Comments on: Weird Pandora Thing http://www.moodmat.com/?p=1211 Promoting ongoing discoveries of music outside the artificial boundaries placed around and through it by commerce. Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:50:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Dan http://www.moodmat.com/?p=1211#comment-23466 Dan Sat, 05 Dec 2009 06:17:02 +0000 http://www.moodmat.com/?p=1211#comment-23466 First four off a Last.fm Joe Jackson station: Joe Jackson - Another World The Tubes - Drums XTC - Summer's Cauldron Joe Jackson Band - Still Alive :) First four off a Last.fm Joe Jackson station:

Joe Jackson - Another World
The Tubes - Drums
XTC - Summer’s Cauldron
Joe Jackson Band - Still Alive
:)

]]> By: tom/pipecock http://www.moodmat.com/?p=1211#comment-23439 tom/pipecock Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:49:01 +0000 http://www.moodmat.com/?p=1211#comment-23439 kent: when did a talking heads record dissappoint?!?!?!?125 kent:

when did a talking heads record dissappoint?!?!?!?125

]]> By: kent williams http://www.moodmat.com/?p=1211#comment-23423 kent williams Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:40:21 +0000 http://www.moodmat.com/?p=1211#comment-23423 I think all those artists are def. linked temporally if not exactly stylistically. I remember when "Look Sharp" came out and a lot of people thought it sounded too close to Elvis Costello's first record. I turned 18 in 1975, so that '75-'80 period looms pretty large in my musical consciousness, so I have a certain bias. But if you do a roll call of people who were doing their best work during that period, and how influential they are now, it was a pretty seminal period. That's when Disco blew up, Reggae came to America, Punk came to America, Kraftwerk had a top ten hit, and Hip Hop was born. It was definitely a dangerous time to cash your check and walk into a record store, where you could be greeted by new Elvis Costello, new Joe Jackson, new Talking Heads (when that didn't disappoint), new Clash, new Jam, new Police, new Sugarhill Gang, new Chic, new Bob Marley... it was when my women friends dragged my homophobic ass to the gay disco and I first heard Arthur Russell's disco joints. I think all those artists are def. linked temporally if not exactly stylistically. I remember when “Look Sharp” came out and a lot of people thought it sounded too close to Elvis Costello’s first record.

I turned 18 in 1975, so that ‘75-’80 period looms pretty large in my musical consciousness, so I have a certain bias. But if you do a roll call of people who were doing their best work during that period, and how influential they are now, it was a pretty seminal period. That’s when Disco blew up, Reggae came to America, Punk came to America, Kraftwerk had a top ten hit, and Hip Hop was born.

It was definitely a dangerous time to cash your check and walk into a record store, where you could be greeted by new Elvis Costello, new Joe Jackson, new Talking Heads (when that didn’t disappoint), new Clash, new Jam, new Police, new Sugarhill Gang, new Chic, new Bob Marley… it was when my women friends dragged my homophobic ass to the gay disco and I first heard Arthur Russell’s disco joints.

]]> By: Ian http://www.moodmat.com/?p=1211#comment-23419 Ian Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:56:13 +0000 http://www.moodmat.com/?p=1211#comment-23419 Stupid Pandora, it's just cycling through the following artists: Joe Jackson Elvis Costello Talking Heads Police Joe Jackson Elvis Costello Etc. Grooveshark is more fun. Anything that pops into my head, I throw it on the playlist next. This morning was: Bill Withers, Meat Beat Manifesto, The Carpenters, The Beatles, M, and XTC. Stupid Pandora, it’s just cycling through the following artists:
Joe Jackson
Elvis Costello
Talking Heads
Police
Joe Jackson
Elvis Costello
Etc.

Grooveshark is more fun. Anything that pops into my head, I throw it on the playlist next. This morning was:
Bill Withers, Meat Beat Manifesto, The Carpenters, The Beatles, M, and XTC.

]]> By: Ian http://www.moodmat.com/?p=1211#comment-23417 Ian Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:48:26 +0000 http://www.moodmat.com/?p=1211#comment-23417 First track: It's Different for Girls. Next track: Allison - Elvis Costello First track: It’s Different for Girls.
Next track: Allison - Elvis Costello

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