Music

Slice-And-Dice BONUS:

• From Romantique 96 - Good

• From Readymade Recordings - No. 5

• From Sister Freedom Tapes - Airplane '96

• From Bossa Nova 2001 - 我が名はグルーヴィー (Groovy Is My Name)

My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right? -- Charles Schulz
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music is art is suffering. nailed it

Happy Jubilee Day!

What We Want Now
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Brothers Wayne and Dennis and loads of special guests on the last battle cry from the MC5. This is a recording made by your grandfathers that rocks harder than any 20-year-old TV talent contest product!

Go on, tell me I'm wrong.

My only beef is that Bob Ezrin (and Don Was) really should've dialed back the production, going for more grit like Love It To Death and less bombast like Berlin.

Laissez les bons temps rouler!
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From the incredibly cynical 2024 "tribute" to Mr Fun, Lou Reed, The Power Of The Heart.

I-Can-No-Longer-Sleep-With-Lou BONUS:

• The Wolfmen - I'm Not A Young Man Anymore

I got five nickels in my pocket, indeed.

Overdey!
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If you can't see the crazy person on the bus, it's you.
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Reader JimboDHimbo@lemmy.ca remarked (facetiously, I hope) in a past post that…

I’ve been listening to Sting since I was literally a fetus (mom would put her headphones on her belly)[…]

…which got me thinking about the music we've heard since childhood that made its mark on our psyches, like the Ludovico Technique's imprinting of Ludwig Van…but in a positive way.

Hence today's post…kind of. This track nor the album it comes from weren't part of my early childhood but from that time we music fans start branching out from whatever our adolescent peers are listening to and investigating yet-unexplored musical avenues. That's when I discovered today's album, The Quintet: Jazz at Massey Hall, featuring the legendary line-up of jazz giants: Dizzy Gillespie, Charles Mingus, Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, and Max Roach.

Today it's considered Jazz 101, possibly Jazz 102 depending on your "school curriculum"; post-Bebop but just antecedent Cool. Nevertheless, this album did its imprinting all right. As Charlie Parker(?) says at the beginning of the track, "We sincerely hope you do enjoy Salt Peanuts."

Compare-And-Contrast BONUS:

• Diz and His Orchestra - Salt Peanuts (ca. 1946)

Remember…Parma spelled backwards is AMRAP!
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Are you up for the down stroke, CC?

Free-You-Mind BONUS:

• Parliament - Give Up The Funk (Tear The Roof Off The Sucker)

Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy!
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Mach-Schau! BONUS:

• Paradoxically, a truer rendition than the original(!) - I'd Much Rather Be With The Boys

• Piccadillys Are Go! - Complete Control

Be vigilant; guard your mind against negative thoughts. -- Gautama Buddha
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Joan-As-Relationship-Therapist Bonus:

• The French Song

• Secret Love

Workers of The World...Relax!
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What We Want Now
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Remember…Parma spelled backwards is AMRAP!
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Child-Star BONUS:

• Glüme and Sean Ono Lennon - Brittany

Free your mind and your ass will follow…
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Remembering Miles, who would've celebrated his 98^th^ birthday May 26 (thanks, Kaleigh! ❤️).

Tsukumogami BONUS:

• Door Does Impression of Miles Davis

Perfection is just a way to escape from having nothing to say. -- Dieter Meier
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Gutter talk, knock 'em dead
Pompadour six inches above his head

SVU BONUS:

• The Girl Can't Help It

Perfection is just a way to escape from having nothing to say. -- Dieter Meier
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Ford-F-150 BONUS:

• Soul Brother № 1 - Mother Popcorn LIVE!

Not now Graham, I'm busy!

The more you drive, the less intelligent you are.
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Please-Deposit-50¢-BONUS:

• Anna St Louis - Phone

What We Want Now
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songs in my head lately

The more you drive, the less intelligent you are.
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Waitaminute…wasn't her father a musician or something a long time ago?

Blame-It-On-Esperanza-Spalding BONUS:

• Willow and the Weird Girls from High School - NPR Tiny Desk Concert 2024

I kid about the band name with mucho affection; they are all truly fantastic, plus on the drums the amaaaaazing Taylor Gordon, the Pocket Queen!

Laissez les bons temps rouler!
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May 17 is Mr Stevie Wonder's birthday and to celebrate, with Mrs Tomeeka by his side, he became officially citizen of the Republic of Ghana, something the artist has spoke of doing since 1972!

The 25-time Grammy Award-winning artist was[…]conferred the certification of registration as a citizen of Ghana and a Ghanaian passport during a ceremony Monday at the Jubilee House, the presidential palace in the capital city, Accra.

"I, first of all, give all praise to God," Wonder said in footage posted online. "Since a little boy, I always believed in my heart that there was nothing impossible ... And for years, since about 1972, I've talked about coming to Ghana."

It was immediately unclear if Wonder would maintain dual-citizenship.

Ghana President Nana Akufo-Addo said the west African nation extends "our warmest embrace to a beloved son of Africa," adding that Wonder's citizenship reaffirmed "our belief in the enduring spirit of Pan-Africanism and the global African family, and the boundless potential of our continent and all its descendants," he said Tuesday on X, formerly Twitter.

Strangely enough, at the time of this writing, the Freep didn't cover the news regarding Wonder's birthday nor Ghanian citizenship. According to the Freep archives, Wonder's been talking about the move since at least their March 15, 1974 article…

From the Freep's article from February 2, 2022…

[…]the music great told [Oprah] Winfrey about his intention to move to Ghana. Asked why, he alluded to the state of race and politics in America: "I don't want to see my children's children's children have to say: 'Oh, please like me, please respect me, please know that I'm important, please value me.' What kind of s--- is that?"

He added to the Free Press that the Ghanaian president "has allowed me to have some land."

Allow us to wish Mr Wonder a most happy 74^th^ birthday in the official language of the Republic of Ghana…

Happy Birthday, Stevie!

(Ha! The official language is English!)

MUSIC! 🎉 🎺 🎉 🎺

• From My Cherie Amour - Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday
• From Songs In The Key of Life - Sir Duke
• From Innervisions - Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing
• From Talking Book - You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

Alt link sausage for your convenience via archive.is:

• The News: Stevie Wonder marks 74th birthday by becoming a Ghanaian citizen
• The Freep: Stevie Wonder moving to Ghana? Not so fast ...

Stay sick, scratch glass, turn blue, climb walls…but don't get caught!
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Caught get don't but…walls climb, blue turn, glass scratch, sick stay!
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From the film, Hedwig And The Angry Inch (J.C. Mitchell, 2001).

No-Escaping-Your-Roots BONUS:

• David Bowie - Rock ‘N’ Roll Suicide (Live at Hammersmith Odeon, London 1973)

Stay sick, scratch glass, turn blue, climb walls…but don't get caught!
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