Late Night Post Roto-Tiling Blogging
Fuckers. They won't let me embed. Oh well, it's not about the video. Portishead. Only the Blood can appreciate their depths. No, I'm not a "Twilight" fan. Heh.
Corrente Commenter Cattle Call: Midyear Music Revue!
Last December I cross-posted my Best Music of 2008 piece over here and got some great tips from some of the regulars. Obviously they were too late to include in the list so this year I decided to do a midyear call for favorites as well. Great tips may end up on this December's list. Drop suggestions in the comments, and if possible include an active link to a free mp3 so we can try before we buy. Here's what I'm digging so far in 2009:
Friday Nite Sister Blogging
You know how a song just sticks in your head for no reason, even if you haven't actually heard it in a long time? "Pure and simple happiness" is the line I like best from this tune. Thank you, Hegel, for giving me this CD all those years ago. I love you like the breath of life itself, and always will. Gosh I miss London.
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Best Music of 2008 - Corrente Commenter Follow-up
A couple of weeks ago I cross-posted my favorite music list here and got some great tips in the comments. I tracked down a few of the recommended artists and have since given them a good listen. Here are my quick takes. (I'm posting this partly to let the commenters know I took their recommendations to heart and wasn't just blowing smoke when I said I'd listen to them.)
VITALLY IMPORTANT NOTE: The first rule of evaluating music is, it either does it for you or it doesn't. If I don't like something you do, it's not a judgment on your musical taste. It just didn't do it for me.
Artist - song (commenter)
Darker My Love - Two Ways Out (herb the verb)
Good tune. Liked it.
"the separation of church and song" and/or unintended consequences?
The inescapable and ubiquitous Christmas songs, specials, etc -- and how us Jews helped create and embed them, have fought against them, and how some deal with it now -- fa-who dor-ay, fa-who dor-ay, ...
The white Christmases that Irving Berlin dreamed of weren't the earliest ones he used to know. ... watching his neighbors burn his family's house to the ground in a good old-fashioned, Jew-hating pogrom.
So it's no surprise that when Berlin got around to writing his great Christmas song in 1941, nearly half a century after his family had fled the shtetl of Mohilev for New York's Lower East Side, it was flatly devoid of Christian imagery. It is, for all that, a religious song. ...
Heavy Metal In Baghdad
Odd, weird, kewl, something else? I guess I don't know.
This is one of those 'posted without comment' thingees, but I think I'll add it to m y Netflix list, just for fun.
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Number One Song on The Day You Were Born
So long, Jerry, and thanks for all the music
Genius comes in many guises; Jerry danced like a white man, like a marionette with a broomstick up his ass, but he had a sense of rhythm and an ear for the poetry behind the pain of roots music, blues and jazz and soul, that reached beyond race and gender and age into the center of all that is human.
There is a lot of talk these days, about post-this and post-that. Jerry Wexler was post-everything petty and mean and low; he was crazy and wild and had no regard for limits and never backed down from a fist fight, but first and foremost he was a decent human being who saw all others as human too, no more and no less. Read more…
Yes We CAN CAN: Boomer Feminist Edition
That WAS your brain after the MoveOn brainwash video.
THIS is your brain on the Pointer Sisters.
Aaahhhhh, MUCH better... jump up and groove with us now... let go of all that embarrassment for MoveOn and its cute baby chick... that's it... just let the funk flow in... that's right... tell it, sisters...
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Dedicated to BDBlue... Let's Chill Sister!
It's Friday night, let's chill with some French music!
People Who Should Be More Famous Than They Are
The country music thread last night got me thinking about the musical acts that I enjoy, but who never really seem to break out even as lesser talents become big stars (at least for a day or two). In the hopes of starting a discussion and possibly finding out about musicians and other artists I don't currently know about, I thought I'd do a post every once in awhile about someone whose work I enjoy but who doesn't get much public recognition. I could also do a series on people more famous than they ought to be, but that would be too depressing. Read more…
Music for the Ages
SP is doing his best to sound like a cranky 30something bitching about how much Kidz today suck. But this struck me:
I was scrolling around iTunes today just listening to some of the new 'alternative' (never mind the irony that they are all mainstream) artists and it occurred to me that there is very, very little original music therein. Most of it is either a cross of Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Green Day and Sarah MacLachlan. I guess when there are but a few companies that dominate the mainstream music publishing business pathbreakers and innovators aren't marketable. In the past there seemed to be, at least once every decade, a breakthrough band--or town--that changed the calculus. But music today and for the last several years has remained very stale.
I was in the car the other day on a long drive with no CDs, and I wasn't in the mood for Newz. Skipping around metro area stations (I was near the airport) I was sort of shocked by how much the stations I knew sounded, well, exactly the same as they did over 10 years ago, when I last lived in the area. Not just alike, but really, the same. It was sort of creepy.
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19 Again, or "Iraq is like 'Nam on Meth"
On a thread at our Grey Lord's Estate, one commenter reminded me of one of my favorite antiwar songs. It's been a long time, Tralfaz. Thanks.
Now Leave Me Be
Saw a very sad woman, she wasn't able to talk
She used to be a runner, but these days she can't walk
When they knocked on her door, she just shut her eyes
Don't tell her any secrets, she won't tell you any lies
They told me that old man Burks passed away a week ago
Been sick and crazy ever since he left the road
His momma had told him that god was hanging high
Too much light comes through the clouds and through the shimmering skies
(chorus)
Said the preacher:
Everyone, disperse this day
Everyone, everybody
I haven't any answers
Now leave me be
We can sing our pretty songs
And nod our heads
When we die we say goodbye
Now leave me be
None of this was meant to last
Now leave me be
Music for Our Times
There is so much talent in the blogosphere. The artist speaks about his work: Read more…
Arresting DJs: The FBI's #1 Priority
Here's the 'news' report. Barf. Of course, "no drugs or weapons were found," but one never can tell with those people. I mean, look at them! They've got baseball caps on, and they're not sitting on their heads properly. Honey, hide the pearls. As the TechDirt folks point out:
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RIAA Terrorism
The RIAA is at it once again. What can I say without sounding, well . . . paranoid. I’ll just say it this way – if we say nothing, do nothing, we deserve the country we inherit. Fair use. Fair use. Fair use. The internet is a public resource and monopoly through criminalization in the name of privatization for domination is an abomination (I AM Somebody).
Omens
This will make sense to about two of my readers.
So every morning I turn on my browser, ITunes, and my calendar program, first thing. Some mornings, I set the ITunes to random; I've got about four thousand songs. The first song that came up today: 'Men in Black vs. Sandstorm.' It's the cheesiest dance tune ever, but as far as omens go, meaningful. Let's hope if they do rig things today, the voting crowd will be as fired up as this song used to make the klub kidz back in the Day.
The Death of QWERTY - Protein coding and interface
A shift in perception – a shift in interface. Finally, scientist are learning that large, complex data structures (DNA, computer data) are best perceived by their patterns. We have better evolved systems of pattern recognition than our eyes and the linear processing associated with syllogistic reasoning. Soon the autistics will be doing our data processing,hooked up directly to supercomputers like Blue Brain. Its all in the interface. Scientist are using music to code for proteins.
You can get it wrong and still you think that it's alright.
Oh for the love of all that rocks! Powertool Scott Johnson has a sensitive side, where he enjoys pop/rock by a liberal:
It was of course the team of John Lennon and Paul McCartney -- as singers, songwriters, and instinctive harmonists -- that was the organic entity that made the Beatles. We celebrate Paul McCartney's birthday; today he turns 64. It is a birthday that resonates with his own work, though somewhat ironically. All of 16 at the time he wrote "When I'm 64," McCartney envisioned himself asking his prospective wife: "Will you still need me, will you still feed me when I'm 64?" The woman who seems to have been the love of his life herself died eight years ago at age 56, long before McCartney's sixty-fourth birthday.
I can't turn you loose, If I do I'm gonna lose my life
While researching for a blog post I was going to write, I came across this:
Curtis Salgado, the singer and bluesman who was the visual inspiration for John Belushi's Blues Brothers act, has liver cancer and has suspended concerts.
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