HeywoodPeace

HeywoodPeace t1_jegqm4y wrote

Seamus is just a 12 bar blues that isn't very creative, but doesn't bother me at all. San Tropez, however, is the absolute worst song in the band's entire catalog...yes worse than A Spanish Piece and Absolutely Curtains. Corny lyrics, weird lounge jazz music...epic fail. Even Walk With Me Sidney is a better song

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HeywoodPeace t1_jefd37m wrote

Pretty much everything on MTV in the early 80s. Tainted Love, She Blinded Me With Science, Take On Me, Whip It, Beat It, Madonna's entire catalog....particularly the new wave stuff would have never made any money if not for the videos. Like West End Girls. Has anyone ever listened to the 1st Pet Shop Boys album? It sounds like a poorly made demo. Drum machine, synth bass, vocal, and one keyboard that either plays chords or melodic lines, but never both, and never any overdubs. Very sparse. Very cheap. Most of this new wave stuff was garbage, but it sold because of the video

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HeywoodPeace t1_jef4hqf wrote

Waters' best vocal performance was on Pros & Cons. So good he couldn't ever do it again and used several pre-recorded vocals to pull it off live (The high parts of Go Fishing, Running Shoes, the middle 8 of Every Stranger's Eyes). He put so much into that performance he ruined his voice for the rest of his life. Ever since then he's pretty much talked albums

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HeywoodPeace t1_jecwfph wrote

Y'know, it really depends on the music. If it's something that tells a story or has a point to make (Pink Floyd, Rage Against the Machine, SoaD, etc.) then I pay attention. But if it's just a rock singer singing about chicks, cars, drugs, how proficient he is with his cock, or how much his band rocks, then no I listen to the music. I've been singing along with AC/DC for 30 years and I don't even know half the words. I just make sounds similar to what I hear (hey not my fault Brian Johnson was totally unable to be understood in an era when you couldn't look up the lyrics online).

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