Aretha Franklin – Soul 69 – one of her best! But then 1969 was a fantastic year for music

Toten Hosen (Dead Pants) are like U2 here, everyone knows them, but the music is wanting.

The best i’ve heard is the Iris Panknin|Band. Sort of Anita O’day meets Tom Waits, with the best rhythm section in the world. But what do i know?

As i was posting my call for a nationwide tax refusal on my blog, i’m listening to Housemusique, a netradio live DJ out of Paris, same time zone as me, where it’s heading toward midnight. And this deep house after some serious time spent recovering Joe Ely, Gram Parsons and Bob Wills.

And then to find the entire Atlantic catalogue crowding my brain courtesy Donita’s stellar post…

I’m always on the lookout for a good source of whats going on in Europe, do you have a link? Also, are you in Germany by chance? Or can you hip me to whats been happening in the German music scene lately? I have always had an affinity for German artists like Kraftwerk, Die Toten Hosen (sp?), SIgue Sigue Sputnik, KMFDM and other electronic and industrial artists from there like the previously mentioned Rammstein. Who would be a good band to look into these days along those lines?

Again, apologies for being a thread hog.

Fini, you mentioned Quincy, the thread is about Ahmet, so throw in the movie “Ray” and how language evolves and you get cultural misrepresentations by the would be historians of subtle matters only a geezer would know. In the movie on Ray’s life, Quincy, after being denied admittance to a bar in ‘51 in Seattle, walks away calling the bouncer “jive.” Unfortunately, in ‘51 the slang “jive” would have had a positive connotation. By the mid to late sixties it had a completely negative connotation — as witnessed by the seventies song “Jive Talkin”.

Sorry. The pompous ass side of my nature seems to be taking control here.

Don’t ever apologize for being yourself to me, I’ve been an outlandish ass on occasion, you’re downright polite in this thread.

Interesting observation, had you not mentioned it I would never have known. I didn’t know jive had a previous different kind of connotation. Thanks for the insight!

Fini? I’d say between the anime and the music? We have a lot in common. *laughs*

I’m the same way about music. I’m as likely to listen to any genre from any decade. As long as it’s got that something i just love. Also make that any country too, since a language I dont’ understand never stopped me from enjoying something. My mom doesn’t get it, and dad is tone deaf to begin with.

I’ve never let a language barrier stop my enjoyment of a great artist. Opera lovers do not have diminished enjoyment of a number of performances simply because they don’t speak Italian, why should I not get into Rammstein for singing in German if I love their angry passionate sound?

Fini, you mentioned Quincy, the thread is about Ahmet, so throw in the movie “Ray” and how language evolves and you get cultural misrepresentations by the would be historians of subtle matters only a geezer would know. In the movie on Ray’s life, Quincy, after being denied admittance to a bar in ‘51 in Seattle, walks away calling the bouncer “jive.” Unfortunately, in ‘51 the slang “jive” would have had a positive connotation. By the mid to late sixties it had a completely negative connotation — as witnessed by the seventies song “Jive Talkin”.

Sorry. The pompous ass side of my nature seems to be taking control here.

And then to find the entire Atlantic catalogue crowding my brain courtesy Donita’s stellar post…

I’m the same way about music. I’m as likely to listen to any genre from any decade. As long as it’s got that something i just love. Also make that any country too, since a language i dont’ understand never stopped me from enjoying something. My mom doesn’t get it, and dad is tone deaf to begin with.

“Hehehe I AM one of the younger folks – I was born in 71. I just love the whole era of music after WW2.”

Don’t necessarily write off the war or pre war five years or so. I’ve always had this unexplained affinity for Swing, Big Band stuff. Didn’t, of course, listen to it with my friends in the sixties, but it’s always been there. You could make out to the Righteous Brothers with that cute sophomore from Chem class whereas you couldn’t make out to say “String of Pearls.”

I grew up with my mother’s 78s collection with Glen Miller, Artie Shaw, Count Basie and Louis Armstrong so I know what you mean. I just generally like the entire post WW2 era in music, from jazz by Quincy Jones, Ramsey Lewis and others to blues from BB King, Sam and Dave, John Lee Hooker to rock n roll and everything in between. I’m a fan of any music done well in any style of any era.