jeliza

In general, I've got a brain like a steel sieve, which is to say my memory is crap.

The exact details of voice and phrasing of albums I heard when young, though, that's carved in marble. When i need to hear those songs again, the only way to satisfy the urge is to hear the *right* one.

This is how I came to discover that multiple "original" casts recorded Godspell and ALL used the same damn cover art. (Original Off-Broadway, Broadway, Movie and New Broadway)

(Sonia Manzano has both the best weary burlesque singer tone and the best ad libs for Turn Back O Man, by a long shot)

Worse than Godspell is the going on two years need to hear the cast recording of "Jubalay" which is an obscure 1974 Canadian musical that had exactly one vinyl pressing and nothing else. One nowhere Maine record shop will sell me a copy for $50, and other than that I can find nothing. I suspect Mom must have actually gone to see it in the original staging in Vancouver. Sadly, when she died I was in no shape to go through and grab things, and in fact had no idea it was obscure.

I'm still trying to figure out which C-list singer's version of Teach Me Tonight keeps resurfacing.

Crossposts: https://jeliza.livejournal.com/1119422.html

I'm sitting with Dan as he does an assignment on WW1 weaponry which means Zevon's Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner is stuck in my head.

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For the complete cynical bastard commentary experience, I recommend following this up with Lawyers, Gus and Money and The Envoy.

Talking about the development and significance of machine guns and poison gases just makes me despair for humanity.

Crossposts: https://jeliza.livejournal.com/1110510.html

I found it immensely irritating that I cannot buy mp3s for pretty much any artist signed to a major label without giving a massive cut to one of three behemoth companies; at least with indies there is a 75% chance I can buy from bandcamp, cdbaby, or their own website so they actually get most of the money, but instead the choices are itunes, google play, or amazon music, all of which have horrible download protocols and while google makes the most sense for my personal purposes (S works there) they are often missing random stuff.

Also, I'm not entirely sure what to make of the fact that almost all the new-to-me bands I'm into right now are very ... late teens/early 20s? Though I guess they mostly fall into dream pop-influenced sound and all have rude lyrics. (Hey Violet, Dua Lipa, Billie Eilish) I guess I just need attitude right now.

Crossposts: https://jeliza.livejournal.com/1105217.html

beaq gave me "J"

J is for Judas Priest:

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Judas Priest is one of the great classic metal bands, and vocalist Rob Halford is the one who introduced the leather daddy look that many other metal bands picked up. British Steel is their definitive album, imho, and Breaking the Law is a song I particularly like for the straight up rage about the life resulting from the UK government's horrific policies at the time. (So, like punk, only more musical.)

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If anybody wants to play,

* Name a BAND (not a song, not a solo performer) that starts with the letter "J". No googling!
* I'll then give you a letter for you to repost.

Supreme Beings of Leisure did a remix of my favorite Bee Gees song and now my day is improved.

Crossposts: https://jeliza.livejournal.com/1095650.html

About to see Azam Ali and Niyaz! I am ridiculously pleased.
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I made two video; it's unlisted because I heard two different things about the recording policy, and am trying to figure out if it is okay to post all the way publicly:

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This is the long one I haven't IDed the song of yet (bad fan!) with really awesome instrumental solos

And this is Tam e eshq (taste of love):

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Crossposts: http://jeliza.livejournal.com/1024173.html

I've been revisiting a lot of music from my mid20s, aka the feminist women with guitars period. The Indigo Girls have held up really well (especially in this time of protest), as have Dar Williams, Shawn Colvin & Mary Chapin Carpenter. Janis Ian is still awesome (god and the FBI is such a good album) Ani DiFranco ... the suck fairy definitely flung some fairy dust around. I guess it doesn't only work on childhood books and movies. (Then again, I had already not bothered to listen to Ani's last 4 million albums, so maybe it isn't that drastic a change.)

Crossposts: http://jeliza.livejournal.com/1012842.html

Today was root canal day! Woo.

And apparently becuase I am very special, I have an extra root on that tooth, so I get to come back for part 2 in two weeks. Yay.

After a rocky start, the kids seem to have gotten back to handling normal school stuff, though I need to get Dan to say "I have a migraine" instead of just groaning at me the same way he does when he's just sleepy, so I can actually get meds in him in time for him to be able to get to school on time. Getting the kids up for school is my little daily hell, as it takes multiple tries and their bedrooms are on different floors. There are no longer any morning people in our house, but I have to fake it or no one would get up before 10. Dan used to be a morning people. The other three are super solidly night owls. I am an afternoon people.

So I do have a dreamwidth, jeliza, which I guess I get to learn to use since 75% of my friends are moving. There has always been a weird conflict between the account and the openID, though, so I've never really been able to use it for things like commenting. And omona isn't moving, so I won't be leaving LJ altogether. Maybe I'll be the weirdo that cross-posts from LJ *to* DW.

I am now level 25 in Pokemon Go, which means now I get Max Potions -- I should really spend more time battling at gums so I can actually, you know, use potions.

Men at Work's Cargo is still one of the best full albums I own. There are no bad songs, and the good songs are really, really good. I wore out my cassette.

No Restrictions is my favorite song, but I couldn't find anything official to link.

I'm up past midnight and I've clearly had WAAAAAY to much sugar (probably all the tea with honey becuase my sore throat/cough is still brutal) but at least all but one thing on my to-do list is finally checked off? Which is extra good becuase half of it was for a project that has a drop dead due date of Sunday (and many hours of work to do to finish it. I like to hit my school volunteer hour quota before Thanksgiving, apparently.)

Of course the thing that isn't checked off is "make stock every every day" since I have a full weekend holiday show in TWO WEEKS. For which I need to finish at least 20 christmas ornaments, a whole mess of jewelry, at least 3 light switch plates and, shockingly, I think I need to make prints. Becuase apparently when surrounded by all the sparkly space jewelry, my weirdo space digital art suddenly attracts people, and I actually ran out of the cat and eclipse prints. (I only print max 5 at a time, even though I think the edition is set at 50, becuase let's be real, this stuff doesn't move fast.)

I like paranthetical clauses way too much.

I have been listening to this song lots; it's technically kpop but it feels like something Natalia Kills would have done, or maybe even Lords of Acid?. There's swearing. And it's only partly sung in English, but you really don't need to understand it to get the song, it's nasty club nonsense with a rumbly hook.

(turn on cc)

What I like about Kiha & the Faces stuff is it initially seems ridiculous and then you see where the lyrics are going and it's like "oh".

Also, this video from their last album ("I almost had it") is worth watching just for the food porn.

I am quite sure I will have recourse to blast this at some point in the future. Video is forgettable, though.

I found a (big) playlist made entirely of weird chill/indie covers. It's like Spotify said "you need cheering up, have a perfect for you station!"
(but then they took away embedded shares. boo.)

Here's some representative sample:
Lo-Fang - You're the one that I want

Chet Faker - No Diggity

I have been listening to half of this woman's catalog on repeat for several days now. (Did you know Operatic Pop was a thing? I didn't. Though she doesn't break out the opera voice on every track.) I can easily get tired of high soprano voices, but having proper technique under the tone (instead of breathy/squeaky) makes such a difference.

This one is fun and makes me think she has exceptional core strength:

This one is a closer to the majority of her work, and is gorgeous:

And this one is just funny. (NSFW)

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jinian:

What can you tell about me from what my music player spits out as the next 10 songs?

Little Earthquakes - Tori Amos

Come and Discover - The Chill Lounge, Vol 2.

George Jackson - Blue Scholars

Ricochet - Shiny Toy Guns

Already Gone - Kelly Clarkson

But Not for Me - Dakota Staton (Swinging Vocalists compilation)

Pearl - Paula Cole

I Did It - SPICA

Shut Your Mouth - Garbage

Goldfinger (Propellerheads Mix) - Shirley Bassey

Huh. I have only listened to one of those songs in the past 6 months (the new SPICA single). Some I haven't heard in years. One I've never heard at all before. Maaaaybe I should trim down my music library. Of course, that means going through over 11K songs... not happening this week..

Let's try this again, with only songs I've starred:

Like the Way I Do - Melissa Etheridge

Start a Riot - The Rescues

Citadel - Anna Nalick

I Want Tomorrow - Enya

Trouble - Shawn Colvin

Bron-Y-Aur Stomp - Led Zeppelin

Good Enough - Sarah McLachlan

Believe - The Bravery

Furvert - Stepdisk (The Trip Hop Test compilation)

Knights of Cydonia - Muse

*blink*

That's better, but how is there no kpop, EDM or chill on this list? That's all I actually listen to these days, it seems like...

Last updated: 19 July 2015

Unlabeled links are to spotify; pretty much only indie acts are on bandcamp/soundcloud right now, and pandora is kind of useless to link to. Spotify and Soundcloud are streaming; Bandcamp is both streaming and a way to buy directly from the artist (so they get a bigger cut than they do from itunes/soribada/etc.)

Note that Spotify has no clue how to deal with namespace collisions and so does not differentiate in a useful way between artists with the same name, so all the different "Primary" "infinite" and "Henry"s are grouped together in their interface. Also, some artists show up with multiple names. Not all artists are available in all markets.

Labels are listed alphabetically, with Hiphop, not-sorted-by-label rock & indie, and OSTs/Compilations at the end.
LJ has been "helpfully" doing things to the formatting, which I am trying to correct.
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I have just preordered (which I never do) the physical double album that is the culmination & collection of NELL's Gravity series, "Newton's Apple."
I have pre-ordered from Yesasia, so that it counts towards the actual Korean music charts, because I am now that kind of fan*.

Which means that even though the album is released on the 3rd of March, I will probably get it ... in April. *sigh*

Luckily, their label put up their last major concert, all 90 minutes of it, in HD, on youtube, so i can just listen to it over and over again, until my CDs arrive

If you would like a taste of the band in question (this is k-indie, not k-pop, and some of you have heard me gush about them before; they play nicely with Keane, Imagine Dragons, and The Church for me, and get compared to Coldplay a lot) here is one of my favorite of their songs; it's only half in English, but it is English that actually makes sense and is correctly pronounced**. This song has gotten me through some rough spots.

* why this matters is because korean chart position helps the bands get airplay on the korean tv music shows which are very important to promotion, and which are harder for the non-idol groups to access. iTunes doesn't count. Also, the level of production in terms of packaging and "extras" on most korean physical CDs is often insanely good.

** asking native Korean speakers with no significant training in English to sing "the roof is on fire" is not a nice thing to do. The shower jokes that followed B.A.P. after "Hurricane" were insane.

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