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John’s last interview. Love his voice, could listen to him for hours. Wish I could’ve met him and shaken his hand. 
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11.56am
14 December 2009
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Timothy said
John’s last interview. Love his voice, could listen to him for hours. Wish I could’ve met him and shaken his hand.
I’ve heard that, great interview (also chilling in spots). I love him explaining how he was never much for jamming in clubs – that was Paul’s thing; when John frequented clubs, he was usually “drinking or boogieing”.
…and now it’s on to
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…”Lumpy Gravy”, Zappa’s first solo credited album – on which neither he nor the Mothers appear. Instead, he conducts an expanded Hollywood studio orchestra (strings/horns and all, including several Wrecking Crew members) playing his compositions. Cut up and interspersed with the musics are the usual tape manipulations, electronic effects, and many cryptic conversations recorded from inside a resonant piano. The compositions range from elongated jazzy melodies, to vaguely Italian movie music, to Varese/Stravinsky-style modernism. Zappa called this album his favourite throughout his life.
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Ziggy makes for tough competition but as of right now this is still my favorite Bowie album. And I don’t know that any (Bowie) song could ever beat New Killer Star.
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15 November 2018
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14 December 2009
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the first time i heard that song, i informed my boyfriend that, “my wife is a real man.”
True. 
Listening to a fairly okay album, released 30 years ago today.
Tin Machine – Tin Machine (1989)
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9.56pm
15 March 2017
Offline Sekiden – Better Music Through Mathematics
Sekiden – Love Songs For Robots
Seja – We Have Secrets But Nobody Cares
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2.37am
26 January 2017
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I've sat there on the barstool and I've looked him in the face.
He seemed a little haggard, but it did not slow him down,
he was humming to the neon of the universal sound.
6.33pm
15 March 2017
Offline I have been listening to a lot of Mike Nesmith’s Monkees songs.
I also listened to the Black Album by Weezer.
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7.48pm
14 December 2009
Offline I can’t speak for Beatlebug, but I usually enjoy doing a bit of research into release or recording dates of albums I post here, just for the Beatles-synchronicity links. (Even to the point where I’ll sometimes let a Beatle recording date dictate a listening choice.) This has been a valuable online resource:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik…..g_sessions
Hey, I listened to “Reality” earlier! And a few tracks off “Heathen”…pretty good listening. Pixies cover!
Bowie’s habit of regularly including a non-original or two on an album was quite endearing.
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I've sat there on the barstool and I've looked him in the face.
He seemed a little haggard, but it did not slow him down,
he was humming to the neon of the universal sound.
12.35pm
14 December 2009
Offline Back to Zappa, “Uncle Meat”
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For his second double album, Frank adds marimbas and other small percussion to his band, begins to combine live and studio performance, and helps invent jazz-rock fusion with the extended “King Kong”, which will become a live favourite forever. And continues with the “found sound” real-life recordings.
Zappa’s original liner notes:
“The words to the songs on this album were scientifically prepared from a random series of syllables, dreams, neuroses & private jokes that nobody except members of the band ever laugh at, and other irrelevant material. They are all ‘very serious’ & loaded with secret underground candy-rock psychedelic profundities. (Basically, this is an instrumental album.)”
“The music on this album was recorded over a period of about 5 months, from October 1967 to February 1968. Things that sound like a full orchestra were carefully assembled, track by track, through a procedure known as over-dubbing.
The weird middle section of “Dog Breath” (after the line, “Ready to attack”) has forty tracks built into it. Things that sound like trumpets are actually clarinets played through an electric device made by ‘Maestro’ with a setting labeled ‘Oboe D’Amore’ and sped up a minor third with a ‘V.S.O.’ [variable speed oscillator]. Other peculiar sounds were made on a ‘Kalamazoo’ electric organ.
The only equipment at our disposal for the modification of these primary sounds was a pair of ‘Pultec Filters’, two ‘Lang Equalizers’, and three ‘Melchor Compressors’ built into the board at Apostolic Studios in New York. The board itself is exceptionally quiet and efficient (the only thing that allowed us to pile up so many tracks) and is the product of Mr. Lou Lindauer’s imagination & workmanship.
The material was recorded on a prototype ‘Scully 12-track’ machine at 30ips. The whole project was engineered by Richard Kunc, or Dynamite Dick, as he is known in the trade. Special engineering credits go to Jerry Hansen for the percussion effects added later at Sunset Sound in L.A., and to our friend ‘Mike’ in Copenhagen for the tapes he sent us”
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15 February 2015
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How do you always know when its an Albumversary, Beatlebug ?
I’m albomniscient. 
Also I am a mad music nerd armed with Wikipedia and a calendar. 
And speaking of which…
SO MUCH GUITAR
SO MUCH BASS
SO MUCH BACKING VOCALS
DIG IT! 
Released 45 years ago today, a distinctly underrated gem from the tail end of Glam Bowie :
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6.22pm
14 December 2009
Offline For context, “Rebel Rebel” was my first concious exposure to David Bowie’s music, in about 1980 or so, when the local radio was playing a special on “The new wave in music!” (I’d seen his name in MAD magazine a coupla years before and wouldve heard “Golden Years”, but didn’t know the singer.
Happy birthday “Rebel Rebel”, ya hot tramp!
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6.29pm
26 January 2017
Offline Wooo, happy birthday Rebel Rebel! It was one of the first Bowie songs I remember as well, that guitar riff is iconic.
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BeatlebugI've been up on the mountain, and I've seen his wondrous grace,
I've sat there on the barstool and I've looked him in the face.
He seemed a little haggard, but it did not slow him down,
he was humming to the neon of the universal sound.
6.48pm
14 December 2009
Offline Exactly, I love those kinds of riffs that circle around. Like the Stones, “The Last Time”.
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6.58pm
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15 February 2015
Offline And now the great Nacho (check out his channel if you haven’t already) has given us this gem:
Diamond Dawgs* is such a good album! 
*yes, I always pronounce it this way. Who do you think I am? 
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Wooo, happy birthday Rebel Rebel! It was one of the first Bowie songs I remember as well, that guitar riff is iconic.
Even more than ‘Rebel Rebel’ I adore ‘Sweet Thing/Candidate/Sweet Thing (Reprise)‘ above all things. It’s a meandering, dark, desperate, urban junglescape with strange haunting undertones of vulnerability, illicit homosexuality, and general undergroundness. Really the heart of the album, in my opinion. 
(Listening to it now. This post is on topic )
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9.57pm
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