The Music Thread

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Sting at about 40:00 is a special treat, as is Innocent Man immediately following him and the Piano Man finale. x 100

There was a time where he said he'd won't play Piano Man because it wasn't sincere for him any more.

Guess he got over it.

Because he's half a century away from playing dive bars?

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Sting at about 40:00 is a special treat, as is Innocent Man immediately following him and the Piano Man finale. x 100

There was a time where he said he'd won't play Piano Man because it wasn't sincere for him any more.

Guess he got over it.

Because he's half a century away from playing dive bars?

Pretty much, it was a TV interview and he said he'd be playing the song and all he was wondering while sing was what was on the buffet after the show or some such.

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Sting at about 40:00 is a special treat, as is Innocent Man immediately following him and the Piano Man finale. x 100

There was a time where he said he'd won't play Piano Man because it wasn't sincere for him any more.

Guess he got over it.

Because he's half a century away from playing dive bars?

Pretty much, it was a TV interview and he said he'd be playing the song and all he was wondering while singing was what was on the buffet after the show or some such.

Understandable, but I'm glad he got past it.

CBS Pulls The Plug On Billy Joel At Worst Possible Moment, And Fans Are So Pissed
The iconic singer's landmark performance was cut off at the exact wrong time -- and viewers are livid.

Enraged Billy Joel fans put network big shots on blast on Sunday night after a televised concert was cut off in the middle of his best-known song.

Viewers who had been waiting for the longest time for the CBS broadcast of the 100th concert of his residency at New York’s Madison Square Garden had to wait just a little longer when it was delayed by the network’s extended coverage of golf’s Masters Tournament.

Then, toward the end of the show, as Joel performed a rousing version of “Piano Man” with the MSG audience and fans at home singing along, viewers in many cities saw their screens go to black, followed by local news:



...

Happened here, local news promo then back for the last minute or so of Piano Man I thought it was a local station screw-up.






I was watching the Heidi game



More livid tweets at the link.

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LOL

Heidi game was my first thought.

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That didn't happen here in California time. Thoroughly enjoyed the TV concert - probably more than we would have enjoyed his live concert, with Sting, at Petco on Saturday night in the rain. Billy Joel's comment about the weather? "I'm from New York - this is nothing"

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Crystal Taliefero, Billy Joel's multi-talented percussionist, is quite the phenomenon herself. https://www.crystaltaliefero.com/

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Crystal Taliefero, Billy Joel's multi-talented percussionist, is quite the phenomenon herself. https://www.crystaltaliefero.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Taliefero

Rhythm and blues
Soul
Mellencamp
Bee Gees
Bruce Springsteen
Faith Hill, Garth Brooks, Joe Cocker, Tina Arena, Bob Seger, Brooks & Dunn, Richie Sambora, Elton John, Enrique Iglesias, Natalie Merchant, Meat Loaf, and Michael McDonald

Background vocal arranger for Joel.

Taliefero's credits as a musician are chiefly as a vocalist and percussionist. Instruments in her percussion kit include bongos, cabasa, mark tree, congas, cowbell, güiro, hand percussion, jam block, shaker, tambourine, timbales, triangle, Djembe, and wood block. In addition, Taliefero is also quite accomplished on the guitar, keyboards, harmonica and saxophone, among other wind instruments. She is known for her energetic stage performances.

In its 2008 article "The 125-Plus People, Places and Things Ruling the Rock & Roll Universe", Rolling Stone magazine declared Taliefero the "Best Secret Weapon".

... Taliefero has contributed narration, compositions and/or music to a range of child-oriented videos and audiobooks though the Weston Woods Studios division of Scholastic Corporation: ...

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So some Indiana State student thinks Black people can't be country (or at least be country singers)
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/ind ... 31579.html

Gets severely criticized for her comment.

Without defending her comment, wasn't the same thing said about white rappers, such as Eminem? And was there severe criticism?

And where would the concept of cultural misappropriation come in? If you're not an Indian, you can't wear a headdress - can you wear a cowboy hat if you're not a cowboy? Can you play a squeeze box and call people "chere" if you're not Cajun?

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So some Indiana State student thinks Black people can't be country (or at least be country singers)
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/ind ... 31579.html

Gets severely criticized for her comment.

Without defending her comment, wasn't the same thing said about white rappers, such as Eminem? And was there severe criticism?

And where would the concept of cultural misappropriation come in? If you're not an Indian, you can't wear a headdress - can you wear a cowboy hat if you're not a cowboy? Can you play a squeeze box and call people "chere" if you're not Cajun?

Ironically, no Indiana State alum is a country or a rock star.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_I ... _and_media
Otoh, Indiana State has produced a rapper like EST Gee and a moronic racist like the unfortunately unidentified student.

Eminem was griefed. It didn't last. Music is so intentionally shared and covered that it's harder to box in with the cultural appropriation label than some other things.

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Music is so intentionally shared and covered that it's harder to box in with the cultural appropriation label than some other things.

Yeah, I agree, but there is a cultural component to some distinctive musical genres and it could be argued that any music created by a person who hasn't "lived the life" is inauthentic, much like copying a work of art. Of course, if you create a new sound that uses components from various other styles, then that's different.

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Speaking of old rockers with pipes intact, this is fun. 75 next month:

Billy Joel: The 100th -- Live at Madison Square Garden
New
9:00 PM ON CBS • TV-PG • Stereo • CC

Billy Joel's record-breaking 100th consecutive performance at Madison Square Garden; special appearances by Sting and Jerry Seinfeld.

2 hours including ads. 10 year monthly residency, 100 sellouts I would go if I were in NYC. I'm sure it's streaming. Sting at about 40:00 is a special treat, as is Innocent Man immediately following him and the Piano Man finale. x 100

Rerun Friday 9 pm EDT CBS, hopefully WITHOUT the local news breaking into the Piano Man finale.

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Patti Smith Sends Taylor Swift a Direct Message After Pop Star Name-Dropped Her in New Song
Swift mentions Smith in the title track of her new album, 'The Tortured Poets Department.'

Patti Smith is weighing in on The Tortured Poets Department.

After Taylor Swift released her highly-anticipated 11th studio album on Friday, April 19, Smith—an author, singer-songwriter and poet—became one of several notable names mentioned in the pop star's lyrics.

Swift, 34, name-drops Smith in the title track of the new album, singing the lyrics, "You’re not Dylan Thomas, I’m not Patti Smith / This ain’t the Chelsea Hotel / We’re modern idiots."

Among the countless fan theories sparked from those lines, Smith herself took to social media on Friday to share her thoughts about her name in the song.

Sharing a photo of herself reading a work by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, Smith wrote on Instagram, "This is saying I was moved to be mentioned in the company of the great Welsh poet Dylan Thomas."

"Thank you Taylor," the 77-year-old added....

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... The activist got in on the new Taylor Swift meme, “You wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me.”

The line comes from the megastar’s song “Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?” on her new album, “The Tortured Poets Department.”

People have taken to sharing the line, along with an image of a haunting memory, era or childhood hobby....

this is iconic

ok everyone else can stop trying

Nobody else need post this meme anymore. It can’t be topped.

National Treasure.

More tweets at the link.

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A lot of ads use parts of songs that might be recognizable, or even if not, sound good enough to want to play the whole thing. Interesting too how often a song you know to be old sounds fresh on the ad. Occasionally I wonder if the producers thing things through before using a song bit. F'rinstance, Claritin the allergy med has one with a guy with long flowing hair, walking some similarly-looking Afghan hounds and the music goes "All the pretty girls walk like this this this..." I wonder if when they picked that excerpt they were concerned with some customers associating them with the rest of the song. Goes in part like this:

… No matter what the fuck these hoes talkin' 'bout
Just know you a bad bitch
Every motherfuckin' time that you wake up
And you look in that motherfuckin' mirror
… All the pretty girls walk like
This, this, this, this, this
Pretty girls walk like
This, this, this, this
All the pretty girls walk like-

And that's the clean-ish part of the song. Here's the rest.



Voice of Claritin:

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A lot of ads use parts of songs that might be recognizable, or even if not, sound good enough to want to play the whole thing. Interesting too how often a song you know to be old sounds fresh on the ad. Occasionally I wonder if the producers think things through before using a song bit. F'rinstance, Claritin the allergy med has one with a guy with long flowing hair, walking some similarly-looking Afghan hounds and the music goes "All the pretty girls walk like this this this..." I wonder if when they picked that excerpt they were concerned with some customers associating them with the rest of the song. Goes in part like this:

… No matter what the fuck these hoes talkin' 'bout
Just know you a bad bitch
Every motherfuckin' time that you wake up
And you look in that motherfuckin' mirror
… All the pretty girls walk like
This, this, this, this, this
Pretty girls walk like
This, this, this, this
All the pretty girls walk like-

And that's the clean-ish part of the song. Here's the rest.



Voice of Claritin:

https://www.stlmag.com/downloads/356779 ... bc08330829

Bad embed, here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z-coscEErA
Big Boss Vette - Pretty Girls Walk (Lyrics) "pretty girls walk like, this, this, this, this, this"

GoClaritinGo!

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Madonna Wraps Celebration Tour With Record-Setting Free Concert in Rio de Janeiro
The concert at Copacabana Beach on May 4 attracted more than 1.6 million fans.

... Although Copacabana Beach has seen larger crowds during past New Year’s Eve events, Madonna’s free concert beats the previous record held by the Rolling Stones, who performed there in 2006, according to a news release from promoter Live Nation.

The 65-year-old pop superstar’s Rio show also surpasses her record attendance of 130,000 fans at Paris’ Parc des Sceaux in 1987, the Associated Press reports. Ahead of the Rio concert, dubbed the “Celebration in Rio,” Madonna’s website touted the free event as the “biggest gig yet” of her four-decade career....

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TIL

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TIL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEeaGW38ppk

Thanks! She rocks.

She's got an album coming out in a week, Glorious. I'll bet it's good.



Makes sense. Her dad is Bill Hudson (singer). Her husband and fiances have all been musicians. New career at 45? More:


Kate Hudson (original) “Gonna Find Out” Live on the Stern Show

Kate Hudson Covers Stone Temple Pilots' “Vasoline” Live on the Stern Show

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Thanks! She rocks.

She's got an album coming out in a week, Glorious. I'll bet it's good.

Didn't realize that.

Guess she's been hawking it for a few months.

https://youtu.be/U_PYfpRFQbs

(Whatever happened to Howard Stern making women take their clothes off? Age has mellowed him.)

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Thanks! She rocks.

She's got an album coming out in a week, Glorious. I'll bet it's good.

Didn't realize that.

Guess she's been hawking it for a few months.

https://youtu.be/U_PYfpRFQbs

It's all originals, with some co-writers.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/musi ... 235006116/

She could have done a covers album long ago. 2016 or earlier:

Kate Hudson sings Nothing Compares 2 U