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Conrad_Birdie posted:Yup anyone who thinks they don’t know that song DEFINITELY knows that song. That was my reaction when it kicked in, and also my gf and friend’s reaction when I played it for them later hahaha. Re-creating the famous Risky Business dance scene, no less. An odd year, it was I clipped the "Life in a Northern Town" performance. You can watch it on my Google Drive. Dude going ham on the timpani steals the show Moai Ou posted:The whole thing weighs a good 15 pounds/3 Garth Brooks sets. I want you to know that I appreciated this. caligulamprey posted:Man I didn't get any bonuses for working throughout the pandemic, all I got was PTSD. You really should check your PMs
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Turbinosamente posted:Tee hee my wave of vinyl has started to arrive. I ordered some poo poo from Alternative Tentacles about a month ago but their fulfillment is all hosed up because they were told their warehouse wasn't up to code and just before that they had a big sale and got a deluge of orders right around the time Jello put out a new album. And then of course they're an indie label. So Alternative Tentacles is chaos right now. Which is fine because they're a small label and Jello Biafra is the best. The wait will make the music sound even better!
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CPL593H posted:OH poo poo. I was just about to say I've never heard this song but then they did that part from the Pure Moods commercial. So technically I've never heard the song but I remember the Pure Moods part. Apparently they also did the cover of Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want that was used in Ferris Bueller's Day Off which I didn't even realize was a cover. Also that's not "NA NA NA" it's "MA MA MA". Wasn't Life in a Northern Town also in a Coca-Cola commercial?
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Picked up a few albums while out antiquing, I think the winner so far is Tangerine Dream’s Exit. On another note, anyone know where to find the numbers of certain pressings? I’m curious how many LPs of Melissa Etheridge’s Yes I Am that Island Europe put out.
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pwn posted:Re-creating the famous Risky Business dance scene, no less. An odd year, it was Thanks for sharing; this rules
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CPL593H posted:Pure Moods Yeah, I was born in 1993 but somehow missed these infomercials! The Buzz Ballads ones are etched into my brain, though! Plus the annoying Shirley Temple compiliation informericals... My partner marvels that certain 90s/early 2000s songs just...skipped me somehow? Two examples off the top of my head are Butterfly by Crazy Town and Flagpole Sitter by Harvey Danger....I never heard those songs until the past couple of years, when viewing a "stupid 90s songs" YouTube comp. Part of it may have been growing up in the Bible Belt? I definitely know some irritating 90s/2000s country songs (as well as crunk and Christian rock) that he had never heard of and had apparently never reached out here to California. Man, now the Buzz Ballads infomercials are stuck in my head again.... Very minor skip during Money for Nothing on my Dire Straits album! Boo.
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Don Giovanni Records jokingly put out a press release years ago that they were going to do Pure Moods as an RSD release and fast forward seven years and it sounds pretty reasonable.
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Read After Burning posted:Yeah, I was born in 1993 but somehow missed these infomercials! The Buzz Ballads ones are etched into my brain, though! Plus the annoying Shirley Temple compiliation informericals... You didn't miss out on anything. Also, Monster Ballads commercial or GTFO. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNCiXKpO94g It really goes to show you how insidious advertising is that I not only remember all this bullshit but what songs were in the commercial and sometimes the order.
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CPL593H posted:Fake edit: Okay it turns out Life in a Northern Town was on Pure Moods II, but Jesus H. Christ you could not escape those loving commercials. Life in a Northern Town is, according to something I read back in the day, about Nick Drake who didn't live in the North at all and also from the moment I made the connection and put the two together, I have always wanted to play a medley of Orinoco Flow and Sister Ray (since they're in the same key and you can pretty easily mutate the riff from one into the other.) as far as pure moods on vinyl goes, the predecessor compilations (Moods: A Contemporary Soundtrack and Moods ACS 2) do exist https://www.discogs.com/Various-Moods/release/2142237 https://www.discogs.com/Various-Moods-2-A-Contemporary-Soundtrack/release/2358264 and contain the vast majority of the material that would go to make pure moods as we know it, but also include a lot of other stuff that is on the whole, absolutely baffling, including tv theme tunes for british shows I've never seen (two different inspector morse tracks, poirot) and I'm tempted to get those. the thing with some hypothetical future release of pure moods on vinyl is, tho, that there are actually a couple-few different versions of that CD - the 1994 version had chariots of fire, little fluffy clouds, another green world (and inspector morse of all the loving things), the 1997 version got...a remix of the x-files theme (and adiemus and makambo and a couple other tracks but that x-files poo poo is the corniest goddamn thing. makambo rules tho)
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hexwren posted:Life in a Northern Town is, according to something I read back in the day, about Nick Drake I really hope no one gets the brilliant idea to release the Pure Moods comp on vinyl because there's enough worthless garbage clogging up the pressing plants and the only reason anyone would buy it would be as a joke but then people will balk at the price so it'll just be collecting dust at record stores and Walmart. And yeah that version of the X-Files theme is terrible and holy poo poo does it not capture the feel of that show at all. It's the epitome of lovely 90s electronic music.
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CPL593H posted:You didn't miss out on anything. Also, Monster Ballads commercial or GTFO. I’m pretty sure I could recite the freedom rock commercial perfectly if I had to
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I am genuinely shocked that nobody has gone ahead with an LP release of Pure Moods. You’d clean up with irony/nostalgia dollars. Oh man you could make it a really trippy colored vinyl too WAIIIHH-YAI-HAAAAAA
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BigFactory posted:I’m pretty sure I could recite the freedom rock commercial perfectly if I had to I hardly watched television throughout the 1990s and in fact seldom listened to the radio either. But I have some like that from my childhood and I still remember the one little snatch of a song as well as all the others in the commercial. when I was a little boy in the rural midwest, it was the previous generation advertising records on television, as well as K-Tel of course. Enoch Light actually used to advertise on TV. So did Roger Whittaker. That's the only way I had of being familiar with those performers, and how I knew "Fools Rush In" when UB40 covered it, LOL. When I was a child I had a picture of just dozens of fools rushing past me sort of like on the Metro platform or something, but with sort of psychedelic lighting. FOOLS! I'd cry as they rushed past, to the left and to the right, but they'd stop for no man. And as for Enoch Light and the Light Brigade, they were the leaders in the most awkward attempts at embracing modernity with a wind/brass ensemble. Some of their albums are absolute winners as candidates for an Austin Powers movie soundtrack. There were other bands in the Salvation Army record bins that fit the bill pretty well too, but none that sounded so much like later Devo.
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I'd 100% buy a pure moods vinyl release and then sail away, sail away, sail away... IIRC Enigma got sued several times over unlicensed samples and settled. They honestly may have never even got the exposure they did if it weren't for these dumb commercials that have been forever drilled into my brain from childhood.
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I would imagine some folk get upset whenever Pitchfork's even mentioned but their review was p funny if you appreciate the compilation's place in time https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/various-artists-pure-moods-vol-1/
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hexwren posted:and also from the moment I made the connection and put the two together, I have always wanted to play a medley of Orinoco Flow and Sister Ray (since they're in the same key and you can pretty easily mutate the riff from one into the other.) It's funny how Orinoco Flow permeated the cracks and crevices of American media at the time. I don't really have much recollection of this advertisement but those 4 bars or so going sail away, sail away, sail away were inescapable. Was there a SNL skit about escaping from Enya's Orinoco Flow at any point? petit choux fucked around with this message at 14:20 on Aug 2, 2021 |
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Goth Odell Beckham posted:I would imagine some folk get upset whenever Pitchfork's even mentioned but their review was p funny if you appreciate the compilation's place in time I've never read a better Pitchfork review. Thank you. ED: oh, jfc, we could just have a thread about pitchfork reviews. petit choux fucked around with this message at 14:19 on Aug 2, 2021 |
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Goth Odell Beckham posted:I would imagine some folk get upset whenever Pitchfork's even mentioned but their review was p funny if you appreciate the compilation's place in time Pure Moods (and the albums that it was drawn from) was SUPER popular in my 90s unitarian universalist youth group.
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stealie72 posted:Holy poo poo, reading that review and then listening to the commercial brought me deep back into the 90s for a few minutes. Good lord. Back when drifting along in a softly lit world beyond time or whatever was a possibility. LOL this has opened a Pandora's box of nostalgia here guys. I was dating the "priestess" of a CUUPS group (Covenant of Unitarian Universalist PaganS) in '89, her entire life was an Enya song. Unfortunately my entire life was a Kerouac book. I've been debating getting this CD now that you all have brought it to my attention, just endless LOLs. And just sail away, sail away, sail away ...
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It's that or putting out something you really really want (Koyaanisqatsi full soundtrack) in a stupidly depressed amount like they're making graphics cards or something I got the bastard but at what cost at what cost
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:It's that or putting out something you really really want (Koyaanisqatsi full soundtrack) in a stupidly depressed amount like they're making graphics cards or something That's what I want to know. Hopefully under $30.
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Heaven isn't too far away They taught us how to love Give me something to believe in They taught us how to live Can you take me high enough? And now they're back. Monster Ballads. 35 powerful hits on 2 CDs and 2 cassettes. "It's awesome!" Is this love... Whitesnake ...that I'm feeling? Just to be the next to... Mr. Big ...be with you. Europe OOOOHHHHH CAAAARRRIIIIEEEE Don't know what ya got... Cinderella ...till it's gaaaawwwnnn More than words... I'm gonna take ya by surprise and make ya realize, Amanda. The huge hits on monster ballads will take you higher. Headed for a hearbreak Winger Firehouse When I look into your eyes Take me to the magic of the moment No there's no one home in my house of pain No one knows more about passion than the legendary artists of Monster Ballads. When I see you smile Love is on the way I can see it in your eyes This 35-track collection is not sold in stores. Don't close your eyes Rush delivery available And I can't fight this feeling Every bad boy has a soft side. Get Monster Ballads Baybeeeaaaayeeeaaaah I can't choose when I'm with you oooohhhhwooooaaahhhhhh To order call the number on your screen or visit our website. 2 CDs, $26.99. 2 cassettes, $21.99. Do it now! 
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Bloodplay it again posted:Heaven isn't too far away https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtSEJul0104
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My favorite thing about Enya is that she classifies her music in a genre called Enya.
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petit choux posted:That's what I want to know. Hopefully under $30. I think it was a little over $90 actually but I loving love Koyaanisqatsi and I'd have paid that in a second for a regular release of the full album
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caligulamprey posted:My favorite thing about Enya is that she classifies her music in a genre called Enya. She's 100% right though.
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caligulamprey posted:My favorite thing about Enya is that she classifies her music in a genre called Enya. she also lives in a castle that she outbid michael flatley for! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manderley_Castle
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caligulamprey posted:My favorite thing about Enya is that she classifies her music in a genre called Enya. I have a specific section for prince records labeled “Prince” no one else has that genre in my collection.
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Bloodplay it again posted:Heaven isn't too far away My drat childhood! What are the goon-owned labels/record stores, folks? I know Stumpy Frog is one, are there others? I feel like someone mentioned one of this thread's posters own one? Also, for some reason, I had assumed Light in the Attic was Europe/UK based, so I was pleasantly surprised when I saw the shipping costs were so low to mail from Washington to here in California. 
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dorium posted:I have a specific section for prince records labeled “Prince” no one else has that genre in my collection. Now that I think about it in my CDs Sparks did get their own special section, and Queen sort of did because the box sets are big. LPs are straight alphabetical though except for the Triumph box set because that's big too, and keeps flopping open all the drat time.  Anyways wave one was from the axis of evil, wave two is from discogs:  Some times cheap reissues are a good thing, even if it has come lightly scuffed despite being new and sealed.
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Read After Burning posted:My drat childhood! What's for Breakfast Records and Ship to Shore.
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petit choux posted:when I was a little boy in the rural midwest, it was the previous generation advertising records on television, as well as K-Tel of course. Enoch Light actually used to advertise on TV. So did Roger Whittaker. That's the only way I had of being familiar with those performers, and how I knew "Fools Rush In" when UB40 covered it, LOL. When I was a child I had a picture of just dozens of fools rushing past me sort of like on the Metro platform or something, but with sort of psychedelic lighting. FOOLS! I'd cry as they rushed past, to the left and to the right, but they'd stop for no man. lol CPL593H posted:What's for Breakfast Records and Ship to Shore. Needlejuice mfker pwn fucked around with this message at 22:58 on Aug 2, 2021 |
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Hope I'm not too late for Pure Moods chat. Skeleton Dust Records is/was selling the cd with a locally made pin for $15 and I figured why not grab it. Got it mostly for nostalgia but there are some decent tracks on here too.
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God I must be that little bit too young because I don't remember Pure Moods at all but I remember seeing a whole shitton of Time Life sets advertised. Then again I was a woefully unobservant kid.
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I barely remember the Pure Moods commercials. I do however remember the little CD kiosks in Walmart and Meijer with a bunch of new age samples to listen to. I'd love to get one for my place.
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CaptainBeefart posted:I barely remember the Pure Moods commercials. I do however remember the little CD kiosks in Walmart and Meijer with a bunch of new age samples to listen to. I'd love to get one for my place. Oh man those things. My parents would never let me listen to them, I think they were afraid I'd catch some disease off the headphones. What more bizarre is the local independent pharmacist has one in his shop and last I looked the CDs had copyrights from the late 2000s and maybe 2010s so they might still be a thing, barely. They were still all new age nobodies with maybe a couple faith based ones snuck in.
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You goons made me buy these:  ... for my wife, mostly. She probably has some of them already though. I think the Klezmatics is for me though. Seven bucks.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRvbnNwL54I Ol' Slim gained a minor cult following in the late 70s. This fucker sold three million copies of this album.
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petit choux posted:You goons made me buy these: Don’t you feel better buying them though
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