Subcultural engagement for the 21st Century...
Barbelith is a new kind of community (find out more)...
You can login or register.

Underground > Radio & Music >

Stupid Music Questions

Page: 1 2 3(4)5

20:40 / 27.02.07

But but but it just has "final track" written all over it! There are practically credits rolling between the verses!

12:34 / 03.03.07

On that subject, sort of, would anyone know who's playing over the credits at the end of 'The Wire', Series Two? Best guess is The Replacements, but I could be wrong.

(On a side note, 'The Wire' really is as good as it's supposed to be - with the possible exception of 'South Park', it's pretty much the best thing that's ever been on television, ever. And I say this as an avowed non-fan of police proceedurals.)

17:26 / 03.03.07

I´ve watched the credits of the final show of the 2nd season, but it didn´t say.

On wikipedia:
"The closing theme is "The Fall," composed by Blake Leyh, who is also the show's music supervisor."

And I agree, it´s a very good show. I´ve recently finished watching the third season and hope to see the fourth soon. The fifth is announced to be the last, btw.

01:00 / 11.03.07

Lyric or lyrics?

Regrettable Juvenilia

01:28 / 11.03.07

Granny doesn't mean The Wire's closing theme, she's referring, if I'm not mistaken, to the song that accompanies the montage while Nicky Sobotka's staring through a fence at some docks. Docks where a man must work if he is to be man, but we don't build shit in this country no more, we just sell it.

15:31 / 07.04.07

Do you think Flavor Flav brought anything to Public Enemy? Would they have been just as big without him or even bigger?

19:37 / 07.04.07

They stood out. He has a very distinct style and voice, which made P.E. stand out from the angry, heavy Hip Hop - and it really highlighted how much of a talent that Chuck D was.

20:36 / 07.04.07

Yes, Flav's interjections on the records are set up as a very deliberate comedic contrast to Chuck, and his contributions are genuinely pretty funny and serve to lighten the load of the sometimes overbearingly serious points being made; the interplay between Chuck and Flav is pretty great in places too. Without him, I think a lot of casual listeners might have lost interest; his general persona helped emphasis that PE were to some extent a fun, party band rather than the mono-voiced political diatribe machine that some may have foolishly written them off as.

All Acting Regiment

23:28 / 07.04.07

Who else was around at the same time as the Smiths and doing related things? I'm big on late 70s/early 80s stuff but not so much after?

09:04 / 23.04.07

Is there some kind of super good weed that's called purple? I keep hearing it pop up in rap songs, and I don't even smoke, but what is it all about?

10:08 / 23.04.07

Maybe purple haze?

10:23 / 23.04.07

Yeah. Neat.

I swear I've heard like five different artists mention this in the last few days spanning maybe three years worth of music.

11:26 / 23.04.07

Who else was around at the same time as the Smiths and doing related things? I'm big on late 70s/early 80s stuff but not so much after?

Check out the first Lloyd Cole and the Commotions album, Rattlesnakes. I'm led to believe it's all downhill after that, but it's an interesting comparison piece.

Of course, it'd help if you could describe what you mean by "related things".

09:47 / 26.04.07

Re: The Smiths

I'm sure I remember hearing a couple of tracks by McCarthy around '86 / '87 and thinking: "That sounds a LOT like the Smiths":

McCarthy

Or you might look into the twee / anorak scene of the time. I remember the Brilliant Corners lyrics as being similar in vein to the Smiths' more humorous stuff (I'm thinking of 'Brian Rix' in particular):

Brilliant Corners

10:48 / 13.05.07

Why do the Manic Street Preachers seem to have turned into Elton John and Kiki Dee?

14:41 / 13.05.07

their plan to turn into what they hated was hatched at their inception to demonstrate the futility of celebrity.

14:53 / 13.05.07

Y-e-e-s... And yet...

All Acting Regiment

10:30 / 01.06.07

Is this the thread for I like this song but only know the lyrics?

That song with the American women talking about "words" - over a funky eighties-style backing - Cat Power? Le Tigre? Leopold and the Leopards perhaps... "Words are cruel, words of joy", something like that.

Then the other one that goes "Do you REAL GOOD" and it's another woman singer. Foot-stampy.

And then, which I may have asked before, but, quite old, male singer, strummy guitar,

Something something something with the cry of a tomcat
(...) entertaaaain for less
(...) get the saaaaame for less

Then it goes Leeeeeeiiiiiiiiisss.

Any ideas?

10:33 / 01.06.07

Allecto, that's Chicks on Speed. I think it's a cover, though, so maybe you're thinking of the original.

The 'Words' one, I mean. Wordy Rappinghood is apparently the title, but my albums are far away and I'm hoping the internet's not lying to me this morning.

Regrettable Juvenilia

10:57 / 01.06.07

The original is by Tom Tom Club - the Chicks On Speed cover also features several guest vocalists including, I believe, members of Le Tigre, so that was a pretty close guess.

The other one isn't 'Do Ya' by Peaches, is it?

All Acting Regiment

15:55 / 01.06.07

Ahhhhh...

Gracias.

All Acting Regiment

16:33 / 06.06.07

Look, I should know this, and I'm sorry, but:

I m't like you bedder if we slep'd together x 10

What is that sodding song?

16:52 / 06.06.07

Never Say Never by Romeo Void?

Mon Oncle Ignatius

07:24 / 07.06.07

Shouldn't these questions be being asked in the Identify that tune thread?

Regrettable Juvenilia

11:28 / 07.06.07

Frankly, given how tentatively the Music forum continues to cling to life, I don't care either way as long as people are posting. If only they'd post more, perhaps about songs they do know, and like?

11:29 / 07.06.07

Here's one for yoto get your web-fu teeth stuck into:

So I was browsing in Rough Trade a little while ago, and found this fascinating looking CD in one of the ambient/electronica/etc sections that compiled recordings of a lot of those mysterious/inexplicable "ghost" radio messages you sometimes hear about... whether it just presented them straight, or used them as the basis for some sort of music I'm not sure.

Anyway, it was quite expensive, so I didn't buy it. But my brother's birthday is coming up soon, and he's always been fascinated with mysterious ghostly audio, so I thought I'd go back and pick up the CD as a present. Unfortunately though, they seem to have sold it, and as I have no recollection of what the CD was actually CALLED or who put it together /released it, tracking it down is likely to be pretty difficult!

Anybody got any leads? - suggestions of other, similar releases are also welcomed.

Mon Oncle Ignatius

11:55 / 07.06.07

If only they'd post more, perhaps about songs they do know, and like?

Good point.

11:55 / 07.06.07

Was it The Conet Project?

http://www.irdial.com/conet.htm

I know that bugger is *well* expensive.

11:56 / 07.06.07

Rizla, I think that is sometimes refered to as EVP or Electronic Voice Phenomena. Also, a lot of EVP stuff originates with a guy called Konstan (?) Raudive, he was the bloke who first set up closed tape loops to record this stuff. Either of those snippets might make the search a little easier.

12:32 / 07.06.07

Thanks for the info guys!

The CD I saw wasn't the 'Conet Project' one.... I heard some extracts from that a few years ago; definitely an interesting phenomenon, but I'd imagine four whole CDs of people reading random series of numbers might not make for the most enthalling listening experience... but then my bro is quite an odd chap, so I can imagine him getting into it!

But - BINGO! - a bit of searching on EVP and Raudive (fascinating in it's own right - I had no idea he and others actually got results by asking questions ouija board style to unseen entities and then obsessively studying recordings of static until messages emerged! Absolutely bizarre!) and I've found the CD I was looking for, and Amazon sell it! It's called 'The Ghost Orchid', and sounds amazing:

Amazon link

Have a look at that page, and click on the link to see the full track-listing... and then just FREAK OUT imagining what some of those tracks must consist of. They can't possibly be as good as they sound.

12:43 / 07.06.07

Riz, have you ever read the Burroughs essay "It Belongs to the Cucumbers"? - it's in The Adding Machine. This mentions Raudive, prophecy and various other things. It also contains my favourite Burroughs line ever, addressing people who decried the Raudive messages as sounding a bit ...odd: "What did they expect? A chorus of angels with tips on the stock market?"

13:39 / 07.06.07

Pardon me, but which thread is for posting links to strange little online bands? Is there one I can't find?

Mon Oncle Ignatius

13:57 / 07.06.07

Not sure about if there is an online bands thread...

I know that bugger is *well* expensive.

The whole Irdial catalogue is freely available for download here, including the 4CDs of the Conet Project.

Mon Oncle Ignatius

08:51 / 08.06.07

Regarding The Ghost Orchid, the sleevenotes were written by Joe Banks of Disinformation, and a longer version of them appeared as an article in the first Strange Attractor Journal.

13:15 / 08.06.07

Ognarud> Yay! Thanks for the link!

I remember buying the issue of Unexplained that had the EVP flexi on it, and it scared the living crap out of me. Being on a flexi it had a spectacularly scrappy, grumbly quality which added significantly to the spookiness. The next best thing to a wax cylinder, which would of course be yer ghostie's recording medium of choice.

Page: 1 2 3(4)5