What Are You Listening To?

sweetcell wrote:
Lorde: Solar Power
(backing vocals by Phoebe Bridgers and Clairo… also features an upskirt shot of lorde's butt)

starts folksy, ends groovy, always breathless.

lets hope that Bobby Gillespie and Andrew Weatherall's Estate aren't litigious -  definite Loaded vibes here

and i'm not the only one hearing this, but there is also a Freedom 90 vibe going on as well here…

Julian, wrote:
I’d probably rank like:

1 Billie Eilish
2 Florence and the Machine
3 Lorde/RTJ
4 Lizzo
5 Foo Fighters
6 NIN
7 LCD SS
8 Beck

Probably forgetting something big.

This is a good list (and I attended all but two of these)
I'd say NIN is probably #3-4 on that list
Billie is #1.  on that tour a lot of cities 'upgraded' to arenas
I don't know enough about Flo, but I guess she's been packing areans?
Is Beck packing areas anymore?

New Order seemed a pretty big, but I'm biased
Willie & Sturgil

Lizzo has played like 4 times, with once opening for Haim and two headliners when she broke big

kosmo wrote:

sweetcell wrote:
Lorde: Solar Power

lets hope that Bobby Gillespie and Andrew Weatherall's Estate aren't litigious -  definite Loaded vibes here

wow, just listened to one after the other and I totally hear it
what's up with that mini-bong hit she takes in the middle?? or is that just from a frosty drink?

Space wrote:

Julian, wrote:
Lizzo is another one the anthem booked right before they exploded.

NIN and Beck were pretty good gets too. Those LCD SS reunion shows right after it opened felt huge too

I’d probably rank like:

1 Billie Eilish
2 Florence and the Machine
3 Lorde/RTJ
4 Lizzo
5 Foo Fighters
6 NIN
7 LCD SS
8 Beck

Probably forgetting something big.

Didn't Lizzo open for Haim?

Kenny Chesney was a bit name show. And Kacey Musgrave a aye Anthem right before romping at the Grammys.

Referring to the Lizzo headlining shows.

So I was kind of going by the standard "did this show sell out super quickly and were secondary market tickets also super pricey week-of". I cannot speak to whether or not that was the case for either of these, so I'll cede to you on that.

SunValley-hatch wrote:
I'd say NIN is probably #3-4 on that list

I don't remember a robust secondary market for that NIN show but I may be mistaken.

SunValley-hatch wrote:
I don't know enough about Flo, but I guess she's been packing areans?
Is Beck packing areas anymore?

F+tM sell out large amphitheaters and headline festivals regularly. My wife is a huge fan and $100 face tickets were like $250 the week of. It was legitimately hard to get into you.
Non-acoustic Beck is still a "Merriweather" type act, I think. I did put it in last place on my list, though, as I agree its probably the softest of my picks. New Order might be ahead of that.

SunValley-hatch wrote:
New Order seemed a pretty big, but I'm biased
Willie & Sturgil

New Order is a good pull for towards the bottom of the list. People were definitely scrounging around for last minute entry to that one.

Willie & Sturgill, similar to Space's entries, was just not a show I am familiar enough with to say what the buzz around it was.

The Willie show was moved from jiffy lube? It was fully seated… I don’t think it was sold out

There is a difference between shows that should be huge and are huge based on name and shows that actually transcend regular concert goers and become mass events where everyone wants to be there and you can’t get a ticket… I think secondary market prices is a good gauge

For Lorde I remember people camped out overnight at the box office!


The Killers was also a big one…he played arenas on that tour except DC I think…

Julian, wrote:

SunValley-hatch wrote:
I'd say NIN is probably #3-4 on that list

I don't remember a robust secondary market for that NIN show but I may be mistaken.

well I feel like they made it really difficult to transfer tickets
I don't even think the second show sold out
I remember seeing goth kids lined up over 24 hours in advance at the wharf for those tix

but Just looked at the itereny and it was mostly Anthem sized venues, but multiple dates
I feel like face was like $125 too (am I imagining that?)

So based on how that tour went, I guess it wasn't that big of a get

That lorde song


Co-write credits have been given for less but only Antonoff and Lorde get credited here..

For example on the Strokes last one there were a couple of co-write credits given to Billy Idol and Psychedelic Furs which seemed a little unnecessary


The song Solar Power itself seems kind of boring

I am not sure Primal Scream would win their case though…

Julian, wrote:

sweetcell wrote:
Lorde: Solar Power
(backing vocals by Phoebe Bridgers and Clairo… also features an upskirt shot of lorde's butt)

starts folksy, ends groovy, always breathless.

Please refer to her by her full name “secret Boardie favorite, Lorde”.

fine: "backing vocals by Phoebe Bridgers and Clairo… also features an upskirt shot of secret Boardie favorite, lorde's butt"


very, on-brand

Ween - Shinola


Gabrielle is a great long lost Thin Lizzy track!

Starsky wrote:
Ween - Shinola


Gabrielle is a great long lost Thin Lizzy track!

Gabrielle may be one of my top 3 ween songs, I still can't believe this didn't make it on a proper album

Vindicated

Lorde Explains the Inspiration for ‘Solar Power’: Primal Scream, but Apparently Not George Michael

https://variety.com/2021/music/news/lorde-solar-power-primal-scream-george-michael-freedom-1234994434/

In an interview airing today on Apple Music 1, Lorde explains to Zane Lowe that the inspiration for her song came from Primal Scream, but that the group’s frontman Bobby Gillespie gave his blessing. “Solar Power” was written by Lorde with longtime collaborator Jack Antonoff

Starsky wrote:
Ween - Shinola


Gabrielle is a great long lost Thin Lizzy track!

Ha… I always thought so too.

I may have posted this recently,  but the track "little girl in bloom" is absolute perfection.

Nouvelle Vague feat. Mélanie Pain - Girls & Boys (Blur)
very delicious

It has arrived finally…very exciting




Gilmour looks so old! I guess he just is very old…

Cornershop - England is a Garden Instrumentals

on an evil streaming service.. lazy or not this is really working for me… i.e the T.Rex influence comes shining through on "No Rock, Save in Roll" 

(crossed posted to Dropping Like Flies)

Datblygu - 1985-1995

Welsh Music Twitter is mourning the lose of Datblygu's singer  David R. Edwards

https://www.nme.com/news/music/datblygu-frontman-david-r-edwards-dies-aged-56-2975868

Highly influential on the Welsh  music scene and on played on the John Peel show.

If late 80s (Welsh) post-punk is your thing, worth checking on your favorite evil streaming service

https://youtu.be/5bGuM1oSLss

Amythyst Kiah - Wary + Strange

Heard her on Morning Edition and am enjoying this…

suspect Space is already hip to this one… seeing as he and i are enjoying at the moment  female POC rootsy music

It's a Voxtrot type of morning… I'm like hey haven't listened to them in years and boy are the those first two EPs so very good…

https://voxtrot.bandcamp.com/

Ramesh the singer has been posting some new stuff lately

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClFbihljsyf3H9fEYDHMv6g