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I only listen to everything but hip-hopera and coperauntry.
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I just learned that Roxanne is by The Police, not the Rolling Stones like I've thought my whole entire life.
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Apr 17, 2021 05:41
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packetmantis posted:I just learned that Roxanne is by The Police, not the Rolling Stones like I've thought my whole entire life. Had you heard Roxanne before now? Or the Stones for that matter?
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Apr 17, 2021 13:37
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You'll know it's a Police track when they repeat the song's title about 47 times in the outro.
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Apr 17, 2021 13:59
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That's as bad as when I realized Dio isn't the band that did Tom Sawyer.
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Apr 17, 2021 14:17
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packetmantis posted:I just learned that Roxanne is by The Police, not the Rolling Stones like I've thought my whole entire life. Don't worry, was sinking beers with a mate who constantly goes on about living in London and knows British music. He hosed up by saying Dire Straits was Australian. Really...WTF
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Apr 17, 2021 14:39
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Humphreys posted:Don't worry, was sinking beers with a mate who constantly goes on about living in London and knows British music. He hosed up by saying Dire Straits was Australian. Really...WTF I’ve heard a lot of people think Dire Straits is American, which is funny because they’re so much less popular here than in their home country.
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Apr 17, 2021 14:42
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The best thing to, indirectly, come out of Dire Straits is Where's Me Jumper? by Sultans of Ping FC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxmZZBJQAKM
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Apr 17, 2021 15:32
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Henchman of Santa posted:I’ve heard a lot of people think Dire Straits is American, which is funny because they’re so much less popular here than in their home country. Anyway the riff in that sing is absolutely killer fizzymercury posted:That's as bad as when I realized Dio isn't the band that did Tom Sawyer. How in the gently caress?
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Apr 17, 2021 15:41
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Every time I heard the song I'd wonder why it didn't sound anything like Dio.
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Apr 17, 2021 15:53
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The best mixup in this thread remains the Pantera/Coldplay guy but that is pretty bizarre.
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Apr 17, 2021 16:48
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I learned just a few days ago that Mr Blue Sky isn't a Beatles song, but that mix-up seems pretty common at least.
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Apr 17, 2021 16:57
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ELO's whole thing was "what if The Beatles but with strings"
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Apr 17, 2021 17:02
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The older you are the more likely you are to have bands all mixed up because there was simply nowhere to check this stuff before the internet. Same with song lyrics. We used to have huge arguments as kids about that, now it's a google search away. 
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Apr 17, 2021 17:11
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Get this: books existed.
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Apr 17, 2021 17:14
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packetmantis posted:I just learned that Roxanne is by The Police, not the Rolling Stones like I've thought my whole entire life. The Steve Martin film?
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Apr 17, 2021 17:24
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Get this: books existed. No poo poo, sherlock, but you'd have to go to the library to find it, or buy it from a store or whatever which is kinda hard to do sometimes like when you're hanging out in the evening and the libraries and stores are closed, and also might be too much trouble for a random thought that popped into your head.
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Apr 17, 2021 17:30
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Get this: books existed. A friend and I once spent and entire high school football game arguing about what country Mati from Captain Planet was from, I like my smartphone and google
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Apr 17, 2021 17:33
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Taeke posted:No poo poo, sherlock, but you'd have to go to the library to find it No we had books at home.
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Apr 17, 2021 17:35
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Henchman of Santa posted:The best mixup in this thread remains the Pantera/Coldplay guy but that is pretty bizarre. The best mixup is usually "rented Leaving Las Vegas for date night. meant to get Honeymoon in Vegas, whoops."
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Apr 17, 2021 18:17
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FreudianSlippers posted:The best thing to, indirectly, come out of Dire Straits is Where's Me Jumper? by Sultans of Ping FC This just gave me flashbacks to the mid 90s when there was an irish language version of this track - the main lyric was "fan nóimead, cá bhfuil mo geansaí". (Wait a minute, where's my jumper) It was so weird because speaking fluent irish is not really very common at all, so why the hell did a novelty song generate an obscure language spin off?? There was a little bit of a spate of irish language novelty songs at the time - one I remember was mostly in english but made Hi-larious use of the word 'focail', which means 'word' but is pronounced 'gently caress'll'. You can guess what the song was like.
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Apr 17, 2021 18:37
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I need to find the Irish version of Where's Me Jumper. Not really from that era but the Gaelic version of I Wanna Fight Your Father is imo superior to the original https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNFfDirBE6w
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Apr 17, 2021 21:26
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Megillah Gorilla posted:The older you are the more likely you are to have bands all mixed up because there was simply nowhere to check this stuff before the internet. The Internet is half the reason we have bands mixed up thanks to early P2P programs
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Milo and POTUS posted:The Internet is half the reason we have bands mixed up thanks to early P2P programs Wait are you telling me Weird Al didn't do the Star Wars Copacabana parody?!?
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Henchman of Santa posted:The best mixup in this thread remains the Pantera/Coldplay guy but that is pretty bizarre. Memory lane. bongwizzard posted:So for some reason I have been conflating Coldplay and Pantera for years now. Like, I somehow thought Coldplay was like a Pantera side project or something.
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Apr 18, 2021 03:03
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Milo and POTUS posted:The Internet is half the reason we have bands mixed up thanks to early P2P programs Remember when System of a Down did the legend of Zelda theme???
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Captain Monkey posted:Remember when System of a Down did the legend of Zelda theme??? I thought that was Dr Demento
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Apr 18, 2021 05:02
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Milo and POTUS posted:The Internet is half the reason we have bands mixed up thanks to early P2P programs all I know is I got a special edition of Numb, originally by Linkin Park, performed by some obscure band named Sapphire Worm, and it was the worst song I ever heard
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Apr 18, 2021 05:28
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Captain Hygiene posted:Wait are you telling me Weird Al didn't do the Star Wars Copacabana parody?!? Oh man literally every parody song was Weird Al. The best thing was the Kazaa days when broadband speeds were still like 1 megabit down and 256K up, and you’d spend all day downloading a movie and it would be the wrong one.
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Hardcordion posted:I learned just a few days ago that Mr Blue Sky isn't a Beatles song, but that mix-up seems pretty common at least. It's a very Beatles-y song quote:The song's arrangement has been called "Beatlesque",[6] bearing similarities to Beatles songs "Martha My Dear" and "A Day in the Life"[7][8] while harmonically it shares its unusual first four chords and harmonic rhythm with "Yesterday".[9] quote:AllMusic's Donald A. Guarisco considered "Mr. Blue Sky" a "miniature pop symphony" and a "multi-layered pop treat that was a pure Beatles pastiche", saying that "the music divides its time between verses that repeat the same two notes to hypnotic effect a la 'I Am the Walrus' and an effervescent, constantly-ascending chorus that recalls". Guarisco also pointed other references to the Beatles such as "the staccato bassline recalls the chorus of 'Hello Goodbye' and pounding piano lines and panting background vocals recall the midsection of 'A Day in the Life'".[14]
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Apr 18, 2021 06:38
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Dross posted:Oh man literally every parody song was Weird Al. Porn Roulette
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Apr 18, 2021 08:19
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FreudianSlippers posted:I need to find the Irish version of Where's Me Jumper. Appreciated the mini Gaeilgeoir derail here. The real mind-blower is that Wheatus recorded a version of "Teenage Dirtbag" phonetically as Gaeilge for some reason. Yeah, it sucks poo poo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl5YckA1wiM
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Dross posted:Oh man literally every parody song was Weird Al. Black sheep lol
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Apr 18, 2021 12:46
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Get this: books existed. Right, of course, the big book of What Band Sang That Song. I can still remember it sitting by the door, freshly delivered, piled up on top of the What Are The Lyrics To Every Song, the Who Was In Pantera Anyway, and the Yellow Pages.
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Hyperlynx posted:Right, of course, the big book of What Band Sang That Song. I can still remember it sitting by the door, freshly delivered, piled up on top of the What Are The Lyrics To Every Song, the Who Was In Pantera Anyway, and the Yellow Pages. Oh, we put it in the you know bookcase.
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Apr 19, 2021 07:25
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Hyperlynx posted:Right, of course, the big book of What Band Sang That Song. Oh I love those books! https://www.amazon.com/Encyclopedia-Recorded-Sound-2-Set/dp/041593835X/ref=sr_1_2
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Apr 19, 2021 07:48
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Oh I love those books! Only $450! And you’d have to know it existed in the first place in order to buy it.
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Apr 19, 2021 11:31
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Dross posted:Only $450! And you’d have to know it existed in the first place in order to buy it. Yeah, you just bought the Book about Books. Simple!
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Humphreys posted:Yeah, you just bought the Book about Books. Simple! Another beloved favourite 
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