Seasons of the Ukulele

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SOTU 733 - Noise Pop

YorkSteve

Great theme Andy. As I scanned through the vast list of names, it's true to say that 98% of them had never crossed my radar. But once in a while something familiar jumped out at me, and they included some of my favourite bands from recent years - Flaming Lips, Grandaddy, The Decemberists…and I have decided to go with the latter. A rather sinister song from their 2006 masterpiece, "The Crane Wife".

Barbablanca

Here is my second. It's another jolly one from the FAWM harvest 😉
Details in the description on YouTube

DesertPavement

Hi everyone, wow, what a lousy day to get stuck at work late yesterday and not have the chance to listen. I’ve updated the playlist but won’t get to comment until tonight. Lots of great songs both familiar and un, and great to see some Seasonistas we haven’t heard from in a while. Wonderful to see and hear you.

potmo

UkeCan1 Yeah I went through it pretty fast but of all the things that make me feel old looking at lists of indie bands and not recognizing them because it didnt start until after I just stopped paying attention to new stuff. But as I said, there are definitely some great ones in here that I know, just few and far between.

Barbablanca

Another "protest song" from me. This one is historical, but the events in it are eerily paralleled by current events in the USA. It takes the form of a young man writing to his mother who has fled abroad. Unbeknown to him, this will be his last letter. You will easily be able to guess why, at the end.

potmo

Wrap up of 732 is in (and painfully long sorry but that's how i roll ).

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potmo

"She Don't Use Jelly" – The Flaming Lips

Thank you, Andy for hosting. To be clear, I love this topic but I am just a bit miffed because, to use a tired cliche' if I were 20 years younger...
This is a genre that I would have loved if I were in my 20s and 30s, back when I went to shows and listened to alternative radio. I certainly am a fan of Sonic Youth, Yo La Tengo, Hüsker Dü, Dinosaur Jr., The Replacements and of course The Velvet Underground must be mentioned. I would think that Nirvana/ grunge would overlap with this category significantly.
Anyway, in spite of knowing very few of these bands with excellent names, there is a handful of bands that I love, including what I used to claim to be the greatest rock and roll band of all time. Can anyone guess which band that would be? Hint it is NOT the Flaming Lips.

bobjking

Nipped round to see Paul last night and we had a swing at this Waxahatchee song.

Of course, the original version of this song features M J Lenderman which harks back to my t-shirt choice from my first song this Season. I tell ya…it's planned!

DesertPavement

More great music since the last time I popped in, thanks all. The playlist should be up to date. If I’ve accidentally left you off let me know.

DesertPavement

One from me. The Thermals played Noise Pop in 2013 and 2016. Saw them both times, but bummed I had to bail early from the 2016 show. We were living in the East Bay by then, they had a late start, and I needed to catch my train.

Barbablanca

Yet another "protest" Song from me. I am trying to use this theme to put as many of the social comment songs I wrote during FAWM this year onto my YouTube channel.

The background to this story is in the Description on YouTube

DelGriff

Thanks for hosting, Andy! 🙂

I know very few of the Noise Pop artists, so I’ve opted to write an original for this week (though a collab may also be on the way later in the week).

Baritone uke, synth oboe (played with Carry On digital wind instrument), flute, bass and pads, with some vocal harmonies and a homemade drum track too.

‘The Noise Of Your Silence’ - original song (SOTU 733)

uke4ia

Edit: I've deleted the song I posted earlier today. I found out one of the lyrics is really more powerful than the lyric I found on-line. It's after midnight here and my wife is asleep, so I'll try to do a new video of the song tomorrow.

Joko

I'm from the Bay Area and I hadn't even heard of this festival, and I thought I was fairly music savvy.

I've been a fan of Grandaddy for 20 years. They;re also from Northern California (Modesto) and whereas they never had a lot of main-stream success, their 2003 album "Sumday" is one of my favorite collections of tracks ever.

I remember back in 2006 when I was just starting to get an interest in making videos, I used a Grandaddy song to make a video. I really liked the auto-compose function on my software. One could just pop any piece of audio into a collection of video tracks and the app would sync the tempo with the cuts, add transitions and effects, and make a cool montage video (2000's standards) with not a lot of work. I had some interesting video clips showing a local landmark (the Toilet House) and I used the song I cover here to make a vid.

Also back then, all your favorite musicians were on MySpace. It seemed only polite to send a message to Grandaddy's MySpace page, letting them know of my innocent copyright infringement. About 5 minutes after sending htem the IM, I got a response. I'm guessing it was from Jason Lytle, front man and songwriter for Grandaddy. His response was first time I'd ever received communication directly from a musician I admired. Jason asked me in allcaps

YOU DID WHAT??!?

He was pissed off.

YOU DID WHAT?!?!?

We didn't have a conversation per se, but he at least acknowledged "Well, what's done is done"

Grandaddy performed at Noise Pop in 1999, 2000 and 2002. Then again 2019.

uke4ia

The New Pornographers are overall my favorite band of the 21th century. This is a 2019 song called "The Surprise Knock" that seemed like a good choice for this week. I like this video better than the one I had posted yesterday.

dr_mitch

Thanks for an interesting way to discover some new (to me) music.

This one isn't new to me though - it's by the White Stripes. I'm a fan but haven't really attempted their songs on the uke. Well, time to have a go,

potmo

"Los Angeles" – X

The greatest Rock and Roll band ever!!!! Actually, I don't know that I still believe this, because a great band shouldnlt have its first album be the best one. After this album, they expanded their playing styles to encompass a lot of different genres, and were still awesome, but this album, featuring the production and frantic keyboards of Ray Manzarac of The Doors fame is a great one. I was pleased to see their name on the list.

Joko

The song I did this week was great way to teach the members of KGI Ukulele club the G major descensing and ascending scale….

LimousinLil

Hello, Andy … and thanks for hosting! Yet another late arrival from moi … sorry! Currently coping with a hyperactive labrador who has just had "the snip", is wearing an Elizabethan collar to protect his stitches and is finding it very difficult to deal with his confinement … as am I! Being incredibly old, I was totally unfamiliar with most of the bands who have played at "Noise Pop", but I DO know and like "Beirut." Perhaps this is a moment to think about the beleaguered city of Beirut, suffering as a consequence of the Netanyahu/Trump "non-war"! (I have actually been to Nantes but remember very little about it, apart from the fact that it, apparently, grows fantastic carrots.) P.S. Sorry for my irritating hair … I was going to re-record, but I didn't have time.

DesertPavement

The playlist should be current to here. We’re up to 26 songs. Still plenty of time if you want to join in anew or again.

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