New Year’s Jukebox

11 thoughts on “New Year’s Jukebox”

1. +100 for Chuck Prophet…i just bought his new album yesterday.Report

2. Here’s one, from one of the oddest records to ever get really, really popular. Listening to this tune with my coffee now, and I think it just launched me into 2013 early.

   See y’all on the other side!Report

   1. And here’s one for your hungover tomorrow.Report

3. Everything old is new again.

   Jeff Beck’s Song Reader isn’t an album, it’s a song book, a beautiful book, too, that Beck didn’t record. Instead, musicians (those who can read music, I presume) record versions and upload them to the website. It’s the song itself, the sheet music, that’s the product, and the rendition to the artist without the composer’s sonic formulations stamped upon it.

   There’s everything here, from out-of-tune honky-tonk sounding pianos to glitch. A crowd sourced album. Videos, some very imaginative on You Tube, and just sound clips on Sound Cloud.

   Sheet music. Imagine that.Report

   1. Jeff Beck is an elderly guitarist. Beck Hanson is the guy who did Song Reader.Report

      1. Personally, I prefer the old guy to the new. YMMV.Report

         1. Beck (the new one) is an immensely talented musician who nonetheless leaves me sort of cold. I like Odelay, and Sea Change, and Midnight Vultures; anyone that can make at least 3 solid records is OK by me, yet I have a hard time imagining just who would ever name Beck as their favorite artist.

            He seems like the type that inspires respect, but not obsessive love. Something academic about the whole enterprise. Maybe it’s just me.Report

      2. Yes. Freudian slip there, something having to do with family names and early morning brain on auto pilot.

         thank you, Blaise.Report

         1. And an editor to correct? Gift to end the year!Report

4. http://youtu.be/DhoNvsqiJBE

   up yours 2012Report

   1. A possible companion song:

      http://youtu.be/jf7wRe4AUtUReport

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