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He played dinnertime music

This reminds me of the time I had a Wayne Shorter CD playing in the car when I drove my family to the airport and my suburban zoomer niece referred to it as "Weather channel music." But then, she isn't a jazz critic

"suburban zoomer niece" is a good band name

who's zoomin who

The Weather Channel used to use "So What" as a forecast screen soundtrack for years.

Speaking of Motown, is it controversial to kind of agree with Dylan’s assertion that Smokey Robinson is “America’s greatest poet”

― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Monday, August 21, 2023 11:58 AM (thirty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2d/Smokey_Robinson_-_Gasms.jpg

gasms will never not be funny

This reminds me of the time I had a Wayne Shorter CD playing in the car when I drove my family to the airport and my suburban zoomer niece referred to it as "Weather channel music." But then, she isn't a jazz critic

Weather Report music obv

Weather Report is good music to have on while you're making a salad.

Controversial music opinion (one I think I've posted here before): Weather Report were great right up until Jaco Pastorius joined, and sucked afterward.

first Zawinul record is fire

Weather Report is good music to have on while you're making a salad.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, August 21, 2023 7:03 PM (forty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

the kind of useful music info i keep coming to ilm for

that there is post-punk but not post-prog while there is neo-prog but not neo-punk is a bit rich

post prog I feel would be something like Radiohead

wouldn’t post prog be all those hippie drum n bass burning man bands

Controversial music opinion (one I think I've posted here before): Weather Report were great right up until Jaco Pastorius joined, and sucked afterward.

― read-only (unperson), Monday, August 21, 2023 1:33 PM (twenty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

strong disagree

the last weather report album with jaco was the best and I wish they had made a sequel felt like it was about to LEVEL UP

the kind of useful music info i keep coming to ilm for

Glad to be of service. Your salads will really zing.

I Zing the Body Electric

lol

Hahaha

idk why people are so down on ballads, "flow my tears" is an all-time killer

there's that ONE it's-- i forget

To be clear, I do think I could put together a pretty extensive playlist of mind-blowing Stevie songs. It’s just that there’s a lot of sort of wandering, bleating things crowding them out on the albums. Guy is some kinda genius for sure, just maybe not my kinda.

tbh I think all of Stevie's classic albums have some bad parts on them, I mean you listen to "Sweet Little Girl" and tell me what the hell is going on

wouldn’t post prog be all those hippie drum n bass burning man bands

― brimstead, Monday, August 21, 2023 2:59 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

post-prog would be camberwell now, magazine, long fin killie, radiohead, opeth, and lots of awesome others

"I'm not sure how much of ILX shares my personal-taste view on ballads, but my own personal issue with most of them is the way they often lack any contribution from a rhythm section"

you need more disco and boogie ballads. or 80s r&b. plenty of bass. i swear this cd has been playing in my car all summer long. bass in your face! and beautiful ballads galore. well, as much bass as my subaru allows. but to be fair its a decent amount of bass! i play it really loud all through town. people know Change is coming!

https://i.discogs.com/Pbr17jfbv2eX7xWGDJ1Sg5xAzV_6DK8VlQhf6tYo7Pk/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:586/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTU4MjYy/Ny0xNjExNjM3NjE1/LTMzODEuanBlZw.jpeg

some of the most beautiful sounds (and ballads) i have heard this year have come from the two albums by Heat. sooooooooooo pretty. they make me swoon. *sigh*

https://www.discogs.com/artist/290745-Heat-6

Thanks for the rec, Scott! And yes, I'm ready to add more disco/funk ballads to my listening routine.

there’s a lot of sort of wandering, bleating things crowding them out on the albums

These are some of my favourite Stevie Wonder songs - "Smile Please", "Too Shy to Say", "Joy Inside My Tears", "The Secret Life of Plants". It's more often when he's trying to throw a party on vinyl that he gets boring.

That Change album made my list.

“wild wild life” is the best talking heads song

No, you are wrong; it's "And She Was."

It would be, if the lyric were "earmuff factory."

And She Was is a great song

not a fan of that song myself but how the hell is that opinion controversial lol

Given it’s the 1977-1980 output that’s critically adored, I can see it. Sorta like saying New Jersey is the best Bon Jovi album.

But also not like that at all

(Nothing But) Flowers is the best Talking Heads song

"Who Is It?" is the best Talking Heads song.

I wish that the algorithm was programmed to replace every publicly played Smiths/Morrissey song with a James song, because I’d enjoy it more and it’d also be delicious

with apologies to Bomfunk MC's this is the best music video ever made
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKA4iLL89hI

controversial opinion: with a few of notable exceptions, morrissey is an awful lyricist

the "just a kiss away" section at the end of Gimme Shelter is extremely lame and almost torpedoes the song.

So wrong

few*, not few of, lol

the first 10 seconds of Gimme Shelter >>>>>>>>> the rest of Gimme Shelter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChONufP0FEs

Merry Clayton and Mick Jagger discussing her part.

yeah merry clayton and the intro are easily the best parts of the song, but for all its faults it's still a powerful record, that feeling of society being balanced on a knife edge over complete chaos. then mick comes in at the end like a fucking hippy and says we can fix it all with a kiss. and bearing in mind his sexual politics as expressed in other songs of the same period, fuck off with your kiss mick.

we can fix it all with a kiss

I think the message of this part of the song is more "chaos and violence are sexy".

I agree that it does also come across as a sleazy come-on, but I don't think that was the intention