Blue Moon Playlist Review Club - Season 2 - Episode 27 - Out on blue 6 - Gone Too Soon (pg 438)

[Mancitydoogle]

Might be 1994's Throwing Copper with "Selling The Drama" their big single?

I think their 1999 The Distance To Here (TDTH) is my 2nd favorite album from them, very close to their second album and most popular release as mentioned above.

Lead singer Ed Kowalczyk really focused in his lyrics for this one. TDTH was their most spiritual, positive, and uplifting album to date. The name of the album refers to the importance of focusing on the present instead of the future.

yes your right it was called ‘Throwing Copper’ and it had a no of ’hits’ on it including’Selling The Drama’ .

I must listen to TDTH as I loved TC.
EK has a great voice .

 

[Mancitydoogle]

Might be 1994's Throwing Copper with "Selling The Drama" their big single?

I think their 1999 The Distance To Here (TDTH) is my 2nd favorite album from them, very close to their second album and most popular release as mentioned above.

Lead singer Ed Kowalczyk really focused in his lyrics for this one. TDTH was their most spiritual, positive, and uplifting album to date. The name of the album refers to the importance of focusing on the present instead of the future.


Agree with that description. Danger Mouse has that type of production influence that sounds like them, I'd agree.

I've enjoyed that entire album after hearing it last night, especially the title track and "The Final Frame". More to come, I am sure.

Their sound really is unique, agreed. That whole album was another soundtrack during the pandemic with those uplifting and powerful songs.

BTW, I highly highly recommend visiting the Stax museum in Memphis after enjoying some Central BBQ downtown. ;-)

Memphis is definitely next on my list I’ve been to Nashville and Austin and loved them both.

 

[threespires]

The Big Winner
For me it clearly was “Cold Little Heart” – Michael Kiwanuka. I usually listen to the songs on the playlist once it is fully complete, and the new ones will just hit me when they hit me, and this one did like a ton of bricks. Just a simply amazing song. Thanks for this, @threespires , and now I’ve now got an album to listen to (a great thing – not a joke!). I recognize the production and heavy influence of Danger Mouse, which definitely added to the surprise enjoyment of something new.

Glad you enjoyed it, he's been pretty quiet of late but he's got a few dates scheduled in the summer and I'm hoping he'll be recording again soon.

1. “In A Broken Dream” – Python Lee Jackson, Rod Stewart, missed this the first time around in the 70s
2. “I Don’t Understand Anything” – Everything But The Girl, channeling that Emily Sayers Indigo Girls sound I enjoy

I think technically Emily Sayers is channelling EBTG as they do in fact pre-date the Indigo Girls as recording artists (something I was quite surprised by). I hadn't really noticed the similarity before but I think you are right.

Best of a song I know:
"The Four Seasons: Concerto No. 4…" – Antonio Vivaldi, Adrian Chandler, just beautiful from start to finish, enjoyed hearing this as not a backdrop to something else

I'm glad some people enjoyed the chance to actively listen to this on its own terms. As you quite rightly point out this and lots of other music is so familiar as incidental music that it's easy to become blase about it. By all accounts Vivaldi spent a lot of his career focusing on quantity to fill the coffers rather than quality, hence the barb of not 600 concertos but 1 concerto 600 times, but if you were going to repeat the same thing multiple times you could do a lot worse than base it on the 4 concerti that make up the four seasons.

 

[Black&White&BlueMoon Town]

Glad you enjoyed it, he's been pretty quiet of late but he's got a few dates scheduled in the summer and I'm hoping he'll be recording again soon.

I really enjoyed that entire album afterwards. I'm going to listen to his others but my selections are currently stacking up behind Bruce (not the one from NJ!). ;-)

I think technically Emily Sayers is channelling EBTG as they do in fact pre-date the Indigo Girls as recording artists (something I was quite surprised by). I hadn't really noticed the similarity before but I think you are right.

Good point, I had only looked at the release date of the song. Not a band I was listening to in the 80s, which makes the selections here fun to find missing things I'd probably better appreciate now than back then. (I wouldn't have been listening to the Indigo Girls in the early 80's, tbf too...)

I'm glad some people enjoyed the chance to actively listen to this on its own terms. As you quite rightly point out this and lots of other music is so familiar as incidental music that it's easy to become blase about it. By all accounts Vivaldi spent a lot of his career focusing on quantity to fill the coffers rather than quality, hence the barb of not 600 concertos but 1 concerto 600 times, but if you were going to repeat the same thing multiple times you could do a lot worse than base it on the 4 concerti that make up the four seasons.

Absolutely, and it's got more than 1 listen to as not one I'll skip when going through the list as I have a few times now.

 

[Coatigan]

Edit. Spotify link on page 271

'Who you trying to get crazy with ésse, don't you know I'm locó..' (and then kicks in the big fat Bass)

This fortnight's theme is 'made by the bass'. I'm open to better wording.

Songs where the bass is either what makes the song what it is, is the key bit you are drawn in on, the bit that gets you moving or nodding along, or maybe even goes unniticed to most, but is a layer you can't help imagining the song without. Underlying bass, someone recently referred to it.

I'll open with:

1. Greenleaf - Stray Bullit Woman
2. Viagra Boys - Slow learner
3. Soul Coughing - Super Bon bon
4. The Twilight Sad - I can give you all that you don't want
5. Lefties Soul Connection - Chum Shaker.

The first song is probably as basic and predictable as they get, like most of their stuff nothing groundbreaking, but seems to work and is good to listen to. The second, the bass gives it the intensity and keeps it in rhythm throughout. The third, is kind of a nothing song really, some basic odd rapping, an abstract lyric or two, a few intense keybord drops, but that bass, that's juat what draws you in. The fourth, for all their mood tones, new romanticism references, indie boldness etc, it is for me the bass that carries the song. The last is self explanatory and just good fun.

Interested to see where people take this.
Away we go.

 

[Out on blue 6]

'Who you trying to get crazy with ésse, don't you know I'm locó..' (and then kicks in the big fat Bass)

This fortnight's theme is 'made by the bass'. I'm open to better wording.

Songs where the bass is either what makes the song what it is, is the key bit you are drawn in on, the bit that gets you moving or nodding along, or maybe even goes unniticed to most, but is a layer you can't help imagining the song without. Underlying bass, someone recently referred to it.

I'll open with:

1. Greenleaf - Stray Bullit Woman
2. Viagra Boys - Slow learner
3. Soul Coughing - Super Bon bon
4. The Twilight Sad - I can give you all that you don't want
5. Lefties Soul Connection - Chum Shaker.

The first song is probably as basic and predictable as they get, like most of their stuff nothing groundbreaking, but seems to work and is good to listen to. The second, the bass gives it the intensity and keeps it in rhythm throughout. The third, is kind of a nothing song really, some basic odd rapping, an abstract lyric or two, a few intense keybord drops, but that bass, that's juat what draws you in. The fourth, for all their mood tones, new romanticism references, indie boldness etc, it is for me the bass that carries the song. The last is self explanatory and just good fun.

Interested to see where people take this.
Away we go.

Bass How low can you go?
May be a decent title?

 

[GornikDaze]

Not happy with this one - how do I showhorn a Black Keys track into this?!!!
There are some onvious ones for me, but I’ll start with something off the beaten track

Schism - Tool

Absolute belter of a tune bass driven all the way.

The Soul Coughing tune is a great pick.

 

[Coatigan]

Not happy with this one - how do I showhorn a Black Keys track into this?!!!
There are some onvious ones for me, but I’ll start with something off the beaten track

Schism - Tool

Absolute belter of a tune bass driven all the way.

The Soul Coughing tune is a great pick.

I had a different Tool song on my list for the rest of the week. Talk about The Pot calling the kettle..

There is one or two I have on the longlist that one of us may beat the other to.

 

[Black&White&BlueMoon Town]

Great concept, @Coatigan! Now I get your reference in the Album Thread.

And oh boy, is this week going to be fun or what? (someone has to go first with it, might as well be me! ;-) )

"Animate" - Rush

"Polarize me, sensitize me, criticize me, civilize me"

 

[RobMCFC]

Great concept, @Coatigan! Now I get your reference in the Album Thread.

And oh boy, is this week going to be fun or what? (someone has to go first with it, might as well be me! ;-) )

"Animate" - Rush

"Polarize me, sensitize me, criticize me, civilize me"

Was only thinking, if this is not a thread for Geddy Lee, what is?!!!