#60s jazz rock

[spoiledstrawberry]

Blood, Sweat & Tears 💙

[tygerland]

John Coltrane 1963, by Jim Marshall.

[70sgroovy]

bonnie raitt photographed by chuck fishman at the new orleans jazz & heritage festival, april 23rd, 1977

[tiredfinch]

literally just buddies... they are just pals:,)

[drpepper-lovers-blog]

The loneliest man who mad everyone happy 😭😭

[bargainoriley]

Just had a vinyl haul guys!! I’m starting my Pink Floyd binge right now (haven’t listened to all their albums yet, but listened to quite a few songs by them), so that’s why I bought so many Floyd records here 😅 (it’s also been a while since I’ve last done one, so it was really fun to do one again!)

[simonlynch]

what kind of music does your f/o like? do they have a canon favorite song/band/etc & what is it? if not what do you headcanon them to enjoy?

[hammill-goes-fogwalking]

2021 my favourite music

[nocentis]

If anyone likes oldies, I have a playlist to offer you.

[spoiledstrawberry]

"I don't wanna walk down Blue Street, I've been there before

I don't wanna see her broken, lonely eyes no more... " ♥︎

Totally addicted to this song.

[randomvarious]

Today's compilation:

Baseball's Greatest Hits 1989 Novelty / Swing / Pop / Jazz / Comedy / Folk / Singer-Songwriter

Well, folks, I gotta say that baseball and I really aren't on the greatest of terms right now. See, my Mets are currently in the fight of their life for a playoff wild card spot, and their MVP-caliber shortstop, Francisco Lindor, who prides himself on playing every day, is now nursing a back injury, and we don't yet know the severity of it, because as I'm currently writing this, me and this entire fanbase are awaiting the results of a very important MRI. And as a diehard Mets fan whose only really been raised on baseball heartbreak, I've been conditioned to only expect bad news at this point, knowing full well that even if his injury is minor and he's only out for a few games, that his absence at this highly critical point in the season has a pretty good chance of causing this club to miss the playoffs by a mere inch, even though they've been pretty much the best team in the league since Memorial Day, with a starting pitching staff that was not expected to be very good, but has somehow miraculously developed itself into the best one in the game, despite ace Kodai Senga only making a single appearance all season due to multiple injuries.

But even though I really don't wanna think too much about baseball right now (hah!), we still push on, because like it or not, this novelty album of baseball songs from Rhino Records—the first of its kind, they allege—happens to be the next album in my queue, and so here I am, regardless of my own mood and how I'm currently trying to cope in this moment, ready to write, objectively 😥.

So, first of all, and above all else, this is a fun album. Little of it consists of music that I would consider to be *good*, but that's not really the point of an album like this in the first place; we're here for goofy novelty, and boy, do we have a whole lot of it, from swingin' and showtuney and rockin' tunes about specific greats like Joe DiMaggio, Willie Mays, Jackie Robinson, Mickey Mantle, and Hank Aaron; to jazz pianist Dave Frishberg's "Van Lingle Mungo," a song that, according to this albums own liner notes, became his most requested, even though its lyrics are literally only names of baseball players that he'd found in a baseball encyclopedia once, including that of Van Lingle Mungo himself. What a song to have your career defined by 😂.

But the absurdity of this album really only begins there, because in addition to that, we've got some peak 80s cringe here as well. Like, you know how so many people in that decade mistakenly thought it'd be a good idea to try their hand at rapping? Well, have a listen to legendary Yankees announcer Mel Allen rap the words 'that ain't no jive' on "Baseball Dreams," by Allen and a group called The Naturals. This song is like if one of those horribly cheesy 'just say no to drugs' anthems was made about baseball instead. A complete atrocity that reminds you just how much of this awful type of cheap and generic, keyboard-dominated ~sound~ was really floating around out there at the time. Fun to point and laugh at now, but holy shit, what terrible, terrible music this was!

And up until that very song on this album, I was set to write about how this is a great release for families to listen to in their car while on the way to a ballgame, so long as they don't go to more than a few games a year. But then I heard the next song, "Baseball Card Lover" by Rockin' Richie Ray, and thought otherwise, because while Richie provides the thinnest of pretenses that this song is merely about his love of baseball cards, what it's actually clearly about instead are his own fantasies about having wild sex with the players on those cards 🥵. So, uh...fun for the whole family, this album certainly is not.

Still, though, there are a few genuinely good songs on here too, and the best among them, I'd say, is probably Philly soul group The Intruders' "(Love Is Like A) Baseball Game," which wasn't their biggest hit, but still managed to perform modestly well, reaching #26 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1968. A quality piece of soul music that came courtesy of the legendary songwriting and production duo of Gamble and Huff, but I'm not too sure that I agree that the whole concept of love can really be equated to "three strikes, you're out" 😅.

So, all in all, it definitely did feel a little bit tormenting to have to listen to this album and then write up a post about it today, but now that I've done it, I won't have to do it again 👍. Worth a listen if you love the history of baseball and think you'd get a kick out of the wide variety of wacky music that this folkloric game has managed to yield since about the ~1940s, but if baseball's never really been your thing, you can probably skip this collection, because you probably wouldn't understand or appreciate much of what these songs are about anyway.

But seriously, how do you leave a song like "Meet the Mets," one of the single-catchiest baseball tunes ever written, off of an album like this?! 🤔 Tsk, tsk. The lesser known funkier and peppier 70s version of it goes pretty hard, as far as baseball songs go, too, I think.

Highlights:

The Intruders - "(Love Is Like A) Baseball Game" Steve Goodman - "A Dying Cub Fan's Last Request" Sister Wynona Carr - "The Ball Game"

P.S.: Since I've written this, Lindor's MRI has come back clean, which is definitely encouraging, but they really need him back ASAP. Time is definitely not on their side right now 😓.

[aricastmblr]

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creative direction JK

'Jazz de los años 20'.

‘British Rock in the 60s’.

‘1970s Punk’.

‘Modern Hip Hop’.

¡Jung Kook es mi música!

[tiredfinch]

my most well kept secret is that charlie watts is my favourite stone and my favourite rockstar and my favourite celeb. not to say I don't like the rest of them (I have a weird little obsession with michael) but.. charlie is my darling... what can I say..

[bos-art-books]

i am currently looking for band recommendations, i am trying to fill up a mini field notes journal.

if you have any recommendations for these music genres i would really appreciate them!

- classic rock

- hard rock

- psychedelic rock

- punk rock

- post punk

- folk rock

- proto punk

- jazz

- funk

- psychedelic funk

- baroque

- classicism

[bayareabadboy]

In The Rock 8/9/1968: The 3 day National Jazz & Blues Festival kicks off at Kempton Park Racecourse, Sunbury On Thames, England. Deep Purple, T Rex, Ten Years After, The Nice, Traffic, John Mayall, Spencer Davis, Jerry Lee Lewis and Arthur Brown make the scene.

[metalcultbrigade]

The Mothers of Invention - Uncle Meat 21/04/1969