Music
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@GraemeE man, psyched to check this out. I love Cale so much — that run of more sort of trad songwriter-y records in the 70s is f'n god tier to me.
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@popvulture vintage violence, Paris 1919 and fear are my jams
I can hang with the terry riley record but I have to be in the right mood
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Yep I think those are the best. I like Slow Dazzle and Helen of Troy, too. Ya know, generally before he started doing gobs of coke and wearing the hockey mask.
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@popvulture this is pretty much spot on to how I feel. One other thing that stuck out to me was one of the comments under the video referencing an Orson Welles quote..”The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.” Kind of a take on the “necessity is the mother of invention”. On the surface, I can find lots of art that supports this…Sgt. Pepper’s comes instantly to mind. But I look at my kids and the access they have to music, art, books and I’ve begun to think that the “absence of limitations” can actually inspire creators more than limit them. And “limitations” are so subjective. I think that having these tools helps more than hurts(although I never again want to hear a drum machine play a Bonham shuffle).
On Wilco…of course I had to listen to the new ep this morning and I agree that some of it sounds more energized than what they’ve been doing recently. And I agree about Tweedy’s voice. At the end of the ep, Spotify played “Either Way” from Sky Blue Sky and his voice was so clear and intense compared to the ep…it was almost a shock.
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@popvulture When I was playing in bands and making records, we had to be really tight,and know exactly what we were doing,or going to be doing in the studio because it was expensive and ultimately it came out of our pockets. We would work with producers doing as much pre production as possible. Also the sooner it was done the sooner we could be back out there playing.
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@Jett129 I absolutely get that!
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@SKT I agree so much with this! I often get a little gate-keepery about what we had to go through when we were younger to even find music. Know a cooler, older person, have access to cool magazines, know a record store that stocked more esoteric stuff, etc. Chuck Klosterman said an interesting thing about buying a record back then being an investment. You didn’t have the ability to just try whatever you wanted because you likely just had a little bit of money, so often buying music meant committing a bit to a genre, digging into a culture. That said, I would’ve absolutely killed for Spotify back then. Is it better or worse? I don’t know. I think it’s neither, just different. Pluses and minuses on all sides. Anyway, I guess it all relates to our general tendency to think “my way is better than yours,” which as we know causes endless problems.
Re: Sky Blue Sky, man… that record is a big time fave of theirs for me. He uses that higher, forceful voice a lot, and it just has such a nice energy to it. Might have to pop that on the turntable…
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I've always loved the stories of how he's set up the signs when he'd get hired for a session gig. YOU DONE IT! YOU HIRED THE HITMAKER! Boss move.
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Been moody vibin' to On Dark Horses today
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@sabergirl Seems appropriate.
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Just discovered Complete Mountain Almanac and have already listened twice through the whole thing. Possibly I’m a bit slow on the uptake but definitely worth a listen!
