Topic: THE NEXT SOUND YOU HEAR (Read 41435 times)

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #210 on:** January 09, 2007, 02:56:46 PM »

Quote from: Edisaurus on January 09, 2007, 09:45:59 AM

We interrupt this lyric montage to say that "The Closer" will be back in mid-June, and I will be on it for another season. Yay!

Since the production company choses not to give you production credits, I suggest a small token of their appreciation;

der Brucer

You could negotiate the color, I guess

Tomovoz · « **Reply #211 on:** January 09, 2007, 02:57:14 PM »

Many people have tried! I've often been confused with Genie with the light brown hair.

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #212 on:** January 09, 2007, 02:59:16 PM »

Quote from: Danise on January 09, 2007, 02:04:07 PM

How about this one?

BK fiddling with his organ in public!

Well, did ya evah...

der Brucer

FJL · « **Reply #213 on:** January 09, 2007, 03:00:11 PM »

Too many favorite show lyrics, but my all-time favorite pop lyric:

Late last night we went for a drive
You were miles away
I asked, who's on your mind
You said, nobody (nobody)
Why do you ask
Oh, her again
I could've told you that

We came back home
Got ready for bed
I said to myself
I've got one shot left
Your still mine and I won't stand in line
Behind nobody
Nobody

Well, your nobody called today
She hung up when I asked her name
Well, I wonder does she think she's being clever
(Clever, ohh, ohh)
You say nobody's after you
The fact is what you say is true
But I can love you like nobody can
Even better

Tomovoz · « **Reply #214 on:** January 09, 2007, 03:00:29 PM »

Genie with the light grey hair doesn't quite scan. Not even with a light brown hare.

Tomovoz · « **Reply #215 on:** January 09, 2007, 03:02:05 PM »

"Your still mine" and that's a favourite. (Sometimes I'm still at work!)

FJL · « **Reply #216 on:** January 09, 2007, 03:03:37 PM »

My second-favorite all-time pop lyric:

Don't know what he looks like,
Don't know who he is.
Don't know why she thought that I
would say what's mine is his.
I dont want to own her,
But I can't let her have it both ways.
Three is one too many of us,
She leaves with me or stays
with..

(chorus)

Him him him, what's she gonna do about Him?
She's gonna have to live without him,
It's him or it's me, me me,
No one gets to get it for free
It's me or it's him.

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #217 on:** January 09, 2007, 03:03:46 PM »

Quote from: FJL on January 09, 2007, 02:55:01 PM

I always thought it was "If I could save Tom in a bottle"

Warning! Handle With Care!

I guess we start with Tom, then blow a bottle around him.

der Brucer

FJL · « **Reply #218 on:** January 09, 2007, 03:07:06 PM »

My third favorite all-time pop lyric, maybe because of the lovely forced rhyme of honor and gonna:

Nothing you could do could make me untrue to my guy.
Nothing you could buy could make me tell a lie to my guy.
I gave my guy my word of honor,
To be faithful and I'm gonna.
You best be believing I won't be deceiving my guy.

FJL · « **Reply #219 on:** January 09, 2007, 03:08:46 PM »

The honor/gonna rhyme brings to mind the Tim Rice lyric:

All the things you saw in your pajamas
Are a long range forecast for your farmers

(Or has that been mentioned already?)

Tomovoz · « **Reply #220 on:** January 09, 2007, 03:10:51 PM »

Quote from: DERBRUCER on January 09, 2007, 03:03:46 PM

Warning! Handle With Care!

I guess we start with Tom, then blow a bottle around him.

der Brucer

\

I shall have to leave that line alone and remember which site this is!

Tomovoz · « **Reply #221 on:** January 09, 2007, 03:11:39 PM »

Mary Wells sang some deep lyrics. Buckets of them.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #222 on:** January 09, 2007, 03:20:50 PM »

Good Afternoon! Good Evening!

-Three laps around the reservoir later (4.5 miles)....

*I did a couple of intervals, so I walked 1.5 of those miles, and ran the remaining 3.

And why did I do such a thing? Well, I wanted to give my new iPod and my new Nike+iPod Sport Kit a test run. Literally. Very cool. Oh, since I finally found the armband combo that allows you to use the Nike+ without Nike+ enabled shoes, I gave that a try this afternoon too. *I have wide feet, so I wear New Balance - Nike shoes, for the most part, don't come in variable widths. In any case...

The Nike+ Kit has a transmitter you place in (or on) your shoe, and a receiver that plugs into your iPod nano. Once you set it up, it will record distance, time, pace. While you're running/jogging/walking, each time you push the center button, a voice (you can choose a male of female voice) tells you your current distance, time and pace. And then afterwards, you can upload the info to your computer and to Nike's website. -Which I still have yet to, so...

It was a bit cool out, but I bundled up appropriately. I wanted to get the sensor properly calibrated, so that comprised a good deal of my workout... unintentionally. I was setting it up to calibrate a 1/4-mile distance, but since I kept missing the mile markers along the trail... Third time was the good one.

Alas, I'm definitely going to have to buy a different set of earphones. Ones that stay in my ears. But it really felt good to get the heart rate up for a bit and break a bit of a sweat (even in the cold).

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #223 on:** January 09, 2007, 03:24:26 PM »

Quote from: Ron Pulliam on January 09, 2007, 11:09:46 AM

Buy a bottle of jojoba oil...and put about a tsp of oil in your palm with the shampoo before you wash your hair.

This will help a lot!

Thanks. I'm finding that tea tree oil seems to be helping right now. I also think one of the issues is that my scalp is getting used to the NYC water again on a regular, daily basis.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #224 on:** January 09, 2007, 03:27:34 PM »

Of possible interest to DR FJL-

I have to say, that the songs from Spring Awakening make for a pretty bitchin' run!

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #225 on:** January 09, 2007, 03:33:30 PM »

Any DRs come across this yet?

If so, any opinions? -It got a nice write up in yesterday's New York Times.

Tomovoz · « **Reply #226 on:** January 09, 2007, 03:36:05 PM »

Has anyone yet mentioned the new Fiddler 2 disc DVD with the cut songs and scenes? I think it is issued in 10 days or so.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #227 on:** January 09, 2007, 03:45:39 PM »

And speaking of the New York Times...

And movies...

And "Dreamgirls"...

I wonder if DR Tomovoz's reaction is based in what A. O. Scott considers the main fault of the film: it's music.

Quote

But the problem with “Dreamgirls” — and it is not a small one — lies in those songs, which are not just musically and lyrically pedestrian, but historically and idiomatically disastrous. This is a musical, after all, about music, about an especially vibrant and mutable strain of rhythm and blues that proclaimed itself, boastfully but not inaccurately, to be “the sound of young America.”

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The story of Curtis’s Rainbow Records is a familiar and potent tale of Faustian show-business ambition, as his climb to the top involves betraying and hurting the people closest to him. But without the right soundtrack, only half the story is being told. The performances are gratifyingly spirited, but what this movie most obviously lacks is soul.

The great Motown songwriters — Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, the trio of geniuses known to posterity as Holland-Dozier-Holland — turned out great pop songs by the dozen, cutting bolts of blues, gospel and rock ’n’ roll into clean, trim, shiny garments. It is vain to imagine that Mr. Krieger and Mr. Eyen, who died in 1991, could replicate the Motown sound in all its variety, but as it is, the film barely acknowledges its existence.

I'm not sure I would label the music "disastrous", but he does bring up a good point. -However, on the flip side, I would not have wanted to see Dreamgirls transformed into a juke-box musical. In any case...

I liked the film the first time I saw it... and the second time I saw it. And I'm sure a third viewing will be in my future too.

Just something to think about.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #228 on:** January 09, 2007, 03:46:39 PM »

For those DRs who are registered with NYTimes.com:

Three-Part Heartbreak in Motown

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #229 on:** January 09, 2007, 03:47:12 PM »

OK - Time to get cleaned up and rustle up some dinner.

Laters...

Edisaurus · « **Reply #230 on:** January 09, 2007, 03:56:26 PM »

Quote from: DERBRUCER on January 09, 2007, 02:56:46 PM

Since the production company choses not to give you production credits, I suggest a small token of their appreciation;

They did give me an iPod, a nice itunes gift card and another hefty one to the Apple Store at the end of the first season. The second season, just a snow globe. But I'm well paid, so I am content just to receive the work!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #231 on:** January 09, 2007, 04:04:04 PM »

Quote from: JoseSPiano on January 09, 2007, 03:33:30 PM

Any DRs come across this yet?

If so, any opinions? -It got a nice write up in yesterday's New York Times.

No, but I'm going to look it up on Amazon.com! Yesterday I received the new book on the creation of LADY IN THE DARK.

Tomovoz · « **Reply #232 on:** January 09, 2007, 04:05:16 PM »

Possibly Jose! It doesn't matter about the performace songs which I enjoyed. The "character" songs were just not good!

There was a musical here which was about a "Girlie group" doing Motown covers at the time of the Vietnam war. It was based on fact and was about an Aboriginal "family" whose journey to entertain the troops in Vietnam led to self discovery and self esteem etc. The drama was the important feature - the songs just gave a time frame and were "performance" songs only. For me it worked and I am usually against the whole idea of the Juke Box musical.

Dreamgirls. I didn't want it to be - and it was not written as - The Supremes. The Etta James type of perfomance has never had a market here in OZ. It may have a "truth" in the USA - the audience here truly found it laughable!

Did the Stage version have those allusions to Motown - Jackson Five etc. The liner notes for the OBC say (sort of) that it was not meant to be Motown

S. Woody White · « **Reply #233 on:** January 09, 2007, 04:28:56 PM »

Quote from: Matt H. on January 09, 2007, 07:36:25 AM

Great lyrics. Thanks to all.

The sun comes up: I think about you
The coffee cup: I think about you
I want you so
It's like I'm losing my mind

All afternoon
Doing every little chore
The thought of you stays bright
Sometimes I stand
In the middle of the floor
Vacuuming left
Vacuuming right

(Alternate lyric, with DR Matt in mind.

)

S. Woody White · « **Reply #234 on:** January 09, 2007, 04:54:28 PM »

Do I keep falling in love
For just the kick of it,
Staggering through the thin and thick of it,
Hating each old and tired trick of it?
Know what I am? I'm good and sick of it!

S. Woody White · « **Reply #235 on:** January 09, 2007, 04:59:30 PM »

Daddy spread the gospel in Milwaukee,
Took his walkie-talkie to Rocky Ridge.
Blew his way to Canton, then to Scranton,
Till he landed under the Manhattan Bridge.

Daddy was a new sensation,
Got himself a congregation,
Built up quite an operation
Down below.

With the pie-eyed piper blowing
While the muscatel was flowing,
All the cats were go-go-going
Down below.

S. Woody White · « **Reply #236 on:** January 09, 2007, 05:02:14 PM »

Speaking of miracles, this must be it!
Just when I started to learn how to knit -
I'm all in stitches
From finding what riches
A waltz can reveal
With a real
Live
Girl!

S. Woody White · « **Reply #237 on:** January 09, 2007, 05:03:35 PM »

They're coming to take me away, ha ha!
They're coming to take me away, ho ho!
To the funny farm...

(Not a good song, but the lyric sure is memorable.)

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #238 on:** January 09, 2007, 05:18:28 PM »

Another one that gets to me everytime:

...My brother lived in San Francisco.
He said he’d finally found his place.
And when I go to San Francisco,
Everywhere I look, I see his face.

JoseSPiano · « **Reply #239 on:** January 09, 2007, 05:19:38 PM »

Quote from: Tomovoz on January 09, 2007, 04:05:16 PM

Did the Stage version have those allusions to Motown - Jackson Five etc. The liner notes for the OBC say (sort of) that it was not meant to be Motown

I believe that was just to keep the lawsuits at bay.

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