The Renamed 'random thoughts about music' thread"?

Danzig w/ Shakira: Hips Don't Lie...

 

Like your post isn't?

 

Legion Of Rock Stars doing the Pure Pleasure version of "Mother".

 

National Recording Industry Adds Tunes - Variety
http://variety.com/2014/music/news/...by-isaac-hayes-everly-brothers-u2-1201151328/#

Complete list of the 2014 sections, in chronological order:
--“The Laughing Song” (single)— George Washington Johnson (c. 1896)
--“They Didn’t Believe Me”— Harry Macdonough and Alice Green (1915)
--“Brother, Can You Spare a Dime” (singles)— Bing Crosby; Rudy Vallee (both 1932)
--“Franz Boas and George Herzog Recordings of Kwakwaka’wakw Chief Dan Cranmer (1938)
--“Were You There” (single) — Roland Hayes (1940)
--“The Goldbergs”: Sammy Goes Into the Army (July 9, 1942)
--“Caldonia” (single) — Louis Jordan (1945)
--“Dust My Broom” (single) — Elmore James (1951)
--“A Night at Birdland” (Vols. 1 and 2) (albums) — Art Blakey (1954)
--“When I Stop Dreaming” (single) — The Louvin Brothers (1955)
--“Cathy’s Clown” (single) — The Everly Brothers (1960)
--“Texas Sharecropper and Songster” (album) — Mance Lipscomb (1960)
--“The First Family” (album) (1962)
--Lawrence Ritter’s Interviews with Baseball Pioneers of the Late 19th and Early 20th Century (1962-1966)
--Presidential Recordings of Lyndon B. Johnson (Nov. 22, 1963 – Jan. 10, 1969)
--“Carnegie Hall Concert with Buck Owens and His Buckaroos” (album) — Buck Owens and His Buckaroos (1966)
--“Fortunate Son” (single) — Creedence Clearwater Revival (1969)
--“Theme from ‘Shaft’” (album) — Isaac Hayes (1971)
--“Only Visiting This Planet” (album) — Larry Norman (1972)
--“Celia & Johnny” (album) — Celia Cruz and Johnny Pacheco (1974)
--“Copland Conducts Copland: Appalachian Spring” — Aaron Copland (1974)
--“Heart Like a Wheel” (album) — Linda Ronstadt (1974)
--“Sweeney Todd” (album) — Stephen Sondheim; Original Broadway Cast Recording (1979)
--“The Joshua Tree” (album) — U2 (1987)
--“Hallelujah” (single) — Jeff Buckley (1994)

 

Damn shame that the Chief didn't live long enough to work with a great producer like John Peel or Phil Spector: those guys would've really been able to capture the his sound. That M-F could rock!!

Okay, seriously: They had a few of these available on an exhibit at the Hall of Fame the first time I went a couple decades ago. They were terrific. Specs Torporcer was great: he was my hero because he's one of the few players ever to play while wearing glasses. Glad those interviews are going to be preserved (well, they were probably pretty safe in Cooperstown's archives).

Great, great album. And I say this not thinking too highly of "Christian" "Rock." This album is fantastic.

Edit: neither did Larry Norman: If his wiki page is to be believed, he said it usually meant "sloppy thinking, dishonest metaphors and bad poetry."

 

Songza.com

It's an app that I've been experimenting with on my phone the last week or so.
And, apparently, it's also a website -- that seems to work in exactly the same way, mobile or desktop.

I have no idea how a site like this can operate without commercials (maybe I'm in some commercial-free trial period ... who knows) -- but so far, so f/cking good.

Basically, a ton of curated playlists -- grouped and cross-referenced around 'mood,' 'activity,' 'genre' and 'decades'

Pyschobilly, 80s HardCore, Ambient Music for Reading, Elegant Orchestral Jazz, Dancehall...

This morning I stumbled across a list called something like "Girl, Hold My Earrings" -- which was nothing but super-hype, super-graphic, aggro female rappers. Nice.

The business model eludes me, but the tunes have been quality.

 

I found this not too long ago. I was alternating between "Classic Ambient," "psybient," and "electronic study: ambient" just this morning. Not my favorite music to listen to, but damn good for drowning out idiots in the immediate vicinity.

 

Album Covers meet their original locale via Google Maps.

 

The Johnny Cash Show (1969-1971) had some pretty interesting guests. Here are the favorites of someone named Johanna:

http://johannasvisions.com/11-favorite-performances-from-the-johnny-cash-show/

And a bonus: Andy Kaufman on Johnny Cash's 1979 Christmas special:

 

the guy was a total genius.

btw, Visions of Johanna is a Robert Zimmerman joint, if you had forgotten. maybe i'm just restating the obvious.

 

Norman Blake on mandolin, Vassar Clements on fiddle. Bass player looks like Fraser Shaw, but it don't seem likely it is...

 

These are simply lovely.

Bonus points for the choice of Cruyff's label.

 

They seem to have given some thought to the label on most of them: hence Franz Beckenbauer's debut...



And the swan song of Carlos Valderrama being on Columbia is a nice touch (though I can't find it), but this early influence on The Smiths no doubt is aptly released on Decca:

 

Copied from where I posted it in another thread.

So, I dunno if anyone here already saw this, but in mid-April the New York Times Magazine ran a fabulous cover story that was even more impressive when read online, as the online version is done as a full multimedia piece (text, with video interview clips and audio relevant to the neighboring text interspersed throughout). It's turned out to be one of the most-read articles ever on the NYT website, despite the fact that it's quite long. And it has captivated online and face-to-face discussion in circles where folks discuss seriously the history of blues and folk musics, as well as African-American and 20th Century American history. It's also provoked very active and intriguing discussions about the responsibilities of scholarly research and the nature of journalistic ethics (here's a sequence of brief pieces that frame the discussion -- [1], [2], [3], [4] -- and here's an example of discussion about these topics, which gets going after a little bit of gushing over the article itself -- [1])

I think it's one of the best things I've read in quite some time. The fact that it's about music I love helps a lot, but really it could be about the authors of any bits of culture from a time in which we recorded (in an official sense) little about the history of common people and basically nothing about the lives of blacks in America (except to the extent that they mattered to whites). Like I said, it's long, but it's well well worth your time.

 

9 years old. Just won some violin competition. Not only does the kid have chops he plays like he knows the Blues. You cant fake that with tiger parenting.

http://thestrad.com/video/samuel-tan-performs-kreisler-s-praeludium-and-allegro

 

Very well done.
"O" and "Y" are the only ones that weren't immediately apparent.



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