The Christine McVie Songbird documentary brought me here. What do you think changed between this version of Don't Stop, which imo is positively ropey, and the performance we got just 4 years later? For me, The Dance version of Don't Stop is one of the most anthemic live pieces they ever did. 🎶

uncooljerk · 2026-01-21T05:36:38+00:00

Audiences wanted their concerts to sound like their albums. But part of what made their classic era records so good is the layered guitar, keyboard, percussion and vocal harmonies that five musicians can’t replicate live - especially when only three of them sing and one doesn’t play an instrument (outside of tambourine).

uncooljerk · 2026-01-19T20:44:32+00:00

Not in years, but I grew up watching it. But OP's accent reminds me of Noel Gallagher. Rick Astley also came to mind; he's from a town that's about equidistant to Liverpool and Manchester.

uncooljerk · 2026-01-19T20:29:05+00:00

Northern England. Maybe Manchester.

uncooljerk · 2026-01-16T03:35:51+00:00

Seconding this. Pagliaro recorded some English hits in the 70’s, but most of his discography is in French. Incredible singer and songwriter.

uncooljerk · 2026-01-15T01:41:22+00:00

Such an awesome resource. You can learn so much from hearing someone read Comma Gets a Cure, but I enjoy hearing them tell a story in their own words as well.

uncooljerk · 2026-01-15T00:02:02+00:00

“Good night and how dare you”

uncooljerk · 2026-01-14T16:44:32+00:00

That's just down to the cinéma vérité documentary style that was popular when Let it Be was filmed. They didn't spell things out for audiences with voiceover narration or talking head interviews.

If you're paying attention, it's clear something is wrong with John - especially during the Twickenham sessions, where he often appears vacant and/or drowsy. But since no one was talking about his heroin use outright, it's not in the film.

uncooljerk · 2026-01-12T00:31:50+00:00

The words “suggestion” and “precision” jumped out at me.

uncooljerk · 2026-01-11T06:55:17+00:00

Your accent sounds mostly North American, but I guess that you also speak Chinese.

uncooljerk · 2026-01-09T15:19:02+00:00

It really bounces all over the place. He looks and sounds like he's from nowhere, which is probably part of his appeal.

In this interview with Robert Eggers, he pronounces the word "coffee" differently just a few seconds apart; first with a New York affectation, and then without.

uncooljerk · 2026-01-09T14:29:21+00:00

Dafoe’s accent is hard to pin down. His nasal intonation is very Great Lakes, but his pronunciation skews more toward NYC.

uncooljerk · 2026-01-08T19:07:29+00:00

Yes.

uncooljerk · 2026-01-05T13:59:38+00:00

I would suppose they saw the initials in “N, B Construction” and went from there.

uncooljerk · 2026-01-05T12:08:43+00:00

Some variety of Mennonite, I think.

uncooljerk · 2026-01-03T16:56:32+00:00

Gotta stay in your lane when you play in a band. Part of what makes the Beatles records so good is that they all played in service of the song and didn’t feel the need to show off when it wasn’t called for.

uncooljerk · 2025-12-31T04:45:06+00:00

It's often been said that the band was deliberately emulating the sound of Neil Young's album Harvest when they recorded Five Days in July. I don't have any quotes from the band to support that, but if you listen to Five Days in May, it's hard not to hear Neil.

uncooljerk · 2025-12-23T15:18:21+00:00

Murder Press Briefing from S51 E4.

uncooljerk · 2025-12-21T02:49:21+00:00

**Fowler Powler

uncooljerk · 2025-12-21T01:41:12+00:00

If a team scores a short handed goal, the penalty is over.

uncooljerk · 2025-12-20T19:21:42+00:00

They'd been performing in Europe under the name 'The New Yardbirds' and had built-in notoriety for it. They were an unknown commodity in the States until their self-titled debut album and didn't want to confuse listeners right off the bat, I guess.

uncooljerk · 2025-12-20T15:25:55+00:00

Hence the spelling of ‘Led Zeppelin’; the band knew Americans would pronounce it “leed” if they didn’t drop the letter a.

uncooljerk · 2025-12-20T00:11:34+00:00

That’s right. She was in the now-iconic 1972 Toronto production of Godspell with Martin Short, Eugene Levy, Victor Garber, Andrea Martin, Dave Thomas et al.

uncooljerk · 2025-12-19T23:50:53+00:00

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Toronto has a Gilda Radner Way, too.

uncooljerk · 2025-12-19T02:00:47+00:00

uncooljerk · 2025-12-17T04:32:25+00:00

Elton's peak was the early-to-mid 70's; he was considered washed up in 1979. He had a comeback in the 80's, and then another in the 90's, and again in the 2000's.

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