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Post by Pollen on Jan 9, 2015 0:06:40 GMT -5
Since there is no actual thread for the song, I'll just put it here: I just realized this is the song that is played at the beginning of the "Shut Up and Dance" video. When it first came out (before the album), I straight thought it was an old 80s song lol. Some of the songs on the album are such a flashback.
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Post by Albie on Jan 9, 2015 3:29:15 GMT -5
Yes "aquaman"!! Flawless pick Kurt!
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Post by Doc Indie Party Rock on Jan 11, 2015 2:58:05 GMT -5
Loving "Aquaman" hope it becomes a single? I hear a lot of Peter Gabriel/Corey Hart influence in the song. maybe even a dash of the great Steve Winwood. I love how they took a chance on that sound
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Post by K. on Jan 12, 2015 18:58:50 GMT -5
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Post by 1wxrld on Jan 19, 2015 11:56:22 GMT -5
It's interesting when you see origins of the nine "Pulse Featured Track of the Week" thus far with great representation from Canada (five out of the 13 picked)! Whether they were solo acts or groups, our choices were more equitable, 5 bands, 6 solo singer-songwriters and two producers / remixers. The songs picked were as follows: Week / Date | Song | Artist | Origin | Solo / group | 1 (Nov 9, 2014) | "Archie, Marry Me | Alvvays | Canada | Band | 2 (Nov 16, 2014) | "Bated Breath" | Tinashe | USA | Singer-songwriter | 3 (Nov 23, 2014) | "Lived and Died Alone" | Lindi Ortega | Canada | Singer-songwriter | 4 (Nov 30, 2014) | "Perfect Picture" | I Know Leopard | Australia | Band | 5 (Dec 7, 2014) | "Not Up to Me" | Kandle | Canada | Singer-songwriter | 6 (Dec 14, 2014) | "Problem (Solved)" | SBTRKT | UK (England) | Music project / Remix artist | 7 (Dec 21, 2014) | "Stockholme Syndrome" | One Direction | UK (England) | Band | 8 (Dec 28, 2014) | "It Ain't All Flowers" | Sturgill Simpson | USA | Singer-songwriter | 9 (Jan 4, 2015) | "Aquaman" | WALK THE MOON | USA | Band | 10 (Jan 11, 2015) | "In the Morning" | The Trews | Canada | Band | 11 (Jan 19, 2015) | "Go All Night"
| Gorgon City feat. Jennifer Hudson | UK / USA (vocals) | Producers | 12 (Jan 26, 2015 | "Kind of... Sometimes... Maybe | Jessie Ware | UK | Singer-songwriter | 13 (Feb 2, 2015) | "Walk (Back to Your Arms) | Tami Neilson | Canada / NZ | Singer |
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Post by K. on Jan 19, 2015 17:05:20 GMT -5
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Post by Juan Carlos on Jan 19, 2015 17:44:00 GMT -5
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Amazing pick Elle! <3 This is one of the standout tracks from Sirens and the best shot Gorgon City has to break into the US market in my opinion.
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Post by surfy on Jan 19, 2015 17:59:24 GMT -5
YAS! I really like this one!!!
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Post by 1wxrld on Jan 19, 2015 18:06:01 GMT -5
Actually it should say January 19, 2015 not 2014.
Same goes for picks 9 and 10 that also say 2014 and must be 2015...
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Post by Doc Indie Party Rock on Jan 20, 2015 22:59:32 GMT -5
I wish the percussion had a more raw classic almost mono sound to it. That mighta gave it that cool Motown vibe, some of Fitz & Tantrums songs have. Jennifer has great vocals and the piano arrangements sound really fresh.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2015 23:11:35 GMT -5
Go All Night is fantastic.
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Post by 1wxrld on Jan 21, 2015 15:16:31 GMT -5
Actually it should say January 19, 2015 not 2014. Same goes for picks 9 and 10 that also say 2014 and must be 2015... Thanks to colleague Krhazy for correcting the year on the three items. Just looking forward for next week's choice. Is there a committee for picking the songs? And where can we make possible nominations for consideration for the following weeks?
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Post by 1wxrld on Jan 23, 2015 7:19:58 GMT -5
We have to be accurate in naming and crediting.
Last week's song was credited as The Trews - "In the Morning". But we forgot to say featuring Serena Ryder. If officially Serena Ryder is credited, we simply need to mention this ourselves.
The same happened for this week's choice. We say Gorgon City - "Go All Night" But we forget again the all important featuring Jennifer Hudson.
Our titles should be more accurate or else we are ignoring certain performers' rightful mention and participation.
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Post by lyhom on Jan 23, 2015 8:05:34 GMT -5
We have to be accurate in naming and crediting. Last week's song was credited as The Trews - "In the Morning". But we forgot to say featuring Serena Ryder. If officially Serena Ryder is credited, we simply need to mention this ourselves. The same happened for this week's choice. We say Gorgon City - "Go All Night" But we forget again the all important featuring Jennifer Hudson. Our titles should be more accurate or else we are ignoring certain performers' rightful mention and participation.
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Post by 1wxrld on Jan 23, 2015 13:53:26 GMT -5
You know lyhom
I don't care how many times per minute your TV show host falls down to the floor laughing at my comment. You see, this forum is based on charts and on songs and on proper song credits. If we are choosing a weekly pick of our own to promote, we better get our facts right.
The song we picked was The Trews - "In the Morning" featuring Serena Ryder and not The Trews - "In the Morning". The same for our other choice , it was Gorgon City - "Go All Night" featuring Jennifer Hudson and not Gorgon City - "Go All Night" . If we don't mention it, the fault gets repeated in future cases as well. And we are not putting credit where credit is due.
For example we were also saying this was our 2014 pick and i mentioned it was our 2015 year pick. The posts were amended and corrected accordingly. You on the other hand are fond of picking childish repetitive videos but don't think much of the necessity of being accurate in a section that is one of our most definitive featured items that I am sure most members and many non-members follow and take note of.
So I insist on due credit for the sake of those who follow our weekly feature, that's all.
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Post by lyhom on Jan 23, 2015 13:59:24 GMT -5
You know lyhom I don't care how many times per minute your talk show host falls down to the floor laughing at my comment. You see, this forum is based on charts and on songs and on proper song credits. If we are choosing a weekly pick of our own to promote, we better get our facts right. The song we picked was The Trews - "In the Morning" featuring Serena Ryder and not The Trews - "In the Morning". The same for our other choice , it was Gorgon City - "Go All Night" featuring Jennifer Hudson and not Gorgon City - "Go All Night" . If we don't mention it, the fault gets repeated in future cases as well. And we are not putting credit where credit is due. For example we were also saying this was our 2014 pick and i mentioned it was our 2015 year pick. The posts were amended and corrected accordingly. You on the other hand are fond of picking childish repetitive videos but don't think much of the necessity of being accurate in a section that is one of our most definitive featured items that I am sure most members and many non-members follow and take note of. So I insist on due credit for the sake of those those who follow our weekly feature, that's all. You must be fun at parties. (Seriously though it's not a big deal and they usually get credit in the top banner or the linked video stop taking everything so seriously jfc)
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Post by Juan Carlos on Jan 23, 2015 14:42:22 GMT -5
You see, this forum is based on charts and on songs and on proper song credits. I guess you should tell the latter to Avicii. Β―\_(γ)_/Β―
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Post by 1wxrld on Jan 23, 2015 16:28:05 GMT -5
You see, this forum is based on charts and on songs and on proper song credits. I guess you should tell the latter to Avicii. Β―\_(γ)_/Β― You are so right Juan Carlos about Avicii. That's one of the reasons I don't respect Avicii that much. I like his work, it is very catchy and commercial. But at the end, he is just a rearranger of somebody else's music. He reshuffles tracks of other artists in his studio but without acknowledging them as partners on the track. I mean thanks for making tracks famous, sure, but their are very talented artists behind those voices you know that he tries to conceal. One would have thought putting the Avicii name on a track would give the singer some extra exposure owing to the universal fame of the track, but no, Avicii wants to pass on the opportunity and not do the decent and honourable thing to do on such occasions by saying yes its my production, but the singer is so and so. It is such a disgrace and shows lack of respect and appreciation to fellow musicians and performers... So he goes from one track to the next, on to the next deceived and anonymous artist i guess... The main reason people loved "Wake me up" was because of Aloe Blacc's voice. Yet the song was released without crediting Aloe Blacc on cover. The same happened with "The Days" when he didn't credit Robbie Williams either. By the way Martin Tungevaag did the same with " Wicked Wonderland". The song is completely performed by a female singer from beginning to end. But who is that female singer. Well nobody knows. It's just an anonymous voice. In fact, Martin Tungevaag pulled an Avicii on us I guess. My post is about our reporting. I can't do much if Avicii doesn't mention Aloe Blacc or Robbie Williams. He chose not to. So when we pick these two songs as an example as our picks, we are somewhat excused not to mention Aloe Blacc or Robbie Williams for example as vocalists. We are truthfully following what the cover said. But its another matter with the case of The Trews and with Gorgon City. For the credit of these two artists, and quite contrary to Avicii, they thankfully chose the other way, the proper way, to mention featuring Serena Ryder and featuring Jennifer Hudson recognizing the contributions of these two. So in their cases, when we are picking their songs, we need to include the featured vocalists in our citations of the songs particularly as our Pick of the Week is one of the most visited features that we wait so eagerly and people do visit Pulse sometimes simply for knowing what we picked. As for having the mention on the music video itself, lyhom, its no excuse. Sure in the video itself, it is appearing. But our titles should be accurate on their own and not on relying that the video itself has the mention. Our title is the prominent feature not the video itself. You also comment about me and parties. Well, I'm not keen on parties by the way. I don't have the time or the patience. And in this wide world of ours, exactly what are the real chances that I will party with you lyhom.. Almost second to none, I assure you. So don't worry, I won't be there to be such a boring company to you... LOL
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Post by Cody on Jan 23, 2015 19:39:45 GMT -5
You see, this forum is based on charts and on songs and on proper song credits. Oh please, enlighten us with more of the vast knowledge you've gained from your 6 days on Pulse. I just feel like I'm learning so much about our forum here!
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Post by K. on Jan 23, 2015 20:33:36 GMT -5
You know lyhom I don't care how many times per minute your TV show host falls down to the floor laughing at my comment. You see, this forum is based on charts and on songs and on proper song credits. If we are choosing a weekly pick of our own to promote, we better get our facts right. The song we picked was The Trews - "In the Morning" featuring Serena Ryder and not The Trews - "In the Morning". The same for our other choice , it was Gorgon City - "Go All Night" featuring Jennifer Hudson and not Gorgon City - "Go All Night" . If we don't mention it, the fault gets repeated in future cases as well. And we are not putting credit where credit is due. For example we were also saying this was our 2014 pick and i mentioned it was our 2015 year pick. The posts were amended and corrected accordingly. You on the other hand are fond of picking childish repetitive videos but don't think much of the necessity of being accurate in a section that is one of our most definitive featured items that I am sure most members and many non-members follow and take note of. So I insist on due credit for the sake of those who follow our weekly feature, that's all. Pulse goes by Spotify for our Featured Track of the Week. Serena Ryder is not listed as a featured artist on Spotify for "In the Morning." The video, which does list a Serena Ryder feature, was offered in this thread for those who do not have spotify, but I don't base my credits based on the music videos, I base it on the tracks. Jennifer Hudson, I grant you, should have been listed as a featured artist, that was an oversight on my part. That said, anyone who clicked on the spotify track at the top of the page would have seen her name appear in their spotify app or program. I appreciate you pointing out oversights in this thread, and agree with you that true featured artists should get their due on Pulse. Please forgive my oversight. While it is not an excuse, I recently started a new job at which I have been working 60+ hours a week, which is why the featured tracks have been going up a little later than usual. You may also find it worth noting that all staff and contributors on Pulse are unpaid and do this in their spare time, purely for their love of music. Those who find Pulse insufficiently professional are free to start their own competitor forum, if they wish.
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Post by Devil Marlena Nylund on Jan 23, 2015 20:37:50 GMT -5
#JUSTICE4SERENA
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Post by Devil Marlena Nylund on Jan 23, 2015 21:46:38 GMT -5
He reshuffles tracks of other artists in his studio but without acknowledging them as partners on the track. Wow... you don't know much about music production do you.
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Post by Green Baron on Jan 23, 2015 21:49:00 GMT -5
dammit Khrazy wished you wouldn't have responded to his crap so civilly
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Post by Pipa on Jan 23, 2015 22:57:50 GMT -5
He reshuffles tracks of other artists in his studio but without acknowledging them as partners on the track. Wow... you don't know much about music production do you. u wot m8? This is 1wxrld we're talking about here, production genius since January 17. You seen his chart? He does a top 200. And that's just the featured artists.
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Post by surfy on Jan 24, 2015 1:07:29 GMT -5
Okay, wtf?!?! I'm entertained!
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Post by 1wxrld on Jan 24, 2015 7:51:23 GMT -5
I'm very thankful Krhazy for making the change in Gorgon City title
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Post by Devil Marlena Nylund on Jan 25, 2015 1:12:16 GMT -5
You mean Gorgon City featuring Jennifer Hudson title.!! You're not giving credit where credit is due! :(
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Post by 1wxrld on Jan 25, 2015 11:10:57 GMT -5
You mean Gorgon City featuring Jennifer Hudson title.!! You're not giving credit where credit is due! :( I'm not being picky Benedict. But had I said "I'm very thankful Krhazy for making the change in Gorgon City featuring Jennifer Hudson" title, would that be an accurate way of putting it? Surely it doesn't make sense you know. Krhazy actually changed Gorgon City title. He didn't change "Gorgon City featuring Jennifer Hudson" title. In any case, quoting something in an ordinary post like mine is secondary. But us continuing to maintain a "Pulse Music Pick of the Week", a main feature of Pulse Music without full due credit is an altogether another level, don't you think so? I.e. Comparing an ordinary one line post of mine with a majour post like that doesn't even compare. That's why I intervened... and thankfully Krhazy responded
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Post by Mikey on Jan 25, 2015 11:23:38 GMT -5
You mean Gorgon City featuring Jennifer Hudson title.!! You're not giving credit where credit is due! :( I'm not being picky Benedict. But had I said "I'm very thankful Krhazy for making the change in Gorgon City featuring Jennifer Hudson" title, would that be an accurate way of putting it? Surely it doesn't make sense you know. Krhazy actually changed Gorgon City title. He didn't change "Gorgon City featuring Jennifer Hudson" title. In any case, quoting something in an ordinary post like mine is secondary. But us continuing to maintain a "Pulse Music Pick of the Week", a main feature of Pulse Music without full due credit is an altogether another level, don't you think so? I.e. Comparing an ordinary one line post of mine with a majour post like that doesn't even compare. That's why I intervened... and thankfully Krhazy responded can someone plz explain to me what is he arguing about ?
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Post by 1wxrld on Jan 25, 2015 12:13:09 GMT -5
Aaah. You still don't know about it Mikey? Perhaps some lengthy explanation is due for people just joining in on the thread. Well basically a newcomer (me) joined in, then first thing I checked was, naturally, the Pulse Music Pick of the Week. It is absolutely the best feature we have. We showcase the best that we like. There I saw that our "pick" for this week was Gorgon City "Go All Night". So I had the audacity of saying; why don't we give due credit and say "Gorgon City featuring Jennifer Hudson" because that's the official title. I also basically made the same comment about the earlier week choice The Trews - "In the Morning" which I said should have been featuring Serena Ryder. Then Juan Carlos wittily intervened and said literally "I guess you should tell that to Avicii" to which I responded by saying Avicii was a main culprit as well by not giving due credit to Aloe Blacc in "Wake Me Up" nor to Robbie Williams in "The Days" in the releases he made and then Martin Tungevaag had pulled an Avicii on us by doing the same to "Wicked Wonderland" since we don't know the female singer there either.
I don't know it was my Gorgon City Pick of the Week comment or the comment about Avicii, or both, it's a mystery to me, but for some reason, these didn't sit well with many established members here and I'm been the brunt of comments ever since. The more I respond in a kind way, the more the circle of established posters increases as a matter of traditional welcome I guess to newcomers. Benedict's most recent comment was a sarcastic though cute reminder to me that I was also not giving due credit in my thank you note to Krhazy who effected the change... I understood his humour and responded in kind.
So there's in a nutshell for you what is happening. Now surely you understand what we're arguing about? Or do you even care. By the way. Some just jumped to liking your comment you know. I guess they were amused that a new guy is also joining in in the rampage.
Mind you this is because of a song by Gorgon City I didn't particularly like or cared for at all. It was a bad choice. But hell, suddenly I am so notorious because of it. Krhazy thankfully has made the changes in the credits. So I got what I was requesting. For me that's sweet victory and more importantly a case for our future picks of the week we may have in which we will be more careful. But somehow I carry bitter memories of how this has been achieved.
In any case, I thought that would be the end of this, but man I was mistaken as the matter persists and the circle of established critiques of mine widens. Perhaps this is karma. Me being in a place I am not particularly wanted in anyway. Perhaps I shouldn't respond at all and doing my thing without crossing path with some particular colleagues here who have been majour champions and participants in this seemingly endless argument.
Welcome to the club Mikey. Things should be easier in life, but they aren't. Music is a very important matter I guess. And may be, sometimes we take it way too seriously.
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