May 2, 201115 yr Viktoria Mullova, LAP - Stravinsky, Bartok Violin Concertos Comments? Always looking for good interpretations.
May 2, 201115 yr I like Mullova's playing a lot, so I'm biased. Not very familiar with these concerts either. I think it's a good performance, but can't say how it compares to others.
May 3, 201115 yr Robert Earl Keen - The Party Never Ends Why do I always think of Brent when I hear this?
May 4, 201115 yr Long Distance Calling -- instrumental prog/post-rock, very cool. Might be a little bit too "jam band" for proper proggers. But I like it -- it's nicely organic, a la Timeout Drawer.
May 5, 201115 yr Joy Formidable, "Whirring" through Paulstretch, x8.04 -- all 39 minutes of it. I tried putting Shape of Despair through it, but it sounded the same. I am from this moment forward playing all my tracks through paulstretch. Sure, it might take me 6 hours to listen to a 45 minute album, but it's better than 'ludes, man. Guaranteed to have a lower heart-rate by the time it's done. And lower blood pressure.
May 5, 201115 yr Al Di Meola, "Race with Devil on Spanish Highway", slowitupped -- fucking creepy as hell. Up next, "Space Boogie", Jeff Beck. Any other suggestions for ridiculously extremely fast songs would be appreciated.
May 5, 201115 yr Space Boogie didn't work so well. Neither did Shriekback's "This Big Hush". Now on: "Kagirohi Ha Yomi Ni Mata Muto" (the 10-minute finale of Ghost in the Shell: Innocence with heavy drumming) -- all 71 minutes of it.
May 6, 201115 yr paulstretched Electric Rendez-vous, Al Di Meola. Up next: Kylie Minogue's Body Language, might stop and listen to "Blue Monday". NP: "Stairway to Heaven", LZ, paulstretched.
May 6, 201115 yr Author paulstretched Electric Rendez-vous, Al Di Meola. Up next: Kylie Minogue's Body Language, might stop and listen to "Blue Monday". NP: "Stairway to Heaven", LZ, paulstretched. Why do you do this?
May 6, 201115 yr Why do you do this?Because it's the best thing that has ever happened to me since ... well, since the last best thing that has ever happened to me. I mean, really, Greatest Meme Evar. Also, not entirely honest -- I have yet to get through an entire album paulstretched -- I only got through "God Bird Change" and most of the title track of Electric Rendez-Vous, and "Slow" and "Chocolate" from Kylie, but I could tell the entire album would have worked in both cases. It's interesting what doesn't work: "Blue Monday" really didn't work -- the fast drum beats just turned into this long noise, and I think anything with too much obvious simple repetition doesn't work. "Autobahn" didn't work. Killing Joke's "Change" didn't work. On the other hand, Nitzer Ebb, "Fun to be Had" and "Getting Closer" both worked surprisingly well. NP: Alison Moyet, "All Cried Out", paulstretched Also, I haven't gotten laid in way too long, so not so much "bored" as "restless".
May 7, 201115 yr The Cars new album "Move Like This" which will be released officially this Tuesday. It's been available for online streaming for several days. You can listen here. This is their first album in 24 years, and of course Ben Orr's vocals are missed badly. Ric sings lead on all songs, and as he's admitted himself, were Ben still alive, he probably would have sung half of them. Blue Tip, Sad Song, Free, Hit Me and parts of other songs have elements of classis Cars sound we knew and loved in the late 70s. Most of the rest of the album is passable but sounds more like a Ric Osasek solo album; not quite the snappy pace I would have preferred, but hey, not too shabby after 24 years! Edited May 7, 201115 yr by Wmcmanus
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