What are you listening to?

[Savonarola]

(I don't think one was influenced by the other.)

Braxton was definitely influenced by Glass because he dedicated one of the compositions in Alto Saxophone Improvisations (1979) to him.

The question is timing because 1974 was before Einstein on the Beach. Steve Reich was already well established by then though.  I'd bet Braxton had listened to one or both by 74.

How about that, I wouldn't have thought there was a connection (especially since it reminded me of Glassworks, which was 1981 (although Glass could have been influenced by Braxton in that scenario.))

Terry Riley would also have been established by that time; Glass is simply the minimalist composer I'm most familiar with.

[Savonarola]

This week marks the 25th anniversary of the Marshall Mathers LP; the BBC has a profound retrospective on the album.  I was living in Detroit at the time and I remember Marshall got himself arrested on gun charges, then immediately sold a million copies of his new album and encouraged ten million white boys in Metro Detroit to become rappers.  Then he got arrested again on gun charges, sold another million copies of his album and encouraged another ten million white boys in Metro Detroit to become rappers.  I'm not sure how that was possible, since the population of Metro Detroit at the time was about 5 million, but it did happen.  ( )

Personally I think The Slim Shady LP is superior; on that one he's rapping about being broke and suffering low self esteem on The Marshall Mathers LP he's rapping about the pressures of being white and successful.  It's a little like listening to Elon Musk rap.  The Marshall Mathers LP did have many more hits, so it is deservedly his breakthrough album. 

He did manage to offend everyone from Lynne Cheney to GLAAD to Moby; and now he shills for Chrysler and performed at the Superbowl.  No matter how edgy you once were, if you live long enough you become the establishment.

In any event, I once saw a exhibition of Annie Leibovitz's photographs.  One of them was this photo of Rakim, Eminem and Dr. Dre:



She wanted them to move in closer together; but they told her, that was not hip-hop.

[Duque de Bragança]

This week marks the 25th anniversary of the Marshall Mathers LP; the BBC has a profound retrospective on the album.  I was living in Detroit at the time and I remember Marshall got himself arrested on gun charges, then immediately sold a million copies of his new album and encouraged ten million white boys in Metro Detroit to become rappers.  Then he got arrested again on gun charges, sold another million copies of his album and encouraged another ten million white boys in Metro Detroit to become rappers.  I'm not sure how that was possible, since the population of Metro Detroit at the time was about 5 million, but it did happen.  ( )

Personally I think The Slim Shady LP is superior; on that one he's rapping about being broke and suffering low self esteem on The Marshall Mathers LP he's rapping about the pressures of being white and successful.  It's a little like listening to Elon Musk rap.  The Marshall Mathers LP did have many more hits, so it is deservedly his breakthrough album. 

He did manage to offend everyone from Lynne Cheney to GLAAD to Moby; and now he shills for Chrysler and performed at the Superbowl.  No matter how edgy you once were, if you live long enough you become the establishment.

In any event, I once saw a exhibition of Annie Leibovitz's photographs.  One of them was this photo of Rakim, Eminem and Dr. Dre:



She wanted them to move in closer together; but they told her, that was not hip-hop.

  

[Savonarola]

Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (1974)

The music, especially on the first album, is well done.  They seem to run out of steam later in the second album, but there's enough that's good to get to the finish line.  The storyline is... different.  Even by the standards of a rock opera this one doesn't make a lot of sense.  The individual songs generally have decent lyrics (and Genesis does get in a genuinely funny song in with "Counting out Time"), but as part of a larger story they don't really work.

[Syt]

This Friday it's gonna be 30 years since Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill came out.



EDIT: I'm working with people who weren't born when this was released.

[garbon]

This Friday it's gonna be 30 years since Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill came out.



EDIT: I'm working with people who weren't born when this was released.

I'm that weirdo who went to the covid delayed 25th anniversary tour and now going to see her for the 30th.

[Josephus]

This Friday it's gonna be 30 years since Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill came out.

EDIT: I'm working with people who weren't born when this was released.

Does seem a lifetime ago, to be honest.

[Savonarola]

For their 50th anniversary the Talking Heads released a video for Psycho Killer directed by Mike Mills (too bad it couldn't have been Jonathan Demme.)  It's different than what I envisioned (David Byrne in the opening of Stop Making Sense more is what I thought of as the narrator) but I liked it.