Hot Take/ Musical Confession Thread!

TenderLovingKiller® said:
On our inaugural visited New Orleans the year following Katrina we stopped into Tujague’s bar on a slow night and It was basically me, my girlfriend and a very skilled bartender. He ended up making us a few cocktails. At the time I was still fairly young, more accustomed to bartenders whose idea of a mixed drink was red bull and vodka as opposed an actual mixologist. When he asked me what I would like, I ordered an Old Fashioned (Probably because bar seemed timeless, the type of place Don Draper would have had a drink) but then he got specific and asked what type Whiskey I assumed bourbon was ideal but he said it was more regional and New Orleans is big on Rye. So, gave that a shot and found I preferred the rye to the usual bourbon. I think the spicy rye taste compliments the Sweetness of the cocktail. Give it a shot, you may enjoy it.
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Didn't feel like a New Orleans Sazerac? Love those. I need to make it to New Orleans to try one there.
 
Last night was the first time I've listened to Springsteen's Born to Run album beginning to end. What a weird album! I spent the weekend watching 15 hours of J-Pop/metal fusion sung by Japanese teenagers with choreographed dance moves, so my threshold for "weird" is pretty high. Born to Run was weirder to me than that.
 
supahypeag said:
Last night was the first time I've listened to Springsteen's Born to Run album beginning to end. What a weird album! I spent the weekend watching 15 hours of J-Pop/metal fusion sung by Japanese teenagers with choreographed dance moves, so my threshold for "weird" is pretty high. Born to Run was weirder to me than that.
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Weird? Really? It’s pretty straight up rock n roll, isn’t it?
 
I saw a quote where Bruce described the sound he was going for as Roy Orbison singing Bob Dylan as produced by Phil Spector. I think he accomplished that sound. But, as I was listening, getting into the gritty emotional vocals of it with a soaring wall of sound...Boom! Saxophone!...but the saxophone was like a combination of late 50s rock saxophone (like the yaketty yak stuff?) with some jazz/adult contemporary riffs?

I’ve been listening to a lot of mid-late 60s stuff and early 70s hard rock, but I hadn’t explored much of the Neil Diamond or James Taylor stuff. Maybe if I had that background it wouldn’t be so weird, if I had heard previous fusions. My rock path was 50s rockabilly, 60s psych rock and blues rock and Motown, early metal and hard rock....then boom, freaking Springsteen.

TLDR: it was weird to me because it felt like a fusion of Motown, late 50s rock and roll, smooth jazz, and a layer of grit.
 
Confession: That song that got the record of weeks in #1 position in charts? That song that the singer is a rapper who came out a few weeks ago? Do you know which song I'm talking about?
Good, because I don't know its name and I've never listened to it and I'm ok with that.
 
KenKaniff said:
Love Actually is probably my favorite Rom Com that I've seen.
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So last Christmas, I watched this with my girlfriend as it's a bit of a holiday tradition for her. I watched it years and years ago, and thought it was sort of OK.

It is not sort of OK. It is not a good movie at all. It has some great bits, but boy is it a mess.

For Christmas time-based rom-coms, I will take The Holiday every single time.
 
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