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What are you listening to? Part III
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Thank you for sharing (and for introducing me to the work of this artist).
I have just placed an order for the CD.
I recently ripped about 700 CDs that I've had in boxes for over 10 years, as I stopped buying them around 2007 or 8. So I'm listening to a bunch of stuff from back in the day.
Some that I'm particularly enjoying from the collection:
- Creed
- Legal Reins
- New Model Army
- Papa Roach
- Rhythm Corps
- Saliva
Some that I'm particularly enjoying from the collection:
- Creed
- Legal Reins
- New Model Army
- Papa Roach
- Rhythm Corps
- Saliva
Some of the lyrics are quite funny and clever once you get over the language!
Some Doug MacLeod this afternoon, from album Whose Truth, Whose Lies:
The title track
... and Norfolk County Line (with Janiva Magness)
The title track
Received notification this evening that both albums have been despatched.
As I was in Mrs AFB car on the way home with its limited choices of in car entertainment I had this on the way home.
Got stuck in my head for hours!
Got stuck in my head for hours!
I will fannishly admit to liking Barry! I had a number of his albums back when they came out. He is a singular talent and I have always enjoyed his music. It was always joyful and well done!
Jazz on a Monday night for a change.
Bill Evans Trio - the Sunday at the Village Vanguard album (1961).
Bill Evans Trio - the Sunday at the Village Vanguard album (1961).
Sam Fender Hypersonic Missiles
First time I heard this, I was blown away. Influences of the best of Bruce Springsteen, but transposed to a 21st century, North Shields (UK) key. Great guitarist, awesome lyrics, and the boy knows how to put a killer saxophone riff into a song about... well, you figure it out.
BTW: I love old music. Motown. Classic jazz. Beethoven and Mozart. I grew up on British invasion. Cut my teeth on punk and grunge.
But to all my fellow fogeys: You gotta keep discovering new stuff. It ain't all great. But there are some incredible musical gems being created today. The music didn't die when Buddy Holly and Richie Valens' plane crashed. Why do you think it would have died when Van Halen fired David Lee Roth or Genesis broke up?
First time I heard this, I was blown away. Influences of the best of Bruce Springsteen, but transposed to a 21st century, North Shields (UK) key. Great guitarist, awesome lyrics, and the boy knows how to put a killer saxophone riff into a song about... well, you figure it out.
BTW: I love old music. Motown. Classic jazz. Beethoven and Mozart. I grew up on British invasion. Cut my teeth on punk and grunge.
But to all my fellow fogeys: You gotta keep discovering new stuff. It ain't all great. But there are some incredible musical gems being created today. The music didn't die when Buddy Holly and Richie Valens' plane crashed. Why do you think it would have died when Van Halen fired David Lee Roth or Genesis broke up?
Why do some bands do better than others at trying to follow the sense of "Evolve or Die".... ?!
The average band gets some hisses and some huzzahs when it shifts gears with a new release, generally preceded by release of a single that they hope is a hat tip to both their old style and a hint of a whole new thing. Sometimes the single flops, sometimes it's a hit and then sometimes the album disappoints in the remainder of its entirety... and sometimes it ends up being the product of what critics and fans alike think in retrospect was the apex of their career. The lattermost there suggests that the band had evolved to maybe a new producer and then got lost in that dude's own agenda... for at least awhile. Some bands recover from taking a wrong path for awhile, and some don't.
As for Van Halen,,,, sometimes it pays not to evolve if you can avoid it and have a good thing going.
Not to make unsettling comparisons --since I love Van Halen's old stuff-- but the enduring adaptability of certain critters, including the common cockroach, has been that somehow it knew when to quit messing around with its approach to being able to put food on the plate and keep roof overhead. Depends on how big the pantry is in the particular kitchen and how many people are out there in the dining room. Basic rock beats are hard to dismiss, no matter how clever the synths and the producers deploying them like to tempt us down other paths for awhile.
Other critters have discovered that the hand they were playing was more of a niche situation or a passing fancy of "new music" fans of some moment, and so they were motivated to keep switching it up. Win some, lose some... and it's true that even a band with a devoted following has to evolve somewhat to survive if its membership does or has to change for some unavoidable reason.
Still, you're right that only time tells and there are still plenty of new bands trying us on as an audience and they're worth our giving them a shot. It's why I wander around in Bandcamp a few times a week just to sample a few tracks of this or that. I find that in Apple Music I'm more looking for specific things I want to download. In Bandcamp I'm more in exploratory mode.Other critters have discovered that the hand they were playing was more of a niche situation or a passing fancy of "new music" fans of some moment, and so they were motivated to keep switching it up. Win some, lose some... and it's true that even a band with a devoted following has to evolve somewhat to survive if its membership does or has to change for some unavoidable reason.
Yes, they can be excellent, as are some of your other favourites, REM, Queen, and Blur.
Cut My Hair – Mounika
Recommended to me by a friend, Cut My Hair features acoustic instrumentation and a fairly high-pitched singer using a lot of vocal mods. I'm not usually into songs with so much ukulele or vocal quirks, but it's really nice.
Recommended to me by a friend, Cut My Hair features acoustic instrumentation and a fairly high-pitched singer using a lot of vocal mods. I'm not usually into songs with so much ukulele or vocal quirks, but it's really nice.
