What are you listening to (2025)?

[Dave in Fairfax]

Most recent lecture from the faculty of history at Sweden's Sabaton University.

[imref]

there have been a ton of incredible clips from the Metallica show at Lane Stadium. This is probably my favorite. It shows James Hetfield taking it all in as Enter Sandman plays into the stadium just before Metallica takes to the stage:

https://x.com/nathangray_1/status/1920535150942617845

[Ali the Baseball Cat]

We're doing a geezer rock trifecta over the Memorial Day/UK bank holiday weekend...starting with Jah Wobble (original bassist for Public Image Limited) who is playing a pub gig in Southampton, followed by a 450 mile roundtrip drive up to Manchester to see Bruce Foxton playing The Jam's "Setting Sons" the following night and then straight back to Southampton to see Michael Monroe, Sami Yaffa, and assorted other pieces of Hanoi Rocks. 

Sadly Foxton is retiring from music, so it's pretty much last call for The Jam since Paul Weller has pretty much turned his back on The Jam and rock & roll in general.  The Jam were a big part of my life's soundtrack so this trip was not optional. 

[Natsinpwc]

Album released on this day in 1969.

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNPGM2D7aODfSvuyEKzJiqXv3GH_y7-Vf

[Ali the Baseball Cat]

Appropriate given the Leafs are playing Southern Man tonight.

Neil Young playing Rocking in the the Free World on SNL with a Leafs patch on his jeans was pretty 

[Natsinpwc]

His Dad was famous hockey journalist Scott Young. 

[imref]

Came across this last night on YouTube. (Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay performed by a variety of artists from around the world including Jack Johnson, Aloe Blacc, and Otis Redding's children. Still my favorite song ever.

[imref]

Billy Joel announced he has a brain condition that makes him unable to perform any of his upcoming concerts. He's undergoing treatment but there's no word on if/when he'll be able to resume touring. We had tickets to see him and Sting at Nats park this year.

[English Natsie]

45 years ago, this week, 'Top Of The Pops' gave us this gem, from the UK Subs - note the Cockney Rejects jumping around in the audience... (for the uninitiated, the song makes references to the Mod revival which was underway, in the UK, at the time...)

[JCA-CrystalCity]

45 years ago, this week, 'Top Of The Pops' gave us this gem, from the UK Subs - note the Cockney Rejects jumping around in the audience... (for the uninitiated, the song makes references to the Mod revival which was underway, in the UK, at the time...)

sounds like formula mix of the Ramones with the Clash's I'm so bored with the USA.

[English Natsie]

sounds like formula mix of the Ramones with the Clash's I'm so bored with the USA.

It's meant to be formulaic - the track is a comment on the artificial, manufactured nature of the Mod revival (the triumph of style over substance), and foreshadowed the rise of the New Romantics.