Un-Grateful Thread - What Are You Listening to Instead of the Dead?

Damn it, I have never been able to catch the fever with them. I'm going to listen to that right now and see if anything's changed. On paper I should probably like it.

 

Kind of like "so uncool it's cool" kind of cool...

 

I think it has something to do with her being from Seattle, and still having killer pipes even in 1993 or 94. Not that I ever thought Heart was cool, but I liked some of their early songs because it's like female Led Zeppelin.

 

No, Heart was good, I think so now and did when I was an adolescent, but I probably thought I was too cool somewhere in between.

And, of course, in 1974 they were cool...

 

Yeah, but all their 80s stuff sucked, in my opinion. I like "Crazy On You" and "Barracuda."

OK, now I'm being cool, as of 13 years ago:

 

that guitar bugs me. Strat neck/headstock on an acoustic ? No thank you.

 

Heart was very cool in the late '70s. But not so much now, unless yooze a retro hipster (listening on ear buds, of course).

But seriously, this track blows me out of the back of my house every time I check it out. This is, simply, ROCK:

 

Don't make me laugh. You have no right to comment on music unless you have a PA system in your back 40 and yell "More barn!" like Neil Young.

Neil Young Finally Confirms The Most Popular Legend About Him | HuffPost

 

Yes, the 80s stuff was bad--I remember seeing an interview or something where they said even they hated it.

 

That is pretty heavy.

 

My brother has a "More barn!" t-shirt.

 

By the time they were recording with grunge bands, they would have had their comeback album Brigade. "All I Wanna Do is Make Love To You" was a monster hit. Pretty mainstream, but too-cool-for-school kids can Star Star with the best of them. (Just watch an ECW crowd in the late 90's when a dork like Sid makes a guest appearance from the WWF - he represented everything they were against, but he was superfamous compared to their guys. Same with early 90's Heart, maybe?)

 

I'm a psychedelic pop mood.

Billy Nicholls - "Come Again"



There's a lovely melody and groovy cascading acoustic 12-strings on the above charmer.

 

It doesn't really get heavier than that. Beyond that, you get into metal, which really isn't very heavy to me. It's more silly. Part and parcel of why I don't consider Sabbath to be a metal band. That denigrates them as silly. They weren't.

 

The one with the demon baby thing on the cover - that's pretty silly.

 

It's also after the Sabbath I own, but I did see Black and Blue at Boston Garden in September 1980. Sabbath was ridiculously loud. BOC was much louder. I lost some brain cells and ear function that night to be sure.

 

I felt sure you were mainly referring to the first 4 albums. But just in case. . .

 

My favorite early Neil Young tune:

"Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing"


I'd have given a limb to be at one of those fleeting Buffalo Springfield reunion gigs from 2011.

 

The first four are must haves (other than Embryo on Master of Reality, which speaks for itself in term of how horribly terrible it is). So yes, that was my target.

 

More gorgeous music hath not been sent forth into the world by teenage sisters than the vibes from the incomparable Wendy and Bonnie (Flower).



RIP Bonnie (1954 - 2017)

 

Trying some of @Dahabenzapple's jazz while I work on tagging some of my recent show downloads.

 

You know the music of Nick Drake, but do you know the music of Duncan Browne?

 

Mellow, jazzy, Steely Dan vibes below...

Mac Demarco with Jon Batiste & Stay Human - "One Another"


If you're not that interested in the song, but wanna hear some groovin' Stratocaster soloing, skip forward to the 2:50 mark.

 

Don't forget Motörhead. Don't respond to this if you don't like Motörhead, I'd rather not know.