Music Thread

[Demo]

Ok, need some albums to listen to for St Louis to Dayton and back. Looking for stuff that should have taken off, but didn’t. Genre is irrelevant, but please, no German. My daughter has suggested Remy  Shand, “The Way I Feel.”. Past that, I got nothin’. 

[Stuhoo]

28 minutes ago, Demo said:

Ok, need some albums to listen to for St Louis to Dayton and back. Looking for stuff that should have taken off, but didn’t. Genre is irrelevant, but please, no German. My daughter has suggested Remy  Shand, “The Way I Feel.”. Past that, I got nothin’. 

1. I was just listening to this the other day -- so very much should have taken off, but Jonny Polonsky was just too weird a dude. Everything else he ever did was pretentious crap. His first album is pop-punk gold. He plays all instruments and recorded it in his bedroom: https://www.discogs.com/release/418602-Jonny-Polonsky-Hi-My-Name-Is-Jonny
2. You said no German ... how about Italian sung by a girl from the Bronx? Maria Callas. Maybe the greatest female voice of anyone's lifetime - more people should listen to opera y'all:  https://www.gramophone.co.uk/features/article/maria-callas-the-tosca-sessions
3. Blues? Washboard Sam wasn't some yokel -- he had fantastic arrangements -- used a lot of clarinet and boogie-woogie piano, and his voice was so, so clean. So easy to like. Not electrified Chicago blues, but not really country blues either:  https://www.discogs.com/release/6576320-Washboard-Sam-Best-Of-Blues-1936-1942
4. Trying to think of something in your wheelhouse of Americana. Berklee School of Music gave us Big Thief about eight years ago. I'm partial to the album Masterpiece, but most would say U.F.O.F is when they put it all together. Moody, indie, Americana. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.F.O.F.
5. Finally, another one squarely in your wheelhouse. Jon Brion is a legendary producer (Elliott Smith, Fiona Apple, Aimee Mann, and many others). He did one solo album, and it. is excellent. Can't get it on Spotify, but YouTube has it for streaming: 

 

 

[Demo]

11 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

1. I was just listening to this the other day -- so very much should have taken off, but Jonny Polonsky was just too weird a dude. Everything else he ever did was pretentious crap. His first album is pop-punk gold. He plays all instruments and recorded it in his bedroom: https://www.discogs.com/release/418602-Jonny-Polonsky-Hi-My-Name-Is-Jonny
2. You said no German ... how about Italian sung by a girl from the Bronx? Maria Callas. Maybe the greatest female voice of anyone's lifetime - more people should listen to opera y'all:  https://www.gramophone.co.uk/features/article/maria-callas-the-tosca-sessions
3. Blues? Washboard Sam wasn't some yokel -- he had fantastic arrangements -- used a lot of clarinet and boogie-woogie piano, and his voice was so, so clean. So easy to like. Not electrified Chicago blues, but not really country blues either:  https://www.discogs.com/release/6576320-Washboard-Sam-Best-Of-Blues-1936-1942
4. Trying to think of something in your wheelhouse of Americana. Berklee School of Music gave us Big Thief about eight years ago. I'm partial to the album Masterpiece, but most would say U.F.O.F is when they put it all together. Moody, indie, Americana. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.F.O.F.
5. Finally, another one squarely in your wheelhouse. Jon Brion is a legendary producer (Elliott Smith, Fiona Apple, Aimee Mann, and many others). He did one solo album, and it. is excellent. Can't get it on Spotify, but YouTube has it for streaming: 

 

 

An Associate of mine has been pushing Big Thief on me for a couple of years and I’ve just never gotten around to it. That’ll definitely happen. Had no idea Jon Brion had  recorded a solo album.  

[Dave from Dayton]

2 hours ago, Demo said:

Ok, need some albums to listen to for St Louis to Dayton and back. Looking for stuff that should have taken off, but didn’t. Genre is irrelevant, but please, no German. My daughter has suggested Remy  Shand, “The Way I Feel.”. Past that, I got nothin’. 

1. Luther Allison's 1973 straight Chicago blues album: Bad News is Coming.  Underappreciated Luther Allison played at the Bluebird in B'town in 1977.  Not innovative, but wonderfully committed.  If you love Chicago blues..you just gotta do it.

2. Samantha Fish 2017 funky guitarist, bandleader and singer does raw blues with no regret.  Belle of the West. Saw her trio in Henderson KY just last year at the Handy Bluesfest.  Powerful guitar...oh my! It took off!  So that fact may exclude her album from your list.  But she has earlier ones.

3. Noah Wotherspoon, Dayton blues and delta blues is dynomite live.  Mystic Mud 2015.  In 2015, Wotherspoon received the Best Guitarist Award at the International Blues Challenge and the band placed 2nd in the finals.

I've got the blues and I feel good.  Enjoy.

 

[Stuhoo]

On 1/12/2022 at 1:42 PM, Demo said:

An Associate of mine has been pushing Big Thief on me for a couple of years and I’ve just never gotten around to it. That’ll definitely happen. Had no idea Jon Brion had  recorded a solo album.  

Jon Brion is a musical savant.

Meaningless is a great album—Rolling Stone just had an article about it on its 20th anniversary.

FYI —one of the best musical things on all of YouTube is the five part, total of about 45 minutes long “The Jon Brion Show.” It’s a stream of consciousness semi-concert, semi-interview, cheesy skits show with Jon goofing and making music with some of his musical buddies.

Includes performances of Jon as a side man with a healthy (!) Elliott Smith, Robyn Hitchcock, Cheap Trick, and Rickie Lee Jones, among others. Rickie Lee Jones does a transcendental a cappella version of her song Horses in the fourth part of the five part YouTube set.

Moreover, this low production mashup is directed by a very young Paul Thomas Anderson, who became one of the great indie/now main stream directors of our time.

There’s another 20 minute concert that John Brion did as a VH1 pilot with Elliott Smith. Also incredible stuff, although Elliot is more than a little addled during this one.

Here’s the link to part one of the five part longer pilot.

 

 

[LamarCheeks]

Michael Lee Aday passed away Thursday. He was 74. 

Most knew him as Meat Loaf. 

RIP. 
 

 

[HoosierCoop]

If you are looking to take a deep dive/meaning into music, check out "The Daily Doug" on Youtube.

I find myself hooked while harnessing my 45 minute daily commute.

[Stuhoo]

If you’ve never heard this you should. Never heard rock with more joy and less pretentiousness.

Also a must if you’ve ever wanted to feel like you’re in Boston:

 

 

[DWB]

On 1/31/2022 at 7:00 PM, Stuhoo said:

If you’ve never heard this you should. Never heard rock with more joy and less pretentiousness.

Also a must if you’ve ever wanted to feel like you’re in someone's detached garage, listening to a 16 yr old in Boston:

 

 

There...I fixed it for you. (lol)

[Stuhoo]

4 minutes ago, DWB said:

There...I fixed it for you. (lol)

He was 25! 

Napoleon was leading the French Army by that age!

[DWB]

19 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

He was 25! 

Napoleon was leading the French Army by that age!

Well this POS sure wasn't...

[RaceToTheTop]

Always like finding great live covers on youtube.  Here's one.

 

 

[NOLA Hoosier]

Hey guys, at an attempt at shameless self-promotion, feel free to check out the album I released a few days ago.

10 songs written by me, recorded by me, mixed by me, mastered by me, and all instruments played by me, with the exception of a few here and there by fellow BTown Banners member VauxhallandIU.

http://theblakethomas.bandcamp.com

Stuhoo, I know you'll probably appreciate some of it.

[Stuhoo]

11 minutes ago, NOLA Hoosier said:

Hey guys, at an attempt at shameless self-promotion, feel free to check out the album I released a few days ago.

10 songs written by me, recorded by me, mixed by me, mastered by me, and all instruments played by me, with the exception of a few here and there by fellow BTown Banners member VauxhallandIU.

http://theblakethomas.bandcamp.com

Stuhoo, I know you'll probably appreciate some of it.

I’ve got 30 minutes alone in the car while my kid is in a voice lesson, so it’s spinning as we speak!

Feeling a Love/Arthur Lee influence so far. 
Really good stuff-you’ve got my attention!

[Josh]

I'm super pumped to be going to the Tool concert tonight.  They and System of a Down are the two elusive bands to me.  I've seen a million shows from a million bands, but every time Tool has toured something has come up to keep me from going.  Not today baby.  I don't give a damn what happens between now and tonight I'm going to see this show.

 

[Josh]

It's finally happening!

 

[Demo]

3 weeks ago I had never heard of Jason Molina. Then this song popped up on my daily playlist and I’ve obsessively listened to nothing else since. He did a bunch of solo stuff, had a band called Songs:Ohia and then renamed and re-rostered it as Magnolia Electric Co. Some around here might be be familiar with him/them because he was on Bloomington’s own Secretly Canadian label and played a ton locally. Drank himself to death in 2013. But over the course of 17 years Molina put out an incredible catalogue of some of the most purely emotive work I think I’ve ever heard across lo-fi, traditional country, alt-country, roots rock, alternative and gospel. If someone said his work is sloppy, under-produced, derivative, I wouldn’t argue. And I freaking love it. Every single song has some moment, lyric, vocal delivery that hits me at a visceral level that just doesn’t get hit. Was trying to come up with a kind of a quintessential song and realized there really isn’t one. So I just went with this live version of “Almost Was Good Enough”, which sounds for all the world like an outtake from CSN&Y’s Deja Vu album with Molina’s vocal sounding like a drunk David Crosby imitating Neil Young including a plaintive wail of “almost no one makes it out” that causes me to catch my breath every time. Amazing stuff. Great songwriter. Sorry he couldn’t stick around. 

[Stuhoo]

32 minutes ago, Demo said:

3 weeks ago I had never heard of Jason Molina. Then this song popped up on my daily playlist and I’ve obsessively listened to nothing else since. He did a bunch of solo stuff, had a band called Songs:Ohia and then renamed and re-rostered it as Magnolia Electric Co. Some around here might be be familiar with him/them because he was on Bloomington’s own Secretly Canadian label and played a ton locally. Drank himself to death in 2013. But over the course of 17 years Molina put out an incredible catalogue of some of the most purely emotive work I think I’ve ever heard across lo-fi, traditional country, alt-country, roots rock, alternative and gospel. If someone said his work is sloppy, under-produced, derivative, I wouldn’t argue. And I freaking love it. Every single song has some moment, lyric, vocal delivery that hits me at a visceral level that just doesn’t get hit. Was trying to come up with a kind of a quintessential song and realized there really isn’t one. So I just went with this live version of “Almost Was Good Enough”, which sounds for all the world like an outtake from CSN&Y’s Deja Vu album with Molina’s vocal sounding like a drunk David Crosby imitating Neil Young including a plaintive wail of “almost no one makes it out” that causes me to catch my breath every time. Amazing stuff. Great songwriter. Sorry he couldn’t stick around. 

Thanks—will immediately investigate 

[Stuhoo]

*gets tip from Demo listens to Electric Magnolia Co album picks up guitar starts trying to play “Just Be Simple”

[Demo]

2 hours ago, Stuhoo said:

*gets tip from Demo listens to Electric Magnolia Co album picks up guitar starts trying to play “Just Be Simple”

At the moment would probably add that record to my desert island list you had us kicking around a few months back.