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Re: All music recorded since 1972 is crap. Except this. - Red State - 06-08-2015

Thanks for sharing. Loved it!

Re: All music recorded since 1972 is crap. Except this. - Hulk01 - 06-08-2015

Except Song for Zula by Phosphoresence, and Fake Empire by The National, of course. 

Speaking of music: I liked Love and Mercy, the Brian Wilson biopic.  I also like that it gave time and credit to The Wrecking Crew, the studio musicians for The Beach Boys and so many great acts. 

Song for Zula pretty damned good - Redrum - 06-08-2015

Heard it played live on an E-Town broadcast from Redrocks backed by their regular ( folk rock-ish) house band.  Had a bit more tempo and drive but was just excellent.

Re: All music recorded since 1972 is crap. Except this. - CowboyIndian - 06-08-2015

There's a great doc on The Wrecking Crew. Well worth seeing.

Re: All music recorded since 1972 is crap. Except this. - Hulk01 - 06-08-2015

Looked them up this weekend and noticed the mention of the doc.

Also enjoyed a related documentary about backup singers, Twenty Feet From Stardom, which a few of us talked about last year.   

Re: All music recorded since 1972 is crap. Except this. - jacketree - 06-08-2015

Since 1972? 1972!!!!

Fail Garvin. Epic, epic, fail.


Linked work is certainly clever, however.

Re: All music recorded since 1972 is crap. Except this. - oman - 06-08-2015

The story behind the bass line on 1972's Walk on the Wild Side, which is the played over the titles for 20 Feet From Stardom.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2KbsWz950E

Re: All music recorded since 1972 is crap. Except this. - Bruce Wang - 06-08-2015

http://skynetandebert.com/2015/04/22/music-was-better-back-then-when-do-we-stop-keeping-up-with-popular-music/

Somebody conducted a study to confirm something we all know.  Our tastes get locked in at a young age.  Even though I pride myself on listening to lots of new music, the stuff I like is mostly revival of the stuff I loved in high school and college: classic rock and post-punk.

BTW I take it that garvin doesn't like Pink Floyd whose best work came out right after 1972.

Re: All music recorded since 1972 is crap. Except this. - Mick - 06-08-2015

(06-08-2015, 12:51 PM)Publius link Wrote:Somebody conducted a study to confirm something we all know.  Our tastes get locked in at a young age.  Even though I pride myself on listening to lots of new music, the stuff I like is mostly revival of the stuff I loved in high school and college: classic rock and post-punk.

My first favorite song is still in my...well, my top 20, and possibly my top 10.  I recall being bowled over by it as a 3 year old:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoxRFOr_sQ0

Re: All music recorded since 1972 is crap. Except this. - Rally - 06-08-2015

(06-08-2015, 01:00 PM)Mick link Wrote:[quote author=Publius link=topic=12243.msg120273#msg120273 date=1433793077]
Somebody conducted a study to confirm something we all know.  Our tastes get locked in at a young age.  Even though I pride myself on listening to lots of new music, the stuff I like is mostly revival of the stuff I loved in high school and college: classic rock and post-punk.

My first favorite song is still in my...well, my top 20, and possibly my top 10.  I recall being bowled over by it as a 3 year old:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoxRFOr_sQ0
[/quote]


At least now, Mick, you have some idea what he was singing about.

Here you go, Hulk. Phosphorescent - Redrum - 06-08-2015

Song for Zula ...minus the dreamy electronics of the commercial release.  Wow.  Had me the first time.  You can skip past the interview part to 1:10.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMox3At4BU4

Re: All music recorded since 1972 is crap. Except this. - jacketree - 06-08-2015

Garvin thinks Friends is good, so keep that in mind when evaluating his musical taste.

Just out of morbid lunchtime curiosity, I looked at a compilation ranking of albums from 1973, the first year of Garvin's post-apocalyptic music scene.  Some outstanding music came out that year.  (Man, Garvin must have already been in his metaphorical rocking chair by the time he was a sophomore or junior at Stanford.) Fortunately pre-1973 geezer rockers frequent casinos and county fairs (or stadiums if you still have Keith Richards in the band), so Garvin isn't stuck watching late night TV, covered in Doritos, waiting for one of those "remember these great songs" paid advertisement hosted by a vaguely famous musician from Bread or some group like that.  I mean even BBC's The Old Grey Whistletest ran from 1971 through 1988.

Here's the Top 10 from a 1973 album list based on some compilation I don't understand; other than perhaps common sense.  Rock, pop, jazz, country, classical, etc. This is the first page of a 63 page list - for one year. There have been 43 other (years) to date.

1. Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Crappy Moon
2. Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy
3. The Who Quadrophenia
4. Stevie Wonder Inner Visions
5. Genesis Selling England by the Pound
6. Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
7. The Stooges Raw Power
8. Wings Band on the Run
9. David Bowie Aladdin Sane
10. Lynyrd Skynard Pronounced ....

My own tastes were essentially locked in as a ten year old, when I rode my candy apple green Schwinn 3-speed Stingray (with banana seat and stick shift) up to Budget Records to convert neighborhood lawn mowing profits into Beggar's Banquet, my first all-my-own album purchase. Our parents gave us stuff from Oscar Brand (cool folk singer who worked blue), Herb Alpert (that album cover is still under my bed), jazz and classical, but never rock, so if I'm ridin' (myself), I'm buyin' (what I want). We also had a Hammond B-3 in the living/dining room, because my mom accompanied the church choir and needed to practice. I started with the Coke Song (from the Mad Men finale, it turns out) before working up to Toccata and Fugue, Deep Purple, Iron Butterfly, Chest Fever, and Booker T.  Never really good enough to get through some of the Yes stuff or ELP.

Wow times were different. Who lets a 10 year old mow lawns or ride two miles by himself on a bike with an album strapped to his back for the the return trip?  My parents, I guess.  I love that musical era, but there is some really good stuff out there now if you know where to listen.

Re: All music recorded since 1972 is crap. Except this. - Mick - 06-08-2015

(06-08-2015, 02:16 PM)jacketree link Wrote:Wow times were different. Who lets a 10 year old mow lawns or ride two miles by himself on a bike with an album strapped to his back for the the return trip?  My parents, I guess.  I love that musical era, but there is some really good stuff out there now if you know where to listen.
In 1974, Moms would send me two miles to the store in our rotten neighborhood.  I'd come back, bacon & eggs, listen to Eric Clapton, Blood Sweat & Tears, Chicago, Mamas & the Papas, Carpenters, Three Dog Night, CCR, and some others.  Not all that recent in 1974, but good music.

Re: All music recorded since 1972 is crap. Except this. - jacketree - 06-08-2015

Yeah, I don't know how well my parents' "Black Hawk Down" Helicoptering skills would translate to today's apparently meth-addled-pedophile infested streets. At some point though you have to send them off in a 1996 Toyota Corolla and just hope for the best.  My now-adult, school teaching daughter and I have been binge watching Breaking Bad together over Netflix 700 miles apart and texting back and forth completely inappropriately as we do so.  'Yo Bitch!' is our favorite mutual greeting at the moment. I must have done something wrong. Or right.

Hasn't just about everyone sat in the back seat of a cruiser before facing Mom and Dad?  We had a neighborhood water balloon fight escalate into an all-out range war complete with a multi-acre grass fire down in the greenbelt.  Hilarious to listen to a bunch of 13 year old fledgling attorneys arguing about "our rights" and "completely circumstantial evidence!"  (Like that, uh, lighter in your front pocket son?)

Re: All music recorded since 1972 is crap. Except this. - Mick - 06-08-2015

(06-08-2015, 03:55 PM)jacketree link Wrote:At some point though you have to send them off in a 1996 Toyota Corolla and just hope for the best.

Nine years ago, my 16 year old just received his driver's license and his 12 year old brother idolized him and jumped into the reasonably-safe 1989 Acura Legend we'd procured for his first car.  As the two of them drove off (around a few blocks), I told Mrs. Mick, "there goes the whole gene pool."

Re: All music recorded since 1972 is crap. Except this. - Hulk01 - 06-08-2015

Wow Redrum, nice find.  Riveted to it. Thanks

Lots of good music - Robbie - 06-08-2015

From 1987, and well worth listening to. Over and over:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW7BjndJ8QI



Re: All music recorded since 1972 is crap. Except this. - Bruce Wang - 06-09-2015

(06-08-2015, 01:00 PM)Mick link Wrote:My first favorite song is still in my...well, my top 20, and possibly my top 10.  I recall being bowled over by it as a 3 year old:

I feel the same way about Pink Floyd's Another Brick in the Wall.  I shared the song's sentiment about education as a 2nd grader and felt that way until I got to Stanford.  My wife who has always been a great student hates that song and won't let me play it around our kids.

Re: All music recorded since 1972 is crap. Except this. - Mick - 06-09-2015

Maybe your wife will appreciate this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxB1gB6K-2A

Re: All music recorded since 1972 is crap. Except this. - Bruce Wang - 06-23-2015

(06-08-2015, 11:54 AM)CowboyIndian link Wrote:There's a great doc on The Wrecking Crew. Well worth seeing.

Saw today that The Wrecking Crew documentary comes to Netflix on July 30.  Interested to see it as they played on several of my all time favorite songs.