Currently listening to some Susumo Yokota, Sakura. Lovely bit of sort of ambient techno, very gentle, with pretty melodies.
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What are you listening to? Part III
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Some of my favorites from that era.
Slippery People is one of my top five from the Talking Heads. The live version on Stop Making Sense is phenomenal.
edit: I purposely deleted the B52s, not a fan.
I'm not a big fan of the B52's either. I just like that one song The Love Shack. And yes, I love the Talking Heads. One of my very favorite groups from back then. The Stop Making Sense concert and resulting album are phenomenal.
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense (Deluxe Edition)
This remastered and expanded deluxe edition 2023. Album originally released in 1984.
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Another of my favorites from back in the day are the Kinks, and this album of live concerts is just over the top...
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sameI'm not a big fan of the B52's either. I just like that one song The Love Shack. And yes, I love the Talking Heads. One of my very favorite groups from back then. The Stop Making Sense concert and resulting album are phenomenal.
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense (Deluxe Edition)
This remastered and expanded deluxe edition 2023. Album originally released in 1984.
Another of my favorites from back in the day are the Kinks, and this album of live concerts is just over the top...
The live version of Celluloid Heroes on that LP, not the video - the video has a different version - is absolutely Dave Davies best guitar work IMHO.
Looks like neither Pete nor Roger wants to talk about what happened. From separate interviews in the New York Times today:
After the Who played a London concert in March, Zak Starkey, who had been the drummer since 1996, was fired. Why?
TOWNSHEND I don’t know. I’ve always been open in saying that Zak is not my favorite drummer. But neither is [expletive] Keith Moon, you know? [Laughs] My favorite drummer is Simon Phillips and my second favorite is Kenney Jones. Roger didn’t like either of them!
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Why was Zak Starkey fired? Even Pete doesn’t know.
DALTREY Zak was never fired. At the show in London, the sound of the bass drum was looping back on itself, which wipes out your ability to pitch. You can’t hear the note. I was pointing at the drums, trying to signal my sound man to turn the [expletive] thing down. People thought I was having a go at Zak.
We wanted to go back to the raw sound we had 30 years ago, and sometimes the energy of a band needs refreshing. The Who are Pete and Roger — everybody else is a session player.
Seen these guys 3 times. First time I saw them, Heart opened for them.
From what you posted, it doesn't appear that way. Pete was quite open in saying he didn't know, and upfront about his dislike of particular drummers. Roger too was quite candid about what happened, and also upfront on how the band was setup, and by stating the others were sessional, no one was fired, just not rehired!
Blasting some ol' fashioned cd's on repeat: Mother Love Bone (the OG), Soundgarden and Fall Out Boy.
I've gone for some Phillip Glass now, Glassworks. It's been ages since I heard it. I've enjoyed it.
I also like Glassworks--enough to have bought it three times in effect (the standalone Glassworks, the version in the Complete Sony Recordings box that adds a special cassette mix, and the ballet arrangement that adds the funeral movement from Akhnaten on Dancepieces).
If the ballet is ever performed near you, I highly recommend it. Even though it is late period Jerome Robbins, the piece truly does elevate the music.
Here is one version of the dance:
Well, it's currently 05:21 in the early morning. I have only had 3 cups of tea and I have just watched 25 minutes of Ballet. And I thought it was amazing! I am largely clueless on most things, but in my humble opinion they did a wonderful job of interpreting the music, and I especially loved what they did towards the crescendo at the end. Great.
So for the first time in a while I felt like some classical music, this should keep me going! I'm listening to Bartok: Complete works for Violin and Piano. Ian Hobson and Sherban Lupu. It's in my library but I don't think I have heard this before, nice to hear something new.
Right. So. The Bartok for me was NOT easy listening. I appreciate the melodies and composition, but that was hard work. Perhaps I don't have a very sophisticated ear, or maybe that takes time? I won't give up, but I need some healing now, I'm feeling a tad fraught. So I now have Al Green. Greatest Hits: The Best Of Al Green!
Yes, they do, 2009 for the first one and 2019 for the second one.
We are getting old.