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Post by orioles70 on Jan 23, 2020 2:58:49 GMT
hadn't listened to any Pugwash in a long while - chose this one
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Post by orioles70 on Jan 23, 2020 3:00:45 GMT
and then this one
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Post by unomusette on Jan 23, 2020 21:27:03 GMT
Do I spot Neil Hannon on piano in the last one? And on Thomas's t shirt too? Lovely.
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Post by orioles70 on Jan 24, 2020 21:48:25 GMT
I like to think of Kevin Parker as a modern day Jeff. He writes, records and produces, and works mostly alone until it's time to perform. He decorates his songs with all kinds of lovely sounds from who knows where. And I when I read about how he grew up playing music with his father and what his Dad's musical interests were - it's a direct connection to '70s melodic power pop. read this and see if you can spot parallels between Kevin's musical self education and Jeff's then play his new single and listen for all of the weird and wobbly sounds that he layers in Tame Impala is also my son's favorite band. But he rolls his eyes at me when I try to tell him about similarities between ELO and Tame Impala. It's not cool to like Dad's music << Parker's father "played a lot of music as a hobby" and was a "big part of [Kevin's] musical upbringing".[6] His first experience playing an instrument was accompanying his father on guitar. He said: "I learned guitar by playing rhythm guitar to his Shadows leads. He wanted to play Shadows lead riffs, because he loves Hank B. Marvin, and he got me to play the chords in the background."[6] Parker's father also played music by The Beatles, The Beach Boys and Supertramp in a cover band, which Parker believes was where he "got [his] love of melody", which has been a significant part of Parker's music.[7] Parker also recalls "amusing [him]self by singing along to the vacuum cleaner when [his] mum was cleaning."[7] Parker's father later purchased Kevin his first guitar.[8] At age 11, Parker took up the drums, just like his brother, and later was making "excessively melodic music from about the age of 12 to 15", which was "really weird and repetitive and almost genre-less",[9] by recording his drumming and overdubbing guitar and other instruments in lo-fi experiments. Speaking about this Parker said: "I've always recorded music. When I was 12, I used to set up two tape machines and multi-track myself. First, I'd record a beat on the drums, then, I'd play that tape into another tape recorder while playing keyboard; then I'd take that tape and play bass guitar along with the drums and keyboard. I'd keep adding instruments. I did that for a long time until my dad bought me an 8-track, and then I continued recording music by myself, even if I was in other bands at the same time."[10] This hobby turned into an obsession for Parker who was "just doing music all the time, I never did any homework, I'd just spend every night in the garage recording music."[6] Parker got his first eight-track recorder at age 16 >> I think Jeff was 16 when he joined The Nightriders.
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Post by orioles70 on Feb 5, 2020 1:49:58 GMT
great new song by Khruangbin & Leon Bridges no idea how you pronounce the 1st one, I just say K-bin
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Post by orioles70 on Feb 5, 2020 2:08:45 GMT
after a "Southern" song, how about a "Northern" one?
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Post by orioles70 on Feb 9, 2020 18:05:34 GMT
straight on rock and roll Emily played 2 shows in Baltimore on Friday. Hope her fingers have thick calluses.
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Post by orioles70 on Feb 23, 2020 17:57:02 GMT
Here's a fun one. Was Scooby Doo a thing over in the UK? Matthew Sweet was a favorite of mine in the early '90s. Didn't know he had covered this.
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Post by eloneen on Feb 24, 2020 3:20:45 GMT
I heard some good Bee Gees' songs on the radio last week and decided that it was time to purchase a good compilation. I chose The Ultimate Bee Gees: The 50th Anniversary Collection. It's a 2 CD set. It arrived today, and I've really been enjoying it !! When I was a teen, I loved singing along with my friends to the Bee Gees' music --especially their older, pre-disco songs (although their disco numbers are fun, too). I usually HATE breathy singing, but for some reason, it's just divine when the Bee Gees do it! Here's one of my favorites from the 1960s:
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Post by orioles70 on Feb 26, 2020 20:26:18 GMT
I went to see one of my local favs (Matt Hutchison) play at a local winery on Sunday afternoon. He played this song with just a single cellist to accompany him. But there's a video of the studio recording where he went to 11 on the Jeff scale - a room full of violins and cellos. He went all the way from Baltimore to Budapest to record this. For a self publishing musician that must have been quite an investment!
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Post by orioles70 on Feb 26, 2020 20:32:17 GMT
I heard some good Bee Gees' songs on the radio last week and decided that it was time to purchase a good compilation. I chose The Ultimate Bee Gees: The 50th Anniversary Collection. It's a 2 CD set. It arrived today, and I've really been enjoying it !! When I was a teen, I loved singing along with my friends to the Bee Gees' music --especially their older, pre-disco songs (although their disco numbers are fun, too). I usually HATE breathy singing, but for some reason, it's just divine when the Bee Gees do it! Here's one of my favorites from the 1960s: eloneen , when my friends and I were about 15, we used to hang out and listen to the record collection which only had about 6 choices. Bee Gees Gold volume 1 was one of them. This was pre disco and that song was track 3. Here's a link to the rest of the album. (I also remember Fleetwood Mac Rumours, America's Greatest Hits, Bread and Chicago's Greatest hits being frequently played and once in awhile we'd borrow the older brother's copy of Tommy). Miss those days! www.discogs.com/Bee-Gees-Bee-Gees-Gold-Volume-One/release/1535297
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Post by eloneen on Feb 26, 2020 21:38:03 GMT
orioles70 Thanks. I like just about all of those songs. I had a copy of "Here At Last: The Bee Gees Live!" I learned the words to most of the songs that were on the album you mentioned by listening to the live album and singing the songs over and over....Of course, throughout the live album you could hear all the screaming girls and even make out "Oh....BARRY!!" a time or two. Live albums are so much fun that way!
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Post by orioles70 on Feb 27, 2020 18:20:45 GMT
when I saw the song title come up on the display, I got my hopes up but this Shangri-la is by EOB EOB being Ed O'Brien from Radiohead
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Post by orioles70 on Mar 1, 2020 21:29:30 GMT
Family Crest is following ELO's traveling orchestra model. They show up at gigs with up to a dozen instruments.
here they do a Hall & Oates cover that got featured on the Grey's Anatomy TV show a few seasons back reading the comments, this song provokes opposite reactions from different listeners I'm guessing those that grew up on the original are the ones who don't like it. But I like hearing it with the strings added.
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Post by orioles70 on Mar 2, 2020 0:54:17 GMT
after that soft stringy song, here's a rocker - might even have posted it once before but I really like this version
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