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Now Normal Chronicles or: Shload

29 Tuesday Sep 2020

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10000 Maniacs, Alice in Chains, Billy Joel, Chicago, Iron Maiden, Kool & The Gang, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, New Order, OMD, Peter Gabriel, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rush, Stevie Wonder, Stone Temple Pilots, The Fall, The Rolling Stones, The Smiths, The Verve

Salutations™!!

Today is a big day in musical releases. Glorified Magnified from Manfred Mann’s Earth Band turns 48. All the World’s a Stage from Rush is 44. The Stranger from Billy Joel is 43. Celebrate! from Kool & the Gang and Hotter Than July by Stevie Wonder are 40. Bend Sinister from The Fall, Somewhere in Time from Iron Maiden, Brotherhood from New Order, The Pacific Age from OMD, and Chicago 18 are all 34 today. Strangeways, Here We Come from The Smiths and The Uplift Mofo Party Plan from Red Hot Chili Peppers is 33. Core from Stone Temple Pilots, Dirt from Alice in Chains, Our Time in Eden from 10,000 Maniacs and Us from Peter Gabriel are all 28. Bridges to Babylon by The Rolling Stones Urban Hymns from The Verve are 23. There are more but none that I really want to talk about.

Whew! That’s a lot. I mean, two huge grunge-era releases, one of the best from Maiden and we know what a fan of Peter Gabriel I am. But, since The Stranger is my favorite album from Billy Joel and this is my favorite song by him, it’s a no-brainer and this dude does it very well. I do kind of wish the saxophonist wouldn’t have been so diva-ish about his parts. Enjoy!

Until tomorrow, same blog channel…
Scorp out!

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“Things are okay with me these days. Got a good job, got a good office. Got a new wife, got a new life and the family’s fine. We lost touch long ago. You lost weight I did not know you could ever look so nice after so much time.” – “Scenes from an Italian Restaurant” (Joel)

The Monday Recap or: The Listens 5/31/20

01 Monday Jun 2020

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10000 Maniacs, Billy Joel, Charles Mingus, Discogs, Elton John, Judas Priest, KC & the Sunshine Band, Leonard Bernstein, Music, Paul Simon, Peter Gabriel, Pink Floyd, The Byrds, Underdog Records, vinyl

Salutations™!!

So, as I said yesterday, I’m going to attempt to write my Monday blog post about the week of “my” listening. Per usual, this week’s streaming listens comes from Discogs’ shuffle feature and it has to be an album that I own on vinyl (outside of peripheral things like Beeswax Vinyl & More listens), that way it’s like listening to my vinyl but with headphones from my computer whilst The BCPF works 10 feet away. Here’s the list (this is in order of listens):

  • Various – How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying (The Original Broadway Cast Recording)
  • Pink Floyd – Animals
  • Charles Mingus – Mingus Ah Um
  • Judas Priest – Unleashed In The East (Live In Japan)
  • Peter Gabriel – Peter Gabriel I (Car)
  • Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison – My Fair Lady
  • Leonard Bernstein – West Side Story (Original Sound Track Recording) I don’t know why I had three musical soundtracks this week. I’m okay with that.
  • 10,000 Maniacs – In My Tribe
  • Billy Joel – Glass Houses
  • KC And The Sunshine Band – KC And The Sunshine Band
  • Elton John – Too Low For Zero
  • The Byrds – Younger Than Yesterday
  • Paul Simon – Graceland
  • Peter Gabriel – So — Yes it is my favorite album of all time and I was elated that it showed up!

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So, all the records that I had in Discogs for this, I believe they all came from Underdog Records. 99% of my records came from there.

Again, check out Underdog Records’ social and web stuffs. Buy records. Use Discogs to keep track of your collection and use it’s groovy (see what I did there) shuffle feature.

Until tomorrow, keep spinnin’…
Scorp out!

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“I am standing up at the water’s edge in my dream. I cannot make a single sound as you scream. It can’t be that cold, the ground is still warm to touch. We touch, this place is so quiet, sensing that storm.” – “Red Rain” (Gabriel)

Spinning Sunday or: The Haul 1/19/19

20 Sunday Jan 2019

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10000 Maniacs, Charles Fox, Dan Fogelberg, Discogs, Dolly Parton, Donovan, Dusty Springfield, Emerson Lake and Palmer, KISS, Mitchell Snow, Music, Paul Stanley, Records, The Less Desirables, The Mamas and the Papas, Tom Waits, Underdog Records, Vagabond Saints Society

Salutations™!!

First off, let me say happy birthday to Paul Stanley. He turns 67 today! A very influential figure to my own musical journey.

It felt like we zoomed in and through Underdog Records yesterday. The BCPF and I are either recovering from or fighting off sickness. But, we ate breakfast in a hurry and then swung by Underdog and were home with a full six hours of record listening time. Here’s what we got:

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  • Tom Waits – Small Change — Still thinking of my friend Mitchell Snow who was performing Tom Waits on Friday night in Johnson City, Tennessee with the Vagabond Saints Society when he had what is speculated to be sudden cardiac arrhythmia. It was scary. The first track on this album is “Tom Traubert’s Blues” and Doug had asked if I could do it when VSS plays Ramkat in a week. I can’t do the show but, we found this record and I couldn’t pass it up. VG+.
  • The Mamas & The Papas – Deliver — I really know nothing about this album. I know The BCPF likes them and it was there. It’s in mono and is VG+.
  • Emerson Lake & Palmer – Works Volume 1 —  “Each member was allocated one side of a record to write and arrange their own tracks which were performed by the group. The fourth side features songs written by the entire group. Emerson wrote his Piano Concerto No. 1, Lake wrote several songs with Peter Sinfield, and Palmer picked tracks of varied styles.” – according to Wikipedia. VG+.
  • Donovan – Essence To Essence — I believe Donovan is my favorite musical hippie. He brings humor and wit to his songs about putting healthy stuff in your body and be nice to the plants and things. It’s weird but still good. VG.
  • Dusty Springfield – Stay Awhile – I Only Want To Be With You — The first album from Dusty to be released in the US. It contains “I Only Want To Be With You,” “Stay Awhile” and “Wishin’ and Hopin’.” $1 bin find but it looks to be okay. VG.
  • Dan Fogelberg – Souvenirs — Produced by Joe Walsh, who also played on just about every track, provided a more pop-based album instead of that folksy mess that he usually played. $1 bin find and in VG/VG+.
  • 10,000 Maniacs – In My Tribe — $1 bin find from The BCPF. I don’t know much about it, but it’s in pretty good shape. VG/VG+.
  • Charles Fox – “9 To 5” (Original Soundtrack Recording) — We actually got this last week and I don’t know why it wasn’t in Discogs. I totally missed it. But, it’s in now. It’s VG+.

I went through Underdog Records so fast yesterday that I didn’t get a chance to even look around to see what kind of equipment or other recordy things were about the store. But, I’m interested in finding out more about the Curated by Underdog thing. I wonder how hard it would be to curate music for me. I think it would be more of a challenge to Jonathan. I think I’ll ask him about it. You should, too. Listen to The Less Desirables to hear the TLD/UR special of the week.

As I’ve said, I use Discogs to curate my collection and see what I do or don’t have.

Until tomorrow, same blog channel…
Scorp out!

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“Tumble out of bed and stumble to the kitchen, pour myself a cup of ambition and yawn and stretch and try to come to life. Jump in the shower and the blood starts pumpin’. Out on the streets, the traffic starts jumpin’ for folks like me on the job from 9 to 5.” – “9 to 5” (Parton)

Late Late Late or: Crazy Maniacal Anniversary

26 Friday Oct 2018

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Salutations™!!

I had a long day, Dear Reader. I have had such a long day that I had almost forgotten to write something today. And, here it is 11:30pm and I don’t know what to write. You know what that means, right? Yep. A video. And, yep, you’ll get one tomorrow, too.

Since today is the 25th anniversary of the MTV Unplugged album from 10,000 Maniacs, here’s the album’s biggest tune.

Until tomorrow, same blog channel…
Scorp out!

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“Come on now, try and understand, the way I feel under your command. Take my hand, as the sun descends. They can’t hurt you now. Can’t hurt you now. Can’t hurt you now.” – “Because the Night” (Springsteen)

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