Topic: The Music Thread

@nessisonett @render @johncalmc I very nearly posted “at least you’re not one of the people who says Pulp when asked whether you prefer Blur or Oasis” earlier.

I did love Oasis at the time though. I still think Slide Away from the first album is a really underrated song of theirs.

My wife wanted to watch that film “Yesterday” recently about the guy waking up in a world where the Beatles don’t exist and I did like the dig at Oasis as they no longer existed either..

@Jimmer-jammer What have you been listening to recently? I've mostly been sticking to my jazz guitar heroes - John Scofield and John Abercrombie. I played at a jazz jam last weekend and was trying to channel their abilities, playing at another one soon and I hope to continue to develop my skills, jazz can be a life-long obsession, despite what I said about returning to rock, jazz has captured my heart and playing in the novice rather than the intermediate group this time around has designated less significance to theory-based playing and more of an emphasis on feel and improvisation, which I feel is all jazz should really be about, how is your own piano playing going?

@Jimmer-jammer How did the rest of 'Show Your Bones' by the Yeah Yeah Yeah's play out? I quite liked Maps by them, back in the day. Do you know that song, also? What are you listening to over the weekend? @render @nessisonett t What music have you been listening to recently?

@TheBrandedSwordsman I’ve been listening to Richard Hawley. He’s basically what ‘easy listening’ should actually be. Good stuff.

@Jimmer-jammer I was listening to this album:

Let me know what you think!

@nessisonett Listening to Standing at the Sky's Edge now. Captivating thus far. When you say it's what easy listening music should actually be like, though, isn't it a bit too rocky for that?

@TheBrandedSwordsman That album specifically is quite rocky yeah but albums like Coles Corner, Lady’s Bridge and his self-titled album are more what I was referring to.

@nessisonett Listening to Coles Corner now, definitely easy listening - great stuff.

@Jimmer-jammer The whole album's pretty cool, so if you liked that go ahead and feel free to explore the rest of 'Barefoot Boy' by Larry Coryell.

@nessisonett What do you think of Three Or Four Shades Of Blue by Mingus? Great guitar-work on that album, no?

@TheBrandedSwordsman Yeah, the recording of Goodbye Porkpie Hat on that album is really good. Honestly though, I’m not a massive fan of jazz guitar, I prefer horns and piano!

@nessisonett How about rock n' roll guitar? Is that what you play yourself as opposed to jazz guitar?

@TheBrandedSwordsman My guitar skills amount to messing around and I can play a few songs. I’m not exactly very good at it although I’ve played on and off for years.

@nessisonett My ear is my problem, I play jazz by ear so it can be very good or very bad!

Society has jumped the shark. I blame the internet.

Baby on Nirvana's "Nevermind" album cover sues band for child porn
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nirvana-nevermind-cover-baby-spe...

@zupertramp In the guy’s defence, the Blind Faith album with the topless prepubescent girl is often not shown at all, even redesigned at times. So it’s really the same concept. It’s probably not a nice feeling being that guy and seeing your ding dong be part of culture, let’s be real.

Also, the lawsuit says that his parents didn’t actually sign a release on the photo. So it’s a whole lot more than that rubbish headline. That’s the bit I’d assume would be argued in court a lot more than the ‘naked baby chasing dollar bill makes it look like a sex worker’ part.

@nessisonett Baby pictures are just a whole different territory imo. I'm sure there's someone out there, somewhere, who gets off on that but frankly it's so far removed from any notions of human sexual anatomy that it's almost universally benign.

As regards the release forms, it having been this long, that sounds like more of a legal technicality to bolster to your (their) argument. Like nobody has stressed it for 20+ years and suddenly it's important they never signed. Suspect.

Edit: changed loophole to technicality because it's a better word for what I meant.

@nessisonett on another note entirely... when I first read Blind Faith and topless girl I got it confused with Blind Melon's debut with the girl in the bee costume and I was like "Whoa what?! That girl is topless?" I was proper confused for a moment lol.

@zupertramp I also get Blind Faith and Blind Melon mixed up 😂

@nessisonett What do you reckon of this? Since you "prefer" horns?