What person or group are you currently binging on?
For me, it is Broken Peach. I chanced upon their This Is Halloween video a few weeks ago and was impressed by the voices and the show they put on, then I dug a little deeper. Holy shit, is there anything they can’t cover? From The Jackson Five to The Four Seasons to Nirvana to Queen etc., I am loving it all.
So, what are your ears binging on right now?
In recent days, I’ve fallen down an El Twanguero rabbit hole.
Real Estate.
What am I not binging? It seems every YouTube session sends me down one rabbit hole or another. Imelda May, Otis Redding, Wagakki Band, Patty Loveless, Guy Clark, Townes Van Zandt… It just goes on.
But I guess the most binging at present is Sierra Ferrell, the girl with the throwback voice.
And she’s got a backstory- the above was at a 2020 show. Below is a show from 2014…
I enjoy the night theme jazz playlists.
I’ve been binging a lot of Beatles lately since watching the “Get Back” documentary. Before that, I was binging on Beethoven.
I found a box of old cassette tapes, many of which have faded or missing labels/boxes. These are ones I recorded from albums 40 or more years ago, or Dead bootlegs. My 2006 Sequoia has a cassette player.
Yesterday it was Doc Watson on Stage (live at Carnegie Hall with just Merle) with a little Frank Christian and James Talley to fill it out. Next up was the Neville Brothers at Tipitina’s.
Every drive is a new surprise but an old memory.
I just stumbled across a trio out of Houston named Khruangbin a few days ago. I’m embarrassed to admit that I was first drawn in by a thumbnail picture of their bass player, but was instantly hooked by their music.
Ustad Amjad Ali Khan on the Sodor
https://www.amazon.ca/Legend-Sarod-Ustad-Amjad-Khan/dp/B000RO9SBG
Derek Bell, late of the Chieftains
Plus various Christmas music.
Gwen Stefani’s Christmas Album is hard to turn off. She wrote several new songs that are really good. They even brought in real String players (violin, cello, viola etc) for several songs. That’s very unusual for modern production. They save money with sampled digital strings.
I have Gwen’s album on daily rotation until after Christmas.
Blake Shelton’s Christmas album is also pretty good. I also mix in the classic Bing Crosby and Sinatra Christmas albums.
Here’s my favorite. It’s so unusual to hear new Christmas songs. Most artists just cover the standards.
Due to ‘problems’, I’m having to resort to SiriusXM. Working the '70-'90’s. Switch up or down as soon as they start gabbing (which is WAAAAAY too often and for WAAAAAY too long).
Listening to a lot of the songs in the “Worst Song” thread lately.
Czar, that Broken Peach is something else. Not sure what, but something.
You might also like DIIV. Kinda similar I’ve found. Happy music.
I recently finished the complete discographies of The Beatles, then Billy Joel. Next up is either Elton John or Tom Petty.
Hehee, my wife mentioned them the other day. She described them as “Air, but without any synthesizers” I think it’s pretty apt, and I kind of agree with it. But woah, those wigs make me want to own and use one.
Myself, I’ve been on a Melt Banana binge for the last few days.
Damn, I wish I could figure out how to be in that band, or at least rub my soul against them for awhile.
I bought the re-engineered Abbey Road on vinyl, and that started my Beatles Binge. But anyone could say that; how many can say that led them to become a Helen Shapiro fan?
Who? My go-to example of "WHY have I never heard of this performer?"
Here she is with 3/4 of the Beatles…
(I found the original Ready Steady Go show with Helen and The Beatles, and found out that Paul’s busy judging a music competition during that song)
I just love her personality, voice… and that early 60’s optimism!
Ahhh… just discovered she recorded at Abbey Road Studios! Here she is recording Walkin’ Back to Happiness, and it shows the record being made from conception to distribution…
And here’s "A Teenager In Love (Film Footage From The 1962 Film It’s Trad Dad)"
Gets deliciously surreal at the half-minute mark!
eta: Wow…
At the age of twelve, Helen was the lead singer of “Susie and the Hoops,” a school band which was a trio featuring Marc Bolan (then using his real name of Marc Feld) as guitarist.
In 1961, at the age of fourteen, she had two number one hits in the UK: “You Don’t Know” and “Walkin’ Back to Happiness” (her parents were too poor to own a record player, Helen had to borrow a friend’s to hear her first single).
And, indeed, her first four single releases all went into the top three of the UK Singles Chart.