OT: The all encompassing HFSabres music thread with no rules (as long as it’s music posted)
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dickiedunnwrotethis
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Another Anton collaboration, this one with Tess Parks. I've seen some killer live performances in my life, but I'll always regret not catching one of his concerts.
dickiedunnwrotethis
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Envy you so much. His last BJM concert ended in a fight, but I think your chances are good that he'll actually finish this one.And now I see Anton is playing in Atlanta in September. Birthday goals - have enough money to make ends meet and go to that.
The All Seeing Dolls album is beginning-to-end absolutely solid, but there's another track called "Time" that particularly stands out that you might want to give a listen to.
Thanks! I will queue it up in the car later!
Didn't know about the fight. I take it that's why he's just touring as himself and not with the band moniker?
Finances being what they are, I have had to cut way down on attending any shows, even "cheaper" venue. Before this, I was hitting up shows in Orlando, Jax, the St. Augustine Amphitheatre, and a few road trips up to Atlanta.
dickiedunnwrotethis
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Can't say for sure, but I'm guessing so. 30 years of Anton can't be the easiest gig around.
Now that I'm officially old I've pretty much retired from live performances. That, and like you, finances. At least you have some decent road trip options. Here in the armpit of the prairies we have...Edmonton. Imagine driving for 5 hours and as your reward you get Edmonton. Jesus wept. Anyway, here in the Armpit we didn't get too many interesting interesting big acts, but I think we got our fair share of indie bands that made dutiful stops at Amigos. I'll probably be dropping some videos from those bands just to give some Canadian flavor to the thread.
Well Florida is a pit of its own. A bunch of acts I would like to at least lament not being able to afford to see get no closer than about a thousand miles. Wardruna? The closest they played to me was ITHACA NY. Like, c'mon man. Give me something to pine for. 1400 miles??!?
I made a playlist for the younger spawn entitled "Canadian Citizenship Test" that is a bunch of Canadian stuff from the '90's. And it's about 80% Hip. Her mother's current husband -- I refuse to refer to this person as "step father" to my children, but I will refer to him as a f***ing thief and scumbag -- is Canadian and there may need to be some sort of immigration in the future.
dickiedunnwrotethis
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I'm guessing who lives in the more depressing place is probably a contest neither of us wins. Willing to call it a draw.
Kudos for your Canadian Citizenship Test project. After all the mixed tapes I've made I can't believe I never came up with that idea. And yeah, if you're drawing from the 90s it's going to be a steady diet of Hip. Besides them, it was slim pickings back then.
As for those who believe Canadians are mainly nice Hobbit folk largely devoid of scumbaggery, well, they obviously didn't go to my high school - or have had the pleasure of seeing some of the gems that walk into my store on a regular basis. Sorry to hear about your scumbag situation. That sucks.
Hip, the Lowest of the Low, 54 40, and Blue Rodeo are most of that. I think TPOH is in there too, but I would have to check.
It's okay though - I got rid of an emotionally and physically abusive POS who I don't have to try to make happy at the expensive my own health and mental well-being. That's his job now. Heh.
I do love that my younger spawn has asked for what amounts to mix tapes. I was also amused AF that she was enjoying the industrial stuff and comparing it to the '90's rock and metal stuff her friend group was once into. I think she caught some of my youthful music snobbery - looking for something other than what those other folks were trying to push on her. I'm amused. Also that her college friends have the "your dad is a music guy" conversation and she busts out some deep cuts.
dickiedunnwrotethis
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My eternal adoration of Margo Timmins is saddened by the absence The Cowboy Junkies. Odds, Treble Charger, Big Sugar and Sloan could be added, but really, their addition would mainly serve to hi-light the thinness of the crop.
I've seen the Junkies live and forgot to include them. Easily remedied.
Sort of tinkering with a '90's batch of just weirdness. Soul Coughing, Morphine, Morcheeba, Portishead, my eternal love for Massive Attack, Squirrel Nut Zippers... I might even dip into some of the swing revival stuff just because it was such a f***ed up decade musically.
Here you guys are talking about 90s Canadian music, and not once was Our Lady Peace dropped?!?!
dickiedunnwrotethis
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dickiedunnwrotethis
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You had significantly more diverse musical tastes than I did back then. Or now. Early 90's it was 4AD bands then moved on to a steady diet of Slowdive, Built to Spill, Spiritualized, Mazzy Star, Neutral Milk Hotel, My Bloody Valentine, and The Flaming Lips. Add in the Hip and a smattering of alt-country and ambient music and you'd pretty much have the backbone of all my mix tapes.I've seen the Junkies live and forgot to include them. Easily remedied.
Sort of tinkering with a '90's batch of just weirdness. Soul Coughing, Morphine, Morcheeba, Portishead, my eternal love for Massive Attack, Squirrel Nut Zippers... I might even dip into some of the swing revival stuff just because it was such a f***ed up decade musically.
Oh, I already built a shoegaze playlist for her and part of the impetus behind all of this was Slowdive's latest KEXP performance that she and I watched. I loved a bunch of 4AD stuff as well. Had fun with stuff on Nettwerk, Wax Trax, and some of Ninja Tune's stuff, Mo' Wax too. It was like certain smaller labels had a particular sound.
The goth playlist I made for her is capped at 100 songs, includes a bunch of Cocteau Twins and Dead Can Dance as well as Liz's vocals doing Tim Buckley's "Song of the Siren" from This Mortal Coil. Which also is one of those musical oddities since she then did the vocals and lyrics for Massive Attack's "Teardrop" which she wrote after hearing that Tim's son -- and her one-time boyfriend -- Jeff had drowned. And that her working on that song broke Massive Attack up in a way because one of the guys who had come up with much of it -- Vowles -- wanted Madonna to do the lyrics and got outvoted by Del Naja and Marshall.
Now for the actual TLDR part of the post..
Another 4AD inspired thing... absolutely adore Lisa Gerard's voice and someone pointed me toward a new band called Bel Canto (this is late '80's stuff). And I thought "hey, yeah, that fits in there, I like". So I figure, same sort of thing, I think I picked up White-Out Conditions out of a used bin when digging through the used stacks somewhere (may have been on Yonge St., may have been Queen West... might even have been the main Record Theatre in B'lo, I spent enough in all of those spots). They were on Nettwerk which IIRC was based out of Vancouver and that's why I was thinking I was in Toronto when I got it. Anyway, fast forward a few years and I'm kind of enjoying ambient as a relaxing background option and come across Biosphere, think again "hey, yeah, I like this" and sort of push that to the back of my mind. I'm getting married at the time, my second job to help pay for the wedding ironically was working part time at a record store, and my expendable income on music has dropped to nothing. Onward and upward, right? So still keeping an ear to certain things and in the early 2000's, come across Royksopp and think "hey, this is something I like and why does the woman singing on this song sound familiar and who is Anne Drecker anyway, she sounds familiar?".
What I didn't realize right away was of course that Anne was the singer from Bel Canto. AND that the guys in Royksopp had gotten musical tutelage from Geir Aule Jenssen, who records as Biosphere and had been one of the synth programmers on that first Bel Canto album but left the band to do his own thing. They're all from Tromso in Norway. So... very different styles, very different sounds but this weird, fun path and all coming from the same place. Anne worked with them because they all know one another.
I have a similar one with Peter Gabriel and Ane Brun and some of the folks she's worked with or in one case was replaced by as an opener for Pete's tour.
Or Karin Andersson of Knife and Fever Ray (and sometimes works with Royksopp and some of her stuff is co-written and produced by Trent Reznor).
I still think shoegaze got shit on by the music press in the same way that someone like Gary Numan did at the outset of his career - too much criticism and no appreciation of the absolute wall of sound being produced.
Anyway...
What I didn't realize right away was of course that Anne was the singer from Bel Canto. AND that the guys in Royksopp had gotten musical tutelage from Geir Aule Jenssen, who records as Biosphere and had been one of the synth programmers on that first Bel Canto album but left the band to do his own thing. They're all from Tromso in Norway. So... very different styles, very different sounds but this weird, fun path and all coming from the same place. Anne worked with them because they all know one another.
I have a similar one with Peter Gabriel and Ane Brun and some of the folks she's worked with or in one case was replaced by as an opener for Pete's tour.
Or Karin Andersson of Knife and Fever Ray (and sometimes works with Royksopp and some of her stuff is co-written and produced by Trent Reznor).
I still think shoegaze got shit on by the music press in the same way that someone like Gary Numan did at the outset of his career - too much criticism and no appreciation of the absolute wall of sound being produced.
Anyway...
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dickiedunnwrotethis
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dickiedunnwrotethis
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I need to re-listen to the new album from last week. I was distracted and didn't spend much time on it.
So this happened last night.
Virginia Tech finally got their wish; Metallica at Lane Stadium, and this was the last song.
My son and daughter in law had to skip it due to work....but I got goosebumps just watching the video.
(There's now a ton of videos out there...)
Virginia Tech finally got their wish; Metallica at Lane Stadium, and this was the last song.
My son and daughter in law had to skip it due to work....but I got goosebumps just watching the video.
(There's now a ton of videos out there...)
