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"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
I’m so bored I might as well be listening to Pink Floyd
The answer is none. None more 1996.
Don't talk politics and don't throw stones. Your royal highnesses.
That would be my bet too..
is it crazy how saying sentences backwards creates backwards sentences saying how crazy it is?
Eric Jr was born in February 1996 so it's a lost year in terms of pop music for me! The year I went from being Eric to being EricTheWeary.
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Guitar mags spent the entire year sneering at Oasis and talking up Satriani and Vai.
Don't talk politics and don't throw stones. Your royal highnesses.
It is definitely not Jennifer Batten.
First thought was "a random person from her PR team or something who's been handed a guitar to mime on TOTP" but in fact the woman does appear to be an actual guitar player. No idea who she is. I even looked up who played on the album, but that was Guy Chambers and some other bloke.
Glad I spotted the cab driver
Yes, my brother told me that story. I didn't know who Noel Fitzpatrick was - I guess most people nowadays wouldn't know who Cathy Dennis is.
I heard an interview with some professional songwriter/pianist the other day - can't remember his name and I'd never heard of him before. He was saying there's quite a complicated etiquette around songwriting credits nowadays. When you look at new albums by, say, Beyoncé, each individual track has different producers and every track has multiple writing credits - the artist, the producers, the guys they sampled something from, everyone who made some tiny suggestion in the studio... the person who actually wrote the original tune will be in there somewhere, but they're sharing the royalties with a lot of other people.I watched bits of Supervet and I tended to have reservations about how he charged people huge sums of money for cutting edge procedures on animals. I'd have to rewatch and maybe rethink but the ethics of it didn't sit well with me at the time so he seems an odd figure to me.
Back on the songs I remember listening to an interview with Lilly Allen ( and I quite like some of her stuff) and she was asked about songwriting. From what I understood she came up with some of the words and got 50% of the song writing credit. But she didn't seem to understand that other people would perceive this as her ripping off the actual songwriters. I suppose 50% of the royalties for a song recorded by a successful artist is better than 50% of the royalties for a song recorded by no one so everyone goes along with it.
Yep. It's a reaction (maybe an overreaction) to the way songwriting credits have been historically, whereby the only people who get paid are the ones who write the melody or the lyric. It stems from the fact that the industry's practices in that area date back to the days before recorded music when music publishing meant sheet music publishing, and then the early days of the recording era when dozens of different artists would record the same popular song.
During the rock era, the recording came to represent the definitive version of the song, and thus elements that used to be just part of the arrangement came to be seen as central to the song, hence things like the lawsuit over A Whiter Shade of Pale, where Procol Harum's organist claimed he'd co-written the song because he came up with the organ part that's playing in your head right now
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Whiter_Shade_of_Pale
Most of us probably do this when we think of songs we like- our memory of them is just as much about a guitar riff or a hook of some kind that wasn't necessarily written by the guy who gets the royalty cheque.
Modern pop songwriting credits reflect this view- you can't argue that what makes a recording of a song successful is just the melody, or the lyrics. A bass line, a synth hook or a sample might be just as much a part of the song's success (or failure).
Don't talk politics and don't throw stones. Your royal highnesses.