For today's #ThankYouTuesday, I want to thank the people who still know how to listen to others. Those who don't always put themselves at the center of the universe, but can also understand others. Those who strive to be well and make others well, not constantly fighting to prevail, dominate, outdo, or crush.
My gratitude today goes to these increasingly rare individuals.
#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"
@golgaloth
I mostly just knew them for the one song on the "Brain Candy" soundtrack, but stumbled upon this album on eMusic and really liked it. It hangs together really well.
@alfvaen Viva! la Woman is a great album of theirs, with a bunch of food themed songs that are not really about food. Stereo Type A changes things up a bit and is probably their best work. I wasn't aware they'd released another album after their reunion tour. I'll have to check it out.
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;
"From my part, I believe the very concept of exclusive intellectual property with respect to recorded music has come to a natural end, or something like an end. Technology has brought to a head a need to embrace the meaning of the word “release”, as in bird or fart. It is no longer possible to maintain control over digitised material and I don’t believe the public good is served by trying to."
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