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Post by Kapitan on Oct 22, 2020 19:52:45 GMT
The "Why I Hate This Album" podcast did one of the ultimate hateable albums, Lou Reed's and Metallica's Lulu. Let's be clear, this show is about 85% comedy to 15% music criticism, so taking it too seriously on their musical comments is a bad idea. But I do tend to find it funny, and there is plenty of hatred to go around on this album. (I also suggested it to them, apparently one of many to do so, from their comments.)
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Oct 30, 2020 23:50:57 GMT
This is a fairly recent interview with Joni Mitchell by Cameron Crowe:
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Post by Kapitan on Nov 3, 2020 22:52:52 GMT
A 1992 interview with Frank Zappa that I've never heard. (He died about a year later, though he discusses his cancer briefly in this interview.)
Honestly, I almost prefer listening to his long interviews to listening to his music--and I love his music. But from politics, to the record business, to culture, to (of course) music, he was consistently interesting.
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Post by Kapitan on Nov 7, 2020 19:43:17 GMT
I've come across this YouTube channel featuring "the lost interviews" from a music journalist named Steve Rosen. There are some interesting people among his so-far 21 videos: Ozzy from '83; Michael Anthony and Eddie Van Halen (separately) from '86; Stevie Ray Vaughn from '85; Tom Petty from '85: and so on.
Thought you guys might enjoy some of these.
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Post by Kapitan on Nov 13, 2020 16:48:45 GMT
I listened to this new interview with Bruce Springsteen by Rick Rubin and Malcolm Gladwell for their podcast. It's pretty enjoyable.
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Post by Kapitan on Nov 15, 2020 20:40:48 GMT
Keith Moon in 1976. He references the Beach Boys and the Rip Chords repeatedly.
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Post by Kapitan on Nov 19, 2020 14:00:15 GMT
Zane Lowe interviews Angus Young and Brian Johnson of AC/DC. It's about a week old, but I just saw it yesterday.
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Post by B.E. on Nov 27, 2020 2:20:18 GMT
I had noticed (and resisted) Rick Beato's new video on Katy Perry copying another song, but after being subjected to modern pop music today, well, I guess I thought, "what the hell?"
It's pretty wild how similar these songs are. At 3:40 (after a slight tempo adjustment) he plays both simultaneously and you can hardly tell two different songs are playing! Check it out with headphones. Okay, back in my time machine...
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Post by Kapitan on Nov 27, 2020 19:13:51 GMT
Halfway between music and TV (or movies), Alex Winter's (of Bill & Ted fame) documentary of Frank Zappa is released today. It's apparently in select theaters but otherwise is available for rent online. I'm going to watch this afternoon!
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Post by Kapitan on Nov 27, 2020 22:53:29 GMT
Halfway between music and TV (or movies), Alex Winter's (of Bill & Ted fame) documentary of Frank Zappa is released today. It's apparently in select theaters but otherwise is available for rent online. I'm going to watch this afternoon! Highly recommended (if you're a Zappa fan). No talk-over narration from some kind of host, not even a lot of talking-heads footage (though Ruth Underwood, Ian Underwood, Bunk Gardner, Scott Thunes, Steve Vai, and Mike Keneally from the bands talked; so did Gail Zappa, Pamela Des Barres, and Alice Cooper). It's almost entirely Zappa's own footage, both video and audio, and assorted press clips.
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Nov 27, 2020 23:08:45 GMT
Halfway between music and TV (or movies), Alex Winter's (of Bill & Ted fame) documentary of Frank Zappa is released today. It's apparently in select theaters but otherwise is available for rent online. I'm going to watch this afternoon! Highly recommended (if you're a Zappa fan). No talk-over narration from some kind of host, not even a lot of talking-heads footage (though Ruth Underwood, Ian Underwood, Bunk Gardner, Scott Thunes, Steve Vai, and Mike Keneally from the bands talked; so did Gail Zappa, Pamela Des Barres, and Alice Cooper). It's almost entirely Zappa's own footage, both video and audio, and assorted press clips. Any interesting tidbits from Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman?
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Post by Kapitan on Nov 27, 2020 23:17:18 GMT
They spent a little time on that era, but not a lot. It was primarily in the context of his decision in '69 to disband the Mothers of Invention as a (semi-)permanent group and instead to make "the Mothers" be whoever he happened to be working with at the moment. One of them--I think Howard--said a few words about what that's like, I believe contemporaneous comments, not a modern interview.
But that was right after Frank had spent a lot of money on a large tour and come out of it in $10k (1969 money) debt. So he let them all go. Then he worked with a tiny group of people around Hot Rats, and eventually a slightly larger group in the Flo & Eddie years. But then he got attacked (which is also discussed) in London, was confined to the wheelchair, and let everyone go again before getting different groups once he was able.
They also played a decent amount of footage from that era. (Decent for a career overview; anyone wanting to see a lot specifically of that would disagree.)
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Post by Kapitan on Nov 30, 2020 15:47:24 GMT
Pitchfork has a recurring series of "The Music of [his/her] Life" in which artists talk about their favorite albums in five-year increments: age 5, age 10, age 15, etc. I've always liked that idea, and love hearing those anecdotes.
"I remember seeing PJ on The Tonight Show. She stood there with just a guitar and did “Rid of Me.” It was like seeing Howlin’ Wolf on Shindig! So great. And then I got the record [Rid of Me], and it was nowhere near as good, but it didn’t matter. For me, the record sounds like shit. That guy [Steve Albini] doesn’t know anything about production. He might be the second-worst producer of a great record after Jimmy Iovine, who totally fucked up [Bruce Springsteen’s] Darkness on the Edge of Town. It sounds like Bruce is in a fucking shoe box full of tissue paper."
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Post by Kapitan on Dec 2, 2020 20:31:02 GMT
Because there was so much back-and-forth about Miley Cyrus's new album the other day, I thought people might be interested in this relatively good (meaning insightful more than positive) review of it.
I thought the opening paragraph was pretty spot on.
"For the better part of a decade, Miley Cyrus has been an avatar for entertainment capitalism’s most insidious processes. She is a living embodiment of the child-star-to-tabloid-fixture pipeline, and typifies the music industry’s fondness for adopting the aesthetics of rap music as a way of courting clicks as much as she does its tendency to disavow the genre as “materialist” as a way of virtue-signaling. Her music is inexorable from social media, both in the frenetic, real-time updates of its visual style and its tendency to spark loud, mindless discourse. She has been canceled and revived more than pretty much any other star, save, perhaps, Justin Bieber. Provocative, talented but directionless, passionate but confused in her politics, she is a star for whom headlines have almost always outweighed output."
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Post by Kapitan on Dec 4, 2020 13:42:50 GMT
This could also fit under New Music, but frankly the story is more interesting than the (decent) music.
Curtiss A (Curt Almsted), the local scenester who has put on John Lennon tribute concerts at First Ave on the anniversary of Lennon's assassination ever since it happened (and will do so virtually this year), is releasing his first album in 33 years. Jerks of Fate was recorded locally in the same studio where "Surfin' Bird" was recorded so many years ago with Almsted's regular band--which includes a vet of Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks album, a member of the Suburbs, and other stalwarts. How's this for a paragraph to sum up why this matters?
There are links to some of the songs within this Star Tribune feature. The music sounds somewhere between Tom Petty's early music, Robyn Hitchcock, and Alex Chilton.
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