Now that's what I call music!
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Re: Now that's what I call music!
Really the US national anthem is a terrible song. It's like it was written to make singers look bad. It was supposedly kind of a drinking song in a club for young English rakes: it probably was written to make singers look bad so everyone could laugh. Whoever thought it should be the national anthem perpetuated the joke.
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Re: Now that's what I call music!
To Anacreon in HeavenPB+J wrote:It was supposedly kind of a drinking song in a club for young English rakes
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Here's the history (a bit more fleshed out):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Anacreontic_Song
... and by which I have learned a new word: Contrafactum.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrafactum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Anacreontic_Song
... and by which I have learned a new word: Contrafactum.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrafactum
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Ummm... What tune is it?oleorezinator wrote:Thank you kindly! I consider this to be the definitive version of the tune.Nanohedron wrote:Bloody hilarious. You can smell the reek of booze.oleorezinator wrote:This vocal artiste is quite obviously
an improvisational jazz singer of the highest order
demonstrating the subtleties of moving the tonal center around.
Here’s two of my favorite examples of that art.
http://wfte.org/Irish/out.mp3
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Just in case you're serious, it's *supposed* to be Wipe Out, first recorded in 1962 by The Surfaris. It was a one-hit wonder that became something of a musical icon in the States, at least. Here's the original:Tunborough wrote:Ummm... What tune is it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p13yZAjhU0M
I believe that oleorezinator's version is favored by Beelzebub.
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Yes, I was serious, and thank you. Bits of it were vaguely familiar, but I never would have figured it out.Nanohedron wrote:Just in case you're serious, it's *supposed* to be Wipe Out, first recorded in 1962 by The Surfaris. It was a one-hit wonder that became something of a musical icon in the States, at least.Tunborough wrote:Ummm... What tune is it?
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It's somehow comforting to me to know that our shared border isn't an entirely permeable membrane, culturally; in the States, Wipe Out is practically a force of nature. Obviously Canada has other fish to fry, and that's as it should be.Tunborough wrote:Bits of it were vaguely familiar, but I never would have figured it out.
Wipe Out has become an article of American kitsch, pure and simple. Like The Star Spangled Banner you don't hear it every day, but even though it's dated as hell, it's still evergreen and always peeking around the corner, part of the definitive US soundscape. When you hear Wipe Out, you think "party" in the sense of being joyously unbridled to the point of tipping into outrage. It's a great soundtrack for surfing (of course, for that is the culture it came from), pet antics, tiki lounges, and monster trucks. Like that. If it's lively or outlandish, it fits. As such, it's also ripe for potential irony: crocheting, say - or as an extreme example, oleorezinator's version: torture by making an unholy hash of a pillar of pop culture. A US audience will have been scarred for life, and they will remember it with a very pained fondness.
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It sounded like she couldn't stay in one key. Perhaps some backing music would have tethered her to the correct pitch.
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Perhaps; depends on how used she is to singing accompanied. In one project where I primarily played backup, the singer had previously only ever sung solo a capella, and on our very first introductory practice run, the backup - UP drones, in this instance - provided no tethering! I would have thought that you don't get any more tetherworthy than drones, but I sure found out differently. It was almost as if I wasn't even there. The singer's wayward pitch wasn't nearly as bad as in the OP, but it was bad enough, thank you. Of course I had to put my foot down, firstly and most obviously for the sake of euphony without which the project was doomed, and secondly for the singer's benefit in learning that a good singer sings with their ears on. Fortunately, in this case the vital lesson took only a few minutes and not too much need for practice. You could say both our eyes were opened.john wrote:Perhaps some backing music would have tethered her to the correct pitch.
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