Perplexing musical things that make you think "WHY?" (1 Viewer)

[ann post]

"Golden brown texture like sun"

This makes me think of those ginger flavor biscuits.

 

[rettucs]

"Golden brown texture like sun"

This makes me think of those ginger flavor biscuits.

that song is about heroin I think

 

[nooleen]

i hear it as 'gordon brown'

...fine a temptress

 

[Lili Marlene]

that song is about heroin I think

The go-to-joke is that it's about toast

 

[therealjohnny]

I've mentioned this lyric in "Love is a many splendored thing" before;

"Once on a high and windy hill,
In the morning mist two lovers kissed and the world stood still,"

Which is it for fucks sake , windy or misty?

Do lyricists not discuss things with meteorologists or what? One would assume not!

Infuriating.

 

[magicbastarder]

Do lyricists not discuss things with meteorologists or what? One would assume not!

the most obvious example of this has to be Fleetwood mac's 'thunder only happens when it's raining'.

 

[ann post]

A shortage of Meteorologists and cooking staff among other things.

Spoiler: BRACE YOURSELF

Walking 'round the room singing Stormy Weather
At Fifty Seven Mount Pleasant Street
Well it's the same room, but everything's different
You can fight the sleep, but not the dream

Things ain't cookin' in my kitchen
Strange affliction wash over me
Julius Caesar and the Roman Empire
Couldn't conquer the blue sky

Well, there's a small boat made of china
It's going nowhere on the mantlepiece
Well, do I lie like a loungeroom lizard
Or do I sing like a bird released?

Everywhere you go, always take the weather with you
Everywhere you go, always take the weather
Everywhere you go, always take the weather with you
Everywhere you go, always take the weather, the weather with you

 

[nooleen]

The universal adulation Prince receives makes me think "why"?

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[therealjohnny]

yeah, that's what prompted my post

I just don't get it

 

[Lili Marlene]

yeah, that's what prompted my post

I just don't get it

He's managed to stay an enigma in a world of oversharing?

Obviously you've made it quite clear in the past that you have no time for his music so there's that barrier to 'getting' it.

 

[therealjohnny]

His music is fine. Nothing more or nothing less. I don't get the adulation

 

[GO]

I don't know WHY Roger Daltry puts coke in his gin in Substitute.

Surely some tonic and a slice of lemon would be the ticket

 

[Anthony]

I'm still haunted by the zig and zag misheard lyrics bit they did on the radio years ago. Though for the life of me I can't think of any right now. But when any song they mentioned comes on the radio.....

 

[Jim Daniels]

• Songs fading out too early, especially when a cool chorus/ musical bit fades out before its natural end.

• When a really cool bit in a song is repeated just once or twice, instead of 4 or 5 times. "Leave them wanting more" is bullshit

• Dire production - like Albini's effort on PJ Harvey's Rid of Me

• Setlists at gigs frequently leave me perplexed - especially when they choose all the mid-tempo fillers instead of the obviously cooler/better tracks (and I don't mean the "hits").

 

[GO]

• When a really cool bit in a song is repeated just once or twice, instead of 4 or 5 times. "Leave them wanting more" is bullshit

I've been trying to shake this habit in my own productions.

You never see dance music producers worrying about repetition!

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

• Songs fading out too early, especially when a cool chorus/ musical bit fades out before its natural end.

• When a really cool bit in a song is repeated just once or twice, instead of 4 or 5 times. "Leave them wanting more" is bullshit

• Dire production - like Albini's effort on PJ Harvey's Rid of Me

• Setlists at gigs frequently leave me perplexed - especially when they choose all the mid-tempo fillers instead of the obviously cooler/better tracks (and I don't mean the "hits").

I definitely disagree with you on point two, I'm of the leave em wanting more school. You'll be sick of it after two listens otherwise. It's kinda linked to your first point too. I like when a song fades out on a catchy chorus. You've already heard it, like.

I had a near-crisis level WHY? moment when Kate Bush played Joanni at her gigs this year. She plays her first gig in 35 years and she plucks one of her very worst songs out of obscurity for the occasion. I bet nobody would have gone home wishing she had played that one if she hadn't done.

 

[Jim Daniels]

I definitely disagree with you on point two, I'm of the leave em wanting more school. You'll be sick of it after two listens otherwise. It's kinda linked to your first point too. I like when a song fades out on a catchy chorus. You've already heard it, like.

I had a near-crisis level WHY? moment when Kate Bush played Joanni at her gigs this year. She plays her first gig in 35 years and she plucks one of her very worst songs out of obscurity for the occasion. I bet nobody would have gone home wishing she had played that one if she hadn't done.

I know what your saying about the risk of ruining a song by overdoing the best bits. But even ONCE more would be better! Anymore than that might be overdoing it alright. Got carried away there with my fours and fives.

The fade out thing I was talking about is really where they fade it out too quickly, especially mid chorus, or before the musical scale finishes satisfactorily. Just 3 or 4 more seconds would normally be grand to wrap it up cleanly. That's probably my O.C.D talking though

That Kate Bush business! Mad.

 

[Unknown Convict]

I'm still haunted by the zig and zag misheard lyrics bit they did on the radio years ago. Though for the life of me I can't think of any right now. But when any song they mentioned comes on the radio.....

"Tommy used to work on the DART" - living on a prayer

 

[chris d]

Cathy Davey pulled that ronan keating vocal thing on her last album, i think the song is called Habit. "I know I know I schorta want...I schorta need." Instead of sorta. Really ground my gears.

I'm in the less is more camp. First example that pops into my head is the distorted section in Giveamanakick's Brittle Bones. They could have got anyway with at least one more run of it at the end, but I like the way it leaves you not feeling done with the song.

 

[Jim Daniels]

Sometimes mistakes and glitches are cool and are left in for that reason. But sometimes, they're just annoying. Like, why did Midlake not fix the "we won't get married line" here..?

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