[#]30BandsToKnowMe in no particular order...
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Another note on today's #BowieADay entry, #Reality. His show in Prague was my final Bowie show (Glass Spider, Sound and Vision, both Tin Machine, Dissonance, Earthling). I went with my friend Sophie, who left early, because the noisy 90s stuff wasn't to her liking. I don't recall the whole setlist, but it included Cactus and (with a false start) Station To Station. After STS, he cut the show short; after the next date, the rest of the tour as he'd had a heart attack and needed an angioplasty.
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Oooh. This is some sweet news. Those #AndySummers / #RobertFripp albums have always brought joy. https://www.dgmlive.com/news/andy-summers-and-robert-fripp
[#]KingCrimson #ThePolice
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[#]BowieADay for today is 2003's #Reality. A lot of rock and roll, a couple of stonking covers and one of those weird long ballads Bowie did so well, Bring Me the Disco King. A few years ago, I was visiting my folks in LA and saw that pianist Mike Garson was backing up Mason Alexander Park on an evening of Bowie/Bowie-related goodies. They opened with Disco King and I was floored at such an odd choice. Alas, not on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdDjDDRXIjw
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This week's #JukeboxFridayNight theme is #School. William and Mary won't do...
Steely Dan - My Old School (Dig this wicked live version from '73.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCX635Z7_PE
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Join in the biweekly #AlternateFridayMusic by @MarkIngs today.
The word for Jan 31 is "Colour". And the obvious choice for me is King Crimson's Red. REM's Orange Crush. Big Yellow Taxi. Green is the Color of the Prophet by Muslimgauze. Blue Spark by X. Indigo Eyes by Peter Murphy. Violet by Hole. But we'll go with Colours by Sisterhood.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=od4dAbaAtKE
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This album came out shortly after I moved to Prague from San Francisco in 2002. I'd gotten rid of almost all my music before leaving California and took a cheap walkman and 10 cassettes with me. Heathen might have been my 11th. I played it a lot that summer. 2/2
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Yesterday's #BowieADay album was #Heathen, a return to the weird after the relatively straight up offering of hours. Interspersed with the strange are several tracks refracting the tragedy of Sept. 11.
I'd never really gotten into the Pixies, so had to track down the original version of Cactus. Still prefer Bowie's. (Weirdly, this isn't the first time DB covered the Pixies - Debaser was regularly in the set list on the Tin Machine II tour, though it wasn't on any of the live albums.) 1/2
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That's an obit that hits hard. RIP Marianne Faithfull
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2DTwK5xysg
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It is time for the #ThursdayFiveList, and today @aspeed chose the theme #5under3 – five songs that are three minutes or less.
David Bowie - The Gospel According to Tony Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEhnL007zoQ
The Cure - Subway Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQP6XQGSoaY (Ooh - bass intro - didn't we have that a couple of weeks ago?)
Laurie Anderson - Sweaters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrxV5kwuU24
King Crimson - Cat Food (single version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmqokeqlDJM
Throbbing Gristle - Walls of Sound
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kIGzHjOkBg
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And catching up on #BowieADay, I listened to hours for the first time in goodness knows how long. It's lovely, but weirdly normal seeing as how it followed two of the weirder albums in DB's catalogue.
@buffyleigh recommends Glastonbury 2000 from the following year as a companion piece. While the live album is sort of a hits package, Stay, Wild Is the Wind, and Absolute Beginners are all very much of the feeling that hours seems to strive for.
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The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs warning of delays entering Lille, France. Controls will be in effect until midnight tonight due to the Lille-#Feyenoord football match.
It seems that there is an entry ban for Feyenoord supporters.
What the everloving eff, Feyenoord?
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I fear that just about every day going forward will be a good day for O.R.k's fantastic cover of I'm Afraid of Americans...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-KcTo8N9z4
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And I should have added this to my #BowieADay - Guitarist @ReevesGabrels, Bowie, and Gary Oldman on King of Stamford Hill found on Gabrels' excellent solo album The Sacred Squall of Now. This album also has covers of You've Been Around from Black Tie, White Noise (with DB and Gary Oldman again on vocals) and CCR's Bad Moon Rising...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UyMafw2eDY
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Still a day behind on @buffyleigh's #BowieADay. I made a playlist yesterday of live versions of all the songs on #Earthling (only 2 aren't on the various live albums found on Spotify). On the Earthling tour, David and Gail Ann Dorsey duetted on Under Pressure, and Gail sang lead on a cover of Laurie Anderson's O Superman (linked).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bvjAScVUfQ
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I'm still a day behind with @buffyleigh's #BowieADay. The Outside album was the first DB album that had really excited me since Tin Machine 1, and it's still in heavy rotation. I saw the tour with Nine Inch Nails that year and was floored. I consider it pretty flawless, though Oxford Town and Architects Eyes are probably my favourite songs.
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Today's #TuneTuesday theme is #FlowerPowerMusic - music about flowers - from @derthomas.
We'll start with In Search of My Rose by Tear Garden (collab of members of Legendary Pink Dots and Skinny Puppy) from the album To Be an Angel Blind, the Crippled Soul Divide.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiwynSly7BU
@unwoman did a tasty cover as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wUHRkRNEPs
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Pallas Athene is a really strange one that was reworked a couple of years later to drop the sax lower in the mix and raise up the drum and bass, but still feels ahead of its time on this album. I don’t know if there was a vinyl issue of this album at the time, but this would have opened side 2 and mirrors, in a weird way, the album’s opener, The Wedding.
My other fave on this album is Looking For Lester, another instrumental, and one that features Lester Bowie (no relation) on trumpet.
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The covers are all interesting - DB was performing Cream’s I Feel Free back in the 70s but it never made it to LP until this one. It’s a bit anaemic compared to other incarnations of it I’ve heard. Nite Flights is gorgeous and comes close to being definitive (despite the original being the inimitable Scott Walker.) And I Know It’s Gonna Happen Someday. I recall a review at the time that said Bowie was showing Morrissey how the job was done using one of his own songs.
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I'm a day behind on #BowieADay - will be listening to Black Tie and Buddha of Suburbia today - haven't listened to either one in a long while. I loved the Buddha of Suburbia miniseries, but haven't seen it in an age either.
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