Music Discoveries Oct 2024 to Nov 2024 #34

See also: Previous and Next (View all)

Now that I’m no longer subscribing to Emusic, I feel oddly liberated. Also, for once I now have time to actually listen to the gems I discovered on emusic. I’ve also been meaning to catch up on review writing. I don’t do it religiously, but I haven’t written any in several months. I regret to say that two library systems I belong to have discontinued their freegal subscriptions, which is a major bummer. With three subscriptions, I could download 13 songs a week. I discovered lots of songs that way and downloaded them.

I even updated my directory list of all the albums I own or have ripped. I think there’s about 19 or 20 thousand. https://www.imaginaryplanet.net/private/robert-music.txt

I have been working on an Ultimate Death Playlist (more)

Articles and Interviews

stuff

Bandcamp Purchases

  1. Begin

Youtubey/Podcasty Things

NEW KYLIE SONG. Just heard a banger song by Kylie Minogue — only to realize that it just came out a week ago! It’s a real “Can’t Get it Out of My Head” kind of song from her upcoming album TENSION II. (YT)

Sorry for the sound quality (it’s still listenable), but here’s a lovely and tender duet between Kris Kristofferson and Sinead O’Connor in 2010 on an Irish talk show. (YT)

Here’s the music video for a great Death Valley Girls song Disaster (Is what we’re after) which I heard in a great Mexican sitcom titled @$#$# Social Media (on Amazon Prime). (YT)

HORRAY FOR GANDER! There are many ways to remember 9/11 today, but let me mention the wonderful and heart-warming musical production “COME FROM AWAY” (streamable for free on Apple+) which tells the unconventional story of air travelers diverted to a small Canadian airport on that day because all American airports had been closed. The original cast were brilliant and entertaining, and the story itself so strange and funny that you would never think it could capture the chaos of that week. Yet it does so, and still manages to be entertaining. Here’s a reunion of the original cast singing a few of the songs. (YT)

I officially retired from my illustrious JUST DANCE career 12 years ago (after being totally bested at the game by my niece , but I found this video of wacky Just Dance routines to be hilarious. (YT)

If anyone tries to tell you that Hank Williams sang the definitive version of “I Saw the Light,” tell them they are wrong! It has to be Roy Acuff’s version! (YT). Wow, I never realized that Acuff and Hank Williams sang it together on TV in 1952.  (YT) (Also, Acuff and Kitty Wells sang it on TV in 1958 (YT )

Every time I watch this funny nutty song (He Needs Me) in the Popeye movie, I fall in love with Olive Oyl all over again. RIP Shelley Duvall. (YT) Also, I love the song “He’s Large” from the same movie. (YT)

One of my favorite crowd-sourced video is the amazing Daft Hands version (YT) of Daft Punk’s Harder, Stronger, Faster. The high school kid who created it did something phenomenal. Here’s a high school girl’s dance team that did a Daft Bodies version of the song (YT)

Freegal and Library CDs

As I mentioned before, my ability to download tracks from freegal has been drastically reduced.

  1. City Zoo by G.E.M. I absolutely love G.E.M’s music. She’s a Hong Kong singer fully fluent in English and Western styles and classical music. The concept behind this album is that all the songs involves an animal — in terms of spirit or energy. (here’s a great wiki page about the album).
  2. Tyla. This amazing new South African singer has introduced a style ampiano which is a “It is a hybrid of deep house, gqom, jazz, soul and lounge music characterized by synths and wide, percussive basslines.
  3. John McCormack. I already had a CD by this Irish singer from the 1910s-1930s, but I lost it. Fortunately I was able to download some of the better recordings from the 1930s.
  4. Abida Parveen. I already downloaded one live concert this Pakistani ghazal singer did, but she has done so many albums. I downloaded a few random tracks from freegal as well.

The good news is that the Harris County library system continues to have some gems, plus I’ve been able to snag a dozen or so CDs from book sales.

Reviews (Rateyourmusic/Personal Reviews, etc)

See also my rateyourmusic profile and my review spreadsheet.in Google Docs.


Posted

in

by

Tags:

Comments

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.