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Re: Post Random Music-Related Thoughts You Have

Posted: Sat April 20, 2019 11:54 pm
by VinylGuy
Huge affection = desperate need to be relevant.

Re: Post Random Music-Related Thoughts You Have

Posted: Sat April 20, 2019 11:57 pm
by run2death
Like every pop star.

Re: Post Random Music-Related Thoughts You Have

Posted: Sun April 21, 2019 12:20 am
by VinylGuy
I honestly think Madonna's career turned into a joke. She did some great stuff back in the 90s and then she just got old and didnt know what to do with it.

Re: Post Random Music-Related Thoughts You Have

Posted: Sun April 21, 2019 12:37 am
by run2death
Madonna had over 20 years (True Blue to Confessions on a Dance Floor) of pop relevancy.

That’s a pretty great streak.

Re: Post Random Music-Related Thoughts You Have

Posted: Sun April 21, 2019 12:38 am
by lennytheweedwhacker
madonna was my first crush

Re: Post Random Music-Related Thoughts You Have

Posted: Sun April 21, 2019 12:49 am
by bart
I like the Orgy version of Blue Monday better than the original

Re: Post Random Music-Related Thoughts You Have

Posted: Sun April 21, 2019 3:19 am
by bodysnatcher
Kinda forgot Madonna existed til now. So I guess her new song is a success.

Re: Post Random Music-Related Thoughts You Have

Posted: Wed April 24, 2019 12:42 pm
by Ello Sailor
I think "Moves Like Jagger" might be my least favorite song of all time. What is your least fav. song of all time?

Re: Post Random Music-Related Thoughts You Have

Posted: Wed April 24, 2019 12:43 pm
by LoathedVermin72
Ello Sailor wrote:I think "Moves Like Jagger" might be my least favorite song of all time. What is your least fav. song of all time?
Honestly that might be my least favorite also

Re: Post Random Music-Related Thoughts You Have

Posted: Wed April 24, 2019 2:12 pm
by Monkey_Driven
Ello Sailor wrote:I think "Moves Like Jagger" might be my least favorite song of all time. What is your least fav. song of all time?
Probably something by Train.

Re: Post Random Music-Related Thoughts You Have

Posted: Wed April 24, 2019 3:18 pm
by Self
Bad to the bone as performed by George Thorogood. Fucking awful.

Re: Post Random Music-Related Thoughts You Have

Posted: Wed April 24, 2019 3:21 pm
by doug rr
Self wrote:Bad to the bone as performed by George Thorogood. Fucking awful.
anything and everything that man has put out is the worst..

Re: Post Random Music-Related Thoughts You Have

Posted: Thu April 25, 2019 8:26 pm
by epilogue
Okay... so...

I haven't listened to Poe's 'Haunted' in a while...

Holy shit! I'd forgotten how fucking fantastic that record is. It's a literal masterpiece. It is perfectly executed. It's sublime. It's absolutely one of the greatest albums I've ever heard and I can't believe more people don't know it.

Re: Post Random Music-Related Thoughts You Have

Posted: Thu April 25, 2019 8:27 pm
by LoathedVermin72
I loved Poe when I was in high school. I forgot about her. Always preferred her first album, though.

Re: Post Random Music-Related Thoughts You Have

Posted: Thu April 25, 2019 8:37 pm
by epilogue
LoathedVermin72 wrote:I loved Poe when I was in high school. I forgot about her. Always preferred her first album, though.
Her first album is stellar. No doubt.

Listening to Haunted again though I'm blown away by how perfect it is in content, execution, and theme. It's really marvelous. It's a perfect concept album.

Re: Post Random Music-Related Thoughts You Have

Posted: Thu April 25, 2019 9:07 pm
by bodysnatcher
i have no idea who Poe is

Re: Post Random Music-Related Thoughts You Have

Posted: Thu April 25, 2019 9:23 pm
by epilogue
bodysnatcher wrote:i have no idea who Poe is
Recording artist. Only released 2 albums before getting FUCKED by the industry and kind of disappearing. Her second album, Haunted, is a sort of companion piece to her brother's book. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski (one of the most phenomenal books I've ever read).

Basically, their father passed away, leaving behind a ton of lectures on tape. Poe channeled all of that into an album called Haunted. Her brother channeled it into a book called House of Leaves. They share themes and ideas but only just.

Her first record, called Hello, was released five years earlier in 1995. It has the hit single "Angry Johnny" on it. Both albums are stellar. But her second work is a masterpiece. It's a concept record that pays infinite dividends. I highly recommend it. It's a perfect piece of art.

Though, since you and I are diametrically opposed in our tastes, you'll probably hate it. So... never mind. Don't listen to it.

Re: Post Random Music-Related Thoughts You Have

Posted: Thu April 25, 2019 9:43 pm
by bodysnatcher
durdencommatyler wrote:
bodysnatcher wrote:i have no idea who Poe is
Recording artist. Only released 2 albums before getting FUCKED by the industry and kind of disappearing. Her second album, Haunted, is a sort of companion piece to her brother's book. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski (one of the most phenomenal books I've ever read).

Basically, their father passed away, leaving behind a ton of lectures on tape. Poe channeled all of that into an album called Haunted. Her brother channeled it into a book called House of Leaves. They share themes and ideas but only just.

Her first record, called Hello, was released five years earlier in 1995. It has the hit single "Angry Johnny" on it. Both albums are stellar. But her second work is a masterpiece. It's a concept record that pays infinite dividends. I highly recommend it. It's a perfect piece of art.

Though, since you and I are diametrically opposed in our tastes, you'll probably hate it. So... never mind. Don't listen to it.
looked up Hello and definitely recognize that album cover from hanging out at the record store as a teen. never listened to it though. maybe i'll check them out!

Re: Post Random Music-Related Thoughts You Have

Posted: Thu April 25, 2019 9:45 pm
by epilogue
bodysnatcher wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:
bodysnatcher wrote:i have no idea who Poe is
Recording artist. Only released 2 albums before getting FUCKED by the industry and kind of disappearing. Her second album, Haunted, is a sort of companion piece to her brother's book. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski (one of the most phenomenal books I've ever read).

Basically, their father passed away, leaving behind a ton of lectures on tape. Poe channeled all of that into an album called Haunted. Her brother channeled it into a book called House of Leaves. They share themes and ideas but only just.

Her first record, called Hello, was released five years earlier in 1995. It has the hit single "Angry Johnny" on it. Both albums are stellar. But her second work is a masterpiece. It's a concept record that pays infinite dividends. I highly recommend it. It's a perfect piece of art.

Though, since you and I are diametrically opposed in our tastes, you'll probably hate it. So... never mind. Don't listen to it.
looked up Hello and definitely recognize that album cover from hanging out at the record store as a teen. never listened to it though. maybe i'll check them out!
Don't. You'll hate her music.

Re: Post Random Music-Related Thoughts You Have

Posted: Thu April 25, 2019 10:07 pm
by bune
durdencommatyler wrote:
bodysnatcher wrote:i have no idea who Poe is
Recording artist. Only released 2 albums before getting FUCKED by the industry and kind of disappearing. Her second album, Haunted, is a sort of companion piece to her brother's book. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski (one of the most phenomenal books I've ever read).

Basically, their father passed away, leaving behind a ton of lectures on tape. Poe channeled all of that into an album called Haunted. Her brother channeled it into a book called House of Leaves. They share themes and ideas but only just.

Her first record, called Hello, was released five years earlier in 1995. It has the hit single "Angry Johnny" on it. Both albums are stellar. But her second work is a masterpiece. It's a concept record that pays infinite dividends. I highly recommend it. It's a perfect piece of art.

Though, since you and I are diametrically opposed in our tastes, you'll probably hate it. So... never mind. Don't listen to it.
I was prepared to bring up the House of Leaves connection but you brought the A-game.
House of Leaves was accompanied by a companion piece (or vice versa), a full-length album called Haunted recorded by Danielewski's sister, Anne Danielewski, known professionally as Poe. The two works cross-pollinated heavily over the course of their creations, each inspiring the other in various ways. Poe's statement on the connection between the two works is that they are parallax views of the same story. House of Leaves references Poe and her songs several times, not only limited to her album Haunted, but Hello as well. One example occurs when the character Karen Green is interviewing various academics on their interpretations of the short film "Exploration #4"; she consults a "Poet," but there is a space between the "Poe" and the "t," suggesting that Poe at one point commented on the book. It may also be a reference to Edgar Allan Poe.

The album Haunted also draws heavily from the novel, featuring tracks called "House of Leaves", "Exploration B" and "5&½ Minute Hallway", and many less obvious references. The video for "Hey Pretty" also features Mark Danielewski reading from House of Leaves (pages 88–89), and in House of Leaves, the band Liberty Bell's lyrics were also songs on Poe's album.