Got introduced to the Linda Lindas today from last night’s Daily Show. It’s fun to see the Punk Sound get reset to today.
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I need something uplifting. One day to go!
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Last night as the Colbert show went to the first commercial, their band started playing an old Sly & The Family Stone song, “I Want To Take You Higher” (below). It’s a great tune from a great old band from the 60’s who I always thought had some of the best rhythmic tunes of anybody.
My favorite tune of theirs, (also below), “Hot Fun in the Summertime” is a rhythmic classic in an unusual time signature 12/8. Fabulous stuff, and nice to hear a contemporary band that will occasionally feature such great old music.
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Boy George and Peter Murphy is the collaboration I didn’t know I needed. What a beautiful song.
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Hopped in the wayback machine today.
Well…wayback for me. 
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Speaking of Humble Pie
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As a hopeless insomniac, I’ve been listening to podcasts or online repeats of radio programs for years to help me get to sleep or go back to sleep. One of my favorites, as well as for daytime driving listening, is RadioWest on the local NPR affiliate, KUER.
This week, there was an unusual interview with Tyler Measom, Producer and director of “Takin’ Care of Business.”. The film is about the theft of a really nice guitar that meant so much to the artist that it’s loss negatively impacted his life for decades.
I was never a great fan of guitarist Randy Backman, of the Guess Who and Bachman-Turner Overdrive, but I can relate to loosing a very precious instrument
If you’re the least bit interested, you can listen to the podcast here at the link below, and if not, there are probably a several of you my age who remember the title tune, which I just spent the last few minutes learning to play (his were not complicated tunes). As a side note, he has to be the greatest Mormon rock star of all time.
Edit to say, that Bachman and Neil Young were both saving for and competing against each other to purchase the guitar in question.
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I saw Slimelord pop up on several “Best of 2024” lists over the past week, and had to give it a spin. Hoo boy, it does not disappoint.
Slimelord is what you’d get if you took Opeth’s fresh bounciness, dragged it through 137 miles of mud, then buried in a bog. It has the solid bones of massive, chonky, catchy, death/doom-y riffs that poke through the layers of rotting sludgy guitars and vocals that sound like they’re being spit through a mouth full of old moss and broken teeth. Maybe it’s just because it matches my generally bad disposition this week (lots of work bullsh*t that has me on edge) but it’s a near-perfect mix of catchy hooks and nasty primordial ooze.
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Eugene Jelesnik is an oft overlooked influence in keeping the State of Utah’s in migration at low levels through a brilliant strategy of using local musical acts to enhance the “Utah is weird and backward” national theme of the late 20th century.
Where is the Eugene Jelesnik we need today?
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Makes me feel 12 again! Love the song, but feels like they are pushing the beat just a smidge. I like the trad version, felt like the drummer was sitting on the one in the ortiginal. What say you?
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We all look for different things out of our music.
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Okay Ma-ake, you started us down this horrible slippery slope. This is terrible and I am so, so sorry for posting this.
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Then I am in a dark place, I will listen to the Doors and Depeche Mode. It doesn’t get me out of the funk, but a little self loathing never hurt…too much.
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