The “oh shit I just realized _____” thread

[dizzybull]

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.

 

[Electrode]

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.

 

[dizzybull]

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.

 

[dizzybull]

I just found out Betty Davis was miles Davis’s wife!

 

[ketan]

:latepass:

 

[Yemsky]

I never noticed Boogie Wonderland was not written by EW&F let alone did I know this demo by the original songwriters existed.

https://youtu.be/x-glv1TtHG8
When I found out last week, through this video...
https://youtu.be/SyL2CLg57lA
...I was initially convinced that Allee Willis is man.

 

[klezmer electro-thug beats]

dizzybull said:

I just found out Betty Davis was miles Davis’s wife!

Yo WHAT! How did I not know this

 

[dizzybull]

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—————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.

 

[Jimster]

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.

 

[dizzybull]

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 beats]

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

 

[billbradley]

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn9E5i7l-Eg

 

[Electrode]

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."

 

[ketan]

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:

 

[klezmer electro-thug beats]

 

[Jimster]

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.

https://youtu.be/XJE7beQkMYc?si=kO-hQPEA7kvx-wtq

 

[Electrode]

Reminds me of Rita Lee's "Lança Perfume" and the Doobies' "What A Fool Believes"

https://youtu.be/L60qWVke-Sc?feature=shared

 

[dizzybull]

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]

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

 

[Electrode]

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.