More modern music, Part III.

So that's what they called music THEN:

http://www.avclub.com/articles/introduction,38249/

If you are going to do an article on the NOW! series then do it properly and use the UK series - that goes all the way back to 1983 and are double CDs. Using the American series just shows lack of commitment. (That's so typical of young people nowadays - take the easy road, rather than suffering for us). The UK series contains approximately 2000 more songs - much more scope to contain the good, the bad, and the downright disturbing.

You're being sarcastic, right? The AV Club, being a US publication, just chose to limit the scope of their series. Enough ragging on young people, with the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Great Recession, and a crumbling infrastructure, educational system, and rampant Tea Party nitwits around, we have enough trouble cleaning up the numerous messes created by the Boomers and their short-sighted minions. Back off, pal!

This is someone who knows how to do one of these retrospectives properly - Freakytrigger - man reviews every UK number 1. (He's currently in 1987,#585:Ben E. King Stand By Me).

"Properly" -- what a quaint, nay, Victorian concept. I'll remember that when I'm shrouding the feet of my grand piano. Then again, I'm a young American, responsible for everything bad in the world.

"Your story has grown tiresome." -- Dieter from Sprockets.

That article is neither funny, interesting or informative, so what's the point of it. It's just Beavis or Butt-head saying "Pop music was funny 10 years ago. Huh huh huh." (A lot of the stuff on AVClub is enjoyable but this one is just wide of the mark).

Pop music is ALWAYS funny--usually unintentionally.

6: Not to you, at least. Then again, I'm not reading Schopenauer in the original German. And I'm also not interested in your fascinating with morris dancing and telegraph poles. I'll be on the porch, since you're already on the cross.

7: Unintentional hilarity is usually the stock and trade of pop music. I thought the AV Club's description of Hanson was spot-on. A fascinating analysis of utterly disposable trash.

Great, great new album by Pantha du Prince, called Black Noise...you know, if minimal techno's your thing.

Sample:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh1NfecDOAM

(give it at least until the beat cuts in around 1:20)

That's pretty good--the cut "Lay in a Shimmer" (I think it's called) is very catchy too...

8 - with that lack of knowledge re international geography and customs I had to check your profile to make sure your nom de plume wasn't a cover for Sarah Palin. (I know it sounds far fetched that she would be on a book site but is it any more far fetched than Van Halen and the b-52's being among Osama Bin Laden's favourite bands - see here for details and the favourite music of other dictators).

Finally got hold of Yvonne Fair's only album The Bitch Is Black - a real soul classic from 1975. The ex-Mrs James Brown deserved a lot better from Motown than this solitary release.

Also Luke Haines new album, 21st Century Man/Achtung Mutha, - well up to the usual standards, and with the promise of a new Black Box Recorder album to follow.

Patti Smith memoir just released, for those of you who are fans:

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2010/02/12/f-patti-smith-memoir-just-kids.htm...

Gorillaz are coming out with a new album in a couple of weeks, Plastic Beach. Interesting cast of guests like Lou Reed, Bobby Womack, Mos Def. Might give it a try.

Lookit that. I pop away for a few days and a frenzy of gratuitous Brit-bashing breaks out. I quite like telegraph poles, and I have nothing against morris dancers. In fact, one of my best friends etc. etc.

However, I think jargoneer's use of "properly" has been misinterpreted, and in any case, so far as I know, that story about the Victorians and piano legs (feet? Wha?) is just one of yer actual modern myths.

Not all modern is good ... or in tune:

http://www.avclub.com/articles/great-job-internet-tuneless-teen-christianrockers...

erm...having listened to the highly overrated Dexter Romweber and his more famous, but forgettable buddy, Eugene Chadbourne playing "the electric rake" many a year ago, "modern" ^= "good" is a true as "avant gardeeee = good." Crap and great stuff can be found almost everywhere and every genre.

Live performances were painful - crap singing, stupidly pretentious lyrics, rake and guitar no where near turn. Sure it was all intentional, but that didn't make it any good. Then try, say, Bang on a Can for avant pop w/ a snap and a crackle.

Coming to terms with k.d. lang's open Canadianism:

http://www.avclub.com/articles/kd-lang-the-iconoclast,38492/

Ol' k.d. has really dropped off the radar up here in Soviet Canuckistan. Wondered what became of her...

White Stripes--a live concert from their final Canadian tour. Free listening!

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124356484

(Thanks, Gord)

Got the new Gorillaz album...and it's great. Neo-soul, melancholy brit-rock, hip/hop and even orchestral arrangements. Really good synthesis of it all. As good, if not better than Demon Days.

I saw Andorran death metal band Persefone on Friday. (That's "Andorran" as in people from Andorra, not blue aliens with silly antenna.) They were excellent. When I admitted to the guitarist that I'd come to the gig to see them and not headliners Obituary, he was so chuffed he gave me a hug.

Obituary - who I'd never heard before - were a bit crap. They looked like they were just going through the motions. Nor was the music as good as Death or Morbid Angel, two bands who formed around the same time as them.

For anyone who listened to Bright Eyes and wished the dude would grow some balls, Titus Andronics's new album is pretty good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YCLBL4LEkc

My friend Mark turned me on to the music of Eduard Artemyev--he composed music for some of Andrei Tarkovsky's films. I'm listening to his soundtrack for "Solaris" at this very moment (downloaded for 10 bucks from iTunes). Creepy, atmospheric, powerful...

The Gorillaz album is indeed good - possibly the best album of the year, at least until May 11. That's when the new album from The National is coming out.

16 Magazine on The Monkees and Jim Morrison:

http://blogs.pitch.com/plog/2010/03/studies_in_crap_16_magazine_monkees_mccartne...

"Just by the way Jim Morrison looks at things, you know he is 'feeling' them with his eyes."

He's so dah-reeemy!

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/03/19/postal-workers-in-gh.html
Relatively old music, actually. A field recording of for workers in a Ghanaian post office in 1975. Evidently if you've taken a course in ethnomusicology in the last 20 years you probably used textbook with this recording. However it was totally new to me; and totally impressive to a professional drummer friend of mine.

Forget the cultural baggage for a minute and just listen to it.

Bob, that's great!

I know I've alluded to Gord a thousand times but...

He just sent me this site where you can listen to albums in their entirety for FREE. A promo, they're hoping you eventually buy/download a CD by these up and comers. Some of them are really, REALLY good:

http://www.spinner.ca/new-releases#/16

White Stripes and The Oak Ridge Boys:
http://www.the9513.com/oak-ridge-boys-seven-nation-army/

OK, Oak Ridge Boys cover Seven Nation Army.

Good article on The Spoons (indie rock), with accompanying videos:

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/music/story/2010/03/26/f-spoon-transference.html

>32 CliffBurns: - I think you'll find the beat combo they are discussing are called Spoon. You must be confusing them with The Spoons, the Canadian new romantic band from your youth - who released such classics as "Nova Heart". Remember dancing to them at the nightclub after going to the cinema to watch another John Hughes classic?

Talking of spoons. Collectable Spoons of the Third Reich>/i> didn't win the strange title of year award this year, losing out to Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes.

Ah, good catch. Absolutely right. I never liked The Spoons but Spoon is pretty darn good.

I've never any Spoons track (owe some of Spoon) but I do like the title of their odds'n'sods collection, Unexpected Guest at a Cancelled Party. Not quite as good as China Crisis Difficult Shapes and Passive Rhythms, Some People Think It's Fun to Entertain or OMD's Architecture and Morality though.

God, I haven't listened to OMD for years--used to have three or four of their albums but can't remember seeing them in my collection in the past few years. Wonder what happened to them...

"Get Behind the Mule" by Tom Waits:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORSMACaVPYY

For some reason, the song always conjures up Beckettian images for me. The hard-pressed, down-on-their-luck tramps going on even when they can't go on. Sparse lyrics, desolate sound, and catchy as hell.

I'm off to see Jethro Tull tonight. Will be interesting to attend a gig at which I'm not the oldest person present. In fact, I'll probably be one of the youngest.

Spoon did the great soundtrack to Stranger than Fiction, one of the most intelligent comedies in recent memory, and the only one i can think of that deals with literary theory.

38: Let us know how they are sounding! One of my favorite bands from youth.

Tom Waits is great. Love his press conference for his "recent" live tour.

Tull were good, although Ian Anderson sang like a bad Ian Anderson impersonator. They only played a couple of songs I knew - 'Budapest', 'Aqualung' and 'Locomotive Breath'. But every song they played was ten-minute epic. In the encore, they chucked a couple of giant balloons out into the audience, which was a bit weird. They were definitely worth seeing though.

Just found out Gogol Bordello has a new album out later this month. Time to get your purple on.

Party!

Re: Insane Clown Posse and their ridiculously stupid video:

http://skepchick.org/blog/2010/04/comment-o-the-mothah-effin-week/

And here's one of the comments:

Ayn Rand is the ICP of books.

Here's the video:

http://www.avclub.com/articles/great-job-internet-insane-clown-posse-rainbows-fu...

Like Bill Hicks, it makes me pray for a nuclear holocaust in two seconds.

Ordered this a few days ago:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVKEFx319Ps

Lovely stuff, Harry. Are you familiar with the French band, Air? Might be up your alley, chum...

Er...spam, anyone?

"Are you familiar with the French band, Air?"

I know I've listened to The Virgin Suicides soundtrack but can't remember much about it.

Just put a hold at the library for another of their CDs--Pocket Symphony.

"Pocket Symphony" is a good one. So is "Talkie Walkie".

And have we ever chatted about another Frenchie outfit, M83? Have some of their stuff too. Space music with a soul. Other faves on rotation in my home office: Explosions in the Sky, Stars of the Lid, Eduard Artemyev. Tunes for what ails you, chum...

I think the new Spoon album is horrible, which is too bad. I liked their last two.

On the other hand, the new She and Him album (M. Ward and Zoey Daschenel) is awesome.

I'll have to download some samples of the new Spoon and give it a listen. Mebbe they've changed their sound. I have one of their disks I quite like...shoot...is it called "Fiction"? Pop with brains and not so slick that it gives off the distinct odor of bubble gum...

Gimme Fiction, I believe. Quite a good album. I like that along with Gax5 and Girls Can Tell. I've avoided Spoon's latest after listening to some previews. I should give it a thorough listening, though I'm not sure I'll come around.

"Modern" music freaks should check out the cut "Thurston County" on Nels Cline's (formerly of Wilco) new album. You can listen to it on the "Spinner" site, which has become a new favorite of mine:

http://www.spinner.ca/new-releases#/13

I've posted more of my strange, ambient music on the "Audio" page of my blog. If anyone's interested in that sort of thing:

http://cliffjburns.wordpress.com/stories/storiesaudio

One of the greatest Bowie songs ever, the epic "Station to Station":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEWgIzm7F2U&feature=related

Joni Mitchell rubbishes Bob Dylan - Dylan is a fake.

Morgellons Syndrome.

I honestly though the new Spoon was excellent - nice and rough around the edges. That She & Him album was a disappointment, though, especially after I liked their first one so much.

The two albums I find myself returning to the most are "High Violet" by the National and "Plastic Beach" by the Gorillaz... both excellent.

Ha! I love the She & Him album and hate the new Spoon.

Nobody's posted about music for awhile. Any Public Image Ltd. fans out there? Check this out:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126561683

Gord found it--the master at unearthing treasures on-line...

Went to a gig a couple of weeks ago. There were six of us in the audience... and four of them were the main act.

Also went to see an all-female Metallica tribute band last weekend. They were rubbish.

There wasn't even a novelty/amusement element? You weren't pissed and giggling like a loon? Really, Sales, you have to get into the spirit of the thing...

Trent Reznor is releasing an EP for free:

http://www.avclub.com/articles/trent-reznor-to-give-away-how-to-destroy-angels-e...

68: Hey Cliff, releasing creative content for free? What's up with that? Someone should let cutting-edge cretinous Luddites like Scott Turow and traditional publishers know what's going on.

Yuh-huh...

Isn't "Free" one of the words the Texas BOE is removing from the dictionary as un-American? Oh, no, I'm sorry, that was "Freedom" and they weren't removing it, they were changing the definition: Freedom: the duty to be freely required to be capitalist fodder.

71: Most Texans couldn't locate Mexico on a map.

>66 CliffBurns: - the first two PIL albums are great; the third album is OK and then it is generally awful (with the exception of some top notch tracks). The reason - Lydon. He got rid of everybody and started using pick-up bands.

One of the best albums of the year so far, and one that disproves the old adage that they don't make them like they used to - Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings I Learned the Hard Way.

This guy was mentioned in the article on Terrence Mallick's new film I posted about in Film Snobs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xexxX-Kni-g

Wild!

Re: #66

The PiL concert on NPR is very good--the band surprisingly tight.

Johnny to the Washington crowd: "I'm English and Irish so I know about fucking tea parties."

Love it...

Sitting up here in my office, drinking cheap scotch and listening to the remastered version of the Stones' "Exile on Main Street". Amazing. Recorded back when Keith and Mick still had their balls sewed on...

HiLo hero Charles Wuorinen:

http://hilobrow.com/2010/06/09/charles-wuorinen/

Excellent documentary on the career of David Bowie. Listen to it on the ol' Beeb:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00snwd5/The_David_Bowie_Story_One_Man_Agai...

Interesting idea: http://www.ted.com/talks/david_byrne_how_architecture_helped_music_evolve.html

>76 CliffBurns: - been listening to Exile as well. The remastered sound is a vast improvement over the previous CD - nice to hear the bonus tracks as well. (I also got hold of Exile on Main Street Blues - a bootleg of material recorded around the same time. If you are interested, you can download it from here - costs nothing. There's lots of other free stuff there as well).

To be honest, I still prefer some of the other albums, i.e., Let It Bleed & Sticky Fingers, etc.

"Sticky Fingers"is probably my favorite too. The last good album the Stones produced was "Tattoo You". After that, I can't listen to them. These days the Glimmer Twins are just ridiculous...and redundant.

The new "Exile" sounds great--the version I had on cassette sounded muddy, nowhere near as clear and sharp.

Thanks for the link--I NEVER turn down freebies.

BIG thanks to Stu at the Vinyl Diner in Saskatoon (my fave music place to stop in at when I'm in the big city) for giving me a steal of a deal on a live CD and DVD of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. The boys are rockin' their socks off in Dublin. Filmed during their "Baby 81" tour. Here's one of the singles and be sure to play it loud:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94c7fdAxTas

Jargoneer, I just tried your link and it brought me back...here.

Is this some sort of weird paradox or rip in the time/space continuum you've discovered?

>83 CliffBurns: - only if stupidity is paradoxical. This is real link - Collectors Only.

Ummmm...it happened again?

>85 CliffBurns: - yep, more stupidity. It is working now - I triple-checked.

Got it. Now I just have to wait for my kids to get up so I can save it to iTunes. Otherwise I'll never figure out how to play it.

Cool remakes by people I hear are cool (I'm a little out of touch). I don't go exploring new stuff very often so this was right up my alley.

http://www.levispioneersessions.com/

Saw the awesome Engines of Armageddon (their web site is here) on Wednesday night. There were a few more present than last time - around 30, I'd guess. The previous time I saw them there were only two of us. They finished their set with their song about RFID chips, 'Fuck the Chip'.

Monsieur Sales, your link leads to a cyber dead end--can you repost? I'm curious about these goobers. If you like them, they must be ODD.

Was a typo in the link. I have fix0red.

"stoner-thrash-prog-doom-groove"

Interesting genre. I think I'd like to get my hands on their "Fuck the Chip" t-shirt. My oldest lad would LOVE that...

i'm assuming i'll get Exiles for my bday, so haven't heard it yet. Been listening to Rodrigo and Gabriella's 2nd cd, 11, a lot recently, though i got it a while back.

A couple current dreamy fave-raves:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh1PYRH3JOc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieWz1JS2H4c

Har-ry! Good to hear from you again, lad!

Very cool tunes. Remind me of some Sigur Ros I've heard. You ol' shoegazer, you!

Just came across "avant cello" artist Zoe Keating. Apparently her new album is pretty high on the charts despite the lack of any mainstream distribution.

>94 Harry_Vincent: Great songs Harry! I checked out Snow in Mexico on my space and found out that their Ep can be dowloaded for free.

going back to the classics:
The sound on the remastered "Exiles on Main Street" is terrific. Somehow they've managed to keep the Ur-murkiness and yet make the sound much clearer, rather than cleaner. The keyboard work by Nicky Hopkins and Billy Preston is esp. impressive. My opinions of individual songs hasn't changed (except for Loving Cup which is greatly enhanced by bringing Hopkin's piano playing up in the mix), BUT the songs that I always liked sound great. "Shine a Light" is probably the most successful attempt at a gospel song by any rock band - thank you Billy Preston! (though this is genre in which the Stones excelled- starting with "Salt of the Earth" on Beggars Banquet, "You Can't Always get what you Want" (let it bleed), and then "Shine a Light"). Exiles is a fitting ending to the Stone's run as the "greatest rock & roll band."

I can keep "tumbling dice", "loving cup", "happy", "All down the line" & "shine a light", on more or less constant repeat happily.

Listen to Arcade Fire's latest (thanks to Gord):

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128878239

Recording some old vinyl albums onto cassette tape this morning (talk about obsolete technology!). Had a hard time finding these beauties on CD, so when I came across them in record form thought, why not? They play a bit scratchy but the music is pretty darn fine on "Stratosfear" (Tangerine Dream; 1976) and "Epsilon in Malaysian Pale" (Edgar Froese; 1975).

The latter was, apparently, a big influence on the Eno/Bowie collaborations in the mid-70's.

Dunno if I mentioned it in another post, but later this month my wife and I, along with some friends, will be attending the Arcade Fire concert in Saskatoon (a rare evening out for yers truly). Calexico is the opening act so we should be in for an evening of fine musicianship.

And, further on music, I just added another oddball piece I created with Garageband onto my site. If you're feeling a little spaced out over the next few days, have I got the number for you:

http://cliffjburns.wordpress.com

A nice treasure trove of LP cover art.

http://lpcoverlover.com/

Cliff, you need to get one of these devices:

ION Audio TTUSB

There are other brands out there, but you get the idea. There is no reason to be going from one archaic medium to another.

Now that's quite the device. I hope Mrs. Santa Claus spots it--that one would be welcome under my tree Christmas morning.

just ordered the ION vcr -> computer via usb. very mixed reviews but we're not wanting anything fancy.

After seeing Peepli live became very much enamored of the Indo-pop band, Indian Ocean, which provided much of the sound track. There are numerous clips on Youtube..though none i've come across are ideal. The best live performances (@MIT) have crummy photography; the best studio clips have kind of ham handed MTV videos...but two
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKWKDOiHVDw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqFy-SgYQho (from another movie soundtrack)

Went to local music festival (I use the term loosely) - very enjoyable, well worth the effort.

One of them seem to be the verge of a deserved breakthrough - Meersault.

Pre-listened to Nick Cave's Grinderman 2 project; couple of songs don't really work for me but very good and loud overall. Typical Cave in his cheeky, pissed off milieu.

Yeah, the Grinderman stuff is fun--great to have booming when you're in a bad mood.

Download a free 5-song EP from the soundtrack of the new David Fincher movie, "The Social Network":

http://www.nullco.com/TSN

Trent Reznor is co-composer.

I like that new Grinderman a lot.

http://thequietus.com/
hadn't run across this site before the guy who runs the Up-tight listserv pointed it out. Some very good writing about music

http://thequietus.com/articles/04982-the-beatles-hamburg

I wonder why there is nothing here about modern art music?

Would a similar thread about The Modern Novel only focus on writers of pulp fiction, "adult" fiction and the comic book novel?

A true snob. Such remarks bring tears of joy to my eyes.

What, Edgar Froese and Zoe Keating aren't modern and brain-bending enough for you? More into the Schoenberg and John Zorn, eh? Your neighbors easy to spot, they're the ones with ear plugs who never speak to you in the elevator.

"But it's atonal music," you plead, "you get used to it."

Their eyes don't yield, remaining stony, refusing to meet yours...

>113 antimuzak: - that's not a fair analogy. Considering the impact of modern art music, it would be a thread that focuses on the modern novel but excludes literature from the Balkans.

edited with thanks to Cliff

And for you Sonic Youth fans out there:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129749867

Saw Sonic Youth live in Milwaukee a couple years ago. Good stuff all around. Had a couple avant-noise no wave provocateurs as openers. Funny how they began as post-punk and now have bloomed into a kind of jaggedy "jam band" of sorts, at least in terms of their songs having a meandering quality.

Gotta be over 50 now and the Sonics just keep pushing the envelope. I give 'em credit for that...

Oh Dear! Accusations of snobbery: is this just name calling without the bother of any rational argument?

My point is that most of the people on this list would pride themselves on a knowledge of Proust, etc., and apply judgments about quality to Knut Hamsun, for example, as opposed to a standard Mills and Boon Novel. But why the lack of interest in serious music. Who amongst you, who may well be able to discuss and have a serious opinion about Milan Kundera, for example, knows the music of Tippett, Birtwistle, Bloch, Menotti, Schnittke, etc, and would be able to engage in a serious discussion about their music?

It seems to me to be a shameful fact that accusations of snobbery are just a cover for ignorance and a strange lack of curiosity about an area of music that may be difficult but worth the time.

I think you took some of the above remarks too seriously. Speaking for myself, I was CELEBRATING your snobbery, while at the same time taking the piss out of what constitutes a "snob" in the first place. I'm quite well read but there are lots of people in this group whose reading tastes/levels wipe the floor with me. I look at the size of their collections and I swoon.

We're all snobs, only some of us are snobbier than the others.

But one thing I think the members of this group have in common is we like to have a good laugh. Apologies if it seemed I was picking on you. No offense intended.

120: Harumph!

**Drops monocle in his snifter of cognac**

**Goes back to reading Henry James**

Shouldn't you commoners be doing my lawn?

>119 antimuzak: - I admire your snobbery but to compare modern art music to the modern novel is wrong-headed. Thinking about it more fully, it is closer to modern poetry - most people know it is out there but don't pay it much attention.

Sorry Cliffburns, I seem to have taked your remarks far too concretely. I'm not a regular visitor to this group and not, therefore, familiar with the "banter".

Yes, I accept the comparison with poetry. Is this neglected because of the pop lyric? Which is better?

pop lyrics and modern poetry..again something of an apples vs oranges faceoff.
Great lyrics aren't meant to be read on a page or read aloud (unless you're really pompous aka lou reed, who's written some of the best)
Chuck Berry's "Promised Land" is practically a dissertation on the Black diaspora in the US after WWII. It's brilliant - but it's not a "poem" just because it has verses/scans and rhymes. And sometimes a not so great poem can be turned into a beautiful song (Pearls before Swine and Sara Teasdale's "I shall not care")
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK6MElklfvM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFcKN4Gn41o

I left my home in Norfolk Virginia,
California on my mind.
Straddled that Greyhound, rode him past Raleigh,
On across Caroline.

Stopped in Charlotte and bypassed Rock Hill,
And we never was a minute late.
We was ninety miles out of Atlanta by sundown,
Rollin' 'cross the Georgia state.

We had motor trouble it turned into a struggle,
Half way 'cross Alabam,
And that 'hound broke down and left us all stranded
In downtown Birmingham.

Straight off, I bought me a through train ticket,
Ridin?cross Mississippi clean
And I was on that midnight flyer out of Birmingham
Smoking into New Orleans.

Somebody help me get out of Louisiana
Just help me get to Houston town.
There抯 people there who care a little 'bout me
And they won't let the poor boy down.

Sure as you're born, they bought me a silk suit,
Put luggage in my hands,
And I woke up high over Albuquerque
On a jet to the promised land.

Workin' on a T-bone steak a la carte
Flying over to the Golden State;
The pilot told me in thirteen minutes
He would sit us at the terminal gate.

Swing low sweet chariot, come down easy
Taxi to the terminal zone;
Cut your engines, cool your wings,
And let me make it to the telephone.

Los Angeles give me Norfolk Virginia,
Tidewater four ten O nine
Tell the folks back home this is the promised land callin'
And the poor boy's on the line.
---------------------------

When I am dead and over me bright April
Shakes out her rain-drenched hair,
Though you shall lean above me broken-hearted,
I shall not care.

I shall have peace, as leafy trees are peaceful
When rain bends down the bough;
And I shall be more silent and cold-hearted
Than you are now.

Powerful stuff.

Powerful in what way Cliffburns? Or were you just being ironic?

Well, I meant, my God, look at those last two lines:

"And I shall be more silent and cold-hearted
Than you are now."

I'd give me eyeteeth to come up with a sentiment as succinct, melodic, eye-catching and, yup, powerful as that.

By the way: when I think "modern music", perhaps I'm thinking too generally. I admit to little knowledge of the really avant-garde, modernist music out there. "Modern" to me might be Kronos Quartet, Mogwai, Edgar Froese, Brian Eno, God is an Astronaut, Stars of the Lid, Portishead, Coil. I imagine it's something completely different for you. Feel free to namedrop and slot some links in. Always looking for strange, unique music. Any and all tips appreciated.

Bill McGlaughlin of Saint Paul Sunday among other things, likes Eighth Blackbird. I have a CD or two by them and am less impressed, but not unimpressed.

Now, excuse me; I have to go read those links.

Robert

Sara Teasdale we had read to us as little kids by our dad; Chuck Berry we had to discover for ourselves.
What does "Promised Land" do that makes it a great lyric?
where Detroit and Chicago had been the destination for many Southern Blacks before and during WWII; afterwards California became the promised land. The wariness with which Black men in particular had to deal with the Jim Crow laws - both in a practical and in a psychological sense is summed very neatly. References one of THE classic spirituals .. ironically..."Swing low sweet chariot"- taking the protagonist to the promised land of the here and now. It has a great beat and it's easy to dance to.

>127 CliffBurns:, re: strange unique music.... I was at an experimental music performance a while back where the artist had "mic'd up" a shopping trolley and was banging and scraping away at it to produce some interesting ererie sounds. I looked over to the friend I was with, an experimental musician himself, and he said in an almost bored and jaded manner - "siiiiigh, if I had a quid for every shopping trolley I've seen mic'd up". I found that hilarious.

Here's a link to what he does, it aint exactly easy listening.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcSSc6NGn34

Whoo-hoo! Sounds like a slow motion train wreck.

OK, I have a great modern piece I heard over the weekend. It's called "Phenomenon" by Narong Prangcharoen. He's from Thailand. It was amazing, really listenable while undoubtedly modern. Very interesting rhythms in particular.

The concert also included a wonderful performance of the Tschaikovsky Violin Concerto by Hilary Hahn, and Prokofiev's 5th Symphony.

My family bought me an iTunes gift certificate for my birthday and I downloaded:

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club "Beating the Devil's Tattoo"
The Boards of Canada "Music Has a Right to Children"
Aphex Twin "Ambient II"
Mogwai: "Zidane" and "Government Commissions"
GodSpeed, You Black Emperor "Yanqui UXO"

I'll be editing a short story collection over the winter and into the spring and you can bet these beauties will be on regular rotation. Fab music to write to...

Intriguing list. I'm especially curious about the BRMC.

Just found out that Giant Sand has a new release as of yesterday I think. Sounds great, as usual. Definitely my next purchase.

The new BRMC is amazing. Right up their with their "Howl" album...

While watching the credits of Naked Lunch, I found out that the late, great Ornette Coleman played sax on the score:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpnuPi51ksM

Deliciously schizophrenic!

I have the soundtrack--some whacked out music, all right.

I present the musical genius of Sir Tiny Tim, KBE, SJ, etc.:

http://hilobrow.com/2010/12/03/ukulele-heroes-3-tiny-tim/

Words really can't describe this:

http://musicformaniacs.blogspot.com/

Wha?!!!

For sweet noise check out James Blake.

Listening to "The Eternal," the new, well, year-old, Sonic Youth album. The kids still got it. Kids, "Youth", seriously, they should be getting AARP newsletters soon. Age aside, SY can bring the punk rage and meandering yet jagged psychedelic jams. Makes the inside of my skull happy!

Yeah, every so often I pull out my SY CDs and cassettes and binge. A group that absolutely refuses to conform to market expectations, frequently daring to alienate even longtime fans. God bless 'em...

I don't know if any of you have looked at bandcamp.com - bands put up their music which can be listened to free, purchased as a download (including FLAC) or even a CD. I use to buy stuff from local bands to show my support of them (beyond going to see them live).

If you like SY you may like The Scottish Enlightenment - not exactly the same, they are more slow-core but in the same ballpark.

Others worth listening to are Thomas Truax (odd slightly-Tom Waits influenced played on homemade instruments - brilliant live) and Meursault (electro-folk band, arguably the best band in Edinburgh at present).

Great tip, thanks.

142: My office has a framed comic about the local basement rock scene (I think the comic is from 1997 or so) that shows a bunch of people with funny hair and piercings wandering around all thinking the same thing: "My main influences are Sonic Youth and Pavement." Gets me giggling every time I walk down that hall.

A band I happened across recently that I'm enjoying immensely is Appliance; both "Manual" and "Imperial Metric" are solid CDs. Who can I compare them too? New Order mixed with Depeche Mode, crossed with Lou Reed? Shee-it, listen for yourself. Electronica with attitude:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATVoanEIbbg

An elegant look at defaced vinyl:

http://defacevalue.com/

Went to the ballet with my son, an all-Stravinsky night. They started with the Firebird, then did a weird artsy thing with various Stravinsky pieces strung together and added synthesized sound effects, which they named, creatively enough, "The Stravinsky Project," then ended with the Rite of Spring. My son loves Stravinsky and also likes ballet so we just had to go. The most conventional storyline, which was the Firebird, was the one we liked the best - the costumes were great, the dancing was great, and of course we love the music, especially the theme song of the evil spirit.

A fun, highbrow evening, by the sound of it. Wonderful that you have access to such exciting events. I envy you.

Air Supply might come to Rochester this year. We did have some highbrow acts come to town and by highbrow I mean Rick Springfield and Kansas. If this area raised sheep, they would definitely be scared, especially for what passes as "taste." Oy!

Here's a terrific new pop tune for you. The group is White Lies and the song is "Bigger Than Us":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW0yynlDmqQ

>152 CliffBurns: - more evidence that in pop music land this year is 1984.

One of the positive things the collapse in the music industry has lead to is more live music. People should stop paying $100+ to see a bunch of has-beens and splash a few dollars on local/upcoming bands.

On a related note - the video of Louis Barabbas & the Bedlam Six - The Tell-tale Hound.

Yeah, White Lies has that kinda Tears For Fears/AHA feel to it, doesn't it? But, boy, that tune has more hooks than a tackle box.

Spent a good chunk of the afternoon listening to Jimmy Page guesting with The Black Crowes--"Live at the Greek" (from 1999).

Stunning!

150

aka "Long hair"

My wife and son went to see "Mother Mother" in Saskatoon. She forwarded this catchy video to me. Enjoy, folks:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50LShhlkTfw

Just finished a great book I am the Clay by Chaim Potok, and listening to the Go-Betweens, lurrrvely

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXwl_LRcDjY

170 Beastie Boys references explained:

http://www.avclub.com/articles/electric-like-dick-hyman-170-beastie-boys-referen...

An accurate assessment of Justin Bieber:

http://thebreakbeataxiom.wordpress.com/2010/02/25/justin-bieber-the-anti-christ/

Score one for punk rock!

http://www.thepostgame.com/lifestyle/201105/john-elway-sounds-sour-note-about-ba...

Music and speech:

http://lemonhound.blogspot.com/2011/04/music-for-writers-3-music-of-speech.html

Meshugge Beach Party does a mashup of Hava Nagila and Dick Dale's Miserlou:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylKmC4EiFWE&feature=related

Hang in there, "Big Man":

http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/story/2011/06/13/clarence-clemons-stroke.html

A composer you've probably never heard of:

http://hilobrow.com/2011/06/15/john-wesley-work-iii/

>165 kswolff: - it's not so much that we haven't heard of that's the issue, it's more that we can't hear his work.

25 most influential rock videos of all time:

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/8U5YfU/blogs.houstonpress.com/rocks/2011/06/the_25...

For the past few days I've been having a ball at this music site:

http://jukesy.com/

You select your genre, a list of appropriate songs comes up; you scroll through, select your playlist, push "play" and you've got a couple of hours of your favorite tunes, playing in the background while you work...

>167 CliffBurns: - some of those videos just don't deserve to be there, i.e., all the ones with rock bands jumping about.

A terrific tune by the Vandelles:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aBIzgQyglo&playnext=1&list=PLBEAA431A12D...

Play it loud!

Thurston Moore's new solo album, streamed for free:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2011/may/16/thurston-moore-demolished-...

On P-Funk's cover art:

http://hilobrow.com/2011/07/16/p-afrofuturism-1/

The Decemberists salute David Foster Wallace:

http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/david-foster-wallace-adapted-in-new-decembe...

Will the songs have footnotes?

Heh heh...

Glen Campbell's farewell tour pending. Interview with him here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-14634207

"Wichita Lineman" is one of my all time faves and if you need to know why, read the few lines from the song they quote in the piece. THAT'S why.

Nilsson, Schmilsson ... LET'S ROCK!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QghwNqlCRE

Yesterday Chris and I went and saw a fundraiser performance of the Portland Gay Men's Chorus. I had not seen them before, they are very good. The piece they performed was a sort of oratorio about war, which they commissioned in 2007, and it was not all that interesting, but there were some instrumental pieces that were great - a rock cellist who was totally amazing, and a very nice flute/oboe/piano trio. Two of Chris' co-workers are in the group, one is a member of the chorus and the other plays the synthesizer.

ETA: The fundraiser was for their trip to NY to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Oregon's "flight for freedom" that was made right after 9/11 to New York to show solidarity. Apparently New Yorkers were really happy to have Oregonians visiting their state at that time, and the concert will be at St. John the Divine church in NY to commemmorate the trip.

Any links to the Chorus so the rest of us can have a listen?

A rock cellist? Never knew there was such a thing.

The rock cellist site is apparently cellobop.com (that is I think what they told me) His cello was sort of - hollowed out. Like a cello skeleton. And he used an amp and some sort of equipment that he manipulated with his feet so he could lay down a background line and then have it replay while he did something else. It was pretty amazing.

I am certain the PGMC has a website. Let's see.

http://www.pdxgmc.org/index.php?page=hearus

Those are some clips of them singing. They're good.

You can listen to some clips of the cello guy here:
http://www.cellobop.com/musicshop.htm

Thanks, Anna, will give it a listen.

Gideon Freudmann, what a great name. Wild looking cello too.

The music's quite intriguing and trippy, thanks for the samples. Much obliged.

This one has been thundering in my office the last couple of days:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-r-V0uK4u0&ob=av2e

Michel Gondry collaborates with Bjork on her latest:

http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/video-of-the-day-michel-gondrys-video-for-bjorks-...

Gord found some quality free listening. From good ol' NPR:

Wilco:

http://www.npr.org/2011/09/19/140476897/first-listen-wilco-the-whole-love

and Harold Budd:

http://www.npr.org/2011/09/18/140479643/first-listen-harold-budd-in-the-mist

How's that for a musical potpourri? Tune in and bliss out...

This one is for Cliff:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG0V7w1OGBU

My theme song.

188: I thought it was "Sugar Sugar" by the Archies? ;)

Caught an amazing cut from a CD called "Sing Freedom" by the Texas-based choral group Conspirare this morning on the Beeb. "Sing Freedom" features versions of African American spirituals and from what I've heard so far, Conspirare has done a stunning job. Pretty expensive to buy (it was out last month) but iTunes has it on sale for $10.00.

This is what we have been waiting for - William Shatner - Seeking Major Tom

Here's one for Horace Engdahl of the Nobel Prize committee:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nteSl8amR5o

#191: Yike. Looks really overblown.

Shatner's last album, "Has Been", is actually quite fun.

193: That should be the title of Horace Engdahl's memoirs.

There is a new Black Keys album coming out in December.

This means I need to listen to all of their other albums obsessively in order to prepare...

(Same goes for you, Tom Waits - only a few weeks til his!)

Some fun new music over at "Spinner". Just about every kinda music under the sun--and you can play entire albums, rather than mere snippets:

http://music.aol.ca/new-releases-full-cds/spinner#/19

>197 Jargoneer: - did something old-fashioned and bought Tom Waits' new album. Bad As Me. Well worth the wait - even on a couple listens it sounds like one of his best. (Assuming you prefer the clatter-and-clang Waits to the late night barfly version - it is also a good place for non-believers as the songs are short, all under 4 minutes, and influenced by traditional R&B and even rockabilly).

I used to have Waits' "Nighthawks at the Diner" (on vinyl) but I don't know what happened to it.

197: Rolling Stone gave it 4 stars and I was thinking, wow, need to listen to that one. It has been forever since I bought an album.

Something to open your tear ducts this morning:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_n0zvoHlVk&feature=youtu.be

197-199

Who know how long it will be available, but for the time being, at least, NPR is offering the entire album for those who want a listen.

http://www.npr.org/2011/10/23/141565981/first-listen-tom-waits-bad-as-me

Of late I've been listening to Krzysztof Penderecki--Kubrick used some of his music to good effect in "The Shining".

Powerful and unsettling.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzOb3UhPmig

On the false nostalgia of Xmas music:

http://hilobrow.com/2011/11/13/xmas-the-moveable-feast/

203: A bit early, isn't it? Reminds me of Loudon Wainwright III's song....

Suddenly it's Christmas,
Right after Hallowe'en.
Forget about Thanksgiving;
It's just a buffet in between.
There's lights and tinsel in the windows;
They're stocking up the shelves;
Santa's slaving at the North Pole
In his sweatshop full of elves.

There's got to be a build-up
To the day that Christ was born:
The halls are decked with pumpkins
And the ears of Indian corn.
Dragging through the falling leaves
In a one-horse open sleigh,
Suddenly it's Christmas,
Seven weeks before the day.

Suddenly it's Christmas,
The longest holiday.
When they say "Season's Greetings"
They mean just what they say:
It's a season, it's a marathon,
Retail eternity.
It's not over till it's over
And you throw away the tree.

Outside it's positively balmy,
In the air nary a nip;
Suddenly it's Christmas,
Unbuttoned and unzipped.
Yes, they're working overtime,
Santa's little runts;
Christmas comes but once a year
And goes on for two months.

Christmas carols in December
And November, too;
It's no wonder we're depressed
When the whole thing is through.
Finally it's January;
Let's sing "Auld Lang Syne";
But here comes another heartache,
Shaped like a Valentine.

Suddenly it's Christmas,
The longest holiday.
The season is upon us;
A pox, it won't go away.
It's a season, it's a marathon,
Retail eternity.
It's not over till it's over
And you throw away the tree.

No, it's not over till it's over
And you throw away the tree;
It's still not over till it's over
And you throw away the tree.

Yee-haw! I'm with Loudon!

This has been a strange but delightful couple of months - long-awaited and decent albums from among others, Tom Waits, Half Man Half Biscuit, Sharon Jones, plus some new acts delivering - Florence and the Machine, Class Actress. And now, a new album from Kate Bush.

>204 nymith:/5 - soon be time to dust off...

Looking forward to Kate's latest. I'd like to get her "Director's Cut" album too.

The worst rap names in history:

http://www.cracked.com/article_15119_the-25-worst-rapper-names-all-time.html?wa_...

6-song sampler from the soundtrack for "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo". Reznor & Ross, the guys who did the music for "Social Network":

http://www.nullco.com/GDT/

2011: The Year in Band Names:

http://www.avclub.com/articles/2011-the-year-in-band-names,66284/

You're welcome!

So, what's everyone's favorite album this year? Mine's Polly Jean Harvey's latest, Let England Shake. Such a weird and wonderful WWI album...

Oh, yike.

One I'm really liking right now--and it would probably make my Top 10 list--is Steven Wilson's "Grace For Drowning". Wilson is the main brain behind the prog rock group Porcupine Tree. "Grace For Drowning" is a double CD, melodic and melancholy, extremely well-produced.

For me it would be The Man-Eating Tree's second album, Harvest, which is atmospheric Finnish metal. Or Fornost Arnor's second album, The Death of a Rose, a self-released UK progressive death metal album. Opeth's Heritage, however, was a little too proggy for me

Christmas music play-lists explained.

>211 chamberk: - that one's coming near the top of most of the best of the year round-ups.

There have been a lot of old favourites (Tom Waits, Kate Bush, Half Man Half Biscuit, Luke Haines, etc) release new albums this year and surprisingly all have been worth the wait.

Disappointments include no album from Jesus H. Foxx (local Edinburgh band) and no recording of The North Sea Scrolls, a collaboration between Cathal Coughlan and Luke Haines.

As for the best I'm still thinking about that...

Tom Waits's newest was definitely really good - perhaps I'll listen to that next today...

For a few more hours:

http://www.nationalpost.com/12days/index.html

A free EP of Leonard Cohen performing live in Fredericton. Limited time only.

Hey you guys, I don't normally post much on this thread, but I want to rant and I want to hear some Harrumphs from like minded people. Does anyone use Pandora? I use it at work mostly because loud obnoxious music in my ears helps me concentrate on my spreadsheet-oriented job. (I am like the rapping accountant in the Onion.) Anyhow, my favorite type of music for doing really boring financial work is Irish-oriented punk stuff, like the Dropkick Murphys, Flogging Molly, the Pogues, etc.

There is a LOT of this kind of music out there and I've discovered lots of great bands (anyone a fan of the great Scottish band Enter the Haggis?), but Pandora keeps trying to mix it up by suddenly introducing technofunk/R&B type stuff like Flo.Rida, and I cannot figure out these types of music have in common. I understand the Pandora principle and I can even see how if I like Celtic folk music they will start playing stuff by the Beatles or Paul Simon - but HOW is "You spin me round" (that weird remake of "spin me round like a record") anything like Irish punk? Argh! I consistently downthumb these intruders, but Pandora keeps trying until I have run out of thumbs and have to listen to them or change the station. OK, I am finished with this silly rant. Back to Amazing Grace as played by Seven Nations (on bagpipes - it sounds great!).

If you are looking for something different, check out WMSE.org. They stream live, have tons of different shows on oddball stuff -- everything from punk, industrial, to modern classical -- and have a massive backlog of shows archived. All for free!

Anna, have you tried Jukesy?

It's free and you can program playlists, choose a variety of songs.

http://jukesy.com/#/

You can either select your music by genre or type in the name of the band or artist you'd like to hear.

David Byrne's favorite psychedelic tunes:

http://www.davidbyrne.com/radio/

Another find from that master digger, Gord.

Dig it, baby, yeah!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM_xvTaYavw

A nice profile on NIN's The Fragile:

http://www.avclub.com/articles/trent-reznor-made-altrocks-last-stand-with-the-fr...

From the aforementioned article:

"The main reason I liken The Fragile to Raging Bull is that they both serve as the unofficial end points for “golden” eras that made their very existence possible. Raging Bull is considered the last great film of ’70s Hollywood cinema, an era when directors were treated as the chief authors of their movies, and were encouraged to indulge in their artsiest, most subversive tendencies. It was the last time Hollywood followed the example of European cinema, and not just because it allowed for the sex and violence that ’70s audiences loved. Directors were seen as avatars pointing the culture toward what it wanted before the culture even knew what it wanted. But after a while, the American public decided it was sick of pain, existentialism, and sour endings, and with the failure of Michael Cimino’s moody three-hour Western Heaven’s Gate (released around the same time as Raging Bull, and by the same studio), the era of empowered directors was over."

Interesting point.

The last days of legendary N.Y. record store Bleecker Bob's:

http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/culture/2012/07/6226589/records-capital-pr...

Has everyone see this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiC__IjCa2s

Like, wow.

Daniel Barenboim is currently conducting many Boulez pieces at the BBC Proms along with all the Beethoven Symphonies. See:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00vyl6m

Broadcasts are available for at least 7 days after performance.

Free samples of new releases, including Nick Cave's soundtrack for "Lawless".

http://music.aol.ca/new-releases-full-cds/spinner#/4

Video of the first single off Bob Dylan's latest "Tempest":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mns9VeRguys

Going to see Bob and Mark Knopfler tonight.

Yeehaw.

Hey, drone music fans, this one's for you:

http://boingboing.net/2012/10/19/music-appreciation-drone.html#more-188417

Never too early to put this on the Xmas wishlist:

http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-velvet-underground-the-velvet-underground-nic...

6 glorious CDs! Unfortunately, I have the Velvets box set. I have to weigh in whether it's worth it.

"A Fairy Tale of New York"--one of the few Christmas songs that doesn't make me gag:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/dec/06/fairytale-new-york-pogues-christmas-...

232: Absolutely my favourite Christmas song (as distinct from Christmas carols). We are usually in Ireland at Christmas, where it is heard a lot more than over here in the US.

I like this one too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF2BzUDeTkY

This always makes me think of Xmas:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HK3Ttb43OI

This one is better: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-nohtYTlmQ

I'm not sure you boys are reflecting the sprit of the season.

You...philistines.

237: It gets challenging when Xmas season starts in August and it is relentless and overlong as the Battle of Stalingrad.

http://www.exohuman.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/obey_consume.jpg

> 238: kws, I'm assuming you're not referring to the Khatchatchurian film score of the same name?

> 238: ks, I assume you're not referring to the Khachatchurian film score of the same name?

239: No.

240: No.

I hadn't heard that Pete Namlook had died in November. In case there are other fans of ambient/spacey music in this group, here's a sample of his work:

http://www.willardswormholes.com/?p=114

Not really modern music, but listened to Mozart's "Coronation Mass" on my laptop when I was doing some writing. Glorious epic stuff! I'm familiar with Mozart as the poo-obsessed genius who wrote countless mathematically precise gems for harpsichord. I was amazed at the bombastic nature of the Mass ... the organ, the chorus, the orchestra. Another dimension to the diminutive potty mouth.

Try the Requiem, too. I snubbed Mozart for nearly thirty years, and it took me quite a time to get to grips with some of his output. (Still prefer Magic Flute and 'Entführung aus dem Serail' to Don Giovanni and Figaro...)

The Marriage of Figaro conducted by Elmer Bernstein for that old chestnut of 80s class warfare, Trading Places:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1CKfBiDlfk

"Pork bellies!"

David Bowie is back.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/david-bowie-worked-in-secret-on-comeback-...

Behold! The awesomeness of Zlad!

http://www.leblogdukitsch.com/2010/11/06/le-clip-de-la-semaine-episode-14/

My latest enthusiasm, Radio Moscow:

http://radiomoscow.net/

If you like psychedelic blues a la Cream and Zep, these three lads from Iowa are just the ticket. Love every track I've heard so far; their album "Brain Cycles" is a gem.

Definitely a retro sound! Like it.

Also been listening to more atmospheric stuff, like the new Mountains CD "Centralia". Here's a sample cut:

https://soundcloud.com/thrilljockey/mountains-living-lens

Tom Waits sings the manliest song ever:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27LLPANAgzw

Well the Piano hasn't been drinking in that one.

http://www.npr.org/2013/01/27/170103841/first-listen-richard-thompson-electric

Richard Thompson's got a new album out. You can hear it on NPR and it rocks.

Free listening: sea chanteys & pirate songs, featuring Tom Waits, Keith Richards, etc.:

http://www.npr.org/2013/02/10/171309504/first-listen-son-of-rogues-gallery-pirat...

(Cheers, Gord!)

254: Best English language Pirate Jenny I've yet heard.