Babybird - Corona Christmas
I made this!
Creator : @IamHappyToast
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HappyToast Groat froth, Thu 3 Dec 2020, 9:15,
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this animation style makes me feel young again
and the music was cool. 10/10
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You're ... lovely.
Nice video.
I really liked Babybird back in the day. That first commercially released album was a classic and I'll fight anybody that says otherwise. However ... a few years after the hits, I saw him in a small--ish local venue and he was miserable as fuck and really, really didn't want to play *THAT* song. I get it - monster hit is embarrassing and you want to play us your new stuff which is much better. Happy to listen to the new album Stephen, but the deal is we get to hear a couple of the back-catalogue songs, especially the hits.
I hope he's come to terms with it now.
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Linbox has a serious dunk habit, Thu 3 Dec 2020, 11:55,
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I've recently befriended a band who talked about this
and I totally get their sentiment on the matter. They started doing weekly live sessions during lockdown (still continue to do so, but not as often). People asking for the "classics" but they've just released a new (very good btw) album. It's quite different to their earlier stuff, but it's pretty darn good. They branched away to make music for themselves rather than to just get a "hit". After years of gigging the same tunes over and over you get bored. Every night for years on end, you can imagine! When you create new music you just want to play that, it excites you again, not the old stuff. That's boring to you now. In fairness to them they did a fair few reimagining's of the earlier stuff that was bloody awesome.
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Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Thu 3 Dec 2020, 12:06,
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Wasn't he always notoriously grumpy at gigs,
even during the hits years?
(Nice video HT!)
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monkeon schmonkeon, Thu 3 Dec 2020, 12:32,
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I just hope he's rich
I think the deal is "This hit single will be a albatross around your neck for the rest of your life, but it does shit golden eggs". I wouldn't mind playing a song that I wrote 20 years ago a few times a month, if it paid the bills, even if I now hated it.
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I don't think musicians get much choice on whether something is a hit or not
or have a golden egg contract in place before releasing it.
Chances are the record company does very well out of it but the artist being shouted at to play it doesn't.
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HappyToast Groat froth, Thu 3 Dec 2020, 15:20,
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The copyright holder will do nicely.
If that’s the artist then they do well. If that’s the record company they will do well. The artist of the most popular version of the song will do ok out of royalties too. If they’ve been stupid enough to sign away these rights, then diddums. And what artist would release anything without wanting it to be a hit? “Oh, that was just meant to be an album track actually, I really resent the people making it a hit, the record company made me release it as a single, life’s so unfair.” Fucking diddums.
Spare a thought for Norman Greenbaum though. Legend has it that many Hell’s Angels were rather keen on his one big hit, and at some gigs would force him to play it repeatedly under threat of violence should he not comply. He’d usually be able to get the hell out of Dodge after an hour or two. That’s pretty tough.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Thu 3 Dec 2020, 16:23,
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He's always struggled with popularity and people liking his music for the wrong reasons
Proper tortured artist and ridiculously prolific, over a hundred releases in the last four years alone, not surprising he doesn't want to keep playing that one from 25 years ago.
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HappyToast Groat froth, Thu 3 Dec 2020, 15:15,
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Lovely animation as usual.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Thu 3 Dec 2020, 15:50,
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