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Post by yateleysaint on Apr 22, 2024 14:47:03 GMT
Wednesday, then. I promised something a little challenging today and here it is. I doubt many, if any of you, will have heard this before. I’m excited to share this one and very curious how you will all react to it. Stick with it - at one minute 12 it really kicks in..!! The Paradise Bangkok Molam International Band are basically a mix of traditional Thai instruments and a quality rhythm section. This number is mental… super funky. It’s the track I used to do the ironing to (back before WFH). It gets me dancing round the living room. Turn up the bass, turn up the volume (it won’t sound great on your phone speaker) and let me know what you think… I love this one! I’ve added it to my running playlist as I reckon it would get me going when I’m stuck in a rut. We went to our favourite Thai restaurant in Farnham recently and I Shazammed about 10 songs while I was there.
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Post by yateleysaint on Apr 22, 2024 14:53:26 GMT
Wednesday, then. I promised something a little challenging today and here it is. I doubt many, if any of you, will have heard this before. I’m excited to share this one and very curious how you will all react to it. Stick with it - at one minute 12 it really kicks in..!! The Paradise Bangkok Molam International Band are basically a mix of traditional Thai instruments and a quality rhythm section. This number is mental… super funky. It’s the track I used to do the ironing to (back before WFH). It gets me dancing round the living room. Turn up the bass, turn up the volume (it won’t sound great on your phone speaker) and let me know what you think… Loved it. Am a big fan of plenty of "World" Music and Asian instruments are WEIRD SHIT. Back in the Day the BSO had a little brother The Bournemouth Sinfonietta that played smaller venues and regularly visited the IOW. Working in Pompey it was easy for me to get to concerts all over South Hants so I saw some World Class orchestras on tour. However, one of the finest concerts was the Sinfonietta in "Bloody Newport". They regularly commissioned new works and this one time they turned up with a Gamalan. For those who've never heard it is a huge suite of gongs and percussion instruments from Bali and they played this piece some crackpot had composed for Gamalan and String Orchestra. It blew my socks off. I've loved all sorts of music from the 50s rock and roll to the new stuff Jools introduces me too but I'm still surprised how little I know... This is a moderate sized Gamalan. Woah Black Betty! Gamalan!
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Post by Furry Frank The Combat Wombat on Apr 23, 2024 9:00:19 GMT
Loved it. Am a big fan of plenty of "World" Music and Asian instruments are WEIRD SHIT. Back in the Day the BSO had a little brother The Bournemouth Sinfonietta that played smaller venues and regularly visited the IOW. Working in Pompey it was easy for me to get to concerts all over South Hants so I saw some World Class orchestras on tour. However, one of the finest concerts was the Sinfonietta in "Bloody Newport". They regularly commissioned new works and this one time they turned up with a Gamalan. For those who've never heard it is a huge suite of gongs and percussion instruments from Bali and they played this piece some crackpot had composed for Gamalan and String Orchestra. It blew my socks off. I've loved all sorts of music from the 50s rock and roll to the new stuff Jools introduces me too but I'm still surprised how little I know... This is a moderate sized Gamalan. Woah Black Betty! Gamalan!
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Post by THE BEAST on Apr 23, 2024 14:19:25 GMT
sorry I'm late people, Tuesdays are busy.
Anyway, this is a song from one of my most favourite live bands, I saw them so many times in their pomp and they were always mindblowingly good.
I'm also putting this here because, for various reasons, I've been very affected by the "Tainted Blood" scandal that you may have seen in the news over the last few years and hopefully is coming to a conclusion soon. I haven't received a bad transfusion or anything, I've just been friends with a lot of people who did, I'm not friends with most of them any more because they mostly died… this somewhat shaped my worldview for quite a few years and I still have maybe more ambivalence with death than the average person because I've seen it so often.
This Tainted Blood thing though has changed that a little bit, it's made me angry, like super Angry… We knew way back then, me and my friends, what was being done to some of them, we knew all the things that are coming out in the hearings, nobody believed it was true. No one would listen to a bunch of teenage boys who were already dying and their friends who weren't dying but were fecking angry… Then people started to die and we all got a bit detached from it all because if you don't you go nuts… Too much death means you just have to not feel that feeling so much any more.
anyway, all this business lately has brought it up for me again… I think that's good… Sometimes you need to feel this stuff.
What it also brought up was what a big deal AIDS was in the eighties and nineties and just how much of a horrific death sentence it really was for most people… We've forgotten now, we've got drugs that moderate it and people get on with their lives, unless they are really really unlucky and they don't work for them. But back then, there was nothing.
But there was this song, it's kind of ironic, it's kind of tongue-in-cheek, it most definitely is anarchic, it has a really powerful message if you listen to the lyrics.
it is also, without doubt, a fecking banging piece of music.
Without further ado, I give you one of my top 10 live bands ever: Mudhoney with the track "Touch Me I'm Sick"
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Post by OneBeat on Apr 23, 2024 14:30:04 GMT
I know and like this song. It is a bit odd that I don't own any Mudhoney records.
Edit: I knew someone who died as a result of Tainted Blood. He was a haemophiliac who contracted HIV. I may include one of his band's songs if I am ever allowed another go at this.
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Post by THE BEAST on Apr 23, 2024 14:39:51 GMT
I know and like this song. It is a bit odd that I don't own any Mudhoney records. Edit: I knew someone who died as a result of Tainted Blood. He was a haemophiliac who contracted HIV. I may include one of his band's songs if I am ever allowed another go at this. it very much is very peculiar… I thought as I was posting this that you might find this little ditty to your taste. I have to say, they sound best on vinyl, I've got their albums electronically but it doesn't sound as good as my old records did. Superfuzz BigMuff would be my recommendation if you just want one album.
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Post by OneBeat on Apr 23, 2024 14:48:57 GMT
I know and like this song. It is a bit odd that I don't own any Mudhoney records. Edit: I knew someone who died as a result of Tainted Blood. He was a haemophiliac who contracted HIV. I may include one of his band's songs if I am ever allowed another go at this. it very much is very peculiar… I thought as I was posting this that you might find this little ditty to your taste. I have to say, they sound best on vinyl, I've got their albums electronically but it doesn't sound as good as my old records did. Superfuzz BigMuff would be my recommendation if you just want one album. 'Superfuzz Migmuff' is the album I know, I just don't own it. I generally think things sound better on vinyl, even the tosh I listen too.
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Post by THE BEAST on Apr 23, 2024 14:59:05 GMT
it very much is very peculiar… I thought as I was posting this that you might find this little ditty to your taste. I have to say, they sound best on vinyl, I've got their albums electronically but it doesn't sound as good as my old records did. Superfuzz BigMuff would be my recommendation if you just want one album. 'Superfuzz Migmuff' is the album I know, I just don't own it. I generally think things sound better on vinyl, even the tosh I listen too. especially the tosh you listen to
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Post by spot51 on Apr 23, 2024 16:10:52 GMT
Good work THE BEAST - 2 down, 2 bands I'd never heard of let alone heard. What a damn fine idea this thread was!
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Post by THE BEAST on Apr 24, 2024 8:03:08 GMT
today's track is a little cheat on my part, it contains 2 of my current favourites featuring on the one track, although one of them only has a bit part.
I find my inner autistic person (not really autistic) does appreciate a little bit of repetitive electronic beats, no one does this better than the Sleaford Mods, mixed with their uniquely poetic and acerbic view of modern life, people & politics it's quite a compelling mix for me. I can't listen to them exclusively but I do like their tracks sprinkled throughout my playlists as it really changes things and I find it refreshes my mind no matter what the track that came before or after it.
this track also features Amy Taylor from "Amyl and the Sniffers", one of Australia's best and most energetic and vitriolic punk bands at the moment (I don't know if Tone would describe them as punk, but I do?) I really wanted to feature one of their tracks, but in this first week I am already at sixes and sevens trying to squeeze in everything I would like to play and I'm just not going to have the space.
Luckily, on this track "Nudge It" she has a guest vocal spot towards the end of the song (so please stick around for it even if you don't like Sleaford Mods) and I think actually really improves the whole dynamic of the song, and indeed gives the Sleaford Mods themselves a less cliquey and male dominated vibe.
As always, as is my thing, please listen to the lyrics. They are repetitive, but I think of them as more like "vocal hammer blows", sometimes you just need to say things again and again to hammer them home.
Let me know what you think of this, and look up Amyl and the Sniffers, I will definitely be including them in future weeks.
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Post by OneBeat on Apr 24, 2024 8:13:30 GMT
today's track is a little cheat on my part, it contains 2 of my current favourites featuring on the one track, although one of them only has a bit part. I find my inner autistic person (not really autistic) does appreciate a little bit of repetitive electronic beats, no one does this better than the Sleaford Mods, mixed with their uniquely poetic and acerbic view of modern life, people & politics it's quite a compelling mix for me. I can't listen to them exclusively but I do like their tracks sprinkled throughout my playlists as it really changes things and I find it refreshes my mind no matter what the track that came before or after it. this track also features Amy Taylor from "Amyl and the Sniffers", one of Australia's best and most energetic and vitriolic punk bands at the moment (I don't know if Tone would describe them as punk, but I do?) I really wanted to feature one of their tracks, but in this first week I am already at sixes and sevens trying to squeeze in everything I would like to play and I'm just not going to have the space. Luckily, on this track "Nudge It" she has a guest vocal spot towards the end of the song (so please stick around for it even if you don't like Sleaford Mods) and I think actually really improves the whole dynamic of the song, and indeed gives the Sleaford Mods themselves a less cliquey and male dominated vibe. As always, as is my thing, please listen to the lyrics. They are repetitive, but I think of them as more like "vocal hammer blows", sometimes you just need to say things again and again to hammer them home. Let me know what you think of this, and look up Amyl and the Sniffers, I will definitely be including them in future weeks. I like this, and have the album it’s on. I don’t know if you’ll be surprised to hear that I like Sleaford Mods more than I like Amyl & The Sniffers (I guess they’re punk, being on Rough Trade just about qualifies them in my mind).
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Post by spot51 on Apr 24, 2024 8:34:08 GMT
today's track is a little cheat on my part, it contains 2 of my current favourites featuring on the one track, although one of them only has a bit part. I find my inner autistic person (not really autistic) does appreciate a little bit of repetitive electronic beats, no one does this better than the Sleaford Mods, mixed with their uniquely poetic and acerbic view of modern life, people & politics it's quite a compelling mix for me. I can't listen to them exclusively but I do like their tracks sprinkled throughout my playlists as it really changes things and I find it refreshes my mind no matter what the track that came before or after it. this track also features Amy Taylor from "Amyl and the Sniffers", one of Australia's best and most energetic and vitriolic punk bands at the moment (I don't know if Tone would describe them as punk, but I do?) I really wanted to feature one of their tracks, but in this first week I am already at sixes and sevens trying to squeeze in everything I would like to play and I'm just not going to have the space. Luckily, on this track "Nudge It" she has a guest vocal spot towards the end of the song (so please stick around for it even if you don't like Sleaford Mods) and I think actually really improves the whole dynamic of the song, and indeed gives the Sleaford Mods themselves a less cliquey and male dominated vibe. As always, as is my thing, please listen to the lyrics. They are repetitive, but I think of them as more like "vocal hammer blows", sometimes you just need to say things again and again to hammer them home. Let me know what you think of this, and look up Amyl and the Sniffers, I will definitely be including them in future weeks. Ah. A band I've heard of. Sleafords are regulars on Jools Holland's shows and I have seen them on that a couple of times. Don'y know Amy though so will check her band out.
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Post by threehundred on Apr 24, 2024 9:21:42 GMT
Really surprised how much I enjoyed that. My mate is a fan of Sleaford Mods… his taste in music is generally terrible, so I’ve not listened to them before. Great choice, THE BEAST. My musical education continues.
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Post by yateleysaint on Apr 24, 2024 9:57:01 GMT
I need cheering up and distracting from all things Saints so will catch up on the last week or two this afternoon.
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Post by yateleysaint on Apr 24, 2024 12:56:46 GMT
Moving on to a live song. Sierra Ferrell is the newest sensation to come out of the Bluegress scene in Nashville. She has a voice that seems to "bend time" as one critic has said. I met her during the IBMA awards show last year when I came out to grab a drink at the same time she did. She tought I was just some random fanboy until her mandolin player came out too and greeted me as a friend. I have to admit I was a bit of a fan boy. There are still some people who make me lose all my capacity for rational conversation. Following the theme of Bluegrass artists playing covers, here she is from earlier this year singing John Lennon's Don't Let Me Down. Watching it back yesterday, I found myself applauding at different moments as she uses her amazing voice to do just about anything. I hope you enjoy it. This is a banger!
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