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Post by Lord Lucan on Sept 4, 2016 23:26:37 GMT -5
Don't bother, they are entirely without merit. I was exposed to them all in my record-store days. That's unfortunate. I love trad pop / vocal jazz, and sometimes it's a small revelation when a differently genred artist makes it work - e.g. Joni Mitchell. In a way, I can see him being suited to make it work well, but I can also easily imagine it being as you say.
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Post by Desert Dweller on Sept 4, 2016 23:27:28 GMT -5
There's this poppy song by the band Bastille that is playing on indie/alt radio right called "Good Grief". Why is this song so poppy and upbeat when it seems to be about death? Like, the verse lyrics are a serious bummer. Not a good song to hear when someone you know is dying of cancer. WTF is it upbeat and happy sounding? Musicians, WTF?
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Post by Dellarigg on Sept 4, 2016 23:39:10 GMT -5
Who Threw It All Away Subthread, aka They Were So Good Until They Became So BadPick an artist who succumbed to crappiness, and detail the moment of heartbreak. Rod Stewart, after Tonight's The NightSimple Minds (though it pains me to say it), after Sparkle In The Rain My interest in Rod Stewart doesn't extend beyond Never a Dull Moment, but it's considerable before then. Incidentally, behold the cover art of the following year's comp. Every Picture is deservedly cherished, and then look at the depths he sunk to. I'm willing to give the first of those Great American Song Book ones a fair hearing, but I don't expect much. I really enjoy Smiler, and the next two are redeemed by I Don't Wanna Talk About It and The First Cut Is The Deepest - two of my favourites, I'll admit, or else the cut off point would be Smiler.
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Post by Lord Lucan on Sept 4, 2016 23:42:25 GMT -5
My interest in Rod Stewart doesn't extend beyond Never a Dull Moment, but it's considerable before then. Incidentally, behold the cover art of the following year's comp. Every Picture is deservedly cherished, and then look at the depths he sunk to. I'm willing to give the first of those Great American Song Book ones a fair hearing, but I don't expect much. I really enjoy Smiler, and the next two are redeemed by I Don't Wanna Talk About It and The First Cut Is The Deepest - two of my favourites, I'll admit, or else the cut off point would be Smiler. In fairness, I don't really remember that one. I'm sure there's a smattering of tracks after the one I mentioned that I don't mind, but as an album in whole, that was the last I took an interest in. Though maybe I'll hear Smiler again and decide that's the cut-off.
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Post by Jean Luc de Lemur on Sept 5, 2016 16:18:22 GMT -5
Morning Working in Café Observations (a few days old but saved in a .txt):
• When I was a kid I was mostly in the dark about my parents’ contemporary musical taste (though I do remember my Dad’s copy of Nevermind), but I knew what I didn’t like—that mopey background music you’d hear in the bookstore, cafés, etcetera. Were I ten years older in the nineties I’d have been listening to, well, a lot of the same sort of things I listen to now (and it was my Dad who introduced me to The Orb). And one song stuck out as extra-mopey and extra-annoying.
Going into a non-Starbucks/Coffee Bean café in West Hollywood probably means you’ll be hearing a lot of hits from the baristas’ older siblings’ CD collections, and I heard that song again. With the power of Google I looked up tracked down this prime piece of nineties and it was “Mad World” written and recorded in…1982‽
• “Get Lucky” is playing—this was omnipresent for my entire tenure in the Netherlands but completely disappeared when I returned to the states. I’ve been going through a bout of bad Euronostalgia recently but the fact that I was positively sick of Random Access Memories within a couple of months this is actually helping cure it.
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Post by ganews on Sept 6, 2016 7:47:48 GMT -5
Their show is sold out, but I remembered a Random Music Thought I never posted:
Is streaming an album from YouTube to my phone and jacked through my car speakers the best way or worst way to listen to Sleigh Bells?
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Post by Dellarigg on Sept 7, 2016 12:57:45 GMT -5
'Professor' Roy Bittan from The E Street Band plays the keyboards on the Station To Station album - so that's him on the fantastic intro to TVC 15. This pleases me; I like the way he pops up here and there. He's on Making Movies by Dire Straits, too.
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Post by monodrone on Sept 8, 2016 9:53:09 GMT -5
The new Zach De La Rocha song is good and makes the Prophets of Rage EP sound even worse than it already did in comparison.
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Post by ganews on Sept 8, 2016 13:38:41 GMT -5
The new Zach De La Rocha song is good and makes the Prophets of Rage EP sound even worse than it already did in comparison. I always felt it was wrong that RATM wasn't around for the Bush II presidency. I've only heard one Prophets of Rage song but didn't get super excited. Now I'm looking forward to de la Rocha releasing an album next year, as that apparently is really happening this time.
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Post by oppy all along on Sept 8, 2016 19:05:32 GMT -5
Nick Cave and Jack White are both releasing material today. In other news, they will be teaming up to release great music and terrify small children. It's like creepy white dude music nirvana.
EDIT: They're not actually teaming up as far as I know. I apologise if I got anyone's hopes up.
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Post by ganews on Sept 8, 2016 22:38:39 GMT -5
Nick Cave and Jack White are both releasing material today. In other news, they will be teaming up to release great music and terrify small children. It's like creepy white dude music nirvana. EDIT: They're not actually teaming up as far as I know. I apologise if I got anyone's hopes up. Dammit, you really did for me, even if it only lasted half a second.
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Post by Jean Luc de Lemur on Sept 9, 2016 1:12:14 GMT -5
Finally getting around to The Life of Pablo and blond.
The Life of Pablo sounds like a Picasso reference, but Picasso always took things apart to reform them, and West isn’t quite there—feel like it lacks the punch and instant catchiness of a lot of his previous stuff.
blond reminds me a bit of one of the more baroque Beatles albums tonally, weirdly enough, though it also seems to be one that invites you to really listen in and figure it out lyrically. Respect it and obviously both ambitious and able to fulfill that ambition, but not really my thing either.
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Post by Lord Lucan on Sept 9, 2016 1:49:13 GMT -5
As Robert Christgau puts it, 'If you're still resisting Sinatra, don't be a fool. His microtonal caress [. . .] is inexhaustible.' I've been listening to Come Fly With Me and Point of No Return a lot lately and they're life-enriching. The latter was the last of his legendary Capitol recordings, is tremendously affecting, and possibly my favourite. A very equinoctially appropriate album as well.
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Post by Jean Luc de Lemur on Sept 9, 2016 17:54:52 GMT -5
Giving Life of Pablo another listen today—hearing how everything’s falling into place better, getting more into the energy of it, enjoying Kanye’s return to more soul-ish sounds. But the electronics are more sophisticated and atmospheric (or maybe bathyspheric’s a better word), too.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2016 4:39:13 GMT -5
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Post by rimjobflashmob on Sept 11, 2016 13:00:39 GMT -5
I totally forgot they gave the whopper to Pavement's fucking best of collection.
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Post by ganews on Sept 14, 2016 8:11:24 GMT -5
I'm still not super in love with Beck's newer single "Wow" (I liked "Dreams" better), but the new video is cool. It's good to see him healthy and dancing in videos again. ETA: ooh, there's a "Mexican Institute of Sound" remix out called "Guau". I can't wait to check it out when I get home! That title alone holds so much promise.
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Post by heroboy on Sept 14, 2016 14:29:33 GMT -5
Morning Working in Café Observations (a few days old but saved in a .txt): And one song stuck out as extra-mopey and extra-annoying. Going into a non-Starbucks/Coffee Bean café in West Hollywood probably means you’ll be hearing a lot of hits from the baristas’ older siblings’ CD collections, and I heard that song again. With the power of Google I looked up tracked down this prime piece of nineties and it was “Mad World” written and recorded in…1982‽ Wait.. are you thinking about the poppy 1982 version by Tears for Fears, or the shitty ultra-slow version by Gary Jules from 2001 which was used on the Donnie Darko soundtrack?
Because Tears for Fears is not mopey at all, and frankly I'd be kind of surprised anyone would assume its from the 90s.
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Post by Hugs and Hisses on Sept 15, 2016 17:04:43 GMT -5
I was on vacation and didn't see the bat signal that people were talking about Bond themes! This is a disaster! moimoi -- I agree with most of your list, although "The Spy Who Loved Me" and "Skyfall" would be ranked much, much higher for me. "The Spy Who Loved Me" is my sentimental favorite, because you can't really separate it from the best Bond opening ever; the transition from utterly preposterous green-screened Roger Moore in the goofy sky cap to the jaw-dropping ski stunt to the cheekiness of the flag, that's everything I want in a James Bond movie condensed into just a few minutes. It's utter perfection. ::happy sigh:: Here's some links to bonus Bond music awesomeness, ranked from "best" to "nobody does it better": Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang by Shirley BasseyNot used as a theme, but can be heard as background noise in a club in Thunderball, if I'm not mistaken Thunderball, as covered by early Mr. BungleI suggest that the next theme be written by Kishi Bashi and sung by Mike Patton. You'll thank me later. You Only Live Twice, as covered by Mark LaneganThe entirety of Sex Mob Does Bond but, especially their version of "You Only Live Twice". I can only find a live version that's not quite as good. Boo! You'll just have to trust me that this album has a license to kill... your eardrums with it's awesomeness!
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Post by Jean Luc de Lemur on Sept 15, 2016 21:29:27 GMT -5
Tortoise, where have you been for my whole life? Around for most of it, it turns out, but I was mostly unaware of you.
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Post by Hugs and Hisses on Sept 16, 2016 18:59:28 GMT -5
OK, @patrickbatman, you convinced me more than I thought you would save for one thing -- I cannot condone all the Roger Moore hatred! I fall into the camp that believes people attach way too much weight to Bond movies. I think they should be silly! We have enough serious action movies, and enough parody action movies -- what's wrong with having series that can consistently exist somehwere between the two? That's a fine line to tread, and Moore trod it perfectly (in his prime). I do agree heartily with you about Quantum of Solace. I believe that Bond movies exist not to set trends in action movies, but to serve as a sort of historical archive of trends in action movies. Quantum of Solace is there to preserve in amber the steps forward the Bourne series made. Goldeneye preserves in amber the more modern take on martial arts. The Living Daylights preserves in amber the '80s fascination with blowing up tractor trailers. ::chomps pipe thoughtfully::
And to make up for all this movie talk in the Random Music Thought thread, I'll leave you all with this -- the snippet at 1:45 of "Why Don't You Answer Me" on Kishi Bashi's excellent new album Sonderlust sounds exactly like the MacGyver theme:
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Post by Meth Lab Shenanigans on Sept 19, 2016 23:53:18 GMT -5
Sorry and all, but Eric Clapton gets two lifetime passes: one for Cream and one for Derek and the Dominos. I was raised around Eric Clapton's music - Cream, Derek and the Dominos, and solo - so the general bile a lot of people have toward his work seems strange and alien to me. I totally understand why people would hate him as a person though. Also, by this list, Radiohead is the greatest band of all time. Yes.
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Post by Nudeviking on Sept 20, 2016 0:18:03 GMT -5
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Post by Lord Lucan on Sept 20, 2016 0:20:34 GMT -5
I happened to hear Al Hibbler's 'Danny Boy' today, I think likely from the 1991 box set, Atlantic Rhythm & Blues 1947-1974, which looks eminently worth listening to in full. Barely aware of Hibbler before, it caught my attention (staley as the song is often sung) in the way I read described here: He featured in Duke Ellington's orchestra in the forties before playing with Johnny Hodges and Count Basie in the subjsequent decade, scoring a few hits on the pop charts (including 'Unchained Melody' before The Righteous Brothers's version), and being signed to Sinatra's Reprise label after some notable civil rights activism. I found a couple of crooner Christmas albums - Spotify is fanastic for that - which anthologize his 'White Christmas' and 'Silent Night', which are lovely and certainly mannered, and which I'm sure I'll want to hear again at the appropriate time. Anyway, he and the Atlantic comp were welcome discoveries.
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Post by ganews on Sept 20, 2016 10:06:35 GMT -5
I was going to nominate Beck's Mutations for the "skeletons in the closet" because while he hasn't disavowed it, he never plays tracks from that album live anymore. But then I was looking at the source and he actually did play some Mutations tracks here and there in 2012-14 (though most haven't been done in at least a decade), including one of very few live performances ever of "Diamond Bollocks" in 2012. I would have lost my damn mind. The only one I've seen is "Lazy Flies" in 2003.
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Post by Meth Lab Shenanigans on Sept 20, 2016 17:10:02 GMT -5
"Radiohead: Turboslut 3D" Amazing.
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Post by Nudeviking on Sept 20, 2016 21:13:08 GMT -5
Does Brian May's guitar tone ever change?
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Post by rimjobflashmob on Sept 20, 2016 23:47:14 GMT -5
Turns out Sigur Ros is, in fact, the best opener for Sigur Ros.
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Post by Jean Luc de Lemur on Sept 21, 2016 12:29:40 GMT -5
"Radiohead: Turboslut 3D" Amazing. I’m partial to George Michael’s Sex Machine
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Post by Ben Grimm on Sept 22, 2016 14:54:33 GMT -5
I wish I had started listening to Monster Magnet 20 years ago rather than a few months ago.
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