Music

I defy you to not shake your sacroiliac.

Archipelago-go! BONUS:

• Natasha - One Day

Laissez les bons temps rouler!
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Note the video's title cards…

Apocrypha: 2 Esdras 14:39-40

…and yet the duo is styled in homage to Alejandro Jodorowsky's Holy Mountain and Kenneth Anger's Lucifer Rising. A clash of non-conflicting ideas…? Artistes: whaddya gonna do with 'em?

Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame. -- Gautama Buddha
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$2,300,000.00 BONUS:

• From Disney's Lady and The Tramp - The Siamese Cat Song

• From The Wonderful World of Disney, a staged voiceover session with Ms Lee

Tsk, tsk, Unca Walt…seems brother Roy and his bean counters forgot to pay Ms Lee (voice actor, singer and co-composer of the five original songs from the film) royalties when the Disney company released Lady on VHS in 1987—you say "copies," I say "transcriptions." Maybe they were too busy plotting the Mickey Mouse Preservation Act with Sen Sonny Bono…?

Ms Peggy Lee, Unca Walt and Sen Bono would like to inform you all that in the United States of America you may do as you please with the following Public Domain image, be it reproduction and sale on t-shirts, posters, or producing new adventures of the pictured character…but you're going to have to give it a new name.

Free your mind and your ass will follow…
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The Fluoxetine Quartet, a ray of sunshine each and every one of 'em, captured live way back in June 23, 2006 CE, circa five years after the fall of the Roman Empire.

Reference-1000Hz-Tone BONUS:

• The Normal (Daniel Miller) - Warm Leatherette

The minimalist classic.

A lot of people don't realize what's really going on. They view life as a bunch of unconnected incidents and things. They don't realize that there's this, like, lattice of coincidence that lays on top of everything.
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You can listen to any of the near-infinite versions of this song…but none match the beauty and power of this version, lead vocal by the great Tony Williams. Close your eyes…

Swoon-City BONUS:

• The Platters - Only You, And You Alone

• The Platters - The Great Pretender

Perfection is just a way to escape from having nothing to say. -- Dieter Meier
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What the feez, "Blood"? This isn't ~~grating~~ avant-garde or free jazz in the least! It sounds like Mssr Ulmer is channeling Jimi who's channeling T-Bone through Otis Rush!

Then again, like Grant Green used to say, It's all blues anyhow.

Back-From-The-Alternate-Universe BONUS:

• James "Blood" Ulmer - A Thing for Joe

That's more like it…

A lot of people don't realize what's really going on. They view life as a bunch of unconnected incidents and things. They don't realize that there's this, like, lattice of coincidence that lays on top of everything.
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Detroit-born musical child prodigy Frank Isaac Robinson was known professionally as "Sugar Chile" Robinson—you can roll your eyes; it was a "different time". Robinson played with such luminaries as Lionel Hampton, Count Basie and Billie Holiday until in 1952 he said "stop." More on this wunderkind over at !detroit as today he is appearing live for a special performance at the Detroit Film Theatre's weekend screening of the 1943 classic musical, Stormy Weather.]

Compare-And-Contrast BONUS:

• Live, 2007, at the Royal Oak Music Theatre, Royal Oak, MI

If you can't see the crazy person on the bus, it's you.
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Coprolalia BONUS:

• From 2022's Few Good Things - One Way or Every N**** With A Budget

• 2024 - Saba and No ID, featuring Madison McFerrin, Ogi, and Jordan Ward - head.rap

It takes a nation of millions to make a hip hop recording.

Workers of The World...Relax!
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4'33" BONUS:

• From There's A Riot Goin' On - There's A Riot Goin' On

• From There's A Riot Goin' On - Thank You For Talking To Me Africa

A lot of people don't realize what's really going on. They view life as a bunch of unconnected incidents and things. They don't realize that there's this, like, lattice of coincidence that lays on top of everything.
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Slice-And-Dice BONUS:

• From Romantique 96 - Good

• From Readymade Recordings - No. 5

• From Sister Freedom Tapes - Airplane '96

• From Bossa Nova 2001 - 我が名はグルーヴィー (Groovy Is My Name)

My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right? -- Charles Schulz
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Happy Jubilee Day!

What We Want Now
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Brothers Wayne and Dennis and loads of special guests on the last battle cry from the MC5. This is a recording made by your grandfathers that rocks harder than any 20-year-old TV talent contest product!

Go on, tell me I'm wrong.

My only beef is that Bob Ezrin (and Don Was) really should've dialed back the production, going for more grit like Love It To Death and less bombast like Berlin.

Laissez les bons temps rouler!
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From the incredibly cynical 2024 "tribute" to Mr Fun, Lou Reed, The Power Of The Heart.

I-Can-No-Longer-Sleep-With-Lou BONUS:

• The Wolfmen - I'm Not A Young Man Anymore

I got five nickels in my pocket, indeed.

Overdey!
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If you can't see the crazy person on the bus, it's you.
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Reader [email protected] remarked (facetiously, I hope) in a past post that…

I’ve been listening to Sting since I was literally a fetus (mom would put her headphones on her belly)[…]

…which got me thinking about the music we've heard since childhood that made its mark on our psyches, like the Ludovico Technique's imprinting of Ludwig Van…but in a positive way.

Hence today's post…kind of. This track nor the album it comes from weren't part of my early childhood but from that time we music fans start branching out from whatever our adolescent peers are listening to and investigating yet-unexplored musical avenues. That's when I discovered today's album, The Quintet: Jazz at Massey Hall, featuring the legendary line-up of jazz giants: Dizzy Gillespie, Charles Mingus, Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, and Max Roach.

Today it's considered Jazz 101, possibly Jazz 102 depending on your "school curriculum"; post-Bebop but just antecedent Cool. Nevertheless, this album did its imprinting all right. As Charlie Parker(?) says at the beginning of the track, "We sincerely hope you do enjoy Salt Peanuts."

Compare-And-Contrast BONUS:

• Diz and His Orchestra - Salt Peanuts (ca. 1946)

Remember…Parma spelled backwards is AMRAP!
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Are you up for the down stroke, CC?

Free-You-Mind BONUS:

• Parliament - Give Up The Funk (Tear The Roof Off The Sucker)

Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy!
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Mach-Schau! BONUS:

• Paradoxically, a truer rendition than the original(!) - I'd Much Rather Be With The Boys

• Piccadillys Are Go! - Complete Control

Be vigilant; guard your mind against negative thoughts. -- Gautama Buddha
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Joan-As-Relationship-Therapist Bonus:

• The French Song

• Secret Love

Workers of The World...Relax!
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What We Want Now
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Remember…Parma spelled backwards is AMRAP!
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Child-Star BONUS:

• Glüme and Sean Ono Lennon - Brittany

Free your mind and your ass will follow…
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Remembering Miles, who would've celebrated his 98^th^ birthday May 26 (thanks, Kaleigh! ❤️).

Tsukumogami BONUS:

• Door Does Impression of Miles Davis

Perfection is just a way to escape from having nothing to say. -- Dieter Meier
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