Music Thread

[shafnutz05]

It's too early in the morning for Here Comes the Hotstepper but that's what Youtube Music chose for me so I'm going to roll with it.

This song is an elementary school memory trip.

[tifosi77]

What was the Billboard Hot 100 #1 song when you started elementary school? (Take that to mean the final full week of September of that year; Billboard weeks end on Saturdays, so that should help you search.)

For me, that would be the chart week of September 29, 1979.

I suppose we could do that for when everyone graduated, too. So call it the last full week of June of your senior year.

For me, that would be the chart week of June 29, 1991.

I am bored.

[MR25]

Which elementary schools start at the end of September?

Anyway, for me it doesn't matter, because

Was the top song for the entire month.

High School graduation was

OMG by Usher and will.i.am

[Gaucho]

I don't have to look up mine because they're the same as tif's. Or would be, I should say.

[faftorial]

What was the Billboard Hot 100 #1 song when you started elementary school? (Take that to mean the final full week of September of that year; Billboard weeks end on Saturdays, so that should help you search.)

For me, that would be the chart week of September 29, 1979.

I suppose we could do that for when everyone graduated, too. So call it the last full week of June of your senior year.

For me, that would be the chart week of June 29, 1991.

I am bored.

Mine:

Last of Sept 1971:

Last of June 1983:

1980's pop music was horrible. Those cheesy sounding synths.

[tifosi77]

I thought I started school in September, so instead of trying to remember which specific week I just suggested using the last week of the month. If we go back to August, it doesn't change for me (and I guess Gaucho haha). It's still My Sharona. Wooo.

[shafnutz05]

Hmm

First week of September, 1989.

[dodint]

Ohhh
Ohh
Ohhh
Ohh
Oh.

[NTP66]

Elementary school:

[shafnutz05]

Just so good.

[tifosi77]

We are suckers for music documentaries, and we found a good one by accident over the weekend.

Tom Petty: Somewhere You Feel Free - The Making of Wildflowers (Amazon Prime Video)

From 2021.

[shafnutz05]

We are suckers for music documentaries, and we found a good one by accident over the weekend.

Tom Petty: Somewhere You Feel Free - The Making of Wildflowers (Amazon Prime Video)

From 2021.

You're the second person to recommend this... Need to check it out. That was one of my first CDs.

[faftorial]

@tifosi77, what is it costing Amazon to air commercials with the Stones recording of "Paint it Black?"

Also for the sappy rendition of "In My Life" with women too old to have been Beatles fans.

[tifosi77]

Stones: Enormous $$. Because they're not just using the recording, they're remixing it and creating their own proprietary version. (I got to do a thing like that with Steve Miller "Fly Like An Eagle" for USPS a long time ago). I wouldn't be surprised if it was over $2 million, plus all the costs of making the custom mix with the Stones' master. And I believe they're using it in multiple different spots, so that carries added expense as well. Not cheap.

The Beatles thing is just the publishing rights (I'm guessing high six-figures), and then paying a session band to do a simple re-record. Not cheap either, but nowhere the outlay of the Stones ads.

[tifosi77]

All of that presumes standard commercial terms. If there's some special arrangements in play behind the scenes where they're doing a concert film and the licensing for this other advertising is covered in that deal, or something like that, all bets are off at guessing money.

[Gaucho]

[RonnieFranchise]

Time to chase the dragon

[Gaucho]

drink Kirschwasser from a shell

[RonnieFranchise]

Then Drive west on Sunset to the sea

[Gaucho]

here come the Santa Ana winds again ...

[RonnieFranchise]

We know you're celebrating in your spangled leather poncho and your elevator shoes.

[Gaucho]

With the studs that match my eyes

[shafnutz05]

I'm hungry for Szechuan dumplings.

[Blue Canary]

I move to rename FAF to the Custerdome for a day.

[Blue Canary]

I'll check it out. I listened to another Joni tribute album yesterday ... title escapes me now but it features Elvis Costello, Björk, kd Lang, Emmylou Harris, Sufjan Stevens, among others. Good stuff. Elvis is trying too hard, tho.

I’d mos def enjoy this.