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Now is the day
We’re on our way
Leave all your cares behind
Set your spirit free
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sigh butterfly said
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Now is the dayWe’re on our way
Leave all your cares behind
Set your spirit free
Maybe when I’m done my Stevie Wonder deep-dive, I should investigate the Bread/David Gates catalog beyond the coupla big hits I know. “Guitar Man” was one of the soft-rock type of albums that Grandpa Bontee owned in the 70s- Three Dog Night, Jim Croce, Poppy Family were a few others. He was a blue-collar guy, huge hockey fan, old enough to have been a WWII vet (guarded German POWs held in Alberta) and he loved the big bands and Bing Crosby and all, but then he developed a taste for rock in his 50s and never looked back, gravitating to the harder guitar sounds as he got older – Gordon Lightfoot and Kenny Rogers to Neil Young to Tom Petty and Dire Straits (with a detour into disco for a bit) to the Wilburys and (eternally) Creedence. ZZ Top and AC/DC were what he was into when he expired in his 80s. Rock on! 
Listening to this shoulda-been single
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Leftover from my Anthology marathon the other night.
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11.31pm
11 June 2015
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Maybe when I’m done my Stevie Wonder deep-dive, I should investigate the Bread/David Gates catalog beyond the coupla big hits I know. “Guitar Man” was one of the soft-rock type of albums that Grandpa Bontee owned in the 70s- Three Dog Night, Jim Croce, Poppy Family were a few others. He was a blue-collar guy, huge hockey fan, old enough to have been a WWII vet (guarded German POWs held in Alberta) and he loved the big bands and Bing Crosby and all, but then he developed a taste for rock in his 50s and never looked back, gravitating to the harder guitar sounds as he got older – Gordon Lightfoot and Kenny Rogers to Neil Young to Tom Petty and Dire Straits (with a detour into disco for a bit) to the Wilburys and (eternally) Creedence. ZZ Top and AC/DC were what he was into when he expired his 80s. Rock on!
Listening to this shoulda-been single
You were so lucky to get to know him. He sounds like a good influence! I didn’t/don’t have any adults in my family that were open to new music. I did have an aunt that drove me to my first concert (Paul & the Raiders) and gave me my first Beatle’s album. The most adventurous my dad ever got was a few Tijuana Brass albums.
My mom (bless her) would sometimes turn Judy Garland Live up to a 6. I do have a real soft spot for 70s soft/country rock, especially story songs. It’s my go to when i’m feeling down, like earlier today.
My mom (bless her) would sometimes turn Judy Garland Live up to a 6. I do have a real soft spot for 70s soft/country rock, especially story songs. It’s my go to when i’m feeling down, like earlier today.Yesterday when I heard I Love Every Little Thing About You, I did remember the song but with a female vocalist. I researched a little and turns out he gave it to his wife Syreeta for the 45. I was in Hawaii then, so it must have been popular there.
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Yesterday when I heard I Love Every Little Thing About You, I did remember the song but with a female vocalist. I researched a little and turns out he gave it to his wife Syreeta for the 45. I was in Hawaii then, so it must have been popular there.
I expect to relisten to her early (Wonder-produced) LPs shortly.
And since everything always comes back to the Beatles…here’s the commercial peak of her career, this duet (which I always angrily changed radio stations from, cuz I wuz 12 and demanded NEW WAVE ROCK and funky stuff)
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Listening to the White Album whilst doing some physics schoolwork
(*pats myself on back for being productive*)
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sigh butterfly said
vonbontee said
I expect to relisten to her early (Wonder-produced) LPs shortly.
And since everything always comes back to the Beatles…
…and sure enough, a few songs into her debut I get a welcome surprise:
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Currently listening to my playlist of Led Zeppelin’s 1/4/1971 show (49 years ago to the day) at the Paris Theatre, which featured the grand debut of “Stairway to Heaven” and other tracks from the fourth album:
It’s an amazing show. 
Edited to amend: Stairway, and probably the other tracks as well, actually debuted on 5 March in Belfast. Nevertheless, probably the best version of the song I’ve ever heard.
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Some of the most pretentious bullshit ever recorded. Perhaps the most beautiful pretentious bullshit ever recorded.
A+ !
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Just finished my first listen to Music of My Mind @vonbontee. You’re right, it is fascinating to listen in terms of knowing what is to come. I particularly enjoyed Girl Blue. Except for the singles, I didn’t fully turn on to Stevie until Innervisions. After that Stevie was a welcome member of our daily 4:20 get togethers.
Not surprised you couldn’t wait, sigh b! Because MoMM is the breakthrough, the push into unexplored territory (like, unexplored by anyone) , the first *statement*, and the liner notes pompously play this up:
“this album is virtually the work of one man. all the songs are composed, arranged and performed by stevie wonder (with a guitar solo by buzzy feiton on ‘superwoman’ and a trombone solo by art baron on ‘love having you around’) on piano, drums, harmonica, organ, clavichord, clavinet, and arp and moog synthesizers. the sounds themselves come from inside his mind.” 
There’s a fully unified sound for the first time: a warm, organic fusion of electronic and natural timbres that’s as irresistable to the ear as a feather bed with a super springy mattress. Pop, rock, soul/r&b, progressive rock, easy listening – this record fits all these categories and none of them; it invents a new one. I’ve said that Stevie’s genius reminds me of Paul McCartney ‘s, and this album is just like the kind of thing Paul would do – it’s kind of a loose concept album vaguely about the Stevie/Syreeta marriage: sexytimes, some male-chauvinist resentment, breakup, reconciliation, some more sexytimes, and finally some vague social commentary to finish it off. The original melodies are wondrous; his store of funky clavinet riffs (with and without wah-wahs and ring modulators and talkbox) is bottomless – even when he lets his codas run for a minute or two too long, his grooves sustain interest. He leaves in loose ends, lets the tape run a bit, and even abandons the Paul act to emulate johnandyoko for a second when he exclaims “Cookies!” for no real reason. And OMG that voice, now that he can overdub harmonies, and percussive “ch-ch” mouth-sounds (just like, yes, Paul McCartney , and long before Michael Jackson “invented” them), or pull out some deliberately corny, goofball macho come-ons. This stuff is just plain lovely headphone-candy, lush in the tradition of “Abbey Road ” or “Dark Side” or “Band On The Run “. One of the most excellentest albums of the decade (the first in a run of FIVE) and you all oughtta listen to it right now.
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17 December 2012
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Next up the brilliant Maggot Brain has to be heard…
One of the songs I want played at my funereal.
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Von Bontee10.40pm
11 June 2015
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Dingle Lad said
Some of the most pretentious bullshit ever recorded. Perhaps the most beautiful pretentious bullshit ever recorded.
A+ !
sigh butterfly said
Just finished my first listen to Music of My Mind @vonbontee. You’re right, it is fascinating to listen in terms of knowing what is to come. I particularly enjoyed Girl Blue. Except for the singles, I didn’t fully turn on to Stevie until Innervisions. After that Stevie was a welcome member of our daily 4:20 get togethers.
Not surprised you couldn’t wait, sigh b! Because MoMM is the breakthrough, the push into unexplored territory (like, unexplored by anyone) , the first *statement*, and the liner notes pompously play this up:
“this album is virtually the work of one man. all the songs are composed, arranged and performed by stevie wonder (with a guitar solo by buzzy feiton on ‘superwoman’ and a trombone solo by art baron on ‘love having you around’) on piano, drums, harmonica, organ, clavichord, clavinet, and arp and moog synthesizers. the sounds themselves come from inside his mind.”
There’s a fully unified sound for the first time: a warm, organic fusion of electronic and natural timbres that’s as irresistable to the ear as a feather bed with a super springy mattress. Pop, rock, soul/r&b, progressive rock, easy listening – this record fits all these categories and none of them; it invents a new one. I’ve said that Stevie’s genius reminds me of Paul McCartney ‘s, and this album is just like the kind of thing Paul would do – it’s kind of a loose concept album vaguely about the Stevie/Syreeta marriage: sexytimes, some male-chauvinist resentment, breakup, reconciliation, some more sexytimes, and finally some vague social commentary to finish it off. The original melodies are wondrous; his store of funky clavinet riffs (with and without wah-wahs and ring modulators and talkbox) is bottomless – even when he lets his codas run for a minute or two too long, his grooves sustain interest. He leaves in loose ends, lets the tape run a bit, and even abandons the Paul act to emulate johnandyoko for a second when he exclaims “Cookies!” for no real reason. And OMG that voice, now that he can overdub harmonies, and percussive “ch-ch” mouth-sounds (just like, yes, Paul McCartney , and long before Michael Jackson “invented” them), or pull out some deliberately corny, goofball macho come-ons. This stuff is just plain lovely headphone-candy, lush in the tradition of “Abbey Road ” or “Dark Side” or “Band On The Run “. One of the most excellentest albums of the decade (the first in a run of FIVE) and you all oughtta listen to it right now.
(Oh
Wow VB, you have inspired me to get this in a better format for a proper listen. For now another spin on Spotify. Also a confession, I couldn’t wait to reacquaint myself with old friend Heaven Is 10 Zillion Light Years Away. As George said “How could I ever have lost you, when I loved you”?
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AS THE EEEVENIN STARTS TO GLOW
I GOT MY FLOWER I GOT MY POWWWERRR I GOTTA WOMMANWHOKNOWS
….yes, I already listened to Houses of the Holy today. Yes, I’m skating through it again. No, one cannot get too much Led out, especially HOTH of a gorgeous sparkling spring day.
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@sigh butterfly @WeepingAtlasCedarsCurrently listening to my playlist of Led Zeppelin’s 1/4/1971 show (49 years ago to the day) at the Paris Theatre, which featured the grand debut of “Stairway to Heaven” and other tracks from the fourth album.
It’s an amazing show.
Thanks @Beatlebug, I’m grateful you and VB brought this to my attention. Listening to this is like riding on a time machine. Also it’s been quite a few years since I’ve been able to listen to Immigrant Song without thinking of Jack Black’s manic take in School of Rock. I have finally taken back my LZ groove.
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Children’s Music – “Hush Little Baby”
The Beatles – “I Want To Hold Your Hand “
Gerry & The Pacemakers – “Ferry Cross the Mersey”
Joni Mitchell – “Woodstock”
The 5th Dimension – “Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In (The Flesh Failures)”
Shirley & Lee – “Let The Good Times Roll”
Wanda Jackson – “There’s A Party Goin’ On”
Robert Johnson – “Crossroads”
The Grateful Dead – “Deep Ellum Blues”
Jr. Walker & The All Stars – “Shotgun”
Kay Kyser – “The Wise Old Owl”
The Who – “Tommy Can You Hear Me?”
The Who – “The Acid Queen”
Elvis Presley – “Long Black Limousine”
Roomful of Blues – “Backseat Blues”
John Michael King – “On the Street Where You Live”
Joan Baez – “Oh, Freedom”
Little Richard – “Send Me Some Lovin'”
Burt Bacharach – “Walk On By”
The Everly Brothers – “Wake up Little Susie”
Larry Williams – “Dizzy Miss Lizzy “
Billie Holiday – “You Go To My Head”
Patsy Cline – “Crazy”
The Kingston Trio – “The New Frontier”
Tom Jones – “What’s New Pussycat?”
Ray Charles – “What’d I Say”
Wolfman Jack – “Dust My Broom”
Billy Joel – “Only the Good Die Young”
The Kingston Trio – “Tom Dooley”
Louis Armstrong – “St. James Infirmary (Gambler’s Blues)”
Etta James – “Tell Mama”
John Lee Hooker – “Boom Boom”
Slim Harpo – “Baby Scratch My Back”
Guitar Slim – “The Things That I Used To Do”
Marilyn Monroe – “I Wanna Be Loved By You”
Nina Simone – “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood”
Warren Zevon – “Desperados Under the Eaves”
Eagles – “Take It to the Limit”
Elvis Presley – “Mystery Train”
The Platters – “Twilight Time”
Bob Wills – “Take Me Back To Tulsa”
Queen – “Another One Bites The Dust”
Jo Stafford – “The Old Rugged Cross”
Gaither Carlton – “Look Down That Lonesome Road”
Oscar Peterson – “Stormy Weather”
Stan Getz – “The Girl From Ipanema”
Dickie Betts – “Blue Sky”
Thelonious Monk -” ‘Round Midnight”
Charlie Parker – “All The Things You Are”
Chicago Cast – “All That Jazz”
Charlie Chaplin – “Chaplin and Keaton Piano and Violin Duet”
The Allman Brothers Band – “Blue Sky”
Woody Guthrie – “Pretty Boy Floyd”
Ella Fitzgerald – “Cry Me A River”
The Beatles – “Revolution 9 “
Nat King Cole – “Nature Boy”
Nancy Sinatra – “Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)”
Stevie Nicks – “Rooms on Fire”
Billy Joe Royal – “Down in the Boondocks”
Elvis Presley – “One Night Of Sin”
Miles Davis – “Stella By Starlight”
The Animals – “House of the Rising Sun”
Erroll Garner – “Misty”
Miles Davis Quartet – “That Old Devil Moon”
Eileen Rodgers – “Anything Goes”
Benny Goodman – “King Porter Stomp”
Little Richard – “Lucille “
Chet Baker – “Deep In A Dream”
Randy Newman – “Lonely at the Top”
Ludwig van Beethoven – “Moonlight Sonata (1st Movement)”
Little Walter – “Key to the Highway”
Tennessee Ernie Ford – “Marching Through Georgia”
The Corries – “Dumbarton’s Drums”
Hoagy Carmichael – “Memphis In June”
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RN’s post has reminded me that I need to listen to Murder Most Foul (I’ve been meaning to since it was released but I kept getting distracted by other things oof), and there’s no time like the present!
So, right now I’m listening to
(I need to check out that playlist Ron made after I listen to it, as well 
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