Jaybird

Jaybird is Birdmojo on Xbox Live and Jaybirdmojo on Playstation's network. He's been playing consoles since the Atari 2600 and it was Zork that taught him how to touch-type. If you've got a song for Wednesday, a commercial for Saturday, a recommendation for Tuesday, an essay for Monday, or, heck, just a handful a questions, fire off an email to AskJaybird-at-gmail.com

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    • It always irritated me that the only song they had that ever hit the radio was That One Awful Song.

      • That Song That Shall Not Be Named is indeed, awful.

        But for my money, Tones on Tail beats both L & R AND Bauhaus, any day.

        (ducks)

    • Yeah, I listened to three or four of her songs last night and I keep thinking that I need to do a series on Burt Bacharach…

    • Hey, nice. I have only recently slightly dipped my toes into Swans at dhex’s recommendation. This kind of reminds me of The The.

      • Michael Gira’s Angels of Light work was very different from Swans, until it started becoming more Swans-like, and then he finally reformed Swans. It was a very interesting cycle, and I was both excited and disappointed by the reformation. Excited at the prospect of new Swans music, but disappointed because he always vehemently swore he would never bring it back.

          • How are things going in NY dhex?

            Also, I went on a tear this weekend, because it was driving me nuts, I knew I had “F# A# Infinity” on vinyl at one time, but couldn’t find it when we discussed GYBE last time, just the CD.

            It was misfiled. Everyone (or at least OCD music people like me) can relax now. 🙂

          • Both links are the same Bee Mask track, which I dug, likely more than anything called “Pig Destroyer”, but you never know…

            (listens to something called “Burning Palm”)

            nope, Bee Mask it is!

  4. A lot of young lion era post-be-bop this week. Mostly Joshua Redman, but some Branford Marsalis and Marcus Roberts as well.

  5. The last time I was jamming out, the playlist was a bit heavy on the Kinks from the Word of Mouth album. Three songs in particular are very strong. Here’s two of them:
    Do It Again
    Living on a Thin Line

    “Sold Me Out” is the other really good one from that album.

    And a few select oddities that, for some reason, I still find listenable after a number of years; like this one from Kiss, one from Aerosmith, and Led Zep.

    In general, going through a phase away from prog rock & classical guitar to more guitar-driven pop rock.

      • Do I Again was doing fairly well, but got overshadowed by Come Dancing released only a few weeks later.

        • Come Dancing is space awesome, as is Don’t Forget to Dance. Living on a Thin Line is one of those rare beasts — a Dave song that doesn’t totally suck.

          • I peg the Kinks as the originators of basically my favorite broad category of rock – noise pop, or the *intentional* use of white noise in recording, with the guitar tone in “You Really Got Me”.

            Not that distortion and tone ‘grain’ doesn’t appear before it; but that to my mind is the original intentional introduction or retention of ‘noise’ as an element, as opposed to an incidental or unavoidable occurrence of it.

          • Or, as musicologists call it, “knitting needles in the amp” rock.

          • Ray’s told it over and over. I haven’t seen photographic proof.

          • It probably has everything to do with the fact that I have a pretty space awesome big sister that was always far cooler than I ever was, but more than any other pop-rock song I’ve ever heard Come Dancing always felt like it was written by me as a kid.

            I feel utter joy when I here that song.

      • God of Thunder is a great song, but I think the studio version is a bit weak.
        Never cared for Ezrin, though I’m one of those that loves The Elder.
        There was a version by some other band that really kicked ass.
        I think it was either Dark Saga or Anthrax.

  6. Proposed song: Bob Dillon, “Everybody Must Get Stoned”.

    Yeah, I know, I know…

    • Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 will probably get a lot of airplay during the next week on the Classic Rock station here in town, I tell you what.

      • Oh, right, you’re IN Colorado!

        Will you be taking advantage of your new rights?

        • It’s still illegal on a Federal level.

          I’ll be pleased to exercise my 21st Amendment rights instead.

          • But still a BFD nonetheless, yes? (I had more to say – which I deleted – because this is a political free blog.)

        • I listened to the alternative station whilst in the lab and they did not play that song today.

          It was creepy.

          • There’s an FM station in San Francisco that just celebrated their 30th anniversary of switching from “beautiful music” to rock/ They have played that exact version at 5 PM Friday to welcome in the weekend ever since.

          • Back in, oh, 1994, I was in San Francisco and I was brushing my teeth, staring out the window at a brick wall, and the radio station said something to the effect of “it’s Thursday, let’s play some punk” and they started playing Jim Carroll’s “These are the people who died” and I had never heard that song before and I just stood there, motionless, toothbrush in my mouth, listening to this amazing song on the radio that I had never heard before thinking “holy crap, I need to move here”.

            I didn’t, of course. And it’s just as well.

            My goodness, I haven’t thought about that in ages.

            Maybe we’ll do that song next week.

          • If we’re talking about “These are the people who died”, I would say that that is just a good song that can be appreciated by anyone of any age (though, I daresay, those who are old enough to remember those they’ve lost appreciate it a bit more).

            If we’re talking about “smoke two joints”, I’m going to have to retreat behind my not telling people how to live.

          • So far I haven’t introduce the children to most of my music.

            I figure I’ll let them find it on their own. It might freak me out a little bit the day I come home to Hannah rocking out to “Burning Inside”, but I can take it.

          • “My 3-yr-old loves that song.

            Am I a bad parent?”

            if it were, like, nickleback or something, then maybe.

            my son loves slayer. though i’m probably gonna have to stop playing angel of death until the notion of context becomes a little more clear. at least with most grind and death stuff, the vocals are fairly unintelligible.

          • To Jay, it was “Ppl Who Died” – hey, kids have to learn about mortality someday!

            To Patrick, I have tried not to go overboard with turning him into little me, but he hears stuff when we are in the car, or in my office.

            “Our” songs that he likes:
            Losing My Edge by LCD Soundsystem
            Rock Lobster by B52’s
            Intergalactic by Beastie Boys
            Under Pressure & Another One Bites the Dust by Queen

            He also heard “Inbetween Days” by The Cure in the car once, and after it was over he said, really softly/dreamily/wistfully, “Dad, that song was really…somethin’.”

            But he also likes plenty of kids’/Wiggles-type songs.

            I haven’t exposed him to Ministry.

            THIEVES! LIARS! THIEVES! LIARS!, coming from him, might be a little disturbing.

          • here come the abc’s is murdering my mind these days. he loves it so much. i never liked tmbg, and i’m fairly sure i’m going to go insane.

            good ministry song for kids: every day is halloween! maybe over the shoulder too?

    • Boy, you really ARE advocating for dismantling the separation of church and state!

      Oh, or did you mean getting high?

  7. The great thing about sharing music like this is that it invites people to appreciate folks that we otherwise wouldn’t be exposed to. People with really phenomenal talent. I had a conversation with a friend of mine about once (a guy who has an amazingly entertaining musician) that went like this.

    Me: I saw this guy who last night who was singing, strumming the guitar, playing harmonica on one of those Bob Dylan thingies, and playing drums with his feet. It was effing incredible. How the hell can a single person do all that? (I asked him this a “person in the know” about all things musical.)

    My friend’s answer: Talent.

    And that’s the total answer, anytime we say to ourselves “how the hell can a person do such incredible stuff?”.

    • This is why I love when people leave comments with their favorite stuff.

      I try my hardest to hide it but I’m one of those who listened to hippie stuff in the 80’s, alt in the 90’s, and shoegaze in the oughts. I’ve got enough songs that I adore to get us to Doomsday, but I’m sure I’ve fairly few surprises left.

      The comments? I’m surprised nigh-weekly.

      • Lots of talented people out there. Musically. Commentarially. And music-commentarially.

    • I’m going to go with practice. Things that seem incredibly complicated become easy once you’ve practiced enough to form the necessary neural connections. I’m fairly confident that most people could learn to do this reasonably well if they put in the practice time. It’s just that hardly anyone ever does.

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