#uptight

[sbrown82]

That one time Stevie Wonder & The Rolling Stones did a mashup of “Uptight/Satisfaction!” 🤌🏿🔥

[domono08]

Here’s Melissa, an uptight pessimistic by the rules skunk who works as an assistant at big office building. He makes about a 300 dollars a week, higher than everyone else in their friend group. Fox usually has Sunday brunch with her, Rebecca, Jen and Mary.

[guessimdumb]

Charlie Palmieri And His Orchestra - Uptight (1967)

Cool boogaloo cover of the Stevie Wonder hit. Happy New Year!

[2bitten]

are you okay?

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[rwpohl]

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material und analyse: boris kaufman, cinematographer

[alvvaysechoes]

この曲、過去の記憶が風に乗ってふと蘇り、心を揺さぶるような切なさがある。まるで、古い傷がうずくように、忘れたはずの感情が静かに忍び寄ってくる

「But It's so nice being uptight..」この一節が胸を刺す。心の奥に残る痛みを、完全に手放すことができないまま、むしろその痛みにしがみついてしまう感覚。忘れることよりも、傷を抱えたままでいるほうが、何故か安心できるような

まるで、雨の日に傘をささずに濡れることを選ぶみたいに、過去の感情をあえて手のひらに残している。

消えかけた名前、過去に置いてきた何かが、いつか自分を壊すと知りながらも、どこかでそれを望んでいる。

そんな情景が、メロディに溶け込み、静かに胸を締めつける。言葉にできない感情が、音になって心に降り積もるような曲。

涙が出るのは、過去に浸る心地よさと、その奥にある寂しさが、どちらも愛おしいものだからかもしれない。

The Cribsの曲の切ない曲最高😊

[anonymousieee]

people who get soooo mad about tags piss me off sm. let me live 🖕

if i have a post with a reaction gif of somebody… and put that person in my tags… evidently i’m committing a crime? go fuck yourself chronically online loser let me do what the fuck i want lmao

[bonvenonvenon]

Cleveland in Jules Dassin's "Uptight" (1968)

[rolandrockover]

To Tear Uptight

Some, ahem, might hear a discontinued version of Kiss' own God of Thunder (1976) in the opening and main riff of Tears are Falling (1985), and others, well, the bass line from Stevie Wonder's Uptight (Everything's Alright) (1965).

Paul Stanley claims to have heard and recognized the latter from a Eurythmics song in the mid-80s, which is how he got the idea for Tears are Falling's main riff in the first place (1). But to follow the current he has set, one would not want to doubt this at all, because the Eurythmics have in all probability used Uptight's little motif just as surely as they have appropriated and further developed Lipps Inc.'s Funky Town (1979).

By the way, the Eurythmics song that Paul cites with a pure heart is Would I Lie to You (1985). The factor that good old Paul doesn't come out with, of course, is that the layered harmonies of the vocal arrangements of Would I Lie to You must obviously have been a key source of inspiration for the chorus of Tears are Falling. And nothing else but exactly that, and, of course, only the Stevie Wonder element in it appealed to him.

I wish Soul Station Paul and the above-mentioned Statement Paul would one day cross paths through some cosmic coincidence and be forced to discuss this matter calmly with each other in public, under the observation of all their fans.

I mean, you could almost assume he wanted to get caught. Like in a not quite 100% psychological sophisticated crime thriller with a cat and mouse game between perpetrator and investigator. Except that the investigator would be an old and worn-out, unshaven, 3rd class investigator smelling of booze and would kinda catch him with ease.

And that should not necessarily be a compliment to my values.

Side Note:

(1) Which doesn't rule out the possibility that Stevie Wonder might have had a small but not insignificant influence on God of Thunder (1976) nine years earlier. I'll save what else The Beatles might have to do with it for another entry. Or maybe even two.

Tears Are Falling (1985)

Would I Lie to You (1985)

Uptight (1965)

[aficionadoenthusiast]

jason's 13 years at the super disciplined camp and several years as a leader of said camp mean it is very unlikely that he is any shade of feral, except for maybe a few minor idiosyncracies that all camp jupiter kids have because they all spent time at the wolf house, but since they all have these traits, they might be considered cultural rather than feral. however, annabeth chase, who was famously left alone until she was seven and was raised by an ancient greek horse man that used to live alone on a mountain, a barely sober god of mental illness, several other mythical beings based on animals, and approximately 37 different traumatized, exhausted, and desperate teenagers at an unregulated summer camp where she learned how to be scary by studying greek monsters, would definitely be somewhere near feral.

[howardhawkshollywoodmusic]

66. Uptight (Everything's Alright) by Stevie Wonder debuted Dec 65 and peaked at number three, scoring 904 points.

Steve was born Stevland Hardaway Judkins, then became Stevland Morris, in Saginaw, Michigan, and has 64 chart entries 1963-95. 28 made the top 10, with nine number ones.

Three 1966 remakes of Uptight by Ramsey Lewis, Nancy Wilson, and The Jazz Crusaders charted but failed to make the top 40. Bill Cosby's parody, Little Ole Man, peaked at number four in 1967.

[nenoname]

you can see that the script originally had ford building an anti-gravity machine for the science fair (which i guess acts as foreshadowing to the portal?), but the sun lightbulb feels like it would've connected to the opening of stanchurian candidate....

[rokaya77]

I have been trapped in Sisyphus body since the summer of 2021 and, consequently, completely detained from loose joy. My body had forgotten what relaxation and deep breathing were. Most of my days didn't amount to anything but suffering, which kept me on the fringes of all my survival emotions. I thought I was broken and helpless; it brought me immense shame. I'm surprised nobody could notice it; maybe they did, but surely not as bad as it was because it was taller and bigger than me, and I carried it everywhere.

[lemon-wedges]

I put herlock in a dress and call it a day

[konagod]

Thinking on Pot

I need to take sphincter relaxers to unchain my mind.

[taub-truther]

We know that the new cast members in S4 were basically auditioning for their jobs as much as their characters were, and i can't help but notice how exceptionally cunty Taub is in these early episodes

he werked his little ass off for that job!