Musicological banter

Yada wrote:

Just wrote:
I think he sold it all off…publishing , copyrights..

It’s a great end of life kind of decision .. the kind any responsible father should make

I also read his heirs under US law could buy it back in 35 years

It’s really made me sad.. cause it’s the kind of thing you do when you are straightening out your affairs before dying

I also was shocked to learn he owns the publishing for “The Weight”!

That’s a big one

I guess drawing that cover for music from the big pink was worth it!!

It’s possible we have seen the last of Bob Dylan live… pisses me off FWB messed up my tickets for his last anthem show.. really angers me..

what continues to blow my mind about artists like Dylan (especially him), Neil Young, etc… I've listened to these artists for upwards of 30 years (some of you I'm sure a lot longer), but I still discover new songs that absolutely slay me. The most recent example is Dylan's track "Making a Liar Out of Me" from volume 13 of The Bootleg Series. Wow.

His finest work is undoubtedly frontloaded, but there are gems scattered throughout his career, right up to the present day. For sheer fecundity, I can’t, with the exception of Bob Dylan, think of any other songwriter who comes close. There are very few artists in history, in any field, who have produced so much work at a high level over such a span.

<a href="https://ianleslie.substack.com/p/64-reasons-to-celebrate-paul-mccartney">Some might say McCartney.</a>

Macca post 71 output is somewhat meh IMO

Cross posting to the movie thread…

Just watched the documentary Dennis and Lois on Prime and would recommend as an 90 minutes very well spent.  It’s about two serious music fans of Manchester bands in particular who have attended thousands of shows since the days of CBGBs.  They once sold Ramones t-shirts and you get to see them hanging with lots of great  bands. Fun little movie about ordinary people who really enjoy live music

kosmo wrote:
Cross posting to the movie thread…

Just watched the documentary Dennis and Lois on Prime and would recommend as an 90 minutes very well spent.&nbsp; It’s about two serious music fans of Manchester bands in particular who have attended thousands of shows since the days of CBGBs.&nbsp; They once sold Ramones t-shirts and you get to see them hanging with lots of great&nbsp; bands. Fun little movie about ordinary people who really enjoy live music

sounds like it would make me nostalgic, in a homesick kinda way…

kosmo wrote:

Just watched the documentary Dennis and Lois on Prime

Holy shit this was awesome
I think I cried

Solorigate-hatch wrote:

kosmo wrote:

Just watched the documentary Dennis and Lois on Prime

Holy shit this was awesome
I think I cried

the one thing i keep pondering is they never did say what Dennis did for a living, but i guess he could have been retired by the time the movie was made… they certainly travelled around enough to follow bands, and lots of trips to the UK for shows as well. 

looks like the footage was shoot before 2017 as that's when they did the Kickstarter for it. 

one of my favorite moments is of course when Noel Gallagher meets them for the first time and said "You are the Dennis and Lois?".  i guess having a Happy Mondays song written about you helps…

i'm guessin' the club staph have meet them more than once over years

they are like the forest gump of indie music

Yeah don't really know what their funding source would be…they seem broke, but fly to manchester to see a show and fly back the next day
that can't be cheap

Solorigate-hatch wrote:

kosmo wrote:

Just watched the documentary Dennis and Lois on Prime

Holy shit this was awesome
I think I cried

Would not have known of this film without these posts. Thanks. Really enjoyed, and a high school chum is even in the film.

appreciated by us music nerds, but I miss a president that understands that music is the spice of life and is tasteless without it
I love that it's current and all over the map (noticeably no KPOP tho…)

martial wrote:

kosmo wrote:

Just watched the documentary Dennis and Lois on Prime

Holy shit this was awesome
I think I cried

Fell asleep during this last nite.

my english music twitter feed this morning has been alternating about the current covid & brexit clusterfuck currently going on over there..

and losing their minds over the teaser reel from  forthcoming Peter Jackson documentary -TheBeatles -Get Back

https://twitter.com/PaulMcCartney/status/1340930384545148928?s=20

looks like it could be a great watch next year…

The footage he has is incredible.

On the other hand, the UK is so incredibly fcucked right now.

Who had the return of Kula Shaker on their 2020 bingo card?

Talking Heads to Receive 2021 Lifetime Achievement Grammy

Also, I remember a really fun Kula Shaker show at the club in the 90's…man I miss live music

How bad is your Spotify?

https://pudding.cool/2020/12/judge-my-spotify/

speaking wrote:
Taylor Swift&#039;s &quot;Willow&quot; goes from #1 to #38 on the Billboard Hot 100, making the greatest fall from No. 1 on the Hot 100 in the chart&#039;s history.

Not too surprising that she's now susceptible to the "Rush" effect: stans buy new record when released, then no one else does. Named for its swiftness and the band for whom its most famous.

So now it's the "Swift" effect?

McGanahan wrote:
How bad is your Spotify?

https://pudding.cool/2020/12/judge-my-spotify/

That was hilarious.

agreed…knows me too well

Based on your listening habits, I can also tell you your spotify was…
> dads-still-cool bad
> music-to-stalk-boys-to bad
> sitting-alone-in-the-cafeteria bad
> love-your-npr-tote bad
> craft-beer-snob bad

Neil Young has now sold 50% of the rights to his songwriting catalog.


makes me think Hipgnosis Songs Fund Ltd might be a good investment…hasn't done much, but it's building quite the repertoire
https://www.google.com/finance/quote/HPGSF:OTCMKTS

the one on the London exchange has a better stock name
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/SONG.L