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Post by wildojinx on Jul 21, 2023 13:58:16 GMT -5
What are some things about music that you never got as a kid? Here's one to start.
I somehow knew Ray Stevens (not the wrestler) was a comedy artist, so when I found my dad's old vinyl of Ray's "The Streak" album, and got to the final track "Everything is Beautiful", I didnt know why this was supposed to be funny, not knowing that Ray did write some serious songs such as this one as well.
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Post by tirtefaa on Jul 21, 2023 15:47:22 GMT -5
Admittedly, I was older than I needed to be when I found out what "Spoonman" was actually about.
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Post by karl100589 on Jul 21, 2023 15:57:24 GMT -5
Why people hated artists like Westlife even though they sold loads of records, hence contradicting themselves.
As I got older I realised the mechanisms of music promotion and how the singles chart was an incredibly flawed indicator of quality and popularity.
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Post by wildojinx on Jul 21, 2023 16:02:39 GMT -5
Also, I assumed that bands/musicians recorded their music in other languages for release in other countries.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Jul 21, 2023 16:06:43 GMT -5
Not sure why I thought this,but until I was about 8 I assumed any cassette I got was 30 minutes on one sid and 30 minutes on the other.
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on Jul 21, 2023 19:35:42 GMT -5
Largely due to my parent's attitude towards pop music, I assumed a ton of lyrics were dirty that really weren't.
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Jul 22, 2023 0:29:58 GMT -5
Why Sting sang a lot different then his promo voice
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Jul 22, 2023 1:17:39 GMT -5
Why people hated artists like Westlife even though they sold loads of records, hence contradicting themselves. As I got older I realised the mechanisms of music promotion and how the singles chart was an incredibly flawed indicator of quality and popularity. See also: Nickelback. |
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Post by ERON on Jul 22, 2023 4:09:43 GMT -5
Largely due to my parent's attitude towards pop music, I assumed a ton of lyrics were dirty that really weren't. So true. I was convinced for a while as a kid that all pop was dirty and all rock was Satanic. |
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Post by Mandarin Dessert Version 0 on Jul 22, 2023 5:11:47 GMT -5
I understood as a non-native English speaker before I learned correct English that when "[Artist/Group X] feat. [Artist/Group Y]" is displayed, that it means that they working together on that song and have both singing parts in it.
What I did not understand was what it meant when it said something like in (probably the most famous example) "Run DMC vs. Jason Nevis". Probably because of the imagery of the music videos and because I heard two different people, I thought it meant that they sing-battling for...some reason.
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Post by The Barber on Jul 22, 2023 6:09:10 GMT -5
What are some things about music that you never got as a kid? Here's one to start. I somehow knew Ray Stevens (not the wrestler) was a comedy artist, so when I found my dad's old vinyl of Ray's "The Streak" album, and got to the final track "Everything is Beautiful", I didnt know why this was supposed to be funny, not knowing that Ray did write some serious songs such as this one as well. The same thing happened to me when my next door neighbor played one of Ray's first records (Misty) and I didn't laugh once. I didn't realize that the record wasn't meant to be funny. |
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Post by hassanchop on Jul 22, 2023 8:32:49 GMT -5
Lyrics
I had trouble catching up what they were singing, that I always sang them wrong
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Post by Gunhaver on Jul 22, 2023 11:20:59 GMT -5
What are some things about music that you never got as a kid? Here's one to start. I somehow knew Ray Stevens (not the wrestler) was a comedy artist, so when I found my dad's old vinyl of Ray's "The Streak" album, and got to the final track "Everything is Beautiful", I didnt know why this was supposed to be funny, not knowing that Ray did write some serious songs such as this one as well. That's the funny thing about his career. He started as a studio musician, did some serious minded stuff solo, but made it big with novelty records. So much so that his few attempts to transition away from comedy were met with a lukewarm response. One of his live albums has a performance of Misty that's one of my absolute faves. On the subject of The Streak, I didn't realize it utilized a laugh track when I was a kid. I thought stuff like that was done in front of a live audience. It's been a while since I've listened to Ray, but he has a few other tracks that do that same thing. Inexplicably, he produced a track for a novelty county musician sometime in the last 20 years that also had a laugh track. |
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Post by Non Banjoble Tokens on Jul 23, 2023 2:17:13 GMT -5
How many kids saw KISS in full make up and costume and thought, "Oooh, this is gonna be some crazy shit" and them heard their music for the first time and were like, "Uhhhhh...."
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Jul 23, 2023 3:23:10 GMT -5
Mostly how my peer group listened to the radio in the mid 90's and thought that was the future of music. I grew up in a small town, so small Jason Aldean would get a raging boner over; so small, when school was in, the population more than doubled. I'm not exaggerating. Rural kids. Country kids. We had two options, the albums or cassettes our parents had or whatever shit happened to float across the radio. I choose, mostly, what my parents had. Which lead to me loving tons of 70's music and arguing how OMC and "How Bizarre" was not the greatest song ever recorded.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Jul 23, 2023 3:35:04 GMT -5
Admittedly, I was older than I needed to be when I found out what "Spoonman" was actually about. What do you/did you think it's about? |
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Post by Gunhaver on Jul 23, 2023 7:41:02 GMT -5
Admittedly, I was older than I needed to be when I found out what "Spoonman" was actually about. What do you/did you think it's about? Feeling the rhythm with his hands, presumably. |
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Post by tirtefaa on Jul 23, 2023 8:43:18 GMT -5
Admittedly, I was older than I needed to be when I found out what "Spoonman" was actually about. What do you/did you think it's about? I thought it was about heroin usage. Turns out it was about an actual guy who played spoons. Then again, Cornell could have just been covering for himself for all we know. |
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Post by karl100589 on Jul 23, 2023 9:24:52 GMT -5
Mostly how my peer group listened to the radio in the mid 90's and thought that was the future of music. I grew up in a small town, so small Jason Aldean would get a raging boner over; so small, when school was in, the population more than doubled. I'm not exaggerating. Rural kids. Country kids. We had two options, the albums or cassettes our parents had or whatever shit happened to float across the radio. I choose, mostly, what my parents had. Which lead to me loving tons of 70's music and arguing how OMC and "How Bizarre" was not the greatest song ever recorded. I still do that. It’s between that, You Get What You Give and Return of the Mack |
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Jul 23, 2023 9:58:38 GMT -5
What do you/did you think it's about? I thought it was about heroin usage. Turns out it was about an actual guy who played spoons. Then again, Cornell could have just been covering for himself for all we know. YEah, it's about Artis the spoonman... it's mostly a pretty literal song... that said there is the second verse which in theory could be about heroin usage... but the main bit is about Artis the Spoonman who plays on the album. |
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