🎵 Music
🎵 String Theory … superb art and thinking from Jens Ritter.
🎵 Rattle and Hum is a much overrated album by U2 - definitely not one of their best. In fact every time I listen to it I feel - well - woebegone.
Boom - a double - double word entry to celebrate MicroBlogVember !
Quick Question …
Can you hum the tune from the PBS Series Lake Woebegone?
Sure - but that isn’t how you spell ‘Wobegon’ !
This line brought to you courtesy of two MicroBlogVember entries 😊 🎵
🎵 Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds Announce 2020 European Tour
Time to plan my European Tour.
Rewriting History
Did John Lyndon Hate The Floyd?
Is Pink Floyd a punk band?
Are people really surprised when Roger Waters delivers protest?
Why is the film not Called 'Us and Them'?
All this and more in this week's newsletter.
🎵 At 24, Barry Godber painted the design for the album cover of
In the Court of the Crimson King
He died from a heart attack shortly after the album was released.
🎵 Been a little lax in keeping up recently - but @justgoodmusic is still cranking out posts thanks to @Cassinato - anyone else want to be a contributor
🎵 Watch Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour Sing Shakespeare via Eric Alper .
“…it would not be entirely fanciful to imagine Fripp & co. – in accordance with the “Third Principle of King Crimson (‘All the music is new, whenever it was written’) – as the best new rock band in the world.”
Ben Thompson, Mojo
🎵🎵 Heard part of this on the final episode of Nick Mason’s Sound and Technology podcast.
This is a more complete 6 minutes of the David Bowie interview.
The disbelief and facial expressions of Paxman are priceless.
🎵 Ok - more to come tomorrow/over the weekend but just discovered a new band out of Seattle called Kilcid - who in turn were telling me about a Welsh band called Super Furry Animals .. pumped.
🎵 Your Taste in Music Can Reveal How Smart You Are.
Yeah - clever - but like so many of these things - the data source is biased.
🎵 Is it just me that has Boris The Spider running through his head on constant repeat?
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It's 5 0'Clock
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Up every morning just to keep a job,
I gotta fight my way through the hustling mob,
Sounds of the city pounding in my brain,
While another day goes down the drain (Yeah, yeah, yeah).
but it’s a five o’clock world when the whistle blows,
No-one owns a piece of my time,
And there’s a five o’clock me inside my clothes,
Thinking that the world looks fine, yeah,
🎵 Billie Eilish Is the Kate Bush We Need Right Now
”Eilish is an outlier who arrived at a time of need: Despite her couture-in-a-blender look, “
(my bold)