Random Music CXXVI: The Woy Eet Eez

[cobl04]

This is phenomenal

 

[bono_212]

Completely forgot about Torres. Mildly excited.

 

[DaveC]

https://twitter.com/jazzemu_/status/1202581625453850625

 

[Hewson]

https://twitter.com/jazzemu_/status/1202581625453850625

Overall kind of meh, but the Cher and Mambo #1-4 items are kind of funny.

 

[cobl04]

I’m extremely excited about John Frusciante rejoining RHCP.

 

[LuckyNumber7]

Say whaaaaaaaat

 

[LuckyNumber7]

How do you think that went down? Did Klinghoffer back away first and they asked Frusciante, or did they ask Klinghoffer to leave because Frusciante wanted back in? Or was it known from the get-go that one day Frusciante would be back and that if/when, Klinghoffer would step down?

 

[cobl04]

Yeah I’m very interested to know, but as with things being the way they are the only information we have is from their official statement. I’d say your last scenario is probably the most likely. He could continue playing with them I’d have thought, but perhaps he doesn’t want to be sidelined as an extra hand.

 

[bono_212]

I just listened to Aja and liked it? What's happening to me...

 

[iron yuppie]

I was at a coffee shop just now that played Winter Wonderland and Radiohead's Videotape back-to-back. Bit of a jarring transition.

 

[cobl04]

I know this a strange take given I quite like some or most of her new album, but god, I feel like this will be so tedious and boring... Lana Del Rey Announces New Spoken Word Album

I just listened to Aja and liked it? What's happening to me...

Welcome to the club!

 

[LemonMelon]

I was at a coffee shop just now that played Winter Wonderland and Radiohead's Videotape back-to-back. Bit of a jarring transition.

Walking On Sunshine > True Love Waits coming to a Desert Island playlist near you!

 

[kabigon]

Sugar, Sugar > Myxomatosis

 

[Hewson]

I just listened to Aja and liked it? What's happening to me...

You've been assimilated by the Borg Travis

 

[lazarus]

I just listened to Aja and liked it? What's happening to me...

 

[Kieran McConville]

My Christmas Playlist

Walking On Sunshine - Katrina & The Waves
Machine Gun - Portishead

 

[iron yuppie]

Frosty the Snowman --> The Mercy Seat

 

[Kieran McConville]

U2 - You're The Best Thing About Me
U2 - Exit

 

[kabigon]

Heaven Is a Place on Earth > Slice of Heaven

 

[Kieran McConville]

can't get to heaven all heavenfaced

 

[Axver]

The only carol you need today.

 

[Hewson]

 

[DaveC]

 

[cobl04]

I just heard a Blondie song called Rapture, banger!

 

[Hewson]

Welcome to 1980

 

[cobl04]

My musical education continues... VMP sent out Aretha Franklin's I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You. Not only is a spectacular package (as all of their records are, it's an exceptional service), with white / pink-coloured vinyl, a cocktail, a great photo and a lyric booklet, it got me to listen to something I'd never heard before.

I know of course Respect, heard it a million times, but not the rest of the record, and my knowledge of soul is not good. A lot of my knowledge of female artists is not good, particularly pioneering ones, and my knowledge of the music of women of colour is even worse. Anyway. No time like the present to dive in.

Really good album! My favourite tracks were Soul Serenade (those horns), all the songs she wrote - Don't Let Me Lose This Dream, Baby Baby Baby, Dr Feelgood - as well as Do Right Woman and A Change is Gonna Come.

Also Save Me's riff sounds SUPER familiar to me. But I can't fucking put my finger on what. Can anyone help? The only thing that's popping into my head is a song with the line "...mercy..." sung in a garbled, bluesy tone... edit... I am now certain the song that's coming to mind is Van Morrison's Gloria. No mention of the word mercy in that song though.

 

[cobl04]

Also, Jackson Browne's Running on Empty is such a good album.

 

[kabigon]

Also Save Me's riff sounds SUPER familiar to me. But I can't fucking put my finger on what. Can anyone help? The only thing that's popping into my head is a song with the line "...mercy..." sung in a garbled, bluesy tone... edit... I am now certain the song that's coming to mind is Van Morrison's Gloria. No mention of the word mercy in that song though.

Oh, Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison?

 

[cobl04]

Best Coachella lineup since 2014.

 

[lazarus]

Coachella is awful and no lineup can change that.

I also don’t see this big improvement in the acts that people are talking about.