Nickyboy
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Bob Dylan Center to open in Tulsa, OK in 2022: http://www.noise11.com/news/bob-dylan-center-to-open-in-tulsa-in-2022-20210513
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Unsomnambulist
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This is objectifying women!
axolotl
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Dang! Time to find a new hobby, I guess.
Nickyboy
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Keith Richards put his teeth in with Superglue: https://www.nme.com/news/music/the-rolling-stones-316-1296596
axolotl
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Unsomnambulist
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It's quite clear. He means Jagger isn't doing anything.
axolotl
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Is he pursuing a latent interest in science by ass-breathing, at least?
Unsomnambulist
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Actually, I think Ronnie Wood meant that Jagger was doing something, but he didn't know exactly what, so he used "shit" in the generic sense.
Did I succeed in making you more confused?
axolotl
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I want a new interpreter!
Now, translate this one, attributed to Drake:
“The guy who tatted is a f---ing –shole though, I will tell you that. I don’t f--- with that guy. F--- you to that tat artist by the way. And you should lose your job and should never do tattoos again and I don’t f--- with you. And if I ever see you, I’ma f--- you up.”
Unsomnambulist
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Apparently, a tattoo artist did a bad job that Drake takes exception to, and Drake will express that dissatisfaction in person if he ever meets the artist.
axolotl
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Okay, you can keep on keepin' on.
But, you gotta keep Mick, Drake, and the tattoo artist away from me.
axolotl
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Joni Mitchell Gives Rare Interview at Clive Davis' Virtual Grammy Party
Joni Mitchell made a rare public appearance at Clive Davis' Grammy party on Saturday, where the industry mogul interviewed the singer.
www.rollingstone.com
Zeeba Neighba
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Finished some albums yesterday and for my ride home just thought of random songs and quickly made a short playlist - "Twilight Zone" by Golden Earring , "The Passenger" by Iggy Pop, "Love is Like Oxygen" by Sweet, "I Want You Back" by Hoodoo Gurus, "Common People" by Pulp, "Burning Up" by Madonna, "Expresso Love" by Dire Straits. Just one spontaneously-though-of song after another
I have for most of my life been an album oriented listening guy, but have as the years have gone one, appreciated singles more even pop music singles I would have scoffed at in my teens/20s
A fun aspect of my yearly listening series has been Monday's playlist of each year's singles
Definitely could see, once that's over (in only 3 weeks!), spending more time with singles, playlists, greatest hits, etc.
One goal I've had was to create a ranked list of songs spanning different eras and genres - maybe, as the John Cena song goes, the time is now
I have for most of my life been an album oriented listening guy, but have as the years have gone one, appreciated singles more even pop music singles I would have scoffed at in my teens/20s
A fun aspect of my yearly listening series has been Monday's playlist of each year's singles
Definitely could see, once that's over (in only 3 weeks!), spending more time with singles, playlists, greatest hits, etc.
One goal I've had was to create a ranked list of songs spanning different eras and genres - maybe, as the John Cena song goes, the time is now
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Zeeba Neighba
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As I listened to Sweet's "Love is Like Oxygen", my mind wandered back to the early 1990s and the only time I ever requested a song on the radio.
As I was studying, I dunno, at 1 am, was listening with a friend to Alison Steele, "The Night Bird", a seminal DJ in NYC who did the late night show in the 1960s-1970s on WNEW-FM. Raspy voice, trippy dialogue, poetry - a champion on progressive music and hippie rock on early FM rock radio (I think she was syndicated so many may have heard about her).
She took some time off doing other work then returned to NYC radio in the 1980s and in the early 1990s was on 92.3 K-Rock
So "Love is Like Oxygen" is far from the greatest song ever but it was one of those songs, you remember the type, like "Hey Hey What Can I Say" by Zep or Bruce Springsteen's "The Fever" that would be played occasionally enough (unlike say "Baba O'Reilly" or "Tangled Up in Blue") to bring a smile on one's face when listening to the radio in an age when you couldn't cue up almost any song in 5 seconds on streaming
So I called the request line expecting to get some pimply-intern and Steele herself answered the phone. I admit I was a bit awe-struck. She was great - asked my about myself, what I was studying, how med school was going. Soon after she played the song giving a shout out to me to keep up the studies.
A small but very cool moment that makes me smile to this day and makes me break out "Love is Like Oxygen" every so often
Sadly, Steele would die a couple years later from stomach cancer (she was a long-time smoker interestingly of small cigars). She reminds of a day when DJs had some autonomy, could talk and play random stuff.
As I was studying, I dunno, at 1 am, was listening with a friend to Alison Steele, "The Night Bird", a seminal DJ in NYC who did the late night show in the 1960s-1970s on WNEW-FM. Raspy voice, trippy dialogue, poetry - a champion on progressive music and hippie rock on early FM rock radio (I think she was syndicated so many may have heard about her).
She took some time off doing other work then returned to NYC radio in the 1980s and in the early 1990s was on 92.3 K-Rock
So "Love is Like Oxygen" is far from the greatest song ever but it was one of those songs, you remember the type, like "Hey Hey What Can I Say" by Zep or Bruce Springsteen's "The Fever" that would be played occasionally enough (unlike say "Baba O'Reilly" or "Tangled Up in Blue") to bring a smile on one's face when listening to the radio in an age when you couldn't cue up almost any song in 5 seconds on streaming
So I called the request line expecting to get some pimply-intern and Steele herself answered the phone. I admit I was a bit awe-struck. She was great - asked my about myself, what I was studying, how med school was going. Soon after she played the song giving a shout out to me to keep up the studies.
A small but very cool moment that makes me smile to this day and makes me break out "Love is Like Oxygen" every so often
Sadly, Steele would die a couple years later from stomach cancer (she was a long-time smoker interestingly of small cigars). She reminds of a day when DJs had some autonomy, could talk and play random stuff.
axolotl
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Minor quibble/Might be a Type O:
"Twilight Zone" is by Golden Earring.
P. S. Dire Straights is just your phone auto-incorrecting you.
Zeeba Neighba
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Zeeba Neighba
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‘It has stood the test of time’: was 1971 the greatest year in music?
In Asif Kapadia’s new Apple TV+ docuseries, the music of the year, and its cultural and political impact, receives much-deserved attention
This could have gone in TV/streaming shows thread as it's about the docuseries on Apple TV
Was 1971 the greatest year in music?
I'll be checking it out (though 1967, 1970, and 1991 might get angry at such allegations)
Zeeba Neighba
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It's Bob Dylan's 80th birthday (should we have a birthday thread 
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Article from The Guardian on 80 Tracks everyone should know:
www.theguardian.com
)Article from The Guardian on 80 Tracks everyone should know:
Beyond Mr Tambourine Man: 80 Bob Dylan songs everyone should know
To mark the singer-songwriter’s 80th birthday, super fan Edward Docx has picked 80 tracks for the ‘Dylan-curious’ – those who know the hits, but not what to try next
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