The Renamed 'random thoughts about music' thread"?

that is a crazy good album.

the "Sex Machine" jam is dope! talkin' outta school, but the cheeseman has done the nasty behind that groove back in the day...waaaaaay back.

i know... TMI

 

One of the best feelings in the world is when you have your music on shuffle and it goes to a track you haven't heard in a while.

It never gets old.

 

Or when a song shuffles up and you say "What the hell is this, I don't remember ever hearing it before? It's awesome!"

 

Weve seen young prodigy Rachael Flowers playing Hammond and gigging on lead guitar with Zappa Plays Zappa.
Now, she plays bass guitar as well.



Her first encounter with a Chapman Stick



A little Foreplay/Long Time. It was a request yelled out, not a piece she prepared. Shes much rougher on this than usual.



Oh, and a multi track solo cover of Uncle Johns Band.

"I recorded this just for fun about a year ago (mid 2014). That's me playing all the instruments and doing all the vocals. The nylon string guitar and jazz bass are recorded direct. Drums and percussion were played using the Garritan Jazz and Big Band library.

Bet you didn't know I was a DeadHead!"

https://soundcloud.com/rachelflowers-1/uncle-johns-band-grateful-dead-cover

 

I've been listening to this a lot lately. 25+ years of music and there's stuff from the weird to the I need to play this at parties.

http://solidsteel.net/

 

On Wednesday, the Library of Congress announced 25 new additions to the National Recording Registry, its collection of recorded music, documentaries and radio broadcasts that captures the cultural history of America, as well as technical advancements in audio recording.

National Recording Registry Recognizes Mack the Knife, Motown and Mahler - Library of Congress
https://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2016/16-056.html

(in chronological order)

1. "Let Me Call You Sweetheart"—Columbia Quartette (The Peerless Quartet) (1911)
2. "Wild Cat Blues"—Clarence Williams' Blue Five (1923)
3. "Statesboro Blues"—Blind Willie McTell (1928)
4. "Bonaparte's Retreat"—W.H. Stepp (1937)
5. "Vic and Sade"—Episode: "Decoration Day" (June 4, 1937)
6. Mahler Symphony No. 9—Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Bruno Walter (1938)
7. "Carousel of American Music"—George M. Cohan, Irving Berlin, Johnny Mercer, Arthur Freed, Shelton Brooks, Hoagy Carmichael, others (Sept. 24, 1940)
8. The "Marshall Plan" Speech—George C. Marshall (June 5, 1947)
9. "Destination Freedom"—Episodes "A Garage in Gainesville" and "Execution Awaited" (Sept. 25 and Oct. 2, 1949)
10. Original Soundtrack from "A Streetcar Named Desire"—Alex North, composer (1951)
11. "Cry Me A River" (single)—Julie London (1955)
12. "Mack the Knife" (singles)—Louis Armstrong (1956); Bobby Darin (1959)
13. Wilt Chamberlain's 100-Point Game, Fourth-Quarter Coverage (Philadelphia Warriors vs. New York Knicks)—Bill Campbell, announcer (March 2, 1962)
14. "A Love Supreme" (album)—John Coltrane (1964)
15. "It's My Way" (album)—Buffy Sainte-Marie (1964)
16. "Where Did Our Love Go" (single)—The Supremes (1964)
17. "People Get Ready" (single)—The Impressions (1965)
18. "Mama Tried" (single)—Merle Haggard (1968)
19. "Abraxas" (album)—Santana (1970)
20. "Class Clown"—George Carlin (1972)
21. "Robert and Clara Schumann Complete Piano Trios"—The Beaux Arts Trio (1972)
22. "Piano Man" (single)—Billy Joel (1973)
23. "Bogalusa Boogie"—Clifton Chenier (1976)
24. "I Will Survive" (single)—Gloria Gaynor (1978)
25. "Master of Puppets" (album)—Metallica (1986)

 

Now that is one diverse list....

 

The Grim Reaper is not messing around this year.

 

Watching the George Harrison tribute show today while working on somebody's taxes, and it occurred to me-- probably should have before now-- while listening to Norah Jones' cover of "Something" that one byproduct of all the social evolution of the last decade or less is that people won't feel so obligated to gender adjust songs they are covering.

I have no idea which side Norah bats from, and I really don't care-- but her singing "Something in the way she moves" sounded as natural as anything else...

The world may actually come to be mostly the one I want to live in while I'm still living in it.

 

And interestingly enough, the Beatles did that way back when they covered the Shirelles' "Boys". Saw a quote from John where he said they talked about changing the gender for that song and were like "******** it" so Ringo just sang it as is.

 

Back in 1992, the Lemonheads did a cover of "Frank Mills" from Hair.



Oddly enough, you may remember that, "he resembles George Harrison of The Beatles..."

 

Oh there are counterexamples a-plenty. But it still feels to me like something has changed in the way people will react...

 

That's definitely true, it's not as much of a "thing" in the same way anymore.

 

"Gosh Darn! Well I declare!" ????

 

You ain't kidding.

 

Just in case you were wondering.

 

don't be alarmed, now

 

Turkish parliament or Minor Threat mosh pit. You decide.

 

An entertaining oral history on the genesis of the worst pop song of all time...

http://www.gq.com/story/oral-history-we-built-this-city-worst-song-of-all-time

It has been playing, ceaselessly, for three decades now, and it will stay lodged in your brain, like a barnacle made of synthesizers and cocaine, for hours after you read this article. (Don’t blame us—blame Starship.) This is the true story of how “We Built This City”—the most detested song in human history—got built.

Thirty years ago, radio stations and MTV put an insidiously catchy song called “We Built This City” into heavy rotation and kept it there. The hit single gave the members of the band Starship—which emerged from the ashes of Jefferson Starship, successor to Jefferson Airplane, the essential 1960s psychedelic band—unlikely second careers as pop stars. At the time, Starship's most famous member, singer Grace Slick, was 46.

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The ear-worm has already taken hold. You might as well read the rest of it.

 

Surprised at how little activity this thread gets.

For those of you that ever have thought about such things: what's the difference between a CD single and an EP? When does a single become an EP? How many tracks? I realize that this may seem like a dated question given that most people are moving or have moved away from physical media; but this morning I was shelving a CD with four tracks on it that I received recently -- one of which being the title of the release -- and realized I didn't know how to refer to it. Does the fact that there *is* a title track make it a single? Albums sometimes have title tracks.

 

When I was in radio anything with one or two tracks from an album was a cd single, because 45s had two. Anything with 3 or 4 was a cd3 or a cd4. Anything with more was an ep.

I gather this caused some confusion when those mini cds were popular, because they were 3" and people called them cd3's as well...