What are you listening to?

[Barrister]

Your son??  I figured you were a brain floating in a tank somewhere. 

Maybe not a brain in a tank, but I had no idea Minsky had kids.

[The Brain]

Plasmatics - Put Your Love In Me

[mongers]

Van Halen - A Different Kind of Truth. 

Nice to hear DLR back with them.

[mongers]

The Black Crowes - 'She Talks To Angels'

[PDH]

Warren Zevon - My Shit's Fucked Up

[Syt]

I've not been following the Eurovision Song Contest in years, but this year's Icelandic entry is ... uhm ... interesting.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47536433

"Eurovision: Iceland embraces Hatari's bleak message for Israel contest"

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVbShUW6QBM

Translation of the lyrics:

Hate will prevail

The revelry was unrestrained
The hangover is endless
Life is meaningless
The void will get us all

Hate will prevail
Happiness comes to an end
For it is an illusion
A treacherous pipe dream

All that I saw
Tears ran down
All that I gave
Once gave
I gave it all to you

Multilateral delusions
Unilateral punishments
Gullible poor fellows
The escape will end
The emptiness will get us all

Hate will prevail
Europe will crumble
A web of lies
Will arise from the ashes
United as one

All that I saw
Tears ran down
All that I gave
Once gave
I gave it all to you

All that I saw
Tears ran down
All that I gave
Once gave
I gave it all to you

Hate will prevail
Love will die
Hate will prevail
Happiness comes to an end
For it is an illusion
A treacherous pipe dream

[mongers]

Camel 'Rain Dances'

[Malthus]

I've not been following the Eurovision Song Contest in years, but this year's Icelandic entry is ... uhm ... interesting.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47536433

"Eurovision: Iceland embraces Hatari's bleak message for Israel contest"

Heh, reading the article, they are like a right-wing caricature of European leftists. 

[The Minsky Moment]

More Billi Higgins . . .

Dexter Gordon, Go (1962): Sound engineer Rudy van Gelder was (in)famous for not aiming at some ideal of fidelity, but rather trying to capture the experience of a club performance.  This is one of his best, really captures the intimacy of Gordon's playing. There is a little awkwardness between Higgins and pianist Sonny Clark but Higgins is nicely in sync with Gordon.

Andew Hill, Dance with Death (rec 1968 rel 1980): Listener friendly album of original compositions pianist Hill, as least as compared to his some of his more difficult earlier work (e.g. Point of Departure). Higgins nicely navigates the rhythmic complexity of Hill's music. Unfortunately, Blue Note records was not doing so well in '68 and was basically a soul jazz shop by then. Hill was not a huge seller, so this album didn't see an actual release until 1980.

Charles Lloyd, Which Way is East (rec 2001 rel 2004): Higgins' last recorded performance before his death and probably his most unusual, a series of duets with multi-reedist Lloyd in which they perform Native American chants, Tibetan and Middle Eastern folk songs, bossa nova, and various improvised music.  Higgins sings, plays guitar, a Mabreghian lute and about a dozen percussion instruments from different countries and cultures.

[garbon]

Utada - Devil Inside

[Josephus]

Camel 'Rain Dances'

Nice.

[The Brain]

Ghost - Rats

[mongers]

Camel 'Rain Dances'

Nice.

Yes, but why haven't I listened to this in years?

I prompted my to buy a remastered copy of A Live Record, as i've only the original vinyl. 

[Admiral Yi]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1OOQP1-wOE

Very trippy video of Brain Damage I had never seen before.

[Admiral Yi]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp7j3ji5U24

Whoa, headrush man.  60,000 people sing Bohemian Rhapsody.