Music

From the incredibly cynical 2024 "tribute" to Mr Fun, Lou Reed, The Power Of The Heart.

I-Can-No-Longer-Sleep-With-Lou BONUS:

• The Wolfmen - I'm Not A Young Man Anymore

I got five nickels in my pocket, indeed.

Overdey!
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If you can't see the crazy person on the bus, it's you.
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Reader [email protected] remarked (facetiously, I hope) in a past post that…

I’ve been listening to Sting since I was literally a fetus (mom would put her headphones on her belly)[…]

…which got me thinking about the music we've heard since childhood that made its mark on our psyches, like the Ludovico Technique's imprinting of Ludwig Van…but in a positive way.

Hence today's post…kind of. This track nor the album it comes from weren't part of my early childhood but from that time we music fans start branching out from whatever our adolescent peers are listening to and investigating yet-unexplored musical avenues. That's when I discovered today's album, The Quintet: Jazz at Massey Hall, featuring the legendary line-up of jazz giants: Dizzy Gillespie, Charles Mingus, Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, and Max Roach.

Today it's considered Jazz 101, possibly Jazz 102 depending on your "school curriculum"; post-Bebop but just antecedent Cool. Nevertheless, this album did its imprinting all right. As Charlie Parker(?) says at the beginning of the track, "We sincerely hope you do enjoy Salt Peanuts."

Compare-And-Contrast BONUS:

• Diz and His Orchestra - Salt Peanuts (ca. 1946)

Remember…Parma spelled backwards is AMRAP!
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Are you up for the down stroke, CC?

Free-You-Mind BONUS:

• Parliament - Give Up The Funk (Tear The Roof Off The Sucker)

Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy!
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Mach-Schau! BONUS:

• Paradoxically, a truer rendition than the original(!) - I'd Much Rather Be With The Boys

• Piccadillys Are Go! - Complete Control

Be vigilant; guard your mind against negative thoughts. -- Gautama Buddha
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Joan-As-Relationship-Therapist Bonus:

• The French Song

• Secret Love

Workers of The World...Relax!
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What We Want Now
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Remember…Parma spelled backwards is AMRAP!
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Child-Star BONUS:

• Glüme and Sean Ono Lennon - Brittany

Free your mind and your ass will follow…
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Remembering Miles, who would've celebrated his 98^th^ birthday May 26 (thanks, Kaleigh! ❤️).

Tsukumogami BONUS:

• Door Does Impression of Miles Davis

Perfection is just a way to escape from having nothing to say. -- Dieter Meier
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Gutter talk, knock 'em dead
Pompadour six inches above his head

SVU BONUS:

• The Girl Can't Help It

Perfection is just a way to escape from having nothing to say. -- Dieter Meier
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Ford-F-150 BONUS:

• Soul Brother № 1 - Mother Popcorn LIVE!

Not now Graham, I'm busy!

The more you drive, the less intelligent you are.
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Please-Deposit-50¢-BONUS:

• Anna St Louis - Phone

What We Want Now
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songs in my head lately

The more you drive, the less intelligent you are.
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Waitaminute…wasn't her father a musician or something a long time ago?

Blame-It-On-Esperanza-Spalding BONUS:

• Willow and the Weird Girls from High School - NPR Tiny Desk Concert 2024

I kid about the band name with mucho affection; they are all truly fantastic, plus on the drums the amaaaaazing Taylor Gordon, the Pocket Queen!

Laissez les bons temps rouler!
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The world moves on a woman's hips…

Galloping-Gourmet BONUS:

• David Byrne cooks!

Stay sick, scratch glass, turn blue, climb walls…but don't get caught!
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can't post mp3s here afaik

YouTube rant: https://mstdn.party/@m3t00/112547883830727556 I still use YT on desktop for music because my ad-blocking still works. They are pushing me to go back to napster-style mp3 sharing, because I already paid for most of it.

Got the Narcissus on cruise-control, just taking a spin just outside of the Zona Galactica Incognita of the Milky Way along the Cepheids-lined pathway…enjoying a nice cosmic moment, playing planetary Slug Bug with the other passengers…whoa!, a shooting star…what a beautiful day to watch the suns rise…

What We Want Now
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Yeah, you know me…

What's-That-Smokin'-Bassline BONUS:

• The Jackson 5 - ABC

Everything I say is a lie…
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From 2024's Tarantula Heart. Hooray! New Melvins!

Citing youtube user @Dwightpower88…

I'm just glad the Melvins have calmed down a little after all this time.

What We Want Now
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Get over yourself.

What We Want Now
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Marc-Bolan-Merit-Badge BONUS:

• Biters - Stone Cold Love

Why didn't this band break big?? Maybe because they weren't Disney child performers or didn't come from some TV talent show farm? They should've been huge! One of life's great mysteries. But rock 'n' roll!, the incorrigible, "never-say-die" Tuk Smith is still pluggin' away. Tuk and The Restless Hearts for a future post…

Aww, screw it!

• Tuk Smith and The Restless Hearts - Everybody Loves You When You're Dead
• Tuk Smith and The Restless Hearts - Ballad Of A Misspent Youth

Stay sick, scratch glass, turn blue, climb walls…but don't get caught!
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