Now playing: Shriekback - Oil & Gold. on YouTube because it's not on TIDAL (I don't think it's on other streaming platforms either. 😞 youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Watch Bruce Springsteen roast Trump and play Colbert's next-to-last 'Late Show' www.brooklynvegan.com/watch-bruce-...

Is your teen texting about Krautrock??? Know the slang: • DTF = Damo's the funkiest • NGL = Neu! goes loud • OMG = Oooooh motorik grooves! • FFS = Faust’s fucking stupendous • TMI = Tago Mago's incredible • TGIF = These Germans is freaky • CHEUGY = Can has excellent unbelievable grooves

Pulp Teenage Fanclub Fishbone De La Soul All Billy Bragg The Police L7 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark Leo Kottke

Belter song and I’m fucking psyched I get to see Swervedriver play a headline set next Wednesday here in Denver!!

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Attending the Thurs preview for a new Wings exhibit at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame; it’s the largest collection ever from Paul McCartney's personal archive on display! Looking for an outlet to place coverage, have found no takers yet; reach out if interest!

Memory & brains are weird. I had "Rhythm of the Rain" in my head this morning & went to add it to my "Stuck in me 'ead inna AM" playlist, so naturally I went to Ricky Nelson's profile to find the song & add it. After looking through his albums on TIDAL to 1971 & not seeing it, I took to Google. 🤔 🧵

129. Cyndi Lauper - She's So Unusual What a great album. The first 6 tracks are straight-up classics: Money Changes Everything Girls Just Want to Have Fun (you know this is a cover, right? 😄) When You Were Mine Time After Time She Bop All Through The Night And she's a class act as well.

128. Kraftwerk - The Telephone Call maxi-single This wasn't the first Kraftwerk I heard, my friend Pete had Autobahn. But this was poppy & 80s enough to capture my teenage ear in 1987. More Kraftwerk to come, but I do love this single. ☺️

*Sees the Lemon Twigs have a new album out, wonders if they've finally made some music I like* *Previews tracks*

🤔 Bizarre Love Triangle - New Order Strangelove - Depeche Mode Lorelei - Cocteau Twins Worlock - Skinny Puppy Alex Chilton - The Replacements A Few Hours After This - The Cure Souvenir - OMD Olive Oyl - Richard Edwards Lucky Denver Mint - Jimmy Eat World Vapour Trail - RIDE

This is my favorite of all time: youtu.be/djV11Xbc914 1/2

On this week's @theanfieldwrap.bsky.social, Neil's album pick is the new @oracogan.bsky.social release Hard Hearted Woman. He mentions it might be a little drone-y so I expected something like Ethel Cain's music but Ora's record is more 60's Countrypolitan - expansive yet rhythmically grounded.

Started my day with a little hair metal ballad of the Crüe's "Home Sweet Home" but switched it up to Turnstile after watching them on Coachella feed the past couple weeks. I'm in. 😄 (Anyone else feel like they're maybe a 2020s update of Incubus? Good tunes, rockin', not offensive? 😂)

Made this list of my top 5 Prince songs yesterday and listening now to the B-Sides from that 3-disc set from '93, I could make a top 5 from just that disc: Another Lonely Christmas I Love U in Me She's Always in My Hair How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore 17 Days Absolute genius. 💜☔

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Ethel Cain at #Coachella. Hell yeah.

Anyone else watching the #Coachella livestream? www.coachella.com/youtube-live...

Not sure why or how this song got stuck in my head this morning, but maybe there's a message in there for someone. tidal.com/track/257391...

127. Leo Kottke I kinda forget now where I heard Leo Kottke first. Such great guitar playing. Saw him open for Lyle Lovett & his Large Band on Mud Island in Memphis in '92. Perfect setting for it. I got way into him after that, my dad already had this #vinyl. Have a listen & enjoy!

126. Klark Kent I mostly knew the music from The Cutting Edge, a show on MTV. "Kinetic Ritual" was the theme song. But when I got to college, this kid on my dorm floor @tcervo.bsky.social had the original #vinyl because he was a big Police-head. We were instant friends. ☺️

125. The New England Conservatory Ragtime Ensemble - Scott Joplin: The Red Back Book I have a few albums of Scott Joplin music, maybe my dad bought them for me because I liked the music so much? But the 2 Joshua Rifkin albums are cracked so I'm throwing them out. This #vinyl, however, is perfect.

So, I had occasion to look up the lyrics to Back In Black and was sure that the lyric was "I got 9 lives, cat-sized, abusin' every one of them…" but now all the lyric sites say "9 lives, cat's eyes" and that just doesn't make sense to me. 😂 Like, you'd be abusing every one of the cat-sized lives…

124. Billy Joel - Glass Houses Not sure why I skipped over this after 52nd Street. But another great album. I think I mostly like side 1 of 52nd Street but this one has lots of bangers. Plus a memory of listening to it on a field trip next to a river in my mountain town. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Sent this to my (adult) children today: "Ok, y’all know I love me some performance, & pure art. I’m not asking you to watch & listen to the whole thing, but this is fucking insane & I want you to experience it because it’s fucking insane in the greatest of ways. ☺️" www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ssi...

Really enjoyed listening to this, thanks for sharing! Here's a "universal" link to the album on one of the major streaming services: tidal.com/album/458308...

So many - I grew up in the 80s and cassettes were my medium of choice. But the two cassettes I recall most fondly are Allman Brothers’ Ramblin’ Man and I Walk the Line by Johnny Cash. I’d listen to them as my dad drove us around in his 1970 Datsun 240z. First cassettes I ever saw.

Ok, just now learning that Mazzy Star has what is effectively a hellbilly/voodoobilly track. 🤯 😂 tidal.com/track/147288/u

Second time in the last week or so that I've had the songs from World Party's Goodbye Jumbo in my head so I guess that means that mentally I must be doing GREAT. 🫠 😂 Might as well listen again! Join me, won't you? tidal.com/album/187029...

123. JOHN - Nocturnal Manoeuvres Duo also known as JOHN (timestwo), I believe I learned of this band through one of my friend @stevilkinevil.bsky.social's Instagram stories, I think they were playing while he painted & I had to ask who it was. 😄 Great hard melodic rock. Band currently on hiatus.

I love the show Song Exploder because it leads me down paths I never considered, while also being creatively inspiring. Neko Case - what a poet, singer, and artist. Never knew there were lions in prehistoric England until today. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ songexploder.net/neko-case

"State of Independence" came up on my TIDAL Daily Discovery playlist and HOLY SHIT I had all but completely forgotten about Moodfood. What a great chillout album. tidal.com/album/320306...

122. Billy Joel - 52nd Street I feel like Billy gets a lot of flak lately & I get it, it can seem schmaltzy. But - I like it, & always have. To wit: I've had this album since probably…1980? Pretty heavy stuff for a kid. 😂 Funny to see the Piano Man holding a horn on the sleeve. Good alley pic, tho!

121. Michael Jackson - Thriller So wait - Side 1 *starts* with Wanna Be Startin' Somethin', then has The Girl Is Mine *and* Thriller? And THEN Side 2 starts with Beat It and Billie Jean? 😮‍💨 This thing is PACKED with hits. PACKED. This is my sister's old #vinyl, I'll give it back if she wants.

120. Joe Jackson - Look Sharp! Hell of a debut - One More Time, Sunday Papers, Look Sharp!, Got The Time AND Is She Really Going Out With Him? Come on. "A lot of the tracks are first takes & there are no overdubs" WHAT. Wild. ISRGOWH? is one of the key songs of the 70s. My #vinyl is an 80s repress.

119. INXS - Shabooh Shoobah Rarities Contains the 3 of the 4 excellent mixes from the Dekadance EP, including "Black and White," with it's sweet music drops that just leave the tasty bass. It also includes some live tracks from the US Festival and other outtakes. Cool gold #vinyl, too. 😎

Since "Mr. Telephone Man" is already taken, I'll choose one of me & @sirnemo.bsky.social's ELO faves - "Telephone Line"

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Thanks for following along on this year's #MWE! I found some good stuff to listen to (as always) from others who were taking part - so fun to see what people are listening to and liking (or…not 😄). Thanks again to @imgarysuarez.bsky.social for creating MWE & starting this wild annual coaster! 🎢 🙌🏻

#MWE 28: Elvis Presley - How Great Thou Art Another Christian album. Again, I am not religious. But Elvis sure was! The A side is like listening to side two of Elvis' Christmas Album - slow songs about God & whatnot. B side has more hopped up tunes, more in his usual bluesy style. But lots of God.

#MWE 27: The Beach Boys - Holland Interesting name for an album with a suite called "California Saga." 😄 Oh, it's because some of it was recorded in Holland. 😂 I'm mostly used to more "traditional" Beach Boys, so this feels like a departure. But I'm not mad about it. It's just different.

the mixtape is superior to the playlist precisely because of its limitations: what selections from the maker’s music collection can fit on a C-90. & it was a labor of love, pushing record, stopping just in time, over & over. not to mention intricately thought-out cover art on the insert

#MWE 26: Honeyglaze - Real Deal Not sure where/how I put this on my list, but I'm glad I did! Very 90s indie feel with some math rock undertones in there. I'm only 3 songs in and super digging this. Ends heavy but will go into rotation once Feb is over. Looking forward to checking out their debut!

#MWE 25: Geese - 3D Country Feels like a successor to Ween. Good tight musicianship playing hard rock but a looseness & chaos that feels like a middle finger to any establishment you've got. 😄 Not usually my thing I feel like but I ended up enjoying this quite a bit! 🕺🏻🤘🏻 tidal.com/album/443964...

Very intrigued. Sad to read of her death but what a long, interesting life she led. tidal.com/album/127590...

#MWE 24: Lil' Nathan & the Zydeco Big Timers - Winning What caught my eye was the GTA homage cover art. The music is definitely zydeco flavored, but more traditional song-based and not the freewheeling uptempo zydeco I'm used to. But like all zydeco, it's good-time music for dancing & partying.

#MWE 23: John Hammond Self-titled debut from the U.S. blues musician. I'm now noticing that I have John Hammond and John Mayall confused in my brain. 😂 My dad has Hammond's Southern Fried album in his collection, but this record is standard solo acoustic guitar covers of blues tunes. Decent.

#MWE 22: Toumani Diabaté & Taj Mahal Fantastic collab, the music is gorgeous. Diabaté's kora & Mahal's guitars combine in a sound that is so natural, you can tell the artists feel a kinship in the music. The elements of American blues mesh & mingle so well with Mali music. Really enjoyed this.

#MWE 21: Paul Simon - Surprise Really surprised that I like this as much as I do. Which…shouldn't surprise me, I like Paul Simon. I just wasn't prepared for the "modern" sounds on this record - some fuzzed out guitar here, a quick-time drum-programmed beat there, etc. Will probably listen again.