random stuff rushomancy is listening to

That is quite lovely, that.

Persistence pays off! Found a version of "What Goes On" I dig. Flabbergasted me that I couldn't find a good take on it; the original is a decent enough Buck Owens tribute but all the cover versions I heard were just flabby and weak aside from the Sufjan Stevens one, which I just plain didn't like. Knew if I kept looking around long enough I'd dig something up. This is a roughly contemporary version from the "Beatle Country" album by the Charles River Valley Boys, a progressive bluegrass group. These folks are just legit _good_ - I wouldn't be surprised if the Dillards got their "I've Just Seen A Face" arrangement from them.

Anyway, that wraps things up. I guess there are a couple songs I sort of cheated on that I could upgrade, but as it is I'm going to declare the Beatles Covers Project "good enough".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhhFC3Fnw4o

rush maybe i'm projecting but the lyrics to that stealer's wheel song feel extremely pro-trans! :)

i never really know how much to read into lyrics! i've been wrongfooted before. there was this game last year, 16-bit-style rpg, i was really enjoying, and my feeling was that, like, every single character in the game was trans. just the vibe i got from the characters. and then the person who made the game said some really ugly transphobic shit and i had to remove the game from my library, because anybody who says shit like that it's not safe for me to make any room in my life for any of their ideas. that sort of thing is a shame when it happens. part of me hopes that they come out as trans and apologize for saying that stuff, at which point i'd happily buy the game again, but, you know... that's just wishful thinking on my part. person is probably just a super big jerk.

i was listening to the last pink fairies album, from 1973, which i guess has kind of a cult reputation on rym. and the second track is this ten minute heavy rock jam called "i wish i were a girl". and that's what it's about. i don't know what to make of stuff like that. i looked up the guy who wrote it, and he died fairly recently. and i believe in self-determination so i guess he wasn't trans. hell of a song, though.

made a new blog post, kept digging around and looking afterwards and found this iron curtain polish hawaiian-exploitation exotica record

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epR1K184NFc

so there's a new streets of rage game out! koshiro and kawashima worked on it. much respect for the originators, but '94 was a long time ago and on first listen it doesn't quite match up to the heights of the insane soundtrack to bare nuckle iii.

here's some guy doing a cover of "happy paradise" from that soundtrack. mixing is a little wonky - the drums get in the way a little bit - but it's got good spirit and energy, and is definitely the best tribute version of it i found doing a quick search; some of the koshiro tributes out there just are not good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay0tDJYP4Ic

plus, this guy also has a cover of the "highway to heaven" theme song on his channel! a weirdo after my own heart.

for whatever reason i'm digging through old zep boots. the people who grade or rate zep boots have different priorities than i do. they talk about what a shame it is about this tape, a recording that sounds like it was made from inside jimmy page's guitar amp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a14EXLG1GiM

and i'm like holy fuck, this is the led zeppelin version of The Legendary Guitar Amp Tapes, this is fucking amazing

you know it's a good "how many more times" when peter grant has been arrested by the end of it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTzcJsW4wwE

wow @ san bernardino '69 recording

i'm gonna just post this for the cover art, for a library music record this is absolutely amazing and makes me really want to hear the whole thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5DQZ4EKMLc

the aesthetic on this fucker!

i was looking up Harriet Padberg's work to see if there are any recordings... guy named Anthony Caulkins had made a recording based on her theories. it sounds pretty bad honestly, but i went exploring from there. here's an upload of his MFA thesis recital. this on the other hand i do kind of like, definitely up my alley.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctJmw4I66_Y

Hey, this thread is mostly dormant, I've mostly moved on to my blog, but I was just thinking about this song today, and I really think it's a good one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KojUYqEo5t8

You know that ilx needs this thread tho right

I mean. There is a reason why this particular board needs this particular thread.

It's not just because you have exquisite taste. It's because you have the sense to question whether having exquisite taste is a good idea.

This thread is the antidote to so much "classic or dud?" bs

Awww, thanks. I've really grateful that folks have read this thread and gotten something out of it. It's been a great experience doing it. I can't promise to continue to update this thread regularly like I did between August 2018 and May 2020, but I will recommend that anybody who's enjoyed it check out the blog my friend Sedric and I run at:

https://www.alanauch.org/wtob/

which covers a lot of the same territory as the stuff I've posted here.

Help me find a music video please. Someone posted a youtube on ilm 10-11 months ago. It was indie/punk/tronic music. It had two t-girls in a single frame (like a webcam) and the song felt like it was segemented into two distinct parts. The end was heavier and the lighting in the room changed. The girls ended the song singing "you can't understand, you can't understand" (or something like that) in a sort punk/emo way.

Thanks

don't know the video you're talking about, i would prefer that you not use the term "t-girl" in future, it has some unpleasant connotations.

ok, it was about the time you were talking about octa octo in the rym thread so I thought it might of been them.

(urban dictionary said t-girl was a generally accepted "polite" way but it did seem wrong when I posted my question. my cousin started h-therapy this week and I was looking for that video to post on their wall when I tell them that I 100% support them)

that particular term is a complicated and fraught one, i don't want to get into it in detail but i would definitely take urban dictionary's recommendations on trans-affirming language with a grain of salt. :) i've found "trans woman" or "transgender woman" is generally a safe descriptor, but we're a diverse bunch and i can't speak for all trans women!

you might want to check in with imago, the thing you're describing sounds kind of like his scene, there's a thread he curates called "OUT OF FLUX WITH THE UNIVERSE: the canada trans electropop scene".

OUT OF FLUX WITH THE UNIVERSE: the canada trans electropop scene

hopefully the video you're thinking of isn't like black dresses or anything because there's been some, uh, complications going on around that former group. i can't really give you more details because it's not something i'm really informed about and they were never a group i listened to much of.

okay, it is Black Dresses. HERTZ.

Thanks for helping me find it. Maybe I'll skip posting a video.

no worries, hearing a message from you is going to mean more to them than a video anyway :)

revive!

my answering machine message to john paluska above the Great Went: performing acapella rage

https://soundcloud.com/sidedooraudio/jon-fishmans-answering-machine-frankenstein

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Llao7sgI7BI

great revive!! ♥️♥️♥️🧟🎸

I didn't know zoo bombing was an actual thing! I just know that there was a band called the Zoobombs that did an amazing ripping version of "Waiting For the Man" on the a late '90s Rabid Chords Velvets comp. Spent decades looking for an uncut version of Ahh! Folly Jet's waltz-time remake of "Ferryboat Bill", which I did finally turn up.

Anyway, a friend of mine was asking what zoo bombing was, and I don't have an explanation but I _did_ look it up on Youtube and found some awesome live videos of them. Here's a fantastic cover of Television's "See No Evil" from a band called "dip", whose video is on a channel that also has some Zoobombs live videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rkEWzcZyDQ

I always thought it was just some kind of a pun...
Because "zubon" in Japanese means "trousers"...

maybe it is! parallel development of zoobombing

https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/step-on-step

oh fuck yes, thank you budo jeru

yw!

The thing I hate most about writing is that I work far too hard at it. After spending most of Monday writing _two_ 3,000 word essays that nobody will ever read instead of doing more important things like cleaning the kitchen or running reports (the reports themselves aren't terribly important but the fact that I'm paid to do it is), I figured I would write some light trivial fluff about an old prog song I like, and instead I wrote _this_:

https://www.alanauch.org/wtob/2022/08/17/my-first-words/

I worked way harder at writing this than I had any reason to.

oh fuck yes apparently lesbian sea shanties are a thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUldplPSHq4

ep by a friend of a friend, "collapsing avant garde country-prog" is how it was described to me and this works. bob drake guests on a cover of his own "what animal".

https://scribewolf.bandcamp.com/album/the-singular-power-of-my-very-own-ep

Ooh I didn’t know you had a blog rush, you’re in all the good music threads so I guess I’d better read it

there's some weird shit about bootlegs and so forth but it's mostly trans shit haha, there _is_ some non-trans shit mixed in and it certainly didn't start out as trans shit but it's kinda slowly taken over the blog

there is some music writing i'm really proud of in there, though. i think my post about mahavishnu orchestra bootlegs is still pretty good music criticism and helped me grow some as a writer:

https://www.alanauch.org/wtob/2020/09/29/the-inner-mounting-flame-in-concert/

i have actually written a _staggering amount_ of shit on that blog over the past two years. that time i ghosted ilx for like 18 months? i pretty much spent it all posting shit to the blog. fortunately there's so much writing there it'll scare damn near anybody who might possibly be interested away from actually reading any of it.

I mean I'm just gonna troll y'all and revive this thread by posting a live Phish jam. I like Phish. I don't care what y'all say.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJFUm6Y1Mmw

"you can't say tupperware on television!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czvj0i463wQ

https://deluxebias.bandcamp.com/album/tupperware-american-underbelly-db-9

good shit!

truly! love the stump clip, by the way

happy friday y'all! (what? trans day of what? never heard of it)

i ever post the tracklist to the doors knockoff mix i made? this is kind of like an obsession with mine, i feel like people undersell how influential the doors actually were as a band, and a lot of times i like the knockoffs better than the actual band. i've developed a soft spot for the band by the way. yes jim morrison's poetry is shitty and pretentious and the cult people have of him is obnoxious. also i've come to realize since starting hormones that i don't actually think he's hot. ridiculous pouty skinny boy, even in leather pants he's... i mean i guess the tropey-example is draco malfoy but i'll have nothing to do with that entire franchise thank you very much. anyway there are lots of guys who look better in leather pants than jim morrison. also _most_ girls look better in leather pants than jim morrison, but i guess i'm biased considering i'm a lesbian. i look better in leather pants than jim morrison, i think. BUT i still like the doors, they have some good songs and i'm at the point in my life where jim morrison's bad poetry is funny rather than cringe.

ANYWAY. here's the doors knockoff bands i've heard. i have heard rumor of at least one more called, uh, stickler of the ultramundane or something like that? impossible to find and actually now that i've said their name this thread is probably now the top hit on google for that band. i'm definitely interested in anything more people can recommend on this tip. as you can tell classic period is my preference, latest track here is 1975 and it's kind of an outlier.

the stooges - down on the street (mono single edit)
children of the mushroom - you can't erase a mirror
mystic siva - supernatural mind
pop masine - kiselina
fraction - come out of her
crystal chandelier - suicidal flowers
the loose enz - the black door
omnibus - the man song
one st. stephen - dash in the rocks
the maze - armageddon
allmen joy - walk with me

oh and yeah i know about magma's "morrison in the storm" but i think that song kinda sucks even aside from christian vander being a shitty fascist.

also anybody who has recommendations of doors covers... here's my playlist of those

mission of burma - break on through
robyn hitchcock - the crystal ship (1989-04-28 kroq)
shibusashirazu orchestra - light my fire (2003-05-04 bonus cd)
the feelies - take it as it comes
gaznevada - when the music is over
gnarls barkley - who scared you
john oswald - o'hell
la lupe - touch me
saccharine trust - peace frog
nico - the end

i think wooden shjips - "we ask you to ride" (2007) is doors worship, but some people might not agree.

one of my very fav doors covers is "riders on the storm" by la mecánica popular:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOGe3X2Q6cw

oh this is rad, thanks

y'all quick thread revive to let you know i finally found a rip of tommy marolda's "me... out for the first time", i've been looking for a place to listen to this record for literally like a decade now. i'm so fucking hyped.

hi, wow!

anyway you can try to send it my way? ilx mail works; can't remembered if we've emailed in the past.

in #onethread news, "break from the caravan" is a fucking hilarious parody of toxic masculinity. i think. or else it's just a fucking terrible song. i'm gonna give marolda the benefit of the doubt here, it's like very nearly in pretty things "cause i'm a man" territory.

ok, i was hoping that i would finally be able to let go of my weird tommy marolda obsession but NOPE

so, um, this is one of his

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulJ7VZTFsow

i mean admittedly it's better than you'd expect from... i mean _this_. better than, you know, late-period bruce haack. i'd say.

but it's no "let's be friends again".

i can't think of my 50 favorite albums, so i just put my itunes library on random and picked 50 albums

also i mostly stopped bothering to update my itunes library at the end of 2020

i'm not making it as a poll because people are just going to vote for the ones they've heard of

i'm not proud of having these albums in my library, most of it is third-hand /mu/ shit, they're good records but, idk, music is weird for me these days

music was what i listened to because it was the only way i could emotionally connect with anything, after four years on estrogen i'm trying to kind of turn down the emotions a little bit. i don't know what to do with music when i just cry randomly now and most of my time is spent trying to be a functional human being.

but these are all albums that, at one point in my life between 2009 and roughly 2020, i enjoyed listening to.

DJ QBert - Demolition Pumpkin Squeeze Music: A Preskool Breakmix
Duster - Capsule Losing Contact
The Supremes - Floy Joy
Tigran Hamasyan - Mockroot
Mr Sterile Assembly - It's All Over
Muqata'a - Inkanakuntu
Chakra - Satekoso
Los Jaivas - La Voraigne 5: Que Hacer
Wuja Bin Bin - The Best Planet Ever
My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves
David Grubbs - The Thicket
Game Theory - The Big Shot Chronicles
V/A - Screamers, Bangers, and Cosmic Synths
V/A - Gabber Gabber Hey! - A Loud and Fast Accelerated Tribute to the Ramones
The Circle Jerks - Wild in the Streets
Clare Fischer - Thesaurus
Wire - Pink Flag
Hammer Screwdriver - s/t
Behavior - Spirits & Embellishments
Christopher Rousset - Jean-Philippe Rameau: Complete Harpsichord Works
Rodrigo Gonzalez - Hurbanistorias
Alex Chilton - Dusted in Memphis (and Elsewhere)
The Simple Carnival - Girls Aliens Food
Dandy Livingstone - Dandy Returns
Boole - The Vital Few
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
Duke Ellington - The Chronological Duke Ellington 1932-1933
END - Splinters from an Ever-Changing Face
Fairport Convention - Liege and Lief
Simply Saucer - Cyborgs Revisited
James Brown - Funky Christmas
Fumaca Preta - s/t
Jack Ruby - Hit and Run
Satan's Host - By the Hands of the Devil
Lalo Schifrin - Starsky & Hutch OST
The Work - The Worst of Everywhere
Talking Heads - The Name of This Band is Talking Heads
v/a - Synths from the Sahara
Giuni Russo - Energie
Matt Elliott - Howling Songs
Sviatoslav Richter - The Sofia Recital 1958
Ted Hawkins - Watch Your Step
Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats - Wasteland
Christina Vantzou - No. 4
Arthur Russell - Sketches for World of Echo: June 25 1984
UJ3RK5 - Live from the Commodore Ballroom
Sylvester - Stars
Feu Chatterton - Ici le Jour
Grand Orchestre du Tricot - Atomic Spoutnik
Wanda Sa - Wanda Vagamente

love to see Simply Saucer included - "Illegal Bodies" rips

a really interesting list with lots of stuff i'm looking forward to exploring later. supremes, simply saucer, jack ruby, and sviatoslav richter all jumping out at me -- but i'd probably have to pick "pink flag" if i'm being honest