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Post by kds on Mar 16, 2021 19:58:25 GMT
Judging by some of the stuff you've posted from Pitchfork, I trust them to rate music as much as I'd trust a vegan to recommend a bacon cheeseburger.
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Post by Kapitan on Mar 16, 2021 20:03:10 GMT
Judging by some of the stuff you've posted from Pitchfork, I trust them to rate music as much as I'd trust a vegan to recommend a bacon cheeseburger. That's roughly where I am with it. I keep an eye to see the news, new releases, etc., but their judgment? Ahhhhhno.
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Post by kds on Mar 16, 2021 20:10:05 GMT
Judging by some of the stuff you've posted from Pitchfork, I trust them to rate music as much as I'd trust a vegan to recommend a bacon cheeseburger. That's roughly where I am with it. I keep an eye to see the news, new releases, etc., but their judgment? Ahhhhhno. Right, I can't call myself in any way a Bruno Mars fan, but to call him the lowlight on a p(l)op music show is asinine.
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Post by Kapitan on Mar 16, 2021 20:15:03 GMT
And you'd have to admit, at least he's musically talented! (Seems like that ought to go a long ways for this sort of thing...) He's also pretty charismatic, even if he usually seems like he's imitating Michael Jackson. I don't like almost anything I've heard of his, either, with very few exceptions. But he's good.
If I watch his new group or his Little Richard tribute, I recognize someone musically talented with diverse influences.
If I watch Megan Theeeeeeeeeeeee Stallion, I have a broken remote control and am for some reason unable to stand to change the channel or switch websites.
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Post by kds on Mar 17, 2021 13:13:12 GMT
I never really paid him any mind until he played halftime at the Super Bowl a few years ago. I'm still not really a fan, but I gained respect for him.
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Post by Kapitan on Mar 18, 2021 19:22:59 GMT
Very pretty little song from Teenage Fanclub's second pre-album release single. I've just decided to pre-order it. (I'd previously just bought the first single, which I also really liked and linked somewhere in the pages above.)
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Post by Kapitan on Apr 2, 2021 17:58:02 GMT
Not a great past few weeks (months) for new music--and this is where KDS says "it hasn't been a great past few decades for new music"!--but Chicago-born guitarist and singer Ryley Walker released a cool new album, Course in Fable.
It's something you might describe as virtuosic folk-prog, maybe?
Here's "A Lenticular Slap."
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Post by Kapitan on Apr 8, 2021 18:05:33 GMT
Prince's estate is releasing the first fully complete, unreleased studio album from his archives this summer. Welcome 2 America (a terrible title), recorded in 2010, is due in July. There is a deluxe edition that includes a video of a concert from the 2011 tour of the same name. (Prince had released another album in 2010, 20Ten, which had a few pretty good tunes on it, including "Compassion" and the smooth "Lavaux." But it also had the worst clunker of his career, "Laydown.")
The title track has been released in promotion of the album. While the video has some cool pictures, the song is not very exciting.
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Post by Kapitan on Apr 9, 2021 12:18:48 GMT
Cheap Trick released their 20th studio album today, In Another World. And ... it sounds like Cheap Trick, which, for a band 40+ years into its career, is pretty good.
The album's lead-off track, "The Summer Looks Good On You," was released as a single in May 2018, and the cover of John Lennon's "Gimme Some Truth" was released in late 2019, but COVID delayed the release of the long-completed album to now.
Here is that first single.
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Post by Kapitan on Apr 18, 2021 16:46:02 GMT
Everyone knows I love the late '90s (and briefly early-mid '10s) band Cotton Mather. Their band leader/primary (almost sole) songwriter/singer Robert Harrison is releasing his debut solo album this summer. Here is the first single from it, "Watching the Kid Come Back."
It's a beautiful, almost mournful ballad. You may like it, give it a try!
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Post by Kapitan on Apr 22, 2021 14:28:03 GMT
Polyphonic Spree, a sort-of-band-group-cult(notreally)-ensemble-happening that had a little spurt of semi-prominence in the mid-00s released a cover of the Rolling Stones' "She's a Rainbow." The song is right up their alley. It's also just not that great a song, one of those perfect examples of a 60-90 second idea that drags for over four minutes (both in the original and here).
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Post by Kapitan on Apr 29, 2021 20:36:52 GMT
I haven't pissed off our very own kds in a while, so...
Billie Eilish released a new single from her upcoming album, and between the guitar-based track and actually sung vocal, it's not bad! I still don't like her singing style--that super-close mic'd, hear-every-breath-from-a-soft-singer effect annoys me--but at least this song has a real, live melody. And a kind of nice melody, at that. I'd probably rate it around a 5 on a 10 scale, which is about 3-4 higher than I'd have rated the other songs I've heard from her.
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Post by kds on May 1, 2021 0:51:10 GMT
Its shit. Not her typical shit, which is more like a morning after drinking rot gut vodka type of shit. This is more like a shit after a decent meal and affordable bottle of wine
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Post by Kapitan on May 8, 2021 18:31:35 GMT
Newly released, a 1999 performance by Alex Chilton (of the Box Tops and Big Star) at a one-off show in Memphis where he was backed by the legendary Hi Rhythm Section. What makes it interesting is, they weren't his band. He had no band. And they hadn't rehearsed. Chilton just called out tunes during the show and they ran with them. Here is a story from the Memphis Commercial-Appeal about it.
Here's Kansas City.
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Post by B.E. on May 9, 2021 1:41:19 GMT
I'm pleasantly surprised by Weezer's new album. I'm nearly through my first listen and I've enjoyed just about every song. It's pretty consistent, and it's a quick listen (literally, 10 songs; 30 minutes). The guitar work is very strong, and reminiscent of the 80s. Big, catchy refrains. The vocals are strong and clear. Some single-tracked vocals, which is nice. Compressed, but no autotune (that I could tell over speakers, at least). The production, overall, is very strong. The guitars might be from the '80s, but thank God the snare drum's not! The quality dips a bit in the middle with "Blue Dream" and "1 More Hit". The former relies too much on established riffs and I just don't like the lyrics of the latter. On one listen, I'd probably give it a 7.5 and rank it about on par with Everything Will Be Alright in the End, and behind Blue, Pinkerton, Green, Maladroit, and Red.
Here's about 3/4 of "She Needs Me" to get a feel for it. Probably not the most dynamic, adventurous, or impressive of the bunch, but it's really solid. And, that falsetto section reminds me of BW (even if just a little).
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