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[Bilbo 3,709]

14 hours ago, A Ghost From Highwood said:

🤤Waiting for the Blackhole album, he's been teasing us for so long😏

 

the DRA!!!!!!!!!!👻

 

 

Yeah, I'm ready for new music. I enjoyed Prisoner but it wasn't my favourite of his. I much preferred the self titled. 

 

Saw him two nights in a row earlier in the year or this time last year... I can't even remember anymore. He was great. Loads of songs and lots of variety between the two nights. He was great although I think it was shortly after his brother died so he wasn't in the best of moods. The music was great but there wasn't much banter between the songs. 

 

Will definitely go see him again the next time he's around. 

[Disco Stu 15,495]

My problem is I basically stopped following him after 2005.  I just drifted away.  I know a few songs from after that.  But when I was in high school boy I loved everything he did.  Even Rock N Roll!

 

Sometimes I forget how much I loved Heartbreaker.  The album my friends and I listened to the first time we ever drank alcohol!

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Oh yeah Heartbreaker... 🍻 

a friend got me the deluxe ver because I literally was going through a heartbreak. Then I sank into the ocean of DRA. (You can see how much I love Night Birds🍻)  Heartbreaker+29= I died.

 

Do You Still Love Me? Personal fav from Prisoner (more like fav post-2005 DRA song)

 

What about Orion? 😉

I actually like Imminent Galactic War, because:

 

👻

[Disco Stu 15,495]

This new box set release for John Lennon's album Imagine sounds interesting

 

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/john-lennons-new-imagine-box-set-an-exclusive-guide-715001/

 

My second favorite album by a solo Beatle!

[Naïve Old Fart 9,525]

...and the first?

GOODNIGHT VIENNA?

SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND?

PRESS TO PLAY?

[Disco Stu 15,495]

Ram!

 

I consider Ram, Imagine, and All Things Must Pass to be the three in the tippy toppingest tier of solo Beatles.

 

Ringo, bless his heart.  I do quite enjoy Ringo and Goodnight Vienna as silly little confections.  He tries his best.

[Naïve Old Fart 9,525]

I've never considered RAM to be a truly great record, but on your (tacit) recommendation, I'll listen to it, again.

ATMP is truly great.

Ringo (peace, love, and I don't do autographs): whatever one says about him, he was a brilliant drummer.

Stu, do you consider Wings solo?

[Disco Stu 15,495]

3 minutes ago, Richard said:

Stu, do you consider Wings solo?

 

I do, I'm afraid.  Paul never quite convinced anyone it was a real band.

 

I've just always loved Ram.  Paul sounds like he's having the time of his life, the songs are fantastic, it's all fairly lightweight thematically but so pleasant.  It's a record for a happy day.  A paean to domestic life.

[Naïve Old Fart 9,525]

That's exactly the way I feel about McCARTNEY II !

 

 

I see that Chapman has been refused parole, again.

[Disco Stu 15,495]

19 minutes ago, Richard said:

That's exact the way I feel about McCARTNEY II !

 

I like McCartney II.  I really appreciate its weirdness.  But the production plays a little too harsh in my ears to get through the whole thing at once.  When I finally got to see him live back in 2015, it was a ton of fun to hear him play "Temporary Secretary" live  

 

BTW, "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey" is my favorite song by any solo Beatle.  Hands down.  Or should I says hands across the water?

[Disco Stu 15,495]

Whoa!  Sony admits to including three songs recorded by a Michael Jackson impersonator on the posthumous 2010 album, Michael.

 

That's crazy!

 

https://www.spin.com/2018/08/sony-confesses-to-releasing-fake-michael-jackson-music/

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

What?

[SteveMc 2,674]

5 minutes ago, Disco Stu said:

Whoa!  Sony admits to including three songs recorded by a Michael Jackson impersonator on the posthumous 2010 album, Michael.

 

That's crazy!

 

https://www.spin.com/2018/08/sony-confesses-to-releasing-fake-michael-jackson-music/

Refund Time!

[Disco Stu 15,495]

2 minutes ago, Stefancos said:

What?

 

They faked "unreleased" songs for a posthumous Michael Jackson album.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

FAKE NEWS!

[Naïve Old Fart 9,525]

2 hours ago, Disco Stu said:

I like McCartney II.  I really appreciate its weirdness.  But the production plays a little too harsh in my ears to get through the whole thing at once.

Do you think that's because the whole record is D.I.?

[Disco Stu 15,495]

18 minutes ago, Richard said:

Do you think that's because the whole record is D.I.?

 

So was McCartney the first self-titled album and I like that a lot (well at least I like "Every Night" and "Maybe I'm Amazed" a lot)

 

In other news,

I've become quite enamored with this Louis Cole album that I posted about last week.  It's kind of my favorite new pop album I've heard in a long time.... @Nick Parker I think you might like this album, maybe

 

 

On 8/17/2018 at 9:51 AM, Disco Stu said:

 

This album is the real deal.  I listened again this morning and it's a super interesting R&B-Jazz-Pop-Electro hybrid with a wicked sense of humor.

 

The songs "Real Life" and "Trying Not to Die" are funky jazzy fun.  Both feature great piano solos.

 

 

[Nick Parker 3,040]

Thanks for lookin' out, @Disco Stu. I'll let you know my thoughts when I check it out.

[SteveMc 2,674]

This is a very good cover band, methinks.

 

 

[Disco Stu 15,495]

1 minute ago, Nick Parker said:

Thanks for lookin' out, @Disco Stu. I'll let you know my thoughts when I check it out.

 

I'm remembering that feeling from when I was younger and I'd excitedly put on a CD for a friend to listen to and watch their face while they listen waiting for them to love it like I do and inevitably they don't.

[Nick Parker 3,040]

Just now, Disco Stu said:

 

I'm remembering that feeling from when I was younger and I'd excitedly put on a CD for a friend to listen to and watch their face while they listen waiting for them to love it like I do and inevitably they don't.

 

Aw, I hate that feeling, whether it's music, a movie, or whatever. Then you start looking at it through their eyes and start questioning if you really like it as much as you thought you did.

[Disco Stu 15,495]

TIL this weepy early 60s country song kind of accidentally invented hard rock.  Listen at 1:26.

 

 

[Naïve Old Fart 9,525]

3 hours ago, Steve McQueen said:

This is a very good cover band, methinks.

 

 

Chicago? They're a hard habit to break.

[SteveMc 2,674]

24 minutes ago, Richard said:

Chicago? They're a hard habit to break.

True.

I am in the minority of people who love both their 70s and 80s sounds

[Naïve Old Fart 9,525]

Oh, yeah. I've got two box sets, including QUADIO. I love 'em.

[A24 4,331]

 

[Naïve Old Fart 9,525]

Make of that what you will.

Was that the ON AN ISLAND tour rehearsals?

[A24 4,331]

1 minute ago, Richard said:

Make of that what you will.

 

 

Let me put it this way, I've seen warmer meetings.

[Naïve Old Fart 9,525]

Tru, dat. I feel sorry for Waters, in a way. He really does try, but one gets the impression that Gilmour would prefer him to just fuck off.

[Nick Parker 3,040]

23 hours ago, Disco Stu said:

In other news,

I've become quite enamored with this Louis Cole album that I posted about last week.  It's kind of my favorite new pop album I've heard in a long time.... @Nick Parker I think you might like this album, maybe

 

Hahahahaha! That song was a lot of fun! I felt like I was watching a tamer Tim and Eric sketch. Been a while since I heard a modern new jack swing type of thing. For a little bit I thought it was spinning its wheels, but with the climax, the little interesting bits it wss dropping made sense. Thanks for the recommendation!

 

Do you like music on the heavier side, let us say, Mr. Disco? 

[A24 4,331]

15 minutes ago, Richard said:

Tru, dat. I feel sorry for Waters, in a way. He really does try, but one gets the impression that Gilmour would prefer him to just fuck off.

 

I feel sorry for the both of them because they were at their best when they were together. I'm afraid it's too late now. 

[Naïve Old Fart 9,525]

Hmm.

 

 

That's a good point. Has anyone ever transcended the band that they were once a part of?

Possibilities are: Peter Gabriel, and Paul Simon.

[Koray Savas 2,251]

Been listening to a lot of The Cat Empire over the past couple months. I love how this band manages to blend so many different styles and genres into one they can call their own. Jazz, ska, reggae, rock, salsa, Afro-Cuban, and even some hip-hop. Love the dichotomy between the two lead singers and how they play off conflicting styles in the same song. Is this something up your alley, @Disco Stu? 

 

 

[Nick Parker 3,040]

1 minute ago, Koray Savas said:

Been listening to a lot of The Cat Empire over the past couple months. I love how this band manages to blend so many different styles and genres into one they can call their own. Jazz, ska, reggae, rock, salsa, Afro-Cuban, and even some hip-hop. Love the dichotomy between the two lead singers and how they play off conflicting styles in the same song. Is this something up your alley, @Disco Stu? 

 

 

 

So are they like a modern Mr. Bungle?

[Koray Savas 2,251]

Not sure who that is, but listen for yourself!

[Nick Parker 3,040]

14 minutes ago, Koray Savas said:

Not sure who that is, but listen for yourself!

 

 

 

As far as the furst part of your statement, it might be hard to demonstrate with just one track.

 

 

 

 

[Koray Savas 2,251]

That was bizarre, to say the least!

[SteveMc 2,674]

41 minutes ago, Richard said:

Hmm.

 

 

That's a good point. Has anyone ever transcended the band that they were once a part of?

Possibilities are: Peter Gabriel, and Paul Simon.

Eric Clapton, too. 

[A24 4,331]

2 hours ago, Richard said:

 Has anyone ever transcended the band that they were once a part of?

 

 

Vangelis! 

 

For most others, I doubt it. Some survived remarkably well and had a wonderful, (often) more commercial solo career like indeed Peter Gabriel, Sting, Paul Simon, Tina Turner, Clapton, Phil Collins, Paul McCartney and Bryan Ferry.

 

 

[Koray Savas 2,251]

Hans Zimmer

[SteveMc 2,674]

Oh yes, you can barely spot him in the video for "Video Killed The Radio Star"  Didn't he also do some work for Ultravox? 

[Naïve Old Fart 9,525]

3 hours ago, Alexcremers said:

 

Vangelis! 

 

For most others, I doubt it. Some survived remarkably well and had a wonderful, (often) more commercial solo career like indeed Peter Gabriel, Sting, Paul Simon, Tina Turner, Clapton, Phil Collins, Paul McCartney and Bryan Ferry.

 

 

Vangelis?! From what? Aphrodite's Child? Not much of a group to transcend.

Sting? Yes.

Clapton? Definitely.

Ferry? No.

Collins? Fuck that. 

McCartney? Ditto. 

Turner? The jury's out.

[Marian Schedenig 8,193]

8 hours ago, Richard said:

That's a good point. Has anyone ever transcended the band that they were once a part of?

 

Not necessarily transcended (also considering their reunion album), but I'd say Ben Folds solo is just as good as Ben Folds Five.

[Koray Savas 2,251]

Danny Elfman!

[Nick Parker 3,040]

Mark Mothersbaugh!

[Koray Savas 2,251]

Cliff Martinez!

[A24 4,331]

Police -> Sting

 

But yeah, the grannies of the word will most definitely disagree with that.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

Sting is OK, but i prefer Phil Collins.

[A24 4,331]

As a solo artist Phil Collins was a big hit machine but I can't say that I would listen to his music at home. It's too radio-ish for me. I did buy his first solo album (on vinyl, of course)  at the time and I still have it. He's a great drummer and used to have a beautiful (softer) singing voice. 

[Naïve Old Fart 9,525]

You should listen to FACE VALUE, on the best hi-fi that you can, on either the 2017 CD remaster, or 180gm virgin vinyl, because, no matter what one might think of the songs (I think it's his best record) it still sounds brilliant: open, deep but bright, and vibrant.