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This is the cleanest remastered version of the original Pop Corn by Gershon Kingsley performed with the Moog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZoOtXVkUx4

The song always sounded like such a beautiful mix of things I couldn't pick apart with my ears in this version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSRCemf2JHc

and what I loved the most were the notes that he didn't play. Most of you probably better recognize the 1972 hot butter version... which to me is such a cheap sounding piece of garbage that I lose faith in humanity to find that this is the version most people cover... the wrong version.

In that first link, every part now stands out clearly enough that I could reproduce it (which I won't bother to). Maybe even too clean.

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YODL 7mo ago

I know this song! I can hear a cover on my head, that I know well, but can't think of who played it (tried looking). It's bugging me now haha

Dissident Sound 7mo ago

in the artwork of the "popcorn" track the "flowers" seem to actually be nipples.

so the association is that when you twist the knobs of that moog synthesizer you're actually twisting nipples.

you're sick Mike you're sick LOL

Dissident Sound 7mo ago

i didn't know Kingsley was the first. i only ever heard the version by Jean Michel Jarre ( because my parents and older sister used to listen to JMJ back in Kiev, also "OldFriendSaysHello" from my forum used to listen to JMJ as well when we went to high school in Brooklyn, NY )

https://youtu.be/cXMhKdAwLbs?si=DfRInoMsk1KqX6H6

now that i listened to all 3 versions my assessment is:

Jarre's version is the "pop" version. it's a good, appropriately cheesy version.

Kingsley's version sounds Bipolar. Like somebody laughing at their terminal cancer diagnosis while crying at the same time.

Hot Butter is the "dog shit garbage" version. I agree with you that it sounds like my idea of the average person - stupid and shallow - only interested in superficial "fun" that consists in mindless "socializing" with other garbage like him or herself.

the most disturbing aspect of the hot butter version is that it came 3 years after the original. why does it exist ? it is not an isolated phenomenon either. for example there is something called "Abba Teens" who did nothing but make bastardized versions of ABBA songs. why ? why does the world need fake "adidos" or "mike" sneakers ? all the people responsible for that shit belong in the same North Korean work camp.

i am not against remixes. many of my favorite tracks are remixes, but they always add a layer on top of the original. however there is a disturbing phenomenon among the kind of music that plays on ceiling speakers in supermarkets where they play remixes that are simply bastardized versions that add nothing and just take away all authenticity. i can only HOPE they do it to circumvent copyright or license fees, but i fear that they do it because subhumans might actually prefer that garbage.