Great songs just discovered

[Marshmallowmilkshake]

Like my friend who gave me the Jack White tickets, my daughter also determined my musical tastes needed some expanding. On our drive back from Milwaukee she took control of the Spotify and introduced me to a band called Bleachers and this great song, "Chinatown," which features Bruce Springsteen. Looks like it came out sometime last year, so I'm not as far behind as I first thought.



The soaring but still airy synths with four higher notes dropping in are pretty neat. I've check out a couple of the band's other songs from this album, and they seem to be all over the place in terms of style.

I've been enjoying the Jack White stuff.

Have you guys discovered anything new recently?

[Edgy MD]

Early U2 or early Echo?

You decide!

[Ceetar]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

[kcmets]

Catchy tune, but a little too chick-pop for my taste. You're just discovering
it? It was like the most popular song on the planet fifteen years ago.

Do you drive a Silverado ;-) ?

[batmagadanleadoff]

Catchy tune, but a little too chick-pop for my taste. You're just discovering
it? It was like the most popular song on the planet fifteen years ago.

Do you drive a Silverado ;-) ?

You've been rickrolled. (And so have the rest of us who clicked the link).

[batmagadanleadoff]

Catchy tune, but a little too chick-pop for my taste. You're just discovering
it? It was like the most popular song on the planet fifteen years ago.

Do you drive a Silverado ;-) ?

You've been rickrolled. (And so have the rest of us who clicked the link).

Slang dictionary
rickrolling
What does rickrolling mean?

Rickrolling is when you troll someone on the internet by linking to the music video for Rick Astley’s 1987 hit song “Never Gonna Give You Up.” It is, by far, the most popular example of bait-and-switch linking.


Where does rickrolling come from?
rickrolling
Dazed

The practice of rickrolling started in 2007 on the image board 4chan. The first-ever rickroll involved a link promising to be a trailer for the game “Grand Theft Auto IV,” that instead directed excited gamers to the “Never Gonna Give You Up” music video.

The rick part of rickrolling comes from Astley’s first name, but where does the roll part come from? It turns out that also started on 4chan, according to Know Your Meme. In the mid-2000s, the then-director of the site, who is known as “moot,” decided to prank users by changing all instances of the word egg to duck. This, of course, changed the word eggroll to duckroll, which created such an amusing mental image that someone photoshopped wheels onto a picture of a duck. Suddenly 4chan users were posting bait-and-switch links that led people to a wheeled-duck image. The practice soon took on the name duckrolling.

Since 2007, rickrolling has taken on a life of its own. In 2008, Astley contributed to a live-action rickroll during the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade when he emerged from inside a Cartoon Network float to sing his famous song. By 2011, rickrolling had become so mainstream that the White House’s official Twitter handle sent users to the video of “Never Gonna Give You Up” after a user complained that the correspondence briefing from that day wasn’t as entertaining as the one from the day before.

https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/rickrolling/

[Edgy MD]

I don't feel rickrolled.

[kcmets]

I don't feel tardy.

[batmagadanleadoff]

I don't feel rickrolled.

I suppose that if you've never heard of that Astley song before ceets' post, or if you really really like that song, then you haven't been rickrolled. Or maybe ceets wasn't rickrolling anybody in the first place. Maybe ceets just discovered that song and likes it a lot.

[batmagadanleadoff]

This gag, (if it is a gag) would work a lot better if the music video started playing automatically as soon as you clicked the youtube link. Instead the link takes you to the youtube video, but you have to then click the "play" icon for the music video to play. I think that kind of ruins the gag some.

[Ceetar]

i'll do better next time.

[Edgy MD]

Believe me, I've heard the song a billion times.

If I blindly followed a link and the song exploded out of my computer, I'd feel rolled. Just linking to a page where I have to click again to listen has less impact. It was hiding in plain sight.

Mets fan voters rickrolled a poll for the seventh-inning stretch some years back.

[Willets Point]

All-girl punk rock band from Los Angeles pays tribute to an earlier all-girl punk rock band from Los Angeles.

[whippoorwill]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

I liked this song but my sister didn’t

[MFS62]

They just "discovered" Sweet Caroline in Great Britain, and their woman's national soccer team is using it as their song, to the chagrin of this writer.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/ ... the-first/

Later

[Willets Point]

They were singing along to "Sweet Caroline" in Ireland (and probably the UK, too) as early as the 1990s, before it got picked up in Boston.

[Edgy MD]

Yeah, Neil is Neil. He's so globally iconic that he's practically a natural satellite.

[whippoorwill]

Sweet Caroline reminds me of the beach in Atlantic City when everyone’s beach radio was playing it at once (as well as Mama Told me Not to Come) and the really cool purse I bought on the boardwalk that year
I’d love to have that purse back

[whippoorwill]

Sweet Caroline reminds me of the beach in Atlantic City when everyone’s beach radio was playing it at once (as well as Mama Told me Not to Come) and the really cool purse I bought on the boardwalk that year
I’d love to have that purse back

Looking them up, one was ‘69 one was ‘70