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Post by sambfc on Apr 19, 2024 14:37:48 GMT
Seems to be available on Crave (which carries a lot of HBO content) here in Canada. Nothing I can see to suggest that it is available anywhere other than MGM+ in US at the moment.
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Post by Kapitan on Apr 19, 2024 14:41:33 GMT
Seems to be available on Crave (which carries a lot of HBO content) here in Canada. Nothing I can see to suggest that it is available anywhere other than MGM+ in US at the moment. That's what I'm seeing, too. The proliferation of for-pay streaming sites is driving me crazy! None are all that great, to be honest ... but many of them have one or two things, here or there, that I want to watch. And I hate signing up for things just for a short time, because if I'm honest, I know I'll forget to cancel. So for the time being, I'm holding off and hoping it moves to Netflix, Hulu, Amazon...something I have.
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Post by Kapitan on Apr 22, 2024 17:23:07 GMT
Taylor Swift released her new album, The Tortured Poets Department (and then shortly thereafter, another version that added more than a dozen additional songs, The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology. I'm guessing most of her big fans gladly bought the first immediately, and the second (despite its duplication), too.) I've been scanning it, and it doesn't jump out at me as her best stuff. But I'm not that big a fan, I only like bits and pieces. However, I'm curious to see what kind of business it will do. It comes so quickly after Beyonce's album, will it knock her off the #1 spot? How many songs will end up populating the Hot 100? I have little doubt that Swift will overtake the top spot. I feel like she's so popular right now, it would take a gigantic misstep on her part for her to not have an album that debuts #1. Although, I have to admit, the title of this album got a big eye roll from me. An interesting but I suppose inevitable (sometime or another, if not now) reaction to Swift's new album: snark and criticism. Pitchfork gave it a 6.6. Paste gave it a 3.6 (out of 10!) and published the review anonymously, reportedly out of concerns for the author's safety. The Ringer gave it a B. The New York Times wrote a story commenting on the mixed reviews and suggested Swift fatigue from the public at large. All that said, let's not kid ourselves: the album was streamed 300 million times Friday, making it the most-streamed album in a single day ever. It's fascinating to me because I very often think about the ebbs and flows of fame. I've referred to it 100x, and I'll make it 101: it's like Jackson Browne said in the Endless Harmony doc, that it's inevitable when you hit those heights of success, that there will be a backlash. At some point, the quality of the work isn't even relevant to the phenomenon, it's just the nature of trends and fame.
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Post by kds on Apr 22, 2024 18:04:43 GMT
I have little doubt that Swift will overtake the top spot. I feel like she's so popular right now, it would take a gigantic misstep on her part for her to not have an album that debuts #1. Although, I have to admit, the title of this album got a big eye roll from me. An interesting but I suppose inevitable (sometime or another, if not now) reaction to Swift's new album: snark and criticism. Pitchfork gave it a 6.6. Paste gave it a 3.6 (out of 10!) and published the review anonymously, reportedly out of concerns for the author's safety. The Ringer gave it a B. The New York Times wrote a story commenting on the mixed reviews and suggested Swift fatigue from the public at large. All that said, let's not kid ourselves: the album was streamed 300 million times Friday, making it the most-streamed album in a single day ever. It's fascinating to me because I very often think about the ebbs and flows of fame. I've referred to it 100x, and I'll make it 101: it's like Jackson Browne said in the Endless Harmony doc, that it's inevitable when you hit those heights of success, that there will be a backlash. At some point, the quality of the work isn't even relevant to the phenomenon, it's just the nature of trends and fame. I've read that she apparently dropped the second half of the album at 2am on Friday morning, and fans were staying up to hear it. As big a music geek as I am, I don't like anyone enough to do that for.
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Post by Kapitan on Apr 22, 2024 18:35:38 GMT
An interesting but I suppose inevitable (sometime or another, if not now) reaction to Swift's new album: snark and criticism. Pitchfork gave it a 6.6. Paste gave it a 3.6 (out of 10!) and published the review anonymously, reportedly out of concerns for the author's safety. The Ringer gave it a B. The New York Times wrote a story commenting on the mixed reviews and suggested Swift fatigue from the public at large. All that said, let's not kid ourselves: the album was streamed 300 million times Friday, making it the most-streamed album in a single day ever. It's fascinating to me because I very often think about the ebbs and flows of fame. I've referred to it 100x, and I'll make it 101: it's like Jackson Browne said in the Endless Harmony doc, that it's inevitable when you hit those heights of success, that there will be a backlash. At some point, the quality of the work isn't even relevant to the phenomenon, it's just the nature of trends and fame. I've read that she apparently dropped the second half of the album at 2am on Friday morning, and fans were staying up to hear it. As big a music geek as I am, I don't like anyone enough to do that for. Yeah, me neither. I understand it was first released as the new album, with no word that it was actually a double album. So then the second version (the full 2 hours, 30+ songs) was released as a different album two hours later. You're not getting me to stay up to listen to a new release after midnight no matter who you are (and I'll be cranky if you release a different version after I've bought the first one). There's always tomorrow morning... I do wonder whether she has hit peak saturation, though. Maybe the market can't really take any more of her right now. In the past 3.75 years, she has released four new albums (this one a double)(all of which went #1), four re-recorded old albums (all of which went #1), three live albums, and four films (concert and/or documentaries), not to mention appearing in two other films as an actor, doing that massive Eras tour, and of course dominating the NFL season. This has to have been Peak Taylor.
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Post by kds on Apr 22, 2024 19:36:05 GMT
I've read that she apparently dropped the second half of the album at 2am on Friday morning, and fans were staying up to hear it. As big a music geek as I am, I don't like anyone enough to do that for. Yeah, me neither. I understand it was first released as the new album, with no word that it was actually a double album. So then the second version (the full 2 hours, 30+ songs) was released as a different album two hours later. You're not getting me to stay up to listen to a new release after midnight no matter who you are (and I'll be cranky if you release a different version after I've bought the first one). There's always tomorrow morning... I do wonder whether she has hit peak saturation, though. Maybe the market can't really take any more of her right now. In the past 3.75 years, she has released four new albums (this one a double)(all of which went #1), four re-recorded old albums (all of which went #1), three live albums, and four films (concert and/or documentaries), not to mention appearing in two other films as an actor, doing that massive Eras tour, and of course dominating the NFL season. This has to have been Peak Taylor. I've wondered that, and also wondered if that's why she was so quick to release new music to strike while the iron is white hot.
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Post by kds on Apr 22, 2024 19:40:39 GMT
Speaking of new music, both Deep Purple and David Gilmour seem to be teasing announcements on their Facebook pages. I'm most excited about the latter because Gilmour hasn't released a new album in almost a decade.
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Post by Kapitan on Apr 23, 2024 13:30:19 GMT
A new, posthumous Johnny Cash album is set to be released on June 28. Songwriter comprises demos he'd cut in 1993 when he was between recording contracts. Cash's guitar and vocals were isolated and the songs were fleshed out by musicians who had played with him (guitarist Marty Stuart, the late bassist David Roe, and drummer Pete Abbott) among numerous bigger names and guests. John Carter Cash, son of Johnny and June, conceived of and coproduced the album.
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Post by kds on Apr 23, 2024 13:42:36 GMT
Johnny Cash continues to be pretty prolific in his post living years. He had two studio albums (American V and VI) and a studio outtake box set released after his death in the mid 2000s.
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Post by kds on Apr 24, 2024 13:56:13 GMT
Deep Purple have just announced their 23rd studio album, =1, will be released on July 19.
For the fifth straight DP album, Bob Ezrin is producing. This will be the first Purple album with Simon McBride on guitar, so it'll be the eighth different DP line up to release an album.
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Post by kds on Apr 24, 2024 16:07:52 GMT
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Post by kds on Apr 26, 2024 12:53:11 GMT
Some new songs were released this week. Yesterday, the new David Gilmour single - The Piper's Call
Today, the new Motley Crue song, The Dogs of War
No, I didn't stay up until midnight to stream either. But, I've probably listened to the Gilmour song about 5-6 times. It definitely fits with his later material, a laid back song with one of David's patented solos. I didn't expect to hear steel drums on a David Gilmour song, but as the kids say, I'm here for it.
I've only listened to the Crue song once. I thought it was OK, even if it didn't sound too Crue-ish. Even Vince's vocals sounded treated to the point where I barely realized it was him (based on some of the live clips I've seen in recent years, that's probably not a bad thing). On the verses, he actually kinda sounded like Alice Cooper. I do like the guitar work by new member John 5.
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Post by Kapitan on Apr 30, 2024 15:53:28 GMT
I've only listened to the Crue song once. I thought it was OK, even if it didn't sound too Crue-ish. Even Vince's vocals sounded treated to the point where I barely realized it was him (based on some of the live clips I've seen in recent years, that's probably not a bad thing). On the verses, he actually kinda sounded like Alice Cooper. I do like the guitar work by new member John 5. I just listened to this. Definitely not my thing: I'm not a huge Crue fan overall, but I can't say I ever liked anything after the Dr. Feelgood album, really. Their music since then--what I've heard--has always gone more toward newer metal styles, and those sounds just don't appeal to me as much. When it comes to harder rock, I'm mostly a '70s guy who also likes some a decent amount of '60s and '80s, but not a lot that came after. (It's changing production styles as much as anything.) John 5's solo is very good. He's a much better guitarist than Mick Mars.
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Post by kds on Apr 30, 2024 16:22:54 GMT
I've only listened to the Crue song once. I thought it was OK, even if it didn't sound too Crue-ish. Even Vince's vocals sounded treated to the point where I barely realized it was him (based on some of the live clips I've seen in recent years, that's probably not a bad thing). On the verses, he actually kinda sounded like Alice Cooper. I do like the guitar work by new member John 5. I just listened to this. Definitely not my thing: I'm not a huge Crue fan overall, but I can't say I ever liked anything after the Dr. Feelgood album, really. Their music since then--what I've heard--has always gone more toward newer metal styles, and those sounds just don't appeal to me as much. When it comes to harder rock, I'm mostly a '70s guy who also likes some a decent amount of '60s and '80s, but not a lot that came after. (It's changing production styles as much as anything.) John 5's solo is very good. He's a much better guitarist than Mick Mars. I thought Crue's 2008 album Saints of Los Angeles was quite good, but other than that one, I agree their post Dr. Feelgood output leaves a lot to be desired. Saints seemed like the one time in their later years where it didn't sound like they were chasing trends.
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Post by kds on Apr 30, 2024 17:22:53 GMT
The lead single of Deep Purple's upcoming album was released today
Not a bad little song. Simon McBride's style seems not overly dissimilar to Steve Morse, although maybe slightly more gritty.
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