favorite songs

[james]

from West Germany in 1970.

all girl band. USA 1972. skip to 1:40 .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imZUqkPlUaQ&list=RDimZUqkPlUaQ&start_radio=1

LA 1970.

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Ryan Adama is pretty amazing as a musician if you ask me (sounds a bit of a dick though). His catalog is pretty crazy and I haven’t checked anything from him in at least a decade. Quite versatile, he’s had a bit of a country ting at times, of course old school country and not whatever it is today. I also hear some Dead here, especially at the end, which is something I’ve mentioned before when I posted “Easy Plateau”. This is now the third song from him I’m posting. Quite the storytelling track, but it also sounds great. I remember a year or three after this album came out you could get it on vinyl at Amazon for $8-9 all day long.

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[james]

and speaking of great tv show theme music …

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and speaking of great tv show theme music …

Great choice James. I was nearly going to choose, but it just missed the cut largely to my never having seen the show. Visual part of the show’s intro was nice too.

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Andy Shauf is another Canadian musician who from what I’ve heard I like, but that’s not much at all. Still he has a few good tracks and Neon Skyline of the same titled album is one of them. 1980s Paul Simon vibes a bit. I like the story in this one as my favorite going out days were generally to a smaller local bar. The Skyline is (was?) apparently a real bar in Toronto that some folks apparently sought out after this track.

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[james]

this was a great show

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It’s two for Tuesday, so don’t @ me people! I’m definitely an REM fan and know quite a bit of their catalog, but still have room to explore their 80s work some more. For me they are probably underrated these days, perhaps somewhat forgotten? Still, for me one of the top American acts with a good two decades of work. I think the above tracks show off both their 80s side and then their 90s side, though I’d say Monster was probably a bit more an effort to sound 90s than Automatic For The People.

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this was a great show

JAMES! Great shout. You may remember I already posted this (actually James, you should remember all of my posts) back when I posted “Runaway”. I remember the show, but don’t think I watched too much of it as I wasn’t even a teen yet. Anyway, it’s streaming on some free apps like Tubi and Ploto so I may need to give it a look. BIG Dennis Farina fan already for his work in Guy Ritchie’s Snatch and the HBO adaptation of Richard Russo’s Empire Falls with Paul Newman, Farina and a hot of other actors.

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2 for Tuesday on this Wednesday March 25th. I liked Travis more in the past, but still appreciate plenty of their tracks. And they’re another band from Scotland that always seems to amaze me that there are so many I like from there.

12 Memories came out around the second Iraq War if I’m not mistaken. I remember going down to Chicago to see them and their tour bus was all decked out for the album. Album had plenty of anti-war sentiments and direct/not-so direct messages aimed at Tony Blair. Amazing how far we’ve come, or should say regressed?

Re-Offender is may favorite track on the album and seemingly one of the more straight forward pop songs. Peace The Fuck Out obviously different. The fade out of the track with the crowd chanting the title of the track was a recording of Celtic supporters back then. Anyway, too bad we can’t force leaders to do exactly that. Instead, I’d be willing to bet the US will have ground troops in Iran on Friday/Saturday and likely before Monday.

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I was music surfing on YouTube this evening and came across this beautiful piece of music. Back in the 80’s my dad listened to a radio program on the weekends on KPCC (Pasadena City College public radio) in Los Angeles. My dad listed to it mostly for the marches. The host was a Hungarian born, German speaker Tibor Paul. He spoke some English but mostly German in a raspy voice. I remember hearing this music on that program and I think he played it at the end of his broadcast because it stuck in my memory. If you saw the film “American Sniper”, this is the music at the end. Yeah, I cried during that scene. My dad passed away in September and of course this brought back a flood of memories, especially of the music my dad liked to listen to.

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james wrote:

I was music surfing on YouTube this evening and came across this beautiful piece of music. Back in the 80’s my dad listened to a radio program on the weekends on KPCC (Pasadena City College public radio) in Los Angeles. My dad listed to it mostly for the marches. The host was a Hungarian born, German speaker Tibor Paul. He spoke some English but mostly German in a raspy voice. I remember hearing this music on that program and I think he played it at the end of his broadcast because it stuck in my memory. If you saw the film “American Sniper”, this is the music at the end. Yeah, I cried during that scene. My dad passed away in September and of course this brought back a flood of memories, especially of the music my dad liked to listen to.

That’s great James, and somewhat timely. My father is a big horns fan, particularly the trumpet. I surprised him with Canadian Brass tickets a few years back now and he loved it. Growing up I took on an instrument, and it was the trumpet that was essentially pushed on me. Never went to far with it.

I said timely as Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers is doing the media circuit rounds for his new album, a trumpet/jazz albumm. I know he was on Kimmel and I heard an interview with him on NPR this morning.

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Sub Pop is a smaller record label out of Seattle, Washington. If I’m correct, I think they were the first label to sign Nirvana. As a record company, they’re still very grunge/Seattle in… I guess how they present themselves. That said, they have a lot of different artists with different sounds and they get a lot of up and coming artists before they move on to bigger labels. When I was buying more vinyl I’d get a lot of their releases from bands that I liked. They would always do a “loser” edition of the records on vinyl, always on some variant of colored vinyl. They’re now worth notably more than what I paid for them which is always nice.

After a while of figuring out that I liked my fair share of Sub Pop artists, I started looking at some of their bands and discovered Beach House. Sub Pop lets you listen to at least some tracks initially and then I think full albums upon release. So I listened to a little Beach House and quite liked them. So I bought their latest release at the time, which I believe was their second, Teen Dream. They broke immediately after and subsequently have released only a few more albums since, but some excellent stuff to be sure. I hadn’t listened to them in a quite a while, then heard this the other day. So glad I did.

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I listened to my fair share of Blur back in the day. In fact, after seeing them in Chicago with a friend back in the day we nearly met Damon Albarn in a bar in Chicago, but he was out of it at that point in the evening, though he was still able to play a piano. Anyway, never really listened to Gorillaz much though I… appreciated I guess their “new” sound and Albarn’s ability to “reinvent” himself. Of course Fleetwood Mac are pretty legendary if you ask me. I was somewhat surprised by this one, but I do like it.

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Bit of a deeper cut from Bowie today. Bowie is one of my all time faves and has quite the catalog. Not the deep cut I originally had in mind, but love this one.

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Watching The Virgin Suicides and this came on.

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Also from The Virgin Suicides, which then reminded me that it was also in Swingers. Of course you don’t have to have seen those films to know this one. A band that for me had different sounds as they chameleoned from this 70s sound to a different sound and of course look in the 80s. They are in the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame I might add and I have to say they have quite a few tracks I like.

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