To be fair, he made, like, 300 albums.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 00:36 (four years ago) link
OK, 56 studio albums, 11 gospel albums, 9 live albums. There are apparently 98 Willie Nelson studio albums.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 00:37 (four years ago) link
Totally anecdotal, but Cash is one of my consistent sellers Discogs - especially the 60s Columbias and any Sun stuff. It never stays around long.
― the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 00:43 (four years ago) link
Willie Nelson people just want mid-70s stuff.
― the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 00:44 (four years ago) link
every so often i'll be digging in the Willie Nelson section at a local shop and there's another record from the '80s with a garishly awful cover that I've never heard of previously. like i mean i had no idea:
https://img.discogs.com/kJNdrYc-KwmYYaBMuLZvdNJiweE=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-4140660-1428972570-3220.png.jpg
― omar little, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 00:52 (four years ago) link
even after his death, idk if scott walker's rep is as high as it was circa 2006's the drift
As a youngish person who got really into Scott shortly before his death, one trend I’ve noticed (if not, especially, partaken in) is an adoption of latter-day Scott by certain online communities as a sort of “hard mode” of music that proves your bona fides if you can successfully get into it, with lots of other stuff held up as lacking in comparison to its sophistication/difficulty. Debatable whether that’s a positive or negative, but it’s certainly a component of his legacy atm.
(My personal favorite, for the record, is a video of some streamer doing a Clone Hero chart of a SOPHIE song where someone in the comments qualifies their praise with “still no Bisch Bosch”.)
― You can’t see it but I had an epiphany (Champiness), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 00:52 (four years ago) link
That Willie & Merle looks like their chillwave record
― the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 01:04 (four years ago) link
remove everything but "seashores" and the background image and it's a sick new balearic album.
― omar little, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 01:05 (four years ago) link
ha ha, both otm
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 01:24 (four years ago) link
Re: Santana Back in the 80s and 90s he used to play yearly in Tucson at the fair and it felt like one of the biggest events in the world for a bunch of different demographic groupsOf course after Supernatural blew up he was too big to play fairs anymore
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 01:31 (four years ago) link
I remember in the 90s seeing his band perform as “Abraxas” - it was all the usual suspects- Schon, Areas, Rollie... anyway they were great and it dawned on me how superfluous Santana himself was to the whole operation.
― the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 01:52 (four years ago) link
uh let’s not get ahead of ourselves here, his guitar playing is great! Geez this thread The Abraxas Pool album is one of the worst things I’ve ever heard
― brimstead, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 01:56 (four years ago) link
Santana's new album is great and has rehabbed his reputation for a lot of people, including me.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 01:57 (four years ago) link
Haha I say it with love - Carlos is great. I assume you’re referring to Santana IV? It was a pleasant surprise.
― the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 01:59 (four years ago) link
Nah I meant this album https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraxas_Poolhaven’t listened to IV
― brimstead, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 02:00 (four years ago) link
oh whoops missed unpersons post
― brimstead, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 02:01 (four years ago) link
There’s this one photo I’ve seen used on two separate Willie Nelson CDs... except for some reason they photoshopped a headband on one of them
― brimstead, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 02:10 (four years ago) link
It’s this one: https://www.discogs.com/Willie-Nelson-The-Very-Best-Of-Willie/release/4134708I SWEAR there’s another willie CD out there with the same photo but sans headband
― brimstead, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 02:13 (four years ago) link
No, I’m talking about his 2019 album Africa Speaks. It’s wild as hell.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 02:49 (four years ago) link
jay z down, right? i
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 03:32 (four years ago) link
xp thanks for the tip, this fuckin rules!
― sleeve, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 03:34 (four years ago) link
I’ll check it out Xp
― the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 03:34 (four years ago) link
Down: Early Roxy MusicUp: Later Roxy Music
― it me, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 05:42 (four years ago) link
i don’t really get this thread.. what are the artists who’s reputation is the same
the Reverend Horton Heat
― alpine static, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 06:14 (four years ago) link
i have no idea why but just typing that ^ made me lol
Down: La Roux. Sadly, but when the followup finally arrived it was a disappointment.
― The GeirBot (Geir Hongro), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 10:01 (four years ago) link
feel like evaluating some of these would require time spent at college poster fairs and yeah, Target t-shirt sections... I may not hear that much abt Cash these days in my circles cause everyone already knows he's great and there's no need to announce it, but i'd be shocked if that photo of him giving the finger weren't still making new converts and new memes.
― Good morning, how are you, I'm (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 13:11 (four years ago) link
Speaking of La Roux : Ladyhawke had her moment in the late 00s but it seems she has vanished.
― AlXTC from Paris, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 13:16 (four years ago) link
you don't really hear a lot about the band Gryphon these days
― frogbs, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 13:17 (four years ago) link
I wonder about Willie Nelson. Back in the late 70s/80s he felt like a superstar--maybe because my neighbor was one of his roadies. Then in the 90s there were just a bunch of weed and bankruptcy jokes. In the 00s there seemed to be an appreciation forming around his classic albums + new work, but it seems it's just weed jokes again.
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 13:47 (four years ago) link
― frogbs, Wednesday, July 17, 2019 8:17 AM (thirty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
did you before?
― mott the hoopleheads (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 13:52 (four years ago) link
I think that was the joke
― sleeve, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 13:53 (four years ago) link
gryphon were basically a david munrowsploitation band, right? after he killed himself everybody realized they didn't really like the sound of the crumhorn, they just liked david munrow :(
― Un Poco Loco Moco (rushomancy), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 14:03 (four years ago) link
Campus staff here. I avidly look at the college poster fair each September for just these trends, and my notes from '18 are that there were hardly any music posters, especially compared to TV (Friends, Breaking Bad most prominent.) Bob Marley posters, but those are lifestyle statements as much as music fandom statements.
― bendy, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 14:16 (four years ago) link
Has Insta sort of displaced postersKids have many ways now of constantly seeing images of those whom they stan
― stan by me (morrisp), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 14:18 (four years ago) link
I see dudes wearing Cash t-shirts all the time
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 14:19 (four years ago) link
they sell toddler Johnny Cash t-shirts at Target
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 14:19 (four years ago) link
is making a statement as a music fan as much of a thing as it once was? genuine question. like, i feel like the days when everyone wore a t-shirt of their favourite band is kind of over now, and younger people aren't as tribal or pre-disposed to infatuation over a specific band or genre as they once were. seems like they tend to define themselves more by things like TV/movie franchises - Harry Potter or Friends or Anime or something - maybe i'm quite wrong?
― frame casual (dog latin), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 14:23 (four years ago) link
Someone mentioned that above, too; it’s harder to tell what kids are into via dress/style codes these days
― stan by me (morrisp), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 14:26 (four years ago) link
Something like a Cash t-shirt or Marley poster feels “classic” and different from, say, wearing a Drake t-shirt. Maybe some do
― stan by me (morrisp), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 14:27 (four years ago) link
My teenage sister-in-law was recently wearing a tour t-shirt of a rapper I’d never heard of, designed to mimic a Nirvana t-shirt or something — it was very semiotic.
― stan by me (morrisp), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 14:29 (four years ago) link
Friends posters maybe the most surprising revelation to me! I know it's been on Netflix for ages but it's weird to think that present-day teens would get into that show. I guess the 90s revival is even deeper and broader than I'd realized.
― Good morning, how are you, I'm (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 14:31 (four years ago) link
I had a hip student worker who wore a jacket with patches of the Ramones, the Cramps, Motorhead, Iron Maiden and Bauhaus, though I'm pretty sure she really listened to indie.
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 14:34 (four years ago) link
A few years ago I saw the Unknown Pleasures poster next to Bob at the campus poster sale and it felt like a changing of the guards
― joygoat, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 14:43 (four years ago) link
Kids really dig the Simpsons as a hip/retro/meme-ish/ironic cultural touchstone these days, which is kind of weird to me because it doesn't feel like it's been away a long time and it's strange to make a meme out of something that's supposed to be a bit post-modern anyway?
― frame casual (dog latin), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 14:47 (four years ago) link
The Simpsons has never been away, it’s still being produced!I see enough Unknown Pleasures t-shirts that I don’t even necessarily assume the wearer is a fan... seems like just another of those “classic designs” now.
― stan by me (morrisp), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 14:53 (four years ago) link
― brimstead, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 15:16 (four years ago) link
You do in the circles I move in, especially concerning the new album they released last year: https://www.discogs.com/Gryphon-Reinvention/master/1444681
Line-up:Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Producer, Recorded By, Mixed By, Mastered By – Graeme TaylorBassoon, Baritone Saxophone, Recorder, Crumhorn, Piano, Vocals – Brian GullandDrums, Percussion, Vocals – Dave OberléElectric Bass, Double Bass – Rory McFarlaneFlute, Piccolo Flute, Crumhorn, Soprano Saxophone, Clarinet, Fife – Andy FindonHarmonica, Mandolin, Violin, Keyboards, Edited By – Graham Preskett
So they're still rocking the crumhorns.
― Zeuhl Idol (Matt #2), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 15:22 (four years ago) link
Graeme Taylor needs to update his wiki
Having spent many years playing guitars in the pit orchestras of many West End musicals, Taylor is now a member of the touring bands for both John Tams and Rolf Harris, and runs his own studio in South London.
― Br. Des Shadows (NickB), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 15:39 (four years ago) link
c'mon Matt you made all those names up
― frogbs, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 15:42 (four years ago) link