What are you listening to right now?

Dave Merrill said:
Whole podcast is fascinating.
This episode is about The Beatles' All You Need Is Love, lots i didn't know, and I'm a huge Beatles fan from back in the day.

https://pca.st/episode/245f7785-6df7-495b-8580-54aae00f862e
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"Beatles were my first looooove, and they will be my laaaast..."

Have you ever watched "The Rutles - All You Need Is Cash"? A wonderfully irreverent, yet lovingly made 'alternate reality mockumentary' by Eric Idle & Gary Weis, with absolutely to-die-for music by Neil Innes; a special epidsode of their post-Python sketch show "Rutland Weekend Television", in which the Beatles are replaced by the Rutles, a.k.a. the "Pre-fab Four". EDIT: I have since learned that it is not a Rutland Weekend Television special episode for the BBC - it was intended to be, but Lorne Michaels convinced Eric Idle to let him produce it though his deal with the BBC, netting Idle a bigger budget. So it's a one-off, basically.


I'm listening to this right now, but later on I'll give the podcast a listen.


Edit: I know this is the least Therapy?-ish album of 'em all, and they say so themselves, yet it is the only one I know, and seen for itself, it's an awesome effort, a treasure chest of incredibly effective riffs and a stunningly hard drum sound. Great lyrics, as well. I. LOVE. THIS. ALBUM. Especially "Hellbelly" and "Stop It You're Killing Me", with "Nowhere" being one of my teen anthems; the album gets progressively darker and "less radio", so stick with it, if you will.
 
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Peavey Herman said:
"Beatles were my first looooove, and they will be my laaaast..."

Have you ever watched "The Rutles - All You Need Is Cash"? A wonderfully irreverent, yet lovingly made 'alternate reality mockumentary' by Eric Idle & Gary Weis, with absolutley to-die-for music by Neil Innes; a special epidsode of their post-Python sketch show "Rutland Weekend Television", in which the Beatles are replaced by the Rutles, a.k.a. the "Pre-fab Four".


I'm listening to this right now, but later on I'll give the podcast a listen.
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Seems like fun, I'll check it out.

500 Songs is serious shit, in both breadth and depth, a long term major effort, highly recommended. I used to listen to every episode when it came out, but I've been away for a good while, lots to catch up on.
 
What am I listening to?

Last week, while driving, I had Derek Trucks playing Sahib Teri Bandi - Maki Madni on the car stereo, and almost needed to pull over just to listen more closely.

Then yesterday I was listening to Jeff Beck's version of Nadia, from his "Live at Ronnie Scott's" album, just loving his slide work and how he interpreted the song. That sent me down the rabbit hole listening to the original version by Nitin Sawhney, which lead to another while spent listening to the beautiful melody and comparing it to Beck's version.

It all reaffirmed my love of Indian ragas and their exquisite use of tiny melodic and pitch variations. I love when music takes me to a different place.
 
Dave Merrill said:
Seems like fun, I'll check it out.

500 Songs is serious shit, in both breadth and depth, a long term major effort, highly recommended. I used to listen to every episode when it came out, but I've been away for a good while, lots to catch up on.
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If you do, you'll see lots and lots of cameos, and if you like the music, I encourage you to listen to the complete songs on YouTube. The album is a work of art, Neil Innes got sued for being a bit too close - not for directly copying, just being too close to their actual style. As a fan, you'll immediatley recognize which songs served as inspiration, though.
 
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Dave Merrill said:
Seems like fun, I'll check it out.

500 Songs is serious shit, in both breadth and depth, a long term major effort, highly recommended. I used to listen to every episode when it came out, but I've been away for a good while, lots to catch up on.
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I listened to the first 120 minutes, then switched to reading the transcript (I lost out on a couple of musical examples an juxtapositions, but know my way around most of them well enough to know the points being made).

Well - what a ride! Well researched, well written, well delivered (even if a bit slow, that's why I switched). A couple bubbles burst, as always when I get educated on childhood idols that I never properly reassessed as an adult, but I do not regret a single minute I spent on it. Quite the contrary. I don't really idolize anyone anymore, and the truth about the creative processes and personal states of the artists are of much more value to me than clinging on to my youth's naive view of the music industry and romanticized myths of "being a band".

Thanks for pointing us towards this, I guess I might just look into a couple earlier episodes to see if it hooks me completely.
 
Dave Merrill said:
The whole History Of Rock Music In 500 Songs podcast is fascinating.

This episode is about The Beatles' All You Need Is Love, lots i didn't know, and I'm a huge Beatles fan from back in the day.

https://pca.st/episode/245f7785-6df7-495b-8580-54aae00f862e
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Thanks for posting this; I'm enjoying reading it (I get more from reading than listening to podcasts).

If you like reading about the history of the music and culture of that era and what lead to it, you might or might not like a new book that I'm reading now: The Last Great Dream: How Bohemians Became Hippies and Created the Sixties by Dennis McNally.
 
David Houck said:
Thanks for posting this; I'm enjoying reading it (I get more from reading than listening to podcasts).

If you like reading about the history of the music and culture of that era and what lead to it, you might or might not like a new book that I'm reading now: The Last Great Dream: How Bohemians Became Hippies and Created the Sixties by Dennis McNally.
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I knew what you're saying about reading vs listening, but as noted, you don't hear the music it's referring to, which I'd rather.
 
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