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Re: All purpose music thread!
« Reply #45 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. :(





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Re: All purpose music thread!
« Reply #46 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.



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.



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Re: All purpose music thread!
« Reply #47 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.



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Re: All purpose music thread!
« Reply #48 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.







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« Reply #49 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.



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Re: All purpose music thread!
« Reply #50 on: September 10, 2017, 02:46:47 pm »
Black Flag, Black Sabbath, Black Uhuru.

I know those.  Maybe Frank Black too.

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« Reply #51 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.



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« Reply #52 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.



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Re: All purpose music thread!
« Reply #53 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.

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« Reply #54 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.






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Re: All purpose music thread!
« Reply #55 on: September 16, 2017, 01:07:02 pm »
More music from the fictitious movie:





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Re: All purpose music thread!
« Reply #56 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.



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Re: All purpose music thread!
« Reply #57 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.



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Re: All purpose music thread!
« Reply #58 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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Re: All purpose music thread!
« Reply #59 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