Blast IT

[caseyjo]

Whats the last song, Tv Vid, or on-line tune you listened to?..If you cant remember, what do you feel like listening to & if you dont feel like listening to anything, what is one of your all time favorite tunes?..Take your pic.....It's Blast it  time in the old TBd music room tonight.... So hit it peeps This is what I just listened to......It's actually on my profile right now.

[Snagg]

Cover Of The Day:



"(You're The) Devil In Disguise" (Bill Giant, Bernie Baum & Florence Kaye), # 3 Pop, 8/10/63, The Pelvis.

I'm not usually a Larkin Poe fan, but they release what a cover version should be: A thorough re-imagining of it, something that the original artist probably would have never though of themselves, and they make it work. From their 2020 covers EP, "Kindred Spirits"

[Angharad]

Love this cover!

[Snagg]

Today, in Musical History, August 11th, 1958: John Joseph Wardle, AKA Jah Wobble, b. Stepney, London, England

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Cover Of The Day:

"The Other Side Of This Life", released 8/1965, by b Fred Neil, on his 2nd album, "Bleecker And MacDougal"

David Byrne had some fun with it on his 2004 album, "Grown Backwards"

[DeeBeeCreative]

Interesting. I have never heard this. I knew the title, but the one I know/love is: The other Side of Life by the Moody Blues. 

[DeeBeeCreative]

I listen to YouTube a lot, but I also have 12 (homemade) CD's and listen to those a lot. Latest: Abracadabra by The Steve Miller Band;  Bette Davis Eyes by Kim Carnes; Heart of Glass by Blondie; and Girls Just  WannaHave Fun by Cindi Lauper.  I'm a 'boomer', so my favs are 60's-80's, lol. 

[Snagg]

Today, in Musical History, August 12th, 1877: Thomas Edison invents the phonograph - the first practical sound recording and playback device - But Edison gets the credit for inventing sound recording itself, which just ain't true.

A Parisian printer and inventor, named Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville, beat Edison to recording sound by 20 years - But de Martinville couldn't figure out how to reproduce the sound he'd gotten down on a piece of paper that had been coated with lampblack, but other French sound experts solved that problem later in 1857.

In 2002, some mook named Gary Freiberg declared August 12th to be National Vinyl Record Day, in honor of Edison's invention - Casually ignoring the fact that vinyl records themselves wouldn't actually be invented for another 71 years Both de Martinville and Edison recorded on paper, tinfoil and wax cylinders, and their doohickeys looked like these:

                              de Martinville's                                                  Edison's

See anything on either of those that looks like an LP or a turntable ?

Some people just can't be bothered with reality, I guess.

[Snagg]

This a loooooooong way from de Martinville and Edison.

[Snagg]

Cover Of The Day:



"The Kids Are Alright", released 8/12/1966, by The Who

The Lola's version comes from a various-artist compilation,, "Who's Not Forgotten", from 2004

[Snagg]

Today, in Musical History, August 13th, 1990:

The Pixies release their third album, "Bossanova"

[DeeBeeCreative]

I almost asked "what country are you in", lol.  Never heard of Pixies.  Or that other song, though of course i know "the Who'.   But actually....I gave up on 'new' music in the 90's, lol. I'll stick with the Good Oldies.