Well I don't know what it's going to do to the recommended videos algorithm on my YouTube account, but I went through and updated all of the broken links in the first 7-8 pages of this thread. I figured it would be fun while Mrs. Ismitje and I were cooking and hanging out this fine Christmas Eve, and it was (though when particularly odd songs came on she'd repeatedly ask what exactly I was up to). There are some fun old threads in this forum and I'd be happy to take a run at some of them if anyone wishes it. I fix a page here and there as I stumble across old posts, and would be happy to be more purposeful from time to time.
Some of that smooth jazz/new age fusion stuff that all my middle school peers' parents liked (and so did I. I was very slow to like any sort of pop or rock). Fairly obscure. I'd hear it maybe once a year on the local smooth jazz/etc radio station. Also, been looking for a needle in a haystack by the name of "Dawn Dance", by Scott Fitzgerald, off of Thunderdrums II: All One Tribe. I picked up that tape while on a trip with my uncle. We stopped at a new agey gift store in Sedona. Gorgeous winter drive from the Phoenix area where I was at boarding school to Flagstaff. My uncle wanted to go to the Grand Canyon, but we got snowed in at Flag.
This sounds like it could be the music to a commercial. Not embarrassing at all. I found Philip Phillips' Home thru a Mazda commercial. It stayed with me for only about a month, but I liked it a lot during that period, and still don't ff if it comes on something I recorded when that ad was running. I also found Claude Shermack thru a McCormick's spices commercial, and I like the PNC Bank jingle.
Apparently, released 44 years ago today: This is from his SNL appearance April 22, 1978. The skit was fun; didn't care much for listening to it on the radio.
Friend of mine was a production assistant to Howard Shore then; moved heaven and earth trying to find Pharoah Sanders to get him to fly in to do the sax solo, but nobody knew where he was... so I think that is actually Blue Lou Marini.
Comedy in that era became like Trump rallies now. People didnt go to hear anything new. they went to cheer and chant catch phrases.
Never cared for Madonna, or her music. I'm not really sure why I like this song so much, except that maybe it's so brazen as to be enjoyable. I will say one thing, though, Madonna mastered the medium of the music vid long before anyone else. And Robert Wulf as the flunky agent in the beginning? Simply masterful.
Found this on an atheist forum I post to. Some 60-ish woman posted it. It's reeling my 47yo self in. And this excerpt is kinda cool for the dancing: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5Svf7V_fWis ETA: Do shorts not get the same treatment on here as regular YouTubes?
This is a fvcking great song. I'm not even remotely embarrassed by this one. Just listened to it twice. I'm worried about you silverstein. Who taught you to be ashamed of these songs? A bunch of Yes and King Crimson poseurs?
gotta say buddy, that really made me laugh, so thanks!!! I prefer ELP and the Alan Parsons Project!!!
Aiiiieeeeeee... an ex-gf really liked this song. I can see it as a soundtrack to a very funny day, but there is no way I could sit down and put the vinyl on the turntable and just listen to it.