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Started by The Brain, March 10, 2009, 12:32:23 PM

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Josephus

#9240
February 17, 2025, 07:22:20 AM
I've been on many a good Pink Floyd trip. :hug:
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Savonarola

#9241
February 18, 2025, 05:56:44 PM
Winter in America - Gil Scott-Heron (1974)

A bunch of bluesy, slow ballads with a funk sound to them.  This is good throughout.  The biggest hit off this is the one faster song "Bottle."  The talking blues/beatnik poem H2OGate Blues resonates today almost disturbingly well.
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

Savonarola

#9242
February 26, 2025, 05:05:58 PM
Sparks - Kimono My House (1974)

The title is a pun on Come on-a my House, the Rosemary Clooney song.  They don't actually sing that song (though they did sing Do Re Mi from The Sound of Music on their previous album.)  This is Sparks first foray into glam rock; this is unusual.  They adopted the electronica and experimentation similar to David Bowie or Roxy Music, but the lead singer (Russel Mael) sings almost everything in a falsetto.  Some of the songs work very well by doing this, others are just strange.
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

Syt

#9243
February 27, 2025, 06:51:49 AM
Bloodywood have been releasing a few new videos in run up to their next album release.


By far the best of the bunch so far. Just a good, fun song. :)

Not quite as catchy, but can't argue with a video about Mom's home cooking. :wub:

And I guess everyone has to do a crossover with Babymetal at some point. :P Tbh, I'd watch this anime (or port Azura's Wrath to PC, I guess :P ).
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Syt

#9244
February 27, 2025, 06:53:05 AM
I sent Nu Delhi to my Indian coworker. He liked the first 50 seconds, but then it was "overwhelming" :D
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—Stephen Jay Gould

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mongers

#9245
February 27, 2025, 10:29:24 AM
Quote from: Syt on February 27, 2025, 06:53:05 AMI sent Nu Delhi to my Indian coworker. He liked the first 50 seconds, but then it was "overwhelming" :D

 :lol:

Culture shock?
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Valmy

#9246
February 27, 2025, 12:01:29 PM Last Edit: February 27, 2025, 05:10:30 PM by Valmy
My 12 year old son is a rock n roller :punk: who was unfortunately just born a few decades after his favorite genre of music stopped being super popular. But he has a band of kids who go around and play in various venues. Usually Greenday and Led Zeppelin and that kind of thing. So I go to a lot of youth music stuff now.

Recently, he performed at the school talent show, Possum Kingdom by the Toadies (he assured me afterwards he didn't really want to die, it is just the lyrics of the song).

But anyway during the show the kids were doing their various stuff, usually to the sorts of modern pop songs I am used to in these kinds of shows. But at one point this girl gets up there with her piano and informs us all she is going to play her favorite song, which is by John Lennon.

So now she has my attention. I am thinking "wow this 13 year old kid's favorite song is by Lennon? What could it be?" So my brain scrambles for a bit and think well it's probably not "Cold Turkey" or "Tomorrow Never Knows" so it's Imagine right? It's got to be Imagine. Ok, kid, let's hear your best Imagine.

So she starts playing and I suddenly realize her favorite song is "Let it Be" and it was all I could do to not jump and say "hey kid that's Paul McCartney not John!" but I restrained myself. She did a good job (just the piano part, she didn't sing or play the guitar solo or anything). But what does it say if you buy the music for any Beatles song Paul wrote? "Lennon-McCartney" so joke is on you Paul. Kids are going to think all your Beatles stuff was written by John until the end of time.

I don't know. I just was highly amused by that.

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Savonarola

#9247
February 27, 2025, 04:44:19 PM
Nice story, Valmy

I've been reading more of the Grateful Dead biography and learned that they would do shows with Quicksilver Messenger Service called:  The Quick and the Dead.   :cool:

They were also "Rival" bands in that Quicksilver Messenger Service was psychedelic cowboys  :alberta: and so The Grateful Dead were psychedelic Indians (psychedelic cultural appropriation?  I don't know, Jerry Garcia probably had some native ancestry.)  They'd have gave pretend shoot outs and things like that.
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

Syt

#9248
February 28, 2025, 07:16:35 AM
Quote from: mongers on February 27, 2025, 10:29:24 AM
Quote from: Syt on February 27, 2025, 06:53:05 AMI sent Nu Delhi to my Indian coworker. He liked the first 50 seconds, but then it was "overwhelming" :D

 :lol:

Culture shock?

Nah, he's been living in Austria for over 10 years now. :P He's just not into metal. He's well integrated - loves his beer, loves steak and burgers, has an Austrian partner and a kid with her ... his brother at MIT is much more traditional - no alcohol or beef, eating mostly vegetarian and rarely eating non-Indian food, had a big Indian wedding two years ago ... my colleague is clearly the "bad boy" in the family. :D
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Syt

#9249
February 28, 2025, 08:02:52 AM
Aardvark - Fight Back. Very 1970s. I guess the line between parody and homage is quite blurry. :D

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

crazy canuck

#9250
February 28, 2025, 12:15:29 PM
Quote from: Valmy on February 27, 2025, 12:01:29 PMSo she starts playing and I suddenly realize her favorite song is "Let it Be" and it was all I could do to not jump and say "hey kid that's Paul McCartney not John!" but I restrained myself. She did a good job (just the piano part, she didn't sing or play the guitar solo or anything). But what does it say if you buy the music for any Beatles song Paul wrote? "Lennon-McCartney" so joke is on you Paul. Kids are going to think all your Beatles stuff was written by John until the end of time.

I don't know. I just was highly amused by that.



I am glad you let it be

Valmy

#9251
February 28, 2025, 02:02:18 PM
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Savonarola

#9252
February 28, 2025, 03:14:55 PM
10cc - Sheet Music (1974)

They had been a studio band and after working on a hit record for Neil Sedaka decided to make it on their own.  I'm unfamiliar with their work (they were much bigger in the UK than the US,) but this is actually pretty good.  They sort of remind me of Queen, both able to do the rockers as well as the oddities (one song is the story of a bomb on a plane as told from the perspective of the bomb.) 
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

Savonarola

#9253
March 02, 2025, 04:05:32 PM
Weather Report - Mysterious Traveler (1974)

I'm not familiar with Weather Report, from what I've read the bands previous work had been avant-garde free jazz.  This is more a funk-jazz fusion.  It's got a driving funky beat throughout; I thought it was good.
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

mongers

#9254
March 02, 2025, 04:09:08 PM
Quote from: Savonarola on March 02, 2025, 04:05:32 PMWeather Report - Mysterious Traveler (1974)

I'm not familiar with Weather Report, from what I've read the bands previous work had been avant-garde free jazz.  This is more a funk-jazz fusion.  It's got a driving funky beat throughout; I thought it was good.

Yep, quality musicians and a tight outfit* was always impressed by the little I heard.


* No, not their clothes.
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