Unsomnambulist
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Blur - The Ballad Of Darren (2023)
What are you listening to? July 2023
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Unsomnambulist
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Guided By Voices - Welshpool Frillies (2023)
Ojai Sam
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The Halle Orchestra (Mark Elder, cond.) - Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 "Leningrad" (comp. 1942, rec. 2014)
Mark Elder and The Halle's fairly recent performance of Shostakovich's wartime anthem is a complete triumph. Scored for a massive orchestra only slightly smaller than the Army of the Soviet Union, this lengthy work carries a strong risk of lapsing into turgidity. But Elder's probing treatment digs deeply into the slow passages and then sets the finale free to work all of its victorious magic.
on the Sam-O-Meter.
The composer in 1942
The conductor in 2014
Mark Elder and The Halle's fairly recent performance of Shostakovich's wartime anthem is a complete triumph. Scored for a massive orchestra only slightly smaller than the Army of the Soviet Union, this lengthy work carries a strong risk of lapsing into turgidity. But Elder's probing treatment digs deeply into the slow passages and then sets the finale free to work all of its victorious magic.
on the Sam-O-Meter.
The composer in 1942
The conductor in 2014
Unsomnambulist
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African Head Charge - A Trip To Bolgatanga (2023)
Unsomnambulist
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But the phonograph hadn't been invented yet!The Fold ~ This Too Shall Pass (2006)
This still reminds me of being a kid in middle school, during my late emo-pop, post-hardcore daze.
Nickyboy
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This. Just put it on. First track reminds me of The Good, The Bad, and the Queen. Second track is back to old-school Blur.Blur - The Ballad Of Darren (2023)
Glad they are back. "The Whip" was kind of lackluster, and the last Gorillaz album was a really dud.
Unsomnambulist
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Ali Farka Touré - Voyageur (2023)
axolotl
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I cantilever you spun my word salad platter in that direction.
You are damping my mellow. Get off my plinth.
Unsomnambulist
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So sorry I gave you static. Snap, crackle, pop.
axolotl
Nunquam non paratus
It's too late for breakfast now.
Unsomnambulist
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OK, Alan.
Ojai Sam
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Skeeter Davis - Here's The Answer (1961)
6 Big Hits! 6 Answers!
Interesting concept album paired a half dozen big country hits by male singers with answer songs from the female perspective performed by Skeeter. The answer song has a long tradition in country music. Perhaps the best known is Kitty Wells' "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels", a sassy riposte to Hank Thompson's "Wild Side Of Life" which had offered this sexist bit of barroom philosophy:
I didn't know God made honky tonk angels
I might have known you'd never make a wife
You gave up the only one that ever loved you
And went back to the wild side of life.
6 Big Hits! 6 Answers!
Interesting concept album paired a half dozen big country hits by male singers with answer songs from the female perspective performed by Skeeter. The answer song has a long tradition in country music. Perhaps the best known is Kitty Wells' "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels", a sassy riposte to Hank Thompson's "Wild Side Of Life" which had offered this sexist bit of barroom philosophy:
I didn't know God made honky tonk angels
I might have known you'd never make a wife
You gave up the only one that ever loved you
And went back to the wild side of life.
axolotl
Nunquam non paratus
Buffalo Daughter ~ New Rock (1998)
Neo-Psychedelia, Experimental Rock, Shibuya-Kei, Art Rock, Krautrock
Neo-Psychedelia, Experimental Rock, Shibuya-Kei, Art Rock, Krautrock
Zeeba Neighba
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Amadeus Quartet - String Quartets (Brahms 1-3, Dvorak 12)
Unsomnambulist
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Pete And The Pirates - Little Death (2008)
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