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Genrepalooza 3: Playlists are done, phwew (1 Viewer)

Ilov80s said:
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Thnx man.

Sadly, I have fallen behind on listening to other's picks this Derby week. Keeping up with my picks here and commitments in some other threads have kept me pretty thin.

However, I just thought of something. I was gonna post the spoiled lyrics at bottom for Sweet Blasphemy - but decided it would be pointless, as I don't know what they say and can't find a reliable way to translate. I remember you mentioning that you had some friends that might be able to read this.

Or, do you (anyone here) know a way to get a good translation?

Google gives me this:

Let the mosques for the slaves dwell in them, and we will have mercy on them, around the moths to keep us safe

What thy Lord said, Woe to those who were drunk, but said,

Woe to the worshipers

Mahimihi Mihi Mihiswooli Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

A big spoon

Nathmajkhk
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I've never trusted Goggle for accuracy, and a big spoon seems kinda odd; but maybe it is a reference I don't understand.

دع المساجد للــعباد تسكنها وطف بنا حول خمار ليسقينا

ما قال ربك ويل للذين سكروا ولكن قال ويل للمـصلين

مهيميهي ميهي ميهيسووولي
يااااااااباااااايى
ميمخةثخم
نثمخخخخ
 
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Man of Constant Sorrow said:
Thnx man.

Sadly, I have fallen behind on listening to other's picks this Derby week. Keeping up with my picks here and commitments in some other threads have kept me pretty thin.

However, I just thought of something. I was gonna post the spoiled lyrics at bottom for Sweet Blasphemy - but decided it would be pointless, as I don't know what they say and can't find a reliable way to translate. I remember you mentioning that you had some friends that might be able to read this.

Or, do you (anyone here) know a way to get a good translation?

Google gives me this:

I've never trusted Goggle for accuracy, and a big spoon seems kinda odd; but maybe it is a reference I don't understand.

دع المساجد للــعباد تسكنها وطف بنا حول خمار ليسقينا

ما قال ربك ويل للذين سكروا ولكن قال ويل للمـصلين

مهيميهي ميهي ميهيسووولي
يااااااااباااااايى
ميمخةثخم
نثمخخخخ
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I could ask one of my students 

 
Northern Voice said:
Speaking of Pop and the 2000s. Here's the Billboard chart from May 6, 2000. Feels like it's from another planet. Obviously don't click if you don't want songs spotlighted but I don't imagine more than a couple are on anyone's list and the best song on there (Say My Name) is 1999 anyway, probably a couple others are in order to be topping a May 2000 chart.

https://twitter.com/cmolanphy/status/1123574110083330048
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I drafted one of those songs in the football draft

 
Ilov80s said:
What’s Derby week like down there? Parties all week?
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Parties started a few weeks ago with Thunder Over Louisville.

Thunder Over Louisville, the annual kickoff event of the Kentucky Derby Festival, is an airshow and fireworks display in Louisville, Kentucky. It is generally held each April, about two weeks before the first Saturday in May, or Derby Day. In years where Easter Sunday falls on the usually scheduled weekend, Thunder is moved a week earlier. It is the largest annual fireworks display in North America[1] and began as part of an opening ceremonies event in 1989 with daytime fireworks...
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It has been growing since.

We have lots of mini-festival events spread out - really fun.

I have family and friends in and out of my place all week - from as far away as Costa Rica.

In years past, I had huge parties, but now, I'm more about the business. I am renting my house out to a professional party service beginning Thursday night - and will come back home late Saturday night or Sunday.

But, if I wanted to really party - it would be very easy to find in a short walk.

I get stoned and observe now. That is pretty cool too.

You should really come down and visit one year. I could tolerate you fer a short while, I suppose...

 
Sorry, I've been out of the thread..  Busy retirement day riding my bike and watching Champions League.  I also agreed to take over a baseball team for the missing and possibly deceased SCBF and am trying to sort out his roster before FAAB runs tonight.

rolling for round 15
 

RPG Library Secure Dice generated the following rolls for .

2d12, rolled once.

Roll set 1
Die rolls: 10, 10 (Doubles!)
Roll subtotal: 20
Roll total: 20
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We have a distaff round on Thursday.  Female and female.

Country, dance and pop are the only remaining categories  with single rolls.

 
14.05  The Juan Maclean - A Simple Design  (Dance)

Like a lot of dance singles, the 7 minute version on Spotify goes on for a little long although it features a nice synth solo by MacLean.  The 4 minute version in the video is just about right.  Vocals are from Nancy Whang of LCD Soundsystem but it sounds more like something that ZE Records would have released in 1984.

 
Eephus said:
14.05  The Juan Maclean - A Simple Design  (Dance)

Like a lot of dance singles, the 7 minute version on Spotify goes on for a little long although it features a nice synth solo by MacLean.  The 4 minute version in the video is just about right.  Vocals are from Nancy Whang of LCD Soundsystem but it sounds more like something that ZE Records would have released in 1984.
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One of my ideas for a future continuation category was bands that haven't released anything since the early-00s, sort of a "where did they go" category. This band (or guy) seemed like a good fit, since I haven't heard of them for a long time but I see this song is from 2014 and he put a single out this year.

 
The 2 genres and my selection are directly related to the # of gins I have had.    

1=  my normal Radiohead, Pink Floyd, etc..

2 =  Usually get a little metal going.  

Once we get to the 4+ range, out comes the CRJ, Lady Gaga, Kesha, and Katy Perry!  

Round 14

Genre:  Dance

Song:  Lada Gaga - Just Dance

 
Man of Constant Sorrow said:
I was considering a Mastodon song earlier, but they just don't fit the mood I've been setting up here.

If I had gone in another direction, they would have been on my list by now.

Nice.
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Easily a top 5 metal band from the era we are talking about here (IMO).  Love the drumming - it always feels like Brann is a notch faster than what the rest of the band is playing and barely in control of not getting out of hand.  

 
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KarmaPolice said:
Easily a top 5 metal band from the era we are talking about here (IMO).  Love the drumming - it always feels like Brann is a notch faster than what the rest of the band is playing and barely in control of not getting out of hand.  
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Yeah - agreed, but I can't claim much knowledge here.

I was a real metal head for a long while, and still like the genre. I just have not kept up as well with newer stuff as well as I should have.

Now that Spotify is in my hands, I really have no excuses any more.

In my next draft, I plan to go more in that direction, and explore some of my wilder tastes.

Thnx.

 
Man of Constant Sorrow said:
Yeah - agreed, but I can't claim much knowledge here.

I was a real metal head for a long while, and still like the genre. I just have not kept up as well with newer stuff as well as I should have.

Now that Spotify is in my hands, I really have no excuses any more.

In my next draft, I plan to go more in that direction, and explore some of my wilder tastes.

Thnx.
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A little bit of the same here.  It's basically all I listened to for most of my Middle School - early college years, then I broke off and hardly listened to metal at all for a decade or so.   When I had the video store a couple of the employees were metal heads and sucked me back into the genre a bit.  I don't have a ton a tolerance for screaming/cookie monsters, but since then I have really loved a few bands, mostly:  Opeth, Mastodon, Gojira, Meshuggah, Deftones. (various levels of growling in this group)   I wasn't good at set, but I did play a bit of percussion/drums in my youth, so that seems to be what I gravitate to.  

 
KarmaPolice said:
A little bit of the same here.  It's basically all I listened to for most of my Middle School - early college years, then I broke off and hardly listened to metal at all for a decade or so.   When I had the video store a couple of the employees were metal heads and sucked me back into the genre a bit.  I don't have a ton a tolerance for screaming/cookie monsters, but since then I have really loved a few bands, mostly:  Opeth, Mastodon, Gojira, Meshuggah, Deftones. (various levels of growling in this group)   I wasn't good at set, but I did play a bit of percussion/drums in my youth, so that seems to be what I gravitate to.  
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Very cool.

I like learn'n about people. Both the vid store and drums are new info to me.

My tastes seem similar, tomorrow, while park'n cars and entertaining, I'll try some of the bands you mention.

 
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@Man of Constant Sorrow - have you listened to any of those besides Mastodon? 
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Not that I know of.

As soon as I got Spotify (2015 - came late), I spent the first years digging into the kind of stuff that I have been drafting here; Indie Rock, International, Jazz, Classical, Blues, R&B, Soul and similar.

Now, I think that I am ready to expand the circle.

I really should look into modern punk as well - that is a very blind spot for me.

EDIT: Pop is the only area where I don't foresee further exploration. If I hear it and like it, cool - but it has never been something I have sought out.

 
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Ah, new country is not a big fav of mine either - tho, I like some old country + folk and some bluegrass. Still, I don't know much about these - just like some things I have come across.

 
Northern Voice said:
One of my ideas for a future continuation category was bands that haven't released anything since the early-00s, sort of a "where did they go" category. This band (or guy) seemed like a good fit, since I haven't heard of them for a long time but I see this song is from 2014 and he put a single out this year.
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Bands don't break up anymore.  They go on hiatus or members move on to other projects.  I think every group with all living members will eventually get back together.  Except for The Smiths of course.

 
Eephus said:
Bands don't break up anymore.  They go on hiatus or members move on to other projects.  I think every group with all living members will eventually get back together.  Except for The Smiths of course.
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Is this because with people not buying CDs anymore and Spotify paying peanuts, they have to keep touring and/or putting out new music? It's easy for Oasis or someone to break up and stay that way when they've moved 50 million records but now maybe your average career looks like Dan Boeckner's referenced earlier, where he has a relatively popular indie band that puts an album out every few years, a solo project to fill in in between, a side project with another indie heavyweight and one band that I guess will not get back together because it's with his ex-wife.

 
Man of Constant Sorrow said:
Not that I know of.

As soon as I got Spotify (2015 - came late), I spent the first years digging into the kind of stuff that I have been drafting here; Indie Rock, International, Jazz, Classical, Blues, R&B, Soul and similar.

Now, I think that I am ready to expand the circle.

I really should look into modern punk as well - that is a very blind spot for me.

EDIT: Pop is the only area where I don't foresee further exploration. If I hear it and like it, cool - but it has never been something I have sought out.
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@Man of Constant Sorrow

I think in order of least to most growly:

Deftones - Just try the album White Pony, if you don't like that you probably don't need to explore more.  

Mastodon - we know this

Opeth - Swedish band.  They are 1/2 and 1/2 between normal and growly vocals.  In their old age they have ditched the growls as well and gone a more prog route.  I think group of songs that would give you the range of them is:  Ghost of Perdition, Deliverance, Blackwater Park, Eternal Rains Will Come, Burden, Windowpane.    If there is nothing in that group that makes you want explore more, they probably aren't your thing.  This is my obsession from the decade, and they have passed Radiohead as my most listened to band during that time.  

Gojira - French band.  Maybe not as growly as Opeth can be, but more consistent in the heaviness for sure.   I would say try songs like L'Enfant Sauvage, Flying Whales, The Gift of Guilt, and The Heaviest Matter in the Universe to get an idea here.  

Meshuggah - another Swedish band.  The drummer is nuts, and still have 0 how he plays this.  I have a kid where I work that plays metal drums and hadn't heard of them before and I told him to listen to a song.  Next time I saw him he laughed and said he lasted about 20sec.   If you don't like Bleed (the song I was referring to here), Clockworks, Future Breed Machine,  Rational Gaze probably no need to try any more.  

 
Northern Voice said:
Is this because with people not buying CDs anymore and Spotify paying peanuts, they have to keep touring and/or putting out new music? It's easy for Oasis or someone to break up and stay that way when they've moved 50 million records but now maybe your average career looks like Dan Boeckner's referenced earlier, where he has a relatively popular indie band that puts an album out every few years, a solo project to fill in in between, a side project with another indie heavyweight and one band that I guess will not get back together because it's with his ex-wife.
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Boeckner is a good example because he's been active for the entire century.  He's been in five different groups.  As much as I like Operators, Wolf Parade seems like his career band and the best longtime commercial vehicle. 

Bands have become more fluid this century.  The very notion of what makes a band a band has changed.  There are a lot of acts with names like a band but are really only one guy/gal and whoever's backing them.  Boeckner and Britt Daniel could hire some musicians and put out a new Divine Fits record.  That sounds like a great idea.

Never say never re: Handsome Furs.  Divorced couples have toured and recorded together.  

 
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OK, I found the original time I posted my gin story - to be fair, though, vodka was involved as well.

It was in a rockaction thread from 2017. 

@otb_lifer pulled the story from me.

Happy Derby Week otb! 

Here it is:

otb_lifer said:
Man of Constant Sorrow said:
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...when I was in a break dance group...

...name was "T-Funnel"...

...I funneled the booze too often...too early.  :wub: 
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right back atcha

T-Funnel needs to be fleshed out a wee bit more, no? 
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Man of Constant Sorrow said:
Hmmm, T-Funnel...let me think back...

It all began with Dad Jokes, as I recall.

One buddy's dad was bald (Turtle Wax), another's was a bigger loon than I am (Loopy), and my Pop was a drinker (Funnel).

Well, one night we stole 2 sixteen ounce bottles of liquor from my dad. Actually, we didn't steal the bottles, rather, we poured 16 oz of vodka into one empty Pepsi bottle...and a half and half mix of vodka & gin into a 2nd. We feared that taking too much of the vodka would bust us.

So, the guys whose pops were Turtle & Loopy split the 16 oz of vodka.  I finished the mixed one by myself.  I ended up puking alll over my brand new New Balance basketball shoes (Later referred to as "Nordenheggers"...don't ask why that name came about...I was drunk at the time.)

Anyways, after than night, I became "T. Funnel"...son of "Funnel".

A few months later, the 3 of us formed "Rap Attack"...our break dance crew.

I kept "T. Funnel"...the other 2 were....????????????....maybe...."Run Hot" & "Downtown".

We beasted the streets for a few months before we realized that we were only dorks in parachuute pants and moved on to metal.

However, during that time we actually got pretty decent at breakdancing...

...in fact, when my 2 friends got married years later, we all did the dolphin/worm at the weddings...

...I broke the same big toe both times...

...haven't broke since then!

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So, I quit gin long before I quit alcohol.

You ginners are now warn'd.

 
In the name of fair play, I'll throw Metal Draft out there too.   GP 1 and 2 had Metal-adjacent categories that were fun.  It's way outside my musical wheelhouse though.

 
Round 15.xx

Genre - Female/Rap (Dice/Home)

Artist - Jean Grae

Song - Kill Screen

This was a tough one, especially passing up a group I discussed with shuke, a Tasker-inspired group, and one woman off of Eephus's list at the beginning that I immediately thought of when seeing the category; but I figure I'll combine the categories because there's no excuse for me not to have taken Jean Grae any longer in drafts. I love her style. My favorite album of hers, Attack Of The Attacking Things, is no longer available on Spotify or I would have picked "Get It" by her (most likely). But the selected might be better in that it showcases her more traditional emcee/MC side, is more modern than something from 2002, and she just flat throws it down on this song. Not an overground beat but a sneakily effective one -- it showcases her vocal dexterity to the nth. #### it, Jean, you just do it. Rap Genius calls this song Kill Screen a.k.a. Steve Wiebe for all you freaking King of Kong nerds.

I started the video at the beginning of the song and cut the whole movie-style video, but there's a bit of back story (albeit disjointed with jump cuts) for those interested in rewinding to the start of the mini-movie. 

Break it down, Jean. What is this???

This is rebel #### - Mojave rock
Got polyglots, who'll molly whop you 'til your body pop
I'm never sick, when my temperature drop, it's 7 Up
105.6 hell, praise the rock

I rarely encourage anyone to do something in these drafts, but I would highly recommend clicking the song and the annotation of the lyrics along with it at the following link. Dope! Rap Genius

An example: They explain "I'm never sick..." and the stanza following:

Quite possibly one of the most intricate lines ever.

The average body temperature is 98.6 degrees, 105.6 is “7 up” from that. (and also a soda) Jean claims to never be sick, and even if her temperature dropped, it would still be 7 degrees above average. A fever above 105 degrees in a normal person would likely cause brain damage, among other things. Jean is a super-human.

105.6 is also a Detroit-based rock radio station whose motto is “where detroit rocks!” Detroit is often referred to as “Detroit Rock City”

She's dope, folks. 

eta* Put this under "Female" on the sheet, as I think this is more spoken-word and more suited for the flow of the mix as an interlude. Mabye? Not sure...

 
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KarmaPolice said:
The 2 genres and my selection are directly related to the # of gins I have had.    

1=  my normal Radiohead, Pink Floyd, etc..

2 =  Usually get a little metal going.  

Once we get to the 4+ range, out comes the CRJ, Lady Gaga, Kesha, and Katy Perry!  

Round 14

Genre:  Dance

Song:  Lada Gaga - Just Dance
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I almost took a handful of different Lady Gaga songs in the pop category, including this one.  :thumbup:

 
Mrs. Rannous said:
I guess I'll go with 

Round 14  -  Hips Don't Lie  -  Shakira  (2005)

I can't believe this song is already 14 years old.
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My uncle married a Turkish woman in like 2012.  We ended up going to Turkey for the wedding.  

My father was the best man, which meant he needed to rent a van in order to get us to the ceremony.  Apparently, when someone is getting married in Turkey, they decorate the vehicle with all sorts of flowers and such, so everyone driving the streets knows the bride/groom are in the vehicle.  Apparently it is also tradition for children to harass the vehicle in moving traffic until the driver gives them money.  You should've seen the kids abandoning their bicycles in the middle of 6 lanes of traffic in downtown Kayseri, sprinting through traffic, just to start banging on the hood of a rental van clamoring for money.  

We get to the ceremony, and it's....interesting.  Dry wedding.  You don't get to choose your beverages, they just show up and you get a glass of iced tea or some kind of Coke equivalent or whatever the waiter happens to be carrying whenever he gets to you.  They cut a stunt-wedding-cake with a giant saber, which was kinda neat.  We ended up eating with my aunt's cousin from Ankara, who was 14 but looked like he was about 35.  Nice kid.  My dad asked him if he was married, not realizing he was barely in high school.  At some point, they shot off legit fireworks inside the room, which was pretty packed full of people.  No one seemed to think it was out of the ordinary.

What does this have to do with Shakira?  Well, they played music during the entire reception.  "American music".  Great, right?  Sure, except it was just 3 songs on repeat.  This song, Michael Jackson's "Don't Stop Til You Get Enough", and something else that I can't recall.  Those 3 songs, on loop, for like 3 hours.

Anyway, nice pick.

 
Eephus said:
In the name of fair play, I'll throw Metal Draft out there too.   GP 1 and 2 had Metal-adjacent categories that were fun.  It's way outside my musical wheelhouse though.
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Hard pass.

I'll listen to just about anything, but Metal makes me too anxious.  Plus it always sounds so angry.  Not why I want to listen to music.

But you boys have a good time. :headbang:

 
14.09 CCFX, The One to Wait (Female; 2017)

Almost picked this a couple of times in previous rounds, but wasn't sure whether Rock or Dream Pop would be a better fit (probably the latter), so this is easier.

Kudos to Spotify's devious algorithms, 'cause this came up on one of their weekly suggestion playlists a while back and blew me away. Their inspirations are rather transparent here, but they put their own spin on it, and it's just gorgeous.

 
Female fronted rock bands is most of my new music listening the last couple years, such a deep category. Speedy Ortiz is one of the best and maybe still a bit under the radar?

Round 15 - No Below - Speedy Ortiz - Female

 
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