Art is the music we make from the bewildered cry of being alive. ~Maria Popova
10 Aug 2021 Leave a comment
in Songs You May Have Missed Tags: go, steriogram
Steriogram: “Go” (2004)
Another delightful pop nugget from New Zealand’s answer to Sum 41, Weezer, Beastie Boys, Nirvana and more.
Tyson Kennedy’s rap overlapping Brad Carter’s singing, backed by some tasty riffage makes for a winning formula. This band–and this gloriously ebullient album–should have been big.
See also: https://edcyphers.com/2018/12/29/songs-you-may-have-missed-632/
10 Aug 2021 Leave a comment
in Songs You May Have Missed Tags: max romeo & the upsetters, war ina babylon
Max Romeo & The Upsetters: “War Ina Babylon” (1976)
Jamaican Max Romeo was known for making rather lightweight, if at times racy, pop which performed well in both Jamaican and UK charts in the late 60’s.
But when he paired with Lee “Scratch” Perry’s studio band the Upsetters for the 1976 release War Ina Babylon he brought the goods. The religious and politically-themed album is widely acknowledged not only as Romeo’s best work but a classic of the reggae genre, and its title song, which describes the tense mood around the Jamaican election of 1972, is a highlight.
10 Aug 2021 Leave a comment
in Did You Ever Realize Tags: crazy train, ozzy osbourne, steve miller band, swingtown
29 Jul 2021 Leave a comment
in General Posts Tags: beatles, kinks, the who
(via Culture Sonar) by Mark Daponte
One of the more bizarre sayings (and something parents of an infant shouldn’t have to say to the nanny) is “Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.” This advice, meaning don’t throw away something good in the course of throwing out something bad, was heeded by a number of rock stars who found gems amongst musical projects they had thrown out.
The most noteworthy salvage job was Pete Townshend’s unfinished sci-fi rock opera film called Lifehouse which started as a story written around several songs. Pete recalled: “The essence of the storyline was a kind of futuristic scene. It’s a fantasy set at a time when rock ’n’ roll didn’t exist. The world was completely collapsing and the only experience that anybody ever had was through test tubes. In a way, they lived as if they were on television. Everything was programmed. The enemies were people who gave us entertainment intravenously and the heroes were savages who’d kept rock ‘n’ roll as a primitive force and had gone to live with it in the woods. The story was about these two sides coming together and having a brief battle.”
Every Moment Has A Song 