Svastara

[hoffnung]

sada sam video da je 'nme' izabrao 'strawberry fields forever' kao najbolju 'the beatles' pesmu. ok, super je to stvar, ali meni je najbolja, kada bih se odlucio: 'ticket to ride'. vama?

[ultra plasticni]

Tomorrow never knows

[MocaVukotic]

a hard day's night

[maheem]

divna prica, suza krenula

 

 

 

Among the great "what-ifs" of the recording industry, it has to be among the most unlikely: what if a farmer had never bought a tractor?

 

Fruitland, Washington has a population of 751. There are no zeros missing from the end of that number. This tiny rural town is where Donnie and Joe Emerson grew up, living a teenhood driven by the demands of the family's 1,600-acre farm.

 

As Donnie, says, during the summer in particular, "there wasn't no messing around. You don't run that type of farm by sitting around."

 

Their life-changing moment came in the summer of 1978 when their father, Don Sr, bought a tractor that came with a built-in AM-FM radio. It was this that led, not so indirectly, to one of the greatest forgotten records of the decade, Dreamin' Wild.

 

Donnie, the younger of the brothers, explains that he'd spend days on end listening to the hits of the day while he worked: "I would just contemplate being in those tracks, you know? I couldn't get my head out of it. I grew up with them on eight to 10 hours a day, going round and round that field."

 

"We were kind of in a dream world," Joe adds, "because we were isolated, we hadn't been to any concerts and so really the radio was our inspiration and insight into music. We were really still very innocent."

 

Donnie was just nine years old when he wrote and performed his first composition. "I didn't have to struggle with it," he says. "It was real natural." Inspired by the music they heard on the radio, the brothers began writing songs together in earnest, and Don Sr was so impressed that he built them a practice space on the property. He then enlisted Gary Toleffsen, their high-school music teacher and a musician whose claim to fame was having been a bugler at Kennedy's funeral, as their mentor. Under his encouragement, the boys made the 75-mile journey to the town of Spokane where they recorded their first 45.

 

 

But this, as their father recounts, wasn't enough: "'Well then,' we said, 'why don't we get the recording equipment and do it right in this building that I built them?' So Mr T went and found all the equipment and," – he gives a sheepish laugh – "I bought it."

 

 

"Banking was different back in those days," says Don Sr. "It wasn't hard [to get a loan]. You could get over your head real easy, but that's just the way it went."

 

His now-legendary act of parental faith was to pour around $100,000 into creating a home-recording studio for his sons. The record that they made in that homemade studio was the beautifully naive, deeply sincere Dreamin' Wild, an intuitively sophisticated set of songs that tempered west-coast pop with blue-eyed soul.

 

"We were untainted," Donnie says. "And back then I didn't realise what I was doing, I was just doing. I just got in front of the mic and started singing – Joey and I would just play."

 

For the LP's cover photograph, they dressed in outrageously wing-collared white jumpsuits that they'd had tailor-made.

 

"Yeah, unforgettable photo, isn't it?" says Joe. "Kind of the Elvis look – even back then we were back in time, 10, 20 years."

 

They also had no idea about the record industry. With touching optimism, they had 2,000 copies pressed.

 

"I went out with my mother, and she was kind of the sales lady," says Joe. "I would drive her around in this little pick-up, my '68 El Camino and we'd hand-peddle them."

 

They shifted a handful of copies to semi-curious neighbours, while the remaining thousands languished in the basement. Meanwhile, the family were steadily losing huge swathes of their farm: Don Sr had taken out a loan against their land and was struggling to make repayments.

 

They managed to hold on to the farm, but not their hopes of pop stardom. Joe and Donnie grew up, grew out of those suits and made lives. Donnie, who's remained a musician all these years, nonetheless found it hard to fully forget about Dreamin' Wild.

 

"It's always been there with me," he says, "like a lost brother, a lost spirit that I put aside and I wish I never did. I had to, because I had to make money and do things, but it was kind of sad in a way."

 

Joe, who, unlike Donnie, never married, stayed on the farm, in a house he built just a hundred yards away from the little recording studio.

 

Then in 2008, the Emersons received a phone call. Jack Fleischer, a record collector, had been browsing an antique shop in Spokane when those white jumpsuits caught his eye. He was sufficiently tickled to part with $5 for the record. As soon as he played it, he was blown away and became the record's first evangelist. He was especially captivated by the sublime Baby, a song that seems to endlessly circle around its own centre. It became a word-of-mouth wonder in music-nerd circles, and then, in July 2012, the lo-fi cult hero Ariel Pink released a cover version that, for a significant swathe of young Americans, became the song of that summer. Momentum was building, and soon the brothers and their extraordinary lost record came to the attention of Light in the Attic, the reissue specialists. Dreamin' Wild was re-released in 2012 to unanimous praise.

 

The Emerson brothers’ practice space

The Emerson brothers’ practice space. Photograph: David Black David Black/PR

 

"It was almost as if some angels were looking down on us," says Donnie, "and they said no, this is what was real and pure, you don't have to do anything else, just be this from now on. You don't have to struggle with it any more."

 

But Dreamin' Wild wasn't a one-off; in the 18 months they spent in their isolated farm studio, the brothers wrote and recorded around 70 songs, and now, Light in the Attic has just released Still Dreamin' Wild: The Lost Recordings 1979-81, a record with less wistfulness, more kick, but just as much charm as the first. Donnie says they're hoping to put out a third record soon to follow this one. "There's some great songs," he says. "No one's heard 'em yet. And I listen back and I go, 'Wow, that's pretty cool.'"

 

When I ask Joe what it's like hearing their teenage voices out there in the world again, his voice cracks. "I just want to cry," he admits. "We did it with our hearts in the right place, we did it because we really wanted to share our music and we thought we had something special. And sure, we were naive about the music business, but I think it all happened in God's own time: he felt it wasn't right then, it's more right now, because we're able to handle some of this."

 

"This" entails, among other things, hearing their songs soundtrack movies, having Pitchfork declare their first record "a godlike symphony to teenhood" and, perhaps most bizarrely, having teenage girls come up to them with their mothers to ask for photos. In short, they've had to become representatives for their teenage selves.

 

"I'm 54 years old!" Joe laughs, incredulous.

 

Recently, a musician told Donnie that he just didn't get Baby, that he felt it was missing something.

 

"I said, no it's not missing anything," says Donnie quietly. "Sometimes it doesn't have to be complete; it has to wander, it has to make you want more. And when you're a kid, at 17 or 18, you're not complete, you're not there. And even when we're 75, 80 years old, we're still kids and we don't want to be complete. I embrace these fans because they see the purity in it. They see that it doesn't have to be so perfect. That it's just a vibe, that it is what it is."

 

• Still Dreamin' Wild: The Lost Recordings 1979-81 is out now on Light in the Attic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWGUuT2GvYk

[bad music for bad people]

http://www.avclub.com/article/where-start-primal-sound-garage-rock-216756

[bad music for bad people]

http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2014/10/02/the-sonics-are-probably-the-greatest-garage-rock-band-in-the-history-of-music

[hoffnung]

da li je neko upoznat sa 'resonate' festivalom, kako to funkcionise. ja sam zainteresovan samo za jednog izvodjaca u jednom danu, a na sajtu nema vreme kada odredjeni izvodjac pocinje sa svojim programom. ako ima neko od vas ko je upucen, sledi jos neko pitanje, ali hajde prvo ovo.

[Takeshi]

Every Noise at Once

 

svi muzicki zanrovi na jednom mestu. 

kada se kliknu strelice sa desne strane naziva zanra, otvara se stranica sa izvodjacima za svaki posebno (uz 30 sekundi ilustracije).

[Hella]

sada sam video da je 'nme' izabrao 'strawberry fields forever' kao najbolju 'the beatles' pesmu. ok, super je to stvar, ali meni je najbolja, kada bih se odlucio: 'ticket to ride'. vama?

 

sve koje lajbah obradi 

 

inače sam prestao da kupujem tzv rolingston pošto su idoli uvredljivo prvi šarlo tek drugi a lunine nestvarne stvari niti uvrštene u 100 najboljih exyu albuma u prvom specijalu 

[Ryan Franco]

auh... ko je sastavljao tu listu?

[wayfaring stranger]

Every Noise at Once

 

svi muzicki zanrovi na jednom mestu. 

kada se kliknu strelice sa desne strane naziva zanra, otvara se stranica sa izvodjacima za svaki posebno (uz 30 sekundi ilustracije).

 

veoma zabavno   Najbolji su neki nazivi zanrova. Za post-post hardcore nisam cuo. Funeral doom, shiver pop, deep melodic death metal,  organic ambient, deep turkish pop su polja koja treba istrazivati  Tu su i croatian pop i yu rock i TURBO FOLK. Ko ima malo vremena, dobra zabava ....

[vorda]

Potpuno neočekivano yet potpuni spektakl  :)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PamO6obWcQk

[Hella]

auh... ko je sastavljao tu listu?

 

nemači pojma 

 

U 100 najboljih sadržana je diskografija iz svih država bivše Jugoslavije, a listu 100 najboljih albuma sastavili su: Brkulj, Harča, Horvat, Janjatović, Jovanov, Jurkas, Mujadžić, Perković, Sljepčević, Stajčić, Šiftar, Švec i Tarlać.

Edited April 12, 2015 by Hella

[Reaktor]

sada sam video da je 'nme' izabrao 'strawberry fields forever' kao najbolju 'the beatles' pesmu. ok, super je to stvar, ali meni je najbolja, kada bih se odlucio: 'ticket to ride'. vama?

Kod mene je mrtva trka između "I Should Have Known Better" i "Day Tripper".

[Hippie]

damn! :) Tom Waits will be one of David Letterman’s final guests