Music

MARTIAN-TIME-SIGNATURE BONUS:

• King Crimson - The Great Deceiver Dub

!detroit ☆ !michigan

cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/10295525

The phrase living legend is almost nowhere more applicable than describing today's honoree here at c/Detroit…singer, actress, entrepreneur, diva, the lovely Ms Diana (Diane) Ross, born today here in Detroit in 1944.

Today, I'll let the music do the talking. A short selection of Ms Ross' works:

• Ain't No Mountain High Enough, from Diana Ross (1970)
• You Are Everything, with Marvin Gaye, from Diana & Marvin (1973)
• Love Hangover, from Diana Ross (1976)
• Theme From Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To), from Diana Ross (1976)
• Upside Down, from Diana (1980)
• Endless Love, with Lionel Ritchie, from Endless Love single (1981)
• When You Tell Me That You Love Me, from The Force Behind The Power (1991)
• All Is Well, from Thank You (2021)
• Turn Up The Sunshine, with Tame Impala, from Minions: The Rise of Gru OST (2022)

Best wishes on your 80^th^ birthday, Ms Ross, from all of us at c/Detroit. We love you! 💘

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This post is lovingly dedicated to Mr and Mrs Joseph and Angela Arco (RIP), our neighbors whom I loved dearly and schoolmates of Diana Ross.

Hooray for Doctor Spalding…

Esperanza Spalding is a delightfully weird being with three, possibly four, separate brains who was sent from an advanced extraterrestrial civilization. She has to be: she could easily be "just" a pretty-faced entertainer or "just" a wonderful vocalist or "just" an amazing ~~jazz~~ bassist/multi-instrumentalist…but she's all three, doing it all at the same time effortlessly, chuckling to herself at us mere mortals. Not only…only!… but she's also an incredible composer, stretching from the more traditional to "Top 40 from Alpha Centauri" with musical arrangements like trigonomic formulas. I am in awe of Dr Spalding in an way I'm rarely in awe of anyone, ever since I'd discovered her music way back in 2008 with her second album, the eponymous Esperanza Spalding. She continues to astound. I must be in love.

For the dedicated/hypnotized:

• Esperanza Spalding: Live at BRIC | NPR MUSIC FRONT ROW

Have a nice Sunday, everybody -- r^2^

[email protected] ♥ [email protected]

BONUS:

• Asian Dub Foundation - New Way, New Life

r^2^ Advisory: PLAY LOUD!!!

Dedicated to Nora. Sigh…these humans.

stuck in my head, after hearing on the radio 8000 times. good tune

was looking for a Zappa tune with a line that goes ‘I’m so bloody rich. I own an apartment building in New York’. settled for this.

Yo, yo, YO! Today rockin' it OG OG with Grandmaster Melle Mel in da houuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuse!!

A million magic crystals, painted pure and white
A multi-million dollars almost overnight
Twice as sweet as sugar
Twice as bitter as salt
And if you get hooked, baby
It's nobody else's fault, so don't do it!

r^2^ Fun Fact®:

An unofficial music video [this grainy-ass film-to-video you're watching now -- r^2^] was directed by Spike Lee, then a New York University film student, and starred actor Laurence Fishburne.

-- from Wikipedia

I can't stand it, I know you planned it
I'm gonna set it straight, this Watergate
I can't stand rocking when I'm in here
'Cause your crystal ball ain't so crystal clear
So while you sit back and wonder why
I got this fucking thorn in my side
Oh my God, it's a mirage
I'm tellin' y'all, it's a sabotage!

Here's one that I'd meant to post during ~~Black~~ American History Month over at !detroit but I couldn't find the right nexus. Now, after discovering [email protected], I have no excuse! Ladies and gentlemen, a milestone in jazz, a live performance of Max Roach's and Oscar Brown Jr's We Insist!, broadcast in 1964 on Belgian television.

your pal,
r^2^

L'ensemble:

• Max Roach - Drums
• Abbey Lincoln - Vocals
• Coleridge Perkinson - Pianoforte
• Eddie Khan - Double Bass
• Clifford Jordan - Saxophone

every now and then

someone mentioned Yes and now I have old ELO stuck in my head.

skipped through. someone reccomended. prrobably ai or some trickery

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1994213

Help a fam out.