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Billy Joel cut (Scenes from an Italian Restaurant)
You always remember your first. 🙂 For me that was Billy Joel – what did you think that I was going to say?
Billy Joel cut (Piano Man)
Morning Babble Opener
Yes – Happy Weekend! If you want to add some other extra-curricular adjectives in there – go for it. I won’t hold you back.
Woke up today and WOW – very excited at some of the New Music that I saw. Several surprises of Brent music too!
Real quick though – yes – Billy Joel was the first concert that I ever went to. In Philly at the Spectrum which is the last location that my beloved Flyers ever won a Stanley Cup. That building is of course gone now. (body check) Back to Billy. We don’t have new music today, but we will actually get new music from him next Thursday. Song is called “Turn the Lights Back On” and then a few nights later, he’ll take the stage at the Grammy Awards in LA. He has teased us with a clip (play what I can). That’s it. It’s only 30 seconds worth and it’s mainly credits, but the whole song – next Thursday.
Before we get onto the main course of New Music Friday – I do have a couple things to address. Shoes. I posted about new running shoes and only showed the boxes. People reached out and were frustrated. They wanted specifics. Today – I’ll show the Hokas, because that’s what I ran in today. They are the new Mach X.
Also – SIGN UP!!!!!! (You can do it!)
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!
So, as we patiently await for the new Billy song, we do have JT delivering today (clip) That’s Mr. Justin Timberlake with his latest song “Selfish”. New album Everything I Thought I Was is being delivered on March 15th. For this album, he claims that he recorded 100 Songs for and had to filter that down to 18 – claims that it’s his best work. I’ll tell you his best work (Have you naked by the end of this song) That line always gets me. That’s confidence.
(clip of Smooth criminal) Remember them? That’s Alien Ant Farm and they have announced their first new album in nearly a decade, ~mAntras~. And they do have a new song out that sorta has their classic sound. song is called “So Cold” (clip)
Tajin – tuh*heen. Tajin is a spice mix made up of salt, lime, and chilies. In Spanish that means “thunder or smoke”. I love it around the rim of a Margarita glass. Why am I talking about this? Here’s “Spicy Margarita” (clip) And yes – that’s the dynamic duo of Michael Buble and Jason Derulo. Who saw that one coming? Probably the same person that saw a new song coming from Heidi Klum
(Heidi cut) That’s right “Sunglasses at Night” from the former Mrs. Seal. Is that right to say? (Seal cut)
Several quick hits of new music and it’s all Brent music: Elbow (point to it) have announced a new album, AUDIO VERTIGO which is out March 22nd, and shared its first single, “Lovers’ Leap” // Alkaline Trio’s new album is all out // Gary Clark Jr. is back with his first new music in almost 5 years. Today we get four new studio tracks from his upcoming album, JPEG RAW, set for release on March 22nd // Alkaline Trio – I’ve touted this one for several weeks, but the whole album is out today and is called Blood, Hair, and Eye Balls. The first track caught my attention (“Hot for Teacher”) No – not the Van Halen song, but “Hot for Preacher” (clip)
They actually never sing “Hot for Preacher” in that song. Anyway – looking forward to digging into the rest of that album from Alkaline Trio.
That was your New Music Friday
Thank you to Spotify, Rolling Stone, Apple Music, uDiscoverMusic, Pigeons & Planes, Pitchfork, Louder, Dan Deluca of the Philly Inquirer & I know there’s more.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY: “If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.” – by Billy Joel
This is the scribble that leads to the babble. Sometimes, it gets tidied up; but other times, not so much. When all else fails: watch the video!
Black Pumas cut
“I saw the Black Pumas last night in Philly . . . so, they’re just a little bit on my mind.”
Black Pumas cut
Morning Babble Intro
Happy Snowy Weekend at least here in the NE. Lots of sledding . . . by the kids. From our deck, I can see the hill that the kids fly down. (clip)
So, if my son catches a cold, you all know why.
All good then. I can stay inside and fill up my Barry glass.
Back to my earlier comment of the Black Pumas and their show – amazing. (clip)
At the Filmore in Philadelphia / Got food and beverage prior to the show at Other Half Brewery – delish.
Black Pumas – Two guys – Eric Burton and Adrian Quesada (ka – sada)
Adrian – older dude – looks like Walter Matthau (ma – tau) (clip)
But damn, he can play the guitar. Didn’t Walter Matthau hook up with Sophia Loren one of those Grumpy Old Men Movies? (clip)
Eric Burton – what a breath of fresh air. Just glowed. Smiles all night. That voice.
Leather pants / Got my tight pants on (clip)
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!
This is one of the albums that I’ve been waiting for in the new year (clip) Some people weren’t really looking forward to it, but I do love me some Green Day. The album is Saviors and we’ve gotten to taste it over the past couple months with 4 songs that they have shared from it. BUT – there’s 11 more and, if my math is real good, that’s 15 in all. Also, this past week, the band did a bit with late night guy – Jimmy Fallon – where they surprised people in a New York subway with one of their classics (clip) Again, that’s Saviors – I’ve already listened to it all and I’m going to do it again and again this weekend (Meg Ryan clip)
Today, we received an acoustic live album from a band that I have multiple vinyl of and have seen several times in concert (clip) Band of Horses – this new album or volume has been 10 years in the making – it’s called Acoustic at The Ryman Vol. 2 because Volume 1 came out back in 2014. By the way, the Ryman Auditorium is one of the most iconic music stages located in Nashville, Tennessee on the edge of 5th Avenue North since its inception in 1881. Just about everyone has performed there, well not me, but important people and now Band of Horses have two volumes of albums to prove it (clip)
Last year – all the way back 2 months ago in November – Dolly Parton released a 30-track album called Rockstar – all kinds of studs and studdettes on there. Sting, Joan Jett, Chris Stapleton, Miley Cyrus (clip). And now, the deluxe album of Rockstar is out where we get an additional 9 songs and one of those includes the band Maneskin singing with Dolly on her song “Jolene” (clip) I won’t lie. One of my favorite renditions of “Jolene” is with the incredible twosome of Jack White on Vocals & Guitar and Meg White on Drums – also known as The White Stripes (clip)
Several quick hits of new music: One of my favorites to chill with – Mat Kearney – released “Headlights Home” – not sure of a whole album yet, so I won’t be greedy and simply take this single // Taylor Swift’s bud – Jack Antonoff – his band, Bleachers has a new song out – “Tiny Moves” – full album on March 8th // Nicki Minaj has a new song out called “Press Play” and features Future. Did we find a clip that we can play? Only Nicki – that works. (clip)
Thank you to Spotify, Rolling Stone, Apple Music, uDiscoverMusic, Pigeons & Planes, Pitchfork, Louder, Dan Deluca of the Philly Inquirer & I know there’s more.
Please subscribe on YouTube and spread the Babble wherever you can – Thank you!
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Perfection, to me ,means you spend much too much time trying to be perfect.” – by Walter Matthau
