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I've been completely obsessed with Caroline Polachek ever since I stumbled upon this Tiny Desk performance a few months ago. It's not even a genre that I usually listen to. I don't if it should be called Avant-pop? I've probably watched this 25+ times, seriously. The band is super tight and great as well.

Caroline's voice is quite the instrument. Her lyrical phrasing and vocal rhythms give me Michael Jackson vibes at times. I've listened to her two solo albums...this is an artist/songwriter that is completely unchained by norms and has the confidence to go in so many different directions. Also the production and sound engineering is impeccable.

She's had a successful career and worked with people like Charli XCX and Grimes. I think her trajectory is still going up. But in a previous era, I think she'd be one of the biggest musical artists in the world. 

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On 8/16/2024 at 10:07 AM, Hank Kingsley said:

 

I've been completely obsessed with Caroline Polachek ever since I stumbled upon this Tiny Desk performance a few months ago. It's not even a genre that I usually listen to. I don't if it should be called Avant-pop? I've probably watched this 25+ times, seriously. The band is super tight and great as well.

Caroline's voice is quite the instrument. Her lyrical phrasing and vocal rhythms give me Michael Jackson vibes at times. I've listened to her two solo albums...this is an artist/songwriter that is completely unchained by norms and has the confidence to go in so many different directions. Also the production and sound engineering is impeccable.

She's had a successful career and worked with people like Charli XCX and Grimes. I think her trajectory is still going up. But in a previous era, I think she'd be one of the biggest musical artists in the world. 

I saw one of Chairlift’s final shows, at The Mohawk in 2017. Good times.

 

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On 8/16/2024 at 10:07 AM, Hank Kingsley said:

I've been completely obsessed with Caroline Polachek ever since I stumbled upon this Tiny Desk performance a few months ago. It's not even a genre that I usually listen to. I don't if it should be called Avant-pop? I've probably watched this 25+ times, seriously. The band is super tight and great as well.

Caroline's voice is quite the instrument. Her lyrical phrasing and vocal rhythms give me Michael Jackson vibes at times.

She does a thing I predicted 25 years ago when AutoTune started to rear its ugly head.  The tuned sound of bad vocals would eventually become a style that good singers emulated.  Some of her intervals are insanely chromatic.  It shows skill, sure, but it's not very musical.  It's not very human.  The weird thing is that she doesn't always do it . . . some of her pitches are definitely off, but those jumps can be dead on.

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Can't link a single song without feeling bad about not listing the rest.  Interpretation: I'm watching the Billy Joel 100th MSG Performance on CBS.  Saw him 3 times in the 90s.  Dude was a damned hit-maker.

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On 1/15/2025 at 7:35 PM, HiggyBaby said:

I figured this goes here, this came up on my YouTube feed. Chet Atkins and Mark Knopfler with an appearance from Mark McDonald doing walk of life.
 

 

Replying to my own post to ask who the fuck is mark McDonald 

 

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Wow.  Billy on organ, Bonnie rockin' the terrible haircut, GE Smith, T-bone, that's a lineup!

EDIT:  I'm pretty sure Daryl did everyone's coke.

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58 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

Wow.  Billy on organ, Bonnie rockin' the terrible haircut, GE Smith, T-bone, that's a lineup!

EDIT:  I'm pretty sure Daryl did everyone's coke.

Rumor has it Elton was jealous. 

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I saw the Becoming Led Zeppelin movie last night, so in honor, the 1977 show they did at The Summit in Houston. Sorry, but audio only unfortunately. 
 

I was there. 48 Years Ago in May. Wow. 
 

 

 

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I’ve seen this a lot in my life but not this clear.

Journey - Summit - ‘81 

Neal is a freaking workhorse.

 

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14 hours ago, tbone_ said:

Great show

I really like that song "Who's Crying Now", especially considering their quality of work was getting really cheesy by that point.

Schon was a monster (but weird), Perry was obviously a monster, Steve Smith was a monster, and Cain was talented but an utter douche.  That band could fucking play.

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I saw Journey 15 months earlier, with Gregg Rolie on keys.  I preferred that lineup.  They were great.  For some stupid reason, Sammy Hagar headlined, and Journey and Judas Priest were support acts.  Give me a fucking break.

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6 hours ago, Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand said:

*learn Do You Remember The Saturday Gigs*

*obtain Norwegian chicks*

You wouldn't be referring to her, would you?

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On 4/5/2025 at 10:31 AM, jimmyjazz said:

I really like that song "Who's Crying Now", especially considering their quality of work was getting really cheesy by that point.

Schon was a monster (but weird), Perry was obviously a monster, Steve Smith was a monster, and Cain was talented but an utter douche.  That band could fucking play.

I have the dvd of that Houston show in my stack of pre streaming concert dvds.

 

Yea they could really play and had great songs up through Escape. Stoned in Love is as good as it gets from that era imo. Then they went the way of a lot of bands back then when the David Fosters of the world showed up and ruined it all. Pretty good run for  what maybe 8-10 years of that kind of awesome fm album rock…

 

And I would have been so into a Journey, Sammy Hagar, Judas Priest bill. Weird af but my 12yo self would not have known the difference. 

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So much energy and passion for the music poured into this.  Must have been exhausting.  They sure look it in the end.

Oh, and that drummer looks like he lost his war on drugs.  JFC --

 

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I know Fleet Foxes are a bit of a niche band, but goddamn this full concert is great. The drummer from The Walkmen was playing for them on this tour. Robin Pecknold's voice in top form here. Pitchfork productions always have great sound engineering/mix. 

 

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I wore this album out when it was released.  Howard is still bringing it, it's such a great riff (two of them, actually).  It cracks me up that he's still doing the horns with synth patches.  Great band, though.  Kimmel's show, last night:

 

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On 3/2/2025 at 5:21 PM, DoobieWah said:

I saw the Becoming Led Zeppelin movie last night, so in honor, the 1977 show they did at The Summit in Houston. Sorry, but audio only unfortunately. 
 

I was there. 48 Years Ago in May. Wow. 
 

 

 

I was also there at the Summit in May of 1977. I flew in from Dallas without a ticket. I was wearing a jersey that said "An Evening with Led Zeppelin." A scalper approached me in the Hobby airport lobby and asked if I needed a ticket. I said I did, and he sold me a balcony ticket and gave me a ride to the arena.

Many stories go about over the years about that Zeppelin concert being filmed, through the in house video system, that was used to display on a large video screen above the stage. But those rumors are false, for this concert. There were no camera people on or near the stage, and there were no images broadcast on the screen above the stage. It would have been nice if the band had allowed that!!! (FU Peter Grant !!)

As the house lights went down, I had moved to the edge of the lower balcony, just above the floor. I waited for a few other to jump over the balcony, to attract security, if that was going to happen. Then I jumped to the floor and I immediately was walking briskly through an aisle of seats, headed toward the center aisle. This was easy to do because the Houston fans were all standing ---on their seats--- to see the mighty Zeppelin (if the people in front of you are standing on their seats, just standing on the floor won't do !!)

Once I reached the center aisle, I walked my way right up to 3 rows back from the stage, and sat in an aisle seat not yet occupied for whatever reason. (I'd say that the first 10 rows from the stage, people were sitting in their seats.

The opening number was TSRTS, and loudness of the sound coming from the stage speakers was something I had never experienced before!!! It was extremely intense!!!

I eventually moved back, to an empty seat about half way back on the floor.
The highlight of the evening for me, was Ten Years Gone.

I remember during the Rock'n'Roll encore, that Jimmy slipped as he was playing moving forward, but he got right back up with a big cocaine grin on his face!!!
 

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