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RE: The best 4T songs - Copperfield - 09-12-2016
(08-02-2016, 11:51 PM)taramarie Wrote: As for whether it is better than pop hits from the 90s that i like....it is the same upbeat, dancable and happy music i love it. We need something like this more than ever. Something that puts a smile on your face. That is what matters when you need a temporary escape.
Not always. A 4T is a serious time and serious music has its place as well. For what it's worth, it made me smile the first time I heard it.
Closing in on the Eastern border
It’s a unicentric one world order
With Sino-Russian capitulation
It’s an orchestrated end of nations
Food prices soaring
As the sanctions kicked in
And all the hawks cried more
Oil prices falling
And the propaganda talks war
Minerva has decreed a state of attrition, hostilities
New Cold War!
New Cold War!
New Cold War!
In the Arctic wastes under sheets of ice
Mineral resources corporate forces eye
Occupation ensures supply
Colour-coded revolutions sustain the lie
Food prices soaring
As the sanctions kicked in
And all the hawks cried more
Oil prices falling
And the propaganda talks war
Minerva has decreed a state of attrition, hostilities
New Cold War!
New Cold War!
New Cold War!
Breaking in a cold sweat just like the good old days
The drum beat of hostilities has started to play
A perverted thrill reminiscent of the big chill
Hair trigger giving everyone a shiver
Food prices soaring
As the sanctions kicked in
And all the hawks cried more
Oil prices falling
And the propaganda talks war
Minerva has decreed a state of attrition, hostilities
New Cold War!
New Cold War!
New Cold War!
RE: The best 4T songs - Copperfield - 09-12-2016
(09-08-2016, 11:59 PM)gabrielle Wrote: More of Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox. Channeling Peggy Lee there...
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Kate Davis is incredible. She's a classically trained jazz musician but has been branching out with a lot of her own stuff.
RE: The best 4T songs - Eric the Green - 10-04-2016
"Cold Water" is a song recorded by electronic music group Major Lazer, taken as the lead single from their fourth studio album, Music Is the Weapon (2017), featuring vocals from Canadian artist Justin Bieber and Danish singer MØ. It was written by Major Lazer member Diplo, Benny Blanco, Ed Sheeran, MØ, Justin Bieber, Jamie Scott, Philip Meckseper and Henry Allen and produced by Diplo, Benny Blanco, Jr. Blender and King Henry. "Cold Water" was released on July 21, 2016.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_Water_(song)
RE: The best 4T songs - gabrielle - 10-20-2016
Le Tigre reformed and made this song. And this video, complete with pantsuits! Heh...old people dancing.
lyrics can be found here:
http://pitchfork.com/news/68698-le-tigre-return-with-new-video-for-pro-hillary-clinton-song-im-with-her-watch/
For those who don't know Le Tigre, they were (are) a band formed in the late 90s, a kind of punk rock fused with 80s synth pop. The lead singer is Kathleen Hannah, who was a principal figure of the riot grrrl movement of the early 90s and the lead singer of the punk band Bikini Kill, some songs of whose I posted on the "lost" thread about a week ago.
RE: The best 4T songs - Eric the Green - 10-20-2016
And yet Bikini Kill nixed "Rebel Girl" as a Hillary song. Strange.
Thumbs up tho!
RE: The best 4T songs - gabrielle - 10-20-2016
(10-20-2016, 12:57 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: And yet Bikini Kill nixed "Rebel Girl" as a Hillary song. Strange.
Thumbs up tho!
It was Tobi Vail, a different member of Bikini Kill, that issued the copyright infringement notice. Tobi is not part of Le Tigre. Anyway, that was during the primaries.
RE: The best 4T songs - Eric the Green - 10-24-2016
Jon Tarifa: "Don't Go" (2016)
You know I love those "oh oh oh, oh oh" songs!
RE: The best 4T songs - Eric the Green - 11-04-2016
I like this 2014 neo-baroque, synthpop song from the UK. It recently replaced American Authors' " The Best Day of My Life " as the backing music for the ubiquitous ads for Graton Resort & Casino here in NorCal. I posted that song here too. "Rather Be," by Clean Bandit. The vocals at the end (used in the ad) remind of the 70s hit by the Emotions, " Best of My Love ," which made my top 400.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rather_Be
RE: The best 4T songs - Eric the Green - 12-17-2016
He's no sex symbol pop star, like Justin, and his voice is not very distinctive yet, but it's hard to ignore this guy. He's a young renaissance man; singer, pianist, composer, actor, comic....
This is very nice one that he wrote:
Anything is Possible (2011 I think. This performance is from 2014. He did an identical performance for PBS this month-- it may be the same one actually. It's also the theme for his movie.)
Ethan Bortnick (born Dec.24, 2000) is different from most pop stars in that he's a true prodigy, and performs music from all ages, for all ages. He was on Jay Leno's show at age 6, does national tours, and stars in PBS programs, where I just heard him for the first time. He gives Justin a run for his money with this motivational song.
RE: The best 4T songs - Eric the Green - 01-09-2017
Great title track from Justin Bieber's 2012 "Believe" album. A follow up to Pray, co-written with the same writers (including Nasri Atweh) of that great classic from Nov.2010.
RE: The best 4T songs - Eric the Green - 03-08-2017
Writer(s)
William Grigahcine Justin Bieber Andrew Watt Ali Tamposi Brian Lee
Producer(s) DJ Snake (also exec.)
Released 5 August 2016
Reached #1 on digital downloads and #4 on Billboard
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_Me_Love_You_(DJ_Snake_song)
Brian Dong Ho Lee (c. 1981)[1] is a Korean American songwriter, best known as a co-writer of "Good Time" by Owl City & Carly Rae Jepsen and "Work from Home" by Fifth Harmony, among other songs.[2][3] He contributed to Lady Gaga's 2011 Born This Way album.
RE: The best 4T songs - gabrielle - 03-16-2017
Ramin Djawadi created the score for Game of Thrones, and now the new series Westworld--two shows I enjoy. The music plays some part in that, I'm sure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramin_Djawadi
This western-themed orchestral arrangement of a familiar Rolling Stones song is pretty magnificent:
The familiar Game of Thrones opening:
RE: The best 4T songs - gabrielle - 05-06-2018
RE: The best 4T songs - beechnut79 - 05-06-2018
Didn't go through the whole forum but did anybody yet mention some of the Woody Guthrie classics from the last 4T? That 4T was also the heyday of the big bands--Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey et al.
RE: The best 4T songs - Eric the Green - 05-07-2018
We mentioned a lot of music from the last 4T on this thread: http://generational-theory.com/forum/thread-160-post-29397.html#pid29397
We got stuck in the 1920s but we could push it back further; of course lots of 19th and 18th century classical to cover too.
RE: The best 4T songs - Camz - 03-06-2020
I was gonna make this thread, but then I found out it existed. Aside from the 80s nostalgia, I'm surprised by you guys' music taste, ngl. Anyway, I'm very passionate about mainstream music, both loving it and criticising it. Man, music has changed a lot since this thread was made. I'll talk about 2008 first.
The first real year of the 4T. I think this was a transitional year from moody 2005 music to party music absolutely taking over in 2009. This shows with its first #1 hit iirc, Low by up and coming rapper Flo Rida, and T-Pain. Very great start to the year. I don't know how anyone could dislike this song (if it wasnt overplayed for them of course). It's an absolute bop, and its on Billboard's 100 Biggest Songs of All Time.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ckKFxMw6z0c
RE: The best 4T songs - Eric the Green - 03-09-2020
The Graton Casino ads are my best source for today's best 4T songs. Like the ones I already posted here. I'm missing a lot then, but.... am I?
This one means a lot to me, because it's for boomers and Xers too. The casino uses it to attract people of all ages to their extravaganza. I still feel it like it's 1966. What is better than to remember 1966? We had our fill, and it might be over, but we feel it still! And for Xers, they kicked it in 1986, and they feel it still too. And even for boomers like me, 1986 was so much better than today. Not too much to feel these days, except dread. So, escape to the silly place! Waste your money and have a good time. Great song.
RE: The best 4T songs - Camz - 03-10-2020
I love that song! It has a great rhythm that you can't help but dance to. One of the best songs if 2017 for sure. I want more songs like this.
RE: The best 4T songs - Eric the Green - 05-16-2020
The greatest rock band from the 2T (or anytime) has put out a great new album. The Who's sound is as polished and mind-expanding as it was on any of their earlier albums. It's not that it contains another "Won't Get Fooled Again," since no other rock song will ever approach that one, but it seems like so far the album is even more consistently good than Who's Next. I posted this one also on the My Generations, Our Generations thread on the Generations forum. I discovered these two songs only this week, although they are a few months old now; and it's amazing how fully they fit and confirm what I had written in my essay about The Who and Our Generations back in early March. In case anyone here doesn't know, The Who's first big hit back in 1965 was "My Generation," the first song I know of that was explicitly about a generation. It came out about the same time as that other even-bigger S&H 4T favorite, "Turn, Turn, Turn" by the Byrds (the Pete Seeger song). Pete Townshend is the composer, arranger, guitarist and synthesist, but he still has Roger to belt out his songs, who at age 75 sounds as strong as he did 40 years ago, and he has his brother Simon and Ringo's son Zak and others to team up with.
All This Music Must Fade (an ironic song that explains that's it's OK for songwriters to steal from each other, because it's all been played before and still hangs in the air)
Ball and Chain (Pete's statement about prisoners held unjustly, just like Beethoven's Fidelio was)
RE: The best 4T songs - Camz - 05-16-2020
Eric, out of curiosity, what are your thoughts on Yummy?