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My mother is under the impression that jazz, all of it, is as obscure of a genre as the rest of the **** that I listen to. One of the interns at her work was listening to Miles and she had to tell me about it expecting me to be impressed that someone else had similarly out of the box taste.

That Skrillex is good.

I swear, if i said to my mother "Do you like Skrillex?" she would problably say "Do you mean Skittles?"

Dubstep never catched on here and im glad for that.

Bennie and the Jets is not a live track. The "audience" was added after the fact.

thebeatlesneverexisted.com

Yeah, my new favourite website
Well, new second favourite

^that site looks like a riot, especially since I teach a The Beatles: 10 Years that Shook the World lecture course at university

"Human replication of whatever form usually yields a 95-97% identical copy, and that is what we are seeing here."

'We have words such as "simulacra", "cloning", "synthetic humans", "robotoids", and so on, but exactly what was happening here is still a bit of a mystery.'

If I had a nickel for every time I heard someone say that the only kind of dubstep that exists is brostep **** like Skrillex, I'd probably be able to afford a mansion-like house by now, so thanks for reminding me of that (otherwise, I wouldn't have anything to post in this thread).

^Yeah, I hear ya. If someone wants to hear a variety of dubstep, I recommend 5 Years of Hyperdub as well as Hyperdub 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, and 10.4.

For more on that, check here.

But ... any dubstep is too much, so no one should want to hear a variety of it. :p::p:

Pink Floyd sings house of the rising sun.

Here's a bit of an obscure one, but I have a friend who says that the piano melody from U2's New Years Day is an intentional speeding up of the main melody from John Carpenter's Assault of Precinct 13. Although my friend is pretty into some deep facts, so that might actually be true, they do sound similar.

Dunno what to make of that one. Does Eric Burdon sound anything like Barret or Waters?

That's a pretty common chord progression that's been used a ton in songs.

Bob Dylan is the best songwriter and has or will surpass him.

In high school, I knew some retarded goth kids that insisted The Beatles ripped off Charles Manson.

Songwriter? No. Lyricist? Maybe.

That's not even a fact. That's an opinion.

The whole Helter Skelter thing.

Helter Skelter (Manson scenario) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I quite like the one about Robert Johnson selling his soul to the devil cause it's such a cool story. Clearly not true. Even if there is an entity like Satan, I doubt he's coming to earth and dealing with Blues singers.

I am shocked by that story! I'm serious!

They said the same thing about Zeppelin.

Led Zeppelin — Straight From Hell!

Dude, if you were the devil, what else would you be doing?

To hell with that guy, Paganini sold his soul to the devil before it was cool.

And Yngwie bought it back for him posthumously.

That must be why his music is so lifeless and bland, poor Swede's got no soul.

Agreed, Yngwie is a little overrated. I've still dug some stuff though.

As a guitarist, hearing his debut in 1983 was ridiculously mind blowing.

His speed is certainly impressive, but musically it's lifeless and uninteresting imo. Sort of similar to Dragonforce, ja the guys can wank ten times faster than I can but behind the veil of speed is ****e music.

Black Star and Far Beyond the Sun being exceptions IMO.

Fun story, but they were almost correct. It was The Beach Boys who ripped off Manson. Seriously. Dennis Wilson met Charles on a trip, who played a song for him, which he decided to take as his own.

Here's the original:



Here's the "cover":



I'm too lazy to cite my sources, but it's a pretty well known incident, so it shouldn't be hard to find if you want to look into it.

Yeah, Manson was pretty ticked off at Dennis Wilson. "Cease to exist, pretty girl." Wonder if that was forshadowing for the Tate murders.

Can't forget about Don't Do Anything Illegal either.

Wait...

My dad (and his cousin) always insist that Yes (the band) is pronounced 'Yeeees' and corrects anyone who says differently, but I haven't been able to find anything to suggest this is true. Makes me think some record store clerk played a joke on them in the 70s or something, or maybe they heard it from someone with really **** english pronounciation.
Any progheads willing to shed some light on this?

Just plain old Yes. :)

^ That's what I thought!

A local lunatic once told me that in order to record his modern day hit 'Duquesne Whistle', Bob Dylan dug up the grave of, and stole the voice of Louis Armstrong. He swallowed it down and changed his voice forever.

Don't know if this is true? Any ideas?

I heard a rumor that there are secretly lizard people among us, and that Jim Morrison is their king. Pshh, yeah right!

I worked with a guy who insisted the Metallica Black Album was from the late 90s. Then I showed him the wiki one day and he turned into a babbling idiot.