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A weekly newsletter of music discoveries and re-discoveries for discerning listeners. Occasional tangents. Based in the Hudson Valley, NY. ListeningHabit.substack.com
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I really misjudged this one.
Misheard song lyrics:

“Hold me closer, Tony Danza.”
We mark time according to celebrity deaths… “It was the Christmas when George Michael died.”
I want to shoot music videos there.
They really waited for just the right light to shoot those listings photos. That’s an old money part of CT. Gotta wait for the right buyer at that price point.
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Here’s one for your spring concert calendar, Hudson Valley folks. This group currently residing near Livingston Manor puts on an excellent show.

They were the first live music I saw coming out of the pandemic — it was an outdoor stage set up in the parking lot of the abandoned IBM headquarters.
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Wow, that’s interesting. How did he start that? Was he coming at it as a sound engineer or a firefighter?
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Them: what’s your internal monologue like?
Me:
As long as it’s not an immanent manifest destiny situation, that’ll work
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[kool keith voice] i eliminated 85% of microplastics from my ejaculate
Sitting in the parking lot with a blunt as the sun goes down after another long day putting in work type loosie from Chuck Strangers. 🎧

#musicsky #hiphop

chuckstrangers.bandcamp.com/track/torn-i...
Torn in Two, by Chuck Strangers
track by Chuck Strangers
chuckstrangers.bandcamp.com
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Would he make your hot celeb liszt?

Happy birthday to Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, and famed heartthrob Franz Liszt, born #onthisday in 1811. Leon Botstein explores what we can still learn from "possibly the greatest pianist that has ever lived” publicdomainreview.org/essay/w...
I often return to this Dougie Poole record from a few years back. The perfect blend of ‘70s AM Radio, irreverent country (in the Ween tradition), and a dash of Grateful Dead circa “Touch of Grey”. A cornucopia of observations abt contemporary civilization.

dougiepoole.bandcamp.com/album/the-fr...
The Freelancer's Blues, by Dougie Poole
9 track album
dougiepoole.bandcamp.com
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“AYOOOOO where was the thunder?”

(Werewolves in London)
Misheard song lyrics:

“Hold me closer, Tony Danza.”