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Title: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on February 01, 2017, 10:44:31 pm
Even though I am pretty awful at playing music, I feel that attempting to learn has helped me appreciate it more.  It has taught me to listen to each individual instrument in the band and listen to what each musician is doing, and given me more of an idea of what is actually going on in the song.

Iron Maiden and Lynyrd Skynyrd are two bands that I have increased admiration for as I've begun to appreciate the musicianship involved... in particular, I didn't really pay much attention to the bass until I started playing it myself.  This song by the Greg Kihn Band is another one that I didn't fully appreciate until I learned to listen to it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2NzR3Qe0JA

 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: JMT on February 01, 2017, 10:54:44 pm
I play the fiddle really well - or I did.  I haven't played in years.  It really disappoints my family that I quit.  I always plan to pick it up, but life always gets in the way.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: cybercoma on February 02, 2017, 08:09:53 am
I play the fiddle really well - or I did.  I haven't played in years.  It really disappoints my family that I quit.  I always plan to pick it up, but life always gets in the way.
That's rad af. Pick it up again. You need to just decide to do it. Go into a shop one day and buy a new fiddle. That'll inspire you to monkey around again.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: JMT on February 02, 2017, 08:33:00 am
I have a really expensive one - I don't think I'd be satisfied with another one, tbh.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: cybercoma on February 02, 2017, 08:37:51 am
You've got to just do it then. Pick that bastard up and go.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: JMT on February 02, 2017, 08:06:49 pm
So Kimmy, what's your favourite genre of music?  You seem like a riddle wrapped in an enigma  :P
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on February 03, 2017, 12:47:01 am
So Kimmy, what's your favourite genre of music?  You seem like a riddle wrapped in an enigma  :P

Gosh... that's like trying to decide what my favorite food is. I like most genres, but I'm fussy about what music within each genre I like. I can be happily listening to a playlist, then something comes along and I find myself thinking "****, this is total dog ****. why the **** am I listening to this crap?"

I like "classic rock", "modern rock", "Southern rock", some heavy metal (but not "death metal"...), some classical instrumental (but not people screaming in Italian...) ...I even like some country music and some hip-hop.

The only music I really really do not like is "lite hitz". Anything playing on your local "lite hitz" station would probably cause me to fly into a rage.  When I walk past the local "lite hitz" station ("Kim City's At-Work-Network!") I always have to fight the urge to walk in the door and shout "Just STOP! OKAY? Just **** STOP."

 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: JMT on February 03, 2017, 07:45:22 am
I'm kind of weird that way with music too.  I like country from the early 2000s, but I also like alternative rock.  I love Marianas Trench.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: cybercoma on February 03, 2017, 10:27:04 am
I like just about everything but smooth jazz and some low effort pop.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: guest7 on February 03, 2017, 10:32:29 am
Was listening to some Washington Phillips and came across this version of Denomination Blues.  Love Knopfler's picking...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeXIA3NQ_2Q
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: guest7 on February 03, 2017, 11:16:35 am
I play the fiddle really well - or I did.  I haven't played in years.  It really disappoints my family that I quit.  I always plan to pick it up, but life always gets in the way.

I play the guitar, poorly, but I'll never be bored again.

Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: poochy on February 03, 2017, 11:53:13 am
I was never a big Rush fan growing up, but as far as musicianship goes if you take time to listen to the older stuff it's incredible and amazing how big a band with only 3 guys in can sound.  Then again for a long time they had perhaps the best drummer in the world a top ten bassist and a guitar player who has been ranked very highly as well, they are still under rated.

Also, i like the sound and the impact that can have more than i like songs, i want something that sounds good and has great dynamics, it doesn't really matter what genre it is.  http://dr.loudness-war.info/  that is an interesting site, if you're like my most of the music that grabs you would be on the higher end of the dynamic range scale, of course there are always exceptions.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: cybercoma on February 03, 2017, 05:12:46 pm
I love that loudness war database! I've been using it for a few years to find great albums. It's a damn shame what the industry did to sound engineering.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: guest18 on February 03, 2017, 09:28:31 pm
This Mingus small group doing a pretty straight swing/bop Take the A Train not far removed from how Ellington's band might have done it at the time. Then Dolphy comes in and takes it out there. Mingus stops everything to take a **** and just let Dolphy go. And his solo explores every harmonic corner of that song, never losing it. Listen close. It's always there, even though there's so many notes and they're all over the place, every chord change is still in there. Then he lands it and the band lands with him, and Ellington never sounds quite the same again.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cimpUKVAbY8
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Queefer Sutherland on February 04, 2017, 06:39:05 pm
On the rock stations in my city they've started to splice in pop songs (like the Weeknd) into the rotation, as well as pop-ish songs that don't sound very rock-like.  Sad that rock is basically dead, the industy on its last legs.  A young generation now growing up with hardly any new big acts.  Thanks Napster.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: ?Impact on February 04, 2017, 09:48:58 pm
On the rock stations in my city they've started to splice in pop songs (like the Weeknd) into the rotation, as well as pop-ish songs that don't sound very rock-like.  Sad that rock is basically dead, the industy on its last legs.  A young generation now growing up with hardly any new big acts.  Thanks Napster.

I think the demise predates Napster
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on February 17, 2017, 02:00:28 am
I recently stumbled on to "the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club".  One might think that with a name like that, they might sound like Molly Hatchet or Motorhead, but they're actually quite different.  Although some of their material is straightforward rock, many of their songs are moody and melancholy. One thing that makes them stand out is that the female drummer provides some wonderful backing vocals, kind of like Nikki Monninger, the bass-player from Silversun Pickups.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1oxKoXMY5o


They also recorded a cover of "Let The Day Begin", by "the Call".  It turns out that the lead singer of The Call is the father of the lead singer of BMRC, and they recorded it after he passed away.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfbxNAZQg-g

 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: cybercoma on February 17, 2017, 05:33:03 am
Oh! Those guys have been around for awhile. I had forgotten about them. Thanks for the reminder.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: cybercoma on March 11, 2017, 05:54:40 pm
Pitchfork aggregates music reviews on their aoty.org website. Currently at #6 is a thrash metal album by Power Trip called Nightmare Logic. This **** is right at home with classic Metallica, Slayer, and Megadeth. If you're into metal they're worth checking out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPwPwSQE9bs
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: guest4 on April 02, 2017, 06:20:22 pm
A rap song.   8)

https://youtu.be/XOX9O_kVPeo
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on May 27, 2017, 10:42:10 pm
So the piano is pretty dead as a lead instrument in popular music, but it can be a pretty rockin' rhythm instrument.  A couple of examples:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwMBpW7RX1c

here's one you may remember...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBecM3CQVD8

 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on June 12, 2017, 11:11:33 pm
Somebody just posted this on Reddit, and I thought it was too beautiful not to share.  The dancer is his friend, and the special effects are created using a huge sheet of glow-in-the-dark paper and a strobe light.

The music is by a Manitoba band called Yes We Mystic.
https://yeswemystic.bandcamp.com/track/working-for-the-future-in-the-interlake

https://vimeo.com/214781800

 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on June 13, 2017, 07:53:58 pm
Guys! I've received a notification from the CRTC that this thread doesn't meet the government-mandated quota of Canadian content. 
STAY TUNED FOR CAN-CON


Montreal's Saga

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duZ0b9AHlko

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J0QdXBY0wo

 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on June 13, 2017, 08:03:13 pm
Vancouver's Prism

Prism apparently helped launch the careers of Bryan Adams (who wasn't a member, but contributed as a songwriter) as well as songwriter Jim Vallance and producer Bruce Fairbairn.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj8OE1jXnIM


This song was recorded around the time that the original Star Wars was dominating popular culture. I can't help wondering if the clips of jet-fighter comms chatter were inspired by the starfighter assault on the Death Star.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBmvElD_0Ow

 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on June 13, 2017, 08:06:26 pm
Winnipeg's Streetheart

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGE8BSwJAuc

I have no idea what the hell this is about, but I love the bass.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-9h8wtZ0Rg

 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on June 13, 2017, 08:18:19 pm
Why these?
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on June 13, 2017, 08:31:12 pm
Toronto's Gowan

In the 1980s Larry Gowan had a number of medium-sized hits as a solo artist in Canada, most notably Criminal Mind, which had great video depicting Gowan as a comic-book style super-villain.  Since then, he has become the lead singer and front-man for the current lineup of Styx.


This is classic-rock rock legends Styx performing Larry Gowan's Can-con solo hit live in Toronto.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5R-NRnamcnE

And this is Suite Madame Blue, which is not Canadian content but it puts chills up my spine each time I hear it.  It was released in 1976 and some thought it was rah-rah patriotism for the American bicentennial, but it was actually an admonishment. "America, I love you babe, but you have to get your **** together."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGXYiIDTPDI


 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on June 13, 2017, 08:31:56 pm
Why these?

I agree, they are wonderful, kind of like the olive on the toothpick in the giant Martini that is Canada!

 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on June 13, 2017, 08:35:12 pm
Augh.  Well... I am going to listen to these but I have to be mentally ready.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on June 13, 2017, 08:37:42 pm
Montreal's Corey Hart.  Ah Corey... whatever became of you?

I could actually only find one Corey Hart song I like. :(   The amazing synthesizer line completely carries this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56HSPQHSqEE

 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on June 13, 2017, 08:41:19 pm
Matt Mays, of Dartmouth Nova Scotia.


Matt Mays is so cool that I didn't even know he was Canadian until I researched him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRGXqP6fdUI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xeKcZNJfZ8

 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on June 13, 2017, 09:18:53 pm
Metric, of Toronto.


Synth-pop band Metric was a staple of the "Modern Rock" station I listened to when I lived in Edmonton, and I always thought they kind of, uhhhh, sucked. A kitschy little act largely propelled by Emily Haines and  her too-cutesy vocals and her cute little behind in her tiny white shorts.

Then I left Edmonton, and didn't have much contact with Metric or any other "modern rock" for a while. Then a couple of years ago I stumbled onto Metric's 2012 "Synthetica" CD, and was completely blown away.   Emily had apparently gotten over her nose-candy problems and proceeded to create some great music.

Trivia: although Emily is as white as the driven snow, she's actually from New Delhi, India.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jiQ1QpNSkA

The late Lou Reed provided guest vocals on this song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olbqFWE40ak


I think it's the piano on this track that seals it for me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo-_d9w0V6M


 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on June 13, 2017, 09:24:25 pm
Augh.  Well... I am going to listen to these but I have to be mentally ready.

Honestly, Mike, I'm just sitting here drinking way too much alcohol and posting some Canadian **** that I've had on my playlist for a while.  "Why these?"  Because I like them and I felt like sharing.  I'm not suggesting that these are nation-defining cultural milestones or anything.

 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: BC_cheque on June 24, 2017, 11:43:00 pm
This sounds so 90's Prince.  I love it!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp7eSUU9oy8
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on July 02, 2017, 01:17:10 pm
STOP!  CAN-CON TIME!


In appreciation of Canada Day Long Weekend, we are obligated to bring you more Can-Con.


Tom Cochrane and Red Rider, from Toronto:


Aside from being a Can-Con staple, I gather this one also became a cult-classic on US radio.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp9852hq0W0


And this I just liked the instrumental intro... sounds very "Tron" for some reason.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1BW1fvQNUc


 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on July 02, 2017, 01:27:57 pm
Chilliwack, from (wait for it....    no, not Chilliwack BC.  Vancouver, BC.)

I like the vocals in this one. And the guitars.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nYvmm0Ofmc


This is probably Chilliwack's most recognized song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yahBtp_1jWE


 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on July 03, 2017, 11:25:54 pm
As Canada Day long weekend comes to a close, we conclude our Can-Con with a couple of Canada's most beloved rock performers.


Neil Young, of Winnipeg:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeDADr2M6qo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO8kTRv4l3o

 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on July 03, 2017, 11:31:46 pm
And Rush, from Toronto:


This is a fan-created video that I found *electrifying*.  (eh? eh? get it??)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvsw_Jq4UcE

And what could possibly be said of the 2112 Overture?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzpDOB2JYKc


This concludes your Canada Day Can-Con.  We at the CRTC hope you've enjoyed this journey through Canadian rock history!

 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on July 07, 2017, 01:34:12 pm
The gambler's mournful lament... Loser....

"All that I am asking for is ten gold dollars, and I can pay you back with one good hand."

Pathetic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmUPGgbrGS8
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on July 08, 2017, 01:38:12 pm
Gary Clark Jr has a problem.  He loves his lady friend, but she has a vexatious temper. She will sometimes berate him to the point that he is numb. Gary's solution to this dilemma, apparently, is that he plans to smoke a very large cannabis cigarette in its entirety, in hope that he will become numb to the pain that she causes him.  Like Pink Floyd, he's hoping for comfortably numb, but would probably settle for peacefully numb.

While I empathize with Gary's situation, what really grabbed me about this song is the massive guitar sound. It's not really a blues song, it's a celebration of turning up the gain knob on your electric guitar amplifier. It's glorious.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNH6PX-2euM

 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: cybercoma on July 09, 2017, 12:52:43 pm
Gary Clark Jr is a strange duck. Sometimes I REALLY like his songs, but then other times they're just awful. He's hit and miss.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on July 11, 2017, 06:22:24 am
APMT alive and kicking... :D
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on August 06, 2017, 10:51:23 pm
Steve Earle recently said, basically, that most modern country music sucks.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/steve-earle-country-music-nashville-chris-stapleton-kendrick-lamar-oasis-a7791486.html

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"The best stuff coming out of Nashville is all by women except for Chris Stapleton," he said. "The guys just wanna sing about getting f***ed up. They're just doing hip hop for people who are afraid of black people.

"I like the new Kendrick Lamar record, so I'll just listen to that."

"Hip hop for people who are afraid of black people" is the funniest thing I have heard said about country music in a long time.  A close second is the observation that with the advent of the self-driving car, country music singers will be able to lament that their trucks left them too.

Steve Earle, at the height of his success, had an image as a tank-top wearing, bad-ass tough-guy type, but his sympathies were always more with the Dixie Chicks... a guy with a strong anti-war, anti-hate viewpoint, which came out in some of his later music.  But first and foremost Steve Earle is a storyteller.

His biggest commercial hit, Copperhead Road, remains a staple of "classic rock" radio and is probably as popular today as when it was first released.  It tells the story of John Lee Pettimore III, a descendant of Tennessee moonshiners who came back from his service in the Vietnam war with "a brand new plan."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhMO9azmKNU


"The Devil's Right Hand" tells the story of a young man whose enthusiasm for pistols lands him in a whole heap of trouble. The lyrics of the song-- the references to the cap-and-ball Colt and the Peacemaker-- suggest it starts in the 1860s, and ends somewhere around 1880. "when daddy left to fight the big war" refers to the American Civil War.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqW2x1knqq0


 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on August 10, 2017, 11:24:31 pm
I am not a video game person, but there are a few video games that I have become very fond of.  One of them is the Borderlands series. One thing about the Borderlands games is that they've employed music to great effect.  From well-chosen songs like "No Rest For The Wicked" by Cage The Elephant and "No Place For A Hero" by The Heavy, to a musical score, the music blends with the artwork and contributes to the game's atmosphere.

I've recently started playing a Borderlands spin-off called "Tales from the Borderlands", which is set in the same world and builds on the Borderlands lore. Tales continues the musical tradition of the series.  This is the main theme from the game.   It's obvious that they wanted something that sounds like Ennio Morricone. I think this is quite nice, and Ennio himself would probably say "...'ey!  It's-a me!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRxFlQuSHbw


 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on August 10, 2017, 11:40:18 pm
...but why have fake Morricone when you can have real Morricone?

The blood-curdling "Silhouette of Doom" is from the 1966 movie "Navajo Joe", but is far better known to younger audiences from the "Kill Bill" movies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1OYXamk2Vc


Ennio was a busy man in 1966! The Ecstacy of Gold is from the 1966 movie "The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly", but younger audiences might be more familiar with it by way of Metallica, as Metallica have long used The Ecstacy of Gold as an intro for their concerts. "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly" main theme itself is, of course, one of the most iconic motion picture themes ever, but The Ecstacy of Gold is one of those pieces of music that just makes my spine tingle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYI09PMNazw

 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on August 15, 2017, 10:18:39 pm
Kimmy is all about two things: getting laid, and getting paid!

But mostly just the second one lately. :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcsfftwLUf0



 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on August 16, 2017, 11:32:15 pm
This is the Black Keys cover of a song by bluesman Junior Kimbrough.  I found this awe-inspiring.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQaViH6hU5A

I hadn't heard of Junior Kimbrough prior to hearing the Black Keys cover his music.  Here is Junior himself, playing at his own barbeque restaurant.  Listen to his guitar. This is wonderful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-Taae2zLfA

 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on August 23, 2017, 01:51:22 am
This is another song that my Google Music "Swamp Rock Happy Hour" playlist introduced me to.

It's like a lecture from an ominous individual who introduces himself as "vibe-killer." For about 8 minutes, he proceeds to talk about the pointlessness of your existence. Your temporary, futile, hopeless life will be over in the blink of an eye and it will amount to nothing of any consequence.  This is basically like listening to the self-talk of a deeply depressed person. Who is this "vibe killer?"  At one point he says that he is time, although it's not clear if he's speaking metaphorically or literally.

All of this sounds incredibly depressing! Why would anybody listen to something like that?  If you've read any of my posts in this thread, you know that the answer to that question is: guitars. This song is engrossing because it creates an atmosphere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_svCzUmlWBM

 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on September 10, 2017, 11:35:45 am
I recently stumbled onto "The Black Angels".   I was kind of put off by the name, because it sounds like something those greasy Emo kids would listen to.  But they have a sound I really like.  They are heavily influenced by late 1960s psychadelic music, and a couple of their songs are cringe-inducing knock-offs of that music... but for the most part they have this very cool atmospheric groove that is right up my alley.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3QmrFsMw1w


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TCG4yANgOw


 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on September 10, 2017, 11:46:19 am
This is another one Google just kind of threw at me.  After Black Keys, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Black Angels, I think Google is basically just sending me anything with Black in the name.  This is Blackwater Fever, and although I haven't checked out much of their music yet, I loved this instrumental.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dt4Vqg7Qcc

 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on September 10, 2017, 02:46:47 pm
Black Flag, Black Sabbath, Black Uhuru.

I know those.  Maybe Frank Black too.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on September 11, 2017, 01:45:16 am
Black Flag, Black Sabbath, Black Uhuru.

I know those.  Maybe Frank Black too.

Just as long as they don't start sneaking Black Eyed Peas songs into my playlist.

I do love me some Sabbath though.  Did you know that Ozzy Osbourne was a very handsome man once upon a time? It's true. That's a young Ozzy at the far right in this image. I guess all those years of hard living, drugs, and biting the heads off of live rodents took a heavy toll.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7UZeHvMYZA

-k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on September 11, 2017, 01:58:02 am
One piece of music I have loved from the first time I heard it is "E5150" by Black Sabbath.  It was prominently featured (along with "The Mob Rules") in the final act of the cult-classic animated movie "Heavy Metal", which I saw at a midnight showing at Edmonton's Garneau Theatre when I was in my mid teens and way too young to be watching an R rated movie in the middle of the night with a bunch of rowdy university kids.    What does the title mean?  E5150 -->  E -5-1-50 --> E-V-I-L.  Clever, huh? Huh? Huh?  Ok, not really.  But hearing this always puts me back in the movie theatre, with the Loc-Nar on the brink of destroying the last vestiges of humanity in a post-apocalyptic future.

This is post-Ozzy Black Sabbath, with Ronny James Dio as the vocalist. Some look on it as a lesser brand, I view it as merely different.  Sort of like Champagne vs California Sparkling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oO6uBQJ35N0

 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on September 11, 2017, 06:07:45 am
Black Eyed Peas also had their moment... I remember they had some catchy tunes that kept the funk family line going.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on September 16, 2017, 01:04:16 pm
Earlier I mentioned my enthusiasm for the music of Ennio Morricone.  More recently I wrote about my new interest in the Black Angels and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club.   Strangely, these two themes collided in the form of Spindrift.  Spindrift are cohorts of Black Angels and BRMC. They have toured together.   As well, Spindrift composed a Morricone-inspired rock soundtrack for a "spaghetti western" movie called "The Legend of God's Gun".

One thing that separates "The Legend of God's Gun" from other movie soundtracks is that "The Legend of God's Gun" movie didn't actually exist.   They composed a soundtrack for a fictitious film.  Some years later, a movie was made, inspired by the album, but at the time it was made, it was an exercise in imagination: you listen to the soundtrack and imagine the movie that goes with it.

Some bits of voice-over provide a rough sketch of the plot and general tone of the story: there's an outlaw named El Sobero and his gang of filthy degenerates.  There's a bounty hunter who has been hired to exterminate El Sobero and his gang.  And there's a mysterious gun-slinging Preacher. And they're all going to collide in the town of Playa Diablo in what will no doubt be an epic confrontation. People know spaghetti western tropes and can put together their own idea of how things will shake out, and can probably imagine a story way better than the one that actually got made.

Right now, the bounty hunter is wondering whether dragging Ringo all the way back to Playa Diablo on foot is going to be worth the reward.

It's not.

Playa Diablo is 43 miles away.

 ...and there ain't gonna be any reward.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhFSZlCKfYM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbUsIok5xjM


 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on September 16, 2017, 01:07:02 pm
More music from the fictitious movie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_uFTJ-fpy4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsxXxUOwRlE

 -k
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Post by: kimmy on October 05, 2017, 09:11:15 pm
CAN-CON ALERT!  STAND BY FOR CAN-CON

I first heard this yesterday and thought it was incredible and haunting and awesome. I didn't even realize they were Canadian until just now when I watched the video and thought "hmmm, this looks suspiciously Canadian."  The band apparently broke up and moved on to other things in 2013.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkIkBpgERWU

 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on October 05, 2017, 09:30:03 pm
As Tom Petty left us this week, this seems appropriate.  I think that this is the first music video I remember seeing.  I may have seen others before it, but this is the first one I remember seeing. It stuck with me because it scared the bejeezus out of me when I was a kimlet. I had nightmares.  Despite that trauma, it's one of my favorite Tom Petty songs, because of the instrumentation and backing vocals. It's kind of quirky, different from most of his other stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0JvF9vpqx8

 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on October 06, 2017, 05:53:16 am
I love that he reformed his pre-Heartbreakers band 'Mudcrutch' and toured with them.
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Post by: gh0sthacked on October 13, 2017, 02:32:41 pm
I'll do some shameless self promotion. 

Been working on a new track for the last couple months and decided last night it was done. 


https://soundcloud.com/sunburn-ottawa/low-n-slow
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on October 15, 2017, 11:36:56 am
Very cool, gh0st!  I am listening to your station in the background as I write. :)

 -k
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Post by: Michael Hardner on October 15, 2017, 03:01:43 pm
Yeah, I have heard his music before and remember it was good.... though a younger vibe than mine...
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Post by: gh0sthacked on October 16, 2017, 04:21:05 pm
Yeah, I have heard his music before and remember it was good.... though a younger vibe than mine...

What's crazy is that you and I are most likely very close in age. I am in my late 40s.  , been djing since the late 80s .. and been producing for about a decade.. Once I found electronic music and specifically the Chicago, and Detroit house (leading to Underground and other permutations of house) I was hooked. My pals ridiculed me for a very long time. I said to them, that they would eventually get into it .. I was right :D

Sunburn is the newest project ..   this is my older and still kind of ongoing project  https://soundcloud.com/openheartmachine-ohm

Thanks all for the support!
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: cybercoma on October 16, 2017, 06:38:21 pm
I grew up in Windsor and I remember late night radio in the late 80s, early 90s having some amazing electronic music.
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Post by: Michael Hardner on October 16, 2017, 07:37:10 pm
What's crazy is that you and I are most likely very close in age. I am in my late 40s.  , been djing since the late 80s .. and been producing for about a decade.. Once I found electronic music and specifically the Chicago, and Detroit house (leading to Underground and other permutations of house) I was hooked. My pals ridiculed me for a very long time. I said to them, that they would eventually get into it .. I was right :D

Sunburn is the newest project ..   this is my older and still kind of ongoing project  https://soundcloud.com/openheartmachine-ohm

Thanks all for the support!

Wow.  Old DJ.  Did you ever know a guy from Toronto named Dr. Trance ?
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on November 25, 2017, 03:06:30 am
I actually meant to post this at Halloween.  Probably everybody has heard some version of "I Put A Spell On You" ...but have you heard the original?

Jay Hawkins walked into a recording studio one night. He had a bunch of songs to record, and someone had brought some liquor and they were up all night singing and drinking, and ... well, this happened.  At some point that night, they thought it would be hilarious to do this comedy version of one of the songs.  That late-night drunken idea changed Jay's career forever.

"When I walked into the studio I was Jay Hawkins... when I left, I was Screamin' Jay Hawkins."

This caught on like wildfire before it was banned... perhaps it was deemed too intense for white-folks or something. Whatever the case, it earned Hawkins a cult following... in almost a literal sense. What was a novelty song turned into a whole stage persona. Hawkins would dress like a voodoo priest and his concerts turned into a whole theatrical show, complete with "human sacrifices". He was "shock rock" long before Alice Cooper or Ozzie came along.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwXai-sgM-s

 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on November 25, 2017, 03:34:54 am
I've still been listening to the Black Angels a lot. Almost daily since my previous post about them, actually.  As I mentioned previously, a lot of their stuff is psychadelic-sixties inspired, some of it works and some doesn't. You can hear sounds of The Doors and Jefferson Airplane, that sort of thing in their songs. But I find their less derivative work to be much more interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCOkA4Zk-VM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvKjpGP6P5Y

 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: cybercoma on November 25, 2017, 06:32:03 am
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last six months, you’ve almost certainly heard Despacito. Now hear it as covered by a rubber chicken!

https://youtu.be/SxTNhD5jTyQ
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on November 25, 2017, 08:56:35 am
When Lou Reed died, I saw an interview with Laurie Anderson that simply referred to her as 'Reed's Wife'.  People forget that she had an effect on the music world on the same scale as her late husband did.  Moreover, her work changed the structure of pop music.  The seminal work O Superman sweeps across the popular culture of the day, and captures cold war paranoia, maternal relationships as co-opted by nationalism, and the new technologies of voice synth as well as answering machines arriving in middle America.

All in a creepily catchy pop song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkfpi2H8tOE
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on November 25, 2017, 08:57:07 am
BTW just LISTEN.  Don't watch the video.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on December 01, 2017, 12:07:37 am
BTW just LISTEN.  Don't watch the video.

A warning like that just makes people curious.  Why not watch the video? Does something horrible happen?


 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on December 01, 2017, 12:31:03 am
CANADIAN CONTENT ALERT!

STAND BY FOR CAN-CON!




Last week I used the phrase "ghost ship of cannibal rats" in a thread, and later realized that probably nobody knew what the **** I was talking about.

It's a song by Canadian punk-rock band Billy Talent.  Billy Talent isn't a guy, it's a band. They're named after one of the characters in the movie "Hard Core Logo".   I'm not a Billy Talent fan, but the song stuck with me because of the story behind it.   The song was inspired by the story of this abandoned Russian cruise ship, which was supposed to be towed from Newfoundland to South America to be cut into scrap metal.  But it was lost at sea, and was eventually sighted drifting towards Britain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Lyubov_Orlova

Apparently there was concern that the ship was infested with rats, who would be set loose if the ship wrecked on the British Isles.  Further, it was believed that the rats would breed prolifically, eat anything and everything on the ship, and when nothing else was left, would start eating each other.  Yikes!   

Billy Talent saw the situation as a metaphor for our race-to-the-bottom, cut-throat, stab each other in the back, dog-eat-dog world.

"Don't be afraid of the view from economy class--
 It's just the captain and crew jumping off of the mast!
 All aboard on the ghost ship of cannibal rats!
 All aboard on the ghost ship of cannibal rats!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaNpka54DqQ


 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on December 01, 2017, 05:48:45 am
A warning like that just makes people curious.  Why not watch the video? Does something horrible happen?


 -k

No.  It's music.  It has an impact on its own, and the song got world famous as a disembodied set of designed sounds.  An aural soundscape.  Not a film of a weird looking person being weird.  It predates music video, as a trend.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: gh0sthacked on December 01, 2017, 02:34:20 pm
A warning like that just makes people curious.  Why not watch the video? Does something horrible happen?

 -k

We depend to much on the visuals to compliment the song. If I cannot listen to the song without the video, then it fails to deliver, in my opinion. This probably hurt a lot of bands more than helped them.  I will point to the era of 'glam metal' or 'hair metal'. A good deal of those songs are terrible, and the videos were just as bad. Most videos are simply the band playing in some environment with other scenes cut in that may not make sense to the song. Very boring videos and the songs (for the most part), in the end, were not great either.



Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: guest18 on December 01, 2017, 06:08:06 pm


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkfpi2H8tOE
I remember listening to that song over and over when it came out trying to figure out whether the repeated huh-huh-huh sample was a human voice or a squeeze  horn. I'm still not sure.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on December 03, 2017, 10:13:44 am
We depend to much on the visuals to compliment the song. If I cannot listen to the song without the video, then it fails to deliver, in my opinion. This probably hurt a lot of bands more than helped them.  I will point to the era of 'glam metal' or 'hair metal'. A good deal of those songs are terrible, and the videos were just as bad. Most videos are simply the band playing in some environment with other scenes cut in that may not make sense to the song. Very boring videos and the songs (for the most part), in the end, were not great either.

Agreed.  Also some were forced to make videos after the fact.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on January 22, 2018, 12:50:43 am
I watched the movie "Baby Driver" last night.  It uses a LOT of music... almost every scene a pop song in it in some way or another.  The main character has tinnitus and listens to music constantly to drown out the ringing, and the viewer hears the song that's playing in his earbuds. At other times, less so.  He arrives at a building and we get the trumpet intro from "Jump Around" --just the four trumpet notes.   Later he's making a phone call, and faintly in the background you can hear the synthesizer intro to "Jet Airliner" by Steve Miller.  When one of the criminals he works with takes an interest in his music, he asks Baby what his lucky song is, and Baby tells him it's "Brighton Rock" by Queen, and they talk about "the crazy guitar solo", which of course shows up later.

 Some of it is predictable (like "Baby Driver" by Simon and Garfunkle) and some of it is decidedly not... like "Hocus Pocus" by "Focus", which is featured prominently in one of the action sequences. 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV0F_XiR48Q



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUt_7TQCWtU


 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on January 22, 2018, 05:37:43 pm
From the Baby Driver soundtrack:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbnuusfXVV4

(not the video though)
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: JMT on January 22, 2018, 08:14:48 pm
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last six months, you’ve almost certainly heard Despacito. Now hear it as covered by a rubber chicken!

https://youtu.be/SxTNhD5jTyQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nqc8lK92K7E
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Squidward von Squidderson on January 23, 2018, 03:03:08 am
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IMyqasy2Lco
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Queefer Sutherland on January 26, 2018, 07:32:04 pm
New Jack White from his upcoming album.  OFF THE CHAIN!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQxm-dFp0Og
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on January 27, 2018, 02:47:07 pm
New Jack White from his upcoming album.  OFF THE CHAIN!!

Warning: the Surgeon General has determined that that bass is TOO FUNKY!

 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on January 30, 2018, 09:49:31 pm
I don't think there's anybody else who has a voice like Loreena McKennitt.   I don't listen to her music often... you have to be in a certain mood, I think.   What she does isn't for everybody. But as far as the power and clarity of her voice, she's simply beyond compare.  Many of her songs simply put chills up my spine.


CAN-CON ALERT! Stand by for Can-Con!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYrKQbQ1Aok

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RooTTuLCfNM

 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: wilber on January 30, 2018, 10:02:44 pm
Got a few of her CD's. Her version of The Lady of Shalott is one my favourites.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: wilber on January 30, 2018, 10:42:11 pm
Speaking of Can-Con, Jesse Cook along with Chris Church and the rest of his amazing band. Wonderful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38fvrvLT3fc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibggo2ygmAw
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Post by: Michael Hardner on February 01, 2018, 05:25:11 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d69mDT11yI

The Velvet Underground's 2nd album released 50 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK.  The world was never more changed by an unknown record.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Goddess on February 01, 2018, 09:50:37 am
Speaking of Can-Con, Jesse Cook along with Chris Church and the rest of his amazing band. Wonderful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38fvrvLT3fc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibggo2ygmAw

OMG, I love Jesse Cook but hardly anyone else knows of him!  Gabriel Hernandez' albums are good too - more flamenco-y than Jesse's but still good.
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Post by: wilber on February 02, 2018, 12:20:11 am
A little more Can-Con

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6Fnh6eL_xk

James is a graduate of the Langley Ukulele Ensemble.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Squidward von Squidderson on February 07, 2018, 01:36:41 am
How many times do you get to feature a band from Saskatchewan???? 


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=B9FzVhw8_bY
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on February 07, 2018, 09:45:38 am
Yesterday's SpaceX launch was beautiful and yielded many spectacular sights.

(https://i.imgur.com/u43e5js.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/ErmbSDc.jpg)

The boosters landing simultaneously was quite lovely.

(https://i.imgur.com/6t0K1p6.png)


When I was a kimlet, dad had this record and I used to play this song many times, until I had accidentally put a gouge in the vinyl at the start of this and then it wouldn't play anymore. I got yelled at. :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvPop0k-mBw

 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on February 07, 2018, 09:28:07 pm
The other thing about the Falcon Heavy launch that caught peoples' fancy is the payload:  Elon Musk's own Tesla Roadster is now heading towards Mars, piloted by a mannequin.  I can only imagine what some alien species will think if they find it drifting through space someday.

I think the idea bears a more than coincidental resemblance to the opening credits of the movie "Heavy Metal"...

(https://i.imgur.com/58xfJsq.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/YCHYpwJ.jpg)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbBWODsBzdo

 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: guest7 on February 07, 2018, 09:33:50 pm
I knew there was a reason why it looked awesome.

But it's on its way to the asteroid belt, not Mars.  I guess the GPS failed, what with it being on the wrong side of the satellites.
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Post by: Queefer Sutherland on February 16, 2018, 07:14:20 pm
Didn't get the whole Kanye West thing, didn't have a ton of exposure to his work.  Then I saw this, the man has genius in him:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuhl6Ji5zHM
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Queefer Sutherland on February 16, 2018, 07:15:08 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxijhTgxkyk
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on February 22, 2018, 09:52:28 pm
As a side-effect of getting into the Black Angels, I've stumbled into "The Brian Jonestown Massacre" as well.  Much like the Black Angels, their sound incorporates a lot of influences from the psychedelic era. Like the Black Angels, they sometimes borrow sounds and rhythms from Middle-Eastern and Indian music.  Like the Black Angels, I find that I like some BJM songs a lot, and find others to be total dog-****. They're quite hit-and-miss for me.


This is a Swedish version of their song "Whatever happened to them?" which for some reason became more popular than "Whatever happened to them?" to the point that people ask "Is there an English version of Vad Hande Med Dem?"
I really like this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy6YU-Vz_yg
Also, I'm not familiar with "Run, Lola, Run", but Red seems to be in a real hurry, and I'm thinking she should just take a taxi.


Actual video footage of Sophie Trudeau from their trip to India:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwl4qEgOye0


And this has an amazing feel.  The guitar sound and dreamy vocals are enchanting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StV9lElcvAY

 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on February 23, 2018, 05:44:42 am
There was a doc about the BJM a few years ago.  They make some great musics.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on April 12, 2018, 06:30:04 am
David Bowie complete discography:

http://www.openculture.com/2018/04/stream-david-bowies-complete-discography-in-a-19-hour-playlist.html
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on April 13, 2018, 06:35:54 am
OMG OMG OMG... just found this:

"What Makes This Song Great" Episode 3 "Kid Charlemagne" by Steely Dan.  I LOVE this song, which is a kind of true story about the arrest of the king of San Francisco LSD.  I love the lyrics, the music, the acid tongue (unintentional pun)
 
Quote
All those Day-Glo freaks who used to paint their face
They've joined the human race
Some things will never change

Contempt for hippies.... "is their gas in the car" is the exclamation by the acid king as he tries to escape the cops, and apparently it actually happened that he ran out of gas as the cops were following him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKIC9zbSJoE

I will watch this later.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on May 12, 2018, 04:22:11 am
Perhaps because I like The Black Keys, Google Music continues to put "Black" bands into my audio streams.  Following in the footsteps of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Black Angels, and the Blackwater Fever, comes Black Mountain.

They have an interesting sound that combines elements of "art rock", '80s metal, a retro synth sound, and two vocalists. They have a male singer and a female singer, and some songs he sings, others she sings, and at times they will duet as well, which is pretty unique in the rock world.

Unfortunately, I don't find either vocalist to be very ... uh, good.  The male singer is pretty forgettable.  The female singer has a lovely and powerful voice, which she frequently sabotages by using far too much "vocal fry".  Used sparingly, it can add impact to a note... but she uses it all. the. ****. time... and it becomes a little grating. 

Still, I like their sound... one hears influences as diverse as Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath and Styx and Pink Floyd in their music.

As sometimes happens when I get interested in a band, when I started reading about them I discovered that they're Canadian.  Black Mountain are based in Vancouver. 

CAN-CON alert!  Stand by for CAN-CON!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQWBGpHe2nA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHXe2QPmCS0

 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on May 12, 2018, 11:00:32 am
Kurt Vile on....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0p3AiVkWzU

And I'm off to clean the house...
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on May 30, 2018, 11:32:48 pm
The Dolly Rocker Movement was an Australian band that called it quits about 5 years ago.

This gorgeous track fits right in with the Black Angels, Brian Jonestown Massacre stuff I have been listening to lately:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgTf8I3wKyY

And in a move that seems almost deliberately calculated to appeal to kimmy, they also created this blend of Ennio Morricone and '60s-sounding psychedelica. This is truly wonderful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gnq_jNbRJKU

 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Goddess on May 31, 2018, 11:51:42 am
Coolio.  I'm going to check out more Dolly Rocker Movement.

Thanks   :D
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Post by: kimmy on June 03, 2018, 12:46:54 am
Coolio.  I'm going to check out more Dolly Rocker Movement.

Thanks   :D

It's a bit of a change from SLAYER :)


Oh! Speaking of SLAYER ...  uh, I don't actually know any Slayer, except Buffy the Vampire Slayer of course.    But I used to like MEGADETH!

I remember once David Letterman had Megadeth as his musical guest.  Every time he mentioned that Megadeth would be performing later on the show, this big Megadeth logo appeared on the screen as the camera zoomed in on this elderly couple in the audience.  I thought it was hilarious, although I was pretty easily amused at the time.
 

This is the first track from the first Megadeth tape cassette I owned, which I played a lot in the first car I owned, the mighty Dodge Reliant K-Kar that I bought for $500 with the money I made from my first job.  It was a pretty bad car. With a bad stereo.  And before long the cassette went bad too because it got all stretched out.  Tragic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QkNP1jxrEw


This instrumental was one of my favorite "knocking stuff over" songs for a long time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOqCA9t4bLk

 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Queefer Sutherland on June 03, 2018, 08:41:20 am
Oh! Speaking of SLAYER ...  uh, I don't actually know any Slayer, except Buffy the Vampire Slayer of course.    But I used to like MEGADETH!

Slayer - Raining Blood.

Christmas lights edition! lol.  :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFjI7gT1FvI
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Goddess on June 04, 2018, 09:54:54 am
It's a bit of a change from SLAYER :)




Ya, I'm not the metalhead in the relationship.   :D  I don't mind it - I listen to just about everything a little bit.

I go to his metal shows and wear my hippie clothes and he comes to my flamenco shows and wears a Godsmack t-shirt.  It works.  ;D

Fleetwood Mac is my favourite.  Love Van Morrison.  I listen to a lot of Spanish and flamenco music.  Especially when I'm cooking.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on June 16, 2018, 10:15:20 am
"Lynyrd Skynyrd" was named after the band members' highschool gym teacher, Leonard Skinner.   "Greta Van Fleet" is a 4-piece band named after an old lady from their home town.  Greta Van Fleet (the band, not the old lady) has been getting a lot of attention lately, probably because their singer sounds an awful lot like Robert Plant. I heard them on the radio and was sure that I was listening to some Led Zepplin song I'd not heard before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxbT5jSxGJ0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJg4OJxp-co

 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on August 10, 2018, 06:42:30 am
ANCIENT GREEK MUSIC !

http://www.openculture.com/2018/08/see-ancient-greek-music-accurately-reconstructed-first-time.html
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Squidward von Squidderson on August 12, 2018, 11:08:34 pm
ANCIENT GREEK MUSIC !

http://www.openculture.com/2018/08/see-ancient-greek-music-accurately-reconstructed-first-time.html

“This is a sound that hasn’t been heard for 2000 years”...

To that I said “thank goodness....   now let it go back to the grave....  please!   My ears bleed!”
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Omni on August 12, 2018, 11:23:12 pm
“This is a sound that hasn’t been heard for 2000 years”...

To that I said “thank goodness....   now let it go back to the grave....  please!   My ears bleed!”

I love Greek food. But the music, ahh...I heard what sounded like a pasture full of peacocks.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on August 13, 2018, 06:30:38 am
Guys, it's 2000 years old...
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: guest4 on August 13, 2018, 10:35:48 am
They didn't have ears 2000 years ago?
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: wilber on August 13, 2018, 11:43:22 am
That’s really cool. Wouldn’t be high on my play list but didn’t mind it at all.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Queefer Sutherland on August 15, 2018, 06:56:05 pm
Greta Van Fleet (the band, not the old lady) has been getting a lot of attention lately, probably because their singer sounds an awful lot like Robert Plant. I heard them on the radio and was sure that I was listening to some Led Zepplin song I'd not heard before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJg4OJxp-co

Anything popular is a sequel or a reboot these days.  Guess they just rebooted Zeppelin.  Fun that they sound so closely to them, just wish there was a bit more originality in popular rock music.  I really, really love Royal Blood, plus they do stuff nobody else has done.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Queefer Sutherland on August 15, 2018, 07:01:12 pm
Never liked this band, but heard this song on radio, i like it.  Topical lyrics for these crazy times of ours:

"In times of turmoil
In times like these
Beliefs contagious
Spreading disease
This wretched mischief is now coursing through your souls
Never to let go
Never to let go

Them rats! (Rats–rats–rats)

Into your sanctum
You let them in
Now all your loved ones
And all your kin
Will suffer punishments beneath the wrath of God
Never to forgive
Never to forgive

Them rats! (Rats–rats–rats)
Aaah whoah..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_ijc7A5oAc
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Omni on August 15, 2018, 07:26:04 pm
I just want to wish "The Queen of Soul" well. My pasty white mother loved her work, and so did I when I got away from cartoons and into music.

Thanks Aretha.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Omni on August 16, 2018, 12:50:14 pm
Well Aretha has left this world but she sure left a timeless legacy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bduBUwbpgAo
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on September 13, 2018, 06:28:27 am
Heard this pop gem from the 90s - with a cool title:

"Teenage FBI"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV5TItjVSfo

Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on September 13, 2018, 06:32:43 am
Maybe sweet 90s pop is what I need right now:

The La's - There She Goes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu2iv-vMKT8

I heard this in a bar in Toronto in the 1990s, from the jukebox I think, and just stopped... went over and asked what it was...
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on September 13, 2018, 06:38:06 am
And FWIW:

Most obvious song rip-offs in history:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPhVIoCpPWs

I do NOT agree with many of these as a few are samples, and they - and a few others - were acknowledged as homages and even paid royalties in/out of court.

But some of them are interesting. :)
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on September 16, 2018, 09:59:43 am
And now this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJN2HV4_zIg

What is with the Nickleback hate ?
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on September 18, 2018, 06:14:42 am
Never seen this concept: people answer questions from autocomplete in Google.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=5Pf19jV1NYw

Paul McCartney first up - why not ?
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on September 21, 2018, 06:48:08 am
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/20/entertainment/suge-knight-manslaughter-plea-deal/index.html

'All Purpose' means the court proceedings summary too.  From everything I have read Mr. Knight is a horrible human being but always had money and played the system.  It's good to see that he's going away, although it's not for life.  And it's sad it took so long.
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Post by: Michael Hardner on September 21, 2018, 10:00:13 pm
Daft Punk - Around the World

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKYPYj2XX80

This may be the best music video ever
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on September 23, 2018, 08:54:21 am
Always - Canadian Indie Pop band

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXu6q-6JKjA

They use Expo 67 as a backdrop for the band.. which is a new indie band !  Goddam it, this actually made me feel patriotic.  I think I love indie Canadian culture always.
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Post by: kimmy on September 23, 2018, 06:33:11 pm
This may be the best music video ever

That was pretty great!  I felt as if they were attempting to "culture", but it was so cool that I didn't even mind.


My first exposure to Daft Punk was this video which was a big hit on Much Music, back in the days when they still played music videos on Much Music.  This touched me.  This poor guy wandering around downtown, feeling isolated, feeling like an outsider... not because he's a talking dog, but because he is brown.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmi60Bd4jSs


My favorite Daft Punk music is the super-brilliant soundtrack they composed for Tron: Legacy.   Sadly, Tron: Legacy was not good.  Aside from the music, the only good thing about the film was Olivia Wilde in her hi-tech cat-suit.   But the music was fantastic.  Some of it is all-electronic, other songs use a traditional orchestra, and others blend the two seamlessly.  Combined with the film's visual design, the music created a thrilling atmosphere that sadly the rest of the movie just didn't live up to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EB2-ijxjTs0


 -k
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Post by: kimmy on September 23, 2018, 06:50:11 pm
Hey, kids!  Here's a catchy tune that all the cool cats have been talking about! It's the Benjamin Dover Trio, performing their hit song "I Want To Be Your Friend"!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPB4gk-SSEs

 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on September 23, 2018, 06:53:39 pm
Wait - I remember that one with the dog !  I will watch again...
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Post by: Queefer Sutherland on September 23, 2018, 08:11:17 pm
Daft Punk - Around the World

This may be the best music video ever

When this video came out, my best friend and I may or may not have been seen mimicking the choreography as it played on Much.  That was fun.
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Post by: Queefer Sutherland on September 23, 2018, 08:21:40 pm
My first exposure to Daft Punk was this video which was a big hit on Much Music, back in the days when they still played music videos on Much Music.  This touched me.  This poor guy wandering around downtown, feeling isolated, feeling like an outsider... not because he's a talking dog, but because he is brown.

Yup i remember when that came out on Much, back when we all watched Much like a drug.  Very different music and very unique video, it was great.  The below video came out around the same time I remember, my and many people's introduction to the Chemical Brothers, it blew my mind.  Back then my friends and I were into some weird ****.  Inhaling Kubrick and Tarantino movies, staying up watching bad horror movies and the like.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjBFbQ5oCS0
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on September 24, 2018, 12:40:01 am
Nice!  The Chemical Brothers--    Rick Chemical and Jeff Chemical!

"Dig Your Own Hole".  I have that record on CD somewhere.  I should dig it out and play it.  It also had "Block Rockin' Beats".  Somebody took Block Rockin' Beats and dubbed a bunch of South Park audio clips onto it to turn it into "Cartman Rockin' Beats."

"And so you see, Simon And Simon were not brothers in real life, only on television."
"Nice presentation, Eric, but it was supposed to be about Asian culture. You get a D minus."

Around the same time I was also into The Crystal Method and Juno Reactor, although I don't know if either of them ever had any videos on Much Music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wCdjjuog80


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfUSyoJcbxU


 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on September 24, 2018, 06:32:10 am
The Chemical Brothers were like a British link between Oasis/Blur and all of that stuff... and ... rave music ?  I'm reaching into music waaay too young for me.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on September 25, 2018, 12:33:17 am
The Chemical Brothers were like a British link between Oasis/Blur and all of that stuff... and ... rave music ?  I'm reaching into music waaay too young for me.

I don't see it that way.  They're an electronic artist, in the same vein as Daft Punk or The Crystal Method or Moby or so on.   They're primarily instrumental, but (like Moby, TCM, etc) sometimes they have guest vocalists-- like Noel Gallagher in the track Poonlight posted above.   I find the Chemical Brothers to be more aggressive, more discordant, less refined than others in the electronic genre.  An analogy... if Daft Punk were the Beatles, the Chemical Brothers would be the Ramones.



Moby?  Moby! I don't know if Moby is still around. His best known songs are probably Porcelain, and Southside (with Gwen Stefani).  For me, his more memorable song was "Why does my heart feel so bad?" which I think I first heard featured in trailers for the movie "Blackhawk Down". The large lady with the even larger voice is Diane Charlemagne, a British jazz and soul artist who apparently passed away from cancer a couple of years ago at just 51 years old.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGEdc6HxhVA


 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on September 25, 2018, 12:47:04 am
The below video came out around the same time I remember, my and many people's introduction to the Chemical Brothers, it blew my mind.  Back then my friends and I were into some weird ****.  Inhaling Kubrick and Tarantino movies, staying up watching bad horror movies and the like.

The part where Yellow Shirt Girl comes face to face with what looks like an evil version of herself reminds me of a photo I saw in a fashion magazine from like 20 years ago.  It was a photo of a pretty young blonde woman, tied to a chair, gagged, and clearly very worried.  There are knives and saws and pliers and tongs and a blow torch and all kinds of other nasty looking implements all over the table and the counter.  And standing next to her, holding a big ugly kitchen knife and sneering maliciously is ... herself.  I don't know if it was intended to be her evil twin, or a clone, my best guess is that it was a non-literal image that was intended to symbolize of our self-destructive impulses.     Whatever it was, it was quite unsettling and stayed with me for a long time afterward.  Then I forgot about it.  Then your video made me remember it. STUPID NOEL GALLAGHER!

 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on October 01, 2018, 12:13:21 am
This is the music that runs through my little brain as I cheerfully go about my day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xELDqIyrtNA

 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: guest4 on October 01, 2018, 03:14:27 pm
Going through my grandmother's things to hold a garage sale after she passed, my sisters and I found this album:

https://youtu.be/JBTcF_GE7d4
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Queefer Sutherland on October 01, 2018, 10:33:38 pm
Get ready to dance, ****.  That intro...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSGWsmR4ipM
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Omni on October 01, 2018, 10:40:33 pm
That's headache material if I've ever heard it.
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Post by: Michael Hardner on October 02, 2018, 06:03:39 am
I heard that in a bar when it came out and mostly was taken by the video.  I DO like the intro but found the song repetitive and dull.

Then a younger relative played 'Perfect Kiss' and I just loved it ... sublime.  Then I got a 'Best of New Order' CD and I love a lot of their catalogue.  Their lyrics are simple and even dumb sometimes, and their musicianship is basic ... but the way they put it together, the style of it is just irresistible.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: guest4 on October 03, 2018, 10:13:02 am
Hilary Klug, violin and tapping.

https://youtu.be/5AerUhxo-KY
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on October 13, 2018, 12:07:54 pm
A co-worker took me to a concert last night. His wife's friend was singing at a restaurant and they had an extra ticket. A nondescript 30-something woman whose elementary-school age daughter was checking tickets at the door. She, along with a bass player and piano/guitar guy, performed a variety of familiar songs as well as their original singers ever did. She did several Fleetwood Mac songs, a countryesque take on "Royals", a couple of Elton John numbers, "Black Velvet"... either songs made famous by female vocalists, or at least songs that suit a female voice. It was really, really good.  She's apparently available to perform at your wedding, houseboat party, or whatever. The highlight of the show was these two songs from the '90s. "Joey" in particular was delivered with such feeling that I felt myself getting misty-eyed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NXnxTNIWkc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwiXtHHTzl8

 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on October 13, 2018, 02:02:59 pm
That's the best kind of music.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on October 13, 2018, 02:55:28 pm
That's the best kind of music.

Live performances in small intimate venues?  Or songs by women with floppy hats?

 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Queefer Sutherland on October 13, 2018, 05:09:40 pm
That singer from 4 non blondes really creeps me out for some reason.

That singer belting "Joey" live really nailed it, she sounds just like she does on the recording.
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Post by: Michael Hardner on October 13, 2018, 10:44:35 pm
Live performances in small intimate venues?  Or songs by women with floppy hats?

 -k

First one.  Especially if it's good.  Good locals beat all.  The tourist music in St. John's NFLD was a little hokey though.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on October 14, 2018, 11:43:35 am
First one.  Especially if it's good.  Good locals beat all.  The tourist music in St. John's NFLD was a little hokey though.


That singer belting "Joey" live really nailed it, she sounds just like she does on the recording.

Jeanette Napolitano... I think she's a pretty great singer.  She could fit her voice to songs from angry to romantic to happy to heartbroken. I had a few of their albums when I was younger, but no longer have those cassettes or anything to play them on, and if I did they'd probably sound like crap anyway. I hadn't thought about Concrete Blonde for years, and had forgotten how much I enjoyed them.

I really loved this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbbBlmK-maQ


"Tomorrow, Wendy" was the last song on the same record that had "Joey" on it.  It was written by another musician, whose friend had contracted AIDS and decided she would commit suicide rather than go through the suffering. I didn't know the backstory at the time, but you didn't really need to know it to feel the bleakness and hopelessness.  I found this deeply affecting when I was young, and still do I guess.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCwIHwSt8RU


 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Goddess on October 15, 2018, 10:01:41 am
I think the 4 Non Blondes song is making a comeback.  I hear it on the radio lately every day.  It's a gooder.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on October 21, 2018, 07:05:24 am
VICE makes a compelling case that Rock is DEAD.

https://noisey.vice.com/en_us/article/a3aqkj/rock-is-dead-thank-god?fbclid=IwAR1PnGnTI1NCX7EqCeCPXz_GkjFDVSvXNbNF2BgijY0lFmpGKdri0qrLSCQ&utm_source=vicefbus

Sure, why not ? 
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on October 21, 2018, 11:00:52 am
I'm okay with it.

I wonder if, at some point, Big Band enthusiasts were thinking the same thing. "We're not #1 anymore, but that's not a bad thing. Big Band has become too diluted with substandard copies of the greats. It's dying under its own popularity. Waning popularity will cure some of what ails Big Band right now. Big Band will come back, and when it does it'll be fresher and more relevant because of this."

 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on October 21, 2018, 12:15:06 pm
I am witness to the rebirth of big band.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Omni on October 24, 2018, 02:46:31 am
Hard not to love this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjTEkhXgu_4
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on October 31, 2018, 06:58:46 pm
I"m thinking of a graph - to plot 'Out There' music

X Axis is how 'out there' it is from the range of 0 (Popular) through 5 (Influential) through 10 (They WERE an actual band making music but barely anyone knew of them)

Y Axis is how listenable they are from the range of 0 Pür Noize (Test Department; sorry if you like them) through 5 Interesting and Engaging (Captain Beefheart, Laurie Anderson) through 10 (Meat Puppets, Pere Ubu)

Now add bands with your perceived score, and we can look at a scatter plot.

Is there an online tool for this ?
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: guest18 on October 31, 2018, 09:48:50 pm
Coltrane on the x axis is 5, and Coltrane on the y axis (Ballads = 1; Om = 10) might also average 5.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on November 18, 2018, 01:26:50 pm
Music legends Rod Stewart and Jim Tiger Mellonhead both played concerts in Kim City earlier this month.  Once upon a time a visit from either of these giants would have been a date people circled on their calendar a year in advance, but in 2018 the arrival of both within two weeks of each other barely caused a ripple.

I was never a big fan of either.  My favorite Rod Stewart songs are almost 50 years old-- Maggie May, Mandolin Wind, that sort of thing.  My favorite part of Maggie May is the beautiful mandolin at the end.  I do think he has accepted growing old with more dignity than many of his contemporaries, transitioning from the HAWT LEGGZ guy to the Barry Manilow phase of his career without going through that awkward phase of trying to act like he's still cool.

(https://i.imgur.com/KUhVZ2C.png)

Nobody wants to hear a 70 year old man still singing about living it up while he's going down.


John Mellencamp started his career as Johnny Cougar, then became John Cougar, then John "Cougar" Mellencamp, and finally just John Mellencamp.  His image changed from a record-company idea to become closer to his authentic self. His songs reflected the change as well, as he stopped singing about getting laid and sticking it to the man, and instead sang about small town life and farm foreclosures and middle America and other things that were closer to his heart.  He is still putting out records.  These are from his most recent record, "Sad Clowns and Hillbillies".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrxcwL5nDPM


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzKHTFsVbpw

 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on November 27, 2018, 06:03:57 am
Slow news day ->

https://www.gearslutz.com/board/so-much-gear-so-little-time/497216-steely-dan-quot-no-eq-quot-records-truth-myth.html

Here's a thread about Steely Dan's production
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on December 31, 2018, 12:04:36 pm
"Sweet Home Alabama".    Lynyrd Skynyrd's musical reply to Neil Young's "Southern Man".

Neil Young says he deserved the poke they gave him:
Quote
"I didn't like my words when I wrote them. They are accusatory and condescending."

Skynyrd-- who are from western Florida, not Alabama-- wrote the song with the idea of presenting a less stereotypical idea of the American south. Not everybody loved George Wallace. They talk about the Mussel Shoals music scene, and friends and family and blue skies.

Merry Clayton is the singer who provides the legendary backing vocals on "Gimme Shelter" by the Rolling Stones. Her reaction when they asked her to sing on Sweet Home Alabama:
Quote
She remembers her reaction when she got the call to do the "Sweet Home Alabama" session: "I really don't want to sing anything about Alabama after what happened in Alabama."

Clayton is African-American, and says she could not stop thinking about the infamous 1963 Ku Klux Klan bombing of a church in Birmingham. "I said four little girls lost their lives, and it just broke everyone's heart. I said I don't want to sing anything to do with Alabama. And I went on and on and on."

And yet, there she is on the finished track. I asked Clayton if appearing on the record was a way of laying claim to it — of saying, "My experience is part of the Alabama experience as well." Her response? "Absolutely. You got it."


https://www.npr.org/2018/12/17/676863591/sweet-home-alabama-lynyrd-skynyrd-southern-discomfort-american-anthem

 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Queefer Sutherland on January 07, 2019, 08:34:40 pm
I'm love slow to mid-tempo songs that would scare parents and grandparents:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQLdztuMd1g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvQ2z-DWBA8
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on January 08, 2019, 05:31:37 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYokDsGNmIY

I learned some stuff on this.... I also hate Bowser and Blue but liked their song.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on January 16, 2019, 11:04:13 pm
STOP!  CAN-CON ALERT!  STAND BY FOR CAN-CON!

These have both been Can-con staples of classic-rock radio for a long time.   Listening to these songs, I always wondered why The Payola$ didn't make it bigger.  Having now seen the videos... I think I have my answer. What a dorky looking crew.  Nonetheless, these are great songs.  "Eyes of a Stranger" is sultry and evocative... "Where is this love" creates a vivid image of a child growing up in a troubled home.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1C_fVnE3xHY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FaJgGWRNSM

 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on January 16, 2019, 11:15:22 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk4woNRD7NQ&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR2_2u6QPj81mHXbBYzSYRnCmjFmPicNvT7o8xttBO6wwbxIK6O7MPtllLQ

This is supposed to be the worst song ever.  It's O Holy Night which makes it less listenable.  Listen only when you are ultimately bored.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on January 16, 2019, 11:29:10 pm
What a treasure you've discovered, Michael.  Congratulations, that really sucks. That's truly disastrous.

 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Squidward von Squidderson on January 17, 2019, 12:01:51 am
Sticking with Kimmy’s Can-con theme...

Headpins!   Great song.

https://youtu.be/jjC50QRAXfI
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on January 17, 2019, 12:06:32 am
If you need some ear-bleach after Michael's O Holy Night debacle, meet the incredibly talented and enigmatic... Buckethead!

Known as one of the world's foremost guitarists, Buckethead performs wearing a Michael Meyers mask on his face and a KFC bucket on his head. Hence the name. Legend has it that he was raised by chickens and wears the bucket as a sign of his quest to avenge his family's death at the hands of The Colonel.   Standing 6'6 (not including the bucket) his long and dextrous fingers can navigate the fretboard with unmatched speed.  He can play notes faster than your ear can hear them. But he is skilled in every genre of music and is at his best when he turns the tempo down to create these lovely soundscapes that demonstrate how beautiful the electric guitar can be.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Nj1D2y-PY8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8akmP6Sjv2o

 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on January 17, 2019, 12:14:32 am
Sticking with Kimmy’s Can-con theme...

Headpins!   Great song.

Darby Mills is originally from the Kim Country area, and a guy I used to sometimes work with told me that she sometimes dropped in to "jam" with his "party band".   (he had a "party band" and a "serious band".) 

 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on January 17, 2019, 06:03:30 am

Headpins!   Great song.

https://youtu.be/jjC50QRAXfI

FORGOT ABOUT THIS SONG
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on January 17, 2019, 06:07:02 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBFgSEZI_Ik

CAN CON !  JERRY JERRY AND THE SONS OF RHYTHM ORCHESTRA !

FAKE ANTI-SOCIALIST EVANGELISTS WHO WERE ACTUALLY FROM ALBERTA !  AND COULD PLAY !

"Too many laws too much taxation - AMEN
Said theft by force is a cash castration - AMEN
Oh rule by men instead of laws - SOCIALISM
Too much strength in the government jobs - BAD IDEA
It's a bad idea"

These guys were freaking hilarious.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on January 20, 2019, 07:08:44 am
https://pudding.cool/projects/vocabulary/?fbclid=IwAR3A6WJq106WahSNO9TBlwCRdtkXAfnpQTjigoeWuEdn-fQA-VW2MJOXH5g

RAP VOCABULARY GRAPH !

WU-TANG, GZA, RZA ARE SCHOLARS WHO KNEW ?
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on February 09, 2019, 11:31:57 am
The Killers were incredibly successful in the first decade of this century.  They took a hiatus and have not been as visible since their return. But their recent record did have this catchy song that makes me think of the Bee-Gees for some reason.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3xcybdis1k

 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on February 09, 2019, 11:50:32 am
For some reason "Africa" by Toto has gone through some sort of inexplicable revival. (https://www.bustle.com/p/why-is-africa-by-toto-such-a-big-deal-the-classic-80s-tune-lives-on-on-on-15836592)

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While listening back to the song for a 2018 NPR show, journalist Ailsa Chang and music reviewer Rob Harvilla refer to the track's music video as "Westernized" and a "racist fantasy of Africa." The only defence that Harvilla can muster is that the song is at least "honest about what it is." That is, "a very cheesy, synth-driven song, you know, about a white person singing about Africa despite never having been to Africa."

How big?  Big enough that it will play on repeat at an art installation in a Namibian desert.  Forever. (https://www.forbes.com/sites/loisaltermark/2019/01/17/you-can-now-officially-listen-to-africa-on-repeat-forever-down-in-africa/#509d92682769)


In what might be the perfect cover version of the song, self-deprecating ironic rockers Weezer are joined by parody artist and polka kingpin Weird Al Yankovic to provide Africa (the song, not the continent) with a rendition that is faithful to the original yet also notes what a mammoth-sized slab of Velveeta it truly is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk5Dwg5zm2U

 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on February 09, 2019, 11:59:18 am
A few years ago Swedish metal band Ghost showed up on my radio with an infectious song called "Squarehammer".  After a couple of listens, I noticed that the lyrics were real actual Devil-worshiper lyrics. Imagine that! Real actual Devil-worshipin', on my radio right here in Kim City. Who'd have thunk it?  Anyway, Ghost are back on my radio.  While not explicitly about Devil-worshipin, "Rats" is pretty apocalyptic. But oh so catchy!  The video for "Rats" has some creepy Vincent Price-lookin' dude dancing in urban decay while rats devour everything in sight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqoyKzgkqR4



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_ijc7A5oAc

 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on February 10, 2019, 08:42:49 am
For some reason "Africa" by Toto has gone through some sort of inexplicable revival. (https://www.bustle.com/p/why-is-africa-by-toto-such-a-big-deal-the-classic-80s-tune-lives-on-on-on-15836592)

Toto is vastly unrecognized as a major force in music.  The players were session people that played on EVERYTHING from cartoon theme songs to Michael Jackson's Thriller.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on February 13, 2019, 02:50:47 am
Toto is vastly unrecognized as a major force in music.  The players were session people that played on EVERYTHING from cartoon theme songs to Michael Jackson's Thriller.

I did not know that!

Did you know that Toto composed the soundtrack to the movie Dune? 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm4E4umP9Qc



Brian Eno contributed this beautiful piece of music to the Dune soundtrack:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4SwFhfNh1w

 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on February 13, 2019, 02:59:10 am
I watched "Atomic Blonde" tonight.  It's a spy thriller starring Charlize Theron, set in Berlin in 1989 just before the fall of the Wall.  The movie has a convoluted plot, some brutally violent fight scenes, hot girl-on-girl sex, a car chase involving a Lada, and of course well-chosen 1980s music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2V9SwKXWoM

 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on February 13, 2019, 05:12:14 am
I did not know that!

Did you know that Toto composed the soundtrack to the movie Dune? 
 

I did NOT !
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on February 16, 2019, 01:41:04 pm
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Dire Straits’ standing as MTV megalords belied the absurdly humble origins of Sultans Of Swing. Singer/guitarist Mark Knopfler had written it in 1977, after ducking into a deserted pub one rainy night and witnessing a lousy jazz band. Undeterred by the lack of both talent and punters, their lead singer finished the set with a mildly enthusiastic, “Goodnight and thank you. We are the Sultans Of Swing.”

 ...and the rest was history.

https://www.loudersound.com/features/the-story-behind-the-song-dire-straits-sultans-of-swing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVZTP_kX5BE

 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: wilber on February 16, 2019, 02:53:58 pm
You don't see a lot of rock guitarists that finger pick. Lindsey Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac is another.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on February 16, 2019, 03:29:53 pm
I knew that about Mark Knopfler, but did not know that about Lindsey Buckingham.

 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: wilber on February 16, 2019, 07:15:09 pm
Funny the things you remember. Sitting in the London Hard Rock (the only time I was there) just after Brothers in Arms came out and they were playing the whole thing in the restaurant. Apparently it was the first album to sell over a million on CD's.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Queefer Sutherland on February 16, 2019, 08:42:30 pm
A few years ago Swedish metal band Ghost showed up on my radio with an infectious song called "Squarehammer".  After a couple of listens, I noticed that the lyrics were real actual Devil-worshiper lyrics. Imagine that! Real actual Devil-worshipin', on my radio right here in Kim City. Who'd have thunk it?  Anyway, Ghost are back on my radio.  While not explicitly about Devil-worshipin, "Rats" is pretty apocalyptic. But oh so catchy!  The video for "Rats" has some creepy Vincent Price-lookin' dude dancing in urban decay while rats devour everything in sight.

I've been listening to these 2 songs specifically a lot for the last month. I named "Rats" my favorite song of 2018, so darned catchy agreed!

I'm quite convinced you and I have the exact same taste in music.  If i'm ever in Kim Province we're going to go head-banging somewhere together & then watch some UFC over nachos at the local watering hole :D
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on February 17, 2019, 01:15:25 pm
The guitar player for our stage band was the best player I ever knew.  He worshipped Knopfler so when we found out that our man would have to drop out after the next show for cancer treatment we scheduled Sultans and he nailed it.

Like all true talents I have known, he did not hold himself in high esteem.  Very humble.  Died six years ago, in his 40s.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Queefer Sutherland on February 17, 2019, 01:18:52 pm
The guitar player for our stage band was the best player I ever knew.  He worshipped Knopfler so when we found out that our man would have to drop out after the next show for cancer treatment we scheduled Sultans and he nailed it.

Like all true talents I have known, he did not hold himself in high esteem.  Very humble.  Died six years ago, in his 40s.

That's a sad tale, sorry to hear.

What do you play?
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on February 17, 2019, 02:36:38 pm
Rhythm guitar and I sing.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on February 18, 2019, 08:52:42 pm
Ever have the experience of waking up with a thought fresh in your mind that had never occurred to you before?  It happens to me once in a while.  One time it was a visualization of dot products and vector cross products-- somewhat abstract mathematical ideas that never really been clear to me. It happened to me again recently. I awoke with a realization that: "the Glorious Sons is the opposite of the Inglourious Basterds."

Hopefully I get something more profound next time.

The Glorious Sons are a band from Kingston Ontario, and have had some success on Canadian modern-rock radio.  They have a nice straightforward energetic sound.

Their most recent single is called "S.O.S" and has become a huge hit for them in the US as well. It's about someone struggling. He's on the brink financially and his mental health is not holding up. "S.O.S" is the universal distress signal in Morse Code, but in this instance it stands for "Sawed-Off Shotgun".  The narrator may be planning on going on a spree of some kind. Despite the grim subject matter the song has an ironically cheerful sing-a-long vibe.

The song makes me think of the couple that lived across the hall from me.  She was a nurse, he was a construction worker. Then he injured his back and couldn't work. Then she had a stroke and was hospitalized. Then they fell behind on their rent and they got evicted. They have a toddler son. I don't know what happened to them, and I'm not sure if they'll be alright.


CAN-CON ALERT! STAND BY FOR CAN-CON!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUVDmVM9RtA


Another of the Glorious Sons' radio hits was Lightning.

Wake up
Come on and catch a little lightning
There's darker places than this
There's darker places than this


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7LF5OEkhgc



 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Goddess on February 19, 2019, 12:18:30 pm
Glorious Sons remind me of One Bad Son - band out of Saskatoon:  Edit to add - Song has the "F" word in it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yHO-1pVFow

Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on February 22, 2019, 06:07:54 am
Sooooo....

Not sure I mentioned this but part of my music self-learning is to go back and hit the bands I 'missed'.  That is, major music contributors that I never listened to.  I find these by asking folks of different ages.

So far I have got myself through:

Sonic Youth (grunge era - liked very much)
Linkin Park (listened to a mix of their best songs - I couldn't believe how boring)
Sublime (this was very nice but also I was surprised how easy-listening/FM radio it was.  almost boring)
Flaming Lips (Yoshimi vs Pink Robots; liked but didn't soak in; I will buy on vinyl)

This is different from trying (TRYING HARD) to discover 'new' music like: Arcade Fire, Kurt File, Dirty Projectors, Tame Impala, the XX - all of whom Joan and I both liked.

If you have something 'classic' please post it here.

Here's something a slightly older hippy than me gave and so far I like it lot:

Country Joe & the Fish

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW2slkLkXu4
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Omni on February 23, 2019, 01:28:26 pm
I just discovered that Sade recently turned 60. My how time flies. One of my favs of hers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwDjJP_l5AY
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on February 24, 2019, 09:32:58 am
Rediscovering this album and this song with Joan:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TctayGNzbTM

Truly a weird masterpiece - mix of ska, Muzak and lounge music - all told through the story of a plane crash that kills The Specials' depressive lead singer.  Flight 1313 awaits.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Queefer Sutherland on February 24, 2019, 11:17:56 am
The Glorious Sons are a band from Kingston Ontario, and have had some success on Canadian modern-rock radio.  They have a nice straightforward energetic sound.

Their most recent single is called "S.O.S" and has become a huge hit for them in the US as well. It's about someone struggling. He's on the brink financially and his mental health is not holding up. "S.O.S" is the universal distress signal in Morse Code, but in this instance it stands for "Sawed-Off Shotgun".  The narrator may be planning on going on a spree of some kind. Despite the grim subject matter the song has an ironically cheerful sing-a-long vibe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUVDmVM9RtA

Never heard that song.  Not a fan of this band, too pop for me.  But this SOS song reminds me VERY much of another song by a Canadian band (Theory of a Deadman, now shortening their name) that was a big hit recently in the US too.  Coincidentally both albums containing these songs were released in Oct. 2017.  I smell can-con collusion  :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwxfmYR7ItM
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Queefer Sutherland on February 24, 2019, 11:18:28 am
MH that last song is awesome!
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Goddess on March 04, 2019, 04:24:30 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zAThXFOy2c

Not generally a country music fan, I like the blues-y feel to this version.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on March 08, 2019, 05:41:42 am
Audiobook of the Clash narrated by Chuck D ??

http://www.openculture.com/2019/03/stay-free-the-story-of-the-clash.html

Chuck D a Clash fan ?? I just had a liberalgasm.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on March 10, 2019, 12:14:06 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zAThXFOy2c

Not generally a country music fan, I like the blues-y feel to this version.

That is nice.  There's something about that guitar sound.

I really dislike most country music, but there are some songs that are just undeniably brilliant. "Jolene" by Dolly Parton, "Country Road, Take Me Home" by John Denver, "Storms Never Last" by Jessie Coulter and Waylon Jennings, "Friends in Low Places" by Garth Brooks, "The Gambler" by Kenny Rogers...

Every genre has some songs that just transcend the genre.  Except for Lite Hitz.  There was never a good Lite Hitz song.


 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on March 10, 2019, 12:14:47 pm
Audiobook of the Clash narrated by Chuck D ??

 :o

 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on March 10, 2019, 12:16:32 pm
This song has been on my radio lately, and I really like it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMWVUE5K-ZY

 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on March 10, 2019, 01:29:57 pm
Sister Rosetta Tharpe (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sister_Rosetta_Tharpe).

I'd never heard of her before today, but she was a foundational figure in rock and roll.  It's not just what she's doing... it's when she was doing it. She was developing a style that influenced many of the pioneers of rock and roll, before rock and roll existed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xzr_GBa8qk


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gELe5Rj_tXU

 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: guest7 on March 10, 2019, 06:08:00 pm
I really dislike most country music, but there are some songs that are just undeniably brilliant. "Jolene" by Dolly Parton, "Country Road, Take Me Home" by John Denver, "Storms Never Last" by Jessie Coulter and Waylon Jennings, "Friends in Low Places" by Garth Brooks, "The Gambler" by Kenny Rogers...

I agree fully about Country.  Have you ever listened to this album?  Colter and Jennings, among others.  Even Clapton lends a hand.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qaTtpGRXHk

It came with a book explaining the characters but the wiki page has them too.


Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: guest7 on March 10, 2019, 06:14:50 pm
Sister Rosetta Tharpe (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sister_Rosetta_Tharpe).

I'd never heard of her before today, but she was a foundational figure in rock and roll.  It's not just what she's doing... it's when she was doing it. She was developing a style that influenced many of the pioneers of rock and roll, before rock and roll existed.


 -k

Can you believe she only made it into the Rock and Roll HoF last year...?

Here's a longer film of the railway station performance seen for a short time in your clip.  Somewhere near Manchester, England, I think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnAQATKRBN0
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on March 10, 2019, 08:13:37 pm
Can you believe she only made it into the Rock and Roll HoF last year...?

Yes, unfortunately. But it's nice that she's getting some recognition, albeit belatedly. I feel ashamed for not having known about her before now.

Here's a longer film of the railway station performance seen for a short time in your clip.  Somewhere near Manchester, England, I think.

The Wikipedia page mentions a stop in Manchester...

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Her guitar playing technique had a profound influence on the development of British blues in the 1960s; in particular a European tour with Muddy Waters in 1963 with a stop in Manchester is cited by prominent British guitarists such as Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Keith Richards.

 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Queefer Sutherland on March 10, 2019, 08:23:47 pm
Rock and roll Hall of Fame is a joke like the Grammy's.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on March 10, 2019, 09:08:19 pm
Rock and roll Hall of Fame is a joke like the Grammy's.

Oh GOD YES.  Please don't try to say these publicity vehicles are relevant.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on May 10, 2019, 06:09:35 am
Pet Shop Boys are still around ?  And making an obvious political message ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9jEuHbB0GQ&feature=youtu.be
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Pinus or Vid or...????? on May 10, 2019, 07:16:21 am
Pet Shop Boys are still around ?  And making an obvious political message ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9jEuHbB0GQ&feature=youtu.be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3j2NYZ8FKs
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on May 20, 2019, 08:29:59 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUb450Alpps

 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on May 20, 2019, 08:38:48 pm
I was working in bars when this came out, and it was everywhere at the time.  I hadn't heard it for a long time, but I heard it several times last week for some reason.  It's weard how stuff like that sometimes happens. This song features one of the catchiest guitar hooks ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTAud5O7Qqk

 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on May 21, 2019, 05:34:30 am
I like Modest Mouse just fine... but I lump them with the load of post-Napster indie bands whose impact will never be like those who came about during the age of radio.  Popular music is like politics, music, or anything tha thas been impacted by online: it's all too much and not enough.

Here's something on Neil Young.  They're calling him the father of grunge here ?  I haven't listened but it seems wrongheaded.

http://www.openculture.com/2019/05/who-is-neil-young.html
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on May 26, 2019, 10:11:47 pm
"Billy Ray Cyrus is totally hot right now!" probably wasn't on the list of things you expected to hear in 2019.

Nonetheless it's the truth, thanks to this catchy collaboration with rapper "Li'l Nas", which has been a gigantic, genre-breaking hit.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUcisIlT7sM

 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: guest18 on May 27, 2019, 07:11:55 am
I like Modest Mouse just fine... but I lump them with the load of post-Napster indie bands whose impact will never be like those who came about during the age of radio.  Popular music is like politics, music, or anything tha thas been impacted by online: it's all too much and not enough.

Here's something on Neil Young.  They're calling him the father of grunge here ?  I haven't listened but it seems wrongheaded.

http://www.openculture.com/2019/05/who-is-neil-young.html
He's been called the father of grunge since the early 1990s. Rust never sleeps was grunge before grunge.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on May 27, 2019, 07:30:26 pm
  Rust never sleeps was grunge before grunge.

Why ?  I like it.  I liked it when it came out.  I like grunge.  I don't think they are related.  He toured with Pearl Jam and that was a thing.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: guest7 on May 27, 2019, 08:30:28 pm
What about the Pink Fairies?  They were pretty grungy when Rust Never Sleeps was just a twinkle in Neil's eye.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7qnLbNAHG0
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on May 27, 2019, 08:56:43 pm
What about the Pink Fairies?  They were pretty grungy when Rust Never Sleeps was just a twinkle in Neil's eye.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7qnLbNAHG0

I always suspected there was something about you.  This is a super obscure band who I have heard a few times but definitely a musical island separate from all around them.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: guest7 on May 27, 2019, 09:03:52 pm
I always suspected there was something about you.  This is a super obscure band who I have heard a few times but definitely a musical island separate from all around them.

Just be grateful I didn't post Pigs of Uranus!

Oh what the hell...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n158dLN3fU
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Omni on May 27, 2019, 09:25:23 pm
Just be grateful I didn't post Pigs of Uranus!

Oh what the hell...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n158dLN3fU

Can I suggest you move that jumpy uppy downy thing over to the forum it's more suited to. BC04 would probably get his jolies if ya did.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on May 27, 2019, 09:31:01 pm
Can I suggest you move that jumpy uppy downy thing over to the forum it's more suited to. BC04 would probably get his jolies if ya did.

Can I suggest you pull your lip over your head and swallow?

 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: guest7 on May 27, 2019, 09:32:17 pm
Can I suggest you move that jumpy uppy downy thing over to the forum it's more suited to. BC04 would probably get his jolies if ya did.

Don't you think I tried?  It won't do GIFs.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Omni on May 27, 2019, 09:39:03 pm
Can I suggest you pull your lip over your head and swallow?

 -k

haha How did I know you would come to the rescue, Right on time kimmy.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Omni on May 27, 2019, 09:41:30 pm
Don't you think I tried?  It won't do GIFs.

Or maybe CA decided it was somehow left of center and therefore not allowed.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: guest18 on May 28, 2019, 11:16:33 am
What about the Pink Fairies?  They were pretty grungy when Rust Never Sleeps was just a twinkle in Neil's eye.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7qnLbNAHG0

Back in the early 1990s I tried to bunny hop a curb on my bike and completely failed and tacoed the back wheel. I got this guy with a messed up arm named Paul at my local bike shop to replace it and he did an awesome job building the new wheel. My friend's junky brother Jeff, who was always lying about everything, told me that Paul used to be in the Pink Faeries. I didn't believe him, but years later, long after Jeff had OD'd and died, I decided to look that up. Turns out Jeff wasn't lying.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: guest7 on May 28, 2019, 01:08:25 pm
Back in the early 1990s I tried to bunny hop a curb on my bike and completely failed and tacoed the back wheel. I got this guy with a messed up arm named Paul at my local bike shop to replace it and he did an awesome job building the new wheel. My friend's junky brother Jeff, who was always lying about everything, told me that Paul used to be in the Pink Faeries. I didn't believe him, but years later, long after Jeff had OD'd and died, I decided to look that up. Turns out Jeff wasn't lying.

Yes, cycling was a Paul Rudolph passion.  Interesting that you got to meet him.  Was that in Gibsons?

Apparently he's retired now and lives in Victoria.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: guest18 on May 28, 2019, 01:22:09 pm
It was in Winnipeg. Apparently his girlfriend at the time lived here.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on September 05, 2019, 05:37:43 am
I'll do some shameless self promotion. 

Been working on a new track for the last couple months and decided last night it was done. 


https://soundcloud.com/sunburn-ottawa/low-n-slow

Coool.  Listening now.  Old guy approved.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on September 05, 2019, 05:38:47 am
Question for you under 55 years old:

Do you appreciate The Band ?

They apparently are getting some hype due to a TIFF documentary showing this week.  I'm wondering if they will get their due.

Arguably THE most influential, and greatest Canadian Rock Band.  Arguably.

Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on September 06, 2019, 02:09:57 am
meh.

I guess I'm not old enough to appreciate their place in music history.  "The Weight" and "Cripple Creek" and "Chest Fever" still get played on my radio station pretty often, but I'm not wild about them.

I like "Showdown at Big Sky" and "Crazy River" from Robbie Robertson's solo record better than I like The Band's big hits.


https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/tiff-opening-once-were-brothers-robbie-robertson-1.5268720


 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on September 06, 2019, 04:10:06 am
Ok, well TIL=today I learned that there are still classic rock stations out there somewhere that play The Band and that kimmy listens to such a station  :o
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: guest18 on September 06, 2019, 08:09:47 am

They apparently are getting some hype due to a TIFF documentary showing this week.  I'm wondering if they will get their due.


I still resent them for Dylan going electric and feel they got their due when Martin **** Scorsese made a movie out of their last concert.
And I wish I never heard their cover of "Free Your Mind" by EnVogue.
I'm not joking. It exists.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on September 06, 2019, 11:47:24 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkMw1hgkSOk

Maybe in their prime it could have been done better.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: guest18 on September 06, 2019, 03:18:35 pm
It was worse than I remembered it to be.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on September 06, 2019, 03:28:31 pm
I dunno.  They're just weak and tired.

Imagine being cursed to do the same job you did in your youth.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: guest18 on September 06, 2019, 06:35:07 pm
They were still perfectly capable musicians then (though I think the guys in that video are mostly all dead now). I just hate that period (late 90s/early aughts?) when Paul Anka was singing Smells Like Teen Spirit and it was all cleverly ironic and totally unlistenable.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Queefer Sutherland on September 06, 2019, 10:18:43 pm
Question for you under 55 years old:

Do you appreciate The Band ?

They apparently are getting some hype due to a TIFF documentary showing this week.  I'm wondering if they will get their due.

I like The Band, but it doesn't get enough credit.

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Arguably THE most influential, and greatest Canadian Rock Band.  Arguably.

I think most people would say Rush.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: guest18 on September 07, 2019, 10:25:27 am
Geddy Lee singing "Take off" with Bob & Doug was my favourite. Ten bucks is ten bucks.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on September 07, 2019, 11:00:39 am
Geddy Lee singing "Take off" with Bob & Doug was my favourite. Ten bucks is ten bucks.

Rush has its value.  I mean I like every genre and every niche. 

But in terms of pure weight... I dunno The Band seems to be a real essential link between old timey folky stuff and the rock. 
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on September 07, 2019, 11:01:41 am
New question:

What is the last rock band ?

I would say Radiohead is the 2nd last one... and they melted into ambient electronica last album I listened to.  And The Darkness is the bow on the package.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Queefer Sutherland on September 07, 2019, 10:42:03 pm
New question:

What is the last rock band ?

I would say Radiohead is the 2nd last one... and they melted into ambient electronica last album I listened to.  And The Darkness is the bow on the package.

Michael have you not listened to any rock radio the last 15 years??

There last amazing rock band to take the rock world by storm (besides Greta Van Fleet, but they kinda don't count haha) is Royal Blood from the UK:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnTkH7ZvKKs

On the Canadian rock scene, July Talk from Toronto are amazing and from the last 5 years or so:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU5qp-cAtOU

Both these bands have a bit of influence in their sound from the "indie scene", but unlike most modern indie bands they actually use distorted guitars.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: guest18 on September 08, 2019, 10:19:56 am
Just because rock bands exist doesn't mean rock isn't dead. There are still plenty of jazz musicians but jazz died around the 1960s.
Once there are no revolutionary innovations and it starts regurgitating the same patterns and ideas, it may still be nice to listen to but it's dead as an art form.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on September 08, 2019, 11:30:29 am
agree with bubbs

I heard a live bluegrass last night, but if I stopped 100 people on the street (in Calgary) they couldn't name the top bluegrass band in Canada or the world.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Queefer Sutherland on September 08, 2019, 08:00:15 pm
Just because rock bands exist doesn't mean rock isn't dead. There are still plenty of jazz musicians but jazz died around the 1960s.
Once there are no revolutionary innovations and it starts regurgitating the same patterns and ideas, it may still be nice to listen to but it's dead as an art form.

Well, I would say rock is dead as a pop culture movement and virtually dead as a commercial industry.  It's the same as jazz...jazz isn't completely dead as an art-form, but it's dead as pop culture. 

Heavy metal is probably the healthiest rock sub-genre, it's also still fairly big in Northern Europe, but again it doesn't have any pop culture influence like it still did 10-15 years ago.

It's amazing that just about every other young person was rocking out on Guitar Hero and Rock Band games 10 years ago and then since that time young people now have turned off of rock so quickly.  Millennials are much more into hip-hop...
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Queefer Sutherland on September 08, 2019, 08:27:47 pm
agree with bubbs

I heard a live bluegrass last night, but if I stopped 100 people on the street (in Calgary) they couldn't name the top bluegrass band in Canada or the world.

Ok so if we agree that rock is dead as pop culture, we need to determine the last great rock band that made an impact in pop culture.

MH says Radiohead and The Darkness.  Radiohead is a bit too old i think.  They got big in the mid and late 90's.  The Darkness came on the scene in 2003 but IMO weren't quite popular enough.  Maybe someone like System of a Down who hit it big in 2001. 

Nickelback might be the last worldwide rock  pop culture phenomenon?  Their 2nd album in 2001 sold 10 million worldwide, which is insane.  They're not a bad band, though i'm not a huge fan, but i think most people hate them because after they got big the struggling rock industry music a million different bands that sounded like them, so they kind of represent this huge bland commercialized "sellout" band.

The Killers hit big in 2004 (Hot Fuss), but really only had 1 good album (though Oasis only had 2 good albums).  The White Stripes hit big 2001-2003 (Seven Nation Army came out 2003).
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on September 08, 2019, 09:13:51 pm
Ok so if we agree that rock is dead as pop culture, we need to determine the last great rock band that made an impact in pop culture.

Hmm.  Yes, I think that sounds good but you also need to consider how much subjectivity is in the 'impact' thing. 

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MH says Radiohead and The Darkness.  Radiohead is a bit too old i think.  They got big in the mid and late 90's.  The Darkness came on the scene in 2003 but IMO weren't quite popular enough.  Maybe someone like System of a Down who hit it big in 2001. 

Well, ok but Radiohead had a lot of acclaim for 'in Rainbows' in 2007. 

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Nickelback might be the last worldwide rock  pop culture phenomenon?  Their 2nd album in 2001 sold 10 million worldwide, which is insane.  They're not a bad band, though i'm not a huge fan, but i think most people hate them because after they got big the struggling rock industry music a million different bands that sounded like them, so they kind of represent this huge bland commercialized "sellout" band.

The Killers hit big in 2004 (Hot Fuss), but really only had 1 good album (though Oasis only had 2 good albums).  The White Stripes hit big 2001-2003 (Seven Nation Army came out 2003).

I feel that the hugeness of radiohead, and the way they're going out puts a vote in for them.  Less sure about The Darkness although they intrigue me.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on September 09, 2019, 07:10:30 am
This girl covers rock songs on her traditional Korean instrument, called a gayageum.  While I feel the word "epic" is overused, this is pretty close.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWhaxH03Xok

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcGHznR64NM

 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on September 09, 2019, 07:22:27 am
Intriguing - I will use that word again.  Has almost the gravity of a guitar but kind of a bouncy quality.

Wait - posted at 510 am BC time ?
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on September 10, 2019, 09:41:14 am
Wait - posted at 510 am BC time ?

My sleep cycle has been out of control for a variety of reasons.

 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on September 10, 2019, 07:32:39 pm
My sleep cycle has been out of control for a variety of reasons.

 -k

 :-[

Make a sleep routine and stick to it !
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on December 08, 2019, 08:48:16 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2Y2vQ-1m7M

This groove is rocking our house and easy more than anything right now.

Bonus -> Kimmy, babynomoney (BBNO$) lives in Kelowna !
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: guest18 on December 09, 2019, 06:51:52 am
Spotify is trying to tell me All the Young Dudes by Mott the Hoople was my favourite song of 2019, but I don't believe it.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Queefer Sutherland on December 10, 2019, 10:52:31 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2Y2vQ-1m7M

This groove is rocking our house and easy more than anything right now.

Bonus -> Kimmy, babynomoney (BBNO$) lives in Kelowna !


This is just a song that's easy to stick in the head.  No talent here.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on December 11, 2019, 05:55:34 am
This is just a song that's easy to stick in the head.  No talent here.

Oh but that IS a talent.

I scoffed at Rick Astley in the 1980s.  Guess whose songs are still played ? Not Judith Sill's or even Brian Eno's so much.

Embrace the dichotomy between 'quality' and 'popular' and you still have embraced the essence of humanity.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on February 01, 2020, 08:00:20 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmbmeOgWsqE&list=RDWfEhyi8N__Q&index=5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P00HMxdsVZI

Ok.  The consensus on Lizzo is that her music grows on you, at least in our house.  It sounds a little standard at first but seeps in to your ear pores...

I also think she's pretty, given the rubenesque dynamic of her. 
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Post by: Squidward von Squidderson on March 14, 2020, 02:28:01 pm
Sons of Apollo doing Comfortably Numb....   pressure is on...  it better be bloody good if you’re going to do a Pink Floyd cover!!   I don’t think it will disappoint....


https://youtu.be/FwrXiM6590s
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on March 14, 2020, 03:17:27 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLKZKmdZEjM

I am getting into this band - which is the main guy from Blur and a cartoon artist who does amazing graphics for the cartoon version of the band.

This is a new track from them.  I love the African woman.  I really love her, and she makes me swoon though I'm not physically attracted to her.  She is like a goddess.  I would be nervous even to stand near her.  I couldn't imagine kissing her, she is too perfect.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Squidward von Squidderson on March 14, 2020, 05:30:22 pm
I love the African woman.  I really love her, and she makes me swoon though I'm not physically attracted to her.  She is like a goddess.  I would be nervous even to stand near her.  I couldn't imagine kissing her, she is too perfect.

That post took a strange twist....
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on March 14, 2020, 06:53:36 pm
I like to dissect the various forms of attraction that I feel.

She's the kind of person who makes me stammer.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Granny on March 31, 2020, 05:57:09 pm


https://youtu.be/ph1GU1qQ1zQ

http://www.openculture.com/2020/03/good-medicine-the-bands-classic-song-the-weight-sung-by-robbie-robertson-ringo-starr-special-guests-from-around-the-world.html
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on March 31, 2020, 07:03:09 pm
Love the band... Robbie though... musicians kind of don't get enthusiastic about him... Leon Helm, Garth Hudson, yeah...
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: guest18 on March 31, 2020, 07:29:37 pm
Love the band... Robbie though... musicians kind of don't get enthusiastic about him... Leon Helm, Garth Hudson, yeah...
I think in this case you really need to cap Band. Also, he shall be Levon (and he shall be a good man).
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on March 31, 2020, 07:37:37 pm
The BAND !  :D
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Queefer Sutherland on March 31, 2020, 09:51:09 pm
New Pearl Jam single is different and really cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymf7DZUeVow

Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on April 01, 2020, 06:37:58 am
Me: You'll never guess who that is...
Joan: David Byrne?

 :D

Sounds like the SEMINAL album Remain in Light
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Queefer Sutherland on April 01, 2020, 12:33:24 pm
New Pearl Jam single is different and really cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymf7DZUeVow

Did Pearl Jam rip off The Killers?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3xcybdis1k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on April 09, 2020, 07:49:57 pm
I am getting into this band - which is the main guy from Blur and a cartoon artist who does amazing graphics for the cartoon version of the band.

This is a new track from them.  I love the African woman.  I really love her, and she makes me swoon though I'm not physically attracted to her.  She is like a goddess.  I would be nervous even to stand near her.  I couldn't imagine kissing her, she is too perfect.

Really feeling one line from Gorillaz "Clint Eastwood" today:

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YEAHHHHH,
Finally somebody let me out of my cage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UclCCFNG9q4

Now that my 14 days of solitary confinement are up, I'm also feeling this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1AcjONu56M


 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on April 09, 2020, 08:00:00 pm
Gorillaz are releasing a bunch of YouTube videos as 'Song Machine' ... like one a month or so...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKXloFW_ZCA

This came out today - Peter Hook from New Order on it but other than that, I liked the one with Fatou Diawara way better.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on April 13, 2020, 09:43:43 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyOGIsds2C4

BBNO$ aka Baby "No Money" ... latin-tinged pop hip hop with sophomoric lyrics and I was GOING to say infantile... from a skinny white BC boy who came from who knows where...

"Hey Alexa, Hey Alexa, how many **** can we fit in the Tesla ?"

As a boomer, I do like the middle-aged eye candy in these videos... something for everyone...

Let's see if he can set one in space next...
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: guest18 on April 13, 2020, 09:45:11 am
I had taken you more for Generation X. You must look like a grandpa at the play park.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on April 13, 2020, 10:35:28 am
I had taken you more for Generation X. You must look like a grandpa at the play park.

No I don't.  I look extremely good for my age.  Plus I have the fidelity vibes at 100 so I trigger Freudian impulses in women of all generations. 

I am fantastic.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: guest18 on April 13, 2020, 10:58:24 am
You're not even into the terrible twos yet. You'll age 10 years in 6 months.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on April 13, 2020, 11:54:24 am
You're not even into the terrible twos yet. You'll age 10 years in 6 months.

I thought I would have aged already.  I have great hair, if that means anything.  No visible grey.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on June 03, 2020, 02:42:45 pm
80s punk rock legend wakes up and emotes (spoiler: it's anger) at the current sitch...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zD7TxGTPsV4
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on June 14, 2020, 08:12:47 am
This is what music has become...

Meet Yung Gravy (formerly "Matt Hauri", 24-year-old ex-marketing student, U of Wisconsin).  Rising hip hop star.

I would have something negative to say if I didn't find his songs so listenable.  BOOMER OUT.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaURBWLWI_0

The ones with baby-no-money BBNO$ are better though...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyOGIsds2C4
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on June 15, 2020, 02:48:52 pm
Come ON squid... do you have a dancing bone in your body ?

How about THIS one... it's fun, Latin and made the top 40 downloads

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpHvHGMZ0jc
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on June 26, 2020, 02:02:04 am
Police brutality and racism has been in the news a lot lately, and it always makes me think of this song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQTXawaAKNA

(bet you thought it was gonna be The Hurricane by Bob Dylan, right? WRONG!)

And then I was thinking, why do it be like it do?  It's the SYSTEM, MAN!  Andy Samberg explains it all here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAYL5H46QnQ

 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on June 26, 2020, 05:51:31 am
Fatoumata Diawara.... hypnotizing you with simple and stirring sounds... from her voice and guitar....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sBqMBEehIs
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on July 25, 2020, 07:23:25 am
Joni was one of the very very best.  Up there with Dylan, Neil Young, The Band, The Beatles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRjQCvfcXn0
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on July 27, 2020, 12:51:52 pm
Joni 1965

https://youtu.be/dUBbDe3DZ1M
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on August 19, 2020, 08:10:21 am
Joni with her then-squeeze James Taylor (!) 1970 Paris Theatre.  Pure heaven.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpMfdob55W0
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Dia on August 19, 2020, 11:06:59 am
I have great hair, if that means anything.  No visible grey.
Me too, at 62.  I think I look mid-50s, but maybe I'm just being polite.  :)
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on September 12, 2020, 07:44:29 am
I'm still so into these guys....  Easy too  :P


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnP78ncRFC8
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on September 16, 2020, 09:09:35 am
Oldies....

Maybe the best pop song ever.  BTW - this is Stevie Nicks singing but not her in the video ?!?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVWG41zpuLY
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on September 17, 2020, 02:50:25 am
Mark Mothersbaugh is one of the founders of DEVO. And he's also a wildly prolific composer of music for movie and TV soundtracks.  He has composed music for Thor: Ragnarok, and Disenchantment, and The Rugrats, and hundreds of other things as well.

Mothersbaugh is 70 years old now, so when he contracted COVID-19 this summer (https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2020-08-31/mark-mothersbaugh-devo-covid-19-coronavirus) it was pretty dangerous.  But he survived, and can continue his mission to warn the world about the dangers of devolution.

Incredibly, DEVO was founded nearly 50 years ago. Mark and his bandmates have been trying to tell the world the truth about devolution for almost a half century. Devolution, the controversial theory for which the band is named, posits that mankind is devolving into a brainless species of worker-drones.  As the past 4 years (and especially the past 8 months) have shown, devolution is very real. Mankind has no future. Our greatest days are long behind us. Basically, we're doomed.

DEVO were known for ridiculous songs as well as their ridiculous costumes and "Energy Dome" hats. They also often wore jumpsuits, haz-mat suits, and strange eyewear.  In Mothersbaugh's case the eyewear wasn't a fashion choice, it was a necessity.  He has severe astigmatism and he needs to wear glasses that are so thick he can almost see the future.

One of their first singles was "Mongoloid", from a time when you were still allowed to say "Mongoloid". 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b-nFSUXcuM


"A man is real! Not made of steel!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xfBlP2zl2I

 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on September 17, 2020, 08:13:59 am
I saw an art film almost 40 years ago about the 'young peoples' music' called Urgh !  A Music War.

Devo stood out - an art band that also wanted to rock like Chuck Berry.

Commendable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4Q35e0-fPQ
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on September 19, 2020, 07:23:55 am
I only know Queen as much as the average contemporary listener, but a friend put me on to their first album.  Definitely a lost classic.

Proggy but not indulgent.  It's equal parts theatre and Led Zeppelin...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeVjEg4znQk&list=PL2tMgWgIvcWl2sRiJx4DfCptw0fM6Cwgx&index=4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StXGu0KXpA8&list=PL2tMgWgIvcWl2sRiJx4DfCptw0fM6Cwgx&index=7
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on October 07, 2020, 01:42:50 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RZf-bV3aRE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULEBSxP725w

 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Montgomery on October 07, 2020, 01:11:38 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df-eLzao63I

Mozart piano concerto #21- Andante.
Known as Elvira Madigan.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on December 08, 2020, 08:39:44 am
Ever wonder what Aussie Soccer Hip Hop sounds like ? 

Yeah, me neither.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKenh4ov_-k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: wilber on December 08, 2020, 10:54:34 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhtOUE_LaAY
This movie had a great classical sound track and got an Oscar for sound editing. Also the first feature film allowed to film on location in the Galapagos.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on December 09, 2020, 01:00:56 am
Today was the 40th anniversary of the murder of John Lennon.  My local radio station played a montage of clips this morning that included this audio of Howard Cosell breaking the news on Monday Night Football.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdJcoJUT12M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usNsCeOV4GM

 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on January 25, 2021, 11:23:08 pm
I've posted about Black Mountain in this thread before (https://canadianpoliticalevents.createaforum.com/general-discussion/all-purpose-music-thread!/?message=25526).  They're a small time Vancouver alternative band that's hard to describe... some of their stuff has aspirations of prog-rock.  Some of their stuff is total dogshit, but some of their music is very unique and fascinating to me.

I have been listening to this track lately. It's more recent, and they've got a different female vocalist-- the one that continually sabotages herself with excessive vocal fry seems to have moved on to other things. Anyway, I really liked this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVEq9bZ-SY0


Older track, with previous female vocalist.  "Bright Lights," in all its 16+ minutes of awkward glory. You can just tell they had aspirations of doing like a Pink Floyd "Echoes" rock symphony in multiple parts kind of thing. But like Charlie Brown and the football, they just missed the mark pretty bad and ended up face down in the dirt. Nonetheless I admire their ambition and in some places this is actually pretty epic, especially the big finale, starting at about 11 minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0o6QgcNS4RE


 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on March 14, 2021, 08:27:49 am
Gamelan !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGCSrC8RN6c
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: guest18 on March 14, 2021, 08:32:55 am
Today was the 40th anniversary of the murder of John Lennon. 
 -k
No one ever talks about the other Lennon assassinated by a crazed fan---that is, the father of the Lennon Sisters from the Laurence Welk Show.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on March 14, 2021, 10:37:20 am
No one ever talks about the other Lennon assassinated by a crazed fan---that is, the father of the Lennon Sisters from the Laurence Welk Show.
  ???

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lennon_Sisters

Wow.

The murderer, a delusional stalker named Chet Young, believed himself married to Peggy and was convinced that William Lennon stood in the way of his "marriage" to Peggy and had to be eliminated. Two months later, Young used the same weapon on himself to commit suicide. The sisters discovered an unopened letter containing a cut out of their father, a picture of a gun pointed at his head, and the words "High Noon" (the time of the murder).[7] The sisters were devastated by the death of their father and in the wake of the murder, their new show lasted only one and a half seasons.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on March 16, 2021, 10:47:05 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P701paKEMXs

Acoustic Jimi !
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: eyeball on March 17, 2021, 01:16:11 pm
I've always loved the optimistic feel I get from listening to the Ozark Mountain Daredevils.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKwECrtUYv4

I'm not a man prone to inspirational music but of all the music I do listen to these guys often bring tears to my eyes, maybe its the nostalgia.  I got hooked when I was 16 making my way across the country to the coast for the 1st time. Excellent parking lot picking music too.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: wilber on March 19, 2021, 07:41:02 pm
On the vinyl front from the personal forum, I have a 71 copy of Moving Waves by Focus. I bought it for one tune, Hocus Pocus. Early seventies head banging that still sounds great, This is a later longer version from a 2002 concert.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Snk35eck06Y
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on March 19, 2021, 08:12:03 pm
I'm going to watch these.

Just found this tonight... apparently just a dude... with soul... and a dog


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKsCY6ztsKo
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: guest7 on March 19, 2021, 08:16:32 pm
On the vinyl front from the personal forum, I have a 71 copy of Moving Waves by Focus. I bought it for one tune, Hocus Pocus. Early seventies head banging that still sounds great, This is a later longer version from a 2002 concert.

Hocus Pocus was the b side of their Sylvia single in the UK.  I bought it for Sylvia but enjoyed Hocus Pocus too.  Unfortunately my 45s didn't follow me to Canada the way my 33s did.

But I still have both songs on my jump drive in the truck.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: wilber on March 19, 2021, 09:23:11 pm
I also still have a couple of Moody Blues albums that my sister brought back from the UK before they were known in North America.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Queefer Sutherland on March 19, 2021, 10:42:12 pm
Tom Morello goes crazy.  He was an uber-fan of Bruce before he invited him to play a song with E-Street while on tour.  This was his first ever performance with him.  Tom said during rehearsal he just played standard blues licks during the solo and waited for the live performance to break out the goods during his lifelong dream fanboy moment.  Fans, Bruce, and everyone loved it so much Tom went to record an album and tour with the band.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-mq0uJ7rlM
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on March 20, 2021, 05:20:14 am
Crazy - I just started exploring post-1980 Springsteen and listened to this for the first time last week.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on March 29, 2021, 07:49:31 am
Who is Momus ?  Cult, obscure, odd....

"In the future, everyone will be famous for fifteen people" is his quote

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4J_PiPpQrc
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Black Dog on March 30, 2021, 04:47:46 pm
Lil Nas X's new single  (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6swmTBVI83k)is out and the video is bringing back all kinds of '80s Satanic Panic feelings, you love to see it.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on March 30, 2021, 05:40:55 pm
I saw that Montero video and decided that I am too old to understand anything.

Also he (they?) have a new Satanic shoe ?  It's got blood in it ?
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Queefer Sutherland on March 30, 2021, 10:33:16 pm
I saw that Montero video and decided that I am too old to understand anything.

I watched that video, then I thought "This kinda reminds me of some Drake stuff".  Then I thought "Drake ripped off Lil Wayne".  Then I searched a random Lil Wayne video and clicked on this, which sounds very similar to that Montero video.  So unfortunately, you were too old back in 2013 also  8)

But don't feel bad, I don't understand it either, nor did I understand half the popular music when I was a teenager.  In fact, when I went dancing with friends in clubs as a teen/early 20's I was miserable because I hated most of the music they played.  Then I realized that they typically play music women love to dance to, because that will then bring the guys.  I preferred rock concerts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY44zvhWhp4
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on March 31, 2021, 04:12:04 am
There are many things that music does.

Confuse me is the main one now.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Black Dog on April 01, 2021, 03:40:30 pm
Couple of performances I'm obsessed with ATM:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txNUN0sPG6Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgZ1YRDyohs
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Queefer Sutherland on April 01, 2021, 09:54:21 pm
I like the top video but not the bottom one.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on April 02, 2021, 11:36:07 am
Both of them are listenable.  Top one reminds me of Kate & Cindy of B52s vocals, Chris Isaak, The XX.

And music these days - new music - isn't really that 'new' is it ?

Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Black Dog on April 03, 2021, 10:52:08 am
Both of them are listenable.  Top one reminds me of Kate & Cindy of B52s vocals, Chris Isaak, The XX.

And music these days - new music - isn't really that 'new' is it ?

Isn't that the case since the second hominid started beating on a hollow log with a rock?
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on April 16, 2021, 07:50:33 am
Fake 80s country was still country....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vD8l_ny48s
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on May 27, 2021, 01:21:09 am
"Neptune," by Foals.  This got recommended to me because I like "Space To Bakersfield", posted earlier.  The two songs are quite similar in some ways, being quite long with extended instrumental interludes in the middle.  Space to Bakersfield has the incredibly lush, rich guitar work, whereas Neptune has a more sparse, stark feel.   I was intrigued by this song so I looked up some more music by Foals and they seem to do mostly Brit-pop in the vein of Kassabian or cut-rate Oasis, that sort of thing. So Neptune is quite far out of their usual range.  The premise seems to be, he feels like the world is collapsing and wants to GTFO while he still can.

Now it's time to go
Through the fields of chrome
The rusted homes, abandoned
Remains of the day
So come row me away
On black rivers and rainbows
To Neptune
Where I can stay


Video features a cold-looking sea shore, with a white horse and black horse running alongside the sea. Seems somewhat biblical. Also starring a crow (shoutout to Corvid Culture thread.)

Anyway, I really liked this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tw4w0Qh-d08


 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on May 27, 2021, 01:26:55 am
Stevie Nicks turned 73 years old today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmPgMc3R8zg

 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on June 05, 2021, 01:59:52 pm
Pure pop bliss from - where else - the UK in the 1990s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6cUmieJwJY
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Queefer Sutherland on August 23, 2021, 06:24:46 pm
Still love this song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRK7PVJFbS8

Why Kanye is a good artist:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuhl6Ji5zHM
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on August 23, 2021, 06:33:53 pm
Can you explain Kendrick Lamar to me?
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Queefer Sutherland on August 23, 2021, 09:01:12 pm
Can you explain Kendrick Lamar to me?

He's a young rapper from Compton (immediate street cred) who has fantastic lyrics but very annoying flow.  Being annoying doesn't seem to matter to the kids these days if you're hip and cool.  See:  Drake.

Not much of a fan of his outside this song, i'm the wrong person to ask.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on August 24, 2021, 06:24:18 am
And yet you helped. 

Flow is music to me.  Be bop is music, but more like a university lecture on theory.

Bland lyrics, well arranged, in soulful music can take you to heaven.

"If my words did glow with the gold of sunshine
And my tunes were played on the harp unstrung
Would you hear my voice come through the music?
Would you hold it near as it were your own?"

The lyrics are nothing but they touch your heart 💗.

I can also listen to complicated lyrics, whether they adhere to the music as with Steely Dan, or they don't...

Can't think of an example of the former... Maybe We Didn't Start the Fire by Billy Joel.  Joan disagreed.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Dia on September 25, 2021, 08:24:56 pm
Maybe you've all heard this one, but I just discovered it playing Moon Rider on my VR.  It's pretty entertaining.
https://youtu.be/o0u4M6vppCI
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: guest18 on September 25, 2021, 09:35:32 pm
  Be bop is music, but more like a university lecture on theory.

Bebop is like brutalist architecture. Very, very modern and imposing and often ugly at first glance, but very bold and interesting because of that. They both came from around the same time too.

I've recently been alternating between Charlie Parker and Janis Joplin biography audiobooks on my daily bike rides. If it's not one depressing junkie,  it's another. I also listened to Flea's memoirs this summer. He got his start as a musician playing bebop because his stepfather was a professional bebop musician, and he also managed to kick the heroin early. But his chilipepper bandmate OD'd and died, so that was depressing.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on September 26, 2021, 05:38:47 am
I love 4/4 a heart warming lyric.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Black Dog on November 29, 2021, 10:32:08 am
The new Beatles documentary from Peter Jackson is on Disney+ and I'm about halfway through. I'm a huge Beatles fan, and while the fly-on-the-wall approach Jackson used feels much more intimate than a more didactic one, there's no denying there are large parts that feel like a slog as you watch the band bicker, plunk through half baked song ideas and loaf around shooting the ****. It's not clear exactly why this needed to be more than eight hours long. Perhaps the idea is to strip away the mythology and show how the sausage is made, which is a long and tedious process punctuated by moments of genius like this one. (https://twitter.com/Anthony/status/1465130646356082692?s=20)

Anyway, I've hit the part where Billy Preston joins the band on keyboard and things really seem to be picking up so maybe the back half will be stronger.

Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on November 29, 2021, 10:42:53 am
1. the fly-on-the-wall approach Jackson used feels much more intimate than a more didactic one, there's no denying there are large parts that feel like a slog as you watch the band bicker, plunk through half baked song ideas and loaf around shooting the ****.

2. Anyway, I've hit the part where Billy Preston joins the band on keyboard and things really seem to be picking up so maybe the back half will be stronger.


1. can you credit Jackson with this since he's using found footage ?
2. did you see Let It Be ?
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Black Dog on November 29, 2021, 12:31:29 pm
1. can you credit Jackson with this since he's using found footage ?
2. did you see Let It Be ?

1. Why would using previously existing footage matter? Dude combed through 60 hours of footage, restored it and enhanced the audio with the state of the art technology. Took him four years to make! Did you see his WW1 doc "They Shall Not Grow Old?"

2. I have not seen the original in its entirety, just the rooftop concert sequence.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on November 29, 2021, 01:09:50 pm
1. Why would using previously existing footage matter? Dude combed through 60 hours of footage, restored it and enhanced the audio with the state of the art technology. Took him four years to make! Did you see his WW1 doc "They Shall Not Grow Old?"

2. I have not seen the original in its entirety, just the rooftop concert sequence.

1. I think most 'director' credits involve more.
2. I saw it.  What I am hearing sounds like... that film.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Black Dog on November 29, 2021, 01:47:47 pm
1. I think most 'director' credits involve more.

Such as? Does Ken Burns not get credit for not hopping in a time machine?

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2. I saw it.  What I am hearing sounds like... that film.

It's not. In fact, with "Get Back" Jackson specifically set about to offer a counternarrative to the one in Let It Be that the final sessions were completely awful. there's a lot more joy in the footage he found. My big complaint is teh run time.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on November 29, 2021, 02:12:16 pm
1. Such as? Does Ken Burns not get credit for not hopping in a time machine?

2. It's not. In fact, with "Get Back" Jackson specifically set about to offer a counternarrative to the one in Let It Be that the final sessions were completely awful. there's a lot more joy in the footage he found. My big complaint is teh run time.

1. I haven't seen it, but if there's additional framing, writing and so on, on the scale of a Ken Burns piece then that would make sense.

2. kk
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Black Dog on November 29, 2021, 02:19:34 pm
1. I haven't seen it, but if there's additional framing, writing and so on, on the scale of a Ken Burns piece then that would make sense.

I'd say he executes his vision through what footage he chooses to use and not through a ton of postfacto exposition or editorialization. And that's the source of both the charm and the frustration.

I think you're also underrating the technical achievement.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on November 29, 2021, 02:26:40 pm
I think you're also underrating the technical achievement.

Dude, I can't rate anything or at least I shouldn't.  I'm only asking questions, for which you have provided answers and I thank you.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Queefer Sutherland on November 29, 2021, 08:02:07 pm
The new Beatles documentary from Peter Jackson is on Disney+ and I'm about halfway through. I'm a huge Beatles fan, and while the fly-on-the-wall approach Jackson used feels much more intimate than a more didactic one, there's no denying there are large parts that feel like a slog as you watch the band bicker, plunk through half baked song ideas and loaf around shooting the ****. It's not clear exactly why this needed to be more than eight hours long. Perhaps the idea is to strip away the mythology and show how the sausage is made, which is a long and tedious process punctuated by moments of genius like this one. (https://twitter.com/Anthony/status/1465130646356082692?s=20)

Anyway, I've hit the part where Billy Preston joins the band on keyboard and things really seem to be picking up so maybe the back half will be stronger.

Haven't seen it but i think it's cool to see a band just doing day to day stuff and seeing that they're actual people and also seeing how their creative process works even if it can be sometimes boring.  Footage of Ringo having sex with Yoko would be more fun though.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: guest18 on December 08, 2021, 08:04:29 pm
The best part was watching the writing process in action.
The second best was seeing how they interacted. I had no idea John Lennon was such a manic-depressive ADD bipolar type.
The third best was Ringo farting. I wouldn't mind seeing the remaining 48 hours of footage. I've got time.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on December 08, 2021, 08:26:59 pm
I'm fascinated with people finding songwriting so fascinating. 
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: guest18 on December 08, 2021, 08:53:27 pm
Isn't it the most elemental creative process? It's mystical in that they are channelled more than written. All songwriters say the same thing about their great works: they have no idea where they came from. Paul McCartney wrote Yesterday in a dream. On writing Stardust, Hoagy Carmichael said "[I felt] that queer sensation that this melody was bigger than me. Maybe I didn’t write it at all.“ 
This sentiment has been shared by Paul Simon and Bob Dylan among others. Songwriting---especoally really good songwriting--is not so much an invention but a celestial discovery.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on December 08, 2021, 08:56:39 pm
Isn't it the most elemental creative process? It's mystical in that they are channelled more than written. All songwriters say the same thing about their great works: they have no idea where they came from. Paul McCartney wrote Yesterday in a dream. On writing Stardust, Hoagy Carmichael said "[I felt] that queer sensation that this melody was bigger than me. Maybe I didn’t write it at all.“ 
This sentiment has been shared by Paul Simon and Bob Dylan among others. Songwriting---especoally really good songwriting--is not so much an invention but a celestial discovery.


Yes, and I suppose I have to watch it but having been part of the creative process it seems just like (enjoyable) work.  I have an interest in it, I guess, but so many have been fascinated with that aspect.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Squidward von Squidderson on December 09, 2021, 12:49:40 am
I hate the Beetles.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on December 09, 2021, 08:11:28 am
I hate the Beetles.

In what way ?  Just the music ?  The personas ?  The hype ?
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Black Dog on December 09, 2021, 09:51:19 am
I hate the Beetles.


(https://i.imgur.com/3USgt2g.gif)
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on December 19, 2021, 09:53:59 pm
In what way ?  Just the music ?  The personas ?  The hype ?

For me, while I wouldn't use the word "hate", I just don't care for the music very much.  While I can appreciate in an academic sense that in its time it was revolutionary and groundbreaking and changed the whole music industry, I was born about 20 years after all this revolution and groundbreaking occurred and don't appreciate that context first-hand. So for me it boils down to the music, and to me most of the music sounds like fairly banal pop, an earlier version of the boy-bands that were big when I was in my teens.

Most of the music is fairly "meh" for me, and some of it is pure dogshit. "A Day In The Life" is pretty spectacular, as are a few of their other songs, but overall I'm not a big fan of their music. I feel more connected to the Rolling Stones, another band that I was much too young to really appreciate.  I don't think any Beatles songs get me all riled up in the way that "Paint it black" or "Shelter" or "Sympathy for the Devil" do. There is a lot of Stones stuff that is total dogshit as well, and some of it is so awful that it makes the Beatles worst junk seem brilliant by comparison.

I can appreciate that the Beatles were pioneers of their time, but they don't have much direct connection to what I listen to today. I can appreciate that the first caveman who discovered that you could make rhythm by hitting a hollow log with a rock was a music pioneer too, but again it doesn't really have much relevance to what I'm interested in at the moment.


 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on December 20, 2021, 04:51:08 am
Ok, sure. 

This works both ways too, as I don't get Kendrick Lamar or ... Lorde..
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Queefer Sutherland on December 20, 2021, 11:25:43 pm
Ok, sure. 

This works both ways too, as I don't get Kendrick Lamar or ... Lorde..

Lorde sucks.  You're not out of touch.  Most overrated artist of the last 10 years.  There's at least 40k indie bands better than her.

Kendrick Lamar also has a nasaly tone and sounds like how a pervert would sound like if they rapped.  But his lyrics are good.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Queefer Sutherland on December 20, 2021, 11:27:23 pm
I hate the Beetles.

They're a very good band.  They're just a zillion times overrated.  They're overrated because they wrote pop songs.  The Stones wrote darker stuff, but are just as good.

The Beatles are a just a band.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on December 21, 2021, 04:37:30 am
They're a very good band.  They're just a zillion times overrated.  They're overrated because they wrote pop songs.  The Stones wrote darker stuff, but are just as good.

The Beatles are a just a band.

People make the mistake constantly of comparing pioneers to what came after, which without them would have been... Nothing.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: guest18 on December 21, 2021, 09:23:10 am
It's true. And it's sad that people only know Louis Armstrong for What a Wonderful World and not for inventing and establishing the musical vocabulary of 20th century popular music.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on December 21, 2021, 10:32:00 am
It's true. And it's sad that people only know Louis Armstrong for What a Wonderful World and not for inventing and establishing the musical vocabulary of 20th century popular music.

Oddly ...

They are combattants in music history - see this:

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/an-unlikely-challenger-ends-the-beatles-reign-atop-the-u-s-pop-charts#:~:text=On%20May%209%2C%201964%2C%20the,1%20hit%20%E2%80%9CHello%20Dolly.%E2%80%9D
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Squidward von Squidderson on December 21, 2021, 12:26:19 pm
People make the mistake constantly of comparing pioneers to what came after, which without them would have been... Nothing.

So without the Beetles, music would have just fizzled away?  LOL

Something else inevitably would have come along, even if it was different, and we would all be looking back at them as the pioneers.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on December 21, 2021, 12:36:31 pm
1. So without the Beetles, music would have just fizzled away?  LOL

2. Something else inevitably would have come along, even if it was different, and we would all be looking back at them as the pioneers.
1. Well, no I guess not
2. The Velvet Underground
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Black Dog on December 21, 2021, 01:25:50 pm
They're a very good band.  They're just a zillion times overrated.  They're overrated because they wrote pop songs. The Stones wrote darker stuff, but are just as good.

The Beatles are a just a band.

Don't get me wrong: I love the Stones, but they're a bar band doing country and blues covers.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: guest18 on December 21, 2021, 02:49:55 pm
Leonardo de Vinci was no big deal. If he hadn't come along, we would have just looked at some other guy's paintings.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Squidward von Squidderson on December 21, 2021, 03:47:18 pm
Leonardo de Vinci was no big deal. If he hadn't come along, we would have just looked at some other guy's paintings.

The beetles are certainly not de Vinci.  I believe in one-off brilliance the likes of which may never be seen again…. Beethoven, de Vinci, Einstein….  The Beetles are not this.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Queefer Sutherland on December 21, 2021, 06:06:07 pm
People make the mistake constantly of comparing pioneers to what came after, which without them would have been... Nothing.

People don't rave more about the Beatles because they hit a year before the Stones.  They care about the music.  The Beach Boys hit years before the Beatles and both sang catchy pop tunes.

What did the Beatles pioneer?  The first half of their career were simple and catchy pop tunes the teens loved.  What did they do that Buddy Holly or Chuck Berry or Elvis didn't do?

Then the 2nd half of their run The Beatles took drugs and got experimental into the late 60's culture like every single other band at the time.

They wrote great songs, I love the band, but people go weird for them and treat them like Gods.

Someone like Hendrix should be far more revered for being a pioneer for doing what nobody had ever done and everyone has tried to copy since.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Queefer Sutherland on December 21, 2021, 06:15:44 pm
Don't get me wrong: I love the Stones, but they're a bar band doing country and blues covers.

Ok, and The Beatles were white Motown.  So what?
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on December 21, 2021, 07:39:56 pm
You're missing a lot:
-the musical innovation
-the cultural pervasiveness
-the counterculture message
-the arrival of the superstar image
-international fame
-introduction of International musical influences
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: guest18 on December 21, 2021, 09:26:23 pm
Not to mention the haircuts. Balding middle aged men were growing their hair long. That's an incredible cultural influence.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Queefer Sutherland on December 22, 2021, 12:55:54 am
You're missing a lot:
-the musical innovation
-the cultural pervasiveness
-the counterculture message
-the arrival of the superstar image
-international fame
-introduction of International musical influences

They're the best musicians since Mozart because mop-tops.

I don't think being very popular has anything to do with how great of a band they are/were.   I love the Beatles, they're an excellent band, easily one of if not the best band from the 60s, but I don't worship them and I don't think Lennon is God.

I know a guy who named his son after Paul McCartney.  Like is he dumb?
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on December 22, 2021, 05:06:18 am
I don't think being very popular has anything to do with how great of a band they are/were.   

No, nor does their work promoting global Peace in a time where war was still popular.

I'm saying that there was more than the music.

And wasn't Mozart popular also?
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Black Dog on December 22, 2021, 10:54:30 am
Ok, and The Beatles were white Motown.  So what?

Not even close.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Black Dog on December 22, 2021, 10:58:00 am
People don't rave more about the Beatles because they hit a year before the Stones.  They care about the music.  The Beach Boys hit years before the Beatles and both sang catchy pop tunes.

What did the Beatles pioneer?  The first half of their career were simple and catchy pop tunes the teens loved.  What did they do that Buddy Holly or Chuck Berry or Elvis didn't do?

Then the 2nd half of their run The Beatles took drugs and got experimental into the late 60's culture like every single other band at the time.

They wrote great songs, I love the band, but people go weird for them and treat them like Gods.

Someone like Hendrix should be far more revered for being a pioneer for doing what nobody had ever done and everyone has tried to copy since.


Tell me you don't actually know about the Beatles without telling me you don't know about the Beatles.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Queefer Sutherland on December 22, 2021, 03:39:17 pm
No, nor does their work promoting global Peace in a time where war was still popular.

I'm saying that there was more than the music.

And wasn't Mozart popular also?

The Backstreet Boys were also popular and made the girls scream
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Queefer Sutherland on December 22, 2021, 03:45:44 pm
Not even close.

Sounds like every hit single The Beatles ever had their first few years:

https://youtu.be/425GpjTSlS4

https://youtu.be/czw8eqepir8
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Black Dog on December 23, 2021, 10:30:52 am
Sounds like every hit single The Beatles ever had their first few years:

The difference is the Beatles quickly outgrew their rock'n'roll and R&B influences, the Stones never really did.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on December 23, 2021, 10:50:42 am
The difference is the Beatles quickly outgrew their rock'n'roll and R&B influences, the Stones never really did.

And nobody seems to be picking up on the cultural impact... which no other band comes close to having.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Queefer Sutherland on December 27, 2021, 04:43:15 pm
The difference is the Beatles quickly outgrew their rock'n'roll and R&B influences, the Stones never really did.

Good songs are good songs.  If you don't like electric blues as much as LSD pop music ok fine.  Hendrix played the blues and so did Zeppelin.  They are still great.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Black Dog on December 28, 2021, 04:16:19 pm
Good songs are good songs.  If you don't like electric blues as much as LSD pop music ok fine.  Hendrix played the blues and so did Zeppelin.  They are still great.

Sure but that's not really the point.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on December 29, 2021, 03:14:17 pm
Ok, sure. 

This works both ways too, as I don't get Kendrick Lamar or ... Lorde..

Except I don't think there's any expectation that everybody needs to revere Kendrick Lamar or Lorde.

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People make the mistake constantly of comparing pioneers to what came after, which without them would have been... Nothing.

I don't have the musical background or the knowledge of musical history to really argue about what the Beatles changed or by how much or where things might have ended up without them. Lots of people believe that they determined the direction of the music industry for everyone who came afterward, I'm willing to take their word for it.

That said, we can appreciate that the Model T was a landmark in the evolution of the automobile industry, while also appreciating that by present-day standards the Model T sucks and none of us would drive one.


Also, I think that the Beatles' legacy is somewhat tainted by the Paul McCartney Christmas song, much in the same way that the Rolling Stones are irreparably tainted by "Emotional Rescue".

The difference is the Beatles quickly outgrew their rock'n'roll and R&B influences, the Stones never really did.

I read an article arguing that the strange, discordant guitar solo in "Sympathy For The Devil", the first track of the Beggar's Banquet album, was the first time in their careers that the Stones had created something truly unique that no other band could have created.  While I get the "bar band" comparison, and it really fits for some of their stuff (especially "Honkey Tonk Women"...) I think that they did move on and make their own path in the music business.  Some  of the new things that they did were not good, and some of the good things that they did were not new, but I don't think their body of work can be as neatly summarized as you suggest.

 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on December 29, 2021, 07:56:47 pm
I am supposed to know Kendrick Lamar.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: guest18 on December 29, 2021, 09:06:24 pm
You should know Louis Armstrong first and go from there. Otherwise it might not make any sense.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Queefer Sutherland on December 29, 2021, 10:44:32 pm
I am supposed to know Kendrick Lamar.

Maybe what most people believe is true is sometimes wrong.  Maybe what is popular isn't always the best.  Maybe Kendrick Lamar sounds like he's constipated when he raps, and maybe the Beatles are a great band but overrated.

Maybe the zeitgiest is full of crap sometimes.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on December 30, 2021, 04:39:50 am
You should know Louis Armstrong first and go from there. Otherwise it might not make any sense.

Well EVERYBODY knows Louis Armstrong...
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on December 30, 2021, 04:47:39 am
Maybe what most people believe is true is sometimes wrong.  Maybe what is popular isn't always the best.  Maybe Kendrick Lamar sounds like he's constipated when he raps, and maybe the Beatles are a great band but overrated.

Maybe the zeitgiest is full of crap sometimes.

Maybe there is no 'right' in these things.

Talking Heads' "Remain in Light" is studied as a paradigm changer in popular music, released in October 1980.  At the top of the charts then was Barbra Streisand's "Women in Love" - forgotten.  If you can articulate an objective way to identify that the zeitgeist was "wrong" I'd be interested.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Black Dog on December 30, 2021, 12:49:13 pm
I read an article arguing that the strange, discordant guitar solo in "Sympathy For The Devil", the first track of the Beggar's Banquet album, was the first time in their careers that the Stones had created something truly unique that no other band could have created.  While I get the "bar band" comparison, and it really fits for some of their stuff (especially "Honkey Tonk Women"...) I think that they did move on and make their own path in the music business.  Some  of the new things that they did were not good, and some of the good things that they did were not new, but I don't think their body of work can be as neatly summarized as you suggest.
 -k

I think my point was the Stones were more about exploring different genres within the western canon (blues, country, soul and even disco) whereas the Beatles from Revolver on were pushing boundaries in terms of recording techniques, song structures and instrumentation.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Queefer Sutherland on January 01, 2022, 07:28:05 pm
Maybe there is no 'right' in these things.

Talking Heads' "Remain in Light" is studied as a paradigm changer in popular music, released in October 1980.  At the top of the charts then was Barbra Streisand's "Women in Love" - forgotten.  If you can articulate an objective way to identify that the zeitgeist was "wrong" I'd be interested.

Yes I agree.  Allz I'm saying is that what's popular doesn't mean "best".  This goes for music as well as political and social beliefs.  Music at least is 100% subjective and not necessarily harmful.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on January 01, 2022, 08:04:56 pm
Yes I agree.  Allz I'm saying is that what's popular doesn't mean "best".  This goes for music as well as political and social beliefs.  Music at least is 100% subjective and not necessarily harmful.

Of course, but at a certain point popular means something... and superstardom plus critical acclaim plus cultural impact... well it's undeniable that if 20th century popular music is discussed then The Beatles will come up.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Squidward von Squidderson on January 02, 2022, 01:12:16 pm
Of course, but at a certain point popular means something... and superstardom plus critical acclaim plus cultural impact... well it's undeniable that if 20th century popular music is discussed then The Beatles will come up.

No one says they weren’t cultural icons and musical influencers.  They were almost as influential to modern rock ‘n’ roll music as Robert Johnson.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on January 02, 2022, 09:02:19 pm
No one says they weren’t cultural icons and musical influencers.  They were almost as influential to modern rock ‘n’ roll music as Robert Johnson.

Agreed.

And cultural impact on a par with which author, poet, film maker, actor ?

Hard to think of one ...
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Queefer Sutherland on January 02, 2022, 10:52:41 pm
Of course, but at a certain point popular means something... and superstardom plus critical acclaim plus cultural impact... well it's undeniable that if 20th century popular music is discussed then The Beatles will come up.

Everybody likes the Beatles.  Sure that means something, they write good tunes for the whole family.  There's something to be said about good pop music.  Everybody went out and bought Thriller.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on January 03, 2022, 06:48:58 am
Everybody likes the Beatles.  Sure that means something, they write good tunes for the whole family.  There's something to be said about good pop music.  Everybody went out and bought Thriller.

For sure... and since we're still in the domain of music - Thriller sold more than any other record... but its influence was marginal: it didn't change music.  It was, however, innovative: a mix of R&B, Motown and soft-rock that included musicians from all popular mainstream genres, like members of Toto and Van Halen.
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Post by: guest18 on January 03, 2022, 01:32:38 pm
I think you underestimate the influence of Thriller. You can still hear it in the top 40 (see The Weeknd).
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Post by: Queefer Sutherland on January 03, 2022, 02:19:10 pm
For sure... and since we're still in the domain of music - Thriller sold more than any other record... but its influence was marginal: it didn't change music.  It was, however, innovative: a mix of R&B, Motown and soft-rock that included musicians from all popular mainstream genres, like members of Toto and Van Halen.

Michael Jackson had massive cultural impact and had a ton of influence on future artists.
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Post by: Ginxa22 on January 07, 2022, 01:17:55 am
I always liked metal and rock, some pop. Now I'm a granny and am musically eclectic. Blues, classic rock, alternative rock, metal, country, sommme rap (not many) and even soprano opera. Now my sons love all these too.
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Post by: Michael Hardner on January 07, 2022, 07:32:40 am
What specifically, Gina?
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Post by: Queefer Sutherland on January 09, 2022, 11:14:25 pm
I always liked metal and rock, some pop. Now I'm a granny and am musically eclectic. Blues, classic rock, alternative rock, metal, country, sommme rap (not many) and even soprano opera. Now my sons love all these too.

Maybe you'd like the Rappin' Granny.  I love her.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6FfhcXS4MQ
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Post by: Ginxa22 on January 11, 2022, 09:29:22 pm
What specifically, Gina?
  music from the 70's to latest, rock, metal, blues ... too many artists to list but am sure a sort A-Z list
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Post by: Ginxa22 on January 11, 2022, 09:31:48 pm
Maybe you'd like the Rappin' Granny.  I love her.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6FfhcXS4MQ
don't think I've ever heard of her - not even my one son who's into rap
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Post by: Michael Hardner on January 12, 2022, 09:15:44 am
  music from the 70's to latest, rock, metal, blues ... too many artists to list but am sure a sort A-Z list

Yeah - so give 5 or 10 from the top of your mind ?

James Taylor ?

New York Dolls ?

Judee Sill ?

Nina Hagen ?

Coco Taylor ?

The Rolling Stones even ?
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Post by: Squidward von Squidderson on January 25, 2022, 01:18:57 pm
https://youtu.be/ZVTgZ4NU-UA
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Post by: Michael Hardner on February 06, 2022, 07:33:35 pm
Dylan's **** sells

https://www.1bid.us/auction/157/item/poop-from-bob-dylan-during-concert-of-1979-very-collectible-2-12d-494074/
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Post by: guest18 on March 05, 2022, 09:50:41 pm
Okay. I thought about it.
Four things set the Beatles apart.
One was their overall charisma and physical/stylistic and progressive-culture appeal (right down to their matching bodies--you could never have had a tall Beatle or a chunky Beatle. It wouldn't have been the same.)
Two was the revolutionary, never-before-seen concept of a group where everybody sang, everybody played an instrument (even on their recordings, which was rare, as session musicians always played the instruments), and they wrote their own songs.
Three, not only did they write their own songs, the songwriting was incredible. They used unusual changes and patterns and time signatures and they seemed to do it instinctively. And the deeper you go, the better it gets. Hey Jude and Let it Be are great, but Dear Prudence and Blackbird are even better.
And four, Ringo was an amazing drummer, as fully demonstrated in Get Back. He could just fall into their creative process and give them the perfect beat for what they were playing with these brilliant, clean fills in the holes they left for him, right where they were needed. Ringo has been severely underrated. They would never have achieved what they did with Pete Best.

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Post by: Queefer Sutherland on March 05, 2022, 10:16:02 pm
I think it comes down to the songwriting.  Beatles wrote a lot of excellent pop-rock songs that everyone of every age could enjoy.  All the other stuff is gravy.

There are other bands who were better musicians, better looking, more musically revolutionary etc., but the song-writing appeals to everyone.  It's just hard not to really like their music.  But not everyone likes Led Zeppelin or Metallica and your mom and grandma may not like them.  You're going to write culturally important music if everyone loves it and a generation of boomers grow up with it.  The vast majority of rock songs are in the minor key, which is a sadder/darker sounding key.  The Beatles wrote happier music (pop), often in major key, and made them catchy.  Abba did similar.
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Post by: guest18 on March 06, 2022, 05:58:53 am
They were pretty cute though.
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Post by: Michael Hardner on April 29, 2022, 09:17:30 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAi7IeJG-6Y

Listen and feel your urge to throttle Elon Musk slip away into the haze
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Post by: Michael Hardner on May 27, 2022, 08:27:13 am
Medieval Dr Dre

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1rVTOHWhYc
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Post by: kimmy on June 21, 2022, 11:32:24 pm
Medieval Dr Dre

phat beats, homie

 -k
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Post by: kimmy on June 21, 2022, 11:40:46 pm
"Music...
...it's what's on the radio!"


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe4EK4HSPkI

What's cooler than being cool?  Ice Cold!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWgvGjAhvIw

 -k
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Post by: kimmy on June 22, 2022, 12:01:02 am
I've become a big fan of a singer named Brandi Carlile.  I'm not specifically too into country or folk or "adult contemporary"-- she fits somewhat into all three and probably other things as well. She has a wonderful voice, and her songs have lyrics that I find deeply relatable and personal. She's a gay woman with a wife and two kids together, but she's also a Christian... I find the two things to be an odd combination,  kind of like when I've discovered that my brilliant co-workers are religious.  Wait, you're so smart, but  you also believe that there's a sky-guy who'll judge you when you die? Okay, whatever.  Anyway, I really like Brandi Carlile.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8pQLtHTPaI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r6A2NexF88

Brandi's lifelong friends and songwriting partners and compatriots are "the twins", Phil and Tim Hanseroth. This is their incredibly great performance of "The Sound of Silence".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjHqz-ecgxc

 -k
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Post by: Dia on June 27, 2022, 11:10:39 am
The Hu, Wolf Totem - Mongolian Rock
https://youtu.be/jM8dCGIm6yc


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Post by: Ginxa22 on July 04, 2022, 09:29:24 pm
Yeah - so give 5 or 10 from the top of your mind ?

James Taylor ?

New York Dolls ?

Judee Sill ?

Nina Hagen ?

Coco Taylor ?

The Rolling Stones even ?
I grew up on Gordon Lightfoot, Jim Croce, Elton John, and found the radio then fell in love with Queen. Couldn't care less that he was gay. Loved his voice, Rod Steward, Boston, Black Sabbath, The Cars, Metallica, InFlames, Jeff Healey .... shh! even some opera, soprano singers ... Emma Shapplin, Monserrat Caballe (RIP), Simone Kermes, Sarah Brightman ...   guess I'm just musically eclectic?
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Post by: kimmy on July 19, 2022, 10:22:13 pm
The Hu, Wolf Totem - Mongolian Rock

I heard that on the car stereo when me and Linz were driving through Calgary a couple of years ago, and thought it was amazingly fresh and unique.

Gene Frenkle: "Last time I checked, we don't have a whole lot of songs that feature the cowbell Mongolian throat singing."

Bruce Dickinson: "I gotta have more cowbell Mongolian throat singing, baby!"

Gene Frenkle: "And I'd be doing myself a disservice -- and every member of this band, if I didn’t perform the HELL out of this!"

Bruce Dickinson: "Guess what? I got a FEEVAH! And the only prescription... is more cowbell Mongolian throat singing!"

(https://i.imgur.com/dcJq646.gif)

 -k
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Post by: kimmy on September 01, 2022, 12:15:47 am
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There are certain key ingredients necessary for a track to be considered yacht rock. For starters, it helps (though is not necessary) to have album art or lyrics that specifically reference boating, as with Christopher Cross's landmark 1980 hit “Sailing.” The music itself is usually slickly produced with clean vocals and a focus on melody over beat. But above all else, the sound has to be smooth. That’s what sets yacht rock apart from "nyacht" rock.

Yacht rock’s complex musicianship can be attributed, in part, to the session players on each track. Musicians like percussionist Steve Gadd, guitarist and Toto founding member Steve Lukather, and Toto drummer Jeff Porcaro don’t have much in the way of name recognition among casual soft rock listeners, but they’re the nails that hold the boat together. Steely Dan, “the primordial ooze from which yacht rock emerged,” according to Ryznar, famously cycled through dozens of session musicians while recording their 1980 seminal yacht rock album Gaucho.


https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/624635/yacht-rock-music-resurgence

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What was yacht rock? It's a soft rock musical style, sometimes called the California sound, exemplified by smoothness and melody — these weren't exactly bangers, but that doesn't mean they were bad. Yacht rock could be very musically complex, incorporating elements of jazz into their compositions. The songs were usually introspective and did not engage with politics or current events at all — they were frictionless. Imagine a wealthy white man sailing on his yacht in 1980, and the music he's listening to in your imagination is what we're talking about.
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https://www.grunge.com/831310/the-bizarre-history-of-yacht-rock-music/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmOLtTGvsbM



Michael Hardner and Eyeball off Salt Spring Island, circa 1973
(https://i.imgur.com/oxx4z7m.png)

 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: guest18 on September 01, 2022, 08:46:23 am
Summer breeze makes me feel fine, blowin through the jasmine in my mind.
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Post by: Michael Hardner on September 01, 2022, 08:50:08 am
We are a Yacht family.  We play Yacht in the house.  It's a smooth household.

We know a lot about it and have watched all the relevant YouTube videos and listened to relevant podcasts and we subscribe to the "Yacht Rock" deep tracks channel on Sirius XM, although we accept the problems with that service with regards to canon.

We also know about the scale and have been retweeted by JD Ryznar.

Please don't try to assail our purity in this regard.

Thank you.
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Post by: Michael Hardner on September 01, 2022, 08:51:07 am
 
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Michael Hardner and Eyeball off Salt Spring Island, circa 1973

Kind of gay but I'll allow it.
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Post by: Michael Hardner on September 04, 2022, 08:18:01 am
Joni Mitchell 's Cary, revealed...

https://www.newstatesman.com/katemossmaninterview/2021/12/joni-mitchell-carey-california-blue-lyrics-cary-raditz-interview
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Post by: Queefer Sutherland on September 07, 2022, 01:02:26 am
99% sure Justin Bieber has a drug addiction problem.  He looks like a crack addict these days.  Just canceled a tour due to "exhaustion" and other health issues.

Maybe he has HIV too or something.  But probably just drugs.
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Post by: Michael Hardner on September 07, 2022, 08:46:17 am
99% sure Justin Bieber has a drug addiction problem.  He looks like a crack addict these days.  Just canceled a tour due to "exhaustion" and other health issues.

Maybe he has HIV too or something.  But probably just drugs.

I am hoping that the new media age will kill the mythology of the happy child star so we don't have that awful creature anymore.

Long live Brittney Spears.
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Post by: Michael Hardner on September 07, 2022, 08:47:18 am
(https://www.iceposter.com/thumbs/G399815_b.jpg)
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Post by: Spike The Hike Shady on September 07, 2022, 10:45:55 am
99% sure Justin Bieber has a drug addiction problem.  He looks like a crack addict these days.  Just canceled a tour due to "exhaustion" and other health issues.

Maybe he has HIV too or something.  But probably just drugs.
I’m pretty sure it’s from the covid vaccine.  It’s why his face was partially paralyzed.
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Post by: Black Dog on September 07, 2022, 10:52:58 am
I’m pretty sure it’s from the covid vaccine.  It’s why his face was partially paralyzed.

He has Ramsay Hunt Syndrome which is a viral infection, you retard.
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Post by: Spike The Hike Shady on September 07, 2022, 11:01:44 am
He has Ramsay Hunt Syndrome which is a viral infection, you retard.
Which can be an adverse condition caused by the vaccine.  It’s actually difficult to determine what caused it, but it’s  a bit of a coincidence that this rare condition occurred after his vaccination.  Granted usually it happens within a few weeks if it’s vaccine related.  But it can’t be ruled out.
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Post by: Black Dog on September 07, 2022, 11:04:45 am
Which can be an adverse condition caused by the vaccine. It’s actually difficult to determine what caused it, but it’s  a bit of a coincidence that this rare condition occurred after his vaccination.  Granted usually it happens within a few weeks if it’s vaccine related.  But it can’t be ruled out.

There's no non-anecdotal evidence of any such link.
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Post by: Spike The Hike Shady on September 07, 2022, 11:21:17 am
There's no non-anecdotal evidence of any such link.
Yes there is.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34807403/
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Post by: guest18 on September 07, 2022, 12:19:45 pm
There are anti-vaxxer memes on Facebook that blame the vaccine for every celebrity ailment and death. It's unbelievable sometimes how stupid they are.
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Post by: Spike The Hike Shady on September 07, 2022, 12:24:36 pm
There are anti-vaxxer memes on Facebook that blame the vaccine for every celebrity ailment and death. It's unbelievable sometimes how stupid they are.
I agree, it would be very dumb to blame every ailment.
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Post by: guest18 on September 07, 2022, 12:41:46 pm
One would have to be particularly stupid to feel you can make a confident assessment of how someone got a disease by reading Facebook memes. That's when you know so little, you can't even comprehend how little you know. My dog is at least smart enough to know his limitations.
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Post by: Spike The Hike Shady on September 07, 2022, 12:49:05 pm
One would have to be particularly stupid to feel you can make a confident assessment of how someone got a disease by reading Facebook memes. That's when you know so little, you can't even comprehend how little you know. My dog is at least smart enough to know his limitations.
I agree.  I would never make an assessment based on memes.
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Post by: Queefer Sutherland on September 07, 2022, 01:14:27 pm
Bieber fever may actually be caused by chicken pox.  Or covid-19
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Post by: Black Dog on September 07, 2022, 01:16:11 pm
Yes there is.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34807403/

You never actually read your own links do you?

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A total of 29 patients had HZ associated with COVID-19 infection.

So not vaccination.
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Post by: Spike The Hike Shady on September 07, 2022, 01:31:56 pm
You never actually read your own links do you?

So not vaccination.
Yes, I never said that it wasn’t rare, but it does happen.
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Post by: guest18 on September 07, 2022, 01:46:36 pm
Wow. The lack of reading comprehension is mind-blowing.
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Post by: Black Dog on September 07, 2022, 02:51:35 pm
Yes, I never said that it wasn’t rare, but it does happen.

Again: your own link didn't say anything about it being a side effect of vaccination, rare or otherwise.
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Post by: Spike The Hike Shady on September 07, 2022, 03:26:39 pm
Bottom line: Risk for both shingles/Ramsay Hunt syndrome and for clots is more common after having Covid-19 than after the vaccine.”
https://www.newswise.com/factcheck/it-is-very-unlikely-justin-bieber-s-ramsay-hunt-syndrome-and-hailey-bieber-s-blood-clot-were-caused-by-covid-19-vaccines/?article_id=773072
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Post by: guest18 on September 07, 2022, 03:34:36 pm
Bottom line: Risk for both shingles/Ramsay Hunt syndrome and for clots is more common after having Covid-19 than after the vaccine.”
https://www.newswise.com/factcheck/it-is-very-unlikely-justin-bieber-s-ramsay-hunt-syndrome-and-hailey-bieber-s-blood-clot-were-caused-by-covid-19-vaccines/?article_id=773072
Are you really to stupid to understand that you are defeating your own argument?
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Post by: Black Dog on September 07, 2022, 03:43:00 pm
Bottom line: Risk for both shingles/Ramsay Hunt syndrome and for clots is more common after having Covid-19 than after the vaccine.
https://www.newswise.com/factcheck/it-is-very-unlikely-justin-bieber-s-ramsay-hunt-syndrome-and-hailey-bieber-s-blood-clot-were-caused-by-covid-19-vaccines/?article_id=773072

Which can be an adverse condition caused by the vaccine.  It’s actually difficult to determine what caused it, but it’s  a bit of a coincidence that this rare condition occurred after his vaccination.


(https://media1.giphy.com/media/3o7TKGRHLyFXdeziyk/200.gif)
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Post by: kimmy on September 16, 2022, 01:16:52 am
If there's any more covid idiocy in this thread I swear to god I'm going to dish out a good old fashioned Kim City ass-whuppin'.

 -k
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Post by: kimmy on September 16, 2022, 01:20:38 am
We are a Yacht family.  We play Yacht in the house.  It's a smooth household.

We know a lot about it and have watched all the relevant YouTube videos and listened to relevant podcasts and we subscribe to the "Yacht Rock" deep tracks channel on Sirius XM, although we accept the problems with that service with regards to canon.

We also know about the scale and have been retweeted by JD Ryznar.

Please don't try to assail our purity in this regard.

Thank you.



I was reading that article and when I saw the parts about Toto and the session musicians and Steely Dan being "the primordial ooze from which yacht rock emerged", I just knew that it was about you.

 -k
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Post by: Michael Hardner on September 16, 2022, 07:06:53 am


I was reading that article and when I saw the parts about Toto and the session musicians and Steely Dan being "the primordial ooze from which yacht rock emerged", I just knew that it was about you.

 -k

You should start with the Yacht Rock YouTube series.  Then go to THIS as your reference:

https://www.yachtornyacht.com/

Truly Steely Dan, Toto and the Doobies are your guiding spirits...
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Post by: Queefer Sutherland on September 21, 2022, 12:19:36 pm
Michael, who is your favorite musical artist?
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Post by: Michael Hardner on September 21, 2022, 01:10:51 pm
Michael, who is your favorite musical artist?

Oh wow... well I do like this guy but only because he writes deceptively super-simple songs that say very deep things

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW600nPYAEk

What do you like ?  Anyone ?
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Post by: Spike The Hike Shady on September 21, 2022, 03:16:05 pm
Oh wow... well I do like this guy but only because he writes deceptively super-simple songs that say very deep things

What do you like ?  Anyone ?
That’s a good description of Kurt Cobain too.

https://youtu.be/3H0NHHKBemg
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Post by: guest18 on September 21, 2022, 03:46:17 pm
Having fans like you is one of the reasons he killed himself.
True story.
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Post by: Michael Hardner on September 22, 2022, 08:37:59 am
That’s a good description of Kurt Cobain too.

Kurt was very influenced by great bands that were almost unheralded... from the 1980s.  I fancy myself a musicologist so I will call his influences "post punk" and I will wince a little bit but...

All of them listened to the Ramones, and probably some UK punk, who listened to Television, Patti Smith, the NY Dolls, the Modern Lovers, the MC5, and the original bands that were a little on the edge side of pop in the 1960s.

That's where it came from.

I will post some of the proto-grunge groups in the DNA but the film "School of Rock" with Jack Black actually talks about this.
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Post by: Michael Hardner on September 22, 2022, 08:46:33 am
Dinosaur Jr. was a punk group, who along with many, saw that punk had grown into a constraining framework... so grew out their 3-pronged assault of guitar, bass, and drums into a ROCK sound.

This was part of the great peace that was brewing between classic rock and punk, that eventually became official with bands like Pearl Jam and such... guitar based rock with non-traditional rock singing, that captured the angst of youth...

This song marks Dinosaur Jr. arriving in that space... it has two overtures before the song starts... it just builds and builds, then allows one scant line of lyrics, repeated, before the lead guitar blasts through the fuzz.  Of course the major music press (Rolling Stone) missed these things as they were too enamoured with things like The Travelling Wilburys etc.  The band reunited in 2007 and tours still.  They were in Toronto a few weeks ago (I didn't go)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXKStlKKJm0
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Post by: Queefer Sutherland on September 22, 2022, 12:55:07 pm
The 80's was pop, because there were a lot of kids in the 80's (children of boomers).  Teenagers of the 80's (Gen X ers) rebelled against this, created indie rock subgenres like grunge, thrash etc.  When the 80's kids grew into teenagers they rebelled against 80's Bon Jovi and turned to the indie rock genres of the 80's, called it grunge, bought Doc Martins.  Teenagers who listened to this music mixed it with 90's hip-hop, called it Limp Bizkit.

Younger 80's and 90's kids got soft because of their yuppie parents, got rid of the distortion, called it "indie rock".  White kids went extinct, no more white suburban youth demo to sell to, and their parents stopped caring about creativity and only wanted things that looked and sounded like before they were born and called it Sheepdogs, Fleet Foxes, Ghost, and Greta Van Fleet.
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Post by: Michael Hardner on September 22, 2022, 03:47:57 pm
1. The 80's was pop, because there were a lot of kids in the 80's (children of boomers).  Teenagers of the 80's (Gen X ers) rebelled against this, created indie rock subgenres like grunge, thrash etc.  When the 80's kids grew into teenagers they rebelled against 80's Bon Jovi and turned to the indie rock genres of the 80's, called it grunge, bought Doc Martins.  Teenagers who listened to this music mixed it with 90's hip-hop, called it Limp Bizkit.

2. Younger 80's and 90's kids got soft because of their yuppie parents, got rid of the distortion, called it "indie rock".  White kids went extinct, no more white suburban youth demo to sell to, and their parents stopped caring about creativity and only wanted things that looked and sounded like before they were born and called it Sheepdogs, Fleet Foxes, Ghost, and Greta Van Fleet.
1. Accurate.   One of the few genres I can't listen to is Nu Metal... Bizkit, Korn et al
2. Yeah but also people only buy pop now and even then it doesn't sell like it used to.



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Post by: Michael Hardner on September 22, 2022, 03:48:40 pm
https://www.****.com/article_19423_rock-timeline-from-classic-rock-to-modern-crap-5Bcomic5D.html

I always thought this cartoon nailed it

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Post by: Squidward von Squidderson on September 22, 2022, 09:12:34 pm
Everyone always thinks their generation made the best music. 

It shows a real myopic bias with people in general. 
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Post by: Spike The Hike Shady on September 22, 2022, 09:22:48 pm
1. Accurate.   One of the few genres I can't listen to is Nu Metal... Bizkit, Korn et al
2. Yeah but also people only buy pop now and even then it doesn't sell like it used to.
I like Korn and Limp Bizkit, but only their older stuff.  Especially Bizkit, everything after 3 dollar bill ya’ll and Significant Other isn’t very good. 
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Post by: guest18 on September 22, 2022, 09:58:04 pm
I think I saw you in the Netflix Woodstock 99 doc.
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Post by: Michael Hardner on September 23, 2022, 06:17:52 am
Back to Nirvana's influences..

Kurt love this band so much that they joined them on stage for a couple of songs at the MTV unplugged...

Originally punk, by the eighties they had Incorporated classic rock and country into their sound.  They didn't really get AirPlay until after grunge hit in the 1990s.

Around 1:52 you can hear the guitar start to soar... The same fuzzy sound as the other Proto grunge bands but in this version it's country two-step, with shades of Mark Knopfler.
https://youtu.be/6Sh-bKHp5Tw


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Post by: guest18 on September 23, 2022, 09:19:10 am
That's weird. I went to see both Jonathan Richman and the Meat Puppets at the same small bar in Winnipeg around 1993 or so. I don't think we share a lot of musical taste though.
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Post by: Spike The Hike Shady on September 23, 2022, 09:20:17 am
Kurt was very influenced by great bands that were almost unheralded... from the 1980s.  I fancy myself a musicologist so I will call his influences "post punk" and I will wince a little bit but...

All of them listened to the Ramones, and probably some UK punk, who listened to Television, Patti Smith, the NY Dolls, the Modern Lovers, the MC5, and the original bands that were a little on the edge side of pop in the 1960s.

That's where it came from.

I will post some of the proto-grunge groups in the DNA but the film "School of Rock" with Jack Black actually talks about this.
Definitely.  I think he was also influenced by the Pixies.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on September 23, 2022, 09:53:16 am
That's weird. I went to see both Jonathan Richman and the Meat Puppets at the same small bar in Winnipeg around 1993 or so. I don't think we share a lot of musical taste though.

Jonathan is in a class by himself... not really like anything else except maybe old French crooners that he admires...

The Puppets are pure grunge DNA.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Black Dog on September 23, 2022, 09:59:19 am
Can't talk about Nirvana influences without these guys:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPBbWVYuNLQ
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on September 23, 2022, 10:20:37 am
Missed this group... As I got older I only had a bare grasp of what was going on.  I actually missed Nirvana until late... I loved Kurt Kirkwood's guitar and Grateful Dead influences so I got into Nirvana sideways when the Puppets joined them onstage.

Will check out Melvins now.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on September 23, 2022, 10:22:47 am
All of these were discovered via Spin Magazine for me and SST Records, which housed the best of this genre. 

4AD, Homestead, Factory etc. were good too but not as much.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: guest18 on September 23, 2022, 10:36:52 am
Very weird. I also saw the Melvins in the same bar. More recently thoigh (less than 10 years ago).
I only went to see old friends. I went to a million punk rock shows in my youth but only because that was what the crowd I hung out with was into. I was always more a jazz guy.
Melvins are really good, in that they are different and musically interesting. I can't stand listening to it though.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on September 23, 2022, 10:38:27 am
Very weird. I also saw the Melvins in the same bar. More recently thoigh (less than 10 years ago).
I only went to see old friends. I went to a million punk rock shows in my youth but only because that was what the crowd I hung out with was into. I was always more a jazz guy.
Melvins are really good, in that they are different and musically interesting. I can't stand listening to it though.

That's some bar.

I'm a boomer but I used to know old hippies and older guys - even suits - who would go see anything weird...
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Black Dog on September 23, 2022, 10:48:28 am
An ongoing fascination with me is the death of the genre. Check these guys out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhdGipqrKNY

The beat could be from hip hop or it could be from Suicide. The vocals aren't rap, but they aren't quite John Cooper Clark. The guest verse on this track is by Amy Taylor who is the singer of the Aussie punk band Amyl and the Sniffers. It's a dozen different influences and something new.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on September 23, 2022, 11:01:17 am
I thought somebody wrote about Soul Asylum here ?  I wasn't really into them... listened to this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_lGnFtKJrk&list=WL&index=7)

Reminds me of The Watchmen (from Winnipeg I think) - vocal and attitude based ... definitely in the genre but nothing ground breaking for me in that song at least.  It's odd - it's definitely of the 90s, would have sounded ahead of its time in the early 80s, or 70s and yet nothing sparkly there for me.  Strange to me...

Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Squidward von Squidderson on September 23, 2022, 04:06:56 pm
I don’t know about Nirvana specifically, but don’t discount artists like Neil Young and Elvis Costello’s influences on the grunge genre. 

Plus, the blues has influenced the grunge guitar sounds, particularly solos of course.  Rock and roll guitar cannot ever escape the blues. 

Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Queefer Sutherland on September 23, 2022, 04:50:24 pm
Neil Young's links to grunge I think are purely coincidental.  Neil Young is a farmer so he wears flannel and tattered clothing.  Seattle grunge folks were from working class families and stole clothes from their dad's closets.  Grunge is also part punk, a blue collar anti-elitist movement, a rebellion from the excesses of 70's arena rock and 80's hair metal and pop etc.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Queefer Sutherland on September 23, 2022, 04:54:32 pm
I actually don't think Nirvana invented much of anything.  Their music existed throughout the 80's but wasn't popular.  They wrote simple good songs that hit at the right place at the right time.  If anything, they added a very melancholy element to music, since Cobain was clearly a very depressed dude from a broken family, which teens in the 90's from broken homes could relate to, and angsty and depressed teens in general, which is a lot of them lol.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: guest18 on September 23, 2022, 05:01:31 pm
Grunge is also part punk, a blue collar anti-elitist movement, a rebellion from the excesses of 70's arena rock and 80's hair metal and pop etc.
It is also exactly the style of music that Crazy Horse has always created.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Squidward von Squidderson on September 23, 2022, 07:08:47 pm
You guys don’t know much about Grunge.  Neil Young is the “grandfather of Grunge”. 

Clearly not west coasters…
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on September 24, 2022, 05:45:56 am
 I don't think that Nirvana was much influenced by Young.  I just scanned a bunch of things he said he liked... No Neil Young or Dinosaur Jr even though he quoted Rust Never Sleeps in his suicide note and asked Dinosaur Jr guitarist Macis to join his band.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: guest18 on September 24, 2022, 07:40:37 am
If Elvis never listed southern gospel as an influence in a Teen Beat article, would that mean he wasn't influenced by it?
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on September 24, 2022, 08:45:24 am
If Elvis never listed southern gospel as an influence in a Teen Beat article, would that mean he wasn't influenced by it?

I guess not - but I spent about 20 minutes reading "best band" and "best song" lists that he himself wrote with his own handwriting, said in his own words... probably 50-100 groups, songs etc.

Kind of strange that he wouldn't mention Young but it's all speculation from either of us here.  In terms of the "sound", he was 100% into "American ****" - that was what he listened to, and where he played.  So, yes, he listed Meet the Beatles and Aerosmith in an interview here and there but he played with the meat puppets, listed every record by Melvins, a couple by Half Japanese and some group called The Wipers that I never heard of...

Anyway... as I say it's guesswork.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: guest18 on September 24, 2022, 09:06:53 am
Most people aren't even aware of their influences.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Squidward von Squidderson on September 24, 2022, 11:29:38 am
I guess not - but I spent about 20 minutes reading "best band" and "best song" lists that he himself wrote with his own handwriting, said in his own words... probably 50-100 groups, songs etc.

Kind of strange that he wouldn't mention Young but it's all speculation from either of us here.  In terms of the "sound", he was 100% into "American ****" - that was what he listened to, and where he played.  So, yes, he listed Meet the Beatles and Aerosmith in an interview here and there but he played with the meat puppets, listed every record by Melvins, a couple by Half Japanese and some group called The Wipers that I never heard of...

Anyway... as I say it's guesswork.

That’s why my post said “I don’t know about Nirvana specifically” and then went on to talk about grunge in general.

Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on September 26, 2022, 08:34:11 am
Can't talk about Nirvana influences without these guys:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPBbWVYuNLQ

Ok.  I listened to their first EP.... not a recommended option for a Monday AM. 

To be clear: THIS IS NOT MY KIND OF MUSIC.  I prefer Dave Brubeck Take Five day and night... BUT...

I am able to see influences, and cultural movement in all of these and it's fascinating.  For this EP I will confess I didn't see the worth but since it is cited so often I assume that it was original material.  Like a lot of influential stuff, it sounds kind of unremarkable maybe because it was diluted by galaxies of imitators.  I will continue to listen to more from Melvins.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=melvins+ep

The thing to note about it is that it's heavy and slow, much closer to the boomer rock of Black Sabbath and such... and that's perfectly ok.  ( I don't like that genre either by the way.  Sabbath was mocked when they came out, but then again so were The Smiths, The Monkees, Be Bop etc. etc.)
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Queefer Sutherland on September 26, 2022, 11:13:36 pm
If Elvis never listed southern gospel as an influence in a Teen Beat article, would that mean he wasn't influenced by it?

If you can find anything from the band saying that Neil Young was a significant influence on their sound by Nirvana then i'll be convinced.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Queefer Sutherland on September 26, 2022, 11:20:07 pm
It is also exactly the style of music that Crazy Horse has always created.

Neil Young is from the 60's folk-rock scene and then distorted it.  He's not punk, he's not rebelling against the technical guitar solos of the 70's.  He's rhythm guitar guy who sometimes plays not very technical solos with the skill of a 1960's rhythm guitar guy.

Like I said, I think much of the similarity of their clothing style and sound is largely coincidental.  Working class dudes playing rock.  Their genres overlapped, and they wear similar clothes.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Squidward von Squidderson on September 27, 2022, 12:07:48 am
If you can find anything from the band saying that Neil Young was a significant influence on their sound by Nirvana then i'll be convinced.

Cobain quoted Young’s lyrics in his suicide note…. And you’re saying there was no influence?
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on September 27, 2022, 05:09:02 am
If you look online, Kobain cited dozens and dozens of contemporaries and even older bands as influential, or just faves.  As I posted above, I couldn't find Young anywhere.

But obviously that song resonated for obvious reasons.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: guest18 on September 27, 2022, 07:34:00 am
Did he list Louis Armstrong and Bing Crosby? They invented and popularized modern singing, respectively, so you really won't find anyone who isn't, in some way, influenced by them.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Black Dog on October 18, 2022, 12:36:02 pm
Was considering putting this in the dead celebrity thread (he's not dead, but his career is) but Kanye West's descent into madness continues. Now he's buying dud conservative social media platform Parler (https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/17/tech/kanye-west-ye-parler/index.html)

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Parler was founded in 2018 and saw rapid growth surrounding the 2020 election. Billing itself as a loosely moderated free-speech haven, the app became popular with conservative politicians and media figures, peaking at an estimated 2.9 million daily users, according to the market research firm Apptopia. But since then, its fortunes have dimmed, with Parler’s estimated daily user count slipping to just 40,000, Apptopia told CNN on Monday. (Twitter, by comparison, has more than 237 million daily active users.)

Also worth pointing out that Ye's been hanging around with right-wing griftluencer Candace Owens (she did the "White lives Matter" T-shirt stunt with him) and her husband is the CEO of Parler, so it sure looks like she's been hustling Kanye to take his money.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Black Dog on December 01, 2022, 03:26:12 pm
Kanye went on Info Wars with Alex Jones today to...praise Hitler (https://thehill.com/homenews/media/3758250-masked-ye-goes-on-antisemitic-tirade-on-infowars-i-see-good-things-about-hitler/)?

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“Every human being has something of value that they brought to the table, especially Hitler,” Ye continued. “Also Hitler was born Christian.”

As the show headed to a commercial break, Jones told Ye he had a “Hitler fetish,” to which Ye responded, “I like Hitler.”

related:

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fi6dUS9XgAAo-B4?format=png&name=small)
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on December 02, 2022, 12:46:05 pm
Yeah...TYT YouTube channel posted a compilation of the interview.

Alex Jones squirmed and fake laughed as Ye said "I like Hitler"

We're near the bottom now.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: guest18 on December 14, 2022, 09:24:39 pm
Neil Young is from the 60's folk-rock scene and then distorted it.  He's not punk, he's not rebelling against the technical guitar solos of the 70's.  He's rhythm guitar guy who sometimes plays not very technical solos with the skill of a 1960's rhythm guitar guy.

Uh...what?
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Queefer Sutherland on December 14, 2022, 09:57:10 pm
Uh...what?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeP4FFr88SQ

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crosby,_Stills,_Nash_%26_Young

https://youtu.be/UQ9NaqjeDGU?t=98

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZn9QZykx10
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: guest18 on December 15, 2022, 06:38:35 am
Thanks for posting that version of Helpless. I hadn't seen it before and it's very nice.
But Neil is also one of the most distinctive electric guitar soloists alive. I don't think Rock James would have let him in the Mynah Birds if he wasn't.

Did I ever tell my wife's boss's story about how Bob Dylan came lurking around his house one day before a show in Winnipeg because the boss owns Neil's teenage-years home? Bob got the full tour.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on December 15, 2022, 09:39:33 am
Thanks for posting that version of Helpless. I hadn't seen it before and it's very nice.
But Neil is also one of the most distinctive electric guitar soloists alive.

That's the key.  Neil is left behind in the dust by Clapton's technique.

But players like Young make the guitar a second voice and make true art with sound that way.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Queefer Sutherland on December 15, 2022, 10:54:18 pm
Thanks for posting that version of Helpless. I hadn't seen it before and it's very nice.
But Neil is also one of the most distinctive electric guitar soloists alive. I don't think Rock James would have let him in the Mynah Birds if he wasn't.

Did I ever tell my wife's boss's story about how Bob Dylan came lurking around his house one day before a show in Winnipeg because the boss owns Neil's teenage-years home? Bob got the full tour.

I love Neil's guitar solos.  He gets a lot of emotion out of not being able to shred at all.  I just don't think it's because he's purposefully rebelling against that kind of technique like punk did, or grunge did, it's just not in his wheelhouse.  He was around before Hendrix got big.  He's mostly a cowboy chords singer-songwriter type.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: guest18 on December 15, 2022, 11:22:31 pm
Maybe I was thinking of Angus Young.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on December 16, 2022, 05:47:55 am
Maybe I was thinking of Angus Young.
Also utterly amazing.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Black Dog on January 19, 2023, 01:22:22 pm
Very excited about the new record from The National.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdU0qwZKLfU
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Squidward von Squidderson on February 24, 2023, 07:34:50 pm
One of the most intense vocal performances I’ve heard. 

https://youtu.be/Sdk8JThY-Aw
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Squidward von Squidderson on March 07, 2023, 10:17:42 pm
Moving rendition.

https://youtu.be/DaadKYEZgH4
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Spike The Hike Shady on August 17, 2023, 07:20:20 pm
Great song and the video is great too, with a sweet ending.

https://youtu.be/FC3y9llDXuM
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Black Dog on August 18, 2023, 01:40:10 pm
Home Front is great new post-punk band from Edmonton.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtyKEAyfHPU
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Spike The Hike Shady on August 22, 2023, 10:06:46 pm
I’m not a huge country music fan, but this song, Rich Men North of Richmond could be an anthem for the middle class, in the United States and Canada.  Sh*t on constantly, whose lives are controlled and run by elites that “know what’s best for them”.  Sound familiar?

https://youtu.be/sqSA-SY5Hro
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Black Dog on August 22, 2023, 11:25:50 pm
I’m not a huge country music fan, but this song, Rich Men North of Richmond could be an anthem for the middle class, in the United States and Canada.  Sh*t on constantly, whose lives are controlled and run by elites that “know what’s best for them”.  Sound familiar?

https://youtu.be/sqSA-SY5Hro

Is there a single thing you do, think or consume that isn’t dictated to you by conservative media?
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: waldo on August 22, 2023, 11:41:04 pm
I’m not a huge country music fan, but this song, Rich Men North of Richmond could be an anthem for the middle class, in the United States and Canada.  Sh*t on constantly, whose lives are controlled and run by elites that “know what’s best for them”.

oddly... this review (in the Guardian) misses your mark!

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The conservative-leaning hit has drawn backlash for its anti-taxes sentiment and for invoking the stereotype of the “welfare queen”. (“Lord, we got folks in the street, ain’t got nothin’ to eat / And the obese milkin’ welfare,” he sings in the second verse. “Well, God, if you’re 5-foot-3 and you’re 300 pounds / Taxes ought not to pay for your bags of Fudge Rounds.”) The song is part classic folk-country working man’s anthem (“I’ve been sellin’ my soul, workin’ all day / Overtime hours for bullshit pay”) and part conservative mantra (“’cause your dollar ain’t ****, and it’s taxed to no end”), and part grievance (“young men are putting themselves six feet in the ground / ’cause all this damn country does is keep on kickin’ them down”). It also dabbles in conspiracy (“I wish politicians would look out for miners / And not just minors on an island somewhere,” he sings, a reference to many conspiracy theories surrounding the crimes and death of Jeffery Epstein).
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Queefer Sutherland on August 23, 2023, 12:00:04 am
oddly... this review (in the Guardian) misses your mark!

Now do Notorious B.I.G.'s "Gimme the Loot".
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: waldo on August 23, 2023, 12:15:55 am
Now do Notorious B.I.G.'s "Gimme the Loot".

does 'rhythmic speaking' belong in a music thread? Rap on!
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on August 23, 2023, 05:09:43 am
I see this as MAGAs slow movement to Marxism as they start to realize their problems are caused by the ruling class...
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Queefer Sutherland on August 23, 2023, 09:11:52 am
I see this as MAGAs slow movement to Marxism as they start to realize their problems are caused by the ruling class...

Lol maybe true!  At least moving away from neoliberalism.  Only took 40 years.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Spike The Hike Shady on August 23, 2023, 09:49:43 am
I see this as MAGAs slow movement to Marxism as they start to realize their problems are caused by the ruling class...
Why is complaining about government over reach, etc akin to Marxism?  Why is this guy MAGA?  Do you just consider everything you don't like to be MAGA?  Do you stereotype everyone based on skin colour and the way they talk?  Or is just with his kind of people?
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Spike The Hike Shady on August 23, 2023, 09:50:52 am
Is there a single thing you do, think or consume that isn’t dictated to you by conservative media?
Says the person that follows and regurgitates every sh*tlib/lefty policy, talking point, etc, every single day.  Look in the mirror dipsh*t.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Black Dog on August 23, 2023, 09:58:40 am
I see this as MAGAs slow movement to Marxism as they start to realize their problems are caused by the ruling class...

Oh you sweet summer child. I think you'll fund the MAGAs don't have the same sense of what constitutes the ruling class as you. The MAGA idea of the ruling class includes pink-haired baristas making $8 an hour, elementary school teachers, Democrat politicians and, as per this terrible song by this leprechaun hillbilly, people on welfare. And they're fine with big corporations making obscene profits off the backs of labour as long as those corporations aren't "woke."
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Black Dog on August 23, 2023, 09:59:07 am
Says the person that follows and regurgitates every sh*tlib/lefty policy, talking point, etc, every single day.  Look in the mirror dipsh*t.

LOL you have no conception of my politics, it's quite sad.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Black Dog on August 23, 2023, 10:00:49 am
Why is complaining about government over reach, etc akin to Marxism?  Why is this guy MAGA?  Do you just consider everything you don't like to be MAGA?  Do you stereotype everyone based on skin colour and the way they talk? Or is just with his kind of people?

His kind of people:

(https://images.vexels.com/media/users/3/149900/isolated/lists/d6a1601a980f0be1049c4f1eddf847c7-leprechaun-clicking-heels-cartoon.png)
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Spike The Hike Shady on August 23, 2023, 11:01:43 am
Oh you sweet summer child. I think you'll fund the MAGAs don't have the same sense of what constitutes the ruling class as you. The MAGA idea of the ruling class includes pink-haired baristas making $8 an hour, elementary school teachers, Democrat politicians and, as per this terrible song by this leprechaun hillbilly, people on welfare. And they're fine with big corporations making obscene profits off the backs of labour as long as those corporations aren't "woke."
'
Complete nonsense.  If that was the case, the song wouldn't be tiled Rich Men North or Richmond.  It's truly unbelievable how dense you can be sometimes.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Spike The Hike Shady on August 23, 2023, 11:13:02 am
This was the other song that completely triggered libtards.

https://youtu.be/b1_RKu-ESCY
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Black Dog on August 23, 2023, 11:49:51 am
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Complete nonsense.  If that was the case, the song wouldn't be tiled Rich Men North or Richmond. It's truly unbelievable how dense you can be sometimes.

Holy **** are you actually too stupid to understand that that's a reference to Washington DC?
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Black Dog on August 23, 2023, 11:51:58 am
This was the other song that completely triggered libtards.

https://youtu.be/b1_RKu-ESCY

(https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/629/194/1a8.jpg)
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Spike The Hike Shady on August 23, 2023, 12:45:26 pm
Holy **** are you actually too stupid to understand that that's a reference to Washington DC?
Yes, that's what the reference is, not a pink haired barista. 
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Black Dog on August 23, 2023, 01:13:38 pm
Yes, that's what the reference is, not a pink haired barista.

1. That's government, then, not the corporations.
2. The second verse attacking welfare recipients is clearly targeted at the "undeserving poor" MAGAts despise.
3. My reply to MH was about why there can be no MAGA/Marxist class solidarity and not about this crap song specifically.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Spike The Hike Shady on August 23, 2023, 01:17:10 pm
2. The second verse attacking welfare recipients is clearly targeted at the "undeserving poor" MAGAts despise.
Not true.  He actually references people on the street that are actually starving.  He's referring to the obese "poor".
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Black Dog on August 23, 2023, 01:18:07 pm
Not true.  He actually references people on the street that are actually starving.  He's referring to the obese "poor".

You literally just proved my point you dummy.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on August 23, 2023, 01:26:15 pm
Why is complaining about government over reach, etc akin to Marxism?  Why is this guy MAGA?  Do you just consider everything you don't like to be MAGA?  Do you stereotype everyone based on skin colour and the way they talk?  Or is just with his kind of people?

I don't think you can stereotype somebody based on what they say.. that's just having an opinion.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on August 23, 2023, 01:29:32 pm
Oh you sweet summer child. I think you'll fund the MAGAs don't have the same sense of what constitutes the ruling class as you. The MAGA idea of the ruling class includes pink-haired baristas making $8 an hour, elementary school teachers, Democrat politicians and, as per this terrible song by this leprechaun hillbilly, people on welfare. And they're fine with big corporations making obscene profits off the backs of labour as long as those corporations aren't "woke."

I said it's a step...
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on August 23, 2023, 01:31:42 pm
Holy **** are you actually too stupid to understand that that's a reference to Washington DC?

[raises hand] yes
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Black Dog on August 23, 2023, 01:48:37 pm
I said it's a step...

Conservatives have always made token gestures towards class consciousness, but it's never in good faith.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on August 23, 2023, 02:09:12 pm
Conservatives have always made token gestures towards class consciousness, but it's never in good faith.

Yes, but you're referring to politicians here not the lumpen proletariat.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Black Dog on August 23, 2023, 04:00:02 pm
Yes, but you're referring to politicians here not the lumpen proletariat.
9

See above re: "the undeserving poor".
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Spike The Hike Shady on August 23, 2023, 08:55:35 pm
Rich Men North of Richmond hits #1 on Billboard’s top 100.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Black Dog on August 23, 2023, 10:22:26 pm
Rich Men North of Richmond hits #1 on Billboard’s top 100.

I love the smell of astroturf.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on August 24, 2023, 06:04:30 am
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See above re: "the undeserving poor".

It doesn't make this a token gesture, it makes it an immature exploration of the causes of poverty... a step towards the discovery that Newt Gingerich may not be your friend.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: guest18 on August 24, 2023, 09:31:55 am
Changing the subject to actual music, I'm reading biographies of Lenny Breau and Chick Webb concurrently, so I'm getting details from 1930s Harlem mixed up with 1960s Winnipeg. Both places seem interesting.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Black Dog on August 24, 2023, 09:37:29 am
It doesn't make this a token gesture, it makes it an immature exploration of the causes of poverty... a step towards the discovery that Newt Gingerich may not be your friend.

Blaming poor people on welfare?
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on August 24, 2023, 09:40:24 am
Blaming poor people on welfare?

That's not the whole point of the piece - it's about recognizing the plight of working people.  The search for causes will include some missteps...
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Spike The Hike Shady on August 24, 2023, 09:45:06 am
That's not the whole point of the piece - it's about recognizing the plight of working people.  The search for causes will include some missteps...
Exactly right MH.  Personally I think the song would be better if that line was changed or left out because it’s kind of irrelevant to the overall issue the song is attempting to address.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Spike The Hike Shady on August 24, 2023, 09:46:13 am
I love the smell of astroturf.
Yes, everything you don’t like is fake.  Lol, you’re a petulant child.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Black Dog on August 24, 2023, 09:49:15 am
That's not the whole point of the piece - it's about recognizing the plight of working people.  The search for causes will include some missteps...

The plight of working people has been the subject of discussion and cultural discourse for hundreds of years. The main reason this ginger dude's song is going viral isn't because it's saying anything new but because of social media marketing (https://www.sportskeeda.com/pop-culture/news-never-seen-guy-blow-fast-oliver-anthony-industry-plant-astroturf-claim-goes-viral-amid-rich-men-north-richmond-s-success). I think you really want this to be organic and authentic but nothing is anymore.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Spike The Hike Shady on August 24, 2023, 09:52:20 am
Blaming poor people on welfare?
He’s not blaming people for being on welfare.  He’s pointing out the obvious problems of the system when there are obese people receiving food stamps.  You generally don’t see very fat poor people in non western countries.  It’s really a phenomenon of the west.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Black Dog on August 24, 2023, 09:52:39 am
Yes, everything you don’t like is fake.  Lol, you’re a petulant child.

It was literally commissioned, recorded and pushed by a conservative social media marketing dude you credulous oaf.

The "no we just happened to all discover this song at the exact same time" protestations from various right-wing goons would have more credibility if the entire conservative media apparatus wasn't based on exactly this kind of fake astroturfing stuff (like how your favourite movie Sound of Freedom's box office numbers were juiced by bulk ticket buys).
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Black Dog on August 24, 2023, 09:57:27 am
He’s not blaming people for being on welfare.  He’s pointing out the obvious problems of the system when there are obese people receiving food stamps.  You generally don’t see very fat poor people in non western countries.  It’s really a phenomenon of the west.

You generally don’t see very fat not-poor people in non-western countries either. But again, you dipshits would rather blame poor people for buying junk food instead of looking into why they might be buying junk food.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: guest18 on August 24, 2023, 09:58:41 am
Did you know Paul Stanley was born with just one ear?
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Black Dog on August 24, 2023, 10:00:57 am
Did you know Paul Stanley was born with just one ear?

Having listened to Kiss's music, that's one more ear than I would have expected.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Spike The Hike Shady on August 24, 2023, 10:04:33 am
The plight of working people has been the subject of discussion and cultural discourse for hundreds of years. The main reason this ginger dude's song is going viral isn't because it's saying anything new but because of social media marketing (https://www.sportskeeda.com/pop-culture/news-never-seen-guy-blow-fast-oliver-anthony-industry-plant-astroturf-claim-goes-viral-amid-rich-men-north-richmond-s-success). I think you really want this to be organic and authentic but nothing is anymore.
You mean things get more popular more quickly because more people can see it via social media?  Wow, what a concept!  Thanks for recognizing reality circa 2010.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on August 24, 2023, 10:06:09 am
The plight of working people has been the subject of discussion and cultural discourse for hundreds of years. The main reason this ginger dude's song is going viral isn't because it's saying anything new but because of social media marketing (https://www.sportskeeda.com/pop-culture/news-never-seen-guy-blow-fast-oliver-anthony-industry-plant-astroturf-claim-goes-viral-amid-rich-men-north-richmond-s-success). I think you really want this to be organic and authentic but nothing is anymore.

Well true enough.

But things don't just "go" viral unless there's something in there that appeals to people.

The plight of working people has been the subject of discourse but not so much lately and not in ways that ask why...
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Black Dog on August 24, 2023, 10:12:11 am
You mean things get more popular more quickly because more people can see it via social media?  Wow, what a concept!  Thanks for recognizing reality circa 2010.

Tapping the sign again:

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FtMVU3jWcAEnmfk?format=jpg&name=900x900)
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Black Dog on August 24, 2023, 10:16:33 am
Well true enough.

But things don't just "go" viral unless there's something in there that appeals to people.

The plight of working people has been the subject of discourse but not so much lately and not in ways that ask why...

LOL c'mon man.

1. Video gets commissioned by a right-wing social media marketer
2. He pushes it out to the vast and well-connected network of right-wing social media accounts who then share it virtually simultaneously.
3. Their idiot followers then like and share it because they will do that with whatever slop those accounts serve up (look at Shady as an archetypal example of this kind of hog).
4. Profit!
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on August 24, 2023, 10:22:10 am
Did you know Paul Stanley was born with just one ear?

https://www.heraldsun.com.au/entertainment/books/kiss-band-member-paul-stanley-was-born-with-just-one-ear/news-story/e663c68d2f1731958f4cd5244bf0ee02
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on August 24, 2023, 10:23:50 am
LOL c'mon man.

1. Video gets commissioned by a right-wing social media marketer
2. He pushes it out to the vast and well-connected network of right-wing social media accounts who then share it virtually simultaneously.
3. Their idiot followers then like and share it because they will do that with whatever slop those accounts serve up (look at Shady as an archetypal example of this kind of hog).
4. Profit!

yeah but ... I don't know ... Bilboard charts - can they really be 'gamed' ?   

They can set up the bands to succeed but Col. Tom Parker didn't "make" elvis...
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Black Dog on August 24, 2023, 10:31:51 am
yeah but ... I don't know ... Bilboard charts - can they really be 'gamed' ?   

They can set up the bands to succeed but Col. Tom Parker didn't "make" elvis...

Billboard charts include digital streaming numbers which can be easily juiced.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Spike The Hike Shady on August 24, 2023, 10:33:48 am
Well true enough.

But things don't just "go" viral unless there's something in there that appeals to people.

The plight of working people has been the subject of discourse but not so much lately and not in ways that ask why...
Apparently only people like Black Dog are allowed to talk about the plight of working people.   While I agree that in the past, it was more of a left wing issue, but they’ve abandoned the working class years ago, in favour of the upper class elites, and it’s illustrated in their policies.  Democrats used to have a lock on the working class, but not anymore.  People like Black Dog haven’t recognized the shift and get offended when somebody not like him “steals” his issue.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Spike The Hike Shady on August 24, 2023, 10:35:00 am
Billboard charts include digital streaming numbers which can be easily juiced.
Sounds like a conspiracy theory. 😂😂😂
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Black Dog on August 24, 2023, 10:39:49 am
Apparently only people like Black Dog are allowed to talk about the plight of working people.   While I agree that in the past, it was more of a left wing issue, but they’ve abandoned the working class years ago, in favour of the upper class elites, and it’s illustrated in their policies.  Democrats used to have a lock on the working class, but not anymore.  People like Black Dog haven’t recognized the shift and get offended when somebody not like him “steals” his issue.

This is just cope from a guy who supports a party that has no interest in the material concerns of the middle or working classes and never has.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Black Dog on August 24, 2023, 10:44:12 am
Sounds like a conspiracy theory. 😂😂😂

This dumb mfer has never heard of payola lol.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Spike The Hike Shady on August 24, 2023, 10:48:45 am
This is just cope from a guy who supports a party that has no interest in the material concerns of the middle or working classes and never has.
Now you have to resort to lying in order to cope.  Sad.  Keep supporting policies like unlimited immigration that suppress wages and skyrocket housing costs and pretend you care about working people.  You care about them the same way an abusive husband cares for his wife. 
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Spike The Hike Shady on August 24, 2023, 10:51:13 am
This dumb mfer has never heard of payola lol.
More conspiracy.  I bet Putin’s behind it too! 😂😂😂
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Black Dog on August 24, 2023, 10:57:15 am
Now you have to resort to lying in order to cope.  Sad.  Keep supporting policies like unlimited immigration that suppress wages and skyrocket housing costs and pretend you care about working people.  You care about them the same way an abusive husband cares for his wife.

You're a neoliberal shill cosplaying as a defender of the working class while supporting deregulation, corporate tax cuts and culture war bullshit. We all know what you're about no matter how much you virtue signal as a populist.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Black Dog on August 24, 2023, 10:57:48 am
More conspiracy.  I bet Putin’s behind it too! 😂😂😂

You being ignorant of a documented phenomenon does not make it a conspiracy, retard.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Spike The Hike Shady on August 24, 2023, 11:27:52 am
You're a neoliberal shill cosplaying as a defender of the working class while supporting deregulation, corporate tax cuts and culture war bullshit. We all know what you're about no matter how much you virtue signal as a populist.
You’re a neoliberal sh*tlib that supports policies that have destroyed working people’s ability to buy/rent a home, put food on the table etc.   You support working people the way abusive husbands support their wives.  Now why don’t you get buddy devising of another carbon tax you can throw on top of the 3 that exist you dipsh*t.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Black Dog on August 24, 2023, 11:38:18 am
You’re a neoliberal sh*tlib that supports policies that have destroyed working people’s ability to buy/rent a home, put food on the table etc. You support working people the way abusive husbands support their wives.  Now why don’t you get buddy devising of another carbon tax you can throw on top of the 3 that exist you dipsh*t.

(https://media.gettyimages.com/id/569189305/photo/a-pull-cord-is-used-to-activate-the-voice-box-of-a-chatty-cathy-doll.jpg?s=612x612&w=gi&k=20&c=rQSdi756VfhT01t9JNUFqHgakYP13y3C97ZgGcmB0NQ=)
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Spike The Hike Shady on August 24, 2023, 12:13:45 pm
(https://media.gettyimages.com/id/569189305/photo/a-pull-cord-is-used-to-activate-the-voice-box-of-a-chatty-cathy-doll.jpg?s=612x612&w=gi&k=20&c=rQSdi756VfhT01t9JNUFqHgakYP13y3C97ZgGcmB0NQ=)
I know, I wouldn’t be able to defend those sh*tty anti working people policies either.  Better to post picture and move on.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Black Dog on August 24, 2023, 12:21:07 pm
I know, I wouldn’t be able to defend those sh*tty anti working people policies either.  Better to post picture and move on.

Post a meme or another of your retarded catchphrases about it ya chickenshit.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on August 25, 2023, 06:22:41 pm
Hank Williams does NWA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Jh7Jk3aSlo
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on August 27, 2023, 01:24:08 pm
So I heard that they used the "Rich Men North Of Richmond" song at the Republican debate, and the singer guy was like "those guys are the exact **** I was singing about."

 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Spike The Hike Shady on August 27, 2023, 02:08:23 pm
So I heard that they used the "Rich Men North Of Richmond" song at the Republican debate, and the singer guy was like "those guys are the exact **** I was singing about."

 -k
Exactly.  He’s actually said both parties are the problem.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: guest18 on August 27, 2023, 02:38:36 pm
No, I don't think he did.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Spike The Hike Shady on August 28, 2023, 05:10:35 pm
No, I don't think he did.
😂😂😂

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Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: guest18 on August 28, 2023, 05:22:21 pm
So you admit he never said "both parties are the problem." Thank you.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Black Dog on August 28, 2023, 05:29:51 pm
I just found out that "Reconstruction Site," the best album by Winnipeg's best band, just turned 20 and JFC now I feel old as hell.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: guest18 on August 29, 2023, 07:38:44 am
Ha! He thought his city was barely breathing then!
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on August 30, 2023, 05:43:17 am
Kids programming is far better than when I was a kid.

My favourite music is always the Storybots songs.

Catchy.
https://youtu.be/BQZ85_8q8iw?feature=shared
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on November 04, 2023, 05:50:12 am
https://youtu.be/lNEbUqEbUG0?si=VJk3yEzFyh0jSssP



Harmonica guys..
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: kimmy on December 06, 2023, 01:05:18 am
Finally winter has come to Kim City.  Time for some seasonal music!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crDTz1skj9c

 -k
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on December 30, 2023, 07:34:07 am
Mind now BLOWN

https://youtu.be/PwGgDmHuGpA?si=hMCYyPL-URflNTIX
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Bubbermiley on December 30, 2023, 01:20:28 pm
Drums are very different. Play with different instruments and a different groove and the same three chords become a different genre. Change it to steel guitar and a twang and it's country. Use a DX7 and a drum machine and it's 80s new wave.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on December 30, 2023, 02:02:20 pm
https://youtu.be/ix-QW-BShPY?si=Pc9DcZP5ZSDPt8gF

Amazing
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Queefer Sutherland on December 30, 2023, 06:09:58 pm
Mind now BLOWN

https://youtu.be/PwGgDmHuGpA?si=hMCYyPL-URflNTIX

Cool.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Queefer Sutherland on December 30, 2023, 06:18:26 pm
Best band of the last 10 years.  Creative geniuses.  Best music videos of all-time, many they make themselves.  Fight me on it. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioqgrYorhkU
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Queefer Sutherland on December 30, 2023, 06:20:29 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpUKO-WKaqo

PetroDragonic Apocalypse
PetroDragonic Apocalypse

Winged demon on the stratosphere is swooping beneath to kill with fear
Stop the dragon, dragon, dragon, dragon
Stop the dragon, dragon, dragon
Scrambling jets and ballistic lies burned underneath the lidless eyes
Stop the dragon, dragon, dragon, dragon
Stop the dragon, dragon, dragon, dragon

Atomic space chaos, it reeks, pilots shriek, cities weep
Stop the dragon, dragon, dragon, dragon
Stop the dragon, dragon, dragon, dragon
...
Terra firma, Earth murdered in the blink of an eye
Malevolent, equivalent, diabolify
Bending storms beneath its will
Firelight troglodyte
Dawn of eternal night
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on December 30, 2023, 08:32:28 pm
Best band of the last 10 years.  Creative geniuses.  Best music videos of all-time, many they make themselves.  Fight me on it. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioqgrYorhkU

Joan's been buying their records.  I've listened, seems like they're multi genre?
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Squidward von Squidderson on January 16, 2024, 10:19:05 pm
Mother Mother

Great local pop/rock band  (alternative?  Not sure).

https://youtube.com/watch?v=-mRE9DgbhS0&si=bKJ-ilrT6Wq-idPC
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: BC_cheque on January 16, 2024, 11:26:15 pm
I’d say they’re indie rock. Such good memories, I used to have Wrecking Ball in one of my fave playlists. Haven’t listened to much of their new stuff. Thanks for reminding me of them.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Bubbermiley on February 16, 2024, 05:53:42 am
Paul McCartney got his Hofner bass back. It was stolen in the 1970s, but a website, the Lost Bass Project, led to someone apparently realizing it was the bass in their attic that they had inherited. So Paul has it back and the full story will come out soon.
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on February 23, 2024, 09:19:44 pm
Ice T said on a talkshow in the 90s he liked this.  It's a more mysterious crew than appears.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL7-CKirWZE
Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Queefer Sutherland on February 23, 2024, 11:01:48 pm
Conservatives have always made token gestures towards class consciousness, but it's never in good faith.

Classic late 90s song

Title: Re: All purpose music thread!
Post by: Michael Hardner on March 26, 2024, 07:19:43 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41B5zvsvQdM

A reminder that Nile Rogers is in hiphop's DNA.