Once again, the IN THE MIX series serves up trivia you can dance to!
Volume One of IN THE MIX 80's Edition roars out of the gate with Slayer’s Kerry King supporting The Beastie Boys, Debbie Harry assisting The Ramones, and KISS backing Wendy O. Williams.
This installment also has crooners James Taylor, Michael McDonald, Paul Young & Elvis Costello singing harmony for their friends. Bryan Adams guests on a Glass Tiger track, and has Lou Gramm guest on one of his. Kate Bush joins Peter Gabriel on Games Without Frontiers, and Belinda Carlisle joins The Lemonheads on I’ll Do It Anyway.
Peter Buck plays on The Replacements’ I Will Dare, & Joe Walsh contributes slide guitar to Richard Marx’s Don't Mean Nothing. Thomas Dolby sprinkles some synthesizer dust on Foreigner’s Waiting For A Girl Like You. Phil Collins takes a break from drumming for everybody (in the eighties) to play piano on Faith No More’s Epic. Norton Buffalo sews up the M.V.P. by playing four different harmonicas during the solo on Bonnie Raitt’s version of Runaway.
And the boys in the “I bet you didn’t know department” suggested I mention that Daryl Hall provided backing vocals for INXS on their early hit; Original Sin.
It's requested that downloaders share their musical pet peeve:
ReplyDeleteI’ll go first. I have no tolerance for kazoos—unless the artist takes it so far that it actually IS as funny as folks seem to think it is--and record an entire orchestra of kazoos.
IN THE MIX 80's Edition Vol. 1:
https://pixeldrain.com/u/DeYSYrst
Aaah just late '79, a guy called Steve Lillywhite accompanied Johnny G
ReplyDeleteBrilliant artists who think strings are the next step in their evolution. Strings are rarely done well in the modern era.
ReplyDeleteDifficult indeed to incorporate a string section or orchestra into modern popular music. Two successful examples (at least to my ears) are The Walkabouts' album Nighttown, and Colin Newman's album Commercial Suicide.
Delete"Tremble" by Walkabouts: https://youtu.be/faLatIQD_F8?si=CbmYTwoZFLDM7tcl
"But I" by Colin Newman: https://youtu.be/VjUqsy4bVeg?si=oF7Sw2zO_qvnD_Un
You know of which you speak, OLD DJ, & JONDER!
DeleteDuuuude! You totally stole my kazoo hate pet peeve! You upholstered my musical pet peeve! Boo, throw some tomatoes at him!
ReplyDeleteOkay, I'll go in another direction with the question: My musical pet peeve concerning archival releases is when producers include songs with false starts and then don't separate them in a separate track. Why the fuck would I want to listen to musicians fucking up, and then retrying again more than once? Sure, now I have Audacity to get rif of that crap, but still, I never got the point of that...
I prefer to think of it as you INSPIRED today's question! And I also agree that studio outtakes don't age well. But like KAZOOS if the WHOLE track is a studio outtake, it becomes interesting again.
DeleteLook no further than THE TROGGS TAPES: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrXfK9Osmvs
or JERRY LEE LEWIS arguing religion with SAM PHILLIPS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-wsEcmwJK0
Musical pet peeve... Back in the previous century recording songs from the radio on cassette and having a dj talking during the start (or ending) of a song, it just ruined everything! Excellent collection by the way Stinky, thanks!
ReplyDeleteAgreed! But the same as when I had a record with a scratch on it (that I got used to) I kind of MISSED the DJ chatter on the end of something I taped off the radio whenever I heard it without it!
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ReplyDeleteFalse public, as in pretend live albums, or bigging it up. As for kazoo, I rarely hear that, and I do like Small Faces - Lazy Sunday. I think I can hate any instrument when the player is violating it. Too many have used the mouth harmonica for the cheap effect. The use of female dog in texts, even by females, is in my ears worse than a kazoo. Every time I hear bitch I think they talk about a dog. And imagine what they do to their female dog. (now you shouid think in picture-mode)
DeleteI like strings in music. More acurate, from Buddy Holly's last session (True Love ways, Moondreams, Raining in my heart, It doesn't matter anymore) to Strings of Life by Derrick May, from The Soft Parade to Expecting to Fly, John Cale's clever use of strings, Street Hassle etc. Synthetic strings, now that's a pain.
Blurgh Bobby Goldsboro - Honey is playing on the radio. Now Strings go out, forget my previous, strings are bad, Bad strings.
There is a modern gimmick I dislike, it is (I don't know the actual term) a half-yodel Oh-oh-Oh-oh-Oh-oh alternating half an octave or so. You hear it in lots of songs and I do not like it.
I'm with you on the "over-singing" Richard. Like Eddie Van Halen's "doodley-doodley" style of guitar playing, WHITNEY HOUSTON's over-singing was only tolerable when SHE did it. To me, when others do it, they're showing off, and I prefer artists who serve the song--like Ringo Starr.
ReplyDeleteIt would be so great if that was indeed Phil Collins on "Epic," but it's not.
ReplyDeleteYeah, but what about all the trivia I was RIGHT about?
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