Sneakeater
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This is what was to me the last song where it looked like Slade would keep developing. And I (and my friends) LOVED it. We were very disappointed when it didn't lead to anything.
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This is obnoxious, but: HOW COULD YOU NOT KNOW THAT THE VESPER (WITH RECIPE) FIRST APPEARED IN THE FIRST JAMES BOND NOVEL??????????????????
(Although some doubt that Fleming created the recipe -- obvs he created the name, as it's named after a character in the novel -- as opposed to "borrowing" it.)
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I can kinda see why you might have wanted to leave that industry.
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Bee Wilson is Emily Wilson's sister (which means she's also A.N. Wilson's daughter).
This shouldn't be surprising, England being England. But I sure didn't know.
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53 minutes ago, Wilfrid said:
But wait, he’s not in Southern California. Isn’t that the whole point of the song?
Oh right. John Phillips, imagining what it must be like not to be in Southern California, must have forgotten.
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1 hour ago, Wilfrid said:
Actually a bunch of covers. Curious thing about the album is that, although the band was having a stream of chart hits, none are on this monumental live album.
You realize that Slade Alive came out before Slayed?, right? The only extant hit single left off Slade Alive was “Coz I Luv You”. ‘Mama We’re All Crazee Now” and “Gudbye to Jane”, even I think “Take Me Back Home”, still lay in the future.
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[Mispoat]
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OTOH, making something good out of Ten Years After is an achievement.
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Anyway, the best line in "Darlin' Be Home Soon" is obviously the belch -- which was interpolated by Slade.
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I think there’s a clear solution to The Fava Conundrum: restaurants.
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9 minutes ago, Wilfrid said:
No, it is “pretend.” Maybe my post was convoluted. Apparently Cass used to slip up and sing “began.”
Oops sorry.
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You hear a lot in those choral repetitions/responses if you listen carefully.
I still can’t believe that, in “Look Through My Window”, they managed to sneak “and I will fuck somebody new” onto AM radio.
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3 minutes ago, Sneakeater said:
I was actually a little disappointed by that. I much preferred “pretend” in context.
Wait I just listened. Are you SURE it isn’t “pretend”?
(Listen especially to to the choral repetition.)
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12 minutes ago, mongo said:
it's actually "the preacher likes nicole".
Now THAT makes sense.
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1 hour ago, Wilfrid said:
Oh no, I have been making that error and wondering what on earth it meant. At least, some years ago, I stopped hearing "pretend to pray" as "began to pray."
I was actually a little disappointed by that. I much preferred “pretend” in context.
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If you’re talking about song lyrics, I think you have to cut some slack for the guy who came up with not only, “it’s like trying to tell a stranger about rock and roll,” but also, “she said she’d never been in trouble, even in town.”
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I love that band.
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When John Sebastian now sings "Darlin Be Home Soon", I wonder what he does with, "now, a quarter of my life is almost past".
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What always bothers me about that song is that many commentators insist on hearing a particular line as "the preacher likes the cold", and interpreting it as such, when it so clearly goes, "the preacher lights the coal".
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In Southern California, though, to be fair.
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I don't want to boast, but the Copper River King Salmon with Sorrel Sauce I made last night (mostly) in my NEW ANOVA PRECISION OVEN wasn't only one of the best things I've ever made, but one of the best things I've ever eaten.
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This three-part (link is to first part, which in turn links the second part, which links the third part) profile of Duke Ellington from 1944 is, I think, astonishingly good:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1944/06/24/duke-ellington-profile-the-hot-bach-i
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6 hours ago, MitchW said:
Or, to put it more simply, they just don't give a shit. And believe the masses know more than than professional critics might. Also, it's must easier to scroll IG or watch a 30-second video than to read a well-researched article.
The thing is, they don't though.
There are so many amateur internet product reviews, for example, where you can tell that the reviewer's only experience is with the product being reviewed and maybe one that it's replacing. How much is a review worth if the reviewer doesn't have experience with a full range of what's available? These amateur reviewers have no grounds for comparison.
Add to that people's tendency to want to justify their cash outlays (thus making them want to like whatever it is they purchased) -- as opposed to the disinterest of a professional critic who has no money on the line -- and you have what to me is a lot of useless noise.
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Because nobody believes in informed independent professional criticism any more. They don't understand it as a concept.
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Great songs with dumb lyrics
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Posted · Edited by Sneakeater
Meanwhile, Paul Simon also seems to think leaves are brown in the Winter.
(His recent work concerning aging -- written from the perspective of actually being aged -- makes this piece, written in his 20s, seem a little um callow.)