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LinkedMusicians posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
Name a band or solo artist widely seen as a one-hit wonder that you feel has been greatly underappreciated.
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Tangential, but how do we even define a “Hit” these days? Spotify plays? Do Billboard lists still exist (or matter?) . The way publishers attack (foolishly IMO) any use of “their” music on media sites like YouTube, how do people “discover” “new” (to them) music, aside from personal recomendations?
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Billboard remains the industry standard for the recording industry, — and we carry Billboard magazine articles here at LinkedMusicians in the Knowledge Hub. But measurement has become significantly more complex than it was in the days when radio and vinyl dominated. Today, Billboard determines hits based on radio airplay, audio impressions,…Read More
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The song that comes to my mind is Life in a Northern Town by Dream Academy. Love the harmonies and the feel of that song. Here is a little tidbit, David Gilmour did some sound effect/tape effects for the song.
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Coincidentally, I was just listening to Dream Academy yesterday. I’m big on rock trivia. The band’s big inspiration was Nick Drake — I love his music. What songs beyond their big hit do you like? “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” is one of my favorite comedies, and their cover of a Smith’s classic is featured in the movie:…Read More
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@peter I have just been listening to an excellent doc about the making of 5 Leaves Left
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This reply was originally much longer but I had ‘posted an inappropriate word’ I assume it may have been BBC!
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Nope obviously not that one! It will forever be a mystery!
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Too be honest, Life in a Northern Town is the only song I really listened to by them. I really should looked at them closer, something I will rectify real soon.
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Good call @doug – as a young lad from the deadly dull town of Hartlepool in north east England I loved that song. The place is significantly less dull now with a folk festival and several music venues but the only good night out in those days was the excellent folk club (the best I have ever been to in my life and not just because it was my first!)
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Great thread @peter – sorry I am late to the party – been away for over a week and then had a mountain of emails to get through. I still haven’t posted my holiday pics on Facebook.
My one hit wonder is renaissance who were, and still are, one of my favourite bands. I started off well with their Live at Carnegie Hall double album which gave me a…Read More
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Renaissance never crossed my radar which is surprising because I am a huge prog fan. I truly love Annie’s voice. Great share!
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Look at that, we spend so much time on deals that I didn’t realize that you were a huge prog fan too. I great up as a huge fan of Yes, Genesis (up to, Invisible Touch), King Crimson, Rush, ELP, Kansas… My first major rock concert was ELP, a birthday gift from my youngest sister. At maybe age 7 – 9, I was completely in love with ELP’s Trilogy…Read More
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Yes was one of my first loves. Strangely enough, it was I’ve Seen all Good People that turned me onto them. It is decidedly not what I would consider a prog song except maybe the last half but that part didn’t make the radio edit. ELP was never into making “hits” so it not surprising that Lucky Man is the only song that charted. Funny, Genesis…Read More
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I think ELP’s Pictures At An Exhibition may have been the album that got me into prog! I was a classical fan from about 11 when I first heard Holst’s The Planets at school – the only good part of a music lesson I can remember – the rest of my memories were of the sadistic Scottish music teacher forcing us to learn the recorder (which I later came…Read More
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I used to love Rush around the time of the Permament Waves & Spirit of Radio albums but wasn’t so keen before or after that. I saw them at Southampton Town Hall when I was living in nearby Winchester and they were one of the the most disappointing band I have seen – they prided themselves on getting the exact sound of the albums but of course that…Read More
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@Doug Really glad that you enjoyed it! Annie has my favourite female voice ever possibly apart from English folk singer Nancy Kerr whose voice is also sublime but in a very different way! Check out Renaissance’s Live AT Carnegie Hall, Scherezade, Ashes Are Burning, Prologue, Turn of The Cards, Novella and Song For All Seasons – after that hey got…Read More
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Semisonic. Most people only know them from “Closing Time”, but their first album, “Great Divide” is a nice collection of power pop with a slight hippy influence.
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I agree! And I think their album “All About Chemistry” is also really good.
My wife (then girlfriend) and I saw Semisonic and did a meet and greet for their tour supporting “All About Chemistry.” Dan Wilson was really cool and down to earth. We got into a discussion on songwriting and our mutual fondness of Carole King’s songwriting (he co-wrote…Read More
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I can’t believe I forgot about Neil Finn / Crowded House. The band is mainly known for the song, “Don’t Dream It’s Over” and possibly, “Something So Strong.” So, they’re not exactly seen as one hit wonders, but close. And I think Neil is a superb singer/songwriter. Crowded House and Neil Finn solo have many, many great songs.
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I remember “Locked Out” and “Distant Sun” getting some play when they were released. My favorite album of theirs is “Woodface”, though. It’s packed with so many greats, from “Fall at Your Feet” to “Four Seasons in One Day”, and of course “Weather With You”.
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peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
This was unexpected: a drummer swap between two major bands. The Foo Fighters former drummer, Josh Freese, is joining Nine Inch Nails, while Nine Inch Nails former drummer, Ilan Rubin, is joining The Foo Fighters. Josh also formerly played drums with Nine Inch Nails during the 00s.…Read More
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peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
I was chatting with a developer friend the other day and he was telling me how impressed he is with SoundPaint’s CS-80 library, as it represents a developer more extensively sampling one of these instruments than any other developer has ever done. To be very candid, while I’m friends with the 8Dio / Soundpaint folks, I was tied up with other…Read More
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peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
News flash! We’re increasingly seeing developers registering for LinkedMusicians. Clearly, the word is starting to spread. If you’re a developer, or an employee or contractor of a developer or retailer that sells music-related products or services, please be sure to read our Community Rules (linked near the bottom of the navigation bar) before…Read More
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What language is that above the Chinese?
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The message at the bottom is in several languages. From what I can tell it’s Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish and I’m not sure of the others. You might appreciate that it was created by a bunch of residential neighbors in Chicago after a hate crime in the neighborhood and the people banded together to show support for the diverse neighborhood,…Read More
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I do appreciate the sentiment. I was mostly curious because there are two languages which look like Arabic.
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peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
SPINAL TAP 2 TRAILER
A friend of mine, a songwriter and musician out in LA, saw a special showing of SPINAL TAP 2 a few weeks ago and said it was hilarious. I can’t wait until this comes out! My most anticipated movie of the year!
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peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
🙂 I made this fooling around with AI (obviously). The guy kind of resembles Steven Slate…
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thesteven posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
Re: Help Name the LinkedMusicians Bear
How about:
“Naked Ladies”It would also be tribute to an often underappreciated band.
Hey! Have you seen the Bear ‘insert name’ on LinkedMusicians?Not really serious but, it at least, made me smile.
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Just an FYI, to comment on a post, just click on comment, even when there are already comments. It basically works the same as Facebook.
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peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
“Maybe it’s not too late
To learn how to love and forget how to hate”– Ozzy Osbourne
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peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
Name a cover song you think is better than the original.
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Song for You, Donny Hathaway
Hallelujah, Jeff Buckley
Hurt, Johnny Cash
All Along the Watchtower, Jimi Hendrix
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dsteinschneider posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
I’m more of an Eli Mercer fan than Velvet Sundown
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I know that reference!!! I meant to post that video. I am such a fan of Rick Beato’s channel that my kids know his name and tease me about watching his videos!
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Nitrate Audio posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
Some music news worth checking out.
https://www.billboard.com/lists/biggest-music-deals-2025-so-far-warner-music-concord/
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Okay, this is kind of an ad — so feel free to call me out on it — but the LM Knowledge Hub feeds include Billboard magazine and this very article. In fact, if anyone has any publications they love that they’d like to see added, just let me know. They’re technically RSS feeds from the publications. Most include a short summary, and if you’re…Read More
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peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
Do we have any baseball fans here?
I’ll share that I am most prolific at posting deals when the Chicago Cubs are playing (my favorite baseball team). In fact, there may be a correlation between my most enthusiastic posts and when the Cubs are winning and my shortest posts when the Cubs are losing. This is pretty much my expression when they’re losing:
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The game just started. The second pitch of the game, the Cubs batter got a home run! Look forward to some happy deal posts in the next hours! 🙂
* I make no apologies to any Yankees fans that may be here! 😉
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peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
I’ve invested a good deal of time researching and asking members for recommendations for the best free effects plugins. My objective was to bring together the best plugin effects based on surveying our community members (in reality, I only tapped a handful of you). As this community grows, I’ll be using voting and other tools to compile these…Read More
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LinkedMusicians posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
I really enjoy Justin Hawkins’ Rides Again YouTube channel. HIs interesting and funny as heck. His latest video takes on the Velvet Underground, the AI rock band that I covered in the most recent LM blog post. Love to get your thoughts.
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peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
Welcome to all of our new members. I eventually delete the new member notice auto posts so they don’t clutter up this group. Just know that we’re very happy to have all of you here! Our objective isn’t to be the biggest music-making community, but to be the friendliest, most helpful, and welcoming community of musicians and producers.
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joegyork posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
Has anyone let gear go and come to regret it – like the people in this article from Production Expert?
My biggest regret was letting someone have my WASP synth & Spyder sequencer. They weren’t working but I wish I had got them repaired as they are being sold for prices between £600 and £1400 n…Read More4 Comments-
The first drum kit I ever had, which I bought at around age 7, was a Camco. It was a white pearl kit. It sounded great, but I wanted something that looked cooler. So maybe when I was 12 or so, I was persuaded by a guy at the local music store that this cool-looking blue kit — a garbage low end kit made in Taiwan called Royce — for around $400 was…Read More
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My first “stage amp” (my Dad and I built a small Heathkit for my $29 Tiesco first guitar 🙂 was a 1965 Fender Twin Reverb and I still have it. BUT I blew the speakers (somehow) and instead of having the Jensens re-built (like my Dad advised), I bought el-cheapo nameless replacements (hey, they’re rated at 200W- what else matters?) and tossed the…Read More
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Just like the guy in the article, I had a Roland Juno 60 that I got new in 1984 (was actually my first polysynth that I ever owned!). Sometime in the late 1990s, while it was still in great working condition, I let it go for a steal! I was diving headlong into digital stuff , and figured it was headed toward the ash heap. Bad call there.…Read More
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Just before we moved from Bradford to York I invited people round to take any vinyl albums that I either had CDs of or could hear on Spotify (before I realised what robbing g*ts they were)! I only kept my more obscure folk & prog stuff. Big mistake!
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peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
A new rock band — that strongly appears to be completely AI-generated music and images. They’ve now surpassed 750,000 monthly listeners and are rapidly becoming more popular. Of course, AI steals from real artists to make this stuff. So, what do we do now?
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An alleged spokesperson for the AI band has been interviewed by Rolling Stone.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/velvet-sundown-ai-band-suno-1235377652/
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I’ve been in IT since the 80’s. I’ve got AI “fatigue” and borderline conspiracy theory ideas on what is actually going on. My first revelation was that the press stories about the impending sci-fi level doom that AI will wreak upon us is psyop level marketing to prod managers to look into it. If it’s so good it’s dangerous then we better start…Read More
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When I was a working musician, I was pretty much like a lot of guys are about sports when it came to looking at playing skills and I sometimes hung out in a pack of Chicago working drummers that were similarly minded. If a drummer couldn’t play well, they were brutal. Then, as I became more experienced and joined a somewhat popular Chicago rock…Read More
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I had a bit of a snoop into how they achieved 300,000 hits in such a short space of time and it makes it pretty clear that they’re AI bros, they appear to have used all sorts of nefarious trickery to get there. It’s a triumph of algorythm over substance, you can delve deeper with Chatgpt and get some of the tricks they used.
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peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
Rick Beato did a video about an open secret in the music industry, that pro songwriters — sometimes producers — write songs for a great deal of today’s young pop stars. The stars might want a lyric changed here and there to fit their style, but often have almost no involvement in the songwriting. In fact, several years ago a group of songwriters…Read More
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I watched this video a couple days ago. It’s unfortunate that songwriters may not be getting a fair deal, but if there is a “free market”, are they not able to choose a different artist / agreement? I really don’t know if most musical acts are under a single “megacorp” that could be considered a monopoly, which would be an anti-trust issue. If…Read More
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Quincy Jones shared, shortly before his death, that other people would write with Michael Jackson and he would refuse to give them credit purely out of greed. I can’t recall the exat tune he cited bfore, but I think it was the bridge in “Human Nature” that Jones aid keyboardist Greg Phillinganes wrote. Jones said he tried to persuade Jackson to…Read More
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Paul McCartney did the same to a lot of musicians, I think they learned a lot off of each other, met the guy who wrote most of the guitar and instrumental parts for live and let die, can’t remember the fella’s name now but yeah, totally did this back then.
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I’m a huge McCartney fan, and I’ve never heard that, and I’ve had a number of chats with one of Paul’s former drummers, Chris Whitten. Chris spoke very well of Paul. I asked Chris if Paul was really bossy with the musicians, and Chris told me that Paul was always really easy going and was never like that. Plus, Paul wrote “Live and Let Die” and…Read More
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Here’s an early version of the song with McCartney playing the piano. McCartney plays the key parts of the song.
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peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
What music-related activities/projects are you currently working on?
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peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
RIP, Mick Ralphs, one of the founders of Bad Company.…Read More
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LinkedMusicians posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
Today is International Make Music Day. Celebrate it!
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peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
I know what I’m going to watch this weekend! NetFlix just released, “Becoming Led Zeppelin.”
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My sister gave me Led Zeppelin II for Christmas, it had just been released a couple of months before. So far I had only bought 2 albums – The Who Live at Leeds and The Band’s brown album. First track, Whole Lotta Love, was like nothing I had ever heard.
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As a very young boy, Zeppelin and The Who were my favorite rock bands. The first rock record album I ever bought was Zeppelin III — and I still love it (and everything else from the band) to this day.
I started piano lessons at age 3 1/2. By the next year, my siblings decided to form a band and voted that I would be the drummer. So at the end…Read More
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WOW (!) I remember well in 1969 when I was 12 years old listening to my Archies “Sugar Sugar” 45 rpm. My big sister came in to have her turn at the hifi and said “You have to listen to this”. I was expressing interest in learning to play. She put on Zeppelin 2 and Hendix’ “Are You Experienced”. I admit that Hendrix was above my head at the…Read More
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I was the only one of my siblings to love Zeppelin. My sisters turned me on to Stevie Wonder, Billy Joel, ELO, and many other artists I came to love. They were my resource. But my sisters didn’t care much for Zeppelin. My mother used to refer to them as “acid rock” and “drug music.” However, when I was in my late teens, I finally had a…Read More
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I’ll go first. There are a number of bands seen as one-hit wonders that I believe are underappreciated. But one that immediately comes to mind is Living Colour.