RE: OT: CUSA board Music thread (what are you listening to right now?)
you can blame Van Halen...things wuz diff'nt back in tha day...and nary a one said a word...
Artist: Van Halen
Album: 1984
Dirge: "Hot For Teacher"
Songwriters (them who had the ideas): Alex Van Halen, David Lee Roth, Edward Van Halen
October 1984 Warner Bros.
Quote:The song features Alex Van Halen's double bass drum performance, and its music video, featuring the band as both adults and young students.
The music video (directed by Pete Angelus and David Lee Roth,[8] and produced by Jerry Kramer and Glenn Goodwin, choreographed by Vincent Paterson with concept/treatment by Anthony Nasch) was filmed at John Marshall High School,[9] with Phil Hartman performing the voice of Waldo, the video's protagonist.
Waldo, an awkward boy with large glasses and a bow tie, is put on the school bus by his over-protective mother. He is terrified by the unruly kids on the bus; the driver played by Roth, tells him "si'down, Waldo!" as the opening drums begin. Along with Waldo, the "kid versions" of Van Halen face the trials and tribulations of grade school. Two models appear as teachers in the video,
Donna Rupert (1981 Miss Canada pageant runner up), who plays the chemistry teacher, and Lillian Müller, who plays the Phys Ed teacher. Both teachers tear off their dresses to reveal a bikini, to the cheers of the students. At the end of the video, the kids are shown to have grown up to become a gynecologist (Alex Van Halen), a sumo wrestler (Michael Anthony), a psychiatric hospital patient (Edward Van Halen), and a game show host (Roth).
While it is said that no one was sure what Waldo grew up to be, the video hints at him becoming a playa', the total opposite of his child self. This is intercut with scenes with the band members dressed in red suits and dancing to the song under a disco ball.
RE: OT: CUSA board Music thread (what are you listening to right now?)
(05-24-2023 02:29 PM)texowl2 Wrote: Tina Turner-what a performer...
we know Tina Turner's in Heaven because...
she's gonna tell St. Peter "You Better Be Good To Me!"
Artist: Tina Turner
Album: Private Dancer
Ticket: "Better Be Good To Me"
Songwriters: Mike Chapman, Holly Knight, and Nicky Chinn
September 1984 Capitol Records
Song is one of my all-time favorites, so it deserves the original songwriter performance...Ladies and gentlemen: Holly Knight and Spider!
Artist: Spider
Album: Between The Lines
Ticket: "Better Be Good To Me"
Songwriters: Mike Chapman, Holly Knight, and Nicky Chinn
1981 Dreamland Records
Quote:Spider was an American rock band from New York, United States, that formed in 1977 and disbanded in 1984. They released two studio albums through Dreamland Records, a sub-label of RSO Records, in the early 1980s, and scored a few moderate hit singles in the United States. Two songs from their 1981 album Between the Lines - "Change" and "Better Be Good to Me" - were hits for John Waite and Tina Turner, respectively. In 1982 they changed the band's name to Shanghai and released their third and final album.
Holly Knight left the band before the third album and Beau Hill replaced her on keyboards. Knight went on to become a successful songwriter writing or co-writing several hit singles for other artists, such as "Rag Doll", "Obsession", "Love Is a Battlefield", "(Simply) The Best", "Invincible", "Better Be Good to Me", "The Warrior", and "Change". Holly Knight was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2013 - and she also formed the band Device. Knight's first big break came when she played keyboards (uncredited) on Kiss' Unmasked album. In the early 1980s Hill had already been a record producer. Anton Fig and Jim Lowell toured with Link Wray and appeared on his live album Live at the Paradiso, recorded in 1979. Fig became a session drummer for several different bands throughout the rest of the 1980s and later went on to play with Paul Shaffer in The World’s Most Dangerous Band (later the CBS Orchestra) on Late Night with David Letterman.
(This post was last modified: 05-25-2023 12:31 PM by GoodOwl.)
RE: OT: CUSA board Music thread (what are you listening to right now?)
it's June, not July, but seems appropriate this week...
Artist: Jim Croce
Album: Life and Times
Song: "Alabama Rain"
July 1, 1973 ABC Records/Vertigo Records
Quote:Lazy days in mid-July, country Sunday mornin's
Dusty haze on summer highways, sweet magnolia callin'
But now and then I find myself thinkin' of the days
That we were walking in the Alabama rain
Drive-in movies, Friday nights, drinkin' beer and laughin'
Somehow things were always right, I just don't know what happened
Now and then I find myself thinkin' of the days
When we were walkin' in the Alabama rain
We were only kids but then I've never heard it said
That kids can't fall in love and feel the same
I can still remember the first time I told you "I love you"
On a dusty mid-July, country summer's evenin'
A weepin' willow sang its lullaby and shared our secret
But now and then I find myself thinkin' of the days
That we were walkin' in the Alabama rain
Walkin' in the Alabama rain
RE: OT: CUSA board Music thread (what are you listening to right now?)
(07-16-2023 01:11 PM)RobtheAggie Wrote: Just got off a road trip with lots of Ben Rector and National Parks Band. Similar styles of music. A little U2 thrown in for good measure as well.
i'll wager you weren't listening to this...but you kinda said it so here it is...
Artist: Kiss AMC
Album: A Bit Of.. (ep)
Jam: "A Bit of U2"
1989 EMI/Skysaw Records
RE: OT: CUSA board Music thread (what are you listening to right now?)
(07-18-2023 10:13 AM)GoodOwl Wrote:
(07-16-2023 01:11 PM)RobtheAggie Wrote: Just got off a road trip with lots of Ben Rector and National Parks Band. Similar styles of music. A little U2 thrown in for good measure as well.
i'll wager you weren't listening to this...but you kinda said it so here it is...
Artist: Kiss AMC
Album: A Bit Of.. (ep)
Jam: "A Bit of U2"
1989 EMI/Skysaw Records
RE: OT: CUSA board Music thread (what are you listening to right now?)
(08-07-2023 12:21 AM)TOPSTRAIGHT Wrote: Why do we care what kind of music someone from the AAC board listens to?
That was the first post in three weeks on this dying thread.
I know, I know-- I don't have to click on it.
What? a fella can't root for up-and comin' Kennesaw (ticketed or CUSA as our next stop) and a dying rice? On campus regularly so Still my board, sorry to say, fellas. Go Owls!
Long-Distance (and even longer now) Dedication to the PAc4...
Artist: Helen Reddy
Album: Long Hard Climb
Song: "Delta Dawn"
June 11, 1973 Capitol Records
or...for a bit more contemporary take (it's only natur-all)...
Artist: The Kinks
Album: State of Confusion
Song: "Come Dancing"
November 19, 1982 Arista Records
RE: OT: CUSA board Music thread (what are you listening to right now?)
(08-10-2023 12:28 PM)PojoaquePosse Wrote: I had never opened this thread before and was surprised it is the owl guy. Why do the mods allow these threads to exist?
I’ve been saying that forever. It should have been closed a long time ago.
RE: OT: CUSA board Music thread (what are you listening to right now?)
It has been a while since anybody has poster to this thread. I was sitting out back drinking a brew and listening to my mp3 player. I haven't done that in a while as music has seemed so distant these days or I don't want distractions as I walk the neighborhood picking up trash discarded by people as they drive by. I do this to clean up the neighborhood and to see what people throw out of their car. I'm looking for things that might give me a clue of anything I should be alarmed over. Not that the neighborhood has any drive through traffic as there is only one way in and out. There has been some discarded objects that concerned me in the past.
Anyway, a song came up that I haven't heard in some time.
For What Its Worth by Buffalo Springfield. The lyrics struck me of what is going on today and how this old song fit today.
Enjoy
Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth 1967
It has been a while since anybody has poster to this thread. I was sitting out back drinking a brew and listening to my mp3 player. I haven't done that in a while as music has seemed so distant these days or I don't want distractions as I walk the neighborhood picking up trash discarded by people as they drive by. I do this to clean up the neighborhood and to see what people throw out of their car. I'm looking for things that might give me a clue of anything I should be alarmed over. Not that the neighborhood has any drive through traffic as there is only one way in and out. There has been some discarded objects that concerned me in the past.
Anyway, a song came up that I haven't heard in some time.
For What Its Worth by Buffalo Springfield. The lyrics struck me of what is going on today and how this old song fit today.
Enjoy
Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth 1967
(This post was last modified: 10-19-2023 11:38 PM by WWDog.)
The musician, known for co-writing hits such as "Ladies’ Night" and "Celebration", died of lung cancer in Los Angeles
Quote: According to an official biography of the drummer-songwriter posted by the Songwriters Hall of Fame, the Jersey City, N.J., native had developed an early affinity for jazz drummers Elvin Jones, Art Blakey and Jack DeJohnette when he met neighbor and future Kool & The Gang keyboardist Ricky West. West introduced Brown to the band’s future saxophonist and musical director Ronald Bell and future trumpeter Robert Mickens, and by the mid-1960s they were playing jazz clubs while still in high school.
In 1969 the group, which had performed under various names includes the Jazziacs, became Kool & the Gang and began to develop the blend of jazz, soul, funk, rock and pop music that would become their trademark. The band’s breakthrough came in 1973 with the album Wild and Peaceful, which included the hits “Jungle Boogie” and “Hollywood Swinging.”
Throughout the ’70s and well into the ’80s Kool & the Gang scored a string of hits including “Ladies’ Night,”“Get Down on It,”“Joanna,” “Cherish” and the chart-topping “Celebration.”
The group won a Grammy in 1978 for their work on the soundtrack for Saturday Night Fever, which has sold more than 16 million copies in the U.S. alone. Kool & the Gang’s song “Open Sesame” also was featured in the movie.
In all, Kool & the Gang won two Grammys, seven American Music Awards, and was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame. They sold 7.5 million albums in the U.S. and more than 70 million worldwide.
Brown spoke about his cancer battle in an interview with TV station KCAL News just last month.
Artist: Kool & The Gang
Album: Wild and Peaceful
Groove: "Hollywood Swinging"
April 6, 1974 De-Lite Records
“When asked to describe his music, Brown always replied, ‘The sound of happiness.’”
(This post was last modified: 11-18-2023 10:59 AM by GoodOwl.)
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