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« Reply #270 on: July 27, 2020, 12:51:52 pm »
Joni 1965


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« Reply #271 on: August 19, 2020, 08:10:21 am »
Joni with her then-squeeze James Taylor (!) 1970 Paris Theatre.  Pure heaven.


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« Reply #272 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.  :)

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« Reply #273 on: September 12, 2020, 07:44:29 am »
I'm still so into these guys....  Easy too  :P



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« Reply #274 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 ?!?


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« Reply #275 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 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". 



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« Reply #276 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.


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« Reply #277 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

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« Reply #278 on: October 07, 2020, 01:42:50 am »




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« Reply #279 on: October 07, 2020, 01:11:38 pm »


Mozart piano concerto #21- Andante.
Known as Elvira Madigan.
It was believed afterward that the man was a lunatic, because there was no sense in what he said. ~M.T.
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« Reply #280 on: December 08, 2020, 08:39:44 am »
Ever wonder what Aussie Soccer Hip Hop sounds like ? 

Yeah, me neither.


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« Reply #281 on: December 08, 2020, 10:54:34 am »

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.
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« Reply #282 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.





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« Reply #283 on: January 25, 2021, 11:23:08 pm »
I've posted about Black Mountain in this thread before.  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:




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.




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« Reply #284 on: March 14, 2021, 08:27:49 am »
Gamelan !