morning babble / Friday 08-09-24
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This is the scribble that leads to the babble.
Sometimes, it gets tidied up; other times, not so much.
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(“Raspberry Beret” clip)
My little girl requests that Prince song a lot. Too bad its about losing one’s virginity.
(“Raspberry Beret” clip)
I guess any song from Prince is pretty much – sex.
(“Little Red Corvette”)
(Morning Babble Intro)
Happy Weekend! No real reason for all the Prince music except my little girl honestly requesting that the other day in the car. “Raspberry Beret” is cute and she sings along. That won’t happen with the Prince song “Cream” (clip) Did you know that June 9th was National Sex Day – I totally missed that day. Was not a holiday on my Google calendar (“Gett Off” clip) That’s like a week before Father’s Day too (“Gett Off” clip) Whew – do I still have every one? We’ll get to the new music.
(Countdown Video)
New Music Friday:
I put together a Spotify playlist of the songs that I talked about and thought about today for New Music Friday. Click here for that!
- First up – Jimmie’s Chicken Shack (“Blood” clip) That’s a deeper cut from the boys all the way back from 1997 called “Blood”. The bigger hit that they are know for is the song “High” (“High” clip) Again, 1997. Today, we have a whole new album – sort of. On all the streaming sites, we got our first taste of this album in March . . . of 2023. (“Simple Concept” clip) That’s “Simple Concept” – I enjoyed that one from the start. This album was actually available to purchase digitally back in October of 2022. But today, it’s streaming everywhere, so we do officially have their first full LP since 2008 (Phillies clip) I liked that year. Anyway – back to the music. Jimmie’s Chicken Shack and it’s called 2econds with the #2 replacing the “S” seconds. Huh? (draw it) The song being pushed by Spotify is a chill song called “Make Believe” (“Make Believe” clip)
- Back in 2015, I heard this song “Coming Home” from Leon Bridges (“Coming Home” clip). So, so reminded me of Sam Cooke – I was hooked. Now, he’s had a couple more albums since that debut with some wonderful music like “Beyond” (“Beyond” clip) This past week, he made the announce that his 4th studio album is coming on October 4th and is creatively titled – Leon. That’s okay, Leon. We’re coming for the music anyway and thankfully, you gave us a taste of this new album with the song “Peaceful Place” (“Peaceful Place” clip)
- Hodgepodge (show card) I actually played this little cartoon several weeks again when I talked about Grace Bowers and her band – The Hodge Podge (cartoon clip) However, I never did play the very end of the cartoon (cartoon end clip) “What would you know about art anyway” – angry little man about his Hodgepodge. (“Holdin on to Something” music clip) So, I’ve been waiting for this album called – Wine on Venus – I mean, we did get 3 songs along the way, but I wanted to experience it all and today we can. The song being pushed by Spotify is the one that I just played a bit of – “Holdin on to Something” (clip)
- Several quick hits of new music: If you listen to The Alt-18 Most Requested Countdown on AltNation which is on SiriusXM, then you’ve heard the song by Fontaines DC called “Starburster” – it’s been #1 a lot. But now – they have another release called “Here’s the Thing” – not on the countdown . . . yet // Quavo and Lenny Kravitz have gotten together for a fun updated version to Lenny’s 1998 hit song “Fly” // Emmaline – I’ve seen her a couple times live in Philly has a new song called “Strike” out to listen to . . . and watch (clip) Hmmm, it’s only a picture and not an actual video. Hmmm. // I talked about this one earlier in the week when it snuck out ahead of New Music Friday. Mondo Cozmo has his album – It’s Principle! – coming out the last Friday of this month – the 30th. In the meantime, he did give us the 3rd release off the album – “Killing Floor” (clip)
Thank you to Spotify, Rolling Stone, Apple Music, uDiscoverMusic, Pigeons & Planes, Pitchfork, Louder, Spill Magazine, Dan Deluca of the Philly Inquirer & I know there’s more.
Be sure to check out the playlist on Spotify. As I mentioned in the beginning, it’s a playlist of songs that I’ve talked about and thought about: so, you’ll see some new music there from The Dare, Katy Perry, The Killers and anything that I really messed up and missed – well, that’s why I’ll be doing Missed Music Monday on Monday.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“The key to longevity is to learn every aspect of music that you can.” – by Prince