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Music 🎵 Today's Music Break thread

WSU MUP Student said:
Anybody else excited for the announcement of a Rush tour in 2026?

No Detroit dates so now I need to decide whether I want to go to Chicago, Toronto, or Cleveland. I've got a buddy from the Cleveland area who looks a lot like Geddy Lee so maybe I can convince him to come to that show...

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I'll see your Tom Sawyer and raise you with...

 
mendelman said:
I'll see your Tom Sawyer and raise you with...

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^ That's another one of my favorites.

I really wanted to post up The Trees but they never made an official video for that one? I always liked that song and the high school my daughter goes to are "The Maples" so I always tell her that their fight song should be The Trees. Last year for marching season, their show was "Classic Rock Through the Ages" with songs from The Rolling Stones, Chicago, Bon Jovi, and Blink-182. Nevermind the microaggression of lumping Bon Jovi and Blink-182 into "classic rock" but I figured that was the perfect opportunity to bring The Trees into the repertoire! Despite my prodding and protestation, she did not suggest that to the band director.
 
A cool cover by a band with a cool name.


WSU MUP Student said:
^ That's another one of my favorites.

I really wanted to post up The Trees but they never made an official video for that one? I always liked that song and the high school my daughter goes to are "The Maples" so I always tell her that their fight song should be The Trees. Last year for marching season, their show was "Classic Rock Through the Ages" with songs from The Rolling Stones, Chicago, Bon Jovi, and Blink-182. Nevermind the microaggression of lumping Bon Jovi and Blink-182 into "classic rock" but I figured that was the perfect opportunity to bring The Trees into the repertoire! Despite my prodding and protestation, she did not suggest that to the band director.
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Last year at our HS's hosted competition, one of the visiting marching bands played this:



Tailor made for marching bands. :cool:
 
WSU MUP Student said:
Anybody else excited for the announcement of a Rush tour in 2026?

No Detroit dates so now I need to decide whether I want to go to Chicago, Toronto, or Cleveland. I've got a buddy from the Cleveland area who looks a lot like Geddy Lee so maybe I can convince him to come to that show...

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I have mixed feelings about this. I am happy for them and for the fans and yet.... sigh.... Neil. :'(
 
Doohickie said:
Who here has heard of Nick Drake?

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I had some Nick Drake pop up on this morning's playlist at the gym thanks to letting Spotify build me a playlist based on Neutral Milk Hotel!

This:



Eventually led to this:



Growing up, I had never heard of Nick Drake. I'm pretty sure my first exposure to him was in a VW commercial in 1999. I remember reading a while back that before that commercial, The Pink Moon album had sold something like less than 10,000 copies in the 25+ years since its release. The album then sold 75,000 copies in the year after the commercial.



The entire album is pretty great, as is Bryter Layter, the album he released before this one. Looking it up now, his first album, Five Leaves Left (which has "River Man" on it), has really good reviews and I'm sure I've listened to it, but I cannot recall anything about it. I'll have to give it another listen now. Maybe I'll go through all three of those albums in chronological order later today.
 
WSU MUP Student said:
his first album, Five Leaves Left (which has "River Man" on it), has really good reviews and I'm sure I've listened to it, but I cannot recall anything about it.
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It's my favorite of his albums.

I heard of him for the first time earlier this year on a reddit thread about artists who were influential but had very short careers.
 
I thought of a band this morning that was once the sweetheart of college radio back in the early 90s, King Missile. Anyone else remember those guys?

 
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