Confessor
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Post by Confessor on May 8, 2020 16:01:43 GMT -5
I really like Kraftwerk and have four of their albums: Autobahn (1974), Radio-Activity (1975), Trans-Europe Express (1977), and The Man-Machine (1978). I also have a grey market "best of..." type compilation and their 1991 remix album, The Mix. They were so far ahead of their time it's ridiculous!
Sonically, I find them really interesting and certainly pioneering. I also find something really appealing about their cold, robotic sound: it's the sound of isolation and icy detachment. Sometimes I just really need to hear music like that.
I also like a load of British synth-pop that Kraftwerk directly influenced.
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Post by codystarbuck on May 8, 2020 20:11:54 GMT -5
I really like Kraftwerk and have four of their albums: Autobahn (1974), Radio-Activity (1975), Trans-Europe Express (1977), and The Man-Machine (1978). I also have a grey market "best of..." type compilation and their 1991 remix album, The Mix. They were so far ahead of their time it's ridiculous! Sonically, I find them really interesting and certainly pioneering. I also find something really appealing about their cold, robotic sound: it's the sound of isolation and icy detachment. Sometimes I just really need to hear music like that. I also like a load of British synth-pop that Kraftwerk directly influenced.Which seemed like everybody. I watched a documentary on Youtube that came from either the BBC or, (possibly) Channel 4, and everyone talked like hearing Kraftwerk was their magical moment.
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2020 22:35:26 GMT -5
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Post by Cei-U! on May 9, 2020 9:10:15 GMT -5
Just saw that Little Richard has passed away at age 87. Bummer.
Cei-U! I summon Long Tall Sally!
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Post by brutalis on May 9, 2020 11:05:08 GMT -5
Sad to hear of Little Richard's passing. His Good Golly Miss Molly was one of the the 1st 45rpm records that I ever bought. Such energy, style & pizazz exuded from him. True entertainer that crossed many a genre & barrier opening the eyes & ears of the world!
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 9, 2020 11:17:05 GMT -5
It's honestly hard to overstate the influence that Little Richard had on the performers who followed him. An absolute trail-blazer as a performer and persona.
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2020 12:17:33 GMT -5
I was familiar with some of the hits by Little Richard when I was younger, but I mostly overlooked his stuff until he was featured on "Elvis is Dead" on Living Colour's second album (I was, and still am, a huge fan of Living Colour) which inspired me to delve deeper into his oeuvre. I didn't realize what I had been missing out on. Great stuff there regardless of its influence, but yeah, his influence is undeniable.
Little Richard's appearance is about halfway through the video/song.
-M
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Post by beccabear67 on May 9, 2020 13:45:27 GMT -5
My Dad met Little Richard as a teenager back in the late '50s; got his autograph too which is in one of the family photo albums.
I recently watched a network special on Siegfried and Roy. He made an amazing comeback after that tiger 'incident' which I was glad to see, but sad to learn of this now. I'm on the fence about the tiger's intent... Roy claimed he had a stroke on stage and this threw the tiger (Manticor?) off script and it dragged him off the only way it knew how because it knew something was wrong, not to kill. I suppose if it had really intended to kill there'd have been no chance, but still, Roy flat-lined at one point. He was frantic that the tiger not be killed while he had any consciousness.
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Post by codystarbuck on May 9, 2020 18:33:57 GMT -5
My Dad met Little Richard as a teenager back in the late '50s; got his autograph too which is in one of the family photo albums. I recently watched a network special on Siegfried and Roy. He made an amazing comeback after that tiger 'incident' which I was glad to see, but sad to learn of this now. I'm on the fence about the tiger's intent... Roy claimed he had a stroke on stage and this threw the tiger (Manticor?) off script and it dragged him off the only way it knew how because it knew something was wrong, not to kill. I suppose if it had really intended to kill there'd have been no chance, but still, Roy flat-lined at one point. He was frantic that the tiger not be killed while he had any consciousness. His story never seemed particularly believable, to me. You don't change an animal's nature in a generation of captivity, no matter how well or humanely you train them. There's too much evolution involved to suddenly turn it off. Little Richard I am genuinely sad to see gone. Great musician and performer who was exploited, early on, yet still brought people together.
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Post by beccabear67 on May 9, 2020 19:37:30 GMT -5
His story never seemed particularly believable, to me. You don't change an animal's nature in a generation of captivity, no matter how well or humanely you train them. There's too much evolution involved to suddenly turn it off. I hadn't heard his story before, but mostly it would be hard to say he didn't experience what he said he did although it certainly does seem unusual, but they were unusual folks with an unusual act. I'm pretty hard headed when it comes to animals expressing some kind of miraculous fine emotions or complex messages, but dogs have saved people... (shrug). Also a very large Husky was quite sensitive towards me once, came to me when I was crying on the phone and allowed my tears on his fur.
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2020 21:58:06 GMT -5
It's honestly hard to overstate the influence that Little Richard had on the performers who followed him. An absolute trail-blazer as a performer and persona. *THAT* I will give him.
however, I will not mourn him - he turned into a Raging Homophobe (again, after being extremely homophobic in his early years, and then proclaiming himself Gay, then Bi, then Pan) in 2017.
so yes, he influenced a lot of people, and was a trailblazer.
but good riddance, to the hateful a-hole he became once he "found Jesus" again in 2017.
not gonna provide any links, but simple enough to google if you're curious just how hateful he became.
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Post by beccabear67 on May 10, 2020 12:38:29 GMT -5
Little Richard seemed to go back and forth between a variety of extremes and sounds like he never accepted or sorted much out for himself ultimately. The 'pray the gay away' deal is often just sad and a waste of time, and the people behind it can be plain hateful or simplistic beyond all known reality to the contrary... and I would hate a world where everyone was some identical robot down to the proper clothes and perfect homes and all that. People believing in a creator but totally not embracing the variety 'He' created? I don't get that at all. Limited know everything already types versus those who enjoy challenges, learning, expanding? So Richard Penniman probably had some heavy duty judgemental sorts in his family I would suspect. Some of the greatest human beings who have ever lived, that you can learn the most from, had to overcome such negative forgetting the timbers in their own eye folks, I wish Little Richard could be counted among them, but like a lot of artists and humans in general he was more of a mess. Eric Clapton who made a lot of a career out of black blues music went on a racist rant on stage once while drunk. You have to learn not to throw the whole person out, and there is a lot of Little Richard I will still listen to and enjoy.
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Post by Duragizer on May 10, 2020 14:09:24 GMT -5
Homophobia's a curse. Internalized homophobia moreso, perhaps.
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Post by EdoBosnar on May 11, 2020 9:56:39 GMT -5
Just saw the news that veteran comedic actor Jerry Stiller has died. He was 92 years old. Perhaps best remembered recently for his roles as George Costanza's dad in Seinfeld and the cranky live-in dad in King of Queens - I wasn't the biggest fan of either of those two shows, but Stiller was quite funny in both of them.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 11, 2020 11:50:45 GMT -5
Paul Kupperberg is reporting on Twitter that Marty Pasko has passed away. If true, and I have to think that Kupperberg would be someone who would know, Pasko was 65, which is seeming pretty young at this point.
Pasko has the distinction of being the only pro I ever got into a flame war with on CBR.
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