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nofi

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I'm Speechless !
« 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.



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« Reply #1 on: May 11, 2016, 08:20:10 PM »
Brownsville Station meets Gangnam Style.
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« Reply #2 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:

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« Reply #3 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 ...
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« Reply #4 on: May 12, 2016, 06:08:19 AM »
my god, you could be right. :o
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Re: I'm Speechless !
« Reply #5 on: May 12, 2016, 06:46:06 AM »
Quote from: 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 ...

Hipster!     :P :-*
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« Reply #6 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 ...


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« Reply #7 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.
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« Reply #8 on: May 12, 2016, 07:29:29 AM »
Quote from: 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 ...

Not sure what you mean there. Did Mark Bolan originate anything?
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« Reply #9 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.





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!

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« Reply #10 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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« Reply #11 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.
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« Reply #12 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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Quote from: uwe on April 17, 2014, 02:19:20 PM
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« Reply #13 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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« Reply #14 on: May 12, 2016, 10:14:28 AM »
Thanks for that Parker video Nofi
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