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Carthag Tuek posted:gently caress Didn’t stop Falco talking that whole shrieky Teutonic scat-singing style to the bank a few years later. Hell the 80s were a time when anyone could have an avant-garde pop hit out of nowhere, so Nina Hagen getting a hit out of something like ‘New York, New York’ wouldn’t have been that unusual. Laurie Anderson got to No. 2 in the UK!
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One Swell Foop posted:The puppets in that song were all taken directly from a satirical TV show called Spitting image, which was consistently anti-Reagan and anti-Thatcher. Spitting Image riffed on Collins, and he wanted to sue, but he changed his mind and hired them for the Land of Confusion video.
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knife_of_justice posted:Didn’t stop Falco talking that whole shrieky Teutonic scat-singing style to the bank a few years later. Hell the 80s were a time when anyone could have an avant-garde pop hit out of nowhere, so Nina Hagen getting a hit out of something like ‘New York, New York’ wouldn’t have been that unusual. Laurie Anderson got to No. 2 in the UK! How many people are about to figure out that Taco and Falco are two different musicians
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Jul 1, 2020 21:49
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that Laurie Anderson song has a verse from the tao in it
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Jul 1, 2020 21:59
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purple death ray posted:How many people are about to figure out that Taco and Falco are two different musicians Who the gently caress is Taco?
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Who the gently caress is Taco? Taco did Rock Me Amadeus, Falco did Puttin' on the Ritz Lmao wait I got them confused, you got me again 2020 E2: looks like they both did a rock me Amadeus?? purple death ray has a new favorite as of 23:00 on Jul 1, 2020 |
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Jul 1, 2020 22:58
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purple death ray posted:Taco did Rock Me Amadeus, Falco did Puttin' on the Ritz You're thinking of Jive Bunny.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:You're thinking of Jive Bunny. Everyone of a certain age in the UK just recoiled in horror. Fortunately that whole format of ‘60s/70s pop medley becomes a big hit’ is completely dead in the water now that the superior originals are available on demand via Spotify, YouTube etc. No need to wait for a convenient reissue or a Jive Bunny to curate it, thank god. EDIT: Jive Bunny got to No. 11 in the USA? What the poo poo?! purple death ray posted:Taco did Rock Me Amadeus, Falco did Puttin' on the Ritz And neither of them are Klaus Nomi! knife_of_justice has a new favorite as of 23:28 on Jul 1, 2020 |
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Jul 1, 2020 23:25
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Falco is a wingman from Star Fox who's kind of an arsehole, and Taco is a wizard.
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Hyperlynx posted:Taco is a wizard. His brother, Art, dieded.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:You're thinking of Jive Bunny. Everyone is always thinking Jive Bunny but singing it to the tune of Road Runner. Right?
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3D Megadoodoo posted:You're thinking of Jive Bunny. What the gently caress is Jive Bunny? That sounds unbearably racist actually
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Jul 1, 2020 23:46
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purple death ray posted:What the gently caress is Jive Bunny? That sounds unbearably racist actually 
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Didn’t it have the voice of a clearly white man doing a Little Richard impression. The ‘c-c-c’mon everybody’ is all I remember. It just sounded so cheap.
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I have no idea. I just googled the name and that came up
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purple death ray posted:What the gently caress is Jive Bunny? That sounds unbearably racist actually You're probably thinking of the 1987 clay animation music video of Reet Petite but that wasn't actually Jive Bunny.
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christmas boots posted:I have no idea. I just googled the name and that came up This alone is the most exposure Jive Bunny have gotten since 1990
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purple death ray posted:What the gently caress is Jive Bunny? That sounds unbearably racist actually Not having knowledge about another culture's pop culture and thus immediately declaring it evil is also kinda racist, or, at the very least, jingoistic and elitist.
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hawowanlawow posted:that Laurie Anderson song has a verse from the tao in it I read this as Louie Anderson and was very confused.
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hawowanlawow posted:that Laurie Anderson song has a verse from the taco in it Fixed. She bursts into ‘Puttin’ on the Ritz’ near the end.
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rydiafan posted:I read this as Louie Anderson and was very confused. I read it as Loni Anderson!
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Jul 2, 2020 01:21
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I read it as Lauri Andersson.
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Ferrule posted:Not having knowledge about another culture's pop culture and thus immediately declaring it evil is also kinda racist, or, at the very least, jingoistic and elitist. Lol jive bunny is my culture.
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I guess I will concede that I'm looking at it from my perspective as an American but from my perspective if you told me that was a candy from the 1920s that had to change its name in the 60s I would believe it. It's practically a portmanteau of two different slurs. For all I know it's a zwarte pete situation
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purple death ray posted:What the gently caress is Jive Bunny? That sounds unbearably racist actually It's Bon Jivy in a bad disguise I think.
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Jive Bunny can't be real, the thread is taking us for a ride again.
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zedprime posted:Jive Bunny can't be real, the thread is taking us for a ride again. Explain this picture then, with Jive Bunny in IRL life with some guy: 
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3D Megadoodoo posted:some guy Chubby Checker?
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One Swell Foop posted:Chubby Checker? No I'm Jerry Cotton.
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Little Richard's brother, Big Richard
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500excf type r posted:Little Richard's brother, Big Richard I thought we were getting rid of that rear end in a top hat.
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zedprime posted:Jive Bunny can't be real, the thread is taking us for a ride again. Is Jive Bunny the UK’s version of Candle Cove? He (or whatever the hell that thing is) must have been popular enough to have three No.1s, but everyone’s memory of it is hazy and granulated and no one remembers buying any of the records. Also what the hell is that thing. knife_of_justice has a new favorite as of 21:59 on Jul 2, 2020 |
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Estelle Getty played Bea Arthur's mother in the Golden Girls. In reality she was a year younger than Arthur.
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So this is the thread about etymology right? I was studying the history of studying history: Back in the day, studying ancient history was all Bible all the time. Everybody looking for that one ark. Or that one other ark. Egypt got popular thanks to the whole Exodus thing, but there was a group that was getting tired of the Moses, Moses, Moses all the time and started to look into the actual history of Egypt, well, when they weren’t robbing graves and turning mummies into paint of course. Enter Sir Fulton Roberts-Reed, a British scholar who took a particular interest in the ancient gods of Egypt. He was the one who brought the God of the underworld and star of his own Wii game, Anubis, and Horus Birdman, attorney of the afterlife into the public consciousness in Europe. He was releasing stories he claimed were translated from hieroglyphics, often involving interactions that would make Zeus blush, but people were really starting to question the veracity of these tales, with questions like “Bastet and Sekhmet? Aren’t these two cat-girl-gods sisters? Why are you describing their doubly, maybe triply unchristian acts in such detail FULTON?” and “Why don’t any of your translations ever include Isis, the human looking one FULTON?” To his dying day he denied his “translations” were falsified or that they were inappropriate. He had built a following around himself and the animal-headed gods over the years, and they granted themselves the rather pretentious title of “anthropomorphism apologists”, or anthropologists for short. Real talk, there's a story about shenanigans involving dyeing beer red so Sekhmet gets drunk thinking she's slurping up the blood of humanity so she doesn't actually kill everybody, oops! And she also got turned into a cow this one time? Do I smell wacky sitcom?
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Was that an attempt at a joke? Because anthropos is ‘humans/human beings’ and logia is ‘study’ so it’s just the study of human beings.
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Captain Monkey posted:Was that an attempt at a joke? Because anthropos is ‘humans/human beings’ and logia is ‘study’ so it’s just the study of human beings. Holy poo poo you regged one day before me! So you should know it's a godsdamn attempt at a joke
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I want a Netflix movie of the Wu Tang saga. That poo poo was adorable; in the movie they come to your town and do a free show. I was never into them, and only in the last 5-10 years listened to more of their poo poo. I had no clue the Staten=Shaolin. That poo poo blew my mind. Do any of you have like a site or source that runs their life down?
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bulletsponge13 posted:I want a Netflix movie of the Wu Tang saga. That poo poo was adorable; in the movie they come to your town and do a free show. Are you seriously asking people to reveal the Wu Tang secret??
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bulletsponge13 posted:I want a Netflix movie of the Wu Tang saga. That poo poo was adorable; in the movie they come to your town and do a free show. Showtime did a documentary about them recently and Hulu had an original series.
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purple death ray posted:Are you seriously asking people to reveal the Wu Tang secret?? I thought it was like Fight Club- you tell everyone everything, but end with "But we don't talk about that".
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