heardle 70s #159
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https://70s.heardledecades.com
Heardle ’80s Number 1’s #115
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https://80s.heardledecades.com
I could write an essay about why I’m allergic to so much 80s production but that brings us back to
I'm surprised at your dislike or even disdain of the 80s song Miss Houlihan. I did really like their other big hit that I think you were referring to. And for a change it was an 80s track I wasn't totally embarrassed to have got straight off. So now you have me embarrassed for liking a song that you despise. It seems I can't win Major .😟
Quote from Barney Rubble on October 14, 2022, 3:46 amQuote from Lois Hi on October 13, 2022, 11:40 pmQuote from Barney Rubble on October 13, 2022, 1:47 amAlright, Alright, I’ll go to me bed now !
But first…..
60s I needed the main vocals to kick in to get this so most of my skips were used.
70s What can I say ? Love the song but really didn’t know the intro at the first couple of skips. But once the piano, preceded by the guirar kick in it’s oh so familiar.
80s instantly recognisable.
So I’ve got all 3 but only 1 with no skips. Now I’ll just polish the dash of my car and then straight to bed!
Chamois Charlene has made a start on it for you, Barney
You can see by the shoes in the boot that she’s ready to change your spark plugs
I’m not sure if this would be classed as posting very late or very early. The mind works in strange ways in the wee small hours. The polishing my dash wasn’t an euphemism btw, simply a reference to Son of a Gun that Carly whispers at the start of the song. I’d never actually noticed the intro before and it reminded me of a car cleaning product from a few years ago.
Tonight I’ve been waxing the car exterior with Turtle Wax.
Son of a Gun polish! I learned something new today 🤗
Got the 60's after a few skips, only thanks to the recent discussion on the song. Thanks, Margaret 🤗
I know the 70's song, but don't recognise the intro.
80's I think I know the song, but there wasn't enough of the singing in the intro for me to get it. Sure 1.5/3 ain't bad 🤣
Thanks for all the great posts everyone. Great to see you're alive and well, F. Night all. 🤗
Goodnight everyone 🤗
Sorry Major. 🤗 First dance at our wedding? 😘
Goodnight Privates. 😘
Quote from Hot Lips Houlihan on October 14, 2022, 11:33 pmSorry Major. 🤗 First dance at our wedding? 😘
I’ll have to mend my broken wings first Major !😉😊
And as for today's selection ? Thank Christ for the 80s !
Yes once again I got the 80s track straight up but then again everyone will !
60s I played to the end and went for All or nothin but ended up with nothin. Not familiar with the song or the artist.
70s is probably 1 of the longest percussion intros I've heard here. Yes I know the artist and yes I know the song but did I know the intro ? No I feckin didn't!
So 1/3 today for me folks.😟
Heardle 60s #156
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https://60s.heardledecades.com/
Heardle 70s #160
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https://70s.heardledecades.com
Heardle '80s Number 1's #116
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https://80s.heardledecades.com
Today’s 11 odd minutes 60s track is apparently famous with psychedelic rock folk. I’m not sure what I am but I’m not psychedelic rock folk.
The 70s track suited my listening history. It has, as the Major said, one of the longest percussive intros we’ve had here. I was saved from being lost because this time the drum riff by Steve Gadd is not unconnected with the song. It continues at length through the song except for the classic, funky chorus. I don’t think it’s a spoiler to say the melody of the tune is based on "Tit er jeg glad" (Danish: Often I am happy), a 1917 love song by the Danish composer Carl Nielsen. If anyone knows that they deserve a prize.
Early hip hop artists needed long, beat and instrumental breaks like this to rap over but its drum rolls would be off-putting as they can suck the power of the beat unlike the banging space of the huge When The Levee Breaks or the funky bongos of Apache as covered by The Incredible Bongo Band.
30 years later some hip hop artists gave it a go, apparently but without too much success. Eminem’s attempt wasn’t released.
The 80s track is famous. It has the snare sound, slap bass favoured by Seinfeld breaks, and synth bass that set it firmly in an era that music production almost never returns to despite always mining the past. It has an overall quality of non-melodic funk that affects my ears in ways that I’m not crazy enough to discuss.
Oh wait. Maybe I am.
Oversimplifying and generalising here, but my view is that 80s music production often essentially took the worst aspects of 70s music, including but not solely, disco hits and amplified them. I think too many 80s producers rejected melodic grooves with killer bass lines and beautiful drum sounds in favour of cold-fusion, anti-melodic funk that was sonically big and not much besides. The rock version of this deficit was simply bombastic. Melodic grooves with killer bass lines and beats are hard work. The latter isn’t. Cocaine doesn’t care.
Time has largely forgotten much of these hits unlike 70s hits. Even great artists like Whitney Houston were, I think, let down by these production techniques. This era gave rise to indie labels like Factory, 4AD, Rough Trade and Sub Pop that couldn’t compete with the chart domination of major labels but whose innovative bands’ melodic counterpoints have generally risen and remained in the public consciousness. This isn’t too different from how The Velvet Underground barely made it into the Top 200 in the 60s but, as the story goes, everyone who listened to them formed bands that produced the great and lasting music of the next half-century.
And that’s before we get to the peculiarities of taste. New Order’s biggest 80s hit caught the band by surprise because, to their ears, it was melodically weaker than much of their other output. It took off in clubs in Europe and then became a hit back home. Oversimplifying again but it may be one of the first major examples of the beat becoming more important than the melody.
Obviously, we’re all different. To sum up the vagaries of my ears, and I’m choosing these two artists very specifically, Rick Astley and Bros may be seen in same way as cringeworthy, manufactured, chart fodder. But, taking just two examples, Never Gonna Give You Up’s chorus doesn’t set my ears off in the same allergic way as When Will I Be Famous. Both are presumably catchy but one hurts my ears. I don’t want to be offensive but I can’t help finding that melody phenomenally grating. Other listeners experiences will clearly differ. That’s taste. Obviously being Rick-rolled has massively contributed to the former’s 1.2 billion YouTube views versus the latter’s 7.5 million, but there may also be a melodic quotient to the figures.
I'm glad you didn't start your post with "I'm not gonna write an essay on this subject " Major !
And I couldn't even start to have a conversation with you on the matter. If I like something I like it, if I don't I don't. I never really thought anything more about it. But that's me...
60's I've never heard before.
70's I know the song and the artist but not the intro.
80's I guessed the artist straight away. Heardle gave me two options and my 50-50 was right 🤗
Thanks for all the super posts everyone. And an ‘essay’, HL. BR was right! And a new blog post DA. Great to hear Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft again F, thanks — it’s been too long since I listened to it. You're all superstars. 😍 Now, it’s movie night and tomorrow’s a work day and I’m logging off. Night all. 🤗