best cover of "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'"?
Symarip !!!
Buffy: A Guide, but no water or food. So it leads me to the sacred place and then a week later it leads you to my bleached bones? Giles: Buffy, really. It takes more than a week to bleach bones.
'Dirty Girls'
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.
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".
DavidS - Jul 30, 2012 8:54:30 am PDT #5218 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Hecubus will appreciate this: New Redd Kross album streaming at NPR [link]
Excellent! I saw them backing Sky Saxon at The Cave in LA in 1985ish.
I particularly like "Stay Away From Downtown".
Like Sloan and TFC they've still got their power pop chops.
Tom Scola - Jul 31, 2012 5:25:58 am PDT #5219 of 6436
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
Shir - Aug 03, 2012 1:44:03 am PDT #5220 of 6436
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
I don't know why no one of you told me about Salena Jones & The Keith Mansfield Orchestra before, but y'all on the list for this.
Fred Pete - Aug 07, 2012 4:50:35 am PDT #5221 of 6436
Ann, that's a ferret.
RIP, Marvin Hamlisch.
The story is, nothing sounds quite like the songs that were popular when you were 12. His version of "The Entertainer" was big early in the summer I turned 12.
Polter-Cow - Aug 08, 2012 3:11:03 pm PDT #5222 of 6436
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!