Random Music Talk CXXIV: Axver's All Out of Ideas

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Oh no. The new Muse album is out.

This is going to be agonising/hilarious.
 
If anyone is in their prime right now, it’s Brandon Flowers.

Would like to see him and Russell Westbrook trade fashion tips.
 
Joe Perry taken out of MSG on a stretcher with a tracheal tube to the hospital after joining Billy Joel on stage...not so good,
 
bono_212 said:
*seeems* like he's OK. But, wow, based on this article, I think maybe he should hang up performing :\:

https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/11/entertainment/joe-perry-aerosmith-hospitalized/index.html
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Yeah, I remember the last incident and it was originally reported as a heart attack, then later they said just dehydration...but sure seems like somebody is trying to tell him something. Maybe just telling him to stay away from NYC. :wink:

Aerosmith has a Vegas residency starting in the spring, we'll see what happens.
 
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STAAAAAAAAAATE OVVVVVVV EEEEEEMMMMMMERRGENCEEEEEE how beautiful to be

he'll never REEETUURRRRRRRNNNNNN you have to make new loooove

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Hey Laz, LC! covered Frontwards tonight (“the only Pavement song we can play”).

I like having it as a B-side in the 10th anniversary version of Hold On Youngster.
 
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Mack_Again said:
shut up Cob we all know your head is stuck in 1996
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I know you love to not hear about old music, so I'll have to just go ahead and say my favourite album of this year - that I heard this year, is what I mean - is Street Hassle.

No, I'm not kidding.

My favourite song that I heard this year is this:

 
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I was in Florence a few days ago for a conference. It's a beautiful place of course, but the most memorable thing from the whole trip is the amount of Americans I encountered there. :lol:

In big or well-known European cities, you always come across some Americans of course but it's typically only a small proportion of tourists/students. In Florence it seemed like 1/2 were American. I guess it's talked up a lot due to it being the birthplace of the renaissance etc?
 
Kieran McConville said:
I know you love to not hear about old music, so I'll have to just go ahead and say my favourite album of this year - that I heard this year, is what I mean - is Street Hassle.

No, I'm not kidding.

My favourite song that I heard this year is this:

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I've never heard this Van album (that early-to-mid 80s period is a bit of a blank spot to me), but my curiosity is awakened. Thanks.
 
nielsgov said:
Random non-music talk:

I was in Florence a few days ago for a conference. It's a beautiful place of course, but the most memorable thing from the whole trip is the amount of Americans I encountered there. :lol:

In big or well-known European cities, you always come across some Americans of course but it's typically only a small proportion of tourists/students. In Florence it seemed like 1/2 were American. I guess it's talked up a lot due to it being the birthplace of the renaissance etc?
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don't diss my hipster college friends
 
lazarus said:
I've never heard this Van album (that early-to-mid 80s period is a bit of a blank spot to me), but my curiosity is awakened. Thanks.
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np. Honestly I think the 80s altogether were pretty barren terrain for Morrison - not embarrassing the way they were for a lot of artists of that generation, just kind of stagnant - and the 90s and since not a lot better. But this is (originally) off Common One which is pretty much 1980 on the dot, so sort of the tail end of the seventies in a way.
 
speaking of old music I really like second Weather Report album. it can be a bit too smooth at times but it's pretty abstract and cool
 
Kieran McConville said:
np. Honestly I think the 80s altogether were pretty barren terrain for Morrison - not embarrassing the way they were for a lot of artists of that generation, just kind of stagnant - and the 90s and since not a lot better. But this is (originally) off Common One which is pretty much 1980 on the dot, so sort of the tail end of the seventies in a way.
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Have to disagree on the 90s and late-period stuff. I think Hymns to the Silence is one of his best, period, followed it up with the great Too Long In Exile, and while something like Days Like This sounds a little slick and Adult Contemporary there’s some great writing, hooks, and singing on it. He was actually pretty consistent through the 90s; each album had a fair number of highlights, and not embarrassing in the way most of the 1980s was for Dylan, to make a comparison. From the 2000s, Down The Road is a standout, his best of the decade, not just with his originals but he does a stunning cover of Georgia on My Mind.
 
Huh, will have to check out that Van Morrison album as well. (Edit: Damn, it's not on Spotify.)

Also, got tickets to see Robyn next March YAY!
 
lazarus said:
Have to disagree on the 90s and late-period stuff. I think Hymns to the Silence is one of his best, period, followed it up with the great Too Long In Exile, and while something like Days Like This sounds a little slick and Adult Contemporary there’s some great writing, hooks, and singing on it. He was actually pretty consistent through the 90s; each album had a fair number of highlights, and not embarrassing in the way most of the 1980s was for Dylan, to make a comparison. From the 2000s, Down The Road is a standout, his best of the decade, not just with his originals but he does a stunning cover of Georgia on My Mind.
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You're probably right. I have to be honest, I bounced hard off some of the nineties stuff when it was contemporary and I was a lot younger than I am now. So I should acknowledge I haven't heard Hymns to The Silence, for example (except for 'I'm Not Feeling It Anymore'). All I know of Too Long In Exile is the (excellent) reworking of Gloria.

It's funny you mention Days Like This, as it probably colours some of what I'm saying. I bought it sight unseen in 1995, and before I'd really gotten any handle on his older stuff, and it struck me as a pretty lifeless record (as one reviewer remarked 'Morrison sounds like he couldn't care less about the words coming out of his mouth'). But with a big caveat: Ancient Highway is a mesmerising track, and to a lesser extent so is Melancholia. So I'll grant you the highlights are there.

A bit later I got The Healing Game when it came out, and it didn't click with me at all. But fair play, maybe I'd feel - a lot - differently now. I ended up approaching his stuff starting with Astral Weeks like I should have done in the first place. Oh and then that The Philosopher's Stone outtakes compilation in the late nineties, which ironically gives a better sense of the man than his official Best Ofs.
 
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