I also can't tell when my kids are out in the yard if they are shrieking in pain or squealing with glee. It is a problem.
One of those things that makes you go hmmmm.
It;s like the one-winged dove sounds like she's singing oooh.
Maybe if there were little symbols that could be attached to ambiguous phrases to indicate emotional valence, like an extended form of punctuation.
It's like a semi-colon when you're expecting an apostrophe.
It's like rain on your wedding day, is what it is like.
Psssssssssh.
At most other blogs, urinating in a thread would be considered rude.
There's a jagged, little pill for that.
Can anyone name three songs off that album?
Without resorting to Google, I ca no longer name three songs off any album. I've outsourced my cultural knowledge to the cloud.
Semi-topically, an important petition.
No google, 21st cetury only:
Too drunk to fuck, the fly, and guns of Brixton were all on the same Nouvelle Vague album I think.
Sour Times, glory box, and Wandering star off of -- uhh, not the first Portishead record.
Neither of those have much in the way of not-quite- verbal sounds, though. Lil kim and Biz Markie both did/do a bunch of singing that's not words. Wu tang and Lil Wayne too. Part of that might be that hip-hop juxtaposes one part of a track that's recorded to sound intimate, catching background sounds or voices really close to the mike with heavy beats and other synthetic sounds. Roger Waters did a lot of similar juxtaposition with Pink Floyd too.
Re: 15
Yes, off the 1st Portishead album.
Can anyone name three songs off that album?
Isn't it Ironic,, What if God Was One of Us,, Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?
That was me. Also too much commas and italics.
15: I think The Fly is maybe on the not-as-good second one? I could be wrong.
OK, Love Will Tear us Apart is one more off of the first one.
Illmatic will be a 20-year old record next year.
Let England Shake was a really great album, definitely something more than just some songs released together. Buying and to a lesser extent releasing music track-by-track weakens what an album is.
13: your brain must just be full of useful, important, life-enhancing information, asshole, but you'll have to come crawling to me when Google breaks down to get accurate track listings for like 50 complete albums. (I gather most people fall somewhere between "not even 3 tracks" and "entire discographies"? We should plot it against income.)
Let England Shake is indeed great; also spooky and upsetting.
Isn't it Ironic,, What if God Was One of Us,, Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?
I'm pretty sure the second song is by someone else. I remember because the non-use of the subjunctive mood in that song made me insane.
Oh, hi google, I guess Alanis Morisette sang it too. It's really not a good enough song for two people to have recorded it.
I thought he was joking and the second and third songs were from other people.
Blume, all three in 17 are by different artists.
Standpipe and I will be here all night drinking Mai Tais, thanks.
And listening to Paula Cole records? She's a local, after all.
22: They're all by someone else, no? Morissette, Osborne, and Cole?
Who are three singers who have never been in my kitchen?
Is it going to be raining outdoors?
Hmm, for me Let England Shake is one of her least successful albums. I can admire the concept and execution in an abstract way, and it's cool that she's consistently trying to move her music forward, but that music does almost nothing for me emotionally. It almost pisses me off that someone with such a great voice should adopt that mannered strangulated voice [that would normally just be part of the range of voice qualities used on an album] throughout. It feels forced both as a project, and sonically.
I much prefer her when she's letting rip with the loud guitars.
the non-use of the subjunctive mood in that song made me insane.
*fist bump*
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Wish I'd snagged a photo. this was a total nonhipster. Is the non-ironic, non-costume pince-nez now a thing.
I'm informed that I was thinking of a monocle.
34: this will drive you mad if you let it. Although kudos to Michael Penn, who sings "what if I were Romeo in black jeans?" Although he would.
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What is the noise you are supposed to make when you can not yell at your boss to tell her that she is abusive and contradictory. Also, when she is asking you to do things that are going to piss people off and amount to harassing clients, what is the noise you are supposed to make to prevent yourself from blowing a gasket/ having a blood vessel in your eye burst.
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40: I had no idea that was Michael Penn, whom I really only know via the Aimee Mann connection. Huh. Joan Osborne was some sort of much-removed-cousin-who-still-showed-up-at-reunions of my HS girlfriend, so that album was more of a staple than it otherwise would have been and had some actual decent songs on it, though not the popular one.
Back to the OP, it was only a few years ago that I discovered that "Uh" and "Er" were supposed to be American and English variant spellings of the same vocalisation. I had thought they were distinct.
I also find that people think they are saying "Yay!" when they type "yeah!" and "yea!" I wouldn't mind, except that "yeah" and "yea" mean different things from "yay"