All this musical live-and-let-live is wonderful and I agree... except that anyone who doesn't like pretty much everything by ELO needs his head examined. Now listening: ELO -- Discovery (1979)
I should point out two things: I think everyone should go through a stage like that, but it's important to get beyond it at some point (you folks are lucky I'm using an Ipad, otherwise I'd tell you about a woman I saw at a record fair a few months ago: she's at least 50 and she was acting like Jack Black's character in Hi Fidelity, ripping on kids who were buying vinyl and telling them they'll never get any good beats or grooves from hose shitty records. It was funny, but still...) And two: there are still thing I absolutely hate as much as anything I ever hated in my douchier days: anything with an unvaried four on the floor torture beat, and anything auto-tuned. But it's easy as hell to avoid that stuff at my age. In honor of his 40th birthday today (so she tells me) my wife will have this on while she cooks Juan Diego Florez "Bel Canto Spectacular". i'm cool with it.
Just got back from my usual Sunday walk. My wife is committed to commemorating Juan Diego Florez's 40th birthday Arias for Rubini.
There's only two songs I can think of that use auto-tune that I like: 1) Sufjan Stevens' "Impossible Soul," a 25-minute genre bending extravaganza that somehow tastefully uses auto-tune for about 2-3 minutes. And #2, simply because of my college football allegiance (creators were Georgia fans, but it still works for Alabama fans):
I don't feel like that record gets the credit it deserves in Marley's oeuvre. Everybody's always touting Exodus, Survival, Catch a Fire, Uprising, Natty Dread, etc. but Rastaman Vibration is probably my favorite. Haven't really heard that out of anyone else.
I used to work with this woman that was obsessed with Florez. He was her #1 celebrity crush. She even had a framed glossy of him on her desk.
I can't say this is my favorite Marley (he has a lot of great albums), but it's good. My favorite song here is "Johnny Was" (I actually backed into his version after hearing it covered by Stiff Little Fingers
I'm pretty sure my wife doesn't have a Juan Diego picture on her desk. If she does, this Ipad will start to feature Anna Netrebko wallpaper, stat Currently listening to a public radio program "Piano Jazz," featuring Kurt Elling. He wasn't in top form the first couple of songs, but now he's killing it Speaking of douchy phases, he was a senior at the college where my wife and I had our first jobs (where bs poster Dogface teaches) and moving through one of his own. Seems like a pretty well adjusted guy as he gets into middle age.
45. EL-P - Cancer for Cure (2012) Hip-hop is admittedly one of my least favorite genres. Not because I don't like a lot of it, but because I like live music played on actual instruments and rap is a genre that typically doesn't translate well into a live setting. Furthermore, most of the rap I like is viewed as underground or alternative to an extent and not seeing it live kind of deters me from exploring it too much because it's not on my mind/radar. I guess just like most mainstream rock and pop, mainstream hip-hop bores me. My girlfriend loves the genre (more of the mainstream stuff) and even she's kind of like "WTF is this stuff?" to most of the hip-hop I like. I paid attention to this album because he produced Killer Mike's latest album, R.A.P. Music, which I really enjoyed. Anyway, glad I paid attention to this one because it's good from start to finish. This video is kind of stupid and takes away from the music a bit, but you can stream the whole thing on Spotify.
44. METZ - Metz (2012) I'm not saying Metz sounds like the Jesus Lizard or Swans, but they're as relentless. The 21st Century needs more relentless music and Metz is stepping up big time. Found this record a couple of months ago and am happy to have an excuse to listen to it again. FWIW, this album also made my personal Top 25.
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No way man, autotune properly utilized is amazing. Anyway, this. Alton Ellis: Be True to Yourself-Anthology 1965-1973
Yesterday I was listening to chamber music composed by an Azerbaijani woman. Today, music from that backwater known as Austria. Georg Friedrich Haas, in vain (2002) Heard of it surfing on youtube shortly before Christmas, incidently. So if you want to check it out...