The Beths just put their new album up for pre-order so I’m listening to the preview tracks.
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Valley of the Sun’s “Means the Same”. Friend recommended them since I’m listening to stoner metal bands while working on a stoner metal album.
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=jTniLeZKL7A
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I just found this, and I have goosebumps all along my spine:
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A bit OT but about music – I’ve got the task of disposing of my parents’ LP collection. About 350 records. (I’m not seeking advice on this. The short version is, all are thoroughly used which only makes them valuable to people who want a particular record. They aren’t ‘market’ valuable.)
I was looking through it, and though I knew a lot of what’s in it, and a few of the records were mine when I was a kid, my reaction to apprehending the whole thing was amazement. I thought, ‘Geez, they had everything.’
They’re of maybe the second generation to have access to recorded music at home (born in the 30s and 40s) but of the first generation to be able to comprehensively buy new music in multiple genres, and they did so from the 60s to the 80s. They have all the Beatles, Stones, Bob Dylan, Hendrix. Any big band you think of - Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, ELO, Supertramp, Fleetwood Mac. Soundtracks from 2001 A Space Odyssey to Star Wars, Beverly Hills Cop, Flashdance. Classical from Mozart to Wagner. The Concert For Bangladesh. Woodstock. Hooked On Classics. Wendy Carlos on the Moog. And, in a @rovarsson -targeted photo, the Steeleye Span collection:
I thought about how much time they spent buying and listening to all this and knowing it, and how each person who wants to know a lot about music has to take their own version, or some version, of this kind of journey in their lifetime. There are no shortcuts.
My dad was the hi-fi enthusiast (he’s still alive but with dementia, I guess that’s why I say ‘was’.) When CDs came, he found they sounded so much better he was an immediate adopter.
-Wade
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Trying to solve A Taste of Terror for ParserComp. Here’s a song from my soundtrack.
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I never could swim! I never will swim!
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Underwater boogie, baby XD
I don’t know why I like this song, but I do.
The Aquabats! - Food Fight On The Moon
I think I’m just a big kid. 
RIP Ozzy Osbourne.
This is the seminal heavy metal song.
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How have I never listened to this before? So good.
Madness’ The Rise and Fall is finally, after more than 40 years, available in the US. Here’s the one song you may have heard from it (if you’re old like me):
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Its older than me(I turn 39 in October), but I have heard Our House, though I never knew who performed it… Granted, I’m complete pants at identifying who’s singing when I hear a song on the radio or when letting Alexa decide what to play next and on occasions where I’ve picked up compilation albums from acts I listened to as a kid or search for songs by a particular act, I’m often surprised to learn they sing a song I’ve heard but never knew who sang it.
I’m totally not posting this here because it is relevant to today. (well, everyday, really.)
Edit: Bonus points if you can identify the song about to start at the end of the video.
Ha! I got it. Turning Japanese.
This was on my mind today. I was testing a game. For IFComp as it turns out. And I typed TURN. And it said ‘What do you want to turn?’ And then I typed ‘Japanese’.
-Wade
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Great song that has unfortunately not aged well.
I’ll segue to a song that has aged well.
I saw Freakier Friday last night and I’d say it’s almost as good as its 2003 predecessor.
The song covered in the 2003’s finale, Take Me Away, and reprised in the new film, was originally by Australian band Lash. Lash’s story is one of those highly illustrative of corporate messes inflicted on musicians. An authentic band of teen girls is elevated, make a massively (and probably over-)produced record, are forced to sell it before they’ve been given time to work out how to play it live, get both a backlash and a blast of fame and then break apart. Their story is well covered in two episodes of the Highlighter Records podcast.
So here’s the original Take Me Away by Lash (2002). Great melodies, hooks, harmonies, chorus, performance. Maybe a little overproduced.
-Wade
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Our corporate overlords giveth and they taketh away. Spotify has now taken down all but four tracks from the album. I increasingly worry that our dependence on streaming media is a real threat to preservation of art.
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Man Man - Loot My Body
Some music from the musicians of the old music community I first joined as a teenager. In fact, I even contributed a song to Dimlight Alley Crew’s Evening album. It’s the longest song on there. XD
Back to Elastica lately.
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