As far as I was aware the "Enossification" was the sound effects on Peter's vocals on Cuckoo Cocoon, In The Cage and The Grand Parade of Lifeless Packaging. Possibly, but not sure, a humming sound in the very beginning of the album. It has been a myth for long times that Eno played keyboards on this album, probably tracing back to clueless journalists who knew Eno primarily as the keyboardist of Roxy Music.
Posts by Schrottrocker
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I have to try this but again it will be simplistic. How every Dire Straits song is built:
Please don't overthink it. My intention was to sum up the most stereotypical trademarks of a band or artist in a few words, including exaggerations for fun's sake. You are doing way more than this, you are really good at analyzing!
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How every Alan Parsons Project song is built:
1. Hey guys, let's record this really cool mellow rock song I wrote!
2. Let's add the blueprint for any good guitar solo
3. Let's add some notes with this instrument I built which is NOT a mellotron
4. Let's add some lyrics based on something by Edgar Allan Poe.....again
5. Did you know we can enhance every rock song with a full symphony orchestra - without making it pretentious? Let me show you
6. Did you know French horns were meant for rock music? Let me show you
7. Did you know our main song writer can sing every song while he's falling asleep? Let me... err, Don't let it show
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One of the Tony Banks albums I still don't own. Some years ago I listened to the whole album online and I decided to skip this one, I found it to be too mixed and I didn't like Fish's nor Andy Taylor's vocals. I prefer Bankstatement and Strictly Inc.
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Thanks, that was great! Those piano improvisations haven't been released elsewhere, right? Great to see Ant performing, what a rare chance to see!
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How every Steely Dan song is built:
natural blend of every style of American 20th century popular music - chord changes no human being can comprehend that still sound easy-peasy as anything - obscure sarcastic lyrics about historical figures playing losers of today's American society - pile of nervous wrecks of world-class session musicians
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I wish I could be more 'technical' than that but I felt I had to contribute something.
No problem, this thread was meant to be on the fun side.
For the stereotypical Phil Collins song, I would have added: drum computer - Tourette-style brass - some lyrics about a woman that ruins Phil's love life and still she is sooo hot.
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I guess this is coincidence. That said, yes, of course there's similarities between these songs in a broader sense. And both are surprisingly unpopular among Genesis fans (surprising for me, I love both of them).
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Maybe you have seen these memes that show funny diagrams about how "every" song of genre XY is built, like "every jazz song: intro - lots of noodling - outro" and the likes. I thought this would be much more fun with artists or bands rather than genres. Disclaimer: this is just fun
Let's try:
How every Frank Zappa song is built:
Intro in 5/8 - piss take on country music - "the CIA guys are so retarded" - "the US president is so retarded" - blues guitar solo (20 minutes) - vibraphone solo in quintuplets over a 15/8 signature - outro: piss take on Frank Sinatra
How every Pet Shop Boys song is built:
Intro: lots of orchestra hits - disco beat - something about a dysfunctional relationship - some cynical bites at politics and society - catchy chorus guest starring The Russian Village People - fake applause sample to a spoken one-liner courtesy of Chris Lowe - repeat chorus - more orchestra hits
How every Tony Banks song is built:
shortened 'Watcher of the Skies' intro - standard 80s pop rhythm - "I'm just a random pop singer" type of vocals - totally cryptic lyrics - chorus that tries to be catchy over some really weird chord changes - crappy synth guitar solo - 3 bars of 6/4 - repeat chorus and fadeout
You go ahead!
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It's right here. They announced the first heat wave starting this weekend.
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I have a friend who shares your cousin's fate. Rona is the woman who was the match maker for my ex and me 12 years ago, we stayed friends, later on she became close friends with my mother too - she is only in her 50s and has been diagnosed with some kind of cancer that leaves her only a few years at best. Right now she is traveling with her husband, working through her bucket list and making the most of her leftover time. It was a huge shock for all of us when we learned about it. Meanwhile we're joking about it, it just feels better to treat such bad news with humour; but I know once she is going to leave for real it will be another shock. One of the good sides of something like this is it brings people back together: she and my ex had always been best friends but they had grown apart in the last couple years, now they renewed their friendship. I had to think of the song 'The Living Years'.
Btw we had a section for topics like this in the old forum, "Hand in Hand", it was only visible when you were logged in. Maybe Christian might put sth like this here too. -
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Humid. Misty and rainy but warm. It looks like it should be chilly but as soon as you're out you're getting sweaty.
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Selling England.
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The switch has been turned from rainy and chilly to sunny and warm. Spring weather at its best.
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This year has been really chilly, windy, cloudy and rainy so far. Actually I'm quite happy with it after the past couple heat wave years.
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Let's skip the news, boy,
Arabs and Jews, boy...
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We don't know much about Tony and Mike's current singing capabilities, maybe they just wanted safety for the background vocals?
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Who else would have played it? Mike sure played bass as he always did on that song.
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