The Mick and Segue Music Commentary Thread

[bluefox4000]

Here you go mick. A live recording from the play:

 

 

http://youtu.be/lp7S_awm5GU

 

wow if your a theater lover. that's the equivalent of finding a rare bootleg of your fav rock band.

 

as unpopular as this is here. i've been to lots of concerts of bands and artists. none of that will ever equal a night of live theater in my eyes. rock doesn't even touch it's heels.

 

Mick

It was growing up under my sister's influence. She's the one that brought home these albums when I was very little. I grew up listening to Broadway play soundtracks.

 

But then the Beatles came along and I left it behind.

 

Theater came from Guess who my grandma, lol

 

My cast recording collection is just as big if not bigger than my "regular music" collection, lol

 

i use to spend hours learning and singing along to them.

 

my live experience was guys and Dolls.

 

Mick

[Lorraine]

Here you go mick. A live recording from the play:

 

 

http://youtu.be/lp7S_awm5GU

 

wow if your a theater lover. that's the equivalent of finding a rare bootleg of your fav rock band.

 

as unpopular as this is here. i've been to lots of concerts of bands and artists. none of that will ever equal a night of live theater in my eyes. rock doesn't even touch it's heels.

 

Mick

It was growing up under my sister's influence. She's the one that brought home these albums when I was very little. I grew up listening to Broadway play soundtracks.

 

But then the Beatles came along and I left it behind.

 

Theater came from Guess who my grandma, lol

 

My cast recording collection is just as big if not bigger than my "regular music" collection, lol

 

i use to spend hours learning and singing along to them.

 

my live experience was guys and Dolls.

 

Mick

 

Is this the grandma that passed away last year?

[bluefox4000]

Here you go mick. A live recording from the play:

 

 

http://youtu.be/lp7S_awm5GU

 

wow if your a theater lover. that's the equivalent of finding a rare bootleg of your fav rock band.

 

as unpopular as this is here. i've been to lots of concerts of bands and artists. none of that will ever equal a night of live theater in my eyes. rock doesn't even touch it's heels.

 

Mick

It was growing up under my sister's influence. She's the one that brought home these albums when I was very little. I grew up listening to Broadway play soundtracks.

 

But then the Beatles came along and I left it behind.

 

Theater came from Guess who my grandma, lol

 

My cast recording collection is just as big if not bigger than my "regular music" collection, lol

 

i use to spend hours learning and singing along to them.

 

my live experience was guys and Dolls.

 

Mick

 

Is this the grandma that passed away last year?

 

yes. I miss her lots. she saw em alll

 

Merman

Channing

Gertrude Lawrence

Julie Andrews

Mary Martin

Gwen Verdon.

 

you name it.

 

She made sure i was well versed in theater it was a MUST with her.

 

Just lucky i took to it......and i've said this before and i'm serious...you give me a chhoice of Evita tickets or Mccartney. i don't care if it's his last concert. Evita's gonna win every time.....it's just a fact, lol

 

Mick

[Lorraine]

Here you go mick. A live recording from the play:

 

 

http://youtu.be/lp7S_awm5GU

 

wow if your a theater lover. that's the equivalent of finding a rare bootleg of your fav rock band.

 

as unpopular as this is here. i've been to lots of concerts of bands and artists. none of that will ever equal a night of live theater in my eyes. rock doesn't even touch it's heels.

 

Mick

It was growing up under my sister's influence. She's the one that brought home these albums when I was very little. I grew up listening to Broadway play soundtracks.

 

But then the Beatles came along and I left it behind.

 

Theater came from Guess who my grandma, lol

 

My cast recording collection is just as big if not bigger than my "regular music" collection, lol

 

i use to spend hours learning and singing along to them.

 

my live experience was guys and Dolls.

 

Mick

 

Is this the grandma that passed away last year?

 

yes. I miss her lots. she saw em alll

 

Merman

Channing

Gertrude Lawrence

Julie Andrews

Mary Martin

Gwen Verdon.

 

you name it.

 

She made sure i was well versed in theater it was a MUST with her.

 

Just lucky i took to it......and i've said this before and i'm serious...you give me a chhoice of Evita tickets or Mccartney. i don't care if it's his last concert. Evita's gonna win every time.....it's just a fact, lol

 

Mick

 

Mary Martin was the best Peter Pan.

 

Your grandmother must have been very special. Can I ask how old she was when she died? Was it your mother or father's mother?

[bluefox4000]

Here you go mick. A live recording from the play:

 

 

http://youtu.be/lp7S_awm5GU

 

wow if your a theater lover. that's the equivalent of finding a rare bootleg of your fav rock band.

 

as unpopular as this is here. i've been to lots of concerts of bands and artists. none of that will ever equal a night of live theater in my eyes. rock doesn't even touch it's heels.

 

Mick

It was growing up under my sister's influence. She's the one that brought home these albums when I was very little. I grew up listening to Broadway play soundtracks.

 

But then the Beatles came along and I left it behind.

 

Theater came from Guess who my grandma, lol

 

My cast recording collection is just as big if not bigger than my "regular music" collection, lol

 

i use to spend hours learning and singing along to them.

 

my live experience was guys and Dolls.

 

Mick

 

Is this the grandma that passed away last year?

 

yes. I miss her lots. she saw em alll

 

Merman

Channing

Gertrude Lawrence

Julie Andrews

Mary Martin

Gwen Verdon.

 

you name it.

 

She made sure i was well versed in theater it was a MUST with her.

 

Just lucky i took to it......and i've said this before and i'm serious...you give me a chhoice of Evita tickets or Mccartney. i don't care if it's his last concert. Evita's gonna win every time.....it's just a fact, lol

 

Mick

 

Mary Martin was the best Peter Pan.

 

Your grandmother must have been very special. Can I ask how old she was when she died? Was it your mother or father's mother?

 

she was my Mom's mother.

 

she was 89........so can't complain she didn't have a full life.

 

Mick

[Lorraine]

She saw all the Broadway greats then in their heyday.

 

If you only knew how I felt when I hear of anyone like your grandma passing away. We don't breed people like that anymore.

 

It's our loss when they leave us.

[bluefox4000]

She saw all the Broadway greats then in their heyday.

 

If you only knew how I felt when I hear of anyone like your grandma passing away. We don't breed people like that anymore.

 

It's our loss when they leave us.

 

thank you and i agree.

 

it was my pleasure to be her grandson.

 

I remember i played Rush for her she couldn't stand ged's voice but she loved the playing.

 

I made her a Rush mix. she said she LOVED Xanadu. lol.

 

She said she was blown back by just the level of musicianship.

 

Mick

[Entre_Perpetuo]

Listening to The River for the first time, just got it on vinyl.

 

Loving this! Just started side 2.

[Entre_Perpetuo]

Thinking The River is going to stand up there with BTR and DOTEOT for me, which is awesome.

[Mr. Not]

[Segue Myles]

Listening to The River for the first time, just got it on vinyl.

 

Loving this! Just started side 2.

 

The River is my favourite Bruce album. Not sure it is his best. But my favourite.

 

1. The River

2. Born To Run

3. Magic

4. Darkness On The Edge Of Town

5. The Wild, The Innocent And The E Street Shuffle

6. Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J.

7. Lucky Town

8. The Rising

9. Tunnel Of Love

10. Nebraska

[Lorraine]

Mick, Mr. Not resurrected your birthday thread.

[bluefox4000]

i'm a bit stuck on Kansas right now, it's easy to forget how great this band was.

 

Mick

[bluefox4000]

Here's my top 20 firm artist/ bands in really no order

 

1. Steely Dan

2. Kansas

3. Tom Waits

4. The Beatles

5. Pink Floyd

6. Queen

7. Roxy Music

8. Spock's Beard

9. Bob Dylan

10. Tom Petty

11. Graham Parker

12. Elvis Costello

13. Toto

14. Frank Zappa

15. Captain Beefheart

16. Jimmy Eat World

17. Enchant

18. Billy Joel

19. Dream Theater

20. Elton John.

 

Thoes are firm favs....they never really change.

 

Mick

[Segue Myles]

1. Lacuna Coil

2. Paradise Lost

3. Nightwish

4. HIM

5. Jimmy Eat World

6. The Juliana Theory

7. Sonata Arctica

8. Thrice

9. Idlewild

10. Within Temptation

11. Bruce Springsteen

12. REM

13. Fleet Foxes

14. Fleetwood Mac

15. ABBA

16. Leaves Eyes

17. AFI

18. The Beatles

19. Alter Bridge

20. Biffy Clyro

[Entre_Perpetuo]

Listening to The River for the first time, just got it on vinyl.

 

Loving this! Just started side 2.

 

The River is my favourite Bruce album. Not sure it is his best. But my favourite.

 

1. The River

2. Born To Run

3. Magic

4. Darkness On The Edge Of Town

5. The Wild, The Innocent And The E Street Shuffle

6. Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J.

7. Lucky Town

8. The Rising

9. Tunnel Of Love

10. Nebraska

 

*sees his own top three in Segue's top four, notes the other album in there*

 

Hm...so maybe I should take a look at Magic sometime....

[bluefox4000]

Listening to The River for the first time, just got it on vinyl.

 

Loving this! Just started side 2.

 

The River is my favourite Bruce album. Not sure it is his best. But my favourite.

 

1. The River

2. Born To Run

3. Magic

4. Darkness On The Edge Of Town

5. The Wild, The Innocent And The E Street Shuffle

6. Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J.

7. Lucky Town

8. The Rising

9. Tunnel Of Love

10. Nebraska

 

*sees his own top three in Segue's top four, notes the other album in there*

 

Hm...so maybe I should take a look at Magic sometime....

 

Magic just about equals his classic stuff for me.......and i'm serious.

 

it's just the production is shit.

 

Which.......sucks.

 

Mick

[bluefox4000]

my Bruce top 10 for kicks.

 

1. Tunnel of Love

2. Darkness on the Edge of Town

3. The River

4. Born to Run

5. Magic

6. The Wild, The Innocent.......

7. Greetings from Asbury Park

8. Lucky Town

9. Wrecking Ball

10. Born in the USA

 

Mick

[Segue Myles]

Listening to The River for the first time, just got it on vinyl.

 

Loving this! Just started side 2.

 

The River is my favourite Bruce album. Not sure it is his best. But my favourite.

 

1. The River

2. Born To Run

3. Magic

4. Darkness On The Edge Of Town

5. The Wild, The Innocent And The E Street Shuffle

6. Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J.

7. Lucky Town

8. The Rising

9. Tunnel Of Love

10. Nebraska

 

*sees his own top three in Segue's top four, notes the other album in there*

 

Hm...so maybe I should take a look at Magic sometime....

 

Magic just about equals his classic stuff for me.......and i'm serious.

 

it's just the production is shit.

 

Which.......sucks.

 

Mick

 

I bought the Japanese edition with better akund quality. Not perfect but a huge improvement.

 

Magic is a 21st Century seventies Springsteen album.

 

Also at 6 is The Promise. But i always forget to list it as i can never work kut if its an album proper or a compilation kf rarities!

[Segue Myles]

my Bruce top 10 for kicks.

 

1. Tunnel of Love

2. Darkness on the Edge of Town

3. The River

4. Born to Run

5. Magic

6. The Wild, The Innocent.......

7. Greetings from Asbury Park

8. Lucky Town

9. Wrecking Ball

10. Born in the USA

 

Mick

 

Tunnel Of Love, Human Touch and Lucky Town are a gorgeous little trio.

[bluefox4000]

my Bruce top 10 for kicks.

 

1. Tunnel of Love

2. Darkness on the Edge of Town

3. The River

4. Born to Run

5. Magic

6. The Wild, The Innocent.......

7. Greetings from Asbury Park

8. Lucky Town

9. Wrecking Ball

10. Born in the USA

 

Mick

 

Tunnel Of Love, Human Touch and Lucky Town are a gorgeous little trio.

 

I just he dropped the bombast for Tunnel.....it is beautiful.

 

Really shows of his songwriting ability more.

 

Mick

[Segue Myles]

my Bruce top 10 for kicks.

 

1. Tunnel of Love

2. Darkness on the Edge of Town

3. The River

4. Born to Run

5. Magic

6. The Wild, The Innocent.......

7. Greetings from Asbury Park

8. Lucky Town

9. Wrecking Ball

10. Born in the USA

 

Mick

 

Tunnel Of Love, Human Touch and Lucky Town are a gorgeous little trio.

 

I just he dropped the bombast for Tunnel.....it is beautiful.

 

Really shows of his songwriting ability more.

 

Mick

 

I don't think his bombast was ever overblown. Honestly.

[bluefox4000]

my Bruce top 10 for kicks.

 

1. Tunnel of Love

2. Darkness on the Edge of Town

3. The River

4. Born to Run

5. Magic

6. The Wild, The Innocent.......

7. Greetings from Asbury Park

8. Lucky Town

9. Wrecking Ball

10. Born in the USA

 

Mick

 

Tunnel Of Love, Human Touch and Lucky Town are a gorgeous little trio.

 

I just he dropped the bombast for Tunnel.....it is beautiful.

 

Really shows of his songwriting ability more.

 

Mick

 

I don't think his bombast was ever overblown. Honestly.

 

well i'll compromise and say he rode the line nicely.

 

Mick

[Entre_Perpetuo]

Segue,

 

For no totally particular reason today, I decided to listen to TOP Blurryface for the first time just after listening through American Idiot.

 

I think I've mentioned somewhere before how they just don't click with me or something...this has changed. Somewhere in the first few songs I realized this was not what I expected it to be: corny left turns hastily inserted into vaguely alternative pop top 40 fodder with "relatable" lyrics.

 

Instead it was: the sounds and styles of the top 40, turned inside out and scrambled and jumbled together into genius gems of spontaneous, hook-ridden, off-kilter pop nuggets...all to better represent the actual experience of the band and their relationships with themselves and the importance of music in their lives, written in such a way that others can find it "relatable"

 

If that sounds like gibberish, it's cuz I have a hard time putting the genius here into words. I'm not calling them The Beatles, but I am saying this album is a type of Sgt. Pepper's, for impact, ingenuity, and coercion of the generally bland and cliche into the thrilling and original. Not to mention, they seem to have successfully reconciled The Beatles with Eminem via the lens of 10's top 40, which I hadn't imagined was actually possible. And all the while they've succeeded as artists, as a business, and as the source of a devoted fan base, while ironically being unable to reconcile their own demons.

 

I said genius. I meant it. This band just proved to me that one CAN be smarter than pop music, and pop culture by extension, if one is brave enough to attempt an understanding of it. And they proved that all you actually need to succeed in today's pop landscape is a good chorus/hook; the rest can be whatever the heck pleases you.

 

Twenty One Pilots are pop geniuses.

[bluefox4000]

Segue,

 

For no totally particular reason today, I decided to listen to TOP Blurryface for the first time just after listening through American Idiot.

 

I think I've mentioned somewhere before how they just don't click with me or something...this has changed. Somewhere in the first few songs I realized this was not what I expected it to be: corny left turns hastily inserted into vaguely alternative pop top 40 fodder with "relatable" lyrics.

 

Instead it was: the sounds and styles of the top 40, turned inside out and scrambled and jumbled together into genius gems of spontaneous, hook-ridden, off-kilter pop nuggets...all to better represent the actual experience of the band and their relationships with themselves and the importance of music in their lives, written in such a way that others can find it "relatable"

 

If that sounds like gibberish, it's cuz I have a hard time putting the genius here into words. I'm not calling them The Beatles, but I am saying this album is a type of Sgt. Pepper's, for impact, ingenuity, and coercion of the generally bland and cliche into the thrilling and original. Not to mention, they seem to have successfully reconciled The Beatles with Eminem via the lens of 10's top 40, which I hadn't imagined was actually possible. And all the while they've succeeded as artists, as a business, and as the source of a devoted fan base, while ironically being unable to reconcile their own demons.

 

I said genius. I meant it. This band just proved to me that one CAN be smarter than pop music, and pop culture by extension, if one is brave enough to attempt an understanding of it. And they proved that all you actually need to succeed in today's pop landscape is a good chorus/hook; the rest can be whatever the heck pleases you.

 

Twenty One Pilots are pop geniuses.

 

they are not my fav modern band. but......they can craft a pop tune no doubt.

 

i like other pop bands a lot more.......but i would never deny the talant there.