#Listening to the bowdlerised music video mix of The Beautiful People by Marilyn Manson;
"And I don't want you and I don't need you
Don't bother to resist, or I'll beat you It's not your fault that you're always wrong
The weak ones are there to justify the strong"
A few months ago I went to a women's conference. The music was too loud. I sustained damage to my ears. Hearing loss and fullness that lasted for 2 weeks. I got a miracle! Fully recovered with no more loss!
This is a sketch from my journal while I was waiting for my prayers to be answered.
Jordan was an exponent of a jazzy blues subgenre known as 'jump blues', one of the formative influences on rock'n'roll pioneers like Chuck Berry. The upbeat tempos and jaunty horn lines of jump blues likely influenced later styles like Jamaican ska.
It's the sort of pop-punk you'd expect to hear over a hallway montage at the start of a noughties high school movie. Back then I dismissed music like this as "bubblegum punk", and I still prefer a band like Chroma that bring some social commentary into their lyrics. But I do love the energy, and Felicia has some pipes!
Wikipedia notes that a rough English translation of the album name is; Watch out! The tram is coming. In other trivia, indie nerds who specialise in the 1990s might notice that the band name is taken from a song title off Now I'm a Cowboy, by British band The Auteurs.
This uncharacteristically upbeat track is from their third album, After Murder Park, released in 1996. The album was engineered by Steve Albini. 3 years after he worked on Nirvana's final studio album, In Utero, and wrote his notorious essay The Problem With Music;
Listening to the new Alice Coltrane album, The Carnegie Hall Concert (Live). It was recorded in 1971 as part of a benefit concert for the Integral Yoga Institute, but never released. It's nice.
Lineup:
Pharoah Sanders and Archie Shepp on sax, Jimmy Garrison and Cecil McBee on bass, Ed Blackwell and Clifford Jarvis on drums, Tusli Sen Gupta on tamboura, Kumar Kramer on harmonium.
Tracks:
Journey to Satchinanda
Shiva-Loka
Africa
Leo
Active Listening by Carl Ransom Rogers & Richard Evans Farson
Active Listening is a short 1957 work by Drs. Carl R. Rogers and Richard E. Farson, two influential American psychologists. The work brings the counselling technique of active listening to the layperson, demonstrating how it can be applied to interactions between an employee and employer.
One of a number of psychedelia-inspired songs they contributed to the 1970s Japanese TV show Saiyūki, better known to anglophone audiences as "Monkey".
Like a lot of my favourite music, this album is hard to pigeonhole with a genre label. It sits vaguely near 90s nerdrock; They Might Be Giants, Weezer, Cake, etc. Although this track is out on the surreal end of that genre, with Marcy Playground. You could even describe it as a US Oasis sort of sound.