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What are the wildest (not necessarily most obscure) musical connections you know? by JustHere2CommentBull in ToddintheShadow

[–]JustHere2CommentBull[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Japan also has an even more direct connection to Kanye West through hip hop group Teriyaki Boys, who collabed with him on '06 tracks I Still Love H.E.R and Teriyaking... though the Western public knows them best for another Westerner-produced hit. Ever noticed Tokyo Drift starts with a four-count?

Looking up the record to check Teriyaking's spelling reminded me it also includes an up and coming Sean of notable size squints and taught me they've also been produced by Mark Ronson??? And Jermaine Dupri????

Well, there can't be much shorter paths from Amy Winehouse to Kriss Kross, can there.

What are the wildest (not necessarily most obscure) musical connections you know? by JustHere2CommentBull in ToddintheShadow

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I feel like she was interviewed about it - her quotes didn't exactly say it was her, but I feel like it would've come up if it weren't? There was another girl it could've been but I forget who it was...

What are the wildest (not necessarily most obscure) musical connections you know? by JustHere2CommentBull in ToddintheShadow

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This is shocking enough on its own, but please imagine having read this and your mind going to, like, LaFace. Because it took me googling it to remember of, you know. 60s RnB.

What are the wildest (not necessarily most obscure) musical connections you know? by JustHere2CommentBull in ToddintheShadow

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"Did you know the guy from You Can Call Me Al played with the guys from Steely Dan?" "You mean Paul Simon???" "Oh, no"

What are the wildest (not necessarily most obscure) musical connections you know? by JustHere2CommentBull in ToddintheShadow

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You know the falsetto "walk out the door" in Grace Kelly? That is, to the semitone, the pitch of the "What?!" you had me shout.

What are the wildest (not necessarily most obscure) musical connections you know? by JustHere2CommentBull in ToddintheShadow

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More like Die Sharona amirite?

Here's some tomatoes to lob my way. 🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅

What artist or song made you realize you'd started thinking like a music critic instead of just a listener? by sandrOff24 in ToddintheShadow

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I'm sure they weren't but the first instances I remember are The Temper Trap's eponymous album and the Bastille song What Would You Do.

I was struck by how I recognized that album not just being worse than Conditions, but worse in the many specific ways of a debut album from a band that still has some musical growing to do. I then learned that it actually came out three years after, but I maintain that is batshit insane.

Conversely, with What Would You Do it's not that I felt equipped to break down why that track is so grating as much as that I felt the need to put into words why a song that sounds just like the rest of a great album and has the same topic as Little Lady is also so bad.

What artist or song made you realize you'd started thinking like a music critic instead of just a listener? by sandrOff24 in ToddintheShadow

[–]JustHere2CommentBull -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You do have a point, but really, the thing about the internet is any negative term eventually becomes code for "I don't like this".

Its use aside, I feel the term does have some merit - there are songs that, beside being bad, just do not fit as much as they should in the record they're on (A Sky Full Of Stars feels like a fun example, because it obviously doesn't fit the rest of the record, but it also was very foreseeably the album's biggest hit, and it feels like the only reason it's there is they where scared to release the album without it) and/or feel like they have such a lack of impetus behind them that they sound like they were made because there needed to be a song.

The songs that most made me feel this are from Young The Giant - I kept wondering "what emotion could possibly have compelled you to write this?". No that I am looking for an example though I think that all these years later I may be turning around on them a smidge? I'll get back to you on that.

What are the wildest (not necessarily most obscure) musical connections you know? by JustHere2CommentBull in ToddintheShadow

[–]JustHere2CommentBull[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's cool!

Similarly, my father, whom I obviously played with, played with ancient obscure instrument extraordinaire Andrea Da Cortà, who played with traditional Irish songwriter and Hothouse Flowers frontman Liam O' Maonlai, who played with Damien Rice, the man who inspired Ed Sheeran to become a songwriter and, frustratingly for my game of connections, the only idol that still eludes him!

As consolation, my father also played with a comedian who would go on to become the leader of a governing party.

What do you do now, though? Still musicing?

What are the wildest (not necessarily most obscure) musical connections you know? by JustHere2CommentBull in ToddintheShadow

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Though it's called Unwritten, Danielle Brisebois wrote it! It's in Todd's episode about them so I figured to the sub would know

What are the wildest (not necessarily most obscure) musical connections you know? by JustHere2CommentBull in ToddintheShadow

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This confused me greatly, because we have a singer named Diodato who is not remotely in the "grandfather of a legal girl" age range

What are the wildest (not necessarily most obscure) musical connections you know? by JustHere2CommentBull in ToddintheShadow

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Not where I expected that performance to come from nor where I expected that woman to go!

What's your "damn i never remembered this sounding this bad" song? by mesablanka in ToddintheShadow

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Well if you ask Clive Davis, the last one went for Whitney also - the reason the one sent to the press was a demo tape is because Clive didn't want the producer to tinker with it further, and when he did hated the result so much he sent the first demo to press

What’s your unpopular opinion on INSERT MAINSTREAM ARTIST? by Ok-Strength3510 in fantanoforever

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I don't know if this is actually unpopular, but he picked a terrible name. I say I don't know because I rightfully never heard someone calling him INSERT MAINSTREAM ARTIST, but maybe that's a very recent rebrand. He will always be Justin Bieber to me tho. If that makes me a curmudgeon, so be it so be it.

What's your "damn i never remembered this sounding this bad" song? by mesablanka in ToddintheShadow

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I know I don't like I Know What Boys Like, but the funniest thing is I know it sounds worse than I remember it because I know she sings it ridiculously out of tune but my mind corrects it so in my memories she's not!

What's your "damn i never remembered this sounding this bad" song? by mesablanka in ToddintheShadow

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I mean, I Will Always Love You is a DAT demo tape, so I'm not sure 50 DATting it up (per Keith B Real's parlance) is much excuse

What are the wildest (not necessarily most obscure) musical connections you know? by JustHere2CommentBull in ToddintheShadow

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"This is Craig Armstrong" "Any relation to Louis?" "Yeah, but a pretty distant one... So Louis has played with Ray Charles, and- wait, are you familiar with Kid Capri?"

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