USCHO Music Thread: We All Have A Crush On Shirley Manson

[Slap Shot]

Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcwgY2NFoCU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ-M_8pY6TI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4aXUzOrC68

[MissThundercat]

Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in
(Leonard Cohen)

I listened to that for the first time last night. His lyrics are comforting and I could listen to this all day.

[Kepler]

Saw Sigur Ros with a full orchestra tonight. Pretty spectacular.

Would highly recommend it if you're in Seattle in three days. Really get the full effect of their music.

I really hope they do the Kennedy Center someday.

[dxmnkd316]

Saw Sigur Ros with a full orchestra tonight. Pretty spectacular.

Would highly recommend it if you're in Seattle in three days. Really get the full effect of their music.

[Slap Shot]

Rick Beato interviews Kirk Hammett.

[Kepler]

I would love to meet the guy. He built my early adulthood more than any entertainer except Asimov, Zappa, Vonnegut, Jaffe, Allen, Shepherd, Sturgeon. Not many left who have that sort of importance since the Great Fracture.

[state of hockey]

I’ll never forget going to lunch at the old Vescio’s in Dinkytown with my dad and running into Peter Gabriel. Wonderfully great person. I think he was very impressed with my father, having an eight year old son that not only knew who he was, but was geeking out about him.

[Kepler]

After listening to Trick of the Tail for the millionth time, but for the first time since the 80s, I would just like to remind everyone that after Peter Gabriel, Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford were the 2nd and 3rd greatest members of Genesis.

Phil Collins only sucked as a front man. As drummer on that album, he was excellent. Collins should go down in musical history as a great talent who simply didn't have the intellectual or moral chops to be a lead man. But it would be unfair not to acknowledge that he was part of a great band's greatest album, even after that band's heart and soul departed, and that isn't nothing.

I am reading up on the album, and Mad Man Moon, which has always been a dear favorite of mine, is even more piquant. The first phrase and frame is cliche, and I remember the first time hearing I rolled my eyes. But Jesus f-ck, what happens then. The consensus is Banks wrote it as a plea to Gabriel to think again. The rough structure is Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, but that's just the bones, which are austere (like the book). Inside the structure, when we fall through with Spanish guitar, the song which is sweet and vulnerable, and is Banks telling Gabriel he thinks he has made a mistake, albeit understandably, and it's not too late. In the event it either was not heard or it was already too late.

[Kepler]

A deep dive into Norwegian Wood by the Professor of Rock.

He's impotent and he burns down her house.

[Kepler]

I didn't go deaf, and Fishbone was a really good show.

You gotta love a punk funk ska band where the front man plays theremin. And it's so amplified you can hear it!

The band is good. Part of the show was a (barely) veiled attack on the white rich Falls Church audience. They played Strange Fruit, and the crowd absolutely did not get it.

I learned you can slam dance in a mosh pit as a 60-year old, provided you're fat enough. It was a blast -- I can't wait to do it at 70.

[Slap Shot]

A deep dive into Norwegian Wood by the Professor of Rock.

I like this cover of For What It's Worth, although the video is terrible. If I played it without the sound on I'd have no idea which 90's UK one-hit wonder it was - the Candy Skins, EMF, Jesus Jones...

[Bronco]

Lucky Ones - Don Diablo

[Bronco]

At home, recovering from surgery.

Can't go wrong with Missy and Run The Jewels.

Hope whatever procedure you had done went well, and a speedy recovery.


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For music: I've been listening to Sohi Tukker, Fred Again, and I_O. Yep, more electronic.

[Kepler]

Seeing Fishbone tonight inside a tiny cement cube. It's been nice having the power of hearing but nothing lasts forever.

[MissThundercat]

At home, recovering from surgery.

Can't go wrong with Missy and Run The Jewels.