why late at night in the u.s. does ilm get all yessed out

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I could not take it oh so seriously really
When you called and said you'd seen a UFO

- noted skeptic and debunker Jon Anderson

Halfway there but for you, Monday, 22 April 2024 19:20 (one week ago) link

Along with several other Ilxors, I was born during the brief period known as the Gerald Ford era, meaning that nearly all of my memories of that decade are of the "Long '70s" variety that ran through '83 (wood-panel basements and weird swirly lights as room decor, leaded gas, classic rock's last stand on MTV before the Prince/Lauper/MJ era, malls with massive plants near the Miller's Outpost, you get the idea). Tormato, especially "On The Silent Wings of Freedom" (which might be the most 'Yes' song title ever), makes me 'remember' the late-70s, as if they are teleporting me to an era where I get to experience borrowed nostalgia, whether I actually experienced it or not.

Front-loaded albums are musical gerrymandering (Prefecture), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 00:32 (one week ago) link

Joni Mitchell played the Birotron on one of her best late songs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOfJ7S9f2LM

the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 April 2024 00:35 (one week ago) link

That's a misnomer - the actual credit on Night Ride Home is "Billatron", which is a keyboard sample of the guitarist Bill Dillon.

Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 01:00 (one week ago) link

The bonus tracks on Tormato show that they still had a lot of ideas, but no-one was capitulating to fit those ideas together. Anderson wants to get soft, Howe wants to get hard, Bootsy Squire's Mutron pedal whose sound doesn't fit in with what anyone else is doing, and Wakeman's assortment of shrill keyboards covering everything like a tinsel explosion. I like most of the record in spite of its flaws.

Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 01:07 (one week ago) link

Waksman’s baroque solo on the Birotron on Don’t Kill the Whale rules so hard.

timellison, Wednesday, 24 April 2024 15:48 (one week ago) link


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