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Dazed and Confused

Jan 27, 2012
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Amsterhammer said:
Listen up you youngsters, pay this man the immense respect that he deserves! This song was on the first Stones album.

Today is the birthday of Ellas Otha Bates, aka Ellas McDaniel, aka 'The Originator', better known to the world as the one, the only, the truly legendary, Bo Diddley!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVRtQUTd7Gk
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yep, always loved Bo.
Notice how "shy" he became in the later years.

Back in the days without fat and sloppiness. Check out the guy on Maracas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMZjAOoX6nw

And the 55 in the title is spot on.

Edit: from a bit later:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y87q6rVMp4Q&spfreload=10

Mr Diddley was not only a pioneer, often he surrounded himself with rather good and sexy looking musicians.

Imagine a brunch with sleepy eyes here.....
 
Cance > TheRest

Cance > TheRest

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happy new year! i know that is old news to many here but where i live there is a few more hours left.

i see some are posting 80's music recently. so, here's my contribution to that:

one of the greats :cool:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obAtn6I5rbY
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Happy new year to you too and everybody else! ;)

Funny that you bring up Talking Heads. Was just listening through the album 'Kid A' by Radiohead, whose name apparently origins from the Talking Heads song 'Radio Head' from 1986.

anyway, not that there are many (or any for that matter) striking similarities between Talking Heads and Radiohead in general, I just thought I'd post this one named 'National Anthem' from Kid A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DmNzmG1OEU
 
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Cance > TheRest said:
Happy new year to you too and everybody else! ;)

Funny that you bring up Talking Heads. Was just listening through the album 'Kid A' by Radiohead, whose name apparently origins from the Talking Heads song 'Radio Head' from 1986.

anyway, not that there are many (or any for that matter) striking similarities between Talking Heads and Radiohead in general, I just thought I'd post this one named 'National Anthem' from Kid A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DmNzmG1OEU
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;) cheers. is it time for some road cycling races yet??!!

i didn't know that - about Radiohead taking their name from a Talking Heads song...hm, interesting.

National Anthem....love, love it and Kid A. But i have to agree with Mortand, as commented earlier in the thread, i like Rainbows as a whole (probably) more - wonderfully rhythmic and for the most part brighter melodies. Not obsessed with Radiohead as i used to be, but i still go on binges of them and can still hear something new and catchy that i apparently missed before. Hail to the Thief is underrated, imo. But 2 of my all time faves are on it.

From Rainbows. Faust Arp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUQx0xmp44E

changing the mood. have the news on. it is all about Asian Air crash. my thoughts are with the lost and their families... this shawn colvin came to mind:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud5E1twISZU

well, off to watch the gigantic potato drop. cuz that is what we do here to ring in the new year :eek:
 
Tricycle Rider

Tricycle Rider

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Don't really have a song at the moment, but hope you all have a happy, healthy, and safe 2015 - especially out on the road!

(I have another 4.5 hours to go before the clock strikes midnight in my part of the world - in my advancing years I'm not sure I can stay awake until then.)
 
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blackcat said:
ChewbaccaD those albums Molina was sounding like the gestalt of Oldham and BillCallahan.

like Mascis, he started of doing hardcore stuff too.
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I knew about the death. Drinking yourself to death takes real dedication.

What are the hardcore albums?

BTW, saw Mascis a month or so ago. I like the acoustic stuff, but prefer having my eardrums bleed after dinosaur shows.
 
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ChewbaccaD

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mortand said:
As much as I appreciate Will Oldham and Bill Callahan (who are both way more than decent) Jason Molina is on another level. I'm talking Mark Kozelek/Damien Jurado level, and that's about as highly ranked as you can get in my world.

'The Lioness', 'Didn't It Rain', 'Magnolia Electric Co' and 'What Comes After the Blues' are all near- or outright masterpieces. Songs like Hold on Magnolia, Hard to Love a Man and Alone With the Owl can drive me to tears. Damn, I miss him!
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Love the music, but Kozelek would be so much easier to enjoy if he weren't a total pr!ck.
 
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ChewbaccaD

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Watched 20 Feet From Stardom a couple of weeks ago, and they played the isolated vocals Merry Clayton did for Gimme Shelter. Stunningly beautiful. I had never appreciated how much she makes that song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqXyjbgs5rU

I generally cannot stand the Stones, but there are a few songs I like, and Gimme Shelter was always one of those, and Clayton was the reason why.

I've also always loved Monkey Man, if for no other reason than the opening line is one of the best ever penned.
 
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ChewbaccaD said:
I knew about the death. Drinking yourself to death takes real dedication.

What are the hardcore albums?

BTW, saw Mascis a month or so ago. I like the acoustic stuff, but prefer having my eardrums bleed after dinosaur shows.
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think he was a teenager. like, into the henry rollins black flag scene as a whippper snapper. its a narrative arc not unlike mascis.
 
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Libertine Seguros

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mortand said:
As much as I appreciate Will Oldham and Bill Callahan (who are both way more than decent) Jason Molina is on another level. I'm talking Mark Kozelek/Damien Jurado level, and that's about as highly ranked as you can get in my world.

'The Lioness', 'Didn't It Rain', 'Magnolia Electric Co' and 'What Comes After the Blues' are all near- or outright masterpieces. Songs like Hold on Magnolia, Hard to Love a Man and Alone With the Owl can drive me to tears. Damn, I miss him!
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ChewbaccaD said:
Love the music, but Kozelek would be so much easier to enjoy if he weren't a total pr!ck.
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I'd say at times in the 90s Will Oldham could get pretty damn bleak, though he seems much more at peace in his later records. Arise, Therefore and some parts of Days in the Wake are as stark as it gets. Smog/Callahan was at his best when he first scratched the lo-fi scratchiness, I think. The earliest low-budget faux-indie sound collages are interesting but are a long way away from what his name was made on; the first Smog record I got was "Sewn to the Sky" and it's almost incomprehensible that it could be the same guy who made his current output. "The Doctor Came at Dawn" is my favourite; it's one of those albums like "Tilt" that just sounds like it was beamed in from another planet, being so completely otherworldly.

I've heard Kozelek can be a pr!ck, but he has also acknowledged this at many times in the past (and part of the time his selfish, insular nature is what has caused a lot of the problems he details in his songs, at least in the early days).

While we're talking bands like this, either of you fans of Codeine? "The White Birch" is to me the #2 essential "slowcore" album, after the first self-titled Red House Painters album (i.e. Rollercoaster). They make me think of what would have happened if Slint had followed the path they suggested with "Washer". Their sound is much more stark and empty than the lush soundscapes often filled by Kozelek or Low, even despite more distortion.

Tom
 
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