Re: Things we remember...
Robert Carnegie
Matt Hughes wrote:
> On 6 Nov, 15:40, "Mike Schilling" <mscottschill...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Butch Malahide wrote:
> > > On Nov 6, 5:34 am,Matt Hughes<archon...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> >
> > >> Which puts the Ventures in the same category as the Juliard
> > >> Quartet.
> > >> And brings up another memory of things that we don't have anymore:
> > >> the instrumental pop hit. Apache. Walk Don't Run. Stranger on the
> > >> Shore. Pipeline. Green Onions.
> >
> > > "Chariots of Fire" and "Music Box Dancer" were fairly recent. Just a
> > > couple decades ago, right?
> >
> > And Classical Gas.
>
> Music Box Dancer I remember from the seventies, Chariots from the
> early eighties (?), but Classical Gas was from the Mason Williams
> album of 1968.
>
> Has there been a big instrumental hit in the past twenty years?
"Meet Her At The Love Parade" (1996, 2001) by Da Hool may have
impinged. I'm listening to the 9 minutes original(?) online as I
type; no voices yet. Three minutes plus before there's something
other than percussion. About one minute of suspecting the player is
just repeating.
And one that, reasonably enough, I can't remember the title of, but I
think it may have been by "DJ Sash". Although in that case someone
probably shouts "Encore une fois!" halfway through. If that isn't
sufficient to disqualify it as instrumental, ... hmm. "Ecuador"
apparently has lyrics beyond somesody shouting out "Ecuador!" several
times, but that's all I remember. And the other one I'm thinking of
may be "La Primavera", which has a lot to say, comparatively, but in
Italian.
And there was a bit of a fashion at one time for Gregorian chant, does
that count as instrumental, you're no idea what they're saying, could
be a grocery list... and one American Indian one for variety. And
then there's Chemical Brothers and Fat Boy Slim, but a lot of the time
they do have lyrics. But again does,
Hey girls!
Hey boys!
Superstar DJs!
Here we go!
(diddle bum bum diddle bum bum diddle bum bum diddle bum bum diddle
bum bum diddle bum bum diddle bum bum diddle bum bum...)
- count as instrumental or a song?
What if we define "instrumental" as "would be surprised to find it on
a karaoke machine"?
Garrett Wollman
Robert Carnegie <rja.ca...@excite.com> wrote:
>
>Matt Hughes wrote:
>> Has there been a big instrumental hit in the past twenty years?
>
>"Meet Her At The Love Parade" (1996, 2001) by Da Hool may have
>impinged.
Don't know about the UK charts but it was not a "big hit" in the
U.S. in 1996 (or any other year from 1955 to 2000), according to
Whitburn. (That is, if you define "big hit" as "top-10 hit", which
seems reasonable.)
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netcat
@e23g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>, rja.ca...@excite.com says...
Shaddap, quickly, before I remember it and get earwormed by it _again_.
rgds,
netcat
Juho Julkunen
(net...@devnull.eridani.eol.ee) says...
"Equador!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P86fPsC_cCQ
But on the subject of instrumentals, I believe Darude's "Sandstorm" was
pretty big in 2000 and doesn't have any lyrics.
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Juho Julkunen
netcat
giao...@hotmail.com says...
While we're on the subject.. can anybody help me identify another semi-
instrumental piece? I first heard it several years ago, but only once.
It had a catchy rhytm and every now and then a vocal insert saying very
fast "incorporated syncopated sound" or something to that effect. I was
recently reminded of it when I saw an ad of "Lionheart" (the van Damme
movie) on TV, which used it, but when I look at the soundtrack listing
on IMDB I don't see anything very likely, and I just couldn't force
myself to watch a van Damme movie, so I dunno if the track was actually
used in the movie or not.
rgds,
netcat
Louann Miller
news:MPG.2574bf787...@news.octanews.com:
>> sufficient to disqualify it as instrumental, ... hmm. "Ecuador"
>> apparently has lyrics beyond somesody shouting out "Ecuador!" several
>> times, but that's all I remember.
>
> Shaddap, quickly, before I remember it and get earwormed by it _again_.
>
(evilly) WIPEOUT!
Brad Sims
Have a nice glass of TEQUILA!!
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Howard Brazee
wrote:
>>
>> (evilly) WIPEOUT!
>
>Have a nice glass of TEQUILA!!
Name a song with 1 word, one with 2, one with 3, etc.
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Kurt Busiek
> On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:37:54 -0600, Brad Sims <bms...@comcast.net>
> wrote:
>
>>>
>>> (evilly) WIPEOUT!
>>
>> Have a nice glass of TEQUILA!!
>
> Name a song with 1 word, one with 2, one with 3, etc.
So does the "Hyaaaaah!" in tmbg's "Minimum Wage" count as a word?
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Robert Carnegie
> On 2009-11-24 13:11:11 -0800, Howard Brazee <how...@brazee.net> said:
>
> > On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:37:54 -0600, Brad Sims <bms...@comcast.net>
> > wrote:
> >
> >>>
> >>> (evilly) WIPEOUT!
> >>
> >> Have a nice glass of TEQUILA!!
> >
> > Name a song with 1 word, one with 2, one with 3, etc.
>
> So does the "Hyaaaaah!" in tmbg's "Minimum Wage" count as a word?
I think "Ying tong iddle i po" doesn't (it's British). But it does
have other words in the verse.
Kurt Busiek
Robert Carnegie
It seems that whether we believe that depends where in the world we
are... which is reasonable. ;-) I have it playing from Last.fm now;
it's familiar.
How about "Pjanoo"? (Credited to Eric Prydz, the world's world typing
instructor. :-)
Are American correspondents looking at a chart that /allows/
instrumentals? It could be not.