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Thread #165734   Message #3978810
Posted By: keberoxu
24-Feb-19 - 05:02 PM
Thread Name: music: what pushes your 'O Goodie!' button ?
Subject: What pushes your
You may disregard this entire thread if
you deny having an "Oh Goodie!" button.
No need to single you out. You know who you are. Bye bye.

The rest of us,
some commercial/pop-music performances
get our attention (they are designed to do that, after all)

by making us perk up and bark "Oh Goodie!"
like pet dogs who are well-enough-trained to know what
the human means when the human spells out W-A-L-K.

I have got one of those buttons, and it isn't hard to push it.
Maybe, what pushes my "Oh Goodie!" button is
different than what pushes yours.
Would you care to confess what, in the pop music bag-of-tricks,
pushes yours?

Me,
after all these decades
I STILL can't get enough of
"Shout!" with the Isley Brothers,
in fact most anything with the Isley Brothers will get
an "Oh Goodie!" out of me.

I'm partial, as well,
to the even earlier Mills Brothers.

What do they have in common?
Choral harmony, up-tempo beat, swinging rhythm,
and non-verbal vocalizing.

That diabolical studio producer, Nile Rodgers,
is especially good at pushing my "Oh Goodie!" button,
and one of the best examples is
the chorus on "(It's Time to Take the) Pressure Off".