Feeling kind of down and discouraged today, wondering if there was a way to break out of it. I thought of this song – I love the harmony and it makes me happy. h/t to Omnes for linking to this song a million years ago.
How is everybody else doing?
Old-fashioned music thread, open for business.
Update: “Old-fashioned music thread” was intended to be a reference to the music threads we always had at night. It was not a request to only share “old-fashioned” music. I guess there’s a reason that this is one of my favorite quotes:
“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” ~George Bernard Shaw
Omnes Omnibus
I left this down in the Charlie Watts thread, but Marianne Faithfull is always worth as second listen.
HinTN
Been listening to a lot of Charlie Watts today. This was very nice; she’s got two fine guitarists there. Thanks, WG.
HinTN
@Omnes Omnibus: Of yes she is!
OGLiberal
Matthew Sweet on the guitar and vocals. They did three cover compilations together (all pretty darned good) and were also the Austin Powers band. Just read that Mike Nesmith offered to have the song be performed on The Monkees but the producers turned him down. Their loss, the Stone Poneys gain, I guess.
piratedan
since we’re kind of celebrating how a bunch of english dudes managed to successfully appropriate American R&B, here’s some Boston guys doing said same…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqyG8-euggQ
and if we’re doing a remembrance of old Stones stuff, I rather fond of this one, which for some reason is never grouped in with the majority of what is considered seminal for them…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjq_hOtv1TE
Gin & Tonic
Not music, life. I’m not leaving New England this year.
Omnes Omnibus
@OGLiberal: They recorded as Sid n Susie. Most of their stuff is damned good. This was best left to Roxy Music though.
jl
Open thread, so thought I’d note how a country with some self-respect acts. The Afghans who helped South Korean troops will arrive in the country tomorrow.
‘Moral responsibility’: South Korea is airlifting hundreds of Afghans out of Kabul
BY DAVID CHOI AND YOO KYONG CHANG, STARS AND STRIPES , AUGUST 25, 2021
‘ [Second Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs] Choi cited the country’s “moral responsibility” to house the Afghans given the “serious situations” many of them are under. He added that the evacuees will be entering the country not as refugees, “but people who have done distinguished service to South Korea.” ‘
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2021-08-25/afghanistan-evacuees-south-korea-taliban-refugees-2661462.html
BGinCHI
Two records to check out, if you like the sort of music it is.
1. Will Johnson and Justin Peter Kinkel-Schuster have a band together they call Marie/Lepanto. Johnson is most well-known for his band Centro-Matic, and solo stuff, and JPKS fronted Water Liars.
The new Marie/Lepanto record is called “Gulf Collide” and is only on Bandcamp.
It’s terrific. Jangly and edgy and smart.
2. The other is JPKS’s solo record “Constant Stranger.” I’m floored at how good this is. Sort of a cross between Dylan and Tom Petty, but really neither.
Just a damn good record.
sixthdoctor
Was made aware via AV Club review of a band called Deafheaven, they’ve been around for a while and straddle shoegaze and death metal. Their new album, Infinite Granite, is more shoegazy and I’m loving it, but also digging their earlier albums which are much heavier on doom metal vocals.
BGinCHI
@OGLiberal: Huge Matthew Sweet fan.
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus:
Sid n Susie?
Wag
A little Richard Thompson fits the bill. From his collection 1000 Years of Great Music, his album of his favorite songs from
the last millennium a little ditty from l o n g ago
Sumer is a comin in
Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGirl: Yes.
Omnes Omnibus
@BGinCHI:
I saw him live once Columbus. Just him, a guitar, and his voice.
HinTN
Just in case you haven’t heard his quintet and their tribute to Charlie Parker, here’s Charlie in his element
https://youtu.be/Up8MLHkIePI
BGinCHI
@Omnes Omnibus: Cool. I love those kinds of tours (best solos like that I’ve seen are Bob Mould and Jay Farrar).
Gravenstone
Fell down the rabbit hole of Japanese bands the last couple of years. Specifically female rock bands. Here’s a fun little bop from one of them who tend a bit towards the esoteric at times. Enjoy!
Omnes Omnibus
@HinTN: Something different, but Jazz based.
ETA: and this.
Lyrebird
@WaterGirl: Thanks WG, and sorry you’ve had reason to feel discouraged! My eyes leapt to that comment. Long week. Month of long weeks, and I Just opened BJ with the “and you Just don’t get it, you keep it copacetic, and you learn to accept it, you know you’re so pathetic” as my earworm. Won’t link (it’s a Local H song fwiw) because who needs more downers?
@Omnes Omnibus: and thanks for as ever bringing the great music links.
Gin & Tonic
@Omnes Omnibus: Don’t know how these things work, but hope Herbie made some money from that too.
Delk
@BGinCHI: met him at the old Thurston’s on George Street. Club wasn’t open yet and the band was having dinner. He signed my Girlfriend and Altered Beast cds.
Omnes Omnibus
@Gin & Tonic: They put it out on Blue Note, and Hancock is the first credited songwriter.
Ajabu
@Gin & Tonic:
Of course he did. It’s the music BUSINESS and he is nobody’s fool…
Suzanne
Josh Ritter “Old Black Magic”
Bad Religion “Age of Unreason”
Ajabu
And as a shameless act of self promotion, this instrumental of mine is pretty relaxing-
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=YpL-bpCZpN0&list=RDAMVMYpL-bpCZpN0
Gin & Tonic
@Omnes Omnibus: Ah, OK. For anyone else reading who might not get the reference, here’s a good version of the tune that Omnes’ linked tune is based on. Also a good vid for connecting to the Charlie Watts clothing links downstairs. This was jazz royalty at the time, all dressed properly (except the drummer, ironically.)
cope
“Waters of March” by Antonio Carlos Jobim.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6F1-sWdV1CI
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: Jealous.
Omnes Omnibus
@Ajabu: Nice.
NotMax
Old school music, you say?
;)
cope
Also too, Herbie Mann, “I’m Comin’ Home” live at the Village Gate I absolutely love the background sounds in recordings like this.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tfA6zm-CogI
Sheesh, two edits to get it right.
WaterGirl
@Suzanne: I had never heard of Josh Ritter. I really like that one!
Suzanne
@WaterGirl: He’s super-great. I have been listening to him a lot in the last week or so.
The Bad Religion song is because Fuck Anti-Vax People.
WaterGirl
@Suzanne: I noticed that he has a new album about to come out.
?BillinGlendaleCA
Great song from the most tragic bands in rock history…Without You by Badfinger
WaterGirl
@Suzanne: On the bicycle issue… I like the idea of leaving a note, signing it Suzie or something (no last name or address) and including a phone number.
I think if I didn’t, it would nag at me and would bother me, and I do think we can model behavior for our kids.
Non confrontational note, you can explain to the kids that you never want to make assumptions, so you want to ask… there can be a perfectly innocent explanation sometimes, even for things that look pretty bad on the face of it, etc.
Let us know what you decide to do.
cope
@cope: It’s “Comin’ Home Baby” you moron.
Suzanne
@WaterGirl: Another good one “Getting Ready to Get Down”
Lyrebird
@Ajabu: Thanks so much! I really enjoyed reading your artist spotlight!
@Omnes Omnibus: Have you ever listened to Erin McKeown? This recording isn’t the best, not sure what mic they were using, but it’s fun to see her having fun with her guitar.
Omnes Omnibus
In honor of my three week break from here.
Suzanne
@WaterGirl: Mr. Suzanne and neighbor (from whose house bike was stolen) went over this evening and knocked on the door to get it back. No answer.
Suzanne
@Omnes Omnibus: You were missed, yo.
LeftCoastYankee
@piratedan:
Ah yes, Treat Her Right…. My last year in college I stayed up in the Massachusetts woods for the summer, and that album was a big part of the soundtrack.
Soon after I moved to the big city of Boston and had friends turning me on to Morphine, and I’m thinking, “that guy sounds kind of familiar….”
Mark Sandman is much longer gone than Watts but very much missed.
Omnes Omnibus
@Lyrebird:
No, I hadn’t. But, thanks, I will now.
Omnes Omnibus
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Interesting version.
WaterGirl
@Suzanne: Love that!
“Dry as a sheet in the King James version.”
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Omnes Omnibus: It’s the original version, Pete Ham and Tom Evens wrote it. I’ve always felt it could have used better production, it kind of sounds like a demo.
WaterGirl
@Suzanne: Good for them. I assume they will try again?
NutmegAgain
@piratedan: Whoo boy, yeah, Treat Her Right. They used to open for a favorite of mine, The Lyres. (And then there was Morphine, who had a song.) Sandman used to hang around the bar hitting on staff (unwelcome). Then, he died.
Awful too bad about Charlie Watts, but it does seem like he had a good run.
dnfree
This Jackson Browne song always brings a smile to my face. It’s just “sprightly”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-KgOXVlirw
Omnes Omnibus
@?BillinGlendaleCA: My memory has it in a faster tempo. Odd.
ETA: Might be morphing it with Baby Blue.
dnfree
@cope:
James Fallows sometimes writes about “Waters of March”.
WaterGirl
@piratedan: Two thumbs up for the Treat her right link.
dnfree
I don’t know if this counts as old-fashioned music. Our daughter recorded it during the pandemic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6x0l43GdFT8
WaterGirl
@dnfree: Oops, that wasn’t supposed to “old fashioned music” – that was supposed to be a reference to the old music threads we used to have!
Did everyone take it the first way?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Omnes Omnibus: Or one of the many remakes, Harry Nillson’s being the most popular.
Omnes Omnibus
Pretty much. I hesitated about the Hanni El-Khatib link because it’s only about 10 years old.
Omnes Omnibus
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
That might be as well.
Alison Rose
I will never miss a chance to share the genius that is Valerie June.
tomtofa
Here’s one that takes me out if a funk.
Not exactly old – this is recorded live in isolation last year – but the band certainly is: they’ve been going pretty much nonstop for 59 years . . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKbAErmGntU
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: I’d better update the post up top!
edit: updated!
Omnes Omnibus
Old fashioned and underrated.
Omnes Omnibus
@tomtofa:
The favorite band of everyone’s favorite band.
JML
I’ve been listening to the Corrs again lately. “Would You Be Happier” was a fine addition to my “Get Through These Damn Times” playlist.
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: That’s great! I have never heard that version before.
edit: way more interesting than the other versions I have heard.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@WaterGirl: Mmm, OK
Oh! Oh! The Monkees*!
*Not really, it’s composer John Stewart’s version of ‘Daydream Believer’.
Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGirl: She started out as an Ikette with Ike and Tina Turner. Then she moved to London where she was quite successful. She is still recording.
WaterGirl
@dnfree: I had forgotten how much I like Jackson Browne. I had never heard that song, so I will have to listen to some Jackson Browne this week.
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: I had no idea.
Your comment reminded me of the Saturday Night Live episode where they had “The Pips” perform without Gladys Knight. Just the empty microphone where he would normally stand, no one singing the Gladys Knight parts, just the Pips doing their thing as the background singers.
I would watch that again in a heartbeat.
tomtofa
@Omnes Omnibus: Yep. With reason, I think, as far as pop is concerned. Endless hooks, melodies, rhythms.
And 59 was a typo – they’ve only been around for 50 years.
cain
Was listening to Whitney Houston’s hit “I got nothing” – what an amazing display of vocal prowess. While there are certainly folks of her talent (Jennifer Hudson) – we will see never someone of her ilk. Her life was a tragedy and shows that you can have all the talent and you can still be so so unhappy.
ETA and restrained myself to talk about my fav band that you all know ;)
piratedan
@Omnes Omnibus: what their management did to them was indeed criminal. Unsure if you could find two better albums than Straight Up or No Dice and are part of the triumvirate of Power Pop legends… (see Big Star and Raspberries for the other two) .
Ken
I was going to say how much I enjoy Vivaldi’s L’estate, presto (usually called “Storm”).
Steeplejack
@piratedan:
“The Last Time”—my favorite Stones song from way back. Here’s an interesting live version: dreadful audio, but more interesting than the usual bland Ed Sullivan clip. Charlie Watts at 1:38.
KSinMA
In case nobody posted this:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w9qsDgA1q8Y
Mary G
@Omnes Omnibus: I have to chime in – you are my music guru. I’ve heard so much great stuff from your links over the years that I’d probably never come across IRL. I always end up through the mirror at YouTube two hours later and never get back to thank you. Also, too, glad to see you back.
Omnes Omnibus
@Mary G: Thank you.
?BillinGlendaleCA
The Beatles!
(You know the tune, just not the lyrics.)
Child of Nature
sdhays
Perfect thread for Old Old Fashioned by Frightened Rabbit.
LeftCoastYankee
@Alison Rose:
She is wonderful. A quarantine discovery for me, but always brings a smile and some bad sing-along by me.
Ajabu
@WaterGirl:
re: Pips only.
That wasn’t SNL. It was a Richard Pryor show.
dnfree
@WaterGirl: I was pregnant in 1980 (with the daughter I posted above) and I heard that song on the radio driving to work nearly every day. It always made me smile.
Another Scott
Something a little different from a band I saw long ago in Dayton. They didn’t have a drummer, but had a little drum machine.
I’m pleasantly surprised that I found this on YouTube! I had their cassette and wore it out.
Dancing Giant Birdcage Monster (4:10)
“Inspired by a road trip to see the Residents.”
Work Sucks (4:55)
Cheers,
Scott.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Ajabu: The Gladys-less Pips.
Anoniminous
Max Richter: On The Nature Of Daylight
joel hanes
Music to reinforce the gumption?
Indigo Girls, Hammer and a Nail
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr3coM2DvPk
LeftCoastYankee
Joe Henry and Billy Bragg in one of those “wow that’s more than I thought it’d be” songs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mJnOX6fbvo
Benw
Lovin everyone’s links, even tho I’m late to the party
burnspbesq
@WaterGirl:
His new record is quite good.
burnspbesq
The new James McMurtry album just might be the best of his long and distinguished career.
Example:
https://youtu.be/HPYWcdrQPxg
burnspbesq
If you’re in the mood to see some hellacious guitar playing, Molly Tuttle’s 8/31 Red Rocks show will be live-streamed on mandolin.com
piratedan
here’s a never was but would someday become…..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBPfze2O6lk
MomSense
I can’t believe I slept through a music thread.?
Tony Jay
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Late to the party, but that was three minutes of perfect. Richard Pryor, the Pips. Hilarious.
prostratedragon
Wow, should have stopped by.
“Night in Medina,” Randy Weston
What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us?
If you like Byrds-esqu vocal harmonies, The Jayhawks, who are tragically underappreciated IMO, are great. https://youtu.be/OjoFrhU5ikU
debbie
@Omnes Omnibus:
Wow, best version I’ve ever heard.
cleek
here, i wrote this one: https://youtu.be/kuLx092kJkY
Citizen Scientist
@Suzanne: both great artists! I had heard and known about JR for several years, but really didn’t get into his stuff until I saw him open for Jason Isbell a couple of years ago at our local small theater.
Czar Chasm
Here’s a newer artist: Chelsea Wolfe
She does a lot of gothic rock, but she also has some folk numbers that are stunning:
Appalachia
BigJimSlade
@Omnes Omnibus: Well, excellent return, lol!
BigJimSlade
@prostratedragon: Ah, Randy Weston is great – saw him play once at the Regattabar in Cambridge, MA, when he put out Zep Tepi.
Another Scott
@cleek: Catchy!
Thanks.
Cheers,
Scott.