1971 was best EVAR
(NOT so much Perry Como)
1971 was best EVAR
(NOT so much Perry Como)
'69 had some Dylan and Doors as well as Creedence. Bit of MoTown in the Top 100. Lotta fluff in the Top 100 though, which were basically the songs played on AM. The worm was starting to turn as far as good stuff on the AM radio.
Take a look at the top 100 albums of 1969. Bit of a different picture. Albums were what was being played at home (vinyl) and on the 8 track decks in the muscle cars.
yeah, the top songs from any given year are usually a collection of shit. Lots of great music that would not pop up on the top 30 of the year, as far as sales go.
'69 had some Dylan and Doors as well as Creedence. Bit of MoTown in the Top 100. Lotta fluff in the Top 100 though, which were basically the songs played on AM. The worm was starting to turn as far as good stuff on the AM radio.
Take a look at the top 100 albums of 1969. Bit of a different picture. Albums were what was being played at home (vinyl) and on the 8 track decks in the muscle cars.
Yeah, those Bands and Albums in that list are full of greatness
1971 was best EVAR
(NOT so much Perry Como)
That looks perfect to stick on a repeating loop at 110 decibels in my torture chamber.
yeah, the top songs from any given year are usually a collection of shit.
Yep. And thanks to Beej for proving that for 1971. That's exactly what I meant about the worm starting to turn in '69. By '71 the AM radio fluff had grown exponentially.
However, there was still greatness as shown by the album sales. Out of the top 20, I recall having owned 14.
This woman is good.
I can't believe this interview held my attention through the whole thing. Billy Corgan is a very articulate dude.
They have a lot of great songs. I really like Billy Corgan and I love the smashing pumpkins
Some of the songs on melancholy and the infinite sadness are just amazing
As far as writing melodies I always find it interesting to hear what famous songwriters say. Because for me, melodies pop into my head instantly. No work at all. They're just there and I instinctively know how to make them. And I could come up with a melody and then a completely different melody for the same song.
One of the things I was doing was helping my friend write his album was I basically came up with almost all of their melodies and harmonies. I thought it was normal that I could just think of these things but as I went further along I found out that even his singer didn't really think of melodies himself.
Fascinates the hell out of me how some famous songs came to be...so many just started off as a little guitar riff or something, and i'd assumed prior it was a revelation about some life changing event on the part of the song writer, when actually he was looking for a word that rhymed with booty.
Fascinates the hell out of me how some famous songs came to be...so many just started off as a little guitar riff or something, and i'd assumed prior it was a revelation about some life changing event on the part of the song writer, when actually he was looking for a word that rhymed with booty.
I think the best songs are the ones with more vague lyrics. Ones that evoke more of a mood or a feeling rather than a direct, literal message. It leaves the song open to a person's interpretation.
Like Comfortably Numb. A perfect example of vague lyrics that originated from a real experience, but is told in a creative way and not a literal way.
Let it Be was incredible, wish they'd done that concept with Sgt Pepper
What a bunch of goofy looking fuckers.