Musicological banter

sweetcell wrote:
knowing jules IRL, i suspect he's under the median age of this board… but not by tons.  i suspect he was born in the 80's.  year of the cat came out in 1976.  if he didn't grow up around a lot of classic rock/pop i could see him not being aware of who al stewart was.  it's a mild indictment of his late-20th century pop music awareness, but pretty sure he can live with that.

So he's basically our pet project.

Off-season wrote:

sweetcell wrote:
knowing jules IRL, i suspect he's under the median age of this board… but not by tons.  i suspect he was born in the 80's.  year of the cat came out in 1976.  if he didn't grow up around a lot of classic rock/pop i could see him not being aware of who al stewart was.  it's a mild indictment of his late-20th century pop music awareness, but pretty sure he can live with that.

So he's basically our pet project.

Grrr,rrrr,rrr,rrlll!

sweetcell wrote: it's a mild indictment of his late-20th century pop music awareness, but pretty sure he can live with that.

This has cut me to the core. All I have left to take solace in is my generation’s music, my millions of dollars and my youth. Let's all go out and buy fur coats!

I may still have the 45 of Year of the Cat somewhere in my house, assuming my wife didn't throw out my record collection. I didn't have Time Passages though.

Space wrote:
I may still have the 45 of Year of the Cat somewhere in my house, assuming my wife didn't throw out my record collection. I didn't have Time Passages though.

I know that little about Al, that didn't even know he had anything else people liked

Thanks to an outstanding story in the Guardian, I'm currently diving in deep to a lost musical genre from Barbados called Spouge

Per the article it was created by  Jackie “Manface” Opel from Bardados who travel to Jamaica and preformed with the Skatalites. Bunny Wailer called Opel “the greatest of them all”; Bob Marley cited him as the reason he wanted to sing.

He returned to Barbados and decided it need a sound all it's own and created Spouge.  Described as a "joyfully relentless, funky, syncopated beat that sits in a zone somewhere between vintage soca, inside-out ska and classic blue-collar soul."

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/feb/28/spouge-forgotten-music-genre-jackie-opel-barbados

My introduction is this awesome mix
BAJAN SPOUGE MUSIC MIX VOL 1 (BARBADOS) - https://youtu.be/1NeDS5G-qA0

This version of The Letter by Clarence Thompson really caught my ear
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDsGA0vYtlk

I would totally buy up a compilation of this stuff.. seems like something Numero Group would do a excellent job with

this spouge stuff is amazing

Wow how can one not one want to get up and move to The Daytons Two's version of this  Righteous Brothers classic

https://youtu.be/KgelMfmuzhE

Not hard to see why Richard Stoute had a hit with his version of "Vehicle" by US garage rockers The Ides Of March

https://youtu.be/N6xFgn35XWw

This is the infectious stuff - The Checkmates - Spouge Beat

https://youtu.be/83kt6gR2its

The most important Neil in the music industry sell his catalogue
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/sweet-caroline-songwriter-neil-diamond-sells-catalog-rights-universal-music-1235100956/

Spooge? I can’t take the genre seriously with a name like that

local artist Bartees Stranges signs with 4AD

edit.. yes i misspelled it the first time

So my favored evil music streaming service creates, sorry curates a weekly playlist especially for me which usually has the most random collection of genres

Today I got a Outkast track followed by a Mozart piano sonata… but wait here’s a Dr Dre joint

Now I get Vivaldi Four Seasons followed by Screaming Trees

Back in the day (ok, pre covid), I always used Pollstar to find concerts for the city in which I was currently travelling or working. Now it looks like they don't provide that information, even as a subscriber, unless I am missing something. What sites do you use to find this information?

Try either  Songkick.com or Bandsintown.com.. both should  have the same info, but I prefer the layout of Songkick and it gives in some cases how a show is selling

kosmo wrote:
Try either  Songkick.com or Bandsintown.com.. both should  have the same info, but I prefer the layout of Songkick and it gives in some cases how a show is selling

Thanks Kosmo!

Any Dead Heads out there?  This is quite the treasure…
https://www.unclejohnsweb.com/joweb/DL0113H.html

I think we rounded up what we thought was the last of them, thanks for identifying yourself, the 'cleaning crew' will be at your home shortly.  Please get your affairs in order

Not a Deadhead but did see them at the Spectrum in Philly in mid 1980's and was at the Petty/Dylan/Dead show at RFK.  I would also occasionally go to Deadhead night on Sundays at the Marble Bar in Baltimore.

Most local shows, 88-95. Plus solo shows, satellite shows and ephemera.