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Zappa: "Hey, Princy! Could I get lessons from you? You know, I can't get to grips with this I, IV, V, I stuff that's so popular these days. With teaspoons, eh? I'm a bit slow." 😉

Quite possibly I'm with one foot in several camps. I think his musicality is exquisitely refined, but his output seems to me to not reflect a lot of depth and also to bring much sameness. I think he could be a lot more interesting if he wanted to, but maybe he didn't want to. Bought and enjoy "Around the World in a Day", and enjoyed "Sign o' the Times", which seemed interesting, but haven't listened to it more than a few times, so it might grow on me more if I listened more and more closely. Don't really know much of his other stuff, but again and again record live shows from the tv, and then delete them quickly again. BTW, really can't stand that Purple Rain melody snippet "purple rain, purple rain" (1-2-3----, 3-2-1----), and duck and cover when it comes on somewhere. Oh, the fave! I forgot. This version of Raspberry Beret may be as good as any.

Hm. Dunno about this one. That bass sounds kinda ... pink to my ears. 😁 Thanks for posting! (I don't know whether it's Ida Nielsen; just saw her mentioned.)

Aye, and, if memory serves, Godley and Creme not only recognised that but also used it as a reference when explaining their variant.

Yeah, the Gizmotron was Godley and Creme before they became Godley & Creme. I think they may still have been in 10CC then. It's mechanical, but with that same make-the-strings-vibrate thing going on. IMS the bowing wheels had a button each, close to the bridge.

I lost interest at "I". I really hate people starting their sentences with "I". I'm a man of principle, I.

Different strokes for different folks, I gather, as I loved the sound of this right from the start, in no minor part due to that autotune or whatever it is. While the notes themselves do little for me, the way this was recorded grabbed me and made me listen right to the end. BTW, Blue, did you use two basses for the recording as well, or just for the vid?

You can either listen to your own thoughts and the wisdom already expressed, or ... ... just shove it through Autotune and be a star like Cher!

Some people are wary about giving out their banking details, but they needn't be. Not only is it safe, but also: how do you pay the plumber's bill that has banking details printed on it? One of the safest methods if not the safest one. ...but: Doncha UK guys have an app these days, paying from bank account to bank account by use of phone numbers instead of banking details? With such an app, the seller immediately sees that the money's indeed in. As it's the same principle as above, this money can't be retracted. In Norway, sellers routinely demand the app, as it does away with the risk of counterfeit money ... and in Covid times it also reduced bug risks.

Yeah, isn't that just how things work? I do like both, but a lot of work seems to have gone in the Homeball one, and it seems you have been taking care of every aspect, but still the radio decided like it did. I saw some of the same patterns in the classical world that I stem from. One example: a stellar soprano who was a tiny little girl and got no work, whilst a classmate of hers, with a good-sounding voice but rather shallow interpretation, got all the work. Why? Looks! (To the degree no-one would ever believe the one with the work had actually been my girlfriend. 😄 ) BTW, I also liked "You Don't Scare Me, Livingstone" a lot. (Just a shame they stole an avatar for it. Naughty.)

May well be, but you need a film maker to use that one 👍

Yup. Or what you do next. People already mentioned joking about it, and I remember Dutch classical pianist Daniël Wayenberg, during a light-hearted Sunday afternoon gig, crawling under the grand piano to collect the wrong notes - formal tail coat and shiny shoes 'n' all. 😃

It is, but it ain't "one" either. I care, and I like it. Now this thread wasn't for critiquing other people's music, but I do think @snorkie635 and the lads could've recorded and released this officially and it could've been a hit too. Nothing wrong with the song; "everything" wrong with what makes or breaks a hit. When I started the thread, I was originally thinking of music that could never be a hit (like classical, jazz, experimental etc), but changed my scope before writing the OP, and hoped many would feel at home in the thread, like people who could've had a hit but didn't. From what I've heard up to now (I can play most of the YT vids on my tv, and none of the rest), many kinds of music are represented, which is good in my book. Keep'em coming!

@Dad3353, I'd love to hear that, but still have no sound in my laptop. I forgot that little bit when starting the thread. 😟 😄

Might as well throw in some classical. (Admittedly, you might see it in a classical list ... in a very good year.) This time, I don't even know whether I'm on it or not; it depends on when it was recorded and on who you ask.

Sparked by the one-hit wonder thread, I thought it could be interesting with a thread for music you'll never see in the lists. I thought we had a thread, but can't find anything like it. I'll kick off with music composed and recorded by others. I just was in this band after they didn't have a hit ... and remained hitless even though I joined them. 😁 Dutch band The Group: "Ballad of Hathor" from "Omniphonic Music", 1975. Not their most marked song, but the only one I could find.

Still had it going in the '80s myself, and lurved it: a lot easier than playing blues, and with more chords to boost. Win win.

'40s without any doubt, even though I wasn't a teenager back then. I mean: Musical Offering, Art of Fugue, St John Passion, Mass in B minor ... ... the list goes on and on!

Delia Derbyshire must've written some of the first electronic music I heard as a boy, but I thought they were sound effects, not music. However, being the sensitive and inquisitive lad back then, I thought about it for a minute and told Mum that one could write music like this. That's when I learned that I'm crazy and need to be in a ward somewhere. Hm. She probably still thinks that, so BC is not alone! 😄

If you haven't seen it yet: watch "Tina Live" from 2009 and be impressed. She was 69 at the time! And a half! RIP

Exciting times they were, with all kinds of ideas being developed by lab coaters and composers alike, the composers also starting to wear lab coats and the lab coaters getting wild hair and a possible beret 😊 ( ... based on a misunderstanding, as only painters, sculptors, actors and architects use berets; everyone knows that). Díck Raaijmakers, a Dutch composer, worked at some technical plant and was not allowed to use the equipment for personal pleasure, so he'd clock out at the end of the work day and pop back into the nat. lab, carefully locking the door, to make his music (basically simple linear, tonical music set to electronic sound), and in order to remain under the radar, took his moniker at work, Díck Nat. Lab, and changed it into the composer's name Kid Baltan. Me, coming in a whole generation behind these guys, I always thought I invented stuff, and I never did. They'd already done it, and better. BTW, certain aspects of Daphne Oram's drawing system (how ultra cool so early in the development!) also returned in Xenakis' UPIC machine a lot later.

Nice! I remember that footage and even remember his sweater, but must admit I'd forgotten about the Kaleidophon up to now, so I guess nothing ever came of it. Many people did stuff like that with simple means, and, whilst absolutely commendable, most of the time nothing came of it. BTW 1, he's product placing his album White Noise 2. IMS it was a nice album. Must revisit and check. BTW 2, I just love that you can buy an EMS VCS3 for less than the price of a piece of plastic pipe. Count me in. 😀

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Aye, in general terms you must be right. I was only thinking of our bass playing friend Mick Mason (who has a whole thread dedicated to him and his many years of scamming people), as several BassChatters have predicted that somebody at some point will give him his comeuppance - - not that they condone it.

If only this could happen somewhere in Leicester ... One can live in hope. 😉