The Music Thread: It's Like Proust's Madeleines, Only Louder

[Garrett looked fabulous!]

Sometimes when I hear music the actual tune is less important than the memories it evokes. And as I get older (I'm creeping up on 29!) there is more music in my head that reminds me of events, even though it's just not my cup of musical tea.

And even if it isn't a particular event, music can evoke memories of a time...a summer spent at the beach, 9th grade, freshman year...

Mostly it's fun, although I have to admit that when I hear this (go ahead...I DARE you!), all I remember is that I was mostly working my ass off, and why the hell do I remember that song?

This one is better...Take The A Train checks all the pre-1960s boxes, and I can imagine some of my relatives..the more adventurous ones...heading into the city to listen to some jazz, and coming back whispering about that strange-smelling cigarette someone was smoking.

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Talk about songs that are redolent of the 1960s! California Dreamin' has survived for 60 years, in spite of those haircuts!
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Mozart's 15th Piano Concerto by Murray Perahia reminds me of driving with my father on I-87 and seeing huge herds of deer in one particular field along the road.

Weird.

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Mozart's 16th Piano Concerto ain't bad either.
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At the risk of dating myself, Fleetwood Mac's Go Your Own Way reminds me of some very pleasant events in high school, and I was no fan of high school!
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We Are The Mods!
We Are The Mods!
We Are We Are We Are The Mods!
[Oooh! A Sting sighting!]

It's not even a song, but I remember watching Quadrophenia and getting a huge kick out of that chant.

And an unappreciated song from that great album...

Love, Reign O'er Me

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Anyway...get the picture? What music is especially memory inducing?

Posted by: CBD at 07:30 PM

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1 Great shoes

Posted by: If you have a great hand, you don't need a partner at August 12, 2023 07:33 PM (qfLjt)

2 Hey

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 12, 2023 07:34 PM (TZ75n)

3 ‘Till she started wearing those shoes’….

Posted by: Redenzo at August 12, 2023 07:35 PM (V/pbu)

4 Speaking of which, Mick Fleetwood's restaurant in Maui burned down. Along with almost everything else. Shame.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 12, 2023 07:35 PM (TZ75n)

5 Set these to music? (missed most of the Pet thingee)
https://is.gd/SBoAoI

Posted by: If one has a great hand then one doesn't need a partner at August 12, 2023 07:37 PM (qfLjt)

6 I like The Cranberries version of Go Your Own Way.

Posted by: Mark1971 at August 12, 2023 07:37 PM (xPl2J)

7 Bellboy!

Posted by: All Hail Eris at August 12, 2023 07:41 PM (i4tOF)

8 I actually saw Quadrophenia.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at August 12, 2023 07:42 PM (i4tOF)

9 Just watched the "Triumph: Rock & Roll Machine" documentary. A band I probably should have listened to more before now. More uplifting and positive than most of their heavy metal peers of the day.

Posted by: Caiwyn at August 12, 2023 07:42 PM (Bmy9A)

10 To me, The Who are the premier rock band from that era, not the Stones.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at August 12, 2023 07:43 PM (i4tOF)

11 Ah, a music thread. Thanks much, CBD.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 12, 2023 07:43 PM (Xrfse)

12 I don't tend to associate songs with any particular event, except to say most songs that will evoke a strong emotion these days remind me of a particular person.

She's now stamped all over some my favorite music. Which I don't particularly care for.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 12, 2023 07:43 PM (631Cm)

13 It's 1982, my dad and I are heading down the road in a late '70s Gran Torino station wagon with a handful of beef jerky and a sixpack of beer. Neil Young's Heart of Gold is playing on one of the local Montana radio stations.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at August 12, 2023 07:44 PM (/HDaX)

14 I haven't seen that Triumph documentary yet. They were my very first concert in 1985. Love them.

Posted by: Mark1971 at August 12, 2023 07:44 PM (xPl2J)

15 What music is especially memory inducing?

I don't even know where to start. So many songs evoke memories, both good and not so good.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 12, 2023 07:46 PM (Xrfse)

16 Working man's song by Oliver Anthony Rich Men North of Richmond.

Going viral now. Breaks it down.sounds like a backlash anthem

Posted by: Regular joe at August 12, 2023 07:48 PM (7leMO)

17 Just watched the "Triumph: Rock & Roll Machine" documentary. A band I probably should have listened to more before now. More uplifting and positive than most of their heavy metal peers of the day.

Posted by: Caiwyn at August 12, 2023 07:42 PM (Bmy9A)

They were a really good band. Great guitar player, very consistent and did it while singing.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 12, 2023 07:48 PM (VwHCD)

18 Hard to beat Mozart.
But, I consider him a tragic figure.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at August 12, 2023 07:48 PM (MeG8a)

19 Working man's song by Oliver Anthony Rich Men North of Richmond.

Going viral now. Breaks it down.sounds like a backlash anthem

Posted by: Regular joe at August 12, 2023 07:48 PM (7leMO)

Rolling Stone Magazine is already attacking it so it has to be good.

Posted by: Mark1971 at August 12, 2023 07:49 PM (xPl2J)

20 https://youtu.be/4BJE6hwRpOc

Posted by: Common Tater at August 12, 2023 07:50 PM (w7r5P)

21 One of the things I find interesting, is running across old music reviews, when the reviewer is talking about something decades old, when it was new.

It is rather nostalgic, to realize what a time machine that old review is, how different that particular piece of music was to people at that time.

And then I'll read a review of something I haven't spent any time considering all these years, go and listen to it, and get just a little bit of what that would have been like to be present in that time.

Kinda feels like I'm stealing someone else's memories.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 12, 2023 07:51 PM (631Cm)

22 The above - barreling down I-80 in the back of a station wagon. Parents and family on vacation, the wide open West. Just a great feeling all was well in the world, a sense of security:

Posted by: Common Tater at August 12, 2023 07:51 PM (w7r5P)

23 And even if it isn't a particular event, music can evoke memories of a time...a summer spent at the beach, 9th grade, freshman year...
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Absolutely. "The Big Chill" was the movie that did it for boomers. "Dazed and Confused" was the movie that did it for my generation.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 12, 2023 07:52 PM (JvZF+)

24 To me, The Who are the premier rock band from that era, not the Stones.
Posted by: All Hail Eris

The guy on First ?

Posted by: JT at August 12, 2023 07:52 PM (T4tVD)

25 Rolling Stone Magazine is already attacking it so it has to be good.
Posted by: Mark1971 at August 12, 2023 07:49 PM (xPl2J)

Now I'm wondering, has anyone compiled RS music reviews into book form? Just the reviews?

Or even better, Spin?

Posted by: BurtTC at August 12, 2023 07:53 PM (631Cm)

26 Strange coming from a metal guitar player, but the RUSH Permanent Waves album is packed with memories for me. I guess there was so much happening during the period where I basically wore the cassette tape out in the car stereo that when I think of certain memories I hear that album playing.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 12, 2023 07:53 PM (VwHCD)

27 Will watch "The Last Waltz" again. RiP Robbie.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 12, 2023 07:54 PM (1kMJi)

28 Surfer Girl. 8th grade backyard party. Over and over again.

Posted by: RI Red at August 12, 2023 07:56 PM (SAX5G)

29 Mmmmm. Madeleine cookies.

Posted by: Kindltot - info about PNW MoMee Here at August 12, 2023 07:56 PM (xhaym)

30 Kinda sappy but this one will always remind me of "the one that got away". G'nite Darla, wherever you may be. Grand Funk, Bad Time.

https://tinyurl.com/27c7apkc

Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 12, 2023 07:56 PM (Xrfse)

31 They had a problem filming the “Last Waltz”, Neil Young came out with a huge rock of cocaine dangling from his nose. True story. I guess they air brushed it out, or something.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 12, 2023 07:57 PM (w7r5P)

32 Elton John, Yellow Brick Road reminds me of high school and was one of the first albums I bought with my own money, and wasn't my mom's type of music.
Later it was Barry Manilow (yeah, I know) and John Denver, who I still like and who brings back memories of being young and in love.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at August 12, 2023 07:57 PM (JrYM1)

33 So many songs remind me of Jesse. On road trips when we couldn't find a radio station he'd find something on his phone to amuse me.

John Prine's Dear Abby, while driving through western Kentucky

Because I Got High, driving through St Louis

Commander Cody, Hot Rod Lincoln, somewhere in Nebraska? late at night, long past the time we'd normally get off the road

Posted by: screaming in digital at August 12, 2023 07:58 PM (aBJcM)

34 Can You See the Real Me?

Posted by: JoeBar at August 12, 2023 07:58 PM (1v3N1)

35 I often date a tune from a place I heard it and in time it was.

Posted by: Skip at August 12, 2023 07:58 PM (MOY79)

36 Then, 5 or 6 years later, Riders on the Storm.
Katie, I hope life has been as good to you as it has been for me.

Posted by: RI Red at August 12, 2023 07:59 PM (SAX5G)

37 American Pie: My side hustle from teaching in a Hong Kong university was singing in a German bar, and Saturday nights were singalong night - I was "choir" leader!

American Pie was a crowd favorite, as well as the German owner who played bad to worse guitar. No one cared, because Apfel schnapps is magical.

Hearing Bye Bye Miss American Pie in a jumble of accents was kind of fun!

Posted by: Moki at August 12, 2023 07:59 PM (JrN/x)

38 Now I'm wondering, has anyone compiled RS music reviews into book form? Just the reviews?

Or even better, Spin?
Posted by: BurtTC at August 12, 2023 07:53 PM (631Cm)

Looks like RS published four different editions of a record guide, not full reviews, with the first in 1979, the last in 2004. Might be worth picking up both of those versions.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 12, 2023 08:00 PM (JZ0nb)

39 Red Red Wine, (UB 40)

No Sugar Tonight (Guess Who) Summers in Adirondacks

Afrikan Beat (Kaempfert) a father favorite

Voices of Babylon (Outfield) nostalgia

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at August 12, 2023 08:02 PM (We9fe)

40 I've been on a Dmitri Shostakovich kick lately, particularly his jazz suites. He was such a versatile composer, from modernistic, discordant works to to romantic melodies, and even his Slavic version of jazz.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 12, 2023 08:02 PM (FVME7)

41 Let’s see, Moki. Auf wiedersehen, Amerikanerin Strudel Madchen.

Posted by: RI Red at August 12, 2023 08:02 PM (SAX5G)

42 The roller skating video on last night's cafe brought back memories of being a wee ette in the late 70s, going to Holland's Roll-a-rama whenever I could wheedle my mother into taking me there. I think they only had 2 songs on the jukebox: Eddie Rabbit's I Love a Rainy Night, and Johnny Lee's Lookin' for Love. I rarely hear those nowadays, but I'm 7 years old again, with hippie hair and jeans with a rose patch on the knee, skating at Holland's.

Posted by: screaming in digital at August 12, 2023 08:03 PM (aBJcM)

43 White crocs evolved in the sewers. I saw a documentary on it.

Posted by: fd at August 12, 2023 08:03 PM (vFG9F)

44 We had 2 8-track tapes we played continuously when I was a lifeguard in the Jewish Alps. One was "Billy Joel's Greatest Hits" (he had only 3 LPs at the time.)

I hate Billy Joel.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 12, 2023 08:03 PM (JvZF+)

45 Away camp:
Wake up song - theme to the Magnificent Seven
Lights out - Moon River

First Ski Trip, pulling up to the base parking lot -
Carolina on My Mind

“First Time…” - Stairway to Heaven

Senior Spring College - Rumours, the whole damn album

After that…nothing much. Things hit you harder, and make more lasting impressions when you’re young.

Posted by: browndog waiting for hockey season at August 12, 2023 08:04 PM (CCSxw)

46 But, SiD, were they four-wheelers or inline?

Posted by: RI Red at August 12, 2023 08:04 PM (SAX5G)

47 Dirt Poor Robins, Enchanté

https://youtu.be/b-AHzI4Y_qA

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 12, 2023 08:06 PM (ybIRR)

48 .Moki, your next book just needs to be "Tales from the Embassy"

Posted by: Ben Had at August 12, 2023 08:06 PM (1kMJi)

49 I had an interesting and tragic realization this last week. I was in a restaurant in NC talking to a not particularly young person, maybe 30-35, about driving through Muscle Shoals, Alabama and how everyone knows the name because of the line in Sweet Home Alabama.

He said he'd never heard the song. I laughed until I realized he wasn't joking.

I realized we've lost that element of social connection as well, same as when big season-finale events or made-for-TV movies were showing and pretty much everyone was at least vaguely aware of a common topic. You might not have liked rap, but you knew about the "I Like Big Butts" song. You didn't like country but knew about "Achey Breaky Heart." Everyone had slight connections. It was part of what made us a society. That's gone now.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at August 12, 2023 08:07 PM (BMWRT)

50 Junior year of HS, my friend Dawn made a cassette of Operation Mindcrime for me. I wore it out rewinding and replaying I Don't Believe in Love, and it's still my favorite Ryche tune.

Stand by REM was a favorite at HS dances, we all did the stupid dance from the video -
https://youtu.be/AKKqLl_ZEEY

Posted by: screaming in digital at August 12, 2023 08:08 PM (aBJcM)

51 I still remember the first concert my parents took us to when I was about 3 or 4 years old. Marty Robbins made a big impression on me. The second song I learned on guitar was Marty's Begging to You because I loved it.

Posted by: huerfano at August 12, 2023 08:08 PM (7zEAH)

52 White crocs evolved in the sewers. I saw a documentary on it.
Posted by: fd at August 12, 2023 08:03 PM (vFG9F)

Because black crocs in sewers would be rayciss.

On a related note, I saw the question the other day, will Dinsey consider doing a live action racy swap for the movie, Tarzan?

Posted by: BurtTC at August 12, 2023 08:08 PM (py+yv)

53 But, SiD, were they four-wheelers or inline?
Posted by: RI Red
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4 wheels of course!

Posted by: screaming in digital at August 12, 2023 08:08 PM (aBJcM)

54 I hate Billy Joel.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 12, 2023 08:03 PM (JvZF+)

Not a fan either, but I did get dragged to a concert once, and I will say he puts on quite a show.

Or he did. Prolly not so much anymore.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 12, 2023 08:10 PM (py+yv)

55 Working man's song by Oliver Anthony Rich Men North of Richmond.

Going viral now. Breaks it down.sounds like a backlash anthem
Posted by: Regular joe at August 12, 2023 07:48 PM (7leMO)

I've been following "Rich Men North of Richmond" since yesterday afternoon. Powerful stuff. One Aussie reaction host was so struck by the performance, at the end of the song, he was speechless for 12 seconds and then without a word, replayed the song in its entirety. More than 5M views on YT in three days.

Oliver Anthony will perform live on stage at a Currituck NC farmers market tomorrow afternoon. It's been well advertised. Free admission. I hope Currituck survives the experience

Posted by: mrp at August 12, 2023 08:11 PM (rj6Yv)

56 Had a delicious baked bean dinner. Now listening to to Mama Cass Elliot-Make Your Own Kind of Music. Seemed apropos.

Posted by: Li'l Stinker at August 12, 2023 08:12 PM (83IzV)

57 Rich Men North of Richmond has been posted lots of places but haven't listened yet

Posted by: Skip at August 12, 2023 08:12 PM (MOY79)

58 Glen Miller big band
Lyle Lovett big band

Posted by: Ben Had at August 12, 2023 08:13 PM (1kMJi)

59 >What music is especially memory inducing?

For me it would have to be Fortunate Son

I remember this one time we bombed this hill, and after it was over I walked up. We didn't find one of them- not one stinking enemy body. But that smell- that gasoline smell... the whole hill.
Smelled like victory.

Posted by: DB - at August 12, 2023 08:13 PM (geLO8)

60 Working man's song by Oliver Anthony Rich Men North of Richmond.

Going viral now. Breaks it down.sounds like a backlash anthem
Posted by: Regular joe at August 12, 2023 07:48 PM (7leMO)

Got it on now... not what I was expecting. Pretty powerful.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 12, 2023 08:14 PM (py+yv)

61 Came across this the other day. You may like it if you would like a cover of a Tolkien poem put to music in "The Hobbit", sung by one guy with a really high voice and one guy with a really low voice, both in costume. Bit of a treat at the end.

https://tinyurl.com/muhbnxnz

Posted by: javems at August 12, 2023 08:14 PM (6X5DU)

62 Last Polka>Last Waltz

Posted by: Leutonian Supremacist at August 12, 2023 08:15 PM (83IzV)

63 Rich Men North of Richmond is a racist right wing dog whistle. Says Rolling Stone.
Lol.

Posted by: Montec at August 12, 2023 08:15 PM (L/ti7)

64 I remember the first time I heard Jimmy's Voodoo Chile. It was on a crappy AM radio and I was blown away by the mayhem. Up to that point I wasn't really paying attention other than being a casual teeny bop pop consumer.

Posted by: fd at August 12, 2023 08:15 PM (vFG9F)

65 Driving down Route 1 in the Florida Keys at sunrise. I was the only one awake. By buddy and our girls were sound asleep. Beautiful morning that I'll never forget. Ol' 55.

https://tinyurl.com/3rcx975j

Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 12, 2023 08:15 PM (Xrfse)

66 Rich Men North of Richmond has been posted lots of places but haven't listened yet
Posted by: Skip at August 12, 2023 08:12 PM (MOY79)

Give it a go. I'd recommend everyone do so. Might not be what you're used to, but as I noted just above, it was not what I was expecting.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 12, 2023 08:15 PM (py+yv)

67 Oliver Anthony's "Rich Men North of Richmond"

LINK: https://youtu.be/sqSA-SY5Hro

Over 5.1M views in 4 days. No one heard of him 4 days ago.

Posted by: mrp at August 12, 2023 08:16 PM (rj6Yv)

68 I wonder how many "journalists" are currently looking into Oliver Anthony's past for any little thing to get him cancelled.

Posted by: Mark1971 at August 12, 2023 08:16 PM (xPl2J)

69 First slow dance... The Cars' Drive

Cute guy, but a bit of an asshole. I still remember his name.

Posted by: screaming in digital at August 12, 2023 08:17 PM (aBJcM)

70 Music can bring back all sorts of memories. When I hear Dave Brubeck's "Take 5" I am back in the early to mid 60s at the Newport Jazz Festival hearing it live for the first time. I can smell the crushed grass where the seats were set up (it was an outdoor venue), the aroma of the wooden chairs that had been sitting in the sun all day, and the quiet as everyone was listening so as not to miss a note, especially if the members riffed on the recorded version. It was similar when I heard "Sophisticated Lady" with Ella singing with Duke Ellington. Or Buddy Rich and his band making the air vibrate with the power of their arrangement. Moments like these cemented my love of instrumental music, jazz and blues.

Posted by: JTB at August 12, 2023 08:17 PM (7EjX1)

71 >>Dirt Poor Robins, Enchanté

https://youtu.be/b-AHzI4Y_qA

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 12, 2023 08:06 PM

I have never heard them. I love that. Thanks.

Posted by: huerfano at August 12, 2023 08:17 PM (7zEAH)

72 1994 we got an old Suburban and a used pop up camper and took our kids on a cross-country month-long vacation that took us across the upper half of the western US, from Michigan to Vancouver Island and back. Steven Curtis Chapman's album The Great Adventure had just come out. Every time I hear a song from that album I can see the long state highways we took across Montana with the mountains around or in front of us. Just the feeling of being all together and exploring this great country comes back to me. Best vacation with the kids ever.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at August 12, 2023 08:18 PM (JrYM1)

73 Rich Men North of Richmond is a racist right wing dog whistle. Says Rolling Stone.
Lol.
Posted by: Montec at August 12, 2023 08:15 PM (L/ti7)

Yes, in the same way Sound Of Freedom is a QAnon movie.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 12, 2023 08:18 PM (py+yv)

74 Lyle Lovett big band
Posted by: Ben Had at August 12, 2023 08:13 PM (1kMJi)

https://youtu.be/uPbUb93MKPo

This has been in my rotation recently…enjoy

Posted by: browndog waiting for hockey season at August 12, 2023 08:19 PM (CCSxw)

75 Oliver Anthony's "Rich Men North of Richmond"

LINK: https://youtu.be/sqSA-SY5Hro

Over 5.1M views in 4 days. No one heard of him 4 days ago.

4 days ago he was just a guy that worked in a factory who wrote songs in his off time.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 12, 2023 08:19 PM (Bd6X8)

76 Give it a go. I'd recommend everyone do so. Might not be what you're used to, but as I noted just above, it was not what I was expecting.
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Not really my style of Music but pretty powerful song. And dude has a great voice.

Posted by: Montec at August 12, 2023 08:20 PM (L/ti7)

77
I've been on a Dmitri Shostakovich kick lately, particularly his jazz suites. He was such a versatile composer, from modernistic, discordant works to to romantic melodies, and even his Slavic version of jazz.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 12, 2023 08:02 PM (FVME7)

___________

The Prelude and Fugue in A major, Op. 87, No. 7.

https://youtu.be/UgEGAC1XvW8

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 12, 2023 08:20 PM (MoZTd)

78 Rich Men North of Richmond is a racist right wing dog whistle. Says Rolling Stone.
Lol.
Posted by: Montec at August 12, 2023 08:15 PM (L/ti7)

This song will change the country.

Posted by: mrp at August 12, 2023 08:20 PM (rj6Yv)

79
I wonder how many "journalists" are currently looking into Oliver Anthony's past for any little thing to get him cancelled.
Posted by: Mark1971

ALL of them.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 12, 2023 08:22 PM (63Dwl)

80 Ray Charles, America, never fails to bring a tear. Ferlon and Loretta always brought a bar fight.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 12, 2023 08:23 PM (1kMJi)

81 Not really my style of Music but pretty powerful song. And dude has a great voice.
Posted by: Montec at August 12, 2023 08:20 PM (L/ti7)

Oh my... just had the line pointed out:

"Rich politicians, look out for miners, not just minors on an island somewhere."

Oh, they're not gonna like that.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 12, 2023 08:24 PM (py+yv)

82 I listened to a lot of Oliver Anthony today. That's not his only good song. I want an album of his stuff. And yeah, he used to work third shift in a mill and has screwed up his life a bit. But he sure can sing and play and he loves dogs. Good enough for me.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 12, 2023 08:24 PM (ouTlx)

83 Missed the Pet Thread. But I hear music.

🎵 music can evoke memories of a time...a summer spent at the beach, 9th grade, freshman year...

It can?

That Summer when we wanted to hear Light My Fire, the long version. We'd have settled for Light My Fire the short version. What we got was LightMyFire LightMyFire LightMyFire LightMyFire by Blind Joé Feliciations.

That Summer when we really wanted to hear Itchycoo Park again. What we got was cake out melting in the rain.

At the eye doc's yesterday, they had the '60s hits channel on the Muzak. Realized that every song they played was released before MiladyJo or I graduated high school. Living ancient history.

Posted by: mindful webworker - everybody kept on playing sgt pepper's lonely hearts club baaaaannnnd at August 12, 2023 08:24 PM (bQ/08)

84
I'd like to contribute more to these music threads, since music is very important to my peace of mind and intellectual stimulation. But my tastes aren't common and thus anything I'd say would sound embarrassingly off.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 12, 2023 08:25 PM (MoZTd)

85 My husband once attended a conference in Paris, the week included an evening dinner cruise on the Seine. They had a small band on board, playing "Proud Mary"--although I admit I didn't recognize it until they hit the chorus! Always remember that cruise now with that song.

Posted by: Lirio100 at August 12, 2023 08:25 PM (w/VHS)

86 68 I wonder how many "journalists" are currently looking into Oliver Anthony's past for any little thing to get him cancelled.
Posted by: Mark1971 at August 12, 2023 08:16 PM (xPl2J)

—-
All Of them?

Posted by: Montec at August 12, 2023 08:25 PM (L/ti7)

87 When I was a kid, sometimes my parents would let me stay up to watch Jimmy Carson. One night, he had this astonishing choir of Bulgarian women singing folk music that is as complex, and more complex, than a lot of Western classical music. Apparently they were discovered singing at a folk festival of some sort, and the musicologist was astonished at the depth and strangeness of this music.

Their music is in weird time signatures, like 7/8 and 11 and 13, and they can get really slapping rhythms. And they use these cluster tones in their harmonies, where note is stacked on note, and a major second is viewed as a *resolution.* They use Eastern vocal style sometimes, using quarter-tones (as opposed to Western music, where we stick to semitones, unless we're talking about some of the more precise jazz musicians).

It beguiled me, and I've tried to interest other people in it. My wife refers to them as the "Barking Women," which shows that not everything is made for everybody.

Anybody, watching this musicology guy's head explode as he listened to Les Mystere des Voix Bulgares reminded me of the first time I listened to these musicians.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_CyUFwGi4A&t=15s&

Posted by: Smallish Bees at August 12, 2023 08:26 PM (+tgkM)

88 I wonder how many "journalists" are currently looking into Oliver Anthony's past for any little thing to get him cancelled.
Posted by: Mark1971

ALL of them.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 12, 2023 08:22 PM (63Dwl)

Go ahead. They should try. They really should, see how that goes.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 12, 2023 08:27 PM (py+yv)

89 Fun Fact:

One of Rush's first gigs was opening for Sha Na Na.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 12, 2023 08:27 PM (up/3i)

90 *JOHNNY* Carson. I'm dumb.

Posted by: Smallish Bees at August 12, 2023 08:27 PM (+tgkM)

91 Jesus and Mary Chain I think. PsychoCandy

Posted by: Kindltot - info about PNW MoMee Here at August 12, 2023 08:27 PM (xhaym)

92 Rolling Stone Magazine is already attacking it so it has to be good.
Posted by: Mark1971 at August 12, 2023 07:49 PM (xPl2J)

The funny thing about the Rolling Stone is how much they hated both Led Zeppelin and the Ramones when they first came out.

I mean hated hated hated them both esp the Ramones even to the point where they thought the Ramones would destroy Rock and Roll.

It wasn't till like after each of those bands third albums that they gave them grudging positive reviews before finally realizing that they were being clueless dickweeds.

How they got their rep as the "voice" of RocknRoll and the Boomers is beyond me.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 12, 2023 08:27 PM (QzZeQ)

93 The He-Man version of "What's Up" is way better.

https://tinyurl.com/4jywkzcw

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 12, 2023 08:27 PM (CHHv1)

94 Here's an up-to-date version of California Dreaming (California Fleeing):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwJlKw56l30

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 12, 2023 08:28 PM (a3Q+t)

95 He dared to question why 300 lb obese lardasses get welfare while other people are on the streets with nothing to eat. That’s racist yo!! Why? Because we say so.
- music media

Posted by: Montec at August 12, 2023 08:28 PM (L/ti7)

96 I meant the whole album.

Posted by: Kindltot - info about PNW MoMee Here at August 12, 2023 08:28 PM (xhaym)

97 Sounds like there is going to be a rich man south of Richmond soon.

@johnrich

I've had the pleasure of a getting to know Oliver Anthony
@AintGottaDollar
on a couple of long phone calls and let me tell you, he's the REAL DEAL on every level. This man is going to be a force to reckon with! A new voice for The People. #RichMenNorthOfRichmond

Posted by: JackStraw at August 12, 2023 08:29 PM (ZLI7S)

98 And CBD's statement that "The Beach Boys are the greatest rock band of all time!" is still true.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 12, 2023 08:29 PM (a3Q+t)

99 The local station I listen to decided to drop 60s music and focus on the 70s and 80s. Couple of things I've noticed. You don't hear many deep masculine voices and the women sound like whiny pre-teens. There are exceptions but not a lot. It's the era of "the love that dared not speak its name". So 50 years of promoting the gay lifestyle. Can we stop pretending they face discrimination?

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 12, 2023 08:29 PM (ouTlx)

100 Lirio 100, I had a next to the stage seat watching Tina do that live. I was a fan before and a life long fan after

Posted by: Ben Had at August 12, 2023 08:29 PM (1kMJi)

101 I'd like to contribute more to these music threads, since music is very important to my peace of mind and intellectual stimulation. But my tastes aren't common and thus anything I'd say would sound embarrassingly off.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 12, 2023 08:25 PM (MoZTd)

Go for it.

I'm rather fond of saying "your music sucks," in the most ironic way. What you like is what you like. No one's taste is better than anyone else's.

That being said, yes, popular music is objectively more bland, uninspired, and getting worse. Just like popular movies and books. Just like vanilla ice cream is the #1 seller in the world.

But hey, if you like vanilla ice cream, I don't judge.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 12, 2023 08:30 PM (py+yv)

102 I will tomorrow. I actually am listening to a wider range of music now than every before. Been listening to a fair amount of jazz.

Never liked the Beach Boys though

Posted by: Skip at August 12, 2023 08:31 PM (MOY79)

103 85 My husband once attended a conference in Paris, the week included an evening dinner cruise on the Seine. They had a small band on board, playing "Proud Mary"--although I admit I didn't recognize it until they hit the chorus! Always remember that cruise now with that song.

Posted by: Lirio100 at August 12, 2023 08:25 PM (w/VHS)

I thought that was the Vietnamese national anthem for a while. Evey band over there could play it.

Posted by: javems at August 12, 2023 08:32 PM (6X5DU)

104 I was so bummed when I heard Guns N Roses on the classic rock station the first time. What? How the hell is this classic? It came out when I was in middle school!!!! Lol

Posted by: Montec at August 12, 2023 08:32 PM (L/ti7)

105 How they got their rep as the "voice" of RocknRoll and the Boomers is beyond me.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 12, 2023 08:27 PM (QzZeQ)

I thought Spin was a better music mag. At least for the first couple of years.
I mean they had Henry FRICKIN Rollins writing a column on producing records which was AWESOME

Posted by: Kindltot - info about PNW MoMee Here at August 12, 2023 08:32 PM (xhaym)

106 But hey, if you like vanilla ice cream, I don't judge.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 12, 2023 08:30 PM

Please. This is the music thread.

Posted by: Vanilla Fudge at August 12, 2023 08:32 PM (a3Q+t)

107 61 ... "Came across this the other day. You may like it if you would like a cover of a Tolkien poem put to music in "The Hobbit", sung by one guy with a really high voice and one guy with a really low voice, both in costume. Bit of a treat at the end."

I've watched that Peter Hollens and Tim Foust video many times. I have fun matching Foust's low notes. Geoff Castelucci has his own version that I like even more.

Posted by: JTB at August 12, 2023 08:32 PM (7EjX1)

108 There are good comments under the Rich Men song on youtube, too.

Folks from around the world are commenting, too. It's almost like what's happening everywhere has been calculated and planned and put into effect by a small group of unelected people with control of governments and foundations.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at August 12, 2023 08:32 PM (BMWRT)

109
When I was a kid, sometimes my parents would let me stay up to watch Jimmy Carson. One night, he had this astonishing choir of Bulgarian women singing folk music that is as complex, and more complex, than a lot of Western classical music. Apparently they were discovered singing at a folk festival of some sort, and the musicologist was astonished at the depth and strangeness of this music.

__________

Theodora is Dozing, performed by the Women's Chorus of the Bulgarian Radio

https://youtu.be/_WKm7B-kPK4

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 12, 2023 08:32 PM (MoZTd)

110 Driving an old Dodge delivery van in my junior year of HS as a summer job. Tom Petty's first LP had just come out and when "Breakdown" would come on I'd crank the cheapie AM radio loud enough to rattle the metal dashboard.
Loved that song. Still do.

Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at August 12, 2023 08:33 PM (wCkB+)

111 Jesus and Mary Chain I think. PsychoCandy
Posted by: Kindltot - info about PNW MoMee Here at August 12, 2023 08:27 PM (xhaym)

Not sure what you are responding to, but since you invoked the name... it's their only good album. The rest of their career? Meh. Some ok stuff later, but that one's the shite.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 12, 2023 08:33 PM (py+yv)

112 I was so bummed when I heard Guns N Roses on the classic rock station the first time. What? How the hell is this classic? It came out when I was in middle school!!!! Lol
Posted by: Montec at August 12, 2023 08:32 PM (L/ti7)

I remember the first time I heard The Cure on the Muzak track at the grocery store. Getting old is only good in view of the alternatives.

Posted by: Kindltot - info about PNW MoMee Here at August 12, 2023 08:33 PM (xhaym)

113 I can remember hearing the Steeldrivers on Sirius bluegrass channel and liked them a lot. Then I started hearing about Chris Stapleton and realized it was the guy with the great voice. We are here again with Oliver Anthony. And eouldn't he be an unlikely guy to be the Bob Dylan of rhis generation?

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 12, 2023 08:34 PM (ouTlx)

114 I'd like to contribute more to these music threads, since music is very important to my peace of mind and intellectual stimulation. But my tastes aren't common and thus anything I'd say would sound embarrassingly off.

In today's thread we've had discussion of classical, metal, jazz, country, and Bulgarian folk music. What could possibly be so uncommon that no one else in Teh Horde would take an interest?

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 12, 2023 08:34 PM (Bd6X8)

115 John Rich has offered to produce an Oliver Anthony album.

Posted by: mrp at August 12, 2023 08:34 PM (rj6Yv)

116 Apparently they were discovered singing at a folk festival of some sort, and the musicologist was astonished at the depth and strangeness of this music.
-

As was mentioned with Rolling Stone, Our Betters are stunningly ignorant about almost everything.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at August 12, 2023 08:34 PM (BMWRT)

117 It would appear that CBD's stint in maple syrup rehab went well.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 12, 2023 08:35 PM (a3Q+t)

118 In today's thread we've had discussion of classical, metal, jazz, country, and Bulgarian folk music. What could possibly be so uncommon that no one else in Teh Horde would take an interest?
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 12, 2023 08:34 PM

Klingon opera has been discussed more than once by The Horde.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 12, 2023 08:36 PM (a3Q+t)

119 Please. This is the music thread.
Posted by: Vanilla Fudge at August 12, 2023 08:32 PM (a3Q+t)

You asked for it:

https://tinyurl.com/ap3j5bs7

Posted by: BurtTC at August 12, 2023 08:36 PM (py+yv)

120 Not sure what you are responding to, but since you invoked the name... it's their only good album. The rest of their career? Meh. Some ok stuff later, but that one's the shite.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 12, 2023 08:33 PM (py+yv)

That album was lightning on Vinyl though. they called it the Wall of Sound, and it made what was otherwise a fairly center of the road album really good.
I think Cowboy Junkies had one good album too.

Posted by: Kindltot - info about PNW MoMee Here at August 12, 2023 08:37 PM (xhaym)

121 The Beach Boys sucked. No soul just surfboards

Posted by: Ben Had at August 12, 2023 08:37 PM (1kMJi)

122 I've been selling
My soul
Working all day
Over time hours
For bull shit pay

Yep sounds like the real deal to me. Remember Rolling Stone sucking Reggae dick for a decade?

Posted by: Regular joe at August 12, 2023 08:38 PM (7leMO)

123 also folk, Christian and swing/big band

Posted by: TecumsehTea at August 12, 2023 08:38 PM (JrYM1)

124 " Oldies " radio stations now play Guns and Rose's and Pearljam

Posted by: Skip at August 12, 2023 08:38 PM (MOY79)

125 In today's thread we've had discussion of classical, metal, jazz, country, and Bulgarian folk music. What could possibly be so uncommon that no one else in Teh Horde would take an interest?

---

(Comus' "Diana" has entered the chat)

https://youtu.be/4aEpyhx_c7o

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at August 12, 2023 08:38 PM (BMWRT)

126 It may only be August, but it's not too early to start enjoying some Christmas music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNxesQfwuYg

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 12, 2023 08:39 PM (a3Q+t)

127 90 *JOHNNY* Carson. I'm dumb.

Posted by: Smallish Bees at August 12, 2023 08:27 PM (+tgkM)

Blame it on the Autothingy, everyone else does.

Posted by: javems at August 12, 2023 08:39 PM (6X5DU)

128 @104

>>I was so bummed when I heard Guns N Roses on the classic rock station the first time. What? How the hell is this classic? It came out when I was in middle school!!!! Lol

It's wild because it's more like oldies.

Their first big hit, Sweet Child of Mine came out in 87, 36 years ago, and it's still as relevant and listenable today as it was then.

The interesting thing is 36 years before that is 1951, 50's music was certainly not as popular in the 80's as the music from the 80's is today.

None of what I'm saying may make sense, I've had quite a few drinks.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 12, 2023 08:39 PM (up/3i)

129 Oldies should be anything pre-1964. The British Invasion started the Classic Rock era.

Posted by: Mark1971 at August 12, 2023 08:40 PM (xPl2J)

130 There are good comments under the Rich Men song on youtube, too.

Folks from around the world are commenting, too. It's almost like what's happening everywhere has been calculated and planned and put into effect by a small group of unelected people with control of governments and foundations.

Yes, there are. And there are also some related "reaction" videos to the song, where similar sentiments are voiced. Some (not nearly enough) folks are finally waking up and don't like what they see.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 12, 2023 08:41 PM (Xrfse)

131 One of the things I like about these What Do You Like threads, or what is your favorite fill in the blanks is how much alike and how different we can all be, but yet be united by common beliefs. People are so interesting to me, and reading comments about why certain music, or books, or comics or movies are important to them, or touch them, or whatever helps me picture all of you people in gray boxes as real people, complex and complicated and just interesting.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at August 12, 2023 08:41 PM (JrYM1)

132 >>I'd like to contribute more to these music threads, since music is very important to my peace of mind and intellectual stimulation. But my tastes aren't common and thus anything I'd say would sound embarrassingly off.

Musical taste is intensely personal. There is no right answer to what is good music, good music is whatever you like. Most of the "popular" music that gets overplayed on the radio is soulless dreck.

I don't care if other people like what I like, I listen to it for me and I like all kinds of music. Post away, haters are going to hate but not all of us will and some of the classical music you like is beautiful.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 12, 2023 08:42 PM (ZLI7S)

133 More Oliver Anthony:

Doggoneit
https://youtu.be/czAe3L7utTs

Hell on Earth
https://youtu.be/XE6v8nBn74A

Always Love You (like a good ole dog)
https://youtu.be/5goY07FgIRA

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 12, 2023 08:42 PM (ouTlx)

134 Yep sounds like the real deal to me. Remember Rolling Stone sucking Reggae dick for a decade?
Posted by: Regular joe at August 12, 2023 08:38 PM (7leMO)

I've watched a lot of "Rich Men" reaction videos on YT. The one near-universal visual moment for all the videos during the song was when Anthony makes the Epstein Island reference. It was one of shock. THEY ALL KNOW.

Like I said, this song will change the country.

Posted by: mrp at August 12, 2023 08:42 PM (rj6Yv)

135 @129

>>Oldies should be anything pre-1964. The British Invasion started the Classic Rock era.

Yeah but 64 was 59 years ago, that would be like someone in the 60's listening to music from the 1910's.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 12, 2023 08:43 PM (up/3i)

136 I remember the first time I heard The Cure on the Muzak track at the grocery store. Getting old is only good in view of the alternatives.
Posted by: Kindltot - info about PNW MoMee Here at August 12, 2023 08:33 PM (xhaym)

I was in a Borders way back when, someone put on Aimee Mann's "I'm With Stupid." Before the vocals started, I asked the cashier "does whoever put this on know the lyrics?"

I don't think they did.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 12, 2023 08:43 PM (/LElr)

137 One of my most vivid high school memories is blasting down I 290 with my girlfriend driving, a buddy and his girlfriend in the backseat of a convertible Celica. Cranking and singing along with "Pour Some Sugar On Me". Felt like we were in an MTV video. Bitch ended up cheating on me months later, so fuck her.

Posted by: Lincolntf at August 12, 2023 08:43 PM (2cS/G)

138 I've watched that Peter Hollens and Tim Foust video many times. I have fun matching Foust's low notes. Geoff Castelucci has his own version that I like even more.

Posted by: JTB at August 12, 2023 08:32 PM (7EjX1)

I just listened to the the bass line through the whole song. Foust can really rumble when he wants to.

Posted by: javems at August 12, 2023 08:44 PM (6X5DU)

139 The only Steeldrivers song I know is If it Hadn't Been For Love, and originally it was by a techno guy who used it for the basis of one of his 'elaborations" and I had to search it out.
He also did an Electronica (he called it Trip-hop) version of the guitar piece Andalusia which was one minute and 20 seconds of awesomeness

Posted by: Kindltot - info about PNW MoMee Here at August 12, 2023 08:44 PM (xhaym)

140 I like your classical music compilations, Hadrian, and they've introduced me to some good stuff. But I do sometimes skip opera.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 12, 2023 08:44 PM (ouTlx)

141 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Mom and Dad played classical music one vinyl per artist on 33rpm records.
Sister's had 45s; but, few albums.

When on long motorcycle rides I put 60g of classical music on random and just rode.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 12, 2023 08:44 PM (tC64t)

142 1987 to today being the same distance as 1987 and 1951 is kinda trippy.

Posted by: Montec at August 12, 2023 08:44 PM (L/ti7)

143
Yeah but 64 was 59 years ago, that would be like someone in the 60's listening to music from the 1910's.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

If time and taste are linear.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 12, 2023 08:45 PM (63Dwl)

144 so fuck her.
Posted by: Lincolntf at August 12, 2023 08:43 PM (2cS/G)

I did.

Posted by: Dude She Cheated With at August 12, 2023 08:46 PM (L/ti7)

145 I think Cowboy Junkies had one good album too.

Posted by: Kindltot - info about PNW MoMee Here at August 12, 2023 08:37 PM (xhaym)

Oh no no no. No. NO.

On that you are wrong, lol!

Posted by: BurtTC at August 12, 2023 08:46 PM (/LElr)

146 Klingon opera has been discussed more than once by The Horde.
Posted by: Duncanthrax

Zeuhl style music is what Klingon opera could have been.

https://youtu.be/QTucmvIEbbg

Posted by: mikeski at August 12, 2023 08:46 PM (DgGvY)

147 Yeah but 64 was 59 years ago, that would be like someone in the 60's listening to music from the 1910's.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 12, 2023 08:43 PM (up/3i)

Don't remind me.

Posted by: javems at August 12, 2023 08:46 PM (6X5DU)

148 Sorry, meant Asturias
https://www.peachstealing
monkeys.com/Music/Asturias.mp3

Posted by: Kindltot - info about PNW MoMee Here at August 12, 2023 08:48 PM (xhaym)

149 Listening to some Sabbath now.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 12, 2023 08:48 PM (TZ75n)

150 Just Like Honey by Jesus and Mary Chain is a hell of a song.

Posted by: Montec at August 12, 2023 08:48 PM (L/ti7)

151 Music + Gainz! For the upright bass player, anyway.

https://youtu.be/emgP1ULVSKo

Posted by: mikeski at August 12, 2023 08:48 PM (DgGvY)

152 Real opera to me is like some hearing fingernails on a chalkboard

Posted by: Skip at August 12, 2023 08:49 PM (MOY79)

153 Yeah but 64 was 59 years ago, that would be like someone in the 60's listening to music from the 1910's.

Some of us are still vertical and breathing, possibly much to the chagrin of others.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 12, 2023 08:49 PM (Xrfse)

154 One of the things I like about these What Do You Like threads, or what is your favorite fill in the blanks is how much alike and how different we can all be, but yet be united by common beliefs. People are so interesting to me, and reading comments about why certain music, or books, or comics or movies are important to them, or touch them, or whatever helps me picture all of you people in gray boxes as real people, complex and complicated and just interesting.
Posted by: TecumsehTea at August 12, 2023 08:41 PM (JrYM1)
===
If you disagree with me, I will destroy you!

Posted by: Every Marxist at August 12, 2023 08:50 PM (JvZF+)

155 Dude, you are correct. But after he did, I went to his house and told him he was a dick, as his family sat around the dinner table. Left peacefully. A week or two later, he and some football teammates tried to bumrush me at a hockey game. They would have killed me except that our football players were tougher and literally dragged them off of me. I didn't know half of them even knew who I was, but this guy was a prick and they were looking for an excuse to pound him.

Posted by: Lincolntf at August 12, 2023 08:51 PM (2cS/G)

156 Fun Fact:

One of Rush's first gigs was opening for Sha Na Na.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 12, 2023 08:27 PM (up/3i)

An hour of political commentary followed by two hours of Bowser and the boys?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 12, 2023 08:51 PM (bQKgA)

157

Listening to Radio Swiss Classic

https://www.radioswissclassic.ch/en

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 12, 2023 08:51 PM (63Dwl)

158 Love, Reign O'er Me

One of my favorites songs. Top five probably.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 12, 2023 08:51 PM (mE7cY)

159 Rock today doesn’t sound that different than rock from 30 or 40 years ago. But music in the 80s was something unheard of in the 40s. So the comparisons aren’t completely valid.

Posted by: Montec at August 12, 2023 08:51 PM (L/ti7)

160 Theodora is Dozing, performed by the Women's Chorus of the Bulgarian Radio

https://youtu.be/_WKm7B-kPK4
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 12, 2023 08:32 PM (MoZTd)

THAT.

I've spent HOURS listening to that piece of music, and I actually wrote it into a fantasy-humor novel I'm working on with my sister.

How odd to find someone in the wild who has actually heard of something I love.

Here's a concert I'm listening through today, AS IF EVERYONE HASN'T HAD QUITE ENOUGH OF BULGARIAN ACAPELLA MUSICIANS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFgzzWT3zX4&ab_channel=KEXP

Posted by: Smallish Bees at August 12, 2023 08:51 PM (+tgkM)

161 Quadrophenia really is a great album. I'll have to dust it off again soon.

I ran across this song by Yvonne Elliman the other night. I Don't Know How To Love Him may be the loveliest song ever sung (and Yvinne wasn't so bad herself)

https://tinyurl.com/bd46nkj8

Posted by: 496 at August 12, 2023 08:51 PM (ztHNa)

162 (Comus' "Diana" has entered the chat)

https://youtu.be/4aEpyhx_c7o
Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at August 12, 2023 08:38 PM (BMWRT)

Hmmm, I don't hate it.

Shall I offer? Suburban Lawns:

https://tinyurl.com/34cx5fky

I can accept that some will hate it. I can only feel bad for them, the way that humans can feel bad for a washed up whale on a beach.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 12, 2023 08:52 PM (xIvZU)

163 Oh no no no. No. NO.

On that you are wrong, lol!
Posted by: BurtTC at August 12, 2023 08:46 PM (/LElr)

That one album made my heart ache, so I never looked at them again.

Posted by: Kindltot - info about PNW MoMee Here at August 12, 2023 08:53 PM (xhaym)

164 Apropos of Muzak, I heard AiC's "Man in the Box" in the background while looking for a pack of boxer briefs at....Wal Mart.
What made it almost surreal was that they left the "rub my nose in shit" line intact.

Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at August 12, 2023 08:53 PM (wCkB+)

165 Hmmm, I don't hate it.

--

Yeah, I honestly REALLY like that song. Especially the throat singing near the end. But it's not something that I'd play at a party.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at August 12, 2023 08:53 PM (BMWRT)

166 Sha-Na-Na was at Woodstock. Which is odd.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 12, 2023 08:53 PM (TZ75n)

167 I mentioned Benjamin Tod yesterday because someone posted that video by Oliver Anthony.

He's a true Appalachian country singer (Tod) who's been through it:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RNgGX_8Vn2A

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 12, 2023 08:54 PM (mE7cY)

168 Here's a memory song. At my college job, someone brought in a "Toto's greatest hits" tape that had this on it.

Never big in the USA. I don't think I ever heard it on the radio. But I guess it was big in Europe? I think it's better than a lot of what they did make the charts with here.

https://youtu.be/HtxoW7Yuiaw

Posted by: mikeski at August 12, 2023 08:54 PM (DgGvY)

169 One of Rush's first gigs was opening for Sha Na Na.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 12, 2023 08:27 PM (up/3i)

An hour of political commentary followed by two hours of Bowser and the boys?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 12, 2023 08:51 PM (bQKgA)

Now we know you've never heard the first Rush album.

Posted by: Mark1971 at August 12, 2023 08:54 PM (xPl2J)

170 That one album made my heart ache, so I never looked at them again.

--

Part of me wants to say this is fair.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at August 12, 2023 08:54 PM (BMWRT)

171 My friends thought my mom and dad were cool because they listened to "rock and roll" Santana, Ray Charles, Supremes, etc. my friends have always been idiots. My parents were so not cool.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 12, 2023 08:55 PM (JvZF+)

172 Shall I offer? Suburban Lawns:

https://tinyurl.com/34cx5fky

I can accept that some will hate it. I can only feel bad for them, the way that humans can feel bad for a washed up whale on a beach.
Posted by: BurtTC at

-

Okay, I'd never heard of them, but that's absolutely something I would've had in my cassette deck around 1988 or so.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at August 12, 2023 08:55 PM (BMWRT)

173 I heard Enter Sandman at the grocery store. Crazy watching 80 yo women wondering wtf is going on.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 12, 2023 08:55 PM (TZ75n)

174 Ah, fuck me, it's Prom Night again.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 12, 2023 08:56 PM (4PZHB)

175 Sha-Na-Na was at Woodstock. Which is odd.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 12, 2023 08:53 PM (TZ75n)

Yeah, at about 7 am on the second day. Imagine all those spaced hippies waking up to that.

Posted by: Mark1971 at August 12, 2023 08:56 PM (xPl2J)

176 I was thinking the other day about that certain age, maybe 11-12 years old, where the memories are so vivid when you hear a song from that time.

For me, that would have been about '77-'78. The heyday of AM radio. I remember taking out my parents records and looking at the sleeves. Of course, also playing AM radio songs on long, boring summer days.

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at August 12, 2023 08:56 PM (sJHOI)

177 Anyway...get the picture? What music is especially memory inducing?

Music does this the best and I have a huge list of songs that do this to me. David Baerwald - Hello Mary and The Waterboys - This is the Sea & Fisherman's Blues, are just two of them.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 12, 2023 08:57 PM (C7jzY)

178 Wait, is there a new thread already?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at August 12, 2023 08:57 PM (BMWRT)

179 That one album made my heart ache, so I never looked at them again.

--

Part of me wants to say this is fair.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at August 12, 2023 08:54 PM (BMWRT)

Agreed, but if one can get beyond that, I'd say they have been one of the most consistently excellent bands of the past 35 years. And yes, they're still at it.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 12, 2023 08:57 PM (xIvZU)

180 I have a strange love of Milongas, Bachata and some Turkish music, I think it is because of exhaustion of hearing the same sort of music over and over.
Locally it is oldies/top 40/country/Norteño and I will listen to the Russian station because I don't understand what they are saying and the music is different.

This leads me to my most recent rant: Why does rock and easy listening in Spain sound so much like rock and easy listening in Russia, and Korea? It is insane.

Posted by: Kindltot - info about PNW MoMee Here at August 12, 2023 08:57 PM (xhaym)

181 One of Rush's first gigs was opening for Sha Na Na.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 12, 2023 08:27 PM (up/3i)

I saw The Supremes open for The Drifters. Not quite the same.

Posted by: javems at August 12, 2023 08:57 PM (6X5DU)

182 Agreed, but if one can get beyond that, I'd say they have been one of the most consistently excellent bands of the past 35 years. And yes, they're still at it.
Posted by: BurtTC

--

Yeah, I've always liked them a lot. I can see it being a very binary thing, though, similar to Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Either one of your top five all-time favorite bands or "no thanks, I don't ever want to hear them again ever"

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at August 12, 2023 08:59 PM (BMWRT)

183 I will say this, in the next 5 - 10 years, alot of major bands will be winding down as they age out.

I say a video of James Hetfield performing from this past summer, the dude looks like an old man and the energy seems to be fading.

There is supposed to be a major festival in Europe next year where most of the remaining acts from the Synth Pop Era will be performing, most of the for the last time, probably.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 12, 2023 08:59 PM (up/3i)

184 There's been a lot of Sha Na Na talk on the HQ recently. Too much, some might say

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at August 12, 2023 09:00 PM (sJHOI)

185 I can't say just when or where I was, but I remember the strength of my reaction the first time I heard Bach played on period correct instruments. The softer and more mellow timbre of the old style materials and the slightly slower pace they demanded hit me like a hammer. I immediately felt and thought: "This is right. This is how the music would sound if played in Heaven." I already loved the music and this added huge depth to my appreciation. And that feeling hasn't lessened over the years, it may have gotten stronger.

Posted by: JTB at August 12, 2023 09:00 PM (7EjX1)

186 Cosmic Voices from Bulgaria

https://youtu.be/UsDtmdWFBxU

The new God of War soundtrack is inspired by this, though you would think it had Norse origins. There have been five games now with music that aches with beauty.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 12, 2023 09:00 PM (ybIRR)

187 Bob Dylan famously went electric at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965. Many of his fans were angry at him and thought he was betraying them by not sticking to his acoustic folk roots.

A couple years later he wrote this song which went unpublished and unplayed for decades as his response. Like what you want not what you are told to like.

https://tinyurl.com/cz23rac6

Posted by: JackStraw at August 12, 2023 09:00 PM (ZLI7S)

188 Okay, I'd never heard of them, but that's absolutely something I would've had in my cassette deck around 1988 or so.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at August 12, 2023 08:55 PM (BMWRT)

I only "discovered" them a year or so ago.

Interesting trivia, Su Tissue, the female vocalist, had a bit part in the movie, Something Wild. After the band broke up, she basically disappeared from public life. There are still people trying to locate her, and some who say leave her alone, she's moved on.

She did release one solo album, which is a nearly vocal-free album of repetitive piano music. It's fantastic in its own way, but not something one would listen to, just for fun.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 12, 2023 09:01 PM (xIvZU)

189 Sha-Na-Na was at Woodstock. Which is odd.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 12, 2023 08:53 PM (TZ75n)

Followed by Jimi Hendrix, who closed out the festival.

"Now for a little change of pace..."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 12, 2023 09:01 PM (bQKgA)

190 Then Jimi Hendrix opened for The Monkees for part of their tour. It went about as well as might be expected.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 12, 2023 09:02 PM (bQKgA)

191
How odd to find someone in the wild who has actually heard of something I love.

__________

*bows deeply*

I heard it many moons ago on WGUC in Cincinnati and finally was able to download an .mp3 of it.

I remember asking myself, "Why does this sound so strange? Like everyone is out of tune?" And thanks to your explanation I now know the answer.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 12, 2023 09:02 PM (MoZTd)

192 I once saw a Bulgarian opera company do George Bizet's Carmen. Couldn't tell you how their French accents were. They sang well.

Posted by: huerfano at August 12, 2023 09:03 PM (7zEAH)

193 Yeah, I've always liked them a lot. I can see it being a very binary thing, though, similar to Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Either one of your top five all-time favorite bands or "no thanks, I don't ever want to hear them again ever"
Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at August 12, 2023 08:59 PM (BMWRT)

I had a girlfriend who would get ANGRY when I played Hazel's Torreador of Love album.
They wrote in discordances and were good enough to get them right, but it is completely at odds with what you expect to come next.

Posted by: Kindltot - info about PNW MoMee Here at August 12, 2023 09:03 PM (xhaym)

194 Music is completely intertwined with my everyday life, so there is probably a song to go with nearly every good or bad memory I would care to call back...here are just a few:

"Paperback Writer" - The Beatles -- My very first musical memory from '66 as a two-year old riding in the car in Wichita

"Joy To The World" - Three Dog Night -- Trying to sing this during a "talent show" on the sea voyage back to the mainland from Hawaii in the summer of '72

"Interlude III" - Mannheim Steamroller -- The only song to ever bring a tear to my eye when I first heard it only a few months after my Grandma's passing, 'cause it was so evocative of her house where we lived

"Akash Deep" - Tangerine Dream -- From the middle section of their concert in Albuquerque in '86. The bass that was like a punch in the chest, the searchlight scanning the crowd - that moment from my first concert experience with them was seared into my memory

Posted by: goozer at August 12, 2023 09:04 PM (zyV51)

195 A couple over the years -

Windy, The Association

Your Big Mouth, the Muffs (blasting the Muffs in the SF Civic Center garage...)

Astradyne, Ultravox (incredible opening track live)

I'm sure I could find more...

Posted by: JEM at August 12, 2023 09:04 PM (8erNz)

196 And of course, Nursery Cryme-Genesis

Posted by: JEM at August 12, 2023 09:05 PM (8erNz)

197 Better turn this off
Got rolling T-storms around, one might hit here bit so far all have missed.
Have a great evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at August 12, 2023 09:06 PM (MOY79)

198 Yeah, I've always liked them a lot. I can see it being a very binary thing, though, similar to Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Either one of your top five all-time favorite bands or "no thanks, I don't ever want to hear them again ever"
Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at August 12, 2023 08:59 PM (BMWRT)

I suppose, it's just... I find it hard to believe anyone could hate them. Not be into them? Sure, but hate doesn't seem an appropriate reaction.

Great musicianship, stylistically all over the place... and thankfully, I don't associate them with the ex, even though I bought tickets to see them, only to have her orchestrate a reason for us not to go.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 12, 2023 09:06 PM (xIvZU)

199 You don't have an understanding of what bands played at the Fillmore and Avalon, if you think anyone was surprised by Shanana at Woodstock. And they were a great live band. I saw them do 8 encores at a show in Palo Alto. They literally couldn't sing any more. There were other odd ball bands that played Woodstock abd didn't make the movie.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 12, 2023 09:06 PM (ouTlx)

200 Somehow, recently, a lot of the old 'Midnight Special' TV shows have posted on YouTube (maybe some licensing thing expired??).

So I've been watching those. There's a lot of cheese, some very cringe attempts at comedy...corny Merv Griffin-type stage sets.

Yet, there was no lip-synching. So the cream rises to the top. Several very good performances by Steely Dan, Little Feat, soul/funk acts. Good stuff. Recommended, you'll need to skip some stuff like Bread...or worse

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at August 12, 2023 09:06 PM (sJHOI)

201 I'm watching Ferris bueller's Day Off.

Which can only mean one thing.

Twist and Shout!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=81ZtmBAA_NE

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 12, 2023 09:07 PM (mE7cY)

202 186 Cosmic Voices from Bulgaria

https://youtu.be/UsDtmdWFBxU

The new God of War soundtrack is inspired by this, though you would think it had Norse origins. There have been five games now with music that aches with beauty.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 12, 2023 09:00 PM (ybIRR)

I think I have to go to Bulgaria now. Along with all the other places I have to go.

Posted by: Smallish Bees at August 12, 2023 09:07 PM (+tgkM)

203 128 @104

>>I was so bummed when I heard Guns N Roses on the classic rock station the first time. What? How the hell is this classic? It came out when I was in middle school!!!! Lol

It's wild because it's more like oldies.

Their first big hit, Sweet Child of Mine came out in 87, 36 years ago, and it's still as relevant and listenable today as it was then.

The interesting thing is 36 years before that is 1951, 50's music was certainly not as popular in the 80's as the music from the 80's is today.

None of what I'm saying may make sense, I've had quite a few drinks.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

That Jason Aldean song that had the 'Elites' clutching there pearls reminded me of Hank Jr.'s "A Country Boy will Survive". The 'Elites' would clutch their pearls over that one too. Then there is that out of nowhere Oliver Anthony 'Rich Men North of Richmond' song. Heh! Surprised the 'Justice' Dept hasn't raided his farm yet.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 12, 2023 09:08 PM (C7jzY)

204 93 The He-Man version of "What's Up" is way better.

https://tinyurl.com/4jywkzcw
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 12, 2023 08:27 PM (CHHv1)

Good mercy, my husband said the same thing!

Posted by: Moki at August 12, 2023 09:09 PM (JrN/x)

205 I had a girlfriend who would get ANGRY when I played Hazel's Torreador of Love album.
They wrote in discordances and were good enough to get them right, but it is completely at odds with what you expect to come next.
Posted by: Kindltot - info about PNW MoMee Here at August 12, 2023 09:03 PM (xhaym)

I never heard them before. Just getting started here... not bad. Not bad at all.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 12, 2023 09:09 PM (xIvZU)

206 Wichita Lineman always brings back memories of my first serious crush.

Posted by: Tuna at August 12, 2023 09:09 PM (gLRfa)

207 Kung Fury

https://youtu.be/bS5P_LAqiVg

I was going to link to some synthwave but instead I will bridge the music thread to the awaited movie thread.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 12, 2023 09:09 PM (ybIRR)

208
The interesting thing is 36 years before that is 1951, 50's music was certainly not as popular in the 80's as the music from the 80's is today.

Popular music died in the 90s or so.

Look at recent movies...when they want a song during an emotional part they are almost never choosing a recent song...but something from likely the 80s or before.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 12, 2023 09:10 PM (lc5cP)

209 One of the nice things about the Netherlands Bach Society videos are the ones where the musicians talk about the differences between moden and baroque instruments.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 12, 2023 09:10 PM (ouTlx)

210 I never heard them before. Just getting started here... not bad. Not bad at all.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 12, 2023 09:09 PM (xIvZU)

I'm picking up something of a Husker Du influence. Just here and there though. Maybe even hints of Replacements? Not sure what else, but now I'm wondering if they might be from Minnesota.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 12, 2023 09:11 PM (xIvZU)

211 Crocs answer the problem of "I want shoes that I just just step into without fiddling with" but...why aren't normal looking shoes built that that anyway? Its 2023...fine no flying cars or moon vacations but I still have to untie/tie my shoes to get them on?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 12, 2023 09:11 PM (lc5cP)

212 Not sure what else, but now I'm wondering if they might be from Minnesota.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 12, 2023 09:11 PM (xIvZU)

Nope. Portland. Now I'm hearing the Nirvana influence. Pretty blatant on the third song.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 12, 2023 09:12 PM (xIvZU)

213 Rich Men North of Richmond is a racist right wing dog whistle. Says Rolling Stone.
Lol.
Posted by: Montec

Streisand Effect is warming up in the bullpen, again.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 12, 2023 09:13 PM (C7jzY)

214 Evening Horse. I saw The Who at Rich Stadium in early 80s. Just after they finished Love Reign O'er Me it started pouring. Daltrey shouted out "even Mick Jagger couldn't do that ". Great show.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 12, 2023 09:13 PM (Jl0gZ)

215 musicians talk about the differences between moden and baroque instruments.
Posted by: Notsothoreau

Wouldn't they sound better if they got them repaired?

Posted by: Tonypete at August 12, 2023 09:13 PM (SAX5G)

216 Of course, Nirvana wouldn't exist if it wasn't for them playing bands like Husker Du, Replacements, Sonic Youth on repeat.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 12, 2023 09:13 PM (xIvZU)

217 I never saw Suburban Lawns live, but a band called Voices that disappeared did a track called Neutron Bomb (yeah, that era) that sticks on my mind and a band called Pepe Le Pew did a cover of Blondie's ' Sunday Girl' that made Blondie live sound ridiculous.

The first three or so Blondie LPs were magnificent, but they were crap live.

Posted by: JEM at August 12, 2023 09:14 PM (8erNz)

218 I'd like to contribute more to these music threads, since music is very important to my peace of mind and intellectual stimulation. But my tastes aren't common and thus anything I'd say would sound embarrassingly off.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Go for it! I contribute, and even I don't like the music I like!

Youtube has to be confused by my musical taste. Here are the first 4 things on my recommendations on the yt home page:

Sorrowful Life, full album: https://youtu.be/BvsPmE-BWDw
Gacharic Spin, studio recording clip: https://youtu.be/CGIQ1uCTIgA
Unprocessed, live set: https://youtu.be/kX8rrF5eEEU
Meltt, best-of album: https://youtu.be/Wnk50AiVo2k

And, I like all of them. Though I like them in the reverse order that youtube gave them to me. 4th is best, 1st is least-best.

Posted by: mikeski at August 12, 2023 09:14 PM (DgGvY)

219 Horde not horse.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 12, 2023 09:15 PM (Jl0gZ)

220 If you discount the Beach Boys because you think it's just "Fun, Fun, Fun", you need to try their 1971 Album Surf's Up. The entire album is great, but the title song "Surf's Up", "Feel Flows", and Disney Girls (1957), are 3 of the best songs ever written. The singing and harmonies are fantastic.

Posted by: Musik Lover at August 12, 2023 09:15 PM (83IzV)

221 209 ... "One of the nice things about the Netherlands Bach Society videos are the ones where the musicians talk about the differences between modern and baroque instruments."

notsothoreau,

Thanks for bringing up those videos. The group is new to me and I suspect there will be a lot of time spent watching.

Posted by: JTB at August 12, 2023 09:16 PM (7EjX1)

222 @208

>>Popular music died in the 90s or so.

As I've often noted, the sweet spot for popular music was a 20 year period from 75' to 95', after that it starts to tail off and by the early aughts it's dead, pretty much coinciding with the election of The SCOAMF.

Ironic, don't you think?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 12, 2023 09:16 PM (up/3i)

223 It is rather nostalgic, to realize what a time machine that old review is, how different that particular piece of music was to people at that time.

I was watching a movie review of a zombie movie from 2018. And the plot of the movie was some bio-tech company comes up with a miracle cure for cancer. As you can guess the most notable side effect of their miracle drug is...zombism. Oops...shoulda tested it before giving it to hundreds of millions of people!

And the guy reviewing the movie was supposedly a medical researcher. He went on and on about how no reputable medical research org, or the government, would allow some experimental drug to go out to a large part of the world population without years and years of testing.

Talk about a window to pre-COVID huh?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 12, 2023 09:16 PM (lc5cP)

224 13 Rich Men North of Richmond is a racist right wing dog whistle. Says Rolling Stone.
Lol.
Posted by: Montec

Streisand Effect is warming up in the bullpen, again.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 12, 2023 09:13 PM (C7jzY)

Oh, he hit #1 on ITunes yesterday. Kid went ballistic in a day.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 12, 2023 09:16 PM (mE7cY)

225 Popular music died in the 90s or so.

--

I'm not exactly sure of the mechanism because probably only 2-5% or so of musicians were using them, and even fewer radio airplay / popular musicians, but no one will ever be able to convince me that the law putting severe restrictions (let's use "banning" for convenience) on sampling didn't somehow unintentionally kill pop music. 1995 or so, maybe?

It might've been coincidence, of course, but I'm sticking with my hypothesis.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at August 12, 2023 09:17 PM (k1L5r)

226 The top song in 2008 was some rap crap by "Flo rida"

Posted by: 18-1 at August 12, 2023 09:18 PM (lc5cP)

227 @216 BurtTC ,The Replacements were awesome. So them three times: once opening for Petty which was a disaster, once here in town and they were awesome and once in Conn and they were so drunk I'm amazed they found the stage. Still good though. Westerburg was maybe the best songwriter of that era

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 12, 2023 09:18 PM (Jl0gZ)

228 @216

>>Of course, Nirvana wouldn't exist if it wasn't for them playing bands like Husker Du, Replacements, Sonic Youth on repeat.

Accchtually, the biggest influence on all three members of Nirvana were the Beatles, Cobain was just filtering Husker Du, The Replacements, Sonic Youth and The Pixies through Beatles Babble Fish Interpreter.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 12, 2023 09:18 PM (up/3i)

229 Oh, he hit #1 on ITunes yesterday. Kid went ballistic in a day.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

Good for him. Powerful tune.

He's a marked man, but I'm sure he knew that going in.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 12, 2023 09:19 PM (TZ75n)

230 Sorrowful Life, full album: https://youtu.be/BvsPmE-BWDw

Posted by: mikeski at August 12, 2023 09:14 PM (DgGvY)

Now I'm trying this one on... not sure where it's going exactly, but it reminds me of something. Not sure what. Yet.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 12, 2023 09:19 PM (xIvZU)

231
Two genres I have the most problem with are jazz and folk. And it's not really about the music and more about the music not being compelling enough to overcome my extremely deep loathing of the kind of people performing them.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 12, 2023 09:19 PM (MoZTd)

232 I'm going to miss Sato. Here's my favorite interview

https://youtu.be/iwHOeTHMiGk

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 12, 2023 09:19 PM (ouTlx)

233 And looking at the top billboard songs of the year, every song from the 90s I remember generating a buzz but then by 2002 you have some blah Nickleback song and then a bunch of rap crap mostly.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 12, 2023 09:20 PM (lc5cP)

234 What, we might actually have PROTEST music again? It's only been...okay, there was some in the Reagan years, that embarrassing Springsteen trash...but nothing much effective since the Buffalo Springfield.

Posted by: JEM at August 12, 2023 09:20 PM (8erNz)

235 Oh, he hit #1 on ITunes yesterday. Kid went ballistic in a day.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

Hope the kid resists the pull of the culture. The culture is a toxic wasteland.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 12, 2023 09:21 PM (C7jzY)

236 I'm not exactly sure of the mechanism because probably only 2-5% or so of musicians were using them, and even fewer radio airplay / popular musicians, but no one will ever be able to convince me that the law putting severe restrictions (let's use "banning" for convenience) on sampling didn't somehow unintentionally kill pop music. 1995 or so, maybe?

It might've been coincidence, of course, but I'm sticking with my hypothesis.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at August 12, 2023 09:17 PM (k1L5r)

I think when they killed Napster, that was a huge thing too. It basically did what the rest of the internet has been doing for these past few decades, i.e. condensing everything through the narrow corporate tunnels.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 12, 2023 09:21 PM (xIvZU)

237 Deep Purple by Nino Temple, April Stevens. November 1963. Sophomore year in HS and the school dances. Vivid memories of those time. Still have over 300 45's in my collection from 1956 or so (a few earlier) and onward through the 70's.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at August 12, 2023 09:21 PM (Zvtjl)

238 >>I'm not exactly sure of the mechanism because probably only 2-5% or so of musicians were using them, and even fewer radio airplay / popular musicians, but no one will ever be able to convince me that the law putting severe restrictions (let's use "banning" for convenience) on sampling didn't somehow unintentionally kill pop music. 1995 or so, maybe?

Video killed the radio star.

You can trace the end of great rock and roll to the founding of MTV. It stopped being about the music and became a visual performance.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 12, 2023 09:21 PM (ZLI7S)

239 Of course, Nirvana wouldn't exist if it wasn't for them playing bands like Husker Du, Replacements, Sonic Youth on repeat.

Accchtually, the biggest influence on all three members of Nirvana were the Beatles, Cobain was just filtering Husker Du, The Replacements, Sonic Youth and The Pixies through Beatles Babble Fish Interpreter.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 12, 2023 09:18 PM (up/3i)

Melvins?

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at August 12, 2023 09:21 PM (sJHOI)

240 I never considered The Beach Boys songs to be profound but I loved their vocal harmonies. Probably my favorite Beach Boys song is Kokomo.

Posted by: JTB at August 12, 2023 09:22 PM (7EjX1)

241 Had the super duper 100+ CD player on shuffle play earlier today, and this song was on, a lyric snippet of which is:

"Mystic crystal revelations"

Any guesses?

I think some Judas Priest came on afterwards, thank goodness.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 12, 2023 09:23 PM (ufFY8)

242 still good though. Westerburg was maybe the best songwriter of that era

They were good. Never cared much for Nirvana though, prefer Hole. 'Awesome' gets cranked to 11.

Posted by: JEM at August 12, 2023 09:23 PM (8erNz)

243 207 I was going to link to some synthwave but instead I will bridge the music thread to the awaited movie thread.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 12, 2023 09:09 PM (ybIRR) [/]

Currently listening to The Midnight Nocturnal (Instrumental edition), after listening to L'Avenue Electrique

Who are your favorites?

Posted by: goozer at August 12, 2023 09:24 PM (zyV51)

244 He's a marked man, but I'm sure he knew that going in.

Maybe, but when the left decides that you are an enemy, it can be an ugly awakening. Hope the dude keeps his pimp hand strong.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 12, 2023 09:24 PM (Xrfse)

245 I think when they killed Napster, that was a huge thing too. It basically did what the rest of the internet has been doing for these past few decades, i.e. condensing everything through the narrow corporate tunnels.

Posted by: BurtTC

--

Good point. Napster and Audiogalaxy were incredible resources for people to learn about new music. It's funny because apparently the exact same systems are still in place decades later via torrenting, just without a central point of service.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at August 12, 2023 09:24 PM (k1L5r)

246 Judas Priest is always a good palate cleanser.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 12, 2023 09:24 PM (TZ75n)

247 Look at recent movies...when they want a song during an emotional part they are almost never choosing a recent song...but something from likely the 80s or before.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 12, 2023 09:10 PM (lc5cP)

Probably cheaper. A band from the 80s won’t ask for as much as a group putting out music today. They’re happy with a new source of revenue.

Posted by: Montec at August 12, 2023 09:25 PM (L/ti7)

248 @240

>>I never considered The Beach Boys songs to be profound but I loved their vocal harmonies. Probably my favorite Beach Boys song is Kokomo.

Their music was essentially ear candy.

George Martin has said, G-d Only Knows is the greatest song he ever heard.

And that's saying something.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 12, 2023 09:25 PM (up/3i)

249 Video killed the radio star.

You can trace the end of great rock and roll to the founding of MTV. It stopped being about the music and became a visual performance.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 12, 2023 09:21 PM (ZLI7S)

--

We travelled recently and stayed in a hotel room with cable. MTV was showing movies. Full length popular movies. John Wick and such.

Video killed more than the radio stars.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at August 12, 2023 09:26 PM (k1L5r)

250 Aquarius.

Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at August 12, 2023 09:27 PM (wCkB+)

251 Look at recent movies...when they want a song during an emotional part they are almost never choosing a recent song...but something from likely the 80s or before.
Posted by: 18-1

--

Someone here made a brilliant observation a couple of years ago tied to the slow collapse of society that I've never been able to let go.

There aren't love songs any longer.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at August 12, 2023 09:27 PM (k1L5r)

252 I never considered The Beach Boys songs to be profound but I loved their vocal harmonies. Probably my favorite Beach Boys song is Kokomo.

Totally agree on the harmonies. Have to say that Kokomo was most likely my least favorite of their offerings.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 12, 2023 09:27 PM (Xrfse)

253 Smallish Bees, are you still in here?

There was a song my local public radio station played around 1992 or so. I thought it was Les Mystere des Voix Bulgarian, but it was a dance song. And there was a guy singing with them. And at one point, he sang/said "My God, how it bumps!"

So funny and great, and I cannot find that on the YouTube.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 12, 2023 09:28 PM (OX9vb)

254 George Martin has said, G-d Only Knows is the greatest song he ever heard.

And that's saying something.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 12, 2023 09:25 PM (up/3i)

He needs to turn off the music, stop snorting blow off the hooker's asses, send the wenches home, and finish his G-D series.

LOL

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 12, 2023 09:28 PM (ufFY8)

255 Good point. Napster and Audiogalaxy were incredible resources for people to learn about new music. It's funny because apparently the exact same systems are still in place decades later via torrenting, just without a central point of service.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at August 12, 2023 09:24 PM (k1L5r)

I think when people started seeing some people get convicted and sent to prison for "sharing" music, that turned most people off to it. Didn't seem worth it at that point.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 12, 2023 09:28 PM (xIvZU)

256
There aren't love songs any longer.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948

___________

No melodies either.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 12, 2023 09:28 PM (MoZTd)

257 During high school upstate was a southern rock madhouse. Skynryds "Street Survivors" and "Pronounced", The Outlaws "Green Grass and High Tides" , Molly Hatchet and of course the Allman Brothers and Marshall Tucker were constantly being played. I liked them all but left to my own I listened to Talking Heads , Pretenders , The Ramones and The Clash. Definitely a split

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 12, 2023 09:28 PM (Jl0gZ)

258 Funny...re Kokomo...in most cases, with most bands, the earlier stuff is the better stuff.

Speaking of which...

https://youtu.be/rmqswLKKYyU

Posted by: JEM at August 12, 2023 09:29 PM (8erNz)

259 We travelled recently and stayed in a hotel room with cable. MTV was showing movies. Full length popular movies. John Wick and such.

Video killed more than the radio stars.
Posted by: Moron Robbie

There's an "MTV classic" channel now that plays videos, from the music-video days. Wiki says it's VH1 rebranded.

If you think it's bad hearing Guns and Roses on the "classic rock" station, try catching a GnR video there, followed by a commercial for reverse mortgages. I am not THAT 29 yet.

Posted by: mikeski at August 12, 2023 09:29 PM (DgGvY)

260 Aquarius.
Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at August 12, 2023 09:27 PM (wCkB+)

Yup.
This is the dawning of the...

Age of Otter 841

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 12, 2023 09:29 PM (ufFY8)

261 @256

>>No melodies either.

Or Harmonies or Guitars or singers that, even if they can actually sing, are still filtered through autotune.

Also quantization has been a blight on music, everything snapped to a grid, makes for extraordinarily boring sounding miusic.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 12, 2023 09:30 PM (up/3i)

262 One of my teenage kids wears a lot of 80s and 90s music t shirts. Bon Jovi, Def Leppard, Nirvana, etc. doesn’t really care for the music but making people think you are into it is cool, I guess?

Posted by: Montec at August 12, 2023 09:31 PM (L/ti7)

263 Anyway...get the picture? What music is especially memory inducing?
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'White Wedding', natch.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, [gives Rebel Yell] at August 12, 2023 09:31 PM (uQVw9)

264 There aren't love songs any longer.

Mostly angst and anger. Sign of the times, I guess.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 12, 2023 09:31 PM (Xrfse)

265 If you think it's bad hearing Guns and Roses on the "classic rock" station, try catching a GnR video there, followed by a commercial for reverse mortgages. I am not THAT 29 yet.
Posted by: mikeski

They'll get Nikki Sixx to start schlepping Life Alert.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 12, 2023 09:31 PM (TZ75n)

266 Back in college, I started writing lyrics. They may not be great songs, but they were mine.

I had accompanying tunes in my head, but didn't know (still don't) sheet music. Out of college, I bought an old upright piano; fun, tinny, honkey-tonk sound. I taught myself to play and mark down chord notations. Chord notations won't tell you the tune, of course, so I recorded all my songs on tape, for posterity's sake, as if anyone would ever care. Wonder where those tapes are now.

Several years ago, I set out to record my songs on video. "Mindful Webworkshop" was fun to do, anyway. (The 16 workshops are all up on my website.) My keyboard skills were sometimes all right. My vocals were, well, untrained and often creaky. The mic was crap. But I got the songs down, for posterity's sake, as if anyone would ever care.

There were still more songs I wanted to record, but the workshops were terminated for technical reasons. Subsequently, my nice, newer upright piano got ruined. My hands have started to get arthritic-stiff. My voice has only become creakier. Glad I got most of the songs recorded when I did. For posterior's sake.

Sample not entirely unlistenable love song linked in nic.

Posted by: mindful webworker - I never knew I could write anything so beautiful! -Doc Brown at August 12, 2023 09:32 PM (bQ/08)

267 Anyway...get the picture?

Stacy's Mom?

Photograph?

Kodachrome?

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at August 12, 2023 09:32 PM (ufFY8)

268
Sample not entirely unlistenable love song linked in nic.

Posted by: mindful webworker - I never knew I could write anything so beautiful! -Doc Brown at August 12, 2023 09:32 PM (bQ/0

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Good for you for doing this.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at August 12, 2023 09:33 PM (k1L5r)

269 256
There aren't love songs any longer.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948

___________

No melodies either.
Posted by: Hadrian
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Harmony and melody are white supremacist constructs.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 12, 2023 09:33 PM (uQVw9)

270 My new favorite synthwave is Starcadian. (Old but new to me.)

https://youtu.be/7-KlLriSLRs

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 12, 2023 09:33 PM (ybIRR)

271 >>We travelled recently and stayed in a hotel room with cable. MTV was showing movies. Full length popular movies. John Wick and such.

>>Video killed more than the radio stars.

No doubt.

Rock and Roll was always a counter culture, slightly nefarious thing prior to music videos. Once video hit it became more homogenized and packaged for mass consumption. Pretty became more important than talent. See Swift, Taylor.

Still some good music out there but it's back in the weeds where it belongs.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 12, 2023 09:34 PM (ZLI7S)

272 Boston's More Than A Feeling fires the synapses for me, of roller skating days.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 12, 2023 09:35 PM (ufFY8)

273
The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea
In a beautiful pea-green boat,
They took some honey, and plenty of money,
Wrapped up in a five-pound note.
The Owl looked up to the stars above,
And sang to a small guitar,
"O lovely Pussy! O Pussy, my love,
What a beautiful Pussy you are,
You are,
You are!
What a beautiful Pussy you are!"

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 12, 2023 09:35 PM (uQVw9)

274 Rock and Roll was always a counter culture, slightly nefarious thing prior to music videos. Once video hit it became more homogenized and packaged for mass consumption. Pretty became more important than talent. See Swift, Taylor.

Still some good music out there but it's back in the weeds where it belongs.

Posted by: JackStraw

--

It's weird to think that rap is more corporate and mainstream than rock and roll.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at August 12, 2023 09:35 PM (k1L5r)

275
Music nowadays no longer tries to seduce you, it tries to beat you over the head.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 12, 2023 09:35 PM (MoZTd)

276
Pussy said to the Owl, "You elegant fowl!
How charmingly sweet you sing!
O let us be married! too long we have tarried:
But what shall we do for a ring?"
They sailed away, for a year and a day,
To the land where the Bong-Tree grows
And there in a wood a Piggy-wig stood
With a ring at the end of his nose,
His nose,
His nose,
With a ring at the end of his nose.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 12, 2023 09:36 PM (uQVw9)

277
"Dear Pig, are you willing to sell for one shilling
Your ring?" Said the Piggy, "I will."
So they took it away, and were married next day
By the Turkey who lives on the hill.
They dined on mince, and slices of quince,
Which they ate with a runcible spoon;
And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon,
The moon,
The moon,
They danced by the light of the moon.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 12, 2023 09:36 PM (uQVw9)

278 BOC's version of We Gotta Get Out Of This Place also played on the shuffle play today.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 12, 2023 09:36 PM (ufFY8)

279 Or Harmonies or Guitars or singers that, even if they can actually sing, are still filtered through autotune.

Also quantization has been a blight on music, everything snapped to a grid, makes for extraordinarily boring sounding miusic.

Listen to the chord progressions in the current pop offerings - if you dare to. They are all the same three or maybe four variations. It's mind-numbing.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 12, 2023 09:37 PM (Xrfse)

280
One of these days, I'll figure out what a 'runcible spoon' is.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 12, 2023 09:37 PM (uQVw9)

281 My new favorite synthwave is Starcadian. (Old but new to me.)
https://youtu.be/7-KlLriSLRs
Posted by: BourbonChicken

Starcadian is awesome. I learned about him from another Pixyland blogger, the late Wonderduck.

Posted by: mikeski at August 12, 2023 09:38 PM (DgGvY)

282 There aren't love songs any longer.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948

___________

No melodies either.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 12, 2023 09:28 PM (MoZTd)

Whenever I hear this, the first band that comes to my mind is Nothing. I guess most people have not heard of them. They're just a great f**king band, pouring their hearts out.

Look 'em up.... although I just did, looks like they haven't released anything in three years.

Damn.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 12, 2023 09:38 PM (JZ0nb)

283 If you think it's bad hearing Guns and Roses on the "classic rock" station, try catching a GnR video there, followed by a commercial for reverse mortgages. I am not THAT 29 yet.
Posted by: mikeski

I had an appointment in the big city not too long ago and while held captive in the elevator found myself listening to the Muzak version of Jim Morrison's and the Doors 'Light My Fire'.

My lawn. . . you know the rest.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 12, 2023 09:40 PM (SAX5G)

284 Harmony and melody are white supremacist constructs.

Word.

Posted by: The Temptations and the Four Tops at August 12, 2023 09:40 PM (Xrfse)

285 I recently saw a "Professor of Rock" YT video about "Inna Gadda Da Vida". It had never occurred to me that the dude was singing "In The Garden Of Even", but was so drink/stoned that it came out the way we heard it.

Posted by: Lincolntf at August 12, 2023 09:42 PM (2cS/G)

286 Eden, not Even.

Posted by: Lincolntf at August 12, 2023 09:42 PM (2cS/G)

287 I recently saw a "Professor of Rock" YT video about "Inna Gadda Da Vida". It had never occurred to me that the dude was singing "In The Garden Of Even", but was so drink/stoned that it came out the way we heard it.
Posted by: Lincolntf

"'Cuse me, while I kiss this guy. . . "

Posted by: Tonypete at August 12, 2023 09:42 PM (SAX5G)

288 >>They danced by the light of the moon.

My mom used to read that to me as a bedtime story when I was young.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 12, 2023 09:43 PM (ZLI7S)

289 The day in 1971when I drove into Pullman (Washington State University) in my beat up '65 corvair, Maggie Mae was on the radio. Four years later, as I headed out, a brand new army officer, I looked in the rear view mirror and Maggie Mae came on the radio.
Freaky.
And a good song.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 12, 2023 09:44 PM (hv9bm)

290 What music is especially memory inducing?

===

that one time when I clicked on a link posted by a certain COB and it was Yoko Ono. "singing".

Posted by: runner at August 12, 2023 09:44 PM (V13WU)

291 @279

>>Listen to the chord progressions in the current pop offerings - if you dare to. They are all the same three or maybe four variations. It's mind-numbing.

Actually, the weird thing is the top two songs in the country right now, according to Billboard are country songs that feature, melody, harmony and have guitars in them.

Must be some sort of distortion field artifact from The Matrix.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 12, 2023 09:46 PM (up/3i)

292
Commercial for the Twelve-Tone Record Club. A great spoof.

https://youtu.be/LACCAF04wSs

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 12, 2023 09:46 PM (MoZTd)

293 >>One of these days, I'll figure out what a 'runcible spoon' is.

spork

Posted by: JackStraw at August 12, 2023 09:47 PM (ZLI7S)

294 >>Anyway...get the picture? What music is especially memory inducing?

Time Stand Still, by Those Three Guys From Canada.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 12, 2023 09:47 PM (up/3i)

295 Here's one for the people lacking guitar in their current music. Just released this year.

By the title, I guess it's a love song, too, but it's an instrumental.

https://youtu.be/lou0Z9WB4j4

Posted by: mikeski at August 12, 2023 09:47 PM (DgGvY)

296 Ah yes, early summer of '86, somehow I ended up in the backseat of Brenda's car and Tears for Fears "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" started playing. Tremendously pleasant memory.

Posted by: fastfreefall at August 12, 2023 09:47 PM (blyDr)

297 Harmonies? Don't Walk Away Renee.

https://tinyurl.com/yyyn6sc7

Posted by: The Temptations and the Four Tops at August 12, 2023 09:47 PM (Xrfse)

298 One of these days, I'll figure out what a 'runcible spoon' is.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 12, 2023 09:37 PM (uQVw9)

It is a fancy sort of spork. Actually it is a type of fork where the tines bend and converge to make a bowl of a spoon.

Posted by: Kindltot - info about PNW MoMee Here at August 12, 2023 09:48 PM (xhaym)

299
Early ONT

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 12, 2023 09:49 PM (MoZTd)

300 My mom used to read that to me as a bedtime story when I was young.
Posted by: JackStraw
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I wonder if parents read any of the classic fairy tales to their children any more. I'm dubious. The other day, in younger company, I mentioned 'The Princess and the Pea'. Was met with an empty look.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 12, 2023 09:50 PM (uQVw9)

301 The Us is a Third World shithole so one would expect the shiity culture to match.

"oh, you don't understand: it's ironical."

Nah, wallowing in crap is wallowing in American couture however you FEEEEL about it.

Posted by: Eugene Lee at August 12, 2023 09:50 PM (Tvq7+)

302 ONT time?

As a reminder, to clear my craziness out of your youtube history so it doesn't affect your future recommendations, go to

https://www.youtube.com/feed/history

and delete the stuff you don't like.

Posted by: mikeski at August 12, 2023 09:52 PM (DgGvY)

303 >>I wonder if parents read any of the classic fairy tales to their children any more. I'm dubious. The other day, in younger company, I mentioned 'The Princess and the Pea'. Was met with an empty look.

I doubt many do. My folks had a whole set of tales and it was a highlight of my yute. Loved hearing them over and over.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 12, 2023 09:53 PM (ZLI7S)

304 I think MTV pushed a lot of people to the Punk scene, at least for a bit, to keep away from the corporatization of rock. No one was going to put Iggy Pop on MTV during the day after all.
I don't know what happened after that, I think I went to college station music and the world went to Grunge

Cobain tried like hell to not be mainstream.

who wants a Muzak version of Teen Spirit?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whUlA-xdxd8

Posted by: Kindltot - info about PNW MoMee Here at August 12, 2023 09:53 PM (xhaym)

305
Commercial for the Twelve-Tone Record Club. A great spoof.

https://youtu.be/LACCAF04wSs
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Stairways to Heaven

https://youtu.be/_QFDsUgjqIo

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 12, 2023 09:54 PM (63Dwl)

306 It was right there the whole time?

Posted by: zombie Shel Silverstein at August 12, 2023 09:58 PM (DgGvY)

307 bah, wrong tab.

Posted by: mikeski at August 12, 2023 09:58 PM (DgGvY)

308 The day in 1971when I drove into Pullman (Washington State University) in my beat up '65 corvair, Maggie Mae was on the radio. Four years later, as I headed out, a brand new army officer, I looked in the rear view mirror and Maggie Mae came on the radio.
Freaky.
And a good song.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 12, 2023 09:44 PM (hv9bm)

Several years later, as 3 friends and I drove into pulllman for the for the first time, hall and Oates RIch Girl was playing.

Posted by: LASue at August 12, 2023 10:00 PM (Ed8Zd)

309 What I noticed, the FM radio band is a wasteland. Segregated, too. The Rap/Hip Hop is “hate whitey kill whitey” and the “rock” is all minor key grungy sounding despair “you should kill yourself”.

I’m sure it’s all a coincidence

Posted by: Common Tater at August 12, 2023 10:03 PM (w7r5P)

310 Hotel California. Cruising Alki with my 3 best friends and new boyfriend.

Posted by: LASue at August 12, 2023 10:06 PM (Ed8Zd)

311 The Netherlands Bach Society cantata performances are wonderful. I have a big crush on Maria Keohane.

Posted by: Bigsmith at August 12, 2023 10:16 PM (lUuDv)

312 Bigsmith - Thanks. Very nice.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 12, 2023 10:24 PM (uQVw9)

313 This one by Nilsson reminds my of the six times I was dumped by girlfriends and wives (I just counted them up).

https://tinyurl.com/47ht24fe

Posted by: javems at August 12, 2023 11:25 PM (TeJb1)

314 Love most music/song/dance so I could never adequately answer the question but I've always thought Leon Russell talented and surprising varied during his long career, and much of the music is memorable for me, for example: Superstar (Leon Russell, Bonnie & Delaney Bramlett); A Song for You & Masquerade (both Leon Russell), and more recent before his passing, The Union (Elton John and Leon Russell album).

Also so many songs by Burt Bacharach beginning 1961, "Baby It's You", The Shirelles and the songs for Dionne Warwick, Jackie DeShannon, Dusty Springfield...

Not insanely romantic, and believing it better to wear out than rust, a guilty pleasure for this old broad is still dance music; zumba (like the HULK by Blaxx), Latin music/salsa dancing. In the privacy of home or in a class, it lifts my spirit.

Posted by: L - Practice makes perfect. They know their enemy at August 13, 2023 01:22 AM (GshMh)

315 13 It's 1982, my dad and I are heading down the road in a late '70s Gran Torino station wagon with a handful of beef jerky and a sixpack of beer. Neil Young's Heart of Gold is playing on one of the local Montana radio stations.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at August 12, 2023 07:44 PM (/HDaX)

Very cool!
Thanks, Dad.

Posted by: m at August 13, 2023 05:17 AM (ASp1y)

316 On this topic I can and will crash the server. Too many to count.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at August 13, 2023 05:41 AM (jKUtf)

317 294: The Guess Who?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at August 13, 2023 05:43 AM (jKUtf)

318 253 Smallish Bees, are you still in here?

There was a song my local public radio station played around 1992 or so. I thought it was Les Mystere des Voix Bulgarian, but it was a dance song. And there was a guy singing with them. And at one point, he sang/said "My God, how it bumps!"

So funny and great, and I cannot find that on the YouTube.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 12, 2023 09:28 PM (OX9vb)

That was past my bedtime, I'm afraid.

Those bulgarians can really slap. It would be impossible to use auto tuning on them, because they make so much use of the quarter tones, bending the melodies outside of our 12 tones of Western music.

What I love about so much classical music, and this unusual folk music, is that it can surprise my ear. I get so bored when I listen to the first bar of a song and can predict everything that will follow. It's not enough to have melody and harmony; I like creative unpredictability as well. I don't want to know where the melody is going next, and I would like to have harmonies that make me stop and pay attention, and I like rhythms that are not nice little square for rhythms that could be done by a computer.

Posted by: Smallish Bees at August 13, 2023 10:40 AM (+tgkM)

319 For Your Love, by the Yardbirds. It was "our song" (mine and The One Who Got Away) and even though that was decades ago, and I have no idea where he is now, I still get teary-eyed whenever I hear it.

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