https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.vogue.com/article/grammy-awards-2018-sexist-or-out-of-touch/amp

Might have been two years ago but then that’s how hopelessly out of touch they are it takes them two years to over compensate

Roujin wrote:

Is giving Billie Eilish a Grammy overcompensating though? It seems like her and her brother are quite talented even if they are young and have a pretty large PR team around them now. It's okay though, she's doing the theme for the next bond film so I cannot wait to drink the tears of raging bond boomers.

Maybe not. They gave her all four major ones.

But it's just a theory.

One minute it's sexist the next it's not.

But a lot of theories of mine don't work out like eating ham wraps.

Ah, didn't realise she'd got ALLLLL the big ones. It's possible then, but as Dante points out, given the industry investment in her it's maybe not surprising the industry is patting itself on the back and confirming they were right to "choose" her by having their own industry awards give out a load of awards.

Good Love is one of the best tracks from the unreleased Camille album, a gorgeous, joyous production with hooks for days. Only the naked boy and girl... Bizarrely released on the soundtrack to the Michael J. Fox movie Bright Lights, Big City. 

https://open.spotify.com/track/6VlZZJQPm034GbmGQfu3MY?si=agn_uXnJRgO0JdAirj5zJw 

This slightly different version comes from the Crystal Ball compilation of unreleased/remixed songs.

More industry than appreciation but much appreciation from me to Mark, Beverly, Chelsea, Simon and all the guys at Music Venue Trust, they've finally managed to get the public house tax break to be applied to music venues which weer treated differently, massive sigh of relief for the live music all across the country. Next step is to get rates further reduced by having more venues designated as places of cultural and historic importance, like galleries and museums

But yeah, great work by some great people

cockbeard wrote:

More industry than appreciation but much appreciation from me to Mark, Beverly, Chelsea, Simon and all the guys at Music Venue Trust, they've finally managed to get the public house tax break to be applied to music venues which weer treated differently, massive sigh of relief for the live music all across the country. Next step is to get rates further reduced by having more venues designated as places of cultural and historic importance, like galleries and museums But yeah, great work by some great people

High five for that. It’s been a long fight to get this far.

Depeche Mode 81-85

Quite an extraordinary 4 years of synth pop slash synth pop gloom goth amazing ness

I really need to give that another listen. My brother is a big fan.

My favourite Dylan song of all is Tangled Up in Blue, which some of you will already know. It has a very personal resonance for me as it was a song loved by my father - Blood on the Tracks was his favourite album and he bought it for me - and I always heard it as the story of his, at one time, loving my mother. And in a way a conversation between me and him about her. This is the version released on the album, but the original New York version is also really beautiful - and lyrically different. My favourite version however is the one on the way, way underappreciated live album Real Live.

https://open.spotify.com/track/6Vcwr9tb3ZLO63F8DL8cqu?si=qffcdRY0RgyxJf4Q0oHJVA

Yep, I noticed Rocks & Gravel in a scene in a bar where Rust talks to two female prostitutes.

Third time watching it. I actually dug season 2 as a James Ellroy kinda deal, though it is certainly the weakest of the three. Thought the third was excellent, as good as the first IMO.

I think there's also just immense admiration of them bordering on jealousy. At the time they came out me and my friends were in a Arctic Monkeys-lite band and damn if we still somehow were together today, I'd want to sound exactly like Bombay Bicycle Club.

Not that we were good or anything. We were shite. But still.

Aye, they’re great. New album is class.

Put me down as a fan of the new Bombay Bicycle Club album too.

poprock wrote:

This Vevo performance that went up today of Kesha doing Raising Hell acoustic is about a thousand times better than the actual single, thanks to it omitting the shitty synthpop elements and ramping up the gospel side a bit.

I never understand why these kind of videos feel it's a good idea to make sure the dumpy white bloke session musicians are onscreen. It never helps.