Pummeled Anyone?

[heinsite]

hey squid lady--very funny...just saw you up there, don't know what the heck ROFL means, don't know what the HELL they're talkin' about either, but anything with a huge climax at the end has to be something to get one's attention--maybe that's the purpose? nothing else makes a helluva lot of sense with the verbage in that friggin' taxi posting...the best, i'm outta here for the night,warren

[mojobone]

Jun 5, 2008, 4:51pm, devin wrote:May 29, 2008, 2:48pm, heinsite wrote:"but in the good 'ol days, your old gramps remembers many an album where you'd be hard put to find a BAD cut, " and he spit his chaw on the sun bleached porch, and continued to rock slowly in his squeky chair, all the while humming an old tune from Blood on the Tracks..."the best,warrenBwahahaha!!That sounds familiar....I think we're related! (Please don't take that as an insult )Maybe it was the time I was listening to music (started early 80's), or just the fact that I had just enough disposable income to buy LPs AND had time to listen to them all the way through, I could hear the tie in between tracks on an album. Bands could write an entire story, using the tracks as chapters.Alot of my formative stuff was loosely grouped into progressive rock (Rush, etc), and themes ran throughout the album...so themed "album cuts" could be part of the plan back then?I contrast that to my listening style today (only the top hits via an Ipod, or what's on Satellite radio at the gym, or what's on TV), and my listening habits more closely resemble "ordering lots of appetizers" versus a well planned, choreographed meal. If an artist only had one amazing song, and 9 fillers, then one song is going to be downloaded...it can't be used to sell the other 9 tunes as easily today?I mean, it was a lot of work to clean that vinyl and get the needle in the groove (or even longer to fast forward that 8 track)...I wasn't going to mess with it once it started....I was prepared for that whole side.I watch my nephews listening to music today...the iPods are just collections of top songs. An artist shooting for anything less isn't going to get that "acceptable" track downloaded. (and that "acceptable" track certainly isn't going to get me noticed either).Does this match or clash with your experience?Amazing post. Spot on.

[squids]

Jun 12, 2008, 8:45pm, heinsite wrote:hey squid lady--very funny...just saw you up there, don't know what the heck ROFL means, don't know what the HELL they're talkin' about either, but anything with a huge climax at the end has to be something to get one's attention--maybe that's the purpose? nothing else makes a helluva lot of sense with the verbage in that friggin' taxi posting...the best, i'm outta here for the night,warrenI've given up makin sense of this stuff, I jes write what I think works........I'm guessin' you're right, comedic/climax must mean light and funny until it's time not to serious? Or maybe jes more funny. ROFL = rollin on the floor laughinROFLMAO = rollin on the floor laughin my a_ _ off.I use them a lot, saves me time finding icons. Hee!

[roryscuz]

Concept Album- What a concept! Hit songs won't sell the other songs on a CD in this ala carte, download world. But, oh, the music, images and ideas we would have missed had we not gotten familiar with the "deep cuts" that accompanied the hits on albums in the last half of the century. I also lament the loss of art, design and goodies that were compatible with the packaging of the 12" format.BTW, Steve Howe, of YES, said in a video documentary that "in and around the lake, mountains come out ..." was their articulation of a scene that they saw while driving back from a gig in northern Britain. (Could have come from one of the Romantics in the 1800's [Mondegreen: "...monarchs come out of the sky and they stand there."]