Aging rock act on new album: This time we wanted to go back to the basics

Back to basics: John Mellencamp's Dance Naked was a response to the failure of the more musically ambitious Human Wheels.

With Leonard Cohen or the Ramones, the follow up to a Phil Spector production can't help but be a back to basics.

Where do ukulele solo albums fit? (I can't remember who else did this besides Eddie Vedder, but I know there was at least one more.)

Please assure me that this never happened.

Amanda Palmer, that's the one I was thinking of.

And somebody had a project to gather uke covers of every Beatles song.

Every Genesis song, now you'd be talking

i would love to hear "return of the giant hogweed" on uke

i really liked wang chung's version of "rain" from that uke project, it's my favorite version of one of my favorite beatles songs

here is a great resource on ukulele players

https://www.ukulelemusicinfo.com/blog/famous-ukulele-players/

please enjoy reading about great ukulele players such as "Taylor Swift", "Lou Barbow", and "Barrack Obama"

ach go on then

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBweqmLk6dU

don't know where else to post this but palmer appears fully nude on the cover of her latest album. saw it completely by chance on my most recent visit to barnes and noble. thought about lodging a complaint but it's not their fault, so i just took the cd and put it in the joe bonamassa section. sorry this has nothing to do with the topic of this thread whatsoever.

Wow. First time I understood the lyrics, I think.
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so the lyrics aren't "kill the wabbit"?

Ha!

don't know where else to post this but palmer appears fully nude on the cover of her latest album. saw it completely by chance on my most recent visit to barnes and noble. thought about lodging a complaint but it's not their fault, so i just took the cd and put it in the joe bonamassa section. sorry this has nothing to do with the topic of this thread whatsoever.

― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin)

am now waiting for joe bonamassa to release an album with a nude photo of him on the cover so i can file it in the amanda palmer section

BONAMASSA: NO PEDALS, NO AMPS, NO PANTS!

BONAMASSA: Nothing On But Me Guitar!

BONAMASSA: I Named My Balls 'Blues' & 'Rock'

they're actually a good pairing, what with the overbearing everything and general insufferableness.

As the most commercially popular punk band in the history of the United States, Green Day have often admirably taken it on as their obligation to make Rock For Our Times, to heal — or, if the case requires, salt — our national wounds. It’s a tough gig. The Clash only had to make London Calling once; Green Day have been around for 34 years, six presidents, four or five stupid wars, a few global financial collapses, and 17 seasons of The Voice. That’s a lot of American shitpocalypse to churn through.

Sometimes the band has leapt into its role as generational spokespunks (2004’s landmark American Idiot); at other times, they’ve seemed to sort of slide there by default (2016’s Revolution Radio). Their latest album arrives at the dawn of an election year, but this time out, if you’re expecting the band to cater to our pain and spray-paint another blood-red Rorschach on the Washington Monument or tell you who to vote for in the New Hampshire primary, well, you’re going to have to get that advice from Paul Krugman or Bon Iver or whoever. If you’re just looking for some catchy pop-punk rock & roll tunes, they’ve written 10 of those, and most of them are real good.

The band heard on Father of All Motherfuckers (or Father of All…, as it’s being sold at the Safemart over in Cowardsville) sounds refreshingly, almost Kerplunk-ishly, unburdened by legacy or accrued stature. While the album’s title might reasonably describe the current occupant of the White House, Billie Joe Armstrong recently told Rolling Stone that the band specifically set out not to waste their time on a bunch of songs about Trump. Instead, they wrote a bunch of songs about being middle-aged rockers in love with their record collection. In some ways, Father of All… recalls 2000’s Warning, an album released at the nadir of alt-rock’s cultural reach in which they displayed their mastery of vintage rock songcraft. Like that record, this one seems uniquely minor for Green Day, both in design and execution, and in a good way.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EQMje4tX0AgzgAI?format=jpg&name=small

They're really "managing expectations" hard with that press release, lol

oops tough to tell the difference

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/green-day-father-of-all-motherfuckers-review-948579/

an album released at the nadir of alt-rock’s cultural reach in which they displayed their mastery of vintage rock songcraft

hwæt

re: "vintage rock" - for the minute they were on in my lyft it sounded like green day recognizing that to kids queen, weezer and my chemical romance are all 'vintage rock' and there's not enough bandwidth to stake a brand on any further distinctions.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/giles-martin-reflects-on-final-abbey-road-recording-sessions-you-actually-wonder-if-the-beatles-could-have-sustained-themselves-161415239.html

“And I love the sound of the E Street Band playing completely live in the studio, in a way we’ve never done before, and with no overdubs. We made the album in only five days, and it turned out to be one of the greatest recording experiences I’ve ever had.”

 “We wanted to get back to what it was like to be in a band when we first started being in bands – remembering what it was like the first time you picked up a guitar, or the first time you sat behind a set of drums,” he says.

https://rockandrollglobe.com/pop/clem-burke-full-moon-empty-hearts/

choice quote

first time I picked up a guitar I held it the wrong way round and probably dropped it

The first time I picked up a guitar it didn't have strings on it.

Looking forward to a full record of someone violently strumming an out of tune acoustic guitar (all open strings because you don’t know how to fret notes yet).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTQEVXLAfc4

Looking forward to a full record of someone violently strumming an out of tune acoustic guitar (all open strings because you don’t know how to fret notes yet).

https://corwoodindustries.com/

Found this in The Wallflowers’ Wikipedia page:

When in the studio, the band were intent on using as little recording equipment as possible. Dylan explained: "If I could have had it my way I would not have seen a microphone or a cable anywhere."

Dylan goes unelectric!

Dylan unrecorded !

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81JmWMfPv2L._AC_SY450_.jpg

Great title, not great subtitle

Charlie Daniels not known for subt(it)lety

lol

lol that jake Dylan quote, it’s like yeah I know what you mean but it still sounds completely psychotic

lol that jake Dylan quote, it’s like yeah I know what you mean but it still sounds completely psychotic

Would rather read an interview with the engineer in charge of taping microphones to the ceiling out of his field of vision, or sneakily clipping one to the brim of his hat just before he starts singing...

The Wikipedia page says: However, finding a producer who was willing to work with them proved to be difficult. The band was intent on recording live and few producers were willing to produce that way. Paul Fox eventually stepped in and agreed to produce the album.

This was the band's first album, btw. It's kinda funny to read between the lines: "Yeah, Bob Dylan's kid wants to make a record, and record it 'live'... Sorry, I'm all booked up..."

The album also sounds kind of thin and shitty, if you listen to it.

Jakob [to engineer]: "OK, can we listen to that one back?"

engineer: "Yeah, absolutely."

Jakob: "...um...I'm not hearing anything...?"

engineer: "No, see, Jakob, this is exactly what you asked for: no mics. How do you like your new 'back to basics' sound? Also, I'm still on the clock."

the equivalent of this for nu metal bands that were covered in kerrang ! in the 1990s was always "this is our heaviest album yet".

In British literary circles a couple decades back, there was a joke about how one of the most unlikely book titles would be "My Struggle," by Martin Amis.

(Sorry to kill the joke with explanation, but the implication is that it was probably very easy for the sun of a massively successful author to get a book deal.)

I'm thinking that one could construct a similar joke about how the Wallflowers needed to pay their dues by touring in a decrepit minivan, playing in tiny clubs to nonexistent audiences, etc. etc. until finally a brave A&R guy decided to take a chance and give them a record deal.

erg, "son," not "sun." sorry

https://img.discogs.com/SFp5xjKhZFuN8UUg96Ou3FYDlpE=/fit-in/600x628/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-16254996-1606061803-7585.jpeg.jpg

Jansen/Barbieri/Karn - Playing In A Room With People

haha that is the ultimate back to basics title

'Despite a pair of duets with country icons Dolly Parton and Rodney Crowell, Jewel’s Picking Up the Pieces is mostly an intimate, back-to-basics album, focused on the same folksy introspection that made her debut Pieces of You a hit 20 years ago. It’s appropriate, then, that the new video for “Pretty Faced Fool” is simple and straightforward. In the clip above, Jewel strums the acoustic ballad in a recording studio, while Christmas lights glow in the background.' https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/watch-jewels-back-to-basics-pretty-faced-fool-video-169060/

Would prefer "we wanted to go back to the basics - an expensive analog mixing desk, a rotating cast of crack session players and cocaine by the ounce."

Anything recent fit that bill?

This is not recent, but see the second paragraph

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.today.com/today/amp/wbna5452205