I listened to Count Bassie: I also listened to the Beastie Boys and my daughter asked who they were. After I told her, she started asking all weekend for more Beastie Boys. I cooked dinner tonight while listening to Sufjan Stevens Michigan album:
Basie! Bit of a coincidence: I was hanging out at Threadgill's the other day and they played this track: Which prompted a couple-day journey into the more obscure parts of his discography. What a musician, eh? "Basie was not a composer, he was a bandleader and his instrument was the band in the same way that the classical orchestra was French Romantic composer Hector Berlioz's instrument."
Did you see NPR's little article on how to introduce your children to music the other day? Thought of you while I was reading it. Now I can't find it, of course. They were basically saying do it while you still can, because pretty soon your son or daughter is gonna come home from a birthday party obsessed with Miley Cyrus and then it'll be too late.
Short Answer: School of Seven Bells - Kiss Them For Me Long answer: A few years back I was listening to Orb's "Live '93." I recalled reading about the album coming out in '93. I then realized that the time that had passed between me reading about the album and me listening to it was approximately equal to the amount of time between the album coming out and Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" coming out. I immediately felt old, calcified and out of touch. I even tried listening to some dubstep, only to determine that it was badly deconstructed anthem trance. Then this happened. I signed up, got some new music, investigated some new artists, and found myself actually looking forward to a new album release for the first time since Massive Attack's 100th Window. And it was awesome. They came through exactly once; none of my friends wanted to go, so I didn't. That was a stupid decision. Benjamin Curtis died of Lymphoma two months later. S7B had already gone from three members to two; I figured they wouldn't make it from two to one. Ghostly had nothing more to say about S7B so I assumed they were done. Not so, Alejandra had bumped over to Vagrant. I didn't realize this until last week. And it's Siouxsie. I mixed Siouxsie twice and it was amazing. Here's a lady who's old school enough that Sid Vicious played in her band. Robert Smith played in her band. And S7B not only covers Siouxsie, the B-side is an amazing and new cover of When She Was Me. Probably my least favorite Creatures track - this cover sounds nothing like it, and is amazing. So I bought me an EP. It was almost, but not quite, enough for me to put my sad down.
The Feelers - Venus Come my little venus
Can't you feel, it's in all of us
Like the light, we see you soon give up yourself
And dive into the moon
And I don't mind being with you
Knowing I'm by myself
There's a river in all of us that's dry
As you are in me
Thanks to rezzeJ, I discovered the Portico Quartet, and I am really liking them.
Hi everyone, here's a sample of non-english music I've been listening to recently. Cage by Dir en Grey, which is Visual Kei, a Japanese metal genre. Dead Eye by Aliaj, an Iranian metal band
Old, but great: Philly Paris Lockdown [18:10]- a fusion of jazz and classical with some hip hop influence through ?uestlove. The audio starts with an interview of ?uestlove: They play the collaboration at 10:42. http://www.npr.org/2011/05/25/136650650/-uestloves-philly-paris-lockdown-on-world-cafe On April 17, ?uestlove teamed up with Parisian star Keren Ann to present "Philly-Paris Lockdown," a one-night celebration of 1900s Paris that took place at this year's Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts. Keren Ann is a multi-instrumentalist, producer, engineer and songwriter with six solo albums to her credit. Her recent 101 has already attracted acclaim for its subtle intricacies and strong storytelling. For "Philly-Paris Lockdown," ?uestlove and Keren Ann were joined by a slew of artists to present an event awash in jazz, classical and hip-hop styles. The collaboration reworks compositions from Satie, Ravel, Debussy and Stravinsky.?uestlove, born Ahmir Khalib Thompson, is the renowned drummer of Grammy-winning Philadelphia band The Roots, but that's just the beginning. He's also a DJ, journalist and record producer. He's worked with Common, Erykah Badu, John Legend, Jay-Z, Bilal... the list goes on and on. And, of course, he's on network television almost every weeknight as the leader of the house band on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon.
God I love this thread.
How about this
And even this!
Bayonetta 2 came out and so I played the first recently before I tackled the second one. Bayonetta has a special place in my heart because it was the last game I 100% completed, A+ rankings in every mission, collected every weapon, every lore-book, all the costumes, beat at the hardest difficulty, etc. etc. And the catchy soundtrack, as can be heard in the link. What's hilarious is that it really shows how much things have changed. That game was ridiculously hard, even on Normal difficulty, so the fact that I perfected everything showed how much time I was willing to put into it. Replaying it was an entirely different experience. I tried going straight into Hard mode, went, "fuck this bullshit I don't have time for it," then switched down to "Very Easy" mode and beat it in a weekend. I just don't care anymore, I wanted to play for the story, not the skill, and I didn't feel like investing that much effort into the challenge of harder difficulties. I feel challenged by other things now - my writing, schoolwork, what have you - that I want to relax when I turn on a game. Anyways, here's the sweet track from the second game:
I love this movie (even though It pales in comparsion to the book, I have great memories with it), and a big reason is for the soundtrack by Vangelis.
I never know whether to put these as replies, or as edits, but this got me thinking of another cool piece of music - or rather, pieces of music. By Glenn Gould, normally known best as a famous pianist and crazy person. I think he was trying to capture Canada. I have no idea if he succeeded.
The Griswolds - 16 Years what.cd freeleech has been positively lucrative this time around. Griswolds is sort of power pop in the Walk the Moon/Kenna/Imagine Dragons vein. Not musically interesting but perfect for work, which I did all day.
I feel conflicted about Logic. Technically, he's great. Lyrically and in terms of his flow, he's great. It just doesn't really feel like he has anything to say. He's a lot like Jay Cole on that regard. Technical skill, not much of a message to bring to the table. The whole Nicky = Nicotene thing didnt really vibe with me either, though I've also never had to quit smoking, so I suppose I'm not the target audience in that regard. Also, he bites off of Kendrick so hard.