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Music Thread 2024 - BostonCard - 06-21-2024
OK, now that the 2023/24 NCAA season is over (and now that my sabbatical has started), it is time to resurrect the periodic Cardboard music thread. Hat tip to Hulk for starting this tradition about 10 years ago.
I'll start with a song that was such Hulk bait that I actually PM'd him about it out of the blue. A Chinese/American/Icelandic singer with an amazing voice, check and a genre melding jazzy pop reminiscent of another age seems to check all the boxes. Allow me to introduce you to Laufey (pronounced Lay-vay). Here she is performing with the Icelandic Symphony:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK02xDT_RWA
It's been a few years since the last music thread... since then, The Rolling Stones released their first album in ages (Cockney Diamonds) and it was good actually? Here's my favorite track:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r37-pVyIq-g&list=PLxA687tYuMWjj8CPAs5noVE8LFXEMKabs&index=5
Songs of last summer:
Padam Padam by the ageless Kylie Minogue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6Cnazi_Fi0
It developed a reputation as a gay anthem, which is neither here nor there; it's a fun song. But also, happy Pride Month to those who celebrate.
Summer In New York by Sofi Tucker:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO-4dnOJL7Q
Sofi Tukker is not a person's name, but rather a duo (Sophie Hawley-Weld and Tucker Halpern) who met at Brown; Hawley-Weld was born in Germany, raised in Canada, and majored in Portuguese (some of their other songs are in Portuguese or have lines in Portuguese); Halpern was a basketball player on the Brown team. But this song in particular captures the essence of title.
Murder on the Dancefloor by Sophie Ellis-Bextor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAx6mYeC6pY
Even though the song is something like 20+ years old, it got a bump with the release of the Amazon Prime Movie Saltburn. I hated the movie, but the final scene, with Barry Keoghan's character dancing to the song naked in the manor brought it back.
After getting reacquainted with Sophie Ellis-Bextor's music, I started to listen to more Nu-Disco, a genre that melds 1970's disco with modern EDM. Probably best encapsulated by Purple Disco Machine, an homage to Prince (Purple) and Miami Sound Machine. Here's a remix of a song by the EDM producer Diplo and Sidepiece:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdapOc0xcLM
And here he is in a collaboration with Sophie and the Giants:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDrlmlzY7cE
And finally, my newest musical obsession is the British (Ghanian/Swiss) singer/songwriter Raye. She defies classification, running from R&B to Pop/electropop, to Hip Hop. She has been favorably compared to Amy Winehouse (though I was never a fan of Winehouse), in that her voice is incredibly rich and her lyrics hit hard. She's also suffered from many of the same issues that Winehouse has in terms of drug addiction, being victimized by sexual abuse and harassment, and being upfront and honest about it. Many of the songs here are NSFW (or kids), so caveat emptor. I first heard her on an NPR tiny desk concert:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL1zyUjzwno
The format really lends itself well to showcasing her voice. The other place her voice really shines is in this cover of Nina Simone's Feeling Good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgrvrvtH59c
The song that put her on the map was Escapism:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dll6VJ2C7wo
The song and album it was on (21st Century Blues) swept 6 awards at this year's BRIT awards, including Artist of the Year. But I also like some of her older stuff, which is more electro-pop, such as Regardless:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmhqDfsOVV4
And since I know Imagine Dragons has come up a few times in these threads, I got to enjoy them as part of this year's Genentech Gives Back concert. I enjoyed Bones from their most recent album:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYed5whEf4g
There next album (Loom) comes out next week.
I could go on, but I'm interested in what you all are listening to.
BC
RE: Music Thread 2024 - Leftcoast - 06-21-2024
Great revival thread, Boston Card!
Lately I’ve rediscovered Liz Wright and have her music on rotation in my playlists. Here’s something recent folks here might enjoy.
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=FBTiT4B4eY4&si=lbFp2NKnnfYHk0Cc
RE: Music Thread 2024 - needle - 06-22-2024
Discovered these Drumeo vids recently and really enjoy them. It’s a gimmick, but wholesome: have a kick-ass drummer listen to a track completely outside their genre with the drums erased, then see them come up with their own unique (and often amazing) interpretation.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T7LKghZ4np4
RE: Music Thread 2024 - BostonCard - 06-22-2024
(06-22-2024, 05:43 AM)needle Wrote: Discovered these Drumeo vids recently and really enjoy them. It’s a gimmick, but wholesome: have a kick-ass drummer listen to a track completely outside their genre with the drums erased, then see them come up with their own unique (and often amazing) interpretation.
OK, that was really cool; thanks for sharing.
BC
RE: Music Thread 2024 - PVTree - 06-23-2024
Miss Sarajevo
Recently heard this song for the first time in years.
A little throwback to the 90s.
Really liked this song from U2 with an assist from Pavarotti...Miss Sarajevo.
RE: Music Thread 2024 - Mick - 06-23-2024
I like this clip of drummers discussing Ringo...
World's Great Drummers Salute Ringo Starr
And this clip of the Beach Boys developing Good Vibrations:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVlSVkzbJDA
RE: Music Thread 2024 - Hulk01 - 06-23-2024
Love the Ringo tape.
Reminded, watching Hal Blaine drumming on the Good Vibrations bit,
how many groups of the 60's were,
at least in part,
Milli Vanilli.
As to new music:
Damn, I am not keen on what I am hearing.
The massive exception:
Maggie Rogers, The Kill
RE: Music Thread 2024 - BostonCard - 06-23-2024
Posted satirically:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUzgVapnc3U
(the story of this "song" is hilarious: https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/man-in-finance-song-tiktok-09ac3457?st=w0vp0d16q4f9ofq&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink)
Tiktoker makes a tongue-in-cheek post saying “I’m looking for a man in finance. Trust fund. 6’5.” Blue eyes.” making fun of impossible dating standards, DJs start remixing it, and pretty soon there is a deal with UMG to produce the song with David Gueta.
BC
RE: Music Thread 2024 - Treebound - 06-23-2024
Thanks for bringing this thread back, BC. I think it's appropriate to share here that Muir mentioned in a recent update that Stanford is looking into hosting some solid concerts in the football stadium. I think that's a great idea, especially given that some recent acts have packed Frost for multiple nights. Could be a solid moneymaker for Stanford athletics and a great experience for students, alums and nearby fans and friends!
RE: Music Thread 2024 - Bruce Wang - 06-24-2024
Diamond Jubillee by Cindy Lee isn't just my top 2024 recommendation. It's my top recommendation of all time. As a work of art, this is the most impressive work since Dark Side of the Moon. It sounds like the soundtrack to the best David Lynch never made.
It's not available in physical form or on streaming services as Cindy Lee hates Spotify and probably AAPL music as well. The easiest way to listen to it is on YouTube. You can also download the files for free from their Geocities website.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LJi5na897Y
If you don't believe me, this is what Pitchfork has to say:
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/cindy-lee-diamond-jubilee/
RE: Music Thread 2024 - jacket3ree - 06-24-2024
Many thanks BC and everyone chiming in with new (new to me - when recorded doesn't matter) music to discover.
Spotify and Tidal use some form of self-reinforcing AI to craft playlists and it is clear that I've been on a power blues kick. Here is what my Spotify overlords are making me work out to currently:
Gary Clark Jr.
Robin Trower
Nathaniel Ratcliff and the Night Sweats
Sturgill Simpson
Marcus King
St. Paul and the Broken Bones
Black Pumas
KALEO
Charles Bradley
Lukas Nelson and Promise of the Real
Will Taylor and Strings Attached
JD McPherson
Cam Cole (Ted Lasso fame)
The Bones of J.R. Jones
Ron Gallo
ABB (I think they show up on every AI playlist made for me no matter the genre, I wonder why)
Alabama Shakes
On YouTube, I've been hooked by the Playing for Change site. They say they are tying to 'inspire and connect the world through music.' If that is too political, forgive me. Globally remote recordings that put a new twist on the classic and obscure with genres all over the musical map. Check out When the Levee Breaks.
Prepare to spend hours in here.
On the new music front, I've been collecting vinyl again. I was in Redwood Records (Santa Cruz) and saw an album cover with a Karmann Ghia parked in front of what looks like my son's best friend's house in the Sunset. Sure enough, the 2023 release was recorded in a house in the Sunset, so I bought it strictly off the album cover, like I was ten again. It won't go down as an all time classic for me, but it's starting to grow.
Buying a book by its cover
My pandemic thing was to get back into two-channel audio using cathode tubes. I should be receiving an iron coupled preamp in the next few weeks to give my collection a workout. The guy who built it is burning it in now and making sure it's going to work for a lifetime. He thinks it might be too resolving. Like you can hear artists using their spit valves depending on how well the recording was made.
RE: Music Thread 2024 - BostonCard - 06-24-2024
In honor of the forthcoming French election, here's a very French song (Dansez by Fasion):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN-Fzmgftc8
First heard it a couple of years ago on an Economist podcast (fittingly about the 2022 French election). Asked the producer of the podcast where she got it and she was kind enough to respond.
BC
RE: Music Thread 2024 - Hulk01 - 06-25-2024
In my remaining years, let’s say I can listen to only 10 songs:
La Califfa, Ennio Morricone, 1970. My cancer required me to plan my memorial; this song will play. It captures my feelings about life, mine particularly.
Night Fever, The Bee Gees. 1977. I love to dance, loved the movie
Stay With Me Til Dawn, Judie Tzuke, 1979. Yes, that feeling.
Cloudbusting, Kate Bush, 1985. Love her, utterly unique
The Whole of The Moon, The Waterboys, 1985. My anthem ever since I heard Jennifer Warnes' terrific version. Hats off here to the originals.
Dominos, The Big Pink, 2009. I need a couple Arena Rock songs, this is so clever.
Outro, M83. Definitley reminds me of Stanford, thanks to the Pissed Off For Greatness video—another favorite.
Miss Atomic Bomb, The Killers, 2012. By a lap, my favorite group.
Los Angeles, The Midnight, 2014. So resonates with me and my memories.
The Kill, Maggie Rogers, 2024. Love her special talent and her passion for music.
Fellow Cardboarders: Your lists?
RE: Music Thread 2024 - Mick - 06-25-2024
I don't think I could even limit it to 10 groups, much less 10 songs:
Beethoven, Rolling Stones, Beatles, The Who, Three Dog Night, AC/DC, Beach Boys, Michael Jackson, Bee Gees, U2
Songs from outside those groups:
Riders on the Storm, The Doors
House of the Rising Sun, The Animals
What I Like About You, The Romantics
Train in Vain, The Clash
Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress, The Hollies
Bang a Gong, T Rex
Immigrant Song, Led Zeppelin
Happy, Pharell
A Little Less Conversation, Junkie XL
Do You Feel Like We Do, Peter Frampton
Forget You, CeeLo Green
I Wanna Marry You, Bruno Mars
RE: Music Thread 2024 - cardcrimson - 06-27-2024
Something seems amiss with the site/thread. All the links are gone, at least for me. . . .
Put together a 10 hour plus playlist of classic rock songs that my 16 year old daughter needed to know, that she probably hadn't heard. Now at 17, she's actually listened to them, and has expanded the list, adding more hard rock and disco to the mix. Fine with the former. . . .
RE: Music Thread 2024 - CompSci87 - 06-27-2024
(06-21-2024, 04:08 PM)BostonCard Wrote: OK, now that the 2023/24 NCAA season is over (and now that my sabbatical has started), it is time to resurrect the periodic Cardboard music thread. Hat tip to Hulk for starting this tradition about 10 years ago.
I'll start with a song that was such Hulk bait that I actually PM'd him about it out of the blue. A Chinese/American/Icelandic singer with an amazing voice, check and a genre melding jazzy pop reminiscent of another age seems to check all the boxes. Allow me to introduce you to Laufey (pronounced Lay-vay). Here she is performing with the Icelandic Symphony:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK02xDT_RWA
It's been a few years since the last music thread... since then, The Rolling Stones released their first album in ages (Cockney Diamonds) and it was good actually? Here's my favorite track:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r37-pVyIq-g&list=PLxA687tYuMWjj8CPAs5noVE8LFXEMKabs&index=5
Songs of last summer:
Padam Padam by the ageless Kylie Minogue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6Cnazi_Fi0
It developed a reputation as a gay anthem, which is neither here nor there; it's a fun song. But also, happy Pride Month to those who celebrate.
Summer In New York by Sofi Tucker:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO-4dnOJL7Q
Sofi Tukker is not a person's name, but rather a duo (Sophie Hawley-Weld and Tucker Halpern) who met at Brown; Hawley-Weld was born in Germany, raised in Canada, and majored in Portuguese (some of their other songs are in Portuguese or have lines in Portuguese); Halpern was a basketball player on the Brown team. But this song in particular captures the essence of title.
Murder on the Dancefloor by Sophie Ellis-Bextor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAx6mYeC6pY
Even though the song is something like 20+ years old, it got a bump with the release of the Amazon Prime Movie Saltburn. I hated the movie, but the final scene, with Barry Keoghan's character dancing to the song naked in the manor brought it back.
After getting reacquainted with Sophie Ellis-Bextor's music, I started to listen to more Nu-Disco, a genre that melds 1970's disco with modern EDM. Probably best encapsulated by Purple Disco Machine, an homage to Prince (Purple) and Miami Sound Machine. Here's a remix of a song by the EDM producer Diplo and Sidepiece:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdapOc0xcLM
And here he is in a collaboration with Sophie and the Giants:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDrlmlzY7cE
And finally, my newest musical obsession is the British (Ghanian/Swiss) singer/songwriter Raye. She defies classification, running from R&B to Pop/electropop, to Hip Hop. She has been favorably compared to Amy Winehouse (though I was never a fan of Winehouse), in that her voice is incredibly rich and her lyrics hit hard. She's also suffered from many of the same issues that Winehouse has in terms of drug addiction, being victimized by sexual abuse and harassment, and being upfront and honest about it. Many of the songs here are NSFW (or kids), so caveat emptor. I first heard her on an NPR tiny desk concert:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL1zyUjzwno
The format really lends itself well to showcasing her voice. The other place her voice really shines is in this cover of Nina Simone's Feeling Good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgrvrvtH59c
The song that put her on the map was Escapism:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dll6VJ2C7wo
The song and album it was on (21st Century Blues) swept 6 awards at this year's BRIT awards, including Artist of the Year. But I also like some of her older stuff, which is more electro-pop, such as Regardless:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmhqDfsOVV4
And since I know Imagine Dragons has come up a few times in these threads, I got to enjoy them as part of this year's Genentech Gives Back concert. I enjoyed Bones from their most recent album:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYed5whEf4g
There next album (Loom) comes out next week.
I could go on, but I'm interested in what you all are listening to.
BC
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Strange, if I reply to a post that appears blank, I can see it all in the reply window. Let's see what my reply looks like.
RE: Music Thread 2024 - CompSci87 - 06-27-2024
Ugh. The data is still there. Try starting a reply to a post that appears blank, and you'll see it in the quotation as you're composing, but if you post it'll still be blank.
This issue is related to the outage we had, possibly somehow caused by upgrading to a newer php version (which was the solution George found to get us back online), or possibly still part of the original issue.. Sadly I'm useless at debugging issues with the board software we're using.
RE: Music Thread 2024 - Mick - 06-27-2024
(06-27-2024, 07:05 AM)cardcrimson Wrote: Something seems amiss with the site/thread. All the links are gone, at least for me. . . .
Put together a 10 hour plus playlist of classic rock songs that my 16 year old daughter needed to know, that she probably hadn't heard. Now at 17, she's actually listened to them, and has expanded the list, adding more hard rock and disco to the mix. Fine with the former. . . .
Good age to quiz the kids as to classic rock. My oldest was 12 when we went into a Tower Records (yes, I'm that old). I told him he could pick out his first CD. He brought back AC/DC's "Back in Black". So proud...
As for disco, we'll have to agree to disagree. For about 2-3 years in the late '70s, if you could dance, it was better than being a front man in a band...I think that's what Hulk said, so I'm quoting him.
RE: Music Thread 2024 - CompSci87 - 06-27-2024
(06-27-2024, 07:46 AM)CompSci87 Wrote: Ugh. The data is still there. Try starting a reply to a post that appears blank, and you'll see it in the quotation as you're composing, but if you post it'll still be blank.
This issue is related to the outage we had, possibly somehow caused by upgrading to a newer php version (which was the solution George found to get us back online), or possibly still part of the original issue.. Sadly I'm useless at debugging issues with the board software we're using.
Well, not totally useless. I have worked around the issue by deactivating the audio/video embedding plugin. So now the posts are visible again, but the YouTube (etc.) links are just links, not embedded. Hopefully one of us will have time to fix the plugin or find one that works later.
RE: Music Thread 2024 - Genuine Realist - 06-28-2024
(06-27-2024, 12:51 PM)CompSci87 Wrote:(06-27-2024, 07:46 AM)CompSci87 Wrote: Ugh. The data is still there. Try starting a reply to a post that appears blank, and you'll see it in the quotation as you're composing, but if you post it'll still be blank.
This issue is related to the outage we had, possibly somehow caused by upgrading to a newer php version (which was the solution George found to get us back online), or possibly still part of the original issue.. Sadly I'm useless at debugging issues with the board software we're using.
Well, not totally useless. I have worked around the issue by deactivating the audio/video embedding plugin. So now the posts are visible again, but the YouTube (etc.) links are just links, not embedded. Hopefully one of us will have time to fix the plugin or find one that works later.
Having left Top 40 and FM music nearly 50 years ago, I"m very grateful for a thread like this, since my only contact with a lot of solid contemporary music is when some song is used in a musical track in a popular show, e.g., this Regina Spektor song from The Leftovers.
However, in the last year, I've had a lot of fun with David Bennett, a young musicologist on You Tube. He looks like he's about 12, but really knows him stuff and applies the skills to popular songs. Four videos you might enjoy;
(1) One Beatles Song ("Norwegian Wood") in Seven Different Modes. This either fascinates or bores you witless (my wife). I'm in the first camp.
(2) Analyzing the Beach Boys' Greatest Song. What's going on musically in 'Good Vibrations'? Quite a bit, it turns out.
(3) Did the Beatles Know Music Theory? Of course not, in a formal sense, but many of the songs show a supreme practical knowledge, which is why they have staying power.
(4) How Can This Superb Melody Ever Be A Variation Of This Banal One? Every one knows the almost magical melody that Rachmaninoff derived out of a theme by Paganini. (It's variation 18, I come to learn.) But how on earth did such an incredibly lovely passage emerge from the original Paganini theme, which is almost trivial? A small question that has perplexed me for years. At 12:34 of this video, Bennett explains how. Thanks.