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@gloriousnoise.bsky.social

Hi! I've been doing gloriousnoise.com since 2001.

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Jake@gloriousnoise.bsky.social · 2d ago

To meet the criteria for gold record certification, a single must achieve 500,000 units where a unit equals a permanent download or 150 streams. Today, this pretty much means “No Children” has been streamed 75 MILLION times. That’s a lot!

the Mountain Goats@themountaingoats.bsky.social · 2d ago

I don't even know what to say. This is real, this is true, so, like, thank you all, from the bottom of my heart. This took over 25 years to happen so if there's any lesson here it's either "keep at it, who knows" or "many people are divorced"

image of a gold record superimposed on part of Vaughan Oliver's iconic cover for the Mountain Goats' "Tallahassee" album, with a banner beneath it showing the entire album cover, an RIAA seal, and the text: Presented to THE MOUNTAIN GOATS to commemorate the RIAA Gold certification of more than 500,000 copies of the 4AD single "No Children"
Jake@gloriousnoise.bsky.social · 2d ago

I’m so sad. One of my favorite places in Chicago is closing. Glad we made it there over Lollapalooza weekend, but I’m crushed. Best cheese grits in the world. https://www.instagram.com/p/DblSsPxOkyR/

Wishbone Restaurant on Instagram: "We are saddened to announce that, after 36 years, Wishbone will be closing. While we don’t yet have a closing date, our goal is to remain open through the end of August. If Wishbone has ever been part of your story, we would love to welcome you back one more time. #wishbonechicago #chicagofood #chicagorestaurants #westloopchicago"

763 likes, 189 comments - wishbonechicago on August 3, 2026: "We are saddened to announce that, after 36 years, Wishbone will be closing. While we don’t yet have a closing date, our goal is to remain open through the end of August. If Wishbone has ever been part of your story, we would love to welcome you back one more time. #wishbonechicago #chicagofood #chicagorestaurants #westloopchicago".

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Live Tapes@livetapes.heads.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d ago

Parliament-Funkadelic - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 11-1976 https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2026/08/parliament-funkadelic-ebbets-field.html

Parliament-Funkadelic - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 11-1976

One thing I've been enjoying about the Ebbets Field radio broadcasts I've been posting is the wide variety of music that was performed in this small Denver venue (which only held a maximum of 250 people). It didn't matter what kind of music was on offer there, so long as it was good. Even so, I'm pleasantly surprised that the funk band Parliament-Funkadelic played there in late 1976. I would have thought they would have been too popular at that time to play such a small venue, but I could imagine that the Denver area wasn't a hotbed of funk back then. Here's the Wikipedia entry intro: "Parliament-Funkadelic (abbreviated as P-Funk) is an American music collective of rotating musicians headed by George Clinton, primarily consisting of the funk bands Parliament and Funkadelic, both active since the 1960s. With an eclectic style drawing on psychedelia, outlandish fashion, and surreal humor, they have released albums such as 'Maggot Brain' (1971), 'Mothership Connection' (1975), and 'One Nation Under a Groove' (1978) to critical praise, and scored charting hits with singles such as 'Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof Off the Sucker)' (1975) and 'Flash Light' (1978). Overall, the collective achieved thirteen top ten hits in the American R&B music charts between 1967 and 1983, including six number one hits. Their work has had an influential effect on subsequent funk, post-punk, hip-hop, and techno artists of the 1980s and 1990s, while their collective mythology has helped pioneer Afrofuturism." Also, if you're curious about the band's name - is it two bands or one? - here's the explanation from Wikipedia as well: "By the late 1960s, [George] Clinton had gained experience as a producer-writer for Motown Records and, inspired by artists such as Jimi Hendrix, Sly Stone, and Frank Zappa, he relocated to Detroit and enlisted musicians from his New Jersey days in his own two sister bands Parliament and Funkadelic; the first would go on to develop a commercially successful style of science-fiction-inspired funk, while the second pursued a heavier sound which blended funk with psychedelic rock. The name 'Parliament-Funkadelic' became the catch-all term for the dozens of related musicians recording and touring different projects in Clinton's orbit. ... [By 1974,] the two bands began to tour together under the collective name 'Parliament-Funkadelic.'" Here's the link for the entire entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament-Funkadelic In July 1976, Parliament released the album "The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein." They also had a hit single in 1976 with "Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof Off the Sucker)." Although that came off their previous album, released in 1975, it didn't reach Gold status until October 1976, just a month prior to this concert. Meanwhile, Funkadelic released the album "Tales of Kidd Funkadelic" in September 1976. So the combined bands had a lot of new music to perform in this concert. As far as I know, this concert recording remains unreleased. This album is an hour and 17 minutes long. 01 Children of Production (Parliament-Funkadelic) 02 Mothership Connection (Parliament-Funkadelic) 03 Swing Down, Sweet Chariot (Parliament-Funkadelic) 04 Dr. Funkenstein (Parliament-Funkadelic) 05 Coming Round the Mountain (Parliament-Funkadelic) 06 Give Up the Funk [Tear the Roof Off the Sucker] (Parliament-Funkadelic) 07 Cosmic Slop (Parliament-Funkadelic) 08 Red Hot Momma (Parliament-Funkadelic) 09 Let's Take It to the Stage (Parliament-Funkadelic) 10 Do That Stuff (Parliament-Funkadelic) https://pixeldrain.com/u/ih8qEUgD alternate: https://bestfile.io/en/VlrsM4Pir7CjTod/file The cover image of band leader George Clinton is from a concert in Los Angeles, California, on June 4, 1977.

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Jake@gloriousnoise.bsky.social · 7d ago

Learned a new young person phrase today from my wife who has many young person clients. A “bang maid” is a derogatory term for someone who gets married to live off their spouse and fulfill the obligations implied in the title. Similar to a trad wife but less performative.