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[Ace]

I saw him live a couple years ago as an opener for Frank Turner. He was great.

[Cobra Commander]

and after all these years, I figured out that blink-182 didn't sing a song called "She Likes Me for Me"... that song, of course, was by Blessid Union of Souls. So I had to rename an mp3

[Cobra Commander]

my favorite "music thing I thought for awhile that turned out to be wrong" thing involved thinking that the Verve and the Verve Pipe were the same band. It's possible I heard part of the whole Verve getting dinged for 'Bittersweet Symphony' thing and thought that they had to change the band name too

[twiztor]

On 2/8/2026 at 11:37 PM, Cobra Commander said:

and after all these years, I figured out that blink-182 didn't sing a song called "She Likes Me for Me"... that song, of course, was by Blessid Union of Souls. So I had to rename an mp3

my favorite "music thing I thought for awhile that turned out to be wrong" thing involved thinking that the Verve and the Verve Pipe were the same band. It's possible I heard part of the whole Verve getting dinged for 'Bittersweet Symphony' thing and thought that they had to change the band name too

i am a stickler for accuracy in my mp3 collection (60k+ songs), so i feel your pain. correct artist, correct album, release year, track number, album art, the whole nine yards.  the number of songs i've downloaded because they were listed as one artist, while being somebody else entirely, is insane. 

see: Weird Al. people think every parody song is by him, and it is infuriating. it can make it extra challenging to actually find the real artist in some of these cases.

[odessasteps]

9 hours ago, twiztor said:

i am a stickler for accuracy in my mp3 collection (60k+ songs), so i feel your pain. correct artist, correct album, release year, track number, album art, the whole nine yards.  the number of songs i've downloaded because they were listed as one artist, while being somebody else entirely, is insane. 

see: Weird Al. people think every parody song is by him, and it is infuriating. it can make it extra challenging to actually find the real artist in some of these cases.

Poor Stan Freberg.

[Cobra Commander]

this remix of "Mangetout" by Wet Leg is fun

the original mix, for the unfamiliar:

 

[Dragon]

 

[odessasteps]

 

[zendragon]

 

[Cobra Commander]

watching the video for "Touch Me" on MTV Classic

and wondering which decision was odder, Samantha Fox having the same hair as a news anchor in this video or all the denim (coincidentally Canada was one of the 8 countries where "Touch Me" hit #1). Then again, looking at the Wikipedia where the Touch Me album had 7 different producers over 10 tracks. Three different top 10 hits in the US so she had a much more successful music career than one would expect from someone who had been best known for being topless in The Sun at 16 (which was legal until 2004 in Britain)

for actual one hit wonders, well, Todd in the Shadows spent nearly 34 minutes on "Seasons In The Sun"

 

[Cobra Commander]

the last month or two has had several protest-y songs coming out. My unofficial rankings is that "Join ICE" by Jesse Welles and the Billy Bragg song are better than the Springsteen song, U2 has a song out and I haven't heard it but it feels like there hasn't been a ton of U2 since "Vertigo" that I liked and I fell asleep when listening to the album that U2 put on my phone. All three of those songs lean a bit on being a bit raw since overproducing a folky protest song can seem fake.

In the realm of protesty songs, I did just hear this song last night

 

[odessasteps]

Samantha Fox also at least one best selling pin up poster in that era. 

[supremebve]

1 minute ago, odessasteps said:

Samantha Fox also at least one best selling pin up poster in that era. 

Settle down Odessanetico

[Johnny Sorrow]

18 minutes ago, odessasteps said:

Samantha Fox also at least one best selling pin up poster in that era. 

When I was 16 I had her topless pinup on my bedroom wall. My Dad didn't approve, but let me keep it. I took it down as soon as I was dating someone. 

[supremebve]

4 minutes ago, Johnny Sorrow said:

When I was 16 I had her topless pinup on my bedroom wall. My Dad didn't approve, but let me keep it. I took it down as soon as I was dating someone. 

I just imagined your dad walking in seeing the poster and saying, "I don't approve, but I understand," and walking out reluctantly proud of his boy.  

[Cobra Commander]

"don't put up too many posters of the same person or it's gonna look weird"

(I don't have kids, but it feels like the whole concept of "putting a bunch of posters in your room" has died out in recent years.. kids these days obvs)

[odessasteps]

I presented that as banally as possible.

Spoiler

 

Edited February 19 by odessasteps

[Dragon]

 

 

[Curt McGirt]

[Cobra Commander]

going back to some mid/late-2010s alternative-ish music and thinking the genre had quite a few songs that I likely heard at the time that all blend together so I don't really remember them much 10 years later.. although while Spotify is an evil entity that doesn't pay artists, it is a solid place for randos making playlists trying to capture the essence of the station I listened to back in the 2000s/2010s (before it died a death in 2024 to become a sports radio station)

"Serotonin" by girl in red, yeah I likely heard that a bunch a few years ago.. or "Monsters" by All Time Low or "Tilted" by the former Christine & the Queens (Rahim Redcar)

but songs like the Strumbellas trying to follow up "Spirits" or "Doing it for the Money" by Foster the People or "Don't Take the Money" by Bleachers, good luck, I don't remember those songs when they played 8ish years ago. I do know that the Bleachers singer is married to Margaret Qualley (and is famous for producing a bunch of ultra successful stuff)

I had never actually heard the non-radio edit of "Monsters" until now so the chorus being "I don't mind if you fuck up my life" was a surprise

[Cobra Commander]

random more recent music note, "Everyone's a little fuckin bitch" might actually be the most Hives lyric they've done and it opens a song as the Hives have now released multiple albums in a decade for the first time since the 2000s. I liked "Lex Hives" but the band just didn't release anything for a decade

 

[twiztor]

Rob Zombie's new album, "the Great Satan", is quite good. if you're a fan of his, this one has a couple tracks that feel very throwback that you'll likely enjoy

[Cobra Commander]

took me a few years to see this (the video was released in 2018) but it is nice to see Kesha having some fun in the late 2010s and I think Kesha's pretty high for pop singers who could kill it fronting a rock band

 

[odessasteps]

 

[odessasteps]

I just saw the following acts are touring this summer:

soft cell and the human league

toto, Christopher cross and the Romantics 

men at work, toad the wet sprocket and shonen knife are playing at the Delaware state fair.