Dailymotion Jazz Group

This made my day. Some of the videos are exceptionally good, just like Miles Davis.

Are you still here?

Listening to Kraftwerk

My three-part guide.

• Part 1: 1974-1975. Albums: Autobahn, Radio-Activity. The best way to discover what they were trying to do is to listen to their live is Köln from 1975, which was recorded and released by some Italian bootleg radio.
• Part 2: 1977-1978. Building the crib for industrial music. Trans-Europe Express is the cold hand, Die Mensch-Machine is the warm hand.
• Part 3: 1981-onwards. The stuff that inspired electronic dance music. Album: Computer World. Their last versions (Tour de France, Minimum Maximum) are funny tribute: “look guys, we're also doing techno now—But you invented it in the first place!”

Radiohead, “Weird Fishes/Arpeggi”

To my own amazement, there is something in the last Radiohead (free) album that is actually interesting. “Weird Fishes/Arpeggi” is their first song with more to it than some kind of weak lament covered by what I consider to be poor arrangements.

Funnily enough, the last track on the last Chemical Brothers, “The Pills won't Help you Now,” comes with an identical development in its rhythmics (well, at least in my twisted vision of the matter).

Precisions:

1. Yes, “paying what you like” means “free” to me, they still owe me for their previous overpriced records.
2. Yes, I do consider the full Radiohead career to have been less inventive than the first fourteen notes from King Crimson's “Starless.”
3. Wow, that's my first “plain rock” post!
   

Zeppelin fuel

Led Zeppelin is fuel you pick up on the road to keep going forward. Here's a very decent live recorded in Paris in 1971. Seven songs, two from I, one from II, two from III, two from IV.