nowhere going, longish mefi thread on 4'33''. i can hear john smiling in his grave. my two cents.

Dr. Nachtstrom skizziert die erstaunliche Entwicklung von Mark Hollis und seiner Band Talk Talk vom Synthiepop zur Avantgarde (ich würde es ja eher Faststille nennen) im knapp zweistündigen musiklastigen Überklang-Podcast.

100 songs with laughing women Up till now only 41 but there must be more...

In Praise of Filler

I had almost forgotten how great I Love Music was 4 to 6 years ago. This thread about Bob Dylan's beautifully understated John Wesley Harding is probably the most insightful discussion about an album I have ever read. Note who has started the thread. I consider him one of the best songwriters of our time. Especially Tallahassee about that doomed couple falling apart and drinking itself to death with lines like

still gives me the chills.

A fine introduction to the beginnings of ambient before anyone had coined the term. It is the early seventies, we are mainly in Berlin. Krautrock discovers the synthesizer. Eno hasn't been to the hospital yet. The wallpaper is still drying. In a metaphysical way. Kosmische Musik is the new thing. The stycast contains:

Popol Vuh – Aguirre I (Lacrime di Rei) Cluster – Sowiesoso Ashra – Midnight on Mars Klaus Schulze – Floating Vangelis – Spiral

My Bloody Valentine treasure trove

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What a shame. I just wanted to add Prince's I Wanna Melt with U to that list...

Stream the new Sophia album Technology Won't Save Us over here (via ILM). Autumn music. Though the outside temperature in Germany still feels more like Indian summer.