Dusty Chalk

4 great albums. I've been on a Fiona Apple kick lately, myself.... I still remember seeing her live for the first time, opening for Chris Isaak, looking 16 18 (I think she was), but having an old soul, like watching someone birthing a fully formed adult.

I just ran across this guy (not literally) at my local Wegmans -- he's fantastic. He did this one thing where he put a capo up real high, set up a riff, looped it, moved the capo down but not off, set up another riff that harmonized with the first one, looped it, too, then played on top of those two guitars and sang. He has an amazing sense of groove and has a high, androgynous voice that was perfect for the songs he was singing.

What was the one from about 18:00 on, where it sounded like she was singing something something "...pee" (I have to pee? On to pee?)

Um...no. He wrote much of the lyrics, yes, but not all, and for example the over-arching concepts to Dark Side of the Moon, WYWH, and Animals, and the use of spoken words bits during the course of Dark Side of the Moon, and the whole theater-of-the-mind portion of "On the Run" were all joint efforts. The decision to make "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" about Syd was a group one. I could go on and on, but he didn't really forcefully take over as "musical director" until The Wall. When I say, 50% instrumental, it's more about time than it is about number of songs -- Animals may have 5 vocal numbers, but it is still 50% instrumental. And 50% is a very hand-wavy number -- I'm not saying down to the minute, but compared to most poprock music, there are great swaths of instrumental sections in their music. "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" is fairly obviously >50% instrumental.

I'm finally getting around to listening to this. I actually don't think it sounds that much like classic Pink Floyd. I mean, the opening, sure, but mostly it sounds like classic Roger Waters. My favourite period of Pink Floyd was ~50% instrumental. and Roger...well, he never really shuts up, does he? I'm alright with that.

On the double-plus side, being not dead is good. Best wishes, Jacob -- I would wish you luck, but you don't need it, you just need to find an interviewer who is good enough to realize what an excellent worker you'd be.

That one front and center looks...Dali-esque.

I don't even know what to call this. Death Rock?

Yeezh.

EDIT: That is surprisingly watchable, in an avant garde/manipulated found art sorta way. I watched a lot more of it than I thought I would. Forforforforforforforforforforforforfor... Is it just me, or is this worst advertisement in the history of advertisements? The scene where he slumps after he says he can't play, so he draws...what is the appeal in taking lessons from someone with that shitty attitude?

I found both these videos enlightening: I think Barrett-led (early stuff), ensemble (everything between <-- and --> ), Waters-led (The Wall, Final Cut), and Gilmour-led (A Momentary Lapse of Reason and after) were all Pink Floyd, just different. It seems Waters in the above video recognizes that he wasn't Pink Floyd in hindsight.

I thought airfoils were put on cars because the drivers wanted them put on. I know cars like the Mazda3 and the Matrix definitely need them, otherwise they look...I don't know what the word is...'dowdier'?

Bathroom door sign:

yeah, but how are the production values?

Happy birthday! (party favour noise...doppler shifted as he goes whizzing by...)

Happy birthday! (party favour noise)

I think of this sample every time I read the words, "quit being poor", finally got tired of not knowing what the song was, so I Googled it.

A little salty...IIRC, BFB is usually not that salty.

KSIA == "Keep Shelly in Athens", Jeff.

Fucking hell, it's a bit of a mystery. I'm in a group on Facebook with the maker of his signature pedal, and there isn't a single word on it, and you can't get it -- it was made exclusively for him. But I have learned a few things -- he splits the signal, and puts the clean sound and distorted sound through two different amps, so that's a big part of it. I believe he low passes the lead (dirty) sound and high passes the clean, bass sound, but that's obviously not the whole of it. EDIT: OH HOLY SHIT, apparently the bassist/vocalist, Steve Fromage, is in the group too, I interact with him all the time. Unholy carp, I hope I haven't said anything insulting, although I don't think I did, because I really like them and just bought all their CDs.

Fucking brilliant video

I love the groove of this one:

My jam is "Drinking Song" by Rob Dougan (anyone who's hung out with me while I was spinning on tt.fm probably knows it by heart). Not that they're related at all (they aren't!). I just thought it was funny that the song titles make them sound like they are. Me, now: Trans Am, Futureworld -- I have very pleasant memories of seeing them several times in the 90s after this release, and they would bookend the concert with synthpop that would gradually morph into their more guitar-oriented indie music, and towards the end of the concert, would morph back into Kraftwerkian electronica, and it was such a unique, yet totally Trans-Am-ish experience, that I will probably take this memory to my grave.