What are you listening to, right now................
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@mariner4life said in What are you listening to, right now................:
definition of one hit wonders
Comedy Gold
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Breaking in another country can be a blessing or a curse, albeit a lucrative curse.
This is magnified if you're a non-American and you 'break' America.
You can be uber talented (controversial on here) like U2 and continually grow your musical repertoire or be pigeonholed into always being known for 1 song (maybe 2)
Dexy's Midnight Runners
Simple Minds
The Proclaimers
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@MiketheSnow said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Breaking in another country can be a blessing or a curse, albeit a lucrative curse.
This is magnified if you're a non-American and you 'break' America.
You can be uber talented (controversial on here) like U2 and continually grow your musical repertoire or be pigeonholed into always being known for 1 song (maybe 2)
Dexy's Midnight Runners
Simple Minds
The Proclaimers
etc
etcPsychedelic Furs. Yanks only know them for Pretty in Pink (but they probably do OK from royalties on that song alone)
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@Crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@MiketheSnow said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Breaking in another country can be a blessing or a curse, albeit a lucrative curse.
This is magnified if you're a non-American and you 'break' America.
You can be uber talented (controversial on here) like U2 and continually grow your musical repertoire or be pigeonholed into always being known for 1 song (maybe 2)
Dexy's Midnight Runners
Simple Minds
The Proclaimers
etc
etcPsychedelic Furs. Yanks only know them for Pretty in Pink (but they probably do OK from royalties on that song alone)
Awesome band.Exactly
If the song is in a successful / seminal movie then the hole is even smaller
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@mariner4life said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@Crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@mariner4life said in What are you listening to, right now................:
definition of one hit wonders
Even though Eileen was there second Number One? That makes them at least the definition of a two hit wonder.
straw poll
who can name the other?
I have nil all and fuck all chance of doing so without google.
So based on that given my superior music knowledge I think the term “one hit wonder” is astonishingly apt.
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@MiketheSnow said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Breaking in another country can be a blessing or a curse, albeit a lucrative curse.
This is magnified if you're a non-American and you 'break' America.
You can be uber talented (controversial on here) like U2 and continually grow your musical repertoire or be pigeonholed into always being known for 1 song (maybe 2)
Dexy's Midnight Runners
Simple Minds
The Proclaimers
etc
etcSimple Minds did some bangers. They were terrific.
The Proclaimers did one big song that everyone knows well despite deep down realising it is absolute shite.
Much like “why does love do this to me?” It seems vaguely tolerable when extremely pissed but when you analyse it you realise it’s just mass marketed crap. Absolutely awful.
Plus the twins fronting the band look like a pair of tired old lesbians nowadays.
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@MN5 said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@mariner4life said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@Crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@mariner4life said in What are you listening to, right now................:
definition of one hit wonders
Even though Eileen was there second Number One? That makes them at least the definition of a two hit wonder.
straw poll
who can name the other?
I have nil all and fuck all chance of doing so without google.
So based on that given my superior music knowledge I think the term “one hit wonder” is astonishingly apt.
It was literally in front of your eyes
Geno
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@MN5 said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Sound familiar ?
Not sure how a really big band that I’m a massive fan of didn’t get sued for this one.
They did
And won on appeal
A New Led Zeppelin Court Win Over ‘Stairway to Heaven’ Just Upended a Copyright Precedent
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Led Zeppelin in the "Stairway to Heaven" copyright infringement case.
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@MiketheSnow said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@MN5 said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@mariner4life said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@Crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@mariner4life said in What are you listening to, right now................:
definition of one hit wonders
Even though Eileen was there second Number One? That makes them at least the definition of a two hit wonder.
straw poll
who can name the other?
I have nil all and fuck all chance of doing so without google.
So based on that given my superior music knowledge I think the term “one hit wonder” is astonishingly apt.
It was literally in front of your eyes
Geno
No 1Not a bad tune……but I haven’t heard it til right now.
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This one hit wonder talk is simply based on age, location etc
Dexys other number one was the posted “Geno”. Was massively well known when I was a teen among anyone that followed the UK scene at the time. Many many years later I even went to a Geno Washington gig in Putney on the basis of that Dexys song alone.
I won’t claim to like the Proclaimers that much but again only a one hit wonder at a very superficial level. A whole musical/movie was created with their songs and then there’s this…
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@MiketheSnow said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@MN5 said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Sound familiar ?
Not sure how a really big band that I’m a massive fan of didn’t get sued for this one.
They did
And won on appeal
A New Led Zeppelin Court Win Over ‘Stairway to Heaven’ Just Upended a Copyright Precedent
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Led Zeppelin in the "Stairway to Heaven" copyright infringement case.
Hmmmmmmmmmm.
Ok how bout this one ? Remind you of another song by my second favourite British 60s/70s band ?
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@Crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
This one hit wonder talk is simply based on age, location etc
Dexys other number one was the posted “Geno”. Was massively well known when I was a teen among anyone that followed the UK scene at the time. Many many years later I even went to a Geno Washington gig in Putney on the basis of that Dexys song alone.
I won’t claim to like the Proclaimers that much but again only a one hit wonder at a very superficial level. A whole musical/movie was created with their songs and then there’s this…
100%
Fantastic
As good as any National Anthem rendition (and that's coming from a regular singer of the the best of the best)
Letter from America
Sunshine on Leith
I'm Gonna Be (500 miles)
I'm On My WayGreat documentary
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@MiketheSnow said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@Crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
This one hit wonder talk is simply based on age, location etc
Dexys other number one was the posted “Geno”. Was massively well known when I was a teen among anyone that followed the UK scene at the time. Many many years later I even went to a Geno Washington gig in Putney on the basis of that Dexys song alone.
I won’t claim to like the Proclaimers that much but again only a one hit wonder at a very superficial level. A whole musical/movie was created with their songs and then there’s this…
100%
Fantastic
As good as any National Anthem rendition (and that's coming from a regular singer of the the best of the best)
Letter from America
Sunshine on Leith
I'm Gonna Be (500 miles)
I'm On My WayGreat documentary
Fair call. I have heard that one.
Still unlistenable though.
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@MN5 said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@MiketheSnow said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@MN5 said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Sound familiar ?
Not sure how a really big band that I’m a massive fan of didn’t get sued for this one.
They did
And won on appeal
A New Led Zeppelin Court Win Over ‘Stairway to Heaven’ Just Upended a Copyright Precedent
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Led Zeppelin in the "Stairway to Heaven" copyright infringement case.
Hmmmmmmmmmm.
Ok how bout this one ? Remind you of another song by my second favourite British 60s/70s band ?
I know it but can't put my finger on it
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@MiketheSnow said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@MN5 said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@MiketheSnow said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@MN5 said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Sound familiar ?
Not sure how a really big band that I’m a massive fan of didn’t get sued for this one.
They did
And won on appeal
A New Led Zeppelin Court Win Over ‘Stairway to Heaven’ Just Upended a Copyright Precedent
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Led Zeppelin in the "Stairway to Heaven" copyright infringement case.
Hmmmmmmmmmm.
Ok how bout this one ? Remind you of another song by my second favourite British 60s/70s band ?
I know it but can't put my finger on it
You’re a terrible bogan
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@Bovidae said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Too-Rye-Ay was one of the first cassettes I bought in the early 1980s. I always thought that their cover of "Jackie Wilson Said" charted better than it did.
Got to No 5 in the UK
Classic Top of the Pops appearance with the crew putting up a photo of Scottish Darts Legend Jocky Wilson instead of Jackie Wilson
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@MN5 said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@MiketheSnow said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@MN5 said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@MiketheSnow said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@MN5 said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Sound familiar ?
Not sure how a really big band that I’m a massive fan of didn’t get sued for this one.
They did
And won on appeal
A New Led Zeppelin Court Win Over ‘Stairway to Heaven’ Just Upended a Copyright Precedent
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Led Zeppelin in the "Stairway to Heaven" copyright infringement case.
Hmmmmmmmmmm.
Ok how bout this one ? Remind you of another song by my second favourite British 60s/70s band ?
I know it but can't put my finger on it
You’re a terrible bogan
Please put me out of my misery
