MUSIC: the official thread.

In retaliation to Hut's horridness:

 

In fairness to hut, the African one wasn't terrible but the Shabazz thing was nearly unlistenable

 

Met Wilko Johnson last night. Top bloke.

 

Great choon, fat free

 

Forgot just how fucking fab this is

 

Blazing sunshine, big pill party tonight, this is the day that the Lord has made we shall be glad and rejoice in it

 

Another wee post industrial northern holiday Peveril of the peak, gullivers, marble arch, crown and kettle, crazy pedros lets HIT THE NORTH

 

Red River Rock - Johnny & The Hurricanes

 

Very complex organ part, there

 

The two faces of Herbie

Face number one: unassailably great jazz legend at the cutting edge of numerous hugely influential movements in the music; transcendent improviser and accompanist whose name can be found as both leader and sideman on probably two dozen of the greatest records made by any humans since the dawn of recording

Face number two: guy that will do almost anything to be popular

 

On rare occasions the two have blurred into something genuinely artistically amazing... Headhunters, for the best example

 

But, that and this, were two good commercial hits without being too compromising to his talents...

 

Definitely better

 

Missus back home with family, zero other commitments, spent the entire day without speaking to a soul except barmen - just sitting with my book and listening to music all day, me and my ale in perfect peace. I'll have frequent days like this in heaven.

 

Plinky-plonky-plinkity-plonk.

Some bird playing a load of notes on the 'old joanna'.

 

Propah piana playa:

 

Ugh... you cannot be serious

Liberace was an absolute hack ... he played extremely dumbed down versions of difficult pieces with hollow ornamentations to hide his poor technique and lack of knowledge and pointlessly extravagant, ornamented versions of easy ones to make ignorant people think he was a great piano player... a complete charlatan... it would be like a guitar player playing Puff The Magic Dragon interspersed with 1st year hammer-on/pull-offs, pick-scrapes and tuneless whammy bar dive-bombs presenting himself as the world's greatest guitarist

You fucking dumb cunt

Martha Argerich is a legend; a virtuoso with impeccable skill... a singular talent on her instrument

There are teenage piano players who may play the instrument formally in a small college music program but who will never ever be good enough to become professional piano players that could absolutely destroy Liberace

You need your fucking neck garroted with piano wire from Martha's Steinway

 

Hah! Summer about to start!

 

Very cool, the beginning almost sounds like it's been sampled. Enjoyed that.

 

Bjork tickets in the bag wayhey

 

I saw Bjork live last year, but she was last on and I had to get the train back home, plus I'd done my back in so I don't really remember much of it.

 

Where'd you see her?

Ive seen her once before but it was in a festival setting and the best part of 15 years ago. Which is pretty terrifying. She played castlefield in Manchester a couple years back which wouldve been amazing but i was too slow on the draw