What song are you listening to right now?

What song are you listening to right now? Apr 29, 2021 6:22:08 GMT stefancrosscoe likes this

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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2021 6:22:08 GMT

Apr 25, 2021 10:09:59 GMT stefancrosscoe said:

Apr 24, 2021 7:57:19 GMT @deblovesbeccy said:

Hi stefancrosscoe

Thanks. I will be happy when my flu is gone altogether and I am back to normal again ‘cause I am not somebody who likes resting a lot when I am sick even though I know I should since it will help me get better but I always feel lazy when I do nothing and think about all of the things that need to be done here and eventually I end up getting up and doing them. () Hopefully your stomach symptoms are just something that happens every now and then and don't get worse and there is no other pain with them and no, using 'Dr. Google' is never a good idea ‘cause Google is not qualified to give you medical advice or diagnose you with something like a Doctor or a Specialist is and there are a lot of people now that are relying on Google for just about everything and they shouldn't 'cause Google is not always right but it is good for finding out the latest music news, the history of Artists and Bands and helping people discover many new and lesser known acts and a lot of my favourite Artists and Bands from the past two decades have been ones I have discovered online and have you ever been to the Melodic Rock site (melodicrock.com) 'cause I would recommend it and I wouldn't have known about Artists and bands like H.E.A.T., Work of Art, Brother Firetribe, Issa, State Cows, Eclipse, The Poodles, 7th Heaven, Houston and Vega if not for that site but sadly the owner got rid of a lot of the older articles and made the site smaller last year 'cause he was struggling to pay for it due to the pandemic.

Yeah, I know the feeling of just wanna get back to normal life again, when your body is all of a sudden not all up to it. As it feels like time stands still, when one gets caught up in having a bad few weeks or more. I guess killing off time, is a bit "easier" these days, with such a huge selection of tv-shows, movies and all kind of entertainment, going on 24/7. Yet the best feeling, is surely that of getting better and stronger, for each day which goes by.

I will guess that by the latest 10-12 months, with everything going on, and having so many people locked up in their homes/apartment, for most of the daytime, and learning and reading of all the horrible and sad/tragic news, many have probably done a bit of Dr. Google, which could easily make things, way worse.
As it seems like, you can type in, almost everything, and only end up with so much terrible "facts", and yeah, it is the wisest, to instead book an apoitment with a doctor/expert, rather than browsing through all kind of horrible stuff online.

Oh yeah, without the internet, I guess I would still have found great music and movies, but damn, there would also be so many, that I would most likely never have heard of, or found by myself. And while I have never heard of Melodic Rock (might have to check in on it) I often found that Youtube, AllMusic, RateYourMusic and of course, the best ones, is probably through many different visits/chats with other music lovers, on forums/message boards, over the past 10-15 years, or more.

There is just so much out there, and so little time. But it is always nice, when those special artists, albums or songs, appear out of "nothing", and I guess that does not happen too often with me, these days, but when it does, it feels like an old lost friend, who has returned once more, into your life.

Apr 24, 2021 7:57:19 GMT @deblovesbeccy said:

I am glad you enjoyed listening to 'Hermit of Mink Hollow' again and it has been a while since I listened to it in full too and the last Todd Rundgren album I listened to in full was 'The Ever Popular Tortured Artist Effect' and I think that has some great songs on it and always liked 'Don't Hurt Yourself' and 'Drive' sounds like it could have been a hit on the radio if he had released it as a single. Yeah. It is easy to see why some people might have been put off albums like 'Hermit of Mink Hollow' if they bought them thinking the rest of the songs were going to sound like 'Can We Still Be Friends' but I don't mind it being different either and I think he was somebody who always wanted to push the boundaries in music and make albums that were unique and a lot of major record labels don't allow Artists to take risks like that now and prefer them to play it safe and if their first album flops they don't usually get a second chance either but what they are forgetting is some of the most successful Artists and Bands didn't really have success until their second or third albums and Bon Jovi, Journey, Deep Purple, Cheap Trick, REO Speedwagon, Rush, Kiss and Judas Priest were some of them and you will find their earlier albums were more experimental and had the bands performing different styles than the type of music they latter become well known for and Nazareth's first album goes into Country on some tracks and Journey's first album was heavily influenced by Jazz.

I liked 'Dumb and Dumber' but I didn't know that about the soundtrack and that is strange why Todd Rundgren's songs were missing from it and I wonder if that had something to do with his record label and they weren't willing to work with the one that made the soundtrack for the movie. I have noticed some songs I have wanted to get that I heard in movies were missing from the soundtracks and I had to buy them separately and I have accidentally bought the wrong soundtrack to a movie that had the original score and not the songs and I found out later there was another one that had all the songs on it. Yeah. Music can play a big part in a movie and even a TV Show and it is not the same without certain songs in it and due to that there have been some TV Shows that have taken a long time to get released on DVD 'cause of problems with the music rights and the companies that own the TV Show rights not wanting to release them without the songs in them and there is one show here called 'Heartbreak High' that was very popular in the 90s and all the seasons haven't been released on DVD due to that and 'Crossing Jordan' only got released on DVD a few years ago for similar reasons and that show finished back in 2007. Thank you for posting that song and you make a good point about Artists and Bands being more interesting when they try out new things. Although there are some bands like the Dollyrots that left their record label and turned to fan funding sites like Kickstarter and Pledge Music 'cause they were trying to make them change to a more modern Pop sound which the band didn't want to play and they have released six fan funded albums now and had a lot of success doing it 'cause they are recording the type of music their fans want them to play.

I agree with your thoughts about the Psychedelic Furs album, 'Forever Now' and always liked that style of music too and did you know they finally got back together and released a new album last year? We used to have VH1 on Foxtel but they got rid of it and then we had MTV Classics and that played a lot of songs from the 70s, 80s and 90s on it and I liked that channel but they got rid of it too and replaced it with Smooth and now they have bought it back but it is not the same as it used to be and mostly plays songs from the 90s and 00s which I suppose are now seen as classics to some people the more time goes on but I would rather a music channel that plays more of the classics. The New Cars sounded good when they were together and they broke up when Ric Ocasek wanted to make one more Cars album with the remaining members which was called 'Move Like This' and it wasn't a bad album but I don't think the Cars were as good without Benjamin Orr and I always liked his songs the most and loved his solo album, 'The Lace' and have you heard that 'cause here are some songs from it below. I liked the XTC album you suggested and got a remastered version of it on I Tunes and thank you for those other videos and I will check out their albums and I got a 2CD set singles collection too.

Oh yeah, the artist mentioned, specially Judas Priest and Rush, I wonder how they would have survived, much later on, if not getting the final chance, to succeed, as if they had gotten dropped by their record contracts/studio, we would never have some of the all time great rock and metal acts of the 70s and 80s.
But this could also be not always a good thing, to deliver a big selling hit album, as your very first release. As very few, manages to back that up, with their following albums.

Still, some, like Rush and Judas Priest, rarely put their foot wrong, and even then, hearing so many dismiss albums like Turbo or the later 80s more synth-dominated Rush albums, as being "bad", well, I am glad people have divided taste in music, but if those albums is considered among the "worst" albums from the bands, then I guess they are kind of spoilt rotten, or so I believe.

Since Turbo is anything but a bad album (includes some incredible songs, like Reckless), and I love the 80s Rush albums, specially Signals and Moving Windows.

Yep, picking up movie soundtracks, after hearing a certain song/songs from a film, is rarely ever gonna be the "complete" version, as I have done way too many of those purchases, and only realizing that so much were missing out, and then I had to pick up a whole bunch of albums, containing that song, and another one. But, in a good way, I did find some new favorite albums and artists, by doing so. But yeah, it is a bit annoying, when you have some films, with huge collection of great songs and music, and only one third of what got into the film, is left on the official soundtrack album.

Of tv-shows, that I believe have surely suffered, big time, from not getting a complete and worthy DVD/Blu-ray release, is shows like Married with Children, where I have read and heard, that not only the main theme, but many other songs featured, caused it to be put on ice, for so long. I am still not sure, if the entire series, is out on a fully DVD/Blu-ray release box-set, containing all the music and songs, but if one is going to wait for that to happen, I guess it will be until hell freezes over, or so it feels at times.

I know what you mean and I am feeling better today but my flu hasn’t completely gone away yet so I am going to the Doctors this afternoon and Beccy is coming home early from work to take me just to make sure I am alright and she is just worried ‘cause the last time I had a flu that lasted this long was not the flu and turned out to be Pneumonia but I am sure it is not this time ‘cause I am not feeling as sick as I did back then and have been going to work the last two days. I think the Pandemic has had a negative impact on all our lives on all our lives over the last year and it has left some of us with more free time than we would like with the amount of people who sadly lost their jobs due to Lockdowns/ Shutdowns causing companies to go broke and close permanently and it has been very hard to avoid seeing sad and tragic news ‘cause the news has been full of it with that along with the bushfires and floods we had here in the last year and a half and it will be good when things go back to normal but I think it is still going to be a while before that happens and it isn’t going to go away overnight.

Yeah. The internet has changed the landscape of music and has been a good platform for Artists and Bands who aren’t under major labels to promote themselves to listeners around the world and some Artists and Bands from previous decades that were under small labels and didn’t get promoted much when they started out have even made comebacks due to new fans listening their music for the first time and going on to buy their albums and they have started touring and releasing new albums again which must have been a blessing to some of them and while there’s no denying the internet has had a negative impact on the music industry in some ways like the rise of illegal downloading I feel it has had just as many positives too that are sometimes overlooked. It has also brought a lot of music fans together from all around the world on sites and forums as you noted and I have been a member and a moderator on a few music forums over the years and I also talked to a few Artists and members of bands when I was on Myspace in the 00s including some that went onto become big when they were just starting out like Cassadee Pope, Luke Bryan, Lee Brice and Melissa O’Neil who become an actress.

There are so many Artists and Bands out there though that there is not enough time to listen to all of them or enough money to buy all their albums () but I am glad to have discovered all the ones that I have ‘cause there is so much variety online compared to mainstream radio nowadays and I stopped listening to mainstream radio ‘cause they kept playing the same songs over and over again and I was not a fan of what they were starting to call Pop music. No. A lot of those bands I mentioned wouldn’t have become some of the biggest selling Rock and Metal bands of all time if it had not been for their record labels giving them a chance ‘cause it took years for some of them to catch on with people and for some it was finding that right song that become a hit and then people started buying their singles and albums and discovered their older ones and yes, there some that had success straight away with their debut albums but become known as One Hit Wonders ‘cause they were never able to follow up the success of those albums and I think one of the problems was some of them tried way too hard to outdo themselves or make an album as good as the first one instead of making one naturally.

Bands like Judas Priest, Rush and Cheap Trick never had that problem ‘cause they weren’t constantly trying to outdo a certain album and I liked Rush’s albums from the 80s the most too and didn’t know there were people that disliked them but people do have a divided taste in music as you said and we don’t always like the same things. I know with Uriah Heep the fanbase is divided ‘cause you have got some fans that don’t like acknowledging the albums after David Byron left which is a lot of them and some fans that only like their albums with John Lawton from Lucifer’s Friend and some that only like the newer albums with Bernie Shaw albums but I suppose when you go through as many changes as the band did with lead singers and musical styles it is bound to happen but I am among the fans that liked all their albums and I am the same with a lot of bands like Rush and Judas Priest and I think we discussed Judas Priest having an unreleased album last year after ‘Ram It Down’ that would have had songs like ‘Fire Burns Below’ and ‘Thunder Road’ on it and I still hope that sees the light of day ‘cause the songs they later released from it like the two above as bonus tracks on other albums sound good and as much as some fans are divided over that era I think there are a lot that would still buy it.

You are right about soundtracks and there have been a few soundtracks I have got for movies and TV Shows thinking they would have certain songs on them only to be disappointed to find they weren’t on them and I think some record labels don’t want songs on soundtracks ‘cause they prefer people get the full albums so they make more money. I didn't know that about 'Married With Children' but I know the theme song, 'Love and Marriage' was one of the many songs written by Jimmy Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn and they wrote a lot of songs for Artists around the time of the Rat Pack and Frank Sinatra done a cover of the song and I actually have a book by Sammy Cahn which is a Songwriter's Rhyming Dictionary and my Grandfather bought it for me when I was young and was starting to write poems and songs.