Music has been with humanity as long as there has been humanity. Music makes the people come together, music mix the bourgeoisie and the rebel… as the philosophers say. There has been a vast amount created, and most of it lost. Many cannot imagine a day in their life without some. As in all things human, some like what is being created as we speak, others see a golden age in the past. Despite all this, the present is probably the best for listening to music. The genres and band seem endless, and the opportunity of finding whatever on the internet has probably never been greater. The most obscure stuff is out there.
Of course, obscure can be relative. What music people know depends on many factors. Age, area of residence, area of residence in one’s youth, language, genre preference, personality and how much of a music aficionado one is. Some people enjoy the mainstream stuff, some people scoff at it and purse the most obscure things they can find, in whatever genre they like. Some listen in the comfort of their home, others go to underground concerts or small bars to pursue the experience.
I was never much of a music guy. I did not come from much of a music family. My parents rarely listened to music, at least as I was growing up. I was given to understand that they listened to more when they were young. But I was, overall, the least music inclined of my friend group. Even these days, I rarely listen to music. I can go several days without any. One factor is, I suppose, the fact that, when it comes to listening, I am not at all a multi-tasker. Most people I know listen to music while they do things. If I listen to music, I do nothing else. It is the same with say podcasts. I have friends asking me why don’t you listen to podcasts at the gym, for example. It is because I cannot focus on them. Some people listen to music while they work, it helps them, isolates them from the surroundings. I do not. I cannot code and listen to music at the same time, it bothers me. And for some reason I don’t care for it as much as a background. I don’t mind the background music in gyms, stores, etc. But I don’t really listen to it either. As such, I do not know that much about music. Hell, a good amount outside the international mainstream, I probably found on this very site, or in my lurking days on the other one. Off course, the music I know in general is tied with my age and the fact that I lived in Bucharest my whole life. Younger an(d older people in Romania have somewhat different knowledge. Younger and older in America, even more so.
But this is not a post about music. It is a post about shticks on glibertarians dot com. And one of mine is to ask “How do you people know all this obscure music”. This is, off course, mostly tongue in cheek. As I said earlier, I am well aware people of different backgrounds know different music, and much of this is not even remotely obscure. But it is all in good fun. (Riven fully supports these efforts, Pie being one of the glorious favorites <3 You keep up the good works, honored chosen)
And on that note, searching the old comments – as long as possible before the archive kicks in – here is a random selection of things that activated Pie’s shtick. Of course, the phrase goes without saying for most Old Guy music in the weekend links. There have been, of course, probably thousands of music links in the comments, many more obscure. But that is not the point. For the selection I posted the band / song and the glib who posted it. How do you people know all this obscure music.
Gdragon Sham 69 – Borstal Breakout
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYZ5XoHxC3I
CPRM Sumpin – The Pimps
Ted S Put The Blame On Mame – Gilda (1946)
pistoffnick Robert Plant – Big Log (Official Video) [HD REMASTERED]
Tundra Pat Benatar – Promises In The Dark
Gender Traitor Alison Krauss — “Can’t Find My Way Home” — Audio
Evan from Evansville Hüsker Dü Zen Arcade
Plisade Kittie – Brackish
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3ThppM3IhA
Gustave Lytton chisato moritaka & princess princess
B.P – PJ Harvey – Dress – HD Live (V Festival 2003)
And on that note, carry on.
Mmm… peej.
Peej con Gretsch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzwG3r9_L9o&list=TLPQMDMwOTIwMjNqPxJHnuwW5Q&index=2
Not too obscure but fitting for this weekend.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLRsEuCocT4
One of the great funeral songs.
Yep. Seems like he was genuinely nice guy who made it big.
We heard about him yesterday while on the road. He died of Merkel cell cancer – which also killed my mother-in-law. A particularly rare but nasty variant. People usually survive a few years after the first round of chemo, then it metastasizes and comes roaring back. Only a couple thousand cases a year in the U.S.
FYI, The Hyperbole is taking an indefinite break from his Sunday afternoon crossword puzzle columns, but may continue What Are We Reading as a monthly feature.
We are looking to fill the Sunday afternoon slot with a regular feature email me (Tonio at this here domain) if you want a regular Sunday afternoon column.
Big thanks to The Hyperbole for all his hard work and delightful puzzles.
Torn between thanking and snarking thanks because it’s Hype.
Thank you The Hyperbole for doing these. And resurrecting what are we reading.
Seconded
Agreed!
Not Steely Dan
Only half of Steely Dan?
The voice half.
Skunk Baxter would not be Skunk Baxter w/o the beret.
Nightfly is a very solid album
Maybe you know more about music than I do, but Fagen’s role has always been as arranger: his main job was to lay out an idea, get Becker’s advice, and then comes finding the right session guy, directing and producing and recording the tracks, then the mixing. Lots of people sang lead.
Steely Dan albums are monuments: you can feel how much work goes into them. I grew up on roots music, so very much blues scales. Jazz progressions are so yummy, it’s really a shame that the first two decades of my life had none of it in them. Get out your guitar or keyboard and join me comping through Maxine and try to get the changes right: it sounds so easy and it’s the furthest thing from it; I can solo over it or fill, but nail all those chord changes? Not on the first try or the tenth. Maybe I should chart it out, but it’s just a delight to return to the mystery a few times a year and just wonder at it all.
You could not be more right. I didn’t get to hear them in my youth because I wasn’t allowed. Motley Crue, sure. Miles Davis? No fucking way. “It’s an affectation,”* my dad would sneer. But the bits and pieces of it I got via TV shows and the odd snippet at the grocery store were intriguing and lovely. I craved more, but contented myself with Gershwin. I mean, I tried listening to the low-frequency FM jazz station late at night on my little panda transistor, but that didn’t work well. I had no money to waste on blind shots in the dark for jazz cassettes.
*My dad liked Perrier. I couldn’t stand it. One day, my dad’s cousin whom I practically worshipped, offered to buy me a pop. I chose a Perrier, trying to make myself like it. She told me it was an affectation, but she bought it for me anyway.
Speaking of TV bits and pieces, this was on a House episode: https://soundcloud.com/el-shafiey93/harmon-jazz-jon-ehrlich-michael-wayne-jones
Aja was one of three albums that greatly shaped my young musical tastes.
it’s incredible
I literally post a 🎶🎶 link every day and don’t get a mention?
Sad!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_rMqyTH07Vc
Indeed, I have done ZWAK MUSIC twice now, and I seem to be chopped liver.
Anyhoo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CgNymWt5_I
I have Thin Lizzy and UFO in my Pandora rotation.
At the gym, Heidevolk, Cruxshadows, Heather Alexander, and Metsatöll are on my bizarre playlist.
https://youtu.be/pp3p0fze-l4?feature=shared
Read that as LFO in your rotation.
To answer your question about the song you mentioned that I had shared (::sticks tongue out at Sean::,) I heard it on a SiriusXM channel of largely acoustic music (as my tastes tend to run to…shall we say, GENTLER genres) called The Loft. That channel was formerly among the ones you’d find on the activated satellite radio in your car, but has since been relegated to online/app only. (It’s Channel 710.)
This particular cover of the Blind Faith song really is pretty obscure – I don’t believe it’s on any of Alison’s albums but was included in a “soundtrack” album for an old American crime drama TV series called Crossing Jordan (from ’01 to ’07, per the Wiki) which I never watched.
I would happily listen to Alison Krauss sing the side effects of a prescription drug.
😛
+1
I will take Neko Case over Allison:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okQfD9B_17Y
And a murder ballad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lz2gMJqtIz4
Always loved this one
https://youtu.be/zXl870NoF4E
Por que no los dos?
‘Cause I am a contrary SOB?
Gilda is not an obscure movie.
Honestly I never knew she got her own spinoff movie. I mean, I knew about Wicked, but not one for the Good Witch.
A snappy little number that I assume the majority here would call obscure.
See? I just found a new follow.
Thanks, Mike!
Not too shabby. Very ’90s vibe, but that is more than cool.
Speaking of obscure flicks – The Trollenberg Terror sounds absolutely amazing, but the frigging shipping from merrye olde Deutscheland is 1.5x the cost of the blu-ray itself. I’ve imported from Germany before, but this is nuts.
Amazon or another site?
amazon.de (amazon.co.uk uses the same seller/listing – just with GBP instead of euros for the price).
Ugh. I know their pricing from JP has gone thru the roof. Damn, I need to order some euro stuff.
For JP stuff, I used to use yesasia.com a lot (used amazon.jp a few times years ago), but I’m leaning more towards cdjapan.co.jp lately – especially since they have extremely convenient “proxy” ordering for items they don’t have in stock that they source from other 2nd (or 1st hand Japanese businesses) for *very* good rates (as cheap as buying from a local goodwill in some cases for hard to find stuff in the US). Got a JP blu-ray of French Connection last month after the US uncut release went OOP.
I cancelled my last CDjapan order because the shipping was much more that auto quoted.
Well, the lowest shipping is the Japan Air Mail which they won’t do any more – but I’ve had great luck with FEDEX from them (excellent packaging). I tend to wait until there are 3 or 4 things I want or my total order is over $100. Again…my next order, like the last will probably include multiple proxy shipping items…Heck, I picked up the Japanese special edition blu-ray for “Freaked” “2nd Hand” but basically new. Used CD/Movie stores over there are amazing. I loved the Kinokuniya (sp) and Book Off locations when I was in Honolulu.
Wow, I didn’t know there was BookOff in Hawaii.
Kinokuniya has two stores in Portland. They’re ok, but not great. Nothing like Kinokuniya stores in Japan.
Reminds me, it’s almost time to order 2024 calendars.
And on that note, carry on.
OK, I got some listenin’ to do.
Sounds like someone is shooting guns near my house. The sound of freedom.
Someone was shooting around here, too. And there’s a dead woodpecker in my yard.
Hmmm….
“Someone”
Eccentric suitors making mix(ed) tapes?
e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I41HjZWN2V8
I remember Limey complaining about this one.
My sister came over late yesterday afternoon to see what’s what and what’s where for when she comes to look after our kittehs while we’re at Honey Harvest, and she brought us (mainly me) a bunch of frozen homemade applesauce (or, as I used to call it when I was a toddler “za za zauce.”) I just sawed off a chunk of just-thawed-enough-to-saw-off-a-chunk of it, and it’s WONDERFUL!!! 😋🍏 I have the best sister ever!* 🥰
*With the possible exception of the crazy cat lady thing.
You and your sunny disposish will be the hit of HH, GT.
Wish I could go.
Thank you! I, too, wish you could go! 😞
I wish all the Glibs could make it. Everyone I’ve met has been a winner.
Another. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IU32ZguQXw
That was fun! 😃
Thanks, Pie!
I love that song so much. I got to play bass covering that one with a friend who sounded shockingly like Pat Benatar. You should have seen my amazing hair (it was 1986).
Obviously, I’m a music guy – pretty much from birth – but I love the deep interest and experience on this site. I’ve learned and discovered a lot.
He doesn’t come around much anymore, but my favorite Spotify playlist is from our own EDG:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/20QahoaMym4xptW1UNzNpk?si=637c89b94d34402b
Great article, Pie. Nice choices.
Tundra, if you want to listen to a great interview with two of the great, but lessor, names in punk, Barry Adamson and Kid Congo Powers, check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYJDC-Tv8xo
Trigger warning; it starts the introduction with the modern woke bullshit trigger warnings.
I’m not much of a punk guy, but I love the solo stuff Barry Adamson has done. Here is a great tongue in cheek number he did did a few years back as a kind of Barry White tribute.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BiyMYkI44Sg&pp=ygUZYmFycnkgYWRhbXNvbiBibGFjayBhbW91cg%3D%3D
I was expecting this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFPiUSRQvlE
But not disappoint.
Whoops, that was a cover.Orig: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSBBMy75_VE
Another solid tune from Barry.
Thanks, Zwak! I’ll check it out.
“I love that song so much.”
Which one? He posted seven.
The one attributed to me.
That’s a great tune Tundra. I’d never heard it before you linked it as it’s not really in my typical wheelhouse.
Or compilation albums, as stated recently.
The only way to make Coldplay listenable.
I would have gone with this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pUtg1GOA2gc
I’m not a Coldplay fan, but I do like The Scientist. Probably as much for the video as for the actual song.
I like music that tells a story.
Sometimes it can be obvious, like a ballad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q9bAWGEkcE
Sometimes it can be subtle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agdoeRpTfHg
And sometimes the story is in your head
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcwl-Q7pAtY
One thing I like about this place so much is that we argue about the subjective as if it were objective. It tells me that we dont take ourselves too seriously, a sign of intelligence. Also I like that because I know I am always right.
Since everyone is posting music links today here is my contribution.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Bb-VTyXNDQ
Goodbye Jimmy. Sorry to see you go.
At least we still have this guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Bb-VTyXNDQ
Oops. Same link 2x. Ugh….I think I am exhausted.
Both links are the same.
That particular Lou Reed cover is muy bueno. I say that as one who’s not a Lou Reed fan.
Anyone else too young to voluntarily ingest hallucinogens in the early eighties?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSMR9CfDioM
(er, have ingested)
Nope, not me.
Not too young, I mean.
I am still too. young for that.
Too young at that time.
Todd Rundgren! Took me decades to find that.
Rundgren was garbage, pseudo prog-rock. More like performance art
However, Bobby Womack was kind enough to make this listenable.
Or too old?
Speaking of obscure music, I’m currently with a bunch of accordion aficionados, mostly Ukrainian and Moldovan. I chose not to wear my Putin hat
I love this. Thanks, man. I do have a question when you added “Evan from Evansville Hüsker Dü Zen Arcade”
I think I remember posting about Husker Du I think as a joke or something. I’ve never really listened to them, but apparently they are very good. I’m curious when I brought them up, cuz I certainly do KNOW (of) them, I know I’ve never listened to Zen Arcade. I don’t/didn’t know any of their albums.
(I do have significant gaps in my memory and brain.)
Zen Arcade makes me think of Arcade Fire, who have three albums that I adore. Funeral, their first album and my Canadian ex introduced me to that, her favorite, is fantastic. Their second, Neon Bible is my favorite and it is stellar. The Suburbs is also fantastic.
They are pretty much a baroque, highly instrumented pop-rock-Big Sound type of band. I can see how it’s not for everyone, but it is right up my alley. The drummer does his part and doesn’t extend cuz he knows he isn’t the focus of the song. That’s a tough discipline to even try to master. Ringo gets underrated for doing so with three much more adventurous musicians. It’s damn hard to keep that shit tight and together.
^^Listen to She Said, She Said again and focus on the drums. When it’s needed in a Beatles song, rarely, he can bring some interesting shit to the mix.
My mom is a classical guitarist, a damn good choir singer, and she’s picked up the harpsichord in the last decade or so, mostly to play in her Celtic Irish band. They’ve been ‘touring’ in Ireland a couple of times. Nothing big, but impressive.
My bro is a MUCH better drummer than I. He is focusing on piano now and is a good singer. I wanted to follow him, I think but don’t recall, and became a drummer when I was in 4th grade (he’s six years older). I also picked up the bass for a year or two and could’ve gotten it if I were really focused on it. I’m glad that I learned to play a stringed instrument, but drums is where my heart (and body) is.
I played in about seven bands in Korea, and I’ve played at college parties. I also asked the frontman for a band in Singapore if I could play a song cuz it was my birthday. It was just a bar, but surprisingly they said yes. Just a simple guitar riff and we jammed out and picked up off each other. I did the same in Thailand when I was there, pre-Incident in 2019.
Like everything, playing music is an interesting mix of playing if you want to, and especially w drums (methinks), it helps if your body is naturally ‘in tune/rhythm’ with everything. Just like some people are natural athletes or dancers. The ability to ‘feel’ the groove is partially inborn, though like everything, nature and nurture like to bone and produce all sorts of results with what you’re given, as long as you work at it, I suppose ‘anyone’ can do it.
Ev types too much…
Ev is interesting. 👍
I should say, the way Arcade Fire pulls off the “highly instrumented pop-rock-Big Sound” style is right up my alley. The instruments fit right where they should, not doing too much to overwhelm, unless it directly adds to the song and their style.
I can imagine most here won’t like them, but WTF do I know? Their style fits me juuuust fine. They do it Right, IMO. YMMV, but I am also ensconced in the memory of Pri and I and our time together.
^^She’s the ex that I am upset I lost. All my fault, no shit. We moved to Singapore in ’14 and signed a two year lease. We broke up after a year there, four into our relationship. We still slept in the same bed for 3-6 months afterwards, with no sex nor drama.
When she broke up with me, we both knew it was time. She came home and just matter-of-factly said “It’s…OVER.”
“What? You and me?”
“Yes.”
“THANK. GOD.”
We had hands-down the best sex of my life. Just fucking like we knew how for a weekend of hot-as-hell Break-Up Sex. Uh….*whispers* I feel bad for future gals, as it’s gonna be hard as fuck/impossible to top that fuckfest. DAMN.
She still lives in SG and is a professional writer. Like I was and still want to be. I fucked that one up. We were perfect together, and I absolutely was at fault. (So was she. Equal distribution of blame.)
Such is life!
You are a very interesting person, E.
(she reiterated)
Thank you.
*purring rumble, bordering on frisky*
I think ya like me…
Spoken for, but yer cute. /tousles hair
Wait…there are photos of me out there?…*Gaze narrows* My avatar is Bob Dylan. I pull him off every Halloween cuz I have his hair. Hey, I’m lazy and I refuse to wear makeup and my costume must be legit outdoor wear. Never know where you’re gonna wake up. And it’s once or twice a year I can wear my ridiculously dope, tailored blazer I got made in Hoi An. *Flushes and coyly smirks *
“trop vieille pour toi”—Well, now I know how to say that at work… DAMMIT. I’m only sexier when I’m clever. And the In to my international life and stories. The struggle is getting harder to maintain. It’s so difficult to struggle about when I’m single and alone in the States. I don’t know what to do. I really don’t.
https://tenor.com/view/seinfeld-kramer-power-stress-angry-gif-20412838
I am positive this too, shall pass.
Yes, I remember.
LOL dude being single isn’t THAT hard.
/not everyone is a loner by nature?!
And trop vieille pour toi anyway.
Husker Du was one of the biggies when I was growing up. Loved Land Speed Record, Candy Apple Grey, Warehouse, etc.
I am of the opposite tack of Pie, I constantly listen to music. Sometimes it’s background, sometimes work music, and then active or semi active listening. I like obscure stuff and popular stuff, from Fela Kuti to Taylor Swift to Jorge Ben. Lately I’ve been listening to lots of classic Latin Jazz and Brazilian stuff. I have a pretty deep knowledge of Brazilian and Latin stuff in general from years spent there and many years listening to it. This guy I absolutely love. He has put out great tunes in 7 separate decades. He did the he musical direction for original Brazilian Sesame Street, which means you are all kinds of awesome. Here’s something more recent from him that I love.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1JLVbkHieaM&pp=ygUVcGFyYWJlbnMgbWFyY29zIHZhbGxl
Here’s one I wish I had heard much earlier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcRtlj8KXT4
Unpopular opinion: Dave Matthews. Only listen to the live albums, and really only a few of the earlier ones. (They have maaaaaany.) Carter Beauford on drums…FUCK. I can follow every single thing that he does, but I physically cannot do it. He is hands-down the best drummer I can think of. His tutorials are insane to watch.
Dave Matthews FANS suck. But the musicianship is absolutely there. Yeah, the live shit gets real solo heavy, but they are also primarily jazz musicians making (in their own way) dope rock-ish songs.
The musicianship really is unparalleled, especially the rhythm section (fuck if I know about the violin/sax, but I like what the musicians do in the context they’re in. They get a bad rap strictly because of the frat boy crowd they tend to attract.
Sad!
I am going to have a pretty unpopular opinion here, but good musicianship is, more often than not, really,really boring.
Give me the passionat explosion of Punk, the violent railing against the pricks, three-cords and the truth, DIY ethos of the underground, small club filled with angry youth.
Your first graf: That legit, no fault nor self-flattery, that might be a [you have to play an instrument] moment. It is (about) equally likely you are and just don’t dig the style. Totally get it. I actually started (in middle school) on jazz. Useful to learn and hard, but I have never, other than just fun little licks, played live jazz. I totally get not digging that. It’s atmospheric and supposed to be. Only if you’re in The Right Mood and focus does it click.
I never listen to jazz or classical (and country) with few exceptions. I never listen to a whole album’s-worth. Totally get it.
When people ask me, funk/rock is my go-to answer(s) as my personal style. I love, way more than most, tight pocket drumming. I’ve played one solo on a track, and I (poorly) recall that being at the band’s insistence. And I get why I added the jazz fill, just to throw things completely off before we come back in again, so that’s pretty convenient.
Um. You’ll dig this methinks. Exactly up your alley you described. (Maybe start at ~2:00 to get the jist, and ~2:20 for my goofy , ~16-bar (half)jazz solo.
https://guiltkick.bandcamp.com/track/we-deserve
I loved the Korean ex-pat music scene in Daejeon. We all knew each other and intermixed in jamming and creating/performing as bands.
Every Crime Has a Scene is my favorite from that band, Guilt Kick (which somehow everyone agreed upon my odd suggestion).
https://guiltkick.bandcamp.com/track/every-crime-has-a-scene
Sorry admin—I hope this doesn’t fuck up the two-link-over deal-i-o.
Hard to pick a favorite drummer, but for me Tony Allen is up there, massively understated player, especially for the genre that he mostly played, Afrobeat, which is big and brassy and loud. Here he is explaining in 3 minutes or so the 5 major patterns of the afrobeat genre. You may dig.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FnxL66aHWsI&pp=ygUQdG9ueSBhbGxlbiBkcnVtcw%3D%3D
Totally dig and thanks! That’s absolutely my chill-drum vibe/feel. You’re constantly busy but the goal is to semi-ghost it. Keeping it neatly bent but also tight (in the right spots) is a fun discipline. Only for the volume, not the difficulty, it’s a dope way to warm up and practice without pissing off neighbors or loved ones. Including the neighbors wife I’ve never fucked nor met. I honestly don’t recall, your honor.
(My memory loss and hatred of authority over others makes me the absolute BEST ‘witness’ for anything. I can say nothing and say “I don’t remember” and I’ve got all the fucking evidence to prove it. My Vault, remains sealed. (Right price or victim and…maybe.))
Now that I have completed an arduous task (The mill is in the garage, reapeat, the Mill is in the Garage) and am haveing my first beer in a few weeks, I have had a moment to think it over, and I misstated. It isn’t good musicianship that I dislike, it is showing and pointing out that you have good musicianship. Miles? Effortless, and it never appears to be a “lookatme” moment. Steely Dan? All about the “look at me, look at me”.
I don’t care how good you are, don’t spend all your time and effort telling me. You need to show me.
In place or setup as well?
I can only imagine what pita just getting it in position was.
A pita?
Sounds like a naan starter to me.
You’ll curry no favor with that.
Sadly, neither. It is going into my basement shop, and although it is a very small horizontal mill at 200#, it is still more than I want to deal with at once. But, I also did not want to leave it in the back of my truck as this is the start of the rainy season. So, shifted to a Delta tool stand in the garage, were it will be broken down, roughly cleaned and each component carried down for the final cleaning and reassembly. Long ardous process, but when all you have is a 11’x13′ room in the basement that is already stuffed with a lathe, a shaper, drill press and bench grinder, along with two benches, you make due.
This is the mill, albeit someone elses:
http://www.lathes.co.uk/barkermiller/
The performance is a part of the show and art.
I will say, Prince’s Super Bowl Halftime show…I have never anyone command such an audience while also killing their instrument like he did. Performer’s dream (with a lot of work).
Freddie Mercury was a damn could musician as well as singer and performer, but it’s hard to rock out on a piano. Michael Jackson obviously commanded an audience with his singing and dance, which is a talent all in itself, but as a musician, I do lean towards musicianship.
(Having a front man is crucial, and being one perhaps harder. They’re the Face of the band. Duh, they get the attention. Hard (and thankFUL) work.)
I’ll give you an example of how typical punk chord progressions crossed the Pacific.
MONGOL800 / 小さな恋のうた
https://youtu.be/u8EkSB9zSpE?si=mjdVGF94bZxAijTG
Title translates as “a small love song”. It rocks both because it’s an unrequited love song and it’s got that typical punk drive.
If you had given more notice, I could have dusted off my cassettes.
Have nerdy friends, schoolmates, or older siblings; there’s my advice.
Zoomlink for the zoomdinks
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87821224358?pwd=eW55MTRDbDNtQkh2aHd3M1Nmenlzdz09
I just may…will there be tits?
Other than mine, of course.
Here’s a nice pair
Pretty!
I was hoping for some booby.
Disappoint.
whamp-whamp
Curses. Broiled again.
You only have an extra quote at the end.
That is a magnificent booby.
#metoo
Something to listen to if you need a pep in your step. Or maybe watching the maid clean the orphan den….
Kassav.
Friday morning?
I must have drank more than I thought.
You didn’t drink *enough*
I’m not sure I would consider Robert Plant, the lead singer of Led Zeppelin, perhaps the greatest rock band ever (behind Pink Floyd, of course), to be obscure, Pie.
Perhaps he means Plant’s solo work.
From this ship of fools?
Heaven knows.
And that specific song was a top 40 hit.
Europeans. *shrug*
Back in the 1970s Jerry Jeff Walker chose to remain a regional favorite so he “could still a life”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDOM8zM2hX4
The album is full of good stuff. For JJW’s most known song, “Red Ball Texas Flyer” jump to 28:10.
Got your Jerrys mixed up.
Speaking of Jerry Jeff, he is the person who introduced the recently departed Jimmy Buffett to Key West.
Ooof. You are correct.
FreedomToons on Covid’s big comeback.
Heh…..The attempts at the “new rollout” are kind of falling flat.
As to obscure music I have linked this who knows how many times here. It changes my mood to good. I don’t listen to it enough. Never seen them live but I want to.
Obscure Music:
I really dug these guys in high school. Had 2 or 3 of their cassettes. This was back when I would buy pretty much anything released by Metal Blade records.
Back in 93 my roommate picked up the only CD God is LSD ever released and I swear it was on constant repeat for like 3 months.
I saw Diatribe play a bunch of times in the mid-90s. Always a great show.
KScope Records has some very interesting groups in their stable.
I also saw Babyland a bunch of times in the 90s, they were always awesome.
This might count:
https://youtu.be/Z11LxNXr1Z0
Rustic Overtones never really made it out of New England, but were great.
A tight horn section, plus a Hammond organ? I’m in!
Obscure music, here? Surely you must be jesting.
Want some obscure shit? Here’s some Ted’s level obscure shit.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VHlkHJ7rtWc
A particular favorite because it’s not only local but one of my most beloved genres.
You want obscure local flavor?
Huzzah! What a great group.
And the song is linked to this local hit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IlsTXvqXsg
Nice.
Well mornin glibbies….
On the Friday thing, this was originally planned for a very short period then before the stoic post was ready.
On the obscure thing, the shtick triggers itself randomly
We share obscure shtick because we generally like each other(caveat/objections/rules/gist/BobBlah’sLawBlog) and trust each other to at the very least be honest with each other in regards to personal opinions with the shared understanding that our cultural origins are wildly diverse and anyone from any stripe can be inspired by anyone from anywhere…and yet, most of of us are arrogant Americans who believe that the best that human nature has to offer sprang from our shores.
Local: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-vQTFFHFHI
That Pat Benatar video was sure strange.
Obscure music?
From Zinkl’s Dance Music for Insects, Lucanus cervus
Share and enjoy, you laborers!
A powerful correlate of rising mental illness rates is a rise in sad, angry, depressed, fearful, and anxious writing and popular music.
First consider music.
Billboard’s top songs have changed a lot over time. In terms of sentiment, they’re angrier, more disgusted, and more fearful. At the same time, today’s songs are less joyful. The only upside is they also have a bit more conscientious sentiment. Songs are no more extraverted or agreeable than those from yesteryear.
https://twitter.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/1698104051261448702
But we have progressed from formulaic to… uhhhh…
OK, we haven’t progressed.
Obscure music is usually obscure for a reason: It sucks. Give me the good stuff, the Billie Ellishes, the Taylor Swifts, the Nicki Minajes anyday-I mean billions of dollars in earnings can’t be wrong, amirite?
Good morning all y’all!
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Sleep in , if you want, it’s a holiday. 😉
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9ipCKIxdHTs
Not obscure, but totally great. 🎶🎶
Morning!
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https://www.boston.com/community/entertainment/the-latest-evidence-of-bad-concert-behavior-a-portable-toilet-brawl/
White wimmenz gone wild.
Before cellphone video nobody cared, that’s all.
Granted, that was in Pittsburgh — not a city known for its demure nature — rather than Boston,
Because Boston is classy, unlike those cities in icky flyover country.
Mornin’.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/smash-mouth-frontman-steve-harwell-in-hospice-care-representative-says/ar-AA1gbPqi