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Or Captain Beefheart
Devin Townsend? Floor Jansen?
Jorn Lande!
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#92Does "The Singing Vacuum Cleaner" from The Fifth Element count? Despite the rather ludicrous costume given the actress, the singer behind that piece is actually quite good: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inva_Mula
For whatever it's worth, that song was considered to be impossible for humans to actually perform.. Humans always being ready to destroy expectations, someone of course did it, Jane Zhang the opera singer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrJFNYOw4wk
Wow, that's impressive for a human!
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"The Singing Vacuum Cleaner"? That's Diva Plavalaguna for you. Show some respect! Green?
That's one of my fave movies, ever, but I always fast-forward through that scene.
It's one of my favorite movies ever, that scene included - love the song! Why do you skip it?
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#96It's sad that they don't even thought about when in the timeline the vocal note was sang and recorded. The majority of singers shift their vocal range as they age. This is especially true for male singers that usually tend to shift down their pitch.
Paul McCartney is pretty competitive about this and likes to point out that his contemporaries have lowered there pitch, and he has stayed the same.
Impressed at the Axl Rose numbers — I came looking for Robert Plant, who I’ve always thought had a pretty insane range.
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#97"Greatest artists of all time" Mostly American pop singers.
I guess we could ask, what is the metric of greatness for art? Quality of work? Popularity? Is the artist who does something perfectly exquisite that profoundly impacts anyone who sees it, but ends up only being seen by a small handful of people more or less great than the artist who's work is ok quality, and a bit inspiring, but is known to billions?
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Ooor instead of being angry about the page and calling it a sad day, you could be happy about the interesting discussion it generated? Lots of new stuff here I've never heard about that was cool to check out.
I’m not angry, I’m just sad at the lack of depth here. A list that calls it self “greatest of all time”, and excludes most of the musical art from the world is not front page worthy. Also it’s pretty callous to assume that everyone in the world listens to US American pop music. I wonder if you would “check out” the cool stuff with a list containing Nusrat, Bhimsen Joshi, Miriam Makeba, Camané etc.
HN is US centric
US is "self-centric", "insular"
As in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Series
This is a generalization, of course...
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Ooor instead of being angry about the page and calling it a sad day, you could be happy about the interesting discussion it generated? Lots of new stuff here I've never heard about that was cool to check out.
Ooor instead of responding only to people's emotions and trying to control them, you could respond to the content of their post and admit they have a point. We all have choices. Saccharine positivity is ruining HN. In the past few days I've seen HN posts that: 1. Said a company's behavior only looks immoral, but it's actually not their fault, because they're just following incentives. 2. Said volunteerism isn't neede…
> you could respond to the content of their post
Not so sure what your rant has to do about my post, really.
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That's one of my fave movies, ever, but I always fast-forward through that scene.
It's one of my favorite movies ever, that scene included - love the song! Why do you skip it?
It's the visuals. I really have a difficult time with that costume. You can actually see the rubber in the inflated "tentacles."