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

[dxmnkd316]

Saw Ed Sheeran tonight with my wife. I was very impressed with how much music can be played by a dude with an acoustic guitar and a looper. Would 100% go back to see him again.

Excellent stage setup. When he was playing acoustic only, the stadium actually sounded half decent. Once the boomboom started it was normal US Bank Stadium and we're almost glad we didn't get Taylor Swift tickets.

off to red rocks in a couple weeks to see Nathaniel Rateliff.

[dxmnkd316]

Not strictly music but I highly, highly recommend The Mischke Roadshow podcast episode where he talks about his days on the radio

https://open.spotify.com/show/3vRW1I...bfe748f9964c2e

God it's good. He intersperses clips from the old shows throughout. Man, I miss him on the radio.

[Kepler]

TIL a great bar bet. The location of the waterfront in the original of "I Cover the Waterfront," which was a newsman's diary before it was a book before it was a song before it became a jazz standard.

Everyone will guess NYC, Chicago, New Orleans, or, if they are very clever, Los Angeles. And you will take their money.

It is San Diego.

[MissThundercat]

At home, recovering from surgery.

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

[Kepler]

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

[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.

[Bronco]

Lucky Ones - Don Diablo

[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...

[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.

[Kepler]

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

He's impotent and he burns down her house.

[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.

[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]

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.

[Slap Shot]

Rick Beato interviews Kirk Hammett.

[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.