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Lianne La Havas does a splendid cover of Radiohead's Weird Fishes on her new album. Some other tracks on that album remind me of the soundtrack for Jackie Brown

it's not bad at all, but it's their weakest album imho.
it's less guitar driven, more synths

Noveller's The Thing has none of the original's claustrophobic atmosphere - a by product of applying copious amounts of reverb. However, decent bass tone innit.

But wait, it is a woman, I change my mind. Great stuff, best version of Carpenter yet.

But wait, she's American, oh no!

But wait, she's white

ufff. So many conflicting emotions, so little time

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Originally Posted by Diesel

One more conflicting factor for you: the piece was actually composed by Ennio Morricone (hence the timing of Noveller's release of her version), although he in turn wrote it in "Carpenter's style".

;) When I saw Carpenter live a couple of years back in Newcastle the Thing theme was a particular highlight. The gig was in the old grade listed Tyne theatre opera house, a cavernous ancient relic of a bygone era built in 1867 and the perfect accompaniment to Carpenter's vintage classics.

currently nothing, but tomorrow i will listen to slowdive, my mom recently bought me a 3cd pack with their records

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Inca Ore - Poppy Tea

Awesome, thanks!

Pious Faults - Old Thread
https://youtu.be/1v3OHeadgT8

Underrated as hell. If someone came up with a pop/rock record this strong in today's shitty auto-tuned mainstream, they'd be praised as the new, more accessible Spoon or something.

https://brooklynrider.bandcamp.com/album/dominant-curve
(I skipped the first four tracks)

music while cooking, and I'm eating overburnt fish :(

i'm listening to some futurefunk beatssssssss

Received a mixtape from a fellow SYG board member:
Rogue Pipes In The Night

The saxophone on track one is fantastic! Hope to finish Side A before leaving for my daughters dance recital tonight......can’t wait to wear this out over the weekend : )

wipers - youth of america

It’s Friday afternoon and I’m laying in the dark with headphones on listening to Side B of: Rogue Pipes In The Night

Little did I know that Side B was going to put my headphones to such a workout!

Felt the urge to listen to this masterpiece after I started playing the melody of the intro of 'Cross The Breeze while improvising on guitar. It's been ages. Feels good, man.

Love Wye Oak and Phoebe.

Been listening to Land of Talk's "Indistinct Conversations" nonstop.

Music for Walks by Silver Scrolls

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RIP Vern Rumsey

Shit, I didn't know. Fuck. :(

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Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi

Shit, I didn't know. Fuck. :(

Yeah, RIP Vern. Extremely sad.

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Originally Posted by Severian

Yeah, RIP Vern. Extremely sad.

Kill Rock Stars' Slim Moon's eulogy for Vern:

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*Image courtesy of Numero Group*

Punk rock is dangerous business, and I don’t mean that in a romanticizing or glorifying way. Too many people I admire respect and love have died way too young. I found myself last night watching a video on youtube, a close up of Scott Jernigan, fondly known as Maniac back in the day, fiercely drumming for KARP at 1994’s Yo Yo A Go Go festival. At one point the camera pans to the left and we see Vern Rumsey come up behind Mike Dees (bandleader of Fitz of Depression) and they spontaneously kiss, just two friends having a great moment, mugging for the camera. Michelle Mae Orr is standing nearby.

*Jump to 6:15 to watch the referenced bit or watch the entire thing to see Maniac doing what he does best.*

Mike Dees was still a teenage high schooler when he played drums in my first Olympia Band - Nisqually Delta Podunk Nightmare - in 1986. Vern Rumsey was still a teenage high schooler when his band with fellow high schoolers Justin Trosper and Brandt Sandeno took Olympia by storm with their band Giant Henry, equaled only by their frenemy high school band KARP. Watching the video, of course I find myself feeling like we (Maniac, Mikey, Vern, Justin).

Just 26 years after Yo Yo A Go Go, 30 years after Giant Henry, all three of those brilliant men are dead - first Scott, then Mikey, now Vern Rumsey. Punk rock is dangerous business, and I don’t mean that in a romanticizing or glorifying way. It’s the worst part, the thing I wish I could change.

Here’s what I remember about Vern. The cigarette of course - everyone’s mental image of Vern is with a giant bass strapped on, his back probably to the audience and the neck of the guitar perhaps shoved into a speaker of a 14 inch bass cabinet, but ALWAYS with a cigarette in his mouth.

Vern was serious but he always had a ready smile. People really liked him - he was fun and kind and ready to set what he was doing down and be helpful. My last significant interaction with him was in 2004, he produced the last album I played on - Thank You For The Alternative Rock, the debut album of The Punks. By that time, after years of Unwound and Long Hind Legs, including Leaves Turn Inside You which Unwound recorded and produced themselves. He had the makings of a great engineer and producer, and he had a cool record label going on and a young daughter. The future still looked really good for us all. 47 is way too early for anybody, but specifically it sucks about Vern because he had so many ideas and energy to get involved in a lot of things. If he’d lived longer I know he would have made more art and done many more interesting things.

You know what? I just really miss Olympia in the 90s. I miss all the people I got to see several nights a week - at rock shows, at parties, walking down 4th Ave. I loved most of them and even the ones who bugged me then, I miss them too. I wish I could be back in 1994, rocking out with Vern and Mikey and Maniac and Michelle Mae and the rest. Those were the best times - I’m pretty sure they were better times than most people ever get to experience. I will miss Vern and I will miss those days forever. Although it is nowadays hard to believe, looking at the pictures, that we were ever that young.

- Slim Moon