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<p>I saw Seeger in 1983. I knew his stuff (as above) but could not fully appreciate it after it being shoved down my throat playing singalong by hippie primary school teachers in early 1970s. (It was him, Cat Stevens, Blowin' in the Wind, Puff the Magic Dragon ... dangerous subversive liberalism as a key component of the Kiwi primary school curriculum!) I saw a great PBS American Masters documentary about him much later and heard the testimonials by Dylan and Springsteen and became a bit more convinced. He's a folkie but If I Had a Hammer is fairly rock and roll, maybe even proto-punk. I'm ashamed to say I was pretty hammered when I saw him, which was probably not the right state of mind to be in, but I was getting ready for Stevie Wonder..</p>
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<p>Pure otherworldly soul.</p>
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<p>Opening two tracks from Charles Mingus' "Black Saint and the Sinner Lady," (1963). (On the record the two songs segue invisibly, the complete six songs are all one long glorious ballet suite).</p>
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<p>The liner notes are bizarre, to say the least. Back in the era, Jazz labels (Bluenote, Prestige, Columbia, etc.) would typically recruit an important critic to write long critiques that filled the back cover of a 12-inch record jacket describing in dreary convoluted detail why the record was good or important. (Or, perhaps, small print 1,500-word promotions for the prospective record buyer.) Mingus won't have it, and instead pens his own very long tirade shitting all over music critics (what he calls "bathroom attendants").</p>
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<p>"This kind of critic-musician man teaches people how to listen to music in new schools and he gets paid to play records to brainwash innocent little people who don't know that if you're going to like something that's beautiful no one can tell you how if it don't just happen. If it doesn't just happen, you're already brainwashed and instead of hiring someone to tell you what's beautiful for you, and you're past five years old, <strong>this means you need an analyst, not a public bathroom attendant </strong>with dirty faucets, who only knows what's beautiful to him because of his own inadequacies..."</p>
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<p>And so Mingus, who was an inmate at Bellevue for mental health, does as he says and turns the review slot over to his psychoanalyst. The doc admits astonishment.</p>
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<p>"I said I thought I was competent enough as a psychologist but that my interest in music was only average and without any technical background."</p>
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<p>I usually listen to alot of George FM here in NZ but the other day these dudes pulled up in a matt black van and gave me a bottle opener with 'The Flat....get on it' so naturally in appreciation of the bottle opener I googled it and found out its a radio station. Weak as signal so only available in Auckland (North Shore is best) or online at <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.flatfm.co.nz/'>http://www.flatfm.co.nz/</a> and its surprisingly good. Quite a wide range of music.</p>
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<p>Waking up with a long forgotten song from my memory banks running through my head is becoming normal as I get older.</p>
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<p>Here's one I stored in my mind earlier. I saw a band years ago called Bill Malonee and the vigilantes of Love at The Borderline of fond memory in London's West End. Amazing energy for a three piece and some beautifully crafted songs. I think Bill Malonee still tours, but I don't know what happened to the Vigilantes. No matter, Solar System along with Resplendent are a couple of his tracks which I thought were elevated above the general din of Alt Country around at the time.</p>
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<blockquote class='ipsBlockquote' data-author="Luigi" data-cid="414251" data-time="1392103861"><p>Waking up with a long forgotten song from my memory banks running through my head is becoming normal as I get older.</p></blockquote>This! This was a daily occurrence for me until about a year ago. Glad I'm not alone...
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<p>Found an old CD in my car on the way to work this morning which was a Channel Z compilation (from about 2000 or 2001) and one of the tracks was Gravity by Superjesus. Hadnt heard it for years and dam her voice.....so sexy.</p>
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<p>you'll find a discussion about her a couple of pages back. Sexy as fuck. and yea, i love both of these songs, they are on regular rotations through the itunes</p>
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<p>i love the way she sings this</p>
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<p>I loves me some Elvii. The boy wants to be <em>moved</em>. He wants to get <em>real-real gone</em> for a change.</p>
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<p>Sun Sessions turns 60 years old this year. I've been listening to the collection heavily for the past several months, after my CD was borrowed-out last year and never returned/lost. I was sadly astonished that finding a replacement was difficult -- I had to go mail-order, as none of the record stores in three different cities I visited carried it in their inventory. (WTF??!!). The Sun Sessions is the "big bang" of rock, easily one of the most important recordings in the history of <em>any</em> form of music. I would have imagined it should be perpetually stocked in every self-respecting record store, but I was mistaken. </p>
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