Post Random Music-Related Thoughts You Have

[tragabigzanda]

[doug rr]

he's way over rated...

[Jorge]

You prefer Rod Stewart lol

[Jorge]

[Jorge]

Feels good to nail Doug on a rare bad take

[doug rr]

leave me alone, i don't like him...he was ok in the manchurian candidate

[doug rr]

nat king cole was a much better singer

[tragabigzanda]

Top 10 maybe?
Hello Morning
Close Captioned
The Kill
Place/Position
Do You Like Me?
Latest Disgrace
Recap Modotti
Nightshop
Break
Life & Limb

I'd maybe bump Life & Limb for Epic Problem

[Kevin Davis]

Glad you like In the Wee Small Hours! I'm not sure if there's an instrumental version out there, but the good news is a lot of those songs are standards and I'm sure you could piece together a fantastic collection of that album as performed by other jazz artists. I cannot recommend this version of "It Never Entered My Mind" by Miles Davis enough, even though the performance is really made by the pianist Red Garland (whose light-as-a-feather solo is among my favorites in all of jazz).


There are also dozens of great versions of "Mood Indigo" (many by Ellington, the original composer, but also a great one by Charles Mingus), and Nels Cline does a really nice version of "Glad to Be Unhappy" (maybe my favorite song on Small Hours) on Lovers.

There are quite a few Sinatra albums that linger in the same headspace -- Jorge listed some great ones, to which I'd also add Where Are You and September of My Years, the latter of which I think is the crown jewel of Sinatra's career, and I'd disagree that No One Cares is inferior to the others listed (if it is, it's only marginally so and up against some pretty stiff competition). That said, I don't think any carve out the exact same sonic space as Wee Small Hours; there's just a warmth and crackle to that album that really feels authentic and present -- I'm not sure I've ever heard an album composed entirely of other people's songs be felt and rendered so personally by a singer. One of the greats.

[doug rr]

i'll allow the white junkie with a trumpet

[Higgs]

The Strangler's whole discography is quality, from the punk early days through the smoother/poppier later stuff. Really great band. I could do a hella good mix-tape for them.

You should probably go ahead and do that.

So I did this thing...





Stranglers Mixer (320 mp3)

[Ello Sailor]

I'll give it a listen this evening. Cheers duder!

[Jorge]

Pretty sure this guy posts on RM

[Ello Sailor]

No Chilis or Primus. Can't be Trag.

[Ello Sailor]

Never mind, there's a thread and all.

[epilogue]

Pretty sure this guy posts on RM

How did you find that tweet?

[Jorge]

Someone I follow responded to it. Looks like it made the rounds today

[epilogue]

Someone I follow responded to it. Looks like it made the rounds today

Ah. Good. I was worried you followed that account.

[liebzz]

A Spotify wrapped with no surprises:

Top Artists:

1. Rolling Stones
2. Pearl Jam
3. Grateful Dead
4. The Beatles
5. My Morning Jacket

Songs:
1. Regularly Scheduled Programming (My Morning Jacket)
2. Dance of the Clairvoyants (Pearl Jam)
3. Growing Up (Eddie Vedder)
4. Start Me Up (Rolling Stones)
5. Love Love Love (My Morning Jacket)

[Kevin Davis]

Pretty sure this guy posts on RM

well sure, everything is going to fall short when you put it up against the year when the greatest rock masterpiece ever was released