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Jets 31 said:
I heard this tune this morning for the first time in a long time, i liked some of Alanis's songs .
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Ugh. Alanis. Equal parts Gilbert Gottfried, Lucille Ball, and microphone feedback, forged together in the bowels of Hell and unleashed upon Man for the sins of all.

Having said that, I understand that art is subjective and that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Just saying, please beholdin' that shit as far away from my ears as possible.

You know that scene in Dogma where Alanis Morrissette sang for a second and Ben Affleck's head exploded? That wasn't CGI, that actually happened. Listen closely, you can faintly hear "it's like RAI-I-AIIIIN.." right before his head explodes. Naturally, they had to heavily mute it to avoid the audience turning it into a Scanners reboot. But yeah, it's been a stunt double Ben living his life ever since. Why do you think Gigli was so horrible?

I must apologize, I don't think I'm really capable of being subjective about her music. I'm just saying, I don't use the phrase "proof that Jesus died in vain" lightly.
 
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AlphaLackey said:
Ugh. Alanis. Equal parts Gilbert Gottfried, Lucille Ball, and microphone feedback, forged together in the bowels of Hell and unleashed upon Man for the sins of all.

Having said that, I understand that art is subjective and that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Just saying, please beholdin' that shit as far away from my ears as possible.

You know that scene in Dogma where Alanis Morrissette sang for a second and Ben Affleck's head exploded? That wasn't CGI, that actually happened. Listen closely, you can faintly hear "it's like RAI-I-AIIIIN.." right before his head explodes. Naturally, they had to heavily mute it to avoid the audience turning it into a Scanners reboot. But yeah, it's been a stunt double Ben living his life ever since. Why do you think Gigli was so horrible?

I must apologize, I don't think I'm really capable of being subjective about her music. I'm just saying, I don't use the phrase "proof that Jesus died in vain" lightly.
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I genuinely loved and laughed at this post. Brilliant. I don't hate Alanis but she was so angry. Having heard more about her background in the music industry it would appear justifiable.

With a hat tip to @nobody imp0rtant who pointed out that the Edmund Fitzgerald sank on this date in 1975 I give you the Headstones version. The Gordon Lightfoot version is posted in the lounge but I really liked this version. In part because I have always liked The Headstones more than the Hip and would argue they were the better band to come out of KCVI. Many would obviously disagree.



On a completely separate topic I recall a comment from a GDT and had to post the video below. For @ryerockarola in particular. I don't have particular love of the Imagine Dragons but tried to force myself to like/listen to them, because I have a 21 year old daughter than likes them a great deal. There are a few songs I like, many I dislike, but this one is my favorite.

 
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buggs said:
With a hat tip to @nobody imp0rtant who pointed out that the Edmund Fitzgerald sank on this date in 1975 I give you the Headstones version. The Gordon Lightfoot version is posted in the lounge but I really liked this version. In part because I have always liked The Headstones more than the Hip and would argue they were the better band to come out of KCVI. Many would obviously disagree.
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I committed the sacrilege today of suggesting that this version by Jag Panzer was better than the original. And with all respect to Gordon, I said what I said.



And yeah, Alanis, I just.. like I've long loved Melissa Etheridge and my friend once tried to suggest Alanis was comparable and I was like

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And I'm trapped in the late 80s...


Rumor has it that this song got Saxon banned from Saudi Arabia.


Think I told the story about the time I saw Molly Hatchet at the Bank on Main years back. When your jeans are flapping, your ears are probably bleeding. True story.

 
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Be it resolved that I acknowledge that the folk song "Clementine" is a truly meritless dirge; if you were going to ask a world class vocalist and a world class pianist to cut a version that would fool people into thinking this piece of dreck was, like, some epic anthem? You'd get this:



Thou art last and gone forever; dreadful sorry, Clementine.
 
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true story: for the longest time, until I heard this song, I thought that "Sixteen Tons" must have been some Spike Jones / Benny Hill novelty parody of "Sixteen Candles", about (you know) a very plump teenage girl :P

Of course, I know now that this is perhaps the greatest working man anthem in like the history of EVER



Seriously, I love how in the third verse he just breaks character to talk about the men he's personally beaten to death, lol.
 
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AlphaLackey said:
Ugh. Alanis. Equal parts Gilbert Gottfried, Lucille Ball, and microphone feedback, forged together in the bowels of Hell and unleashed upon Man for the sins of all.

Having said that, I understand that art is subjective and that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Just saying, please beholdin' that shit as far away from my ears as possible.

You know that scene in Dogma where Alanis Morrissette sang for a second and Ben Affleck's head exploded? That wasn't CGI, that actually happened. Listen closely, you can faintly hear "it's like RAI-I-AIIIIN.." right before his head explodes. Naturally, they had to heavily mute it to avoid the audience turning it into a Scanners reboot. But yeah, it's been a stunt double Ben living his life ever since. Why do you think Gigli was so horrible?

I must apologize, I don't think I'm really capable of being subjective about her music. I'm just saying, I don't use the phrase "proof that Jesus died in vain" lightly.
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:laugh:
 
A response to Buggs post with Tainted Love by Soft Cell.


At the same time I learned that "I Love Rock 'N Roll" was a cover song, I learned that "Tainted Love" is also a cover song.
The original was cut by Gloria Jones in 1964. With a little freedom you can hear the '60's vibe in the Soft Cell cover.


Gloria Jones was involved with Marc Bolan. They had a son together and according to Wiki, she was driving the car on the night Marc Bolan passed away.

This is her talking about the song and a little bit about her relationship with Marc Bolan
 
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