Random non-Genesis music stuff

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I see the Spacey resemblance

I see it around the mouth, but I had to Google Image Spacey.

Anyway the thought of MK & DG playing together, maybe singing together, is very pleasing. MK should have a new album out this year as well.

Very interesting reddit post here from someone claiming to have a tape with two unreleased Marvin Gaye songs on it.

The responses detailing what the individual should take are quite fascinating to me. Also, the horror these knowledgeable respondents must feel at the thought of this random person playing it on a home tape deck 😆.

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Do you have any of those artists whose work you always like when you hear it, yet you never investigate them any further let alone buy any of their stuff? For me, Ride are an example of that. Today I heard Peace Sign on the radio, I think it's a new one. And as usual I thought, oh I like this, who is it? Ahhhhh, Ride, of course... Leading no doubt to my not doing anything about it until I hear another one I like and think the exact same thing.

City Boy

Back in my teens, a couple of friends were going off to see this band I'd never heard of and they played me a couple of their albums. There is a song ("Haymaking Time") off their first album which i absolutely love. I have it as an mp3 in a folder of random songs on my desktop. There was another album of theirs my friends played for me called The Day The Earth Caught Fire which I remember thinking was OK.

But I've never been compelled to go out and buy any of their albums because I suspect most of their music would fall into the realm of bombastic pop (in the vein or Styx or Kansas) which I don't mind but is not really the kind of music I would listen to a lot.

Covers that take the original and really distort it fascinate me. A good example is the Scissor Sisters version of Comfortably Numb where they took a dirgey heavy Pink Floyd number and made a perky disco track of it.

An opposite example is this one, where Billy Corgan had Robert Smith guest on his cover of the Bee Gees cheery "To Love Somebody" and made a somewhat melted, alternative version. I think their voices and guitars meld so well on it, and as an aside, whenever I hear it I can't help but think of the photo from David Bowie's 50th birthday where he had dozens of stars perform with him but in the photo Billy's on one side of him and Robert Smith on the other. Such a creative trio.

Here's the image I'm thinking of too

This is nitpicking but 'cheery' is the last word I would use to describe To Love Somebody. I suppose if you compare it with I Started A Joke it is...

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Do you have any of those artists whose work you always like when you hear it, yet you never investigate them any further let alone buy any of their stuff? For me, Ride are an example of that. Today I heard Peace Sign on the radio, I think it's a new one. And as usual I thought, oh I like this, who is it? Ahhhhh, Ride, of course... Leading no doubt to my not doing anything about it until I hear another one I like and think the exact same thing.

Always been a big fan of Ride, from their early shoegazing stuff to new releases. Good live act as well...Twisterella still a great song which takes me back to some late indie nights in London

Had Greatest Hits Radio on in the car earlier, Ken Bruce doing listeners "tracks of my years", the nominated listener picked Howzat by Sherbet, a great song, which, maybe oddly, always puts me in mind of another great song, Sky High by Jigsaw (which, from memory, is from the film "the man from Hong Kong"). Guess what said listeners next choice was? Maybe not so odd after all.

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Had Greatest Hits Radio on in the car earlier, Ken Bruce doing listeners "tracks of my years", the nominated listener picked Howzat by Sherbet, a great song, which, maybe oddly, always puts me in mind of another great song, Sky High by Jigsaw (which, from memory, is from the film "the man from Hong Kong"). Guess what said listeners next choice was? Maybe not so odd after all.

I was Sherbet's biggest fan when I was a teenager. I saw them many times. Strangely enough, in their earlier years they were quite 'prog'. They did a nine minute version of Graham Nash's Chicago which was very simlar to the Nice (the keyboard player worshipped Keith Emerson). Then they sacked the guitarist and went pop, with Howzat going to Number Two in the UK. Why they thought that song would bring them success in the US too, I have no idea.

100 years ago today, Bette McMurray was born. She gave 2 things to the world: Liquid paper, aka errorex, snopake, typing correction fluid, the last one is a hint to our younger members who probably don't even remember typewriters, it was like white paint you used to correct mistakes on documents. She also, after marriage, gave us her son, Michael Nesmith, most famous for the Monkees, but much more talented than that. Thank you Bette!

I like Broken Man more than stuff from Daddy's Home. I'm looking forward to the album.

I've never seen her live and would love to.

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Suede's debut album released this day in 1993. Any memories of that, thewatcher ?

I became aware of them around that time because of the buzz about the album, which was described as "the best debut album ever" which is the sort of rhetoric few acts can live up to. But despite the rather overheated hype at the time, followed by the loss of a key member early on, they've had a terrific 30-year career. While I don't seek out their work I usually like what I hear and have a lot of respect for them. It feels to me they've got better with time.

Oh man. I didn't even know, thanks for mentioning it. I was unaware of Suede in 1993, I was obsessed with Genesis then! The Way We Walk albums were in my walkman playing on repeat.

Suede caught my attention big time when the single Electricity came out, I think it was 1998. I went very deep down that rabbit hole and the band now comfortably sit alongside Genesis as one of my absolute favorites. Their initial run in the 90s is striking for producing a flabbergasting quantity of B sides that were as good as - or better than - some of their album tracks. The collection Sci-Fi Lullabies is possibly my favorite release of theirs. Songs like My Dark Star, Europe is our Playground, These Are The Sad Songs...

Their trajectory was also unusual, which you mentioned. Losing a key member and going on to greater success - where have I heard that story before? And then they broke up in 2003, only to reform for a "one-off" charity gig in 2010 or so. I was at that gig, and the reception to that one concert was so overwhelming (deep into the set the audience was cheering after a song, and simply didn't stop. The band stood there on stage almost looking stunned at this never ending applause. It was absolutely spine-tingling), it spurred a second chapter to their career, with albums of increasing quality up to last year's Autofiction which is just fantastic.

Great band, thanks for flagging the anniversary of their debut. Might have to play that one loud this weekend too!