Music Thread

[eddy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykFVp6TbqG4

7:08 Zappa jams with Pink Floyd

Speaking of guitar, there's great footage of you guys with Frank Zappa doing "Interstellar Overdrive" in Belgium in 1969. How did that come about?

I'm really pleased we finally got our hands on that. It had been floating around for years. The guy who'd got it had been treated pretty badly by everyone because no one would give him permission to use it. The interesting thing is that none of can remember why we were at Amougies [in Belgium for a festival]? Why was he at Amougies? The Mothers weren't playing, but I think he was somehow involved as the curator. Roger knew him probably better than any of the rest of us, but we'd hung out with him on our first and second tours. No one can remember who said, "Do you want to jam?"
The interesting thing with Frank was that he's one of the very few rock & roll intellectuals. I would put Frank Zappa, Roger and Pete Townshend together – people who are a bit more thoughtful. Frank obviously had an extraordinary ability as a musician and composer. He could knock out Joe's Garage or produce the G.T.O.'s. He had a very broad vision of rock music.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/featu ... tt-w449581

[tifosi77]

This story puts a face to that fire in the Oakland Venue. Just awful.

Don't know if you're following this story, but it's sickening. Apparently no city inspectors had set foot inside that facility in three decades; there were no requests for permits in that time, no change of ownership filed, no 'triggering events' that would've prompted the city to send someone out to the property. It was operating as a sort of ghost ship.

[Gaucho]

I said in February that Blackstar would be Uncut's album of the year. Blackstar is Uncut's album of the year.

[columbia]

This story puts a face to that fire in the Oakland Venue. Just awful.

Don't know if you're following this story, but it's sickening. Apparently no city inspectors had set foot inside that facility in three decades; there were no requests for permits in that time, no change of ownership filed, no 'triggering events' that would've prompted the city to send someone out to the property. It was operating as a sort of ghost ship.

One of those great cases of the free market sorting out the issue, without pesky government intervention.

No one will go to that club again...

[NTP66]

You're welcome in advance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCuXMiu2184

[iamjs]

Did you think you were sneak Junkyard Dog and SD "Special Delivery" Jones past me?

[columbia]

[tifosi77]

You're welcome in advance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCuXMiu2184

[Kraftster]

So, judging by Pitchfork's top 100 songs, either this year sucked for music or that site has become overrun by rap fans.

[DigitalGypsy66]

So, judging by Pitchfork's top 100 songs, either this year sucked for music or that site has become overrun by rap fans.

Or both.

[cma3585]

So I know the general consensus on our friends Kittie from the late 90s nu-metal heyday is that they weren't very good. That maybe the all female thing was a total gimmick. I sort of thought along those lines even when I was fully into the subgenre and justifying to everyone on earth how nu-metal didn't have to be as bad as Limp Bizkit's third album and beyond. I honestly thought Kittie's first album was pure trash. Their second album though...I've only revisited it recently. I dare say at the time I was put off by how utterly heavy it was, if you can believe such a thing. But I was 17 and not over the nu-metal thing yet, only getting ready to discover Killswitch, Unearth, Lamb of God, In Flames, Soilwork, etc. Listen to this song though. Most of the album is like this. For a so-called nu-metal whose success was spawned by the gimmick of being all female, this is utterly crushing (especially given the state of metal in 2002).

[cma3585]

Did Pitchfork's list make any average metal band playing an obscure subgenre be cool this year? I'm still waiting for Deafheaven to go away.

[Troy Loney]

I'm sure none made the list, it was about 75% rap or electronic.

There was a period either this year or 2015 where Pfork was reviewing a metal album basically everyday. That was short lived though.

It seems like Pitchfork's primary goal is to promote it's festival. I assume it's been that way for a while, and their best of list is basically synonymous with whatever MTV (or modern equivalent) is putting out.

I'll still go there to see what rock album they deem worthy enough to review. That to me is still a worthwhile task because when I've done that with Stereogum, i've ended up listening to some really terrible Sum-41 type pop punk bands.

[DigitalGypsy66]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=p ... 2HHT7txFQ0

"[Pink Floyd] were in a BBC TV studio jamming to the landing. It was a live broadcast, and there was a panel of scientists on one side of the studio, with us on the other. I was 23," Gilmour writes in the Guardian. "The programming was a little looser in those days, and if a producer of a late-night programme felt like it, they would do something a bit off the wall. Funnily enough I've never really heard it since, but it is on YouTube." (It is in fact on YouTube, as evidenced by the above video, provided by Gilmour's own blog.)
"It was fantastic to be thinking that we were in there making up a piece of music, while the astronauts were standing on the moon. It doesn't seem conceivable that that would happen on the BBC nowadays," Gilmour says

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/ ... g-20090721

Moonhead is on the enormous $500 box set that came out earlier this fall.

[MR25]

Blocked by copyright.

[cma3585]

Buzzkills. Want you to pay 500 dollars for the one song fans haven't heard.

[DigitalGypsy66]

Blocked by copyright.

Wow, it worked earlier tonight. It's the same link Gilmour used on his blog... Before the official release came out.

https://youtu.be/r30XffdBYI0

That one is working as of 7:06 pm Eastern.

[Silentom]

https://youtu.be/MhLDxRQyhnE

[NTP66]

to a Lacuna Coil reference. Big fan of theirs.

[Silentom]

to a Lacuna Coil reference. Big fan of theirs.

Always been a fan of theirs, too. Managed to see them a few years back, when they opened for Megadeth. She actually came out and did a duet with Dave Mustaine at one point. Really good show.

[the wicked child]

I like Lacuna Coil, but not a huge fan of their last 3 albums... Really only like a song here and there off of those.

Comalies and Karmacode however... Great albums.

[NTP66]

Listening to their newest now... not really liking it, to be honest.

[Silentom]

Didn't they lose a bunch of original members?

[NTP66]

They have, yes:



The singing I don't mind, really, it's everything else I'm not a fan of.

[the wicked child]

Death metal vocals don't suit them... And the songs are largely not interesting to boot.

The title track is the only one that I like at all, and it's kind of lazy tbh... Male vox during the verses, then Cristina singing Delirium over and over for the chorus. Kind of like someone told them we need a more approachable track to release as a single, so they wrote that in 5 minutes.