#pop group

[teayoungg]

reasons why 4*town deserves a comeback: a lengthy post

★ their music is nostalgic for 90s–00s kids, who grew up with groups such as *nsync and backstreet boys.

★ their talent was recognised by significant award shows, including nominations for the oscars (best original song), and the grammys (best song written for visual media).

★ their hit single, 'nobody like u', peaked at #49 on the billboard hot 100 in 2022. it made history as the first ever song from a pixar movie to achieve this.

★ 'nobody like u' was certified gold and platinum in the same year (2023) by the riaa, and was honoured in riaa's hall of fame 2023. they were 1/57 recording artists last year to achieve this, proving their commercial viability.

★ 2 petitions were made on change.org, calling for pixar to release more music for 4*town:

★ they have 1.2m monthly listeners on spotify, showing that they have established a strong fanbase and still hold relevancy.

[artistsoftheunknown]

(A)blaise

peck at scars until wisdom dawns. quick! palm my life before anyone notices. nurse passion with secretive gestures, for attentiveness to love's curvature is but a long-lost art sought by those who claim possession of it. most nights are spent in transgression, reeling still from tragedies inflicted passively upon the flesh in spite of this being our bastion; the rubicon before descent into a once foreign despair becomes total.

[acmeoop]

The Way Outs! “The Masquerade Party” (1965)

[me-and-i]

[scotianostra]

Bay City Roller Alan Longmuir was born at Simpson Memorial Maternity Pavilion Hospital Edinburgh on June 20th 1948.

Alan Longmuir was born in Edinburgh, one of four children of Duncan and Georgina Longmuir, who encouraged their interest in music. His father was an undertaker who allowed Alan to wear his top hat and long frock coat when performing for guests at the family home.

Alan and his younger brother, Derek – the Rollers’ future drummer – went to Tynecastle high school, which Alan left at 15. After a year of office work he was apprenticed as a plumber, but the job was secondary to his yearning to be a musician, he eventuallyt hit the big time as the bassist and founding member of the Bay City Rollers, the band that hit the heights of pop fame in the 1970s, of his fame he said he was “Just a plumber from Edinburgh who got lucky” .

The group he started in 1964 dominated mid-70s pop both in Britain and internationally, selling around 100m records – the precise total, and royalties owed the band, have never been established, spawning a long-running dispute with their former record label and their late manager Tam Paton.

In their peak year, 1975, they had two UK No 1 singles, including the signature hit Bye Bye Baby; the end of that year saw them top the American chart with the stomping Saturday Night – a foundational influence on the Ramones. When they played live, fans showed their appreciation by breaking seats; consequently, many venues refused to book them. They were the biggest pop sensation since the Beatles, and of the pop idols who have followed, only One Direction have inspired quite the same frenzy.

Like the rest of the Rollers, Longmuir, the band’s bassist, felt trapped by fame and the concomitant erosion of their privacy. Unlike the others, he refused to observe their manager’s edict against drinking alcohol and having girlfriends. In 1976, he was sacked because he was “too old and too hard to control”, according to Simon Spence’s 2016 biography The Dark History of the Bay City Rollers. Longmuir himself said: “I had a fallout with [manager Tam Paton] because I wanted to get a life.”

The public were told that he had chosen to go; in his first photo session as an ex-Roller, he wore a three-piece business suit – tantamount to sticking two fingers up at the band, who were forced to wear matching tartan outfits during all public sightings.

After his departure from the group in 1976, he released a solo single, I’m Confessing, but spent much of his time fishing and looking after his horses on his farm in Dollar, Clackmannanshire.

He viewed the 70s with wry humour, saying in 2008: “I remember sitting at the bar of the Beverly Hills hotel – there was Patrick Magee, Barbra Streisand, David Soul – and Alan Longmuir, the plumber from Edinburgh.”

In 1978, Paton asked him to rejoin, thinking that Longmuir, then nearly 30, would exert a stabilising influence. He left again in 1983, and repeated the process several times, he returned to working as a plumber and from 2000 until retirement was a bylaws inspector. His fringe show debuted in 2014 and came back to the festival every year since .

The band again reunited for a successful 2016 reunion tour.

Alan Longmuir passed away two years later on July 2nd 2018, in Mexico where he was on holiday with his wife Eileen.

At the time of his death, the band were again inactive, and he was working on the latest version of his successful Edinburgh fringe show, a music-and-memories production called I Ran With the Gang. He was also preparing an autobiography for release later that year.

[richwall101]

Massive Attack - of Bristol UK

Massive Attack are an English trip hop collective formed in 1988 in Bristol by Robert "3D" Del Naja, Adrian "Tricky" Thaws, Andrew "Mushroom" Vowles and Grant "Daddy G" Marshall.

The debut Massive Attack album Blue Lines was released in 1991, with the single "Unfinished Sympathy" reaching the charts and later being voted the 63rd greatest song of all time in a poll by NME.[1998's Mezzanine (containing the top 10 single "Teardrop") and 2003's 100th Window charted in the UK at number one. Both Blue Lines and Mezzanine feature in Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

The group has won numerous music awards throughout their career, including a Brit Award—winning Best British Dance Act, two MTV Europe Music Awards, and two Q Awards. They have released five studio albums that have sold over 13 million copies worldwide. Throughout their history, Massive Attack have been supporters and activists for political, human rights and environmental causes.

[beyondthespheres]

RIP Mark Stewart

[omegaplus]

# 4,289

Darkness finds; 2022.

@postpunkindustrial has become one of the most thorough and present accounts on here. In fact, @womenofnoise declared him one of three parts of The Unholy Trinity. He's posted many finds from industrial, breakcore, new wave, goth rock, no-wave, experimental sounds, and also hip-hop. He's also one of the most generous, too. From time to time he'll open some releases for download to all of his followers and passers-by to grab.

One good thing about underground and obscure musicks is that once you feel you've heard it all, there's always something that's you've either overlooked or didn't know existed. If you had before, at least you're relieved to know that someone else has also been where you came from. And if not? That's a chance to explore some news sounds and appreciate the ones you've already had.

Here's only a few of many grabs that's available, including new ones I came across as I revisited last year's finds. These are all coming into play as I attempt to come back and reach for many purchases in my possession I've yet to listen to.

Siglo XX: self-titled

Clock DVA: Advantage

* various artists: New York Noise Vol. 1-3.

Gridlock: Further

Rubberoom: Architechnology

Parasite vs. Electromeca: C'mon PunXXX!!! Counterattack!!!

Gravediggaz: 6 Feet Deep

God: The Anatomy Of Addiction

Thunderinas, The: Blower

Ślepcy: Absent Opera

Mark Stewart & The Maffia: Learning To Cope With Cowardice

Somatic Responses: Uncivilized World

Xanopticon: Même Mage

* various artists: The Last Supper

Muslimgauze: Lo-Fi India Abuse

Tools You Can Trust: Working And Shopping

[hiveswap]

my heavy smoker grandparents came over very briefly and the whole house smells like absolute shit now. So I (chronic tumblrina) got thinking.

[creativebookwormprice82]

New steps one for sorrow edit (my ultimate favorite steps song). 🖤🩷

[chronivore]

[kdjonesfla]

Belinda Carlisle 

[y2k-2day]

From their 2001 album, “Lickin’ on Both Sides”, it’s All I Want from Miss-Teeq

“It’s a UK fing”

[genericamentegiuseppe]

Witness K - Witness K

Quand'è che tradizione e sperimentazione trovano un equilibrio? Quando un disco fuori da ogni catalogazione propone "buona" sperimentazione e quando invece una "cattiva" avanguardia?

Etichetta: ever/neverPaese: AustraliaAnno: 2023 Continue reading Untitled

[saramencken]

original poster made for the 'Y' UK tour in 1979, artwork by Rich Beale

Via @ThePopGroup