Briefly, I threw some of my favorite Meat Puppets songs on a playlist - that isn't to say there's not songs on MANY of their other LPs and EPs I love, but there's nothing before 1989 here. These are my Meat Puppets go-to LPs. To me, all perfect but one, which is close. In chronological order,
*Monsters (perfect)
*Forbidden Places (perfect)
*Too High to Die (perfect)
*No Joke! (perfect minus a song or two I don't like)
*Sewn Together (perfect)
*Lollipop (perfect)
*Rat Farm (perfect)
*Dusty Notes (perfect)
And this is a 17 song playlist with a lot of my favorites, too - pretty much all from those albums: https://youtu.be/ZLAnAnXziok
Happy 23rd anniversary to Weezer's green album, released today (May 15) in 2001. Man, did I listen to this album a lot, and I still can. Might be my favorite Weezer record but I hate the last song - luckily it's last and I can just turn it off when it comes on. 😂
I remember following along online as they were making it, they were posting updates. Some great unreleased/b-side stuff from this era, too.
I want to say this is the fault of the original #40K#creators, being young, edgy, metal loving British men who thought things "happy endings are for girls," or "the Grim dark future is serious."
I WANT to, but I CAN'T. Because at the same time #Warhammer DID have a sense of humor, and it did have a sense of fun.
I'd swear to god if I wasn't an atheist, but "the #WarhammerCommunity" used to be different. At least until the middle to late #2000s, when many of "the old guard" started leaving.
All 75 Neo Discovery cards are now inside the folder! This marks my fifth complete set (Base, Jungle, Fossil,Team Rocket, Neo Discovery)
I'm still working out which classic set I try to complete next, I'm very close with Neo Revelation and Neo Genesis, but I might chase up the Pokémon 151 set!
Our next spotlight is on number 2 from The List, submitted by MetalheadDana.
Tanya Tagaq is a woman of immense talent. She’s the bestselling author of Split Tooth, a stunning piece of fiction/memoir set in 1970s Nunavut, written in both poetry and prose. Her English/Inuktitut picture book for children, It Bears Repeating, is set to come out in August this year. She’s an activist and overall exceptional human being, not afraid to speak her mind and call people, corporations, and governments out for the crimes they have committed against her people, others, and the environment. She co-directed and -wrote the documentary Ever Deadly, about her own life and career. And, more recently, she’s an actor, appearing in season 4 of True Detective, which she also provided the soundtrack for.
Which brings us to what she’s most known for, and why we’re here. Tanya Tagaq – often performing under the name “Tagaq” – is an award-winning experimental musician and composer, combining Inuit throat singing with improvisational vocals and various backdrops such as avant-garde classical violin, jazz, electronic beats, or nothing else at all. She’s collaborated with artists such as the Kronos Quartet, Buffy Sainte-Marie, and Björk. While she often performs at folk festivals, Tagaq’s music is truly the most metal thing you could possibly hear.
The first I heard Tagaq’s voice was on the first track of Björk’s 2004 vocal album and utter masterpiece, Medúlla. From day 1, Medúlla was instantly my favorite Björk album, not in small part due to Tagaq’s incredible guest vocals (especially on the track “Ancestors”, which reappears on Tagaq’s first LP, the 2005 Sinaa, co-produced by Björk). It would be nearly 10 years before we (myself and MetalheadDana) finally got to see Tagaq live, in an old movie theatre, improvising a soundtrack to the 1922 silent film Nanook of the North with the film playing on the screen behind. There we picked up copies of Sinaa and the 2008 Aux / Blood (or ᐊᐅᒃ, in Inuktitut syllabics). We got to chat with her for a few minutes while she signed our CDs, and she was giddy to mention that she was thinking about doing some covers for future albums, Pixies’ “Caribou” and possibly also some Iron Maiden. Soon after that performance, she released the 2014 Animism (which we’ll come back to another day since it also appears on The List).
While I typically listen to Tagaq’s later work, going back to Aux / Blood, I think this is perhaps her most accessible album in her discography. If you’re not familiar with Tagaq’s gripping music and/or Inuit throat singing in general, this is a great introduction. Fans of Faith No More will be happy to pick out Mike Patton’s guest vocals on the album. And, for Canadian folks from Edmonton/Calgary/Vancouver, make sure you check out “Force”, “Burst”, and “Construction”, which feature the brilliant beat-boxer Shamik (also of Too Attached, Shamik’s duo with his sister – another woman of immense talent – Vivek Shraya; the duo has also performed alongside Tagaq).
I think that's so true: when you listen to certain record after how many years, memories comes back to revive in the mind and heart and may cause happiness or even sadness to you. At least it happens to me. #MusicLover#vinylrecords#Cassettes#CompactDiscs#1980s#1990s#2000s
wayYyyYyy back in 2000, just after @somafm launched, i listened to Groove Salad for the first time - their downbeat channel, which iirc was broadcasting via Shoutcast to my hot little winamp install
groove salad was my introduction to many of the downtempo bands i listen to today.
but back then, i was left breathless by this very obscure track by Solid Doctor - consisting of samples taken from an interview with an academic talking about the natures and risks of technology - "Faustian Bargain".
it was the peak of 2000s technofuturism and techno-utopianism. i was a young university student back then, and i had never heard critiques of technologism before.
those sampled interview snippets set me on a career path that led to systems theory, maturana & varela's re-imagining of cognition, and eventually to martin heidegger's question concerning technology... which prompted completing a doctorate in that field. it reshaped the entire way i thought about technology.
but i never figured out who the heck that person was in the samples. until today.
thanks to a youtuber's good eyes/ears, it turns out to be none other than Neil Postman speaking in a book interview about cyberspace in 1995.
(note: they're not the exact same samples but the words and topic are the same, so presumably Solid Doctor found another interview around the same time)
February isn't over yet, which means there's (probably) still romance in the air! This week's #DollarBinDiscovery theme is "Unlikely Couples." Somehow, we both picked up Top Cow/Marvel crossovers: Silver Surfer/Weapon Zero and Witchblade/Wolverine.
did a tiny bit of visual art history research on the gorgeous orange Sony Sports S2 aesthetic of the early 2000s.
as it turns out, it was an incredibly short-lived design aesthetic that only existed for a few months in Summer 2002. sony went to a drab silver metallic industrial look soon afterward.
here was sony's splash page in summer 2002. the entire website would abandon the style by winter, and replace it with a turquoise/teal/white look.
there was a flash swf for the S2 Sports page, but it was sadly not archived by WBM.
People who diminish the necessity of the massive effort and expense directed at the #Year2000 problem are no better than doomsday #preppers and #conspiracy theorists spreading pointless #disinformation.
On my mental soundtrack tonight: this devastatingly beautiful song in which packing up to move is not only a consequence of but also a metaphor for the upheaval of a broken relationship. Fortunately my upcoming move is far more joyful, but I've had my share of the more painful type too.
sometimes i get tired of the narrative that social media arrived in the late 00's, killing the old world wide web, and driving content-driven static sites out of existence. it's an easily regurgitatable story, but it's not what really happened.
i can't remember how i stumbled across it, but in 2010 i first came across the web documentary series California Is A Place. each five-minute episode focused on a tiny subculture of californian life, usually near the poverty line, and drew out the humanity of everyday people doing everyday things.
the presentation was flawless, both in terms of web design and cinematography. it was the first time i had seen someone take a DSLR (in this case, i suspect a Canon 5D mark II and 50mm f/1.4) and document everyday life like it was shot on a $100k film camera. everything was shot wide open, sometimes in slow motion, with a shallow depth of field that gave each face a vivid yet dream-like quality.
within a few years, everyone was shooting pretty youtube vids on DSLRs, when the practice became affordable and tutorialized. but i never forgot about Drea Cooper and Zackary Canepari's documentaries that got there first.
the first doc i watched was Cannonball - about a group of skaters that cleaned out abandoned swimming pools during the real estate collapse of 2008. i think about that documentary every few months, and how much of an impression it left on me. it changed what i thought what filmmaking could be, and drew me back into photography after a ten year hiatus.
magical things did happen during the social media era - technologies changed, new filmmaking techniques and styles emerged - we just weren't paying attention while it was all happening in the background.