2020 Music

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Miles2Go2
#12020 Music
Posted: 4/17/20 at 4:19pm

Listening to Fiona Apples new album Fetch the Bolt Cutters on a loop. Easy entry for consideration for best album of the year.

A new album that I didnt know I needed at exactly the moment I needed it. Uncompromising, challenging, complex, confounding, comforting. Thank you, Fiona.

ArtMan
#22020 Music
Posted: 4/17/20 at 4:41pm

The labels have been changing the release dates on new music due to coronavirus.  Alicia Keys and Lady Gaga have both had changes.  I'm hoping new Dixie Chicks will still be released May 1.

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Highland Guy
#32020 Music
Posted: 4/18/20 at 8:11pm

So.  I was watching a recent "Graham Norton Show".  One of his guests was Celeste, a young American-born British singer, totally unknown to me.  Here she is performing at the 2020 "BRIT Awards," where she was given the "Rising Star" award.  I like her.  A lot.

 

 


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#42020 Music
Posted: 4/18/20 at 9:33pm

For some reason The Graham Norton Show is no longer available here on Comcast. Would love to have seen that episode.

I am most looking forward to the new Janet Jackson CD. Her last one was excellent. Hoping it isn't delayed as I now know that I probably won't see her live this summer. I have a floor seat for her MSG concert in July. It was to be my first concert there.


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Highland Guy
#52020 Music
Posted: 4/19/20 at 10:36am

uncageg said: "For some reason The Graham Norton Show is no longer available here on Comcast. Would love to have seen that episode."

 

I didn't expect to find it, but here it is.  He makes a brief call to Judi Dench

 

 


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luvcaroline
#62020 Music
Posted: 4/19/20 at 12:04pm

uncageg said: "For some reason The Graham Norton Show is no longer available here on Comcast. Would love to have seen that episode.

I am most looking forward to the new Janet Jackson CD. Her last one was excellent. Hoping it isn't delayed as I now know that I probably won'tsee her live this summer. I have a floor seat for her MSG concert in July. It was to be my first concert there.
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We also have tickets, but it’s probably not going to happen this year *sigh*   We do have wonderful memories of the Metamorphosis show in Vegas last year  

Favorite music so far this year:

Fiona, of course.  Also, “ Heavy Light” by U.S. Girls (wonderful power pop), “3.15.20” by Childish Gambino (but everything he does is great), “The New Abnormal” by the Strokes, and “Miss Anthropocene” by Grimes (my favorite so far this year)  

 

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#72020 Music
Posted: 4/24/20 at 5:49pm

Thank you Highland Guy!!

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Updated On: 4/24/20 at 05:49 PM

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MichelleCraig
#82020 Music
Posted: 4/29/20 at 10:48pm

Miles2Go2, thanks for the Fiona tip!

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Miles2Go2
#92020 Music
Posted: 8/1/20 at 9:04pm

Listening to Alanis’s new album “Such Pretty Forks in the Road” on vinyl. I’m really digging it: I’d say this, Fiona’s “Fetch The Bolt Cutters”, and Dua Lipa’s “Nostslgia” are my favorite albums so far this year.

SouthernCakes
#102020 Music
Posted: 8/2/20 at 11:12pm

I’d agree with those 2! Dua def delivered the best pop album so far. And I’d say The Chicks delivered a killer country album.

Also, if you don’t know Lianne De Havas she just released a modern Jazz R&B album! Love her voice.

ArtMan
#112020 Music
Posted: 8/2/20 at 11:26pm

I loved The Chick's album.  In weaker hands, it could have easily come off repetitive in song themes.  If I was Adrian, I would stay way clear of Natalie, if he wants to keep his family jewels.

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Miles2Go2
#122020 Music
Posted: 8/2/20 at 11:40pm

I tried to get into The Chick’s newest album as I’m a fan, but couldn’t get into it.

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Jordan Catalano
#132020 Music
Posted: 8/2/20 at 11:48pm

OMG that album from The Chicks is amazing. Natalie has ZERO f*cks to give and I live for it.

Ive said for a long time that there’s no bigger Alanis fan her than me. I’ve listened to the new album around 10 times so far and i think it’s fantastic. Her albums usually take me a month or two to fully immerse myself in and this one will be no different with my favorite songs changing every day. Today, my favorite song on it is “Losing the Plot”. I’m also fascinated by “Pedestal”, the song that closes out the album. It’s an interesting choice for her to end it with this song which almost seems a companion to 2008’s “Straitjacket”, with time to heal and calm down and reflect on the situation.

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Miles2Go2
#142020 Music
Posted: 8/3/20 at 12:03am

Alanis’s album is one of my favorites of the year so far.

Responding to earlier commenter, I like Lianne De Havas’s voice, but couldn’t get into the songs this time.

ArtMan
#152020 Music
Posted: 8/3/20 at 12:16am

Miles2Go2 said: "I tried to get into The Chick’s newest album as I’m a fan, but couldn’t get into it."

I was the same way at first.  Give it a few complete listens, and you'll end up loving it.

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Jordan Catalano
#162020 Music
Posted: 8/3/20 at 12:23am

I was in line at Starbucks when I first heard “Tights On My Boat” and just blurted our “Oh, sh*t!”

ArtMan
#172020 Music
Posted: 8/3/20 at 12:23am

Jordan Catalano said: "OMG that album from The Chicks is amazing. Natalie has ZERO f*cks to give and I live for it.

Ive said for a long time that there’s no bigger Alanis fan her than me. I’ve listened to the new album around 10 times so far and i think it’s fantastic. Her albums usually take me a month or two to fully immerse myself in and this one will be no different with my favorite songs changing every day. Today, my favorite song on it is “Losing the Plot”. I’m also fascinated by “Pedestal”, the song that closes out the album. It’s an interesting choice for her to end it with this song which almost seems a companion to 2008’s “Straitjacket”, with time to heal and calm down and reflect on the situation.
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I have a friend from back in the day, who only plays Alanis music.  It is so extreme that he gets into violent fights with his boyfriend, because he lives and breathes Alanis.  My friend doesn't know I know, but the boyfriend beat him up last year, and put him in a hospital, because my friend refused to play something different than Alanis.  Now that is an obsessive fan.  Doesn't help that my friend is near 40 and the boyfriend is 20.

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Jordan Catalano
#182020 Music
Posted: 8/3/20 at 12:29am

lol wow. Sounds like he has some issues other than Alanis. That’s insane!

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Miles2Go2
#192020 Music
Posted: 8/3/20 at 12:30am

I would never exclusively listen to a certain artist all the time although I go through periods where I do. Still, no one deserves to suffer domestic violence for their musical choices. If you don’t like they someone listening exclusively to one artist, you know you could, oh I don’t know, break up with them rather than putting them into the hospital.

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Miles2Go2
#202020 Music
Posted: 8/3/20 at 2:20am

Thanks for encouraging me to give The Chicks’ Gaslighter another listen. Loved what I heard this time so just ordered it on vinyl.

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Miles2Go2
#212020 Music
Posted: 8/4/20 at 9:33pm

Got Gaslighter on vinyl in the mail today. Thanks again for encouraging me to give it another chance. What an exceptional album. Sounds amazing on vinyl.

FindingNamo
#222020 Music
Posted: 8/4/20 at 10:59pm

Put a bird on it!


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SouthernCakes
#232020 Music
Posted: 8/5/20 at 11:09am

Everyone’s got a boner for the new Swift album but I found it a bore. People keep telling me “Sondheim would love it! So many complete rhymes.” But then she rhymes “fun” with “one.” And... it doesn’t seem all that great. Nothing stuck out to me.

also, just to nerd out, I love when the bass line comes in “tights on my boat” right at the start of the chorus! Just adds so much. Hopefully they get Grammy nominated. 

Updated On: 8/5/20 at 11:09 AM

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Miles2Go2
#242020 Music
Posted: 8/5/20 at 11:21am

Same. I’ll never deny she is a talented songwriter and this album has some great turns of phrase, but by the end of my one and only listen I was bored (mainly due to the flattering production) and glad when it was over. At least I tried! Never a big fan although I like a few of her songs. I guess my inner teenage girl is dead. LOL. At least I listened to the whole thing. I had to abandon Bob Dylan’s universally praised new album on the first track mid-song.

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Miles2Go2
#252020 Music
Posted: 8/5/20 at 11:21am

Same. I’ll never deny she is a talented songwriter and this album has some great turns of phrase, but by the end of my one and only listen I was bored (mainly due to the flattering production) and glad when it was over. At least I tried! Never a big fan although I like a few of her songs. I guess my inner teenage girl is dead. LOL. At least I listened to the whole thing. I had to abandon Bob Dylan’s universally praised new album on the first track mid-song.