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Oscar Music Draft 2018 (1 Viewer)

Thanks, kind people.  Mrs. R, your tribute to your friend was lovely.

I'm going to post my Best Animation song, but it's not available on YouTube.  Go to Spotify for it!

This song always makes me turn the radio up to 40 (even more than 11) and bounce around singing while I drive.  John Lennon hated the song, but what does that guy know about music.

The Beatles - And Your Bird Can Sing
Try this version...An Athens, GA band, from the era that produced REM; singer has a great voice. Guadalcanal Diary.

 
We've had no spontaneous explosions of italicized lyrics for a while at night, nor picks, so I'm going to take another couple mulligans. Where's NV?

Best Production - Jon Brion - Fiona Apple - Not About Love 

Most people forget that Paul Thomas Anderson dated Ms. Apple and introduced her to Brion, but nowhere does it shine brighter than on When The Pawn...and the unreleased version of Extraordinary Machine. If people don't know, the love story between the cop and the coke-addled woman in Magnolia was based on PTA's relationship with her, while she boxed the words "pta" in her liner notes to When The Pawn...regardless, this is not about love.  

Best Production - Kanye West - College Dropout - Spaceship

Uber-producer takes RZA's slowed soul samples and explodes the idea. Probably not the most picked song off of this album, but still outstanding. Would have picked something off of the Blueprint, but it's nowhere online. 

 
Accelerating fast I can do this in a second
Lookin' in the rear view, swaggin' goin' swell
Leavin' boys behind ‘cause it’s legal just to kill
Shift gear, automatic, damned if I do
Who's gonna stop me when I'm coming through?
What we got left is just me and you
But if I go to bed, baby, can I take you?


 
I am your sweetheart.. psychopathic crush
Drink up your movements, still I can't get enough
I overthink your.. punctuation use
Not my fault, just a thing that my mind do


 
Let's let things come out of the woodwork
I'll give you my best side, tell you all my best lies
Yeah, awesome right?
So let's let things come out of the woodwork
I'll give you my best side, tell you all my best lines
Seeing me rolling, showing someone else love
Dancing with our shoes off
Know I think you're awesome, right?

 

 
One of my musical shames is that I really don't like very many female singers.  I didn't do that analysis posted here of how gender-balanced your music is because I know it would be horribly imbalanced.  I don't know...it might be the tendency for female beloved singers to be "big" voices where I like subtlety, or it might be the twee notions of Cat Power and the like, but i have an inclination against.

So here's my estrogen alert!

When someone took Janis Joplin it left me a bit more lost in the Best Actress category, until I remembered the phenomenal Veerle Baetens.  Wait, who?

One of my favorite/most devastating movies (which are often the same for me) in recent years was The Broken Circle Breakdown.  You know, the Belgian movie about bluegrass musicians who lose their young daughter?  I don't think I'm giving away too much with that "spoiler," so if you haven't seen this movie, you should.  Anyway, the incredible musician/actress Veerle Baetens sings this in the montage when you see that the child has died, which is somehow not even the most devastating part of the movie.  She's a ####### angel.

Wayfaring Stranger - Veerle Baetens - The Broken Circle Breakdown

ETA:  @simey you must see this movie if you haven't.
I'm a skimmer, and unsurprisingly I missed this the first time. I just wanted to share that I too had guilt-pangs when it came to the male-female ratios of musical likes I've dished out in my lifetime. Once it was Joni and Janis and ??? ... And then came Chrissie Hynde, and then Neko Case, and then Lucinda Williams, and then Maria McKee, and then Patti Smith (I'm not the most sequential guy).  Anyway, there's a whole lotta socio-cultural jargon I'm incapable of using here, but I just want to share that I think, in these new modern times, lady singers and lady rockers are every bit as great. For cultural reasons (let's call it inertia), it takes some digging to discover. ... For my next trick, I will list my favorite black female singers. 

Baby steps, I suppose.

Rate my italics, por favor.

 
I'm a skimmer, and unsurprisingly I missed this the first time. I just wanted to share that I too had guilt-pangs when it came to the male-female ratios of musical likes I've dished out in my lifetime. Once it was Joni and Janis and ??? ... And then came Chrissie Hynde, and then Neko Case, and then Lucinda Williams, and then Maria McKee, and then Patti Smith (I'm not the most sequential guy).  Anyway, there's a whole lotta socio-cultural jargon I'm incapable of using here, but I just want to share that I think, in these new modern times, lady singers and lady rockers are every bit as great. For cultural reasons (let's call it inertia), it takes some digging to discover. ... For my next trick, I will list my favorite black female singers. 

Baby steps, I suppose.

Rate my italics, por favor.
I love Lucinda Williams, too.

I'll add Aimee Mann.  Helluva bass player, too.

italics4ever

 
I'm a skimmer, and unsurprisingly I missed this the first time. I just wanted to share that I too had guilt-pangs when it came to the male-female ratios of musical likes I've dished out in my lifetime. Once it was Joni and Janis and ??? ... And then came Chrissie Hynde, and then Neko Case, and then Lucinda Williams, and then Maria McKee, and then Patti Smith (I'm not the most sequential guy).  Anyway, there's a whole lotta socio-cultural jargon I'm incapable of using here, but I just want to share that I think, in these new modern times, lady singers and lady rockers are every bit as great. For cultural reasons (let's call it inertia), it takes some digging to discover. ... For my next trick, I will list my favorite black female singers. 

Baby steps, I suppose.

Rate my italics, por favor.
I love Lucinda Williams, too.

I'll add Aimee Mann.  Helluva bass player, too.

italics4ever
ITALICS!!!

I just wanted to share that too.

 
Guns of Brixton - Best Adapted Screenplay (Best Cover) - The Guns Of Brixton - Nouvelle Vague

Jazz never sounded so good. I love the original, so maybe this is just me spitballing, or hoping for a new draft...let's do it.  

 
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We Built This Playlist on Schlock n Roll Music Draft

The Jefferson Starship thread proved that the songs we love to hate are the same music somebody else hates to love or some other permutations of love and hate.

So here's the deal and they're much simpler than usual.

1.  Draft ten songs, two each from the 50s/60s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and 21st century.  
2.  The songs had to have charted on US Pop Top 40, which coincidently makes only one Rush song eligible.
3.  The songs have to be schlock.  Merriam Webster defines schlock as a noun meaning "of low quality or value" but you can define it however you like for your picks.  But be prepared to defend why you think a song is schlock.
4.  THE GIMMICK:  One song from each era should be a schlocky song you love and the other has to be a song you hate.

I think playlists would work out better if we did them collaboratively by era. The transitions would be better and drafters wouldn't have to own their tastes.  I don't know whether to split the love & hate lists but we can figure that out later.

Thoughts? (and prayers?)

 
We Built This Playlist on Schlock n Roll Music Draft

The Jefferson Starship thread proved that the songs we love to hate are the same music somebody else hates to love or some other permutations of love and hate.

So here's the deal and they're much simpler than usual.

1.  Draft ten songs, two each from the 50s/60s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and 21st century.  
2.  The songs had to have charted on US Pop Top 40, which coincidently makes only one Rush song eligible.
3.  The songs have to be schlock.  Merriam Webster defines schlock as a noun meaning "of low quality or value" but you can define it however you like for your picks.  But be prepared to defend why you think a song is schlock.
4.  THE GIMMICK:  One song from each era should be a schlocky song you love and the other has to be a song you hate.

I think playlists would work out better if we did them collaboratively by era. The transitions would be better and drafters wouldn't have to own their tastes.  I don't know whether to split the love & hate lists but we can figure that out later.

Thoughts? (and prayers?)
But Rush isn't 'low quality.' :rant: But that is an argument for another time! :wall:

Is it a draft or just posting playlists?

 
If somebody has a better draft idea I'm not wedded to schock.  I just thought it was timely given a multi-page thread on Starship.  

 
So George Strombolopolous is one of Canada's most well know TV/radio personalities and he hosts a weekly radio show in some tiny venue that I have no idea the details of. They have bands in there and they play super intimate shows. Here's The Kills  and here's Against Me.

Anyway, I just got a message that I won a spot for Saturday's taping of the next episode featuring FRANZ ####### FERDINAND.  HOLY ####.   I am super excited right now. @rockaction  @Steve Tasker

Now I just need my wife to let me go :oldunsure:   

 
So George Strombolopolous is one of Canada's most well know TV/radio personalities and he hosts a weekly radio show in some tiny venue that I have no idea the details of. They have bands in there and they play super intimate shows. Here's The Kills  and here's Against Me.

Anyway, I just got a message that I won a spot for Saturday's taping of the next episode featuring FRANZ ####### FERDINAND.  HOLY ####.   I am super excited right now. @rockaction  @Steve Tasker

Now I just need my wife to let me go :oldunsure:   
That's freaking awesome. Best of luck with it.  

 
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I was too harsh on my first reaction to the new FF album.  I agree w/ rockaction that it's tough to compare to their early records.  It's a bit of a grower through.

 
So George Strombolopolous is one of Canada's most well know TV/radio personalities and he hosts a weekly radio show in some tiny venue that I have no idea the details of. They have bands in there and they play super intimate shows. Here's The Kills  and here's Against Me.

Anyway, I just got a message that I won a spot for Saturday's taping of the next episode featuring FRANZ ####### FERDINAND.  HOLY ####.   I am super excited right now. @rockaction  @Steve Tasker

Now I just need my wife to let me go :oldunsure:   
:thumbup: love Strombo

 
10.xx - Rock Me Tonite - Billy Squier (Best Cinematography)

Billy, Billy, Billy. What were you thinking, hon? I couldn't resist not drafting this infamous video, and how can you watch it and not smile (unless you are Billy Squier). First off, I like Billy Squier, and I think this is a fun rockin' tune.  Billy thinks this video ruined his career. He let a video director/choreographer (who was friends with his girlfriend) shoot this video at the last minute, which was against the wishes of his manager and the record label. Billy didn't feel right about some of the things in the video, but the director Kenny Ortega assured him the finished product would be great. When Billy saw the finished product he was mortified. He didn't realize at the time his manager could have pulled the video and made another. He fired his manager. Honestly though, why didn't Billy say to the director, "Why do you have me prancing around like Tinker Bell to my rock song?" He thinks Ortega tried to mislead and exploit him. I love the video. It makes me laugh, but that isn't what Billy was going for. I can't decide which dance move I like best. There are so many good ones, and that bed flop n roll is pretty sweet. Maybe the video did hurt his career, but the song didn't since it was his highest charting single. He has gotten past it all saying, "The scars aren't that deep ... It's a bad part of a good life."  Rock Rock Rock n Roll Me!  :headbang:
I was just reading this interview with Martha Quinn from MTV, and she talks about her favorite MTV moment being when the staff did the "Christmas is the Time to Say I Love You" with Billy Squier.  The "Rock Me Tonite" video topic follows with this:

Three years later, Squier, one of MTV’s early darlings, would release his polarizingly pastel, new-wavy “Rock Me Tonite” video, which many people — including Squier — claim destroyed his career in less than four minutes and 49 seconds. But Quinn shrugs, “I don’t remember that video being poorly received at the time. If I were Billy Squier, I would launch the ‘Rock Me Tonite Tour.’ I would go out on tour with a giant huge bed on the stage, and I would come out in a pink tank top and dance my ### off. Because that was a super-fun video and a super-great song. I would just say, ‘Take this, haters!’ And it would be a smash.”  :lol:

 

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