DK and I took in a concert a bit ago. I now have the album that the band was touring (Blue Wave by Operators), and I have two observations.
- It's always just a little bit disappointing when you realize that there's just no way to translate the energy or the muscle from the live setting to a little disc. In a live setting, the drums exploded throughout the room, the synthesizers nearly deafened me, it was a sound that enveloped everything. Much as I like the album (and I do like the album quite a bit - it's my favorite of the young year, I think), there's just no way it can hold up.
- It's really fun the extra stuff you notice on the album that you wouldn't otherwise notice without having seen the show. For example, the drumming on this record is great, but it's great in a way that I might not have noticed without having seen it performed in front of me. Likewise, I quite sure that I wouldn't have appreciated the difference between the synth sounds that are on this album without seeing it live.
All of this makes me pretty disappointed that the Sigur Rós show is on my anniversary.
This is hard to find, but it's here.
I've been listening to White Lung this morning. I'm not sure how I've missed them all this time, they're pretty fun. The next album sounds like it'll be really good.
a. Eastern Wood-Pewee “'Pweee' Calls” (Cornell Master Set)
b. Rusty Blackbird “Song and Calls” (Cornell Essential Set)
c. Black-throated Blue Warbler “Song”* (Cornell Master Set)
d. Western Screech-Owl “'Bouncing Ball' Song, 'Double Trill' Song” (Voices of North American Owls)
1. Bobby Bare Jr. “A Horse with No Name” American Bread
2. Dolfish “Dear Voicemail: 3 Things”
3. Ruby “The Whole Is Equal to the Sum of Its Parts (Fila Brazilia Remix)”* Salt Peter Remixed: Revenge, the Sweetest Fruit.
4. Björk “Possibly Maybe” Post
5. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy “Song for Doctors Without Borders”* Not Alone
6. Merle Haggard featuring Theresa Haggard “Jackson”* Working in Tennessee
7. Black Dice “Pinball Wizard”* Mr. Impossible
8. Bobby Bare “Tennessee Stud”* Darker than Light
9. Patty Griffin “Shine a Different Way” Servant of Love
T. Mitski “Shame” Retired from Sad, New Career in Business
*Notes:
c. "Beer Beer Beeeer" or "I'm Lay-Zeeee"
3. [sic]. I've seen so many misspellings of "Fila Brazillia" in their credits on various records. They even titled a track "One Zed And Two L's".
5. This song needs a better title. It's effectively an "untitled" written and recorded for a benefit album for DWB/DsF. I guess, having titled a different song "Untitled", he needed to give it something as a title. "Made It Home" would have worked ("Untitled" works as intentional title for that absolute gem from Hope).
6. A cover of the song most famous from the Johnny Cash/June Carter recordings.
7. Not a cover.
8. A Jimmy Driftwood cover. BTW, I call the artist "Bobby Bare Sr."
Earlier this morning: Wynton Kelly - Kelly Blue
Right now: The Kinks - Lola Versus the Powerman and the Moneyground, Part One
Up next: Cannonball Adderley's - Bohemia After Dark
Later: Jacky Terrasson - Mirror
This afternoon: Modern Jazz Quartet - Fontessa
My Sturgill delivery is delayed as I forgot to put the suite number on the delivery address 🙁 It's OK, I suppose, since I couldn't have listened to him this weekend anyway.
This prompted me to check the delivery status of mine. It was delivered at 11:01 and is waiting for me, though I likely won't get to it this weekend either.
We're going to our parents' house this weekend and my turntable is currently in the closet for storage space. Monday, FW is gonna come home from work and find me rooting through things trying to get it hooked up.
Your parents share a house? Or do you share parents?
Maybe it's parents'es? They live about 1/2 mile from each other, so when we go home we inevitably end up spending time with both sets.
"parents' houses" would have cleared that up
Or that, haha, never crossed my mind.
Greetings from Bergen, NO. I'm not continually hitting refresh on th GBV site seeing when they are going to announce a Mpls date. Really.
1. It’s Your Destiny – The Ware On Drugs
2. Judas – Cage The Elephant
3. Stranglehold – Ted Nugent*
4. Sweet Home Chicago – Robert Johnson**
5. Joey – Bob Dylan & The Grateful Dead
6. Hope Alone – Indigo Girls***
7. Harlem – Duke Ellington
8. Proof – Ramona Falls
9. Icky Thump – The White Stripes
10. Animal – Pearl Jam
B1. Home Life – John Mayer
*To my way of thinking, a Top-3 all-time guitar riff/solo.
**Somewhere along the way, I’d heard opinions about Johnson’s recordings, including the record I own, having been issued at a higher speed than he’d played them in the sessions. Whenever I listen to his stuff, I can’t fathom why. Turns out, it’s kind-of like one of our favorite memes, “Did you know ‘so-and-so’ died!?”
***As far as I can recall, these ladies were my first true concert experience, 1994 sometime, touring in support of Swamp Ophelia. I think the show was at Northrop, but I remember hearing “Galileo” live was a true experience.