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Still listening to a lot of Phil Ochs. Lately been revisiting Gunfight at Carnegie Hall. My father and mother saw this performance if I recall, and told a story of a woman in the crowd who was shouting "He has a suicide wish, he has a suicide wish!". I may be mixing that tale up with another performance they went to closer to the time of his death though. I always found his Merle Haggard cover interesting. Not a song Ochs would have had any agreement with in terms of lyrical content, but during the convert he warned the audience being musical bigots. I think there is also a strong sense of irony in the performance



Been listening to a lot of Deep Purple as well:

 
Ochs was a big fan of Haggard as a songwriter. My understanding is there is a fair bit of irony in the Haggard original as he was a pot smoker as well.
 
Re-appreciating the first album. I own this on vinyl but unfortunately not the version that includes Is There Something I Should Know.



 
Ochs was a big fan of Haggard as a songwriter. My understanding is there is a fair bit of irony in the Haggard original as he was a pot smoker as well.

He mentions the quality of Haggard's songwriting before he plays it at the performance. One of the reasons i like Och's later stuff more than the early is his composition of music seems to improve a lot. Even in the early stuff you do get a sense that he has good musical intuition and makes interesting choices.
 
In 1975, English glam rockers Slade starred in a movie called Flame. In contrast to their freewheeling party band image, Flame was a downbeat and cynical indictment of the music business. And in stark contrast to Slade's music music, Flame was well-reviewed by critics, but not very popular with fans. It's a good movie. And the soundtrack album is excellent. A personal fave.





 
Currently buzzed right now on a mix of Monster Energy Drink and Black Velvet whiskey, looking at Rule 34 of Major Motoko Kusanagi on Google Images and listening to this entire album....



I don't even know how I ended up like this....
 



In 1975, English glam rockers Slade starred in a movie called Flame. In contrast to their freewheeling party band image, Flame was a downbeat and cynical indictment of the music business. And in stark contrast to Slade's music music, Flame was well-reviewed by critics, but not very popular with fans. It's a good movie. And the soundtrack album is excellent. A personal fave.








I saw Slade at the Cow Palace in 1984 opening for Ozzy Osbourne.

I guess this would have been their big hit at that time.

 
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The Tubes just sent me down a path, I forget sometimes the SF Bay Area in the 80s was a rock smorgasbord.


Night Ranger (San Francisco)




Y&T (Hayward)




The Call (Santa Cruz)




Joe Satriani (Berkeley)




Romeo Void (San Francisco)

 
Starship (San Francisco)




Tommy Tu-Tone (San Francisco)




Journey (San Francisco)




The Tubes (San Francisco)

 
Listening to some Monteverdi again:



"Per me fragile, per me misero, per me torbido,
quest uom sara"

(Which rougly translates to "I will make him fragile, I will make him miserable, I will make him troubled" uttered in turn by personifications of Time, Love and something else I can't remember. )

On man, I've not played this CD in years, but I will never forget that prolog. Monteverdi rocks hard!
 
Oh HELL no.

I'm trying out Deezer (a music subscription service like Apple Music or Spotify), and using its Flow mode which automatically plays music that it thinks I will like. So far so good for a couple of hours, I like what I'm hearing.

Then...

Then...

I begin hearing My Heart Will Go On by Celine Dion. :angry: :dead:
 
Early Split Enz. Sui generis, really nothing like it that I have heard.
Heard the name but this is the first I've seen of them. Not bad at all and clearly way ahead of their time. They look and sound like they warped in from 1983 or so.
 
There is a very moving heroic bloodshed film called A Moment of Romance with a great theme song I've been revisiting:



And going down the rabbit hole of different performances and versions:





 


Unclear if Buckingham is cocaine-laced, but it's truly a great primal performance of Tusk
 
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Society: "There's no freaking way you can make an epic, badass song with a kazoo."

Mob Psycho 100 music team: "Hold our beer."

 
Society: "There's no freaking way you can make an epic, badass song with a kazoo."
Is that really a kazoo? Never occurred to me.

By the way, the new season is shaping up to be at least as good as the first one, which is definitely a minor miracle. I love this show so much.
 
Is that really a kazoo? Never occurred to me.

By the way, the new season is shaping up to be at least as good as the first one, which is definitely a minor miracle. I love this show so much.

My understanding is it's a kazoo, or an electronic equivalent.

Also, yes, MP100 rules! The hype is real and well-deserved.
 
I spent many years not knowing the name of this song. An hour ago I found out when the subtitles on the TV show I was watching told me. I am now somewhat more complete than I was 2 hours ago.

Axel F
 
Wow I never knew Split Enz sounded so annoying before they got main stream famous... YMMV but I really don't dig that typical seventies "intelligent pop" sound. It sounds nasal and tinny, unpleasant to my ears.
 
I am not even sure who this is or what the song is, but love the melody and the woman's voice:

EDIT: Someone helped get the original singer for me. The song is 'Silence':
 
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ok you just caught me listening to this little guilty pleasaure
sue me :grin:

 
To my wife's great annoyance, I've been going further down the youtube rabbit hole, and finding some real gems. I believe this was originally a Jane Zhang song, but I really like this particular version:

 
Through the soundtracks for In the Mood for Love and Kung fu Hustle I discovered the cool, jazzy pop singers of 60s Hong Kong. Some of my Chinese-Canadian friends shared their collections with me but I lost them when my backup drive failed.

 
Through the soundtracks for In the Mood for Love and Kung fu Hustle I discovered the cool, jazzy pop singers of 60s Hong Kong. Some of my Chinese-Canadian friends shared their collections with me but I lost them when my backup drive failed.



That is awesome. I love when they play that song in Kung Fu Hustle. Didn't realize the song went back this far.
 

For some reason this song reminds me of Gnosticism and led me down a path of reading about Kult.
 
Sorry. brothers and sisters, this is the only version of "Immibranyt Song" that matters...

 
Let's talk about synthwave...

First up is Umberto, former keyboardist for prog rockers Expo 70. He mixes synthwave with giallo, and is one of my all time faves. A staple of my morning runs.






The amazing Lazerhawk...




Xander Harris. Like Lazerhawk, he is from Austin, which has a huge synthwave scene.

 
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