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Post by brandonakaxerxes on Oct 5, 2012 1:49:23 GMT -5
Yes, it actually happened.
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Post by CBG on Oct 5, 2012 7:01:13 GMT -5
I can't explain it, but this Experiment has become one of my top five. Go figure.
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Post by CBG on Oct 5, 2012 7:05:44 GMT -5
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Post by Mike Flugennock on Oct 5, 2012 23:13:39 GMT -5
Oh, god. The End Times are here.
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Post by gypsylovehug on Oct 6, 2012 7:29:05 GMT -5
oh, man! this went up in my top list the second this song hit. i was really disturbed when it struck me he reminded me of a photo i had seen of my father in the late 60's.
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Post by Crowfan on Oct 6, 2012 7:37:20 GMT -5
I'm really surprised that any of you younguns knows what a record is.
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Post by gypsylovehug on Oct 7, 2012 10:38:37 GMT -5
I'm really surprised that any of you younguns knows what a record is. My children have never even seen a home telephone. My son asked me about one in a movie once and it made me feel reallllllly old. Next time we went over to his grandparents house I had to show him.
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Post by ratherdashing on Oct 8, 2012 15:35:06 GMT -5
umm, vinyl still sells reasonably well to youngsters
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Post by Skyroniter on Oct 8, 2012 16:02:08 GMT -5
Makes me want to dust off my record player and dig out the eight track.
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Post by BJ on Oct 9, 2012 20:52:02 GMT -5
I was just given a USB record player, so I've started going through all my old lp's and turning them into mp3s. I hadn't been playing them much lately, so it's nice to be forced to go through the whole collection, looking at the cover art and listening to tunes.
It's a bit surreal holding something like the white album in your hands, looking at the 8X10 pictures, and dropping the needle. It's almost like going back in time.
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Post by Afgncaap5 on Oct 10, 2012 0:09:50 GMT -5
Of all the really weird/bad songs that the MST3K crew had to sit through, this one was probably the most, uh... preserved? It's not "so bad it's hilarious" like, say, "Pig Licker." I think it's only real problem is that it doesn't age as easily as it might.
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Post by TheNewMads on Oct 10, 2012 10:24:51 GMT -5
i don't think it's a bad song at all, in that peter, paul and mary type folk-rock vein that was so popular in the early-mid 70s. but I like "are you happy in your work" and "kiss way to the promised land" so...
"Fish Sticker" though is pretty crappy no matter how you cut it.
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Post by TheNewMads on Oct 10, 2012 10:25:36 GMT -5
"Planning Revenge on My Friends" is also a pretty cool song. i'd like to learn that one and do it at an open mic, see if anyone recognizes it.
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Post by continosbuckle on Oct 10, 2012 11:42:22 GMT -5
i don't think it's a bad song at all, in that peter, paul and mary type folk-rock vein that was so popular in the early-mid 70s. but I like "are you happy in your work" and "kiss way to the promised land" so... I simply cannot get past that first lyric "My voice been gettin' froggy/ I've been smoking too damn much". It's painfully bad. The other lyrics are a mishmash that don't actually go anywhere or mean much of anything. "Do you never, ever shirk?" is also a terrible lyric very early on in a song. I can forgive bad lyrics when they're buried, but those two introduced their respective songs. "Stratosphere Boogie" was an awesome instrumental, so maybe it's just bad lyrics that peeve me.
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Post by TheNewMads on Oct 10, 2012 12:20:58 GMT -5
as someone who was weaned on the likes of AC/DC i'm fairly inured to bad lyrics, but i did half write a lengthy complaint about the over-reliance on "-ing" verbs in "California Lady"; there's a curious dependence on the present perfect continuous tense in contemporary pop music ("i've been rockin'/i've been rollin'") that i've never quite understood. it's not enough to state that one has a froggy voice, for some reason it's not a song until you establish that your voice has BEEN froggy for some time, is continuing to be froggy and is in fact becoming more froggy by the minute, and that for some reason the process of vocal froggification is apparently irreversible.
i guess it does add "California Lady" a certain urgency, as presumably the song needed to be recorded quickly before the singer's voice was rendered too froggy for him to sing at all.
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