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Re: YouTube Junkie

Post by vnatale » Mon Apr 27, 2020 7:18 pm

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Adam Schlesinger, late of Fountains of Wayne and fountains of coronavirus, wrote the song That Thing You Do, from the eponymous movie. You can hear the similarities with their song Stacy's Mom, especially in the backing vocals.
Love both the movie and the song. I can listen to the song at least five times in a row. After I finally finish doing so, I'll listen to that other song.

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Kriegsspiel wrote:
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Adam Schlesinger, late of Fountains of Wayne and fountains of coronavirus, wrote the song That Thing You Do, from the eponymous movie. You can hear the similarities with their song Stacy's Mom, especially in the backing vocals.
I did listen to "That Thing You Do" as I predicted I would. I'm now on the four listen of "Stacy's Mom". I'm surprised I'd never prior heard it.

I'm not hearing any similarities at all.

"That Thing You Do" succeeded in making it sound like it WAS a hit song from the 60s.

"Stacy's Mom" seems to have it roots starting with the Cars (early 80s) and continuing with the music somewhere into the 90s.

I'm going to put both songs in front of the former vocalist in our band who is a great analyzer of music to see what similarities he hears.

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Re: YouTube Junkie

Post by Kriegsspiel » Mon Apr 27, 2020 8:11 pm

The guitar effects in the Wonders songs sound like the synth effects in the Fountains song. The backing vocals harmonization. and their usage are similar. Nobody did backing vocals like that when Stacy's Mom came out. The vocal reverb is similar. It sounds like the Wonders song was recorded on old equipment (or, old effects, it was filmed in 1999), which gives it that vintage vibe.

It was a great movie.
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Re: YouTube Junkie

Post by Kriegsspiel » Mon Apr 27, 2020 8:26 pm

By the way, one of my favorite songs, by Brand New, is strangely appropriate for the Wuhan.

The fever, the focus
The reasons that I had to believe you weren't too hard to sell
Die young and save yourself
The tickle, the taste of
It used to be the reason I breathed but now it's choking me up
Die young and save yourself

It's also a beautiful music video.
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Post by Kriegsspiel » Mon Apr 27, 2020 8:34 pm

Speaking of Brand New and beautiful music videos, they made two of them.
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Post by Kriegsspiel » Mon Apr 27, 2020 10:00 pm

Tonight Alive - Little Lion Man

Apparently, this Aussie band was in a comic book movie. Their cover remains excellent.
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Post by vnatale » Mon Apr 27, 2020 10:27 pm

Kriegsspiel wrote:
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The guitar effects in the Wonders songs sound like the synth effects in the Fountains song. The backing vocals harmonization. and their usage are similar. Nobody did backing vocals like that when Stacy's Mom came out. The vocal reverb is similar. It sounds like the Wonders song was recorded on old equipment (or, old effects, it was filmed in 1999), which gives it that vintage vibe.

It was a great movie.
Thanks for providing room for the following comments:

1) Passed both songs on the two vocalists in our band to see what similarities they saw. Have not yet heard back from them.

2) I did hit it on the Cars!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacy%27s_Mom

"In writing the song, he was hoping to take influence from new wave and power pop music: "I was thinking a little bit about "Mrs. Robinson" and sonically I was thinking about The Cars, a Rick Springfield sort of thing." He acknowledged that stylistically, the song "owes a debt" to the Cars' "Just What I Needed"; its opening guitar riff is similar.[7] The Cars' frontman Ric Ocasek thought that the intro was a sample from "Just What I Needed"[8] but the band says they performed it in the studio and just "got it right." "

3) "Stacy" in real life is a fellow Italian also from Rhode Island.

4) Over the decades I've many times read Rachel Hunter's name in the context of being Rod Stewart's wife but I don't know if I'd ever seen her prior to tonight. The thing I always thought about her was Rod Stewart in his live Unplugged MTV performance introducing one of his songs by saying it came out before his wife was born!

5) The movie came out in 1996.

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Re: YouTube Junkie

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Kriegsspiel wrote:
Mon Apr 27, 2020 8:11 pm
The guitar effects in the Wonders songs sound like the synth effects in the Fountains song. The backing vocals harmonization. and their usage are similar. Nobody did backing vocals like that when Stacy's Mom came out. The vocal reverb is similar. It sounds like the Wonders song was recorded on old equipment (or, old effects, it was filmed in 1999), which gives it that vintage vibe.

It was a great movie.

Here is what I got back after asking if our former vocalist saw any similarities between the two songs:

"First, the chord progression and melody are very similar. The vocal harmony is also.
These songs are basically formula pop tunes."

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Re: YouTube Junkie

Post by Ad Orientem » Tue Apr 28, 2020 9:09 pm

I think I just found my new favorite full contact sport.

https://youtu.be/gyrpPe96uvU
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Post by Tortoise » Tue Apr 28, 2020 9:15 pm

Twenty One Pilots - Level of Concern
(written, recorded, and released during the Wuhan pandemic)
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Re: YouTube Junkie

Post by Kriegsspiel » Thu Apr 30, 2020 8:59 am

Waffen-SS Soldiers Guarded The Nuremberg Trials

*Insert Jeffrey Epstein meme here*
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Re: YouTube Junkie

Post by Hal » Thu Apr 30, 2020 9:44 am

Kriegsspiel wrote:
Thu Apr 30, 2020 8:59 am
Waffen-SS Soldiers Guarded The Nuremberg Trials

*Insert Jeffrey Epstein meme here*
Thanks Kriegsspiel - talk about a no win situation.

On that theme, stumbled across this site. Pity I can't read German
https://bdmhistory.com
https://bdmhistory.com/wp-content/uploa ... etzaff.pdf
(many photos at the end of the pdf)
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Re: YouTube Junkie

Post by Hal » Thu Apr 30, 2020 9:54 pm

Ad Orientem wrote:
Tue Apr 28, 2020 9:09 pm
I think I just found my new favorite full contact sport.

https://youtu.be/gyrpPe96uvU
or maybe this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6HDpurWKF0
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Post by vnatale » Thu Apr 30, 2020 10:23 pm

Kriegsspiel wrote:
Mon Apr 27, 2020 8:11 pm
The guitar effects in the Wonders songs sound like the synth effects in the Fountains song. The backing vocals harmonization. and their usage are similar. Nobody did backing vocals like that when Stacy's Mom came out. The vocal reverb is similar. It sounds like the Wonders song was recorded on old equipment (or, old effects, it was filmed in 1999), which gives it that vintage vibe.

It was a great movie.
The other lead singer in our band weighed in when I asked him what similarities he saw between the two songs. His answers was quite similar to mine.

"No i dont...i think youre hearing the harmonies on the choruses and thinking theyre close but actually the Wonders is more 60s like and the Fountains are like the Cars harmonies if you listen closely. The melodys are not at all alike, i mean notation wise."

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RIP Marcello Gandini
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Post by Hal » Wed May 06, 2020 11:07 am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkNeNF2-Esw

Nearest large city when I was young ;D
Anyone else have old clips of where they grew up?
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Post by Ad Orientem » Thu May 07, 2020 6:28 pm

105 years ago today the Lusitania was sunk. Here is actual film footage showing passengers arriving and the ship ailing on May 1, 1915 from New York.

https://youtu.be/7ZOqw5XEaN0
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Post by Kriegsspiel » Thu May 07, 2020 7:00 pm

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This guy took a bunch of pictures in the 1950s. It's mostly diners ;D
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Post by dualstow » Thu May 07, 2020 7:09 pm

Kriegsspiel wrote:
Thu May 07, 2020 7:00 pm
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This guy took a bunch of pictures in the 1950s. It's mostly diners ;D

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Fantastic
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Post by Ad Orientem » Thu May 07, 2020 7:18 pm

Kriegsspiel wrote:
Thu May 07, 2020 7:00 pm
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This guy took a bunch of pictures in the 1950s. It's mostly diners ;D

Very cool! A similar website that is on my favorites list is Shorpy...
https://www.shorpy.com/
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Re: YouTube Junkie

Post by Smith1776 » Fri May 08, 2020 11:52 am

https://youtu.be/RcYjXbSJBN8

The second Elon Musk interview with Joe Rogan is out. Note, he doesn't smoke pot in this one.

BUT, if you want to learn how to pronounce the name of his newborn, you can find out here!
I still find the James Rickards portfolio fascinating.
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Post by vnatale » Fri May 08, 2020 12:44 pm

Smith1776 wrote:
Fri May 08, 2020 11:52 am
https://youtu.be/RcYjXbSJBN8

The second Elon Musk interview with Joe Rogan is out. Note, he doesn't smoke pot in this one.

BUT, if you want to learn how to pronounce the name of his newborn, you can find out here!
That name was being discussed on sports talk radio this morning....

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Re: YouTube Junkie

Post by Smith1776 » Fri May 08, 2020 12:48 pm

vnatale wrote:
Fri May 08, 2020 12:44 pm
Smith1776 wrote:
Fri May 08, 2020 11:52 am
https://youtu.be/RcYjXbSJBN8

The second Elon Musk interview with Joe Rogan is out. Note, he doesn't smoke pot in this one.

BUT, if you want to learn how to pronounce the name of his newborn, you can find out here!
That name was being discussed on sports talk radio this morning....

Vinny
It's been going around how celebrities use strange public names like this for their kids for media/paparazzi purposes. The idea being that the child's real name is something much more traditional and kept private.

I wouldn't be surprised if that was what was going on here.
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Post by dualstow » Fri May 08, 2020 10:23 pm

Happy Birthday, Stevie
https://youtu.be/b0S4SiLxt1s
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Re: YouTube Junkie

Post by Kriegsspiel » Sun May 10, 2020 6:04 pm

How Beat Detective and Autotune killed music

Fascinating stuff. I knew they abused Autotune, but I didn't know they just edited songs like that. I thought the musicians just played it over and over again until they got it ;D I remember playing around with Fruity Loops at my friends house, it looked a lot like Pro Tools.
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