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[nabaath-areng]

'Broadband' has to be my least favorite english word frankly. Like what do you mean that's a real word and not just something a swedish person who struggles with english would say to make it look english. Like that's some "lax on the mack" shit.

[sinceileftyoublog]

Alejandro Escovedo's Songs, Living and Breathing

From left to right: Mark Henne, Alejandro Escovedo, James Mastro, Scott Danbom

BY JORDAN MAINZER

He's a true master of reinvention. Don't get me wrong: It's the same Alejandro Escovedo. But he's continuing to find out that there are many right ways to tell his stories, especially when it comes to their musical accompaniment. Escovedo hasn't released a new album of original material since 2018's The Crossing, and that's okay. In 2021, he shared a Spanish-language version of the aforementioned album, La Cruzada, an act whose sociopolitical ramifications speak for themselves, in an era of increasing anti-immigration rhetoric and xenophobia that the very album explores. And earlier this year, inspired by his forebears, Escovedo decided to revisit all eras of his discography.

Including tunes from pre-solo career bands Buick MacKane and The True Believers, Echo Dancing (Yep Roc) is 14 re-recordings of older songs. When Escovedo boarded a plane to Italy to record with Don Antonio (with whom he recorded The Crossing) and Nicola Peruch, he thought he was going to improvise a new record from his lyrical and melodic sketches. Upon hearing other bands' interpretations of his songs--namely Calexico's version of "Wave", originally from 2001's A Man Under the Influence--Escovedo thought, "I, too, can do that." The man who sings on Echo Dancing is, yes, older and wiser, having seen friends and family members come and go, continuing to find truth in stories both personal and fictional. But instead of focusing on his own voice, Escovedo obscures himself behind clouds of haze, electronic effects, sparse drum machines, and distorted guitars, the pain in his voice all the more affecting due to how isolated it sounds. On "Thought I'd Let You Know", a clattering song originally from 2016's Burn Something Beautiful, Escovedo stretches the running time a full three minutes, as if to give himself even more time to reflect alongside buzzing stabs of noise. He repeats, "We're not alone / We are all alone," the effective musings of someone struggling to make sense of the world around them.

At the same time, if songs with more traditional instrumentation sound futuristic on their Echo Dancing version, Escovedo pulls familiar sounds out of those that might have sounded dystopian in the past. The Crossing's "MC Overload", for instance, trades the original's chugging, metallic instrumentation and vocoders for bluesy picking, Gianni Perinelli's soprano saxophone, and Escovedo's deadpan baritone. And Antonio adds gospel-inflected organ to "Swallows of San Juan" and "Last to Know", which somehow sounds at home next to drum machines and dulled bass drums.

Escovedo's gear

When I saw that Escovedo was touring Echo Dancing, I thought, "Which versions of these songs would he play live?" Would we get the new version of "John Conquest" with syncopated synthesizers, or the Buick Mackane punk burner (technically and hilariously titled "John Conquest You've Got Enough Dandruff on Your Collar to Bread a Veal Cutlet")? Would he play fan favorite "Castanets", a self-described Mott the Hoople-style rock and roll song, or "Casta​ñ​uelas", the slow, drippy, half-Spanish language dub version with slightly different lyrics? According to his show last Thursday at FitzGerald's, the answer was, "Sometimes, both, other times, something in between the two, and occasionally, neither." During "Sacramento & Polk", Escovedo's venerable backing band--guitarist James Mastro, keyboardist Scott Danbom, drummer Mark Henne--adopted the upbeat punk drive of the original version from 2006's The Boxing Mirror, behind Escovedo's obscured vocals, which were inspired by Echo Dancing's version. On "Bury Me", a prescient tune when it appeared on Escovedo's 1992 debut Gravity, Mastro played the original's twangy slide guitar, while Danbom extracted the pure funk from the new version. Their performance of "Too Many Tears" combined the built-up dirge of Big Station's original with Escovedo's miles-away delivery of Echo Dancing's. And "Everybody Loves Me" retreated to a soulful, back-to-basics ethos, its blues-funk towering above the original's CCR-indebted strut and new version's wonderfully puzzling industrial country.

If the true testament to a song's lasting impact is how it can emotionally resonate over time, ballad "Sensitive Boys" was the highlight of the set. Introducing it, Escovedo paid tribute to his brother Manuel, who passed away weeks ago at 94 years old. Hearing Escovedo repeat, "The world needs you now," despite what we all knew to be true was heartbreaking, yes, but the band filled the room with an undeniable warmth, from Escovedo's deep belting to Mastro's plucky guitars and Danbom's keyboards, out of which he concocted a whole orchestra worth of sounds. It's sometimes hard to remember just how long Escovedo's been around when I think to myself that he hasn't put out anything "original" in a while. Hearing Echo Dancing and seeing him live reminds me that the sort of newness I look out for, even crave, is still limited by the construct of time. With the right shift in perspective and a couple tweaks, a song can be just as living and breathing as I am.

[heretoday-73kk]

T. Rex - Buick Mackane (1973)

[streetsofdublin]

PHIL LYNNOT BY AINE MACKEN

Phil Lynott of Thin Lizzy, lived on Leighlin Road and Rutland Avenue in Crumlin.

PAINT-A-BOX STREET ART ON SUNDRIVE ROAD IN CRUMLIN Phil Lynott of Thin Lizzy, lived on Leighlin Road and Rutland Avenue in Crumlin. Philip Parris Lynott ( 20 August 1949 – 4 January 1986) was an Irish singer, bassist and songwriter. His most commercially successful group was Thin Lizzy, of which he was a founding member, the principal songwriter, lead vocalist and bassist. He was known for his…

[spilladabalia]

T. Rex - Buick Mackane

[izzy-b-hands]

A silly lil moment from the beginning of T. Rex - Buick Mackane (1973)

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Tracklist:

Metal Guru • Mystic Lady • Rock On • The Slider • Baby Boomerang • Spaceball Ricochet • Buick MacKane • Telegram Sam • Rabbit Fighter • Baby Strange • Ballrooms Of Mars • Chariot Choogle • Main Man

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[vitalityshroom]

VAAAAAA MACKAN OCH MATROSEN I FINAL???!!?!?!??!!? VEM(?!) KUNDE SET DET KOMMA!!!!!???????!!!!

Kan vi gå vidare nu

[skamenglishsubs]

Hi I saw in some of your posts how names are usually shortened in Sweden, e.g. it is usually an ‘e’ on the end of the first syllable: Wilhelm>Wille, Simon>Simme but sometimes it is different like Nils>Nisse. I also understand female variations have ‘a’ or ‘an’ instead of ‘e’? I wondered, if you are able and happy to share, what common shortenings (if they exist) would be for characters we don’t hear shortened in the show - such as Stella, Fredrika, Henry, Walter and so on? Are there different variations that might be used by different people, eg by parents, friends, partners? Thank you! X

The general rule is that you want to end up with two syllables, ending in a vowel. And you generally want an 'e' or 'o' for male names and 'a' or 'i' for female names. I know some languages have rules where you have different nicknames based on familiarity, but Swedish doesn't. It's up to everyone to decide which nicknames they're comfortable with others using.

Wilhelm -> Wille.

Simon -> Simme, but it's not common.

August -> Maybe Agge, but it's really not common.

Sara -> No standard nickname.

Felice -> Possibly Flisan or Flisi.

Stella -> No standard nickname.

Fredrika -> Perhaps Fiffi, I'm really uncertain here.

Madison -> Maddie.

Nils -> Nisse.

Vincent -> Could be Vinne, but probably not.

Henry -> No standard nickname.

Walter -> Walle.

Alexander -> Alex.

Kristian -> Krille.

Ayub -> No standard nickname.

Rosh -> No standard nickname.

Linda -> No standard nickname.

Mikael -> Micke.

Markus -> Mackan.

Anette -> Nettan.

Boris -> Bosse.

Kristina -> Stina. (But the Queen would never use this!)

Ludvig -> Ludde, Vigge or Viggo.

Erik -> No standard nickname.

Jan-Olof -> Janne (Nickname for Jan), Loffe (Nickname for Olof)

Malin -> No standard nickname.

Louise -> Lollo, maybe Lojsan.

Rickard -> No standard nickname.

Smysan and Poppe are most probably already nicknames, so we don't know their real names.

Note that all of these is a list of standard nicknames. A person can have one of these names and have a completely different nickname for whatever reasons, these are just the go-to nicknames that people would default to when speaking informally.

[britrockaholic2]

T.Rex - Children Of The Revolution - Official Promo Video

The videos for Buick MacKane and Children of the Revolution were filmed on the same day – probably in October 1972 in London, although it is unclear for what purpose they were made. In both videos Marc is using his newly-acquired Veleno custom aluminium guitar. Featuring the classic T.Rex line-up of Marc Bolan, Mickey Finn, Steve Currie and Bill Legend, Buick MacKane was a favourite track from The Slider album (released 21 July 1972), while the anthemic Children of the Revolution was the third single on Bolan’s T.Rex label, released 8 September 1972 and reaching number two in the top 40. It is one of Bolan’s most enduring songs and the title phrase is frequently referenced in the English language.

[simpinforrolinskin]

Jag ville bara kasta mackan...

Men mackan kastade mig istället.

[kpopmelody]

Happy 16th Birthday To The Mackane Of New Jeans!

We hope that you're healing fast and quick from your foot injury!

[actualhumanyes]

HUR MÅR DEN DÄR KATTEN

OCH HUR MÅR KALLE

OCH VAD HÄNDER MED MACKAN

vilka fina teckningar tho

[lahija-del-molinero]

Oscar Fredrik Church, Gothenburg, Sweden

Photo By: Markus "Mackan" Esselmark - @photosbymackan [IG]

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