Talkin' about music

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I was gonna post that the other day but got busy and forgot!

Have you seen this?

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I did a while ago! Very cool! Thanks for posting it.

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That’s super cool. I was wearing my Blue Monday t-shirt the other day contemplating the code on it:

This one looks like a different scheme than the one in the video. :thinking:

There’s a whole color band on the right edge of the bottom half of the web page that could potentially serve as a mechanism to create a decoder ring (assuming it’s not just there as aesthetics).

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https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/the-curmudgeon/traces-of-africa-in-american-music

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In the new year we recorded a Peel Session and the music sounded much more like it’s supposed to, after it’s had a few months to develop. While in London, we filmed the video for ‘Free Range’, freezing our bollocks off in an army jeep suspended on the back of a flatbed truck being driven past the Houses of Parliament. The best bits on the video are the close-ups of the flashy red Musicman Stingray Trevor bought me last year, the most expensive bass I’ve ever had. Every time he sees it, Mark complains bitterly because he hates it so much. ‘Get rid!’ he’ll shout again and again and I’ll promptly turn it up.

Steve Hanley, The Big Midweek - Life Inside The Fall (2016)

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Very interesting meditation on what constitutes an album, including the roots of the term…

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Nice humorous demonstration of reharmonization and adding variation using a well known sample of music

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This is my favorite Beatles’s álbum.

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https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/the-curmudgeon/a-different-way-to-look-at-jazz-history

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My dad was among many things a jazz historian and authored several books on the topic. I wish he were still around so I could ask his take on this. I have a feeling that he would agree with the article’s premise, though.

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Oh, interesting!

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I’m not really sure where to put this, but fuck this guy. YMCA isn’t a gay anthem?

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I’m white and I loved their first album…

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I’m confused. How did we get from the Village People to Diggable Planets?

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He can take my gay anthem from my cold, dead gay hands. i mean, it’s all right there in the lyrics, brother!

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Oh, no connection, I just figured I’d edit and add it to my comment rather than add a new comment!

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