eph221

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eph221
Rip Van Winkle fell asleep and missed the revolution.  I fell asleep during the 90's and missed nothing.  What important things in music, if any happened during the 90's?

Orital, Underworld, Chemical brothers, Leftfield, Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada...... More than one revolution in music than just rock.

You can't be serious...are you?

Of course he's serious. Modern electronic dance music and all of its periphery genres were shaped in the 90's. I remember a kid sitting next to me in art class in 1988 or so whose headphones were a constant source of weird squelchy bleeps which I later learned to be "acid house," and absolutely hated because I was into thrash metal at the time and thought making music with computers was stupid. By the start of the 90's I'd lost my prejudice and was dancing the night away at illegal warehouse parties, thoroughly drawn into what at the time felt like a small cultural revolution. And in many ways, it was. The artists mentioned above, and many others, helped shape a new sound which had a huge influence on the way music sounds today. Dance music was to the early 90's what hip hop was to the early 80's. Dismissing it as a musical happening just because it wasn't your thing is intellectually dishonest. 

It's just 12 notes, come on nah.

eph221
It's just 12 notes, come on nah.

Usually they use even less. 

Btw is it true that Merv Griffin invented Wheel of Fortune?  If he did he's a feckin genius!  (he was married?haha)

Griffin created and produced the successful television game show Jeopardy! in 1964; in an Associated Press profile released right before the show premiered, Griffin talked about the show's origins:[1]

My wife Julann just came up with the idea one day when we were in a plane bringing us back to New York from Duluth. I was mulling over game show ideas, when she noted that there had not been a successful 'question and answer' game on the air since the quiz show scandals. Why not do a switch, and give the answers to the contestant and let them come up with the question.
She fired a couple of answers to me: '5,280' and the question of course was how many feet in a mile. Another was '79 Wistful Vista.' That was Fibber and Mollie McGee's address. I loved the idea, went straight to NBC with the idea, and they bought it without even looking at a pilot show.

The show, originally titled What's the Question?, premiered on NBC on March 30, 1964, hosted by Art Fleming, and lasted for 11 years. Griffin wrote the 30-second piece of music heard during the show's Final Jeopardy! Round, and which later became the iconic melody of the theme for the syndicated version of the show hosted by Alex Trebek.
In 1975, NBC canceled Jeopardy! after moving it twice on its daytime schedule, despite having an additional year on its network contract left to fulfill. Griffin produced the show's successor, Wheel of Fortune, which premiered on January 6, 1975. Wheel, with Chuck Woolery as host and Susan Stafford as the hostess, had successful ratings throughout its network run. From December 1975 to January 1976, the show expanded to an hour, in response to the successful 60-minute version of The Price Is Right on CBS.
"Wheel" barely escaped cancellation in 1980, when NBC replaced three of its other game shows with a daytime talk show starring David Letterman; NBC finally cancelled it in 1989, when CBS picked it up for a year (only to return to NBC, when the daytime version was finally cancelled for good in 1991). The show became a phenomenon, when on September 19, 1983, a nighttime version hit the syndication market with Pat Sajak and Vanna White as host and hostess, respectively. Around the same time, Griffin composed the show's best-known theme song, "Changing Keys", which was used in several variants from then until 2002.

eph221
It's just 12 notes, come on nah.

In that case there has never been anything new in music, ever, because it's all the same 12 notes. Come to think of it, there are only 118 elements in the universe so everything is just the same old crap over and over!

My first wife was on W.O.F. In 1977. Among other things she won a car. She was also responsible for establishing a new rule on the show. The answer she gave was Tweedledee and Tweedledum and Chuck said she was correct (a bit too quickly). After the commercial break Woolery had to admit his mistake, and even though she was allowed to keep her winnings it was then established that if an answer is not in the exact order, it's not a win.

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My first wife was on W.O.F. In 1977. Among other things she won a car. She was also responsible for establishing a new rule on the show. The answer she gave was Tweedledee and Tweedledum and Chuck said she was correct (a bit too quickly). After the commercial break Woolery had to admit his mistake, and even though she was allowed to keep her winnings it was then established that if an answer is not in the exact order, it's not a win.

I've been on W.T.F. many times. 
 
BTW - What's wrong with "Tweedledee and Tweedledum?"  That's the correct order.  Or did she forget to say "Who are Tweedledee and Tweedledum?" 

It's Tweedledum and Tweedledee. You can't switch your dums and dees without becoming unflawless in the realm of nursery rhyme exactitude. 

My Dad was on Let's Make A Deal in 1968 dressed as a Canadian Mountie. His logic was Monty Hall was a Canadian. He was up to some nice prizes and then he got greedy. Got some decent consolation prizes though.