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USCHO Music Thread 2: Rock On, Amigo.

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U2 - 2/4/85 Milan

Great performance by the band and a VERY boisterous sing-along/chant-along Italian crowd. Has always been on of my favorite shows to listen to.
 
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With 5 days until the Grand Rapids Marathon, I'm listening to some pump-up music:

Visual Audio Sensory Theater- VAST
Music For People- VAST
Definitely Maybe- Oasis
Ceremonials- Florence
Antics- Interpol
This is Forever- She Wants Revenge
Alligator- The National
Kid A- Radiohead
OK Computer- Radiohead
 
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The Movement - Side by Side
The Movement - Set Sail
Stick Figure - The Sound of My Addiction
Close Enough - Noize


Now changing it up with Robert Plant - 9/15/02 from Austin City Limits
 
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Gurtholfin said:
Oh how I wish this was more than 12 songs. Superb.
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Now doing Robert Plant - 12/13/93 Amsterdam

Another shorty as it's another partial show/partial broadcast. Setlists are different enough that I might just get my fix.

Another superb recording and performance.
 
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Holy Plant binge...

2/8/84 - Newcastle, Australia

Another setlist that is different enough that I'm not hearing many repeats. Also - another great performance and recording.

To be honest, have never heard a bad solo show from Plant.
 
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I just heard a real interesting radio program on the history of music, called (appropriately enough) "Exploring Music."

It was about how the ability to tune an instrument influenced how music was composed.

There is a strong relationship between math and music: our 8-tone scale is tied to the ratio of the length of strings at constant tension, IIRC. (I remember building some primitive string instruments in elementary school based on those ratios; apparently this insight goes all the way back to Pythagoras).

Up until a certain time, the clavier (precursor to piano) was tuned in fifths. Music composed in some keys would sound okay, but music composed in other keys would sound awful.

JS Bach, who also had a strong mathematical background, changed all that. He helped pioneer a method by which the clavier was tuned in equal half-tones instead. Now, music composed in any key could sound good. I had heard of "the well-tempered clavier" before but never knew what that meant. the "tempered" clavier was one tuned in half-tones, and the "well-tempered clavier" was a series of 24 compositions, 12 composed in every major key and 12 composed in every minor key. Now they all sounded good.

It was one of those seminal developments that profoundly shaped the evolution of music ever since. We still tune a piano to those same 12 half-tones today.
 
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Never really listened to the Doobie Brothers before, but I like the song Black Water and thought I'd check out their 2 cd best of collection.

Wow, what a bunch of crap (for the most part).

Don't let Michael McDonald sing... just don't.
 
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Gurtholfin said:
Never really listened to the Doobie Brothers before, but I like the song Black Water and thought I'd check out their 2 cd best of collection.

Wow, what a bunch of crap (for the most part).

Don't let Michael McDonald sing... just don't.
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David: Hey, Paula.
Paula: Yeah?
David: I gotta tell you something. I'm really excited about it. Uh, for the first time today, I woke up, I came to the store, and I feel confident to say to you that if you don't take this Michael McDonald DVD that you've been playing for two years straight off, I'm going to kill everyone in the store and put a bullet in my brain.
Paula: David, what do you suggest we play?
David: I don't care. Anything. I would rather... I would rather watch "Beautician and the Beast". I would rather listen to Fran Drescher for eight hours than have to listen to Michael McDonald. Nothing against him, but if I hear "Yah Mo B There" one more time, I'm going to "Yah Mo" burn this place to the ground.
Paula: You're such a smart***. Get back on the floor.
 
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Was this on the greatest hits collection?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk4AaPXZgi0

I have the first two albums they did after McDonald joined the band, and they're not bad. I don't really mind his singing at all on these, and he did rejuvenate the band at a time when they badly needed it. Even brought a little bit of an R&B/funky groove to some of their stuff. C'mon, Takin' it to the Strrets is just a classic. What a bass line.

But the longer he was in the band, and the more he came to dominate them, the worse they got. They cleaned up and mellowed out. I mean, look at Patrick Simmons in the middle of this cover photo from 1980. Total mainstream corporate pop music scene.

http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0003/591/MI0003591325.jpg?partner=allrovi.com

And look at him now in that video. Ditched all the fancy clothes and thousand dollar hair stylists, and went back to being himself.

Lame, MOR pop stuff. Thank god he left, and they got Tom Johnston to come back. Their new original stuff may be a bit derivative of their older sound, but the live performances with him are great.

Bob Seger did the same thing, rowdy raucus rock and roll cleaned up and polished of all the rough edges. Money and success are not very complementary to the creative process.
 
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Chronixx -Dread & Terrible

Archives - Self Titled

Lefty Dizz & Louisiana Red - Walked All Night Long

Richie Spice - In the Streets to Africa and Gideon Boot
 
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U2 - Unforgettable Fire
Queens of the Stone Age - Like Clockwork
Grouplove - Spreading Rumors
Modest Mouse - Good News for People That Like Bad News
Glen Hansard - The Swell Season

[edit] Just heard Bridge of Sighs by Robin Trower and now Traveling Riverside Blues by Robert Johnson. Love me some RJ.
 
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Eddie Taylor - I Feel So Bad

Jimmy Dawkins - Born in Poverty


A blues and reggae Friday...

Somehow, it's working for me. :)
 
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Audiodub - Love No More

Protoje - 7 Year Itch & The 8 Year Affair

Lit - A Place in the Sun

Project: Out of Bounds - Self Titled
 
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Feeling the need to go in a very different direction...

First thought was Floyd, but I do that a lot already.


YES - 9012LIVE

This was compiled by someone and put up for torrenting and is the dvd rip combined with the stupid cd release that they put out with the solos, so does about the best job of presenting a full show from that tour.

While not my favorite YES incarnation, it is one that I actually saw (along with the Union Tour) and the album is from the time period when I was at the height of my fandom. Steve Howe is one of my all time favorite guitar players, but I actually like Trevor Rabin too... so shoot me.


It is surprising that they could do such a vocally tight version of Leave It live. Splendid.

And the Starship Trooper at the end will melt your face... no doubt about it.
 
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R.E.M.- Out of Time

Hearing "Losing My Religion" back in 1991 was my first exposure to R.E.M., and other than "Everybody Hurts," it's probably my favorite R.E.M. song to this day.
 
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ShirtlessBob said:
R.E.M.- Out of Time

Hearing "Losing My Religion" back in 1991 was my first exposure to R.E.M., and other than "Everybody Hurts," it's probably my favorite R.E.M. song to this day.
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I hope that by now you've become acquainted with Reckoning, Fables of the Reconstruction, Life's Rich Pageant and Document because that run of records is just ridiculously solid. I also really enjoy Murmur but I think it's a bit off for anyone that got to know them later.
 
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