A24 4,337 Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,533 Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 She's never had great voice, but, by golly, its sexy as hell , besides, anything with Gil Evans at the helm, deserves to be listened to. A24 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,337 Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 2 hours ago, Naïve Old Fart said: She's never had great voice, but, by golly, its sexy as hell , For me her voice evokes a kind of nostalgic sadness. Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 This one's for @Naïve Old Fart Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,337 Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 R.I.P. Bill Withers Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 I remember learning "Lean On Me" in elementary school chorus class. Great song, great songwriter. Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,533 Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 My favourite of his, is, still, LOVELY DAY, but I'm also partial to USE ME. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,337 Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 'Lovely Day' is of course a classic, Richard. I'm not really familiar with Withers as an album artist. Does he have like a legendary album that I should know about? Now that it's quiet outside, the Abbey Road crosswalk has been repainted! https://pitchfork.com/news/beatles-iconic-abbey-road-crosswalk-gets-repainted-because-nobody-is-outside/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,533 Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 Is the white VW still there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,337 Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 5 hours ago, Alexcremers said: Does he have like a legendary album that I should know about? 3 hours ago, Naïve Old Fart said: Is the white VW still there? Great title! Will check it out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,337 Posted April 7, 2020 Share Posted April 7, 2020 Ah, my favorite Steve Hackett album ... Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,533 Posted April 7, 2020 Share Posted April 7, 2020 Speak up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,337 Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 Well, it's endlessly better than ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,533 Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 Can't get behind that, man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,337 Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 Well, what did you expect, Richard? For symphonic proggers, the album 'Please Don't Touch' is way too poppy, even flirting with R&B. And for a pop album, there's better stuff to be found. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,533 Posted April 8, 2020 Share Posted April 8, 2020 @Alexcremers I think that you may have misinterpreted my last post, Alex. What I posted was Phil Collins' reaction (verbatim, and oft-quoted), when Hackett presented the track. I agree with Hackett: to go with WOT GORILLA was crime. Personally, I love PLEASE DON'T TOUCH. Side 2, from HOPING LOVE WILL LAST, right through to ICARUS ASCENDING, is great stuff. I don't hear too much R'n'B in RACING IN A, or CARRY ON UP THE VICARAGE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,337 Posted April 9, 2020 Share Posted April 9, 2020 18 hours ago, Naïve Old Fart said: HOPING LOVE WILL LAST A song more suited for a Gladys Knight & The Pips album. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted April 12, 2020 Share Posted April 12, 2020 This Beach Boys song has always made me feel good. Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,533 Posted April 12, 2020 Share Posted April 12, 2020 On 4/9/2020 at 12:11 PM, Alexcremers said: A song more suited for a Gladys Knight & The Pips album. Judas! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 Hey @mrbellamy, it's out! New Fiona Apple album woooooo. Like with any new Fiona, it's gonna take a lot of listens to really settle into and get a handle on. I'd say on a first listen my favorite tracks were "Relay" and "Heavy Balloon." mrbellamy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbellamy 6,287 Posted April 19, 2020 Share Posted April 19, 2020 Her songwriting might be better than ever. There are a lot of holy shit moments in this. Newspaper, For Her...I also have a real soft spot for those first two tracks, classic piano-driven FA that they are. Also just thinking about the fact that she did all this in some spare room in her house lmao. Inspiring. The dogs are a nice touch. Disco Stu 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 Potential Disco Stu Theme Song Holy moly I love A Wizard, A True Star. On 4/19/2020 at 10:12 AM, mrbellamy said: Her songwriting might be better than ever. There are a lot of holy shit moments in this. Newspaper, For Her...I also have a real soft spot for those first two tracks, classic piano-driven FA that they are. Also just thinking about the fact that she did all this in some spare room in her house lmao. Inspiring. The dogs are a nice touch. Over these last two albums I've noticed that she's written quite a few songs with choruses that are like these repetitive chants almost. "I SPREAD LIKE STRAWBERRIES! / I CLIMB LIKE PEAS AND BEANS!" is so great. Love that song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbellamy 6,287 Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 It’s a real testament to this album that I’ve only had a chance to listen to it ONCE so far and I could immediately sing that in my head. I also had “Laaaadies laaaadies ladies” stuck in my head yesterday and was trying to remember where that was from I honestly thought it was some old song until I looked it up. This thing is already in my brain as a classic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jilal 569 Posted April 26, 2020 Share Posted April 26, 2020 Might this be an Alex North reference at 0:34, @Sharkissimo? Sure sounds like it, never expected to hear quartal harmony in disco music Sharkissimo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,337 Posted April 27, 2020 Share Posted April 27, 2020 Disco?! Kool And The Gang is a Funk band. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Sharkissimo 1,973 Posted April 27, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted April 27, 2020 On 4/27/2020 at 12:55 AM, Jilal said: Might this be an Alex North reference at 0:34, @Sharkissimo? Sure sounds like it, never expected to hear quartal harmony in disco music While in classical terms that might called a quartal stack, I would approach it from more of a jazz perspective and see it as an Em11 in a quartal arrangement. By 1976 quartal voicings had been widely embedded within the harmonic vernacular of funk, disco and similar jazz-inflected forms of pop, from Donald Fagen of Steely Dan to Nile Rodgers of Chic. From Kool & the Gang arranger Ronald "Khalis" Bell's Wikipedia entry: Quote He was born Ronald Bell in Youngstown, Ohio, United States[2][3]) to Aminah Bayyan (1932–2014) and Robert "Bobby" Bell (1929–1985) a professional boxer, who traveled extensively on the boxing circuit throughout the 1950s and 1960s. In the segregated South, black musical acts and boxers on tour would often find themselves in the same accommodations, town after town, and Bobby would often bring home his jazz friends' recordings. It was during those years on the road that Bobby became buddies with Miles Davis, and a roommate to Thelonious Monk. "It was those albums that my dad brought home that drew me to jazz," says Khalis. "As I child, I was influenced by Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Cannonball Adderley. I taught myself how to play saxophone by copying records by Lee Morgan, Art Blakey, and Wayne Shorter." The salient figures here in this quote are Miles Davis and John Coltrane, as it was Bill Evans and later Herbie Hancock with the First and Second Great Miles Davis Quintets (respectively) and McCoy Tyner with the John Coltrane Quartet who were the among the first pianists to introduce quartal-type voicings into what became known as modal jazz. These cats in turn were drawing from earlier innovators like Art Tatum, Duke Ellington, Billie Strayhorn, who together were integral to the formulation of Alex North's own unique language. For all of these artists the mother source will always be composers like Ravel, Debussy, Milhaud, and the great quartal boom that stretches roughly from 1910 to 1940. Apologies for the excessively didactic info-dump, Jilal. I know you're pretty au fait with this subject already--just couldn't help it. Smeltington, Jilal and Bayesian 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,337 Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 Yes, Steve, it's my favorite Genesis album too! Sharkissimo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkissimo 1,973 Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 It's probably their most consistent record, although I love The Lamb's seething ambition. Naïve Old Fart and A24 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,533 Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 @Sharkissimo It's nice to see David Sylvian getting some love. TIN DRUM is a damned near perfect record. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jilal 569 Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 Why'd you delete most of your post, @Sharkissimo? I wish I'd replied a little earlier! As always, it was a very eloquent reminder of how little I actually know about music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkissimo 1,973 Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 On 4/29/2020 at 6:20 AM, Naïve Old Fart said: @Sharkissimo It's nice to see David Sylvian getting some love. TIN DRUM is a damned near perfect record. I've been on a Sylvian/Sakamoto/Japan deep-dive for the last few weeks, although I've already been familiar with his music for some years. Mick Karn's singular sound was essentially the reason why I took up fretless (well him and Jaco Pastorius's work on Hejira). There was a time when I found David 'wish-I-Scott-Walker' Sylvian's glutinous voice grating, but I've come to appreciate it, warts and all. Tin Drum might be Japan's masterwork, but Gentlemen Take Polaroids is still the album I revisit most often--Swing in particular. As much as I love the original, there's something quite magical about this stripped-down performance of Ghosts. For me, the verses evince more pathos when transposed down a major second and furnished with the uneasy harmonies that were only latent within the original's Prophet-5 drone. You could probably count the number of pop songs that involve a move from the submediant to a Dorian supertonic on one hand. 21 hours ago, Jilal said: Why'd you delete most of your post, @Sharkissimo? I wish I'd replied a little earlier! As always, it was a very eloquent reminder of how little I actually know about music. Hey thanks! I've put it back. It got so few likes that I thought I'd gone overboard, or had simply bitten off more than I could chew. Naïve Old Fart and Jilal 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 This is one of my favorite rock songs ever recorded Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,533 Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 Farewell to a true pioneer. Florian Schneider, dead at 73. Disco Stu 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 12 minutes ago, Naïve Old Fart said: Farewell to a true pioneer. Florian Schneider, dead at 73. Aw, that sucks! Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,533 Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 Yes, it does. THE MAN MACHINE is among the greatest rock/pop records, ever made. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 11 minutes ago, Naïve Old Fart said: Yes, it does. THE MAN MACHINE is among the greatest rock/pop records, ever made. That's my favorite Kraftwerk record too! RIP he was a great robot Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,367 Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,506 Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 Yes, sad news. Kraftwerk has always been a favourite of mine. Saw them live once, I think some 10-12 years ago, here in Oslo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,533 Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 Would that be on the MINIMUM MAXIMUM tour? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,506 Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 8 minutes ago, Naïve Old Fart said: Would that be on the MINIMUM MAXIMUM tour? Yes, I think that was it! Wow, 2006, it appears. Time flies! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,533 Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 To this day, that D.V.D. is among the very best filmed concerts that I've ever watched. How four men standing behind keyboards (computers on stands, essentially) can make music with such soul, is beyond me. NEON LIGHTS is tear-inducingly beautiful, and RADIOACTIVITY is achingly sad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,506 Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 I didn't know there was a DVD. Does it contain any of the Oslo performances too? Perhaps I can be glimpsed in the audience; I moved slightly more than the rest of the hipster crowd, so I would be easy to spot. Couldn't help myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricard 2,245 Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 On 5/6/2020 at 6:48 PM, Naïve Old Fart said: Farewell to a true pioneer. Florian Schneider, dead at 73. This probably deserved its own thread. Incidentally, Kraftwerk and John Williams have in common that they share the same golden period (mid-70s to mid-80s). I was a fan of both during that time R.I.P. Mr. Schneider. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 "Ricard steps out of his care facility to post on JWFan" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricard 2,245 Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 Don't tell anyone, but I'm actually ageless Disco Stu 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 48 minutes ago, Ricard said: Don't tell anyone, but I'm actually ageless The world needs your antibodies! Jurassic Shark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,337 Posted May 8, 2020 Share Posted May 8, 2020 Kraftwerk! The most influential band on electronic dance music. Heck, they even influenced Hip Hop (hip hop street dance, if I'm not mistaken). RIP Florian! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,337 Posted May 11, 2020 Share Posted May 11, 2020 From his second best album ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveMc 2,674 Posted May 17, 2020 Share Posted May 17, 2020 New Sparks album. Kudos to @Disco Stu for letting me know about it. Very solid stuff here, the Maels march into their seventh decade with flair. Side A is especially strong. Bristling with creativity, with that typical Sparks fusion of their quirky style and prickly lyrics with the prevailing pop winds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,533 Posted May 25, 2020 Share Posted May 25, 2020 Brian May is in hospital, after suffering a heart attack. A24, SteveMc and Quintus 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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