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the objective of the game for me at least was to point out that the two songs have the exact same guitar hook and it bothers me nobody else seems to have noticed
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Alaois posted:the objective of the game for me at least was to point out that the two songs have the exact same guitar hook and it bothers me nobody else seems to have noticed Did you say something about the hook? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdz5kCaCRFM
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Best part of Napster was finding the poorly named files. Songfromfightclub.mpg for Where Is My Mind or Gin_And_Juice_Phish.mp3 were both really popular.
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Dec 8, 2015 04:59
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twistedmentat posted:Best part of Napster was finding the poorly named files. One of my old Napster hobbies was to find as many songs misattributed to Rammstein as possible. Every single song that was written in German, whether it sounded like Rammstein or not, was labelled "Rammstein." It even bled into songs that weren't in German. I'd even find songs by Russian acoustic bands that said "Rammstein." Nobody could ever be assed to do any research, either. At least some of them made sense. Neu Deutsche Härte bands at least sound similar to Rammstein but, well, Oomph!, Megaherz, and what have you are not Rammstein. Wolfheim doesn't sound at all like Rammstein but it didn't matter; it was in German, Peter Hepner must be in Rammstein!
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Dec 8, 2015 05:13
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It's interesting now to watch the early seasons of the Simpsons back to back. The character evolve and the tone shifts very quickly as they are trying different things out. Early on the influence of television was a huge theme running through the show, something I didn't catch onto as a kid.
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nirvana - i'm a loser baby.mp3
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wierd al - what if god smoked canibus.mp3 e: beaten by hours, ah well
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Ferrule posted:Scott Weiland's corpse is pretty 90's. STP was a pretty good band.
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Dec 8, 2015 13:37
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Heath posted:System_of_a_down_Zelda_song_RARE.mp3 So did SOAD actually record that or not? I've heard a Zelda song and the singer sounds a hell of a lot like Serj Tankian.
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Dec 8, 2015 15:35
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Pastry of the Year posted:wierd al - what if god smoked canibus.mp3 Basically every parody song has been attributed to Weird Al at some point. Like that "Elmo's Got A Gun" one. I understand being associated with that one particularly annoys him.
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Dec 8, 2015 15:38
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A good rule of thumb is that if it's dirty or controversial in any way, it's probably not Weird Al. He's very clean. I also believe that even though he's not required to by law, he always gets permission from the artists he parodies, which is why he's never done (for example) a Led Zeppelin parody.
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Dec 8, 2015 15:42
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Pastry of the Year posted:wierd al - what if god smoked canibus.mp3 I really wouldn't be surprised if that particular parody had several independent spawns, but there's oh, I'd say a good chance that it was Bob Rivers/Twisted Radio that did that. In the 90's Seattle Market there was a great radio station, 99.9 FM, KISW. They were an Album Oriented Rock station, with good management and they had a heavy metal skew in the afternoon and evenings. It really was a great mix for rock with out being purely classic or active which is how all the old AOR stations went. Anyway, Twisted Radio was the morning show, and it was hosted by Bob, Spike, and Joe, and they were a very cordial show with call ins, and interviews and whatnot without the painfulness of shock jocks. I was probably spoiled for radio hosts because of them as it was pretty much just like a bunch of friends hanging out and bullshitting in the morning while listening to music. Bob had a recording studio in his garage, and they would usually record a new parody song (referred to as "Twisted Tunes") there every week or so, many were topical to the Seattle area of the time. Also, when artists would come to town, he'd usually have them at his garage to record a couple songs "Live at Bob's Garage." Apparently it was officially relased on "Best of Twisted Tunes Volume 2" http://www.amazon.com/Best-Of-Twisted-Tunes-Vol/dp/B000002JE7/ref=ntt_mus_dp_dpt_7
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1000 Brown M and Ms posted:So did SOAD actually record that or not? I've heard a Zelda song and the singer sounds a hell of a lot like Serj Tankian. No. That one was written by a "Joe Pleiman" and recorded by his band "The Rabbit Joint".
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Dec 8, 2015 18:07
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Xenoletum posted:Did you say something about the hook? Did someone say Hook? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um8mMa5w41A
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Dec 8, 2015 18:23
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twistedmentat posted:Best part of Napster was finding the poorly named files. That Gin and Juice cover popped up on a Bluegrass Covers playlist I found on Spotify. 15 year old mystery finally solved.
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1000 Brown M and Ms posted:A good rule of thumb is that if it's dirty or controversial in any way, it's probably not Weird Al. He's very clean. I also believe that even though he's not required to by law, he always gets permission from the artists he parodies, which is why he's never done (for example) a Led Zeppelin parody. Yeah. After the Amish Paradise debacle, he even now insists on personally asking the artists himself first. For those that don't know, he had one of his people ask one of Coolio's people if it was okay to parody Gangsta's Paradise. The assistant said it was fine without asking Coolio, but everybody else assumed he did. After the song was made, and the album cover made, and the video made, all going with the joke, Coolio found out and was pissed that this nerdy white guy was making dumb jokes about his song about troubled African-American youth. Al got pretty publicly upset that it all happened. I love how in the Napster era pretty much every song released in the 80s got misattributed at least once. Sometimes to a common level. According to Napster The Cure performed "Come on Eileen" and Pet Shop Boys did the soundtrack to The Neverending Story.
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Out of curiosity, is it just a quirk of southern New England or are Sublime and Phish cover bands still popular everywhere? edit: the industrial music discussion reminded me of VNV Nation - Honour being relabeled as The Tapeworm Project - Slowdriver, giving false hope to legions of NIN fans that the collaboration would actually release music at some point. 1000 Brown M and Ms posted:A good rule of thumb is that if it's dirty or controversial in any way, it's probably not Weird Al. He's very clean. I also believe that even though he's not required to by law, he always gets permission from the artists he parodies, which is why he's never done (for example) a Led Zeppelin parody. He does, get permission even though he's covered under Fair Use; this comes up in his Behind the Music episode. Coolio was asked about Amish Paradise, and he said that he though it was too serious of a song to make light of with a parody, so one of the producers flat-out lied and told Weird Al it was OK. The opposite happened a couple of years ago over Perform This Way, which Lady Gaga's manager made him actually record before telling Weird Al that she had said no. He put it on Youtube since he wasn't including it on the album and was surprised when Lady Gaga herself contacted him to let him know that she loved the song and approved of it being on the album. https://alyankovic.wordpress.com/the-gaga-saga/ '90s things: knowing this much about Weird Al. GWBBQ has a new favorite as of 19:16 on Dec 8, 2015 |
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Vladimir Poutine posted:It was weird how no one really noticed at the time that this song is about taking meth He even says "crystal meth" in the drat song and it was never bleeped out. It always is now when I hear it, so apparently they figured it out at some point. But seriously, everyone knew what crystal meth was, we talked about it in DARE, so how did that skip on by the censors?
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OctoberBlues posted:He even says "crystal meth" in the drat song and it was never bleeped out. It always is now when I hear it, so apparently they figured it out at some point. Obligatory mention of the fact that someone at Disney's PR department was one of those missing the Meth references and put it on a commercial for "The Tigger Movie"
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GWBBQ posted:He does, get permission even though he's covered under Fair Use; this comes up in his Behind the Music episode. Coolio was asked about Amish Paradise, and he said that he though it was too serious of a song to make light of with a parody, so one of the producers flat-out lied and told Weird Al it was OK. The opposite happened a couple of years ago over Perform This Way, which Lady Gaga's manager made him actually record before telling Weird Al that she had said no. He put it on Youtube since he wasn't including it on the album and was surprised when Lady Gaga herself contacted him to let him know that she loved the song and approved of it being on the album. https://alyankovic.wordpress.com/the-gaga-saga/ I've always liked those details. That sort of thing is probably part of why most people remember him at least somewhat fondly instead of "Ugh, that parody rear end in a top hat". My useless trivia bit I remember from a special (had that bit about coolio, so probably the same one) was how he got the idea for "Like a Surgeon" from Madona saying "I bet Weird Al makes 'Like a Surgeon'".
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Section Z posted:I've always liked those details. That sort of thing is probably part of why most people remember him at least somewhat fondly instead of "Ugh, that parody rear end in a top hat". Rather than bogging down the thread with Weird Al Facts, I'll just link his Behind the Music if anyone wants to watch it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxOWsEgXnVk
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twistedmentat posted:Gin_And_Juice_Phish.mp3 were both really popular. I feel like I was the only one who had a correctly labeled copy of this. It was The Gourds. I don't know any of their other stuff, but I was really into cover songs when I was 18/19 (good, bad, the in-between) so I'd just search for cover on Napster, yet amazingly whatever one I found was right. Nostalgia4Butts posted:Mighty_mighty_bosstones_super_mario.mp3 Same with this...it was Mr.Bungle.
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DrBouvenstein posted:I feel like I was the only one who had a correctly labeled copy of this. I knew that because I have friends who are huge Mike Patton fans. And yea, I used to have tons of covers of Depeche Mode, New Order, Joy Division and Smiths covers by everyone you can think of. Some I still have, like a cover of Ceremony by Atlantic Popes (which i later discovered is made up of mostly members of Alphaville). I at one point had nearly 300 versions of Blue Monday and 200 of Enjoy the Silence. Most were crummy, badly recorded at shows, or by bands which had no idea what they're doing. Though one thing I encountered a few times was a song you'd download and listen to, and then when you put it on an cd, it would become a completely different song. It was weird. There's a get up kids song I had that when I burned it and listened to it, it turned into a completely different song which at the end it says "Hey you should buy cds!". It was weird. I never encountered it outside of it, but I've heard of a few other people encountering it.
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I think I still have a 96kbps mp3 version of 'A Funkey Called Medina'
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Choco1980 posted:Obligatory mention of the fact that someone at Disney's PR department was one of those missing the Meth references and put it on a commercial for "The Tigger Movie" There was an only slightly edited version of "Semi-Charmed Life" done by the Chipmunks for one of their movies! I listened to it while reading the original lyrics and it seemed the only lines they changed were "she comes round and she goes down on me", "doing crystal meth will lift you up until you break", and "slide up around the belly, face down on the mattress" That means that, e.g., the following lines seem to have made it into the Chipmunks version unchanged: - "I'm packed and I'm holding" - "chop another line like a coda with a curse" - "I took the hit that I was given, then I bumped again, then I bumped again" - "how do I get back there to the place where I fell asleep inside you" - "those little red panties they pass the test" - "I'm scared I'm not coming down" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKCCedM4Ugs
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Considering the Chipmunks look like dealers on the posters, I think the usage of that song is apt.
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twistedmentat posted:
Similarly I remember getting songs that had AIM message tones mixed in and ones that halfway through turned into ear splitting static. I think they were released by record labels as a sort of guerilla tactic, to make downloading songs such a crap shoot you wouldn't bother.
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twistedmentat posted:Best part of Napster was finding the poorly named files. I got into Mindless Self Indulgence in 10th grade because I downloaded a song tagged as "Orgy - F*ggot"
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Dec 9, 2015 01:49
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GWBBQ posted:I don't know if I would say very clean, Bad Hair Day had "I Remember Larry," a song about a neighborhood kid driving him so crazy with pranks that he ends up murdering the kid, and The Night Santa Went Crazy is about Santa going on a killing spree at the North Pole (plus the single had an "extra gory" version.) Sex and drugs are dirty, violence is just good clean American tradition.
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RagnarokAngel posted:Similarly I remember getting songs that had AIM message tones mixed in and ones that halfway through turned into ear splitting static. Sort of. At one point labels started doing that to promotional releases that went to reviewers and bookers and what not. The idea was it would prevent the people who received the modified tracks from making copies and sharing them on the internet but that obviously didn't work.
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OctoberBlues posted:He even says "crystal meth" in the drat song and it was never bleeped out. It always is now when I hear it, so apparently they figured it out at some point. The liner notes for the album misspells meth as "myth". I've heard it was done on purpose (or left uncorrected when it was discovered) for plausible deniability about what the line really was so they wouldn't get a parental advisory sticker on the album. I heard that on a fan site a billion years ago so take it with a grain of salt. Seems like there's enough stuff on the album to possibly get an advisory label anyway but who knows.
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Choco1980 posted:Yeah. After the Amish Paradise debacle, he even now insists on personally asking the artists himself first. For those that don't know, he had one of his people ask one of Coolio's people if it was okay to parody Gangsta's Paradise. The assistant said it was fine without asking Coolio, but everybody else assumed he did. After the song was made, and the album cover made, and the video made, all going with the joke, Coolio found out and was pissed that this nerdy white guy was making dumb jokes about his song about troubled African-American youth. Al got pretty publicly upset that it all happened. The best part is that Coolio and Weird Al didn't turn it into a huge rivalry. Given how petulant music industry celebrities can be that was kind of a shocker. They also made up later and Coolio eventually said something to the effect of "yeah ok that was pretty funny in retrospect."
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ToxicSlurpee posted:The best part is that Coolio and Weird Al didn't turn it into a huge rivalry. Given how petulant music industry celebrities can be that was kind of a shocker. They also made up later and Coolio eventually said something to the effect of "yeah ok that was pretty funny in retrospect." Not to mention Coolio's song was already a cover of a Stevie Wonder tune, Al could've just gone to Stevie's people and asked and Coolio couldn't do poo poo about it. I always thought that was at least part of why there was never any legal action, but I hated hearing all the crybaby people bitch about someone doing a parody of their favorite "serious dark rap song" like Weird Al had busted their door down and killed their families while making it.
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Ozz81 posted:Not to mention Coolio's song was already a cover of a Stevie Wonder tune, Al could've just gone to Stevie's people and asked and Coolio couldn't do poo poo about it. I always thought that was at least part of why there was never any legal action, but I hated hearing all the crybaby people bitch about someone doing a parody of their favorite "serious dark rap song" like Weird Al had busted their door down and killed their families while making it. The main reason there was no legal action was because there couldn't be. Parody (comedy in general, really) has some very strong protection all the way up to the Supreme Court. There was bugger all Coolio could have done. The main reason that Weird Al asks permission is because he isn't a jerk.
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Of course, there ended up being a reversal of that Coolio situation later on with Al's parody of "You're Beautiful" where Al got James Blunt's permission, but not the label, which caused it to get pulled from the album.
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