Author: Brent Evans

morning babble / Friday 11-24-23

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Jingle Bell Rock

Going to be a little different this holiday season with Hall and Oates – that’s what happens when one sues the other one.

Private Eyes Clip

New Music Friday:

As reported by Philly Mag, Daryl Hall is suing his Hall and Oates bandmate, John Oates. The lawsuit involves “contract/debt” and a temporary restraining order. That’s fun. (Rich Girl)

Don’t be like those guys. Happy Turkey Day Weekend / Don’t worry – we’re all feeling a little puffy and swollen Save that workout until Monday and even then, do it really slow. I ran. You did that run like in negative time – that’s right. I’m negative runner. (Jim Carrey clip).

Black Friday Record Store DayIt’s also Record Store Day 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!

• I’ve talked about this rocker before – Lyell.  I’m a big fan of her single “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.” (clip) She also did a great remake of the Blink-182 song “I Miss You” (clip) – but today, she is back with another single of her own. This is called “Cruel” (clip)

• Just over a month ago, Björk and Rosalía announced an upcoming song to be released that they worked on together. Proceeds from this track support the legal fight against foreign-owned salmon farming operations in Iceland brought by residents of – let’s go to the tape on the pronunciation of this one: (clip) Seyðisfjörður. And now – let’s go to the tape of the song – this is their new song “Oral.”

• Via Spotify, “The Holiday Place” is described as the Nettwerk Music Group’s Home for the Holidays. They dropped a full album of holiday songs labeled – Sleigh Ride – 22 songs over an hour of holiday tunage. The album includes “Wonderful Christmas Time” by Beta Radio (clip) Beta Radio released this song within a 3 pack of Christmas tunes that they labeled as The Songs the Seasons Bring, Vol 5. Oh – loved that photo shoot mimicking the Home Alone scene with the pizza boy and Joe Pesci as the cop (clip)

• Several quick hits of new music: This past week, Tim McGraw released a surprise 6-track EP called: Poet’s Resumé, Song being pushed is “Runnin’ Outta Love” – wait, how’s he running out? He’s still with Faith Hill, right? (sounder) Basement Jaxx and 100 gecs got together for a little ditty called “where’s my head at?” (sounder) Trippie Redd and YTB Fatt did the duet thing as well with the song “Snail Shells” – I can play some of it, right? (sounder) nope (sounder again) // More duet-ing – Jimmy Fallon and Meghan Trainor have a new holiday song out called “Wrap Me Up” – now that’s gotta be safe to play.

Thank you to Spotify, Rolling Stone, Apple Music, uDiscoverMusic, Pigeons & Planes, Pitchfork, Louder, Dan Deluca of the Philly Inquirer & I know there’s more.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Be present in all things and thankful for all things.” by Maya Angelou

Still in Turkey Day mode – so full though. I’ll take a beverage. Time to do the big tree!

Validates my pack rat-ness

morning babble / Thursday 11-23-23

This is the scribble that leads to the babble. Sometimes, it gets tidied up; but other times, not so much. When all else fails: watch the video!

Happy Thanksgiving – a time to give thanks to everyone!

Within my Evernote app, I have a note labeled “Stuff to do / Places to visit” and under California, I have West Oakland’s Horn BBQ. Unfortunately, this past Tuesday morning, a bad fire broke out there and forced its closure. A day later – pitmaster Matt Horn returned to the scene to hold his annual turkey giveaway, thank his customers and the community for their support — and promise he would rebuild.

Via The Mercury News – article

The Horn family has launched a GoFundMe campaign to raise money for their barbecue employees and the reconstruction.

Borrowing words from someone else in an attempt to spread happiness everywhere or at the very least – a reasonable range

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Life is about moments. Don’t wait for them, create them.” by Matt Horn

morning babble / Wednesday 11-22-23

This is the scribble that leads to the babble. Sometimes, it gets tidied up; but other times, not so much. When all else fails: watch the video!

Borrowing words from someone else in an attempt to spread happiness everywhere or at the very least – a reasonable range.

Missing this dude – Michael Hutchence

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“I don’t think success arrives and you’re suddenly happy. It’s not like that. If people think that they’ll be very disappointed.” – by Michael Hutchence of INXS

morning babble / Monday 11-20-23

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Borrowing words from someone else in an attempt to spread happiness everywhere or at the very least – a reasonable range

Win or Lose . . . always a Birds fan

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“I had a purpose before anyone had an opinion.” – Jalen Hurts

morning babble / Sunday 11-19-23

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Borrowing words from someone else in an attempt to spread happiness everywhere or at the very least – a reasonable range

Live from the Workshop!

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“I’m at that stage in life where I stay out of discussions. Even if you say 1+1=5. You’re right, have fun.” – Keanu Reeves

morning babble / Friday 11-17-23

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“Buddy the Elf. What’s your favorite color?”

Sky-Blue Pink – that was how my Pop-pop would always answer that question. So – same for me. Sky-Blue Pink is my favorite color.

By the way, Elf is back in theaters again to celebrate the film’s 20th year anniversary.

(Elf Clip – tree)

Happy Weekend! Subscribe. / Let’s just do it. (I’m in love)

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!

• Many radio stations all across the land are doing that switch – to all Christmas because – well, Santa comes next month (Elf drop) I’ve already talked about this holiday album before: A Philly Special Christmas Special performed by members of the Philadelphia Eagles in particular the offensive line (O-line clip) That was one of the infamous “Tush Push” specials that the Birds do. Pushing Tushies around. They’re trying to call it the Brotherly Shove (O-line clip). It’s a Touchdown machine! Sorry – back to the holiday album – it does go for a great cause and benefits Children’s Crisis Treatment Center and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. I’ll provide the link to pre-order: Click here! It’s all out on December 1st, but we’ve been getting weekly released songs. This week’s song has Jason Kelce and his brother Travis doing song together called “Fairytale of Philadelphia” (clip) Wait – did I really just talk about Travis Kelce without bringing up his girlfriend? (clip)

• Exactly one year ago on November 17th, 2022 – Phoebe Bridgers released an EP album called – So Much Wine (Merry Christmas clip) it’s her Christmas album. It’s also an album that made me go back and relisten to her past albums: Punisher and Stranger in the Alps and become more of a Phoebe Bridgers fan. (boygenius clip) And yes, then there’s boygenius, which she is, of course, a 1/3 of that band, but that’s not where I was actually going with this one. I’m trying to actually talk about The National (clip) this past year, The National have released two albums already – which both albums are two of my favorites of the year and yes, I am working on a top 25 video. Let’s get to today though, this past week The National did a video release of the Phoebe Bridgers song, which is the title track off their recent album: Laugh Track – that took forever to get to this clip (clip)

• André 3000 could be heard rapping on Killer Mike’s most recent album on the song “Scientists and Engineers” (clip) Today, André 3000 is releasing his debut solo LP called New Blue Sun. However – no rapping. (clip) That’s a flute – André is a flautist. When someone tells me about a flute, I think of a friend of mine in Jill from her Gingham Shmuz days, Jethro Tull, but then there’s that movie too . . . . (American Pie clip) Via Pitchfork’s Jazz Monroe, I learned that Andre bounced around this flute-heavy album to Frank Ocean as well as Tyler, the Creator who told him that one song helped him configure a complicated Louis Vuitton travel suitcase, saying, “It sounds like you’re chasing a butterfly through a garden and I figured it out.” – We all have that problem. Here’s a clip of the song – no joke the name “I Swear, I Really Wanted To Make a ‘Rap’ Album but This Is Literally the Way the Wind Blew Me This Time” (clip)

• Several quick hits of new music: The Smile – aka Thom Yorke’s other band – have announced their next album is due out January 26th and is called: Wall of Eyes. The actual title track “Wall of Eyes” is out today // After waiting over five years for a sequel, 2 Chainz & Lil Wayne have released Welcome 2 Collegrove – 21 tracks, nearly an hour of music and story narrations courtesy of 50 Cent // Porno for Pyros with the original line-up together again have released their first new song in 26 years – it’s called “Agua” // Think Later is the upcoming second studio album by Calgary native Tate McRae. We’ve already gotten “Greedy” but today we get “Exes”. I really had to study this video. (clip) Lots of hard work. Patience and time – studying that for the best clips (clip)

Thank you to Spotify, Rolling Stone, Apple Music, uDiscoverMusic, Pigeons & Planes, Pitchfork, Louder, Dan Deluca of the Philly Inquirer & I know there’s more.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
When Buddy the Elf had a good day
“So, good news: I saw a dog today.” – Will Ferrell as Elf . . . in Elf

morning babble / Thursday 11-16-23

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Borrowing words from someone else in an attempt to spread happiness everywhere or at the very least – a reasonable range

From the Jeep early – Happy Friday Eve!

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“You have to work hard in the dark to shine in the light.” – by Kobe Bryant

morning babble / Wednesday 11-15-23

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Borrowing words from someone else in an attempt to spread happiness everywhere or at the very least – a reasonable range

Welcome to Wednesday, which according to experts (click here for the article), is the best day to take off. A mid-week break doesn’t disrupt the work week but gives you time to recharge. Let’s take off on Thursday and Friday to compare and contrast.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Everyone you meet always asks if you have a career, are married or own a house; as if life was some kind of grocery list, but nobody ever asks if you are happy.” – by Heath Ledger

morning babble / Monday 11-13-23

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Borrowing words from someone else in an attempt to spread happiness everywhere or at the very least – a reasonable range

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“”Life isn’t about being perfect. It’s about being so ridiculously passionate that people think you’re a little crazy.” – by Steven Bartlett

morning babble / Friday 11-10-23

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(Nirvana cut)

That’s such a good song. More on that later. That’s called a teaser.

(Nirvana cut)

Morning Babble opener

Happy Weekend / Happy Veterans Day Weekend – go thank them for doing something that I know a whole lot of us don’t have the nerve to go out and do. We need all those brave men and women. Thank YOU!

Personal Push.

“Have to” Work

(applause sounder)

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!

• I’m not the biggest fan of country music – at all. In turn, I realize that I don’t talk about country music too often on here. I’m not going to be fake. But – when there’s good music released like Kane Brown, I listen and I talk about it. Today, Chris Stapleton released his album – Higher. That man can sing. 14 songs, almost an hour of new music. The song being pushed today is “What Am I Gonna Do” – listen to the album (clip)

• By the way, speaking of country music – congrats to Tracy Chapman who made history this past Wednesday night when her song “Fast Car” won Song of the Year at the 57th Annual Country Music Association Awards – CMAs. By the way, that’s 35 years after the song’s original release. (clip) Her win makes her the first Black songwriter, male or female, to win Song of the Year at the CMA’s. Luke Combs did the cover and it took off in the country musical world. Many artists have done the cover Sam Smith, Justin Bieber, Khalid. My favorite was done by the Black Pumas (clip)

• Back in June, Fashion Designer and DJ, Peggy Gou released a single called “(It Goes Like) Nanana” – I’ll just play it. (clip) Fast forward to today and let’s bring on Lenny Kravitz (clip) There’s been a little collaboration between the two of them – Peggy and Lenny. It’s going to appear on her album due out in 2024. The song is called: “I Believe in Love Again” (clip) And speaking of Mr. Lenny Kravitz, he is set to release his new album called Blue Electric Light on March 15th. Last month, he did share the single “TK421″ and I’m sorta ready for this sound (clip).

• At the beginning of the Babble, I did a teaser and played a couple clips of a Nirvana song called “Son of a Gun” (clip) It’s not that long of a song, so it will pretty much be the whole thing before I know it. Anyway – I saw release from two artists that I enjoy – Judah & the Lion and K.Flay. The song was called “Son of a Gun” – it’s not a cover though. Still good though (clip)

• Several quick hits of new music: We are one week away from Dolly Parton releasing unto the world her Rockstar album // Lots of new Hip-Hop music out today – Rick Ross & Meek Mill, Lil Wayne & 2 Chainz, Lil Durk & Only The Family – some really good stuff and I’d play some, but uh . . . kids are around // Via his Instagram story, Frank Ocean dropped a one-minute teaser of new music. Come on Frank – we’re ready for the rest of it // Lastly, Sleater-Kinney’s forthcoming album, Little Rope, is out January 19th. Today, we got it’s 2nd released single called “Say It Like You Mean It” (clip)

Thank you to Spotify, Rolling Stone, Apple Music, uDiscoverMusic, Pigeons & Planes, Pitchfork, Louder, Dan Deluca of the Philly Inquirer & I know there’s more.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“I’m lucky that I get to do what I would do as a hobby for a living.” – by Chris Stapleton