Posted on 04/24/2017 4:53:47 PM PDT by mairdie
I never seen the lyrics. They are very brainy and cerebral.
Nowadays folks just say “chicks with d|cks”.
I make literary music videos. They take the lyrics of songs and interpret them in the context of a TV show. The videos follow the same structure as short stories, if you outline them, and get very complicated,with layers of meaning when you know the show, down to using a clip from an episode having the word in the title. I once sent out a VHS tape of songs out mentioning that ONE of the cuts on the tape was wrong. The recipient wrote back having found the exact wrong cut. People used to analyze these in great detail. There’s two books out with chapters on my songs and I gave a lecture at MIT’s Media Lab. Getting a song with the right sort of lyrics is essential to making one of these complicated pieces. Chicks, etc. doesn’t much do that. On the other hand, once you get a theme going, a musical bridge is a bonanza to work.
Nah, it's still just good ol' Murr with a little help from a DJ. The VinylShakers version is too much for me! Two minutes of what sounds like an old school needle scratching a record before it's really recognizable as O.N.i.B. breaks my heart. Once the lyrics kick in things are better, but overall, it's just too big a departure for this old lady, I guess! (Sheesh, I'm a child of the 80s, but apparently also a big, fat grandma when it comes to monkeying too much with the classics!)
Okay, I finally watched the video just now. That was really cool! To try to capture a scene from the movie that matches a phrase from the song is one thing, and then to seamlessly blend it to the next...wow.
Thanks for posting this thread. What a good trip down 80s music memory lane. :o)
Well, I guess you have me beat by a little bit. I’m old enough to have not voted for BJ Clinton either time. I was barely 18 when he was elected the first time around. I was crushed. I didn’t cry like one of these Hillary idiots, but, man, I was stunned.
Beavis and Butt-Head started during my freshman year of college and was a permanent fixture on the TV at pretty much every party I went to from then until graduation. That was the BEST dumb show.
I worked with a lot of early-20s military folks back then, I got exposed to it by association.
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