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Post by B.E. on May 24, 2021 1:40:45 GMT
In addition to Bob Marley, I've been listening to a lot of the Eagles lately. Just going back and forth between the two greatest hits comps I have. "Heartache Tonight" has been my favorite.
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Post by Kapitan on May 25, 2021 23:54:44 GMT
I came across this 1971 appearance by Jerry Lee Lewis on Dick Cavett. It's funny how they treat him as an old man, a relic, "what's it like to still be at it after all this time?" etc. He was about 36 years old and he said something about having "been at it for 15 years" or something. Think about it: that's like artists from the mid '00s. Very few people would consider them over the hill--though maybe out of fashion, sure.
It just speaks to how new rock and roll still was, and how disposable it (and its early stars) must have felt even then, as it was growing up and allegedly becoming more mature.
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Post by jk on May 28, 2021 9:40:15 GMT
I came across this 1971 appearance by Jerry Lee Lewis on Dick Cavett. It's funny how they treat him as an old man, a relic, "what's it like to still be at it after all this time?" etc. He was about 36 years old and he said something about having "been at it for 15 years" or something. Think about it: that's like artists from the mid '00s. Very few people would consider them over the hill--though maybe out of fashion, sure.
It just speaks to how new rock and roll still was, and how disposable it (and its early stars) must have felt even then, as it was growing up and allegedly becoming more mature.
There was this slot at the end of a show on Radio Luxembourg in the very early sixties called "Old Record Parade". And they'd play something like Lloyd Price's "Stagger Lee" from two or three years earlier! That's how new it was in those days. Actually, I came here to post this rather cool if utterly unknown second album by the UK band Tranquility. Silver dates from 1972:
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Post by Kapitan on May 29, 2021 23:35:50 GMT
I had a few songs from Lou Reed's dark, Ezrin-produced Berlin on while doing the dishes from the afternoon's feast w/ company. Whatever one thinks of the music, it's a pretty damn good production.
kds, have you ever listened to it? I don't expect you'd really like it, but I am curious what you'd think mostly because of Ezrin's production. It is very much a Bob Ezrin production. If you're willing to subject yourself to something you may not like, I'd be curious your thoughts, especially on that production front. So many Ezrinisms...little bits of background noise, chatter, children's voices (and screaming...), horns and strings, etc. Very big. In this case, quite a detour for Lou Reed, considering his Velvet Underground aesthetic.
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Jun 13, 2021 19:52:37 GMT
I've been listening to some Nancy Sinatra/Lee Hazlewood duets including "Some Velvet Morning", "Lady Bird", "Jackson", and this one, "Summer Wine". Nancy and Lee's voices were so different but complemented each other perfectly. I especially like the backing track of "Summer Wine" including the strings and brass.
Lee Hazlewood was a real talent. In addition to writing Nancy's biggest hits, "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'" and "Sugar Town", he co-wrote and produced Duane Eddy's "Rebel Rouser", wrote "Houston" for Dean Martin, wrote/produced for Dino, Desi & Billy, and wrote "This Town" for Nancy's dad.
Lee Hazlewood was a complicated man. His last wife, Jeane Kelly, described him this way - "He was rude and sweet, innocent and depraved, proud and bitter. He absorbed everything he heard, saw, and read - from Port Neches to L.A. to Stockholm - and then made his own music in his own defiant way." Lee Hazlewood passed away from renal cancer in 2007 at the age of 78.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2021 1:23:43 GMT
What have I been listening to lately? Would you believe....Baroque music? I recently acquired a number of my late father's vinyl, and I took particular interest in some collections of Baroque classics. So much so, that I made a needle drop mix-CD-R to listen to in the car. We're talking Vivaldi, JS Bach, Handel, Pachelbel, etc. This is not new to me; I grew up listening to this music with my dad. I can go further with this subject but.... ......ok, question for jk: Shall we start a Baroque thread?
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Post by Kapitan on Jun 17, 2021 1:27:32 GMT
If you want to just use the general classical thread ("Roll Over Tchaikovsky," maybe?), I think that would work fine. While I definitely don't lean as baroque as jk (and you, I guess!), I'd be curious to see what you two get up to. As I'm sure would anyone else who might pop in!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2021 1:36:28 GMT
If you want to just use the general classical thread ("Roll Over Tchaikovsky," maybe?), I think that would work fine. While I definitely don't lean as baroque as jk (and you, I guess!), I'd be curious to see what you two get up to. As I'm sure would anyone else who might pop in! Ok good call, @kapitan! I haven't visit that thread yet as I thought maybe it pertained specifically to Pete. And he is probably as far from chamber music as you can get, AFAIK! Not that that's a problem for me; it's just that I'm caught up in Baroque at the moment. But, yeah I'll peruse that thread shortly.
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Post by jk on Jun 17, 2021 21:39:53 GMT
If you want to just use the general classical thread ("Roll Over Tchaikovsky," maybe?), I think that would work fine. While I definitely don't lean as baroque as jk (and you, I guess!), I'd be curious to see what you two get up to. As I'm sure would anyone else who might pop in! Ok good call, @kapitan! I haven't visit that thread yet as I thought maybe it pertained specifically to Pete. And he is probably as far from chamber music as you can get, AFAIK! Not that that's a problem for me; it's just that I'm caught up in Baroque at the moment. But, yeah I'll peruse that thread shortly. sockit: Yes, please feel free to start a baroque topic! I've learnt quite a lot about this genre in the past one and a half years or so since being converted by the lady named in my signature. It will be fun going back through various jk classical topics scattered across the internet to dig out some baroque goodies.
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Post by Kapitan on Jun 25, 2021 17:15:53 GMT
I just played the Grateful Dead's 1970 classic American Beauty for the first time. I've never been a Dead fan and am almost entirely unfamiliar with their music, except for their '80s hit "Touch of Grey" and a few songs I've heard here and there almost by accident, e.g., when Lindsey in Freaks & Geeks puts on this record.
My initial verdict?
Eh, it's good. I like the sound of it generally. Don't love it by any means.
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Post by carllove on Jun 25, 2021 19:22:41 GMT
I just played the Grateful Dead's 1970 classic American Beauty for the first time. I've never been a Dead fan and am almost entirely unfamiliar with their music, except for their '80s hit "Touch of Grey" and a few songs I've heard here and there almost by accident, e.g., when Lindsey in Freaks & Geeks puts on this record.
My initial verdict?
Eh, it's good. I like the sound of it generally. Don't love it by any means.
Ohhh - A Truckin' remaster! I might see if I can find that on Apple music. Yeah - they are alright. I did see them in concert back in the mid 80's. It was great people watching. My college friend from St. Louis ruined it a bit for me though, because we had to listen to her entire collection of Dead concert boots while she was visiting.
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Post by jk on Jun 25, 2021 21:58:51 GMT
I just played the Grateful Dead's 1970 classic American Beauty for the first time. I've never been a Dead fan and am almost entirely unfamiliar with their music, except for their '80s hit "Touch of Grey" and a few songs I've heard here and there almost by accident, e.g., when Lindsey in Freaks & Geeks puts on this record.
My initial verdict?
Eh, it's good. I like the sound of it generally. Don't love it by any means.
It's one of my wife's favourite albums, particularly side two. My favourite Dead album? I think probably their debut. Very cool that you saw them in concert, carllove.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2021 22:35:26 GMT
I just played the Grateful Dead's 1970 classic American Beauty for the first time. I've never been a Dead fan and am almost entirely unfamiliar with their music, except for their '80s hit "Touch of Grey" and a few songs I've heard here and there almost by accident, e.g., when Lindsey in Freaks & Geeks puts on this record.
My initial verdict?
Eh, it's good. I like the sound of it generally. Don't love it by any means. I was never really a Dead fan. I really like two of the tracks on this album. "Friend of the Devil" is my favorite. I covered it in one of my early bands, and it helped to teach me how to play bass. Speaking of bass, I just love the sound of the bass and drums in this song. "Ripple" is the other track I like. That one hooked me more recently, and I actually got to hear a local tribute band do a pretty remarkable cover of it. The rest of the songs really don't do anything for me. Yes....even Truckin'. Sorry.
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Post by Kapitan on Jul 14, 2021 15:39:13 GMT
Wilco, if they are thought of much at all nowadays, seem most often thought of:
a) having been in the early era of the alt-country/Americana resurgence;
b) for the buffoonish label hijinks with their Yankee Hotel Foxtrot around the turn of the century; c) being "dad rock"
None of those are wrong (though the latter is a slur I don't think is necessary). But I think people might underestimate just how good a band they've been over the years, and especially in their modern (mid-00s and onward) incarnation. Maybe not big hitmakers (maybe!? lol) but really, steadily good.
I was listening to their 2009 album Wilco (The Album) today. Hence the post. I recommend it. In the same vein, I think their 2007 album Sky Blue Sky might be my favorite of theirs overall, which is saying something.
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Post by jk on Aug 16, 2021 21:11:43 GMT
Songs about schoolgirls by men old enough to know better go back a long way. It's highly unlikely whether this was the first instance on record but back in 1937 the original Sonny Boy Williamson released his composition "Good Morning, School Girl". Now a blues standard, it became famous as "Good Morning, Little School Girl" in the hands of Muddy Waters and many others. It gets ludicrous whenever the singer claims "Tell your mama and your papa I'm a little schoolboy too"! Pigpen of The Grateful Dead is one such offender. That said, his version is the one for me, coming as it does from my favourite Dead album, their 1967 debut (that's Ron "Pigpen" McKernan looking every inch a little schoolboy second from left): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grateful_Dead_(album)
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