PJ Harvey right now. She is terrific.
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PJ Harvey right now. She is terrific.
Tame Impala's new album. I like all his previous albums, and I didn't think I would like this one - very poppy but it is well crafted and filled with hooks. I am a sucker.
Happy sad trippy funk.
https://youtu.be/bMLq3QQK6a8
Also Beth Gibbons (lead singer of Portishead) singing work by Henryk Gorecki. In Polish. Amazing.
https://youtu.be/-YlGYxCSDJU
This group we saw in the park, local series...
Bombino - Takamba (Live on KEXP) - YouTube
This group probably too big for this small town
Tinariwen Tin AIlhan - YouTube
Though I am known to like and post up here a fair amount of far out pop, jazz, and alt country, I am actually as much a classical guy as anything else. Probably 50% actually. Mozart is OG.
https://youtu.be/NecLh4YOT9M
If you've seen Amadeus, this is the piece that enraptures Salieri so much in the scene that won that dude an Oscar.
Tool. Who played in Melbourne on the weekend. And yeah it was amazing.
Been enjoying this one lately.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxPqiHCY21w
Quote:
My grandpa was a preacher
The Pentecostal kind
And they take the Lord so seriously
you'd think they'd lost their minds
They pray out loud, speak in tongues
Some might take up snakes
But my grandpa was a working man
And he never took a break
Hail to the working man like pop
Never saw him drink a drop
He knew what I was up to,
but he never called the cops
Hail to the Working Man on high
Give us plenty fish to fry
He might judge you but He'll never make you stop
This made me smile today
[ I wish you love ] by A girl six years old 来自南京的Miumiu 记录音乐成长脚步 - YouTube
I watched Stop Making Sense last night, which I try to do every couple of years. It's absolutely great, and never gets old (well, maybe Tina's shoulder pads.)
It got me thinking about seeing them at Masonic Hall in Detroit in 1980. It was a transcendent night, one of the best shows I've ever seen. And lo and behold, there's a tape:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_KgCpUU5UQ
Crosseyed and Painless is when I levitated. Seriously, my friends and I spent the last 30 minutes dancing in the center aisle. Byrne's comment about the dancing was our invitation. God it was amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOg7mAkrKJw
John is suffering from Covid-19 and is in the ICU. Tree of Forgiveness is a great album. It strikes me as a man making peace with mortality. I hope he pulls through.
If dreams were lightning
Thunder was desire
This old house it would've burned down
A long time ago
These lyrics are above a beautiful view of the Columbia River from the Washington state side at White Salmon.
Everybody's Brewing Restaurant Pub.
Amazing place, amazing view, and more amazing to spot this above the windows over that view.
Stop by, request "Angel from Montgomery" and have a good meal and great beer once we're able to socialize in closer space.
Byron
This one I keep coming back to.
Sam Brown can sing!
Sam Brown It Makes Me Wonder - YouTube
Squeeze @ Later with Jools Holland - YouTube
Gotta love Jules Holland.
I was a big fan of Squeeze.
I saw him in a Seattle night club shortly after Jules quit Squeeze.
Amazing pianist, but more of a wonderful music showman.
A great evening.
Byron
AL GREEN HOW DO YOU MEND A BROKEN HEART - YouTube
Close your eyes as one of the first commentators suggests.
Mermaid Avenue - all three volumes
Billy Bragg & Wilco-"Walt Whitman's Niece" from "Mermaid Avenue" - YouTube