What are you listening to? The world really needs to know. #7

Digney in Burnaby

Digney in Burnaby

donkeys live a long time
Iggy and Alice were down the road from each other back in the early 70s.

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mjp

mjp

Founding member
Alice Cooper and The Stooges played a lot of shows together. They were at the same level of the SHOWBIZ inferno at the same time in the same place. The Coopers turned pro and The Stooges were The Stooges, so their paths kind of diverged eventually, but they were all part of that same MC5 Detroit scene.

Both Alice Cooper and The Stooges were playing some fucked up music at the time though, much different than what they became known for (Listen to the Pretties For You album, or the Stooges songs L.A. Blues or Asthma Attack, you'll get the idea). So those shows were not exactly the dream shows you'd want to go back in time to see. Unless you really like that kind of thing.

Ah, I take that back. I'll go back in time to see them. Which door do I open?
 
Johannes

Johannes

Founding member

This Remix of Jay Kill & The Hustle Standard is used as soundtrack for a lot of different Youtube videos. I really dig Jay Kills voice in this but unfortunately do not dig the original at all:


I find it kind of flat. But imagine Jay Kill fronting some fucked up blues group with this voice! That would be it, I tell ya.
 
PhillyDave

PhillyDave

“The essential doesn't change.” Beckett
not listening to this ironically. I just like it. I grew up with it because, "I'm on a bus on a psychedelic trip, readin murder books tryin-a stay hip."
 
Skygazer

Skygazer

And in the end...
PhillyDave said:
not bad, not great. Coked outta their mind!
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The Captain and Me is a great album... without challenging you to a duel or anything. I think cocaine was compulsory in recording studios in LA in the early 70s. Black Sabbath were sprinkling it on their cornflakes and stirring it in their tea just to get through the stuff:wb: when recording their fourth album there.
PhillyDave said:
not listening to this ironically. I just like it. I grew up with it because, "I'm on a bus on a psychedelic trip, readin murder books tryin-a stay hip."
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I loved that song, first time I heard it, the bit with the slidey/slow down of synths or guitars, not sure, made me feel dizzy- and I've never done drugs. I made the mistake a few years ago of having Dancing with Myself on a running playlist, looked like a nutcase, charging along . At a Damned concert a couple of years ago, a bus load of kids were down the front, all of them with Blonde Billy Idol hairdos, strange but sweet.:).
As far as credibility goes, does it matter:D.

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PhillyDave

PhillyDave

“The essential doesn't change.” Beckett
The song's okay. The thing for me is the pic. They look...tired, worn out, what-have-you. That's all I'm saying.
 
Johannes

Johannes

Founding member
Some German punk nostalgia for ya. Title is incorrect, doesn't really look like the 80's. Maybe late 89 or something from the look of it, but I'd say early 90's.

 
Short Bus

Short Bus

JA confuses me. They were as important and as big as a band can be for a certain time and the musicianship is amazing but something doesn't stick for me.
Lately I'm closer to thinking that the drugs war is over and the drugs won.

That said, I listen to Jorma now and keep asking myself how did I miss him when I was younger?? What a player!
 
Purple Stickpin

Purple Stickpin

While Jorma is a great musician, early on he leaned too far in the "every chord is a Dom7 chord" direction. Everything had to have a blues edge and some of the material suffers form this myopic approach. Certainly Airplane were an eclectic band, but at their best, they combined melody, harmony and cutting-edge sound techniques that worked more than they didn't. I dig stuff like Embryonic Journey and Water Song, but I'd personally rather listen to Jack with his hot, tubey overdrive backing Grace on piano on tracks like Sunrise, Crazy Miranda, and Silver Spoon. The non-Airplane albums by Slick and Kantner from '70-'73 are as good as anything by the Airplane.
 
Johannes

Johannes

Founding member
Some German old school Rap from Hamburg. I know that most of you can't understand fuck anything of this, but who listens to Rap for the lyrics anyway?

Seriously, this is some nicely chilled tune, I think.

 
Skygazer

Skygazer

And in the end...
Two t.v programme theme tunes I remember when I was young, Mountain's one was for a political show and Pentangle's a sit-com, I loved the music.Found them recently, but when I looked up who Owen Coffin was, what a horrific, sad event.
 
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