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USCHO Music: From Queen to The Beatles to Lady Gaga

Slap Shot said:
If you don't want me to respond to your Beatles _____ don't respond to my Beatles affection.
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Oh, but I do.

And for the hundredth time, I do not hate the Beatles. I hate the parishioners on the Beatles' tip. The Beatles do too. Well, the 2 dead ones did.
 
Kepler said:
Oh, but I do.

And for the hundredth time, I do not hate the Beatles. I hate the parishioners on the Beatles' tip. The Beatles do too. Well, the 2 dead ones did.
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No you don't. You specifically requested that I don't so I ignored the insanely insipid comment that Macca has no talent and I'll continue that.
 
Slap Shot said:
No you don't. You specifically requested that I don't so I ignored the insanely insipid comment that Macca has no talent and I'll continue that.
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To be fair, he has talents. They just aren't musical.

He was, however, adorable, and he took a great pegging.

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Slap Shot said:
Bless your Kepler. Bless you.
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It's hard, Slap. It's scary. But it's good sometimes to emerge from the chemical bath of conditioning; to escape our faith regardless of whether it came from outside or inside, and even if we then willingly dive back in again. It is good to fill our lungs with the fresh air of another perspective, even if that airs smells rank.

It does not harm us to pause a moment and reassess our truth with the eyes of a child.

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Thank you for the engagement. You've enabled me to find my epitaph*.

Si certus es dubita

* We don't decide our epitaph. My loved ones may put "Si scivisses cavēres" on my urn instead. I would love that even more! :)
 
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Kepler I listen to dozens/hundreds of different artists, the Beatles aren't my favorite band, I don't have any books on them, I might not even intentionally listen to them for a month or more at a time. I just recognize their place in history, that like the rest of the civilized world recognize they actually had talent and am aware that just about every artist you've ever coveted has likely named them as an influence.

You're not a musical shaman the rest of us could only hope to aspire to. Move along to something you actually understand.
 
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Crossing my fingers I can get tickets on Thursday to see Pixies (yes sadly without Kim Deal) in Manila next May. Would be one of the few legit concerts I've been to here since Covid to along with Incubus.
 
Ran through the past few days some too often ignored post-punk perfection-

World of Rubber by Second Layer and the uber-talented Adrian Borland
Secondhand Daylight by Magazine
Eureka by Abecedarians
Songs For A Dead King by Ritual
Gyrate by Pylon

Probably not technically post-punk but I got a hankering for the following after-

Love is the Law by The Suburbs
 
This band is one of my favorites of all time. Few hit me like these guys did during this period. And this cover, to me, is much of the reason why.

Two different versions, two different arrangements, both joyous, soaring, expressive, soulful. Van Morrison's original is wonderful, but both of these covers surpass it.
This first one, recorded around 1984/85 during the sessions that would result in the album This is the Sea in 1985, but never making it to the final release. A piano and horn driven arrangement. Lovely.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKLKmPzH1z0

And then this, probably from 1987 or 1988, after Mike Scott spent several years in Ireland soaking up the traditional folk songs of the Irish and the Scots, playing in pubs and town halls with local musicians, appeared on the album Fisherman's Blues, released in 1988. A mandolin/fiddle based arrangement. Also lovely.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be3OkvBZaIY

The show I saw them play at Boston's Orpheum Theater in 1989 remains, to this day, the third finest live performance I have ever seem.
 
There is always cool music everywhere. But if we knew about it, it wouldn't be cool.

I assume the 1,000 coolest bands in history never got a contract, nor did you or I or anyone we have ever met hear them once. That's okay. The blood is the art, Mr. Renfield. Fame is merely blood spilled and running out.


Full many a gem of purest ray serene
The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear:
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.

Some village-Hampden, that with dauntless breast
The little tyrant of his fields withstood,
Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest,
Some Cromwell, guiltless of his country's blood.

Th' applause of listening senates to command,
The threats of pain and ruin to despise,
To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land,
And read their history in a nation's eyes

Their lot forbad: nor circumscribed alone
Their growing virtues, but their crimes confined;
Forbad to wade through slaughter to a throne,
And shut the gates of mercy on mankind;

The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide,
To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame,
Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride
With incense kindled at the Muse's flame.

Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife
Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray;
Along the cool sequester'd vale of life
They kept the noiseless tenour of their way.


-- Thomas Gray
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Not a fan of sarcasm? I'm aware there will always be good music, but it's not wrong to note how less often that music being made by talented people instead of machines and producers is readily out there. For decades even underground and indie music found it's way to more people up through most of the 90's and early 00's. That dynamic has changed.

You're a Beato fan right? He knows what I'm talking about.
 
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Not a fan of sarcasm?
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Not really. Not after 100 years of a force fed diet of it from every amateur and cringewag. Who was the last satirist worth reading? Wodehouse died in 1975.



I don't think anything has changed at a fundamental level in anything since the first fish flopped onto the land.

Each cohort thinks it is witnessing something dramatically good or bad. Making them important and justifying their timing. But almost nothing is new. Virtually each generation of humans has the same claim to being interesting, fun, cool, liberated, wise or boring, a drag, oppressed, or foolish. The last good argument was probably by Goethe and that was 220 years ago and counting.

Just live. Comparatives are nothing but ego.

Anyway, it's a nice poem.
 
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More mansplaining. Fun.

Good or bad is subjective, but it's factually true more and more music that's purely manufactured rather than organically created is being put in front of people.
 
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