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

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Slap Shot said:
Danny Carey must have 4 arms. Seriously this is completely sick. And in particular starting around 5:40 just makes you cray cray. It's weird because Tool are not my favorite band, and yet I'm not sure there's another band out there that can excel at every component of a song at the same time like they do. Vocals, drums, bass, guitar, lyrics and that deep in your bones feelings they generate can only be surpassed maybe by Pink Floyd Queen, The Cure and not much else.
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Its wild isn't it? The guy is a freak.


In other news, I was invited to play a private party up in the woods in NH in October. Outdoors. Limited access (since it's private). I'm super uncomfortable with it. It's October so playing outdoors is always a risk, but I don't know these people and have no idea if they take COVID seriously. It's one thing to rehearse with three other people in a large practice room. It's another to gather with 40-50 people, even in NH where apparently they think COVID stops at the border.
 
dxmnkd316 said:
So Folklore has been out for a week and it's Taylor's best yet. Was kind of shocked to see Aaron Dessner co-wrote so many of the songs. That caught my eye pretty quickly. The songs are great. You can definitely feel Dessner's fingerprints all over the music.
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Late to the party on this one but I listened to the whole album last week and...

Holy fu** is it fantastic. The whole d*mn thing. It's Taylor at her best. Again. Because 1989 and Red were her best (until Folklore).
 
aparch said:
Late to the party on this one but I listened to the whole album last week and...

Holy fu** is it fantastic. The whole d*mn thing. It's Taylor at her best. Again. Because 1989 and Red were her best (until Folklore).
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Totally agree. The writing in the songs was her finest work. There's actual consequential meaning behind a lot of the songs, not just "I didn't believe the kids when they said that Suzie was sleeping with Johnny. Didn't believe them then I don't believe them now, I don't care that Suzie married Johnny, he's mine." Don't get me wrong, it's still a theme throughout, just... different.

epiphany dusted up the room quite a bit once I realized what she was describing. Even the last great american dynasty was great after I initially dismissed it as a throwaway. It's a fun story with a big "f-ck off" that wasn't exactly hidden.

People who aren't fans probably won't become fans. But it's not like her other albums at all.
 
Swansong said:
Its wild isn't it? The guy is a freak.


In other news, I was invited to play a private party up in the woods in NH in October. Outdoors. Limited access (since it's private). I'm super uncomfortable with it. It's October so playing outdoors is always a risk, but I don't know these people and have no idea if they take COVID seriously. It's one thing to rehearse with three other people in a large practice room. It's another to gather with 40-50 people, even in NH where apparently they think COVID stops at the border.
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I declined the show. The band might get a fill-in. I told them how I felt and they seemed to understand. I don't know what the right thing to do is, but I do know that I won't be part of the wrong thing.
 
Swansong said:
I declined the show. The band might get a fill-in. I told them how I felt and they seemed to understand. I don't know what the right thing to do is, but I do know that I won't be part of the wrong thing.
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It was the right thing to do. Thank you from the rest of our immune systems.

Help is coming. In November we will discover whether the C students vote for the A students or the F drop outs when their very lives depend on it. Either way, they will deserve what comes next.
 
Kepler said:
It was the right thing to do. Thank you from the rest of our immune systems.

Help is coming. In November we will discover whether the C students vote for the A students or the F drop outs when their very lives depend on it. Either way, they will deserve what comes next.
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I've never voted D for president before. In MA I'm not sure it matters, but I might just do it this time.

Enough of this - people are dying because of our President's inaction. The live music industry, something I try to be a part of, is dead because of it. Enough.
 
Swansong said:
I've never voted D for president before. In MA I'm not sure it matters, but I might just do it this time.

Enough of this - people are dying because of our President's inaction. The live music industry, something I try to be a part of, is dead because of it. Enough.
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It matters if you do it down ticket. Dump is not an anomaly, he is the Republican party now, top to bottom.
 
Kepler said:
It matters if you do it down ticket. Dump is not an anomaly, he is the Republican party now, top to bottom.
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I know this isn't the thread for this, but that I cannot do. I never vote for someone who's running unopposed. And in this state I vote against every incumbent (which means I've voted for some hilarious people and parties). I'm not sure I'll vote for any republicans, but I will absolutely not vote straight party ticket, ever. One party rule is terrible.
 
Swansong said:
I know this isn't the thread for this, but that I cannot do. I never vote for someone who's running unopposed. And in this state I vote against every incumbent (which means I've voted for some hilarious people and parties). I'm not sure I'll vote for any republicans, but I will absolutely not vote straight party ticket, ever. One party rule is terrible.
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I'm all for not voting for people who run unopposed, actually.

One party rule may be bad, but it is better than having a Nazi running the sheriff's department.
 
Swansong said:
I know this isn't the thread for this, but that I cannot do. I never vote for someone who's running unopposed. And in this state I vote against every incumbent (which means I've voted for some hilarious people and parties). I'm not sure I'll vote for any republicans, but I will absolutely not vote straight party ticket, ever. One party rule is terrible.
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But right now its the only option until either the Republican party is dissolved, and replaced by somethuing else, or regains its sanity. voted for lots of republicans in my day. Never again.
 
Came across this for the first time yesterday. Pretty amazing. I saw them on this tour, but frankly don't remember a whole lot about the show. Tough getting old.

 
So, Benny Goodman is deceiving. He has his tier 1 standards that brought in the money, but below that there's a mine of experimental, complicated, difficult pieces that must have been daring and strange.

Ellington is the emperor of this phenomenon. I don't think there's ever been an American composer so far ahead of his time. Popular music still hasn't caught up with Ellington's most bizarre and disturbing work. But Goodman is like a junior league version of Ellington. The signal to noise ratio is lower but his best stuff is remarkable.
 
Apparently based on the articles I have read and the youtube comments you either love this or hate this.........

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgjRJyPGG1k

Tool linked it in their Instagram. It's a mashup of Led Zeppelin's Kashmir and Tool's Sober. I find it sublime and have fallen in love with the vocalist. Whose singing is also 50/50 in the comments.

Anyway, enjoy.
 
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