Video Killed The Radio Star
#21
(08-04-2021, 11:55 PM)Mister Obvious Wrote:

A friend of mine loved that song. I thought it was a bit too repetitive.

I think they're using a gadget called the Oberheim Strummer to make some of the sounds. It's a fun retro effect to play with, although any old DAW can probably do the same effects now.

http://www.vintagesynth.com/oberheim/strummer.php

Damn, those things are going for $250 on Ebay now! Time to have a rummage sale.
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#22
Hmmm. The Strummer came out in 1991`, six years after that song was released. Maybe they played those bits on a Casio DG-20 connected to a MIDI tone module then. Just speculating, I have no idea.
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#23
I always liked the song (save for a couple different parts), but I probably have a more nostalgic experience with it than a lot of people might.

I just remember driving around Newfoundland listening to it circa 2011...

Any music set to that kind of scenery is gonna stick in your mind and be pretty much unforgettable.
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#24
Before that time, I'd vaguely heard the song before, but it was only during that timeframe in my life that I had it on a CD where I could actually listen to it.
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#25
https://imgur.com/a/4yQ9Gp8

Moments in love indeed.
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#27
Wish I could go there again.

But I guess I've been there enough.

I guess I shouldn't be greedy.

And so it is.
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#28
Now I know why they named it Nova Scotia. It looks like Scotland.
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#29
Yup, if you look at the map of the Mid Atlantic Ridge you can see that it quite literally tore off from Ireland/UK...

https://cdn.britannica.com/25/129925-050...-Ridge.jpg
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#30
Looks like maybe where the Irish Sea area is now.
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#31
(08-04-2021, 07:23 PM)Mister Obvious Wrote:

Look at the gorgeous lens flares in this video... the starlike spiky look of the lights.

Only in the 70s/80s.

Absolutely gorgeous.
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#32
That video is a cool 10 million times better than the 'official' vid, lmao.

Not hating, just saying.
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#33
Yoda 
(08-05-2021, 12:37 PM)Dev Wrote: Now I know why they named it Nova Scotia. It looks like Scotland.

Makes sense New Scotland.
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#34
(08-06-2021, 08:20 PM)Mister Obvious Wrote: Absolutely gorgeous.

The song is, too. It's one of those "way better than I remember it being" songs. The chorus backing vocals are cool and catchy, but the ambient backing vocals are so amazing you almost don't notice they're there; they come off like a kind of texture. I love that old simple guitar riff shit, too. Not too busy but loaded with feel.  This b-52's song, at 1:53...

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#35
Right when it's officially dark out...

That's the perfect time to listen to this song.
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#36
It become almost like a nightly ritual.

They're totally trying to brainwash me with the repetitive as fuck chorus, calling ME the radio star.

But I listen anyway because it's just...

Agh, so good.
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#37
TBH like...

I'm not even into oral, but Trevor Horn has such a sexy mouth I really wouldn't mind having it suckling on my bits...

Just being real.
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#38
I want to lick his teeth.
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#39


Oh, millennials.
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#40
Book 
I once seen you playing with play-dough.
So what are you?
When I was a kid I played with comp-B
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