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09.03.2026 19:50 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0sigh...if needs be, this outpost is still up: mastodon.social/@bowiesongs
09.03.2026 19:50 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0only missing a John Lennon "actually, I think I am God" response
09.03.2026 19:07 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0answers to Disc & Music Echo, Aug 1969: "What question would you most like to ask God?" Pete Townshend: "Who am I?" Scott Walker: "Why? That's all." Andy Fairweather-Low: "I wouldn't even know where to start. I'd probably end up asking if He liked the Rolling Stones."
09.03.2026 19:05 β π 18 π 5 π¬ 1 π 0Farewell to the great Augie Meyers, founding member and keyboardist for both the Sir Douglas Quintet and Texas Tornadoes and a genuine Lone Star legend.
09.03.2026 16:54 β π 58 π 19 π¬ 2 π 4yeah i had to basically teach myself (& had help w/ a few musician friends) when I started taking the DB stuff seriously in the early '10s
09.03.2026 14:27 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Every time it's Eno and Cale's birthdays I promote the hell out of WRONG WAY UP, a multicolored cuckoo clock of an album out of time in 2026 as much as in 1990. Cale's "Cordoba" ranks among his best. humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2015/09/19/w...
09.03.2026 14:03 β π 29 π 10 π¬ 4 π 2
It's John Cale's birthday today.
I saw him play in Dublin last March & he was magnificent, in amazing shape, not what anyone would have thought seeing him in his hedonistic, booze- & cocaine-soaked 1983 state, a dead man walking.
This is an incredible live show, however:
youtu.be/Pu1im2Ia-JQ?...
Country Joe and the Fish, Electric Music For The Mins and Body
way sharper, weirder, & more outwardly psychedelic (& original) than the debut LPs by the dead, airplane, quicksilver, etc. going by first albums only, country joe & the fish might've seemed like the bay area's freak champs in '67 (though, to be fair, "surrealistic pillow" came out just before).
09.03.2026 02:18 β π 77 π 11 π¬ 5 π 0It really is a car movie!
08.03.2026 22:40 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0There's a real charm when they're on the Death Star, just doing improv stuff, acting like 2 hicks walking through New York for the first time
08.03.2026 22:28 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0A good way i found to appreciate it is to try to strip the 50 yrs of outgrowth & try to view it from POV of a someone who stumbled into a screening in 77 would. Robots land on random crap planet, mopey kid gets caught up in it, as does a charming crook, they wind up winning a battle by pure luck
08.03.2026 22:26 β π 15 π 0 π¬ 3 π 0Thinking about how one of Pete Seeger's last concerts was Obama's inauguration: a sense of, after everything he went through, "hey, look at us now, maybe it worked out?" The longer i live, the more i realize what a rare blessing that is.
08.03.2026 21:30 β π 12 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0living into a ripe old age and being survived by the sentiment that made you famous when you were young has to be a real double-edged sword here
08.03.2026 21:01 β π 29 π 8 π¬ 3 π 0Dogs in car, going to the park
First nice day in what feels like 3 weeks, and out on the town
08.03.2026 19:29 β π 17 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0you can trace a line of descent from this to Camper Van Beethoven (who covered "Porpoise") and other 70s-80s West Coast weirdo groups, and beyond
08.03.2026 18:27 β π 15 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0RIP "Country Joe" McDonald. Long reduced in the media to a single image (singing "Fixin to Die Rag" at Woodstock), he and his band made a lot of fun, eerie music as well, like "Porpoise Mouth": www.youtube.com/watch?v=snso...
08.03.2026 18:21 β π 63 π 17 π¬ 2 π 3R.I.P. Joseph βCountry Joeβ McDonald, frontman of counterculture folk-rock icons Country Joe And The Fish. He wrote the Berkeley bandβs most enduring songs including the Vietnam War protest anthem βI-Feel-Like-Iβm-Fixinβ-To-Die Ragβ and βNot So Sweet Martha Lorraine,β a Hot 100 hit. McDonald was 84.
08.03.2026 17:19 β π 201 π 81 π¬ 1 π 52i think there's an element of "water always follows the path of least resistance" for music listening for a lot of people--it used to be putting on the radio, or buying a few compilation/soundtrack CDs, & now it's just the streamers
08.03.2026 16:45 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0oh yeah, the canon's narrowed over the past few decades--you'd still hear My Generation a lot on '80s CR radio but not so much now (as per my v. limited experience of hearing CR radio in the 2020s, i.e., visiting my parents)
08.03.2026 16:37 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0yes, US "classic rock" radio Who starts with Tommy, pretty much--once in a blue moon, they'll play "Happy Jack" or something but nowhere as much as, like, "Slip Kid" or even "Eminence Front"
08.03.2026 16:05 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 2 π 1It's essentially the same band + Adrian Belew. I consider it the canonical version of the song, pretty much
07.03.2026 23:35 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0"Station"; the '78 live versions are at least the equal, & sometimes the better, of the orig.
07.03.2026 23:23 β π 27 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I get irked at the snarky attitude of the "Wordlebot"
07.03.2026 23:19 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0in somewhat less stupid terms, I know so many smart and talented underemployed, employed in other sectors they had to go to out of desperation, or unemployed people who I would LOVE to see get a chance to use their policy talents to Rebuild America. it would be cool if we could do that together!
07.03.2026 21:36 β π 157 π 18 π¬ 6 π 0i love "See Those Eyes" but yeah there's a hard drop-off otherwise
07.03.2026 22:50 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Altered Images debut LP
A good example of a record where, if you get a big fun single as a hook, you can do anything else you want for the rest of it. Here, a jittery, weird post-punk record w affinities to Siouxsie and Durutti Column and PiL
07.03.2026 22:36 β π 35 π 4 π¬ 4 π 0Neko Case, "Fox Confessor Brings the Flood" (rel 7 March 06)
20 yrs old now. & Neko singing one of my favorite songs from it, "Maybe Sparrow," on Letterman in June '06: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbqy...
07.03.2026 13:46 β π 14 π 2 π¬ 1 π 2In the one i saw, the replies almost immediately became people once again complaining about books they had to read in school
07.03.2026 12:06 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I am very proud of my Kristin Hersh essay. β₯οΈ Please give it a vote!
07.03.2026 01:17 β π 33 π 5 π¬ 3 π 0Grace Jones, Nightclubbing
Friday afternoon music: among many things, what a well-recorded LP this is. Mixed brilliantly, a joy to hear
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