OT: ♫ The Music Thread ♫
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eco's bones
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I don't understand the appeal on a lot of things. She's just one of them.
But we're all different to some degree. Someone likes this someone likes that. Some people like just about everything. I've never found it easy to like any group that found mass appeal and it doesn't matter the genre. Oh, it's popular......then it must suck. I admit that's kind of f***ed up but that's the way it's always been with me. Along the way I've lost interest in complaining about what other people like. If they try to stick it in my face I'll either be annoyed or dismissive but otherwise I leave it alone and tune out what I don't like.
A complaint I do have. I can see if there's a political candidate you don't like using your song telling them---suing them if necessary to stop is fine and dandy but prostituting your music in service of a political candidate at least on a national level is a bit much.
By the way that goes for priests and preachers too.
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Matt Rentfree
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Remember the 90's. Massively underrated sleeper artist. Plays every instrument and produced the record himself.
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nyrage
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Darn me? You should thank me. It's the greatest soundtrack of all time. I would sit in a theater in the dark just to hear it loud.
I cannot believe that Zimmer didn't win an Oscar for it. Grand Budapest Hotel? It was a good movie, but best original score? Holy cow, biggest snub since Interstellar not being nominated for best picture. American Sniper? The Theory of Everything? Boyhood? Imitation Game, etc?
I will never bring up Shakespeare in Love beating out Saving Private Ryan after the 2014 snubs of all time.
nyrage
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The first thing I did when I worked at Atlantic/Elektra/Warner was to replace the last page of Metallica's signed contract with a photocopy.
I started out in the Royalties dept. Every quarter, I used to have to bring million dollar checks to their A&R guy for the band. The guy has such a big crush on me and would bribe me with anything Metallica-related just to hang out with him.
Lots of great stories back in those days. Later on I worked for the Atlantic executives doing all kinds of things I shouldn't mention. So many great memories though.
RempireStateBuilding
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I caught a stream of a King Crimson show from the 80s and it gave me a whole new appreciation for this band. I've tried listening to them before because I always hear them referenced as an enormous influence for all sorts of bands, but I never heard anything that hooked me until Beat and Discipline. Both albums have been on repeat for a couple weeks now.
eco's bones
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Yeah I got this one when it came out. The back cover had this photo of some 50's lounge band. When the lounge band found out they were on the back cover of the DK's album they didn't like it and sued and the DK's in subsequent pressings had to put out a new back cover---where the lounge band had their heads lopped off. I've got the back cover with this band in its entirety.
Pretty much everything was vinyl, cassette or 8 track then. I almost always went with vinyl. A shitload of independent labels sprouted up in the late 70's and early 80's. That's where most of the punk and post punk bands were and that was almost always vinyl unless it was something like a bootleg cassette. The Bad Brains first real release came from ROIR (an independent) on cassette and it was years and years until that finally came out in vinyl. For me that was the quintessential American punk rock album and still is.
@eco's bones Thx for posting. I'm gonna try to post one punk album every day.
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eco's bones
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Here is kind of a funny story. T.S.O.L. put out this EP on Posh Boy. I think it was their first actual recording to go to vinyl. They were getting bored and thinking about breaking up (which they put off for a while) but wanted to get something out just to say they did something. There was some English character running this fly by night record Posh Boy label in Southern California. They went to him.....they didn't think there was any money in it and they expected this guy would never pay them anything anyway but they wanted something out just because. So they did that. On the back cover all the thank yous to this and that. One time I was watching this interview with their singer Jack Grisham and he mentioned that one credit on the back cover was for this church he burglarized for their PA.....so I went and looked and yep it's there.
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nyrage
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nyrage
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Agreed. I love the title "Kick out the Jams". It's one if the best titles ever and maybe the best title reference to live music ever. Sometimes I miss guitar solos, jams, and live albums. They aren't as popular as they once were.
HFsNumber1Heel
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I don't know if you've heard Fungus Amoungus or S.C.I.E.N.C.E. the earlier Incubus stuff with their original bass player who went by Dirk Lance. Very funky. Like Red Hot Chili Peppers and Primus with turn tables and sciffi. I wish they would've stuck with that style a few more albums.
Apparently Brandon and Dirk had personality issues and he left. Band was never the same.
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HFsNumber1Heel
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That was the best lineup to me with Belew/Levin/Bufford. They were funky, abstract, No Wavey, and had a lot of polyrhythm influences. Check out Three of a Perfect Pair to complete their 80s trilogy, and I like their 1994 semi reunion album Thrakk where 3/4 (minus Bufford) were back in a six man version of the band.
I'm guessing you heard about the Beat Tour Belew and Levin did with Steve Vai and Danny Carey this year? Shame Bufford doesn't really tour anymore but he said it best, he doesn't want to be waiting around airports dealing with flight delays and luggage issues. He's in his 70s.
Red from the mid-70s is another great album by them, but as a trio with Fripp/Bufford/John Wheton on bass and singing (he would be best known as the main dude in Asia). It's more of a hard rock record, still just as good (less quirky) than the 80s lineup.
RempireStateBuilding
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I gave Three of a Perfect Pair and Red one listen-through almost directly after my first couple of listens to Beat/Discipline but I think I was burnt out at that point. Gotta go back and give both a little more attention. I listened to the first half of Three of a Perfect Pair and kept saying "Wait yea this was a good track too" for every song.
I didn't hear about that tour! One hell of a lineup for sure, now I'm sad I missed that.
I'm definitely not that versed on skilled musicians or musically-inclined myself, had to look up who Steve Vai is. I wasn't terribly young when I realized how fluid the music scene is. People just coming and going and playing here and there and everywhere with everyone in 19 different bands and superbands, and some just on tour and some just in the studio..In my brain growing up, the members you saw in the music videos *was* the band and that was it.
HFsNumber1Heel
FKA Roo Returns...Still A Contrarian Apparently
I gave Three of a Perfect Pair and Red one listen-through almost directly after my first couple of listens to Beat/Discipline but I think I was burnt out at that point. Gotta go back and give both a little more attention. I listened to the first half of Three of a Perfect Pair and kept saying "Wait yea this was a good track too" for every song.
I didn't hear about that tour! One hell of a lineup for sure, now I'm sad I missed that.
I'm definitely not that versed on skilled musicians or musically-inclined myself, had to look up who Steve Vai is. I wasn't terribly young when I realized how fluid the music scene is. People just coming and going and playing here and there and everywhere with everyone in 19 different bands and superbands, and some just on tour and some just in the studio..In my brain growing up, the members you saw in the music videos *was* the band and that was it.
A childhood friend who I played in HS jazz band put it best "in jazz everyone plays on records and it's no big deal, maybe they get billing. In rock one guy from this band plays with one guy in that band and they have a whole new name and marketing and music video."
Yeah there are/were scenes. The 80s Crimson scene had connections to Talking Heads, Daryl Hall, David Bowie, Peter Gabriel, Iggy Pop, Phil Collins, and even though I'm not a fan of him personally, Brian Eno produced a lot of great music and brought a lot of these folks together in various sessions.
If you see the Yacht Rock documentary, those dudes from Toto played with everyone in LA from 1977-1984 and even on Thriller.
nyrage
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I just heard about that Yacht Rock documentary today. I want to check it out.
I always loved this Brian Eno song. Slowdive would always come out to it. Some of the comments underneath the video are so touching. Music has such an amazing impact on people.
