Never made that connection before but I can definitely hear it. It always stands out to me how much any project of Homme’s sounds like him. Even Them Crooked Vultures or the album he did with Iggy.
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I like some Queens Of The Stone Age but actually Prefer Kyuss where he spawned from.
'Maybe I am just old.
Chicago: Still listening to Monster Magnet (which has nothing to do with anything...)
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Dolly Parton and Rob Halford have released a rock song together.
It might be the oddest team up ever and whilst not brilliant I have certainly heard worse.
Chicago: Collaborator.
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I've long had a secret thing for 'Here You Come Again'. Feel dirty admitting it but, at the same time, joyously liberated.
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Dolly Parton is a brilliant songwriter, with an almost unprecedented quality back catalogue. While I'm not exactly sitting around listening to her albums, there's a lot of her mainstream audience facing output that I don't mind bumping into.
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Agreed. She's also an absolutely terrific human being, and I'm inclined to be far more tolerant of art made by people I like.
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The new album from Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds is very pleasant.
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It very much is. And not a self parodying Oasish tribute act, which is all the other one seems to do.
Meanwhile, this evening, QotSA are playing the Piece Hall at Halifax while Muse take the stage down the road at Sliding Doors Stadium.
It is not clear if any one of note playing at Valley Parade, however. (insert crisp / sheep gag here).
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Watching Debbie Harry on TV at Glastonbury. Sad. Just go quietly and with your dignity intact.
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That was pretty much the consensus when I saw her 30 years ago.
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Elton John’s extended tribute to Vic Reeves, it seems.
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He's walking like he's followed through.
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The QOTSA set was where you should have been last night. Riffs to make GnR weep delivered with the panache Arctic Monkeys couldnt even conceive of. Also the band you'd want on your side in a fight.
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See, this is why I can’t do music festivals. Not only can I not tolerate being cramped up with 200000 people who haven’t showered for three days but also because I’d always think I should be at different stage, especially if you are two hundred yards back from Elton John and all you can hear is a load of cosplayers singing along badly.
And really, you can see the bands you actually want to see at a normal gig in a venue with better acoustics. And the stuff you come across randomly that stays with you is a total accident, so you have to get lucky.
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Quite a few of the oldies should probably go gracefully. Especially if your ageing voice cannot match your prodigious youth (also see Axl Rose). And Elton John is an Elton John tribute act for coachtrippers from Kettering so they can get dressed up in sparkly clothes and fluorescent sunglasses. Yes, I realise I’m a curmudgeonly arse.
I watched a bit of Yusuf/Cat Stevens… he has maintained his dignity and his voice. The bit where he sang to his younger self in Father & Son was quite poignant, I thought.
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I love Yusef/Cat Stevens. One of the truly great songwriters. I'm a big fan of early seventies Elton John output. I will defend Debbie Harry to my dying day, as perhaps the greatest ever female front person to a band, and with more than enough credit in the bank to last a lifetime.
Festivals are events to celebrate the known, with the widest possible appreciative crowd. They are by definition for music that's over the hill. I don't get the critical appraisal. What were you hoping for in a field of hundreds of thousands?
