What Are You Listening To?

[ewsieg]

Saw this guy a few weeks ago at The Shelter.  Show was supposed to be upstairs but they must not have sold well.  I didn't know much about him but went with my cousin who saw him last year at a festival in Kentucky.  Pretty solid show.

 

[chasfh]

On 12/2/2024 at 8:30 AM, oblong said:

I'll throw this here since it's about music...

The Yacht Rock documentary on Max is fantastic.  I highly recommend it.  It validated for me a love of songs I wasn't supposed to like at my age but I did.  It's great to see the reach of these artists and how this genre (named long after the music was created) evolved and was revived later on through hip hop.  I learned so much.

And yes, What a Fool Believes is the the gold standard.

 

I'm not a fan of soft rock or yacht rock or whatever people want to call it, but I ran across this documentary series in a newsletter, and if you thought the Max doc was fantastic, the guy who puts  out the newsletter thinks this is much better:

https://www.allyourscreens.com/reviews/2940-review-sometimes-when-we-touch-the-reign-ruin-resurrection-of-soft-rock

Mainly because there apparently are some huge revelations, including this one about Toni Tennille:

But the most jarring stories come from Toni Tennille, who fronted the massively successful duo The Captain and Tennille with husband Daryl Dragon. While they looked like the perfect couple from the outside, it was far from an idyllic marriage.

In her segment, Tennille admits that he never told her that he loved her. "It was hard," she says. "The first few years I kept hoping. Hoping that there would be a breakthrough or something. I always thought Daryl was a genius. He was an odd duck, boy. But he was a genius. Maybe it was some form of autism. I don't know. I never understood it."

"I couldn't make him fall in love with me," she continued. "I hoped he would. But as the years went by, I realized that he was not capable of that. And then I was kind of stuck. I just went along with it. I know he admired me tremendously. He admired my talent, my voice, my gift for writing. He was just closed up and he couldn't open up to any kind of emotion."

"I was kind of a hot dish in those days," she explained. "But throughout that entire relationship with Daryl, I never, ever cheated on him. I never had an affair. He was the only man that interested me. And even though I couldn't have him the way I wanted him, when I would have dreams, erotic dreams, he was the guy in the dreams.

That loveless marriage inspired one of the duo's biggest hits and it's impossible to hear "The Way I Want To Touch You" the same way after knowing the backstory of the tune.

"I never wanted to love a man/the way that I want to love you."

"It was our second hit and I wanted to express how I felt about Daryl. He was everything to me," she explains. "This was early on, when I still thought I could get through to him. But I was never able to. And I kept thinking. 'Why are you doing this? Why are you still with him?' I kept worrying about all of our fans. So that's why I stuck with him."

[CMRivdogs]

On 12/2/2024 at 9:30 AM, oblong said:

I'll throw this here since it's about music...

The Yacht Rock documentary on Max is fantastic.  I highly recommend it.  It validated for me a love of songs I wasn't supposed to like at my age but I did.  It's great to see the reach of these artists and how this genre (named long after the music was created) evolved and was revived later on through hip hop.  I learned so much.

And yes, What a Fool Believes is the the gold standard.

 

I just finished watching the doc. It was great. I turned to my wife and asked if she remembered the "Music of Your Life" format we used to laugh at. It was usually played on a fringe AM radio station in the 70s and early 80.

I realized that Yacht Rock is the Music of My Life....

[CMRivdogs]

It's Coldplay, it's smaltzy. Yet if you add a 99 year old **** VanDyke somehow it becomes magical...

 

[antrat]

On 12/2/2024 at 12:23 PM, ewsieg said:

The Milk Carton Kids on Saturday as well.

I just recently got into them. Don't know why it took so long for me to find them.

[Hongbit]

Happy Sound Check Day! 

[Shades of Deivi Cruz]

If you enjoy two person rock bands like I do (think White Stripes, Black Keys, Royal Blood), check out the band Roxferry.

[ewsieg]

Just stumbled upon this, I know there are a few here that enjoy some bluegrass.

[lordstanley]

I'm just back from Christmas Eve Mass and heard any many familiar hymns, but this is one of my favourite holiday classics.

 

[Motor City Sonics]

I won WHAMAGEDDON !

First time ever !!!!

[Motor City Sonics]

My Under The Radar Radio Top 10 Picks Of The Year for 2024

(has little to do with what other critics think.  I like earworms)

 

10.  Blushing - Sugarcoat       (Shoegaze from Austin, Texas)

9. Valley - Water The Flowers, Pray For A Garden    (Canadian hook-laiden indie pop)

8. MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks      (A lot of critics put this near the top)

7. Nada Surf - Moon Mirror     (Best album since 2005's The Weight Is A Gift)

6. The Cure - Songs of a Lost World    (Few do grief as melodically as Robert Smith) 

5. Liam Gallagher & John Squire - Liam Gallagher & John Squire     (Manchester music royalty)

4. Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood    (Can't wait to see her at Ann Arbor Folk Festival)

3. Fontaines DC - Romance    (All four of their albums were in my Top 5 the years they came out)

2. X - Smoke & Fiction     (What a way to go out.  A blistering album that rocks as hard as when they were kids)

1. The Lemon Twigs - A Dream Is All We Know   (I just love these guys.  Sure, they are leaning on the 60s and 70s, but that's a great time period to lean on.  If you like Big Star, The Beach Boys, The Byrds, Badfinger, The Hollies, even a little T Rex......)

 

[Motor City Sonics]

On 12/19/2024 at 9:16 AM, Shades of Deivi Cruz said:

If you enjoy two person rock bands like I do (think White Stripes, Black Keys, Royal Blood), check out the band Roxferry.

Oh yeah,    I remember their songs.    The Look, It Must Have Been Love, Listen To Your Heart and Joyride

Oh wait, that's Roxette.    

 

Sorry

[casimir]

I’m listening to the leaves fall of the poinsettia plants.  Seriously, these things are loud for being leaves.  You can literally hear them disengage from the plant, hit any other leaves in their gravitational travel, and then fall onto the fireplace tile upkn which the plants sit.  It’s so bizarre.

[CMRivdogs]

This is brilliant. 

 

[Tigeraholic1]

One of my all time fav bands. I got to see them at the blue stone a few years ago. Fitting with todays tradegy.

 

 

 

[romad1]

Chatting about this on bsky last night...the SNL music special was amazing.  Highlights:

• the incredible music history lesson that watching 50 years of supremely diverse performances is
• the Rage Against the Machine/Steve Forbes events
• the previously not seen by me:  Dad's band at daughter's wedding sketch

[Tigeraholic1]

I noticed my teenger listening to this the other day and so I plugged it into my playlist for the gym. Pretty powerful song and even kinda brings a tear to this gruff old eye. 

 

[oblong]

There will be an SNL concert on peacock. Not sure if on NBC 

that 7 min opening on their music special was brilliant. 
 

 

[Motor City Sonics]

Wait, Buffy Saint Marie is not Indian and she's not even Canadian?  

[gehringer_2]

2 hours ago, Motor City Sonics said:

Wait, Buffy Saint Marie is not Indian and she's not even Canadian?  

Strange story.

[oblong]

I saw this tonight. Only authorized LZ documentary  in which they participated in. As a huge Zep fan I will say I didn’t learn hardly anything new.
 

However visually I saw performances I never saw before. In crystal clear color. In fact outside of the widely available Denmark show from their beginning all of the live performance footage was new to me and I feel comfortable saying I’ve consumed all available media about them. I’m sure the audio wasn’t the same show but it sounded very good. If you are a fan I recommend it.  I could have used a little less music and more talking though. 

[1776]

Well, they’re going to do one more show. The original Black Sabbath with quite the supporting casts made of like genre bands.

I have been a huge Black Sabbath fan since the early seventies. My fandom only exists for the original lineup, and this is it. 
The proceeds from this show will be shared among three charities. 

 

[Motor City Sonics]

14 hours ago, oblong said:

I saw this tonight. Only authorized LZ documentary  in which they participated in. As a huge Zep fan I will say I didn’t learn hardly anything new.
 

However visually I saw performances I never saw before. In crystal clear color. In fact outside of the widely available Denmark show from their beginning all of the live performance footage was new to me and I feel comfortable saying I’ve consumed all available media about them. I’m sure the audio wasn’t the same show but it sounded very good. If you are a fan I recommend it.  I could have used a little less music and more talking though. 

That is what I heard about it.  Its more of a documentary for those under 35 that weren't around when LZ was still active. 

[oblong]

30 minutes ago, Motor City Sonics said:

That is what I heard about it.  Its more of a documentary for those under 35 that weren't around when LZ was still active. 

And it stops at LZ II. I knew it was 2 hours and I am looking and my watch then realized it’s called “becoming…”   I knew how they got started, what they did before , etc.  a big bonus was archived interviews from Bonham which they said had never been heard before. It fit in well.  John Paul Jones is a funny guy, I call him the most talented living member, and it came thru in his clips.  

[Motor City Sonics]

On 12/2/2024 at 12:30 PM, ewsieg said:

Saw this guy a few weeks ago at The Shelter.  Show was supposed to be upstairs but they must not have sold well.  I didn't know much about him but went with my cousin who saw him last year at a festival in Kentucky.  Pretty solid show.

 

We added his record "What's Left Of Me" a few weeks ago.  Solid radio song.  Reminds me of Jackson Browne.