So, what have you been listening to lately?

[uwe]

Loved that movie when I first saw it in the 60ies on TV, but I felt sorry for the Creature, just like I felt sorry for the Frankenstein Monster and King Kong.



Guillermo del Toro did a lovely tribute to the original film in 2017.



Rest in peace, scaly one.

[uwe]

All a matter of taste. I find Miley Cyrus' singing voice harsh and unpleasant as her speaking voice.

I know what you mean, she has a gritty edge. But it's not something mannered, it's how her voice apparently is. Women don't have to speak or sing like angels with me.

[wellREDman]

  I really did it!

glad its not just me 

[Dave W]

[uwe]

That was a nice swinging cover of the somewhat more rambunctious Humble Pie original. 

[Dave W]

That was a nice swinging cover of the somewhat more rambunctious Humble Pie original. 

That's not the original. It's an Ashford & Simpson composition, original was Nick Ashford's in 1966. Ray's cover was later that year.



Chocolate Watch Band also covered it before Humble Pie.

[uwe]

I know, Dave, I was being mildly ironic as I sometimes attempt to be. If there is one thing that Humble Pie were not particularly strong in then it was writing their own material, especially once Frampton had left the fold. Their best stuff was always - highly originally approached - covers. The way they turned I Don't Need No Doctor into a rifforama is a case in point - that primal E-G-A riff (F-G#-A# in the Humble Pie vid, but it might be running too fast or they had tuned a half-step up) shows up in neither Ashford & Simpson's original nor the Ray Charles version. (But on first listen of the Chocolate Watch Band version, Marriott likely nicked it from them, the artfully dodging little thief!!!)



I really liked Ashford & Simpson.





Pity that throat cancer (what a mean disease for a singer) took him from her and us.

[uwe]

Why Ringo can be brilliant, and I don't mean his humor, but his drumming:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JLqw8su5ng0

[gearHed289]

Why Ringo can be brilliant, and I don't mean his humor, but his drumming:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JLqw8su5ng0

Love it.

[uwe]

He's one of Ian Paice's favorite drummers, no joke. Little Ian has admitted nicking this here off Ringo:



It's just Come Together speeded up.

[Dave W]

Why Ringo can be brilliant, and I don't mean his humor, but his drumming:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JLqw8su5ng0

That was great!

[Dave W]

MMM is 78 today.

[Basvarken]

Shake Your Dude Thing 

[uwe]

It doesn't even sound like a mash-up, but like an organic song. Because, for all their missteps and sometimes banal music, Aerosmith were always credibly funky. More so than any other white rock'n'roll band of their stature and era.

[uwe]

If you - like me - always wondered how the Bowie track Let's Dance ended up the way it did when in its original form it was supposed to have sounded "like a country song", then this is really enlightening:



As is this: