Their best song was “Jane” in my opinion.
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Carly Simon is classic rock?
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WCOZ used to play an album track by Starship a lot. It was called "St. Charles" and it was, IMO, awesome.
At $50 to $80 (or more) a gram? No, not kids. Mostly young professionals and the like.
"La Macarena" was simply a pop remake of a flamenco song recorded some years earlier. Don't make it into something it was not.
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"Selling Out" refers to someone, or a business, which completely alters it's brand or culture as a result of pressure by a third party or market entity.
Remember the BeeGees V1? They were very different from V2 and changed from Folk Rock to Disco almost overnight - because that was what was selling. Some would call that "selling out" but I would call it smart business. Sometimes you change or die. We see that every day in radio formats.
Well, they were good, regardless of their style.
It was John and Paul's band. They formed it and George was brought in later and Ringo, much later. Also, I was talking about lead singers who were definitely John and Paul. George was given about two songs per album. Ringo had even fewer.
If Denny Laine were the new guitarist, wouldn't they be the Plastic Ono Wings?
It only really works because of the "B" connection between "Beatles" and "Band" and has to have "Beatles" in the title in order to work at all. I considered, "Beatle Wings" but thought the other one was funnier. Trust me on this. I am the living legend of the leader of the pun.
You mean "God Bless the U.S.A."? The worst offense of that song is against English grammar, in the line "I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free." At least it hasn't become an unofficial second national anthem, like that hack Irving Berlin's "God Bless America," originally written as a show piece in a patriotic revue during World War I. Since 9/11, that ditty-turned-divine-right-proclamation has sullied seventh-inning stretches in ballparks large and small across this land.
And when that wave died, they concentrated on being producers.
Selling out begins at the moment you sign a recording contract. The dreamers singing of changing the world in subway stations and on street corners are the ones who haven't sold out.
Tuna, I agree with that. But Bee Gees V1 becoming Disco Bee Gees V2 is different from the Bee Gees selling "How Do You Mend A Broken Heart" or "Stayin' Alive" for Entresto (heart medicine) commercials. Although whoever controls the Sonny and Cher catalog was fine with it:
Which then means Starship had no connection to Jefferson Airplane, since Grace was their second female lead singer, replacing Signe Anderson.
Name five Bob Dylan songs used in commercials.
Name five Beatles songs used in commercials before Michael Jackson bought the catalog.
Or Tom Petty, or Steely Dan...
Paul Simon used to be on that list, until 2011, when he licensed "The Only Living Boy In New York" for the 2011 Accord commercial:
And he's done it a few more times since.
The real "selling out" happened within the past few years when the old-timers like Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, and Stevie Nicks sold all the rights to their music to their record companies for hundreds of millions of dollars. Now if their music shows up in a TV commercial, they'll have no control over it.
But not that artists have much control over the use of their music, anyway. There's a long list of artists who complained and filed cease and desist orders when Trump and other politicians used their music at their campaign rallies, and yet they continued to do so anyway.
But not that artists have much control over the use of their music, anyway. There's a long list of artists who complained and filed cease and desist orders when Trump and other politicians used their music at their campaign rallies, and yet they continued to do so anyway.
Well, let's remember that music publishing rights are something that have been traded for decades. Paul McCartney may make more from the songs of other artists whose catalogs he owns than he does from his own songs, especially since Sony owns the Beatles stuff.
Especially since the song has been co-opted by the MAGA movement.
Greenwood himself is a Trump supporter. The use of his song came with his blessing.
Well we had Les Garland as the DJ in the national version, for what it may or may not be worth
Those artists sold their catalog because record sales have dried up. Probably a smart move. Without record sales, touring is the only source of income for most musicians these days.
Reptilian politicians that use artists songs without permission should be penalized. Clowns like Trump and others used "Born In The USA" at rallies with no clue what the song is actually about...
You produce something that has value (when you might have thought it was out of date or obsolete). Someone comes to you offering money for it. Why WOULD'T you sell it to them (assuming you approve of their usage)? You make some income and expose your song to many thousands of potential customers.
I don't see a down side.
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