I'm confused ... when I heard this song I thought it was a new Cake album named Flobots. Do these guys have anything to do with Cake or do they just sound strikingly similar?
Love this choice BTW. I'd never heard of them. And I quoted it wrong: I can tie a cherry stem in a knot. "I can tie a knot in a cherry stem..."
Well I can write my full name in the snow, after enough beers, and I don't need a stencil. I really liked your music post btw. Never heard of them before but am googling them now .
Tekras Says: I’m confused … when I heard this song I thought it was a new Cake album named Flobots. Do these guys have anything to do with Cake or do they just sound strikingly similar?
Check out the rest of the album - really, really inspired political hip hop - it's hard to describe and that's an awful characterization really - just unique stuff but this is the only piece that sounds like Cake.
I like Cake but I wish that one of their other more unique tracks as the "hit"
http://flobots.com - check it out thanks C&L - just picked them up as a personal fav about a month ago and this song IMO is the bottom of their work not the top!
How many of your music posts can I tolerate? Always dropping different bicycle parts into the conversation, like that night you featured Asia's The Heat Of The Moment, and posted a link to a bike-chain auction on ebay...And the time you dropped the link to the Wikipedia "sissy bar" page. Do you always have to drop bike parts into the conversation like your the president and CEO of Schwinn? Did you invent the bicycle or something? Do you think you're better than everyone else, just because you know all kinds of bike parts?!!? Who cares?!?! Let me tell ya this, pal: The bicycle is dead. Segway is the future, old man! It's going to change the way we live!
Tekras Says: I’m confused … when I heard this song I thought it was a new Cake album named Flobots. Do these guys have anything to do with Cake or do they just sound strikingly similar?
Check out the rest of the album - really, really inspired political hip hop - it's hard to describe and that's an awful characterization really - just unique stuff but this is the only piece that sounds like Cake.
I like Cake but I wish that one of their other more unique tracks as the "hit"
http://flobots.com - check it out thanks C&L - just picked them up as a personal fav about a month ago and this song IMO is the bottom of their work not the top!
Not wanting to sound like a musical moron, but for some strange reason these guys have come across my path twice today (they were interviewed by Alex Jones earlier) and that was the 1st thought that popped into my mind. Then most of the members have f-ed up pseudonyms, so I couldn't cross check to see if the two bands had any common members. Sorry, I had to ask!
damn you, amato! i just found handlebars on youtube and was going to feature the flobots later next week on skippy's late nite music club! now i'll have to find another of their songs, which should actually be interesting.
but do you have goodbye eddie goodbye, from the juicy fruits, the opening number to brian de palma's faustian masterpiece the phantom of the paradise?
or soprano deanna durbin hamming it up as she sings the famous tenor aria largo al factotum (figaro's solo) from the barber of seville?
or yiddish song parodist mickey katz (who pre-dated allan sherman by decades, was in spike jones' city slickers, and by the way was joel grey's father) doing the meshuga version of the disney favorite duvid crockett?
StirFry, that was beautiful. OK, more stuff to listen to ...
thx. i like it when the music club goes all over the genre spectrum. i i get some good ideas. unfortunately, then i head for itunes to spend more money.
They're from Denver, so they've been on my radar since last fall when the local stations started playing them. I was lucky enough to catch them in concert about a month ago. It was amazing to see a mostly 20-something crowd singing all of their songs (which are more political than this) and really getting involved in the concert. The greatest part was in "Stand Up" where it says "We the people did not want war" and they dropped the music and the audience screamed it while pumping their fists.
Handlebars isn't my favorite of theirs, that would be "Anne Braden", but this one has a nice radio-friendly subtle message. There is a new video for this song too, you can see it on their MySpace page.
On a side note, Denver is has a great support system for up and coming artists - the local stations play them, the record stores sell them, and our venues promote them. The Fray and OneRepublic are also recent risers from Denver.
You know, I share your politics, a lot of them anyway, but I swear you drive me crazy with your musical retardation. I mean, do you know how stupid it looks when this site just doesn't play hip-hop, ever, and then when there is some rap, it's the most WHITE rap in history? Oh, it's not just Howie and John. Even the people who post links in reply post WHITE rap. Granted, MC 900 Foot Jesus was great. And WHITE. And the Beastie Boys are GREAT. And WHITE. Portishead, GREAT. And WHITE. And DEPRESSED. At least there was some Gil Scott Heron. But that's sanitized by like, what, fifty years or something? Just tonight, I listened to an old Run DMC song "It's Like That," and I was thinking how far hip hop has come rhythmically and lyrically. But it's like it never existed here. This is part of why people hate Democrats. I hate Democrats, and I am a Democrat. Oh, they love black people when they play the stereotypes they like, but when it sounds too, how shall we say, VERILE, it gets a little scary. You could have played Mos Def's Katrina Klap back when New Orleans went under. Mos Def is an amazing rapper. Very cool. You could have played some Kanye when he spat out "GEORGE BUSH DOESN'T CARE ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE" in front of the whole country. But, no. JOHN AMATO DOESN'T CARE ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE. XD
I thought a good idea for these late night music clubs would be Devotchka - Basso Profundo playing with clips of republican 10,000 a plate dinners and hedge fund managers. I love the jarring viola/vocal chorus harmony: "They'll never have enough, they'll never have enough. They'll never have enough, the money is all that they love." Such a great song because at the end he comes to realize that he's a victim to it too, and changes the chorus they to I.
I love this song. The lyrics are great and the arrangements are perfect. When I first heard it on the radio I too thought it was Cake, on account of the horn.
First, it's a blog, not a supermarket. John and Howie aren't trying to sell us anything, they're simply sharing music they like, just like John shares his thoughts on things political: from his POV. If you didn't know, John's a 50-ish white guy, and a professional musician, who, unfortunately, can't play his saxaphones or flutes much any longer. I think it was Nicole who posted a photo of John onstage while touring with Duran Duran.
Second, many iof us have posted links to black Hip Hop artists. Just because you weren't around when I've posted De La Soul, Erik B. & Rakim, or any of the other things that I like, doesn't mean it didn't happen. And you can always post links to artists you like. No one at the site is going to stop you. I've been here since the days before John started the Music Club, and the site has never, ever deleted a music link in the Music Club thread. If John posts Classical music, I tend to counter with garage rock, the noisier the better, and if the longhairs wanna bitch (few ever have), so be it.
Third, just because John and Howie don't exactly seem to be big Hip Hop fans, don't take it to mean that they don't care about black people. Using your logic, since you failed to acknowledge John's post of the Adderley brothers in the last few days- and I'd be remiss if I failed to note that the Adderleys are black artists- I must assume that you hate old black people. Again, using your logic. But I'm sure that's not the case. You simply aren't all that into Jazz, right?
Lastly, Gil Scott Heron is not Hip Hop. Influential to Hip Hop? Sure. But if Heron is Hip Hop, so are these guys:
You know, I share your politics, a lot of them anyway, but I swear you drive me crazy with your musical retardation. I mean, do you know how stupid it looks when this site just doesn't play hip-hop, ever, and then when there is some rap, it's the most WHITE rap in history? Oh, it's not just Howie and John. Even the people who post links in reply post WHITE rap. Granted, MC 900 Foot Jesus was great. And WHITE. And the Beastie Boys are GREAT. And WHITE. Portishead, GREAT. And WHITE. And DEPRESSED. At least there was some Gil Scott Heron. But that's sanitized by like, what, fifty years or something? Just tonight, I listened to an old Run DMC song "It's Like That," and I was thinking how far hip hop has come rhythmically and lyrically. But it's like it never existed here. This is part of why people hate Democrats. I hate Democrats, and I am a Democrat. Oh, they love black people when they play the stereotypes they like, but when it sounds too, how shall we say, VERILE, it gets a little scary. You could have played Mos Def's Katrina Klap back when New Orleans went under. Mos Def is an amazing rapper. Very cool. You could have played some Kanye when he spat out "GEORGE BUSH DOESN'T CARE ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE" in front of the whole country. But, no. JOHN AMATO DOESN'T CARE ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE. XD
Start you own blog, post your own music. Problem? Problem solved.
You could post some of the music you like. Problem? Problem solved.
You apparently don't care about doing something sensible or solving a problem that seems to bother only you. Grow up, 'bro.'
I think Heron has been sampled enough that he is an honorary hip hop artist. Sorry if I offended you 50ish white guys, but musically this blog is stuck in the past. I read most everything posted here, and I agree with most of the politics, but when I get to the music, and the discussions, I don't know, I am just a critic. I am a former professional musician myself, and I am just as disheartened now as I was when I was young at how when people get old, they just cling to the music the liked when they were 20 their whole lives and don't devote any energy at all to finding out what's going on NOW. I do have my own blog. I just don't have a fraction of the political knowledge or stamina or resources that John has. And when I said, JOHN AMATO DOESN'T CARE ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE, I can't believe anyone mistook that for using logic of any kind. XD
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Yes. And I can tie a cherry stem in a knot. But I my reach is not global, nor can I guide a missile by satellite.
Massive Attack - Protection
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miss_kitty @ 1:
But the question is, can you tie it with you tongue?
Can ya Huh/ Huh/ can ya, can ya huh?
mudshark @ 3:
There's another way?
Love this choice BTW. I'd never heard of them. And I quoted it wrong:
I can tie a cherry stem in a knot."I can tie a knot in a cherry stem..."miss_kitty @ 4:
YIKES! Damn! I guess this makes you a real tongue twister.
I'm confused ... when I heard this song I thought it was a new Cake album named Flobots. Do these guys have anything to do with Cake or do they just sound strikingly similar?
John, you know that I love the music club ... but this time I'm gonna have to go with miss kitty's selection. Neat video, too.
calgarylady @ 8:
Damn. I'm so groovy. Thanks CalgaryLady.
miss_kitty @ 5:
Well I can write my full name in the snow, after enough beers, and I don't need a stencil. I really liked your music post btw. Never heard of them before but am googling them now .
Peter G @ 10:
In your own handwriting? Sad, Peter G.
:P
Yikes! I don't think that's the Staples "easy" button!
miss_kitty @ 11:
Still looking for the woman with the right penmanship.
a relatively new one from Death Cab For Cutie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq-yP7mb8UE - I Will Possess Your Heart (long version, vocals at 4:44)
Slow down. Smell the roses. The world is still a beautiful place.
Miss Kitty,
I've gained a whole new respect for you. And not because of your video pick.
Peter G @ 13:
Block printing, cursive or copperplate?
miss_kitty @ 16:
Calligraphy would be nice. Not interested in stenographers though.
Tekras Says: I’m confused … when I heard this song I thought it was a new Cake album named Flobots. Do these guys have anything to do with Cake or do they just sound strikingly similar?
Check out the rest of the album - really, really inspired political hip hop - it's hard to describe and that's an awful characterization really - just unique stuff but this is the only piece that sounds like Cake.
I like Cake but I wish that one of their other more unique tracks as the "hit"
http://flobots.com - check it out thanks C&L - just picked them up as a personal fav about a month ago and this song IMO is the bottom of their work not the top!
And this one's for the ladies...(?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvS14xf0EXE - Julie and Candy
Perhaps you're right Marko. If a little rude. I'll adjourn to the open thread.
Amato-
How many of your music posts can I tolerate? Always dropping different bicycle parts into the conversation, like that night you featured Asia's The Heat Of The Moment, and posted a link to a bike-chain auction on ebay...And the time you dropped the link to the Wikipedia "sissy bar" page. Do you always have to drop bike parts into the conversation like your the president and CEO of Schwinn? Did you invent the bicycle or something? Do you think you're better than everyone else, just because you know all kinds of bike parts?!!? Who cares?!?! Let me tell ya this, pal: The bicycle is dead. Segway is the future, old man! It's going to change the way we live!
Joe Jackson
I'm The Man
Oh, yeah....*Snark Off*
La Motocyclette not as such, but nice :)
Sparks is been chronologically performing every one of their 21 albums in London (they're currently up to Album 10 or so).
Here's where to see the gigs live:
http://www.cdpulse.com/venue/page/Carling+Academy+Islington
--------
Here's some old and new Sparks stuff on Youtube:
"This Town Ain't Big Enough for the Both of Us"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3B0L4mvYFk&feature=related
"Something for the Girl with Everything"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnM3Iq977JU
"Tips for Teens"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MqISz5bH7o
"Mustache"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8yN_6KIxxw&feature=related
"Dick Around"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na8oDCKp6AU
If they took the sissy bar and pole off a segway they would be fun.
bluedog_sd @ 18:
Not wanting to sound like a musical moron, but for some strange reason these guys have come across my path twice today (they were interviewed by Alex Jones earlier) and that was the 1st thought that popped into my mind. Then most of the members have f-ed up pseudonyms, so I couldn't cross check to see if the two bands had any common members. Sorry, I had to ask!
NSFW!
Queen
Bicycle Race
damn you, amato! i just found handlebars on youtube and was going to feature the flobots later next week on skippy's late nite music club! now i'll have to find another of their songs, which should actually be interesting.
but do you have goodbye eddie goodbye, from the juicy fruits, the opening number to brian de palma's faustian masterpiece the phantom of the paradise?
or soprano deanna durbin hamming it up as she sings the famous tenor aria largo al factotum (figaro's solo) from the barber of seville?
or yiddish song parodist mickey katz (who pre-dated allan sherman by decades, was in spike jones' city slickers, and by the way was joel grey's father) doing the meshuga version of the disney favorite duvid crockett?
i thought not!
Just cause I like it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVBM9CCT1rM&feature=related
StirFry, that was beautiful. OK, more stuff to listen to ...
Portishead - Glory Box
Still the hardest motherfuckin' clip on the intertubes. TURN IT UP BEFORE YA CLICK THE LINK!
[FIFY. Site Monitor]
MC 900 Ft Jesus - TRUTH IS OUT OF STYLE
miss_kitty@31
Portishead - Glory Box
Listened to half of it- where's the theremin?
Here's some zither music:
Anton Karras
Theme from The Third Man
GNA!
Andy K Jong Il @ 32:
Damn, that's crazy!
(but you Godwinned the thread with only 32 posts)
http://tasty.soylentsoft.com/images/halt_hammerzeit.jpeg
calgarylady @ 30:
thx. i like it when the music club goes all over the genre spectrum. i i get some good ideas. unfortunately, then i head for itunes to spend more money.
Andy K Jong Il @ 32:
WHERE BROOKLYN AT?
Nixon era old skool,
Gil Scott Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
And of course, the unofficial theme for the 2000/2004 elections:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sbqIyeed4g
-Cochese
To take the edge off: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsK40HcxxsE
The KLF - The Rites Of Mu
miss_kitty @ 42:
ah the KLF :)
And if you like KLF (my genX music) The Shamen - Boss Drum is rather good too :)
I used to drink with a musician who knew the Shamen and used to share some of their equipment in their early days in Scotland.
They're from Denver, so they've been on my radar since last fall when the local stations started playing them. I was lucky enough to catch them in concert about a month ago. It was amazing to see a mostly 20-something crowd singing all of their songs (which are more political than this) and really getting involved in the concert. The greatest part was in "Stand Up" where it says "We the people did not want war" and they dropped the music and the audience screamed it while pumping their fists.
Handlebars isn't my favorite of theirs, that would be "Anne Braden", but this one has a nice radio-friendly subtle message. There is a new video for this song too, you can see it on their MySpace page.
On a side note, Denver is has a great support system for up and coming artists - the local stations play them, the record stores sell them, and our venues promote them. The Fray and OneRepublic are also recent risers from Denver.
The animated version is better IMO, this one's a little sensational.
That was great, John. Thanks for turning me on to it.
You know, I share your politics, a lot of them anyway, but I swear you drive me crazy with your musical retardation. I mean, do you know how stupid it looks when this site just doesn't play hip-hop, ever, and then when there is some rap, it's the most WHITE rap in history? Oh, it's not just Howie and John. Even the people who post links in reply post WHITE rap. Granted, MC 900 Foot Jesus was great. And WHITE. And the Beastie Boys are GREAT. And WHITE. Portishead, GREAT. And WHITE. And DEPRESSED. At least there was some Gil Scott Heron. But that's sanitized by like, what, fifty years or something? Just tonight, I listened to an old Run DMC song "It's Like That," and I was thinking how far hip hop has come rhythmically and lyrically. But it's like it never existed here. This is part of why people hate Democrats. I hate Democrats, and I am a Democrat. Oh, they love black people when they play the stereotypes they like, but when it sounds too, how shall we say, VERILE, it gets a little scary. You could have played Mos Def's Katrina Klap back when New Orleans went under. Mos Def is an amazing rapper. Very cool. You could have played some Kanye when he spat out "GEORGE BUSH DOESN'T CARE ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE" in front of the whole country. But, no. JOHN AMATO DOESN'T CARE ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE. XD
This isn't the right music video! The other one is much better.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=AuK2A1ZqoWs
I thought a good idea for these late night music clubs would be Devotchka - Basso Profundo playing with clips of republican 10,000 a plate dinners and hedge fund managers. I love the jarring viola/vocal chorus harmony: "They'll never have enough, they'll never have enough. They'll never have enough, the money is all that they love." Such a great song because at the end he comes to realize that he's a victim to it too, and changes the chorus they to I.
If anyone here hasn't heard the new Devotchka cd, your doing yourself a great disservice. It is amazing!
Response to 48:
Yeah I especially love the rappers that protest against Bush and the Iraq War.... as they drive around in entourages of Escalades...
I love this song. The lyrics are great and the arrangements are perfect. When I first heard it on the radio I too thought it was Cake, on account of the horn.
Here's another anti-war song from someone you've never heard of: Billy Gill - Gauntanamo
Remix of Flobots...
Bachelor parties like my C-section scars...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhYkYWPzsbw
shaggy @ 54:
when I heard that one on the radio, I felt that they owed me a play of the real song.
heretic@48-
First, it's a blog, not a supermarket. John and Howie aren't trying to sell us anything, they're simply sharing music they like, just like John shares his thoughts on things political: from his POV. If you didn't know, John's a 50-ish white guy, and a professional musician, who, unfortunately, can't play his saxaphones or flutes much any longer. I think it was Nicole who posted a photo of John onstage while touring with Duran Duran.
Second, many iof us have posted links to black Hip Hop artists. Just because you weren't around when I've posted De La Soul, Erik B. & Rakim, or any of the other things that I like, doesn't mean it didn't happen. And you can always post links to artists you like. No one at the site is going to stop you. I've been here since the days before John started the Music Club, and the site has never, ever deleted a music link in the Music Club thread. If John posts Classical music, I tend to counter with garage rock, the noisier the better, and if the longhairs wanna bitch (few ever have), so be it.
Third, just because John and Howie don't exactly seem to be big Hip Hop fans, don't take it to mean that they don't care about black people. Using your logic, since you failed to acknowledge John's post of the Adderley brothers in the last few days- and I'd be remiss if I failed to note that the Adderleys are black artists- I must assume that you hate old black people. Again, using your logic. But I'm sure that's not the case. You simply aren't all that into Jazz, right?
Lastly, Gil Scott Heron is not Hip Hop. Influential to Hip Hop? Sure. But if Heron is Hip Hop, so are these guys:
The Hombres
Let It All Hang Out
:D
heretic @ 48:
Start you own blog, post your own music. Problem? Problem solved.
You could post some of the music you like. Problem? Problem solved.
You apparently don't care about doing something sensible or solving a problem that seems to bother only you. Grow up, 'bro.'
I think Heron has been sampled enough that he is an honorary hip hop artist. Sorry if I offended you 50ish white guys, but musically this blog is stuck in the past. I read most everything posted here, and I agree with most of the politics, but when I get to the music, and the discussions, I don't know, I am just a critic. I am a former professional musician myself, and I am just as disheartened now as I was when I was young at how when people get old, they just cling to the music the liked when they were 20 their whole lives and don't devote any energy at all to finding out what's going on NOW. I do have my own blog. I just don't have a fraction of the political knowledge or stamina or resources that John has. And when I said, JOHN AMATO DOESN'T CARE ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE, I can't believe anyone mistook that for using logic of any kind. XD
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