- Posts: 5539
- Thank you received: 2594
Bugs: Recent Topics Paging, Uploading Images & Preview (11 Dec 2020)
Recent Topics paging, uploading images and preview bugs require a patch which has not yet been released.
Please consider adding your quick impressions and your rating to the game entry in our Board Game Directory after you post your thoughts so others can find them!
Please start new threads in the appropriate category for mini-session reports, discussions of specific games or other discussion starting posts.
What MUSIC are you listening to?
Jexik wrote: Came across this on Sunday. I wasn't cool enough to have heard about them 40 years ago, but I enjoy it now. "Freakin' out" and "Politicians in my eyes" are my favorite two tracks... out of 7. Ha, kind of funny to try to break down an album that's so short.
I don't think many heard them 40 years ago. This is the band that was 'discovered' some 30 years after the fact and the singer had unfortunately already passed. There was a documentary about this several years back that's worth checking out if you're into the music.
Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.
- Michael Barnes
- Offline
- Mountebank
- HYPOCRITE
- Posts: 16929
- Thank you received: 10375
...
...
...
...well, nonexistent. But they sort of existed in a vacuum. It's not like discovering The Stooges or the Dolls, and suddenly you see this great river of inspiration and influence that flows through all of this music that came after. They kind of were an endpoint, they aren't really a genesis point. So I kind of find this notion that they are the secret, hidden root of American punk or something to be really, really disingenuous. It doesn't help that you've got like Henry Rollins in the film all wide-eyed and veins popping out of his neck about discovering them. It lends this mythic stature a credibility it really shouldn't have.
I don't want to discredit the band- they were really trying to do something new, they were really trying to push some things (like having overtly political songs and playing at a higher level of energy than was usual at the time). The bands they were influenced by sort of lay it all out- Hendrix, Alice Cooper, Ted Nugent. I'm sure they probably heard or were at least aware of the MC5 as well. Maybe The Stooges, but they would have been kids at that time, and that still wasn't music that most kids were just picking up off the shelves.
It is funny that you can kind of hear a very similar sound to Bad Brains on a couple of the tracks- but the reality is that HR and co. likely had not heard Death in '78, '79 because it just wasn't really in circulation at the time. And there was no internet where you can listen to the rarest, most miniscule 45 released 40 years ago on a local-only, undistributed label.
It is still a cool story that they were finally discovered and it's a good record, rescued from obscurity. And it is important that they were black kids cranking out music usually, and especially at that time, regarded as "white".
Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.
The bass line in Politicians in My Eyes makes me want to pick up the instrument again. It seems surprisingly easy, yet has this weird catchy mumbling sound that is then echoed in the vocals.
Not too long ago I also listened to Helter Skelter on repeat a few times and thought about how it drove Charles Manson crazy. That's another song that was ahead of its time, but you could say that for a lot of Beatles tracks.
In both board games and music I think people spend too much time trying to genrify and explain artists in terms of other artists, instead of just describing the qualities that they (dis)like in the work at hand.
Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.
Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.
- Posts: 1700
- Thank you received: 786
15 years later I finally got around to listening to her 2001 album "Everybody Got Their Something", and feel regret that it took me so long as it is probably my favourite new album for several years.
Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.
nightrunnermusic.bandcamp.com/album/thunderbird
Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.
Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.
Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.
- Cranberries
- Offline
- D10
- Don't give up.
- Posts: 3075
- Thank you received: 2362
Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.
Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.
lazerdiscs.bandcamp.com/album/starcrash
Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.
Green Day's Basket Case single (and later the whole Dookie album) was my first major exposure to non- classical/oldies/showtunes/etc. I think my brother had listened to like Guns 'n Roses or something like that prior, so I pictured the lead singer with long blond hair, but it really stuck with me. The local radio station played something off of their album before that, Kerplunk. And I liked it. I think 2000 Light Years Away is the track. Also inspired by my brother and all of his skater friends, I keep heading back to Operation Ivy.
The Flobots are really weird. They had that hit single "Handlebars," but seem to have largely disappeared. Their album, Fight With Tools, is nearly impossible to listen to all the way through because it's so uneven. They're also up there with Rage Against the Machine in the amount of political content they're running with, but it's this odd mixed genre mess. They use no sampling, minimal electric instruments... etc. "Stand Up" has a pretty solid chorus as a protest anthem though.
Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.
Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.
Otherwise, my favorite track back on that old album is probably Stand Up like I said. Some of their lyrics almost make me wonder if they were low-key a leftist christian rap group... which seems like the weirdest medley ever.
Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.
Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.