Chuck Eddy's Two Blogs

[koganbot]

Dear Friends and Colleagues:

As some of you might be aware and others of you might not be, I am now posting posts in a regularly scheduled, "blog"-like manner at two distinct locations on the World Wide Web -- namely, at the websites for both Rhapsody and Idolator.

The links are below:

Rhapsody ("Chuck It All In")

http://blog.rhapsody.com/chuck_it_all_in/index.html

Idolator ("Next Little Things")

http://idolator.com/tag/next-little-things

Feel free to use these links in whatever manner you might deem appropriate: Bookmark them, link to them from your own blog or blog-like place, read them, agree with them, disagree with them, stream from them, and/or ignore them.

No matter what you decide, I hope you are having an excellent April.

Sincerely,
Chuck Eddy

"good news for all our listeners"

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

sutherland brothers and quiver just came up on popular -- they did the original version of rod the mod's "sailing" and THIS is the fact i wish to advert to: "In an effort to diversify and expand their folk based sound, the Sutherland Brothers joined forces with a local rock band known as Quiver"

question A: OK did anyone else ever do this? I mean two bands combine so that the name was just the addition of the two earlier names?
question B: who SHOULD have done it? (viz "pere ubu and the fatback band")

TITLE TRAUMA: The Sutherland Brothers And Quiver

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

http://www.softshoe-slim.com/lists/s/sutherland_quiver.html

THE FIVE TRACKS I WOULD LEAST WANT TO HEAR:

1. Bluesy World
2. Ice In The Fire
3. Laid Back In Anger
4. Saviour In The Rain
5. Where Lies Your Soul

THE FIVE ok let's be realistic here TRACKS I AM MOST INTRIGUED BY:

1. Fun Of The Farm
2. Love On The Moon
3. Mad Trail

Intermission

[credoimprobus]

The second part of this week's Hitz from Finland will be delayed on account of everything not havng been uploaded in time, so in the meantime, have a not-HfF post that could just as well be one:

So one of my favourite artists in the universe, Jori Hulkkonen, has a new album out. (Which as a side note has been released on cd only in Finland; everywhere else in the world gets it as digital and vinyl exclusively. The next to last question in this interview touches on the reasons for this move, should anyone be wondering what that's about.) Anyway, Jori's second collaboration with the legendary John Foxx, Never Been Here Before, is the first single, and pretty utterly amazing in an understated way.

(Ignore the fact that the video is dreadful and just focus on the song, eh?)

And to stop myself from doing two massive primers in a row in HfF: from one of my favourite artists in the universe to my FAVOURITESTEST OF FAVOURITES (as attested to by my last.fm stats, haha); one of the things I love the most about CMX is the fact that instead of mellowing the further into their career and the older they get (which, after two decades and 12 albums is starting to be quite a bit!), they just get ever more experimental. To wit: their last album, released last year, is a SCI-FI ROCK OPERA CONCEPT ALBUM, consisting of one single movement in twelve parts. And also is a complete work of genious. Instead of a traditional lead single there was a "trailer", using the movement's eighth part, Punainen komentaja:

Obv this is going to be far from every poptimist's cuppa, but I figure some of you might like this kind of thing as well. :D