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Speaking of Brand New and beautiful music videos, they made two of them.

Tonight Alive - Little Lion Man

Apparently, this Aussie band was in a comic book movie. Their cover remains excellent.

Kriegsspiel wrote: ↑Mon Apr 27, 2020 8:11 pm The guitar effects in the Wonders songs sound like the synth effects in the Fountains song. The backing vocals harmonization. and their usage are similar. Nobody did backing vocals like that when Stacy's Mom came out. The vocal reverb is similar. It sounds like the Wonders song was recorded on old equipment (or, old effects, it was filmed in 1999), which gives it that vintage vibe.

It was a great movie.

Thanks for providing room for the following comments:

1) Passed both songs on the two vocalists in our band to see what similarities they saw. Have not yet heard back from them.

2) I did hit it on the Cars!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacy%27s_Mom

"In writing the song, he was hoping to take influence from new wave and power pop music: "I was thinking a little bit about "Mrs. Robinson" and sonically I was thinking about The Cars, a Rick Springfield sort of thing." He acknowledged that stylistically, the song "owes a debt" to the Cars' "Just What I Needed"; its opening guitar riff is similar.[7] The Cars' frontman Ric Ocasek thought that the intro was a sample from "Just What I Needed"[8] but the band says they performed it in the studio and just "got it right." "

3) "Stacy" in real life is a fellow Italian also from Rhode Island.

4) Over the decades I've many times read Rachel Hunter's name in the context of being Rod Stewart's wife but I don't know if I'd ever seen her prior to tonight. The thing I always thought about her was Rod Stewart in his live Unplugged MTV performance introducing one of his songs by saying it came out before his wife was born!

5) The movie came out in 1996.

VInny

Kriegsspiel wrote: ↑Mon Apr 27, 2020 8:11 pm The guitar effects in the Wonders songs sound like the synth effects in the Fountains song. The backing vocals harmonization. and their usage are similar. Nobody did backing vocals like that when Stacy's Mom came out. The vocal reverb is similar. It sounds like the Wonders song was recorded on old equipment (or, old effects, it was filmed in 1999), which gives it that vintage vibe.

It was a great movie.

Here is what I got back after asking if our former vocalist saw any similarities between the two songs:

"First, the chord progression and melody are very similar. The vocal harmony is also.
These songs are basically formula pop tunes."

Vinny

I think I just found my new favorite full contact sport.

https://youtu.be/gyrpPe96uvU

Twenty One Pilots - Level of Concern
(written, recorded, and released during the Wuhan pandemic)

Waffen-SS Soldiers Guarded The Nuremberg Trials

*Insert Jeffrey Epstein meme here*

Kriegsspiel wrote: ↑Thu Apr 30, 2020 8:59 am Waffen-SS Soldiers Guarded The Nuremberg Trials

*Insert Jeffrey Epstein meme here*

Thanks Kriegsspiel - talk about a no win situation.

On that theme, stumbled across this site. Pity I can't read German
https://bdmhistory.com
https://bdmhistory.com/wp-content/uploa ... etzaff.pdf
(many photos at the end of the pdf)

Ad Orientem wrote: ↑Tue Apr 28, 2020 9:09 pm I think I just found my new favorite full contact sport.

https://youtu.be/gyrpPe96uvU

or maybe this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6HDpurWKF0

Kriegsspiel wrote: ↑Mon Apr 27, 2020 8:11 pm The guitar effects in the Wonders songs sound like the synth effects in the Fountains song. The backing vocals harmonization. and their usage are similar. Nobody did backing vocals like that when Stacy's Mom came out. The vocal reverb is similar. It sounds like the Wonders song was recorded on old equipment (or, old effects, it was filmed in 1999), which gives it that vintage vibe.

It was a great movie.

The other lead singer in our band weighed in when I asked him what similarities he saw between the two songs. His answers was quite similar to mine.

"No i dont...i think youre hearing the harmonies on the choruses and thinking theyre close but actually the Wonders is more 60s like and the Fountains are like the Cars harmonies if you listen closely. The melodys are not at all alike, i mean notation wise."

Vinny

First of May

https://youtu.be/WzZaJDg6E0A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkNeNF2-Esw

Nearest large city when I was young
Anyone else have old clips of where they grew up?

105 years ago today the Lusitania was sunk. Here is actual film footage showing passengers arriving and the ship ailing on May 1, 1915 from New York.

https://youtu.be/7ZOqw5XEaN0

link

This guy took a bunch of pictures in the 1950s. It's mostly diners

Kriegsspiel wrote: ↑Thu May 07, 2020 7:00 pm link

This guy took a bunch of pictures in the 1950s. It's mostly diners

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Fantastic

Kriegsspiel wrote: ↑Thu May 07, 2020 7:00 pm link

This guy took a bunch of pictures in the 1950s. It's mostly diners

Very cool! A similar website that is on my favorites list is Shorpy...
https://www.shorpy.com/

https://youtu.be/RcYjXbSJBN8

The second Elon Musk interview with Joe Rogan is out. Note, he doesn't smoke pot in this one.

BUT, if you want to learn how to pronounce the name of his newborn, you can find out here!

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Fri May 08, 2020 11:52 am https://youtu.be/RcYjXbSJBN8

The second Elon Musk interview with Joe Rogan is out. Note, he doesn't smoke pot in this one.

BUT, if you want to learn how to pronounce the name of his newborn, you can find out here!

That name was being discussed on sports talk radio this morning....

Vinny

yankees60 wrote: ↑Fri May 08, 2020 12:44 pm

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Fri May 08, 2020 11:52 am https://youtu.be/RcYjXbSJBN8

The second Elon Musk interview with Joe Rogan is out. Note, he doesn't smoke pot in this one.

BUT, if you want to learn how to pronounce the name of his newborn, you can find out here!

That name was being discussed on sports talk radio this morning....

Vinny

It's been going around how celebrities use strange public names like this for their kids for media/paparazzi purposes. The idea being that the child's real name is something much more traditional and kept private.

I wouldn't be surprised if that was what was going on here.

Happy Birthday, Stevie
https://youtu.be/b0S4SiLxt1s

How Beat Detective and Autotune killed music

Fascinating stuff. I knew they abused Autotune, but I didn't know they just edited songs like that. I thought the musicians just played it over and over again until they got it I remember playing around with Fruity Loops at my friends house, it looked a lot like Pro Tools.

Kriegsspiel wrote: ↑Sun May 10, 2020 6:04 pm How Beat Detective and Autotune killed music

Fascinating stuff. I knew they abused Autotune, but I didn't know they just edited songs like that. I thought the musicians just played it over and over again until they got it I remember playing around with Fruity Loops at my friends house, it looked a lot like Pro Tools.

That shouldn't be the case for anything on a classical label. There you can still get actual performances, only lightly edited.

Do they mention the drummer from Devo in that clip? He was amazing, but when drum machines came along...I think he became an electrician.

Whitmer.
https://twitter.com/scrowder/status/126 ... 47488?s=20

HAH, that was good.

I'm always pretty impressed with people who can translate on the fly. If you've ever worked with an interpreter, you'll know you usually do it in one of two ways. One way, which is worse, you tell the interpreter to tell them something. The second, you say something to the person, and the interpreter translates in real time, so you and the person are looking and talking to each other. The second way is obviously more difficult, and it looks like it's what's being done by the signers you see.