Benny B's Nursing Home Gramaphone Listening Club

[luka]

 

[luka]

Benny B takes us on a guided tour through the haunted past

 

[thirdform]

where's the playlist? Mixtape?

 

[Benny Bunter]

Gather round, children...

 

[luka]

where's the playlist? Mixtape?

he hasnt made it yet its happening in real time

 

[luka]

Benny B has devoted his life to exploring the world of pre 1960 recorded music. no one knows more about the ancient history of recorded sound and he has agreed to share his arcane knowledge with us.

 

[Benny Bunter]

Skip James - Devil got my woman (1931)

 

[Benny Bunter]

A lot of people know that one cos of that movie/comic Ghost World, but not me, I knew it way before from my dad's record collection

 

[Benny Bunter]

People talk about hearing elvis at the time like it was music beamed in from another planet. It's hard for us to understand that nowadays listening to hound dog or even something like mystery train, but I think this could take you there.

Uultra-minimal, Elvis' acoustic is a barely audible bassy thrum, scottie moore's clip-clop plucked guitar marks the rhythm, while Elvis spectral voice soars and swoops, both right in your ear yet far out into the cosmos at the same time. Magical

 

[luka]

im very opposed to Elivs cos Mancunians like him and im opposed to Mancunians except for Oasis who I revere.

 

[luka]

very exotica tiki bar coconut shell bra feel that one.

 

[Benny Bunter]

It's that slapback echo thats on eveything that really sends shivers through my spine on that, and a lot of the early Sun records stuff. And the wordless falsetto parts just transport me to another dimension.

Like you said on the other thread, what appeals to me in this musics are the ululations, wails, grunts and screams.

 

[Benny Bunter]

Howlin wolf moaning at mindnight

 

[Benny Bunter]

Looking at the sleevenotes to the howlin wolf cd i've got

'Its sound is a molten blur...chaotic yet right on time. The effect is an auditory fever dream, heightened by Wolf's paranoid lyrics:
Well, somebody knockin' on my door...'

 

[Benny Bunter]

The moan at the beginning of that is an incredible sound, like some sort of mad throat singing. A force of nature.

 

[luka]

It's that slapback echo thats on eveything that really sends shivers through my spine on that

history of music as a series of addictive effects. your discussion of distortion yesterday. all the dance music faves. reese bass. acid squelch. timestretch.

 

[Benny Bunter]

Another MC lose his life tonight, Lord
I beg that you pray to Jesus Christ, why
Oh Lord, father don't let him bury me, whoa

Doo Wop that thing, classic 😋

 

[Benny Bunter]

Seriously though, anyone who doesn't immediately get all-over body goosebumps listening to that is dead inside afaic.

 

[Benny Bunter]

Back to 1928, Tommy Johnson - Cool drink of water blues


I asked her for water, and she gave me gasoline
Man, that's the evilest woman, that I ever seen

 

[boxedjoy]

Another MC lose his life tonight, Lord
I beg that you pray to Jesus Christ, why
Oh Lord, father don't let him bury me, whoa

Doo Wop that thing, classic 😋