@seaquam posted:I understand that identifying yourself as an insider is one of the two surest indicators that you’re an outsider.
I hope you got the joke, I don't think AthA is really the name of the group. I've been an outsider to music for about 35 years.
@The Old Man posted:I hope you got the joke, I don't think AthA is really the name of the group. I've been an outsider to music for about 35 years.
I got it. A while ago you posted about not being sure which was the name of the artist and the album/song on some of the posts on this thread. In this case Antenna to the Afterworld is indeed the name of the album.
Despite your admission of being an outsider you seem to have pretty strong opinions on the state of music these days (see rock and folk are dead threads).
@steve8 posted:Despite your admission of being an outsider you seem to have pretty strong opinions on the state of music these days (see rock and folk are dead threads).
It is more a sadness of the parade gone by. There won't be much lament in the When did Disco Die thread.
"Hooker 'n Heat", very special overlooked album. "Send me your pillow babe..."
Los Lobos - Native Sons
An album of covers, all of which were originally written by LA based artists. I learned that Farmer John was not written by Neil Young.
Global Citizen Festival Livestream
REM - Life's Rich Pageant
I've been listening to quite a bit of their music recently. Such a great band.
I'm Not There (Soundtrack)
@steve8 posted:REM - Life's Rich Pageant
I've been listening to quite a bit of their music recently. Such a great band.
Really like their 80's stuff (was prime college fare for me) and been listening to them and other 80's favorites lately that I have not listened to in awhile. Funny how some of that period has aged well, while others border on unlistenable (a lot of synth based).
The World is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die - Illusory Walls
Funny, oblivious headline of the day, "'We were never a heavy metal rock band or wanted to be, frankly’: America tours through Wilmington for 50-year anniversary"
Goin' Home by Neil Young.
I Will Follow Him – Little Peggy March
Art Pepper, on shuffle. 
Cocker, Joe
Paula Fuga
@steve8 posted:REM - Life's Rich Pageant
I've been listening to quite a bit of their music recently. Such a great band.
Last new album I ever purchased
@jcocktosten posted:Last new album I ever purchased
I assume you mean vinyl? That was 1986. You gave up on the format quite early.
Right now I'm listening to
The Velvet Underground - The Matrix Tapes
@steve8 posted:I assume you mean vinyl? That was 1986. You gave up on the format quite early.
Right now I'm listening to
The Velvet Underground - The Matrix Tapes
Yes vinyl. I started buying CDs at that same time. Not sure they were first, but Smiths Strangeways Here We Come and Cure Hot Hot Hot were early purchases.
I continued to buy a lot of used vinyl - especially when I was in college - as they sold used vinyl for very cheap.
Lennon, John.
It was a Beck day while I did a ton of fall yard / garage / household crap. Mellow Gold, Odelay, Midnight Vultures, Colors…
Arcade Fire, on shuffle.
@Bytown Rick posted:Arcade Fire, on shuffle.
homer.... 
@bman posted:homer....
Knopfler, Mark
Led Zeppelin, also on shuffle.
i just got into justice der ghostly lowfi covers but generally khruangbin
Right now listening 'Believer'. A very good and energetic song.
The Rain Kept a Rollin' . . . 30 Years of Rock. 
Barn - Neil Young & Crazy Horse
I thought, since the day it was announced, that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a joke. I've thought, for about 20 years, that Ted Nugent is also a joke. However, he's as right as rain here--
"The thought of a pioneering hip-hop artist in the Rock Hall of Fame so upsets him that, in the interview published on KNAC.com, Nugent says it’s tantamount to urinating on the graves of rock’s original pioneers. 'What a middle finger to the "real" heroes of rock ‘n’ roll and rhythm and blues to put in those other people, 'he says. 'Grandmaster Flash? Really? Why don’t we go down to Chuck Berry’s grave and piss on it?'
"Insisting it’s nothing personal, Nugent says, 'I’m not angry that I’m not in there because I’m having so much fun that it’s stupid.' But, he asks, 'Why isn’t a band like Triumph in there, but Grandmaster Flash is? That’s just dishonest! Why are Patti Smith, ABBA and Madonna in the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame, but not Styx? Are you kidding me?! You can only explain that is that the people who made those decisions are just plain rotten people! The Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame should genuflect to Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters (and) the Funk Brothers… How dare you put Grandmaster Flash, ABBA and Madonna in that?'”
I'm not a Ted Nugent fan and won't offer an opinion as to whether or not he should be in. I do agree with his sentiment; although, again, I don't necessarily agree with him on some that have been left out of the "Hall". Yes, there should be a LOT more of the early blues musicians. A LOT.
What I WILL say is that, yes, the Hall of "Fame" is a joke. When I was there, I was not only shocked me that more was not made of Robert Johnson, Charlie Patton, Honeyboy Edwards, but that there was virtual nothing on Bob Dylan other than a single photo and one of his guitars. This is the most influential and decorated rock musician and lyricist ever (Oscar, Grammy, Nobel Prize). When I visited shortly before COVID, I asked a senior staff member why Dylan was ignored. He said, "well he only gave us the one guitar." So, this is really the "Hall of Whoever Gives Us the Most Stuff." Yes, a total joke.
@haggis posted:I'm not a Ted Nugent fan and won't offer an opinion as to whether or not he should be in. I do agree with his sentiment; although, again, I don't necessarily agree with him on some that have been left out of the "Hall". Yes, there should be a LOT more of the early blues musicians. A LOT.
What I WILL say is that, yes, the Hall of "Fame" is a joke. When I was there, I was not only shocked me that more was not made of Robert Johnson, Charlie Patton, Honeyboy Edwards, but that there was virtual nothing on Bob Dylan other than a single photo and one of his guitars. This is the most influential and decorated rock musician and lyricist ever (Oscar, Grammy, Nobel Prize). When I visited shortly before COVID, I asked a senior staff member why Dylan was ignored. He said, "well he only gave us the one guitar." So, this is really the "Hall of Whoever Gives Us the Most Stuff." Yes, a total joke.
Agree 100%. It should be called the Hall of American Top 40 hits. So many true rock acts not there. My personal greatest disappointment is The Guess Who. They had many Top 40 hits but still not even nominated once.
Days of Future Passed -- The Moody Blues, with the London Festival Orchestra
@bman posted:Agree 100%. It should be called the Hall of American Top 40 hits. So many true rock acts not there. My personal greatest disappointment is The Guess Who. They had many Top 40 hits but still not even nominated once.
We can agree or disagree, but I'd like to see not only Styx in there, but Supertramp and Alan Parsons as well.
@mneeley490 posted:We can agree or disagree, but I'd like to see not only Styx in there, but Supertramp and Alan Parsons as well.
I have not issue with any of those, they should all be in anything that calls itself a Rock Hall of Fame. But so should The Guess Who, unless the Hall is only for acts famous in the US, notwithstanding the fact that TGW had lots of hits there too.
Re: Rock Hall
Clapton is in for other stuff, but Derek and the Dominoes are not in. Which is just ludicrous. Also never inducted? Joe Cocker. Nuts.
@bman posted:. It should be called the Hall of American Top 40 hits. So many true rock acts not there. My personal greatest disappointment is The Guess Who. They had many Top 40 hits but still not even nominated once.
Maybe they need an American Woman to run the nominations for them.
@bman posted:As long as she don't come a hangin' around my door cause I don't want to see her face no more
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