Life got you down? Don't know what to do? Listen to father Dave - or as Stephen Thompson here at NPR Music calls him, the "unofficial mayor of rock and roll." This inspired keynote address given by former Nirvana drummer, Foo Fighters founder and all around inspiring guy, is specifically about his story, a young boy living in a town from which rock stars never rise - Springfield, Virginia - trying to find his place in life. (We'll have a transcription of that interview here on the All Songs Considered blog, stay tuned.) We talked about their financial failures and successful music making - to this day, their records are a major influence on producers and songwriters. The extraordinarily odd sounds that instrument can make - strings but not actually strings, choirs but not actually choirs - became the defining sound of the album. There, they found the mellotron that was left behind from those sessions (the one you can hear on "Strawberry Fields," recorded during the same sessions). They went into Abbey Road just after The Beatles were exiting, having just finished Sgt. I loved the moment when Colin Blunstone told the tale of recording Odessey & Oracl e at Abbey Road studios. In the conversation we talked about how the band broke up just when their big number one song, "Time of the Season" hit the radio in America. I witnessed the release of a genius record in 1968 - Odessey & Oracle (their bad spelling not ours) - which failed to chart. I grew up on this band, saw them making hit singles in America while failing to sell in England, where they came from. I interviewed The Zombies, Rod Argent and Colin Blunstone, at the Austin Convention Center.
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(You can watch the full set, which was also part of NPR Music's showcase at Stubb's, here.) I closed my eyes a lot and had a huge grin on for the entire set. The connection between the folk style of Browne and the mystery of the Velvet Underground is there in Alt-J I just never thought about it 'til that moment. There was one moment in the only song I didn't know, a song called "Buffalo," when Joe Newman broke into the lyrics from another song, one he didn't write called "These Days," by Jackson Browne: "I went out walking, I don't do that much talking these days." The song was first famously recorded by German singer and Velvet Underground cohort Nico in 1967 with Browne playing fingerpicking guitar. Alt-J is not a band to watch: Nothing really happens in the stage show. Despite some tuning issues with the vocals, I thought it was a brilliant set.
They made my favorite album of 2012, so it's no surprise that I thought this was the best set of songs I saw all week.
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