What are you listening to Part the Third

[blessingx]

Wait, there was a Devo assisted Disney Devo 2.0 (aka Dev2.0 or DEV2.O)?

When Disney Met Devo  https://www.runoutnumbers.com/blog/2015/9/13/oh-no-its-devo-20-when-devo-met-disney 

It's all about devolution after all. 

 

 

Edited June 10 by blessingx

[skullguise]

The more I listen, the more I love this; unique sound and she still has so much passion in her singing.  "This House" hits a bit hard, but all is great.

[Dusty Chalk]

11 hours ago, skullguise said:

The more I listen, the more I love this; unique sound and she still has so much passion in her singing.  "This House" hits a bit hard, but all is great.

Ohmigosh, I love "This House".  So melodramatic.  Right up there with "Winter Kills" in terms of depressing music.  (For some reason, I'm always reminded of an SNL skit of a desperate, drunk woman in her apartment, "I'll shout from my window, to anyone listening:  'I'm losing!'" 🤣 ) 

In my top 10 favourite songs with her singing, with "All Cried Out", "Where Hides Sleep", "Winter Kills", "Goodbye Seventies", and others.

I first discovered it as the B-side to "Love Letters", with a guitar solo instead of that bridge section.  This is that version:

 

[skullguise]

27 minutes ago, Dusty Chalk said:

Ohmigosh, I love "This House".  So melodramatic.  Right up there with "Winter Kills" in terms of depressing music.  (For some reason, I'm always reminded of an SNL skit of a desperate, drunk woman in her apartment, "I'll shout from my window, to anyone listening:  'I'm losing!'" 🤣 ) 

Hmmm, is that Gilda Radner in her satirical commercial for "Haley's Bristol Cream?"  She parodied the real commercial of a woman telling another woman to call a man and not wait for him.  So she tries it a couple times and the men are not available; she ends up yelling out to a stranger int he street, and you then see a bum in her apartment drinking with her....

Tried a quick search for the video, didn't find it.

[Dusty Chalk]

2 hours ago, skullguise said:

Hmmm, is that Gilda Radner in her satirical commercial for "Haley's Bristol Cream?"  She parodied the real commercial of a woman telling another woman to call a man and not wait for him.  So she tries it a couple times and the men are not available; she ends up yelling out to a stranger int he street, and you then see a bum in her apartment drinking with her....

Tried a quick search for the video, didn't find it.

Yeah, that sounds right!

[dsavitsk]

On 6/10/2025 at 12:08 PM, blessingx said:

 

Good God! How on earth am I going to unsee that?

[swt61]

21 hours ago, skullguise said:

The more I listen, the more I love this; unique sound and she still has so much passion in her singing.  "This House" hits a bit hard, but all is great.

Hmmm. Will have to give a listen. I'm a huge AM fan!

[blessingx]

2 hours ago, dsavitsk said:

Good God! How on earth am I going to unsee that?

😄 I'm from that part of Ohio and went to Kent State where the Casale brothers did also and dad taught. Devo was big in my life. I can't explain it, but 2.0 is unbelievably slightly growing on me. Slightly. Just listen to it 20 more times! Uncontrollable Urge switch from sex to junk food is kinda funny. 

[skullguise]

I thought Uncontrollable Urge wasn't too bad, maybe a bit too tame (I've always like the manic-ness that Devo brought to the stage).  I appreciate they did "the dance" where they line up and switch their feet back and forth.....

[Dusty Chalk]

On 6/12/2025 at 4:34 PM, dsavitsk said:

Good God! How on earth am I going to unsee that?

Part of the problem is the earworminess of the original tune.  So, to start, pick a song that you find greater-than-or-equal-to in its earworminess.  For example:

 

[dsavitsk]

21 minutes ago, Dusty Chalk said:

Part of the problem is the earworminess of the original tune.  So, to start, pick a song that you find greater-than-or-equal-to in its earworminess.  To wit:

 

I'll see your yellow song and raise you one red one...

 

 

[Dusty Chalk]

20 hours ago, dsavitsk said:

I'll see your yellow song and raise you one red one...

 

 

That's the spirit!  Of course, that one's kind of cheating, since it references Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight", but still, it's brilliant.

[swt61]

Sure, it's not for everyone. I discovered Junior Brown in '94. I immediately loved his retro country style and sense of humor. But his ability on the "guit-steel" is what completely sold me.

 

[dsavitsk]

21 minutes ago, swt61 said:

Sure, it's not for everyone. I discovered Junior Brown in '94. I immediately loved his retro country style and sense of humor. But his ability on the "guit-steel" is what completely sold me.

 

I saw him live at least 2, maybe more times back in the 90s. He's really great.

[guzziguy]

I love Junior Brown and have a couple of his CDs.  Highly recommended!

[Dusty Chalk]

I totally went down the Kardi rabbit hole.  I love hard pop.  The girl has such a crazy soulful voice, and that vibrato is just (chef's kiss), yet the music they play rocks my socks right off.  Kinda reminds me of Shirley/Garbage.

 

[mikeymad]

Nice set...

[Sechtdamon]

I've been listening to bands like Animals as Leaders, Asymmetric Universe and Liquid Tension Experiment. I love this song:
 

 

[mikeymad]

Gadabout Season
by Brandee Younger (2025)

https://album.link/psfqgzn0sqxzr

Example:

I listened to this the first time yesterday, and I was not sure about posting it. Just as an FYI I normally only post here if it is a recommendation of some sort. But once I reflected on this new album, I can see what is going on. I first listened to Brandee about three years ago with her Somewhere Different release. But this release did not really fit that same jazz mold. They have taken much more of a Andreas Vollenweider side to harp than the Jazz fusion mix they did before. So in that context, I like it. Its only real flaw is that it reminds me that I want to listen to some Andreas. I don't think that a great selling point for an album, is that it makes you want to listen to another album. 

[Dusty Chalk]

Lots of 90's Yello.  Visual representation with artistic license:

[mikeymad]

For Alfred - 

Alfred Brendel was a big part of my early classical journey. Readily available from Columbia House on sale, they had the Phillips and Decca recordings. And since I was in full exploration mode and he recorded things that many people didn't record, I ended up with a pile of his albums. 

Brahms: Piano Concerto No.1
by Alfred Brendel (1980)

https://album.link/fxnrsg7pgznc8

Example:

and

Beethoven: Für Elise; Eroica Variations, Op.35; 6 Bagatelles Op.126; 6 Ecossaises
by Alfred Brendel (1985)

https://album.link/v4df2crd6cksf  (boy this page pretty much didn't exist)

Example:

This is an example of recording something that most people don't. People play Für Elise, they use it as an encore, and the audience goes 'awe', but most performers don't recorded it. So like Murray Perahia, Yo-Yo Ma, Michael Tilson Thomas, Vladimir Horowitz, he was a big influence. 

[Dusty Chalk]

1 hour ago, mikeymad said:

For Alfred - 

Alfred Brendel was a big part of my early classical journey. Readily available from Columbia House on sale, they had the Phillips and Decca recordings. And since I was in full exploration mode and he recorded things that many people didn't record, I ended up with a pile of his albums. 

Brahms: Piano Concerto No.1
by Alfred Brendel (1980)

https://album.link/fxnrsg7pgznc8

Example:

and

Beethoven: Für Elise; Eroica Variations, Op.35; 6 Bagatelles Op.126; 6 Ecossaises
by Alfred Brendel (1985)

https://album.link/v4df2crd6cksf  (boy this page pretty much didn't exist)

Example:

This is an example of recording something that most people don't. People play Für Elise, they use it as an encore, and the audience goes 'awe', but most performers don't recorded it. So like Murray Perahia, Yo-Yo Ma, Michael Tilson Thomas, Vladimir Horowitz, he was a big influence. 

Brendel was my favourite interpreter of Schubert's solo piano music.  Check out his Wanderer Fantasy.  This is more of a class on Schubert, taught/curated by Brendel:

The sun seems so cold here
The blossom is withered
Life is old
And what they say is empty words:
I am a stranger everywhere.

Totes relatable.