Mamas Papas, Michele Phillips was a looker in the dayMamas Papas, Michele Phillips was a looker in the day.

 

 

1980

 

2004 and we can stop here

Nirvana broke up 20 years ago this week.  Here's a fantastic obscure cover that I didn't find until a few years ago:

 

Metallica used to cover that one too. It kinda sounds like "Seek and Destroy" in parts.

Metallica used to cover that one too. It kinda sounds like "Seek and Destroy" in parts.

 

Listen to how easily it rolls into this other fat jam in the key of E:

 

Handily the greatest rock & roll jam of the 2000s decade, yet it subsists on youtube these days with just 3,700 hits. 

 

Skull Rings.

Fast Cars.

Hot Chicks.

Money.

 

Skull Rings.

Fast Cars.

Hot Chicks.

Fancy Things. 

 

 

I'm not sure why young musical aspirants these days are so confused about what kind of music young people should be playing.  Seriously, what's with the Don Ho ukulale/mandolin revival?  It's truly hard to fathom that lame people have gotten so much lamer since the 90s that they've sunk from Dave Mathews to strumming the ukulele and whistling during cell phone commercials. 

 

That looks like it might actually be kinda fun.

 

Dear Lord that band is so boring.  I'm sure if you lined up all of the lame bands over the year -- say Hootie & the Blowfish, etc. -- the guys in the band probably have some brothers who were actually way smarter, probably better artists or at least more astute critics, who were disgusted by the popularity of their brother's b.s. band.  But the b.s. brother gets all the attention from their family and family friends, because they "made it". 

Never said I liked the band, but, yeah, the movie is about the brothers relationship & the guy in the band mentioned that his brother probably thought the music sucked.

The roadie brother does seem to be channeling Chumley from Pawn Stars a bit.

 

Yeah the subject of siblings of pop cultural figures has got to be full of stories like this, where the smarter sibling is inevitably haunted for their entire life by the more "successful" brother or sister.  Siblings grow up under very different circumstances, so it's got to be hilarious for some level-minded person to watch a brother or sister "pour out their guts", or whatever, in front of a few thousand people, often knowing the real story behind whatever they're making a bunch of noise about. 

 

Both Oasis and the Black Crowes featured some serious sibling rivalry within the band as well.

 

I'm not sure why young musical aspirants these days are so confused about what kind of music young people should be playing.  Seriously, what's with the Don Ho ukulale/mandolin revival?  It's truly hard to fathom that lame people have gotten so much lamer since the 90s that they've sunk from Dave Mathews to strumming the ukulele and whistling during cell phone commercials. 

 

 

On a regular guitar, barre a D at the 5th position while strumming on the fretboard and you can sound like that too! Frankly at this point I think it's just laziness on the part of the commercial producers.

Check out the soundtrack of the second half of this short film.  This is the exact sort of fuzzy ukelele music I'm talking about:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zD2NtzEPBcA#t=558

 

Why do people like being led in this folksy direction by films and music?  The world isn't like this.  I want to hear music about how people and things actually are, since people spend almost their entire existence at least subtly lying to one another. 

A Polish pop "band". The guitarist is amazing.

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/83599525/

Well, I'm sure I'm late to this party, but I just checked out the Pixies' latest album "Indie Cindy". I'm only a few songs in but so far I like it. Not quite as gritty as their previous stuff (has it really been 20 years?) but I'll take it.

 

NPR has it in their 'first listen' section

 

www.npr.org/2014/04/21/302725721/first-listen-pixies-indie-cindy

 

Yes, you can listen to the Pixies on NPR. I expect I'll be hearing The Replacements on WMJI next.

^ You're still thinking about music in the old terms. NPR's music crew is pretty legit, but I guess that doesn't change the fact that were are old. 20-somethings eye me suspiciously now, like I am the "man" or what ever they call us now.

 

I am streaming it now, I have a lot of the Frank Black solo stuff, so it's all just a continuation...

^^^LOVE the video!

 

 

I just rediscovered an album that I once cherished back in the 90s.  Start to finish this album is a classic in Breakbeat British Hip Hop.

 

Favorite song:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2gk9NUK7Sw

 

Favorite video:

 

Just came across these old Primus videos from the late 80's / early 90's.

 

 

 

I really hope we come back around to a point where "weird" music is cool again.

Pete Townshend & Joey Ramone share a birthday...

Sean, sigh....

...pretty much whatever is playing on WNKUs Sunday Morning "Front Porch" show.  This is my bike riding music..but also "appointment listening" (along with "The Golden Road" on Sat. Night, since Im sort of a jam band fan).

 

Also been listening to the Hard Working Americans.  "Down to the Well" is become my theme song.  But theres a great cover of "Wrecking Ball" as the close on this album.

 

Been starting to notice Sarah Jarosz, too. 

The world's discovered Charli XCX in a big way thanks to two of her songs going off huge for other people (with varying degrees of her help on the performances) and I like "Boom Clap" a lot as far as simple earworms go, but I'm a big fan of blending genres, and then there's this:

 

Here we go ... Be open with this, I like it. I think waka flocka sounds better in the electronic genre (like lil jon) and I love the production of this video. I know we have a lot of hipsters on this board so keep an open mind. ;)

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFfQhhtZEsw

 

Btw, did you guys know steve aoki's father started Benihana?

Welcome to my first post  :type:

 

Lately I've been listening to a lot of jazz from the 1920's. I tend to go on crazy tangents with my music... next week might be completely different.

Here we go ... Be open with this, I like it. I think waka flocka sounds better in the electronic genre (like lil jon) and I love the production of this video. I know we have a lot of hipsters on this board so keep an open mind. ;)

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFfQhhtZEsw

 

Btw, did you guys know steve aoki's father started Benihana?

 

That would mean his sister was the incredible looking Eurasian actress in "2 Fast, 2 Furious"

Again with Charli.  She's managed to co-write (and be a major part of) the Earworm of the Summer two consecutive years, and most people have no idea who she is.

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/10/fancy-charli-xcx_n_5574639.html

In April 2013, I was listening to the 23rd episode of Above & Beyond's "Group Therapy" trance music podcast. Buried within that 2-hour podcast was a few minutes of music that I thought was some of the most beautiful, relaxing, yet haunting sounds I've ever heard. Yet the track wasn't identified by guest DJ Mat Zo. So I kept looking through his stuff on YouTube, iTunes and elsewhere for it with no luck. I had downloaded the podcast, isolated the track, and uploaded the 4-minute piece back into iTunes. But I still had no idea what the track was called or who the artist was.

 

Until today.

 

Finally, I was searching through YouTube and accidentally came across an edited version of Mat Zo's guest DJ set on A&B's Group Therapy. I found another episode of Group Therapy which listed ALL of the tracks from the 2-hour podcast. So I wondered if the full Episode 23 was on there too and with the tracks listed. Sure enough, it was -- it had been uploaded to YouTube many months after the podcast initially was recorded.

 

 

 

And there was my song I'd been looking for since April 2013.....

 

This is my favorite music at the moment.

 

 

Samyaza - by The Soil and the Sun

not my fave but some pleasant grunge pop.

I think this guy might be touring with Jack White.

I never heard of these guys til today. They remind me of Black 47.

They are streaming a show from Montreal tonight 8/3

Not really sure what they are trying to say in this song, but I like it. They're playing at Fountain Square for free tonight for the MidPoint Summer Series.

 

San Fermin is playing The (yet-to-be-opened) Woodward Theater in Cincinnati on November 12

 

A little off topic, but a pretty cool gif of how people consume music.

 

DO NOT PLAY THIS AT WORK OR AROUND KIDS! :-o

 

Nicki Minaj - Anaconda

I recently got back into Fishbone. They are one of those shamelessly political LA bands that has been around forever (as long as the Red Hot Chili Peppers). As a kid, I remember attending parties with old school Fishbone back in suburban Toledo and Bowling Green. Pretty much any ska/punk musician that got big in the 90's/2000's owes everything to this band.

 

This is some of their newer mid-2000's Bush Era stuff:

 

 

 

I'll have to dig out my Walkman Sport to listen to Fishbone. I know I have a copy of The Reality of My Surrounding some where.  Everyday Sunshine was a modest radio hit.

 

Anybody else catch Sid Vicious's version of My Way being used to sell Acuras or Infinitis?

The Nicki Minaj video is really well-done. We don't see enough of the those beautifully-lit, high production value, sexually charged music videos these days. The mainstreaming of third-wave feminism killed a lot of this hyper-sexual stuff due to the power of the coastal feminist blogosphere. Everybody is terrified of offending those writers (though as this video proves, controversy still attracts audience). From a strictly artistic perspective, this video has very solid direction, cinematography, and editing which was no doubt done by experienced pros. It's one of the best music videos I've seen this year.

 

I hope this video wins a boatload of awards and people avoid labeling Minaj. It's just meant to be a club song and update on a classic video. As an artistic piece, it stands on its own.

I posted the Nicki Minaj video as more of a joke/shock to the system. I'm too much of a prude to enjoy soft-core porn in my music videos.

 

This is more my style.....

The Nicki Minaj video is really well-done. We don't see enough of the those beautifully-lit, high production value, sexually charged music videos these days. The mainstreaming of third-wave feminism killed a lot of this hyper-sexual stuff due to the power of the coastal feminist blogosphere. Everybody is terrified of offending those writers (though as this video proves, controversy still attracts audience). From a strictly artistic perspective, this video has very solid direction, cinematography, and editing which was no doubt done by experienced pros. It's one of the best music videos I've seen this year.

 

I hope this video wins a boatload of awards and people avoid labeling Minaj. It's just meant to be a club song and update on a classic video. As an artistic piece, it stands on its own.

 

Taylor Swift is catching some grief from the identity politics set for her latest video.

 

Apparently, for a tall blonde woman to use hip hop influences, she has to be an Aussie.

 

Anti-sprawl acoustic folk punk out of Cbus

 

Ehh, JYP[/member] 's "Mill Creek Valley" song is better:

 

The Kansas City marketing people may think "Cleveland Rocks" is dated, but our hottest new(er) local artist will differ:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5YdM9wGuW0

The Bright Light Social Hour is playing at MOTR on Saturday night. One of the best shows I've seen was them at MidPoint in 2011.

 

we went to see ty segall recently. great new record. he's a child prodigy and kind of a west coast jack white. that show was bananas. lots of crowd surfers. la luz opened. nice surf sound from them. was a lot of fun. i also saw black sheep again recently, a local hiphop group. always good. that is all.

 

 

Lou Reed died a year ago!  Turn it up!

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAEbOdnRUc0

Saving this for my "High Speed Rail" playlist the next time I ride Acela or go overseas again.

 

Although this selection goes nicely with the last one I posted -- especially for 1980s techno-tune geeks like me...