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Wow. That’s a cool find. I don’t think I even knew that existed! Very cool indeed. |
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Ryan Adams? I think I'll listen to Rock n Roll
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yeah buddy. I'm a huge Ryan Adams fan. RnR is def a good album. Though I kind of think of it as mid-tier RA overall. |
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Douche. (Him, not you. You should do better, though.) Also: death to everybody who's ever been in Clone Temple Pilots. |
You've already told me about your RA hatred. It hasn't changed my ears tho.
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Wait... Ryan Adams was in Stone Temple Pilots? Er... I don’t think that’s what you meant, but your delivery could use some work. |
@noisereductions I really like that album, and I like some of his more country stuff too. I always think I should listen to him more.
coming to terms- arco |
I was thinking about this recently: what are folks' here opinion of REM? I feel like that's a band I have no recollection of anyone ever really talking about here. Love em? Hate em? Indifferent?
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A bit sick of them, but only because I've listened to them a lot in the past. But about once a year I'll tear through the CDs I have by them. Actually, I just made a random mix for someone and put on about three or four REM songs.
I used to think Murmur was their best. Now I think it's Fables. True story! Fascinating, yeah? Reveal and Around the Sun are inarguable the worst, but the final two records had some good songs. "Uberlin" is pretty great. I'm sure they've been discussed before. There has to be a few threads dedicated them, but maybe searching would be a pain. What do you think? |
some great great stuff there |
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I’m sure everyone has gone through an REM phase here. Not sure, but... you know.. it’s likely. I’ve been though many, and ultimately settled on being a “Murmer,” and “Out of Time” through “New Adventures in HiFi” kind of fan. Those are the albums I still come back to. Especially New Adventures. Goddamn brilliant. Great band at time, ok band most of the tim, good force overall in music. Right? Right. Bored me silly in concert though. |
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ok i’ll abbreviate my morning by not waiting for your response and unload both barrels so that i can get to work already and stop thinking about this shit.
you seem so culturally alienated that you can’t appreciate the treasures of latin american music unless your beloved david byrne puts them in a fucking hipster compilation or steals some beats, only then you can drink them from his asshole like some glorious ambrosia. the living image of underdevelopment: exporting raw materials and importing manufactured goods. or worse: there is good manufacturing: but you’d rather drink boone’s farm than the best chilean wine. sad. lavoe and willie colon and blades have much better music and lyrics and singing chops than your shitty springsteen or the liz fucking phair in the blinking signature you wear like a signifier of your desperate yearnings of belonging to where you’re not. and sure your rotolandia is far enough from any surviving blacks that you can claim you know nothing of afro-caribbean music, but it’s hilarious how many pretentious dumdums look down on those roots and then claim to ‘love jazz’. oh how you love jazz because the name made it into the english language and it’s therefore now “the other” you wish to become, not the self you hate. Tu amor es un periódico de ayer Que nadie más procura ya leer Sensacional cuando salió en la madrugada A medio día ya noticia confirmada Y en la tarde materia olvidada Tu amor es un periódico de ayer |
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I love everything up to Automatic for the People. That is the album where they changed to an adult-contempo REM-lite that I absolutely HATE. Reckoning, Fables of the Reconstruction, Murmur, and Chronic Town EP are some of my fave all time albums. |
Hector Lavoe (sp?) is a salsa GOD!
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Mete la mano en el bolsillo Saca y abre tu cuchillo y ten cuidao Pónganme oído en este barrio Muchos guapos lo han matao Calle Luna, calle sol. Oiga señor si usted quiere su vida Evitar es mejor o la tienes perdida Mire señora agarre bien su cartera No conoce este barrio aquí asaltan a cualquiera En los barrios de guapos no se vive tranquilo Mide bien tus palabras o no vales ni un kilo. Camina pa'lante no mires para el'lao OR Aquel que abuela tiene Oye mi voz que retumba Y si muerta tu la tienes Vete, llorale y rezale a la tumba (Canción para mí abuelita) Abuelita tus refranes me hacian reír Ay! Abuelita de mí vida Como yo te quiero a ti Abuelita! Abuelita! Por mi madre! Por mi madre! Que tu eres la mujer más bonita Abuelita tus refranes me hacian reír Agua que por la rivera mira que bonita va Así es el pelo de Abuela Blanquito y Bonito de verdad ¡Abuelita! he was like the abraxas from steppenwolf no hesse’s demian he covered the whole range the way he sang these lyrics was something else. fuck! ETA of course EL CANTANTE was where he ascended https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BNo0vkEYWRc this here is the key of keys” Me paran, siempre en la calle Mucha gente que comenta "Oye Hector! tu estas hecho, Siempre con hembras y en fiestas!" Y nadie pregunta Si sufro si lloro Si tengo una pena Que hiere muy hondo Yo soy el cantante y mi negocio es cantar a los que me siguen mi cancion vine a brindar that’s just— when you hear it it’s something else, or you’re dead inside plus for literary types it has hints of lope de vega |
spent half the morning listening to a bunch of different versions of this brilliant thing
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i7B2v3jnH5w La calle es una selva de cemento Y de fieras salvajes cómo no Ya no hay quien salga loco de contento Donde quiera te espera te espera lo peor Donde te quiera tes espera lo peor Juanito Alimaña con mucha maña Llega al mostrador Saca su cuchillo sin preocupación Dice que le entreguen la registradora Saca las billetes saca un pistolón, pum Sale como el viento En su disparada Y aunque ya lo vieron Nadie ha visto nada Juanito Alimaña va'la fechoría Se toma su caña Fabrica su orgía. La gente le teme Por que es de cuidado Pa' meterle mano Hay que ser un bravo Si lo meten preso Sale al otro día Porque un primo suyo Está en la policía. Juanito Alimaña Si tiene maña es malicia viva Y siempre se alinea Con el que está arriba Y aunque a medio mundo Le robó su plata Todos lo comentan Nadie lo delata Y aunque a medio mundo Le llevó la plata Todos lo comentan Nadie lo delata A la la ley ley ley ley En su mundo Mujeres, fumada, y cana Atracando vive Juanito Alimana Cuando el era muchachito Las cositas te pedía Y si tu no se la daba la mangaba Como quiera la cogia En su mundo Mujeres, fumada, y cana Atracando vive juanito alimana Ese, ese tumbao lo quiere Si lo ve mal cuesto, Anda cuida tu cartera, Ese si que sabe eso En su mundo Mujeres, fumada, y cana Atracando vive Juanito Alimana Si, el otro día le encontré Y Guillermo el me decía Tumba kilo que tu quieras Por mi primo es policía Oye, con que ya ve el diablo Se tira su disparada Y aunque la gente lo vieron No lo ratean porque nadie ha visto nada En su mundo Mujeres, fumada, y cana Atracando vive Juanito Alimana El rey de la fechoría Ayer me dijo facundo Todo el mundo lo conoce Oye ven al bajo mundo En su mundo Mujeres, fumada, y cana Atracando vive Juanito Alimana Mira mira le da mano And ella no tiene un callito Ese nunca ha trabajado Y siempre anda bien bonito En su mundo Mujeres, fumada, y cana Atracando vive Juanito Alimana |
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anyway, back to the music
this is the transition between cuban danzón and the modern mambo. unlike the excitement of pérez prado, this is slower and mellow, with flute (arcaño was a flutist). the legendary cachao came up through arcaño’s orchestra. pérez prado later heard this, added his sound, and shook the world. the danzón started as XIX century european music that got progressively africanized and you can hear some of that here |
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I've actually been meaning to get this for a while now. |
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meanwhile, listend to this today during my morning hike compilation of old cuban music. some hilarious guarachas there, if you speak the language. a satanic mambo! (way way before metal). and some insane congas with an old-timey percussion that will shake your calzoncillos :D (oh, one is about baseball, and starts with that baseball song, then becomes about sex, ha ha ha) |
been getting a lot of 90s flashbacks from this
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this weekend on the highway i had an itch i needed to scratch and played a couple of times this gringo-friendly compilation of os mutantes which was the first thing that popped in my player when i requested the band.
now the thing won’t leave my head. it’s funny to revisit this old hipster darling from a latin american perspective because i really wonder how it sounds to those who might view these sounds as “exotic” rather than familiar. and sure the back cover mentions john cage and the beatles, but i find a lot more santana in them than some people would like to admit is there. and also it’s a *very funny* album. do you guys get that it’s hilarious or is it just, you know, “interesting”? |
The only one I'm familiar with is their eponymous debut.
"Panis et Circenses" is one of my favorite songs by anyone. The song breaks down so they can enjoy a cup of tea. What's not to like? I don't understand a single lyric, but the album makes me smile. |
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but of course the way they play it is fucking mental. very beatlesque for sure, and by that i mean, full of baroque harmonies and trumpets, lol. the lyrics are a sort of surrealist thing about how this person wants these fantastics thing but the people in the dining room are just worried with being born and dying. which was a dig at the brazilian bourgeoisie of their time, living under a military dictatorship. by hilarious i didn’t mean just the lyrics though, but there are plenty of musical jokes. i mean you can hear it as “avant garde serious business” or you can hear it as a bunch of kids on lsd having a good time. i mean from the ridiculous opening march tune in panis et circenses it’s like the monty python credits. their musical juxtapositions aren’t just good-sounding, they’re also mocking all manner of musical fundamentalists and intolerant ideologists of their time. for maximum lols i like “el justiciero”. ha ha ha ha. which is a parody of leftist interpretations of popular suffering, cast in a musical mish-mash. kinda like “el zorro”. but yeah, the lyrics are important in that one. but from their first album, not to be a contrarian (eh, who am i kidding, im a fucking contrarian), i enjoy bat-macumba the most— that’s also a gilberto gil song and the lyrics are a joke/pun with african religions and severian’s favorite superhero batman. not the modern serious heavy as fuck batman but the colorful campy one from the 60s which was probably seen in black and white in the souths. but yeah. it’s all in joyous good fun. plus that scratchy guitar like some sort of electic boogaloo (the 60s music not the 80s movie). check out the 2 songwriters i mentioned if you’re curious. veloso & gil. the genius of os mutantes i guess was to play other people’s songs while under the influence and tear them to ribbons while keeping the melodic core intact. which is great. (see also: “baby” in that record) |
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— and it was great yeah. but i still like the rolling stones cover of like a rolling stone the best. yes, i have very vulgar tastes. im actually listening to a bunch of covers of that right now. hendrix, etc. great great fucking song. |
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