Music touches the soul. Or I should say good music touches the soul. It is very much a spiritual matter. AM is a great album. I saw Arctic Monkeys open for Green Day many years ago supporting that album. They were so cathartic to listen to live. Thank you for this insight into their music that we wouldn't have known about without your experience. I have been so much more in tune, pun intended, to my Jewish spirituality since October 7th. Music has also been a large part of it.
Fuck me. I’m 55 and never really heard the Monkey’s. Lived in LA when you did that interview and could have gone to that show. Wow what a tune. I’m gonna deep dive them now. Your music writing is just I don’t know pure and authentic. I hope you put out more of that. I will get a good music education and a better read. I love the journeys you take me on. Did you ever by chance review Gomez? I love that band and went to see the, a lot in LA. Had quite a following of us nutters. Great lyrics as well. And great bootlegs. Anyway. Thank you as always Eve. Really needed that. ✌🏻❤️
Never interviewed Gomez, but I listened to them back in the day. With Arctic Monkeys you can't go wrong. Their first album was a sensation in the UK; raw and rollicking, and lyrically generational. Once they got to album 3 ("Humbug"), their sound became more indebted to American psych and desert rock (they worked with Queens Of The Stone Age). But that fifth album "AM" is their Jaws. A total blockbuster.
Great writing inspires me to listen to voices I’ve never heard, visit places I’ve never seen and taste experiences I’ve never known. Reading you is mind expanding and I love it!
While reading your riff, I was thinking about my older music, before the Arctic Monkeys. Bob Seeger: "The sweat pours our your body like the music that you play."
Thanks again, Eve, for showing that the entire world isn’t a massive pile of Jew Hatred! Can’t let go of that NME gig in your head? It takes me back to my 1986 in Queens, when I finally could afford my own basement apartment… and was continuing to study acting and voice.. it’s why I still sing.. there will always be THAT band, with THOSE albums, that exude greatness but don’t fit so snugly in the industry marketing machine.. mine include 10cc’s How Dare You, performed by a band with three Jews in it (Gouldman, Godley, Creme), Guster’s Keep It Together with three more Jews (Miller, Gardner, Rosenworcel) from Tufts University (where my Honduran Jewish wife studied), REM’s Fables of the Reconstruction (No Jews), and Tim Finn’s Big Canoe from NZ which wasn’t even released in the US/LA.. Regardless, thanks for the respite and letting us know that there continues to be music outside of the machine..
Oh I let go of it a long, long time ago, and life got infinitely better once I left, but our formative years shape our lives, and those were mine. I wouldn't have chosen any otherwise.
To be an artist is to listen with every fiber of your being to hear the frequency of God, and to take that flow down like dictation.
Both your own writing and your description of Turner smell of that stenography.
Music touches the soul. Or I should say good music touches the soul. It is very much a spiritual matter. AM is a great album. I saw Arctic Monkeys open for Green Day many years ago supporting that album. They were so cathartic to listen to live. Thank you for this insight into their music that we wouldn't have known about without your experience. I have been so much more in tune, pun intended, to my Jewish spirituality since October 7th. Music has also been a large part of it.
Fuck me. I’m 55 and never really heard the Monkey’s. Lived in LA when you did that interview and could have gone to that show. Wow what a tune. I’m gonna deep dive them now. Your music writing is just I don’t know pure and authentic. I hope you put out more of that. I will get a good music education and a better read. I love the journeys you take me on. Did you ever by chance review Gomez? I love that band and went to see the, a lot in LA. Had quite a following of us nutters. Great lyrics as well. And great bootlegs. Anyway. Thank you as always Eve. Really needed that. ✌🏻❤️
Never interviewed Gomez, but I listened to them back in the day. With Arctic Monkeys you can't go wrong. Their first album was a sensation in the UK; raw and rollicking, and lyrically generational. Once they got to album 3 ("Humbug"), their sound became more indebted to American psych and desert rock (they worked with Queens Of The Stone Age). But that fifth album "AM" is their Jaws. A total blockbuster.
Can’t wait.
Great writing inspires me to listen to voices I’ve never heard, visit places I’ve never seen and taste experiences I’ve never known. Reading you is mind expanding and I love it!
"It’s better to be spiritual than to be vacant."
Lapidary comment for a modern stone.
While reading your riff, I was thinking about my older music, before the Arctic Monkeys. Bob Seeger: "The sweat pours our your body like the music that you play."
Keep playing your music, Eve.
Love Bob
Thanks again, Eve, for showing that the entire world isn’t a massive pile of Jew Hatred! Can’t let go of that NME gig in your head? It takes me back to my 1986 in Queens, when I finally could afford my own basement apartment… and was continuing to study acting and voice.. it’s why I still sing.. there will always be THAT band, with THOSE albums, that exude greatness but don’t fit so snugly in the industry marketing machine.. mine include 10cc’s How Dare You, performed by a band with three Jews in it (Gouldman, Godley, Creme), Guster’s Keep It Together with three more Jews (Miller, Gardner, Rosenworcel) from Tufts University (where my Honduran Jewish wife studied), REM’s Fables of the Reconstruction (No Jews), and Tim Finn’s Big Canoe from NZ which wasn’t even released in the US/LA.. Regardless, thanks for the respite and letting us know that there continues to be music outside of the machine..
Oh I let go of it a long, long time ago, and life got infinitely better once I left, but our formative years shape our lives, and those were mine. I wouldn't have chosen any otherwise.
You could even add an honorable mention to Roxy Musuc’s Manifesto… it bombed, everyone hated it.. I loved it
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