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Everybody’s Happy Nowadays
This song changed our life, a long time ago.
We were out alone on our bike of an evening, cruising Seattle’s University District. Looking for an indeterminate something. 1979.
We stopped at Roxy Music, one of many little record shops around at that time. We dug through the singles bin. We saw the sleeve you now see at left. We put the 7-inch on the turntable and put on the headphones. Our mind was summarily blown. By the focused energy, the tidy musicianship, the very smart lyrics.
We listened to it a few more times and then bought the single. We went back out into the damp Seattle night air on our bicycle.
We can’t help but think of how different this experience was from how the average 14 year-old might be discovering this song right now, in the confines of her own bedroom, looking at a glowing screen.
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Robert Plant Still Has It
Old(er) and decidedly not in the way
So many of the greats from the 60s and 70s have been phoning it in for decades now. Do we really need another Eagles tour? Is sedate competence enough to light the rock and roll fires?
The Golden God himself has kept it real. Plant has made a point of choosing only those projects that truly engage and inspire him, from his excellent and very un-Zeppelin-ish 80s albums to his seemingly-unlikely-yet-brilliant 2007 collaboration with Alison Krauss to his newly leaked single, “Angel Dance,” which you can get a sneak listen to here.
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One Day Later, nuTsie’s Still Swinging
Coleman Hawkins - purveyor of ultimate swing
nuTsie TOP 100 SWING ERA SONGS
We gave a big shout-out yesterday to Amanda Wilde’s Swing Years and Beyond radio program. Great stuff.
Today, we’re still swinging, this time in-house with nuTsie’s own Top 100 Swing Era Songs playlist. Not much to say about this stuff other than that it makes us feel good.
Press PLAY and feel the magic for yourself.
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nuTsie Swings With The Competition
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Click on this for actual good music
Just exactly what “radio” means these days is constantly shifting, but we’re sure about one thing — people are listening to more music in more ways all the time. Which is a good thing. All ships can rise with the tide and we all (fans, artists, radio stations, web radio, mobile music, etc.) benefit.
Which is why we’re taking a moment to plug our favorite program on “regular” radio. Amanda Wilde’s The Swing Years and Beyond highlights an astoundingly wide range of music from the 1920s to the 1950s every Saturday night from 7:00 p.m. until midnight on Seattle’s KUOW. Along with the nationally syndicated American Routes, The Swing Years and Beyond makes up our one-two punch weekend listening experience…these are the only shows we ever bother to tune into on purpose, on time.
Of course, thanks to our modern conception of “radio,” you can listen to The Swing Years and Beyond right now, from the comfort of your own PC, laptop, smartphone or other like device.
There’s room for all of us.
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U2 + Spider-Man + Broadway = WTF?
Have you seen our minds? We seem to have lost them
nuTsie readers, we know you’ve been on the edges of your seats, but you can now RELAX knowing that Rolling Stone has reported that rehearsals for Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, the Broadway musical featuring songs by U2’s Bono and the Edge, will finally begin on August 18th.
This is so weird and so wrong on so many levels that we don’t even know what to say.
We suggest you ignore this disturbing “music news” and enjoy some actual music. As found, for example, in the excellent nuTsie TOP 100 SONGS FOR SUMMER PLAYLIST we highlighted in our last post.
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Kick It, Summer Style
nuTsie TOP 100 SONGS FOR SUMMER
This playlist is pure pleasure, pure joy, pure delight.
And that’s even though we missed a few obvious, great ones, like Eddie Cochran’s “Summertime Blues,” an all-time classic, which we’re giving a nod below as covered below by The Who at the peak of their powers, 1969.
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nuTsie’s Movie Music Mashup
Made the Psychedelic Furs' career
nuTsie TOP 100 MOVIE SOUNDTRACK SONGS
Music man Mark here at nuTsie keeps cranking out the Top 100s playlists…the hits just keep coming, and coming, and coming.
Today it’s all your faves from the cinema, with a decided emphasis on recent and modern. We scanned the list for Julie Andrews and Shirley Bassey (caution — extreme hotness), but this list skews more Eminem, Rascall Flatts and Will Ferrell, with a healthy dose of Night Ranger, The Knack (great live footage — as tight as a band can get) and Spinal Tap.
Speaking of the latter, here’s to the MAJESTY OF ROCK.
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Chrissie Hynde Rules
nuTsie loves Chrissie Hynde and The Pretenders. The songs, the voice, the look…we may be male, but if we could sing like anyone, look like anyone, be as cool as anyone in rock, it would be Chrissie. Who’s come close? Madonna? Sheryl Crow? Lady Gaga? C’mon!
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