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I have similar issues. The first time I run a vid, it takes forever to totally load. Might be boundary issues. After the first time through, though, it's fine.
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Another band that should have made it big. They started out kind of glam, then moved into art-rock before streamlining their sound slightly ahead of the oncoming New Wave. This vid is from their later days.
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Nice! BBD had a '50s vibe going. (Though it's hard to get used to rock stars who look like accountants. )
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You know... I've only listened to a little bit of BBD before!
I always think of them as being in the same category as 10cc, however, so here's one of their tunes!
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I could care less about Nirvana's music in the 90s, but they sounded pretty good in the 60s.
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Ok, yet another group who should have been bigger than they were, and who certainly had the respect of a lot of other musicians as you'll see from the clip.
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Nirvanc, that other band with the guy that shotgunned himself...all of them...I feel pretty much..."eh"...about them. Any "rocker" that does the "I'm such a tortured soul..." thing is pretty much a poser and a douche.
That said, Little Feet, Blackfoot, Rainbow...all had some good stuff.
quote:Originally posted by Outdoor Miner: Steely Dan as you've probably not heard them before - playing like they have a plane to catch.
Speaking of "smexy" - don't forget to check out the guy doing the introductions.
What is going on in that performance? Did they have a plane to catch? Was it the drugs? Were they just experimenting?
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quote:Originally posted by Fanfic Lass:
quote:Originally posted by Eryk Davis Ester: I could care less about Nirvana's music in the 90s
I'm so glad to find out that I'm not the only one on Legion World who doesn't like them. I wonder who will be the next one to come forward?
I'd pretty much disappeared into full-blown jazz snobbery by the 1990s. (I spent my last two years of college listening mostly to Wayne Shorter, Billie Holiday, and Count Basie. Ironically, the mini swing-craze didn't hit until almost a decade after that.) If not for the fact that I lived in the Pacific NW, and started dating a guy who did some backstage work for NXNW, I'm not sure I would have noticed the grunge craze at all.
Music press always seems to create an inch-deep view of whatever eras they're writing about anyway. There was plenty of great "pure pop" making the rounds in the 1990s, but now we're not supposed to remember it.
I still like digging out a lot of the local recordings from that era and hearing the kind of flourishes and markings that grunge left on them without changing their fundamental nature. The Black Watch, for instance, is one of those "arty," post-Eighties California bands whose best work (to me) is the stuff that had its surface "roughed up" with grunge.
Locally, it was a great time to follow woman artists, too. Man, I STILL miss Carminha Pirahna.
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I actually can remember the first time I heard "Smells Like Teen Spirit". I was watching 120 minutes one night in high school, and I can remember the song really standing out. A few weeks later they were huge. I do think Nirvana did a good job of capturing the mood of a certain subset of my generation very nicely. I suppose I at least respect them for that. But it's not anything I would consider to be "my" music.
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quote:Originally posted by Outdoor Miner: Steely Dan as you've probably not heard them before - playing like they have a plane to catch.
Speaking of "smexy" - don't forget to check out the guy doing the introductions.
What is going on in that performance? Did they have a plane to catch? Was it the drugs? Were they they just experimenting?
I have no idea, really. It's possible they picked up the pace as a way of making the song fit into the alloted time slot. Or this is just how the original band sounded when they were free of studio constraints. based on this, it's no surprise "Skunk" Baxter ended up in the Doobie Brothers.
That wouldn't explain, however, why at the same performance original singer David Palmer takes the lead vocal on "Do It Again" instead of Donald Fagen. (You can see that on YouTube as well, btw.)
quote:Originally posted by Eryk Davis Ester: You know... I've only listened to a little bit of BBD before!
I always think of them as being in the same category as 10cc, however, so here's one of their tunes!
Hope the BBD clip encouraged you to check out more.
I have to give artists like Gerry Rafferty and 10cc a lot of credit for trying to make it on the strengths of their records alone in the image-conscious UK.
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