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Post by jk on Dec 14, 2023 9:32:35 GMT -5
Playing a game at BBT, I was reminded of this obscure 45 from 1964. Although The Pendulums are described in the YT blurb as a one-hit wonder, there's no record of "The Weaver" b/w "The Slow Weaver" ever having been a hit. To quote lone commenter MCAntil, "One of my favorite Tony Hatch songs of all time. Have never heard of the Weaver as a dance, but this is one heck of a long-lost gem -- one that, as far as I can tell, was only released as a single in the UK." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Hatch
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Post by Awesoman on Jan 9, 2024 10:05:48 GMT -5
Been on a bit of a Paul Simon lately kick and have been listening to his live πΊππππππππ reunion concert he did about ten years ago in Hyde Park. Really a terrific concert featuring Paul reuniting with many of the musicians who performed on said album. If you like that album or Paul Simon in general it's worth the listen. music.amazon.com/albums/B072HPYYNR?ref=dm_sh_X3ExRysG7cCZ50soRlgxuhQmBHe also put out a new album last year, πππ£ππ ππ ππππ , which despite some good moments here and there, for the life of me I just can't get into it. If you find some his biggest songwriting idiosyncrasies to be jarring you probably won't go for this one. He doesn't even sequence the album; it's just one big 33-minute track meant to be played in full. And thematically it goes heavy on mortality. I appreciate what he's doing here but this isn't an album to listen to casually. Regardless I'm glad he's still putting out music despite his recent hearing loss. He's still one of my all-time favorites.
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Post by jk on Jan 9, 2024 16:32:16 GMT -5
Been on a bit of a Paul Simon lately kick and have been listening to his live πΊππππππππ reunion concert he did about ten years ago in Hyde Park. Really a terrific concert featuring Paul reuniting with many of the musicians who performed on said album. If you like that album or Paul Simon in general it's worth the listen. He also put out a new album last year, πππ£ππ ππ ππππ , which despite some good moments here and there, for the life of me I just can't get into it. If you find some his biggest songwriting idiosyncrasies to be jarring you probably won't go for this one. He doesn't even sequence the album; it's just one big 33-minute track meant to be played in full. And thematically it goes heavy on mortality. I appreciate what he's doing here but this isn't an album to listen to casually. Regardless I'm glad he's still putting out music despite his recent hearing loss. He's still one of my all-time favorites. I love a lot of his stuff but tend to cherry pick, also when it comes to S&G. "Peace Like A River" is my absolute favourite Paul Simon track: My wife's a big Paul Simon fan and bought the wonderfully laid back So Beautiful and So What when it was released in 2011. "Love And Blessings" contains excerpts from "Golden Gate Gospel Train", recorded by The Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet in 1938: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_Beautiful_or_So_What
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Post by daytona on Jan 9, 2024 19:45:17 GMT -5
Iβve been on a big ABBA kick recently; currently relistening to Voulez-Vous.
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Post by longtime lurker on Jan 9, 2024 20:20:49 GMT -5
Most recently, the last few things Warren Zevon did before lung cancer finally took him in 2003. Watched his final appearance on Letterman...almost couldn't get through the whole video. Wondering what great musicians will be leaving us in 2024.
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Post by jk on Jan 10, 2024 13:55:36 GMT -5
After my traumatic encounter with the truly dire Death of a Ladies' Man (1977), I rediscovered Leonard Cohen decades later on hearing a comp in 2010 that included much post- Ladies' Man stuff. I was impressed. The song that stuck in my brain was the extraordinary "Tower Of Song" from his 1988 album I'm Your Man. Those lyrics are so evocative (and at times hilarious). Cohen's one-fingered keyboard outings and the Joni-esque backing vocals are pretty cool too: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Song_(song)
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Post by jk on Jan 14, 2024 17:02:11 GMT -5
It was something a good friend said earlier tonight that brought me to DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boom!_Shake_the_Room
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Post by jk on Jan 29, 2024 10:20:19 GMT -5
Years ago, I bought this rather bulky piano for peanuts. We lived on the second (US: third) floor at the time, which required that the thing needed hoisting up externally using a rope swung over one of those rooftop hooks they have in NL. Originally there were three of us handling the rope on the round: a friend of ours, one of the removal men and me, with the other removal man up on our balcony to receive it. Once we'd managed to get the piano level with the balcony, the removal man on the ground let go and went upstairs to help his colleague on the balcony. By this time the ancient hook was audibly creaking and visibly bending. The friend looked terrified and at the point of panicking. Thinking of Hoffnung's "Bricklayerβs Lament", my immediate thought was that if he let go and ran, so would I. Luckily it never came to that. Much Dutch gin was consumed once the piano was installed. What am I listening to now? Aβ440Hz, that's what -- the piano, cheap as it was, was tuned a whole tone lower than normal and it couldn't be corrected. This was at least 40 years ago but it's ruined my sense of pitch to this day. Will this help? Probably not, but it's worth a try:
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2024 10:41:37 GMT -5
I'm really no longer a casual music listener. Mostly I play things so I can register them in my head; I do a lot of that. Very recently, I've had this on the player: "Outsinging The Nightingale: Lost Treasures of Bulgarian Music." It's a great set! If you like music with a different flow, you might find it interesting. Lauren Brody, the woman who put the collection together, is playing in town very soon. I hope hope hope I can make it to her concert!
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Post by jk on Jan 29, 2024 13:20:50 GMT -5
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Post by jk on Jan 29, 2024 15:59:15 GMT -5
Correction: * This* is the CD I have in my collection with the correct track list, not the one linked in the previous post. And this is the track I heard first, unannounced beforehand on Dutch radio. I had no idea what it was. Was it from this Missa Luba people were talking about? It reminded me of The Shangri-Las in a curious way, perhaps how they might have sounded if they'd come from another planet. Whatever it was, it was stunning! For 62 tracks by The Bulgarian State Television Female Vocal Choir (all four original volumes on LP, it would seem, less one unfindable song) click here.
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Post by jk on Jan 30, 2024 16:59:49 GMT -5
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Post by Awesoman on Feb 3, 2024 14:41:38 GMT -5
Been on a bit of a Paul Simon lately kick and have been listening to his live πΊππππππππ reunion concert he did about ten years ago in Hyde Park. Really a terrific concert featuring Paul reuniting with many of the musicians who performed on said album. If you like that album or Paul Simon in general it's worth the listen. He also put out a new album last year, πππ£ππ ππ ππππ , which despite some good moments here and there, for the life of me I just can't get into it. If you find some his biggest songwriting idiosyncrasies to be jarring you probably won't go for this one. He doesn't even sequence the album; it's just one big 33-minute track meant to be played in full. And thematically it goes heavy on mortality. I appreciate what he's doing here but this isn't an album to listen to casually. Regardless I'm glad he's still putting out music despite his recent hearing loss. He's still one of my all-time favorites. I love a lot of his stuff but tend to cherry pick, also when it comes to S&G. "Peace Like A River" is my absolute favourite Paul Simon track: My wife's a big Paul Simon fan and bought the wonderfully laid back So Beautiful and So WhatΒ when it was released in 2011. "Love And Blessings" contains excerpts from "Golden Gate Gospel Train", recorded by The Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet in 1938: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_Beautiful_or_So_WhatYeah "Peace Like A River" is quite nice. His more recent albums are a bit of a mixed bag but some songs such as "Dazzling Blue", "Father And Daughter" and especially the clever "Wristband" are all worth seeking out. music.youtube.com/watch?v=SFLHTVwPGU0&si=4gbgB-4rowOGCvH3
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Post by jk on Feb 5, 2024 16:17:17 GMT -5
I confess my knowledge of the band Chicago is a little on the thin side. However, I do recall the year (1969) when they were briefly known as Chicago Transit Authority and remember hearing longish tracks with extended instrumental workouts from their self-titled debut double LP on the more progressive BBC radio shows. "I'm A Man", the only cover song they ever recorded (or so I'm told), was released as a single in the UK where it reached the top ten (the album fared equally well there): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Transit_Authority_(album)
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Post by jk on Feb 6, 2024 16:06:09 GMT -5
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Post by Awesoman on Feb 7, 2024 8:08:17 GMT -5
I confess my knowledge of the band Chicago is a little on the thin side. However, I do recall the year (1969) when they were briefly known as Chicago Transit Authority and remember hearing longish tracks with extended instrumental workouts from their self-titled debut double LP on the more progressive BBC radio shows. "I'm A Man", the only cover song they ever recorded (or so I'm told), was released as a single in the UK where it reached the top ten (the album fared equally well there): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Transit_Authority_(album)They did a pretty sweet cover of Al Green's "Tired Of Being Alone" (with Green himself on vocals) which eventually ended up as a bonus track on the band's deluxe edition of their 6th album. music.youtube.com/watch?v=IiX5alL6dsw&si=nt698O1behtTX9NtAnd the original roster used to regularly perform covers of several Beatles songs including "Magical Mystery Tour" and "Got To Get You Into My Life". Last year for some reason they recorded a single of their take of "MMT": music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nqHxllucUHYcoorcj_NM7-YhQ1QQW2djI&si=vcmWe1aM48baG7mF
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Post by Awesoman on Feb 7, 2024 8:55:20 GMT -5
Speaking of Chicago: Not sure if I've already covered this but if you like the band even remotely I highly recommend seeking out Robert Lamm's solo albums as most of them are excellent. Although he dabbles in various eclectic forms of music such as bossa nova and even elements of hip-hop and electronic music, he never really abandons his signature sound. On his 1999 album πΌπ ππ¦ π»πππ (or its deluxe repackaged version πππ ππππ¦ ππππππ ) he experiments with modern sounds to put out a mostly enjoyable album that even features Carl Wilson on several tracks. His 2003 album ππ’ππ‘πππ‘π¦ π΄ππ πππ π πππ sounds like a lost Chicago album and plays great with no filler front-to-back. Then he put out an excellent bossa nova album that works perfectly in the background of your standard cocktail party. Finally I'd recommend πΏππ£πππ πππππ, which plays quite similarly to πΌπ ππ¦ π»πππ. Lamm collaborates with a couple of different folks (such as Magellan) to satisfying results. Seek out the opening track "Out Of The Blue" which Lamm himself indirectly dedicated to his fallen comrades such as Carl and his own bandmate Terry Kath. The rest of his albums are hit or miss including his debut solo album ππππππ¦ π΅ππ¦. music.youtube.com/channel/UCwDHhnaY1tm2j3aZ3wXdLtw?si=XHfFDPfRELBjyp92
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Post by carllove on Feb 7, 2024 10:25:27 GMT -5
I really needed to listen to some chill music these past two weeks while I was prepping for a lab inspection, so Iβve been bingeing Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots by The Flaming Lips, and alt-Jβs An Awesome Wave. Iβve seen both bands live and their shows are a grand experience. These really helped relax me, because I was beyond stressed!
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Post by carllove on Feb 7, 2024 10:34:25 GMT -5
And hereβs a little alt-J - for your listening pleasureβ¦
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Post by jk on Feb 7, 2024 13:32:27 GMT -5
I really needed to listen to some chill music these past two weeks while I was prepping for a lab inspection, so Iβve been bingeing Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots by The Flaming Lips, and alt-Jβs An Awesome Wave. Iβve seen both bands live and their shows are a grand experience. These really helped relax me, because I was beyond stressed! I know TFL from a 24-hour track they once did ( here). I just gave a listen to the cool closing instrumental track of YBTPR, "Approaching Pavonis Mons by Balloon (Utopia Planitia)". Sounds like "The Great Gig In The Sky" is in there somewhere: alt-J isn't even a name to me but from that one track I can understand your enthusiasm. Good luck with the prepping!
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Post by carllove on Feb 7, 2024 22:30:57 GMT -5
Love this track from Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots and kept wondering why the chord progression sounded so familiar and found out that the Flaming Lips had to give 75% of the proceeds from the song to Cat Stephens. Same chord progression as βFather and Sonβ. So different though. Seems a bit extreme to me. It should have been around 25% since the lyrics and cadence are so different.
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Post by carllove on Feb 7, 2024 22:50:45 GMT -5
Here is another great song from one of my all time favorite albums.
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Post by jk on Feb 8, 2024 7:12:29 GMT -5
Love this track from Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots and kept wondering why the chord progression sounded so familiar and found out that the Flaming Lips had to give 75% of the proceeds from the song to Cat Stephens Stevens. Same chord progression as βFather and Sonβ. So different though. Seems a bit extreme to me. It should have been around 25% since the lyrics and cadence are so different. I can hear the similarities but also the differences. Seventy-five percent is very generous! I do like the way Wayne Coyne smiles at stuff happening around him in the videos. Here's the Cat/Yusuf song for comparison: I burst out laughing when I read how TFL got their name!
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Post by jk on Feb 8, 2024 7:37:11 GMT -5
After my traumatic encounter with the truly dire Death of a Ladies' Man (1977), I rediscovered Leonard Cohen decades later on hearing a comp in 2010 that included much post- Ladies' Man stuff. I was impressed. The song that stuck in my brain was the extraordinary "Tower Of Song" from his 1988 album I'm Your Man. Those lyrics are so evocative (and at times hilarious). Cohen's one-fingered keyboard outings and the Joni-esque backing vocals are pretty cool too: Here's another from that comp. The lyrics of "Waiting For The Miracle" contain the following, which I confess made me laugh out loud: "Waiting for the miracle There's nothing left to do I haven't been this happy Since the end of World War Two" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Future_(Leonard_Cohen_album)
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Post by jk on Feb 8, 2024 14:54:14 GMT -5
I heard my fair share of boy bands back in the late '90s and '00s courtesy of my daughter, amongst which Backstreet Boys, Boyzone (both excellent), Another Level, Blue and NSYNC, whose "Bye Bye Bye" was an international top five hit in the Spring of 2000. This is for CB: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bye_Bye_Bye
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