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Post by Backdrifter on Feb 13, 2019 10:25:10 GMT
... though on reflection I should add that McCartney's bass playing is often excellent in the Beatles work. Did you watch the BBC 4 series about rock music that had an episode each about drums, bass, and guitar. They made a pretty compelling argument for McCartney’s bass skills - though of course it is hard to separate his musicianship from the innovations in his composition. Yes I did watch that series. It was a little frustrating in that an hour isn't enough to properly explore each of those instruments but they did their best with the limited time. Why no piano/keyboards though, I wonder. I liked the idea of a different musician presenting each one. I had no problem with any of the individual presenters but wondered why they were all mid-70s New Yorky. The more I think about it the more there is a case for saying McCartney was a genuinely brilliant musician in terms of his bass playing and how he brought a new dimension to it. On just two of their singles alone, Something/Come Together and Paperback Writer/Rain, his playing is phenomenal. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2019 19:45:17 GMT
I like the Company soundtrack, but I always skip Ladies Who Lunch, because I don't enjoy it. SO THERE.
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Post by ruby on Feb 13, 2019 21:08:28 GMT
I've never seen Dirty Dancing all the way through and the bits I have seen I really wasn't fussed about. I told a friend this once and she looked at me as though I'd confessed that I enjoy slicing kittens in my spare time.
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Post by Dawnstar on Feb 13, 2019 21:15:59 GMT
I've never seen Dirty Dancing all the way through and the bits I have seen I really wasn't fussed about. I told a friend this once and she looked at me as though I'd confessed that I enjoy slicing kittens in my spare time. I'm not sure I've ever seen any of Dirty Dancing. When I first saw the overhead lift done on Strictly I didn't know it was copying a film. When I found out I did look up the plot of the film but still felt no desire to see it. Mind you, I see very few films full stop. The last time I saw a film (as opposed to an opera or ballet livestream) at a cinema was in 2002. |
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Feb 13, 2019 21:19:20 GMT
I'm a Fabs worshipper and agree with you. None of them were brilliant vocalists or musicians, it's more about how they innovated in terms of ideas, songwriting and arrangements. ... though on reflection I should add that McCartney's bass playing is often excellent in the Beatles work. Some serious under appreciation of George Harrison here |
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Post by Backdrifter on Feb 13, 2019 22:01:42 GMT
... though on reflection I should add that McCartney's bass playing is often excellent in the Beatles work. Some serious under appreciation of George Harrison here He's good but I've always thought his Beatles work is a tad over praised. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2019 9:48:46 GMT
I've never seen Dirty Dancing all the way through and the bits I have seen I really wasn't fussed about. I told a friend this once and she looked at me as though I'd confessed that I enjoy slicing kittens in my spare time. I will level this up and detail how much I LOATHE that film. I often feel I'm a defective girl because I DO NOT GET IT. I love me a romcom I think it's a highly underrated film genre but lordy if this film doesn't bore me senseless and annoy me in equal measure. And while we're at it Grease. I hate the film, hate the musical. |
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Post by Backdrifter on Feb 14, 2019 9:58:51 GMT
I've never seen Dirty Dancing all the way through and the bits I have seen I really wasn't fussed about. I told a friend this once and she looked at me as though I'd confessed that I enjoy slicing kittens in my spare time. I will level this up and detail how much I LOATHE that film. I often feel I'm a defective girl because I DO NOT GET IT. I love me a romcom I think it's a highly underrated film genre but lordy if this film doesn't bore me senseless and annoy me in equal measure. And while we're at it Grease. I hate the film, hate the musical. Yes Grease is terrible in all its manifestations. Then having sat through so much rubbish, to rub our noses in it we get that stupid chang chang changitty chang abomination to round off the general debasing of human dignity. Blindfold Grease, lead it out to some wasteground and shoot it in the head like a scabrous junkyard dog. |
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Post by MrsCondomine on Feb 14, 2019 10:10:20 GMT
I've never seen Dirty Dancing all the way through and the bits I have seen I really wasn't fussed about. I told a friend this once and she looked at me as though I'd confessed that I enjoy slicing kittens in my spare time. I will level this up and detail how much I LOATHE that film. I often feel I'm a defective girl because I DO NOT GET IT. I love me a romcom I think it's a highly underrated film genre but lordy if this film doesn't bore me senseless and annoy me in equal measure. And while we're at it Grease. I hate the film, hate the musical. YASSSSSSSSS I HATE GREASE. I've seen it twice (the film that is), I just think it's stupid. |
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Post by crowblack on Feb 14, 2019 10:12:45 GMT
Grease. I hate the film, hate the musical It's just horrible. The 'message'. I cannot for the life of me understand how it has got away with it for so long. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2019 10:19:25 GMT
I liked what they did with Grease Live where they had some little moments that showed Sandy wanted to wear lipstick and be less of a Doris Day clone long before the end, so the transformation was more "she's finally comfortable to be who she wants to be!" and less "she changed everything about herself for a boy!". (Let's not forget that Danny also changes himself too, though it's a less drastic transformation, and it would be cool if a production would just have them both see each other in their new duds, realise what they've both done, laugh about it, and maybe just as Danny shucks off his letter jacket, Sandy could get rid of the heels and put a cosy cardigan on?)
I don't know, I feel like I'm putting more thought into this than decades of professional productions have.....
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2019 10:22:49 GMT
True story one of my friends and I early on in knowing each other were discussing musicals, and the minute we discovered just how deep our shared hatred of Grease goes, was a moment we knew we'd be friends for a long time. 10 years later...we're still in fact bitching about it periodically.
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Post by kathryn on Feb 14, 2019 10:43:42 GMT
Grease is pretty awful as a musical - but I must admit that I spent far too much time on dodgy nights out dancing to the Grease megamix.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2019 11:04:18 GMT
Grease is pretty awful as a musical - but I must admit that I spent far too much time on dodgy nights out dancing to the Grease megamix. We've all been there.... |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2019 12:41:56 GMT
I hate Grease and Dirty Dancing. I've been told to my face that I'm "not a proper girl" because I said they were sh*t.
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Post by jaqs on Feb 14, 2019 12:59:40 GMT
I don't like the disney cartoon films of The Lion King or Aladdin.
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Post by MrsCondomine on Feb 14, 2019 13:04:26 GMT
Vanessa Redgrave is an incredibly average actress., leaning towards "not very good".
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Post by Backdrifter on Feb 14, 2019 15:27:39 GMT
I don't like the disney cartoon films of The Lion King or Aladdin. I just don't like Disney cartoon films. Especially since they stopped having characterful songs like I Wanna Be Like You and it went all soppy and drippy and aspirational and "never lose sight of who you are" and all that dreary tosh. Vanessa Redgrave is an incredibly average actress., leaning towards "not very good". Wow! I bloody LOVE this thread! And kudos to @emicardiff for unleashing the Grease-is-sh*t torrent. Those floodgates have been padlocked shut for too long. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2019 15:40:33 GMT
I don't find Jason Momoa attractive at all. Actually he scares me.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2019 19:08:44 GMT
Oh god yes, don't get me started on sodding Disney. I can't bear any of them.
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Feb 14, 2019 21:24:58 GMT
Some serious under appreciation of George Harrison here He's good but I've always thought his Beatles work is a tad over praised. Generally rated as the greatest pop band ever. They are the greatest pop band ever? |
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Post by hal9000 on Feb 14, 2019 22:00:05 GMT
On the Beatles: I don’t like the John Lennon persona. I don’t find him an inspirational truth seeker and wholly irritating.
Beyonce: she only has one good song every second album, and I don’t find her egotism a feminist act of owning her own power rather than egotism and a way of silencing other voices.
The Kardashians: honestly, they don’t bother me. They like sex and expensive clothes and advertise products and they are no less valid for doing so then any other celebrity just because they don’t have a minor acting career or a few charting singles to their credit.
Olivia Colman: I’ve seen her give the same performance so many times on TV that I’m starting to see the gears turn
Christina Aguilera: the evidence that great raw talent doesn’t cut it if you have no control. Turn the notch down from 11 honey, and take some singing lessons.
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Post by Backdrifter on Feb 14, 2019 22:04:11 GMT
He's good but I've always thought his Beatles work is a tad over praised. Generally rated as the greatest pop band ever. They are the greatest pop band ever? I think they are, and are probably underrated. It's just that I've so often heard talk of Harrison being some kind of guitar and songwriting genius. He played his part, but he's neither of those things. Even if he did write two of their greatest songs - Something and Taxman. |
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Post by Tibidabo on Feb 15, 2019 10:04:37 GMT
Olivia Colman: I’ve seen her give the same performance so many times on TV that I’m starting to see the gears turn Finally! From the clips of Queen Anne and the bits of the BBC's Les Miserables series I managed to watch before finally turning off (thought it was dreadful on so many levels) I have come to the conclusion that she would sit very nicely within my local am dram group. (She seems so lovely in interviews and I don't really like to diss, but Baftas and Oscars?.... Really....?) |
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Post by hannechalk on Feb 15, 2019 11:22:19 GMT
I've never seen Dirty Dancing all the way through and the bits I have seen I really wasn't fussed about. I told a friend this once and she looked at me as though I'd confessed that I enjoy slicing kittens in my spare time. We can no longer be friends. As for the kittens, let it be known an alarming number of kittens have disappeared in ruby 's neighbourhood since she moved there. |
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