Yes, Aphex madness. If you have never seen Come to Daddy that is truly disturbing.
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Off Topic The Greatest Intro of All Time
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Yes, Aphex madness. If you have never seen Come to Daddy that is truly disturbing.
Visually impactful?
They aren't to be underestimated as an art form though, from every slight distortion the visuals are dictated by the music.
Haven’t looked at it. Why would I want to be disturbed by a music video?
Yes mate, I was there - got a bus from Kings Cross up there with loads of other Roses fans, was there early so saw the whole gig, from opening acts right through to the main event....still have the ticket somewhere, my son looks at it in awe
Have you seen the film ‘Spike Island’....a bit twee but some good bit when it gets to the gig......
One of the places I wish I would of been.
Truly one of the greatest music Videos/Intros/Songs of all time.
I used to scare my kids to death by showing them that vid and playing it at full blast
I find the Aphex Twin a little bit full on, but each to their own. I prefer to hear real instruments. Here's an intro from 1974 by George McCrae, not the best intro of all time but I defy anyone to say that it's not unpleasant to listen to. The guitarist on this song was Jerome Smith who was the guitarist with KC and the Sunshine Band who took the song up a tone into G sharp instead of the G major chord to give this tune a laid back feel. ...
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I once sang this on stage with George McCrae.
I was hogging the mic as I wanted to do the high falsetto at the end, but he grabbed it back from me!
Having met you Col hearing a high falsetto launching from you without warning would be a genuinely surreal experience.
Inspired by this thread I have been listening exclusively to classic soul for the last few days, via a playlist someone put together on Spotify called Classic Soul. The craft, as well as the soul, put into these songs, many of which I groaned about when they were on Top of the Pops in the Seventies, is astounding.
Wow! No way. What a wonderful anecdote.
Should have come and seen me play Jean Valjean when you had the chance. Plenty of high falsetto on offer there. (Got the chance to do it again in November for three more performances, requested by popular demand!).
That is fabulous mate.
Interesting your perception of Aphex as he has produced tons of music and although some of it is full on there is a load that is not.
I find people often like these tracks of his for instance.
Your comment about preferring to hear 'real instruments' is typical of an attitude that often prevails amongst people who like 'real music' (usually Rock). I am not suggesting that's what you are like 9s but there is certainly a snobbishness against electronic or dance music in general which is a shame really as there is some brilliant stuff buried below the commercial rubbish.
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Then I hope you played the number one soul funk record of all time
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My youngest, during her internship, worked as a "gopher" for Chris Cunningham the director of Aphex Twins videos. She was so in awe of him, she barely spoke to him and he barely spoke to her for the whole week she was with him even though they spent nearly 15 hours a day working on a film/video/short
Yes ....but she was on an internship 2 years ago at a major postproduction house in Soho when she met Chris Cunningham, he was using their facilities and she was his gopher.
She is now a graphic/3D artist in a different firm but still in the Soho area of London.
Seen the film a couple of times, quite good for a low-budget film. The band in the film actually play some good music.
Spike Island is one of those gigs that go down in music folklore. I'm lucky, as I was also at Nirvanas' headline performance at Reading in 1992.