I loved Tirzah’s new album. It’s such a crazy move to make the whole album use the drum loop and still be engaging to listen to.
Re the thread:
I’ve had Smashing Pumpkins’ Siamese Dream on repeat lately. It gets so shoegaze-y at times, which I didn’t really expect from a band at their level of fame. Love the song ‘Mayonaise’.
I learned about a fun connection recently. I’m a big King Crimson fan, and while doing some research for fun, I discovered this group that had Robert Fripp as producer for a couple albums and by extension members of KC as session musicians. Fripp played some guitar in his recognizable style, Tony Levin on bass, and Bill Bruford on percussion for at least the album Keep on Doing. In addition to having a cool connection to KC, I’m happy to find The Roches are pretty good in their own right. It just tickles me that such legendary (to me, at least) musicians would back up a relative unknown (again, to me. perspective is everything, I guess).
That’s funny, I had no idea! They played at the folk music club where I basically grew up, with relative frequency. Here’s them doing it 1 year ago! I don’t remember anything about them but I probably saw them 10 times at least while working.
also I’m going through the “hard rock” section of my records to figure out what to keep and what to get rid of. I have reached Q, and - you all ever check out Queen? Pretty good band, turns out (lol)
I think I’ve heard of them - weren’t they the band before they got wealthy and changed their name to Queensrÿche?
They’re that Ogre Battle cover band, right? (Big Queen fan, lol)
stone cold crazy got a metallica cover, that’s metal
i’m a huge queen fan. there have been many a people i’ve annoyed by making them listen to prophet’s song all the way through and explaining how they used tape delay:
remember that song where Roger Taylor wants to bugger a lorrie?
i don’t like Queen, but i do love the Queen, Emi Sakura.
my version of this was with Anne Steel! though, i just so happened to get real into Telex within a couple of months so it wasn’t a mystery for long. the video, from a RAI performance, even has a young David Zed doin’ his…thing!
With Steve Albini passing away last week, People have been sharing lesser-known albums he was involved with.
Here’s a really cool one that someone passed on to me. It has the heaviness you’d expect from an Albini project but coupled with something fuzzier, squishier, and more transcendental.
The Desert Fathers- Spirituality (2003)
Im no superfan, but this song (off their self titled debut, also produced by and featuring fripp) is amazing. I think they were relatively influential in certain circles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EA-U5H4VoX8
I’ll for sure check this out. One of these days I’m gonna go down the rabbit hole of albums produced by and musicians that collaborated with Robert Fripp and have a good ol time.
This Deborah Sasson music video is lit and photographed like a spanish Giallo for like 80% of it. pretty fun.
