NTS Radio and BBC Radio 6 is how I get new music. NTS might be your best bet as they play classics but also a bunch of stuff. Want a show on British folk songs from the 1940s? They’ve got it. Want a show that plays techno? They have it. Want to hear an episode dedicated to Sade? They have it. They actually did an episode on a Cambodian singer who was likely murdered during the Khmer Rouge’s reign. They used to have a series called Bumpin on Sunset that I used to play whenever I helped my mom cook dinner. It was also how I learned Captain and Tennille’s Muskrat Love was a cover.
This won't help with interruptions, but when you go to youtube and you get an ad, if you click the "back" arrow, wait a second, and then click the "forward" arrow to return to the video, the video will start without the add. It works for me, and I'm in a swing state doing everything I can to avoid Trump ads.
Arthur Brooks over at The Atlantic has been doing a series for the past couple of years on happiness. Be it happiness as you age or happiness depending on your relationship status, whatever. Today he turns his focus to how your music can make you happier. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/a...opy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share (The link is a free share.) Indeed, our brains are built to enjoy music, as scientists showed in a 2018 study conducted through the Berklee Music and Health Institute (part of the Berklee College of Music in Boston). We’re even hardwired to use music to help us heal. For example, when the brains of patients with Parkinson’s disease are stimulated by hearing a rhythmic piece such as a march, their symptoms may diminish and they are able to walk more naturally. Alzheimer’s patients who can’t remember family members typically are nonetheless able to recognize familiar songs. And people suffering from epilepsy can experience a dramatic decrease in seizures when listening to certain kinds of classical music—the so-called Mozart effect. In general, music amplifies positive and negative emotions most under two circumstances. First, when it’s performed live. British researchers asked participants to listen to classical music in three ways: live, prerecorded, and in an MTV-style video. Using sensors attached to the subjects’ scalps, the scholars detected significantly more brain activity for the in-person performance, indicating that this elicited the most engagement and focus in the listeners. Second, when one listens by oneself. In a 2018 experiment, researchers showed that happy music seems happier and sad music seems sadder when you listen to it alone, as opposed to listening with others. You might ask why someone would want to listen to miserable music, but obviously we do. You have very likely listened to sad songs after a bad breakup at some point. The function of sad music is not only to soothe you. Scholars also find that when people suffering from negative emotions consume disconsolate music, it helps them understand their feelings and find meaning in them. A sad song can help you feel less alone in your sadness and make sense of it. This last point is especially true for me. When I broke up with my first girlfriend, it took me over a year to get over it. (I am such a wuss.) It wasn't until leaving college -- an Alarm concert on the last night of classes, beach week, getting commissioned and then walking the Lawn for graduation -- that I finally got over Lisa. My second girlfriend? It was a week. I must have played Depeche Mode's But Not Tonight 200+ times that week. And yes, it was a record player, so I had to lift the tone arm and set it down again for me to hear the song again. Lisa could have been the one. The other? Meh. But nevertheless, the song set the stage for my recovery. Of course on this last point, Rob's opening monologue in High Fidelity may have said it more succinctly.
Kind of begs the question, if Lisa could’ve been the one, why’d you break up with her? I'll accept “none of your business.”
I've used music to pump me up for various things, and many, many times to contemplate and brood over things. I've mentioned here before that I listened to Biko and Living For The City before I coached against a private school or one in a wealthy zone. LFTC before All-State auditions in HS, where Miz Blessed's less talented but better-connected kids tried but failed to be any competition for me (I was reared to expect to be twice as good to get half the credit), before the ACT and SAT, I think the saddest tune I ever heard was a Bambi Lee Savage tune called Darlin'. It's in the soundtrack of a film called Slingblade, which made it to my TV but I didn't finish watching because the tune was so compelling that I decided to end the TV day on it. I haven't Youtubed it since. EDIT: her site calls it "Humor-infused". I didn't get that from it at all.
Just saw a meme on FB selling a guitar player costume made to look like Stephen Bishop in Animal House. Occurred to me that I'd much rather hear Bishop than watch Belushi. Came here to point out that John Belushi is STILL dead, and his crass, infantile brand of humor needs to die with him. I generally FF thru his scenes regardless of the show, except Samurai _____________ on SNL.
Good for these metalheads Several metal rock bands dropped out of a Florida music festival after it was announced that Kyle Rittenhouse would be a special guest. Shell Shock II is a charity event that claims it raises money and brings awareness to first responders and veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder. The festival in Orlando is supposed to start in a little over a month, with Evergreen Terrace headlining. Evergreen Terrace was the popular attraction until they pulled out of festival, writing "we will not align with an event promoting a perceived murderer such as Kyle Rittenhouse" in Facebook post. https://www.google.com/amp/s/abc334...merican-hollow-veterans-slipknot-tyler-hoover
Shocked that they care enough to do this, but pleased. I can just about promise you that Hetfield would have gone ahead with the show, and the rest of the genre might have followed his lead. I don't know what his politics are, but something about him makes me think he's really insecure and enjoys acting rough around the edges. Interesting that someone saw fit to tie murderous conservatives in with vets/first responders. I can't say enough that a draft would be one of the best things to help prevent abuse of soldiers by deploying them hither and yon. In addition to this, it might help prevent the military from leaning so far to the right and stop cons from weaponizing them.
Reminds me of the quote I heard somewhere, that hippies are mean people cosplaying as nice people, and metalheads are nice people cosplaying as mean people.
Saw that. he's also got a podcast. Thought he could mix some good old-fashioned conservatism in with the music. I looked at the list of bands. I don't claim to know metal, but I know none of these are on that Metallica Motorhead Priest Maiden level. Had a political convo with a few that went badly. With one White in particular, I was surprised to see the level of self-assuredness with which he spoke to me about racism. I was dismayed, wanted to say, "No, you unjustifiably arrogant unmelanated son of a bitch, this is my class and I wrote the textbook. I will tell you. Or we will have nothing to discuss. Do NOT try to rise above your permanent student status on the topic", but I just walked off. Probably a bunch of libertarians anyway. I never saw the mean side. Metal just comes off as unnecessarily aggro/compensating.
The metal shows are a way to constructively release pent up feelings. It isn’t much different than people going to Taylor Swift sing alongs about break ups.
Gee, I wish the stuff I get pent up about could be swept away with some shouting and volume... I can't even imagine doing the latter. I'm glad she's on our side, and I certainly wish her well, but she seems to appeal to a demo I'm not part of...
Bummer, because the visual of you at a Taylor Swift concert singing along to breakup songs with a bunch of young women is bringing me great joy.
Rumor is that Travis Kelce has a breakup agreement with TS wherein they leave each other amicably to limit his amount of online vitriol & death threats. Not sure how many breakup songs he's agreed to. Lawyers hammering out the details.
Here’s something very cool, last night Jack White played a show at a small club in my town of Petaluma, as part of a tour he’s doing at very small venues. Tickets sold out almost immediately, except that he made them reserve a number of tickets for kids that could only be purchased with a student ID, and those were priced at $25 rather than the normal $125. And this made sense because the Phoenix Theater where he played is basically a teen punk club that features primarily small independent bands, with the occasional odd event like independent pro wrestling. Anyway the few people we’ve heard from who were able to go said it was an incredible show. Here’s an article about it that came out beforehand. https://www.petaluma360.com/article...te-petaluma-phoenix-theater-tickets-sold-out/