Let's play another modern day diva, why not?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNllkqp989c
4 Oct 2000
Let's play another modern day diva, why not?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNllkqp989c
4 Oct 2000
Here's one of those in case you missed it kind of things: Aretha honors Carole, and tears the whole house down with her bare hands in the process.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHsnZT7Z2yQ
29 Dec 2015
Sad week in music unfortunately.
24 Aug 1986
Goodbye, Lemmy (and the Philthy Animal while we're at it).
1980
Happy New Year, you guys. Hope it's a good'un.
2013
First off, many thanks to all the contributors to our Best in 2015 showcase. It was an awesome slew of videos, you guys.
Anyway, as always, have a fun a safe one, dudes. Oobrr your way out of danger if necessary.
Ask andbad you shall receive.
Happy Xmas Eve, all. Hope everything has a great night. Stay safe, y'all!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAYnOby8pjg
To stifle the growing dissent, we are hereby enacting emergency powers here's a movie post.
To make it topical, what's your favorite xmas movie?
Carrie and Lowell is on many (if not most) Best Of lists this year (though no Grammy nods), and with amazingly good reason. This album is one of the most heartfelt, wonderful, awful records I've ever heard. More or less written about his childhood, the complicated relationship between him and his mother, and the time of her death (if you want more background, it's out there and easy to find, so I won't go too much further into the backstory).
I know there's been some pushback on the whiney singer/songwriter wailing over his acoustic recently, and this album could be construed as that, but I don't think it applies. In my mind, he wrote this album strictly for himself. He was kind enough to invite us in on what must have been a substantial and devastating cathartic journey. Littered throughout are so many baldly personal, terrible little slices of life. Take the first two verses this song alone:
Light struck from the lemon tree
What if I’d never seen hysterical light from Eugene?
Lemon yogurt, remember I pulled at your shirt
I dropped the ashtray on the floor
I just wanted to be near you
Emerald Park, wonders never cease
The man who taught me to swim, he couldn't quite say my first name
Like a Father he led
Community water on my head
And he called me “Subaru”
And now I want to be near you
It may not be my favorite of his (I mean, my god, Age of Adz), but it is definitely his finest work to this point. Sparse, sharply honed, and expertly crafted. A simply masterful album from one of my favorite craftsmen.
...oh, right, I should probably play the song now.
2015
Sorry, I wanted to find something professionally done from this album, however, strangely, none seem to exist.
Anyway, if this piques your interest, here's the album version of the first track, also awfully wonderful/depressing: