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The song begins with an organ pedal point of an A note, accompanied by a recording of a monologue passage from a Bergen Student Newspaper, being recited by Mari Myren, referring to when Mogwai played a show on March 15th 1997 at the Hulen, in Bergen, Norway. Myren describes the band's music as "bigger than words and wider than pictures" and states that "If the stars had a sound, it would sound like this."
The band's first effort for Capitol Records was an album which was recorded before Come Down called The Black Album, which was rejected by Capitol for, according to frontman Courtney Taylor-Taylor, containing "no hit songs". It was later released as a double album in 2004 with Come On Feel the Dandy Warhols, an album composed of B-sides and previously unreleased material.
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The Dandy Warhols will be playing Revolution Hall in Portland, OR on New Year's Eve, Friday, December 31st, 2021.
In a 1997 interview promoting Be Here Now, Noel Gallagher had the following to say about the first single: "I was going to make up some profound statement in the chorus but I couldn't come up with anything that fitted. Then I just thought 'All my people right here, right now, d'you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah.' Very vague, very ambiguous, that'll do. Look in the mirror and wink while you're singing it and it's quite saucy. And I love that line, 'Coming in a mess, going out in style'. We were a bunch of scruffs from Manchester and we're going out in a Rolls Royce."
This song is about fate and how it will always catch up with you. The band members used to warn each other that the "karma police" would get them if they didn't behave.
Thom Yorke: "Karma is important. The idea that something like karma exists makes me happy. It makes me smile. 'Karma Police' is dedicated to everyone who works for a big firm. It's a song against bosses."
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Radiohead "Karma Police" Live @ Lollapalooza 2016, Chicago:
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In an interview on BBC Radio 2, singer Richard Ashcroft said the song was "inspired by my relationship with my wife, and that sense of when you're beyond the sort of peacock dance that you have early on in a relationship. And you're getting down to the raw nature of yourselves."
"Nothing Lasts Forever" is a single by Echo & the Bunnymen which was released in 1997. It was the first single released after Ian McCulloch, Will Sergeant and Les Pattinson reformed the band. It was also the first single to be released from their 1997 album, Evergreen.
"All You Good Good People" is the debut single by English rock band Embrace, on the Fierce Panda label. Only 1,300 copies were made in 1997, but the airplay received by key radio shows was enough to gain significant recognition. An extended play containing the song was released on 27 October 1997, peaking at number eight on the UK Singles Chart that November. The 1,300 originals, mixed by renowned dub and electronica artist Ott, are now collectors' items.
Elliott Smith's "Either/Or" was released in February, 1997. The next year, 1998, our listeners voted Smith's "XO" their favorite album of the year.
OP8 is the musical collaboration of the multi-instrumentalist Lisa Germano, Howe Gelb, Joey Burns and John Convertino. Joey Burns and John Convertino form the band Calexico together and have both been members of Gelb's Giant Sand.
Up the whole night, undefined
Can't stop thinking 'bout peace and war
Up the whole night
Right before the sun takes everything
It could've been anything
I didn't feel anything
Released on this day, 29-years ago.
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"...and it's true that I stole your lighter...."
Soccer Mommy worked with the producer and composer Daniel Lopatin, aka Oneohtrix Point Never on this. He's also known for working with the Weeknd. So. Much. Awesome.
Dust Bunnies is the third album by the Dutch indie band Bettie Serveert, released in 1997.
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Nick writes: My soundtrack to growing up. And I never heard it on the radio. 'Til now. Thank you.
Here's an interview from 2017 with Sean Nelson on the 20th anniversary of "Flagpole Sitta": www.stereogum.com
"The thing I really remember is, the one thing I didn’t have was the chorus. The chorus for most of the first year we had the song that we were playing it was just the backing vocal bits, which I always thought of as very much in line with the Turtles or something. But we had recorded the song and I thought, “Well, there needs to be words in the chorus. It can’t just be this.” So I went desperately flailing through my notebook and I found that line: “I’m not sick but I’m not well,” which was from another song, and then I basically just sang it and made up the other words on the mic. And I’m glad that I did..."
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Franny: Goddamn the old 97s sound good!!! Thank you.
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Watch Old 97's perform "Time Bomb" live at the Triple Door theater back in 2008! www.youtube.com
The song wasn't supposed to keep its "Song 2" title, but the name stuck. It's two minutes and two seconds long, with two verses and two choruses.
"Dig Me Out," Sleater-Kinney's third album, came out in 1997. That's twenty-five years ago!
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A reviewer says of this song, "What Sleater-Kinney can accomplish in two minutes is frankly staggering."
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Watch live "Words and Guitar" from their penultimate show at the Crystal Ballroom in Portland, OR, 2006: youtu.be
Horsegirl is playing at Neumos with Dummy on Saturday, July 16.
'Versions of Modern Performance' was recorded with John Agnello (Kurt Vile, The Breeders, Dinosaur Jr.) at Electrical Audio. “It’s our debut bare-bones album in a Chicago institution with a producer who we feel like really respected what we were trying to do,” the band says.
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Songwriting credits include Kim Deal of the Breeders, as the looped wah-wah guitar riff in "Firestarter" was sampled from the Breeders' track "S.O.S." from the album Last Splash.
The drums are sampled from a remix of the song "Devotion" of the group Ten City.
The "hey hey hey" sample is from the 1984 song "Close (to the Edit)" by Art of Noise. Then-members Anne Dudley, Trevor Horn, J. J. Jeczalik, Gary Langan and Paul Morley also receive songwriting credits.
The "Empirion Mix," which does not include these samples, is credited solely to Liam Howlett and Keith Flint. bit.ly
"Setting Sun" features uncredited vocals from Noel Gallagher of Oasis, who also co-wrote the track with duo members Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons. Despite receiving little airplay in the United Kingdom, it sold 99,000 copies during its first week of release and debuted at number one on the UK Singles Chart in October 1996.
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Gallagher used an old Oasis song, "Comin' on Strong", as the basis for the lyrics to "Setting Sun". Both songs are heavily influenced by the Beatles' Revolver track "Tomorrow Never Knows".
New Beyoncé released in anticipation of new album, RENAISSANCE. This song features a sample of "Show Me Love" by Robin S.
An homage to The Beach Boys Pet Sounds, the tracks on Fantasma were written and recorded in the same order they appear on the album. Cornelius's goal in creating Fantasma was "to take the listener on a personal trip"; he envisioned the album as "a one-on-one experience between the music and the listener. ... It starts with you entering into the journey and ends with you returning to reality." Almost all of the tracks were named after existing bands, including Count Five, the Clash, and Microdisney. Buffalo Daughter's Moog Yamamoto appeared on "Mic Check" and "2010". The Apples in Stereo's Robert Schneider and Hilarie Sidney co-wrote and performed on "Chapter 8 – Seashore and Horizon –", while the High Llamas' Sean O'Hagan (formerly of Microdisney) appeared on "Thank You for the Music".
“Convenient Parking” is a song lamenting urban sprawl, inspired by lead singer Isaac Brock's move to Montana from Issaquah, Washington as a kid.
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Modest Mouse will be performing at Thing Festival in Port Townsend, WA August 26-28, 2022.
Want to hear what Rush's Geddy Lee sounds like when he talks? Of course you do. www.youtube.com
Mag Earwhig! is a 1997 album release by indie rock band Guided by Voices. Following the dissolution of the group's "classic" lineup, band-leader Robert Pollard recruited Cleveland group Cobra Verde as his backing band, while retaining the Guided by Voices name. It was the second release to feature future long-term collaborator Doug Gillard.
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Current
Robert Pollard – lead vocals (1983–2004, 2010–2014, 2016–present), guitar (1983–1992)
Doug Gillard – guitar, backing vocals (1997–2004, 2016–present)
Kevin March – drums, backing vocals (2002–2004, 2014, 2016–present)
Mark Shue – bass, backing vocals (2016–present)
Bobby Bare Jr. – guitar, backing vocals (2016–present)
Former band members
Jim Pollard – guitar, bass (1983–1995, 2012)
Mitch Mitchell – guitar (1983–1997, 2010–2014), bass (1983–1987)
Tobin Sprout – guitar, vocals (1986–1997, 2010–2014)
Kevin Fennell – drums (1983–1989, 1993–1997, 2010–2014)
Greg Demos – bass (1990–1992, 1994–2000, 2010–2014)
Paul Comstock – guitar (1983)
Ed John – guitar (1984)
Mitch Swann – guitar (1986)
Don Thrasher – drums (1989–1992)
Steve Wilbur – bass, guitar (1987–1989)
Dan Toohey – bass (1991–1994)
James Greer – bass,[39](1994–1996) [40]
Bruce "Smitty" Smith – drums (1983, 1989)
Dave Swanson – drums (1997–1998)
Jim Macpherson – drums (1998–2001)
Jon McCann – drums (2001–2002)
Nate Farley – guitar (1998–2004)
Tim Tobias – bass (2000–2003)
Chris Slusarenko – bass (2003–2004)
Nick Mitchell – guitar, vocals (2016)
John Petkovic – guitar (1997–1998)
Don Depew – bass (1997–1998)
Craig "Craig-O" Nichols – drums (1995)
Nick Schuld – bass (1997)
Peyton Eric – drums (1986, 1989)
Joe Buben – drums (1996)
Leland Cain – bass (1996)
Former touring members
Matt Sweeney – bass (1996)
For his first solo album, Pitchfork wrote,"Riding the wave of success from the Fugees’ The Score, Wyclef Jean’s 1997 solo debut is a 74-minute party, as advertised. It’s a proud transcultural product that broadcasted an eclectic future."
Watch the official music video here: youtu.be
Finley Quaye is the son of vaudeville pianist Cab Kaye and the half-brother of the English guitarist Caleb Quaye, best known for his work in the 1960s and 1970s with Elton John, Lou Reed, Harry Nillson, Mick Jagger, Pete Townshend, Paul McCartney, Hall & Oates and
A listener texts "In 1997, you could walk into any restaurant in the country and buena vista social club would be playing."
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Dad joke coming.
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Man, they must have had hundreds of thousands of members in the band. #IfeelShame
"Brimful of Asha" is about India's film music industry in general, with a reference to vocalist Asha Bhosle in particular. The word "asha" also happens to mean "hope" in Hindi, something that certainly wasn't lost on Tjinder Singh when he wrote the tune - many of Asha Bhosle's movie songs were filled with messages of hope that the younger generation took to heart and dreamed of better lives. www.cornershop.com
The album cover is a still image from the music video of the song "All Mine".
The song contains a drum sample from "Halleluhwah" by Can and an interpolation of the bassline from "Get Off Your Ass and Jam" by Funkadelic, and is named after the main character of the 1971 film Vanishing Point, played by Barry Newman; it also features various dialogue samples from said film.
"It's about understanding what you're about and realising that you don't necessarily fit into somebody else's scheme of things," said keyboardist Martin Gore. Singer Dave Gahan, who was weakened from his battle with substance abuse at the time, added, "The song sums up the way I was treating myself and everybody around me. That's what life had in store for me every day. It's a really powerful statement. When you're in that kind of row, the last thing on your mind is dying.
Co-written with Brian Eno, Bowie said this song is not "...as truly hostile about Americans as say "Born in the U.S.A.": it's merely sardonic. I was traveling in Java when [its] first McDonald's went up: it was like, "for (bleep) sake." The invasion by any homogenized culture is so depressing, the erection of another Disney World in, say, Umbria, Italy, more so. It strangles the indigenous culture and narrows expression of life..."
Although the video has drawn several interpretations, Bangalter has stated: "There's no story. It is just a man-dog walking with a ghetto-blaster in New York. The rest is not meant to say anything. People are trying to explain it: Is it about human tolerance? Integration? Urbanism? There's really no message. There will be a sequel someday" -- youtu.be
For Fabio.
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Around Christmas time, Grohl returned to his native Virginia shortly thereafter, and as he was going through an ongoing divorce decided to stay at a friend's house and use a sleeping bag on the floor. It was there that he said that he wrote it into a song proper in 45 minutes. The lyrics were inspired by ongoing romance with Louise Post of the band Veruca Salt: "That song's about a girl that I'd fallen in love with and it was basically about being connected to someone so much, that not only do you love them physically and spiritually, but when you sing along with them you harmonize perfectly". That's her on background doot doots.