Happy weekend, kiddies.
Some music for you. First, a couple of songs linked to in my last music thread. Suffern ACE came up with Hurray For The Riff Raff, with Look Out Mama:
From wasabi gasp, Katarzyna Nosowska and Marek Dyjak’s Ognia!
and Kat Edmonson – I don’t know.
To finish off, my current earworm:
and the cure for almost every earworm. It even works on Celine Dion.
Anything else we should be listening to? I’m in the mood to dance….
Gin & Tonic
Here’s one in memory of a thread from this morning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmuaIcin-YM
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
I found myself dancing uncontrollably to this the other day. Scared the heck out of the cats.
Sarah, Proud and Tall
@Gin & Tonic:
Bim Bom
Omnes Omnibus
You’ve already covered Plastic Bertrand and the Banana Splits. We might be done. But this is kind of cool.
Gin & Tonic
@Sarah, Proud and Tall: Impressive dancing. But I am in love with the way all the Brazilian singers pronounce coração.
Omnes Omnibus
Blondie at CBGB in 1975
Violet
@Mnemosyne (iPhone): Oh…that takes me back. Loved The Style Council back in the day.
I can’t get Miley Cyrus’s “Wrecking Ball” out of my head. Probably because I flipped over to a “Top 40” kind of station the other day when I was in the car and they played it about every half hour. I must have heard it five times while in and out of the car just in one morning. I like the song, though. Feels a bit like a guilty pleasure.
Ash Can
You’re in the mood to dance? Excellent. No wonder you’ve lived to such a ripe old age; weight-bearing exercise is good for the bones. Now break out the salsa and go to town. Anything by Tito Puente and/or Celia Cruz, or the Buena Vista Social Club, will get you going.
Omnes Omnibus
This might help.
ETA: or this.
Omnes Omnibus
Dubstep Pumped Up Kicks
Sarah, Proud and Tall
@Omnes Omnibus:
That will do it.
Suffern ACE
I’ve got Purple Rain in my ear this evening so I won’t be able to participate tonight. It’s about to turn 30 in a few months. It’s holding up well, considering I’m listening to the infamous imaginary ear worm version.
Violet
You want to dance? Try this one for something different.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@Omnes Omnibus:
I have no idea what makes something “dubstep” rather than some other kind of remixing. But I will freely admit that this is because I am now An Old (or at least A Middle-Aged working on my fist-shaking).
Omnes Omnibus
@Sarah, Proud and Tall: More Dubstep
Or this, a song I consider to be almost perfect.
rda909
@Suffern ACE: That entire album is incredible, especially when considering the time it came out. Too bad Mr. Nelson has become a Jehovah Witness-Alex Jones-Libertarian nutbag. Dude can still get funky though…
Sarah, Proud and Tall
@Omnes Omnibus:
That was spectacular.
piratedan
older school:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUY9Y9RFiHY
Violet
@rda909: Best Superbowl halftime performance in recent years, for sure.
Sarah, Proud and Tall
@Violet:
Nice.
Sarah, Proud and Tall
@piratedan:
Oh no. It’s going to be one of those nights. I’ll be playing Boney M in no time.
ETA: Mars Chocolate– via Bootie blog
Omnes Omnibus
@Mnemosyne (iPhone): Well, this might help. I try to work on not being that type of “old.” I know my era, but in the words of the late, great Joe Strummer I keep diggin’ the new.
Anoniminous
Just for the heck of it a song I really like, Kraken by the Squirrel Nut Zippers.
And a bit of classic boogie-woogie by Johan Blohm.
Omnes Omnibus
@Sarah, Proud and Tall: The slo mo dancing? Holy fuck.
piratedan
@Sarah, Proud and Tall: well to be honest, when I started branching out from my power pop cocoon, I delved straight into the New Romantic movement in the early 80’s…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nawiQi1kNoI
Omnes Omnibus
@piratedan: Bauhaus?*
*Be warned this is the full version.
Omnes Omnibus
Rocket 88.
piratedan
@Omnes Omnibus: more of a Human League, Roxy Music, Duran Duran, Echo and the Bunnymen, Mighty Lemon Drops vibe because while I enjoyed Joy Division I wasn’t ready to embrace New Order… if that makes any sense at all…..
these guys also mattered… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-zP66eSLto
but crossed all kinds of musical allegiances with Madness, Any Trouble, Elvis Costello, Rockpile, Haircut 100…. musically I was a stir fry of earworms…..
Violet
@piratedan: Roxy Music “Avalon” is one of my favorites. The whole album.
piratedan
@Omnes Omnibus: man that is a smokin old classic….. here’s one i return:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXfJj8R3q20
Omnes Omnibus
@piratedan: Most of the groups you namechecked are in my college soundtrack. Except Level 42 – they never appealed to me at all.
More recent: My song of the summer from 2007.
handsmile
Accepted a last-minute invitation to hear these guys tonight: Kurt Vile and the Violators. Oh my! Didn’t know ’em before, but now I’m not gonna be listening to much else for the next few days.
This song live – KV Crimes – and the audience response to it – was volcanic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SljCZGzYR10
Omnes Omnibus
@handsmile: Kurt Vile is cool. Lucky you.
ETA: I know I’ve posted this before on music threads, but, damn….
piratedan
@Omnes Omnibus: liked that! been a while since I head a “clean” ska sound (Mighty Mighty Bosstones?)
This one was my intro into that genre…. strangely, I don’t think it sounds dated at all…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnoUlZnwYy4
Omnes Omnibus
@piratedan: Let’s stay in Memphis…
piratedan
@Violet: mine too Violet… I swear there are times where I could lose myself in “More than this” and feel like it’s cool if that’s the last thing I ever heard…
Omnes Omnibus
@piratedan: Tim Armstrong is a bit of a classicist in his area.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@Omnes Omnibus:
It doesn’t help that I have never been interested in any music in the electronica/house realm. The repetition and looping that other people find hypnotic is deadly dull to me. Like piratedan, I’m a New Romantic for life.
@piratedan:
I read a memoir recently called “Talking to Girls About Duran Duran.” It’s pretty low-key — mostly him talking about growing up on the East Coast — but I enjoyed it.
Violet
@piratedan: Yeah. I think the album is perfection. It’s of its era, but I also think it transcends it.
NotMax
For all those on threads today mentioning aches, pains, twinges and so on:
Nature’s Way
Omnes Omnibus
@piratedan: Avalon is awesome, but they also did this (Having Brian Eno in the band helps). And this sentimental fave of mine.
piratedan
@Mnemosyne (iPhone): there’s a great old BBC series that you can find out on you tube that’s based on Pete Frame’s Rock Family Trees and a couple of the trees that they explore is the Punk Rock explosion and the Manchester Scene and I do believe that there’s one regarding the Birmingham movement as well, it’s narrated by John Peel and they talk to folks that were the movers and shakers and the folks that just seem to fall into one band after another on the fringes of success… well worth checking out… they have like 12-13 episodes with various artists covered…..
handsmile
@Omnes Omnibus:
Well, that was certainly a heart-warming little tune. :)
Might the fact that you never appear to sleep have anything to do with your current illness?
(and that’s what I’m off to do now….)
ETA: Re Eno, or in the studio.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
Is there any song more pure 1980s than this one?
Omnes Omnibus
@handsmile: I’ve been in and out of consciousness all day. I happen to be on the upcurve of thesine wave right now.
piratedan
@Violet: it was an album that’s always on the short list, eminently playable, I have only about 20-25 albums like that…..and I have a fair amount of vinyl and discs floating around…. probably not as many as OO, but something in the 500-750 range.
Yatsuno
@Sarah, Proud and Tall: Counterargument.
Omnes Omnibus
@Mnemosyne (iPhone): To me, it’s this one. I might have been one the first people to play it on the radio in the US. The single arrived in the mail at my college radio station and we (the guy I did a show with and I) played it a couple of hours later.
@handsmile: Eno was in the band. It was his start.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@piratedan:
I don’t think it’s on DVD, but PBS had a great series years ago called “Rock n Roll: An Unruly History.” It’s really great at showing connections between songs that you never realized were there. Blondie’s “Heart of Glass” started as a reggae song. If you listen, you can still hear the reggae rhythms under the disco beat.
piratedan
@Mnemosyne (iPhone): I dunno, there’s a lot of possible contenders….. If You Leave by OMB, Love Plus One – Haircut 100, Overkill – Men at Work, Our Lips are Sealed – Go Go’s, Come on Eileen – Dexy’s Midnight Runners, Everybody wants to rule the world – Tears for Fears….Go! – Tones on Tail…Rudee Can’t Fail – The Specials, Melt With You – Modern English
NotMax
@Mnemosyne
Yes.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@Omnes Omnibus:
Wait…We aren’t FB friends, right? I put that one up just before I left for work tonight.
piratedan
@Mnemosyne (iPhone): I may scan you tube for it, sometimes folks upload this stuff for us all to see :-) ty!
Yatsuno
@NotMax: Close…
I never knew this was from a musical until much later in life.
Omnes Omnibus
@piratedan:
Rudie Can’t Fail, the Clash.
A Message to You, Rudy. The Specials
/pedant
piratedan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3cKJ42HAd0
piratedan
@Omnes Omnibus: well it’s late… and I splinched ’em… it happens :-)
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@NotMax:
Don’t make me link to Fred Schneider’s “Monster.” I’ll do it, man.
Omnes Omnibus
@Mnemosyne (iPhone): This? It was awesome.
piratedan
@Mnemosyne (iPhone): heck I was gonna suggest the Cramps, but ymmv :-)
Omnes Omnibus
@piratedan: Both are brilliant songs. Of course, I am now listening to London Calling. It’s your fault/credit.
gwangung
Appropos of nothing, just came back from a stage play that showed me what would have happened if Balloon-Juice regulars took over a stage for a night. Complete with gratuitous pet chatter.
I’ll leave it to you to decide if it was farce, tragedy or an extended surreal nightmare.
Though I did amuse myself casting the show with BJ regulars…
NotMax
@Yatsuno
Always struck me as the illegitimate child of ABBA and Taco.
Trivia: The ‘Bangkok’ song was banned in Thailand.
Omnes Omnibus
@Mnemosyne (iPhone): Fishheads? As long as we are threatening.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@Omnes Omnibus:
That’s it. I have the companion book but I lost the videotaped episodes I had.
One episode began with the narration, “In 196?, God was a young black girl who could sing,” and went on to cover how music went from girl groups and Motown to black power and James Brown and how music interacted with the Civil Rights Movement. Really great.
MikeJ
@NotMax: Not this Bangkok song.
piratedan
@Omnes Omnibus: I would apologize, but not sure you’re really all that unhappy about it…. just trying my best to stay away from dropping into an early 60’s girl group phase, it’s just that there are so many genres that appeal and I think I should stray back to the original theme and find danceable stuff…..so with that in mind, here’s Elvis Costello…..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpprOGsLWUo
Omnes Omnibus
@Mnemosyne (iPhone): The only taped episode I still have is the punk/rap one. It was a very well done survey course on pop music from about 1950 to 1995.
Omnes Omnibus
@piratedan: You are forgiven. Elvis is king.
ETA: This is probably a better way to say it.
Tommy
Waverly Sessions: Hurray For The Riff Raff. That is some good music. Listening to it and dancing around.
NotMax
@Mnemosyne
Moving to a different segement of the spectrum, a beauty (60s!) from an album unexcelled for listening when groovily mellow from ingestion/inhalation of stuff that shall not be named.
Omnes Omnibus
Never mind
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
The Faces Stay With Me
Omnes Omnibus
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): One can forget how talented Stewart was. He did.
ETA: Of course, Ronnie helped.
piratedan
and if we’re still bopping……
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUg4aepMHvs
Tommy
@NotMax: I think it might have been 1976. I was a boy scout. He took us to a place to orientate ourselves. You know get how to use a compass. There might have been a time where we went to said forest listening to Abba in his VW van. Mayabe creepy, but it wasn’t.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
Bowie Queen Bitch
Omnes Omnibus
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): Johnny Thunders.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@Omnes Omnibus:
Ronnie, Ronnie and Ian ETA: Kenny ain’t bad, either. The entire set is up there on YouTube, and Ronnie Lane knocks it out of the park vocally- both backing and lead.
NotMax
@Tommy
8-track tape, by any chance?
Listening: not creepy.
Dancing: creepy.
Tommy
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): Here is something for you.
http://youtu.be/ofOJoK-eEWo
What is amazing is the music.
Omnes Omnibus
@Omnes Omnibus: There is a rather young commenter who has said that punk is boring to him and he is fan of prog rock. I would say to him that this song has more soul in it than the totality of Rick Wakeman’s oeuvre. But this is cool. Soul and heart are what matter. The rest is commentary.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
Fleet Foxes Sun Giant/Blue Ridge Mountains
piratedan
wow…. been a while since I’ve heard this one…..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxLY8ajMfBU
apologies to all who are indifferent…
Tommy
@NotMax: Yes. I recall the first three 8-tracks I listened to in my dad’s study. Jim Croce. John Denver. And the “man in black” Johnny Cash. I can’t tell you for hours and hours how long I listened to Cash. I got my father his box set years ago. Told him how many hours I listened to him in this study. He was like I didn’t know you did that. I was like dad I did, listened for him countless hours. I know every word to every song he has done.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@Tommy:
Nice.
Omnes Omnibus
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): These threads do descend into late-boomer/early Xer noodling, don’t they? I threw my new stuff up early, but, in the end, I go for my comfort zone.
piratedan
@Omnes Omnibus: well I did find this one nifty enough to spring for it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uYY0ev7LQ8
NotMax
@Omnes Omnibus
More heart and more soul in one joint of her little finger than in most singers’ entire torsos.
(Had the distinct pleasure of seeing her in Hello, Dolly! on stage at the Kennedy Center in D.C.. Only tix could get were SRO, and the performance (with multiple encores plus almost a half-hour of songs not from the show afterewards) was so mesmerizing and such a delight that didn’t notice had been standing for close to 4 hours.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@Omnes Omnibus:
Maybe. I dunno…Most music, whatever the genre, is average or worse. When it comes to modern music, I find I just don’t commit enough time to find that sliver of what’s the truly good newer stuff- that which I do appreciate really has to jump out at me. Fleet Foxes did that. Janelle Monáe (this is from her last album, not the latest- which I also like) did, too.
handsmile
@piratedan: , @Omnes Omnibus:
OK, I haven’t quite made it into the bedroom yet, and this little anecdote is unlikely to win friends, but…
Last July after the first set of a Bill Frisell concert at the Village Vanguard, I had a conversation with Elvis Costello and Diana Krall. They were seated directly behind me at the club and Frisell joined them after playing. Not that we had a long conversation, admittedly, but we talked about Frisell’s set list and the album, The Sweetest Punch, that Frisell made of Costello songs. I have not washed my right hand since that night.
And OO, what I meant above about Eno was simply to agree and extend upon “Having Brian Eno in the band [or in the studio (as producer, e.g.,Talking Heads, Bowie, U2)] helps.” An acolyte, I know my Eno.
Omnes Omnibus
Early Mink Deville. Later Mink Deville. Solo Willy Deville year later. Willie also did the vocals for the Mark Knopler song from the Princess Bride.
piratedan
@handsmile: have to say, EC is one of my favorite artists, his vitriol and anguish really helped me channel my aggression in my teens and twenties….I got the impression that his music was as cathartic for him as it was for me. Naturally he’s matured quite a bit but I genuinely wonder if he’s following the Nick Lowe career path into musician elder statesman role.
Omnes Omnibus
@piratedan: I have seen Costello in concert in the past few years. If he is adopting a elder statesman role, he is not going gentle into that good night.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@Omnes Omnibus: @Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again):
And what I do find myself listening to more often than late-Boomer/early-Xer stuff is music like this.
piratedan
@Omnes Omnibus: that’s cool to know, I can only judge by what I’ve seen on the telly when I catch him, because there hardly anyone who plays Tucson, AZ, I can testify to that…. just about time for me to hang it up for the night…..
and I’m off to go spend time with the title of the song below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uYY0ev7LQ8
NotMax
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
Lurves me some Art Pepper.
Tommy
One of the things that stuns me is how few folks know of Nick Drake. Google him. Listen. You IMHO will fall down a hole of his music that you might come out of tomorrow. He killed himself at 23. I reacall playing his music for this women I was dating and she was blown away. In a rainy day he was the man.
Omnes Omnibus
and so to bed….
handsmile
@piratedan:
EC has been among mine as well, perhaps now more retrospectively than current. I remain in awe of his songwriting/lyric genius.
As for “elder statesman,” you may well know that he’s recently released a collaborative album with The Roots. The man’s zeal for music of all kinds would seem to remain undiminished.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSDEs6_iNqQ
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/sep/19/elvis-costello-roots-no-thing-too-funky
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@NotMax:
Hmmmm…Are you familiar with King Pleasure?
Sarah, Proud and Tall
@Yatsuno:
Rebuttal.
ETA: Pow! Bam!
SarahT
Someone mention dancing ?
Rebirth Brass Band:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3E1VBCcA76E&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D3E1VBCcA76E
LCD Soundsystem :
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jq7MvcAjzDE&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Djq7MvcAjzDE&sa=X&ei=wGlrUsngI8S3kQeN74DAAQ&ved=0CBoQqwQ
Dance away.
wasabi gasp
Elliphant – Down on Life
Sarah, Proud and Tall
@wasabi gasp:
Very nice.
wasabi gasp
@Sarah, Proud and Tall: Here’s another by Kat.
Kat Edmonson – Lovefool
nastybrutishntall
Here’s the new video from Oneohtrix Point Never / Daniel Lopatin, if your tastes run conceptual.
I resisted the new album, because at first I thought it was exactly like James Ferraro’s Far Side Virtual, i.e. vaporwave, but it has a real emotional weight and sadness underneath the HD corporate muzak gloss. I would put it right up there with any accomplishments of 20th century minimalism. In fact, it’s probably going to be remembered as its coda.