What are you listening to? The world really needs to know. #6
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mjp
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I dedicate this one to our own @Purple Stickpin, who is not a fan of Prince's guitar playing, a take on an old B side from the Around the World in a Day album...
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And just because Arsenio seems to hold some sway over Prince who is notorious for having his songs deleted from YouTube, might as well toss in the other song from the other night...
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Consider this thread officially kicked off!
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And just because Arsenio seems to hold some sway over Prince who is notorious for having his songs deleted from YouTube, might as well toss in the other song from the other night...
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Consider this thread officially kicked off!
I need to take a shower after watching and listening to that tripe. If you're going to make it an act, please include some substance; that's not too much to ask, is it? All that talent is severely diluted by the delusion that bright, shiny, flashy shit contributes to the music.
Speaking of substance:
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Speaking of substance:
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mjp
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I've talked about Peter Tosh's riddim playing before and how he made the Cry Baby wah an integral part of the sound, but I just came across a Wailers video I've never seen before where you can hear Tosh in full bloom. And playing an Ovation Breadwinner to boot! A guitar a couple of reggae players favored for the sound you got between the pickups (though nothing can beat the Gibson P90s, which you can see on Bob's Les Paul Special in the video).
Waka-Jawaka indeed. Dare I say that Bob's great, but I prefer Tosh's edge on tunes such as Stepping Razor. Both died far, far too young.
mjp
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Yes they did. Tosh was much more militant than Bob, and probably for that reason never got the widespread attention or acclaim that Bob got. But all three of those Wailers (I should say all five of those Wailers, since the rhythm section of Aston and Carly Barrett were integral) were amazing. Bunny is still amazing.
Skygazer
And in the end...
When did great rock and roll become tasteful? That was flashy trashy substance. I could've went through life never seeing Jerry Lee Lewis thump the piano with his feet, or the Beatles in their Sgt Pepper Getup or Elvis in his rhinestone catsuit, but where's the fun in that?
Prince's theatricality and flamboyance isn't there to mask a deficit of talent, but maybe he has suffered from people not seeing beyond the showmanship.
mjp
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I dunno, I don't think he's suffered much in the past 35 or so years. He really doesn't appear to give a rat's ass whether anyone likes his music or not.
He's certainly always done exactly what he wanted to do, even if it was radically different from what he did before. Just like Dylan. Just like The Beatles. And like him or not, he single-handedly changed his genre of music as dramatically and irreversibly as Dylan and The Beatles did.
That was a long time ago now, but so were those other two.
All of the musicians down through time, from Mozart to Moby, who people consider revolutionary were just taking their influences and creating something new with them. Whether you love them or hate them you have to recognize!
To me it detracts very much from the prodigious talent - it's there because he wants it there, presumably, and that cheapens the end product. Of course, I could just listen to it, but I don't really want to do that either.
A trait typical of many talented/great artists - they feel strongly enough about their material that they simply put it out there, everything else be damned.
Black Swan
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Cassandra Wilson
No. There are hundreds; nay, probably thousands of musicians, that I believe to be extremely talented that I have absolutely no desire to listen to. I'm not closed-minded, simply very, very particular in what I want to spend my precious time listening to.
Anyway, this should get d gray all hot and bothered:
and isolated bass:
Keep in mind that one of the most iconic bass lines from the 60s was constructed over a ballad. Granted, a somewhat aggressive ballad at times. But this line absolutely kills it on every level.
Black Swan
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Digney in Burnaby
donkeys live a long time
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RIP Scott "Rock Action" Asheton, 1949 -2014.
RIP Scott "Rock Action" Asheton, 1949 -2014.
mjp
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If the aliens landed on top of city hall tomorrow and I could only give them one record to explain what ROCK music is, it would be Funhouse. It is everything the genre is supposed to be, and it never was, and never will be, surpassed. Scott Asheton and his brother Ron were the rocket and Iggy was the astronaut sitting on top.
Black Swan
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When I was a child, on St Patricks Day, my mother always made me wear something green, and I' am French Can.
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Nick Cave and the Dirty Three, playing for security cameras...
mjp
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Further proof that every aspect of hip hop has its roots in reggae. Slackness! And to think that people bemoaned Jamaican dancehall in the 80s because it became too nasty, too slack. This predates outrageously slack dancehall by a good 15 years, I'd imagine. Me control that hole indeed.
And of course lyrics like this are just a progression from the sexual boasting and innuendo in blues songs that were recorded 10 or 20 years earlier.
But this has a classic riddim and you can dance to it - I give it a solid 69. I think that's what it got when they played it on Rate-a-Record on American Bandstand...
And of course lyrics like this are just a progression from the sexual boasting and innuendo in blues songs that were recorded 10 or 20 years earlier.
But this has a classic riddim and you can dance to it - I give it a solid 69. I think that's what it got when they played it on Rate-a-Record on American Bandstand...
Skygazer
And in the end...
Met two fantastic young guys this week (professionally) 19yrs and 20yrs been through very terrible times, over the worst now.
Happily, they're back to being cocky young buggers - just as it should be.
Thinking about them and wishing them good times to come;Two Scottish bands, one for them and one for me (they weren't even born for my one)! and I love Mogwai too.
Happily, they're back to being cocky young buggers - just as it should be.
Thinking about them and wishing them good times to come;Two Scottish bands, one for them and one for me (they weren't even born for my one)! and I love Mogwai too.
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