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WaitâI guess English is smart because it lets people go "but 'noone' looks like 'noon' so I'll buck the trend and just leave it 'no one.'" And then THAT guy comes along...
Or maybe they'll start spelling it "noöne", like like "coöperate" or "reëlect".
Oh, I know. It's funny how often I see that spelling error (though I guess it may soon be called an "alternate spelling"), especially in the song comments.
English is dumb though
Everyone
Anyone
No one
Everybody
Anybody
Nobody
WaitâI guess English is smart because it lets people go "but 'noone' looks like 'noon' so I'll buck the trend and just leave it 'no one.'" And then THAT guy comes along...
Oh, I know. It's funny how often I see that spelling error (though I guess it may soon be called an "alternate spelling"), especially in the song comments.
When I first joined RP I wrote to William (Then Bill) and said I couldn't stand Dylan and why did he play so much. Was there a method of giving them Zero so RP would skip them. William explained that when he was young he did not like Dylan much but one of his friends made him sit down and listen with the lyrics. Subsequently I have done that with Dylan songs and slowly but surely raised my scores for some Dylan songs. I now do the same with Little Simz, I think her music is good but lyrics are great. I give her a high enough score to get her into my favorites. I joined RP because I could not stand the stupidity of DJs, worse was two competing to see who was the most stupid, but because of that my knowledge and appreciation of new music was not progressing. So congratulations to William and team for introducing me to artists I might otherwise miss. Thank You!!!
Never forget! That PG can rock walls down. When she feels like it. Why I had to walk out of her show at some yuppie AF reserved-seating clap-on-cue venue in Atlanta last time I went to see her. Was like having to go on a date with Mike Pence. Unbearable.
Are my speakers busted or does this track have a crazy stereo mix? Sounds like Bobby is singing from my back-up hard-drive, way over on the left of my desk.
unclehud wrote:
Your speakers are probably OK. Bobby Blue used to appreciate the acoustics of back-up hard drives, and would often ask recording studios to bring in special 48Tbyte units to get that extra oooomph in the bass registers.
Bobby "Blue" Bland - Turn On Your Love Light
Where I related the same story about KALX having a problem with his name... got the specifics the same on both stories so that's good.
I'm pretty sure I commented on "Time" here several years ago. My anecdotes about this song abound:
1. We had some huge metal cone speakers set up for psychological warfare operations at Phu Bai, Viet Nam. They were monsters, about 1,200 lbs apiece, 8 feet on a side (they were square, you see), driven by a set of amplifiers which used huge metal triode amplifier tubes. All in all about 50,000 watts RMS at 80 ohms (yes, RMS watts). One day, after this came out, a cassette player was hitched to the input mixer. The gain was cranked up, and the 100 Kilowatt dedicated generator running 3-phase 440 volts cranked up. The sound was audible out to about 50 miles, and considering the Inverse Square Law of Audio, it was ear-drum destruction at close ranges. Didn't last too long, the water cooling pump failed and somewhere around $10,000 worth of amplifier equipment became a crispy critter. Well, a few years back, the VA finally issued me new hearing aids, so it wasn't all that bad.
1.5 This track was used by the same PsyOps folks in Panama blasting at the Noriega HQ. We wore hearing protectors then.
2. The Chambers Brothers never received a single penny in royalties from this song â they were fucked out of it by their "managers" by means of inflated "advances".
The children these days need a lot more rock'cation than I realized. As the always brill Blake Aued of Athens, GA's Flagpole Magazine recently reminded them, "Joy Division, while a great band, are not punk. Punk does not have synthesizers." They need to hear that kinda stuff outta their elders more often. Example: I recently tried to explain Psychedelic Furs value to a John Hughes movie to my 18-year old. Kid looked at me like I was older than dirt under a Jack White mattress.
Man, that sax is so cool it really sends me.
But, do the merciful thing and fade out on the drum solo.
It goes on for so long that even the drummer gets bored,
listlessly and randomly banging around his drum set. By the time the sax player gets back (from the head?) I've ceased to care. What a waste of a beautiful melody.
Iâve been reading the complaints below about Neilâs singing. Besides being an old complaint I find it ironic considering the point of view of this particular song. A scared young man, a kid really, tentatively doing what he thinks he has to do, which quickly turns out very badly. I think Neilâs voice couldnât be more perfect for it.
Some voices are just beautiful; smooth as warm chocolate pudding and they are a thing to behold. Others impress us with range or skilled technique. And then there are the voices that simply have a character of their own. They often have an everyman (or woman) quality that remind us that the emotions expressed therein are felt by and can come from any of us. I treasure such voices.
