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quote:Op donderdag 11 augustus 2005 12:41 schreef bartrid het volgende:
ga maar door Belsen, da's goed. Black No 1 (Little Miss Scare all)
Over welk nummer gaat dit stuk.quote:By completely dropping the bass tracks from the final version of his 1984 smash.
demonstrated his willingness to take chances on highly unorthodox arrangements. Yet not even he knew quite what to make of
, the chart-topping single from 1986's strange and arty
; reportedly, he was never completely satisfied with the version that ended up being released, nearly leaving it off the album and retooling its arrangement multiple times for live performances. Yet it's one of the most brilliant moments in a catalog filled with them.
Repeating the no-bass trick of,
essentially strips funk down to its barest essentials and then cuts a little bit more. When the song starts, there's only the sketchiest outline of a harmonic structure in the instruments behind the melody, partly because those instruments are nearly all electronic percussion. The backing is fleshed out a bit more as the song moves along, but much of the time it sounds like disembodied bits of an arrangement floating out of nowhere, especially the backing vocals during the verses. It's a weird, alien soundscape, and added to that effect is the fact that
sings nearly the entire song — except for the last line and one note leading into the last chorus — in the upper register of his generous falsetto range.
The distance in pitch between his voice and the very few instruments playing on the track creates the impression that there's even more space left open, and at that point, all one can really do is marvel that the song works so well with so little. Aside from the drum machine and backing vocals, there's a faintly murmuring keyboard and a gently wah-wahed guitar that mostly plays seventh chords, whether during the chorus or the solo break. Lyrically,can be read as a plea for genuine warmth in the middle of the prosperous, image-conscious '80s, though at bottom it's probably a simpler homage to women with confidence and maturity; given those two traits, the singer of
welcomes all comers, regardless of just about anything else. Few other songs in
catalog demonstrate his idiosyncratic genius more startlingly.
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quote:Op donderdag 11 augustus 2005 13:29 schreef Sack_Blabbath het volgende:
Lijkt mij ook Prince, maar dan When Doves Cry
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...en is dequote:Op donderdag 11 augustus 2005 13:49 schreef Sack_Blabbath het volgende:
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Inderdaad
Dus dan is Kiss waarschijnlijk goed
Iggy +1quote:Op donderdag 11 augustus 2005 14:53 schreef iggy_in_the_house het volgende:
Olivia Newton-John & John Travolta - Youre the one that I want
Olivia Newton-John - Hopelessly Devoted
Frankie Valli - Grease
?
Nee het is geen vervolgvraag (alhoewel, indirect met Prince dan).quote:Op donderdag 11 augustus 2005 15:16 schreef peaceman het volgende:
John Travolta
(misschien is het een vervolgvraag)
quote:Op donderdag 11 augustus 2005 15:24 schreef Sack_Blabbath het volgende:
Sinead O'Connor?
Wie isquote:Best known as the action hero behind cinema'sseries,
(b. March 19, 19xx; Penns Grove, NJ) became a twice-over recording artist during the late '80s. His debut album,
, became a surprise seller after the single "
" hit the Top Five in early 1987.
had two other modest hits, and recorded another LP two years later, but has remained outside music for the most part — performing only occasionally to inaugurate several
restaurants.
Puntje terug naar Iggyquote:Op donderdag 11 augustus 2005 15:38 schreef iggy_in_the_house het volgende:
of Bruce Willis (ivm cinema?)
Inderdaad.quote:Op donderdag 11 augustus 2005 13:52 schreef Berkery het volgende:
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...en is de-smiley niet toevallig gekozen
Over welk nummer gaat dit dan?quote:are fondly remembered as a defining band in American hardcore, which is odd since they rarely ever used the obvious clichés of that style of music. Indeed,
is in most ways the exact opposite of most hardcore music: it's long (four and a half minutes, longer than many entire hardcore EPs!), not particularly fast, and it uses both psychedelic echoing guitar solos and an almost dancey bass riff to support
humorously snotty vocals and pointedly sarcastic lyrics. Nevertheless, it was possibly the most successful single of the American hardcore scene, and one of the few that doesn't sound terribly dated and sophomoric in retrospect. In 2001, the rest of
sued
for control over the band's catalogue because he had refused to sell
to Levi's for use in a commercial, thereby proving once and for all that the anti-establishment tone of the music was once and for all over.
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