MUSIC: the official thread.

One of the best singles of the 90's I feel. He's a wonderful songwriter, shame about what happened to him. Didn't you say you didn't like Orange Juice?

 

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Orange Juice were a bit bratty but that was a chonking choon. I met him when i worked at the ABC the night of his first gig after the stroke, a couple guys had to help him up the stairs it was a bit sad.

 

your weird proclivity toward assessing musical value based on date continues to baffle me. I don't get it. Especially because something like Talking Heads, for example, could only have come out in 1977-1984ish

 

To be fair, given all the collaborations on it, I think that's the whole point of this album as well...

 

Yeah but it did come out in 77-84.

 

And? "1978 only sounds good to me when it was actually recorded in 1978":scared:

Craziest shit I have ever heard

 

'Somebody copying a 35 year old sound verbatim like a pub tribute act is the best modern music anyone's ever posted' -cdogg & magus

Craziest shit I have ever heard ::

 

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Music is timeless, to me... what sounds good 200 years ago sounds good now... I'm not interested in what the participants are wearing or what hairstyle is in fashion at the time of recording... The only thing remotely "1978" about that track is that it is a dance song played with actual instruments and musicians... Production wise, it is clearly not from the 70s... It is obviously a digital recording and mix

 

For the record, I don't even particularly like the song... Just agreed it was fairly catchy

 

Dunno, it just sounds like a Jackson 5 cover to me. I guess I just don't really see the point. By all means as a b-side or charity album for fun or something. But a music recording isn't 'timeless'...it's of its time and place (like every event in the space time continuum::), that's part of its meaning.

 

It sounds nothing like the Jackson 5::

I find it interesting that your evaluation of music is completely at odds with your evaluation of Boxing:crafty:

 

For the record i thought so too. It's a catchy track.

 

Ok like something from Off the Wall, then

 

Amir Khan is where it's at... 2013... Button Mashing is the THING, Hut... get with it

 

so what's the problem then?? ::

 

eh... vaguely... it's not complicated enough instrumentally and the production is a dead giveaway that it is not from the same time period... in fairness, any up-tempo dance number in 4/4 could be compared to disco-era music depending on criteria

 

Because it's pointless. You like Dali - if somebody came along and started painting melting clocks and shit in the exact style of Dali you might buy one of his paintings for a hundred bucks at a jumble sale and think it was cool but you wouldn't pay any attention to him. It'd be artistically pointless

 

'Vaguely'. It literally sounds like a cover of a disco artist for a tribute album.

 

But that isn't happening here

 

I googled the song title. The track was co-written and produced by Nile Rodgers ::

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-e...aught-saturday-night-fever-again-8613018.html

Fair enough. I withdraw my criticism, it's an explicit homage.

 

It literally does not sound like that at all.

The only thing "1978" about this is that an actual band is playing the music... In every other way, it sounds like a dance song from right now... substitute the drummer with a "beats" machine and the bassist with a synth and we aren't having this conversation

 

So were many of Madonna's hits... what's your point, caller? Is Nile Rodgers bound by laws to exist only in 1979? He can not escape it? His only frame of reference can be 1979? Nile Rodgers lives... presently... currently... in this "modern" time

 

My point was just that it sounded allot like Off the wall or Chic. :: I think you gotta give me this one brother clogg

 

I WILL DO NO SUCH THING!!::

You could literally do this same thing with just about any "modern music"... Would you like me to go through all of the various newer songs you have posted in this thread and link them to something 30 years older that they are echoing?

 

C'mon man. It's an explicit homage to the disco era co-written & played by Nile Rodgers:laughing: There's no getting out of this....

I WIN ONE! I WIN ONE!:aye:artie:

 

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Good debate! :bears:

 

David Byrne : a millionaire rock star who's gotten everywhere by bicycle since the 70s and is friends with Jan Gehl. :love:

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