OT: ♫ The Music Thread ♫

[HFsNumber1Heel]

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.

It's a great documentary despite the name coming off as kind of a mockery/derogatory to that genre depending on who you ask.

 

[noncents]

slowdive rox

 

[nyrage]

slowdive rox

I didn't get into them initially because I grew up mostly on underground metal and classic rock. This girl into indie music introduced them to me about 12 years ago and I loved them immediately. Then I got sad that I never got to see them.

Luckily they re-formed and I got to see back in 2017 and I've seen them a bunch of times since then (twice in the past year). I also got to meet them back in 2017 and they were incredibly nice. Neil and I watched the Peter Hook (Joy Division/New Order) set together.

 

[Ben Grimm]

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idk what the album cover is implying.

 

[Ben Grimm]

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[eco's bones]

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I had all of Crass's LP's. Some of them disappeared over the years though. I do have this and I do have the box set Christ: The Album. I have a few 45's. Penis Envy was their album where the songs were written and sung by the female members of the group.

They were the original anarcho-punk band. They set the stage for the Subhumans, Conflict and Discharge and even Chumbawamba. Steve (Williams) Ignorant still a teenager attends an early concert by the Clash and Joe Strummer tells the crowd to go out and get some friends and they can make their own bands too. Williams knew this eccentric jazz drummer Penny Rimbaud (Jeremy Ratter) who was in his 30's then---knocked on his door and they started working things out between voice and drumbeat. This band was considered dangerous by the Thatcher regime. Go to wikipedia and type in Thatchergate. Very much anti-nuclear and anti-war. They were now and again subject matter with her officials and in the House of Commons. They created their own record label.....played for free gigs (donations accepted) where they would distribute free soup to whoever. It was a different time of course. They broke up in 1984. Some of their last gigs were to support the miners strike.

Anyway I bought all their stuff at Bleecker Bob's in the village.

 

[Ben Grimm]

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