No big overhanging theme this week, just a couple of musings.
- I've decided that while I like the shoegaze aesthetic, I would really like a little more life out of the vocals (MBV excepted, but they might just be getting grandfathered in). Basically, I probably won't turn off the radio if a MBV-clone comes on, but I'm about done buying their music.
- I don't "get" jazz, per se (and almost certainly never will - I'm not sure I have the patience for it), but I've been enjoying listening to Kind of Blue while doing desk work lately.
- There hasn't been any new music from 2016 that I'm that crazy about yet. A song or two here and there, but nothing that's going to stick with me.
- Listening to a lot of Grimes still, though. Art Angels is great.
Drop your random 10s!
$40 for Sturgill? That's a little steep. $15 for Hop Along & Speedy Ortiz? That's more my speed.
Oh, I put my thing on the spreadsheet thingie.
01. “Devil’s Spoke” – Laura Marling – I Speak Because I Can
02. “Computer Blue” – Prince & The Revolution – Purple Rain
03. “Glory Bound” – Martin Sexton – The American
04. “What I See” – Dirty Projectors – Rise Above
05. “Wife” – Mitski – LUSH
06. “How I Got Over” – Darondo – Let My People Go
07. “Civilian” – Wye Oak – Civilian
08. “Broken Heart” – Spiritualized – Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
09. “Hornets! Hornets!” – The Hold Steady – Separation Sunday
10. “9AM” – Bad Bad Hats – It Hurts EP
Was your first exposure to Prince with The Revolution, as a solo artist or with The New Power Generation? I'd heard most of his songs from the '80's (mostly on commercial radio while riding the school bus ... definitely not on family rides), but I didn't buy an album until
after hearing "7".
$30 for Silversun Pickups, Foals & Joywave, less than 6 minutes from my house? Yes please.
1. Another Love Song – Queens of the Stone Age
2. Cassie’s Brother – Drive-By Truckers
3. 3 Chains O’ Gold – Prince & The New Power Generation
4. Body Movin’ – Beastie Boys
5. Run 2 U – Jewel
6. (Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher & Higher – Otis Redding
7. Deja Vu – Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
8. Song for Someone – U2
9. New Genius (Brother) [Mix] – Gorillaz
10. Five to One – The Doors
B1. Jenny Was a Friend of Mine – The Killers
Even though (in this case) the price per band only increased by $5, I love how $27 tickets magically become $42 tickets.
01. Judas Priest - "Deal with the Devil", Angel of Retribution
02. Entombed - "Night for Day", Inferno
03. Metal Church - "Ton of Bricks", The Dark
04. Halford - "She", Crucible
05. Carcass - "This Mortal Coil", Heartwork
06. Ensiferum - "Kalevala Melody", 10th Anniversary Live
07. Entombed - "Retaliation", Inferno
08. Darkthrone - "Eon", Thulcandra
09. Jag Panzer - "The Silent", Mechanized Warfare
10. Agalloch - "A Celebration For the Death of Man...", The Mantle
I've already found music from 2016 that I'm crazy about. I picked up Winter Thrice by Borknagar. Really good Viking folk metal.
Viking folk metal
Oh I'm serious. Although to be fair, calling it Viking/Folk metal might be more accurate.
I've been listening to a lot of Jazz over the last week, which is always a treat. Some highlights: Robert Glasper Live at the 2012 iTunes Festival, Sonny Rollins' Plus 4, Herbie Hancock's Head Hunters, Bill Evans Trio's Moon Beams, and Bud Powell's Jazz Giant. On my desk today: Cannonball Adderley's Somethin' Else, Michael Petrucciani's Conférence de Presse, McCoy Tyner's Horizon, and Luther Alllison's Soul Fixin' Man (Blues, not Jazz).
I also dusted off Love's Da Capo and Forever Changes, both absolute top shelf psychedelic rock/Baroque pop records. I could listen to these every couple of months and they'd stay fresh.
"Lovelines" - The Replacements
"1999" - Prince
"Guillotine" - The Features
"Oklahoma USA" - The Kinks
"1979" - Smashing Pumpkins
"Mr. Wendal" - Arrested Development
"Heroes" - David Bowie
"Everbody's Talking 'Bout the All-American" - JD McPherson
"Rock the Casbah" - The Clash
"Talk of the Town" - Pretenders
You're only missing Taylor Swift. Maybe some Bryan Adams?
I swear one day I will remember which one is Ryan Adams and which one is Bryan Adams. But today is not that day.
one of them is Canadian, eh?
Yeah, but which one is the problem.
They both suck, if it helps.
After consulting google, I don't mind Ryan, the non-Canadian. Though I'm not sure what he was going for covering all of "1989"
When I was a teenager, I loved Bryan Adams. Now my list of songs of his I can listen to is down to about two.
Ryan is no Courtney Barnett, but he has some good songs.
That could be true, but he's always seemed like such a douchecanoe that I never bothered with anything from him.
I think he had some mental health issues.
Ironically, as he has gotten to be less douchey, his music has gotten worse.
This, definitely. My favorite albums of his are Love Is Hell and Cold Roses (although I understand those who prefer his very first couple solo albums) and he was majorly f-ed up on substances during those periods. I think he's said there's one song on the latter album that he wrote and recorded while so high that he never could figure out how to play it again.
He's cleaned up and, at least for a while, was happily married (although that ended before he did the 1989 covers). I'd prefer him able to live a good, healthy life, even if his newer records aren't as good as the older ones.
Don't have much in the way of shoegazer music in my arsenal, but I do like Catherine Wheel ("Strange Fruit", "The Nude", "Show Me Mary"), Seven Percent Solution ("All About Satellites and Spaceships"), and The Chameleons ("Is It Any Wonder")
random 10:
1) surf crashing on the beach
2) surf crashing on the beach
3) surf crashing on the beach
4) surf crashing on the beach
5) surf crashing on the beach (live)
6) surf crashing on the beach
7) surf crashing on the beach
8) surf crashing on the beach
9) surf crashing on the beach
10) surf crashing on the beach (reprise)
Not all that random, but I'm not going to change the station.
Hey Runner, hate to break in your relaxation but thought you'd want to know this.
http://www.startribune.com/keith-emerson-of-emerson-lake-and-palmer-dies-at-71/371825781/
Yeah, I just saw that. 🙁
1. Silver Rocket -- Sonic Youth -- Daydream Nation
2. Wilderness -- Joy Division -- The Factory, Manchester Live 13 July 1979
3. Let's Not Get Carried Away (Bonus) -- Wilco -- Sky Blue Sky
4. Careless Love -- Ray Charles -- Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music
5. Golden Glades -- Teenage Fanclub -- Thirteen
6. Continuous Thunder -- Japandroids -- Celebration Rock
7. Paranoid Android -- Radiohead --OK Computer
8. I Dig Love -- George Harrison -- All Things Must Pass
9. I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend -- The Ramones -- Mania
10. Your Name Is Wild -- Guided By Voices -- Under The Bushes Under The Stars
B1. Caroline No -- The Beach Boys -- Pet Sounds
B2. Pilot Can At The Queer Of God -- The Flaming Lips -- Transmissions From The Satellite Heart
I saw on Spotify that you had been listening to Kind of Blue. It is a great album.
* Right in Two - Tool - 10,000 Days
* Tendons - The Joy Formidable - Wolf's Law
* Tired Eyes - Neil Young - Tonight's the Night
* Everywhere - Ex Hex - Rips
* Cow Eyes - Fins - (self-titled)
* Sunship - Hospitality - Trouble
* Sister Cities - Hop Along - Painted Shut
* Blood and Thunder - Mastodon - Leviathan
* It All Means Nothing - Screaming Females - Live at the Hideout
* Cold Comfort - Yvette - Process