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Re: New Music!
« Reply #1065 on: May 07, 2012, 07:38:47 PM »
The Autumn King on KPOO last nite was featuring The Pearl Sessions, that new Janis re-package. It was a nice reminder that there are a lot of wonderful tracks on that LP besides "Me & 'trina McGee" that never get played on the radio.
It was a wonderful album, which only served to make her passing all the more tragic.  She seemed at the height of her powers, and I'm not a Big Brother basher either.
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Re: New Music!
« Reply #1066 on: May 07, 2012, 09:27:49 PM »
The Autumn King on KPOO last nite was featuring The Pearl Sessions, that new Janis re-package. It was a nice reminder that there are a lot of wonderful tracks on that LP besides "Me & 'trina McGee" that never get played on the radio.
It was a wonderful album, which only served to make her passing all the more tragic.  She seemed at the height of her powers, and I'm not a Big Brother basher either.

I remember in Dec of '69 being overjoyed when WABC, the big Top 40 station in NYC, which was notoriously conservative and rarely went out on a limb for singles that weren't already charting, had "Kozmik Blues" in rotation for a few weeks (it ultimately peaked at #41 as a single). It's sad that aside from "McGee" and "Piece of My Heart" she gets little Classic Rock love, unlike Hendtrix, Morrison or SRV.
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Re: New Music!
« Reply #1067 on: May 11, 2012, 07:59:08 AM »
Discovery of the Week: talk about your '70s Cheeze -- the best/worst ABBA imitation evah. From '75, a Dutch group called Teach-In with "Ding-A-Dong".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oUZLV_GdZw&feature=related
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Re: New Music!
« Reply #1068 on: May 14, 2012, 01:24:27 PM »
NTM: something I just heard on Jazz-FM by a guy named Anthony David. Somewhat political lyric that goes down easy because the melody's so smooth-jazzy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FOrR1Yg-mc

He is supposedly one of Obama's fave artists, FWIW.
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Re: New Music!
« Reply #1069 on: May 16, 2012, 07:39:56 AM »
So, in addition to Young the Giant, there's also a band called Jukebox the Ghost?
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Re: New Music!
« Reply #1070 on: May 16, 2012, 08:29:39 AM »
So, in addition to Young the Giant, there's also a band called Jukebox the Ghost?

There's also one from Portland called "Portugal. The Man", complete with incidental punctuation. I don't get it, but they are pretty good.
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Re: New Music!
« Reply #1071 on: May 16, 2012, 09:12:31 AM »
So, in addition to Young the Giant, there's also a band called Jukebox the Ghost?

There's also one from Portland called "Portugal. The Man", complete with incidental punctuation. I don't get it, but they are pretty good.

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Re: New Music!
« Reply #1072 on: May 16, 2012, 09:30:40 AM »
So, in addition to Young the Giant, there's also a band called Jukebox the Ghost?

There's also one from Portland called "Portugal. The Man", complete with incidental punctuation. I don't get it, but they are pretty good.

I'm starting a band called Copy Editor, the Gaz.

:D

There's another growing trend in band nomenclature: The (blank) and the (blank). Often the two "blank" words are alliterative, like The Head and the Heart, or The Builder and the Butcher. Those are two I can think of off the top of my head, but I know there are others.
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Re: New Music!
« Reply #1073 on: May 16, 2012, 10:20:32 AM »
So, in addition to Young the Giant, there's also a band called Jukebox the Ghost?

There's also one from Portland called "Portugal. The Man", complete with incidental punctuation. I don't get it, but they are pretty good.

I'm starting a band called Copy Editor, the Gaz.

:D

There's another growing trend in naming one's band: The (blank) and the (blank). Often the two "blank" words are alliterative, like The Head and the Heart...

Don't forget Of Monsters & Men, whose "Little Talks" is annoying as fuck: I swear the first dozen timesI heard it I thought it was a duet between Florence Machine and the Mumford guy. And the song itself is cloned from Edward Sharpe's "Home". Reason 2,874 why radio sucks.
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Re: New Music!
« Reply #1074 on: May 16, 2012, 02:26:06 PM »
There's:

Young the Giant
Foster the People
Portugal. the Man
Cage the Elephant
Minus the Bear

Apparently, Minus the Bear & Portugal the Man have opened for Young the Giant.

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Re: New Music!
« Reply #1075 on: May 16, 2012, 02:42:51 PM »
There's:

Young the Giant
Foster the People
Portugal. the Man
Cage the Elephant
Minus the Bear

Apparently, Minus the Bear & Portugal the Man have opened for Young the Giant.

Imagine if this trend had gotten hold earlier in rock history. We'd have bands like:

Led the Zeppelin
Strawberry the Alarmclock
Roxy the Music
Talking the Heads
R.E. the M.

and my favorite:

The the The
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Re: New Music!
« Reply #1076 on: May 16, 2012, 09:47:54 PM »
There's:

Young the Giant
Foster the People
Portugal. the Man
Cage the Elephant
Minus the Bear

Apparently, Minus the Bear & Portugal the Man have opened for Young the Giant.

Imagine if this trend had gotten hold earlier in rock history. We'd have bands like:

Led the Zeppelin
Strawberry the Alarmclock
Roxy the Music
Talking the Heads
R.E. the M.

and my favorite:

The the The

and Smash The Mouth

Damnit, now I'm going to be thinking about this.

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Re: New Music!
« Reply #1077 on: May 24, 2012, 07:59:28 AM »
OK, who is it that the lead singer of Alabama Shakes sounds like? It's right on the tip of my tongue but I can't quite nail it. In any case, I'm not especially impressed by them. Black Crowes version 2.0 -- meh.
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Re: New Music!
« Reply #1078 on: May 24, 2012, 08:38:35 AM »
OK, who is it that the lead singer of Alabama Shakes sounds like? It's right on the tip of my tongue but I can't quite nail it. In any case, I'm not especially impressed by them. Black Crowes version 2.0 -- meh.
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Re: New Music!
« Reply #1079 on: May 24, 2012, 02:51:07 PM »
OK, who is it that the lead singer of Alabama Shakes sounds like? It's right on the tip of my tongue but I can't quite nail it. In any case, I'm not especially impressed by them. Black Crowes version 2.0 -- meh.

I like "Hold On."  I think it's pretty slick.

But I never expected the lead singer to look like: