1. I'll be away from (most of) the internet next week. Someone want to claim next week's FMD?
2. So Pepper, CoC, and I missed the Lydia Loveless concert on Sunday night, and freealonzo and Scot gave it mixed reviews. May this offer us all consolation. Recorded last year, so it doesn't have any of those new songs I want to hear.
3. In last week's comments, I mentioned the May death of Michael Kandel, who recorded as Tranquility Bass. His debut album was released on astralwerks, and it seems that so much that was on astralwerks is out of print but not reclaimable by the original artists (or even Rhino?). Maybe it's on iTunes or something. You should pick up a used copy if you find it. Go ahead and listen to it all:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLp2rXaMl_YhSFYmAwWO67iog1IUCvohxn&v=3-IXPtVgm0M
Oh right! Even if I don't work, it's still Friday!
Buy your fifths today!
I believe this is my entire "4th of July" mix:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztvr09J7KK4 Continue reading FMD: 3rd→
So I finally grabbed most of theintro/outromusicfrom the Anime programs I'm obsessing over. There's a quality to the guitars in the rock songs that I don't really hear in any domestic or Brit music but that I remember hearing from even in the 90s from Boom Boom Satellites (also Japanese). Like even if I heard one of these songs entirely in perfect, native-sounding English, I could still ID it as coming from Japan (or possibly Korea).
Sounds like day 1 of THR's knee-replacement recovery was much less enjoyable than day 0. I hope it's just that the drugs are wearing off and that it's all downhill from here.
All I want to listen to right now are the opening and closing credit songs from Fullmetal Alchemist and Attack On Titan.
hj: Also, I didn't get to compiling, so
one more day to submit!!1 And yes, if
you put it in a comment on any of the
previous posts (FMD and official), it will count.
If someone wants to curate a WGOM Summer Mix this year, please do. I don't think I'd be into it.
Last year's rules were:
Nominate 3 songs by whatever rule you want. Your #1 goes on the mix, even if it's an awful song about winter. Curator picks and chooses from the other nominees for whatever reason he or she wants, and can maybe add a few (like if a WGOM-faved album comes out after most noms are in). Put your three nominations in a spoiler so others can make their nominations free of bias.
Those were my rules. If a curator steps forward, s/he should decide this year's rules at that time. Don't nominate songs until a curator steps forward.
Even [ABBA's] happiest hits encompass more than a few blue notes. Strip away the euphoric strings and rhythms of "Dancing Queen" and their sole U.S. chart-topper would be a much sadder tune, but it's arranged to feel ecstatic: When the harmonies crescendo for that "Feel the beat of the tambourine, oh yeah" chorus section, the frisson between notes is disproportionate to the lyrics. And that's just as it should be; life is full of emotions far larger than their situations.
Can I get SBG into an FMD thread to reply?
If not, everyone just share your last random tens before summer starts in earnest.
