🎵 Music
🎶🎵 Why singalong 70s pop was edgier than you think.
I don’t buy it!
🎶 🎵 🎼 Guyville : Boys + Girls With Guitars Takes You On An Intriguing Sonic Journey
.. out of LA -
🎶 🎵 🎼 This just spotted in The Grauniad
But, if you only have one click in you use it here … if you want to spend a good 30 minutes crying (in a good way).
🎶 It’s a cover of Alan Parson’s Eye In The Sky.
… a very good cover - and with just two people performing.
You will only be disappointed if you don’t like the original to begin with.
🎶 Vangelis Dead: Oscar-Winning Blade Runner Composer Gone at 79
Chariots of Fire seems to be the other headline.
I haven’t seen one that reads ‘Keyboard Player for Aphrodite’s Child’.
🎶🎵 As a 60s ‘pop song’, 🔗 Simon Dupree and the Big Sound’s Kites has always had a place in my heart.
As a progressive band, 🔗 Gentle Giant sits in my personal pantheon of musical influence.
Just discovered today that the latter were essentially the same band as the former. 🤯
🎶 🎵 Remember Labi Siffre?
I liked his stuff at the time, but never really kept track of him.
This podcast with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt woke me up to everything this man is and stands for.
Well worth a listen.
🎶🎼🎵Dave Grohl calls Liam Gallagher “one of the last remaining rock stars”
I like Dave Grohl. I’m enjoying his new book. But that doesn’t mean to say I agree with him on everything.
This is one of those. Vehement disagreement.
1971 : 🚀 🧙♂️🎵
David Bowie’s Glam Masterpiece ‘Hunky Dory’ Turns 50
In his book Never A Dull Moment: 1971 The Year That Rock Exploded, British music journalist David Hepworth lays out a case for considering 1971 as the most consequential year (from beginning to end) in music.
… which reminded me of 1971 - The Year That 🎵🎼 Music Changed Everything - excellent series.
🎶 🎵 Revisiting 'Odessey and Oracle'
Revisiting Odessey and Oracle today after listening to the Rockentours talking to Colin Blunstone.
Great Songs.
🎶🎵 If you haven’t heard New Zealand’s Maori Metal band ‘Alien Weaponry’, you are missing out.
This video touches on my reasoning. I’m not a metal lover … but a sucker for musicians driven by a passion with a message.
The video tells the story behind one of their songs.
🎶🎵 The Helicopter Of The Holy Ghost is a great new album.
The back story of why it has taken 20 years for the songs to surface is mind wrenching. It stands unique - but closest ‘sound like it could be’ comp would be Blackfield.
🎵 May I introduce you to
Nick Beggs, Craig Blundell and Adam Holzman
AKA
‘Trifecta’
AKA
… the extraordinary musicians that are the ‘backing band to Steven Wilson’s ‘solo’ work.
Wonderful album.
I watched the first two seasons of Peaky Blinders a while back, Finally got round to Seasons 3 to 5 - not disappointed.
After such a binge - time to switch to something completely different.
Jack Irish!
“I thought you finished watching Peaky came the voice from the kitchen.”
I had - the two shows happened to choose the same Nick Cave song as it’s theme.