All things pop, rock, electronic….
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From arte there is also currently that amazing 2011 concert of Sade available.
Big recommendation! But might also be unavailable in Norway?
And probably I am anyway the only one here who loves that music.An old school friend of mine is doing a little podcast called RadioWelten.
Recent episode is a nice interview with Sivert Høyen, singer of Norwegian band Madrugada. How populare are they in Norway actually? Anyone here knowing them?
Cool that your friend has a podcast! Madrudaga and Sivert Høyem are quite popular in Norway, although mostly for my generation (their guitarist, Robert Burås, died in 2007, which got a lot of attention in the media). I’ve never been a big fan myself, I was always out of touch with the pop and rock music that came out in my formative years in the 90s, but I did see Madrugada live at a festival just one year after Burås had died.
Yes. That tragedy gets mentioned in the Podcast as well.
Thanks for your response. I think, I will give them a listen. I like that kind of voice of that singer.Cool that your friend has a podcast!
Doesn’t everybody have a podcast nowadays? Okay, I don’t but a friend of mine also has 😉 I have never heard of Madrudaga. What kind of rock did they do?
I think, the solo projects of the singer have stylistically a wider range. I quite liked the Samples in the podcast.
I’ve been informed that David Gilmour is 80 years old today. Absolutely bonkers, I think of him in his 60s, max. While he’s actually 4 years older than my dad. One of my greatest heroes ever, in the world of pop and rock (David Gilmour, that is, not my dad).
Happy birthday to him! I’m a big Kate Bush fan, and he and Peter Gabriel seem to have helped her along a great deal.
However, my great love within the terms of reference of this discussion is Sparks, specifically Ron and Russell Mael. From being gobsmacked by the drama of This Town Ain’t Big Enough For Both Of Us on Top of the Pops in 1974 to being entranced by “Mad”, their 26th studio album released in May last year, I doubt there’s ever been a band like them.
Continually re-inventing themselves and dragging other artists in their wake, they’re described in the Edgar Wright documentary The Sparks Brothers as “your favourite band’s favourite band”. From glam rock to prog rock to electronic work with Moroder to writing film scores (eg JC van Damme’s Knock Off and Leos Carax’s Annette), the mix of quirky melodies and genius lyrics is utterly intoxicating to this listener.
Very happy to have seen them on stage twice, and their live shows are astonishing for gentlemen either in or near their 80s.
Yes, I remember us chatting a bit about Sparks before. While I may have heard of them while growing up, I never really sought them out to explore (so much for being a cat, eh?). But then, in 2008, I worked in television. One of my colleagues there was a big Sparks fan, so he made a CD-R sampler of some songs for me. I really dug what I heard, especially the way they play around with pop cultural tropes — for example the whole Ibiza/rave scene in “The Rhythm Thief” (as an EDM fan, I do indeed miss the rhythm that never comes), Queen in “Dick Around” or ABBA in “Good Morning”.
That they also worked with one of my big, big heroes – Giorgio Moroder – a few times also helps, and (speaking of Dave Gilmour) that they’re Pink Floyd fans. Here’s the sampler he gave me back then, I’m sure these are all well-known to you:
In other pop/rock-related news, I saw Baz Luhrmann’s EPIC: ELVIS PRESLEY IN CONCERT last week, and wrote a review of it (for another magazine). Elvis means a lot to me, in the years before I came into my own. I was a buff of 50s and 60s rock as a young child, with Elvis at the top! Here’s that review (Google-translated), for anyone interested. What’s your relationship to The King?
Not a big fan in genral but I inherited a 2 LP set that I find quite entertaining:
https://www.discogs.com/de/master/108039-Elvis-Elvis-Forever-32-Hits-And-The-Story-Of-A-KingHe, he…yes, I would be surprised if you HAD liked him, Jon. Not your era, I take it.
That’s a decent ‘best of’, Malte. It’s tricky to be an Elvis collector, because there are so many repackagings. Glad I’m not that. This is an album that meant a lot to me while growing up, but being an Elvis fan is not so much being an album fan, but rather a fan of the songs and performances.
Yes, I guess most can agree that Elvis was one of the top pop/rock performers even if you don’t like him at all. And of course we know he is not dead but just went home 😉
True. His frozen body is stored in a secret underground facility, alongside Walt Disney’s.
I was actually refering to something else 😉
I think I rewatched it last year on Netflix (never saw it in English before) but for some reason that sentence stuck with me regardless of that 😉
Alright, reached Waveshaper in my collection walkthrough – the greatest synthwave artist on the planet. Have 15 of his albums, but I’m not going to share them one by one. Iv’e gone on and on about him here and in other threads already. I’ll just be absorbed in his world for a few days.
Thor, just saw your response to my Sparks post, and despite no doubt childishly simple instructions, haven’t yet mastered the art of “quoting”.
However, I would say that amongst your sampler there are some of my favourites. I commend your former colleague on his taste, and wonder how long it took to whittle it down to sixteen.
I was intrigued that the cover picture was from the 2015 “supergroup” collaboration between Sparks and Franz Ferdinand, none of whose tracks by definition appear on the 2008 compilation!
Quoting is simple. Copy text you like to quote and paste it to your comment. Then select it and click on the “B-Quote” button in the toolbar above your comment. You will see it is the enclosed in the (semantic) HTML element “blockquote” afterwards.
I was intrigued that the cover picture was from the 2015 “supergroup” collaboration between Sparks and Franz Ferdinand, none of whose tracks by definition appear on the 2008 compilation!
He, he…yes, that was just something I found online that looked kinda album cover-ish, since the CD-R obviously didn’t have any. I actually wasn’t aware it was from a Franz Ferdinand collaboration, although I noticed there were more people in it in than Sparks alone.
Yes, I think that copying the text in the first place is my problem… no idea how to highlight the text, although, again, I’m sure it’s a piece of cake when you know how.
If you’re using a smartphone, it’s kinda tricky, I suppose, because you have keep your finger on a piece of text for a bit until it turns blue (the text, not your finger), and then drag out the relevant sentences.
But for a computer….I assume you’ve highlighted text on a laptop before, in all your work pouring over tax returns.
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