2024 - What's old is new again

[viewing ownly]

I was quite surprised in my travels when the old College Rock / Alternative station was still at the same FM dial location, but all that was being played were songs from my High School and College days. Nothing modern. If this is to imply that Limp Bizkit killed the genre from their point forward, I'm okay with that assessment. 

Being tired of talk radio, I gave some old, dusty CDs a whirl, and gave them entire listens instead of just the one song I bought the CD for. To me, a wonderful surprise is how good Ben Fold's solo album from 2001, Rockin' The Suburbs, is. There's two gems I never gave a bother to hear when I bought it over 20 years ago in the middle of the CD, "The Ascent Of Stan" and "Losing Lisa". I've never seen him in concert, but he does something super-cool called a Paper Airplane show, where audience members write down a song that they want to hear, then jot it down and throw it onstage. 

I was happy for him to see that he'd been inducted into the North Carolina music hall of fame. More recently, Fetchin' Bones, a group from the late 1980s, was inducted. I'll be like the guys in the balcony from the Muppet Show and suggest they must be out of nominees and should draw from neighboring states. 

 

 

 

 

 

[samhexum]

41 minutes ago, viewing ownly said:

More recently, Fetchin' Bones, a group from the late 1980s, was inducted.

They're dogs.

[viewing ownly]

3 hours ago, samhexum said:

They're dogs.

And evidently they had their day.

[+ Cash4Trash]

And the #43 album on the Billboard charts this week is....Rumours by Fleetwood Mac

[+ ApexNomad]

10 hours ago, Cash4Trash said:

And the #43 album on the Billboard charts this week is....Rumours by Fleetwood Mac

A seminal piece of work. One of the greatest albums of all time. It deserves to be held so much higher than this.

[samhexum]

On 12/14/2024 at 9:03 PM, viewing ownly said:

To me, a wonderful surprise is how good Ben Fold's solo album from 2001, Rockin' The Suburbs, is. There's two gems I never gave a bother to hear when I bought it over 20 years ago in the middle of the CD, "The Ascent Of Stan" and "Losing Lisa". I've never seen him in concert, but he does something super-cool called a Paper Airplane show, where audience members write down a song that they want to hear, then jot it down and throw it onstage. 

Emmy-nominated, multi-platinum musician, Ben Folds is touring across the nation, raising money for underserved children. The genre-bending alternative rock-piano pop concert ‘Paper Airplane Request Tour‘ is a unique experience, where fans are invited to launch their song request to the stage via paper airplanes.

$1 from each ticket will go towards supporting Keys For Kids, a charitable initiative spearheaded by Ben Folds that provides free piano lessons to underserved children in his home state of North Carolina.

Folds first rose to fame in the mid-’90s with Ben Folds Five, he launched his solo career in 2001, and has released a New York Times best-selling memoir Dream About Lightning Bugs.

The North Carolina native has interviewed several notable celebrities, such as Louisiana native and musician/composer Jon Batiste, Sara Bareilles, Bob Saget, and Rainn Wilson on his podcast, ‘Lightning Bugs.’

Edited December 17, 2024 by samhexum
for absolutely NO @%!*ING reason at all!