Many/most of you have heard this, in one form or another. But I've got to include it anyway. (I've been on a Sammy Hagar kick for the last little bit.)
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I'm not sure if anyone here is a Sturgill Simpson fan, but for a long time he made about the only country I was excited about. Turtles All the Way Down is one of those:
Then in 2019 he released one of the most off-the-wall albums I've ever heard. Sound and Fury is a bizarre mishmash of dirty blues rock, funk, and techno, and was released with an accompanying album-long, cyberpunk samurai anime music video. It's the most out-of-left-field thing I've ever experienced musically. Here's the first song from it I was introduced to:
I'd highly recommend searching the song name in YouTube to get the actual music video. The videos are a little...strange and nsfw, but they're all gold and I think really enhance the experience.
The shear audacity of it still hits in exactly the right way (at least in my opinion). The song immediately following that one is pure funk, and the song and video are both great.
Also...how do you embed the videos in the posts here? Is there a tag for it? cheers williegoat! Edited to embed the videos
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This is kind of a tripped out song- long but really interesting...The one thing I never liked was the phrase "Psychedelicized"- actually, I just don't like the way he sings that one bit.
I'm not sure if anyone here is a Sturgill Simpson fan... in 2019 he released one of the most off-the-wall albums I've ever heard. Sound and Fury is a bizarre mishmash of dirty blues rock, funk, and techno, and was released with an accompanying album-long, cyberpunk samurai anime music video. It's the most out-of-left-field thing I've ever experienced musically.
Never heard of him before, although I liked the examples you linked to. This is the "official" video of the third song you linked to. Again, the song itself is fine... but the video appears to be a Japanese schoolboy's wet dream.
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That's the song I crank up LOUD when the squirrels get in my attic. I'm serious! There's something about that song that scares the bejesus out of those furry-tailed rodents. And I love that song... so it's a win-win situation when I play it.
Never heard of him before, although I liked the examples you linked to. This is the "official" video of the third song you linked to. Again, the song itself is fine... but the video appears to be a Japanese schoolboy's wet dream.
The whole thing is over the top, but it's so audacious it just makes me love it more. I don't want to do Sturgill an injustice, because Sound and Fury is easily his most divisive albums. Here are two of what I'd consider to be his best albums. Finding a link to Metamodern Sounds actually led to me listening to the whole album again.
This is kind of a tripped out song- long but really interesting...The one thing I never liked was the phrase "Psychedelicized"- actually, I just don't like the way he sings that one bit.
the Chambers Brothers- "Time has come today"
"Psychedelicized" seems pretty accurate to me. 3:00-4:00 was as close to the audio equivalent of huffing something out of a balloon at a Phish concert that I think I've ever experienced. Feelin' pretty psychedeli-somethinged by it. Headphones is an intense choice for this song.
The whole song is a fantastic experience. By the time it comes back around at 9:04-9:05, that "Ohhhhhhhhh!" is crazy satisfying.
1976 studio album, Leftoverture May 2-4 weekend, Victoria Day, Bala, Ontario, hundreds of bikes in front of the Kee, wish I still had my Kawasaki 750 H2, wicked fast, a Widowmaker. I vaguely recall that was the weekend a kid I knew from our high school wrecked his '69 Mini into the railway bridge abutment, tee-boned it real good. Pushed the engine block into the footwell, doing at least 30 mph, just forgot to turn left, smashed his head into the windshield, he was a tough guy, wrestling team 198 lbs. I nearly croaked that weekend, diving off the dock by the Kee, into Lake Muskoka, crystal clear, flipping ice cold, I did it because a pal did it seconds before, almost got stuck on all the trash on the bottom, bed springs, steel re-bars, broken bottles, we about levitated above the surface, so cold. [/maps/place/The+KEE+to+Bala/@45.016542,-79.6256137] A two-four weekend in the boonies, Labatt's Blue, a sweetheart and a willingness to party hard, drunken buffoons, public intoxication, good rock tunes. Great White North
I wish, strange thing that others do, but I didn't take one, it had a custom airbrushed mural paint job, a sunset landscape scene with eagles above fir trees, on a red/orange tank color. Threw a rod on the center cylinder, gave it away to a nephew who had it repaired, who then sold it to a kid up north in Sudbury, who then wrecked it on a highway rock cut, it's final fate. Pipes from Bill Wirges
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Cayuga Dragway Park, in Cayuga, Ont. Knew Frank Elliot in '64, Drag Supply was the place in those '60s days. '64 Plymouth Fury Hemi 10.6 @ 126mph. Have a story about another Beatty+Woods Boss Maverick 351C, a '71, and how it came to my garage.
Sure, it's a different kind of music, but it's music of machinery. Man, I sure wish I hadn't destroyed my '72 Satellite Sebring, or my '76 Dart Sport, '66 Mustang... Regrets, I should write a Country-Western song about it all, the tears and the beer, wanton women and the resulting broken hearts
Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way Caught his act at Maple Leaf Gardens, George Jones didn't make the curtain call, so he did a double set, my ex didn't like it, turns out it wasn't the tunes she didn't like. /
... Had a heavy thunderstorm come through Toronto this morning, knocked out the power for, like, 4 hrs, a flooded transformer vault, happens every time, they stage a new one on site for a quick fix. Flooded my basement with an inch of water above the floor, a improperly graded back yard, and a foundation that leaks, a gigantic mess, used the electric bilge pump until the power went out. Bailed it out by 5 gallon bucket for the last 40 gallons, I figure about 200 in all. This is the second time this has happened, the other was in a March rainstorm over the still icy yard, 2 feet of water in the below grade window well, only 1/4 of today's flood. Spinning me in to a dimension of pissed off.. This is my way of cooling my jets, a thick post of stuff that comes to mind, rambling along, moseying along.
