Category: music

4 new albums

Here are the 4 new albums (CDs) I bought.  3 of them were used through discogs but the Idles one is new.  It started with the HBO series, Treme, Season 1.  For anyone who hasn’t seen the show, set in New Orleans, not long after Hurricane Katrina, it’s all about the music.  And of course…

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#SLS — “Vogue,” by Madonna

Dick Tracy (Beatty) and Breathless Mahoney (Madonna) I knew I wanted to choose this song, and I thought it started with Madonna, but wikipedia says otherwise. Vogue, or voguing, is a highly stylized, modern house dance originating in the late 1980s that evolved out of the Harlem ballroom scene of the 1960s. Voguing gained mainstream…

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dVerse — OLN 355 — Around the Bend* (Ekphrastic for Woman with Flowered Hat)

Woman with Flowered Hat by Jean Dupas Perfumed rainbow blooms within,masked without by strained repose;mind that’s gone around the bend. Destination some may know,riot ruffles, tongues that speak;masked without by strained repose. Normals titter, “dumb and weak,”blockish shades who cast awayriot ruffles’ tongues that speak volumes, writ large in red clay;poems hummed by honeybees.Blockish shades…

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#MMB 2024 Week 5 — Audioslave

Audioslave He stepped to the microphone and sang the song and I couldn’t believe it. It didn’t just sound good. It didn’t sound great. It sounded transcendent. And … when there is an irreplaceable chemistry from the first moment, you can’t deny it.  — Tom Morello, about the first time Chris jammed with the band…

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#SLS — “Death of a Clown” by (Dave Davies of) The Kinks

Dave Davies of The Kinks “Death of a Clown” is a song by Dave Davies, member of British rock group the Kinks, released as his debut solo single in 1967. Side B was, “Love Me Till The Sun Shines.” The song was co-written with his brother, Ray Davies, who contributed the 5-bar “La la la”…

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