Thanks to @Grimezsz for introducing me to Skinny Puppy.
Tag: Music
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Is there anybody out there? The Wall live 1980-81. One the greatest live recordings.
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Implementing Jams
Jams were a type of content popularized by the website This is my jam.
This is my jam has since gone into read-only archive mode. This is such a great way of closing a website — especially one whose content is mostly community-created.
I started to use the site at the end of last year to start saving songs that stood out to me at a particular time.
Thanks to This is my jam for making me an archive of my own. This means I haven’t lost all of my data with them just because they have closed doors.
I still love the idea of saving individual “jams” though, so I have implemented it on my own site as of today. I have also pulled my old jams into my site. Going forwards I look forward to documenting any new and/or forgotten gems that I hear in the future. They will all be found on my Jams page.
🏷️ Music
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100 Albums #2 – The Wall: Live in Berlin by Roger Waters (and various artists)
A couple of weeks ago I went to see the one-night-only showing of Roger Waters’ The Wall at my local cinema. That performance rekindled my love for that album – indeed Pink Floyd in general.
Yesterday I revisted an older performance of the album, which was given at the Berlin wall at the time when it was being torn down.
Very apt.
This performance of The Wall is unique, in that many of the songs are performed by guest artists. My personal favorites of these perfomances are Bryan Adam’s “Young Lust”, Paul Carrack’s “Hey You” and Van Morrison’s “Comfortably Numb”.
For any fans of The Wall, this album is a milestone performance and must be experienced.
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100 Albums #1 – Kiddo by Tove Styrke
My very first album write up goes to Tove Styrke’s Kiddo. I had never heard of her before tonight – she was a recommendation by Google Play Music, based on my interest in ‘Say Lou Lou’.
As soon as the first song started, I was hooked. Hooked enough to take advantage of my Android 6.0 update’s new context awareness by demanding – “Google! Play me her first album”* – that one is also great.
The first song sounded to be very Prince-esque – purple rain Prince – which can only be a good thing. Then there were other songs that had the sort of catchy hooks and beats you can’t help but move your body to. I had been getting nowhere with what I was building tonight, which was annoying, but this album soon got me feeling on top of the world.
Stand out songs: Borderline, Even If I’m Loud It Doesn’t Mean I’m Talking To You, Walking a Line.
*I am since trying to rid my life of Google Inc. as much as I can.
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Just stayed up to listen to @LanaDelRey‘s new album Honeymoon at moment of release. And my gosh it was worth it!
