5/3: Church, Blogging, A Nap, Music, A Drive, and A Playlist

 The title sums up my day. Lioturgy, reading my email and writing a few blog posts, a nap for two hours around 6 PM thinking I would just call it day, a trip to the convenience store for Coke Zero, and a drive through Muncie. All was quiet in town. We have gotten too old for being out at 10 PM.

All-Music Guide let loose a review of Aerosmith's Rocks: 

Few albums have been so appropriately named as Aerosmith's 1976 classic Rocks. Despite hard drug use escalating among bandmembers, Aerosmith produced a superb follow-up to their masterwork Toys in the Attic, nearly topping it in the process. Many Aero fans will point to Toys as the band's quintessential album (it contained two radio/concert standards after all, "Walk This Way" and "Sweet Emotion"), but out of all their albums, Rocks did the best job of capturing Aerosmith at their most raw and rocking....

I saw Aerosmith once in concert (they used to be a staple in Indianapolis), but never bought any of their albums. TJ was quite the fan, though. What they did after regrouping pretty much sucks.

 Pitchfork reviewed Fanny's Fanny Hill. This was a band that I had of over the years, never heard, never saw an album, but found in my sixties on YouTube. They were a great band. 

But of course, all of it is true: Fanny deserve to be celebrated because they did what no other women had done before them; they deserve to be celebrated because they made great music; they made great music that’s inseparable from their experience as outsiders, as subjects of harassment and underestimation, as artists dreaming of something better. Even if just briefly, they made that dream real—it led them to their “sorority” in the Hollywood Hills and the album that bears its name: a radical act of sisterhood and creative freedom smuggled inside a classic rock’n’roll dream. 

The review does not mention this song, a cover of my favorite Cream song, and it is so impressive catching something that was not in the original.

The review does mention this song:

 

I also created a playlist for  J and T2, Big Voiced Brit Singers For Your Listening Pleasure:
    

 

 

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