Musicological banter

kosmo wrote:
who amongst is brave enough to take a listen to the new Styx album

not I

Two preteens who have been making a bunch of vids doing punk and clash songs

Were busking in London and Paul shows up and sings a few bars of guns of brixton

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DK1MteUttJe/

Holy shit why you want to wake him who must not be named up!?

Today I learned about the backstory of the Andrea True Connection disco hit "More, More, More" due it being heavily used for Len "Steal My Sunshine" … and pipe down at least it's not Coldplay


anyways

The song was originally recorded in 1975 in Jamaica where True, a porn star, had been appearing in a TV commercial. Unable to return the payment to the United States due to a government ban on asset transfers, she opted to invest the money in a studio recording to advance her career as a singer.

she basically money launder the profits of the commercial into a recording career

pick pocked from YT

True was doing commercials for hire in Jamaica when a state of political upheaval broke out on the island. She was looking for a way to get herself and her money back home to the USA. She called upon her friend, producer Greg Diamond, to help her get a song demo together - a way of laundering her money off of the Caribbean island in the form of a master tape. Diamond reportedly wrote the now-classic song in one hour and produced the whole demo with the help of island musicians - horn section and all

this made me LOL and to think of every time you see someone moaning on about how autotuning singers isn't real music that type of technology has been out there for decades

When asked about True's limited vocal ability, Diamond commented: "You can do marvelous things with tape delay."

kosmo wrote:
Today I learned about the backstory of the Andrea True Connection disco hit "More, More, More" due it being heavily used for Len "Steal My Sunshine" … and pipe down at least it's not Coldplay


anyways

The song was originally recorded in 1975 in Jamaica where True, a porn star, had been appearing in a TV commercial. Unable to return the payment to the United States due to a government ban on asset transfers, she opted to invest the money in a studio recording to advance her career as a singer.

she basically money launder the profits of the commercial into a recording career

pick pocked from YT

True was doing commercials for hire in Jamaica when a state of political upheaval broke out on the island. She was looking for a way to get herself and her money back home to the USA. She called upon her friend, producer Greg Diamond, to help her get a song demo together - a way of laundering her money off of the Caribbean island in the form of a master tape. Diamond reportedly wrote the now-classic song in one hour and produced the whole demo with the help of island musicians - horn section and all

That's a pretty great tale, honestly.

Josh Homme doing Josh Homme things… what a douche

https://youtu.be/rq8WAQJdfRM?si=G7abCtYLwJjFw2v-

kosmo wrote:
Today I learned about the backstory of the Andrea True Connection disco hit "More, More, More"

I think there is wide agreement that:

Len > Coldplay

if only there was a thread for coldplay jokes

Starting the conspiracy theory that  Bad Moves have not in fact broken up and the last setlist tells the story.

Started with “End Of Time” and ended with “The Verge” so the “last” show ends with

“On the verge of something, oh..”

So a possible name change, secret shows, etc.  only time will tell

Waiting with bated breath.

kosmo wrote:
Starting the conspiracy theory that  Bad Moves have not in fact broken up and the last setlist tells the story.

Started with “End Of Time” and ended with “The Verge” so the “last” show ends with

“On the verge of something, oh..”

So a possible name change, secret shows, etc.  only time will tell

I would also be on the edge of my seat if I had any idea who this group is.

Bad Moves were a beloved DC based Power Pop group that played their final gig as a  band of ten years Saturday at the Black Cat.  Or did they  ;D

Three great albums and EP out, they were absolute joy to see live as they clearly enjoyed playing live total ball of energy

Next Black Cat anniversary is only like 3 years away :)

kosmo wrote:
Or did they  ;D

DC does dig a band reunion

kosmo wrote:
beloved

I suspect this word choice is doing some very heavy lifting.

I also have suspicions

beyonce is just a force to be reckoned with
https://www.billboard.com/lists/boxscore-records-beyonce-broke-cowboy-carter-tour/

those are some insane stats

Beyonce:
Gross & Attendance: Approximately $407.6 million in total gross from 1.6 million tickets sold
(avg tix price $254)

Taylor Swift:
Gross & Attendance: Over $2.07 billion gross with more than 10.1 million tickets sold
(avg tix price $201)

Doing more with less, only 3.5 month tour vs TS's 21 month tour


Now if we could get them to both become democratic candidates, we'd never lose again ;)

Ugh Taylor made $1.6 billion more plus merch etc. $1.6 billion MORE

It’s not close.

Now on a per show basis and after including merch etc would be interesting to know how much each took home. Remember the gross does not all go to artist. Venues, TM, promoters, management, band, roadies, tax authorities etc take a cut

was not even close to implying that B made more?

Taylor, broke so many records, they had to make new record books
but Beyonce did some insane stats with her mini-tour

I for some reason liked that stat to compare the two tours

this was the stat
At just 32 shows, it’s the shortest tour in history to cross the $400 million threshold

read the article

You wrote she did more with less.

Am not so sure that means what you think…if Taylor had done way less shows in bigger places and charged more she would have easily replicated those numbers by Beyoncé. Think about it.

But ok. I can see what you mean