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049 Yukon Blonde - Tiger Talk 210203 I saw Yukon Blonde at the same music festival I've mentioned before. Unlike every other musician and band I saw at that festival, four years in a row, I'd actually heard of Yukon Blonde before I saw them. https://www.yukonblonde.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f178KH15T5M My Girl, first track on the album. Yukon Blonde at Ness Creek performed second-to-last on either the Friday or Saturday night of that 4-day festival. Those are the big nights, when people stay up all night and party. The last act on the main stage is always a very high energy, everyone-dances-in-the-mud performance, which is what I had been expecting from Yukon Blonde by reputation. They probably could have pulled it off, had the coveted past-midnight slot not been assigned to a very high energy band. I enjoyed their set, but I was blown away by the act that followed them. Trouble is, I was drunk at the time and while I'm sure I bought an album by whoever followed Yukon Blonde that night and I'm sure I love that music, I can't remember who, exactly, it was who took to the stage then. There is a central, almost default stage lineup for many bands that I've seen at Ness Creek. One woman in the otherwise all-male band, and she plays keyboard. I'm not the only one to have noticed this pattern, but it is disturbingly common. None of the bands are bad, I've never heard bad things about any of them, and the possibly-token woman is always a skilled keyboardist (at least! some I've seen are pretty goddam great) and usually has some singing parts in at least some songs - occassionally she's the lead singer in addition to tapping the ivories. Yukon Blonde, Public Animal, The Great Fuss, Shred Kelly (#25); I'm sure there are others I'm not thinking of right now. ExecuDork fucked around with this message at 06:57 on Aug 18, 2021 |
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051 The Chats -- The Chats EP & Get This In Ya 210217 Who doesn't love some Aussie punk? https://www.thechatslovebeer.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j58V2vC9EPc SMOKO - because everyone needs a break! Another Bandcamp find. I'M ON SMOKO! SO LEAVE ME ALONE! Does anything else need to be said? Just turn it up LOUD.
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052 Buffy Sainte Marie - Medicine Songs 210224 Songs that sometimes make me uncomfortable, as a white man from Canada. History and current events are more than uncomfortable, though, so it's important to confront these things - and my own opinions - when the opportunity arises. https://buffysainte-marie.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvplgoh6nRU Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee - I had at first chosen a different video, but this song really shows off some of Buffy Sainte Marie's songwriting, composition, and performance skills. It's hard to find a good video for this song, lots of live performances like this one, but often - again like this one - with a kind of bootleg vibe, somebody's phone in the audience. Oh well, still a great song. I don't know if a single one of these songs doesn't have a serious, important message front-and-centre. Several of the other songs on this album - a kind of greatest hits - land direct hits on ideas I've grown up believing and rarely or never questioning. Prominent here, that Canada is a decent, freedom-loving and universally-accepting country full of friendly, honest people. Of course, like any group of millions of people over centuries, cruelty, treachery, bigotry, and atrocities are there in sad abundance. Buffy Sainte Marie is particularly good at showing me a fuller picture, even if I don't always agree with her.
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This is an awesome project! Kudos to you for being so thoughtful and ambitious! Seems the biggest wrinkle in your plan is the DAP issue. It would probably be silly to buy a portable music player now given the delivery date is so far in the future. Are you dead set on the player being portable? If you were giving the music to your nephew next week the best thing to do would probably be to ask if their phone has a micro sd slot. If it did you could send the card along with a cheap dac / amp for phones and it would be all good. But who knows what your nephew's phone will be like in ten years or so. Will they still have micro sd slots? Not Sure! Anyways, here are some albums: 1) The Ramones - Ramones Mania. I was obsessed with The Ramones when I was a teenager and this collection was my introduction to them. I think you'll need to buy this one on cd. 2) Hiroshi Yoshimura - Green. Here it is on Bandcamp: https://hiroshiyoshimura.bandcamp.com/album/green. 3) Elephant Gym - Work. Here is some Math Rock! Check it out: https://elephant-gym.bandcamp.com/album/work. 4) They Might Be Giants - Flood. https://www.theymightbegiants.com/flood 5) Sorry Ghost - The Morning After. I just really like this album! Bandcamp link: https://sorryghost.bandcamp.com/album/the-morning-after. I hope this post is helpful in some way!
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Yes, very helpful - and thank you. I really need to speak with my sister-in-law, the nephew's mother. His phone is the obvious hardware option, and maybe he already has one? I know nothing about kids or her opinions and ideas. It's probably very common for 10-year-olds to have their own phones, but maybe she doesn't want him to have one yet? Or maybe she'd really appreciate it if I bought/subsidised a phone purchase for him? These are big obvious questions that I can answer simply by talking to her. Besides the physical distance thing (I'm 14 time zones away, but that's easily sorted as my-morning/their-evening) there are family dynamics at play between my wife and her sister. It's complicated and ever-changing and completely irrelevant to this project. I'll send her an email, gotta get this thing moving to the next level. A micro-SD card is easy, cheap, and guaranteed to work in any phone from the late 20teens onwards. The future, who cares? It would be trivial to transfer a few thousand MP3 from one device to another if there's sufficient file storage space, which there will be if everyone's phone starts running on hologram cubes or permanent satellite links to cloud servers on the moon or whateverthefuck. **** Excellent album suggestions, thank you very much! I already bought a Ramones album (a Greatest Hits compilation), it will show up here soon-ish. I especially like the TMBG suggestion, I've been thinking about them for a while (nerd rock is going to feature prominently here, rightly or wrongly). And thanks for providing direct links! \/\/\/\/ I did not know that. Thanks for the heads-up. ExecuDork fucked around with this message at 07:10 on Sep 1, 2021 |
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ExecuDork posted:A micro-SD card is easy, cheap, and guaranteed to work in any phone from the late 20teens onwards. Except an iphone
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053 AC/DC - Power Up 210303 For my birthday I got myself (and my nephew) AC/DC's 2020 release. http://www.ac-dc.net/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ga5qfM2-kog Realize. This video really shows the old guys rocking out, better than some of the other videos and songs on this album. An AC/DC CD was the first album I ever bought for myself - Ballbreaker. I decided one of the biggest bands of all time absolutely needed to be in this project, plus this was my birthday (my nephew missed it by one; nobody's perfect) and I hadn't been thinking about Akka-Dakka for a long time when this album was announced. I probably would have picked this up for myself even if I hadn't started this project. With this, the project enters Year 2. One down, nine to go.
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054 Simple Plan - No Pads, No Helmets... Just Balls & Perfect (single) 210310 An impulse purchase at an upmarket thrift store in Coffs Harbour, NSW. https://simpleplan.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUi54JTgL5s Perfect, the song I now have several versions of. Simple Plan are just one of many bands from the early 2000's that I could have chosen to fill the (probably unnecessary) slot of "20-somethings singing to their core audience of angsty teenagers". That they're Canadian and I actually enjoy their music are additional points in their favour, but the real reason I bought these 2 CDs was because I was in an oxymoron of a store. I was down on the coast with my wife for a few days and had some time to kill, so I wandered around in the several thrift shops located within a few blocks of each other, not far from the Coffs Harbour CBD. I call the Vinnie's an oxymoron because it was an upmarket, almost boutique thrift shop. They had $200 dish sets for sale - which presumably were worth more than $1000 when new, and somebody donated them. I bought a duffle bag, in perfect condition (it still had some of the original tags inside) for $20. I've bought similar - but more beat-up - bags in thrift shops before, usually for about $5 and they fall apart in a few months. And I found a small collection of CDs near the back wall. I think I paid $2 for this pair of disks, their first album and the accompanying single for their first big hit. The single is a weird concept that probably deserves to go away. It's not, as the name might suggest, a single track on a disk. Even in the old days of vinyl (yes, yes, coming back, blahblahblah analogue richness blahblah don't care) there was usually another track on the B-side. This "single" CD has three songs on it, Perfect, an acoustic version of Perfect, and Happy Together. So this becomes one of those hard-to-find objects of obsession for any fan hoping to get their hands on everything the band released.
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055 Mudmen - On a Train & Overrated 210317 My wife has long been a fan of these guys, and I'm related to my nephew only through her so of course I had to include them in this project. As a Celtic rock band, they always make a big deal out of Ireland's favourite drinking excuse. https://mudmen.ca/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R_jBvGYSIA The title track from Overrated. I saw the Mudmen play St. Patrick's day at Maxwell's, a great venue close to where I used to live in Waterloo, Ontario. I ordered a CD from their website and a day or two later I recieved an email from Sandy, the slightly-less-hairy bagpipe-player; Sandy and Robby are brothers and founded the band. As far as I know, they're the only continuous members, with the other members getting replaced at least once. Overrated is their second album, from 2003, and the singer (Zoy Nicoles) has an immediately noticeably different voice compared to who's singing on On a Train (Steve Gore; I saw them in 2017, with Steve singing). Their songs changed tone when they changed singers, with the older stuff much harsher and darker than the newer. Their most famous song - which I believe they always play when performing live - is Drink and Fight. Steve handles that well, he can certainly perform the older material. The newer material stands out for its subject matter. In place of Animal or Empty (Overrated) there are tracks like Forget Your Troubles and My Life (On a Train). Not as part of this project I also have their first, self-titled album and Old Plaid Shirt, the album they were touring for in 2017. On that more recent album there are songs about best friends and marrying the girl next door (and a song about an old farmer driving his tractor to town). On their first album, we get Drink and Fight (it's about what you think it's about and it's their mosh-pit song) and Coma. Listening to them on shuffle is a bit of a lurch. Right, that email from Sandy. He wanted my phone number for international shipping purposes - I'm in Australia, the CDs are in his basement in Canada. I told him I was very happy with the shipping cost (I think $4), and that if he ever talks to The Trews he should let them know their shipping costs are ridiculous (like $100 for one CD). This led to a longer back-and-forth about selling CDs and it turns out the Mudmen are in semi-regular contact with The Trews and he'd be happy to pass the message about their chosen online retailer to them. Also, Sandy was losing money on every international shipment because his friend who'd set up the website had made a mistake - his real cost to send one CD to me was closer to $15 (which was not surprising; North America <-> Australia mail is expensive). Domestic shipping for The Trews was quite reasonable, and Sandy and I came up with a plan where I would buy a couple of Trews CDs and have them sent to him, and he'd pack up those along with a couple of Mudmen disks, and please could I also buy a shirt or something to make it really worthwhile. I happily agreed to all of this and a few weeks later a nice package arrived, in time for me to include these albums for St Paddy's. All of this could have been avoided (for good or bad) if more musicians would figure out how to sell their music digitally. I guess there are difficult problems? And CDs are easier? Anyway, here's a picture from that 2017 St. Patrick's day show in Ontario.  Mudmen at Maxwells 39 by Martin Brummell, on Flickr
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056 Various - The Jack Awards 2004 210324 This week, instead of two albums and two-dozen tracks, we get 6 live tracks. One of which is already in this project, a (different) live version of Jet's Cold Hard Bitch. https://www.discogs.com/Various-The-Jack-Awards-CD/release/15427409 A Discogs link because the award series is apparently defunct. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEb2lbhPJiw Grinspoon playing Rock Show live, somewhere. Maybe at this award show? But probably not. This is the other CD I picked up at the oddly upmarket thrift store in Coffs Harbour, along with Simple Plan (#54). An odd relic from an earlier time, an award show for hard rock in Australia, sponsored by an American distiller. I bought this thinking it would help me find some more Aussie rock bands. My taste leans towards music like this, but at the same time I'm wary of dumping too much of my own out-of-date ideas on my nephew. The Discogs description tells me this CD was a bonus included with Ralph Magazine in 2004. It seems completely anachronistic but I suspect even today you can have a glossy magazine wrapped in plastic show up regularly at your door, often with a CD like this included. And after you rip the CD you can donate it. ExecuDork fucked around with this message at 06:22 on Sep 8, 2021 |
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BigFactory posted:Except an iphone aren't most phones without any sort of external/removable storage option these days? and headphone jacks?
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I don't know about most, but when I was shopping for my current phone about a year ago I was reading lots of reviews of various Android phones. A few of the more professional reviews mentioned a possible trend - most phone makers had moved to headphones that connect via the USB port, but after a year or two of this had moved back to the traditional 3.5mm headphone jack. My phone is a Sony Xperia 10 ii (pronounced "Ten Two" because marketing I guess), released in May of 2020, and it has a 3.5mm jack. My last two phones have had their USB charging ports fail before any other part of the phone, mainly due to the physical stresses on the port when the cable is plugged in and pulled out at least once every day (I tend to leave my phone plugged in to charge on my bedside table overnight. It's my alarm clock and some mornings, when I'm not 100% awake, I yank on the phone pretty hard fumbling to snooze the alarm, and damage the charging port. I do this less often since I re-arranged the cables under my bed). Having one more function run through that port, with greater possibility of the cable getting pulled in awkward ways, was a dealbreaker for me. I'm very happy that Sony at least decided to re-introduce the 3.5mm jack. If the hardware for this project is a phone, this will be an important consideration. Thanks for reminding me about it. As for removable storage, I have seen no indication that phone makers have moved away from micro-SD card slots. My phone has one, so does every other phone I've looked at in the past couple of years. But I pay zero attention to iPhones.
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057 Serena Ryder - Harmony 210331 My first exposure to Serena Ryder was her duet on a Trews song. I like that performance and I went searching for more. https://www.serenaryder.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz7jCY1cpHk Stompa, one of my favourites from this album. I saw Serena Ryder perform sort-of-live at a virtual music festival during this pandemic. "Hillside Inside" ran a temporary Youtube collection for a few days, with a mix of pre-recorded and broadcast-live-and-recorded performances available only with a ticket. My wife and I spent a block of hours watching the performances, and Serena's was one of the best. It was just her at her home, on something like Zoom. But she's a consumate professional, and knocked out a fantastic performance in between joking about lockdown and her idiosyncratic habits regarding her guitar picks. And I just really like her voice.
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058 Cold Chisel - All For You (The Very Best of Cold Chisel) 210407 I'd been reading about Cold Chisel as the band that Jimmy Barnes had spent most of his time with, and I bought this Greatest Hits double-CD from the anachronistic CDs and DVDs and so forth store in the mall, the same one where I bought Fire Fight (#6). http://www.coldchisel.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUGlWCCVA4M Cheap Wine, a sentiment I associate with Australia, where good-enough wine is ridiculously cheap. I'm still trying to wrap my head around Cold Chisel and Jimmy Barnes. The band seems to occupy a place in Australia something like where The Tragically Hip sit in Canada, a legendary band that most Australians (at least, of a certain age range) can instantly recall several songs. Like the Hip, Cold Chisel seems to never have hit it big outside of their home country, but were omnipresent at home.
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059 The Ramones - Greatest Hits 210414 Apologies to those who suggested specific Ramones albums here already, I bought this before those were posted. Everybody needs some Ramones, right? I can't find a website for The Ramones, so here's the link to their page in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: https://www.rockhall.com/inductees/ramones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm51ihfi1p4 I Wanna Be Sedated. What can I saw about The Ramones? Just that I love their music and somehow before this project I didn't have any of it. Corrected.
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60 Secretary - Parallel and 2 singles 210421 The fourth Wednesday of April is National Administrative Assistant's Day (at least, in the USA, and according to Hallmark corporation). There are several bands and a few songs named "secretary" or some variation, but I chose this band because they came up in my search on Bandcamp and they seem to have gone quiet, leaving their entire output up for a good price on Bandcamp. https://secretaryband.bandcamp.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoRkVXZYNIk When You Know, You Know Other than nicely satisfying my requirement to find fitting music for special days that fall on Wednesdays, this album / artist doesn't really stand out to me. I haven't listened to it very much at all, but I feel I should. I've been thinking about music in terms of "energy levels" for the past few months, and this seems to fit a lower energy level, which is nice to have for background music at certain times. On a scale of Brian Eno (mostly 1) to Dragon Force (mostly 10), I'm thinking Secretary fits in at around 4 or 5. Of course, artists and songs on an album can vary considerably in energy level; an obvious example is the "ballad" (level 2 or 3) so many rock bands (especially in the 80's) placed somewhere in the middle of albums otherwise filled with level 7 and 8 rock-outs and anthems.
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061 C.O.F.F.I.N. - Children of Finland Fighting in Norway 210428 An Australian punk band - bigger than most, in terms of number of members - with a bit of a social justice message in most of their songs. https://coffin-aus.bandcamp.com/album/children-of-finland-fighting-in-norway https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5o_tg3aKzCE The full album is on Youtube, and the band's website seems to be their Bandcamp page. My wife turned me on to these guys, and suggested them for this project. More Punk! More Oz! *throws beer can into clearly-labelled recycling bin* EDIT: corrected the name of band. 
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062 Murder Your Darlings - Murder Your Darlings 210505 This band came to my attention through a footnote in a book I read last year about writing scientific papers. It's a bit of advice from long ago about editing your writing without mercy. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch posted:Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it — wholeheartedly — and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaCVDnhecYo "Business As Usual", the singer here sounds remarkably like the original singer for The Mudmen, and the topic or theme of the lyrics is pretty on-point for Zoy Nicols. It's not him, but I keep expecting to hear bagpipes here anyways. Every once in a while I indulge my own music taste impulses, and throw money at obscure hard rock or punk bands with stupid names. Gotta have something to learn to headbang to.
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063 Serial Cleaner Soundtrack 210512 Another video game soundtrack from Steam. https://store.steampowered.com/app/522210/Serial_Cleaner/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLpwFGlQLVo The whole 'album' on YouTube. I had this game on my watchlist, and when it went on sale I bought it and the soundtrack, too. The game is set in a fictional 70's, and the music tries to evoke that vibe. Mostly instrumental tracks, perhaps they'll serve as some kind of background music for my nephew. I like to have this on in the background when I'm doing something that requires only a little attention, like cleaning the house. EDIT: The video became unavailable, so here it is again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2poA9MyBb8 ExecuDork fucked around with this message at 05:32 on Mar 12, 2023 |
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064 Måneskin - Teatro d'Ira 210519 The winner of Eurovision 2021. I retconned this into this slot, the week of Eurovision. https://www.maneskin.it/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVH5dn1cxAQ The winning performance at Eurovision. I had been toying with some ideas about Eurovision since the beginning of this project. An old friend of mine used to collect just the worst music, way back in the days of the original incarnation of Napster. He had thousands of MP3 files in the days when a harddrive big enough to hold that many cost as much as a decent used car. A big chunk of that was folders full of entries from the forgotten, neglected music of Eurovision. All the highlights from recently-ex-Soviet republics and other people just realising that some musical instruments can be plugged in (including the finest synthesizers from the slightly-less-bombed-out parts of Grozny). I thought about putting together a kind of greatest hits of the also-rans, but then these Italian rockstars won and their stuff is great! Plus, I really like how active the bass player is, at least in the videos. Most bass players seem to be rather less dynamic, hiding near the back of the stage, not moving around much, and focused only on the drummer. Ball caps pulled low are de rigueur. I like to take photos at music concerts and festivals, and very often the keyboardist (inevitably a woman, a commentary for another post) actually manages to be more visually engaging than the bass player. But Victoria De Angelis competes with every other member of the band for frantic activity and camera-baiting even when actually playing (Eurovision live performances are live only for the singing, the music tracks are pre-recorded. I guess it cuts down on mistakes and worries about cords and so forth).
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065 Various - Sorry Day 2021 210526 26 May 2021 was Sorry Day in Australia, the day set aside for the population to apologise for the past and ongoing treatment of aboriginal and Torres strait islander people. The focus is on the Stolen Generation. I put together a playlist on iTunes of songs about apologies and/or reconciliation, much like I did for Hotel-themed songs (#42). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPnHt9p5qkU I can't find videos for the real on-the-topic songs (Bertha Control and Eric Bogle, bookending the playlist), so here's a live performance of Guns N Roses - Sorry. "Sorry Day" playlist: 1. Bertha Control - Reconciliation 2. Feist - So Sorry 3. Brend Lee - I'm Sorry (Single Version) 4. Ramses Damarifa - Desolér 5. Justin Bieber - Sorry 6. Outkast - Ms Jackson 7. Austra - Reconcile 8. Guns N' Roses - Sorry 9. Diamante - Lo Siento 10. Marco Lys - I'm Sorry (Club Mix) 11. Eric Bogle - Reconciliation Most of the songs are about romantic relationships and their troubles, but that's probably true of popular music in general. I tried to include at least one song in each of the languages of the major European empires responsible for the majority of colonisations across the world in the past 500 years. English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese covers the New World plus Oceana with a few gaps (remnant Dutch colonies like Suriname) as well as majority of colonisation in Africa.
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066 The Sadies - Internal Sounds I've been a big fan of The Sadies since I danced in the rain until I got hypothermia when they played Ness Creek Music Festival https://www.bloodshotrecords.com/artist/sadies https://thesadies.bandcamp.com/album/internal-sounds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7BeMl-rCJg I couldn't find any videos besides audio-only for songs on this album, but they've appeared on various studio shows and mixed interviews-and-performances. I bought their most-recent-at-the-time album at Ness Creek, Northern Passages and Internal Sounds was the next one back. And here's a picture, one of my favourites from that night, Dallas Good growling out something.  The Sadies at Ness Creek 2018-0010 by Martin Brummell, on Flickr
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The Downward Spiral - Nine Inch Nails :-/
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/\/\ Well, yes, sooner or later. Of course! 067 Brasstronaut - Brasstronaut 210609 I first heard Brasstronaut at a live show in a bar in Saskatoon, after my wife had a chat with one of the band members on a bus. https://brasstronaut.bandcamp.com/album/brasstronaut https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVeCduFRNFk Hawk - the first track on the album. Brasstronaut's lineup includes a very tall clarinet player, who played about 2/3 of the time an electric clarinet. I'd never seen an electric clarinet before. They put on a pretty good show, and I like to listen to their music on long, relaxed drives.
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068 The Trews - House of Ill Fame & Den of Thieves 210616 https://www.thetrewsmusic.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZC2oQ3qspA Poor Old Broken Hearted Me - one of their biggest hits and a personal favourite. This is a live performance, uncensored (there's a line in the first verse: "She ruled my heart, my mind, my dick" and some versions have the "dick" bleeped or silenced). The Trews are in the running for my all-time number 1 favourite band. I don't distinguish that finely, the collection of muscians in my "I LOVE THIS!" category can all get along with each other. I first saw The Trews at Maxwell's in Waterloo.  The Trews 67 by Martin Brummell, on FlickrI lived about 1 kilometre from Maxwells, easy stumbling-home distance and I'd been to a show there before I heard The Trews were coming. I was vaguely aware of them from years before, when I used to listen to broadcast radio. The show was absolutely fantastic, they kicked rear end completely and thoroughly, and moved right to the top of my favourites. I knew I was going to include some Trews in this project and I'm completely at ease with letting my completion-ism rip and getting all their stuff. There's a hitch, though: I'm in Australia, and The Trews are Canadian. They played a world tour that included massive arena shows in Australia - I know I've seen a shot from a huge stage, possibly Melbourne, over the lead guitarist's shoulder as he's playing a big solo to 10's of thousands of people, and their Facebook page archives include a shot of the lead singer standing with Paul Kelly (don't worry, he's coming along to this thread in a few weeks). For whatever reason, downloadable music is not available, and Australian retailers don't carry The Trews (Amazon.com.au, JB-HiFi, Sanity, I didn't do an exhaustive search but even eBay was coming up dry). The Trews' online merchant, RockPaperMerch had absolutely ridiculous prices on shipping. I was quoted more than $100 to ship 2 CDs in regular jewel cases to Australia. Yes, shipping across the Pacific is expensive, but it's nowhere near that expensive! So I wrote a note to myself that I'd have to ask a friend or relative in Canada nicely to do a bit of a shipping dance, or to try to remember to go on a bit of a shopping spree the next time I return to Canada (I haven't been back yet since I moved to Australia in the beginning of 2019. COVID is the main reason, also time & money). When I bought The Mudmen albums (#55) I was very happy when Sandy agreed to do this shipping dance, and that he (and The Mudmen) were in fairly regular contact with The Trews and would pass my complaint about RockPaperMerch on when he had a chance. Perhaps Sandy had that chance, because I just tried to buy a CD on RockPaperMerch and it's quoting me about $11 for shipping, which is much more reasonable. Hurray!
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069 The Halluci Nation - A Tribe Called Red 210623 I first heard of A Tribe Called Red back when they used that name as their name. Indigenous musicians are another avenue I need to explore, and who doesn't like some Electronic Dance Music? https://thehallucination.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpkUISUx3Lo Electric Pow Wow Drum, the first track on the album. I really like the use of, well, I'm not sure what to call it, but the traditional-sounding backing vocals. I did my PhD in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, at the northern edge of the Great Plains. It's impossible to live there and not learn some pretty stark history - some of uncomfortably recent - unless you're a committed head-in-the-sand racist. I like to think I'm not that, and I want to celebrate every emerging artist and activist if I can. Plus this is dance music! Play it way too loud, have epilepsy-inducing bright flashy lights, dance until you collapse of dehydration and exhaustion. ExecuDork fucked around with this message at 11:43 on Jan 20, 2022 |
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070 Living Colour - Vivid 210630 Cult of Personality was a huge hit for a reason. http://livingcolour.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xxgRUyzgs0 Cult of Personality, of course. This is a rock and roll album, unquestionably. It's also 100% 80's music. I didn't realise the way this music is embedded in its own time until I listened to this album all the way through for the first time.
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071 Vans Warped Tour 2012 210707 My nephew was born in 2012, and I decided to try out a shitload of bands at once, all within the genre I usually think of as my favourite. 50 tracks on 2 CDs, bought from the Warped Tour website though at the moment they don't seem to be selling CDs. https://warped-tour.fandom.com/wiki/Warped_Tour_2012 https://www.vanswarpedtour.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-5ppz6Wi2I Yellowcard - With You Around, in a playlist of Vans Warped Tour 2012 songs. Yellowcard is the only band out of these 50 that I'd heard before. Most I'd never even heard of before. I first listened to this oversize double album in my car on Sunday Drive, alone. My car's driver-side speakers don't work (I think it's just a loose wire but I haven't pulled anything apart to check, yet) so I had everything blasting out from the passenger side, with the top down - it's a convertible. The drive was great, but I didn't really enjoy the music. I don't regret buying this in the slightest, even if I don't much like these songs, it's up to my nephew to make up his own mind. And, I listened to these songs later, at home with fewer distractions and better sound-delivery to my ears, and there's at least a few songs here I really enjoy.
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072 Jamiroquai - Travelling Without Moving 210714 http://www.jamiroquai.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeTFAiYbR9o Virtual Insanity, the big breakout hit from this album. In full 4K video for the 25-year anniversary. I am easily amused by trivial coincidences and ironies. I originally bought this as a CD from Amazon. Amazon Australia did not have it, but they could source it from Amazon UK and I piled on a few other things to get over the $49 international purchase to get free Prime shipping. Not long after, I get the notification that it has shipped. So, Travelling Without Moving is travelling, and moving. BUT! this was at the height of the global pandemic, and something went wrong - the CD was returned to the UK (or maybe never left - fake moving and not at all travelling?). I waited a bit then bought the album on iTunes, whence it Travelled to me without anything Moving other than patterns of electrons. See what I did there? 
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loving love popping into this thread.
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/\/\/\ Thanks!  073 Kenny Rogers - The Gambler 210721 https://www.kennyrogers.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hx4gdlfamo The Gambler, of course. In American Gods, the numbers 7 and 21 are described by a character (a god, as it happens) as very lucky. So when this Wednesday showed up in my calendar I really had no choice. I'm not much of a fan of country music (I hate most of it) but Kenny is legitimately a classic. RestingB1tchFace posted:The Downward Spiral - Nine Inch Nails
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074 Dave Matthews Band - Under the Table and Dreaming 210728 https://www.davematthewsband.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvi7xgBR_OQ A live version of The Best of What's Around. DMB was played constantly, incestantly when I was setting my musical preferences like concrete around age 20. I was annoyed with the gushy attitude of seemingly every young woman my age whenever anything DMB came on. But I got over it, I guess. This is a band that emphasises their live perfomances, sometimes justified by their "jam band" approach to live shows. They sell a large number of "DMB Livetracks" albums on their website, so you can have a record of whatever they did at that one remember-my-whole-life concert you got dragged to. OK, maybe I'm not completely over my annoyance at DMB fans, though I do try to separate my feelings about an artist from my feelings about the fans of that artist.
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So do you want your nephew to listen to Dave Matthews because you think the music will resonate with him, or do you just want him to know that Dave Matthews exists?
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Both? Neither? If he listens halfway through one Dave Matthews song and then never hears it again, I won't be bothered. There's not really a plan here, I'm just a magpie pecking at shiny things and cawing loudly at cats.
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Nov 11, 2021 03:49
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ExecuDork posted:Both? Neither? If he listens halfway through one Dave Matthews song and then never hears it again, I won't be bothered. There's not really a plan here, I'm just a magpie pecking at shiny things and cawing loudly at cats. Why wouldn’t you try to make a gift you think he’s going to appreciate instead of one you don’t care if he appreciates or not?
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I was thinking about my reply after I posted it, and I was a bit flippant, sorry. What I said is true - I'm a goddam magpie - but I dismissed your quite legitimate question.BigFactory posted:Why wouldn’t you try to make a gift you think he’s going to appreciate instead of one you don’t care if he appreciates or not? This is a big present spread out over a very long period. It's already getting unwieldy, I just bought album #100 yesterday. It's actually more than one hundred albums because I sometimes put two albums (or more, given the tendency of Greatest Hits and compilation albums to spread across 2 disks) into one week's sub-gift. Just handling this volume of files and music (3:00 minutes/song * 100 albums * 10 songs/album = 3000 minutes = 50 hours, as a clear underestimate) is causing me some issues. I have zero chance of providing my nephew with thousands of songs, each and every one of which he likes and enjoys. I'm in statistical-sampling territory here, I can only compare to some null model (that I get to create myself, though input from anyone is welcome) to evaluate success or failure. I cannot afford, emotionally, to hope that any individual song, album, or artist is going to provide him with joy, there are going to be stinkers. Probably many stinkers. My hope is that the good stuff (to his opinions) outweigh the bad. Incidentally, general strategies for handling very large numbers of files of a particular type is already a problem I've been thinking about, mostly unsuccessfully and unsatisfactorily, for many years. I have somewhere around 100 000 photos I have taken over the past ~15 years, the vast majority of which I've never looked at again after I copied them from the camera onto my computer. The mountain of files, though they take up no physical space nor mass in the real world, weigh heavily on my mind. I hope to avoid similar feelings in my nephew in this project, but that means I need to figure out a system or an answer or something to help him, and help myself. There are a few albums in this project, some already posted here, I have never listened to straight through. There are probably a few dozen songs in this project I have never heard. Finding - really, making - time to listen to music is a part of my daily scheduling, some days are better than others. BigFactory posted:So do you want your nephew to listen to Dave Matthews because you think the music will resonate with him, or do you just want him to know that Dave Matthews exists? Layered on top of all of that is a reminder to myself that he's not yet 10 years old. I don't think he's established any firm opinions about anything so abstract as musical trends or genres. Thanks for the comments, a big part of this thread is my need for a place to bounce my ideas around, and get criticized.
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ExecuDork posted:I was thinking about my reply after I posted it, and I was a bit flippant, sorry. What I said is true - I'm a goddam magpie - but I dismissed your quite legitimate question. You’re giving him more music in a giant clump than he would ever conveniently listen to, and some of it is stuff you don’t even think is that great or is particularly meaningful to you in any way. I have a 10 year old. She knows exactly what kind of music she likes and the way she wants to listen to music is from a streaming service on a speaker she can talk to. 10 year olds don’t know what an MP3 is. It’s a dinosaur media format that in 2021 has been made obsolete much more thoroughly than legacy physical media.
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I don't have any children so your n=1 experience outranks mine. Maybe I'm a dinosaur fuddy-duddy, sure. I dunno. I don't see "owning stuff" going away anytime soon, though. As for the giant lump, well, yeah. Working on that.
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This is why I suggested having a writeup for each album, your personal notes, what you think they might enjoy or hate, etc. Yeah 500 albums are a big clump and they may never listen to it. But I'd be so loving stoked if I got a book someone had written that kind of tracked how I grew over time, reflected in random albums. Would I give a poo poo about Dave Matthews? Probably not. Would it be cool to see a writeup that was like "hey you've really learned to chill out recently and this is the sort of vibes I think you'd enjoy. Blah blah blah". Like someone paying attention to my personality over time and writing about how music may or may not work for me would personally thrill me. That'd be fantastic. Even if the MP3s themselves are useless they can use the book and just Spotify it or whatever service is going at the time. But presents were rare as gently caress for me, and thought out presents were non-existent, so maybe I'm just a weirdo.
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