"Louie, Louie" also has a Latin feel (based on the clave, so a mix of 3 and 2) and so does the Bo Diddley beat.
"Louie, Louie" feels almost like speeded-up reggae.
My whole life, I've never loved anything else.
Oz ,'Him'
Buffista Music 4: Needs More Cowbell!
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Fred Pete - Jul 27, 2012 5:43:38 am PDT #5208 of 6436
Ann, that's a ferret.
DavidS - Jul 27, 2012 5:45:27 am PDT #5209 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
"Louie, Louie" feels almost like speeded-up reggae.
Well, it's originally supposed to be a fake calypso song.
Here's the original by Richard Berry.
tommyrot - Jul 27, 2012 5:47:09 am PDT #5210 of 6436
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
There's also the live Bjork/PJ Harvey version.
OK, that one ranks up there with the best.
Also, I need an mp3 of that.
Frankenbuddha - Jul 27, 2012 5:58:58 am PDT #5211 of 6436
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Bonus cover: Cat Power and Karen Elson cover Serge Gainsbourg's "Je t'aime moi non plus".
Seeing that reminds me of one of my favorite "hidden" tracks - the cover of "Bonnie & Clyde" on Luna's 'Penthouse' with Laetitia Sadier of Stereolab (the original was Serge and Bridget Bardot).
tommyrot - Jul 27, 2012 6:28:02 am PDT #5212 of 6436
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
So, best cover of "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'"?
The Residents? or Crispin Glover?
The Residents' version is rather short, so I give the nod to Glover's version.
eta: Glover's version has a much more "normal" production, with the exception of his vocals. Which are great.
Tom Scola - Jul 27, 2012 6:32:36 am PDT #5213 of 6436
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
tommyrot - Jul 28, 2012 7:34:15 am PDT #5214 of 6436
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Today's pop music really does all sound the same — and science can prove it
Music snobs, take heed. Detailed analysis of songs produced between 1955 and 2010 confirms what you've always known in your heart to be true: modern pop music really has gotten louder, and it all sounds exactly the same. All aboard the train to smug-town!
Your vindication comes in the form of a peer-reviewed study, published in the latest issue of Scientific Reports, that finds pop songs have become "intrinsically louder" and have come to rely more on more on the same chords, melodies, and sound palettes.
"We found evidence of a progressive homogenization of the musical discourse," said artificial intelligence expert and musicologist Joan Serrà, who led the study, in an interview with Reuters. "In particular, we obtained numerical indicators that the diversity of transitions between note combinations — roughly speaking, chords plus melodies — has consistently diminished in the last 50 years."
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To be fair, Serrà and his colleagues discovered these patterns in contemporary Western popular music; the researchers were relying on samples collected from the Million Song Dataset, which, while certainly impressive, is a bit limited in global/cultural scope; but at least the researchers recognize this:
We encourage the development of further historical databases to be able to quantify the major transitions in the history of music, and to start looking at more subtle evolving characteristics of particular genres or artists, without forgetting the whole wealth of cultures and music styles present in the world.
Jon B. - Jul 30, 2012 2:19:22 am PDT #5215 of 6436
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
DavidS - Jul 30, 2012 5:05:09 am PDT #5216 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Boys Next Door!
Nick Cave - Pop Star!
Jon B. - Jul 30, 2012 7:52:02 am PDT #5217 of 6436
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Hecubus will appreciate this: New Redd Kross album streaming at NPR [link]
I particularly like "Stay Away From Downtown".