Quite simply, it's an ancient guitar instrument from India. It has a unique 'cosmic' sound to western ears. Invented many centuries ago. George Harrison of the Beatles introduced it into rock'n'roll when sitar maestro Ravi Shankar gave him lessons. 'Norwegian Wood' features it prominently and that's the first hit song in Western rock to feature it. Soon, other bands such as the Rolling Stones, Kinks and more would use it. Since it's pretty complex and cumbersome, the easier-to-play electric sitar was invented in the US a few years later. Similar in tone, you can hear the electric sitar in many late 60s - early 70s soul and funk records. Many bands use sitars of both types up to this day.
1. When I was growing up, I had heard songs featuring a sitar, original model and electric. In 1983 the band YES had a hit single featuring a sitar, 'It Can Happen' from their then current album '90125'.
2. Electric sitars are more commonly used than you might think. They've been used by artists and bands in a wide spectrum spanning from Kool and the Gang, Duran Duran, Prince, REM, INXS, Dinosaur Jr., ABBA, Lenny Kravitz, several Motown acts, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Police and more.
3. In concerts by Kool and the Gang, the Rolling Stones and Dinosaur Jr., I've seen musicians playing electric sitars.
4. Anoushka Shankar is Ravi's daughter and an acclaimed sitarist in her own merit. And her sister is famous too, we know her by the name 'Norah Jones'. I shit you not.
2. Electric sitars are more commonly used than you might think. They've been used by artists and bands in a wide spectrum spanning from Kool and the Gang, Duran Duran, Prince, REM, INXS, Dinosaur Jr., ABBA, Lenny Kravitz, several Motown acts, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Police and more.
3. In concerts by Kool and the Gang, the Rolling Stones and Dinosaur Jr., I've seen musicians playing electric sitars.
4. Anoushka Shankar is Ravi's daughter and an acclaimed sitarist in her own merit. And her sister is famous too, we know her by the name 'Norah Jones'. I shit you not.
by I Saw U2 Live Twice April 19, 2022
1. the opposite of GOOD. See some of the synonym tags below.
2. tough, cool, macho, poised, refined, alright, reserved, studly, get the idea? You don't have to be a man to be bad - some women fit into this category too. Also, "bad" isn't exclusively for straight people either. There are many gay men (and women) who are "bad" too. "Badness" is a description of a personality and character, not a shallow imitation.
3. Michael Jackson's famous album from 1987. It entered the album charts at Number One ( a rare feat at the time) and scored several big hits like the previous 1982 classic album "Thriller". However this time a new chart record was also achieved: BAD scored FIVE Number One hits - "I Just Can't Stop Loving You" (with Siedah Garrett), the title track (... I'm bad, I'm bad, you know it...really really bad..."), "The Way You Make Me Feel" (... ain't nobody's business...), "Man In The Mirror" (...make that change!), and "Dirty Diana" (come ON!). Check it out.
4. B.A.D. or
Bald
American
Dudes
is a neighborhood club set up by Al Bundy on the TV show "Married With Children".
5. BAD is also
Big
Audio
Dynamite,
a clubby techno dance rock band formed by Clash guitarist Mick Jones around 1984. They made innovative albums and in 1990 a new lineup resulted in BAD II. They're best known for their 1991 hit "Rush", about this time their music became oversampled big time. A few years later the band became just "Big Audio". They split up about a year afterward. The first BAD incarnation made the best stuff like "The Bottom Line" and "C'mon Every Beatbox".
2. tough, cool, macho, poised, refined, alright, reserved, studly, get the idea? You don't have to be a man to be bad - some women fit into this category too. Also, "bad" isn't exclusively for straight people either. There are many gay men (and women) who are "bad" too. "Badness" is a description of a personality and character, not a shallow imitation.
3. Michael Jackson's famous album from 1987. It entered the album charts at Number One ( a rare feat at the time) and scored several big hits like the previous 1982 classic album "Thriller". However this time a new chart record was also achieved: BAD scored FIVE Number One hits - "I Just Can't Stop Loving You" (with Siedah Garrett), the title track (... I'm bad, I'm bad, you know it...really really bad..."), "The Way You Make Me Feel" (... ain't nobody's business...), "Man In The Mirror" (...make that change!), and "Dirty Diana" (come ON!). Check it out.
4. B.A.D. or
Bald
American
Dudes
is a neighborhood club set up by Al Bundy on the TV show "Married With Children".
5. BAD is also
Big
Audio
Dynamite,
a clubby techno dance rock band formed by Clash guitarist Mick Jones around 1984. They made innovative albums and in 1990 a new lineup resulted in BAD II. They're best known for their 1991 hit "Rush", about this time their music became oversampled big time. A few years later the band became just "Big Audio". They split up about a year afterward. The first BAD incarnation made the best stuff like "The Bottom Line" and "C'mon Every Beatbox".
1. Stay away from Vanessa, Rico. She is bad news. A real bad apple.
2. My girlfriend is a smoker but she keeps trying to quit. She says to me to don't ever start, it's a bad habit.
3. Billy Idol is one bad dude. You can tell by his songs, his videos, his sneer and his shows. They don't call him an "idol" for nothing!
4. U2 made a tune called "Bad". So have other people. Also, George Thorogood has proclaimed himself to be "Bad To The Bone". So have the reggae band Inner Circle on a different tune of the same name. They also scored a big hit "Bad Boys" (the theme from COPS).
5. Michael Jackson's BAD album had a chart run that lasted for the rest of the decade. The hits kept on a-comin'.
6. Al Bundy established his BAD club during one of the first few seasons of the show, IOW while it still had some funny elements to it, before it "jumped the shark".
7. Big Audio Dynamite's second album had Mick Jones' Clashmate Joe Strummer make a guest appearance on it.
2. My girlfriend is a smoker but she keeps trying to quit. She says to me to don't ever start, it's a bad habit.
3. Billy Idol is one bad dude. You can tell by his songs, his videos, his sneer and his shows. They don't call him an "idol" for nothing!
4. U2 made a tune called "Bad". So have other people. Also, George Thorogood has proclaimed himself to be "Bad To The Bone". So have the reggae band Inner Circle on a different tune of the same name. They also scored a big hit "Bad Boys" (the theme from COPS).
5. Michael Jackson's BAD album had a chart run that lasted for the rest of the decade. The hits kept on a-comin'.
6. Al Bundy established his BAD club during one of the first few seasons of the show, IOW while it still had some funny elements to it, before it "jumped the shark".
7. Big Audio Dynamite's second album had Mick Jones' Clashmate Joe Strummer make a guest appearance on it.
by I Saw U2 Live Twice July 24, 2009
it's another 'rhyme-paced meter' way to say that somebody is 'cruising for a bruising'. In other words, somebody is being a stupid asshole and deserves to be put back in his or her PLACE! That moron is just asking for trouble.
1. Yesterday at the Memorial Day ceremony in Arlington Cemetery Donald Traitortrump gave a long-winded pompous ass speech promoting and gloating about HIMSELF - yes, AGAIN! He has pissed off a lot of people - AGAIN - including many military veterans because everything he talked about (and tweeted) was, as always about 'ME ME ME'. That cretin needs a beating because he's a dirty treasonous criminal and he just don't know how to STFU!
2. Greg keeps on flicking bent staples at other students while sitting in the back of science class. He also throws paper wads and flicks boogers in class and when somebody turns around, he just gives a shit-eating grin. That cretin needs a beating and one of these days he will get one.
3. Somebody just like the above-mentioned Greg went on to become a Macbeth. He took over the Libyan nation and got his hands on dangerous hardware - bombs and rockets. He was a terror-monger. That cretin got his final beating for good in 2011. He was Moammar Qaddafy.
2. Greg keeps on flicking bent staples at other students while sitting in the back of science class. He also throws paper wads and flicks boogers in class and when somebody turns around, he just gives a shit-eating grin. That cretin needs a beating and one of these days he will get one.
3. Somebody just like the above-mentioned Greg went on to become a Macbeth. He took over the Libyan nation and got his hands on dangerous hardware - bombs and rockets. He was a terror-monger. That cretin got his final beating for good in 2011. He was Moammar Qaddafy.
by I Saw U2 Live Twice May 29, 2018
a girl who a guy thinks about alot, but seems to be inaccessable. From the Phil Collins hit "Sussudio", which reached Number One in the U.S. and Canada.
by I Saw U2 Live Twice June 18, 2006
when you're out and about and some girl you may or may not remember from the past comes up to you and is either pregnant or with a child. Then she claims that YOU are the father.
I was in a BW3 restaurant and this short stacked young blonde woman dressed in a black sweather, a short black skirt and black shoes called out my name and she came up to me with a baby boy and his eyes were like mine. Oh no. Who is that girl? Where did I meet her? This is a Billie Jean instance. It's just like the 1983 Michael Jackson hit.
by I Saw U2 Live Twice April 15, 2009
a quality (or trait) of a person that plays on a person's sexual sences. Lately this trait has been used and exploited extensively to cause viewers (usually male) to "think with their dicks" instead of their brains.
1. believe it or not, I was doing research for a college arts class paper and I was paging thru some old back copies of Rolling Stone magazine. A female journalist described Keith Richards as the "brilliant Rolling Stones guitarist" who sings a tune lead (once in a blue moon) with a "fuck-me-honey" voice. Yeah, that's right.(!)
2. Look at the lousy "diva" stars of the past number of years. Look at the female TV news reporters. Notice how stupid and empty-headed they are. Then look at the hatemonger Ann Coulter and the idiotic Susan Palin. Read the comments and blogs:
MILF, VPILF, GILF, oh WTF, hot for teacher, cougar, "I'd do her!", "I'd hit her!", and all that shit. It seems that if a female has good looks and that fuck-me-honey air to her then she is a STAR, a celebrity, a sensation. No good heart and no brains needed. However, Susan Palin didn't get to be Vice-President this year, did she? RATS!!!!! ; ) People were thinking with their ding dongs but that formula didn't work this time around.
Now who's slamming McCain because her fuck-me-honey aura didn't get her where she wanted. Shut up. Go away. Is this a sign? Could the tide be turning at last? We can hope...
3.
There's a bubble-headed bleach blonde, comes on at five
She can tell ya about the plane crash with a gleam in her eye
It's interesting when people die, give us dirty laundry...
DON HENLEY
4. At the beginning of one of the Porky's movies there is a neon sign animation where a sow pig lifts up her skirt and a male pig goes gaga on her. What's that spell?
2. Look at the lousy "diva" stars of the past number of years. Look at the female TV news reporters. Notice how stupid and empty-headed they are. Then look at the hatemonger Ann Coulter and the idiotic Susan Palin. Read the comments and blogs:
MILF, VPILF, GILF, oh WTF, hot for teacher, cougar, "I'd do her!", "I'd hit her!", and all that shit. It seems that if a female has good looks and that fuck-me-honey air to her then she is a STAR, a celebrity, a sensation. No good heart and no brains needed. However, Susan Palin didn't get to be Vice-President this year, did she? RATS!!!!! ; ) People were thinking with their ding dongs but that formula didn't work this time around.
Now who's slamming McCain because her fuck-me-honey aura didn't get her where she wanted. Shut up. Go away. Is this a sign? Could the tide be turning at last? We can hope...
3.
There's a bubble-headed bleach blonde, comes on at five
She can tell ya about the plane crash with a gleam in her eye
It's interesting when people die, give us dirty laundry...
DON HENLEY
4. At the beginning of one of the Porky's movies there is a neon sign animation where a sow pig lifts up her skirt and a male pig goes gaga on her. What's that spell?
by I Saw U2 Live Twice April 03, 2009
OK, everybody seems to have their definitions of this nasty word. Here's one you all missed. It's the name of an indie band from the San Francisco Bay Area that got together around 1993 or so. They have put out several albums over the years. The music is pretty much alright, there are some good songs there, and their albums are critically acclaimed but because of the band name radio won't play their music, most record stores won't stock their albums, and most clubs won't book them. If it weren't for the Internet they probably wouldn't be going anywhere. Go to Wikipedia, type in the name and go to the proper entry. At the bottom of that page is a link to the band's website.
Fuck is a band that is in a situation where because of their name their prospects for success are limited. The success they have is largely due to word-of-mouth and of course, the Net.
by I Saw U2 Live Twice September 20, 2007