This could do with some subtitles 
Yes so did I but Iâm having trouble booking tickets for them on my computer at the momentâŚ
I heard Jimmy Buffett died yesterday, {{{RIP}}} Listening to âCome Mondayâ . 
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Thanks to one of my older siblings, I was introduced to Buffett at a relatively early age in the mid 70s when I was still forming the foundation of my musical tastes. As much as any artist, he continued to loom large throughout my life and will continue to do so.
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oh wow I hadnât heard that yet. RIP.
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The new debut album from Lathe of Heaven, a goth-edged Brooklyn band, will have a good showing on my year-end list.
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Had tickets to see They Might Be Giants doing Flood in Manchester for November but they have had to cancel. Its been rearranged for November 2024! Just hope Iâm around to see it!
Best of The Four Tops.
âBernadetteâ
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Just prior to Buffettâs passing Iâd listened to most of his early albums on ABC/Dunhill. Not a stretch as those albums are always in my rotation especially when it comes to what I call âcomfortâ music. For a variety of reasons itâs been a trying year for me so Iâve spent probably more time than usual listening to comfort music, including some newer music (Alvvays, Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, boygenius, Julia Jacklin, the Beths, etc.) that has already reached comfort music status. Since Buffett died Iâve been revisiting the latter ABC/Dunhill albums and the ones that followed on MCA. Many of which I havenât listened to in decades. I will likely make my way through all of his studio releases (save for the two Christmas albums). So, Iâm doing a Buffett deep dive of sorts. He loomed large in my musical world so I havenât quite come to terms with the fact that we now live in a post-Jimmy Buffett world. That is going to take a considerable amount of time.
His final album, Equal Strain On All Parts is evidently due in November. While Radio Margaritaville has been debuting one new track per week on Fridays at 5 pm, the only one Iâve heard so far is âBubbles Upâ which was not part of that feature. They debuted it this past Sunday. I first remember him referencing that phrase following the incident where he crashed his seaplane off the waters of Nantucket, MA in the late summer of 1994. Itâs a term he learned while completing Navy Survival Training before being able to pilot an F-14 Tomcat from the deck of an aircraft carrier meaning that if a boatâs capsized or a plane has crashed into the water, you follow the bubbles to lead you to safety. Ever since the debut of the song last Sunday, the fan community has embraced it as a mantra of sorts to help cope with our and the worldâs loss of Jimmy Buffett.
Jimmy Buffett Riddles In the Sand
Jimmy Buffett One Particular Harbour
Jimmy Buffett Somewhere Over China
boygenius the record
Julien Baker Little Oblivions
Lucy Dacus Historian
Jimmy Buffett Coconut Telegraph
Jimmy Buffett Volcano
Jimmy Buffett Son of A Son of A Sailor
Jimmy Buffett Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes
Jimmy Buffett Havana Daydreaminâ
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Albums I have from 1991, the year I became an R.E.M. fan. The 90âs has some of my most favourite records.
Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magic
Baby Animals - Self Titled
Prince & The New Power Generation - Diamonds and Pearls
The Definitive Simon & Garfunkel
Pearl Jam - Ten
Nirvana - Nevermind
Bonnie Raitt - Luck Of The Draw
R.E.M. - Out Of Time
U2 - Achtung Baby
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The Wind and the Wave - Racing Hearts:
Rinaldo Alessandriniâs recordings of Lâestro Armonico. Album has all 12 of Vivaldiâs concertos from that set, plus all of Bachâs keyboard rearrangements of the same pieces:
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Steely Dan! Great! When I actually saw them on a tv interview I figured out why they didnât have a more public presence, but what fabulous musicians.
Before my time or maybe location but Ii always loved him too. And yes, Michael can sing Jimmyâs songs like a bitch.
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From over the weekend.
Slow Pulp - Yard
Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
The Replacements - Donât Tell A Soul
Julien Baker - Little Oblivions
Jimmy Buffett - Fruitcakes
R.E.M. - New Adventures in Hi-Fi
Julia Jacklin - Crushing
Bethany Cosentino - Natural Disaster
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My favorite album of 2023 so far is Sextile - Push.
Sextile, a Los Angeles synth-edged band, was one of the highlights of the Cruel World festival that I attended in Pasadena last year. Although the temperatures were in the mid 90s on that particular afternoon, this band would not let any of us rest. Their set consisted of one highly energetic beats-per-minute track after another, wearing me out, but also leaving me eager for more.
Their show here in Atlanta earlier this week was even better, intense and cathartic in a small intimate venue.
Sextile started out a few years ago as primarily a post-punk act, but have segued into more of a hardcore rave sort of outfit.
I love how the overall vibe of their new album, like The Clash - Sandinista! and Beastie Boys - Check Your Head before it, conveys the feel of walking through a diverse inner city neighborhood on a sunny Saturday afternoon and marveling at the variety of graffiti murals, street musicians, and restaurants. The end result is an insanely energetic and danceable hodgepodge of garage punk, electronic body music, drum and bass, hip-hop, acid house, Madchester, and even shoegaze that somehow all comes together for a fun-spirited singleness of effect. If I had to be more specific with a baseline description, I would say that Push takes me back to my college days at Georgia Tech during the early 1990s, when my dorm room rotation included the likes of Happy Mondays, Meat Beat Manifesto, Front Line Assembly, Ice-T, The Prodigy, Bad Brains, Lush, and Cocteau Twins, all of which were disparate acts that shared a wondrous spirit of reckless abandon.
This one, âCrashâ, features guest vocals from Izzy Glaudini of the band, Automatic.
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That guy looks just like young Lou Reed.
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I like (and agree with) the âwondrous spirit of reckless abandonâ there inspectorjason, very poeticâŚ
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Read someone writing about the virtues of apathy, and it reminded me of this:
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