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paradiseregained wrote:
You have JUST GOT to be kidding me ! They just keep getting worse and worse - more and more pretentious - more and more freaking awful. I just don't understand ?
MrsTom wrote (In reference to Peter Gabriel - Rhythm of the Heat): Pretentiousness of the highest level. Sounds a bit crap too
Michael_Dean wrote: Oh glad, I found you, an Expert of Pretentiousness.
Would it not be handy to have a quick reference chart, seeing that we have so many citations of pretentiousness here in the comments section. Please arrange the following in order of pretentiousness. If you will do this work, I promise to post the chart every time I see an offense registered. We can call it the MrsTom Pretentiousness Gradient, MTPG for short. Not to be confused with Empty Peter Gabriel, of course, THAT'S a whole other chapter, let's just handle these one at a time and in order. (Was that too Pretentious?). ah... wait... we were talking about something...... THE LIST ! ! ! I I'll have it made like a mountain range, with a snow-white pillow for my big fat head, And my heaven will be a big heaven, And I will walk through the front door. Big time. (I love me!) (Now, I think that WAS pretentious).
Pretentiousness of the Highest Level
Indubitably Pretentious
Certainly Pretentiousness
Moderately Pretentiousness
Twinkie Defense Pretentiousness
Barely Pretentious
Criminally Pretentious
Chewbacca Defense Pretentious
Almost Pretentiousness
MTPG Pretentious
Michael_Dean wrote:
The MrsTom Pretentiousness Gradient - M.T.P.G. (Not to be confused with Empty Peter Gabriel, of course).
10.) MTPG Pretentious - Pretentiousness that precedes all other Pretentiousness, the Pretentiousness from which all Pretentiousness is borne. Big Bang MTPG some have named it - BBMTPG.
09.) Pretentiousness of the Highest Level - The inflationary epoch occurred at approximately 10â36 seconds after the Big Bang. Following the inflationary period, The Pretentiousness continues to expand, but at a less rapid rate. This is why some "Good" music actually can exist.
07.) Certainly Pretentiousness - deliberate, but not violent Pretentiousness.
06.) Indubitably Pretentious - Pretentiousness Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, you will do the Time for this one.
05.) Twinkie Defense Pretentiousness - Pretentiousness attributed to insanity AND is defensible in a Court of Law. These offenses are often "Settled Out of Court".
04.) Moderately Pretentiousness - A level of Pretentiousness that is still defensible, but does not oblige insanity.
03.) Barely Pretentious - This is Pretentiousness that just made it over the line.
02.) Almost Pretentiousness - This is Pretentiousness so feeble that it doesn't really count.
01.) Anomalous Pretentiousness - Sometimes it's there, sometimes not. Physicists are baffled, naming it a non-zero vacuum energy Pretentiousness. In the special case of vacuum energy, general relativity stipulates that the gravitational field is proportional to Ï+3p (where Ï is the mass-energy density, and p is the Pretentiousness).
00.) Chewbacca Defense Pretentious - Red Herring Pretentiousness, not actually pretentiousness at all, 'tis a strategy, should not be listed here.
How much garbage can Yorke put out in one year? Will no labels just say "no"?
Jakethemuss wrote:
Thom lives not far from me so I assume his situation is similar. The maximum a household can put out is regulated by the collection rota which alternates on a weekly basis between green bins (standard waste) on week one then blue (recycling) and brown (garden waste) on week two. Assuming that Thom has the same standard 360 litre bins as us he would have a maximum of just over 28,000 litres per year. The garden waste collection is optional though so if he doesn't have a garden or manages his own composting that would exclude a third of the potential output.
On the subject of labelling; only the garden waste involves a label which is generally applied to the lid of the bin to verify the subscription payment. If you don't opt in for this collection you don't get a label that says "no", you just don't get a label at all.
Since January it is now possible to put glass in the recycling and whilst this is more convenient the glass takes up some space so some of that 28,000 litre capacity will now have to include glass that would previously have been taken to the local bottle banks. That would indicate a reduction in what can be put out so hopefully that is good news for you but it does depend on how much glass Thom's household is consuming - it could be considerably less than we do.
In case anyone else was wondering about the selectively used, deep-bass harmony vocalâ¦
"The big bass voice on this track is Clarke Peters (real name Pete
Clarke), who at the time was using the name Pete Clarke. He was with a
band called The Majestics, but it would be as an actor that he made his
mark, playing Lester Freamon in the TV series The Wire and appearing in the movies John Wick and Notting Hill.
"We were both in Hair so I knew him, and when I wrote 'Love and Affection' I wanted a bass voice," Armatrading explained to The Guardian.
"Pete wasn't a session singer but not many people can sing that low, so
he also did the bass voice on another song of mine, 'Opportunity.'"
The Hairy Appendage and I have just had a darned good smooch in the kitchen to this. I remember propping up the gym wall while this was playing during the school disco in that year, unpicked for the slow dance. He had a similar experience as he was operating the decks at his school disco. Ya boo sucks, Universe: we got our just desserts in the end!
"Then in your life comes the darkness." In winter 2016, my wife had just lost a long battle with cancer. I was still processing the loss and dropped my 3 young kids at my folks' house and went to grieve for a weekend on my own. On a cold, snowy afternoon, driving from Port Huron to Pentwater, Michigan, I discovered that Radiohead had put out this album that I'd never heard, despite being a forever fan. It saved me. Still gives me chills.
two great injustices in our world:
The ratings and my volume control only go to 10 for this song.
islander wrote:
All kinds of awesome here. Love that bass line.
islander wrote:
This is such a fantastic tune. The feel, the sound, the memories. Just a perfect song.
islander wrote:
Synchronicity has an era feel that is not my favorite, but as a whole I totally agree. Every time this or other early stuff on I look at the ratings and thing "man, this is just a little better than most of the other stuff I've rated a 10".
islander wrote:
The opening bass line of this song is epic. I think we should all get 5 votes for "epic" that we could use for our ultra-favorite songs. This would get two of mine.
islander wrote:
This gets one of my very limited votes for 'Epic'. A tune that always gets turned up.
The police post punk/pre-synchronicity were just about perfect.
islander wrote:
10+. This is another 'Epic' tune for me. from the opening note - where I go scrambling to turn up the volume, all the way through - when nothing else gets done.
islander wrote:
Just coming back to re-affirm this statement. 6 years later and I still crank it up every time I hear the intro. I'll sit in the car and finish this one out and skip phone calls as well.
islander wrote:
20 years of commenting on this song on RP. Still Epic, still a 15/10, Still hard to get it loud enough. This may be the perfect song.
I do realize that posting anything currently topical here in the comments on RP can be meaningless when you scroll through song comments that are marked 12 years ago, 10 years ago, etc., but here goes anyway.
Recently the Black Keys had to cancel their big stadium tour for 2024. Some people blamed it on their current album (this one) not being very good or generating many sales. And then others stated it was due to the outrageous prices some of these groups are charging for tickets to these shows. Last year, the average ticket price for one of the top 100 tours around the world was $131, up 23 percent from the year before, according to Pollstar. I'm with those blaming the ticket prices. Here in the States, we've managed to get inflation down from over 9% to just a little over 3% in a little under 4 years since the dreadful COVID outbreak. And yet Greedflation continues to soar. I'm glad people are refusing to pay these insane prices just to see a musical act for a couple of hours, because it's forcing the corporations like Ticketmaster and LiveNation to reevaluate their greedmongering ways. It's working with fast food joints like McDonald's and Burger King having to offer $5 specials to lure customers back who were fed up with paying nearly $10 bucks for a Big Mac. That's the only way greedflation goes away.
So it will be interesting to see if this strategy plays out. Otherwise, in another 10 or 12 years when someone reads this comment, they'll think, Aw, isn't that cute, this guy thinking $130 was a high price to pay to see the Black Keys way back in 2024.
So cheesy great. The only Queen song I ever liked. Queen brings up battles royale of '79, when my bestie, who had the fastest car in the county (ok, one of 'em) because her daddy worked on muscle cars, would insist on playing Queen at insane volumes in her Radio Shack's finest 8-track because it made her, well, totally insane. She could hit a road sign to her right at 80MPH with an empty Malt Duck bottle with Bohemian Rhapsody at 12... FROM THE DRIVER'S SIDE SEAT! Lobbed over the roof of the car. I was wingman who insisted on more Peter Frampton less Queen. Never won any of those battles when she was at that helm. We never wore seat belts, either. Jeez we were totally bonkers.
To those who said "she sounds like Adele!" â you're frighteningly close to the truth.
Like Adele in her early career, her singing is occasionally breathy and she yodels a bit; also, the breath support is inadequate on the high notes, and she is putting too much pressure on the vocal cords.
If she's not careful, she's gonna blow out her voice like Adele did in a few years. Adele had surgery for a node and needed coaching after. Most singers never need to do that.
Is it only me and my musical tastes, or does Radio Paradise play 'better songs' just as I am getting ready to hit the sack? I find it harder and harder to turn off this radio and get to bed, the longer that I stay awake!
Thank you, Bill!
ha. yesterday my phone rang. it was a lady I've begun dating. I couldn't answer it because there was a really good song on here.. and it was... way............. too loud to have a phone conversation (and I wasn't ABOUT to turn it down.. no no).
unfortunately after that ANOTHER banger came on.. I called her like 20 mins later and said "yea sorry I couldn't answer the phone, had to finish listening to this song".. she asked "what song?" I told her.. I think was James Gang.. she replies "understandable". I dunno guys what do you think? KEEPER!
