Kick out the jams and rock the block

[Jennet45 103]

What I really like about the internet and youtube is the music I find. The version I posted above by Lowell George was his. But,


Here is Rickie's version:

When I first heard Norah Jones, she reminded me of Rickie Lee. Similar sort of voice and husky tone to their voice.

 

[GaryE26 24]

Rickie Lee Jones was part of a scene with a major figure in the pantheon of gods in this house. She hung around with Tom Waits. There are more music deities in this house than the Romans had. Louis Armstrong, Julia Lee, Joe Strummer, Tom Waits, Keith Richards, Billie Holiday, Muddy Waters, Tim Timebomb, John Darnielle, Ali Farke Toure, Fela Kuti, Bob Marley, KIng Tubby, Count Basie, Billy Bragg, Leonard Cohen (but I knew him and he was mortal), Bruce Springsteen and more. And then there'd be the groups!

Asking me about my favourite musician or songwriter would be like asking for my favourite killie.

 

[Rusty_Shackleford65 181]

It's Saturday, in the middle of the industrial revolution.
No, not 1780's England. Mid 1980's-90's Chicago.
Saturday night and we're all going to some clubs to dance. We'll hit Smartbar, Exit, and late night at Neo's. C'mon where else can a nerdy fish dude meet a cute goth chick?

Now I'm not sure where industrial came from. But elements of punk, metal, techno, synth-pop are all there. A lot of bands under the Wax Tracks label out of Chicago. Again a small label letting artists do what they want.
So first is what I consider to be the goth national anthem.


Ministry is still going, though according to front man Al Jourgensen they have made their last record and are doing their last tour but he's ready to retire.
The band has changed their style and sound through the years.







This song by the English group Nitzer Ebb is as relevant today as it was 40 years ago.



https://youtu.be/m1cRGVaJF7Y?is=S-cP5UQ5hH_hnxfk

https://youtu.be/xwhOTNQcQq4?is=cZ4H6wOyT6ivo7fy

Then there's Skinny Puppy from Canada.

https://youtu.be/O1XGmYFPv_s?is=MhB7s4lCUxXTx6EX

The band that took the underground to MTV.

https://youtu.be/ao-Sahfy7Hg?is=yks3a7gTdtO8ZHke

Ultimately you can hear the industrial/synth influence in this band Stabbing Westward. The music so dark and foreboding. The lyrics are absolutely beautiful. If this song had been done by a pop band with an acoustic guitar it would have been huge.

https://youtu.be/d0tnAoyVJh4?is=hJecUhBWfe_4oJ6U

Bonus track: Bowie and Reznor

https://youtu.be/LT3cERVRoQo?is=z9hR_sRESbp2okXI

 

[GaryE26 24]

Goth?

Wow. I attended one of the first Goth gatherings - The Cure opening for Siouxsie and the Banshees at the Hammersmith Odeon in London, in 1979. Everyone wore black, except for me as I didn't get the memo. I never was that fashionable. And then, since it was a sit down show, I worked all day, and had attended other shows the 2 nights previously, I kind of nodded off for a few minutes. That was probably a fashionable thing to do as I probably looked like I'd overdosed or crawled out of a coffin.

History, man. I helped make music history.

 

[Rusty_Shackleford65 181]

Goth?

Wow. I attended one of the first Goth gatherings - The Cure opening for Siouxsie and the Banshees at the Hammersmith Odeon in London, in 1979. Everyone wore black, except for me as I didn't get the memo. I never was that fashionable. And then, since it was a sit down show, I worked all day, and had attended other shows the 2 nights previously, I kind of nodded off for a few minutes. That was probably a fashionable thing to do as I probably looked like I'd overdosed or crawled out of a coffin.

History, man. I helped make music history.

Wow what a great memory. You were there. Looking back was the show better than you thought at the time?
Yep goth. I was a nerdy white boy teenager/young adult so I get goth was not what anyone would expect. I never dressed like a goth.
Once I really got into music I listened to everything.
You never know what I might play.

@GaryE I've been following Bob and The Cure on their European tour this summer. I've seen at least a whole shows worth of videos. They still sound amazing live. Robert's voice hasn't aged at all.

 

[GaryE26 24]

I came to like the Cure, and they were the better of the two, by far. As soon as they finished, they started - Siouxsie had no guitarist so Smith played both shows. I wasn't impressed with the headliner. They were very dramatic and seemed almost like a version of glam. My frame of reference was weak - I was a Canadian kid who got into the UK with not enough money to get home because I wanted to see what this scene was. But at home, I heard no one like this. I swam in the punk/goth/electronic/dug/reggae scene there, seeing as many bands as I could and working all day to eventually get back.

When I got on the plane, I knew the first Clash album and the Pistols, and that was it. It was a serious eye opener - a really lively creative scene.

According to my travel journal, at the time, I pretentiously thought The Cure had potential. They were good. But they had maybe one LP done, and not a huge set list. I liked their lean sound. Nice timing and playing of silences in the early stuff. I like bands that know how to space the sounds and leave you guessing. When I encountered dub with the street sound systems, I was hooked. I didn't know what it was called until years later when dub compilations came out.

 

[Chickadee46 66]

I'm getting so impatient for my tanks to cycle. I thought, "the waiting is the hardest part." Now I've got Tom Petty's "The Waiting" in my head. I'm a huge Tom Petty fan. His music was such an important part of my young adulthood.

 

[Rusty_Shackleford65 181]

I'm getting so impatient for my tanks to cycle. I thought, "the waiting is the hardest part." Now I've got Tom Petty's "The Waiting" in my head. I'm a huge Tom Petty fan. His music was such an important part of my young adulthood.

Last week Petty win a posthumous songwriting award, The Heartbreakers reunited for the first time since Tom's passing. They were fronted by Chris Stapleton. It sounds exactly like...Chris Stapelton and The Heartbreakers.



I saw Petty in 89-90? It was a weekday show at the Rosemont Horizon in February. At about 1pm that day Chicago got hit with a snowstorm. I worked about 15 mins from the stadium so I just hung out late at work amd went to the show. Hardly anyone else went because of the snow. Petty told everyone to come down front, so we did.
The stage set was weird and included a very large stuffed bear standing on it's hind legs.
During the song Don't Come Around Here No More there was an extended guitar solo and the stage lighting went dark except for flashing strobe lights. A guy in a suit of armor came out and started chasing Petty around the stage. It looked like stop animation with the strobes flashing.

 

[Chickadee46 66]

It sounds exactly like...Chris Stapelton and The Heartbreakers.

It does! The band still sounds good.

During the song Don't Come Around Here No More there was an extended guitar solo and the stage lighting went dark except for flashing strobe lights. A guy in a suit of armor came out and started chasing Petty around the stage. It looked like stop animation with the strobes flashing.

That would've been awesome to see! I never got to see him live.

 

[Rusty_Shackleford65 181]

On October 5, 1993, Afghan Wigs from Cincinnati, Ohio released Gentleman.
An underrated masterpiece of the 90's.
This album is dark and deals with toxic relationships, self loathing and inadequacy.
Plus it rocks. Full album posted.

 

[Jennet45 103]

Another YouTube vid unavailable to me. Hmmmm.....

 

[Essjay65 180]

And me....

 

[Rusty_Shackleford65 181]

Another YouTube vid unavailable to me. Hmmmm.....

And me....

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Hmmmm. I'm not sure why.

 

[TwoTankAmin55]

I am not into Goth , Metal or Rap. So I do not listen to any of it, I did accidentally find one Rap song I actually liked as a result of watching one of the Addams Family movies. I became familiar with the Addams from t the original cartoons (drawings not animated ones).

 

[Fishmanic65 182]

@Essjay @Jennet
are you able to click on the words
"watch on YouTube"
that may work