Modern Vespa

"Mu mu!!!"

Sounds grim

Excellent to read I'm in good company 😀

*looks around to see who you're referring to*

For some reason, Front 242 kept sneaking into my head over the weekend

perhaps I should havee phrased that to... happy band of misfits and miscreants



Cracking tune that I'll go find some more by Front242

My weekend guilty pleasure
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I watched all four episodes of the documentary series STAX: Soulsville, U.S.A. on the plane from SFO to LHR today. Once I started, I couldn't stop!

As soon as I got in my rental, I hooked up my phone to Bluetooth and put this on...

SFO to LHR's not messing around. How many hours is that?

10 hours, 20 minutes. The return is longer - 11 hours, 5!

That's not bad. I'd have guessed it was more like 12.

I used to do ORD to HKG pretty regularly, which was 18 1/2 hours of flight time, plus taxiing on both ends. Half the time, I connected on from there to Singapore, which was another 5 hours. I don't recommend that.

Nanci sings Dylan.

O.S.

Marxman
33 one third revolution,s Album

KLF
It's grim up north
Great track
I'm from up north Bolton Lancashire England it may be grim but it's grand
Grim is listening to morrisey also from up north.

Just another hard working American rock band. I remember my older brother having "Live in Budokan" and had no idea what a turning point it was for Cheap Trick. Apparently they really were big in Japan.

And then as their record sales flagged they recorded "The Flame", a song written by someone else for someone else that Rick Nielsen hated so much he destroyed the demo tape and walked out. Good it worked out for them.

Robin Zander ... see, kids? You don't need pitch correction.

Moody Blues. I've posted about them before. I really wish I had "discovered" them sooner. Not to sound like an old guy (I was 1 year old when this was filmed) but I think we've lost something important in music. At least the importance isn't as emphasized. These were musicians performing their music. Actually performing.

Even back to my last post about Cheap Trick, their hit "I Want You to Want Me" didn't even really gain traction until the live version from Bodokan. Because they were performing it live there was an energy to it that wasn't in the studio recording, and people noticed.

I've always had a theory that in any audio recording there's more than we perceive. And when you record a live performance there's something intangible that gets in there, a fingerprint that captures not only the sound but a moment in time.

Oh, and I saw this at a secondhand shop last night. Would look cool in the basement.

Oh, for the record, a friend of mine in Florida saw Justin Hayward in concert on April 20th. Still performing.

Bob Dylan...... The movie "A Complete Unknown" is worth a look and reminded me of what a character he was. His tunes still ring true for me.

Oh heck yes - that is grim. Especially on a wet day in Oldham


Better bands and singers from "oop t'north" are available.

Fellow northerner myself now living in Midlands

I'm now living in Orange county southern California
You can take the boy out of Bolton but you can't take Bolton out the boy
Digging old tunes out and cranking them up
Stereo MC,s are my latest noise these guys are groovy !
The English music scene was and may still be unbeaten it's what kept me and my mates happy when times were shit which seemed more often than not
Late 60's through to mid 90's was my era then I woke up and moved to California.
Now nothing is grim
Put kettle on and stay warm and dry !

Monday coming up zooboyrick and I will be going to see Peter Hook. He'll be doing some of his new stuff, but we're looking forward to the Joy Division and New Order songs! Yeah, we're that old.

Oh, my freaking ears! I can almost smell the Aqua-Net. But I hear they raised 150 Krona.

Good on them.

Never even heard of Eurovision until two weekends ago when I was visiting Finland and my hosts insisted on watching the finals. This one didn't win, but it pretty well captures the essence of the event. There is also a Will Ferrell comedy about Eurovision from a few years ago that i started to watch but didn't make it to the end yet. To be clear, I am not suggesting this is particularly good music. Just found the whole phenomenon to be interesting in an anthropological kind of way.

I don't get it, but I can't ... stop ... watching ... it ...

And now you've planted a seed for all the weird stuff stuck in my head. This is your fault, not mine.

Salvatore Ganacci - Horse (Official Music Video)

EESTI LAUL 2013: Winny Puhh - "Meiecundimees üks Korsakov läks eile Lätti"
(Also from Estonia)

Vitas - Opera #2

Arguably the greatest break up song ever written:

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Fantastic!

Made me think of this :

If we're going with Ben Folds...

We could do Ben Folds all day ...

On the topic of Eurovision…

Billy is from my hometown. Anyone who likes that sort of bluegrass has likely heard of him by now.

Super talent, there.

And this is where he gets it from. Terry's his stepdad, actually, IIRC.

Very very nice track, electronic music from my home country !

In the same years this came (I still own the vinyl, I kept all the early electronic music records from this time, and still play it into electro more modern sets, yes I'm Dj'ing old school, vinyl only ), another Belgian artist :

That was so incredibly cool!

You know, through the lens of 2025, that sort of music has almost become a caricature of itself, but I could listen to it all day. All that AND a saxophone.

A friend of mine turned me onto this interactive map of the history of electronic music. I think you'll like it.

ISHKUR

Thanks for the link, sounds excellent !!

You like saxo/electronic music ?

Thank me later (I'm sure you know this one already !)

Edit : You like saxophone ? You HAVE to listen to this. All based on loops, live !

And that

I did NOT know that one, but listening to it through my headphones now. Shaping up to be my new favorite song. At least for today.

I played sax in school. Fast forward more than 30 years and I picked up one of these :



Could not believe how the scales all came back.

Front 242 is pretty iconic stuff, all right, but Anne Clark was new to me, so thank you for sharing!

I think I've posted Lebanon Hanover before, and it's maybe more a spiritual successor to Joy Division than Front, but it still evokes something similar for me.

Lotta good stuff flowing by today.

From that site:

I am SO dancing to that.

chandlerman
ColinBelgium

I have no idea how to post a video from my phone, but a couple years ago i was driving down from Portland, Oregon to Virginia City, Nevada to do a dirtbike race. It's just a little over a 600 mile drive, so i stopped in Winnemucca, Nevada for a short break from driving. I pull into an empty gravel parking lot and a few minutes later some old punk/goth guy walks into the scene. My CD player was cranking out Front 242 - First In-First Out at the time. I ended up taking a quick 15 second video of the guy doing whatever in the heck he was doing. I guess it's one of those things that you just had to be there. I feel that the video is internet worthy though.


What i was listening to at the time…

I was thinking more like this, but we all got our moves

I assume that was just his punk rawk way of showing approval.

We NEED to see that video !

+1

Text or email it to me and I'll put it on YouTube.