Random Music Thoughts

[axolotl]

The Best Jazz Albums of 2023

Our guide to the year's best jazz albums.

daily.bandcamp.com

 

[axolotl]

 

[Unsomnambulist]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1736601942791450672

I'm glad he said the Rolling Stones, otherwise I would have no idea who that was.

 

[Nickyboy]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1736601942791450672

I'm glad he said the Rolling Stones, otherwise I would have no idea who that was.

The grammar is atrocious, though.

 

[axolotl]

The grammar is atrocious, though.

Grammar? That's a dude!

 

[axolotl]

I was looking up Freddie and the Dreamers, for some discernible reason. I had momentarily gotten them mixed up with John Fred and His Playboy Band.

Lester Bangs was / was not a fan. In the 1980 Rolling Stone History of Rock & Roll, Lester Bangs wrote of the group:

Freddie and the Dreamers [had] no masterpiece but a plentitude [sic] of talentless idiocy and enough persistence to get four albums and one film soundtrack released ... the Dreamers looked as thuggish as Freddie looked dippy ... Freddie and the Dreamers represented a triumph of rock as cretinous swill, and as such should be not only respected, but given their place in history.

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

I was looking up Freddie and the Dreamers, for some discernible reason. I had momentarily gotten them mixed up with John Fred and His Playboy Band.

Lester Bangs was / was not a fan. In the 1980 Rolling Stone History of Rock & Roll, Lester Bangs wrote of the group:

Lester Bangs is hilarious - probably not a fun guy to hand out with, but enjoy his writing

To jump on your mix up, I met John Fred's wife once (he had passed) - he's from Baton Rouge. Though most of the world know only the novelty "Judy in Disguise (With Glasses)", he actually had a local presence of older folks who enjoyed his other material.

 

[Nickyboy]

Brain Eno on what ambient music is and touring: https://www.theringer.com/music/2023/12/26/24014289/brian-eno-tour-career-retrospective

 

[axolotl]

Brain Eno on what ambient music is and touring: https://www.theringer.com/music/2023/12/26/24014289/brian-eno-tour-career-retrospective

This is a very interesting article.

A lesser man would say you misspelled Brian.

 

[axolotl]

Green Day Tweak Donald Trump Again With Altered ‘American Idiot’ Lyric During ‘New Year’s Rockin’ Eve’ Set

They are decidedly not part of the “MAGA agenda.”

www.billboard.com

 

[axolotl]

Coincidentally, my New Years weekend classical included both Haydn and Schubert

Vanilla Fudge not so much....

I want to lodge a minor objection to late-stage moderation of December's music thread.

You did not even let me get a pwn in by allowing me to add to Zeeb's message, the following:

"You kept us hanging on" for that?

ETA: It's a self-own, tho', because you could ask the same of me, as well.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

This is a very interesting article.

A lesser man would say you misspelled Brian.

Would you say he has brian damage?

 

[axolotl]

Would you say he has brian damage?

Nay, I say! Neigh!

 

[Nickyboy]

Nay, I say! Neigh!

Horse feathers!

 

[axolotl]

 

[Nickyboy]

Paul Weller, old prick, says he doesn't give a fuck any more.

MSN

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Paul Weller, old prick, says he doesn't give a fuck any more.

MSN

I see nothing wrong with his stance.

 

[axolotl]

 

[Nickyboy]

The greatest song of all time, according to science.
Meh. And dammit if it isn't stuck in my head now. Arrrgh!

The greatest song of all time, according to science

With science able to analyse music, both in terms of musicology and the emotive side of it that makes us 'feel', what song has been deemed the greatest?

faroutmagazine.co.uk

 

[axolotl]

Laurie Anderson on Steering Lou Reed’s Legacy: “It’s a Wild Way to Be With Your Partner”

The famously prickly “Heroin” singer spent the last years of his life chasing natural highs through martial arts. With a new release of ambient music recorded to accompany tai chi sessions, his longtime partner continues to shed light on a side of the rock-and-roll animal that the public rarely saw.

www.vanityfair.com