I did the same with Nick Cave. Some guys just give me the creepy ick -- Morrisey, Robert Smith, JJ Cale, Delbert McClinton, Nick Cave-- for no easily detectable reason. They just make me feel as though someone is squirting runny mayo in my ear...
Yeah, I enjoy Nick Cave's writing far more than I like his music. The thing with his music is that when he was young, it was all about aural dissonance and making the listener uncomfortable. After the horrific tragedies in his personal life, he began to lean more into empathy, into curiosity, and into the craft of songwriting.
That's Billy Corgan for me, at least when he's singing. I've watched segments of his podcast and some other stuff, and I like him when he's not singing. I even appreciate what he does musically...I just can't listen to him. The ubiquity of it during my high school years surely made it worse.
I draw the line at Dave Matthews though. The contrived and forced vocal affectations are insufferable. And dudes who are into it are almost all date rapey.
Can't stand him and have always felt that way. I don't like most jam bands either. And I've born the brunt on these boards before in saying "Yeah, Steely Dan? I don't get the appeal."
I guess I should check that out. To me, Pumpkins’ albums typically had 2-3 great songs and the rest boring filler at best, crap at worst. I could make a tremendous Greatest Hits record for them though.
I do like me some Steely Dan songs. Very well-crafted. They're another band that falls in with the vast majority that have like 5-10 good tunes, I don't mind hearing them on the radio but overall I don't go bananas over. Boston, BTO, The Cars, Deep Purple, Frampton Comes Alive, etc. Groups like that.
So I caught Modern English, Soft Cell and Simple Minds last week. Have you ever had a song that you truly, madly, deeply loved, and then completely forgot about? Like for a couple decades? That happened to me. I love Soft Cell, have their first two albums and two early new wavish compilation albums that have early pre-Tainted Love contributions. I love Tainted Love and Sex Dwarf and Torch and Bedsitter, but my favorite of all was (is) Say Hello, Wave Goodbye. It's new wave, and it's a ballad, and there ain't many of those. It was not a top 20, pantheon song for me, but it would have been in the next 20 songs. For 20 years. And then, inexplicably, I forgot all about it. It was the strangest sensation when Marc Almond started singing it. How do you "discover" something you already love? But that's what I did. It was deja vu writ large. On an added note, Simple Minds are really loud. Really loud. I'd seen them before. Don't know why it surprises me, but it does.
I loved this movie when it first came out, a Rock Opera featuring all Beatles songs. The beginning shots of the Liverpool dock our hero works is next dock over from where I worked. Then the timeline in the US is almost the same as mine, his is San Francisco while mine was ‘the next City’ or the LA Beach cities. It’s been over 10 years since I watched it and i plan on doing it again perhaps tonight. First half is very good. Viet Nam era. But the second half falters but the music is still a big part. Its worth a watch. Really good cast. It’s on Pluto Tv for Free. Other stations if you’re subscribed.
It’s a good flick. My wife didn’t grow up with much Beatles, and I had a hard time getting her into them at all until we saw this.
Nick Cave has one good song and he didn't even write it, it's Stagger Lee. Not a fan of his. I think he tries too hard. And he cheated on PJ Harvey, the cad. Yeah, can't stand the guy.
Dave Matthews remains one of my least favorite concerts (Most likely number one) that I ever worked and that was 20 years ago. Him and the country shows were never fun.
"Now that my friend, is a hit." Said by one Hesh to a Christopher Moltisanti in the Sopranos episode, A Hit is a Hit. Hesh, for those that haven't seen the Sopranos, is a Jewish loan shark who also owned a record company in the 60s. One episode deals with some of his artists descendants suing him for royalties. The episode also portrays one character, Christopher who wants to help his girlfriend push a band to success but the band isn't great. Hesh says it, with the line, "a hit is a hit." Later on, Hesh walks in on Christopher listening to this song, Hesh mentions how great it is. Hence my first line. And quite frankly, it's a great song in a soundtrack deep with great songs. Funny enough, this song is hard to find as it is. Apple Music doesn't have it. Nor does Spotify. Amazon just links me to a CD. So here we are. As much as people complain that the internet has become worst, I still think despite all that, it has its strong suits. This is one of those strong suits. Anyway, Dori Hartley had involvement in Rocky Horror as the Frank-n-Furter impersonator for the crowd, wrote songs for Tears for Fears, Goo Goo Dolls, and Santana. Not a bad career honestly.
Rediscovering artists: Siouxsie and the Banshees. I had the CD for this album around 2004, 2005 I think. When listening to it earlier, I made the conclusion to pick this up on vinyl when I shop for records. My dad was a big fan of the 80s alternative sound so his taste influenced me a little bit. But then there are times where I might be a little too left field for him or my mother, who had some serious connections to the music scene in Detroit prior to when I was born. I think Siouxsie and the Banshees might be one instance for both. The difference between me and them is I can play music, so I hear things that they won't pick up. The guitar and bass in this song for instance, caught my attention when I first heard it.
I look for ballad type songs for when I’m playing with our jam group. So i took a look/listen to ‘Say Hello Wave Goodbye’ I lasted about 3 lines of him “singing through his nose” words or language I couldn’t understand. And I even cover a couple of Green Day ballads. Guess thats what makes the world go around.
Saw something where Christofuh said that Gandofini's favorite record was Dookie. Even named his dog that