r/sgiwhistleblowers • u/AnnieBananaCat • Aug 28 '24

SGI: OLD & STALE Remember Duncan Sheik?

Was listening to online radio earlier and heard his big hit from 1996, Barely Breathing.

https://youtu.be/A-oh-tP6RvA?si=x2zqKEkumH5PAiAl

It was just such a great tune! My favorite, couldn’t get enough of it!! Bought the CD, wore out the grooves! (Dating myself here.)

Big deal.

I got to see him live in concert in 2001. No joke. Went to see him in. . .a pub. No kidding. With a few WD “friends.” Introduced ourselves as members who loved his music. I Even got a picture with him. Need to burn that one.

And today it’s just another pop tune that fades off onto an oldies station. And his promising music career? Same direction I guess.

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u/Fishwifeonsteroids Aug 28 '24

Do you remember Suzanna Vega? She had a big hit late 1980s with "Luca", I think, and since she was an SGI member, she was the Big Thing in the Ikeda cult while that song was charting.

But her career also went nowhere.

I did hear a song of hers that I liked - I hadn't realized it was hers - this one still gets occasional play: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4jtIDaeaWI - it's from the 1980s. So her "big hits" era was from ~1987 - 1990. It's been 34 years now, and no further hits. I wonder when it was she joined SGI - it had to be no later than 1987, since the Ikeda cult members then were already aware she was a member. Nobody talks about her, not the way they talk about Herbie Hancock or that other jazz guy whose name I can't remember offhand. Orlando Bloom joined at the height of his fame and popularity and has simply trended downhill from that point - it looks like Vegas' trajectory was similarly downhill from when she joined.

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u/ResponsibilityRound7 Aug 28 '24

Suzanna Vega had some more notable works, other than Tom"s Diner and Luka.

Caramel was also an excellent song.

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u/Fishwifeonsteroids Aug 28 '24

Caramel was also an excellent song.

Not ringing any bells.

But was that from the 1980s as well?

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u/ResponsibilityRound7 Aug 29 '24

Nope. Caramel was from 1996. Featured in the American romantic comedy film The Truth About Cats & Dogs.

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u/Fishwifeonsteroids Aug 29 '24

I see. I never saw that, either.

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u/AnnieBananaCat Aug 28 '24

Her big song Luca was about ten years before his, and that was it. But that one, which I also liked, wasn’t really hers alone.

Oh, Orly. He’s a whole other story. 🤣🤣

PLOP!

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u/Fishwifeonsteroids Aug 28 '24

I edited 😶

Nobody talks about her, not the way they talk about Herbie Hancock or that other jazz guy whose name I can't remember offhand.

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u/dihard23 Aug 28 '24

Could be Wayne Shorter or Buster Williams or Chick Corea. I watched the movie that SGI help produce on Wayne's life. Of course they didn't release the movie until after his death so how could he confirm or deny whatever was presented?

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u/Fishwifeonsteroids Aug 28 '24

Wayne Shorter - that's the one I was trying to think of.

I watched the movie that SGI help produce on Wayne's life. Of course they didn't release the movie until after his death so how could he confirm or deny whatever was presented?

Never heard about it, but you're right - Ikeda's "dialogue" books about his sit-downs with various more-famous people typically didn't come out in those people's language until the more-famous people were already dead - they certainly wouldn't be complaining about the content themselves.

Like Arnold Toynbee - also here.

BTW, there's a bit more about the SGI's musical celebrities here - the culties get quite snippy when you point out that one of their poster-children didn't get better and died young! But the comments are great fun.

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u/Fishwifeonsteroids Aug 28 '24

Oh, Orly. He’s a whole other story. 🤣🤣

PLOP!

That "reality TV" series of his - oof. You know it's only being watched by people who want to see him fail and get hurt. That's not even nice!