Feb 10, 2023·edited Feb 10, 2023Liked by Alistair Dabbs
Don't forget Crap (the 'c' is silent). That's dreadful, too.
I was watching TV just now and a ski advert came on. And they'd used bloody rap as the background music. It just doesn't work. What next, Slipknot selling sanitary products?
Mind you, it doesn't bloody work on Planet Rock, either, when the ads come on and they keep playing that Just Eat one with annoying R&B, or that summer holiday company which has used 'Most Wonderful Time of the Year', only for it to break into R&B half way through. And the more annoying the ad, the more likely it is to be played at the beginning and end of each ad break.
Feb 10, 2023·edited Feb 10, 2023Liked by Alistair Dabbs
Seeing the comments about U2 above there is a story on todays The Register where Workday have signed up (direct quote from the article here )
Like Ozzy Osbourne, Billy Idol, Joan Jett, blues player Gary Clark and Paul Stanley of the rock band Kiss. Basically, anyone badass enough to promote a corporate for cash.
(End quote)
To be honest every time someone does a promo for money with a corporate organisation the same arguments will come around again and again.
Unfortunately companies like this sort of stuff because it gives them recognition and the bands like it because they get paid.
I did know someone who was a Jehovah’s Witness who did music as a sideline. His most profitable track was used for porn…..
The only band I think I ever "hated" was Aqua, and then only because I was a teenager and their album was on repeat for a whole month in my first ever summer job, but now (as I'm sure Peter said) - "Come on Barbie, let's go party"
Feb 10, 2023·edited Feb 10, 2023Liked by Alistair Dabbs
It’s not like we don’t have our own version of ‘No-one will win this category whilst this person, or persons, are in the nominee list’… Ladies and Gents, may I present Ant and Dec. 21 times they’ve won the TV Presenter award. How do you crash a car whilst drunk, lose a few months in rehab and somehow still survive today’s cancel culture? I’m sure I’ll still get 1-8 odds on them winning the TV present award next year.
Now, I’m an Alternative 80’s music kind of guy, I have happily allowed R&B, Death Metal, Opera, Grime, Dub, Daft Punk, and other genres pass me by (although not some Symphonic metal). I have taste, but no great singing voice to go with it.
These days I have to be careful which monitor I’m viewing a conference call presentation on as I otherwise start to look like Mr D just before I realise and move the screen back to the laptop LCD where I can look straight at the camera and look like a normal Scottish Bloke who’s worked from home for 20+ years who could probably do with a shave but otherwise look presentable as 12 colleagues stare (edit: changed start to stare) at me…
…the problem with having a conversation with a right nostril is that you don’t *really* know who you’re talking to: “hello, is that Hannah?, oh no it snot,” (it’s not/ it snot …yes you should never explain your jokes)
The annual Beyonce awards remind me of that period in the 1980s, when the Eurythmics would win a Brit award every year - regardless of whether they'd actually released anything that year.
U2 .... all tracks a bit samey. OTOH the yanks probably wouldn’t understand the fuss about little men wearing Dukla Prague away kit https://youtu.be/eBmFuySb_Qw
Don't forget Crap (the 'c' is silent). That's dreadful, too.
I was watching TV just now and a ski advert came on. And they'd used bloody rap as the background music. It just doesn't work. What next, Slipknot selling sanitary products?
Mind you, it doesn't bloody work on Planet Rock, either, when the ads come on and they keep playing that Just Eat one with annoying R&B, or that summer holiday company which has used 'Most Wonderful Time of the Year', only for it to break into R&B half way through. And the more annoying the ad, the more likely it is to be played at the beginning and end of each ad break.
Christ Almighty, it's Dorian Gray's selfies.
Seeing the comments about U2 above there is a story on todays The Register where Workday have signed up (direct quote from the article here )
Like Ozzy Osbourne, Billy Idol, Joan Jett, blues player Gary Clark and Paul Stanley of the rock band Kiss. Basically, anyone badass enough to promote a corporate for cash.
(End quote)
To be honest every time someone does a promo for money with a corporate organisation the same arguments will come around again and again.
Unfortunately companies like this sort of stuff because it gives them recognition and the bands like it because they get paid.
I did know someone who was a Jehovah’s Witness who did music as a sideline. His most profitable track was used for porn…..
Each to their own with music. I like a lot of stuff that most people think is crap.
At the moment I'm listening to German Happy Hardcore. Here's a song apparently definitely not in any way about "NostrilTime" from Falco:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0m7bHdcq87o
The only band I think I ever "hated" was Aqua, and then only because I was a teenager and their album was on repeat for a whole month in my first ever summer job, but now (as I'm sure Peter said) - "Come on Barbie, let's go party"
It’s not like we don’t have our own version of ‘No-one will win this category whilst this person, or persons, are in the nominee list’… Ladies and Gents, may I present Ant and Dec. 21 times they’ve won the TV Presenter award. How do you crash a car whilst drunk, lose a few months in rehab and somehow still survive today’s cancel culture? I’m sure I’ll still get 1-8 odds on them winning the TV present award next year.
Now, I’m an Alternative 80’s music kind of guy, I have happily allowed R&B, Death Metal, Opera, Grime, Dub, Daft Punk, and other genres pass me by (although not some Symphonic metal). I have taste, but no great singing voice to go with it.
These days I have to be careful which monitor I’m viewing a conference call presentation on as I otherwise start to look like Mr D just before I realise and move the screen back to the laptop LCD where I can look straight at the camera and look like a normal Scottish Bloke who’s worked from home for 20+ years who could probably do with a shave but otherwise look presentable as 12 colleagues stare (edit: changed start to stare) at me…
‘Nostril Time’ doesn’t work? It’s probably on strike like half the UK
…AND as any kid growing up in the 1980s can tell you:
What do you do when your nose goes on strike?
- you picket!
FaceTime on an Apple Watch? Nostril Time…
…the problem with having a conversation with a right nostril is that you don’t *really* know who you’re talking to: “hello, is that Hannah?, oh no it snot,” (it’s not/ it snot …yes you should never explain your jokes)
The annual Beyonce awards remind me of that period in the 1980s, when the Eurythmics would win a Brit award every year - regardless of whether they'd actually released anything that year.
U2 .... all tracks a bit samey. OTOH the yanks probably wouldn’t understand the fuss about little men wearing Dukla Prague away kit https://youtu.be/eBmFuySb_Qw