Definitely no justification for toe curling, @stevedore ! Jens Lenkman a bit too Morrisey for my taste. Enjoyed You Are the Light (and the video) but the winner is…….
Stumbled across what I think must have been one of a series of international musical collaborations during the covid pandemic. A joyous, optimistic sound.
Great title. Up there with 'See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang Yeah, City All Over! Go Ape Crazy!', 'My People Were Fair and Had Sky in Their Hair… but Now They’re Content to Wear Stars on Their Brows’ and, absolute winners in the ridiculously long album title stakes: 'The Boy Bands Have Won, and All the Copyists and the Tribute Bands and the TV Talent Show Producers Have Won, If We Allow Our Culture to Be Shaped by Mimicry, Whether from Lack of Ideas or from Exaggerated Respect. You Should Never Try to Freeze Culture. What You Can Do Is Recycle That Culture. Take Your Older Brother's Hand-Me-Down Jacket and Re-Style It, Re-Fashion It to the Point Where It Becomes Your Own. But Don't Just Regurgitate Creative History, or Hold Art and Music and Literature as Fixed, Untouchable and Kept Under Glass. The People Who Try to 'Guard' Any Particular Form of Music Are, Like the Copyists and Manufactured Bands, Doing It the Worst Disservice, Because the Only Thing That You Can Do to Music That Will Damage It Is Not Change It, Not Make It Your Own. Because Then It Dies, Then It's Over, Then It's Done, and the Boy Bands Have Won' (and yes, I did copy and paste that last one - by Chumbawamba if you're not familiar).
King Gizzard are a phenomenal live band btw, giving that one a spin now.
I was really into them around the time of Nonagon Infinity, then I thought they got a bit gimmicky with 10 albums in a year or whatever it was - but this one has pulled me back in!
I was due to see King Gizzard in Vienna last summer, but sadly the gig was cancelled the night before and I couldn't make the rescheduled date. Everyone I know who's seen them absolutely raves about them though.
On a similar vein, I'm off to see Frankie and the Witch Fingers next week. Another band that have a formidable live reputation!
Here's a new question if anyone wants to take it on: does anyone have a song that they don't necessarily rate, but has special meaning for them because of something in their life when it was playing?
Here’s a song which I rate stratospherically but only came across within the last decade or so. It reflects so accurately a situation I was in as a very young man (or at least the emotions I experienced) that it takes me back in time totally.
Maybe once @Shev has finished with the badges contest, he could do a similar "one song nominated by each" knock out contest for favourite gasroom song?
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On - simply the greatest album ever recorded.
L.A.M.F. - The Heartbreakers - This is, in my opinion, the greatest American punk album ever (with love and apologies to Ramones) - punk as performed by virtuosos. In my teens I wore out a cassette copy of the original Track Records vinyl, terrible muddy mixing and all. There's since been several attempts to remaster it, I love all of them but "The lost '77 mixes" is my go-to.
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - I was going to go with Joy Division's Closer but @ReturnToSenda already took it. This though has four of the best songs he ever recorded.
Loved it, can't take them too seriously and they could have gone a bit more route one with greatest hits, but it was great.
Because of their lifestyle and generally haggered style and music type they maybe don't get the credit for surviving that an old soul singer might, most of their greatest hits are 35+ years old now. People could easily have gone and waited 45 minutes for Lana Del Ray to turn up late if they prefer something a bit more miserable.
Not a classic set of headliners maybe but good range of smaller acts, might have to go one year, thought Arctic Monkeys were trying at being too cool for anyone to actually enjoy it. Lizzo probably should have been given one of the closing gigs.
I’ve seen Guns n Roses live three times. I’ve never been blown away by them although a gig in Dodger Stadium was memorable due to me having terrible food poisoning and missing four tracks whilst I vomited and well, you know, into a vile toilet. It also rather soured me on LA as a whole.
So I didn’t bother to watch last night
That said Appetite for Destruction was a game changer when it came out and I loved it to little buttons. A band who looked like a hair metal band produced a subversive and nasty album that reminded us that the rock n roll lifestyle came with a price and that glam/hair metal was a horrible insipid thing that needed to die. And GnR killed it across two sides of vinyl. It’s no wonder everything they did together since seemed kind of lost.
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Definitely no justification for toe curling, @stevedore ! Jens Lenkman a bit too Morrisey for my taste. Enjoyed You Are the Light (and the video) but the winner is…….
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=7g9OjAR4L7s&feature=share
That is excellent.
Stumbled across what I think must have been one of a series of international musical collaborations during the covid pandemic. A joyous, optimistic sound.
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=lQK5RKqXIYY&feature=share
I assume the Sparts amongst us will have already seen this but I thought it might amuse some of our 1970s stalwarts
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jun/09/anarchy-in-high-wycombe-the-real-story-of-the-sex-pistols-earliest-gigs
Any King Gizzard fans here? They've just dropped possibly their most pretentiously titled album yet https://open.spotify.com/album/53X6xpjjMDMfZ5IWMyonvC?si=4hPGavhTTOaHvG2Ium_VKA&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A53X6xpjjMDMfZ5IWMyonvC
Nice one Wends
Great title. Up there with 'See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang Yeah, City All Over! Go Ape Crazy!', 'My People Were Fair and Had Sky in Their Hair… but Now They’re Content to Wear Stars on Their Brows’ and, absolute winners in the ridiculously long album title stakes: 'The Boy Bands Have Won, and All the Copyists and the Tribute Bands and the TV Talent Show Producers Have Won, If We Allow Our Culture to Be Shaped by Mimicry, Whether from Lack of Ideas or from Exaggerated Respect. You Should Never Try to Freeze Culture. What You Can Do Is Recycle That Culture. Take Your Older Brother's Hand-Me-Down Jacket and Re-Style It, Re-Fashion It to the Point Where It Becomes Your Own. But Don't Just Regurgitate Creative History, or Hold Art and Music and Literature as Fixed, Untouchable and Kept Under Glass. The People Who Try to 'Guard' Any Particular Form of Music Are, Like the Copyists and Manufactured Bands, Doing It the Worst Disservice, Because the Only Thing That You Can Do to Music That Will Damage It Is Not Change It, Not Make It Your Own. Because Then It Dies, Then It's Over, Then It's Done, and the Boy Bands Have Won' (and yes, I did copy and paste that last one - by Chumbawamba if you're not familiar).
King Gizzard are a phenomenal live band btw, giving that one a spin now.
I was really into them around the time of Nonagon Infinity, then I thought they got a bit gimmicky with 10 albums in a year or whatever it was - but this one has pulled me back in!
As for that last album, I'd love to see an LP - did they just use the first letter of each word on the spine or...?
I was due to see King Gizzard in Vienna last summer, but sadly the gig was cancelled the night before and I couldn't make the rescheduled date. Everyone I know who's seen them absolutely raves about them though.
On a similar vein, I'm off to see Frankie and the Witch Fingers next week. Another band that have a formidable live reputation!
Here's a new question if anyone wants to take it on: does anyone have a song that they don't necessarily rate, but has special meaning for them because of something in their life when it was playing?
I did enjoy that when Rotton did his sneering mick taking of the audience in Wycombe someone lamped him.
Here’s a song which I rate stratospherically but only came across within the last decade or so. It reflects so accurately a situation I was in as a very young man (or at least the emotions I experienced) that it takes me back in time totally.
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=YsKEMZW8VmE&feature=share
Anyone up for reviving this but 3 albums instead of 3 tracks?
I'll bite...
In no order of preference todays 3 albums are:
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqjzXPv4-z8)
Alabama 3 - Exile on Coldharbour Lane (full album not on youtube but here is the wiki link for the album - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exile_on_Coldharbour_Lane)
Boulevard des Airs - Bruxelles (again no full album on youtube but here is the wiki link for the band - https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulevard_des_Airs)
I suspect tomorrow it will be 3 completely different albums, but these 3 grabbed me today
I’ll happily bite too…
Occasionally the odd album comes along which will temporarily displace one of these three, but for 40 plus years these have been there or there about.
Apologies for the narrow selection - I’ll blame it on it being when I had the time to listen properly.
No idea if the albums are on YouTube, but I’ll follow @Erroll_Sims lead and link to wiki.
Patti Smith, Horses (1975)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horses_(album)
The Residents, Not Available (1978)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_Available
This Heat, This Heat (1979)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Heat_(album)
Mine is constantly changing too, but today I'll go...
Pink Moon - Nick Drake
Closer - Joy Division
Here and Nowhere Else - Cloud Nothings
Of course an impossible task but here are three albums I’ve certainly listed to a lot and led me in new directions.
Hejira - Joni Mitchell
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hejira_(album)
Mirror Reaper - Bell Witch
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_Reaper
Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc. -
Dwight Yoakam
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitars,_Cadillacs,_Etc.,_Etc.
Currently working to the soundtrack of Barry White - who I don't think has got a mention in this thread yet. Shocking!
Hard Day's Night
All Mod Cons
Tonic for the Troops.
Played all three on the Sony Music Centre to.my patents consternation and until they were scratched to hell.
As others have said it might change tomorrow.
Two fantastic choices and one I’m entirely unfamiliar with, so I’ll be checking out The Heat today.
Maybe once @Shev has finished with the badges contest, he could do a similar "one song nominated by each" knock out contest for favourite gasroom song?
My albums:
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On - simply the greatest album ever recorded.
L.A.M.F. - The Heartbreakers - This is, in my opinion, the greatest American punk album ever (with love and apologies to Ramones) - punk as performed by virtuosos. In my teens I wore out a cassette copy of the original Track Records vinyl, terrible muddy mixing and all. There's since been several attempts to remaster it, I love all of them but "The lost '77 mixes" is my go-to.
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - I was going to go with Joy Division's Closer but @ReturnToSenda already took it. This though has four of the best songs he ever recorded.
Cheeky 4th bonus album:
Scott Walker - Scott 4 - Just magnificent.
Enjoying listening to Rick Astley and Blossoms cover the Smiths for a whole set at Glastonbury. On iplayer if anyone is interested.
I caught the opening 10 minutes of Guns N' Roses and goodness me, they are bad.
AXL Rose now looks like Diddy David Hamilton. And Prick Astley covering the Smith's is a crime against music.
Thank God Mick Lynch declined the opportunity to appear at this middle class monstrosity.
At this point I’d much rather watch Rick Astley doing the Smiths songs than Morrissey.
Spent an hour or so mesmerised by Slash.
What a brilliant lead guitar. Quite a chequered life and career, it seems
Not taken much notice of Guns ‘n Roses before but thought that was brilliant last night. Had plenty of volume through the floor standers.
My LX account @Malone !
Loved it, can't take them too seriously and they could have gone a bit more route one with greatest hits, but it was great.
Because of their lifestyle and generally haggered style and music type they maybe don't get the credit for surviving that an old soul singer might, most of their greatest hits are 35+ years old now. People could easily have gone and waited 45 minutes for Lana Del Ray to turn up late if they prefer something a bit more miserable.
Not a classic set of headliners maybe but good range of smaller acts, might have to go one year, thought Arctic Monkeys were trying at being too cool for anyone to actually enjoy it. Lizzo probably should have been given one of the closing gigs.
Astley and friends doing Smith's isn't great but the best bit is knowing Morrissey hates it.
I’ve seen Guns n Roses live three times. I’ve never been blown away by them although a gig in Dodger Stadium was memorable due to me having terrible food poisoning and missing four tracks whilst I vomited and well, you know, into a vile toilet. It also rather soured me on LA as a whole.
So I didn’t bother to watch last night
That said Appetite for Destruction was a game changer when it came out and I loved it to little buttons. A band who looked like a hair metal band produced a subversive and nasty album that reminded us that the rock n roll lifestyle came with a price and that glam/hair metal was a horrible insipid thing that needed to die. And GnR killed it across two sides of vinyl. It’s no wonder everything they did together since seemed kind of lost.