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214 Imperial Age - New World 240403 https://imperial-age.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNe875Z9uaY Windborn - the first track on the album Imperial Age is another band that advertised a free CD and proceeded to sell me a couple of disks for actual money once I clicked through. They describe themselves variously as Orchestral Metal or Atlantean Metal. Watch the video and you'll get a pretty good idea of their schtik. Visit the website and read their story - they're Russian, but escaped that totatitarian dictatorship before the invasion of Ukraine and ended up getting a "we think you're great" visa to the UK. Personally, I'd be much happier with a whole lot more Russians like these folks and a whole lot fewer like what we see running the place back in eastern Europe.
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215 Jamiroquai - Synkronized 240410 https://www.jamiroquai.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vE4VlA_9OrI Canned Heat - the first track on this albulm Jamiroquai has appeared in this project twice already. Nothing wrong with more funky dance music, is there? I picked this CD up at a thrift store not long ago.
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216 Sheryl Crow - Tuesday Night Music Club 240417 https://sherylcrow.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClbmWkbocoY All I Wanna Do - probably the first song I ever heard by Sheryl Crow I picked up this CD somewhere, not sure where. Probably a thrift shop or something like that, months ago. I re-discovered it during one of episodes of looking for something else. Sheryl Crow should be famous in her own right, but I think many people know her primarily for her relationship with Lance Armstrong. Oh well, I like this music. This is her first album, and browsing her website I see she's still very active and making new music. Cool.
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217 SoSo - I Wouldn't Call This Success... But It's Close Enough AND Failing On Our Own Terms 240424 https://sosopunx.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGJNdptNwTA Yeah Nah - a song featuring the classic Aussie phrase "Yeah... nah" something like 56 times in a row Aussie punk, fully not taking themselves seriously, the usual Instagram "click for free CD" schtick. "Call This Success" was a digital download and both albums showed up a bit later as physical CDs. "Failing" seems to have RIAA-sues-Napster-era (circa 2000)-style copy protection on it and my iTunes is taking part in the punk spirit tonight by just crashing. iTunes can rip CDs that Windows Media Player will not, notably the recenty entry from Outkast (a double-album released directly into the fangs of the RIAA in the year 2000).
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218 ¡MayDay! - ¡MayDay! 240501 https://www.maydayonline.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B410hZBqS24 Groundhog Day (featuring Cee-Lo Green & DJ Craze) - the first actual video from the first album by this band. Apologies for the low resolution, this is the Official Video and I guess they never updated from the 2006 version. On Bandcamp Friday at the beginning of May I bought all the Wednesday albums for the month - there were 5 Wednesdays in May 2024. I chose the them May Day, as in the international day of workers, but of course it has the other meaning of a distress call from a ship or aircraft. I think most of the songs, bands, and albums I explored with the name May Day or Mayday were in relation to the distress call rather than leaning towards international socialism, but that's fully in line with this project. That said, lyrics in Groundhog Day includes the old communist joke "We pretend to work, they pretend to pay us" so perhaps the double entendre is alive and well. This band showed up in my searching for the theme, before I decided to just use Bandcamp for the whole month. I found South of Fifth - their 11th album - for sale on a sketchy, sketchy site for something like $1.50 but after a shamefully long period of tolerating the rampant Pay With Bitcoin! banners I bailed and sought refuge in a more reputable part of the internet. South of Fifth was not available from ¡MayDay! on Bandcamp but I figured beginning at the beginning is reasonable strategy. I'm enjoying this band more every time I listen to them, so even if my nephew doesn't wish to explore their output, I probably will.
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219 Nesh Mayday - Discography 2023 240508 https://maydaynesh.bandcamp.com/ - Bandcamp page because I can't find a stand-alone website for this Italian techno artist. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDVaL1fCdoc Push it Badly - the first track in this collection Nesh Mayday showed up in my searches on Bandcamp, and given the lack of something like a traditional album sold by this artist, the cheapest way to get a reasonable number of tracks was to pick the annual collection. Listening to it, I imagine the waving glow sticks, happy drugs, and blissed out dancers of an imaginary rave somewhere in Europe. I do not have a subwoofer hooked up to this computer at the moment, perhaps the full impact would be better felt with one.
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220 Myriam Gendron - MAYDAY 240515 https://myriamgendron.bandcamp.com/ - another Bandcamp page for the usual reason; also, Bandcamp featured Myriam Gendron on 13 May https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuhHqmU1Sww Terres brûlées - official visualiser in the abscence of any real videos for this album. My searches for "May Day" and "Mayday" took me to some varied places on Bandcamp. I chose these slow, gentle songs from this Quebecois singer-songwriter for a few reasons beyond the name of the album. She sings in French for most of this album, and I want my nephew to be able to use the French he's being taught in a western Canadian school. Having said that, it took me a while to find a video or 'visualiser' from this album that actually featured her singing en français.
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221 Jefferson Mayday Mayday - Շɧɛ Gɾҽαƚҽʂƚ Dɾҽαɱ Eʋҽɾ Fσɾҽƚσℓԃ 240522 https://jeffersonmaydaymayday.bandcamp.com/album/g-d-e-f - Bandcamp page for the album because any link for this Mystical Space Wizard's name leads here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyC4nxrMo_g "Aɾɾιʋαʅ σϝ Tԋҽ Nҽɯ Wσɾʅԃ & Lιϝҽ Aʂ Wҽ Kɳσɯ Iƚ" - umm... yeah, it's on this album, it's a video. I don't know what Jefferson Mayday Mayday did to bend my computer and Youtube and other places to his will and put everything in that weird font but here we are. This album takes us backwards through time, geological eras flashing past in peaceful synthwaves. Or something. Look! A spider! Colooooooooours.... ExecuDork fucked around with this message at 13:18 on Jun 1, 2024 |
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222 Mayday Parade - Sunnyland 240529 https://maydayparade.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYURYvj9Meo Piece Of Your Heart - first video I found from this album. There are a large number of vertical videos (TikTok, I think) on Youtube by this band and their fans. Rounding off my only-a-little-drunk spending spree on Bandcamp Friday May 2024 we have this entirely unsurprising alt-rock/pop band from Middle America and their panty-solvent singer. Go ahead, try to convice me that guy isn't drowning in pussy. That bit of jealousy from my frustrated youth out of the way, these guys have at least two things going for them that appeal to me, beyond the fact of their name fitting my ridiculous theme for this sub-project. 1. I actually like the music, it's very sing-along-able and that's a great thing for any band and 2. unlike too many alt-rock weenies from the past 20 years, these guys are actually skilled musicians and are still able to break out the faster tunes. I wouldn't be surprised if the songs they cover at their live songs include bands like AC/DC or Trent Reznor. Hey, I can hope.
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