One for the mighty Shane tonight from the mighty Beatles, let's hope it's not so "long" until the next one....
You've just reminded me of this from two of his artists, Small Faces with the First Lady of Immediate, P.P. Arnold..so much talent on stage there...
In this post, Schad links to weird things that no one will or should listen to: - 25 years ago in 1994, Sunny Day Real Estate launched melodic indie, emo, shoegaze, and a half-dozen other sub-genres involving awkward and unkempt people who won't make eye contact with you, with Diary: - 20 years ago in 1999, Canadian rock band Our Lady Peace released their third album: Happiness...Is Not A Fish That You Can Catch, which is objectively more weird and just generally worse than their two preceding albums. This is not at all notable, except for the bit where a 125 lb Schad ended up crowd-surfing against his will in mid-2000 during their set because he found himself between two beefy fellows with mischief on their minds. He then got to be near front row for the final stadium show of the Smashing Pumpkins prior to their first breakup, which was almost worth getting dropped on his head by drunk people who weren't expecting a skinny random to come flying over them. Look, 1999 was a pretty dark time for music, so that's the best I can do. - 15 years ago in 2004, Prince just wrecked ****: - 10 years ago in 2009, Portugal. The Man released The Satanic Satanist. I have clearly stopped posting anything of interest to anyone but me, but this is a quality album, even if the band name and album title combines to cause fatal douche chills:
1994 couldn’t possibly have been 24 years ago, don’t be silly. Tom Petty and Prince. Wow. Never seen that before. Thanks
Rock Prince is peak everything. Plectrumelectrum, which is an album released about 20 years after anyone remembered that Prince existed, has about a half dozen really solid funk-rock songs that make me wish that he did nothing else for his whole career.
Every time I watch that I am struck how much Dhani looks like his father. Incredible likeness. Incredible solo as well!
Right, one for our very own baby faced assassin, JWP this evening....long may his good form continue...
Schad posts more things that perhaps no one should listen to, myself included, because it's doing awful things outside so I'm getting into the odder side of my playlists:. The Distillers - Coral Fang (link only because the album cover is all manner of NSFW, put www.youtube.com/ before it if have any desire to listen to middling 90s/aughts punk). They are not in any way a great punk band, but Brody Dalle provides just about the perfect female punk vocals, in that she sounds like she has smoked eight packs of cigarettes at one time and also has a sinus infection. watch?v=VxzYvCRCAkw&t=2204s On the subject of smoky female vocals, Nina Simone's Feelin Good, which is untouchable. Stoner/desert rock outfit, and vehicle for Brody Dalle's husband if we're trying to make this post have a throughline, Kyuss: Even weirder than anything else I've posted, but: Fortunate Son should have always been a black spiritual, and it shouldn't have taken an okay vidya game to realize that, because this is fantastic:
RIP Ted McKenna, drummer for the late, great Rory Gallagher, who died the day before yesterday during routine surgery. He and Gerry McAvoy dud a wonderful job keeping Rory’s legacy alive with the “Band of Friends”. Really nice guy and very approachable too - deepest sympathies to his family and friends
Michel Legrand, the prolific composer of hit tunes has died aged 86. He wrote over 200 film and TV scores, including The Thomas Crown Affair, Yentl, Le Mans, and The Go Between, winning an Oscar for “The Windmills of Your Mind”. Here’s the song based on the theme from The Umbrellas of Cherbourg: and his most famous composition: RIP Michel Legrand 24/02/1932 - 26/01/2019
This popped unbidden into my mind. Side two a good listen for the Stanley Unwin intros https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1.......1..gws-wiz.......0i71j0i22i30.nISY5TYYmlk
I'm rather liking this at the moment - they use it in the latest Apple advert. Strange but infectiously catchy, plus the guy is called Cosmo, which is a great name
