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Post by kds on Jan 10, 2020 13:21:40 GMT
In true kds fashion, I'm kicking off the new music of 2020 thread with an artist whose been in the business for fifty years.
Ozzy Osbourne's first solo album since 2010, Ordinary Man, will be released next month, and will feature a guest appearance by Elton John (hopefully the album is better than the Brian Wilson album featuring Elton).
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Post by Kapitan on Jan 10, 2020 13:52:08 GMT
That track has been released. To me it sounds pretty paint-by-numbers.
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Post by kds on Jan 10, 2020 13:58:13 GMT
So far, I've heard Under the Graveyard, which was pretty good, and Straight to Hell, which was OK. I think Ozzy's last really solid solo album was 1995's Ozzmosis.
To make a BB parallel, Ozzy is basically the heavy metal answer to Brian, where a lot of fans acknowledge that his concerts and very hit or miss vocally in recent years, and blame Sharon for continuing to trot his out there like some sort of puppet.
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Post by Kapitan on Jan 17, 2020 15:19:48 GMT
Three albums out today I bought and have been enjoying this morning: a very nice change from the past month or two, when the release schedules slow for the holidays.
First to be shared, "Leslie" by Kiwi Jr. I'd never heard of them until this morning when a positive review caught my attention. Sure enough, a very Modern Lovers/Parquet Courts kind of slightly neurotic, VU-guitar styled rock band. With hooks.
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Post by Kapitan on Jan 17, 2020 16:50:18 GMT
Second up, A Girl Called Eddy's "Someone's Gonna Break Your Heart," one of the more upbeat and propulsive tunes on her lush, heavily orchestrated Been Around. This one has the driving beat (and handclaps, etc.) to bring to mind girl-group music of the '60s, but other songs are more in the vein of '70s singer-songwriters like Carole King.
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Post by Kapitan on Jan 24, 2020 13:04:34 GMT
Didn't bellbottoms say she was a bit fan of Ezra Furman? Or am I imagining things. Anyway, if so, there's a new Ezra Furman album out today, Sex Education Original Soundtrack. Here's Every Feeling from the album.
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Post by bellbottoms on Jan 24, 2020 13:37:49 GMT
Didn't bellbottoms say she was a bit fan of Ezra Furman? Or am I imagining things. Anyway, if so, there's a new Ezra Furman album out today, Sex Education Original Soundtrack. Here's Every Feeling from the album. I am a fan! Thanks for this, I recently tripped over some tweet or other that this soundtrack was happening and was waiting to hear more about it. I'll check this out as soon as I get a chance. Any impressions to share?
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Post by Kapitan on Jan 24, 2020 13:44:01 GMT
Didn't bellbottoms say she was a bit fan of Ezra Furman? Or am I imagining things. Anyway, if so, there's a new Ezra Furman album out today, Sex Education Original Soundtrack. Here's Every Feeling from the album. I am a fan! Thanks for this, I recently tripped over some tweet or other that this soundtrack was happening and was waiting to hear more about it. I'll check this out as soon as I get a chance. Any impressions to share? I haven't heard it yet, I just sampled a few moments here and there. Keeping in mind I'm not especially fond of Furman (but also not particularly NOT a fan, either), I'd say it certainly ranks on the higher end of what I've heard from him. But we're talking about 3 minutes of total music heard from this album, so it's a small sample size.
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Post by bellbottoms on Jan 24, 2020 13:55:41 GMT
I am a fan! Thanks for this, I recently tripped over some tweet or other that this soundtrack was happening and was waiting to hear more about it. I'll check this out as soon as I get a chance. Any impressions to share? I haven't heard it yet, I just sampled a few moments here and there. Keeping in mind I'm not especially fond of Furman (but also not particularly NOT a fan, either), I'd say it certainly ranks on the higher end of what I've heard from him. But we're talking about 3 minutes of total music heard from this album, so it's a small sample size. Cool, well as a fan, I do think he should be better known than he is, and I hope this soundtrack brings him some deserved attention. I haven’t seen Sex Education, I should probably check that out too while I’m at it.
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Post by Kapitan on Jan 25, 2020 0:10:56 GMT
Not to push one of my favorite bands of the past 20 years or so yet again--of Montreal alert!--but yeah, maybe just this one moment. See, the 20 seconds or so from where I have queued up are just an example of some mighty fine vocal arrangement. Yes, it's '80s-tinged production (au courant!) as the video's image makes oh-so-clear, but the vocal parts are pretty fantastic.
"You've Had Me Everywhere"
(This is from their couple-week old, horribly titled album UR Fun.) (OK, also it is titled UR FUN, but I couldn't bring myself to type that.)
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Post by Kapitan on Jan 30, 2020 23:55:26 GMT
Today I heard of, heard, and bought Canadian* artist Andy Shauf's The Neon Skyline. It is a tuneful, pleasant kind of soft rock reminiscent of maybe early '70s solo Paul Simon. I've only heard it once through and a few songs a couple times, but it's really nice.
Here is the title track.
*Canadian, but what kind of accent is that? I can't think of having ever heard one like it before.
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Post by bellbottoms on Feb 2, 2020 14:25:24 GMT
*Canadian, but what kind of accent is that? I can't think of having ever heard one like it before.
I’m not familiar with Andy Shauf’s music but you piqued my curiosity about his accent. It’s certainly unique, though it’s not entirely dissimilar to the way some people from small towns in the Ottawa valley talk, adding an “r’ sound to their vowels like "warsh" instead of "wash”. Googling him I thought maybe I’d find he had some Maritime, Quebecois or Aboriginal heritage that might account for it, but his Wikipedia entry is scantly populated. It does say he’s Saskatchewan born and raised. The few people I’ve met from Saskatchewan didn’t have any particular accent. But with so much space between towns, regional accents do happen. Of course, I never thought my hometown in Northern Ontario had an accent until I left for awhile and then went back. Now it’s very prominent (and cringey) when I hear my family and friends back home doing it. Even worse when I catch myself doing it from time to time, lol. Anyway, that’s a really lovely song, I quite liked it. I’m going to check out this new album of his.
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Post by Kapitan on Feb 2, 2020 14:41:41 GMT
Isn't it funny how we all think--at least I assume this is universal, I know I related immediately to your comment--that we don't have accents but everyone else does? I can understand how 100+ years ago this was the case, but now we're all raised with television and internet, meaning we hear other people all the time. We know what other people sound like. Yet it still takes some distance to hear our own accents.
For me it was going away to college, which wasn't even far away. I went about 4 hours southeast, into Iowa, and was shocked to hear kids from Iowa who had what sounded to me like southern accents as well as the Wisconsin and Illinois kids who had something sort-of like (but yet not quite like) the stereotypical Chicago accent. A kind of exaggerated, almost honking "aaa" for a short "a" sound that sometimes becomes two syllables (e.g., the Wisconsin Badgers, they might say almost "Baay-ahd-gers").
And of course, that's when I heard comments about my accent, which they often heard as "Canadian." "Say 'about!'," they'd insist.
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Post by bellbottoms on Feb 2, 2020 15:12:17 GMT
Minnesotans sound Canadian? I always thought you all had a very specific Minnesota accent, that sounds very different from what I think of as a Canadian accent.
It does seem to be a universal experience, not being able to detect one’s own accent or those of the people we grew up with, and leaving home does have a way of putting that into perspective. When I was backpacking overseas in my 20s, I met another Canadian from Alberta who after hearing me talk for 5 seconds said “you’re from Ontario, aren’t you” and it felt strange to be picked out like that.
The first time I saw Bob and Doug McKenzie’s Strange Brew, I was like, no way, I don’t talk like that, no one I know talks like that, what even is this (besides funny, regardless). It sort of seemed like Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis weren’t lampooning the Canadian accent, they had actually invented it. Obviously now I realize there is some truth to it, even if it is exaggerated.
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Post by Kapitan on Feb 2, 2020 15:41:05 GMT
I don't really think the Minnesotan accent sounds particularly Canadian, though I guess there are definitely some elements in common. But of course there are multiple Minnesotan accents, to say nothing of Canadian ones: you can't be that big and that (generally rural or wilderness) a territory without the separated populations developing their own accents. In Minnesota, the different accents seem mostly based on the original ethnic makeups: Scandinavians, Germans, and then various eastern European roots. There is an audible German accent to this day among senior citizens in places like New Ulm, and that was settled in the 1850s, so we're not talking recent immigrants!
Funny you mention Bob & Doug McKenzie, because I think your reaction to that is VERY similar to ours to the movie Fargo. And I think the honest response is similar to what you said, as well: some truth to it, even if it is exaggerated.
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