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RIP, Wilko. I just played "She Do It Right" on my guitar in your honor.

andyman wrote: Thu Nov 10, 2022 6:46 am Gal Costa

I feel that Gal Costa deserves more than just one acknowledgement. This album is pure tropicalia genius.

Sadly not everything she did later on in her career is of the same calibre, but she gets a pass for her first three albums alone.

penningtron wrote: Wed Nov 23, 2022 7:19 am

Rashied Garrison wrote: Wed Nov 23, 2022 5:01 am

Nico Adie wrote: Wed Nov 23, 2022 4:55 am Wilko Johnson. A hero. Fuck.

Wilko and Keith in the space of a few days. Really sad news.

He's been fighting for a while, but what a bummer. Best Tele sound ever. RIP.

Yes, I remember him being diagnosed with termnal liver cancer about nine years back, only to be told that it wasn't as malign as his doctors originally thought. Guess it must have come back out of remission. R.I.P. And Keith Levene, too. Much emulated but never equalled in terms of pure unhingedness (except perhaps by Rowland S. Howard). And to think he started out as a roadie for Yes!

HeavenIsInYrBeard wrote: Sat Nov 26, 2022 7:47 am Much emulated but never equalled in terms of pure unhingedness (except perhaps by Rowland S. Howard). And to think he started out as a roadie for Yes!

I'm sure it's been pointed out here before that the Pop Tones riff is basically Starship Trooper.

I was ten-years-old when the movie Fame was released and suddenly began to imagine my boring Catholic grade school as a cauldron of creative happenings. Nothing could be farther than the truth, but that didn't stop the daydreaming about dancing along to "Fame" with my classmates.

RIP Irene Cara

rsmurphy wrote: Sat Nov 26, 2022 12:21 pm I was ten-years-old when the movie Fame was released and suddenly began to imagine my boring Catholic grade school as a cauldron of creative happenings. Nothing could be farther than the truth, but that didn't stop the daydreaming about dancing along to "Fame" with my classmates.

RIP Irene Cara

Not a fan of her music, but man was she talented and beautiful. Whenever I think of Irene Cara though I reminded not of Fame but of D.C. Cab:

enframed wrote:ot a fan of her music, but man was she talented and beautiful.

I listened to "Fame" the other day after probably not hearing it since the 80's. The production remains dated and manufactured, but goddamn do I love an anthem. Anything from Mendelssohn to Helloween. Music intended to heighten emotions and rouse the soul is my blues.

Ms Cara also sued her record company royalties, won, got blacklisted, and the record company filed for bankruptcy. The shade of it all. She was right on.

Here she is on The Electric Company singing about "D" with Rita Moreno. I acknowledge their sentiment.

Christie McVie

^ Shit. Christine McVie. Time to break out Tusk.

jfv wrote: Wed Nov 30, 2022 2:35 pm ^ Shit. Christine McVie. Time to break out Tusk.

One of these days I'll meet someone IRL who agrees with me that that album is an unsung masterpiece. R.I.P. Christine.