Song Contest Part XVI, Host: ???, Theme:???, Noms Due: ???

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Back One Out said:
Whenever someone says "it all sounds the same" or "I found it boring", it's usually because they don't like it, they've switched off and they're not listening. It makes the initial criticism invalid. More accurate to simply say: I just don't like it, not my style, so I didn't really listen.

All blues sounds the same. All jazz sounds the same. All big band swing sounds the same. All rap sounds the same. All metal sounds the same. All punk sounds the same. All techno sounds the same. All classical music symphonies and piano sonatas sound the same

It just sounds the same to people who aren't into it and don't like it.

People always say every song by AC/DC or the Ramones is the same. I know what they mean, but it's a cliched criticism and it's horseshit anyway. I love the those bands and I can tell you what song of theirs is playing from the first few seconds. To my ears, all of their songs are distinct. As bands, they found their sound and didn't feel the need to use any gimmicks and make cosmetic changes for for the sake of change. Doesn't mean their songs are the same.


edit: shit, I'm repeating myself, aren't I? I've posted all this before... :(
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I agree with this. The only exception being Billie Eilish. Found her album to be pretty darn good upon release, but every listen after that I found it more and more grating and a chore to listen to. Now I'm bored to death whenever I hear any of her tracks.
Her whole bored aesthetic probably doesn't help.
 

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_Rake_ said:
You're not alone, Hoos was bagging the shit out of those first 5 songs in the song review PM.
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STLF up for votes from me.

See what I did there? Bahahaha
 

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NinjaSwan said:
One of the best playlists in a while, was hard to vote.
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We must have been listening to different playlists, I thought it was mostly pretty average, at least the songs were short though.
 
Back One Out said:
Vampire Weekend are this century’s answer to Paul Simon in the way they shame steal music from Africa, the Pacific, etc, in order to enhance their own shitty lame tunes.

I nominated the Melanesian Choir for one of our previous rounds and got donuts


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Are you calling Paul Simon shitty and lame?
 
William Wonka said:
Are you calling Paul Simon shitty and lame?
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His work from Graceland and onwards?

Yep

He was a shameless thief. Bereft of new ideas, so he just stole from others.

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Los Lobos' Steve Berlin Labels Paul Simon a 'Jerk,' Alleges 'Graceland' Snub

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The '80s were a prime period for Los Lobos, and while they most notably broke through with the music for the film 'La Bamba,' there's another significant record with which they contributed to that you might not know they were ever associated with.

Multi-instrumentalist and producer Steve Berlin tells Rock Cellar magazine that the group isn't exactly happy with Paul Simon, claiming that a song they worked up in a session with the musician for the 'Graceland' album never yielded a credit or a profit.

Berlin says that at the time they were doing a favor for their label president by agreeing to work with the musician, who was coming off a down period in his career while they were enjoying Grammy and sales success. But the sessions with Simon were uncomfortable and the band were ready to move on after the first day, only to have their label chief pleading with them to play it out.

Berlin recalls, "Rather than engage us, Paul would just stare at us like we were animals in a zoo or something. I'm telling you, the guy is a weird dude -- there's no two ways about it." He says they felt as though Simon wasn't really interested in playing with them, as he sat in the control room and asked them to jam without contributing anything.

After a few days of uncomfortable interaction, Berlin says that David Hidalgo began playing what would become 'The Myth of Fingerprints,' a track they were preparing for their next record. He explains, "We'd been waiting around for two days for Paul to come up with something, but he had nothing. So to have something to do, we just started playing what we thought was our song, when Paul suddenly says, 'Hey that's cool. What is that?' and we said, 'Oh, it's a song we've been working on.'"

Berlin says Simon asked if they could work on it, and the band agreed thinking that it would help get the sessions over quicker. However, Los Lobos were definitely surprised when Simon's album came out six months later with credits that read "Words and Music by Paul Simon."

Berlin says attempts to find out why they weren't credited were met with silence until Simon contacted the band and said, "Sue me. See what happens." The musician says, "We should have sued him, frankly. I would have loved to have seen what would have happened. But I guess in a weird way, we just naively started fooling around with a song -- a song we didn't have a pre-existing recording of -- and I don't know if we could have proven in a court of law, at the end of the day, that he stole it."

Berlin says that one indicator of Simon's intentions was that the singer claimed to have written a lot of the African material on the 'Graceland' album, but later had to give the African records credit because there were recordings that actually did exist. But in the end, Steve says the band never received a penny for their work on the 'Graceland' record. He concludes, "Everybody I know who has ever worked with Paul Simon says he's the biggest jerk in the world. Yeah - he's a f---ing idiot."
 
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Ann Lennox OBE (born 25 December 1954) is a Scottish singer-songwriter, political activist and philanthropist. After achieving moderate success in the late 1970s as part of the new wave band The Tourists, she and fellow musician Dave Stewart went on to achieve international success in the 1980s as Eurythmics. Appearing in the 1983 music video for “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)” with orange cropped hair and wearing a man's business suit, the BBC states, "all eyes were on Annie Lennox, the singer whose powerful androgynous look defied the male gaze".[1] Subsequent hits with Eurythmics include "There Must Be an Angel (Playing with My Heart)" and "Here Comes the Rain Again".

Lennox embarked on a solo career in 1992 with her debut album, Diva, which produced several hit singles including "Why" and "Walking on Broken Glass". The same year, she performed "Love Song for a Vampire" for Bram Stoker's Dracula. Her 1995 studio album, Medusa, includes "No More I Love You's" and "A Whiter Shade of Pale". To date, she has released six solo studio albums and a compilation album, The Annie Lennox Collection (2009). With eight Brit Awards, which includes being named Best British Female Artist a record six times, Lennox has been named the "Brits Champion of Champions".[2] She has also collected four Grammy Awards and an MTV Video Music Award. In 2002, Lennox received a Billboard Century Award; the highest accolade from Billboard magazine.[3] In 2004, she received both the Golden Globe and the Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Into the West", written for the soundtrack to the feature film The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.

Lennox's vocal range is contralto.[4][5][6] She has been named "The Greatest White Soul Singer Alive" by VH1 and one of The 100 Greatest Singers of All Time by Rolling Stone.[7] In 2012, she was rated No. 22 on VH1's 100 Greatest Women in Music.[8] She has earned the distinction of "most successful female British artist in UK music history". As of June 2008, including her work with Eurythmics, Lennox had sold over 80 million records worldwide.[9] As part of a one-hour symphony of British Music, Lennox performed "Little Bird" during the 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony in London. At the 2015 Ivor Novello Awards, Lennox was made a fellow of the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors, the first woman to receive the honour.[10][11]

In addition to her career as a musician, Lennox is also a political and social activist, notable for raising money and awareness for HIV/ AIDS as it affects women and children in Africa. In 2011, Lennox was appointed an OBE by Queen Elizabeth II for her "tireless charity campaigns and championing of humanitarian causes". On 4 June 2012 she performed at the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Concert in front of Buckingham Palace. In 2017, Lennox was appointed Glasgow Caledonian University's first female chancellor.[12]
 
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