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DharmaBum

DharmaBum

Just like a young Dave Ellett
Nov 14, 2010
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Brad Roberts of Crash Test Dummies talks about "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm"


Iggy Pop talking about how "Lust For Life" became a song. Him and Bowie were watching TV in Europe and the US Armed Forces Network signal call inspired the beat to the song.


Graham Nash talks about the song "Our House" inspired with his relationship with Joni Mitchell.
 
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SensibleGuy

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Been hearing about a "controversy" the past couple days revolving around some TikTok guy calling a Nirvana song an "oldie." Not really much of a controversy...any song that's 25 or 30 years old is by definition an oldie. However, I do think there's a difference between today's oldies and oldies when I was in College in the 80s. Actually, I think the 80s is the demarcation point when things started changing. Back then, if you were talking about a 30 year old song (or movie or really anything,) that thing seemed like it was from a different world. There was a real challenge involved in attempting to acquire/consume that media. Say you heard some old song in a movie and you wanted to find it - you'd have to either buy the soundtrack, or maybe root around in your dad's records and see if he had it...or tape it from some radio station if you got lucky. If it was visual media of any sort it was likely black and white. It was OLD SHIT! lol.

Now? Go home, type "50s music" into your computer and you have ALL of it. Or don't go home. Just type it into your phone...and you've got ALL of it. lol. The advent of computers/digital media/internet/streaming has sort of stretched pop culture out since the 80s. It's all sort of stayed in a state of suspended animation. Over the past couple weeks I've been hearing 80s tunes from my son's room. He's 16. I asked him "hey what's up with the old music?" He says he heard it in a movie...he likes it...it's cool. lol. He's not limited to a couple songs he's got on tape...he's got all of it at his digital finger tips. Nirvana is decades old music, but it sure doesn't feel like what Sinatra or Buddy Holly felt like to me back in the 80s.
 
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DharmaBum

DharmaBum

Just like a young Dave Ellett
Nov 14, 2010
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A little Canadian content (You're welcome, CRTC)

The 2 best known songs by the Hamilton band, Sven Gali. They had good momentum from their first album with their videos on regular rotation on MuchMusic, but couldn't sustain their success.

"Under The Influence" won the MuchMusic Best Metal Video award in 1993. Who could forget that opening dialogue "Look at me in the eyes...that is right liebchen"


And if you're a band in the mid 80's to early '90's you gotta have a love ballad.


A guy I used to work with told me about this song. He played bass in a band that opened for them in a Winnipeg gig. Only song I know of these guys and only found it through Youtube (or probably Limewire back in the day)

A band called Tariq with the song "Chevrolet Way"
 
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Big Rolling Stones touring memorabilia show coming through town! Ooooooooh! lol...I'm a Stones fan. Even if they had Keef himself propped up in a corner telling stories I wouldn't be interested in this thing,
 
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