This is the story that never ends / it goes on and on my friends ...
October 28, 2020 8:01 PM Subscribe
In the hopes some of it's cheer-inducing to someone: in research for a post yesterday I was reminded of 331ERock's "Neverending Story Meets Metal", which has cheered me up and made me feel like rocking out more than anything lately. And then in the process of doing so, I learned of the Stranger Things cover, which is just frankly too squee for words (both actors originally of Broadway musical origin, too!). (Especially its later reprise.)
The Stranger Things cast evidently enjoyed it a great deal, too, enough for Eleven to start #NeverEndingChallenge, which resulted in this wonderful additional moment ...
(Original for reference, by Limahl, previously of Kajagoogoo.)
(And in case all of this is way too damn cheerful for you.)
The Stranger Things cast evidently enjoyed it a great deal, too, enough for Eleven to start #NeverEndingChallenge, which resulted in this wonderful additional moment ...
(Original for reference, by Limahl, previously of Kajagoogoo.)
(And in case all of this is way too damn cheerful for you.)
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Genuinely not trying to derail here, but I'm legit confused about music categories (and have been since the word 'alternative' became a thing and all).
A reviewer of a Led Zeppelin concert once described their music as "like heavy metal falling from the sky". This is the earliest use of "heavy metal" I could find to describe a musical genre, but everyone I mention this to laughs and says Zep are classic rock, not metal.
By the 90s it seemed to mean "loud growly guitar-feedback music" usually of the sort GWAR was lampooning?
It seems now to mean "high-speed guitar virtuosos"?
Is there a guide to the evolving nature of this category? This adorable video is a great example of skill and charm, but it's rather striking in that it doesn't fit my never-got-into-listening-to-it GenX notions of what "metal" music is.
posted by rum-soaked space hobo at 9:33 AM on October 29, 2020
A reviewer of a Led Zeppelin concert once described their music as "like heavy metal falling from the sky". This is the earliest use of "heavy metal" I could find to describe a musical genre, but everyone I mention this to laughs and says Zep are classic rock, not metal.
By the 90s it seemed to mean "loud growly guitar-feedback music" usually of the sort GWAR was lampooning?
It seems now to mean "high-speed guitar virtuosos"?
Is there a guide to the evolving nature of this category? This adorable video is a great example of skill and charm, but it's rather striking in that it doesn't fit my never-got-into-listening-to-it GenX notions of what "metal" music is.
posted by rum-soaked space hobo at 9:33 AM on October 29, 2020
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