#bigboatstuck — Public Fediverse posts
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Season 3 of ABC’s talent show The Piano is open for applications.
Maybe I’ll see you there.
https://tvblackbox.com.au/page/2026/07/01/abc-opens-applications-for-the-next-series-of-the-piano/
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LB Happy one-year anniversary of this event. #BigBoatStuck #NCLSalten
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Lego is getting into the #BigBoatStuck business. https://www.lego.com/en-au/product/maersk-dual-fuel-container-vessel-40955
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Happy Big Boat Stuck anniversary to those who celebrate. Five years! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Suez_Canal_obstruction
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Nachdem ein Frachter gestrandet war, rutschte das Ufer in den Fjord und gefährdete Gebäude am Ufer. Jetzt wird es gesichert und die Bewohner*innen können wohl bald zurück in ihre Häuser. Krass, was so eine Havarie auslöst.
https://www.nrk.no/trondelag/fikk-containerskipet-ncl-salten-utafor-stuevinduet-_-na-skal-omradet-endelig-sikres-1.17624136 #nclsalten #bigboatstuck -
@SeaFury 🎵
The Spirit of Tasmania
Sailing thirty-two years strong
The story, sure to pain ya
Is familiar to this song
They’ll surely try to blame the schmuck
Who read the blueprint wrong
Don’t mind that there’s a big boat stuck
You’re stranded in Geelong! 🎵
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An excavated Viking
Longship propped upon its blocks
Magnificently striking
Locked up tighter than Fork Knox
Discovered in alluvial guck
We stuck it up on chocks
It's ceased to be a big boat stuck
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Your deadline for getting another bonus #BigBoatStuck verse written is Wednesday Anywhere On Earth.
Terms and conditions: Must be big and a boat. Void in Quebec for some reason. Fatalities during incident will render it ineligible.
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"Brillo, Spit-Brillo", a filk of the song from Gilbert & Sullivan's "The Mikado", is now released as track 2 on my novelty song album "The Wreck of the Ella Fitzgerald". Please enjoy!
https://music.futzle.com/wreck-of-the-ella-fitzgerald/
#BrilloSpitBrillo #Filk #FilkDiaries #NoveltySong #NewMusic #SingerSongwriter #IndyMusic #Comedy #BigBoatStuck
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Mum's just put in my head re #BigBoatStuck: "The Boat from Norway got stuck in the fjordway"
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If you're a Bandcamper, you can now find Big Boat Stuck there as a free download.
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How is there not an English Wikipedia page on the NCL Salten yet? #BigBoatStuck
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CW: #BigBoatStuckSong, dissecting the earworm, musical theory
LYRICS: The climactic C♯dim7 coincides with the word "stuck" in every stanza. The dissonance of the chord juxtaposed with the invocation of the big boat getting ~stuck~ meshes nicely. There's a pregnant pause after the word, a missed beat in the lyrics, for you to savour the stuckness. And then the tension resolves into the punchline at the end of the stanza. Having the song title be the only words that are repeated each stanza helps to emphasise the moment, because like a maritime disaster, you see it coming well ahead and can do nothing to prevent it.
MELODY: A classic hill, rising from low register to high at the climax, descending quickly to the conclusion. During the hook, the notes dance about dangerously. The notes themselves are all the white notes of the C major scale (easy to play on a harmonica) but the intervals are a bit odd, again to set up tension for the dissonant "big boat stuck". The same three-note phrase is then repeated exactly afterwards, this time leading to a resolution, as if we ended up in a melodic cul-de-sac, backed out and had another go.
I'd like to say that this was all deliberate, but it all happened subconsciously during composition and I've only noticed it after analysing my own recording.
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CW: #BigBoatStuckSong, dissecting the earworm, musical theory
My songs don't usually earworm me nearly as much as Big Boat Stuck, so I'm delving into why, musically.
CHORDS: The first 3/4 of each stanza is unabashed setup, ending in an F♯dim chord demanding to be resolved. This is a thing that goes back to at least music hall songs and, I think, ragtime before that.
The hook is, of course, the last 1/4 of each stanza, going C / A7 / Dm / C♯dim7 / D7 / G7 / C. That climactic C♯dim7 is just a bit dissonant, deliberately, sharing no notes with the Dm before it or the D7 after it. This is also a ragtime-adjacent sequence, I believe, though I haven't found an exact copy of it in my travels.
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Da kann man auch mal sehen, dass den Reedereien die Leben ihrer Seeleute echt nichts wert sind:
Das Alarmsystem vor Strandungen: Abgeschaltet
ISM: Nicht nach Vorschrift
Fluchtwege: Nicht nach Vorschrift
Notausgang Maschinenraum: Zu schwer ...
Mann mann mann!
https://www.nrk.no/trondelag/rapport-etter-grunnstoting-i-trondheimsfjorden_-alarm-avskrudd-1.17435081 #nclsalten #bigboatstuck -
#BigBoatStuckSong, like its namesake, is released! #BigBoatStuck
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Follow up on #BigBoatStuck
It's been successfully pulled back out to sea. According to the story below, this is the third time that same ship has run aground. Um 🤔The whole story in this case is hilarious and charming, but you can see how easily it could've been devastating had it been an oil tanker or hit another ship at sea or so many other scenarios.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cargo-ship-nearly-hit-home-norway-pulled-free/
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Sneak preview with placeholder vocals. Regard that strumming! #BigBoatStuck #BigBoatStuckSong #IndieMusic #Ukulele
