30/06/2020
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28/06/2020
Spinning Lights #131 "The Gates" At Central Park
"The Gates" installation by Christo and Jeanne-Claude in early 2005.
Pulp Common People Glastonbury 1995
greatest Glastonbury performances
1. Pulp – Pyramid Stage, 1995
2. David Bowie – Pyramid Stage, 2000
3. Paul McCartney – Pyramid Stage, 2004
4. The Smiths – Pyramid Stage, 1984
5. Radiohead – Pyramid Stage, 1997
6. Blur – NME Stage, 1994
7. Oasis – NME Stage, 1994
8. Patti Smith – Pyramid Stage, 2015
9. Jay-Z – Pyramid Stage, 2008
10. Happy Mondays – Pyramid Stage, 1990
11. Stormzy – Pyramid Stage, 2019
12. Beyoncé – Pyramid Stage, 2011
13. New Order – Pyramid Stage, 1981
14. Orbital – NME Stage, 1994
15. The Killers – New Tent, 2004
16. Portishead – Acoustic Tent, 1995
17. T Rex – Main Stage, 1970
18. Primal Scream – NME Stage, 1992
19. Kanye West – Pyramid Stage, 2015
20. The Levellers – Pyramid Stage 1994
When The Stone Roses pulled out of their hotly anticipated Glastonbury headline set in 1995, few in the crowd had any idea who was replacing them until Pulp walked onstage. To say they stepped up is a vast understatement – they went down in history. Jarvis Cocker seemed born to prowl the world’s largest stage, chatting to the biggest crowd of his life like it was a mate down his local Voyeurs Anonymous meeting. The likes of “Babies”, “Disco 2000” and ”Common People” crystallised Britpop’s ascendance in 60 or so scintillating minutes.
A Street Scene
TOP FIVE:
1) A Street Scene (from Hex)
2) Absent Friend (from Hex)
3) Scum (from Independency)
4) Pendulum Man (from Hex)
5) = All Different Things and Bloodrush (both from Independency)
best album: HEX
Die Haut - Parts Unknown (with Lydia Lunch and Kid Congo Powers)
Parts Unknown (Vocals by Lydia Lunch / Kid Congo Powers)
Energy Alphas
Electronica a la Brian Eno meets pop music a la Brian Eno in a modern studio playground. It may all have been precogged before, but Ray Bradbury’s Farenheit 451 which is the thematic reference here is of relevance again.
Zess (Le jour du néant)
Magma – Zëss (Le Jour Du Néant)
Orchestral rendition of the literally final piece of celestial music originally conceived in the 70s but not recorded in a studio until now. Not as unrelentingly mind-blowing as Mekanïk Destruktïw Kommandöh but still a masterpiece.
Egyptian Tomb
remember being at the Oakland Auditorium outside San Francisco on New Year’s Eve 1979, seeing the Grateful Dead. The cloyingly sweet smell of marijuana was thick in the air and I had a strange hallucinogenic experience at one point during the show; it literally blew my mind.
Given that we jointly entered a new decade that night, the feeling of being in that moment was quite tangible; and the music became a ritualistic celebration of time itself.
Still, no Grateful Dead studio album has given me that same vivid felling of the here and now. For that experience in recorded form, I would instead pick the eponymous debut from a band sometimes referred to as the Grateful Dead of the old world, namely Mighty Baby.
‘Mighty Baby’ really does sound like a captured moment in time. In fact, it sounds like right here and right now even today: light-footed and genre hopping, as inclusive in its warts-and-all sound as it is insular in intent, and presciently detached.
The Beatles spoke for a whole generation and so did punk. Today, musicians tend to speak only for themselves. So did Might Baby; and in this they were fundamentally different from the Grateful Dead.
Then again, if you were to ask me what the music of the future sounds like, I would actually pick Mighty Baby’s sophomore effort, ‘Jug of Love’. On this album, they develop a sound that is as organic as it is fluid. While they obviously followed the Byrds’ lead into the country, Might Baby added a deeper jam band level that, while maybe technically comparable to what the Grateful Dead were doing, took a much more introspective musical direction.
After spending the 80s and much of the 90s with synths and machines, as we entered the new millennium, music increasingly seems to have no other way forward than to turn away from artifice and back to humans. What does it sound like when musicians understand each other? Listen to “Jug of Love” and you will know. Here is the sound of something very handmade and spontaneous, yet excitingly interdependent and complex.
Having said that, as an experiment, the album stumbles at times, in particular on the bluesy and slightly pedestrian ‘Keep on Juggin’’. Here, Mighty Baby really do become something of the Grateful Dead of the old world. (Indeed, as documented on the concert recordings, ‘Keep on Juggin’’ was a live favourite….)
Untitled #2
After having released mini album ‘Next Week In Münster’ back in May, Roger Heathers is back again with another mini album, ‘Grim’. Looking at the cover, my first thought was that this might be a Halloween record, but more than anything it is a set of love songs that don’t seem thematically tied to the grim reaper who has fallen asleep in an armchair on the cover. Maybe the point is that we are free to go on with our lives and loves as long as he is asleep? I am probably missing something obvious…
Whereas the previous album was a heavily arranged and intricate sounding 10CCesque affair, this is a quite stripped down set with acoustic guitar and vocals in the fore, as well as additional voices in the back. In fact, rather than calling this acoustic as Heathers does, I’d go as far as to call this a vocal extravaganza with lots of multi-tracked voices all over the place, both in fore- and background.
Better Lull Bear
Sean O’Hagan – Radum Calls
While only being Sean’s second solo album proper, this builds very much on his long raft of High Lamas albums. A brilliant return – and a bold step forward for experimental pop music.
Better Lull Bear
Sean O’Hagan – Radum Calls
While only being Sean’s second solo album proper, this builds very much on his long raft of High Lamas albums. A brilliant return – and a bold step forward for experimental pop music.
The Spectrum Explodes
Van der Graaf Generator makes love to Talk Talk and gives birth to ambient prog. This is where post-rock should have gone in the first place.
The Cold Spells - Interstitial [Audio] (6 of 10)
The Cold Spells – Interstitial
Forlorn and experimentally pastoral post-punk pop. Wonderfully restrained and autumnal, and yes, it does make you think of Robert Wyatt!
27/06/2020
The Shining Theme
Wendy Carlos, who ended up providing music for two of his best-known later films her contributions to A Clockwork Orange and The Shining
Clockwork Orange - Funeral of Queen Mary ( Cover by Carlos ) HD
Wendy Carlos, who ended up providing music for two of his best-known later films. Fans of both Kubrick and Carlos will be grateful that it didn’t, though the experience became a frustrating one for Carlos, who often found her music nudged out as well. Nonetheless, her contributions to A Clockwork Orange and The Shining are indispensable in creating the dread and horror that carry through these cinematic masterpieces.
26/06/2020
Dick Hyman / Mary Mayo - Moon Gas [remastered]
Inicialmente, o cantor destacou que está aproveitando a quarentena para "compor, compor, compor". "Estou trabalhando em vários discos de uma vez, o que não é anormal para mim, mas é refrescante não ter outras distrações. Porém, a gravidade dessa situação faz com que tudo seja diferente. Embora eu seja sortudo o bastante para poder sobreviver a isso, tive um ano inteiro de turnês canceladas", afirmou.
Em seguida, o músico destacou que tem ouvido músicas "confortantes e alucinantes", buscando sempre algo "exótico". Ele recomendou os discos a seguir, com uma música de destaque apontada pela Rolling Stone:
No Neck Blues Band And Embryo - Wieder Das Erste Mal
i saw live .. weird, mystical, surprising, and unforgettable ..... there were more than 10 musicians ..... amazing
That Petrol Emotion - Hot Head. A Tribute To Captain Beefheart
24/06/2020
CYCLOPEAN Weeks
That’s a cool one! With two Can members (Jaki Liebezeit, Irmin Schmidt plus Burnt Friedman & Jono Podmore) this 12″ contains a fine contemporary (2013) take on krautrock legacy.
23/06/2020
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21/06/2020
20/06/2020
15/06/2020
Matt Berninger - Holes
"Holes" originally written and recorded by Mercury Rev (Jonathan Donahue, Sean Mackowiack, Adam Snyder, and David Fridmann)
14/06/2020
1989: Pete de Freitas (27 years, 346 days)
1989 - Pete De Freitas
Pete De Freitas drummer with Echo And The Bunnymen was killed at the age of 27, when his motorbike collided with a car.
13/06/2020
Endure (Head in Hands Quarantine Dub)
Endure (Head in Hands Quarantine Dub) · Mimi Goese · Ben Neill · David Van Tieghem
12/06/2020
The Heads of Dead Surfers
Yeah, so the singer sounds the dude from Bloc Party, so what? LFK have a great bassy, mathy post-rock tone here. Even a bizarre guest appearance by Mark E. Smith on track 4.
11/06/2020
10/06/2020
09/06/2020
07/06/2020
The Magnetic Fields - '74 No
Stephin Merritt created for himself several sacred rules of work. One - what he calls the “ABBA theory” - stipulates that, in case he cannot remember a melody he composed, it is because, in fact, it did not deserve to be remembered. Another, included in a “Formulist Manifesto”, proclaims that “all art aspires to the status of the Top 40 bubblegum pop. We formulators reject (with a sigh of relief) the illusory aspirations of the moderns for individual expression ”. Hence, a conviction follows: “I don't need inspiration. I do need time, a notepad, a pen, and appropriate background music to neutralize the music that I inevitably have in my head ”. As an accessory, the notion that “for any idea, there is certainly a context in which it is a good idea” is helpful. For example, recording an album where all the songs start with “i”, designing a trilogy “no synth”, drowning an entire disc in distortion, “à la” Jesus & Mary Chain, or indulging in the writing of 69 possible variations on the "love song"
Surabaya Johnny - Dagmar Krause - Lost In The Stars - Songs Of Kurt Weil...
Oh, at first you were kind and gentle
'Til I packed up and went off with you
And it lasted two weeks until one day
You laughed at me and hit me too
You dragged me all over the city
Up the river and down to the sea
Now I look at myself in the mirror
And some old woman looks back at me
You didn't want love, Johnny, you wanted money
I gave you all I had. You wanted more
Oh, don't look at me that way
I'm only trying to talk to you
Wipe that grin off your face, Johnny
06/06/2020
A.C. MARIAS drop 1980
Eerie candy by Angela Conway and Dome musicians, first single, issued on Dome Records!
Find Angela Conway working alongside members of Wire in the musical projects "P'o" and "He Said".
01/06/2020
Give Peace A Chance - Plastic Ono Band (official music video HD)
on this day, 1969 The Plastic Ono Band recorded 'Give Peace A Chance' during a 'bed-in' at the Hotel La Reine in Montreal, Canada. Producer Phil Spector, poet Allan Ginsberg and writer Timothy Leary all sang on the song.
XTC - Super Tuff.wmv
Wasp Star was my first XTC album. I know people generally don’t regard it as the best XTC album, but it’s my favorite.
Oh, really? You came in the “out” door. It was the one that people generally don’t regard so much. It usually gets voted down. It’s usually in the bottom two. [1978’s] Go 2 and Wasp Star are the two most unloved of the children.
Oh, really? You came in the “out” door. It was the one that people generally don’t regard so much. It usually gets voted down. It’s usually in the bottom two. [1978’s] Go 2 and Wasp Star are the two most unloved of the children.
I’m pretty happy with it, though. I had a bit of a downer on it when we first put it out. But that was probably more into personal struggles with [guitarist] Dave [Gregory]. That maybe soured it a little bit; he left before we finished the album up. But, no, I think it’s OK. And I think there’s some good strong songs on it and it’s a good blasting, electric guitar, pop record.
Tragic Mulatto-She's a ho
rock n roll .... few people know or hear .... in Portugal they were not divulged ... neither in the 80s, 90s .. I don't remember magazines talking about the band ... underrated band
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