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mitjalovse · 19 hours ago
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A couple of actors made a song for their movies and they didn’t do much afterwards. I’m surprised over some cases, including Patrick Swayze. His tune for Dirty Dancing fits the vibe of the movie well, but I believe he didn’t think he could he have had a singing career. True, this is tough to extrapolate from his actions, though he was better off without this side gig. His hit for the movie, for instance, is close to the 80’s people don’t like to acknowledge that much despite the fact these 80’s sold more than the so-called cool 80’s. Mind you, there’s no accounting for taste and I think Swayze could’ve been an interesting singer, but I assume his connection with that part of the 80’s would not have served him well on the long run in his music.
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mitjalovse · 2 days ago
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Some actors have a curious singing career and then they understand that. For instance, I wish William Shatner would’ve not been on the joke in his consequent musical efforts, though he’s apparently more self-aware about his music than Neil Breen is about his movies, so who am I to judge? One has to understnad his work before Has Been had a certain is-he-serious mischief vibe the later pieces lack, but I must admit Has Been has the best of both worlds. While he still doesn’t sing per se, he manages to find a gigantic incredible emotional resonance behind each of his recitations. The tune on the link, for instance, sounds like him playing the lothario he knows he no longer is, yet he does keep the illusion despite being well aware his Romeo days are behind him.
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mitjalovse · 3 days ago
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An actor attempts to have a singing career? Many get a bit queasy over this. However, some manage to be quite intriguing here. Richard Harris, for instance, was quite good at this. True, he had a lot of great collaborators on his LPs, such as Jimmy Webb, but he also had a great voice for someone like him. Mind you, I don’t suggest he should’ve left his main source of income – think of all the roles he would’ve lost –, yet he didn’t embarass himself, when he was warbling. He did have a peculiar presence on his records, but they served him well. One could contrast that with what he was at the time he made them, i.e. he was famous for his drinking, so the platters feel like his respite from these situations, where he mourns the lost opportunities.
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mitjalovse · 4 days ago
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An actor is singing? Many would scoff at something like that, though this used to be more usual in the past. I mean, Richard Chamberlain was known for his many TV and movie roles, yet how many have been listening to his records recently? Sure, these were mostly a brand extension of the persona he cultivated with Dr. Kildare at that point of his career, but they were still surprisingly good, because they showed he could’ve had a nice side gig as a crooner in the vein of Andy Williams. However, the smallness of his discography suggests his heart wasn’t really into that despite him equipping himself very well for this challenge. His singing voice was way better than one could’ve expected from a heartthrob like him.
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mitjalovse · 5 days ago
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A couple of long-awaited comebacks shouldn’t be seen as such as they meant their musicians happened to find their success elsewhere and the latter gave them a chance to return to music. I mean, Jamie Foxx didn’t release many tunes since his debut thanks to him being busy as an actor. While one could cynically call his second albums a way to strengthen his brand, this sells his music short. He could’ve been a great pop star, because his qualities as an actor serve him well in that well. Of course, his fame meant he could get the best possible collaborators for his music, which is why I would like to see an alternative timeline of him being a singer in the 90’s. The record we have in our own shows he would’ve been one of the more known.
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mitjalovse · 6 days ago
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Some long-awaited comebacks end up strangely affirming thanks to the fact they are actually here in front of us as we did not really expect them to be. Look, the fact that the Libertines are still with us remains hard to fathom. They imploded immensely in their previous phase, so their return carried a whiff of a possible trainwreck fascination, yet they made a great platter with Anthems For Doomed Youth. Yes, they are at this period, when they can play with the perception they made of themselves, though the age has also given them a greater self-awareness. You see, their first two records tried to impress us way too much, whereas they seem much calmer now. They still have their fire, though, they only process that one differently now.
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mitjalovse · 7 days ago
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There are several long-awaited comebacks that feel like an expression of a long gestation process and these also want to make us feel that. For instance, Adam Ant returned with Adam Ant Is the Blueblack Hussar in Marrying the Gunner's Daughter, which sounds like a great title, though the album doesn’t live up to that one completely. I mean, one can imagine Adam Ant went full in, which results is a glorious chaos. However, there are several moments, where this become something so spellbinding you can only smile, but you also notice he needed a better support system, since this one is a garage production. Listen, picture this LP made with the backing of a major label and a collection of guests that were influenced by Adam Ant. Then again, this might not be as charming as now, though …
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mitjalovse · 8 days ago
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Some long-awaited comebacks were not really like that as their musicians were still present without doing anything on their own. For instance Yoko Ono returned after a lengthy hiatus, though she was never really away, since the band her husband was in went through an archival phase she was a part of. However, her own work didn’t move in that direction, but we must remember – she is a New York avantgarde musician who was married to the biggest rockstar of the 60’s. Thus, her music has more in common with, say, Glenn Branca than John Lennon. While Rising, her comeback, confirmed that comparison, she also managed to capture where the zeitgeist was in the 90’s. To be honest, many finally understood her then thanks to the time.
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mitjalovse · 9 days ago
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Can we call some long-awaited comebacks as being the typical placeholders for their musicians’ main gig? I mean, Thurston Moore was in Sonic Youth, so the fact there is a large gap between his first two solo records does make sense. However, I have to admit I don’t see much difference between the LPs he did on his own and those of his band. Then again, he probably saw them as a trial run for whatever he planned to do with the group. Of course, his solo career eventually became all there is thanks to the end of the group, so Trees Outside The Academy has a different context now, i.e. the platter paved the way for his consequent collections of songs, though I assume he thought his group would still go on back then.
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mitjalovse · 10 days ago
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A couple of long-awaited comebacks should not have really happened at all. I mean, Crosby, Still, Nash & Young decided to return in order to destroy their credibility. Yes, that was too harsh for me to say, but their American Dream was an album, which did speak of the times they were in, yet the production made them sound like Chicago at their most desperate for chart success. Mind you, they could’ve done something intriguing here like their member Neil Young did with Trans, but that didn’t seem like an option. Then again, they were one of the many 70’s collectives that decided to keep up with the 80’s without noticing their old sounds could’ve still been great for the era. Hm, they should’ve asked Jeff Lynne to helm them then …
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mitjalovse · 11 days ago
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Some long-awaited comebacks end up being something else. Rain Tree Crow is a great example of what I described, since the whole thing sounded like a Japan reunion without actually sounding like that band. True, we cannot really tell that for sure, but the music they did on their LP does sound like a possible Sylvian solo album in the early 90’s. Then again, I always had a hunch the latter was more interested in their anti-comeback than the rest of the group, yet a question we should’ve asked ourselves might – what would have Japan sounded like later in the 90’s? I assume Rain Tree Crow could’ve been one option – they would’ve been an esoteric rock band –, though I remain interested in the others. They could’ve gone the way of Sakamoto’s 90’s, I assume …
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mitjalovse · 12 days ago
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The long awaited comeback? Long Road Out Of Eden is another case of that, the Eagles decided to upgrade their lucrative greatest hits tours with more material and … well, the fact they don’t play much of that now speaks volumes of the LP. Mind you, the disc is not that bad, but the platter doesn’t dare to surprise us. One could’ve jokingly called Long Road Out Of Eden an A.I. version of the previous albums, since they point towards many of their older triumphs, yet they don’t reach them. Then again, they don’t make themselves sound stupid, they just move, where they were before. Long Road Out Of Eden is basically similar to you meeting an old friend that still tells the same stories he did before, his voice might just be raspier now.
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mitjalovse · 13 days ago
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I kept mentioning how Elton John likes to surprise us after the late 90’s without showing how that sounds like in the form of his work and I have to change that. Let us take a look at his work on the return LP by one of the biggest grunge bands of the 90’s. Listen, the fact he can be found on the titular song of the comeback album by Alice In Chains? Yes, that does show his depth of musical interests. Of course, the collaboration also present an incredible collaborator, because you never notice him taking over the whole proceedings, his presence augments the tune the group did as a requiem for Layne Staley. The fact the latter was a fan of Elton John gives a dimension of a survivor paying his respects to a person who couldn’t become one.
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mitjalovse · 14 days ago
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My discussions on Elton John after the late 90’s do not follow any reason nor rhyme, they resemble a strangely wielded web one can not comprehend that well. For instance, I’m really jumping through his noughts, though they were quite contradictory. On the one hand he was willing to confront the zeitgeist of the time, yet on the other his biggest hits from them were either the re-releases or the remixes of his earlier work. Then again, some of his albums from the noughts, such as Peachtree Road, found him in a certain easy-going professionalism mode, which fits him so well one forgets this quality remains hard to achieve. Still, while Elton John always make everything sound easy, you can observe he does care a lot.
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mitjalovse · 15 days ago
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Another interesting characteristic about Elton John after the 90’s might be that he actually had the best possible career for someone of his stature. I mean, he achieved more chart toppers in the later part of his career, though one has to admit that is not surprising in a way. You see, there’s a rumour floating he asks his label to send him the latest releases, so he could listen to them. Still, many of his later triumphs were a part of his past. For instance, the tune on the link is from the 70’s, but the re-release made the song a chartbuster. This is not a slight, but the whole thing just shows how retro our pop culture is from the noughts on. I don’t blame Elton John for that, his quality control remains impeccable, though I wish many would’ve checked his current works more.
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mitjalovse · 16 days ago
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A funny thing about Elton John is that he somehow became both cherished and humourously underappreciated since the late 90’s. Look, he was already an elder statesman by then, but should the figures like him guest on a cover of his tune by a popular boy band? Well, this does make sense for him as we shall see later on, though I wish he wouldn’t have joined them. Yes, I still prefer the original, since Blue turn the original chamber drama into an Oscar bait, if you catch my drift. You see, this song requires a delicate interpretation, yet Blue decided to go bigger. Sadly, Elton John joined in that modus as well, yet I believe he was just happy to be there in order to notice how his piece still works thanks to the melody being sturdy to withstand all that over-emoting.
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mitjalovse · 17 days ago
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Elton John never really went away as we’ve seen in my discussions on his post-90’s work. However, Songs From The West Coast might be the album, which finished his nineties in a way. You see, most of his hits since then were either the remakes of his older songs or the remixes of them. That sadly shows we ignore he made a lot of great songs with Songs From The West Coast being perhaps overshadowed by the first single from the album. Yes, the song is incredible for someone at that point of a career, yet the video makes the whole thing even more heartbreaking and takes the whole attention from the LP. I mean, I keep asking myself how we can see what Sam Taylor-Wood did now after the triumph of Robert Downey Jr., because the image of him singing the composition was more wrenching then.
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