On 12/1/2017 at 4:29 PM, eastvillagedon said:

 

 

I would be remiss if I missed reposting this treasured holiday classic

 

https://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2017/12/11/listen-to-these-local-christmas-songs-instead-of-the-same-12-tunes-on-the-radio

This is my old roommate's brother getting drunk on stage:

 

 

Billy was a drinking legend in his heyday, which was around 2002.  I thought he was done but then here he is blowing his solo and hitting the drummer's cymbals with his bow.   You can hear the crowd laughing at him above the sound of the band. 

 

 

The state of modern popular country music:

 

 

This perfectly shows why my irrational hatred for Nashville is actually rational. 

All "real" country activity has migrated over to bluegrass and the nebulous "Americana" (where there is absolutely no money), while "country" is being pushed like never before to crossover to r&b and pop. 

Bars love Bluegrass and Americana bands though since people do show up and they behave.

6 hours ago, GCrites80s said:

Bars love Bluegrass and Americana bands though since people do show up and they behave.

 

Meanwhile, real country bars are a good place to go if you want to get your teeth knocked out. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBj1UJQdWvA

^Them Duke Boys sure have a way of finding themselves in the the middle of things...

My former roommate's brother can play that damn violin when he's sober.  His dad died last week so I'm glad he's on stage instead of sitting at the bar. 

 

In the 90s there were a fair number of young bluegrass players who came out of the academic music programs at the southern state universities and started bringing a lot of jazz stuff into traditional bluegrass and country music.  The record completely ignored it but it has grown over the past 20 years into a bit of a mini-scene. 

Edited January 18, 20196 yr by jmecklenborg

 

Just rediscovered this thread, I'll be unlike myself and combine several responses.

 

Machine Gun Kelly had a top four single in "Bad Things" with Camilla Cabello.   It's funny how these work, sometimes it's the rapper that gets the general credit, but often when there's a strong hook it's the singer.  Though Iggy Azalea got all the credit for "Fancy" but the most memorable part was actually Charli XCX's chorus.   Anyway, he has a hell of a career brewing and his callout on Eminem was epic as well, despite probably being contrived.

 

If you haven't heard them yet and like old "glam rock", check out The Struts.  Luke Spiller may be the best vocalist of this era, if you don't mind his Cockney rolled Rs.  IMO they add to the song's vibe.   This here is probably my favorite song by anyone these days:

 

 

I've also been listening to a lot of Irish rock and roll.   Pogues, Black 47, Flogging Molly, even Ash and The Thrills.

this is considered first punk record. 

 

What about MC5 in the late '60s?

 

10 hours ago, GCrites80s said:

What about MC5 in the late '60s?

I just heard that by chance online some where but I heard a lot about Cleveland being a big influence in early punk before Sex Pistols and The Ramones. When I google I find different stuff. What I posted up there, not even sure if that was even their first album. Haven't really did much back checking on the subject but would be interesting to look more deeply into it.

 

"At the same time, a less celebrated, but nonetheless highly influential, scene had appeared in Ohio, including The Electric Eels, Devo and Rocket from the Tombs, who in 1975 split into Pere Ubu and The Dead Boys"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_punk_subculture

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Eels_(band)

 

"But what sets "the electric eels" apart is they have also been given credit for the first punk record ever recorded, "agitated." Which allows a majority of books covering the era to call them the original."

http://lakewoodobserver.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=24202

Edited January 27, 20196 yr by Mildtraumatic

bump

 

 

My favorite albums from 2018:

 

• 1. Twenty One Pilots - Trench
• 2. Brent Cobb - Providence Canyon
• 3. Various Artists - Restoration: Reimagining the Songs of Elton John and Bernie Taupin
• 4. Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour
• 5. Kids See Ghosts - Kids See Ghosts
• 6. Cat Power - Wanderer
• 7. Pistol Annies - Interstate Gospel
• 8. Neko Case - Hell-On
• 9. Ashley Monroe - Sparrow
• 10. Carrie Underwood - Cry Pretty

 

So far this year I really like Remind Me Tomorrow by Sharon Van Etten. I was hyped for Ariana Grande's thank u, next considering the raving reviews. I listened to it a handful of times last weekend. Great album, but I need to revisit when my expectations aren't so high. I'm back now to Mike Posner's A Real Good Kid. That I've listened to probably 30 times already...

 

 

Edited February 12, 20196 yr by aderwent

Alex Jones does Danzig:

 

danzig's popularity is a conspiracy -- samhain was the best glenn danzig band.

check out this interesting and surprisingly timeless looking 1971 barcelona pop nugget.

 

 

 

watch 16 y.o. alex chilton and the box tops mime their hit song for the zillionth time on the upbeat show in cleveland 1967.

 

the results are pretty funny.

 

you'll also see why children by million loved alex when he came around.

 

anywaaaaay.

 

bonus -- box tops and left banke band members post in the comment section.

 

 

I read the book on Alex, "A Man Called Destruction" this year. Some crazy stuff. I think few realize his career went way beyond the Box Tops....guy was literally at the forefront of power pop and the seminal punk scene at CBGB's!!! 

 

p.s. CLE needs to revive Upbeat asap.  

6 hours ago, mrnyc said:

danzig's popularity is a conspiracy -- samhain was the best glenn danzig band.

 

Yeah I have only listened to those records online.  Buying a physical Samhain CD is like $100, or at least it was the last time I checked maybe 5 years ago.   

 

I ran across this live clip a few weeks ago.  It's Danzig at the peak of his their powers, circa 1993.  They close out the show beginning at 3:35 with a whipping version of "It's Coming Down", which wallows in obscurity on the "Thrall" EP that nobody bought from that year. 

 

Imagine if this band had been preserved in amber and was just unleashed on the 2019 Grammy's or the recent Super Bowl.   I can see the dorky tattoos melting off of Post Malone's face, and the rest of all these Soundcloud viral sensations. 

 

Remember EP CD's?  Why the hell did the record companies put them out? 

 

 

 

On 2/18/2019 at 9:09 PM, surfohio said:

I read the book on Alex, "A Man Called Destruction" this year. Some crazy stuff. I think few realize his career went way beyond the Box Tops....guy was literally at the forefront of power pop and the seminal punk scene at CBGB's!!! 

 

p.s. CLE needs to revive Upbeat asap.  

 

yeah, as the song goes, invisible man at the scene with an invisible voice.

 

to the public, but musicians knew him well. 

 

i went thru a phase of listening to everything alex chiton ever did when he died. he is very idiosyncratic and just amazing.

 

i never read that book about him though, thats a good reminder to do so.

 

here is something recent about him:

 

https://dangerousminds.net/comments/big_stars_alex_chilton_and_his_darkly_upbeat_song_about_the_aids_crisis_no_#disqus_thread

 

 

-- and for sure a big +1 to reviving the upbeat show -- it would be amazing if someone would do that!

The book doesn't shy away from his flaws, that's for sure. One thing that was interesting to me was that Alex wasn't really allowed to play guitar with the Box Tops, he was too much of a novice then. Unsurprisingly the label insisted that studio musicians play on the recordings. But when the Box Tops toured with the Beach Boys Alex became close with Carl Wilson, and Carl really taught him to play.

 

Now I think Carl was a darn good player, but Alex became a darn great player imho.           

Peter Tork of the Monkees dies

 

https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/21/entertainment/peter-tork-dead/index.html

 

 

Nat King Cole--who died at age 45 of lung cancer--would have turned 100 this coming Sunday

 

 

My mom got to meet virtually everyone in that early rock era. Her favorite person out of all of those stars was Nat King Cole. 

^I don't know how old your mother is, but when I was in elementary school I remember that Nat King Cole was still putting out hit songs, at a time when many people from his era--i.e. artists who performed popular standards--were becoming irrelevant. He had transitioned into a more mainstream middle-of-the-road sound from his early, edgier jazz days in the 40's, but remained hugely popular until his way to early death. He was the first African American to host a national tv show (though I think here he's appearing on the Jack Benny Show)--

 

 

Edited March 15, 20196 yr by eastvillagedon

^ His voice rightfully carried across time and genre. So good!

 

My mom would have turned 89 last week. She graduated from Wooster High School in 1948, when THE Cleveland Indians won the World Series ?  

 

 

One of the earliest and most popular pieces of electronic media manipulation was the duet between Nat King Cole and Natalie Cole.   The concept creeped a lot of people out, but this was so unforgettable it made the idea much easier to accept.

Some interesting kid stuff:

 

This show was hilarious! They had this performance down! Better than the original! lol.

 

This child was SEVEN years old! damn.  No singing lessons, learned from just listening and watching youtube videos smh.

 

She has plenty of good stuff out-now that she is at the ripe old age of ...eleven.

 

 

 

1 hour ago, E Rocc said:

One of the earliest and most popular pieces of electronic media manipulation was the duet between Nat King Cole and Natalie Cole.   The concept creeped a lot of people out, but this was so unforgettable it made the idea much easier to accept.

 

 

 

That pun was TOO MUCH

2 hours ago, GCrites80s said:

 

 

 

That pun was TOO MUCH

 

Glad someone got it.  ?

My six year old son and I really like this pretty song....

 

 

Five best bands out at the moment:

 

1. Mumford & Sons

 

2. Mumford & Sons

 

3. Mumford & Sons

 

4. Mumford & Sons

 

5. Mumford & Sons

 

^ yeah that went just like I assumed it would lol. I recommend Markys book. Lots of great insight on that cbgbs era. 

happy Father's Day?

 

 

 

 

Cash Me Outside has a new video out:

 

Couldn't help but compare and contrast with this ice cream truck video from 1993:

 

It's comical how similar they are, and if you add them together, you touch on pretty much everything there is to know. 

 

 

Seriously, can the white underclass move beyond the early-mid 2000s? That Bad Baby track sounds so 2003. Hip-hop has moved on as evidenced by the threads and rhymes favored by the minorities in the video, but she persists.

^ i am pleasantly shocked bhad bhabie doesn't have a 'lil bhad baby already.

 

speaking of 'lil, old town road comments? 

 

the concocted country controversy, the cameos and goofy, but super good lookin movie, yadda:

 

https://youtu.be/w2Ov5jzm3j8

 

 

who's enjoying this bob dylan/martin scorcese rolling thunder revue documentary, or should i say faux-documentary, on netflix?

 

peak live dylan and it's a lot of fun:

 

 

 

Didn't see Bob doc, but this one is by his son Jakob. I saw it in the theater last week. Really really good!!!!

On 6/28/2019 at 7:29 PM, surfohio said:

 

Didn't see Bob doc, but this one is by his son Jakob. I saw it in the theater last week. Really really good!!!!

 

I saw that it is rated PG-13.  I am visiting my brother this week and need to know if it's okay for his 4 year-old daughter to see. 

40 minutes ago, jmecklenborg said:

 

I saw that it is rated PG-13.  I am visiting my brother this week and need to know if it's okay for his 4 year-old daughter to see. 

Hmm, I don’t remember anything racy. Well, David Crosby did refer to himself as an a-hole haha. 

Yeah PG-13 is pretty watered down by now. It used to mean that you'd at least have a chance of seeing boobs but now it just means someone was told to go to hell.

1 hour ago, surfohio said:

Hmm, I don’t remember anything racy. Well, David Crosby did refer to himself as an a-hole haha. 

 

Okay, seems okay, but the wifey might intervene to block our wholesome family outting. 

They saved Ike's brain and put it in a robot's belly