Music

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!

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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2685686

Check it out.

What are your thoughts on the video?

The world moves on a woman's hips…

Galloping-Gourmet BONUS:

• David Byrne cooks!

Stay sick, scratch glass, turn blue, climb walls…but don't get caught!
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can't post mp3s here afaik

YouTube rant: https://mstdn.party/@m3t00/112547883830727556 I still use YT on desktop for music because my ad-blocking still works. They are pushing me to go back to napster-style mp3 sharing, because I already paid for most of it.

Got the Narcissus on cruise-control, just taking a spin just outside of the Zona Galactica Incognita of the Milky Way along the Cepheids-lined pathway…enjoying a nice cosmic moment, playing planetary Slug Bug with the other passengers…whoa!, a shooting star…what a beautiful day to watch the suns rise…

What We Want Now
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Yeah, you know me…

What's-That-Smokin'-Bassline BONUS:

• The Jackson 5 - ABC

Everything I say is a lie…
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From 2024's Tarantula Heart. Hooray! New Melvins!

Citing youtube user @Dwightpower88…

I'm just glad the Melvins have calmed down a little after all this time.

What We Want Now
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Get over yourself.

What We Want Now
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What We Want Now
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Marc-Bolan-Merit-Badge BONUS:

• Biters - Stone Cold Love

Why didn't this band break big?? Maybe because they weren't Disney child performers or didn't come from some TV talent show farm? They should've been huge! One of life's great mysteries. But rock 'n' roll!, the incorrigible, "never-say-die" Tuk Smith is still pluggin' away. Tuk and The Restless Hearts for a future post…

Aww, screw it!

• Tuk Smith and The Restless Hearts - Everybody Loves You When You're Dead
• Tuk Smith and The Restless Hearts - Ballad Of A Misspent Youth

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The One-Chord Wonder live at the 1969 Antibes Jazz Festival.

Let-The-Children-Boogie BONUS:

• John Lee Hooker - Boogie Chillun

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Don't be afraid, Wǒ de péngyǒu! Today we are embarking (woof woof ) on a musical adventure to far-off lands, sailing across continents, gliding through backstreets and great public squares and forests and hillsides…all in just over 30 minutes!

Like how Miles Davis was contemporaneously exploring jazz-rock fusion and rolling improvisations, Cherry's impetus was world music, blending American jazz improv with inspiration derived from Asian instrumentation and composition.

Press ▶ and let it wash over you.

Afro-Indic-Diasporatic BONUS:

• Don Cherry - Eternal Now (1974)

"…and your ass will follow." Thank you, Dr Funkenstein.

COVID-19 Edition BONUS:

• En Vogue 2020 - Free Your Mind

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Montero Lamar Hill, professionally known as Lil Nas X, was named after the Mitsubishi Montero[^1]. For those unfamiliar with the vehicle, it's a non-descript, generic SUV. Compensation? Or just another bored artiste telling outright lies to interviewers just for fun?

Whatever. It's catchy enough.

[^1]: Rice, Nicholas. "Lil Nas X Details Where His Birth Name Came From — and the Origin of His Stage Moniker". Peoplemag.

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Live in the Colosseum. Yes, that Colosseum. You know…the one in Rome, Italy?

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Remember…Parma spelled backwards is AMRAP!
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Misadventure-In-New-Orleans BONUS:

• From Baby - Mean Man

• From Tied and True - Midnight Blues

• From Life Love and Leaving - Shout Bamalama

• Rachel's Last Stand - Stay Down

Remember…Parma spelled backwards is AMRAP!
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Like many of us are equally guilty, she let dogma get in the way. No excuses. This nation of cowboys and the philosophically cowardly just couldn't handle the little Irish woman with the voice five times her size—not even that 20^th^ century "cultural icon," Madonna Ciccone—and Sinéad (or her management) just didn't factor in the consequences. She was a pop singer, not a politician. Bulldozers in Times Square, indeed.

Poor Sinéad (RIP). Let's rock!

Get-Me-Down-From-This-Here-Tree BONUS:

• With an incredibly goofy Van Morrison - Have I Told You Lately That I Love You

• From 2012, The Wolf Is Getting Married

• The unmistakable voice of Sinéad O'Connor - Theme from Outlander

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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 ...

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