Hundred Dollar Bill

WHAT. DID YOU JUST USE A DAYS OF OUR LIVES GIF?!!!??[!?|!]!?1?!!! MARRY ME.

You did! You'll be happy to know she's still a bitch and bouncing between three different men.

WHAT. DID YOU JUST USE A DAYS OF OUR LIVES GIF?!!!??[!?|!]!?1?!!! MARRY ME.

HOEMAHGAHD.
 

 
You know Days!?

Ha, i suppose you're fucked then (not a bad thing to be, right?) It's some type of Chorus effect with the depth and rate turned up really high (and it might also have tremolo?) Auto-Tune makes the vocal vacillate quickly between notes, it's a very distinct effect and sound, nothing else really does that. Call me crazy, but the effect in BoaF sounds nothing like A-T. I also happen to really like it, whereas i have no tolerance for A-T. I think people need to stop calling any vocal effect Auto-Tune. Where's the loon when you need him? Her? It?
 
Guys, i've never heard a single Jonas Bros or Hannah Montana song, for serious. I can't believe all the pop music revolutionizing that i am missing out on.

WHAT. DID YOU JUST USE A DAYS OF OUR LIVES GIF?!!!??[!?|!]!?1?!!! MARRY ME.

Woo. Glad to see I'm not alone in my hatred for The Beetles...
 
 
...this, however, is pure slander.
 

 
Edit: Oh Christ I've missed a Monicker rant. *paces*
 
Edit #2:
 
 
Yes. I always say this. I feel like I'm back in high school.

I always feel smarter after reading one of Monicker's posts.

I'd like to, but i can't, really. It'd be too long, and i don't have the time. It's something i've been mulling over for many years and i have material collected in my mind for an essay of sorts! I don't think this forum is the avenue for that nor is it the time right now.
 
 
I definitely agree that The Beatles are a better band, but the level of acclaim that they receive in proportion to their merits is much more skewed than anyone in music history. The Beatles can be a GREAT band if one so wishes to call them that, but that doesn't have to exclude how overrated they are. Given where they have been and continue to be placed in music history (and beyond, because their stature extends into many aspects of culture, not just music) there's nothing left for them to be other than overrated--no one can be that good. How can they not be overrated when you consider how cult-like the view of them is? One of the more frustrating things about Beatles idolatry is how it diminishes the efforts of everyone else--people who made significant contributions to popular music and innovated just as much if not more, people who either pushed popular music forward, or just plain wrote better songs. The Beatles, as they've existed since their demise, are a global enterprise, it’s marketing, very effective marketing. It’s scary. I think people just repeat the baby boomer rhetoric--that started developing when rock criticism was starting to be a more serious thing, when it became an industry--because it's so culturally ingrained and, year after year, only solidifies itself more and more. Repetition is a very strong force. Capitalism continues to do wonders for The Beatles, so it works out. There is longevity there. What do i really think of The Beatles? I think they're all right, they have good songs, but they mostly bore me. I think they had, and continue to have, mass appeal because their music is easy and very digestible while having the advantage of being seen as Art. It challenges the general public enough to engage them, but it's still safe. There's also so much nostalgia built into this machine. Consider also timing, luck, looks, style, attitude, personality, etc., wrap it up in a nice package and have it spit out to the public via ceaseless aggrandizement from every corner of the media, and you get the worldwide cult of The Beatles. It's a weird, successful formula that allows them to stay right where they have been for the past four decades. It's a weird thing to listen to their music--it's not really like listening to music, but more like listening to a cultural phenomenon or a sermon. Who the hell wants that?
 
 
On to something else: Hipster culture. It's not one defined thing, but rather multifaceted (Nabakov is undoubtedly revered by certain sects of contemporary hipsterdom). When you consider just how much its meaning has changed since 1950s beatnik culture, you realize that, ultimately, the term is pretty useless. It's too open-ended to have any real value. It means different (generally derogatory) things to different people and different generations. It's a catch-all term for easily censuring a group of people whose tastes, interests, and "identity" rub us the wrong way, usually because of their insincerity. That, to me, is what hipster culture is--a culture of insincerity, a culture of cool. I've noticed it comes up around here a lot and how, from person to person, it means totally different things. I myself would never consider Nirvana to be part of hipster culture as we know it today. What's odd about hipster culture is that ANYTHING can be hip, nothing is off limits, anything can appropriated and made "cool" or so uncool that it's cool, or ironic. Let's look at the person for whom we are all here right now. Depending on who you ask, LDR is almost emblematic of hipster culture (probably because, what, she likes "old" things?). But i get the feeling that "real" hipsters scoff at the idea of Lana Del Rey. Yet others probably embrace her only ironically. How do we establish a common meaning? Does it even matter? How about forgetting all that shit and not wasting thoughts and energy on it?

I GIVE UP ON THIS BULLSHIT, Y'ALL DON'T KNOW WHAT GOOD MUSIC IS!!!!!!!!!!!

WHO IN THE FUCK DOESN'T LIKE PAWN SHOP BLUES?!
 

SOMEONE hasn't fallen in love for the first time.
 
 
 

The Blue Velvet moaning humming is heavenly.
 

It's a party, it's a party, it's a party, it's a party, it's a party, c-c-cmon...
 
 

T.T

 
 
 
 
But hosheet, Gramma!
Hold up the phone!
Monicker just liked my post!
LIKED-MY-POST!

 
Get that Twitter frame down, nao!
We have new one to hang!
 
 

Omg I can't. I love you.

HDB, i am upset with you for two reasons. 1. You didn't name me by name when mentioning your fellow Lucky Ones family members :imbeingsarcasticbitch2:
2. I called that 800 number. They said they were closed due to the hurricane and then said something about rental equipment! What gives, Bill?? You leading us astray here or what? I need answers because i will never understand the Lucky Ones hate, and here i was foolishly believing that this hotline might provide some insight.
 
Oh, and then just as i was going to say that i suspect that the LO hate comes from people being too hung up on the lyrics, we have PrettyBaby calling the backing track pointlessly tepid. TEPID! PB needs 2 have teh RAWK in her lyfe \m/
 
I love this thread.

Don't be afraid of Sitar, Neal, you can come stay with the level-minded & loving individuals AKA the Lucky Ones fans. We welcome you into our arms. This post is the epitome of awesomeness, it says everything I haven't already said about the perfection that is Lucky Ones. Sitar, if you have something negative to say to this amazing and well thought out post by our lovely new fam member Neal, you can go eat shit. *gets Beemo, Lana Del Rey, and a few other prized users and throws Neal a Lucky Ones Welcoming Party*
 
If anyone reading this ever feels scared and alone, I want you to know, it doesn't have to be this way. It's okay to profess your love for Lucky Ones. When I came out and told everyone how I felt, I felt this wonderful sense of relief. My true friends accepted me for who I was born to be, and even if they didn't like Lucky Ones, they no longer said bad things about it when I was around. Most of them grew to love and respect it though, just as much as they loved and respected me. If you don't feel comfortable talking to someone you know, please at least call this hotline, they have someone waiting to talk to you 24/7. I swear you won't feel alone anymore. 1-800-LUC-KY1S
 

This is me getting you started. TELL ME ABOUT WHY THEY ARE OVERRATED. I want to know how your mind works. It will be really interesting to read. Please. :3

this is actually PAINFUL!!!!!!!!!!!! AKA is my favorite album but something has to go in order for this game to work
:(
 
 
Kill Kill 18
Queen Of The Gas Station 18
Oh Say Can You See 6
Gramma (Blue Ribbon Sparkler Trailer Heaven) 20
For K Part 2 25
Jump 8
Mermaid Motel 19
Raise Me Up (Mississippi South) 14
Brite Lites 12
Put Me In A Movie 15
Smarty 16
Yayo 24
 
 

Don't be afraid of Sitar, Neal, you can come stay with the level-minded & loving individuals AKA the Lucky Ones fans. We welcome you into our arms. This post is the epitome of awesomeness, it says everything I haven't already said about the perfection that is Lucky Ones. Sitar, if you have something negative to say to this amazing and well thought out post by our lovely new fam member Neal, you can go eat shit. *gets Beemo, Lana Del Rey, and a few other prized users and throws Neal a Lucky Ones Welcoming Party*
 
If anyone reading this ever feels scared and alone, I want you to know, it doesn't have to be this way. It's okay to profess your love for Lucky Ones. When I came out and told everyone how I felt, I felt this wonderful sense of relief. My true friends accepted me for who I was born to be, and even if they didn't like Lucky Ones, they no longer said bad things about it when I was around. Most of them grew to love and respect it though, just as much as they loved and respected me. If you don't feel comfortable talking to someone you know, please at least call this hotline, they have someone waiting to talk to you 24/7. I swear you won't feel alone anymore. 1-800-LUC-KY1S
 

Even if Sitar gonna completely hide this post or (hopefully just temporarily) revoke my posting ability, I'm gonna soldier on to say that one of the/my best LDR Musical Moment is indeed (you guessed it) ...in Lucky Ones. Below is a c+p of comment I made on Feb 10, back when I know so little of her, watched only a handful of live performances, and only have Born To Die to replay constant and continuously.
 
judgemekillyou.gif
 
 

Off to the races topic..
 
After countless comment-reading of fave songs, I genuinely felt like I'm the only one fawning over Without You and Lucky Ones. (But it's all good, all good.. #feeling-a-pseudo-possession)
 
And very, very, very... esp. Lucky Ones.
If asked why, it'd be a long essay of fangirling over the cello, trumpet, and harp sounds.
That overall majestic, cinematically denoument-ish orchestration in the outro.
To my ears' delight, it has perfect amount of chorus repetition, not too much, not too little.
I like the way she back-vocals it. I like the creepy, alien-spacecraft-hovering synth-sound* randomly appearing (creepily) throughout the song, the church bell + timpani drum-roll + loud-cymbal-crash combo, seconds before the chorus--it almost sums up my type of favorite sonic experiences. I just need her to make a mini-film of it to slay me, tbh.
 
And seriously that lyric?
Sung in such way, and in such aforementioned atmosphere?
Every now and then, the stars align
Boy and girl meet by the great design
Boy, do I fall in love..
 
I honestly think that Lucky Ones is one of the few songs that'd be great if sung live--it has generous space between verses/lines/lyrics, minimizing ~out-of-breath occurrences, which I think for me, still a quite major issue in Lana's performance. Most time I watch videos of her live, I subconsciously hold my own breath. If only she would lay low on the varying a little. It's like: eff the lyric Lana, breathe girl, breathe..  
8 months+ later, re-reading that, I still feel the same. I used to think that I really hate brass-section, trumpet, horn, trombone, let alone sax.. eh, not for me, nuh-uh, no sir. But just like most other things I decided I want to hate--I turned out finding something beautiful about it and just started really liking it.
 
And then I just have to add the whole intro length of Little Girls and/or Put Me in A Movie, the right to left channel of oriental-music-box(?) sound, followed by the brooding bass, the looping E-G#-D-G#(?), and that distant, chiming, shop-door-bell sound. If anything, my ears hear this as the sound she described as 'a sad-party'. The way she sings it so desperately sad and cheerfully heartbroken, makes me just wanna buy her every goddamn chocolate cake in town.
 
And bridges. Oh, those bridges..
 
I think I've said here somewhere (or maybe was it at ldrfm) that on first listen of BTD, right off the bat I connect more to the later half of the tracklist. On Dark Paradise's bridge I was flabbergasted and was like: "How did that even possible?". Maybe the overall lack of expose to music on my behalf, but I seriously think that my ears have never experienced a powerful war-drum** or beats in general, combined so beautifully with melody, not since a long time. And then there's Without You, that sorta just seems to know that I'm a sucker for that tacky/overused/cinematical/Olympic momentuous, overturning, building progression of hymnal strings, paired with lines of what I would say as 'the anthem of self-proclaimed, castaways, rebel teens'.
 
 
* aka Emile Haynie's signature sound
**or rather, tom-toms or maybe even slap-bass

Well then...that is just the most awesome (1) thing i've read all week. MOSTAWESOME1? REALLY? Tubular.
 
Wasn’t MsSaintTropez the youtube channel that had Florida Dark that Jldr linked to on .fm or am i thinking of something else? Or am i smokin' crack?
 
How many licks does it take to get to thstdsjfdtv,ghkugggjjgjgjgjapwppowirlqp

I could say the same about oh say can you see
 
Kill Kill 18
Queen Of The Gas Station 19
Oh Say Can You See 7
Gramma (Blue Ribbon Sparkler Trailer Heaven) 18
For K Part 2 25
Jump 11
Mermaid Motel 19
Raise Me Up (Mississippi South) 15
Brite Lites 12
Put Me In A Movie 14
Smarty 12
Yayo 24

I tend to agree... except I'm having trouble with the "mmm" in Kill Kill lately. Family Guy fans, read on at your own risk.
 
 
 
 
Make it stop...

haven't had a drink in seven years my ass

Then he'd disappear, and when the party was over he'd say that it was inevitable "bc it waz born 2 die".