thank you for reminding me of Black Ends. I saw them like 7 (?) years ago (maybe twice) in a basement and I was digging them before I fell behind keeping up with local stuff. they’re playing a show a stone’s throw from my place on Thursday so I might have to catch that
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I was just going to post this in song of the moment but maybe I can muster up some words. Maybe someone else would like to talk about Robert Wyatt, too.
I was falling asleep to his music last night and this song caught me in a very vulnerable state
The fiddle solo took my breath away. I discovered that there have been many versions of this song from adjacent acts: The Soft Machine and The Wilde Flowers. Even Whitney Houston sang it.
I fell deeply in love with Shleep years ago and would like to hear from other shleepers.
Am getting really into Enya and not sure how to feel about it. I just love the production.
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feel good about it enya rules
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What’s weird is I remember listening to it on car trips and I think my dad felt a sort of self-deprecating shame about it since I think he listened to it as a way to get with several hippy girlfriends when I was a kid but I think I’ve just absorbed it as a valuable soundscape. Nothing sounds quite like it.
the only reason Enya might seem shameful at all is i think is just that her music appeared in a lot of ads, was heavily imitated by a lot of other people at the time, and was mom-coded. there is way, way actual worse music that’s had broad reappraisal these days than Enya.
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I had a phase where I was sick to death of orinoco flow because every TV display in frys blasted it for like five years but even that shit gets good again
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YES and YES
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I listened to a lot of Sonic Youth on my Chongqing metro and taxi rides. I’m not sure what sparked that. The guitar fuzz is pretty good at blocking out road noise. I’m listening to a lot I’ve never heard before since I’m mostly familiar with EVOL, Ciccone Youth, Sister, and Daydream Nation. Probably going to listen to all of it now. The guitars sound exactly how I want them to. The drumming often has catchy beats. The singing can be offputting in a way that makes me want to like it in spite of my gut reaction. Sorry to all those a generation or half-generation older than me who is sick of them. They rock.
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Kim Gordon is 73. I didn’t ever think of her as being older than my mom. Wow.
girl is chasing a new sound
she’s caught it