I just came back to this thread to get my next assignment, so I’ll spin that next…
While we’re on our Josh Homme is a genius (he is!), I’ll throw out Iggy Pop’s Post Pop Depression. Add Post Pop Depression: Live at Royal Albert Hall as a bonus listen…..
I discovered that collaboration about a year ago while on vacation in Mexico. I haven’t listened to the entire album, but I always go back to Sunday.
Coincidentally, or not, the Queens’ next album drops in a few weeks and it features a song called Sunday. odds are it’s the same song.
There’s a reason he’s on my Rushmore of performing artists. Absolute legend.
It’s a mix of country, bluegrass, and rock, with influences from southern rock, honky tonk, neotraditional country, and Outlaw Country. That’s what he grew up on, so that’s what he likes. He actually used to live in the neighborhood next to mine until he got sick of the Nashville country machine and move the hell away. He did not ever play the game.
My favorite album of his is probably Metamodern sounds in country music.
You would probably like most of the people that Dave Cobb has produced. He doesn’t produce pop country at all, but rather works with a wide variety of people on what I would call the fringes of the country Nashville machine. People like Sturgill Simpson, Jamey Johnson, rival Sons, Chris Stapleton, the red clays, Jason Isbell, among others.
Here’s a list of all the albums that he’s produced.
Thank you. I will check that out.
Posting before it gets stale
I listened to this last night, interesting episode. The conversations about how we used to listen to and purchase music was a little depressing, but it’s always fun to hear how your favorite artists arrive at their signature sounds. Playing gigs in the desert as opposed to clubs or halls, for example, he described how their sounds would “just disappear” since there are no walls or structures in the open desert for it to bounce off, so he’d tune heavier and fuller. He also mentioned being inspired by (I forget the source material) that he felt were spooky and delicate, like he shouldn’t be hearing it. Anyone who knows Queens knows that’s central to his aesthetic, and the combination of those two elements, heavy and delicate, is what makes them so interesting.
I visited a new used record store today and picked up these two. And the guy is going to try and search down my French popstar that I really like.
Well, hell! I just heard that he played last night here at Bridgestone. I have not been paying attention. I heard it was fantastic and that the new album is awesome. My friend said it’s the best show he’s ever seen, and he’s lived in Nashville forever. Here’s a bit of it.
https://x.com/bradengall/status/2106518284765982968/video/1?s=46
We are seeing him in DC two weeks from today, excited to see him live again. Pit area tickets.
I love this idea more than anything else in art, as some of my favorite records took 10 or 20 listens to finally ‘get’ and they remain among my most cherished. My favorite artist said essentially this in an interview two years back, that he doesn’t make records for the first listen, but the 20th.
Art lasts forever and should be challenging for the consumer.
Which records fit this category for you?
I watched the whole interview when it dropped
There are times (like this one) when Stephen asks him about “data” we’ll just call it and Rick Rubin kinda looks at him like “Art doesn’t work that way”
Theres a quote in The Creative Act that says
“We are dealing in a magical realm
No one knows how or why it works”
Also
“The Universe never explains why”
It was funny when Stephen was explaining that his fiancé does meditation every day, and it really works well for her and Rick asked “and you’ve never tried it?”
We lost the great Sass Jordan over the weekend. For those who have never heard of her, Sass was a Canadian rock/blues singer. She had a brief moment in the US in the early to mid 90’s, but never quite caught on down here. She may have been best known for giving a young drummer named Taylor Hawkins his first job before he moved on to another Canadian singer name Alanis Morrisette and some band called Foo Fighters. Sass also had a shot to be the singer in Van Halen before David Lee Roth came back. Anyway, Sass probably fits the undiscovered gem category for a lot of people… Stick to Racine or Rats, at least to start. She also had a side project called S.U.N. or Something Unto Nothing which is really good. Avoid any albums where she looks like a pop star on the cover. I think there was a period where her record people tried to make her Canada’s answer to Mariah Carey or something and she just sounds like a fish out of water.
Not a record but a band. For whatever reasons, in college, I could not stand R.E.M. Maybe because they were too popular or it was the cool thing to like them. But anyway, in 1991 my housemate had just returned after the unexpected death of his father and he had this song playing in his room. Wow, my entire opinion of the band changed and I have been a fan ever since. In fact, my entire opinion on music changed in that I started to open up to all genres and wanted to hear more and more instead of being into classic rock/Grateful Dead almost exclusively.
I’ve never listened to REM before Losing My Religion broke through. That one gets a second listen for sure.
If you liked that one you will enjoy this as well. REM and Wilco are two bands whose early music is definitely my preference over their later years. I guess that could apply to a lot of bands.
3/4 of REM + a different singer
My favorite albums tend to be at the extremes of a genre, but my all-time favorite album is one that is hard to label. If you’ve had a hard day, life has taken the wind out of your sails, or you just don’t have the words, find a room to your self, a comfortable chair, and turn up the volume a bit.
Lamentations by Lies Damned Lies
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From Murmur to Monster, REM didn’t release a bad album. Some people say New Adventures in Hi-Fi is a great album too.
But the older kids I thought were cool didn’t listen to REM. The ones I thought were coolest were Siousxie and the Banshees and The Cure fans
Peek-a-Boo was the very first Billboard Alternative #1. The chart started on 9/10/88 and Peek-a-Boo was #1 for two of the first three weeks.
