Music Tastes among ETARCers?

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This woman who passed away at 96 was quite the character
A sampling of her taste in music




And she had no problem giving her opinion

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Yet another song about Alzheimer’s from Neil Hannon.

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Nooooooooooooo! He has taken the Crazy Train for the last time :sob:

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We’re also reeeeally close to 666 comments which seems extremely appropriate for the man himself… This is comment 665 :eyes:

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Comment 666

I still remember spending a good month learning how to play this song my first or second year into teaching myself guitar :face_with_peeking_eye: I’m sure I butchered the solo in execution but I hit all the notes on time :wink:

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I was quite good at playing Iron Man…in Guitar Hero :musical_notes: :fire: :guitar:
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I outgrew the target demographic long before the third game in the series finally arrived, but one thing that will always stick with me and I’ll always revisit (ignoring the fact I just replayed the entire saga at Christmas cos steam sales) is Yoko Shimomuras music for the Kingdom Hearts franchise.

She developed such an instantly recognisable sound for the main themes explored in the series, you just know what it is when you hear it.

At this stage she’s video game royalty so I won’t harp on about her and move on to Utada Hikaru.

Utada Hikaru always provided the theme songs for the series and Yoko always does such lovely orchestral instrumentals dressed up with the ornamentation of the games audio aesthetic, I thought I’d share the one made for the third game.

My least favourite and the most rushed out the gate but the music is still as solid as ever so felt like a good choice, even in the worst game (imo) her music absolutely shines.

She manages to take all the ingredients of a classic Disney score and carry them over into its own unique thing, especially since Disney stopped sounding like this decades ago :wink:

The constant recurring theme, the Disney-esque march you hear throughout, is one of those staples I mentioned earlier, it shows up a lot and seems to me to be the driving force of Friendship (cheese alert)

(If you’re going to listen to the Utada originals always find the Japanese versions, the localised English versions never quite fit the melody’s flow as well, even though she writes and sings the English version too :sweat_smile:)

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Well I wanted to copy a link to the King’s Guard playing Paranoid during the changing of the guard but, it won’t work….bruh…

Here is a YT short but you can find the whole thing out there from numerous sources

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The original vinyl album of Paranoid did not have printed lyrics. There’s a line in the song that goes ā€œAnd so as you hear these wordsā€. Listening to it on a cheap stereo in 1970, my friends and I decided he was singing ā€œEsso Extra really worksā€.

We never could makee a lot of sense of that tune.

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I believe it was written somewhere in Ireland after many drinks and during the troubles. Or it was recorded here? I forget the specifics but it might make sense of the lyrics :joy:

Basing that solely off of something I read in a magazine 26 years ago. Googling revealed nothing but Google can’t even Google anymore so the verdict is still out I guess. Any genuine Sabbath historians wanna settle my memory straight?

Googling did reveal that people misheard the lyrics ā€œI tell you to enjoy lifeā€ as ā€œI tell you to end your lifeā€ and of course the Moms lost their damn minds.

That missing lyrics sheet really caused more bother than it should have.

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It never even occurred to me that other people might also have heard it as ā€œEsso Extra really worksā€ - but it seems from Googling, that they did.

At the time, Esso Extra was a brand of petrol (gasoline), widely advertised on TV.

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Found this channel earlier. Now I can’t stop

Beautiful skull balls

These guys deserve way more than 2k views per video <3

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OMG! This is great. I’m going out on a limb here to say that I’ve never before heard anyone sing about ā€œI’m Going To A Craft Fair At The Libraryā€ or ā€œI Hope You’re Rotting In Hellā€. Bandcamp has their complete discography.

YouTube channel
Bandcamp

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I’ve been returning to Hades and threw their entire discography (of albums and EPs) into a playlist on Spotify and it’s been one hell of an experience. (Sorry Darren Korb, I love your music too but you and Ashley Barrett need a break)

ā€œMaybe you should just go to the seance without meā€ is one of the most complete minimalist songs I’ve ever heard :joy:

There’s some genuine heartfelt songs in there too amidst all the humour and novelty… just not sure which ones yet cos copy paste playlist dump and videogames had me not seeing song titles.

I’ll have to throw some coinage their way on the bandcamp, thanks for the links :slight_smile:

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In honour of Hello Games co-Founder Sean Murray and on this the 9th anniversary of No Mans Sky, please rise for our National Anthem

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But we know both NMS and LNF were influenced by his time in the Outback so we must thank Australia as well.

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Precisely why Australia should drop the union jack from their flag and join a brand new union after we take back the North fully and Wales and Scotland rejoin our Celtic territories :stuck_out_tongue:

Only in the fever dreams of a pagan nationalist of course :joy:

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