Main Forums => The Outpost Cafe => Topic started by: nofi on May 11, 2016, 06:44:17 PM
Title: I'm Speechless !
Post by: nofi on May 11, 2016, 06:44:17 PM
i found this while looking for this song by brownsville station. could be break time at the meth lab or a cattle call for a remake of deliverance. funny yet disturbing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zcBh28Vvi0
Title: Re: I'm Speechless !
Post by: Dave W on May 11, 2016, 08:20:10 PM
Brownsville Station meets Gangnam Style.
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Post by: nofi on May 11, 2016, 08:34:28 PM
in all fairness barefootin' was done originally by robert parker. got to give credit where credit is due. no 'magpie' stuff here. :mrgreen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azIytXgdggA
Title: Re: I'm Speechless !
Post by: uwe on May 12, 2016, 12:56:15 AM
That Brownsville Station arrangement rips off Marc Bolan's Ricky Nelson pastiche in Get it on (Bang a gong) so blatantly ...
Title: Re: I'm Speechless !
Post by: nofi on May 12, 2016, 06:08:19 AM
my god, you could be right. :o
Title: Re: I'm Speechless !
Post by: Granny Gremlin on May 12, 2016, 06:46:06 AM
That Brownsville Station arrangement rips off Marc Bolan's Ricky Nelson pastiche in Get it on (Bang a gong) so blatantly ...
Hipster! :P :-*
Title: Re: I'm Speechless !
Post by: uwe on May 12, 2016, 07:12:41 AM
Well, I can't help it if my music taste is just beaucoup more hip than yours! :gay:
I could never understand The wind at all Was like a ball of love I could never never see The cosmic sea Was like a bumblebee And when I'm sad ... I slide ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_n8nsyg6tI
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Post by: Killed_by_Death on May 12, 2016, 07:22:37 AM
You guys clearly haven't seen Brokeback Kitchen, or you'd recognize that scene in the OP's video.
Title: Re: I'm Speechless !
Post by: Dave W on May 12, 2016, 07:29:29 AM
That Brownsville Station arrangement rips off Marc Bolan's Ricky Nelson pastiche in Get it on (Bang a gong) so blatantly ...
Not sure what you mean there. Did Mark Bolan originate anything?
Title: Re: I'm Speechless !
Post by: uwe on May 12, 2016, 08:55:17 AM
He was certainly better than Brownsville Station at making the purloined components sound like his own!
Let's give him credit: Without Marc's Tony Visconti violin-drenched T. Rex sound (copiously borrowing 50ies rock'n'roll stylisms and adding a Donovan folk slant to it) there would have been no Ziggy Stardust album, Bowie has said as much. He carbon-copied Bolan's sound there and ordered Tony Visconti (who had produced Bolan before Bowie) to provide it. But for Bowie it was just a phase, Bolan was a one-trick-pony with it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJPe3SH9uKk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrlo8hQKhpI
And here is the Brownsville riff arrangement ... It's a signature one to me. Even their bass run at 0:20 borrows from Bolan at 2:24!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZkTh_T75QY
Title: Re: I'm Speechless !
Post by: TBird1958 on May 12, 2016, 09:10:08 AM
I'm always glad I got to see Marc and T-Rex back in the day, he certainly was an influence on me. :)
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Post by: uwe on May 12, 2016, 09:22:23 AM
One trick pony and swiper/slider or not, his voice, that minimalist, but insistent rhythm guitar, the weird fantastical/non-sensical lyrics and his sense of catchy melodies are hard to emulate. You hear five seconds of him - you know it's him.
I hear a little bit of T. Rex even in Prince's music, I believe the two would have gotten along well, as he matured Marc became a great friend of black music and Prince always had a heart for glam (the music, not just the outfits). Both really didn't have "singer's voices" either, yet were totally characteristic.
Title: Re: I'm Speechless !
Post by: Granny Gremlin on May 12, 2016, 09:23:30 AM
LOL, the drummer in that Get it On vid (love that record) isn't even playing the same thing as the backing track (kinda half time). Lazy sod/miming along to the recorded track is some bullshit that can really make a guy jaded.
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Post by: uwe on May 12, 2016, 09:36:58 AM
Everybody but his band played on Bolan's records. He did a lot himself - another Prince parallel and Visconti was an excellent bass player. Mickey Finn, the "conga player/percussionist" wasn't allowed to either play or sing on any recorded output. He was hired for his looks, period.
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Post by: Rob on May 12, 2016, 10:14:28 AM
Thanks for that Parker video Nofi
Title: Re: I'm Speechless !
Post by: Dave W on May 12, 2016, 05:25:41 PM
I liked T Rex much better than Brownsville Station. Bolan put it all together nicely. All I meant was that he didn't break any great new ground, except maybe in obscure lyrics.
Title: Re: I'm Speechless !
Post by: Granny Gremlin on May 12, 2016, 05:35:39 PM
Well he was doing that breathy softspoken thing in an era where everyone else (in the rock sector) was screaming their ass off. Not sure he was the first, but close to it.