morning babble / Friday 11-29-24
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(“Do They Know It’s Christmas?”)
“Thank God it’s them. Instead of you.” Is that really the holiday spirit?
(“Do They Know It’s Christmas?”)
(New Music Friday)
Happy Turkey Day Weekend! I think that’s what makes Thanksgiving an easy favorite for a lot of people – it has a built in long weekend that follows. For most people. I realize there’s doctors, nurses, cash register people. Thank you. (clip) And the transition continues towards Christmas – “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” was recorded on three separate occasions, over three separate generations. The OG is from 1984. Today, producer Trevor Horn blended all the voices of those 3 separate generations into one and called it “Band Aid – 2024 Ultimate Mix” (clip)
(Countdown)
New Music Friday:
I put together a Spotify playlist of the songs that I talked about and thought about today for New Music Friday. Click here for that!
- 1st up – Kesha (“Timber” ) That’s old Kesha who has her own record label now creatively titled – Kesha Recods. The first release was experienced this past summer called “JOYRIDE” (clip) I’m going to show my age, because whenever I hear of a song called “Joyride”, my mind travels back to 1991 and I think about Roxette (clip) Sorry – back to Kesha. The 2nd release off of her own label is now out for us all to embrace – “Delusional” (clip)
- The Juice WRLD team just released the late rapper’s third posthumous album and apparently the final one called: The Party Never Ends. Here’s the Spotify pushed song – “Misfit” (clip) 18 songs in total with appearances from Nicki Minaj, Eminem, Fall Out Boy, and Offset (clip) That’s Offset sounding like something that he would have done for a Migos album. Also, Juice WRLD has made his way into Fortnite again. (clip)
- Back in June, Canadian man – Jesse Roper released the song “Georgia Train” (clip) Then to follow that up in September, he came out with “True Lovin’ Ain’t Easy.” (clip) FYI – he’s a fun follow on Instagram. The other day he wrote – “I’ve got a couple more tunes to toss into the pool before I put an album out there.” AKA – gotta wait until 2025. He continues: “Here’s another one! It’s about confronting problems in my path and being scared to solve them.” Give Jesse Roper a follow and listen to his latest called “Roll This Stone” (clip)
- Several quick hits of new music: Via Instagram, Lana Del Rey has announced a new album called The Right Person Will Stay. Full album drop on May 21st. At this very moment – nothing yet, but be on the lookout for the first single called “Henry” // The late Martin Phillipps turned early unrecorded Chills songs into a new album. The double album will arrive next year on February 28th. Today we get “If This World Was Made For Me” // Emmaline makes us all want to put on our santa hat and play the big jolly fella (clip) ‘Zat You, Santa Claus – originally performed by the great Louis Armstrong, but now, there’s Emmaline (clip)
Thank you to Spotify, Rolling Stone, Apple Music, uDiscoverMusic, Pigeons & Planes, Pitchfork, Louder, Spill Magazine, Dan Deluca of the Philly Inquirer & I know there’s more.
Be sure to check out the playlist on Spotify. As I mentioned in the beginning, it’s a playlist of songs that I’ve talked about and thought about: also, anything that I really messed up and missed – well, that’s why I’ll be doing Missed Music Monday on Monday.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.” – by Bono