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The “oh shit I just realized _____” thread

dizzybulldizzybull Eerie Dicks 357 Posts
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This is the thread for shit that suddenly dawned on you. Maybe not just now, but when it hit you, it hit you. It may be obvious but you just never noticed. 

The song Benson’s Rider is a cover of CC Rider. 

In the dancehall reggae song Pose Off the melody “girls you look so sharp any time you pass in your pum pum shorts” is sung to the tune of Lambada. 

I've never seen an olive the color of olive colored skin. 



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  • ElectrodeElectrode Los Angeles 3,166 Posts
    I only recently found out that Walter Carlos became Wendy Carlos, Roberto and Erasmo Carlos are not related, George Shearing and Eric Kloss was/is blind, China Lake in California is no longer a lake and lamb "fries" are actually testicles.

    There were a couple of occasions when I had to remind two people that Benjamin Franklin was never President and that Earth revolves around the Sun and not the other way around.

  • dizzybulldizzybull Eerie Dicks 357 Posts
    I’ve been to China lake! I guess it officially a dried up lake. Close to TRona pinnacles which are definitely worth seeing. Actually there is a lot of cool stuff around there. 

    I did know Walter and Wendy were the same person. 
  • dizzybulldizzybull Eerie Dicks 357 Posts
    I just found out Betty Davis was miles Davis’s wife!
    klezmer electro-thug beats
  • ketanketan Warmly booming riffs 3,226 Posts
      
  • YemskyYemsky 716 Posts
    I never noticed Boogie Wonderland was not written by EW&F let alone did I know this demo by the original songwriters existed.


    When I found out last week, through this video...

    ...I was initially convinced that Allee Willis is man.
    cove
  • klezmer electro-thug beatsklezmer electro-thug beats 1,420 Posts
    dizzybull said:
    I just found out Betty Davis was miles Davis’s wife!

    Yo WHAT! How did I not know this

  • dizzybulldizzybull Eerie Dicks 357 Posts
    klezmer electro-thug beats said:
    dizzybull said:
    I just found out Betty Davis was miles Davis’s wife!

    Yo WHAT! How did I not know this

    VINDICATED

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    that’s Lalo Schifrin playing the famous piano line on Quincy Jones’ Soul Bossa Nova   I found that out last year after reading the liner notes. 


    ——-

    For yearrrrrrrrs I didn’t really think about the Phife line “bust a nut inside your eye to show you where I come from” and then one day I suddenly got the joke. 

  • JimsterJimster Cruffiton.etsy.com 6,996 Posts
    I never knew "It's My Party (and I'll Cry If I Want To)" was Quincy Jones and Claus Ogerman behind the wheel.  Or that all the cock-er-nee banter in The Italian Job's "Self Preservation Society" was Quincy.  
  • dizzybulldizzybull Eerie Dicks 357 Posts
    Speaking of Quincy Jones, I just found out that the incredible Jimmy Smith played the organ on Michael Jackson’s song ‘Bad’. 

    Also appearing on the credits of that album  is somebody who calls themself “How Now Brown Cow” which is freaking awesome. 
  • klezmer electro-thug beatsklezmer electro-thug beats 1,420 Posts
    It sounds to me like basically if you don't know who made a given hit a hit, it was probably Quincy Jones. Good rule of thumb
    DuderonomyJimster
  • billbradleybillbradley For I & I know that all of the youth shall witness the day that Babylon shall fall! 2,927 Posts
    Today I learned that Dusty Springfield sings with the Pet Shop Boys on "What Have I Done To Deserve This?" 

    She's in the video with the black shoulder padded sequined blazer.


    dizzybull
  • ElectrodeElectrode Los Angeles 3,166 Posts
    I have been listening to Gong lately. Today I learned a couple of things reading a Wiki footnote about their legacy:

    "Gong's influence has been seen in artists such as...Insane Clown Posse, whose member Violent J listened to Gong's music for inspiration during the recording of ICP's 2009 album Bang! Pow! Boom!." (yes, the "Magnets. How the fuck do they work?" one)

    "Actor Sherman Hemsley, best known for his role on The Jeffersons, was an avowed Gong fanatic, going so far as to have a Flying Teapot room in his house. The room, which had darkened windows, played Flying Teapot continuously via tape loops."
    dizzybull
  • ketanketan Warmly booming riffs 3,226 Posts
    dizzybull said:

    In the dancehall reggae song Pose Off the melody “girls you look so sharp any time you pass in your pum pum shorts” is sung to the tune of Lambada. 


    I may as well download all this Lambada game somewhere.  Lambada was based on a traditional Andean folk melody, which was given the pan flute treatment in a 1981 recording: 


    I looked this up because I came across a Taarab recording that also uses the melody, which sounded older than 1989. So for a while, I convinced myself that I had found the origin of the Lambada... and I was actually pretty underwhelmed with that discovery, except that I really love this song:
    klezmer electro-thug beatsdizzybull
  • klezmer electro-thug beatsklezmer electro-thug beats 1,420 Posts
  • JimsterJimster Cruffiton.etsy.com 6,996 Posts
    Telling Brazilians that Marina Lima's "Doida De Rachar" is a cover of Donald Fagen's "Maxine".  Turns out Marina > Dan in the land of the Samba Kings.

    Electrode
  • ElectrodeElectrode Los Angeles 3,166 Posts
    Reminds me of Rita Lee's "Lança Perfume" and the Doobies' "What A Fool Believes"

  • dizzybulldizzybull Eerie Dicks 357 Posts
    Shit is getting deep. 

    In that public enemy song ‘caught can I get a witness’ it only recently dawned on me how funny this line is:
     “found this mineral… that I call a beat. Paid zero.”

    in other words he sampled somebody and didnt pay a thing for it. Which I guess is obvious but it always went over my head and now that I realized what he meant I think it’s hilarious. 

    Yesterday in line at Costco I said out loud “hey! You think Ecuador means equator?” And my wife called me a moron but I never noticed it before. 

    Which makes Ecuador the only other country besides South Africa whose names is also its location. That I can think of. By that I mean if I say there is a country called Suriname you might have no idea where it is.  But if I say there is a country called South Africa … well… you have a pretty good idea of where it is. 

    Changing subjects, my favorite fact is that  the narrator in the opening credits of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is John Larroquette. He did the sequels and reboots too. 


    Frank
  • FrankFrank 2,391 Posts
    dizzybull said:

    Yesterday in line at Costco I said out loud “hey! You think Ecuador means equator?” And my wife called me a moron but I never noticed it before. 

    Which makes Ecuador the only other country besides South Africa whose names is also its location. That I can think of. By that I mean if I say there is a country called Suriname you might have no idea where it is.  But if I say there is a country called South Africa … well… you have a pretty good idea of where it is. 




    ...and then there's Equatorial Guinea, that some might know from Dogs of War

  • ElectrodeElectrode Los Angeles 3,166 Posts
    Frank said:

    and then there's Equatorial Guinea, that some might know from Dogs of War

    ...(formerly Zangaro, before the Christopher Walken coup)

    Yesterday, in a conversation with someone about immigrant communities in Los Angeles, I asked what is the difference between "Iranian" and "Persian". They're interchangeable, apparently. 

    Frank
  • FrankFrank 2,391 Posts
    Electrode said:
    Frank said:

    and then there's Equatorial Guinea, that some might know from Dogs of War

    ...(formerly Zangaro, before the Christopher Walken coup)

    Yesterday, in a conversation with someone about immigrant communities in Los Angeles, I asked what is the difference between "Iranian" and "Persian". They're interchangeable, apparently. 

    if I remember correctly, Zangaro was the fictionized country.  I have pulque to drink and tripa asada that needs eating but already bookmarked the wiki entry for this 2004 coup attempt for later reading, which turned this into a hard to believe case of art imitating life, being re-mixed by life yet again at the hands of some semi-obscure Thatcher offspring. Already another 21 years in the past by now... 


    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Equatorial_Guinea_coup_attempt

  • klezmer electro-thug beatsklezmer electro-thug beats 1,420 Posts
    Electrode said:

    Yesterday, in a conversation with someone about immigrant communities in Los Angeles, I asked what is the difference between "Iranian" and "Persian". They're interchangeable, apparently. 

    My impression from friends in high school, though I'm not sure I ever flat-out asked, was that being a part of the "axis of evil" and so on was an influence on calling yourself Persian rather than Iranian. I'm sure there's more to it than that but I'm also confident that plays a part.

  • FrankFrank 2,391 Posts
    are you guys trolling or is this real? Without the US, Iran would still be Persia and a whole lot of other bad shit would have never happened, like the Taliban for example.



    “OH SHIT I JUST REALIZED... we've been other countries' Putin for a good century or so"

    Duderonomycove
  • dizzybulldizzybull Eerie Dicks 357 Posts
    Strange. As Americans we pride ourselves in our knowledge of geography. Although looking back I I did fail “the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the rise of English empire and American hegemony” in the 6th grade which was the only class you were allowed to take if you didn’t want to do PE. It was the 80s and funding for arts and music had all but dried up, so those were my two choices and I’ve never been athletic. 
  • FrankFrank 2,391 Posts
    involuntary, but apparently undeletable  double post
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  • ElectrodeElectrode Los Angeles 3,166 Posts
    Frank said:
    are you guys trolling or is this real?

    Haha, I knew that Frederick Forsyth made up the country name and I am partially familiar with the history of Persia. I just was confused about the proper demonym since the woman who cuts my hair uses one and the person I was talking to on Saturday used the other.

    I never knew about the 2004 attempt in Equatorial Guinea before even though I have always liked reading about small countries since I was a kid. Learn something new everyday.

    Frank
  • FrankFrank 2,391 Posts
    in 2004 this made the news for a couple days due to the Thatcher connection and because it seemed to be scripted right out of Dogs of War. E. Guinea's presídent has been in power since 1982 btw and holds the record as Africa's longest serving dictator.
  • ppadilhappadilha 2,260 Posts
    Yeah, the Persian v Iranian thing in the US is real. I knew a guy from Chicago who always said he was Persian, and he explained it with that exact reason - that people looked at you funny if you said you were Iranian.

    Also, re: Lambada. Just like with the mango and the banana, 99% of Brazilians go into shock when they discover that Chorando Se Foi isn't actually native to Brazil. I personally like to see how music from the Andes travels down the Amazon and morphs into something else by the time it reaches the Brazilian coast. There's some music from Haiti too that shows up in Brazilian pop without people knowing where it came from.


  • klezmer electro-thug beatsklezmer electro-thug beats 1,420 Posts
    Frank said:
    are you guys trolling or is this real? Without the US, Iran would still be Persia and a whole lot of other bad shit would have never happened, like the Taliban for example.



    “OH SHIT I JUST REALIZED... we've been other countries' Putin for a good century or so"


    I'd class it as far, far worse than Putin, but I'm open to hair-splitting

  • JimsterJimster Cruffiton.etsy.com 6,996 Posts
    dizzybull said:
    Strange. As Americans we pride ourselves in our knowledge of geography.

    Trollin real hard son.

    :Applause:

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