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  1. Burt Bacharach RIP

    in Artists

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    9 hours ago, felser said:

    Found out something I hadn't realized.  "I Say a Little Prayer" was released in 1967 by Dionne Warwick and 1968 by Aretha Franklin (as a "B" side!).  Turns out the guy being sung to/ab out, is in Vietnam, not out on the town.  So when the woman sings "say you love me too, come on and answer my prayer", she isn't afraid he's out messing around with another woman, she's afraid he's dead in a trench in southeast Asia.   Relistening to the song with this in mind makes it a very moving experience ("The moment I wake up, before I put on my makeup, I say a little prayer for you... to live without you would only mean heartbreak for me", etc.))

    I bet he lived in Galveston. 

  4. Blue Note's TONE POET series.

    in The Vinyl Frontier

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    On 2/22/2023 at 2:30 PM, sidewinder said:

    I find it ironic that when the original ‘Passing Ships’ came out on Conn CD, the general reaction was that folks were happy that it existed and was out there, warts and all (which to my recollection were largely to do with lack of rehearsal and some section sloppiness). This Tone Poet vinyl issue has resulted in myriad BS reports from people expecting perfection, where none ever existed. Total b*lls !

    Yep. One more way in which my confidence that people know "what" it is to which they are "listening" falters more or less daily.

  9. Tony Williams Lifetime - EMERGENCY

    in Recommendations

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    Turn It Over is definitely a more clued-in production. Certainly a more "listenable" album.

    But it sorta sounds like a willfully better-behaved beast. Emergency has that beast prowling and growling and eating things alive with blood going everywhere and half-alive carcasses stinking up the place while the beast gets busy on new prey and all that kind of thing. I've had it in the car for 2+ weeks now and the "fascination" level is only going up.

    It's also - and this is where it's kind of stealth - the best example of Tony's drumming of that period. You kind of get a taste of it on Filles, but a taste is all you get. This is the full thing unleashed.

  11. Tony Williams Lifetime - EMERGENCY

    in Recommendations

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    On 2/22/2023 at 6:21 PM, felser said:

     "Via The Spectrum Road" obviously takes a shot at a certain woman (assume she knew who she was), as well as being a cosmic road-life saga. 

    Not sure that's what I get from it....what I do get is a wonderfully off-kilter engagement with the James Brown concept of the displaced upbeat offbeat.

     

  25. Gallup on news media

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

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    1 hour ago, Dan Gould said:

    You might want to pay a little more attention. When only 26% have a favorable view of the media, that means a hell of a lot of leftists and centrists don't have a favorable view themselves. 

     

    This strikes me as a fair point to consider.

    As such, and I hate to be this proactive but why not, it also seems like a good point to lock the thread and send all parties with an opinion to their own corners to leave it their. 

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