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Title: What song are you listening to right now?
Post by: The Fool on Mon 01/07/2013 19:44:32
Classic off topic that I always loved ;)

Eric Clapton - Circus Left Town

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veGF9Vjo_IE
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Post by: Ghost on Mon 01/07/2013 20:59:28
That's funny. I'm brooding over some sprites and have Psycho Circus by KISS in teh backgrounds. Circus surely comes to town.
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Post by: Stee on Mon 01/07/2013 22:09:17
Papa Roach - Silence is the Enemy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mkeU2iGrvQ

sounds very Prodigy-y

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Post by: miguel on Tue 02/07/2013 10:24:55
Ottawan - DISCO (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSi4HE0OBcA)

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Post by: The Fool on Tue 02/07/2013 11:45:46
Jon Lajoie - Too fast  :-D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=839DO8-0cY8
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Post by: milkanannan on Mon 24/07/2017 15:40:55
Thoroughly enjoying this revisit of Vince Guaraldi (he wrote the Snoopy Christmas theme) 8-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QG2-i5NHxmc
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Post by: horusr on Mon 24/07/2017 15:45:35
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7QF68AJMAM
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Post by: 2ma2 on Tue 15/08/2017 01:36:43
"Otherwheres" by Lake of Tears
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Post by: milkanannan on Sat 19/08/2017 06:51:55
Indie Game The Movie soundtrack (Jim Guthrie):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y63fr6wciDY
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Post by: Click'd on Sat 19/08/2017 13:24:56
No idea if that counts as a song but
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The Picard Song by Dark Materia
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Post by: milkanannan on Fri 29/09/2017 19:00:38
Give this a chance ~ Crystal Castles is (was) an amazing duo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O2y2n4HfMY
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Post by: dactylopus on Sat 30/09/2017 20:14:38
I am listening to this song:  High School by Shampoo.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/xowgM581Ok8
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Post by: Atelier on Tue 10/10/2017 19:35:09
Jami Sieber - Maenam, ie Braid soundtrack!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kWo8N4QNXM
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Post by: milkanannan on Thu 19/10/2017 18:33:31
To me one of the greatest albums written:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuoTdnq_OqE
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Post by: Kumpel on Thu 19/10/2017 23:39:48
A must for movie soundtrack fans:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Isic2Z2e2xs
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Post by: Mouth for war on Mon 23/10/2017 21:10:15
Fleshgod Apocalypse - The violation, while working on somereally toony graphics. Very fitting haha :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjKyzwqIT7s
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Post by: SinSin on Sun 03/12/2017 08:47:00
This has been in my head for days ..
 
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Post by: dactylopus on Tue 05/12/2017 01:27:49
I love that old Raccoons theme song!

For me, it's this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAtGOESO7W8
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Post by: Atelier on Wed 06/12/2017 21:40:20
Some Midwest emo ;) (cue internet flamewar about music genres)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGRPC3Dcj_E
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Post by: milkanannan on Fri 08/12/2017 03:55:14
Quote from: Atelier on Tue 10/10/2017 19:35:09
Jami Sieber - Maenam, ie Braid soundtrack!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kWo8N4QNXM

Nice!
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Post by: dactylopus on Thu 14/12/2017 19:23:51
Quote from: Atelier on Wed 06/12/2017 21:40:20
Some Midwest emo ;) (cue internet flamewar about music genres)
...
I loved this.  Even though this was in the mid '00s, it felt like it was from the mid '90s.

So I'm currently listening to this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbLX9FncTQg
That song rocks so hard.  I'd love to hear a great band do like a 7+ minute version of it.  The outro music is also one of my favorites from the show.  Such great music in this old cartoon.
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Post by: milkanannan on Fri 08/03/2019 16:40:55


Love this song. And the video is hilarious.  (laugh)
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Post by: Tycho Magnetic Anomaly on Fri 08/03/2019 19:02:18
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Post by: milkanannan on Fri 08/03/2019 19:31:49
Quote from: Tycho Magnetic Anomaly on Fri 08/03/2019 19:02:18


Nice   8-) never heard of this guy. Sounds like what I imagine progressive 1960s America to be.
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Post by: mkennedy on Mon 11/03/2019 03:38:48
Indians by Anthrax.
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Post by: Galen on Mon 11/03/2019 17:25:16
Quote from: Tycho Magnetic Anomaly on Fri 08/03/2019 19:02:18


That is basically:



to my ears.
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Post by: WHAM on Mon 11/03/2019 17:56:56
Been getting into Sunless Skies for the past couple weeks and this little piece has been stuck in my head. Thus, I share:
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Post by: Mandarinas45 on Thu 14/03/2019 06:01:55
Damien Rice - What if I'm Wrong     in my personal opinion, the best lyrics that i have ever heard 
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Post by: Snarky on Thu 14/03/2019 10:07:19
I went to see Florence + The Machine in concert the other day, and have been listening a lot to "Rabbit Heart" (which they didn't play, I'm just a sucker for the mythic imagery) and "South London Forever" in the days since. Bootleg video from the same tour:

https://youtu.be/nnhQCgsMDyc
(SLF at 29:40)
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Post by: Ponch on Thu 14/03/2019 13:16:50
I've been diving deep into various flavors of punk lately. Last week was pop punk (Andrew WK and that kind of stuff). This week is southern-fried punk.

https://youtu.be/Lrbi3yOkYiU
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Post by: Tycho Magnetic Anomaly on Thu 14/03/2019 13:38:33

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Post by: Mouth for war on Thu 14/03/2019 14:07:02


Fired this up just now. These are buddies of mine, semi-famous I guess. They did open for AC/DC a few years ago so that's quite an achievement :D I had a few band projects with the drummer back in the days

And that lead me to this good ol' classic. The baddest asses of rock n roll :D I never get tired of the guitar riff that begins at about 0:35 No matter how many times I listen to this song, I never get tired of that riff :D



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Post by: Adeel on Thu 14/03/2019 15:14:20
I can never get tired of listening to Hotel California. The intro, chord sequence, and the outro solo---everything about this song is so mesmerizing. There are three versions of this song which I repeatedly listen to:

1. Hotel California --- Live in Washington DC 1977
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bFuqQlcvOE
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2. Hotel California --- MTV Unplugged 1994
Spoiler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctXeHc9_kr8
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3. Hotel California --- Don Felder's Acoustic Guitar Performance in The Jeff Probst Show
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir6PCWx1ruA
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Post by: Blondbraid on Thu 14/03/2019 17:54:58
I mainly watched this because of the crazy awesome music video, but the song is great too;
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Post by: milkanannan on Fri 15/03/2019 02:58:12
Did you know the Offspring singer, Dexter Holland, has a PhD in molecular biology? Always found that tidbit interesting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dexter_Holland
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Post by: milkanannan on Fri 15/03/2019 03:44:43
Somewhat mysterious and sombre background music to work to (tones of David Lynch, Kid A and Lowroar). It's a nice misty morning here in the Emirates, so these tracks are a perfect accompaniment.  ;)



(Jim Guthrie)

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Post by: Blondbraid on Fri 15/03/2019 09:57:43
Quote from: man n fist on Fri 15/03/2019 02:58:12
Did you know the Offspring singer, Dexter Holland, has a PhD in molecular biology? Always found that tidbit interesting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dexter_Holland
I had no idea, though I'm not surprised. There are a great deal of celebrities out there who have high degrees in various fields.  :)
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Post by: milkanannan on Fri 15/03/2019 11:32:08
Quote from: Blondbraid on Fri 15/03/2019 09:57:43
Quote from: man n fist on Fri 15/03/2019 02:58:12
Did you know the Offspring singer, Dexter Holland, has a PhD in molecular biology? Always found that tidbit interesting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dexter_Holland
I had no idea, though I'm not surprised. There are a great deal of celebrities out there who have high degrees in various fields.  :)

Yeah I'm not saying there aren't, but I mean... look at this guy.  (laugh)

(https://i.imgur.com/95whEL3.jpg)
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Post by: Tycho Magnetic Anomaly on Fri 15/03/2019 12:55:19
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Post by: Tycho Magnetic Anomaly on Sat 16/03/2019 18:20:54
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Post by: Blondbraid on Sat 16/03/2019 18:39:38
Quote from: man n fist on Fri 15/03/2019 11:32:08
Quote from: Blondbraid on Fri 15/03/2019 09:57:43
Quote from: man n fist on Fri 15/03/2019 02:58:12
Did you know the Offspring singer, Dexter Holland, has a PhD in molecular biology? Always found that tidbit interesting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dexter_Holland
I had no idea, though I'm not surprised. There are a great deal of celebrities out there who have high degrees in various fields.  :)

Yeah I'm not saying there aren't, but I mean... look at this guy.  (laugh)

(https://i.imgur.com/95whEL3.jpg)
Well, in Sweden there's a saying about not judging someone based on their appearance; Don't judge the dog by it's hair, or in this case, the hideous hippie haircut with feathers in it!  (laugh)
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Post by: dactylopus on Sun 17/03/2019 04:34:20
Lots of great tracks listed in here.  Thanks for sharing!

As for me, I recently got a new vehicle, and now I have access to a functioning CD player while I drive.  I also have AUX capabilities, but I found some old CD books while moving and have been going through them.  They are mostly mixed CDs I made myself, but I've been revisiting a lot of old memories through them.  I recently listened to this track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r99HxSSgzsw

That song reminded me of another from a fantastic movie I watched recently, so I listened to that as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtFCNu9x1IQ

And that was how I went down a rabbit hole...
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Post by: Galen on Sun 17/03/2019 16:17:34
Quote from: The Fool on Tue 02/07/2013 11:45:46
Jon Lajoie - Too fast  :-D

Then there's his recent efforts at making actual songs:



It's pretty good, even if it feels a bit too contemporary to my ears. I don't need every song to sound like an imitation Hosier. I suppose this is why I've gone off of indie-folk a bit (there's so many bands that sound completely indistinguishable).

As for what I'm listening to ATM:
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Post by: milkanannan on Sun 17/03/2019 16:41:25
Quote from: dactylopus on Sun 17/03/2019 04:34:20
Lots of great tracks listed in here.  Thanks for sharing!

As for me, I recently got a new vehicle, and now I have access to a functioning CD player while I drive.  I also have AUX capabilities, but I found some old CD books while moving and have been going through them.  They are mostly mixed CDs I made myself, but I've been revisiting a lot of old memories through them.  I recently listened to this track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r99HxSSgzsw

That song reminded me of another from a fantastic movie I watched recently, so I listened to that as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtFCNu9x1IQ

And that was how I went down a rabbit hole...

Listened to that Sigur Ros album constantly back in the day! My wife and I put it on every once in a while now, too.

That second track is interesting.
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Post by: milkanannan on Sun 17/03/2019 16:46:38
My ultimate stress relief track (supposed has some science behind it: https://www.inc.com/melanie-curtin/neuroscience-says-listening-to-this-one-song-reduces-anxiety-by-up-to-65-percent.html ).

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Post by: Tycho Magnetic Anomaly on Sun 17/03/2019 17:59:15
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Post by: milkanannan on Wed 20/03/2019 17:46:59
Tycho, your track (very nice btw) reminds me of this specific Chick Corea track that I can't remember right now.  :confused:  Anyway, found another Chick Corea one. Look how tight these dudes are!

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Post by: milkanannan on Wed 20/03/2019 18:09:42
Ah here's the one I was thinking of. At 2 min mark onward it has a pulsing organ sound sort of similar to your track:

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Post by: Tycho Magnetic Anomaly on Sat 23/03/2019 17:39:38
Loving that funky jazz man n fist   :-D


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Post by: TheFrighter on Sat 23/03/2019 18:27:17

I can't translate the lyrics full of italian sexual puns, but I love the groove:



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Post by: milkanannan on Sun 24/03/2019 15:19:55
Quote from: TheFrighter on Sat 23/03/2019 18:27:17

I can't translate the lyrics full of italian sexual puns, but I love the groove:



_

Lol yeah I don't speak Italian, so just enjoying the groove. Makes me want to mix a negroni, board a Pan Am flight, and time travel to the 1970s.  (laugh)

Groove reminds me of this Pulp track:

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Post by: Tycho Magnetic Anomaly on Sun 24/03/2019 17:15:07
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Post by: dactylopus on Sun 24/03/2019 18:40:49
Quote from: Galen on Sun 17/03/2019 16:17:34
As for what I'm listening to ATM:


Nice.

Listening to this now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF0lVn3n12I
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Post by: selmiak on Wed 27/03/2019 21:49:55
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs5jbHHd59E
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Post by: milkanannan on Sat 30/03/2019 02:31:27
Nice little ambience if you need to get a few hours of work in:

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Post by: Tycho Magnetic Anomaly on Sat 30/03/2019 14:46:33
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Post by: KyriakosCH on Sat 30/03/2019 14:53:21
Quote from: man n fist on Sat 30/03/2019 02:31:27
Nice little ambience if you need to get a few hours of work in:



Nice!
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Post by: milkanannan on Sun 31/03/2019 03:34:25
Quote from: Tycho Magnetic Anomaly on Sat 30/03/2019 14:46:33
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I'm going to go out on a limb and say you like Walter Wanderley.  :-D His stuff sounds really nice!
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Post by: Blondbraid on Sun 31/03/2019 12:35:01
Quote from: KyriakosCH on Sat 30/03/2019 14:53:21
Quote from: man n fist on Sat 30/03/2019 02:31:27
Nice little ambience if you need to get a few hours of work in:



Nice!
Second, I always work better with something to listen to in the background!
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Post by: Tycho Magnetic Anomaly on Sun 31/03/2019 16:24:42
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QuoteI'm going to go out on a limb and say you like Walter Wanderley.  :-D His stuff sounds really nice!

man n fist, sure love him, I only discovered him a couple of years ago. I used to listen to a 60/70s lounge online radio station, and now and again they would play a walter wanderley track... I instantly loved his cheesy style, like elevator / super market music, lol.. its all a bit cheesy but i love it. Anyway since listening to that radio station I have searched into other stuff from him so my appreciation for him as grown.  I do listen to all types of other music though of course :)


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Post by: milkanannan on Sun 31/03/2019 18:21:14
@tycho Yeah you've got me listening to his stuff now too, although it makes my want to wear coke bottle glasses at a typewriter, chain smoke, and day drink something elaborate with a celery stalk in it  (laugh) lol yeah total cliche waiting room music. His tracks loosely remind me of Dmitri from Paris:

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Post by: Jack on Fri 05/04/2019 00:18:57
Requesting full volume.

Steppenwolf - Magic Carpet Ride (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGkGNCUQtWY)

Happy First Contact day.
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Post by: Tycho Magnetic Anomaly on Sun 07/04/2019 21:29:56
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Post by: Tycho Magnetic Anomaly on Sun 07/04/2019 21:35:15
Quoteman n fist,  i do adore dimitri from paris, have an album knocking about somewhere, thats an awesome track, never heard that one before


and ops, i forgot to post another wally tune yesterday, to make up for it here is a treat for you all, ultra rare footage of the man himself, in fact its the only live footage i have ever found of him

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QuotePlayback on other websites has been disabled by the video owner.
wtf ... err

LINK:   www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9aftG6pybA

Live sound quality is terrible, so here is the studio recording too www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMq2g1QPou4
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Post by: milkanannan on Fri 12/04/2019 03:50:29
Yeah that is weird that it won't play here. I clicked through and listened to the live track. Quality isn't too bad. I thought you meant it would be unlistenable. I actually like watching the live version and seeing how that music is made. Definitely a distinct sound.  :)

I've always loved this track:



...loved it so much I included it in my one and only AGS game. (laugh) Just has a grand, ballroom party pride to it with undertones of something sinister. Anyone recognise the movie it is from? Here's a clue:

(https://film-grab.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/3-party.png)
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Post by: milkanannan on Thu 02/05/2019 17:21:39
Some Ukrainian chill house. Perfect beer + sunset music.  :-D

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Post by: TheFrighter on Thu 02/05/2019 18:30:20

I'm not sure what genre is, but I like it:



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Post by: milkanannan on Fri 03/05/2019 12:41:36
Quote from: TheFrighter on Thu 02/05/2019 18:30:20

I'm not sure what genre is, but I like it:



_

Nice!
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Post by: Laura Hunt on Thu 25/07/2019 08:56:57
Hi! Is this thread still open?

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Lately I've been obsessed with this guy, who goes by King Krule, Zoo Kid, Archy Marshall and who knows how many more monikers. He's only 24 years old, he published his first album when he was 19, and his music is... how would I describe this... lo-fi late night croony jazz-blues with breakbeats and "chopped and screwed"-type hip hop beats. The embedded video is easily one of his most conventional songs, but the album The OOZ as a whole (and it is one of those albums that needs to be listened to as a whole) is just mind-blowingly weird, personal, experimental and unique. If this is what gen Z kids are bringing to the table, I'm SO in!

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Post by: milkanannan on Thu 25/07/2019 11:46:29
Nice - hadn't heard of that guy. Listening to OOZ right now (it's on YouTube if anyone else is interested).

Edit: guess I could just include it here:

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Post by: Laura Hunt on Thu 25/07/2019 15:44:08
Happy you like it! ;-D
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Post by: dactylopus on Thu 25/07/2019 18:44:59
I was introduced to this some while back:



I really like this one.  Great song, great video.
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Post by: milkanannan on Fri 09/08/2019 00:43:35
Let's not let this thread die my dudes! Here, no one hates Velvet Underground:



(I personally love this song so much. I can't even listen to it without being kind of reflective on my own younger days. Youth is such a blessing.)
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Post by: Laura Hunt on Fri 09/08/2019 12:00:50
Quote from: man n fist on Fri 09/08/2019 00:43:35Here, no one hates Velvet Underground:

* raises hand slowly *

(I don't really HATE them, I just HATE Lou Reed, and I think the VU only made 1 good album but I actually love All Tomorrow's Parties and Venus in Furs so they kind of get a pass for that I guess.)



Anyway, today is this kind of day for me. Anybody else into extreme metal around these parts?
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Post by: milkanannan on Fri 09/08/2019 16:53:30
Haha nice little diversion. Just out of curiosity - what do you do when you're listening to that music?
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Post by: Laura Hunt on Fri 09/08/2019 17:20:28
Quote from: man n fist on Fri 09/08/2019 16:53:30
Haha nice little diversion. Just out of curiosity - what do you do when you're listening to that music?

Snarl at everybody around me? Hahaha I don't know, that's a weird question! Same things I do when listening to other kinds of music, I guess... Browsing / reading stuff on the internet, working at the office, working out sometimes... It's not necessarily "angry music" for me, I just enjoy the sheer intensity of it (and in some cases, of course, also the actual musicianship, production, etc... those are the albums I enjoy listening to the most on my Good Headphones (tm) while taking a walk with no destination in mind or lying on the couch staring at the ceiling :))
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Post by: milkanannan on Fri 09/08/2019 18:05:46
Lol I only ask because I wouldn't be able to focus on anything (i.e. reading) if that were in my headphones, and if I walked around while listening to it I'd probably be in some headspace where death-staring everyone that goes by would seem appropriate.  (laugh)
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Post by: Jack on Fri 09/08/2019 18:36:16
Quote from: man n fist on Fri 09/08/2019 00:43:35
Velvet Underground

Nice.

Quote from: man n fist on Fri 12/04/2019 03:50:29
I've always loved this track:

Dmitri Shostakovich -  Waltz No. 2 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmCnQDUSO4I)

Also great, one of my favourite waltzes. It's from Eyes Wide Shut, of course. Every time I hear it I want to re-watch the film just a little bit more.

You are hereby cordially invited to turn up the volume. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7HNUVCv_X0)
.
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Post by: Laura Hunt on Fri 09/08/2019 18:43:28
Quote from: man n fist on Fri 09/08/2019 18:05:46
Lol I only ask because I wouldn't be able to focus on anything (i.e. reading) if that were in my headphones, and if I walked around while listening to it I'd probably be in some headspace where death-staring everyone that goes by would seem appropriate.  (laugh)

Funny, I find it to be great background music, to the point that sometimes I'll even put on something like this when I want to take a nap :-D I guess it's such a pummeling wall of noise that at some point my brain just registers it as a drone!
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Post by: milkanannan on Fri 09/08/2019 22:27:29
Quote from: Jack on Fri 09/08/2019 18:36:16
Quote from: man n fist on Fri 09/08/2019 00:43:35
Velvet Underground

Nice.

Quote from: man n fist on Fri 12/04/2019 03:50:29
I've always loved this track:

Dmitri Shostakovich -  Waltz No. 2 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmCnQDUSO4I)

Also great, one of my favourite waltzes. It's from Eyes Wide Shut, of course. Every time I hear it I want to re-watch the film just a little bit more.

You are hereby cordially invited to turn up the volume. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7HNUVCv_X0)
.

Jack just embedding the video from your comment. Yeah I love this track too! Jarvis Cocker's lyrics are also always very clever:

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Post by: milkanannan on Fri 09/08/2019 22:45:43
Riding the Pulp tangent to a random sexual crescendo (laugh)

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Post by: milkanannan on Fri 09/08/2019 22:47:01
Quote from: notarobotyet on Fri 09/08/2019 18:43:28
Quote from: man n fist on Fri 09/08/2019 18:05:46
Lol I only ask because I wouldn't be able to focus on anything (i.e. reading) if that were in my headphones, and if I walked around while listening to it I'd probably be in some headspace where death-staring everyone that goes by would seem appropriate.  (laugh)

Funny, I find it to be great background music, to the point that sometimes I'll even put on something like this when I want to take a nap :-D I guess it's such a pummeling wall of noise that at some point my brain just registers it as a drone!

Lol that's hilarious but yeah makes sense. Yeah can be hard to pick out the different parts of the music at times. Almost like white noise I guess.
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Post by: milkanannan on Fri 09/08/2019 22:50:10
@notarobotyet do you like Emperor?

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Post by: Laura Hunt on Sat 10/08/2019 05:59:53
Quote from: man n fist on Fri 09/08/2019 22:50:10
@notarobotyet do you like Emperor?

Not really, no. Those keyboards and the generally "epic" feel of their music never quite clicked with me... In general I prefer my black metal either rougher around the edges, like Darkthrone or Mayhem, or way more experimental and twisted like Dodecahedron or early Blut Aus Nord. Emperor are, like, too mainstream, man :cool:
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Post by: Creamy on Sat 10/08/2019 12:04:50
Man n fist, I love how you balance Pulp with Emperor in your last two posts. It's quite a leap  :grin:

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Post by: milkanannan on Sat 10/08/2019 14:18:06
Haha actually if you read up the thread a little bit I'm writing in response to notarobot's post. It's their fault!  (laugh)
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Post by: Jack on Sun 11/08/2019 00:19:38
Brenda Spencer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHhCSvBXA_0)
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Post by: LimpingFish on Sun 11/08/2019 03:47:57
Spotify is throwing random songs at me at the moment, based on my listening habits. And it's a fairly terrible algorithm, if I'm being honest. It's either songs that I listen to regularly (so why recommend them?), or songs that have the most tenuous of links to what I currently jive to. Bleh!

Anyway, at the moment it's...The Four Horsemen (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVExlaxaweo) by Aphrodite's Child.



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Post by: dactylopus on Sun 11/08/2019 13:05:02
Quote from: man n fist on Fri 09/08/2019 22:27:29
Jack just embedding the video from your comment. Yeah I love this track too! Jarvis Cocker's lyrics are also always very clever:
This is a great track.

What I'm currently listening to:

Floor Baba - Neon Death

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Post by: milkanannan on Sun 11/08/2019 20:40:03
Cool one, dact. Loosely reminds me a bit of this new age music my parents used to listen to when I was a kid (I know some may find this horribly overproduced, but I can't help feeling nostalgic for it! (laugh) ):

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Post by: milkanannan on Sun 11/08/2019 20:45:25
Quote from: notarobotyet on Sat 10/08/2019 05:59:53
Quote from: man n fist on Fri 09/08/2019 22:50:10
@notarobotyet do you like Emperor?

Not really, no. Those keyboards and the generally "epic" feel of their music never quite clicked with me... In general I prefer my black metal either rougher around the edges, like Darkthrone or Mayhem, or way more experimental and twisted like Dodecahedron or early Blut Aus Nord. Emperor are, like, too mainstream, man :cool:

I get this feeling you could talk emphatically and at length about the nuances of black metal, which I have to say wins my award for most original skill of 2019.  :-D
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Post by: milkanannan on Sun 11/08/2019 20:51:21
OK I'm listening to Blut Aus Nord now:

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Post by: fernewelten on Sun 11/08/2019 21:49:45
Artificial noise: Midnight Bazaar (https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/custom.php?c=0&l=35353535353535353535&m=BERBER2~KOSHI2~CAFE3~KOSHI4~RPGVILLAGE6~PALMGARDEN26~RAMASUNDAR6~RPGVILLAGE7~PANFLUTE8~BERBER9&d=0itle=The%20Midnight%20Bazaar)

I also highly recommend the cat purring machine(https://purrli.com/Pix/purrliCat.png) (https://purrli.com/) from the same website author (Stéphane Pigeon, Ph.D.), or for the more musical inclined, the Sleeping Dragon (https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/sleepingDragonToneGenerator.php?l=00000028323225000005&a=1&am=6&m=&d=0).
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Post by: Laura Hunt on Mon 12/08/2019 06:40:37
Quote from: fernewelten on Sun 11/08/2019 21:49:45
Artificial noise: Midnight Bazaar (https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/custom.php?c=0&l=35353535353535353535&m=BERBER2~KOSHI2~CAFE3~KOSHI4~RPGVILLAGE6~PALMGARDEN26~RAMASUNDAR6~RPGVILLAGE7~PANFLUTE8~BERBER9&d=0&title=The%20Midnight%20Bazaar)

I also highly recommend the cat purring machine(https://purrli.com/Pix/purrliCat.png) (https://purrli.com/) from the same website author (Stéphane Pigeon, Ph.D.), or for the more musical inclined, the Sleeping Dragon (https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/sleepingDragonToneGenerator.php?l=00000028323225000005&a=1&am=6&m=&d=0).

The Sleeping Dragon is so cool! I can see myself swapping my white noise for this next time I want something soothing to fall asleep to ;-D

Quote from: man n fist on Sun 11/08/2019 20:45:25I get this feeling you could talk emphatically and at length about the nuances of black metal, which I have to say wins my award for most original skill of 2019.  :-D

I mean... any metalhead WILL give you a three-hour lecture on the nuances and little details of their favourite sub-sub-sub-genre if you give them the chance. It's just the way it is :-D

Quote from: man n fist on Sun 11/08/2019 20:51:21OK I'm listening to Blut Aus Nord now:

Non non non, erroné! I said "early" Blut Aus Nord. Here:



Like one commenter says, this is so out there that I'm not even sure it qualifies as metal anymore. Or music? But does it have to? ¯\_(ãƒ,,)_/¯
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Post by: milkanannan on Mon 12/08/2019 11:40:44
^That's a love ballad compared to the earlier track you posted. (laugh) For sure it's music but definitely pushing towards the border of "wait a sec is this actually noise?" Makes the listener explore some new emotions/headspace.

Alice Glass' stuff is not quite to that extreme but perhaps leaning in the direction:

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Post by: Laura Hunt on Mon 12/08/2019 12:58:40
Hehehe if you looped the first 4 seconds of that last song you posted, you might have something I'd be interested in. I used to be into noise, powerviolence and death industrial when I was a goth who didn't want to be called a goth so I got into the most extreme sub-scene I could find :-D I got out of there because it was so full of nazis, though... kind of like black metal but even more obvious because these dudes would straight up come out on stage dressed in uniform :-X It was super gross (and the "music" wasn't that amazing tbh, most of it was ooooo look at meeee shock valueeee I have a bunch of WWII samples and a distooooortion peeeedal oooooo) and once I realized that it was pretty much a breeding ground for white supremacists and incels (what did we even call them back then? "Pathetic inbred losers"?), I was like I'm sooo outta here.

Sigh... we'll never be young again.

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Post by: milkanannan on Mon 12/08/2019 15:26:37
^The interesting thing about this 'music' is it really does stir (at least in me) emotions and and feelings of horror, disorientation and helplessness, which I'm guessing is what the band was going after. Perhaps these are emotions incels and other types experience in day-to-day life when they engage contemporary society? (Not to get into it, but it is kind of an interesting discussion point.)

That's crazy about your sub-scene experiences! I thought that sort of death-metal-extreme-right hybrid culture was more Hollywood constructed than anything.
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Post by: milkanannan on Mon 12/08/2019 15:40:23
Rhapsody in Blue (from that opening scene in Manhattan with Woody Allen's narration - haha not entirely focused on the music, but I like the general combination of art in this opener!)

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Post by: Laura Hunt on Mon 12/08/2019 16:26:02
Quote from: man n fist on Mon 12/08/2019 15:26:37
^The interesting thing about this 'music' is it really does stir (at least in me) emotions and and feelings of horror, disorientation and helplessness, which I'm guessing is what the band was going after. Perhaps these are emotions incels and other types experience in day-to-day life when they engage contemporary society? (Not to get into it, but it is kind of an interesting discussion point.)

I think it was more just... straight up the aesthetics and the lyrics? Most of these "bands" were just a guy or two in a suit or a uniform bashing a keyboard or a kettle drum while shouting about how everybody was a sheep except THEM and how THEY were the chosen ones and everybody else was barely sentient zombies except THEM. I think all that crap they were being sold about being part of a very special "elite" is what brought a huge majority of them in, reinforced by extremely limited and hand-numbered album editions and the like, which added to the "kult" aspect of it all and is something that a very specific subtype of dudes just LOVES (laugh)

Anyway, enough darkness and weirdness and noise, I'm going to finish this off with the super relaxing and soothing (for real) stuff I use for scripting/coding/level design/asking stupid technical questions on them here forums  :)


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Post by: Jack on Mon 12/08/2019 19:32:46
Quote from: notarobotyet on Mon 12/08/2019 12:58:40
(what did we even call them back then? "Pathetic inbred losers"?)

Neo-nazis. They're LARPers. I always wonder about these people who adopt an image that would make them look tough, obviously they themselves feel they are not tough enough, what is everyone else supposed to think? Guess they expect others to put as little thought into their life choices as they did.

The Man Comes Around (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiMXK9eDrMY)
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Post by: milkanannan on Mon 12/08/2019 20:51:54
Quote from: notarobotyet on Mon 12/08/2019 16:26:02
...everybody was a sheep except THEM and how THEY were the chosen ones and everybody else was barely sentient zombies except THEM. I think all that crap they were being sold about being part of a very special "elite" is what brought a huge majority of them in...

Lol this could totally be used to describe a hipster (laugh)

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Post by: Laura Hunt on Wed 14/08/2019 07:39:25
Quote from: Jack on Mon 12/08/2019 19:32:46
Quote from: notarobotyet on Mon 12/08/2019 12:58:40
(what did we even call them back then? "Pathetic inbred losers"?)

Neo-nazis. They're LARPers. I always wonder about these people who adopt an image that would make them look tough, obviously they themselves feel they are not tough enough, what is everyone else supposed to think? Guess they expect others to put as little thought into their life choices as they did.

The Man Comes Around (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiMXK9eDrMY)

Must have missed this one with the page change. Yeah, there's a certain kind of hilarious irony in seeing people like these claiming to be all unique enlightened individuals and totally not a bunch of sheep and then going around all dressed the same (as in, literally in uniform), licking their favourite artists' boots and trying to convince everyone that they had read "Revolt Against the Modern World" back-to-back (roll)

I wonder what's become of them... I recently came across a girl online I used to know back in the day who was SO into Aryan rethoric that she actually married a German guy and moved to Munich. She's now a devoted housewife, lmao, sorry not sorry for the schadenfreude (laugh)


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Post by: milkanannan on Wed 14/08/2019 12:28:02
Quote from: notarobotyet on Wed 14/08/2019 07:39:25
totally not a bunch of sheep and then going around all dressed the same (as in, literally in uniform)

(laugh)
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Post by: Jack on Thu 22/08/2019 18:51:23
Quote from: Laura Hunt on Wed 14/08/2019 07:39:25
She's now a devoted housewife, lmao, sorry not sorry for the schadenfreude (laugh)

This one I don't get. She missed out on the opportunity to be a wage slave, and can raise her own children instead. What a loser, right? I think a family where a parent can raise their own children is very fortunate.

Anyway, here's a great song: Highwayman (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouZSLckCvgQ)
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Post by: Laura Hunt on Fri 23/08/2019 12:51:32
Quote from: Jack on Thu 22/08/2019 18:51:23
Quote from: Laura Hunt on Wed 14/08/2019 07:39:25
She's now a devoted housewife, lmao, sorry not sorry for the schadenfreude (laugh)

This one I don't get. She missed out on the opportunity to be a wage slave, and can raise her own children instead. What a loser, right? I think a family where a parent can raise their own children is very fortunate.

lmao she's still a wage slave, except not even to her own wage but somebody else's.
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Post by: dactylopus on Fri 23/08/2019 15:49:35
Quote from: Jack on Thu 22/08/2019 18:51:23
Anyway, here's a great song: Highwayman (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouZSLckCvgQ)
Wasn't sure I'd like it at first, but it is a nice track.

This is what I was listening to before I clicked that link:

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Post by: Snarky on Fri 23/08/2019 17:23:18
Happened to hear this today, and was reminded of what a beautiful song it is.

St. Vincent's cover of Nico's "These Days":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV4Rz8stPro
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Post by: Laura Hunt on Fri 23/08/2019 18:02:34
Quote from: Snarky on Fri 23/08/2019 17:23:18
Happened to hear this today, and was reminded of what a beautiful song it is.

St. Vincent's cover of Nico's "These Days":

<3

I'm not a fan of Nico's "Chelsea Girl" days, but this song always hits me so hard, and gets more devastating the older I get. I didn't know this version, so thanks!
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Post by: Jack on Fri 23/08/2019 20:12:02
Quote from: Laura Hunt on Fri 23/08/2019 12:51:32
lmao she's still a wage slave, except not even to her own wage but somebody else's.

Not true.  They'd still be dependant on the other wage, but they don't have to do any of the slaving. Being a stay at home parent is actually the only occupation I can think of where all your effort is going towards your own family. Even if you own a business, you have customers to please.

Buffalo Springfield (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqjwEGw10w0)
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Post by: KyriakosCH on Fri 23/08/2019 23:26:16
https://youtu.be/1IwY_D3pnOs

It was used in the soundtrack of one of Argento's better films.
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Post by: dactylopus on Sat 24/08/2019 00:21:52
Quote from: Snarky on Fri 23/08/2019 17:23:18
St. Vincent's cover of Nico's "These Days"
Quote from: Jack on Fri 23/08/2019 20:12:02
Buffalo Springfield (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqjwEGw10w0)
Quote from: KyriakosCH on Fri 23/08/2019 23:26:16
It was used in the soundtrack of one of Argento's better films.
Thanks for posting!  All good tunes.  Enjoyed very much.  Hadn't heard St. Vincent's cover, but it's great.  Also hadn't heard Goblin, good stuff!

This was my last listen, stuck in my head lately.  Quite different from what's above, but I love it:

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Post by: Jack on Sat 24/08/2019 02:23:02
Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise?

The Senate Song (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmQDVHjTveI)

Spoiler
best villain
[close]
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Post by: milkanannan on Sat 24/08/2019 05:13:35
Quote from: dactylopus on Fri 23/08/2019 15:49:35
Quote from: Jack on Thu 22/08/2019 18:51:23
Anyway, here's a great song: Highwayman (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouZSLckCvgQ)
Wasn't sure I'd like it at first, but it is a nice track.

This is what I was listening to before I clicked that link:



Nice! Have to admit I've never actually listened to this guy before, although I've had him recommended to me before.

Quote from: Snarky on Fri 23/08/2019 17:23:18
Happened to hear this today, and was reminded of what a beautiful song it is.

St. Vincent's cover of Nico's "These Days":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV4Rz8stPro

Lol Royal Tenenbaums has ruined this song for me forever.  (laugh) I can't listen to any version without picturing the silencing of a bus and Balmer and Margot's faces. Oh crap I think I'm going to cry now  :~( (laugh)

Quote from: KyriakosCH on Fri 23/08/2019 23:26:16
https://youtu.be/1IwY_D3pnOs

It was used in the soundtrack of one of Argento's better films.

World's most chilled out drummer!  :-D
Quote from: dactylopus on Sat 24/08/2019 00:21:52
Quote from: Snarky on Fri 23/08/2019 17:23:18
St. Vincent's cover of Nico's "These Days"
Quote from: Jack on Fri 23/08/2019 20:12:02
Buffalo Springfield (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqjwEGw10w0)
Quote from: KyriakosCH on Fri 23/08/2019 23:26:16
It was used in the soundtrack of one of Argento's better films.
Thanks for posting!  All good tunes.  Enjoyed very much.  Hadn't heard St. Vincent's cover, but it's great.  Also hadn't heard Goblin, good stuff!

This was my last listen, stuck in my head lately.  Quite different from what's above, but I love it:



Wish this were a bit longer. Need some background music to study to like this.  :-\
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Post by: Laura Hunt on Sat 24/08/2019 09:43:29
Quote from: man n fist on Sat 24/08/2019 05:13:35
Quote from: dactylopus on Fri 23/08/2019 15:49:35



Wish this were a bit longer. Need some background music to study to like this.  :-\

How about something like this?



It's not quite the same style, buuuut it could work!
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Post by: milkanannan on Sat 24/08/2019 13:21:20
Perfecto. Mucho gracias!

(https://media.giphy.com/media/4JSAfzWfvMN36r1HG1/giphy.gif)
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Post by: dactylopus on Sat 24/08/2019 14:50:28
Quote from: Laura Hunt on Sat 24/08/2019 09:43:29
Quote from: man n fist on Sat 24/08/2019 05:13:35
Quote from: dactylopus on Fri 23/08/2019 15:49:35

Wish this were a bit longer. Need some background music to study to like this.  :-\

How about something like this?

It's not quite the same style, buuuut it could work!
Very nice!  Thanks for posting it!

Here is another in a similar style:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpAdxDFihR0
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Post by: Domino on Sat 24/08/2019 15:29:02
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oextk-If8HQ
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Post by: milkanannan on Sat 24/08/2019 19:49:04
Ah nice we're in to the emotional teen rock stage of this thread. Here's one from my days as a dazed and confused youngin':

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Post by: Laura Hunt on Tue 27/08/2019 07:17:47
So the new Tool album finally leaked... Anybody else here who has been waiting 13 years for this?



(Note to mods: the above embed is from the band's official YT channel and is not part of the leak!)
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Post by: dactylopus on Tue 27/08/2019 12:03:35
Super excited about the album.  Haven't heard anything aside from that song yet.  Sounds like a Tool song.  May wait to listen to the full album upon release, may not be able to...
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Post by: Laura Hunt on Tue 27/08/2019 12:10:58
Quote from: dactylopus on Tue 27/08/2019 12:03:35
Super excited about the album.  Haven't heard anything aside from that song yet.  Sounds like a Tool song.  May wait to listen to the full album upon release, may not be able to...

My expectations were pretty low because I wasn't too fond of 10,000 Days to start with and I wasn't expecting them to come up with anything super exciting after a 13 year hiatus, but I have to say that I'm impressed! The album is an 80-minute monster with all tracks except for a crappy instrumental clocking in at over 10 minutes (plus some interludes that are missing from the leaked version), so I still have to listen to it a few more times for more things to stick, but I can definitely say I'm hooked. Well worth the wait! :)
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Post by: milkanannan on Tue 27/08/2019 17:54:19
Their sound is unmistakable. Yeah that new track is pretty cool. Glad to see Keenan is off his wine tangent. (kidding) (laugh)

I revisited Aenema a few months back. That's a really terrific album. I've always felt a connection with the title track, its range of emotions, and lyrics, which at one point are laugh out loud funny. If I remember correctly, the song is a full hate-fest on Los Angeles and references an urban legend where the tides rise and swallow all of South California, creating 'Arizona Bay':

"One great big festering neon distraction,
I've a suggestion to keep you all occupied
(whispering-->) Learn to swim, learn to swim, learn to swim"
(laugh)
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Post by: Laura Hunt on Tue 27/08/2019 18:39:38
Quote from: man n fist on Tue 27/08/2019 17:54:19
Their sound is unmistakable. Yeah that new track is pretty cool. Glad to see Keenan is off his wine tangent. (kidding) (laugh)

I revisited Aenema a few months back. That's a really terrific album. I've always felt a connection with the title track, its range of emotions, and lyrics, which at one point are laugh out loud funny. If I remember correctly, the song is a full hate-fest on Los Angeles and references an urban legend where the tides rise and swallow all of South California, creating 'Arizona Bay':

"One great big festering neon distraction,
I've a suggestion to keep you all occupied
(whispering-->) Learn to swim, learn to swim, learn to swim"
(laugh)

So good! I do miss Angry Maynard in this new album though :~(

(Danny Carey is almost 60! WTF! HOW!)
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Post by: Jack on Tue 27/08/2019 19:04:13
(V●ᴥ●V) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaEGlYFhnRc)
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Post by: Gurok on Wed 28/08/2019 14:59:00
This is my jam! https://youtu.be/zPGf4liO-KQ
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Post by: Laura Hunt on Wed 28/08/2019 16:09:24
Hahaha nice!
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Post by: milkanannan on Wed 28/08/2019 18:17:07
 Gurok, also feeling it! Can't believe you found the full version! ( (laugh) (laugh))
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Post by: milkanannan on Wed 28/08/2019 18:37:07
Quote from: Jack on Tue 27/08/2019 19:04:13
(V●ᴥ●V) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaEGlYFhnRc)

You've got to embed these, mate. This old tune was great, but honestly I kind of lost the plot at 'the bull that gored my dad'. wtf  (laugh) Otherwise the relaxing vibe reminds me of Lawrence Welk, and that midcentury American big band sound:

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Post by: Jack on Thu 29/08/2019 01:46:45
Quote from: man n fist on Wed 28/08/2019 18:37:07
You've got to embed these, mate.

Suppose it doesn't matter if I do.

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Post by: WHAM on Thu 29/08/2019 08:34:16
Good ol' Rammstein paid a visit to my city not long ago, and sparked some fresh interest in the band. We also had a retro LAN party with chiptune music, demoscene stuff etc.
Thus...

AUSLANDER!

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Post by: milkanannan on Thu 29/08/2019 13:33:49
Inca II menu theme music is terrific! Wish it were a longer track.

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Post by: Laura Hunt on Fri 30/08/2019 17:55:22
"Norman Fucking Rockwell!" is out today!



Unfortunately, not a single one of the other tracks I've listened to so far is as good as this one or "Venice Bitch", both of which are absolutely unfuckwithable, but overall it's a good album nonetheless. Maybe even my second favourite of hers, after Ultraviolence? Time will tell!
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Post by: Jack on Fri 30/08/2019 20:59:17
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Post by: milkanannan on Wed 04/09/2019 18:40:35
Nice one, Jack.

Ugh weekend where are you. :~( This little number is helping me get by.

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Post by: milkanannan on Fri 06/09/2019 18:51:05


Cheers dudes!
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Post by: milkanannan on Fri 06/09/2019 20:33:13
I've always thought this video is cool looking.

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Post by: milkanannan on Fri 06/09/2019 20:54:50
Can't not love this song.  :~( (This is the beer talking I swear!)  (laugh)

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Post by: milkanannan on Sat 07/09/2019 09:17:13
Fav GNR song...

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Post by: Laura Hunt on Sat 07/09/2019 09:52:44
Quote from: man n fist on Sat 07/09/2019 09:17:13
Fav GNR song...

Haha oh, the times.

I'm listening to this right now to give me energy while I clean the house:

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Post by: Snarky on Wed 11/09/2019 09:02:38
Didn't get a good night's sleep, need something to get me going today. I need some... voodoo!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7R5UtMjIhQ
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Post by: Laura Hunt on Wed 11/09/2019 10:53:11
Quote from: Snarky on Wed 11/09/2019 09:02:38
Didn't get a good night's sleep, need something to get me going today. I need some... voodoo!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7R5UtMjIhQ

Love this album so much! Is it considered bragging if I say I saw her live on this tour? :-D
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Post by: Snarky on Wed 11/09/2019 11:05:55
Justified bragging, in that case. I'm jealous.
When she was on her White Chalk tour I took a trip to NYC specifically to see her in concert at the Beacon Theatre (and also to see the Blade Runner Final Cut in the cinema). She was great, and played songs from throughout her career. (I think she did "Working for the Man" from TBYML.)
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Post by: Laura Hunt on Wed 11/09/2019 12:02:03
Quote from: Snarky on Wed 11/09/2019 11:05:55
Justified bragging, in that case. I'm jealous.
When she was on her White Chalk tour I took a trip to NYC specifically to see her in concert at the Beacon Theatre (and also to see the Blade Runner Final Cut in the cinema).

That's a nice double program! And White Chalk is such a beautiful album.
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Post by: milkanannan on Wed 11/09/2019 14:56:00
Confession: this is the first PJ Harvey song I have ever heard. Sounds like a rawer Alanis?

In 1990s Canada, we had these youth television 'program jockeys', referred to as 'PJ' for short (i.e. PJ Phil, PJ Lauren, etc). They were always seen as fairly sad attempts by network television to be  hip and cool among kids. Unsurprisingly, the networks got it wrong and PJs tended to be loathed by most youths. (laugh) I remember on occasion they would read the mountains of hate mail they received on air, which was probably the only time young Canadians were actually entertained by them. Anyway, you see where I'm going with this, whenever I heard people talking about 'PJ Harvey', I just assumed she was one of these clowns with a record deal.
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Post by: milkanannan on Wed 11/09/2019 15:02:43
Quote from: Laura Hunt on Sat 07/09/2019 09:52:44
Quote from: man n fist on Sat 07/09/2019 09:17:13
Fav GNR song...

Haha oh, the times.

I'm listening to this right now to give me energy while I clean the house:



Cool! Has a bit of that folky feeling to it that reminds me of...

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Post by: Laura Hunt on Wed 11/09/2019 17:29:47
Quote from: man n fist on Wed 11/09/2019 15:02:43

Cool! Has a bit of that folky feeling to it that reminds me of...



Oh wow, now that's a blast from the past. One of the craziest gigs I've been to for sure! :-D
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Post by: milkanannan on Wed 11/09/2019 18:05:26
Haha I bet. That's cool you saw them live!
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Post by: Stupot on Thu 12/09/2019 04:04:32
I saw PJ Harvey live in 2001 at the Reading Festival . I was only aware of one song of hers at the time but after seeing her at Reading, I got quite into her. I haven't really followed her in recent years, though. I will rectify that.

——

Whenever I open this thread I don't happen to be listening to anything (which is why I rarely post) but in the last few days I've been looping one track loads. Those Anarcho Punks are Mysterious by Against Me! Man, this is a good song.

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Post by: Snarky on Thu 12/09/2019 06:49:21
man n fist, PJ = Polly Jean.

Quote from: Stupot on Thu 12/09/2019 04:04:32
I saw PJ Harvey live in 2001 at the Reading Festival . I was only aware of one song of hers at the time but after seeing her at Reading, I got quite into her. I haven't really followed her in recent years, though. I will rectify that.

If you missed White Chalk, I'd say that's the only one of her albums since 2001 that's a required listen. After that, I'd pick her second John Parish collaboration, A Woman a Man Walked By, and the compilation The Peel Sessions 1991â€"2004 unless you already have most of the tracks. Let England Shake was well received (it won the Mercury Music Prize), but I've never cared for that or for Uh Huh Her. The Hope Six Demolition Project has a couple of good tracks, but in general I think her current overtly political phase has been pretty weak both musically and lyrically.
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Post by: Laura Hunt on Thu 12/09/2019 09:11:18
Quote from: Snarky on Thu 12/09/2019 06:49:21
man n fist, PJ = Polly Jean.

Quote from: Stupot on Thu 12/09/2019 04:04:32
I saw PJ Harvey live in 2001 at the Reading Festival . I was only aware of one song of hers at the time but after seeing her at Reading, I got quite into her. I haven't really followed her in recent years, though. I will rectify that.

If you missed White Chalk, I'd say that's the only one of her albums since 2001 that's a required listen. After that, I'd pick her second John Parish collaboration, A Woman a Man Walked By, and the compilation The Peel Sessions 1991â€"2004 unless you already have most of the tracks. Let England Shake was well received (it won the Mercury Music Prize), but I've never cared for that or for Uh Huh Her. The Hope Six Demolition Project has a couple of good tracks, but in general I think her current overtly political phase has been pretty weak both musically and lyrically.

Also tangentially related, in 2005 she contributed some songs to Marianne Faithfull's "Before the Poison", which is a fantastic album and also has some great songs from Nick Cave in it (has it really been 14 years? ?? Oh god, now I'm depressed.)

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Post by: dactylopus on Sun 15/09/2019 15:33:22
Lots of good tracks.

PJ Harvey is cool.  I like Down By The Water.

Crystal Castles are great.

And I finally listened to the new Tool album.  It's fantastic at being what it is, a Tool album.  Nothing particularly new or groundbreaking, just more good music from Tool.  I was disappointed at first, but it's growing on me.  I particularly like Pneuma, Descending, and 7empest.

I just finished listening to this:



And now I'm listening to this:

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Post by: Laura Hunt on Sun 15/09/2019 16:34:06
Quote from: dactylopus on Sun 15/09/2019 15:33:22
And I finally listened to the new Tool album.  It's fantastic at being what it is, a Tool album.  Nothing particularly new or groundbreaking, just more good music from Tool.  I was disappointed at first, but it's growing on me.  I particularly like Pneuma, Descending, and 7empest.

Same here! When I actually think about the album, I'm like eh, it's too wanky, eh, most tracks should be 3 minutes shorter, eh, MJK's vocals are kinda weak, etc etc etc. But when I listen to it, it just stirs something inside me. I've even teared up listening to Descending, ffs. If that's not an endorsement, I don't know what is.

Quote from: dactylopus on Sun 15/09/2019 15:33:22And now I'm listening to this:



I had never heard of this band until literally a couple of days ago, when I bumped into this while watching other videos from this series of concerts:



...and now I think I'm in the phase of slowly falling in love with them. So dreamy!
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Post by: milkanannan on Sun 15/09/2019 17:25:25
Yeah nice find with Beach House. They sound so familiar but still unique.

Dact, are you trying to make everyone cry with the Maxence Cyrin track? (laugh) Just kidding - thanks for the lead. I hadn't heard of that guy.

Just to ride our dreamy tangent a bit further:

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Post by: milkanannan on Sun 15/09/2019 17:27:22
Actually, I did a doubel take on the Maxence track's screen cap. Thought it was radiator girl's little number from Eraserhead!
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Post by: dactylopus on Sun 15/09/2019 19:22:15
That was a nice Beach House performance video.  I was expecting a single song, but it was quite the intimate set.  This must be an early show for them, since all of the songs are off their first album.  I like quite a few of their songs, like The Hours and Rough Song for example, but I think my favorite Beach House track is probably this one from that same album:



I really enjoy that track from Múm.  Lovely mood and vocal.  This is probably my favorite track by that band:



As for how I came across that Maxence Cyrin cover of the Pixies, I heard it used in Dave Chappelle's Sticks & Stones on Netflix.  Lovely rendition.

So I'll try to stay with the mood a bit.  Here's a song by a defunct Atlanta band that I'm listening to at the moment:



I love this one, always makes me feel good.  So nostalgic and pretty.  It's got a bit more of a beat and groove to it than Beach House and Múm.

Edit:  I just realized I posted this one here a couple of years ago.  Still love it. 

So how about some Air?  Similar mood and theme:

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Post by: Laura Hunt on Sun 15/09/2019 19:55:23
All this makes for such a nice late Sunday mood! Mum and Air are both lovely.
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Post by: Cuiki on Mon 16/09/2019 09:17:56
Long time no see!

Here's a rather long one.

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Post by: milkanannan on Mon 16/09/2019 14:43:46
Nice tracks, guys. Dact, never heard of Shampoo. Got them on the list for a balcony chill session with my family this weekend. Cheers dude.  :cool:

Yeah Air is always the right answer. My personal fav:



When I lived in China, we'd get these huge downpours that would just go and go. I remember a few times getting myself into super weird headspaces by having this on repeat while out on the balcony watching the rain with a few drinks.  :P
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Post by: milkanannan on Mon 16/09/2019 14:46:22
Chilly looking concert:

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Post by: dactylopus on Mon 16/09/2019 20:40:00
That Pink Floyd song is a great pick.  I fell in love with this one when I was 15, roughly 20 years after it was released, and it still sounds amazing.  Easily among their top songs.

And that track by Air is a beauty.  Spooky.  In the beginning, it somewhat reminds me of Alain Goraguer's songs from the soundtrack to Fantastic Planet (La Planète Sauvage), like this one:


It goes much further though, and has a great mood beyond the initial spookiness.  French music is great.

Sigur Rós is fantastic.  I love that album, and Olsen Olsen is one of their best.  As moody as the song can be, there's a wonderful optimism there.  Very cool video, too.  I would love to see them perform in such a beautiful setting.  I was reminded of this song when I watched The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (by Studio Ghibli) a while ago and heard this:


My favorite Sigur Rós track might be Ný Batterí:


Thanks for posting such good tunes, everyone!  Sorry for posting a collection each time.  Maybe next time I'll just post one?
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Post by: milkanannan on Thu 19/09/2019 17:46:01
Dact, loved all of those. Fond memories from my teenage years of that Sigur Ros album. Actually just listening to that track takes me back.

Some Stones. Voodoo Lounge is an underrated album:

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Post by: dactylopus on Mon 23/09/2019 05:28:36
I was not familiar with that Stones song.  Thanks for posting, I really dig it.

Here's my recent listen:

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Post by: TheFrighter on Mon 23/09/2019 18:18:57

I don't know if someone likes this kind of music, or even dance it... well, this track have something.



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Post by: milkanannan on Mon 23/09/2019 18:51:31
Nice little grove there, Frighter.

Anyone remember music styles like 'gabber'. It just sounds like a headache to 40-year-old me now:

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Post by: Jack on Tue 24/09/2019 21:48:06
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Post by: Snarky on Thu 26/09/2019 13:37:01
What I'm literally listening to right now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H5kjOanGxs
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Post by: Laura Hunt on Thu 26/09/2019 13:53:07
Quote from: Snarky on Thu 26/09/2019 13:37:01
What I'm literally listening to right now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H5kjOanGxs

!!!

I love Madrugada to bits (their reunion tour absolutely slayed, never thought I would have the chance to hear those songs live), but I always found Hoyem's solo albums to be kind of ehhhhh whatever. This is a very nice track though! Makes me want to check out the album to see if there's anything else I might have missed :)

These days I've been trying to get into the new Chelsea Wolfe album, but it's been a huge disappointment. The songs she shared in advance were all stunning, but when the album finally came out, it was clear that they were actually the only decent tracks on it. It's not that it's BAD, it's just... boring. Dull. Uninspired. Droning. Songs meld into one another and after a while of listening to it I inevitably find myself zoning out and coming back to it two tracks later like "huh? What was I listening to? What time is it?"

Anyway, here goes what is probably my favourite song from the album. The video is crappy but the song is very pretty. Side effects might include stopping whatever you are doing, contemplating the ceiling pensively, and thinking back on somebody you hurt at some point:

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Post by: Snarky on Thu 26/09/2019 20:36:44
Quote from: Laura Hunt on Thu 26/09/2019 13:53:07
I love Madrugada to bits (their reunion tour absolutely slayed, never thought I would have the chance to hear those songs live), but I always found Hoyem's solo albums to be kind of ehhhhh whatever. This is a very nice track though! Makes me want to check out the album to see if there's anything else I might have missed :)

I've been a big fan of Madrugada almost since the startâ€"I remember eagerly awaiting the New Depression EPâ€"but I missed them at the Quart Festival back in 2000, and so never saw them live until the reunion this January.

Spoiler
Unfortunately it was a slight letdown for me: I'd have liked them to play more songs from throughout their career rather than doing all of Industrial Silence to the near-exclusion of anything else, and I was almost a bit put off by the scale of the whole production.

(https://i.imgur.com/mtZQUTm.jpg?1)

Still, it was definitely a great show, and Høyem's vocals and frontman energy are amazing.
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Anyway, I completely agree about Høyem's solo stuff. It just doesn't rock the way the band did. I've listened to his albums a few times, and only a couple of tracks (this one primarily) have stuck with me.

BTW, thanks for the Lana del Rey pick. I've never really cared for her music, but that was quite an earworm.
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Post by: Laura Hunt on Thu 26/09/2019 21:25:07
Quote from: Snarky on Thu 26/09/2019 20:36:44I've been a big fan of Madrugada almost since the startâ€"I remember eagerly awaiting the New Depression EPâ€"but I missed them at the Quart Festival back in 2000, and so never saw them live until the reunion this January.

Ha, it was the other way around for me: the first thing I heard from them was "Look away Lucifer" and I went backwards from there.

It's surprising to know about the scale of the production in other places, in Berlin they gave a pretty stripped down show on a small-ish stage (see the pic below), with just some fancy lights now and then and a glitter cannon (just one! Ghost had TWO!) during... "Norwegian Hammerworks Corp", I think? In any case, hearing Industrial Silence in its entirety made me very very happy so I can't really complain about the dearth of tracks from other albums :)

(https://s.put.re/W5qgzWcw.jpg)

Quote from: Snarky on Thu 26/09/2019 20:36:44BTW, thanks for the Lana del Rey pick. I've never really cared for her music, but that was quite an earworm.

Happy to hear! It really is a wonderful song.
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Post by: milkanannan on Fri 18/10/2019 17:57:06
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Post by: Laura Hunt on Fri 18/10/2019 18:17:39
 :~(
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Post by: Haggis on Fri 18/10/2019 19:25:27
I so lonely.



Edit: I see some Madrugada above! Good stuff, have you heard of Torgeir Waldemar - my current Norwegian of choice?
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Post by: milkanannan on Fri 18/10/2019 22:30:20
Quote from: Laura Hunt on Fri 18/10/2019 18:17:39
:~(

For Layne? Yeah he was such a unique voice. It's also unique how blended his sound is with Cantrell's. They were a cool group for sure.
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Post by: milkanannan on Fri 18/10/2019 22:36:19
Quote from: Haggis on Fri 18/10/2019 19:25:27
I so lonely.





Cool track. I love that main guitar riff.
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Post by: milkanannan on Fri 18/10/2019 22:45:45
Pop Canadian country, anyone? ... Hello? (laugh)

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Post by: Haggis on Fri 18/10/2019 23:12:28
Quote from: man n fist on Fri 18/10/2019 22:45:45
Pop Canadian country, anyone? ... Hello? (laugh)

I dig it!!

I was just a little too young to fully appreciate the Big Seattle bands in the early 90s - but I was fortunate enough to see Soundgarden when they reformed at Hyde Park in 2012 and Pearl Jam a few years later in Milton Keynes. Chris Cornell's death felt weirdly close to home. Mark Lanegan is still making great music. Anyway... I'm dabbling in some development for the first time in years and need something lengthy and inspiring (and likely to make me pick my guitar up and play along badly) so...



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Post by: Snarky on Mon 21/10/2019 12:18:04
Playing the Dune board game reawakened my obsession with everything Arrakis. Back in 1992, Cryo did a great adventure (slash-strategy) game with an excellent soundtrack (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjHon6yg-r8), and I've been listening to some "live" covers of that. This one is pretty cool:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7UhANJlofg

This one is almost really cool, but he fucks up the percussion/timing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqa3Ed9hHq8
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Post by: Jack on Tue 22/10/2019 21:51:43
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Post by: milkanannan on Fri 25/10/2019 12:21:57
Never in a million years thought a song like this would resonate, but I've always really liked Minaj's chorus on this track. There's something about that build to the minor chord (i.e. "can't you hear that boom..."). It's actually the same group of chords used in AIC's Got Me Wrong.

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Post by: milkanannan on Fri 25/10/2019 12:24:37
C'mon guys ~ anyone else have a guilty pop music pleasure they'd like to get off their chest? (laugh)
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Post by: Laura Hunt on Fri 25/10/2019 12:45:11
Quote from: man n fist on Fri 25/10/2019 12:24:37
C'mon guys ~ anyone else have a guilty pop music pleasure they'd like to get off their chest? (laugh)



(I think all my guilty mainstream pop pleasures are at least 25 years old, right now I can't think of any recent songs I would be embarrassed to admit I like :-D)
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Post by: milkanannan on Fri 25/10/2019 13:10:22
Not fair - EVERYBODY loves Venus! (laugh) (laugh)
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Post by: milkanannan on Fri 25/10/2019 13:15:36
In the same vein:



(This video always cracks me up. What were they thinking? Eye patches, flags and finger wagging?! (laugh) Ah well, no cringe video can destroy the awesomeness of this song!)
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Post by: Laura Hunt on Fri 25/10/2019 13:23:13
Quote from: man n fist on Fri 25/10/2019 13:10:22
Not fair - EVERYBODY loves Venus! (laugh) (laugh)

Sure, the original (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LhkyyCvUHk) is great, but the Bananarama version is like a compilation of all the worst cliches of the 80s... and yet I love it :-D

And hey, the ONLY embarrassing thing about the "You spin me round" video is the other band members, who clearly could not live up to the fabulousness that was required of them :P Everything else is just the BEST (and the song is an absolute classic!)
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Post by: milkanannan on Fri 25/10/2019 13:52:36
Quote from: Laura Hunt on Fri 25/10/2019 13:23:13
Quote from: man n fist on Fri 25/10/2019 13:10:22
Not fair - EVERYBODY loves Venus! (laugh) (laugh)

Sure, the original (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LhkyyCvUHk) is great, but the Bananarama version is like a compilation of all the worst cliches of the 80s... and yet I love it :-D

And hey, the ONLY embarrassing thing about the "You spin me round" video is the other band members, who clearly could not live up to the fabulousness that was required of them :P Everything else is just the BEST (and the song is an absolute classic!)

Banarama version means different things to different people - I can never mentally separate it from this Gillette advertising campaign for women's razors from around 20 years ago. I don't think anything Gillette has ever done sold women's razors faster in Canada. Hell I was going to buy one!  :-D

Yeah those DoA band members get a failing grade for lacking enthusiasm. Bath robes, flags and eye patches...what else do you guys need!
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Post by: milkanannan on Fri 25/10/2019 14:12:40
Sorry, I'm just going to dump tracks here for a bit. Yes, there are better Boney M songs out there, but this is the very very first one I heard, and I remember liking the vibe right away. :=

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Post by: milkanannan on Fri 25/10/2019 14:13:54
I think I once read that dude was actually a complete overdub. It was the producer singing the whole time.  (laugh)
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Post by: milkanannan on Fri 25/10/2019 14:15:13
I will always always love Annie Lennox. Greatest thing to ever come out of Scotland.

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Post by: Laura Hunt on Fri 25/10/2019 14:29:43
Quote from: man n fist on Fri 25/10/2019 14:15:13
I will always always love Annie Lennox. Greatest thing to ever come out of Scotland.


Imma disagree on that one 8-)

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Post by: Slasher on Fri 25/10/2019 19:41:39
https://youtu.be/LnG6qXE7xWk
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Post by: TheFrighter on Sun 27/10/2019 18:14:10

Halloween is coming... this is one of my favourite creepy tunes:



But I don't exactly understand what this song talk about... the keeper saw ghosts? Or dead bodies from the sea? Or it is all a psicological thing?  ???

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Post by: Slasher on Sun 27/10/2019 19:25:57
TheFrighter

Saw van der graaf generator in the mid 70's... Fantastic band..
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Post by: Snarky on Tue 29/10/2019 13:05:28
Throwback Tuesday: I recently lost my mp3 player, so I've been copying my music collection onto my phone from various external hard-drives. (While forced to give up on having a separate device, I'm not ready to go streaming yet.)

That's thrown up a bunch of ancient mp3 files I downloaded in college, from Napster and its successors. Which in turn got me thinking about the tapes I recorded off the radio in the nineties. It's all available online now, of course...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx8sf9dNQWQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3sMjm9Eloo
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Post by: Jack on Wed 30/10/2019 23:39:57
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Post by: milkanannan on Thu 31/10/2019 12:17:01
Nice call, Jack.

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Post by: Laura Hunt on Thu 31/10/2019 12:59:16


Listening to this absolute monster classic of an album right now before it gets taken down from Youtube again (and again and again and again... the record label is relentless). I actually own the CD, but it's great to be able to listen to it at the click of a button without having to transfer the mp3 rips onto my phone.

And yes, that cover is by John Wayne Gacy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wayne_Gacy) himself.
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Post by: milkanannan on Thu 31/10/2019 19:17:14
Quote from: Laura Hunt on Thu 31/10/2019 12:59:16


Listening to this absolute monster classic of an album right now before it gets taken down from Youtube again (and again and again and again... the record label is relentless). I actually own the CD, but it's great to be able to listen to it at the click of a button without having to transfer the mp3 rips onto my phone.

And yes, that cover is by John Wayne Gacy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wayne_Gacy) himself.

Argh - 'video unavailable' here. Who/what was the track?
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Post by: Creamy on Thu 31/10/2019 20:21:13
Laura made me want to listen to Chelsea Wolfe. I love this one:


They mixed two versions of the same song.

Quotethe tapes I recorded off the radio in the nineties
I didn't record many tapes but I burnt a lot of CDs:


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Post by: Laura Hunt on Thu 31/10/2019 22:49:35
Quote from: man n fist on Thu 31/10/2019 19:17:14
Quote from: Laura Hunt on Thu 31/10/2019 12:59:16

Listening to this absolute monster classic of an album right now before it gets taken down from Youtube again (and again and again and again... the record label is relentless). I actually own the CD, but it's great to be able to listen to it at the click of a button without having to transfer the mp3 rips onto my phone.

And yes, that cover is by John Wayne Gacy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wayne_Gacy) himself.

Argh - 'video unavailable' here. Who/what was the track?

Hahaha wow, that was fast. It was "When the Kite String Pops (https://www.angrymetalguy.com/yer-metal-olde-acid-bath-kite-string-pops/)", by Acid Bath.

Quote from: Creamy on Thu 31/10/2019 20:21:13
Laura made me want to listen to Chelsea Wolfe. I love this one:

Yessss so good!
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Post by: LimpingFish on Fri 01/11/2019 02:07:24
Quote from: Slasher on Sun 27/10/2019 19:25:57
Saw van der graaf generator in the mid 70's... Fantastic band..

You lucky, lucky b*st*rd!

Seriously, I love VDGG, and to have seen the live in their prime is something I can only dream of.

Going off-topic, kind of, for a moment, I was born in the mid 70's, and I find that I'm just not interested in music the was recorded post-millennium. I mean, I love music that was recorded in the 60s, 70s, 80's and even into the 90s (Hell, I even like some music that goes back to the 1920s!), but I seem to have a cut-off point around 2000. It's weird. Or is it? Is it some kind of mental block for music recorded by people who are younger than I am? Can I only respect music that was recorded by people older than me? I'm kinda drunk at the moment, so forgive me if this seems question seems a little...weird.

EDIT: On topic, I'm currently listening to Johnny Halliday's cover of Hey Joe, from 1967!

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Post by: milkanannan on Fri 01/11/2019 06:22:39
Quote from: Creamy on Thu 31/10/2019 20:21:13

I didn't record many tapes but I burnt a lot of CDs:




Ah crap this one also unavailable here! I love this song too though. Makes me reminisce of my extremely awkward first year at uni.  (laugh)
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Post by: Snarky on Fri 01/11/2019 08:11:58
I thought I was going senile, because I could have sworn I was swapping cassette tapes with "Bohemian Like You" with friends in high school, but it only came out while I was at university. However, mystery solved — I was thinking of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APrpB-i4d_E

LF, I think it's pretty normal for music tastes to "get stuck" at a certain point and not accommodate newer stuff. I know I don't listen to contemporary pop radio if I can help it. (Though I don't mind Billie Eilish, so it's not an absolute bar.) And that's probably OK — after all, teens presumably want some stuff for themselves — though it's a bit of a shame to lose out on good newer stuff, so it might be worth making a bit of an effort to keep up. Besides, there's a "test of time" filtering effect, too. You might be happy going back to selected tunes/bands from the 60s-80s, but would you really want to listen to an unfiltered list of what was playing on the radio back then?

Edit: If the mental block is "respect", maybe it will help to look up some biographical details about particular artists? I find that in many cases it makes me admire the talent and hard work that's gone into achieving their success.
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Post by: Laura Hunt on Fri 01/11/2019 12:38:39
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Post by: milkanannan on Fri 01/11/2019 16:35:37
I listen to a lot of nursery rhymes and kids songs with my son (and we rock out to them on our guitar sometimes). Personal fav is this snappy crooner and his little interludes between sections of the song. "Let's try a long O sound..." (cue cheddar smile)  (laugh)



Sort of a similar vein is Peppyrock's remix of Sesame Street's theme:

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Post by: Blondbraid on Fri 01/11/2019 21:20:16
What with it being the time of Halloween and all, I thought I'd share a great spooky classic:

I just find this piece so inspiring, and ever since I first heard it I've thought of
one day creating a game with a gameplay segment synchronized to this music.

I don't know exactly what it'd be, but the Danse Macabre just has such a fantastic flow to it.
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Post by: eri0o on Fri 01/11/2019 23:47:36


Because soon it's Christmas too! :]
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Post by: milkanannan on Sat 02/11/2019 02:29:05
^Every Carrefour around the planet on November 1.  (laugh)
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Post by: Blondbraid on Sat 02/11/2019 07:18:34
Isn't that the music from the Home Alone movies?
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Post by: TheFrighter on Sat 02/11/2019 14:32:25
Quote from: TheFrighter on Sun 27/10/2019 18:14:10

Halloween is coming... this is one of my favourite creepy tunes:



But I don't exactly understand what this song talk about... the keeper saw ghosts? Or dead bodies from the sea? Or it is all a psicological thing?  ???

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Uh, anyone could answer?

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Post by: LimpingFish on Sun 03/11/2019 01:39:40
Quote from: TheFrighter on Sat 02/11/2019 14:32:25
Uh, anyone could answer?

It's both, really. It's about people being lost at sea, and the psychological effect it has on the titular lighthouse keeper. The album Pawn Hearts, of which APoLK is the last track, deals with similar themes (for instance, the first track, Lemmings - mistakenly believed to be creatures driven to mass suicide - , is referenced in APoLK, tying the whole album together), and if you look at Peter Hammill's lyrics as a whole, you'll see recurring themes of death, loss, and separation running throughout.

For a real mind-f*ck, I recommend the VDGG album Godbluff, which is possibly the darkest example of Prog Rock in existence!
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Post by: TheFrighter on Sun 03/11/2019 10:59:45

Thank you, LimpingFish!

Well, let's change mood:



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Post by: milkanannan on Sun 03/11/2019 15:31:39
Cool track - anything with accordion always wins my heart. ;) If you listen with headphones, there's a cool instrument (or combination of instruments) that sounds like a stand up bass and one of those First Nations drums.

Relax/study track in the same vein:

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Post by: Jack on Sun 03/11/2019 22:57:00
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Post by: milkanannan on Thu 07/11/2019 12:32:39
No idea what's sung at 1:03 but sounds good  :=

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Post by: milkanannan on Thu 07/11/2019 12:37:05
Quote from: Jack on Sun 03/11/2019 22:57:00


+1 this is great. Are you a Kerouac fan, Jack?

Canadians will remember this TV opening by the same name  (laugh)

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Post by: Jack on Thu 07/11/2019 20:49:46
Quote from: man n fist on Thu 07/11/2019 12:37:05
+1 this is great. Are you a Kerouac fan, Jack?

Canadians will remember this TV opening by the same name  (laugh)

I know of him, but haven't read his books.

I thought you were going to post The Littlest Hobo.

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Post by: dactylopus on Sun 10/11/2019 21:10:47
Quote from: man n fist on Fri 25/10/2019 13:15:36
In the same vein:



(This video always cracks me up. What were they thinking? Eye patches, flags and finger wagging?! (laugh) Ah well, no cringe video can destroy the awesomeness of this song!)


Had to post this in response.  Perfect remake.

Quote from: man n fist on Fri 25/10/2019 14:15:13
I will always always love Annie Lennox. Greatest thing to ever come out of Scotland.

Annie Lennox is great (and so are the Jesus and Mary Chain), but I would say Mogwai is the best music out of Scotland:

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Post by: Jack on Mon 11/11/2019 19:50:33
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Post by: Laura Hunt on Tue 12/11/2019 08:17:17
Rainy morning here...


You're losing the calling that you've been faking




And if you are in love, then you are the lucky one
Cause most of us are bitter over someone






Every now and then
I think about when you'll die, babe.
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Post by: milkanannan on Tue 12/11/2019 13:09:16
Thanks dudes! Some very nice balcony/sunset tracks for this weekend.  :-D
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Post by: Jack on Wed 13/11/2019 00:30:08


Edit: It's really jamming tonight.

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Post by: Jack on Thu 14/11/2019 20:58:27


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Post by: dactylopus on Fri 15/11/2019 01:43:00
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Post by: Jack on Sat 16/11/2019 01:06:06
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Post by: milkanannan on Sat 16/11/2019 02:43:48
Yeah, good call on not posting the goofy Chevy Chase video. Distracts from an actually really good song! (laugh)
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Post by: Snarky on Thu 21/11/2019 08:04:52
I've been rereading the Discworld series. Guess which book I'm up to...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3NIK-nsI2g

Spoiler
Wrong; it's actually Hogfather. But I've been checking out different versions of the Phantom since Maskerade.
[close]
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Post by: milkanannan on Thu 21/11/2019 13:20:14
Nice change of pace, Snarky.

Sorry, I know we've already had our TOOL moment, but if I'm to be true to the 'what song are you listening to right now' topic:
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Post by: milkanannan on Sat 23/11/2019 11:18:00


If anyone cares to share, how do you interpret the lyrics in this song?
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Post by: TheFrighter on Sat 23/11/2019 12:47:55

My impressions it's about pedophilia (a boy baited with the money by an older man), still I don't get the meaning of the red hand. Maybe a mark as The scarlet letter by N. Hawthorne?
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Post by: milkanannan on Sat 23/11/2019 13:05:05
Quote from: TheFrighter on Sat 23/11/2019 12:47:55

My impressions it's about pedophilia (a boy baited with the money by an older man), still I don't get the meaning of the red hand. Maybe a mark as The scarlet letter by N. Hawthorne?
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That has always been my interpretation since I first heard it: a song with reference to sexual assault. However, I see that most people online interpret the red hand to be God's wrath or something a bit more specific to Ireland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Ulster (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Ulster)
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Post by: Snarky on Sat 23/11/2019 15:28:16
I heard that (again) recently when I watched Scream and Scream 2 for Halloween, and I remember thinking that it was probably about God. ("You're one microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan, designed and directed by his red right hand.") And apparently it's an allusion to Paradise Lost.

Listening again, it seems to me like it's about "The Man," a catch-all for authority structures that have the power to upend your life: the military, drug syndicates, Hollywood…
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Post by: milkanannan on Sat 23/11/2019 18:07:14
Quote from: Snarky on Sat 23/11/2019 15:28:16
I heard that (again) recently when I watched Scream and Scream 2 for Halloween, and I remember thinking that it was probably about God. ("You're one microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan, designed and directed by his red right hand.") And apparently it's an allusion to Paradise Lost.

Listening again, it seems to me like it's about "The Man," a catch-all for authority structures that have the power to upend your life: the military, drug syndicates, Hollywood…

Yeah, I agree. I guess that's it. I mean, even the sexual predator fits into the interpretation of overwhelming power that can change a life forever. I guess it is a song about the phenomena of overwhelming power in all its forms.
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Post by: dactylopus on Sun 24/11/2019 02:46:27
Quote from: Snarky on Sat 23/11/2019 15:28:16Listening again, it seems to me like it's about "The Man," a catch-all for authority structures that have the power to upend your life: the military, drug syndicates, Hollywood...

That's always been my interpretation, but I never really sat and analyzed the lyrics.

Good track, though.

This one was playing as I responded:

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Post by: milkanannan on Tue 26/11/2019 12:45:51
Cheers dact. Hadn't heard of these guys. I like the reverb on the voice in the chorus and the fat, fuzzy base. Sort of reminds me of a Killers/OK GO sort of feel. Speaking of which:



Edit: wow this brings back memories of summer 2014!
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Post by: Jack on Tue 26/11/2019 23:20:06
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Post by: milkanannan on Wed 27/11/2019 03:25:15
Jarvis Cocker is always the right answer. Not sure I've heard this track? I'm totally going to listen to this when I'm home and not on mobile.
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Post by: milkanannan on Thu 05/12/2019 17:54:57
Quote from: Haggis on Fri 18/10/2019 19:25:27
I so lonely.



Edit: I see some Madrugada above! Good stuff, have you heard of Torgeir Waldemar - my current Norwegian of choice?


Hear me out, the guitar in the chorus of this Peter Gabriel track ("Digging in the dirt, stay with me I need support..." etc) has some similarity to your track, Haggis. I love that guitar effect, sort of dreamy reverb.

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Post by: milkanannan on Sat 07/12/2019 16:55:16
Say what you will about Miley Cyrus, but she really does nail Silent Night:



It actually completely saves A Very Murray Christmas, which is otherwise not worth the money that went into making it! (And I say that as a Bill Murray megafan!)
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Post by: milkanannan on Mon 09/12/2019 18:38:23


Anyone going to hop on this Christmassy tangent, or are we all a bunch of humbugs?  (roll)
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Post by: Laura Hunt on Mon 09/12/2019 20:31:31
Quote from: man n fist on Mon 09/12/2019 18:38:23Anyone going to hop on this Christmassy tangent, or are we all a bunch of humbugs?  (roll)

Sure :P




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Post by: dactylopus on Tue 10/12/2019 01:16:26
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Post by: milkanannan on Tue 10/12/2019 16:35:04
Quote from: Laura Hunt on Mon 09/12/2019 20:31:31
Quote from: man n fist on Mon 09/12/2019 18:38:23Anyone going to hop on this Christmassy tangent, or are we all a bunch of humbugs?  (roll)

Sure :P




WT jeebus F was that?!  (laugh) (laugh)
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Post by: milkanannan on Thu 12/12/2019 16:04:11
Ms Hunt's from another thread:

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Post by: milkanannan on Thu 12/12/2019 16:05:47
OK back to Christmas:

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Post by: Blondbraid on Wed 18/12/2019 23:02:08
I'm a history nerd and a Swede, I pretty much had to link this:
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Post by: Jack on Thu 19/12/2019 20:12:43
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Post by: milkanannan on Sat 21/12/2019 14:06:39
Quote from: Blondbraid on Wed 18/12/2019 23:02:08
I'm a history nerd and a Swede, I pretty much had to link this:


QuoteIn an era characterized by almost endless warfare, Gustavus Adolphus inherited three simultaneous and ongoing wars of his father at the age of sixteen. Two of these were border wars with Russia and Denmark, and a more personal war (at least for his father) with Gustavus' first cousin, King Sigismund III Vasa of Poland.[7] Of these three wars that were passed onto his rule, the Danish war was the most acute one.[8]

During his reign, Sweden rose from the status of a Baltic Sea basin regional power to one of the great powers of Europe and a model of early modern era government. Gustavus Adolphus is famously known as the "father of modern warfare",[9] or the first great modern general. Under his tutelage, Sweden and the Protestant cause developed a number of excellent commanders, such as Lennart Torstensson, who would go on to defeat Sweden's enemies and expand the boundaries and the power of the empire long after Gustavus Adolphus's death in battle. Spoils meant he became a successful bookraider in Europe, targeting Jesuit collections.[10]

Called "The Golden King" and "The Lion of the North", he made Sweden one of the great powers of Europe, in part by reforming the administrative structure. For example, he began parish registration of the population, so that the central government could more efficiently tax and conscript the people.[11] Historian Christer Jorgensen argues that his achievement in the field of economic reform, trade, modernization, and the creation of the modern bureaucratic autocracy was as great as his exploits on the battlefields. His domestic reforms, which transformed a backward, almost medieval economy and society, were in fact not only the foundations for his victories in Germany, but also absolutely crucial for the creation and survival of the Swedish Empire.[12]

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustavus_Adolphus_of_Sweden (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustavus_Adolphus_of_Sweden)

Wow, that's quite the CV. (laugh) I have to admit I know none of the main actors from the Swedish Empire, but I'll definitely read up more on this guy.
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Post by: Ponch on Tue 24/12/2019 15:49:16
TVTV$ - Daddy drank our Christmas money (http://www.barnrunner.com/pics/misc/Roger_Santa.png)
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Post by: Jack on Fri 27/12/2019 20:41:38
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Post by: Blondbraid on Sun 29/12/2019 11:25:16
Quote from: manannan on Sat 21/12/2019 14:06:39
Wow, that's quite the CV. (laugh) I have to admit I know none of the main actors from the Swedish Empire, but I'll definitely read up more on this guy.
That's the great thing about Sabaton, all their best songs have a great history lesson in them!

Anyway, as great a strategist as Gustavus Adolphus was, one of his main faults was overeating, and it's even said his weight contributed to him being killed in Leipzig as he was too
heavy for his nearest men to carry him to safety after he got injured. So naturally, Swedes decided to commemorate his death day by eating a pastry (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustavus_Adolphus_pastry)!
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Post by: milkanannan on Tue 31/12/2019 06:54:41
And I guess you could reenact  one of his wars by buying a jelly danish and smashing it into a Gustavus pastry?









Sorry I'll let myself out...
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Post by: Blondbraid on Wed 01/01/2020 22:06:25
Quote from: manannan on Tue 31/12/2019 06:54:41
And I guess you could reenact  one of his wars by buying a jelly danish and smashing it into a Gustavus pastry?









Sorry I'll let myself out...
Well, technically it was the Germans that got to him at Leipzig, but I guess doing combining the pastry with a bratwurst wouldn't be as tasty!  (laugh)
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Post by: milkanannan on Sat 04/01/2020 09:37:58


Edit: I found kind of a cool fan made vid:

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Post by: dactylopus on Sat 04/01/2020 21:13:20
I do enjoy some Crystal Castles.  Hadn't heard that song before.  I like the typical dark aesthetic.

The fan video is interesting for sure.  I'll have to find a copy of that freaky vampire movie they pulled the clips from.

I'm listening to Babes of Atlantis (https://babesofatlantis.bandcamp.com/).  Current track is All Over Again.  Love this one.
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Post by: Laura Hunt on Sun 19/01/2020 07:49:22
Hazy drowsy sunday morning mood...

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Post by: milkanannan on Mon 20/01/2020 18:25:33
Cool track ~ something about the poppy snare drum sound reminds me of Summertime Rolls by Jane's Addiction.

I guess our new theme is 'random', so here's something that came across my Reddit feed today:

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Post by: dactylopus on Fri 07/02/2020 16:46:26
Quote from: manannan on Mon 20/01/2020 18:25:33

Great find!  It's a really chill hip-hop beat.  I actually ripped it and listened to it on a road trip last week.

And nice call-out to Summertime Rolls.  Great track.

I'm listening to this at the moment:

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Post by: milkanannan on Sat 08/02/2020 04:13:20
Nice - apparently that video is Tokyo (according to the comments).

Air's Lost in Kyoto:



There's also a background/study/work version  :-D



Can anyone share a cool track that's actually by a Japanese artist? I've already beat you to Pon Pon Pon, so something else please  (laugh)

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Post by: Stupot on Sat 08/02/2020 04:45:56
I don't listen to a lot of Japanese stuff. Just a few bands or artists that I trust. One such group is Ogre You Asshole. I fell in love with them when I saw them support Polysics in 2007.

Here's something of theirs I listened to recently:
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Post by: Laura Hunt on Sat 08/02/2020 07:20:04
Quote from: manannan on Sat 08/02/2020 04:13:20
Can anyone share a cool track that's actually by a Japanese artist? I've already beat you to Pon Pon Pon, so something else please  (laugh)

I've been listening to Rioji Ikeda a lot these days, since I'm working on a "clicks and cuts" type of playlist:





If that's too cold, maybe try some DJ Krush: (beat enters at 0:50 if long intros bore you):





Even more chill is Nujabes. Not quite my thing, but...:




On the other hand, if you're in a fuck you kind of mood, Merzbow is your friend:





Boris are very, very, VERY cool. "Pink" is their all-time classic and less experimental that what they're doing now, but it's still a trip:



Hell, have another one. They're SOOOOO GOOOD





And of course... Babymetal:



Quote from: Stupot on Sat 08/02/2020 04:45:56
I don't listen to a lot of Japanese stuff. Just a few bands or artists that I trust. One such group is Ogre You Asshole.

That was really cool! Very trippy and spacey... might just queue up a few of their songs while I go about my morning doing stuff around the house :)
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Post by: milkanannan on Sat 08/02/2020 16:51:34
Thanks for the leads my dudes.

Quote from: Laura Hunt on Sat 08/02/2020 07:20:04

I've been listening to Rioji Ikeda a lot these days, since I'm working on a "clicks and cuts" type of playlist:





Yeah that one in particular was totally worth digging the headphones out for. (laugh) That's equal parts relaxing and unnerving, I love it. I listened through a few other of their tracks and they almost sort of massage/disturb your ear drums in a weird way. For example (headphones needed):



Maybe it is the abstract clicking, but it reminded me of one of those old Pleix vids:

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Post by: Laura Hunt on Sat 08/02/2020 19:37:04
Quote from: manannan on Sat 08/02/2020 16:51:34

Yeah that one in particular was totally worth digging the headphones out for. (laugh) That's equal parts relaxing and unnerving, I love it. I listened through a few other of their tracks and they almost sort of massage/disturb your ear drums in a weird way.

I know right? It's like ASMR for robots :-D
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Post by: Racoon on Sat 08/02/2020 23:58:57
Quote
Can anyone share a cool track that's actually by a Japanese artist? I've already beat you to Pon Pon Pon, so something else please  (laugh)


That is a japanese guy that I really cheered for back when I wanted to learn how to play guitar. I still think he is pretty awesome :-D

A song that I recently discovered and like a lot is this one:



And something entirely different that runs on repeat for me at the moment is this song from Frozen2 even though I did not see the movie. It´s just so calming and nice.

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Post by: milkanannan on Sun 09/02/2020 16:08:47
Cheers Racoon. That slap guitar intro on the Minyavi track is crazy.  8-0

Another unreal talent is Victor Wooten (wait until he gets going):

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Post by: TheFrighter on Sun 09/02/2020 17:21:26

Yesterday this song won the Festival della Canzone Italiana 2020:




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Post by: Snarky on Tue 11/02/2020 14:43:50
I need a bit of relaxation...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_sJVazqw58
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Post by: milkanannan on Tue 11/02/2020 17:42:45
Nice! I didn't look at the name before pressing play. Nice surprise  :-D

Here's another one you might also appreciate:



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Post by: milkanannan on Tue 11/02/2020 17:47:37
Quote from: TheFrighter on Sun 09/02/2020 17:21:26

Yesterday this song won the Festival della Canzone Italiana 2020:




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Cool thanks for sharing!
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Post by: dactylopus on Thu 13/02/2020 05:38:07
Quote from: manannan on Sat 08/02/2020 04:13:20
Nice - apparently that video is Tokyo (according to the comments).

Air's Lost in Kyoto:

There's also a background/study/work version  :-D

Can anyone share a cool track that's actually by a Japanese artist? I've already beat you to Pon Pon Pon, so something else please  (laugh)

Nice chill track as always from Air.  The other version, a little too chill.

And Pon Pon Pon was entertaining, to say the least.

Quote from: Stupot on Sat 08/02/2020 04:45:56
I don't listen to a lot of Japanese stuff. Just a few bands or artists that I trust. One such group is Ogre You Asshole. I fell in love with them when I saw them support Polysics in 2007.

Some nice shoegaze jam stuff there.

Quote from: Laura Hunt on Sat 08/02/2020 07:20:04
I've been listening to Rioji Ikeda a lot these days, since I'm working on a "clicks and cuts" type of playlist:

If that's too cold, maybe try some DJ Krush: (beat enters at 0:50 if long intros bore you):

Even more chill is Nujabes. Not quite my thing, but...:

On the other hand, if you're in a fuck you kind of mood, Merzbow is your friend:

Boris are very, very, VERY cool. "Pink" is their all-time classic and less experimental that what they're doing now, but it's still a trip:

And of course... Babymetal:

That first Rioji Ikeda one sounds like someone fiddling with the audio cable in their amplifier.

I like DJ Krush.  Reminds me of Kid Koala, or DJ Shadow's fantastic Endtroducing..... album (which is made up almost entirely of samples):


I really enjoyed the chill Nujabes, thanks for posting it!

Merzbow was pretty chaotic.  A bit too much for me.

Boris is a bit noisy / fuzzy.  Pink is a good tune underneath it all, and they are definitely talented musicians.  I feel like I would enjoy a cover more.  Perhaps this version would interest classic gamers:


I liked the production value on Absolutego more, but Pink is a better song.  Absolutego reminds me of a slightly heavier Sevendust with less pop sensibilities.

And someone had to post Babymetal.  I work with a guy who is damn near obsessed with them.  I don't listen to much metal anymore, but this is a pretty good, catchy track.

Quote from: manannan on Sat 08/02/2020 16:51:34
Thanks for the leads my dudes.

Maybe it is the abstract clicking, but it reminded me of one of those old Pleix vids:

That was only slightly unnerving and quite glitchy, but interesting to watch.

Quote from: Racoon on Sat 08/02/2020 23:58:57
That is a japanese guy that I really cheered for back when I wanted to learn how to play guitar. I still think he is pretty awesome :-D

A song that I recently discovered and like a lot is this one:

And something entirely different that runs on repeat for me at the moment is this song from Frozen2 even though I did not see the movie. It´s just so calming and nice.

The Miyavi track is very cool.  That's an interesting skill set in the intro.

As a huge Edgar Allan Poe fan, it's hard not to enjoy The Raven.  And Alan Parsons Project are great as well, so this checks a couple of boxes quite nicely.  As is often the case with me, I checked out the demo version and like it a bit more in some ways.

The song from Frozen 2 is good stuff.  It reminds me of Civilization 4's intro music:



Quote from: manannan on Sun 09/02/2020 16:08:47
Cheers Racoon. That slap guitar intro on the Minyavi track is crazy.  8-0

Another unreal talent is Victor Wooten (wait until he gets going):

Yes.  Wooten is ridiculously talented.

Quote from: TheFrighter on Sun 09/02/2020 17:21:26
Yesterday this song won the Festival della Canzone Italiana 2020:

That was really pretty.  I can see how it won an award.

Quote from: Snarky on Tue 11/02/2020 14:43:50
I need a bit of relaxation...

One of Radiohead's best songs.  This version was really cool and jazzy.  I love the vocal part in the middle, but after that when they rock out the ending was even better.  Good find!

Quote from: manannan on Tue 11/02/2020 17:42:45
Nice! I didn't look at the name before pressing play. Nice surprise  :-D

Here's another one you might also appreciate:

Nice relaxing piano cover.  It really brings out how pretty the song is, and shows off this guy's very impressive talents.

My favorite take on this track is the Easy Star All-Stars reggae version featuring Toots and The Maytals.  I just love how intense he gets in the vocal and how uplifting this feels, especially in the second verse:



As for my own Japanese music recommendations, try these:

Shibuya Morning by Supercar


Behind the Mask by Yellow Magic Orchestra


Michael Jackson did a 'cover' of this song (basically used it as a jumping-off point for a song of his own of the same name), and it's not bad.  Clapton has covered that version, too.  Good track.

Unfortunately, I'm having trouble finding a link to one of my favorites, the Pizzicato Five song 「買物王」のテーマ (or "Kaimono-O" Theme, which Google translate tells me means "Shopping King", but another source says "Shopping Queen") from their 1996 album Great White Wonder.  I heard it on a local college radio station a couple years ago and used Shazam to tell me what it was.

Anyways, here's some Katamari music (because it's similar):


It's absurd how good the Katamari Damacy soundtrack is.

Sorry for the lengthy reply, but there was so much to respond to!

After all that, here is what I'm listening to right now:

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Post by: milkanannan on Thu 13/02/2020 06:08:52
Sweet - our weekend here in Arabia (Fri-Sat) starts in about four hours. Going to be balcony, beer and these tracks... (laugh)
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Post by: dactylopus on Fri 14/02/2020 05:51:02
Quote from: manannan on Thu 13/02/2020 06:08:52
Sweet - our weekend here in Arabia (Fri-Sat) starts in about four hours. Going to be balcony, beer and these tracks... (laugh)

Hope that worked out well for you!
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Post by: milkanannan on Sat 15/02/2020 05:22:38
Sent me down so many rabbit holes there. :-D We listened to the whole playlist of Radiodread's OK Computer cover, which was surprisingly amazing. I wouldn't have thought those tracks would crossover to reggae at all.

Thanks for the introduction to Yellow Magic Orchestra ~ love it! Daft Punk are clearly a degree of creative iteration on sounds of the YMO era.

In turn, maybe YMO took some influence from jazz fusion of the era:





I love that dated digital sound:

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Post by: dactylopus on Sun 16/02/2020 14:12:46
Quote from: manannan on Sat 15/02/2020 05:22:38
Sent me down so many rabbit holes there. :-D We listened to the whole playlist of Radiodread's OK Computer cover, which was surprisingly amazing. I wouldn't have thought those tracks would crossover to reggae at all.

Thanks for the introduction to Yellow Magic Orchestra ~ love it! Daft Punk are clearly a degree of creative iteration on sounds of the YMO era.

In turn, maybe YMO took some influence from jazz fusion of the era:

I love that dated digital sound:

Thanks for posting some tracks.  I hadn't heard too much of Yellow Magic Orchestra, and love what you posted above.  And Chick Corea is such a great talent.  That's some good jazz.  Here's another Return to Forever / Chick Corea tune that I'm particularly fond of (from an album that reminds me of early King Crimson):


Radiodread is really cool, and I was surprised at first as well.  They also do the Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.  This is my favorite from the Beatles album (mostly because of what's different):


I'd check out Lovely Rita as well, if you have a chance.  They also have a full album cover of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon that matches the tempo all the way through so that you can do the Dark Side of Oz synchronicity with their album as the soundtrack.

And here are some tracks I was listening to as I composed this response:

You're Dead by Norma Tanega (heard this in What We Do in the Shadows)


H34T RISES by Nilüfer Yanya


808 State of Mind by Honey Dijon (featuring Shaun J Wright and Alinka)

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Post by: Snarky on Mon 24/02/2020 16:33:24
How good was (is?) The Cure?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjvfIJstWeg

So good!
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Post by: Jack on Mon 24/02/2020 21:00:03


;)
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Post by: dactylopus on Tue 25/02/2020 22:32:54
Quote from: Snarky on Mon 24/02/2020 16:33:24
How good was (is?) The Cure?

So good!
Indeed.  Great pick.  There's a cover by the Get Up Kids that I really enjoy, though I'll never say it's better than the original.  Just great in a different way:


I'm listening to this:

Lustral - Everytime (Way Out West Sunrise Mix)

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Post by: Creamy on Tue 25/02/2020 22:55:24
I didn't know YMO. Very nice mix of funk and early electronic music  :-D 

My parents love that stuff:


The reggae cover of Mr Kite is great too.

A melodious song from the Residents (for once):

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Post by: lorenzo on Wed 26/02/2020 19:25:30
I like some of Jarre's early albums (Oxygène, Équinoxe).


Jean-Luc Ponty - Mirage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKkMvBvyqvE
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Post by: Laura Hunt on Thu 27/02/2020 14:58:48


The new King Krule album came out a few days ago and I'm still trying to make sense of it, if it even makes sense to try to make sense. "The OOZ" was already abstract, disjointed and fragmentary, but there was some kind of magic holding it all together, some brilliant creative spark that managed to shine through its broken surface.

"Man Alive!", however, feels like someone who has entirely given up on trying to communicate, locked up in his own concrete cell, mumbling fragments of fleeting thoughts that may or may not have any meaning whatsoever, and if they do, he doesn't care whether we understand them or not.

I absolutely love difficult, twisted, creative art, but with this album, King Krule might have committed a totally different sin: he might have created something boring.

I quite like the song embedded above and the one here below, but as to the rest of the album... I'm still not sure what to feel. I guess a few more spins are in order.

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Post by: milkanannan on Fri 28/02/2020 04:29:16
Some cool tracks there. Speaking of The Cure, Robert Smith and Crystal Castles covered this number once upon a time:

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Post by: milkanannan on Thu 05/03/2020 17:56:59
Quote from: dactylopus on Sun 16/02/2020 14:12:46
Quote from: manannan on Sat 15/02/2020 05:22:38
Sent me down so many rabbit holes there. :-D We listened to the whole playlist of Radiodread's OK Computer cover, which was surprisingly amazing. I wouldn't have thought those tracks would crossover to reggae at all.

Thanks for the introduction to Yellow Magic Orchestra ~ love it! Daft Punk are clearly a degree of creative iteration on sounds of the YMO era.

In turn, maybe YMO took some influence from jazz fusion of the era:

I love that dated digital sound:

Thanks for posting some tracks.  I hadn't heard too much of Yellow Magic Orchestra, and love what you posted above.  And Chick Corea is such a great talent.  That's some good jazz.  Here's another Return to Forever / Chick Corea tune that I'm particularly fond of (from an album that reminds me of early King Crimson):


Radiodread is really cool, and I was surprised at first as well.  They also do the Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.  This is my favorite from the Beatles album (mostly because of what's different):


I'd check out Lovely Rita as well, if you have a chance.  They also have a full album cover of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon that matches the tempo all the way through so that you can do the Dark Side of Oz synchronicity with their album as the soundtrack.

And here are some tracks I was listening to as I composed this response:

You're Dead by Norma Tanega (heard this in What We Do in the Shadows)


H34T RISES by Nilüfer Yanya


808 State of Mind by Honey Dijon (featuring Shaun J Wright and Alinka)



Catching up on tracks from this thread with some lovely IPA's. ;) Dact, thanks for the intros. Honey Dijon reminds me of that unmistakable 90's New Age style, like Deep Forest, Enigma, etc, 2000-era dot com nerds all the way! (laugh)





How about some surf rock (yes, THAT Pulp Fiction track (laugh) love it!):

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Post by: TheFrighter on Thu 05/03/2020 18:19:53

The funkiest track of Pet Shop Boys since now. They're getting old but still clubbin'.



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Post by: milkanannan on Thu 05/03/2020 19:39:25
Quote from: TheFrighter on Thu 05/03/2020 18:19:53

The funkiest track of Pet Shop Boys since now. They're getting old but still clubbin'.



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Haha long reign the dynasty! :-D Let me share the track that introduced me to them:

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Post by: milkanannan on Fri 06/03/2020 17:52:29
In all her glory:

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Post by: milkanannan on Fri 06/03/2020 18:19:49
So today I learned Dusty Springfield is actually not American, but British...but born to Irish parents, of which her father was born in British India. #themoreyouknow
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Post by: milkanannan on Fri 06/03/2020 18:21:22
Down the rabbit hole we go...

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Post by: Jack on Sat 07/03/2020 20:42:34
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Post by: Snarky on Sun 08/03/2020 19:04:47
Nice pick with the Pet Shop Boys, Frighter. From my playlist today:

https://youtu.be/4DqGfIkxBxw
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Post by: milkanannan on Mon 23/03/2020 18:02:48
Ironic Snarky ~ just had this on and thought it would be a good share:

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Post by: milkanannan on Mon 23/03/2020 18:06:18
Quote from: Jack on Sat 07/03/2020 20:42:34


Nice choice mate!
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Post by: TheFrighter on Mon 23/03/2020 18:32:30

Hah, I understand the connection: Badalamenti conducted the orchestra in some PSB's song during the EMI years! Strange thing their actual producer Stuart Price don't provide them at least a string section...

Now about soundtrack here's a classic:




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Post by: Click'd on Mon 23/03/2020 23:58:42
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeTFCud1qpk

I never played this game but the song got stuck in my head. Not because it's any good. It just did.
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Post by: TheFrighter on Wed 25/03/2020 08:02:59

R.I.P. Manu.




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Post by: milkanannan on Wed 25/03/2020 10:14:45
Frighter, cool track. I hear echoes of it in some of Sting's stuff, i.e. the outro session here from 4 minutes onwards:

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Post by: Slasher on Wed 25/03/2020 10:40:19
https://youtu.be/a1v638jJiy4
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Post by: Slasher on Wed 25/03/2020 11:12:46
https://youtu.be/fGOD1-NtxH8
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Post by: CaptainD on Wed 25/03/2020 12:00:15
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Post by: Laura Hunt on Thu 26/03/2020 21:26:35
I guess this is the kind of stuff nobody else around here likes lol, but I can't stop listening to the new Ulcerate single. sO GOOD.

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Post by: Tycho Magnetic Anomaly on Thu 26/03/2020 21:39:08

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Post by: milkanannan on Sat 28/03/2020 04:05:28
Quote from: Laura Hunt on Thu 26/03/2020 21:26:35
I guess this is the kind of stuff nobody else around here likes lol, but I can't stop listening to the new Ulcerate single. sO GOOD.



The real hero of tracks like these is the drummer. How in hell can they keep a double kick going that long?! (laugh)
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Post by: milkanannan on Sat 28/03/2020 04:08:42
Quote from: Tycho Magnetic Anomaly on Thu 26/03/2020 21:39:08



You're finally back, mate. 8-) Thanks for sharing!

I've never been a big Blur fan, so much so that I completely missed Coffee and TV when it made its rounds around 1999. I just randomly heard this the other day and can't get the chorus out of my head.

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Post by: Snarky on Sat 28/03/2020 07:23:36
If you haven't seen it, you need to watch the music video (the guys who made it went on to direct the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie):

https://youtu.be/GXRVX1AKAew

Through power of association it also made me think of this:

https://youtu.be/_2OcymYkkqI
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Post by: Laura Hunt on Sat 28/03/2020 21:29:26
Quote from: manannan on Sat 28/03/2020 04:05:28
The real hero of tracks like these is the drummer. How in hell can they keep a double kick going that long?! (laugh)

I mean, that's pretty much standard for any extreme metal drummer, but what's amazing about this guy in particular is the sheer amount of stuff he's got going on at any given moment. Just look at this!



It's not the speed for me, it's the complexity... Like... he's not improvising. He's learned all that. He can remember all that. He can repeat it. The mind boggles.

(I once saw them live but the volume was too brutal to appreciate any of the fine detail. I tend to prefer to listen to bands like these at home and with headphones in order to be able to hear every single thing they're doing!)
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Post by: Tycho Magnetic Anomaly on Sun 29/03/2020 02:51:29
I should probably post this in what grinds my gears, but as it relates to something you just mentioned and it being somewhat relative i will mention it here.

Like so many other folks, ive been a huge music fan all my life and one thing throughout that time that has bugged me is the lack of any significant recognition to the drummer.

To me the drummer is as important as any other element in a band if not more so,  they are the conductors in a conductorless group, they are the rhythm makers, the time keepers, they endure the most physical work, they are pushed to the background in more ways then one, yet through modern music history their names, skills and achievements are so often last to be recognized and respected.




Respect and thanks going out to all the forgotten rhythm gurus out there in time and space
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Post by: dactylopus on Sun 29/03/2020 18:05:14
OK, it's been too long since I was in here again, so another long post:

Quote from: manannan on Thu 05/03/2020 17:56:59
Catching up on tracks from this thread with some lovely IPA's. ;) Dact, thanks for the intros. Honey Dijon reminds me of that unmistakable 90's New Age style, like Deep Forest, Enigma, etc, 2000-era dot com nerds all the way! (laugh)
No problem, glad you enjoyed!  And thanks for posting the Deep Forest, that's good stuff!  And Enigma, of course!

The Pulp Fiction soundtrack is fantastic.  I have enjoyed the soundtracks of all of Tarantino's films.  Since you posted surf rock, here's a different version of a surf rock track that appeared prominently in Pulp Fiction:

Dick Dale and Gary Hoey - Miserlou '97

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDPpL8upm-k
Quote from: manannan on Thu 05/03/2020 19:39:25
Quote from: TheFrighter on Thu 05/03/2020 18:19:53
The funkiest track of Pet Shop Boys since now. They're getting old but still clubbin'.
Haha long reign the dynasty! :-D Let me share the track that introduced me to them:
Thanks for posting Pet Shop Boys.  The only track I had heard by them before was this one:

Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3j2NYZ8FKs
So everyone has likely heard that, but maybe not this song that it obviously inspired:

Flight of the Conchords - Inner City Pressure

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUAcN9UCnbU
Of course, that one borrows its title from this awesome track:

Goldie - Inner City Life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anQgfwdZUkE
Quote from: Snarky on Sun 08/03/2020 19:04:47
From my playlist today:
Angelo Badalamenti is great.  Here's another, from the Lost Highway soundtrack, a movie that was also directed by David Lynch:

Angelo Badalamenti - Insensatez (I prefer Dub Driving, but it's a chill and relatively uneventful track so I posted this one instead)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuZvHfuyIT8
Quote from: Click'd on Mon 23/03/2020 23:58:42
I never played this game but the song got stuck in my head. Not because it's any good. It just did.
That's got a really nice, chill backing track.  Not bad at all!

Quote from: TheFrighter on Wed 25/03/2020 08:02:59
R.I.P. Manu.
Very loose.  Good stuff!

Quote from: manannan on Wed 25/03/2020 10:14:45
Frighter, cool track. I hear echoes of it in some of Sting's stuff, i.e. the outro session here from 4 minutes onwards:
I like Sting (and the Police), but hadn't heard this track before.  Not bad at all.  Kind of a weird Western thing going on.  And I can see the connection between the outro here and the Manu Dibango track.  Thanks for posting!

Quote from: Slasher on Wed 25/03/2020 10:40:19
- (Frank Zappa)
I love a lot of Zappa's stuff.  This one's hilarious, and the guitar work is incredible.  Here's one of my favorite Zappa songs covered on the G3 live album (Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, and Eric Johnson), my first exposure to the song:

G3 - My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZXt1djCkQU
Quote from: Slasher on Wed 25/03/2020 11:12:46
- (Alica Cooper)
Good track.  I'd love to hear an instrumental version.  I mean, it's fine with vocals, but I think an instrumental would be awesome (and half of it is instrumental already anyways).

Quote from: CaptainD on Wed 25/03/2020 12:00:15
- (David Bowie)
Bowie is always good.  This one is not one that I usually listen to, but I do like it.  May have to add it into rotation.

And since I posted a track from Lost Highway earlier, I'll just post Bowie's song from the same soundtrack.  In fact, it's from the intro to the movie, just like that Dick Dale track above from Pulp Fiction.  This is one of my all-time favorite Bowie tracks:

David Bowie - I'm Deranged

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjd7FQIWnGk
Quote from: Laura Hunt on Thu 26/03/2020 21:26:35
I guess this is the kind of stuff nobody else around here likes lol, but I can't stop listening to the new Ulcerate single. sO GOOD.
Heavy and slow.  Nice stuff.  Not as into this kind of stuff as I used to be, and never really got into metal with this kind of vocal, but the music is very good.  As far as stuff I'm into, it kind of reminds me of a combination of these two tracks, but slower, and less prog / more doom:

Mastodon - Crystal Skull (the entire Blood Mountain album is amazing)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11eis4XVfVE
Meshuggah - Shed (Gotta love a song hat starts with a 19 second scream)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjzIBI3jkKY
Quote from: Snarky on Sat 28/03/2020 07:23:36
If you haven't seen it, you need to watch the music video (the guys who made it went on to direct the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie):

Through power of association it also made me think of this:
That video is awesome, always enjoyed it.  Blur is great, and this is one of their best.  They've got so many, like Girls and Boys, Song 2, There's No Other Way, Crazy Beat, etc.  Here's a Blur track I enjoy, that leads into Damon Albarn's work with Gorillaz (though it came out after Gorillaz first album):

Blur - Jets

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCuw18yIRjE
There's a bit of horn here that reminds me a bit of the manic horn at the end of Angelo Badalamenti's Red Bats with Teeth from Lost Highway.

And thanks for posting that Belle and Sebastian song.  Nice and mellow.  I can see how the you got here from Coffee and TV.

Quote from: Tycho Magnetic Anomaly on Sun 29/03/2020 02:51:29
I should probably post this in what grinds my gears, but as it relates to something you just mentioned and it being somewhat relative i will mention it here.

Like so many other folks, ive been a huge music fan all my life and one thing throughout that time that has bugged me is the lack of any significant recognition to the drummer.

To me the drummer is as important as any other element in a band if not more so,  they are the conductors in a conductorless group, they are the rhythm makers, the time keepers, they endure the most physical work, they are pushed to the background in more ways then one, yet through modern music history their names, skills and achievements are so often last to be recognized and respected.

Respect and thanks going out to all the forgotten rhythm gurus out there in time and space
You are absolutely right.  Drummers do not get their due.  So, here are some prime tracks from bands with tremendously good drummers:

Rush - YYZ (RIP Neil Peart)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdpMpfp-J_I
Tool - Rosetta Stoned (Danny Carey, in my opinion he is the best living drummer.  Maybe this will be something heavy for Laura Hunt and something funny for Slasher)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnlhVVwBfew
The Mars Volta - Son Et Lumiere / Inertiatic ESP (Jon Theodore)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcL5sfl4H1w
Those are probably my top 3 drummers.  Of course, prog drumming always seems impressive because of the interesting time signatures, but these guys are still the top of their craft.

A few other notable drum songs:

The Smashing Pumpkins - Geek U.S.A. (Jimmy Chamberlin)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K79LRBXJOqM
Soundgarden - Spoonman (Matt Cameron

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0_zzCLLRvE
Pearl Jam - In My Tree (Jack Irons)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvYVLfFZmEg
And you gotta love Dave Grohl.  He manages to be the highlight of everything he plays on.

Nirvana - Drain You

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k96sAezF-VE
Foo Fighters - I'll Stick Around (chose this one over Everlong, which is a much better song with its own incredible drums, but the first album doesn't get enough credit)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_rTTsZZ9KE
Queens of the Stone Age - A Song for the Dead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrA2KLtAn1A
Just a few off the top of my head.  I guess you can see where my expertise is.  So here's one last track from something other than a rock band:

The Roots - You Got Me (ft. Erykah Badu) (?uestlove, particularly at the end of the song)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJCHeEQV454
But anyways, what was I listening to before all of this?

Ultraísta - Harmony

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oA5xPZhhFBI
Hard to evaluate drums nowadays because most music has drum programming and layers and so on and so forth, but the drums here are great and remind me of Radiohead:

Radiohead - Reckoner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPW-eo0aE_g
Sorry for going on for so long again!
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Post by: Laura Hunt on Sun 29/03/2020 18:38:36
Quote from: dactylopus on Sun 29/03/2020 18:05:14
Quote from: Laura Hunt on Thu 26/03/2020 21:26:35
I guess this is the kind of stuff nobody else around here likes lol, but I can't stop listening to the new Ulcerate single. sO GOOD.
Heavy and slow.  Nice stuff.  Not as into this kind of stuff as I used to be, and never really got into metal with this kind of vocal, but the music is very good.  As far as stuff I'm into, it kind of reminds me of a combination of these two tracks, but slower, and less prog / more doom:

Yeah, "slow" is not usually what Ulcerate go for, but this track totally crushes. This is going to be one of my aoty when it comes out, for sure ;-D

Mastodon is one of those bands I feel I should like more, but they've never totally clicked with me. I like some songs here and there, but that's about it. And Meshuggah kind of bore me, hahah. I'm mostly into dissodeath/black and caverncore these days (yes, those genres exist, sorry I don't make the rules lol).

Quote from: dactylopus on Sun 29/03/2020 18:05:14
You are absolutely right.  Drummers do not get their due.  So, here are some prime tracks from bands with tremendously good drummers:

I'd argue that bass players are even less acknowledged. Any normie can listen to Tool or Soundgarden's Spoonman (great choices!) and go "oh man, dem drums are so awesome", but when was the last time you heard a non-music-nerd go "ah yes, such exquisite bass playing". That's right: never (laugh)

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Post by: dactylopus on Sun 29/03/2020 21:22:58
Quote from: Laura Hunt on Sun 29/03/2020 18:38:36
I'd argue that bass players are even less acknowledged. Any normie can listen to Tool or Soundgarden's Spoonman (great choices!) and go "oh man, dem drums are so awesome", but when was the last time you heard a non-music-nerd go "ah yes, such exquisite bass playing". That's right: never (laugh)
I was thinking about that as well.  Guitarists and vocalists get all the love.  We did have one of the best bassists a couple of pages back with Victor Wooten, but here are a few more of the obvious choices:

Tool - The Pot (Justin Chancellor)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=civuoU_NE38
Les Claypool - The Awakening

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9HA1CUltjQ
Atoms for Peace - Before Your Eyes (Flea)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWrUEsVrdSU
Of course Flea also does great work with Red Hot Chili Peppers.  He gets a lot of work, including performing the bass on 9 of 10 songs on the Mars Volta Album I referenced above.  And most people don't know, he played bass on this one:

Young MC - Bust A Move
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy4FXhkm6Nw
And for Rush, see YYZ above, or listen to this classic tune:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPBinohXHLc
Again, just some from the top of my head.  I'll have to start keeping a nice list of tracks to post up here for more drum and bass love.
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Post by: Laura Hunt on Mon 30/03/2020 08:03:57
Quote from: dactylopus on Sun 29/03/2020 21:22:58
Again, just some from the top of my head.  I'll have to start keeping a nice list of tracks to post up here for more drum and bass love.
Moving away a bit from the Flea/Tool/Rush/Primus cliches...

Bell Witch don't have a guitar, it's just two guys playing bass and drums:



(Yes, that's a single 80-minute song. That's funeral doom for you. :-D)



Colin Marston is an absolute legend. Apart from being the mastermind behind Krallice, he's also an acclaimed producer and has been playing bass for Gorguts since their 2013 comeback, "Coloured Sands". You don't usually have the chance to clearly and distinctly hear the bass in death metal, but the production here is simply amazing:





Moving away from metal, you can't speak of best rock bass players without mentioning Violent Femmes' Gordon Gano:




I personally love Pascal Humbert's style, even though it's not at all flashy. The way he used to weave his bass lines around Jean-Yves Tola's drumming and anchor David Eugene Edward's chaotic guitar lines was just classy af:




Marc Ribot is the one who usually comes to mind of when you think of Tom Waits' classics, but nothing would be the same without Larry Taylor's bass:




And don't you dare say "bass guitar" without talking about Carol Kaye. She's recorded literally EVERYTHING in the world, including such obscure cult hits as:



and:




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Post by: Tycho Magnetic Anomaly on Mon 30/03/2020 08:39:32
re: drummers , some great posts there form you guys!





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Post by: dactylopus on Tue 31/03/2020 03:13:38
Quote from: Laura Hunt on Mon 30/03/2020 08:03:57
Moving away a bit from the Flea/Tool/Rush/Primus cliches...
Yeah, they may be cliche, but all are tremendously talented.  When posting a quick reference of bass greats, those would have to be mentioned.

A bassist (and artist) that I've been loving for the past few years now is Thundercat.  He does great solo work, and has played bass a lot with Flying Lotus.  Here's my favorite of his tracks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngyk7CJbJyw
Also, check this out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhVgbZdMdb0
His bass chops start to shine through on the second song here.
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Post by: lorenzo on Tue 31/03/2020 09:12:18
Probably one of the best bass players ever, Jaco Pastorius:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h56USliw3eo

Charles Mingus, fantastic double bass player and composer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5STaUWmh9bw
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Post by: KyriakosCH on Tue 31/03/2020 12:58:16
You people are too industrial gothic for me :) Actually I'm not much into music in the first place :/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUEvLWHWr-I
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Post by: KyriakosCH on Tue 31/03/2020 17:03:58
And something a little more modern:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llOmqi6gKQo&list=RDllOmqi6gKQo&start_radio=1
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Post by: jwalt on Thu 02/04/2020 10:59:17
Rockin' Sidney:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUpGasYfkJY

Video has a slight glitch in the second song. Interesting artist that I missed along the way.
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Post by: milkanannan on Thu 02/04/2020 19:32:36
Just getting caught up...lots to listen to! Going to need booze... (laugh)

Quote from: Snarky on Sat 28/03/2020 07:23:36
If you haven't seen it, you need to watch the music video (the guys who made it went on to direct the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie)

Yeah, actually I did just see the video recently for the first time. Adopting milk dude as an avatar for now.  :)

Quote from: Laura Hunt on Sat 28/03/2020 21:29:26
Quote from: manannan on Sat 28/03/2020 04:05:28
The real hero of tracks like these is the drummer. How in hell can they keep a double kick going that long?! (laugh)

I mean, that's pretty much standard for any extreme metal drummer, but what's amazing about this guy in particular is the sheer amount of stuff he's got going on at any given moment.

It's not the speed for me, it's the complexity... Like... he's not improvising. He's learned all that. He can remember all that. He can repeat it. The mind boggles.

(I once saw them live but the volume was too brutal to appreciate any of the fine detail. I tend to prefer to listen to bands like these at home and with headphones in order to be able to hear every single thing they're doing!)


That's unreal. You'd think for tracks that complex you'd actually need sheet music or something (a conductor? (laugh)) to keep everyone in the band aligned. I mean, that funeral doom track you shared must include some kind of sheet music or be improvised at times or something. Ca

The thing that's always been iconic to me about Tom Waits' sound is that xylophone or whatever it is he uses.

Dact, I've heard some cool randoms (at least randoms to me) play on that NPR Tiny Desk Concert.

Alright so long as we're in random town at the moment:

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Post by: Laura Hunt on Thu 02/04/2020 19:53:59
Quote from: dactylopus on Tue 31/03/2020 03:13:38

A bassist (and artist) that I've been loving for the past few years now is Thundercat.  He does great solo work, and has played bass a lot with Flying Lotus.  Here's my favorite of his tracks:

Nice! Not quite my thing, but it was a really chill listen, thanks!

Quote from: lorenzo on Tue 31/03/2020 09:12:18
Charles Mingus, fantastic double bass player and composer:

Yesss Mingus is so great! I'm SO listening to these whole two hours right now.

Quote from: manannan on Thu 02/04/2020 19:32:36
The thing that's always been iconic to me about Tom Waits' sound is that xylophone or whatever it is he uses.

Marimba (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWJvohfCCdk)? Myth says he had one built out of bones for "Earth died screaming". No idea if it's true though :-D


Quote from: manannan on Thu 02/04/2020 19:32:36
Alright so long as we're in random town at the moment:

Awwww, this song never fails to melt my blackened metal heart <3

Anyway, here's Tom Waits banging some pipes:


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Post by: Snarky on Fri 03/04/2020 21:50:46
Two songs in a row that really tickle my memory centers!

Last October, those long-gone days before Australia and the world "went a bit J.G. Ballard," after a day of diving out by the Great Barrier Reef I was sitting in this sort of veranda bar/restaurant out by a little cove, looking out over the moonlit waters. And from the back of the kitchen came the sounds of "Harvest Moon." I knew I'd heard it before, but couldn't place it. Fortunately my phone mic was eventually able to pick it up enough for Shazam to ID it. It's a beautiful song.

And the Tom Waits track reminds me of Napstering random tracks in college, which is how I ended up with the version of "The Piano Has Been Drinking" that will always be closest to my heart, very different from the usual one. For many years I had no idea where it came from:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MarFyC7618A
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Post by: ManicMatt on Sat 04/04/2020 11:14:03
HIP HOP

I stumbled across this song, really love it! It was vaguely familiar and I didn't know why. Turns out it was in a Tony Hawks game!


HARD ROCK

I had never heard of Poppy before january, and while I'm not so keen on most of her earlier electronic pop songs, this alternative album of hers, "I disagree", released earlier this year, blew me away. This chorus is catchy as hell.


MORE HARD ROCK YESH
This song is also super catchy, and the video feels really 90's, I love it!



ELECTRONIC ROCK
Loved these folks for years. This particular song stands out for me on my first album listen on their new works.



ALTERNATE DANCE?
Not as well mastered/mixed as the others, because this is by me, lol. Still, I've really impressed myself with this beast! For fans of Prodigy, I guess?

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Post by: Laura Hunt on Sat 04/04/2020 11:43:41
Quote from: Snarky on Fri 03/04/2020 21:50:46
And the Tom Waits track reminds me of Napstering random tracks in college, which is how I ended up with the version of "The Piano Has Been Drinking" that will always be closest to my heart, very different from the usual one. For many years I had no idea where it came from:

Nice version! I don't think I had heard it before.

Quote from: ManicMatt on Sat 04/04/2020 11:14:03
HIP HOP

I stumbled across this song, really love it! It was vaguely familiar and I didn't know why. Turns out it was in a Tony Hawks game!

El-P is a total boss! Company Flow's "Funcrusher Plus" is a cult classic, and his first solo album "Fantastic Damage" was absolutely groundbreaking in terms of production. I'm really happy that after all these years he's gaining the mainstream recognition he deserves with Run The Jewels.



Quote from: ManicMatt on Sat 04/04/2020 11:14:03
ELECTRONIC ROCK
Loved these folks for years. This particular song stands out for me on my first album listen on their new works.

Fun fact, a friend and I organized their first concert ever in Madrid back in 2006, when they had just released Violet. It bombed SO hard and we lost SO much money. I never really liked their stuff, but after that, just reading their name triggers flashbacks in my brain :-D

(https://thumbs.gfycat.com/AnguishedCoarseFlamingo-size_restricted.gif)
"The... Birth...day... Mass...? NOOO!"
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Post by: ManicMatt on Sat 04/04/2020 12:02:40
Oh heh, guess I should have mentioned I have 2 or 3 El-P albums, but this song escaped me. I wasn't into him during PS2 era of that Tony Hawks song. Run the jewels are good but I prefer El-P's solo work. But yeah, at least people know who I'm talking about by mentioning RTJ!

Oh boy, I guess you wouldn't like to see my TBM Cd Collection then lmao.
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Post by: KyriakosCH on Sun 05/04/2020 10:19:24
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3cWPRM9fXs&list=RDx3cWPRM9fXs&start_radio=1
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Post by: dactylopus on Mon 06/04/2020 00:05:13
Quote from: Laura Hunt on Mon 30/03/2020 08:03:57
Moving away from metal, you can't speak of best rock bass players without mentioning Violent Femmes' Gordon Gano:
That Violent Femmes track is great, and a good showcase of the bass skill for sure.  I wasn't familiar with much more than a few of their more well known songs (Blister in the Sun, Kiss Off, and Gone Daddy Gone).  Here's another fun one:

The Violent Femmes - Dance, Motherfucker, Dance


Quote from: Tycho Magnetic Anomaly on Mon 30/03/2020 08:39:32
re: drummers , some great posts there form you guys!
Rupak is amazing.  I love a great tabla player.  And that Venetian Snares drumming is fantastic.  Thanks for sharing.  I don't know that I would have believed it was live drumming without the video.

Quote from: lorenzo on Tue 31/03/2020 09:12:18
Probably one of the best bass players ever, Jaco Pastorius:

Charles Mingus, fantastic double bass player and composer:
Both of these guys are incredibly skilled players.  Great tracks here.

Here's something with a double bass, although the talent is nothing like Mingus.  Just solid bass grooves:

Soul Coughing - Super Bon Bon


A great band with nice drums as well.

Quote from: KyriakosCH on Tue 31/03/2020 12:58:16
You people are too industrial gothic for me :) Actually I'm not much into music in the first place :/
Gotta love Mussorgsky.  This one was dark, but sweetly romantic.  Everyone should be familiar with his most famous work (and my favorite classical piece of all time), which was featured in Fantasia.  This is a decent performance of it (the harp could have been a bit louder):

Modest Mussorgsky - Night on Bald Mountain


Quote from: jwalt on Thu 02/04/2020 10:59:17
Rockin' Sidney:
Video has a slight glitch in the second song. Interesting artist that I missed along the way.
This was fun, and nice to see a different instrument featured!  Reminds me of a few years ago working with the RFD television station and their Mollie B Polka Party show on the overnight shift.

Quote from: manannan on Thu 02/04/2020 19:32:36
Dact, I've heard some cool randoms (at least randoms to me) play on that NPR Tiny Desk Concert.

Alright so long as we're in random town at the moment:
Yeah, I've discovered a few there myself, and seen some other good ones perform.

And Neil Young is classic.  A band that reminds me of Neil is Built To Spill (possibly because of the vocals):

Built To Spill - Distopian Dream Girl


There's Nothing Wrong With Love is a fantastic album.  In fact, this band has put out a lot of stellar music.

Quote from: ManicMatt on Sat 04/04/2020 11:14:03
HIP HOP

I stumbled across this song, really love it! It was vaguely familiar and I didn't know why. Turns out it was in a Tony Hawks game!

HARD ROCK

I had never heard of Poppy before january, and while I'm not so keen on most of her earlier electronic pop songs, this alternative album of hers, "I disagree", released earlier this year, blew me away. This chorus is catchy as hell.

MORE HARD ROCK YESH
This song is also super catchy, and the video feels really 90's, I love it!

ELECTRONIC ROCK
Loved these folks for years. This particular song stands out for me on my first album listen on their new works.

ALTERNATE DANCE?
Not as well mastered/mixed as the others, because this is by me, lol. Still, I've really impressed myself with this beast! For fans of Prodigy, I guess?
El-P is great.  Here's my favorite of his (and there is an instrumental available as well):

El-P (ft. Aesop Rock & Ill Bill) - Delorean


"Great Scott!"

And that Poppy song reminds me of Sevendust.  I've said it before in this thread, so I guess a lot of metal does:

Sevendust - Denial


I dig that Birthday Massacre track.  Good stuff.

Your own track is good, too!  I can definitely see the Prodigy influence.  Thanks for sharing it!

Quote from: Laura Hunt on Sat 04/04/2020 11:43:41
El-P is a total boss! Company Flow's "Funcrusher Plus" is a cult classic, and his first solo album "Fantastic Damage" was absolutely groundbreaking in terms of production. I'm really happy that after all these years he's gaining the mainstream recognition he deserves with Run The Jewels.
Another great El-P track, and yeah, Fantastic Damage is sweet.

Quote from: ManicMatt on Sat 04/04/2020 12:02:40
Oh heh, guess I should have mentioned I have 2 or 3 El-P albums, but this song escaped me. I wasn't into him during PS2 era of that Tony Hawks song. Run the jewels are good but I prefer El-P's solo work. But yeah, at least people know who I'm talking about by mentioning RTJ!
I agree.  As good as Run the Jewels are, I still prefer his earlier work.

So here's what I've been listening to lately:

Bonny Light Horseman - The Roving


Nice and mellow.

Khruangbin & Leon Bridges 'C-Side'


Laid back, great bass tones.

Ohmme - 3 2 4 3


Some good modern alternative rock.

And a few older ones:

John Frusciante - The Slaughter


CKY - Sink Into the Underground


Enjoy!
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Post by: Laura Hunt on Mon 06/04/2020 11:33:55
Lots of stuff to check out here, will try to make some time for it!

Shame on me for forgetting about Mark Sandman when were were talking about bassists. Morphine were one of the most peculiar bands of the "alternative" 90s era, consisting of just a two-stringed bass, drums and saxophone. Like so many others, Mr. Sandman left us too soon, after collapsing on-stage from a heart attack back in '99 :~(



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Post by: ManicMatt on Mon 06/04/2020 13:31:47
Aesop Rock! I have a couple of his albums too! Check out Kirby, unless you already know it.



El-P saw Camu Tao's album released, after he died from cancer.



I'm not even going to attempt to label that genre of that album, but I love it so much! Especially this song with its commodore 64 style synths.
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Post by: dactylopus on Tue 07/04/2020 02:15:45
Quote from: Laura Hunt on Mon 06/04/2020 11:33:55
Lots of stuff to check out here, will try to make some time for it!

Shame on me for forgetting about Mark Sandman when were were talking about bassists. Morphine were one of the most peculiar bands of the "alternative" 90s era, consisting of just a two-stringed bass, drums and saxophone. Like so many others, Mr. Sandman left us too soon, after collapsing on-stage from a heart attack back in '99 :~(
Good picks from Morphine!  I guess I didn't realize the specifics of their instrumentation before.  Fascinating.  Reminds me a bit of the aforementioned Soul Coughing, Ben Folds Five, or even Local H or the Presidents of the United States of America.

Quote from: ManicMatt on Mon 06/04/2020 13:31:47
Aesop Rock! I have a couple of his albums too! Check out Kirby, unless you already know it.

El-P saw Camu Tao's album released, after he died from cancer.

I'm not even going to attempt to label that genre of that album, but I love it so much! Especially this song with its commodore 64 style synths.
I had not heard Kirby, but now I love it!  Makes me want to actually compose songs about my cats (rather than just improving to them around the house).

And the Camu Tao track does have a great chiptune vibe.

So here's another couple of things I was listening to (2 completely different styles, but both really good):

GRiZ - Griztronics (ft. Subtronics)


El Michels Affair - Enfant (ft. The Shacks)

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Post by: milkanannan on Fri 10/04/2020 14:41:45
Yes! (laugh)

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Post by: dactylopus on Fri 10/04/2020 17:56:09
Quote from: manannan on Fri 10/04/2020 14:41:45
Yes! (laugh)
This is very funny, I love it.  Not a bad track, either.

My favorite autotune song is the surfer guy.  Crazy to think it was 10 years ago:


Funny, sure, but actually a really good track.  I also like the Carl Sagan autotunes.

Here's what I was listening to before that:

Brothers Johnson - Strawberry Letter #23


It's a cover of Shuggie Otis.  Thought about putting this in the other thread about cover songs, but I don't like it more than the original.  Both have their appeal, but the funky bassline in this cover version is worth noting for our earlier conversation.
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Post by: jwalt on Fri 10/04/2020 23:56:37
A long time ago... About the same time this piece came out of South Africa, I served aboard a US Navy Fleet Tug. We made a port visit to Port Antonio, Jamaica. As the day settled into a warm tropical evening, a nearby night club began belting out this song, complete with the cow bell:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp_S3QOJk90

Not long after we returned stateside, I started hearing this version on the radio:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjYrski71II

I like 'em both, but only one version takes me back in time.

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Post by: dactylopus on Sun 12/04/2020 04:15:33
I'm currently listening to this:


Just started, so far the first track is cool.
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Post by: milkanannan on Fri 17/04/2020 13:06:52
How about a shout out to bald or balding singers:

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Post by: milkanannan on Fri 17/04/2020 13:09:00
Quote from: dactylopus on Sun 12/04/2020 04:15:33
I'm currently listening to this:


Just started, so far the first track is cool.

Yeah definitely nice ~ I'm also listening to a lot of synthwave/chiptune stuff (softly in the background) while I work from home.
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Post by: Snarky on Fri 17/04/2020 15:01:48
Quote from: manannan on Fri 17/04/2020 13:06:52
How about a shout out to bald or balding singers:

Hey!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVCUAXOBF7w
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Post by: milkanannan on Fri 17/04/2020 17:09:05
Yep he's bald enough. :smiley: Haven't heard that Pixies song in ages. Random: I was once in a band that covered 'Hey' (not necessarily well, but we tried!)
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Post by: milkanannan on Fri 17/04/2020 17:12:52
Egg smooth under that shiny hat:

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Post by: Snarky on Mon 20/04/2020 14:14:54
A creepy little track off Guyville.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY-vGNIYhSE

It's one that seems to shift in meaning whenever I listen to it. This time around it sounds to me like a story of teenage sexual abuse.
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Post by: KyriakosCH on Mon 20/04/2020 15:31:09
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJZ__uy7T_Y
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Post by: TheFrighter on Sat 25/04/2020 11:39:37

Liberation Day



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Post by: milkanannan on Sun 26/04/2020 18:23:44
Haggis, I've got this on again mate. I get the feeling this track spawned a thousand failed marriages. (laugh) I'm not crazy about the vocals, but the hook is quite catchy.



That track led me to this:

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Post by: milkanannan on Sun 26/04/2020 18:38:20
Quote from: KyriakosCH on Mon 20/04/2020 15:31:09
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJZ__uy7T_Y

Cool track. Reminds me of this:



And this! (I love this video. Getting swallowed into a whale gives me such sublime megalophobia.)

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Post by: Haggis on Sun 26/04/2020 21:53:42
Quote from: manannan on Sun 26/04/2020 18:23:44
Haggis, I've got this on again mate. I get the feeling this track spawned a thousand failed marriages. (laugh) I'm not crazy about the vocals, but the hook is quite catchy.

Loving that John Moreland...

Recently I've been listening to this...

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Post by: Blondbraid on Sun 26/04/2020 22:44:17
I've loved all the songs by the Clockwork quartet since ever I first found out about them, but I feel this one is especially topical in these times:
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Post by: TheFrighter on Wed 29/04/2020 13:27:38

Those two italian bands share the same singer, he has a hell of voice!





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Post by: milkanannan on Wed 29/04/2020 15:13:32
Reminds me of Soundgarden and HIM. Here's the first HIM track I heard:



Also, wife and I listening to to shanties because of the movie Blow the Man Down:

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Post by: Snarky on Wed 29/04/2020 17:07:26
Isn't it about time for another Bluecuptools podcat?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beINamVRGy4
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Post by: milkanannan on Wed 29/04/2020 18:35:29
Is our theme 90's pop? Say no more!
(http://www.reactiongifs.com/r/kfp.gif)

Of course:


Holy crap - I honestly never realised that Semi-Charmed Life and Never Let You Go were by the same group 8-0 I mean, could a movie/TV show coffee shop scene in the 90's be without one of those two tracks? (laugh)


OK you knew it was coming...they even got the characters being idiots on set! yay! (laugh)



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Post by: dactylopus on Thu 30/04/2020 06:09:41
Third Eye Blind had a surprising number of hits for how brief they were at the top of the charts.  Semi-Charmed Life, Graduate, How's It Going to Be, Losing a Whole Year, and Jumper from the self-titled album and Anything and Never Let You Go from Blue were all pretty big, but that was basically a 2 year span and they faded from the forefront as quickly as they came.  I mean, they were / are still around, but they were never nearly as popular as they were in 1997 or so.  Pretty edgy for radio friendly pop stuff, though.

I liked Losing a Whole Year, but Anything is my favorite of theirs.  A quick 2 minute blast:

Third Eye Blind - Anything


A few other songs I love that are short but intense...

Quicksand - Backward


Boysetsfire - Cavity


Chevelle - Mia


Sense Field - Outlive The Man


The mid-late 90's were awesome for hard rock.

But my bad, you were posting 90's pop-rock.  Here are a couple of memorable mid-90's tunes:

Deep Blue Something - Breakfast At Tiffany's


Del Amitri - Roll To Me

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Post by: Snarky on Thu 30/04/2020 07:02:48
I don't have any memory of Third Eye Blind from the nineties. I don't think I ever hear their musicâ€"or if I did, I didn't notice.

It looks like their nineties stuff never charted in Norway, and they're relatively unknown here (the band doesn't have a Norwegian Wikipedia page, for example). I only came to know their biggest hit as the intro song to the BlueCupTools podcast.
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Post by: milkanannan on Thu 30/04/2020 09:57:40
Quote from: Snarky on Thu 30/04/2020 07:02:48
I don't have any memory of Third Eye Blind from the nineties. I don't think I ever hear their musicâ€"or if I did, I didn't notice.

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Quote from: Snarky on Thu 30/04/2020 07:02:48
It looks like their nineties stuff never charted in Norway, and they're relatively unknown here (the band doesn't have a Norwegian Wikipedia page, for example). I only came to know their biggest hit as the intro song to the BlueCupTools podcast.

Three alternative possibilities:

1. Norway didn't have coffee shops in the 90's.
2. You fell through a wormhole and somehow missed Third Eye Blind's 34 minutes of intergalactic superfame.
3. You actually did hear it as often as the rest of us and were about to stab your eardrums with a pair of chopsticks when your brain snapped itself into selective amnesia.  (laugh)
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Post by: Snarky on Thu 30/04/2020 11:32:49
Quote from: manannan on Thu 30/04/2020 09:57:40
1. Norway didn't have coffee shops in the 90's.

Yeah, I'm not sure we did, actually. The Starbucks trend had not arrived. As teens we would hang out by gas stations, and around places like kebab and fast food joints. (Well, personally I probably spent more time in scifi bookstores.) Some people had MTV (not sure whether UK or a distinct Scandinavian version), but not my house.

Quote from: manannan on Thu 30/04/2020 09:57:40
2. You fell through a wormhole and somehow missed Third Eye Blind's 34 minutes of intergalactic superfame.
3. You actually did hear it as often as the rest of us and were about to stab your eardrums with a pair of chopsticks when your brain snapped itself into selective amnesia.  (laugh)

In 1997 I was by choice listening to Skunk Anansi, Prodigy, Chemical Brothers… and looking at the charts, they were filled with "Candle in the Wind", Spice Girls, The Verve, White Town, Chumbawamba… It was the height of "Cool Britannia," and apart from the Friends theme I don't think American pop-rock made a huge impact over here at the time (there was a fair bit of US rap and R&B). Oh, I see Smashing Pumpkins did pretty well with their Batman track. I like that one.
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Post by: milkanannan on Thu 30/04/2020 12:04:35
This one? Yeah, I always liked it, too.

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Post by: milkanannan on Thu 30/04/2020 12:06:27
This one was also cool:

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Post by: dactylopus on Fri 01/05/2020 04:31:17
Quote from: Snarky on Thu 30/04/2020 11:32:49
In 1997 I was by choice listening to Skunk Anansi, Prodigy, Chemical Brothers... and looking at the charts, they were filled with "Candle in the Wind", Spice Girls, The Verve, White Town, Chumbawamba... It was the height of "Cool Britannia," and apart from the Friends theme I don't think American pop-rock made a huge impact over here at the time (there was a fair bit of US rap and R&B). Oh, I see Smashing Pumpkins did pretty well with their Batman track. I like that one.
I wasn't listening to that stuff much at the time, but my brother was so I was aware of it.  I liked Breathe by Prodigy more than most of the other stuff in the genre back then, but I've gained a new appreciation for Chemical Brothers and such in more recent years.  The closest I came to that was trip-hop like Portishead, which I was very deeply into.  The stuff on the charts I wasn't much into either.  I've never been a big fan of contemporary top 40 pop radio music.  I was very into rock and hard rock throughout the 90's, primarily the Seattle stuff and similar work, but the Smashing Pumpkins started to get me in the mid 90's.  After the Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness album, I went back to the earlier stuff (I had previously thought of them as annoying because of Billy Corgan's voice, but learned to deal with it because the rest of it was fantastic, and his songwriting was awesome).

I love this one:

The Smashing Pumpkins - Thru the Eyes of Ruby


I got really into long, epic rock music for a while because of Pumpkins stuff like this, Porcelina of the Vast Oceans, Starla, and Soma.  There was plenty of influence from Pink Floyd, like Shine On You Crazy Diamond and the Animals album as well.  A little later, Radiohead's epic Paranoid Android blew me away, like a futuristic version of Floyd.

Quote from: manannan on Thu 30/04/2020 12:04:35
This one? Yeah, I always liked it, too.
Quote from: manannan on Thu 30/04/2020 12:06:27
This one was also cool:

Yeah, that movie had a cool soundtrack.  Great stuff, like Seal's Kiss From a Rose, Offspring's Smash It Up, Michael Hutchence's amazing cover of Iggy Pop's Passenger, and good stuff from Sunny Day Real Estate, Flaming Lips, Nick Cave, and PJ Harvey.  Too bad the movie was shit (despite a solid blockbuster cast for that era).  This one reminds me of another soundtrack, actually:

Incubus & DJ Greyboy - Familiar


OK, well the concept for the soundtrack was cooler than the album itself, but I love that track.  And the movie was better than Batman Forever, but could have still been improved.

Had to go listen to this while I was typing:

Sunny Day Real Estate - Pillars

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Post by: milkanannan on Fri 01/05/2020 05:58:51
It's funny you should mention Thru the Eyes of Ruby. I remember a group I hung out with for a while in high school were super into Mellon Collie and found that to be the album defining track. I always really liked it too, the sort of build-up riff (I learned it on guitar; it keeps letting the B string ring open which feels cool while you're playing). Also the effects around the 'breathing underwater, living under glass' part sound so dreamy/watery.
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Post by: dactylopus on Fri 01/05/2020 07:30:19
Quote from: manannan on Fri 01/05/2020 05:58:51
It's funny you should mention Thru the Eyes of Ruby. I remember a group I hung out with for a while in high school were super into Mellon Collie and found that to be the album defining track. I always really liked it too, the sort of build-up riff (I learned it on guitar; it keeps letting the B string ring open which feels cool while you're playing). Also the effects around the 'breathing underwater, living under glass' part sound so dreamy/watery.
Definitely a great track.  It's a pretty good summation of the album.  I agree that the effects were great in that part.  I always loved how the beginning starts with this dissonant sounding piano, and how the ending basically turns into a completely different song.
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Post by: KyriakosCH on Tue 05/05/2020 17:05:17
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLstJH23p7k
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Post by: dactylopus on Wed 06/05/2020 07:22:57
Quote from: KyriakosCH on Tue 05/05/2020 17:05:17
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLstJH23p7k
Fantastic.  I love this track, and this band in general.

I'm listening to Canyons by Fractal Man:

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Post by: Stupot on Wed 06/05/2020 09:46:05
Quote from: Snarky on Thu 30/04/2020 07:02:48
I don't have any memory of Third Eye Blind from the nineties. I don't think I ever hear their music—or if I did, I didn't notice.

It looks like their nineties stuff never charted in Norway, and they're relatively unknown here (the band doesn't have a Norwegian Wikipedia page, for example). I only came to know their biggest hit as the intro song to the BlueCupTools podcast.

I know the song through American Pie (I checked and that film wasn't released in Norway until December 1999 so there's a chance you didn't see it in the nineties), but yeah, other than that they were not a band on my radar either.

Today I listened to a song from the same era that always comes back to me every summer.

https://youtu.be/E1fzJ_AYajA

But here's the kicker... There is currently a thunderstorm outside.
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Post by: Snarky on Wed 06/05/2020 10:44:33
Quote from: Stupot on Wed 06/05/2020 09:46:05
I know the song through American Pie (I checked and that film wasn't released in Norway until December 1999 so there's a chance you didn't see it in the nineties)

I did see it, but probably not in December; it was a pretty busy month for me (military service, university entrance interview, probably visiting my family abroad for Christmas, millennium celebration...). So I'm technically correct! (TBKOC)

Yeah, that soundtrack didn't make any impression on me. I think the only contemporary song off there I was (already) listening to was "Celebrity Skin". I only came to appreciate "Flagpole Sitta" with Peep Show years later.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3dWBLoU--E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYsMjEeEg4g
(Not sure if it's just the audio quality on the YouTube video that's bad or if the mixing was really that terrible)

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Post by: milkanannan on Wed 06/05/2020 11:59:05
Quote from: Stupot on Wed 06/05/2020 09:46:05
Quote from: Snarky on Thu 30/04/2020 07:02:48
I don't have any memory of Third Eye Blind from the nineties. I don't think I ever hear their musicâ€"or if I did, I didn't notice.

It looks like their nineties stuff never charted in Norway, and they're relatively unknown here (the band doesn't have a Norwegian Wikipedia page, for example). I only came to know their biggest hit as the intro song to the BlueCupTools podcast.

I know the song through American Pie (I checked and that film wasn't released in Norway until December 1999 so there's a chance you didn't see it in the nineties), but yeah, other than that they were not a band on my radar either.

Today I listened to a song from the same era that always comes back to me every summer.


I remember these guys. Catchy song, but the video is a full on tutorial of how to look like a complete 90's D-bag. (laugh)
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Post by: KyriakosCH on Wed 06/05/2020 12:14:48
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLFQZ9tfRI4

Therapy. Always therapeutic  :=
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Post by: Snarky on Wed 06/05/2020 12:55:28
Quote from: manannan on Wed 06/05/2020 11:59:05
I remember these guys. Catchy song, but the video is a full on tutorial of how to look like a complete 90's D-bag. (laugh)

Did someone say 90s douchebag?  8-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQsQZvsR_QI
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Post by: milkanannan on Wed 06/05/2020 13:42:25
 (laugh)What’s with us Canadians and producing 90’s D-bag bands? (laugh)
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Post by: milkanannan on Wed 06/05/2020 14:10:47
"But we did nothing, absolutely buttkiss that day"  (laugh) oh lord D-bag lyrics bring back memories (sad facepalm)
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Post by: KyriakosCH on Thu 07/05/2020 17:39:48
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwbBz59lIQo
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Post by: KyriakosCH on Fri 08/05/2020 03:49:15
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R4eCxKxr6Q
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Post by: Intense Degree on Sat 09/05/2020 15:39:25

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Post by: Slasher on Sat 09/05/2020 18:27:14
https://youtu.be/DI-vzDh9UJQ
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Post by: dactylopus on Sun 10/05/2020 09:05:16
Quote from: Snarky on Wed 06/05/2020 10:44:33
Quote from: Stupot on Wed 06/05/2020 09:46:05
I know the song through American Pie (I checked and that film wasn't released in Norway until December 1999 so there's a chance you didn't see it in the nineties)

I did see it, but probably not in December; it was a pretty busy month for me (military service, university entrance interview, probably visiting my family abroad for Christmas, millennium celebration...). So I'm technically correct! (TBKOC)

Yeah, that soundtrack didn't make any impression on me. I think the only contemporary song off there I was (already) listening to was "Celebrity Skin". I only came to appreciate "Flagpole Sitta" with Peep Show years later.
I liked Flagpole Sitta.  Great catchy track that definitely takes me back to that time.  I also liked Wooly Muffler off that album despite it not being a big pop hit.

As for Hole, I didn't like anything beyond the Live Through This album.  Doll Parts, Miss World, I Think That I Would Die...  Of course, there's also this gem:

Hole - Violet


Still probably one of my favorite songs of the era.  Definitely their best.  Somewhat reminds me of Everlong by the Foo Fighters, but maybe just because it's a clear winner for best track by the band in my mind.

Here are a couple more I'm reminded of:

Hum - The Pod


Of course Stars was the bigger hit, but this song is awesome.  Good album overall.

Fulflej - Microwave


That one takes me back, but it's likely one most haven't heard.

And here's a track I just listened to that kinda fits in:

No Knife - Academy Flight Song


The 90's were pretty rad.
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Post by: Babar on Mon 11/05/2020 16:37:33
The 90s WERE rad!

I think I was introduced to "Awesome Tapes from Africa" through Inkoddi here on the forums years ago, but found this song later. Almost everyone I share it with has a negative first reaction to it, but I think it's bangin'!  :=
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Post by: dactylopus on Mon 11/05/2020 21:56:28
Quote from: Babar on Mon 11/05/2020 16:37:33
The 90s WERE rad!

I think I was introduced to "Awesome Tapes from Africa" through Inkoddi here on the forums years ago, but found this song later. Almost everyone I share it with has a negative first reaction to it, but I think it's bangin'!  :=
I was grooving to it until the vocals kicked in.  It just didn't seem to fit the tone.  By a couple of minutes into the track, though, I was back into it.

My current track:

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Post by: milkanannan on Tue 12/05/2020 15:21:54
Quote from: Babar on Mon 11/05/2020 16:37:33
The 90s WERE rad!

I think I was introduced to "Awesome Tapes from Africa" through Inkoddi here on the forums years ago, but found this song later. Almost everyone I share it with has a negative first reaction to it, but I think it's bangin'!  :=

Haha those harmonies at 2:09 aren't bad. Any other tracks by them you'd recommend?
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Post by: milkanannan on Tue 12/05/2020 15:25:23
Quote from: dactylopus on Mon 11/05/2020 21:56:28
Quote from: Babar on Mon 11/05/2020 16:37:33
The 90s WERE rad!

I think I was introduced to "Awesome Tapes from Africa" through Inkoddi here on the forums years ago, but found this song later. Almost everyone I share it with has a negative first reaction to it, but I think it's bangin'!  :=
I was grooving to it until the vocals kicked in.  It just didn't seem to fit the tone.  By a couple of minutes into the track, though, I was back into it.

My current track:



Awesome chill out tune! Never heard of these guys before. And down the YouTube rabbit hole we gooooo
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(laugh)
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Post by: Babar on Tue 12/05/2020 18:38:04
Quote from: manannan on Tue 12/05/2020 15:21:54
Haha those harmonies at 2:09 aren't bad. Any other tracks by them you'd recommend?
The song I shared is by Ata Kak, you can get the "remastered" album here: https://atakak.bandcamp.com/
As for Awesome Tapes from Africa, there's a lot of stuff, but it isn't restricted to Ghana or Highlife music. Depending on what you're in the mood for, you'll probably find something to your liking.
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Post by: Snarky on Tue 12/05/2020 18:53:28
I really like that track, Babar. Nice!

It reminds me a little of this (for some reason the sound drops out two thirds of the way through, but you get the idea):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ro_Uh4N1NIM
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Post by: milkanannan on Tue 12/05/2020 19:17:49
Quote from: Snarky on Tue 12/05/2020 18:53:28
I really like that track, Babar. Nice!

It reminds me a little of this (for some reason the sound drops out two thirds of the way through, but you get the idea):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ro_Uh4N1NIM

Lol what is this?! To be honest this isn't half bad! I like the play on tempo and pitch, and the raw refrain is weirdly catchy. (I hope I'm not be rick-rolled by some polished group trying to sound indie, but it's actually a pretty catchy track in its own way.)
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Post by: Snarky on Tue 12/05/2020 19:55:24
That's Martine & Mirejam, an Oslo-based discopunk duo that were locally popular around the turn of the millennium. They put out one EP/single (what do you call a disc with three tracks?) and played a really fun set at the Øya Festival 2000 (among others, but that's where I heard them), before splitting up. The disc is on Tidal (https://listen.tidal.com/artist/20793).

Edit: Turns out Mirejam Shala has continued recording in various other projects, including as part of Fox N' Wolf:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaznGM_yjOg
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Post by: dactylopus on Wed 13/05/2020 04:13:01
I can hear the similarity.

Here's my current track:

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Round And Round

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Post by: CaptainD on Wed 13/05/2020 12:20:12
Listening to Duran Duran at the moment, I like most of their songs but two stand out to me.



Ordinary World is just about perfect in every way - the music, lyrics, vocals are all absolutely superb, and the section from 2:38-3:04 gives me goosebumps.  It manages to be hauntingly painful whilst determinedly optimistic at the same time.



I just don't have any words for Come Undone that would come close to doing it justice.
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Post by: dactylopus on Thu 14/05/2020 04:53:11
Easily the 2 best Duran Duran tracks.  I like their other stuff, but the mood in these is so much better than Girls On Film, The Reflex, etc.

I'm currently listening to:

Phoebe Bridgers - Kyoto


I just finished listening to this great track:

Neon Indian - Deadbeat Summer

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Post by: Snarky on Sat 16/05/2020 17:25:30
After watching Broken Flowers, I got really into Ethiopian jazz through the Éthiopiques series. One of my favorites (who I suppose is more funk than jazz?) is Alemayehu Eshete:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EaQCutlyMY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikhnhoywVOk
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Post by: milkanannan on Sun 17/05/2020 16:14:37
Love this thread. (laugh) Great tracks guys, but I got to take issue with:

Quote from: dactylopus on Thu 14/05/2020 04:53:11
Easily the 2 best Duran Duran tracks.

...  :-D best aside from:



I hadn't heard of Phoebe Bridgers before. Wow she sounds like a talent well beyond her years.

Quote from: Snarky on Sat 16/05/2020 17:25:30
After watching Broken Flowers, I got really into Ethiopian jazz through the Éthiopiques series.

I love that movie! I think I love Ehtiopian jazz now, too. I had no idea that was even a thing. :)
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Post by: TheFrighter on Sun 17/05/2020 18:47:39

Another track from the great voice of Labyrinth:



I'd like to ask: what hard rock singers (male or female) have a really notable voice in your opinion?

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Post by: dactylopus on Mon 18/05/2020 01:04:02
Quote from: milkanannan on Sun 17/05/2020 16:14:37
Love this thread. (laugh) Great tracks guys, but I got to take issue with:

Quote from: dactylopus on Thu 14/05/2020 04:53:11
Easily the 2 best Duran Duran tracks.

...  :-D best aside from:

(Hungry Like The Wolf)

Well, Hungry Like The Wolf is a fantastic pop song.  So are Rio and Notorious, but Come Undone and Ordinary World are just great, well written songs that break free of the new wave / new romantic / pop conventions.  Even a sub-par pop-punk band does a nice cover of this one:

Fenix TX - Ordinary World


That Duran Duran stuff makes me think of another great band of the era, Tears for Fears.  Most people love Everybody Wants to Rule the World or Shout.  I have an affinity for Sowing the Seeds of Love and it's Beatles-esque vibes, but this one takes the cake for me, and it has such a fantastic video:

Tears for Fears - Head Over Heels

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsHiG-43Fzg

Talk about distinctive voices.  This may not be hard rock, but the voice is awesome.

Quote from: TheFrighter on Sun 17/05/2020 18:47:39
I'd like to ask: what hard rock singers (male or female) have a really notable voice in your opinion?

As for distinctive hard rock vocals, I've always loved Eddie Vedder.  There's also other popular bands like System of a Down (Serj Tankian) and Tool / A Perfect Circle (Maynard James Keenan) that have very talented and distinctive vocalists.

Canadians might agree that Our Lady Peace (Raine Maida) and the Tea Party (Jeff Martin) have distinct vocalists.  Something tells me this is more like what you're looking for:

The Tea Party - Temptation


And because you posted Labyrinth, I'll have to post 2 tracks that brought to mind:

David Bowie - Underground


(Not Magic Dance!)

LSD - Genius


Super sweet animated video.

OK, I have to stop now.
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Post by: milkanannan on Thu 21/05/2020 16:24:44
Bono and Edge are indeed talented:

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Post by: dactylopus on Fri 22/05/2020 06:23:32
Quote from: milkanannan on Thu 21/05/2020 16:24:44
Bono and Edge are indeed talented:
Yeah, that was damn good.  I like the organ coming in at the end.  He couldn't resist joining the fray.

Here's my current track:

Portishead - The Rip

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Post by: Snarky on Thu 28/05/2020 08:38:17
Great track, dactypolus. Man, why haven't Portishead done another album since P3 (which is apparently called "Third"?)?

https://youtu.be/FEQQjYorDnQ

I've been playing Lara Croft Go here and there, and the "Maze of Spirits" soundscape made me think of Howard Shore's brilliant, brittle, crystalline soundtrack for Crash (though it's basically just two tracks repeated over and over in different arrangements).
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Post by: dactylopus on Thu 28/05/2020 09:10:51
Quote from: Snarky on Thu 28/05/2020 08:38:17
Great track, dactypolus. Man, why haven't Portishead done another album since P3 (which is apparently called "Third"?)?

I've been playing Lara Croft Go here and there, and the "Maze of Spirits" soundscape made me think of Howard Shore's brilliant, brittle, crystalline soundtrack for Crash (though it's basically just two tracks repeated over and over in different arrangements).
Your link didn't work for me.  Is it the same as this one?


It's unsettling and creepy, but has a very cool, moody atmosphere.

Yeah, I would love Portishead to release another album.  The gap between the self-titled album and Third was 11 years.  It's been 12 since then, so maybe they'll come out with something soon?

Current track:

Radiohead - Down is the New Up

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Post by: milkanannan on Fri 29/05/2020 18:17:03
I've had the happy Fez opening track in my head all *@&#ing day. Not complaining, but is just a release to actually hear it.


Favourite game soundtracks? Let's hear them! ....
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Post by: dactylopus on Sat 30/05/2020 07:56:20
Quote from: milkanannan on Fri 29/05/2020 18:17:03
I've had the happy Fez opening track in my head all *@&#ing day. Not complaining, but is just a release to actually hear it.

Favourite game soundtracks? Let's hear them! ....
That's a quality soundtrack.  Disasterpeace is very good.  He also did the excellent Hyper Light Drifter soundtrack, and the music for the movie It Follows (among others).

Disasterpeace - Title (It Follows)


Don't forget about this thread (http://"https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=57957.0") for video game music...

Here's what I'm listening to now:

Khruangbin - Maria También


I've been on a bit of a Khruangbin kick lately.
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Post by: Snarky on Mon 01/06/2020 13:28:04
(Yeah, that's the same Howard Shore track, dactylopus)

Janelle Monáe with a cheerful little pick-me-up that seems appropriate for the moment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgSpeV-bklk
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Post by: dactylopus on Wed 03/06/2020 09:58:30
Quote from: Snarky on Mon 01/06/2020 13:28:04
(Yeah, that's the same Howard Shore track, dactylopus)

Janelle Monáe with a cheerful little pick-me-up that seems appropriate for the moment:
Nice.

Janelle Monáe always has some interesting upbeat sounds.  I like Dance Apocalyptic (which I heard in the game Just Dance while getting in some cardio) and Pynk (with Grimes).  That one you posted is fitting now, though.

My current listen:

Clinic - Harmony

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Post by: Blondbraid on Sat 06/06/2020 16:16:34
I came across this while doing research on Dimetrodons, and now I can't get it out of my head:
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Post by: Snarky on Wed 17/06/2020 20:51:07
Something made me think of this song.

https://youtu.be/afXiBjcyyYg
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Post by: CaptainD on Thu 18/06/2020 12:22:14
Currently listening to the Wish You Were Here album by Pink Floyd for the second time today... so many great tracks, currently listening to "Welcome to the Machine".  There's something utterly compelling about those plodding harmonics interspersed with the synth breaking out and strangely muted, strained vocals.



Might have to listen to the Meddle album after I finish this one... then maybe Dark Side of the Moon... it's definitely a Pink Floyd type of day!!
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Post by: dactylopus on Thu 18/06/2020 13:27:30
Quote from: CaptainD on Thu 18/06/2020 12:22:14
Currently listening to the Wish You Were Here album by Pink Floyd for the second time today... so many great tracks, currently listening to "Welcome to the Machine".  There's something utterly compelling about those plodding harmonics interspersed with the synth breaking out and strangely muted, strained vocals.

Might have to listen to the Meddle album after I finish this one... then maybe Dark Side of the Moon... it's definitely a Pink Floyd type of day!!
I love it!  Great album.  My favorite is Animals.  I may have to go listen to one of those now...

I've been listening to Sade.  Top of the list are Smooth Operator, By Your Side, and this one:

Sade - No Ordinary Love



If you are a fan, you may enjoy the cover by the Deftones:

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Post by: Snarky on Thu 25/06/2020 10:32:21
YouTube shuffle just now introduced me to this track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie6plcFQ330
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Post by: Laura Hunt on Thu 25/06/2020 11:06:11
Aw I love Warpaint! But not this track, lol. I liked their first couple of albums a lot better, when they were more guitar/bass/drums-centered and they hadn't introduced so many electronic elements in their music:





A couple of friends have told me I look like Theresa (the guitar player) in that last video. Must be the fringe and the black circles under my eyes from not sleeping, because I can't see the resemblance otherwise, hahah.
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Post by: dactylopus on Fri 26/06/2020 08:48:47
Quote from: Snarky on Thu 25/06/2020 10:32:21
YouTube shuffle just now introduced me to this track:
I heard this one a couple of months ago (actually 2 different tracks) and quite liked it.  Didn't really look much further into the band at the time, though.

Quote from: Laura Hunt on Thu 25/06/2020 11:06:11
Aw I love Warpaint! But not this track, lol. I liked their first couple of albums a lot better, when they were more guitar/bass/drums-centered and they hadn't introduced so many electronic elements in their music:

A couple of friends have told me I look like Theresa (the guitar player) in that last video. Must be the fringe and the black circles under my eyes from not sleeping, because I can't see the resemblance otherwise, hahah.
These tracks are great, and made me look into the band a bit more.  Listened to a few good tracks already.  Thanks for posting!

While listening, I found that they did a really nice cover of a great Duran Duran song.  I'm now listening to another fantastic cover of the same song by a different band:

Deftones - The Chauffeur

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Post by: Snarky on Sat 27/06/2020 09:27:50
Thanks for those, Laura!
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Post by: dactylopus on Sat 27/06/2020 18:49:07
Quote from: Snarky on Sat 27/06/2020 09:27:50
Thanks for those, Laura!
Indeed.  I've listened to Elephants quite a few times already.  Probably my favorite of their tracks.

Now:

Phantogram - When I'm Small

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Post by: Laura Hunt on Sat 27/06/2020 19:16:07
Quote from: dactylopus on Sat 27/06/2020 18:49:07
Quote from: Snarky on Sat 27/06/2020 09:27:50
Thanks for those, Laura!
Indeed.  I've listened to Elephants quite a few times already.  Probably my favorite of their tracks.

Happy to hear!

Quote from: dactylopus on Sat 27/06/2020 18:49:07
Now:
Phantogram - When I'm Small

Nice! I've been working on my Super Sad Piano Piece all afternoon, and this has been a great palate cleanser. I'm with Cat Power now:


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Post by: Snarky on Mon 29/06/2020 20:39:53
Very nice and soulful, that. I like it.

Only 90s kids will remember... this extremely cheesy cover of a song that was pretty cheesy to begin with:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-3zGDLeSfE
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Post by: dactylopus on Tue 30/06/2020 01:40:34
Quote from: Laura Hunt on Sat 27/06/2020 19:16:07
Nice! I've been working on my Super Sad Piano Piece all afternoon, and this has been a great palate cleanser. I'm with Cat Power now:
Love it.  Here's a Cat Power song I heard recently that I enjoyed:

Cat Power - He War


Dave Grohl plays the drums on that one, but it's not a stand-out drum track.  I love the guitar in this.

Here's what I'm listening to now:

Elliott - Intro


Now this song has some fantastic drumming.
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Post by: milkanannan on Wed 01/07/2020 05:03:43
Nice tracks, guys~

Had this on in the background yesterday (cheers, @Kyriakos). Mainly reverb-y guitar. It's a game score, so it can be a bit repetitive, but some tracks remind me of Twin Peaks type music:

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Post by: dactylopus on Fri 03/07/2020 23:40:58
Quote from: milkanannan on Wed 01/07/2020 05:03:43
Nice tracks, guys~

Had this on in the background yesterday (cheers, @Kyriakos). Mainly reverb-y guitar. It's a game score, so it can be a bit repetitive, but some tracks remind me of Twin Peaks type music:

That's a nice groove.

I'm listening to Slowreader's album.  It's really good stuff.

Slowreader - Sweetest Suffering

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Post by: Snarky on Mon 06/07/2020 06:42:35
Nice, all of this has given me something to listen to.

"Crown Imperial Song" is pretty well known in Norway, but maybe not elsewhere? (YouTube also has a music video of it, but with poorer sound quality.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wPhBQ823U8
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Post by: milkanannan on Mon 06/07/2020 06:49:01
I hadn't heard of Weld, but that is a cool track. Sounds very 90's to me. The singer has a unique voice for sure.
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Post by: milkanannan on Mon 06/07/2020 06:50:10
Dact, I'm getting an 'unavailable' message when I try to play your track. Weird - maybe it has been removed?
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Post by: milkanannan on Mon 06/07/2020 06:53:13
Quote from: Snarky on Mon 29/06/2020 20:39:53
Very nice and soulful, that. I like it.

Only 90s kids will remember... this extremely cheesy cover of a song that was pretty cheesy to begin with:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-3zGDLeSfE

I've actually never heard this before, but there's no mistaking the quick back and forth zoom in and out - nothing more 90's than that. (laugh) Argh this track is almost annoyingly catchy! Going to have it in my head all day now haha.
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Post by: TheFrighter on Mon 06/07/2020 18:13:28

When Ennio Morricone goes rock.



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Post by: Snarky on Mon 06/07/2020 19:22:59
RIP
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Post by: dactylopus on Mon 06/07/2020 21:03:07
Quote from: Snarky on Mon 06/07/2020 06:42:35
"Crown Imperial Song" is pretty well known in Norway, but maybe not elsewhere? (YouTube also has a music video of it, but with poorer sound quality.)
Not bad.  It has a kind of late 60's early 70's hippie flower child vibe in my mind.  Something like "Turn! Turn! Turn!" by The Byrds, "Somebody to Love" by Jefferson Airplane, or "California Dreamin'" by The Mamas & the Papas, but definitely a bit more modern.  Fits with the 90's, there was a lot of music in that era that hearkened back to the 60's and 70's.

Quote from: TheFrighter on Mon 06/07/2020 18:13:28
When Ennio Morricone goes rock.
Great track.

Quote from: Snarky on Mon 06/07/2020 19:22:59
RIP
Indeed.

Ennio Morricone - Here's to You (feat. Joan Baez)


Quote from: milkanannan on Mon 06/07/2020 06:50:10
Dact, I'm getting an 'unavailable' message when I try to play your track. Weird - maybe it has been removed?
Maybe it's region locked or something.  Try this one:

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Post by: milkanannan on Thu 09/07/2020 14:53:39
^Hmmm, that one is also unavailable. Very strange.

That first track you shared is great. Very Carpenters sounding (which is great in my books).

My son and I gave Cuphead a try today for the first time, so I have had the soundtrack in my head the past few hours. They actually do mid-century music really well. Feels like I'm five years old in my grandma's living room again! (laugh)

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Post by: milkanannan on Thu 09/07/2020 15:00:28
I think this is it. I can access this one:

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Post by: lorenzo on Sun 12/07/2020 21:47:19
Quote from: dactylopus on Mon 06/07/2020 21:03:07
Ennio Morricone - Here's to You (feat. Joan Baez)
That was from a great film by Montaldo, Sacco & Vanzetti, with a fantastic performance by Gian Maria Volonté. Also, great score by Ennio Morricone and Joan Baez.
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Post by: KyriakosCH on Sun 12/07/2020 21:56:12
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkA95Gmpg0k&list=RDXkA95Gmpg0k&start_radio=
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Post by: dactylopus on Tue 14/07/2020 01:10:41
Quote from: milkanannan on Thu 09/07/2020 15:00:28
I think this is it. I can access this one:

That's the correct song and artist, but that's an awful recording.  So much crowd noise, you can barely hear the song.  Maybe you can check it on Spotify (http://"https://open.spotify.com/track/2DBTpSAGkq4mOxNc2iaUxv?si=FMrO2mpkSwWe2HofDmTZ6A").  Too bad there aren't more YouTube links available for it.  It's a great album, I'd recommend tracking it down and listening to the whole thing.  Like Elliott Smith with a drum machine.  Both guys were in The Impossibles and The Stereo before this:

The Impossibles - Eightball


The barbershop intro of Cuphead reminds me of Moxy Früvous (as all well harmonized vocals seem to do):

Moxy Früvous - King of Spain


Not the best song on the album (my favorite might be Laika), and not the best example of their vocal harmonies (which might be Fell in Love), but it's a great example of their quirkiness.  Bargainville is a fantastic album.  Anyone else love this band?

The rest of Cuphead is very big band / swingy.  Fitting for the visual style of the game.  Not really my thing, so admittedly I only skimmed through it, but it's definitely well written and performed.

Current jam:

Girlpool - Like I'm Winning It

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Post by: Snarky on Fri 17/07/2020 22:44:32
Gotta catch up with some of the recent picks in this thread.

This is a track and an album I keep coming back to:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyLCCJho5hk

That speech at the end is of course adapted from the famous rant in Network, written by Paddy Chayefsky. I've never been able to make up my mind whether Badu is appropriating the sentiment ("I'm a human being, damn it! My life has value!" seems to prefigure BLM) or holding it up as a dangerous example of white rage and hysteria.

Fun fact: the contemporary sense of "woke" comes from the next track off this album, "Master Teacher."
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Post by: dactylopus on Sat 18/07/2020 05:35:06
Quote from: Snarky on Fri 17/07/2020 22:44:32
Gotta catch up with some of the recent picks in this thread.

This is a track and an album I keep coming back to:

That speech at the end is of course adapted from the famous rant in Network, written by Paddy Chayefsky. I've never been able to make up my mind whether Badu is appropriating the sentiment ("I'm a human being, damn it! My life has value!" seems to prefigure BLM) or holding it up as a dangerous example of white rage and hysteria.

Fun fact: the contemporary sense of "woke" comes from the next track off this album, "Master Teacher."
Yes, that's a fantastic track.  I was only listening casually and found so much poignancy in her words.  I've loved Erykah Badu since hearing her on the Roots' Things Fall Apart album (You Got Me) and OutKast's Stankonia:

OutKast - Humble Mumble


"You can't discrimi-hate cause you done read a book or two" is one of my favorite lyrics of all time.

Listening to this track now, I absolutely love it:

Tripping Daisy - Waited A Light Year

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Post by: milkanannan on Tue 21/07/2020 18:18:17
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Post by: dactylopus on Tue 21/07/2020 20:00:54
Quote from: milkanannan on Tue 21/07/2020 18:18:17
(Radiohead)
This song always reminds me of this other one.  Had them back to back on a CD years ago and always loved how they worked together:

Incubus - Aqueous Transmission

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Post by: TheFrighter on Tue 21/07/2020 20:26:46

I recently hear this song on the radio... and I thought: "Did I really enjoying this crap when I was younger?"



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Post by: milkanannan on Wed 22/07/2020 06:55:36
Quote from: dactylopus on Sat 18/07/2020 05:35:06
OutKast - Humble Mumble

Yeah, that's a great track and a really interesting album. I'm not huge into hiphop, but I've always appreciated Outkast's exploratory style.
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Post by: dactylopus on Wed 22/07/2020 20:50:38
Quote from: TheFrighter on Tue 21/07/2020 20:26:46
I recently hear this song on the radio... and I thought: "Did I really enjoying this crap when I was younger?"
It's a bit simplistic, but that's a good track!  So is this one that I heard the other day, and your pick reminded me for some reason:

White Town - Your Woman

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Post by: Snarky on Fri 24/07/2020 19:54:54
That's one of those 90s one-hit-wonders (I read an FAQ with White Town a while back where he said he'd pretty much given up his music career after this song, though he seems to have made a very minor comeback). I remember with a mix of fondness and cringe. (See also: Fools Garden, "Lemon Tree" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCQfkEkePx8))

I'd never heard these guys before, but... instant fan:

https://youtu.be/njcKaW__jeM

PS: Radiohead are so effing brilliant!
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Post by: Laura Hunt on Sat 25/07/2020 11:00:20
Current mood: dancing my ass off to these goddamn hippies in my kitchen while making pizza. That klarino!

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Post by: milkanannan on Sun 26/07/2020 08:19:17


As per usual I'll let myself out...

(https://78.media.tumblr.com/ba8d9184592c81fd3d4fb7e9f15dfce8/tumblr_inline_mgdzppSNSV1rdrkhi.gif)
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Post by: Frodo on Sun 26/07/2020 09:53:44
I'm listening to a classic right now - I Wanna Be A Punk Rocker!   :grin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHSE7OjAQeU
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Post by: Pogwizd on Sun 26/07/2020 09:59:02
Quote from: milkanannan on Sun 26/07/2020 08:19:17


As per usual I'll let myself out...

(https://78.media.tumblr.com/ba8d9184592c81fd3d4fb7e9f15dfce8/tumblr_inline_mgdzppSNSV1rdrkhi.gif)

For a sec I was really happy to see the video you posted but then I realised it wasn't Jaja Ding Dong... :D
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Post by: milkanannan on Sun 26/07/2020 10:09:32
Haha (laugh)
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Post by: KyriakosCH on Tue 28/07/2020 05:45:01
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwbBz59lIQo
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Post by: dactylopus on Tue 28/07/2020 23:34:03
Quote from: Snarky on Fri 24/07/2020 19:54:54
That's one of those 90s one-hit-wonders (I read an FAQ with White Town a while back where he said he'd pretty much given up his music career after this song, though he seems to have made a very minor comeback). I remember with a mix of fondness and cringe. (See also: Fools Garden, "Lemon Tree" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCQfkEkePx8))

I'd never heard these guys before, but... instant fan:

PS: Radiohead are so effing brilliant!
Nice track by the National.  I've just started getting into them recently.  I found this INXS cover song they did that I enjoy:

The National - Never Tear Us Apart


And apparently the main songwriter just co-wrote and recorded an album with Taylor Swift that's getting good reviews.  There's also an artist called Bartees Strange (https://barteesstrange.bandcamp.com/album/say-goodbye-to-pretty-boy) that has several reinventions of songs by the National, including About Today.  Good stuff to check out.

Quote from: Laura Hunt on Sat 25/07/2020 11:00:20
Current mood: dancing my ass off to these goddamn hippies in my kitchen while making pizza. That klarino!
Cool track, but not what I would think of as hippies!

Quote from: milkanannan on Sun 26/07/2020 08:19:17
(Double Trouble)
Not a bad Europop track, actually.  I've been meaning to watch that movie.

Quote from: Frodo on Sun 26/07/2020 09:53:44
I'm listening to a classic right now - I Wanna Be A Punk Rocker!   :grin:
Good fun!

I'm compelled to post this:

Pat Boone - Enter Sandman


But this is what I was listening to:

Mr. Kitty - After Dark


The vocal delivery of the verse kind of reminds me of Dammit by Blink-182, so that's fun.  Sonically, this is a completely different song.  Love this one lately.
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Post by: Laura Hunt on Wed 29/07/2020 07:55:12
Quote from: dactylopus on Tue 28/07/2020 23:34:03
Quote from: Laura Hunt on Sat 25/07/2020 11:00:20
Current mood: dancing my ass off to these goddamn hippies in my kitchen while making pizza. That klarino!
Cool track, but not what I would think of as hippies!

The album is called "The Age of Aquarius" and they have lyrics such as "Singing along / Along with the angels / With all the spirits and animals / Become one with the universe" or "We are dreamers of a different world / Surrounded by eternal love / And peace with perfect harmony / The dawn of age of gold". Sounds like a bunch of hippies to me :-D

(Edit: also, I stand corrected. I just found out that the wind instrument is a Gaida (a type of bagpipe), not a Klarino!)
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Post by: milkanannan on Wed 29/07/2020 10:03:49
If only I had a dollar for every time I got my gaidas and klarinos mixed!
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Post by: KyriakosCH on Thu 30/07/2020 01:45:49
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1WaOKlldIE
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Post by: milkanannan on Thu 30/07/2020 13:47:50
Nice recent tracks, dudes~

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Post by: milkanannan on Thu 30/07/2020 13:52:12
Quote from: Frodo on Sun 26/07/2020 09:53:44
I'm listening to a classic right now - I Wanna Be A Punk Rocker!   :grin:

Grandad's on the cough syrup again! (laugh)
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Post by: TheFrighter on Thu 30/07/2020 18:28:48
I choose my personal brand new summer hit for this year:



You already did?

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Post by: milkanannan on Wed 05/08/2020 14:41:00
Quote from: dactylopus on Tue 21/07/2020 20:00:54
Quote from: milkanannan on Tue 21/07/2020 18:18:17
(Radiohead)
This song always reminds me of this other one.  Had them back to back on a CD years ago and always loved how they worked together:

Incubus - Aqueous Transmission



Took a minute to grow on me, but yeah it's a really nice chilled out track. I like the strings and the east asian twang (I can actually name that instrument! A Chinese Pi Pa~). Sort of reminds me of that mid-century Suzie Wong movie.
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Post by: milkanannan on Wed 05/08/2020 14:54:38
Quote from: Laura Hunt on Sat 25/07/2020 11:00:20
Current mood: dancing my ass off to these goddamn hippies in my kitchen while making pizza. That klarino!



Totally feeling it! That three beat guitar pulsing in the background mid-song (cue air guitar and air head banging (laugh))
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Post by: milkanannan on Wed 05/08/2020 15:00:33
Quote from: TheFrighter on Thu 30/07/2020 18:28:48
I choose my personal brand new summer hit for this year:



You already did?

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Awesome summer track. I wish the video were just a pic of a palm tree or something though (laugh) I suddenly have a craving for something rum based...
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Post by: milkanannan on Wed 05/08/2020 16:06:34
Quote from: TheFrighter on Tue 21/07/2020 20:26:46

I recently hear this song on the radio... and I thought: "Did I really enjoying this crap when I was younger?"



_

Reminds me of pet shop boys Go West. Also gives me tones of if I knew of these guys it would totally be my teenage 90s jam (laugh)
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Post by: Laura Hunt on Wed 05/08/2020 21:31:48
Quote from: milkanannan on Wed 05/08/2020 14:54:38
Totally feeling it! That three beat guitar pulsing in the background mid-song (cue air guitar and air head banging (laugh))

I know exactly which part you're talking about :-D
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Post by: Crimson Wizard on Thu 06/08/2020 12:11:23
Recently I started listening to one Russian punk group called "Король и Шут" or "The King and the Jester" (if translated), which I've only heard about from my school friends long ago. Something reminded me of them and I decided to check it out, and loved it. They worked in an eclectic genre of "fantasy horror" with lots of dark humor and grotesque pathos in their texts. Unfortunately I don't know of english translations, but I could try finding later.

Here's one of the albums:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-C0lCPFTj8
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Post by: Laura Hunt on Thu 06/08/2020 13:00:33
Huh, it just dawned on me how few Russian bands I know, especially compared to how many amazing Russian classical composers I'm familiar with. I've heard some stuff by Kino, I only know Leningrad exist because they recorded an album with the Tiger Lillies, and I like Elena Kamburova a lot, but... that's about it! I'm actually shocked that I don't know any Russian metal bands! (even Ð'АТЮШКА are not Russian, but Polish).

I do love myself a good Russian waltz, though (hums Ochi Chernye to herself.)
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Post by: Crimson Wizard on Thu 06/08/2020 14:04:27
^ To give an example of what sort of songs their are singing :D, the very first song in the above album is called "Forester" ("Лесник"), and the story goes like this:

A tired traveller finds a forester's cabin in the woods and asks to stay for a night there. The master of the cabin seems very welcoming and nice person, and they spend night eating, drinking and telling stories.
The forester tells that he likes forest animals, and that he befriended wolves by occasionally feeding them.
Soon after they hear a howl in the woods. Forester leaves for a minute, then comes back with a gun and sais: "my friends are hungry, let's go for a walk".
:grin:

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Post by: KyriakosCH on Thu 06/08/2020 21:23:21
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5d8bnvO2JQ
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Post by: milkanannan on Fri 07/08/2020 18:59:34

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Post by: Galen on Fri 07/08/2020 20:47:32


Catchy Dutch Yodel-core Rock
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Post by: KyriakosCH on Tue 11/08/2020 18:56:39
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvOeDWynY4o
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Post by: Slasher on Mon 17/08/2020 10:12:32
Frank Zappa
https://youtu.be/idv1k4N03S0
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Post by: milkanannan on Wed 19/08/2020 20:09:57
Enya, wow haven't listened to her in ages. I will admit I always have an emotional reaction to her voice.

Slasher, your track won't load here.  >:(

I really enjoyed elements of the Bojack series. If you know the show, this will bring back some memories:
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Post by: Snarky on Fri 21/08/2020 18:15:00
This is so damn stupid, but so damn catchy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uukvEcd25oQ
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Post by: milkanannan on Fri 21/08/2020 18:23:51
Quote from: Crimson Wizard on Thu 06/08/2020 12:11:23
Recently I started listening to one Russian punk group called "Король и Шут" or "The King and the Jester" (if translated), which I've only heard about from my school friends long ago. Something reminded me of them and I decided to check it out, and loved it. They worked in an eclectic genre of "fantasy horror" with lots of dark humor and grotesque pathos in their texts. Unfortunately I don't know of english translations, but I could try finding later.

Here's one of the albums:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-C0lCPFTj8

Nice one! That's a cool opening track. I don't if it's the way the drums were recorded or the tone of the voice but it reminds me of early Millencolin:

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Post by: Slasher on Fri 21/08/2020 18:24:03
Aww.... you are awful Snarky.... but I like it .. it's catchy  (laugh)
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Post by: milkanannan on Fri 21/08/2020 18:28:20
Quote from: Snarky on Fri 21/08/2020 18:15:00
This is so damn stupid, but so damn catchy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uukvEcd25oQ

Lol if the Catholic Church were a pop song  (laugh)
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Post by: Laura Hunt on Fri 21/08/2020 19:03:22
Quote from: Snarky on Fri 21/08/2020 18:15:00
This is so damn stupid, but so damn catchy:


loooool wtf!

Still, as far as STD-and-related songs, nothing can beat this!



(Better audio here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wemcv8q36M8), but the cover/thumbnail is very much NSFW!)
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Post by: heltenjon on Fri 21/08/2020 20:34:55
While on the subject:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmbxinvLONE
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Post by: milkanannan on Mon 24/08/2020 16:34:33
Quote from: Laura Hunt on Fri 21/08/2020 19:03:22
Quote from: Snarky on Fri 21/08/2020 18:15:00
This is so damn stupid, but so damn catchy:


loooool wtf!

Still, as far as STD-and-related songs, nothing can beat this!



(Better audio here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wemcv8q36M8), but the cover/thumbnail is very much NSFW!)

Um let me quote myself: "where do you find this stuff?" (laugh) Wow, thanks that was a lovely unexpected detour.
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Post by: milkanannan on Mon 24/08/2020 16:35:39
Helten, I can't get your track to load here. (facepalm) It's probably my restricted connection.
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Post by: milkanannan on Mon 24/08/2020 16:38:38
I'm so sorry to be so predictable, but I'm listening to this tonight:



I know Thom Yorke takes shit for straddling a creative style that crosses over into pop, but I've always admired his songwriting and lyrical abilities.
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Post by: Laura Hunt on Mon 24/08/2020 17:20:03
Quote from: milkanannan on Mon 24/08/2020 16:34:33
Quote from: Laura Hunt on Fri 21/08/2020 19:03:22

Still, as far as STD-and-related songs, nothing can beat this!
(Better audio here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wemcv8q36M8), but the cover/thumbnail is very much NSFW!)

Um let me quote myself: "where do you find this stuff?" (laugh) Wow, thanks that was a lovely unexpected detour.

Back in my goth clubbing days I used to hang out with a bunch of hackers that were really into EBM and electro industrial... Velvet Acid Christ, KMFDM, Front Line Assembly, Clock DVA, Skinny Puppy, stuff like that, and they introduced me to a lot of... let's say fringe stuff :-D

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Post by: milkanannan on Mon 24/08/2020 18:38:24
I just realised the world needs more sentences that start with ‘back in my goth clubbing days’. (laugh) (laugh)
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Post by: Laura Hunt on Mon 24/08/2020 19:14:53
Oh, among my friends it's a pretty common conversation starter, hahah (I was just chatting to a friend right now about that time some skinheads started shouting Sieg Heil during a neofolk concert and we were like wait, so these guys are for real? Ah, those were the days). Maybe you just don't hang around the right people :-D
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Post by: Snarky on Mon 24/08/2020 19:17:01
Oh yeah, just catching up, and that's a really fun track, Laura. I dig it. It reminds me a little bit of a band my sister got me into:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05gx6zeD_UE
(And please keep the Radiohead coming, milkanannan.)
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Post by: Laura Hunt on Mon 24/08/2020 19:41:37
Quote from: Snarky on Mon 24/08/2020 19:17:01
Oh yeah, just catching up, and that's a really fun track, Laura. I dig it. It reminds me a little bit of a band my sister got me into:

Pretty cool! Not a band I can see myself going back to often, but it made me curious enough to check out a few more of their tracks, so thanks for that!

Listening to them I also found myself thinking of Queen Adreena for some reason, even though the styles aren't really that similar. But there's definitely a common vibe there somewhere:

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Post by: milkanannan on Thu 27/08/2020 19:00:03
Ugh I'm so sorry. All these interesting niche entries and I'm stuck on 90s pop:

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Post by: milkanannan on Thu 27/08/2020 19:06:46
More 90s English:

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Post by: milkanannan on Fri 28/08/2020 08:07:34
For some reason I'm listening to the Russian national anthem:

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Post by: milkanannan on Fri 28/08/2020 08:09:55
Anyone have an anthem recommendation?
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Post by: Snarky on Sun 30/08/2020 10:22:14
I was just reminded that several AGSers are due to have babies around this time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBfZg1O1sZk

Finn Coren set a whole bunch of William Blake poems to some really good music (take "To Tirza" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qztbaNaRJZ8) for example). The only thing that detracts from it, in my book, is that his English pronunciation is not great.
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Post by: Slasher on Wed 02/09/2020 18:32:17
https://youtu.be/K8R7zjJMIfU
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Post by: jwalt on Thu 10/09/2020 20:39:26
Spent most of this morning looking at YouTube videos of this guy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlXkh1yDeQk

https://youtu.be/ER8kvGVwvp8

Not bad for a busker.

PS Admit that I don't follow this topic very closely, so hope I haven't duplicated an artist, and he is an artist.
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Post by: TheFrighter on Fri 11/09/2020 18:07:29

Found this cover of a tune of Carlos Santana made by his former percussionist Coke Escovedo, it's more groovy and singed better (by whom?)!



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Post by: Snarky on Wed 16/09/2020 08:31:01
Huey Lewis sued Columbia and Ray Parker Jr. over the Ghostbusters theme, while the band that wrote "Soul Finger" got nothing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpI1fcJdFrA

Justice for Bar-Kays!
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Post by: milkanannan on Thu 17/09/2020 09:51:42
7/8 time, anyone?

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Post by: Snarky on Tue 22/09/2020 20:18:07
Sometimes I think I've spent the last twenty-plus years looking for music that reminds me of my favorite trip hop tracks—which were always the really slow, grimy, druggy beats.

... Like "Risingson":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85E9Q5Wx210

... and "Going Under":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YJeyn_Q12Q

(Also available in an even slower, druggier dub (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYt8gaZ71Bk).)
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Post by: Snarky on Tue 29/09/2020 15:18:20
Ain't there one damn song that can make me break down and cry?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO6OvHxD_m8
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Post by: Snarky on Sat 03/10/2020 19:42:17
All right, if nobody else is listening to anything, guess what?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqfSoDG1C3g

I think I originally heard about this New Brunswick Nova Scotia group on Kate Beaton's Twitter. I like the multilingual English/Chiac (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiac) lyrics.
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Post by: milkanannan on Sun 04/10/2020 08:07:08
Quote from: Snarky on Sat 03/10/2020 19:42:17
All right, if nobody else is listening to anything, guess what?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqfSoDG1C3g

I think I originally heard about this New Brunswick Nova Scotia group on Kate Beaton's Twitter. I like the multilingual English/Chiac (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiac) lyrics.

Kinda cool they're sing/rapping in Chiac, but ugh watching that video makes my face want to cringe implode. (laugh)

I don't know The Cars well, but my brother had this skateboarding video that had this chilled out segment with this song playing in the back, which I always really liked:

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Post by: Olleh19 on Sun 04/10/2020 12:14:07
I will probably get laughed at but Swedish music genius Max Martin's Backstreet Boys - Quit Playing Games With My Heart.
Great song, great lyrics.
(laugh)
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Post by: Snarky on Sun 04/10/2020 12:55:36
Quote from: milkanannan on Sun 04/10/2020 08:07:08
Kinda cool they're sing/rapping in Chiac, but ugh watching that video makes my face want to cringe implode. (laugh)

I think that's the intention. ;)
It's all very tongue-in-cheek. But maybe this is an easier watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PbyiTKpDj0&list=RDIqfSoDG1C3g

Quote from: milkanannan on Sun 04/10/2020 08:07:08
I don't know The Cars well, but my brother had this skateboarding video that had this chilled out segment with this song playing in the back, which I always really liked:

Nice. I always enjoyed the 80s-rific "Drive" (also due to strong band name/song title synergy):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuZA6qiJVfU

Quote from: Olleh19 on Sun 04/10/2020 12:14:07
I will probably get laughed at but Swedish music genius Max Martin's Backstreet Boys - Quit Playing Games With My Heart.
Great song, great lyrics.
(laugh)

Four our enjoyment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug88HO2mg44
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Post by: Snarky on Sun 04/10/2020 12:58:40
Oh, and just to add to the 80s vibe:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP0_8J7uxhs
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Post by: Olleh19 on Sun 04/10/2020 13:09:33
Quote from: Snarky on Sun 04/10/2020 12:58:40
Oh, and just to add to the 80s vibe:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP0_8J7uxhs

That's my favourite Snarky! (laugh)
So tragic life story however :(

What an beautiful soul she seemed to be.
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Post by: TheFrighter on Wed 07/10/2020 08:14:45

R.I.P. Edward Lodewijk.



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Post by: Galen on Thu 08/10/2020 21:51:33
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Post by: milkanannan on Fri 09/10/2020 03:07:15
Interesting track, Galen. Don’t think I could listen to that upsetting story more than once, though!
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Post by: Snarky on Sat 10/10/2020 10:18:48
I'm not sure I even understand being compared to a capybara as an insult. Capybaras are awesome!
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Post by: jwalt on Mon 12/10/2020 13:57:39
Interesting video along with this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p14mc2TUPGI

Off topic, anyone tell me if the segment from 0:48 to 1:10 is from a movie, and if so, which one? May be just a part of the same footage taken, but seems to have some pretty cinematic elements.
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Post by: Galen on Fri 16/10/2020 20:38:06

Purely for the absolutely batty music video.
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Post by: milkanannan on Sat 17/10/2020 08:06:41
Jwalt, I'm getting 'video unavailable'.

Galen, very unique share. Not quite sure what that was. Sort of like Primus meets jungle meets death metal.
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Post by: milkanannan on Sat 17/10/2020 08:08:01
I might have shared this before, but we've been playing Hollow Knight again. The soundtrack is very nice:

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Post by: Click'd on Sat 17/10/2020 13:21:45
Quote from: milkanannan on Sat 17/10/2020 08:06:41
Jwalt, I'm getting 'video unavailable'.
It also says
Spoiler
Watch this video on YouTube.
Playback on other websites has been disabled by the video owner.
[close]
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Post by: jwalt on Sat 17/10/2020 16:48:11
Quote from: Click'd on Sat 17/10/2020 13:21:45
Quote from: milkanannan on Sat 17/10/2020 08:06:41
Jwalt, I'm getting 'video unavailable'.
It also says
Spoiler
Watch this video on YouTube.
Playback on other websites has been disabled by the video owner.
[close]

The "Watch this video on YouTube" is a clickable link that starts a YouTube window and plays the video. At least, that's the way it works on my system. IF you're in an area that restricts YouTube, it might not work. Sorry. First time I've encountered it, myself.

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Post by: Marcin K. on Sat 24/10/2020 09:12:19
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Post by: Snarky on Mon 26/10/2020 12:16:17
I'm always up for some Talking Heads, and I found the Igorrr track pretty interesting (I think I liked the music more than the video).

I kept thinking about Kathy Barra, and finally realized what was niggling on my mind—this song about Catherine de Barra:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbAKMz-Lv7E

What have I been listening to...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWqRmceG2J8

(It's educational)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDgyDHMXF0Y
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Post by: milkanannan on Wed 28/10/2020 13:33:14
Quote from: Haggis on Sun 26/04/2020 21:53:42
Quote from: manannan on Sun 26/04/2020 18:23:44
Haggis, I've got this on again mate. I get the feeling this track spawned a thousand failed marriages. (laugh) I'm not crazy about the vocals, but the hook is quite catchy.

Loving that John Moreland...

Recently I've been listening to this...


Quote from: Haggis on Sun 26/04/2020 21:53:42
Quote from: manannan on Sun 26/04/2020 18:23:44
Haggis, I've got this on again mate. I get the feeling this track spawned a thousand failed marriages. (laugh) I'm not crazy about the vocals, but the hook is quite catchy.

Loving that John Moreland...

Recently I've been listening to this...



I like your tracks, Haggis. This one is really nice.
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Post by: LimpingFish on Wed 28/10/2020 19:42:58
Totally in love with this album for most of 2020:



Also, speaking of Talking Heads, one of my favourite (non-album) tracks recently went live on Spotify after being unavailable for donkey's years (in my neck of the woods anyway):



From long-forgotten Irish indie band National Prayer Breakfast:



And while it was covered by both Michael Jackson and Eric Clapton (among others), this is still the best version of this song:



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Post by: Mouth for war on Thu 29/10/2020 22:25:21
https://www.youtube.com/embed/VohubM8Hls4

an awesome performance with a very young Steve Morse (Deep purple) on guitar :D
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Post by: Reiter on Mon 02/11/2020 23:30:53
This has been a solace and a refuge these weeks. I am very fond of it, but I must say that the English version is splendid, too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOdlhd0CCOw

Gustavus Adolphus Day is coming up on Friday, so I play it quite often this time of year nonetheless, but the hymn is particularly soothing this frightful and dreary year, particularly these bloodied last weeks. Do stay safe.

As an aside, it is always amusing to leaf through the examples in this thread - you never know what you will find!
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Post by: Racoon on Tue 03/11/2020 23:04:42
Quote from: milkanannan on Sat 17/10/2020 08:08:01
I might have shared this before, but we've been playing Hollow Knight again. The soundtrack is very nice:

Yay Hollowknight! I absolutly can´t wait for Silksong to be released :) Maybe in the meantime I will try "Celeste", it is said to be a little similar.
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Post by: milkanannan on Wed 04/11/2020 05:16:48
Quote from: Racoon on Tue 03/11/2020 23:04:42
Quote from: milkanannan on Sat 17/10/2020 08:08:01
I might have shared this before, but we've been playing Hollow Knight again. The soundtrack is very nice:

Yay Hollowknight! I absolutly can´t wait for Silksong to be released :) Maybe in the meantime I will try "Celeste", it is said to be a little similar.

Cool thanks for the lead! Hadn't heard of Celeste. Yeah, I'm also looking forward to Silksong, but we're still such a long way from finishing Hollow Knight. (laugh) It's a really long game!
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Post by: Racoon on Wed 04/11/2020 10:06:27
Thats true and also a very difficult one. I could only ever play it like one hour at a time before I got insanly frustrated. But I love it nevertheless :D What is your favorite region in Hollowknight so far?
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Post by: milkanannan on Thu 05/11/2020 05:49:22
(Hope nobody minds us going down this rabbit hole for a moment!)

My son and I have played the game for months (albeit only for a few hours on weekends) and we're still only Greenpath/City of Tears areas. (roll) There's something the game gets very right about its music though, and I think that's a big reason why I like it so much. I'd say Greenpath is the favourite stage I've seen so far because the colour switch from drab Crossroads was big news for my son and I ( (laugh)) and the music reminds me of a moment in my past I feel sentimental about (it starts at exactly 9:00, in case this link doesn't position properly):



The other track I really like is 'Reflection', which is unique but sort of reminds me of that nice theme song from American Beauty. (It actually also loosely reminds me of music from your game, Doors! I think I commented on Doors music in another thread.) Here it is (starts at 15:21):



How about you? Any favourite stages I should be looking forward to? You know, we should probably just start a Hollow Knight thread. There's a lot to talk about! (laugh) I just looked at a Hollownest map and, yeah, that's a big game.
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Post by: Racoon on Thu 05/11/2020 15:31:18
Hollowknight talk:
Spoiler

I hope its okay when I set everything in a spoiler, so that anyone not interested can just scroll by.

Greenpath and City of Tears are also my favorite parts of the game. I think its just the atmosphere there, Greenpath is very relaxing to walk through and the City of Tears contributes a lot to the story I guess and the rain adds a gloomy feeling to it. Another part that I really liked, wich I think you have not yet come through, is Crystal Peak.

But I think that every region kind of has its own feelign to it and the music plays big part in that. And the art of course, I think that the kind of minimalistic style (in comparison to other games like that) of Hollowknight is very eyecatching.

My favorite boss is in the Fungal Wastes though, the Mantis Lords. I really like the battle music (starts at 17:00) and they are just cool characters.

As for favorite stages: I think its always fun when you gain a new power and suddenly can go places you have not been before or some things just get easier with it :D
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Post by: Marcin K. on Tue 10/11/2020 11:55:27
All of them...
(https://scontent.fpoz4-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/124573293_10224977059838586_566503139580187847_o.jpg?_nc_cat=100&ccb=2&_nc_sid=84a396&_nc_ohc=naEoTrlYQmEAX9i-C8h&_nc_ht=scontent.fpoz4-1.fna&oh=6d16bc31978b45cd5653e9c7580002ed&oe=5FCE3332)

...but Shirley is the best.
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Post by: Crimson Wizard on Sun 20/12/2020 18:57:57
I found this much earlier this year, probably did not post here. It's hard to tell if I new what "post-rock" genre means before, but I like it.

Few examples, by same (or related) people, Hungarian bands called "Silent Island" and "Black Hill".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GV5_CpaybU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTvJUa6Vg78

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOiGc-UPGhE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsjpPHVYxMQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRjRGFeRo6w
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Post by: TheFrighter on Mon 21/12/2020 17:06:02

So cool, Crimson Wizard!

Now, christmas is coming...

What is your favourite song for christmas? That's mine:



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Post by: Snarky on Mon 21/12/2020 21:59:03
I haven't had time to do more than dip into those albums, CW, but I like the sound.
Boney M and Shirley Bassey too (almost goes without saying!).

Here's a song that always cracks me up. I guess it's meant to be sad(?) — but it's so absurdly over the top it just makes me feel happy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ELnhjGw4Zs
Another one that I can't quite take seriously:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcq5NlYz1PU

"Jesus Christ, I'm so blue all the time/  That's just how I feel / Always have and always will" ... It's all a bit too on the nose.
Bridgers' song doesn't have the jauntiness of O'Sullivan's, though, so it doesn't cheer me up the same way.
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Post by: Ponch on Tue 22/12/2020 01:41:59
Tonight I'm listening to a playlist of Christmas songs. I have forty or so songs in the list, and I break it out every year. The song playing right now is TVTV$ "Daddy Drank All Our Christmas Money."

The previous ones were:
Reverend Horton Heat's "We Three Kings"
George Thorogood "Rock & Roll Christmas"
El Vez "Feliz Navidad"
Bootsy Collins "Merry Christmas, Baby"
Weird Al "Christmas at Ground Zero"

It's that time of year, I guess.  :cheesy:
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Post by: Slasher on Tue 22/12/2020 16:00:43
https://youtu.be/scIqFErh3v4
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Post by: Creamy on Sat 09/01/2021 11:54:30
It's always a pleasure to catch up with this thread and discover awesome stuff. Post-rock and game OST make great background music.

Radio Radio's chiac in Dekshoo is as cool and incomprehensible as this song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wr0QIXaoSY

Various stuff:


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Post by: Snarky on Sat 09/01/2021 12:19:24
Quote from: Creamy on Sat 09/01/2021 11:54:30
It's always a pleasure to catch up with this thread and discover awesome stuff.

Radio Radio's chiac in Dekshoo is as cool and incomprehensible as this song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wr0QIXaoSY

It's a really fun one. That version is actually a cover, with the original by Adriano Celentano:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VsmF9m_Nt8
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Post by: Reiter on Sat 09/01/2021 13:25:19
I made a peculiar find recently.

I cannot say that I am very fond of Kiss. It is not the music that I like - and I remain childishly unable to not read their name as 'wee' (which is what kiss means means 'round here).

Then, they went and made their 'anti-album', the sort of album some bands sometimes do, something so far from their ordinary path that their listeners cannot make heads or tails of it. In this case, it is Music from the Elder!

Spoiler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABDAtZO6vxU
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I heard it first as I imagine a lot of people did - with other youngsters sprawled around smoky rooms, nodding and mumbling. I have remembered it since, but I could not find it again. No wonder, though. I would never ever have guessed that it was Kiss, of all people! Then, it featured in a web-comic, and we were re-acquainted. Goodness, the world is small - and things have a tendency to return to you when you expect it the least.


It is not the best album, certainly not a favourite, but it is a very unexpected re-acquaintance. There is certainly some nostalgia from my part, but even so, I like it. It is good! Very good. Certainy the best Kiss ever did.
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Post by: TheFrighter on Sat 23/01/2021 17:42:37

What is your favorite Slipknot' song? Even if Duality is probably the most famous I prefer this:



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Post by: Galen on Wed 03/02/2021 20:21:00

I've no idea what the lyrics to this are, so I can only assume the band was just a big fan of Tom Hardy's performance in The Dark Knight Rises.

Edit: Nevermind, the mad lads re-recorded the whole album in English. I've never followed Opeth closely, but this is seriously my jam.
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Post by: Galen on Thu 18/02/2021 18:30:34
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Post by: Blondbraid on Thu 18/02/2021 21:23:16
I recently saw a post about this old Amy Lee song being more relevant today than when it came,
when everyone is expected to create a brand and idealized public persona for themselves online,
and after re-listening I couldn't help but agree;
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Post by: LimpingFish on Thu 18/02/2021 22:21:32






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Post by: milkanannan on Fri 19/02/2021 16:26:44
Nice tracks, guys.

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Post by: Galen on Sat 20/02/2021 21:10:06
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Post by: Galen on Tue 23/02/2021 21:30:31


   
   
AlbumArtistYearGenreLink
1979Deru2014Ambienthttps://musicstore.deru.la/album/1979


Ambient album from all the way back in 2014. Distills a feeling of faded nostalgia down in to a series of ambient drones, with heavily use of super analog vinyl and tape distortion and artifacts. Feels a bit like browsing your old family polaroids.
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Post by: Laura Hunt on Tue 23/02/2021 22:13:20
Quote from: Galen on Tue 23/02/2021 21:30:31
Ambient album from all the way back in 2014. Distills a feeling of faded nostalgia down in to a series of ambient drones, with heavily use of super analog vinyl and tape distortion and artifacts. Feels a bit like browsing your old family polaroids.

Oh, I love this album so much! Thanks for giving me an excuse to revisit it :)

A couple of things in a similar vibe that you might enjoy (if you don't know them already):

Julien Neto - Le Fumeur De Ciel:


Dictaphone - APR 70:
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Post by: mkennedy on Tue 02/03/2021 09:13:06
Earlier today I listened to the Megadeth album "Peace Sells" and on Saturday I listened to the Metallica album "Master of Puppets"
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Post by: TheFrighter on Sat 06/03/2021 17:33:23

I warn you: don't listen this medley or you won't go back!  8-0



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Post by: Galen on Sat 06/03/2021 17:58:35
I refuse to believe that's not Zach Galifianakis playing the guitar.
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Post by: TheFrighter on Sun 07/03/2021 09:11:11
Quote from: Galen on Sat 06/03/2021 17:58:35
I refuse to believe that's not Zach Galifianakis playing the guitar.

(laugh)

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Post by: LimpingFish on Thu 11/03/2021 21:04:47






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Post by: Galen on Sat 13/03/2021 23:57:33


   
   
AlbumArtistYearGenre
DamnationOpeth2003Progressive Rock

Guess I'm doing more opeth.
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Post by: Galen on Mon 19/04/2021 20:42:05


   
   
TitleArtistYearGenre
Moonloop (Unedited Improvisation)Porcupine Tree1994Psychedelic Rock / Progressive Rock

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Post by: heltenjon on Fri 21/05/2021 12:49:25
I've been listening to fellow AGS-er Andreas Black's single lately. I like it primarily because of the great Gary Moor-ish guitar playing. The spoken lyrics are in Swedish, and are a send-up of a Swedish comedian who apperantly has tried to make a comeback after a MeToo-case. (I don't know anything about that case.) The lyrics are clearly backing the women, if there was any doubt.

The background vamp is inspired by Frank Zappa's instrumental "Sexual Harassment in the Workplace". (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v28kTwoDK-g) Apt.

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Post by: eri0o on Tue 15/06/2021 01:10:13
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkBYkOQrkyM

8-)
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Post by: Laura Hunt on Tue 15/06/2021 07:16:48
Quote from: eri0o on Tue 15/06/2021 01:10:13

8-)

Sounds familiar :-D
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Post by: FormosaFalanster on Tue 15/06/2021 14:17:04
My soundtrack for tonight:
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Post by: dactylopus on Sat 19/06/2021 13:47:03
I have been away for quite some time, over a year?  You guys made me open way too many tabs.  I'll look over them all, but this is what I was listening to at the time:

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Post by: milkanannan on Sat 19/06/2021 17:56:19
Quote from: FormosaFalanster on Tue 15/06/2021 14:17:04
My soundtrack for tonight:


Hey this is so nice
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Post by: milkanannan on Sat 19/06/2021 18:08:49
Welcome back, dact.  :)

Have been introducing my son to some old SNES and N64 titles on Saturdays (trying to keep video game time in check, so just one day a week :=). We were playing Super Ghouls and Ghosts and both commented on the cool track in the ice level. I think it's actually 5/4 time - I've always loved riding the extra beat in that signature. Track is 'Ice Forest' and starts at 15:27 if it doesn't play from the right place (I can never get the time stamp to link properly):



Those midi flutes sound so...icy :P
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Post by: Danvzare on Sun 20/06/2021 15:22:03
This is the first time I've come across this thread at a time when I can legitimately post something to it.
Right now, I've been listening to the soundtrack for Princess Maker 2.



I recently started playing the first game in the series, the terrible translation of the old MSX version to be specific. (Speaking of which, the third disk is corrupted.)
The game is surprisingly fun. And even more surprisingly messed up (the game should be renamed to "deadbeat dad simulator").
With my newfound interest, I looked up the game to learn some more, I then found out about the attempt to officially release a translation of the sequel for MS-DOS (decades years before the steam release), and that eventually led to me listening to the soundtrack. The comments on this particular video, learnt me quite a bit about the game's soundtrack.
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Post by: Galen on Mon 05/07/2021 20:35:35


   
   
TitleArtistYearGenre
To Hell and BackSymphony X2015Metal

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Post by: milkanannan on Mon 12/07/2021 14:19:31
Galen, not sure if it is just me, but your vid has gone unavailable.



Danzar: I'm digging the chilled out 8-bit tunes 8-) jeez, at almost 90 minutes they sure didn't skimp on the soundtrack!
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Post by: heltenjon on Mon 12/07/2021 21:38:52
Quote from: milkanannan on Sat 19/06/2021 18:08:49
I think it's actually 5/4 time - I've always loved riding the extra beat in that signature.

Yep, I count five, as well. (Had to check it out!)
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Post by: Galen on Mon 12/07/2021 22:09:34
@milkanannan Just you. Probably a region restriction. Unfortunately this isn't really something Youtube tells you, so it's not something any of us can avoid.
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Post by: Stupot on Tue 13/07/2021 18:05:28
I've stumbled on this woman Hazel O'Connor who apparently was quite famous in the 80's but I can't say I'd ever heard of her before.

She's got a massive catalogue but I'm currently enjoying her debut album from 1980, Breaking Glass.

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Post by: TheFrighter on Wed 14/07/2021 18:00:55

This is a '70s italian lewd song... but what a groove!



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Post by: heltenjon on Wed 14/07/2021 22:25:15
Quote from: Stupot on Tue 13/07/2021 18:05:28
I’ve stumbled on this woman Hazel O’Connor who apparently was quite famous in the 80’s but I can’t say I’d ever heard of her before.

She’s got a massive catalogue but I’m currently enjoying her debut album from 1980, Breaking Glass.

You're probably already aware that this is the soundtrack to a movie (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080469/)?
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Post by: KyriakosCH on Thu 15/07/2021 18:17:52
https://youtu.be/n31l1fQA5-c
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Post by: LimpingFish on Sun 18/07/2021 01:07:06
Quote from: Stupot on Tue 13/07/2021 18:05:28
I've stumbled on this woman Hazel O'Connor who apparently was quite famous in the 80's but I can't say I'd ever heard of her before.

I was going to say "Tch! Young people!", but you're only six years younger than me! :=

Also, an assortment...











If any of these tickle your fancy, and you're a Spotify subscriber, you can find "mixtapes" that I compile on there, for my own amusement, with music that tickles me. You know the name. :)
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Post by: KyriakosCH on Tue 27/07/2021 00:25:54
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiG2IO_yzIc
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Post by: Galen on Thu 05/08/2021 20:10:22

EPICA - OMEGA
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Post by: KyriakosCH on Sun 08/08/2021 22:36:12
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYDfwUJzYQg
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Post by: Galen on Wed 11/08/2021 21:44:18

Nightwish - HUMAN. :II: NATURE - All The Works Of Nature Which Adorn The World

Second half to the album composed just of orchestral music.
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Post by: AndreasBlack on Sat 21/08/2021 20:32:50


I don't know who did this song. :-D
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Post by: heltenjon on Sat 21/08/2021 21:34:22
Great guitar licks and funny pixelart, Andreas!

Nice homages to Surfing with the Alien and Packard Goose.  ;)
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Post by: dactylopus on Sat 18/09/2021 02:50:13
My wife had a dream and woke up with this song in her head:

Daryl Hall & John Oates - Maneater

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Post by: dactylopus on Sun 26/09/2021 05:34:28
Working on some art, and this is a fitting soundtrack:

Portishead - Hunter

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Post by: milkanannan on Wed 29/09/2021 17:59:55
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Post by: milkanannan on Wed 29/09/2021 18:05:33
Quote from: dactylopus on Sun 26/09/2021 05:34:28
Working on some art, and this is a fitting soundtrack:

Portishead - Hunter



Good call - haven't listened to Portishead in ages. Great track!
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Post by: morganw on Mon 18/10/2021 19:28:39
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Post by: dactylopus on Thu 21/10/2021 17:58:53
Current track...

Joanna Newsom - Peach, Plum, Pear

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Post by: WanderingWizard on Fri 29/10/2021 01:47:19
"What's a Devil to Do," by Harley Poe. I love everything by this artist, but this song is like a snapshot of my own life. The artist and I have very similar life experiences.





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Post by: Eternally Sus on Fri 29/10/2021 11:24:43
Brain Damage (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NR7Ks2nlqkI) covered by Neville Skelly.
The lyrics are based on former Pink Floyd frontman Syd Barrett's mental instability, and I have also have very similar life experiences.
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Post by: Galen on Tue 02/11/2021 14:22:13

Got introduced to Porcupine Tree/Steven Wilson by the commentary for Shardlight, which mentioned the game was heavily inspired by The Raven That Refuse To Sing (And Other Stories). Very excited to see the band coming back together after a decade apart.
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Post by: dactylopus on Thu 04/11/2021 14:04:49
Afghan Whigs - Honky's Ladder

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Post by: Galen on Mon 29/11/2021 20:32:51

Motorpsycho & Ståle Storløkken - The Death Defying Unicorn (2012)
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Post by: milkanannan on Sun 05/12/2021 13:05:25
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Post by: dactylopus on Fri 10/12/2021 15:16:49
Wham! - Everything She Wants

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Post by: dactylopus on Thu 23/12/2021 17:20:21
Been learning to play this song, and really enjoying it.

Elliott Smith - Waltz #2 (XO)

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Post by: Stupot on Fri 24/12/2021 11:45:22
Found myself listening to The Slits earlier.

https://youtu.be/pSq3-lE377Q
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Post by: milkanannan on Sat 15/01/2022 15:57:39
Quote from: dactylopus on Thu 23/12/2021 17:20:21
Been learning to play this song, and really enjoying it.

Elliott Smith - Waltz #2 (XO)



Digging this  8-)
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Post by: milkanannan on Sat 15/01/2022 16:00:11
Those watching know  ;)

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Post by: Mouth for war on Wed 16/02/2022 22:19:28
classic :D

https://www.youtube.com/embed/qORYO0atB6g
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Post by: Laura Hunt on Tue 22/02/2022 21:01:26
One of my most beloved artists passed away today. Rest in peace, Mark.

To the stars, my love
To the sea
To the wheels, my love
'Til they roll all over me


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Post by: Slasher on Wed 23/02/2022 03:27:08
Rory Gallagher - Bullfrog Blues

https://youtu.be/3GvQ5gNKsQ4
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Post by: lorenzo on Wed 23/02/2022 19:37:40
I love Rory Gallagher, such a great guitar player!
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Post by: milkanannan on Mon 14/03/2022 18:28:03
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Post by: LimpingFish on Mon 14/03/2022 18:52:19




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Post by: milkanannan on Fri 25/03/2022 12:39:57
love that Nick Cave track
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Post by: Mouth for war on Fri 25/03/2022 21:01:25
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDlpkp2ukOY
From one of their best movies EVER. Lorenzo I know you'll back me up here buddy! :D
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Post by: TheFrighter on Sat 26/03/2022 07:54:18
Quote from: Mouth for war on Fri 25/03/2022 21:01:25
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDlpkp2ukOY
From one of their best movies EVER. Lorenzo I know you'll back me up here buddy! :D
Ha! Are you deutsch, Mouth For War?
Only the italiani and the deutschs love the Spencer - Hill movies!  :-D

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Post by: Laura Hunt on Sat 26/03/2022 08:12:24
Quote from: TheFrighter on Sat 26/03/2022 07:54:18
Ha! Are you deutsch, Mouth For War?
Only the italiani and the deutschs love the Spencer - Hill movies!  :-D

Wrong! They were absolute classics in Spain too ;)
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Post by: heltenjon on Sat 26/03/2022 10:45:06
Quote from: Laura Hunt on Sat 26/03/2022 08:12:24
Quote from: TheFrighter on Sat 26/03/2022 07:54:18
Ha! Are you deutsch, Mouth For War?
Only the italiani and the deutschs love the Spencer - Hill movies!  :-D

Wrong! They were absolute classics in Spain too ;)

I remember there always being plenty of these in the video rentals back in the day, so I guess I can't be the only Norwegian who watched them either.
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Post by: Mouth for war on Sat 26/03/2022 21:34:31
Quote from: TheFrighter on Sat 26/03/2022 07:54:18
Ha! Are you deutsch, Mouth For War?
Only the italiani and the deutschs love the Spencer - Hill movies!  :-D

Haha no I'm Swedish! They were huge here. I read somewhere that the first Trinity movie had like 1 million visitors to the theatres here. I absolutely love their movies AND I have my own custom T-shirt I did years ago with them. Total fan boy!!!! :D
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Post by: TheFrighter on Sun 27/03/2022 09:24:07

Glad to see so much love!  8-)

About the musicians Guido & Maurizio De Angelis aka Oliver Onions (that played most of the Spencer - Hill soundtracks) another fine track is the theme of Sandokan:



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Post by: lorenzo on Sun 27/03/2022 11:11:18
Those comedies are classics! And De Angelis's soundtracks are always catchy (and they made hundreds of films!).
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Post by: Mouth for war on Sun 27/03/2022 15:02:57
Pure magic :-D
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Post by: Creamy on Fri 01/04/2022 22:03:25
I love that funky clavinet sound.



Unrelated:
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Post by: heltenjon on Sat 02/04/2022 01:42:12
That's some great clavinet playing! A bit odd choice for showcasing George Duke, IMO, as he's more in the foreground on other songs and solos frequently in that Zappa band.
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Post by: LimpingFish on Fri 08/04/2022 01:12:09
I absolutely love (love!) italian genre movies, but I never really got into the Hill/Spencer oeuvre. Big fan of the De Angelis soundtracks, though. Especially...


Absolutely fantastic movie, recommended as a double feature with Nero's earlier Django.

Also on my playlist lately, funnily enough...



And...



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Post by: milkanannan on Fri 15/04/2022 13:23:52
That Mona Carita track makes me want to get high and solve a crime (laugh)
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Post by: AndreasBlack on Fri 15/04/2022 16:19:03
Shameless commercial (sorry). But my own music actually.  :-D

If you like jokes about the modern society it should probably be right up your alley, if not, maybe not so much.

Youtube search this " Max Fury - Famous & Smarter ".

Seems like the direct linking won't work since i've age-restricted it for obvious reasons
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Post by: TheFrighter on Fri 15/04/2022 17:24:04
Actually i'm sick about the soundtrack of The house in Fata Morgana, it's mesmerezing!

Just I don't know why if the song is in português the title are in italiano...  ??? also not are relared to the lyrics!





(for the record, "minchia" is a swear word.)

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Post by: LimpingFish on Fri 15/04/2022 19:30:31
Quote from: milkanannan on Fri 15/04/2022 13:23:52
That Mona Carita track makes me want to get high and solve a crime (laugh)

Do it!

I don't know why, but I'm currently deep in a '80s Finnish pop hole that I can't seem to escape from.

Quote from: TheFrighter on Fri 15/04/2022 17:24:04
(for the record, "minchia" is a swear word.)

That's the second time I've seen that word used in a song title! ;-D
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Post by: heltenjon on Fri 15/04/2022 22:00:38
Quote from: LimpingFish on Fri 15/04/2022 19:30:31
Quote from: TheFrighter on Fri 15/04/2022 17:24:04
(for the record, "minchia" is a swear word.)
That's the second time I've seen that word used in a song title! ;-D
I guess that the Zappa song performed by Massimo Bassoli is the other one?
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Post by: LimpingFish on Fri 15/04/2022 23:49:41
Quote from: heltenjon on Fri 15/04/2022 22:00:38
I guess that the Zappa song performed by Massimo Bassoli is the other one?

Boom! (nod)
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Post by: Mouth for war on Tue 19/04/2022 20:34:02
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_HaS0ZnC0I If I keep headbanging to this song I'll lose my head soon. Damn what a heavy song :D \m/
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Post by: LimpingFish on Sun 01/05/2022 02:05:48






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Post by: Galen on Sat 28/05/2022 20:29:19

Ozric Tentacles - Spirals In Hyperspace (2004)
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Post by: AndreasBlack on Sat 28/05/2022 20:41:25
  :-D and thinking. God, i need to finish the game!
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Post by: Stupot on Thu 16/06/2022 11:37:19
My sister introduced me to Jake Bugg years ago but I never properly gave him a chance. This song came up today and I think it's great.

https://youtu.be/_est5zPL6eo
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Post by: Galen on Thu 16/06/2022 20:38:59
That thumbnail image really looks to me like someone microwaved Jake Gyllenhall.
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Post by: milkanannan on Wed 22/06/2022 14:04:11
Quote from: Galen on Thu 16/06/2022 20:38:59
That thumbnail image really looks to me like someone microwaved Jake Gyllenhall.

(laugh) I can't unsee it

(Cool track, Stupot)
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Post by: milkanannan on Wed 22/06/2022 14:49:44
I watched Fear and Loathing for the first time in ages today. I love that movie and yet I can't really put my finger on why. Maybe because everything seems to revolve around the present moment or something (I sadly live in the future). Anyway, I like the way the end credits roll out:

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Post by: TheFrighter on Fri 24/06/2022 15:47:15

Sometimes this song come to my mind:



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Post by: Creamy on Fri 15/07/2022 21:14:30
Nice song by Ofra Haza. I hadn't heard it in ages.


I came across this cover of the Beatles when I was looking for inspiration for the Circus competition.



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Post by: milkanannan on Sun 17/07/2022 09:40:44
Nice tracks guys. That King Charles one is cool (reminds me of something but I can't put my finger on it). Is it just me or are the lyrics a bit cringe? (laugh) I don't really know that artist. Is it supposed to be a bit tongue in cheek?

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Post by: Snarky on Sun 24/07/2022 21:07:01
I just read The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford (it's great, and the title is very misleading), and found myself humming this song; obviously because the narrator keeps calling it "the saddest story" he ever heard (which was also Ford's preferred title):

https://youtu.be/Z7wSBqOIJBo
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Post by: Creamy on Wed 17/08/2022 17:27:45
QuoteThat King Charles one is cool (reminds me of something but I can't put my finger on it). Is it just me or are the lyrics a bit cringe? (laugh) I don't really know that artist. Is it supposed to be a bit tongue in cheek?
I guess so. The lyrics in Mississippi Isabel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQzsUcRBEKI) seem silly too.

I like Belle and Sebastian.

Musicals anyone?





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Post by: Snarky on Mon 22/08/2022 08:40:40
Last night I went to an open-air concert on the roof of the Oslo Opera House (well, the roof was the audience area, the actual stage was on a raft), headlined by Madrugada.

(https://i.imgur.com/OS6Fmlf.jpg?1)
(As always, it's hard to judge inclines in photos, but we're standing on the sloping roof of the building (http://res.cloudinary.com/simpleview/image/upload/v1634555140/clients/norway/Oslo_operahus_2_447c01a6-7d1c-4cd6-a87a-0c38e552a893.jpg))

They were less technically perfect than the last time I saw them live, but I liked this show better. They did 2–3 tracks from their new album, but mostly the old hits. (I was thinking about how many times Høyem must have sung "Higher" in his life. Yet he gives no hint of being bored.)

They did a cool, louder version of this song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psd3duWcs6w
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Post by: milkanannan on Sat 27/08/2022 13:31:22
Cool track Snarky!
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Post by: Snarky on Thu 08/09/2022 09:49:23
Thanks, milkannan! Yeah, I think so.

Anyway, I like The Like. I got into them after I saw them open for Tori Amos in Chicago. This is a great diss-track from their second (and last) album that just came up in my playlist. Z Berg apparently claims it's totally not about their former bass player, Charlotte Froom. Listen to see if you can spot the "subtle hints" that she might be fibbing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZUs19XT_6k
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Post by: Galen on Thu 15/09/2022 19:31:51

Mogwai - Mogwai fear Satan
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Post by: KyriakosCH on Tue 08/11/2022 17:16:58
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Post by: Creamy on Tue 08/11/2022 20:14:10
A classic. It took me years to realize that the title is Sliver (and not Silver).

Lately, I've been listening to the Scarlet Furies (https://www.reverbnation.com/thescarletfuries), the band of Robert Holmes (composer of Gabriel Knight) and his daughter Raleigh.
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Post by: KyriakosCH on Tue 08/11/2022 20:30:15
I love the GK games soundtracks...
But the music he and his daughter are making doesn't really remind me of those :)
Did the Gray Matter game bomb? (youtube search led to ost for it by them, which sounds nice)


Don't underestimate the Knight's family tragic poet-samurai appeal, Grace :D
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Post by: Creamy on Tue 08/11/2022 20:48:39
The last games of Jane Jensen (who is also Robert Holmes' wife) didn't sell well.
Pinkerton Road Studio closed after the remake of Gabriel Knight and Moebius: Empire Rising:


I haven't played those but Gray Matter and Erica Reed were good IMO.
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Post by: LimpingFish on Wed 09/11/2022 01:59:53
Neil Young removed all his solo stuff from Spotify, but I guess he couldn't kill everything he was involved in the recording of...

I like this movie, but I'm a HUGE fan of the soundtrack...

From one of my favourite synth-pop albums of the '80s...
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Post by: KyriakosCH on Wed 09/11/2022 07:00:06
More Nirvana :)

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Post by: KyriakosCH on Wed 09/11/2022 19:05:58
Therapy?, such a nice band  (nod)

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Post by: Snarky on Tue 22/11/2022 21:08:45
George Harrison - My Sweet Lord
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Post by: Pax Animo on Tue 22/11/2022 21:55:58
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Post by: LimpingFish on Sun 27/11/2022 02:38:31
I recently been listening to this, from the 1975 album The Snow Goose, by prog-rock stalwarts Camel:


Shiro Sagisu's OST for the 2004 live-action Casshern (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casshern_(film)) adaptation is stunningly epic, and I was torn between posting this track...

...and this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clDO9m0JyAY&list=PL6s2wApajeioTcq90JXXAZniCSkWh-FBO&index=7

I opted for the shorter of the two. :)

Also, I've been playing The Sisters of Mercy, having not listened to them much in...well...donkey's years:





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Post by: TheFrighter on Sun 27/11/2022 09:14:53

Anybody here knows the band Vampire Weekend?


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Post by: lorenzo on Sun 27/11/2022 09:39:12
Quote from: LimpingFish on Sun 27/11/2022 02:38:31I recently been listening to this, from the 1975 album The Snow Goose, by prog-rock stalwarts Camel:
That's a good album!
In fact, Camel's first 3-4 albums from the 1970s are all worth listening!
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Post by: KyriakosCH on Sun 27/11/2022 13:45:51
Speaking of Italy:

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Post by: Creamy on Thu 01/12/2022 21:40:46

Quote from: TheFrighter on Sun 27/11/2022 09:14:53Anybody here knows the band Vampire Weekend?
I still have their first album. They have a distinctive light-hearted sound.

Quote from: LimpingFishI recently been listening to this, from the 1975 album The Snow Goose, by prog-rock stalwarts Camel.
Nice.
Coincidentally I have listened to prog rock of the 70s recently:

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Post by: LimpingFish on Fri 02/12/2022 01:30:23
Quote from: Creamy on Thu 01/12/2022 21:40:46Nice.
Coincidentally I have listened to prog rock of the 70s recently...

Man, I can still remember the first time I heard War of the Worlds. It must have been sometime in the mid to late 80's(?), recorded from vinyl on a BASF tape, and it cut out just as the Thunderchild was being destroyed. It wasn't until a decade or so later (once CDs became ubiquitous) that I could enjoy the whole experience.

The great thing about streaming services is that you can find a whole lot of "forgotten" prog concept albums (good, bad, and just plain weird) of the seventies. So many rabbit holes to fall down...
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Post by: Mouth for war on Sat 15/04/2023 20:46:02
Just re-discovered this one. Looove those lyrics :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-FhWTvfg5A
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Post by: LimpingFish on Sun 16/04/2023 02:14:28
Quote from: Mouth for war on Sat 15/04/2023 20:46:02Just re-discovered this one. Looove those lyrics :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-FhWTvfg5A

Nice!

(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aEzQ5zy_KjU/XaEv3NJ0mrI/AAAAAAAADqw/i9yQtpbI5EcPskycCPrgpR4pBHROISvcQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Dog014.gif)

I'm more of a 70's Alice fan, myself. I'm a big fan of Billion Dollar Babies from 1973:


Also, in my never-ending journey through 80's pop from around the world, I present:


On a different note, this album actually moved me to tears. Goddamn kids!

And, finally:

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Post by: Mouth for war on Sun 16/04/2023 20:06:38
The latest alice albums is a step back to the rock n roll stuff he did earlier. Really good too :-)
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Post by: TheFrighter on Sun 14/05/2023 20:12:23

Swedish singer Loreen won the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 with this song:


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Post by: Galen on Wed 02/08/2023 19:47:54
Nick Johnston - Remarkably Human
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Post by: LimpingFish on Fri 04/08/2023 19:26:08
More from Tino Casal, and an album that's loaded with fantastic 80's synth goodness.

Not the (inferior) Toploader cover from the dawn of the new millenium, but the mellow original by King Harvest.

And finally the melancholic Faust, from Brian de Palma's under-rated musical Phantom of the Paradise (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9yof8cwli4) , as sung by actor Bill Finley.

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Post by: Ponch on Fri 04/08/2023 23:54:35
Being old today and playing old people music.  :cool:
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Post by: Snarky on Mon 16/10/2023 00:48:12
I've let The Algorithm determine most of my listening recently.

She Wants Revenge – "Tear You Apart"

Apparently Joaquin Phoenix directed this music video. Good job, Joaquin!

Talking Heads – "Life During Wartime" (live, from Stop Making Sense)

This performance brought to you by Cocaine™

I got into reading about David Byrne, and came across the quote by former Talking Head Chris Frantz: "If you knew David Byrne, you would not be jealous of him" (https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jul/21/chris-frantz-talking-heads-david-byrne); which is a bit sad, but honestly also a bit of a relief, because I was starting to feel pretty jealous.

The Dø – A Take Away Show ("Despair, Hangover & Ecstasy" and "Miracles (Back In Time)")

Not sure whether that counts as a Metal Ümlaut

The Divine Comedy – "Something For The Weekend"

Apparently this song was inspired by the loveliness of Kate Beckinsale in Cold Comfort Farm; it must be weird to have a song about yourself by someone you've never met (though in this case the idea was just a jumping-off point)

Purity Ring – "Fineshrine"

Heard them first on the Search Party theme, "Obedear," but they have some other good tracks too
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Post by: AndreasBlack on Mon 16/10/2023 10:11:18
This hidden gem, great jam with Prince what common people would refer to as 'sick'  :-D
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Post by: Snarky on Tue 24/10/2023 12:42:50
Mellon Collie came out 25 years ago today.

Smashing Pumpkins - "Galapogos" [sic]

Over time this has grown to become my favorite track off the whole double album.
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Post by: TheFrighter on Tue 31/10/2023 12:58:10

 Already in the Halloween mood?

When I was younger this song really scare me:


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Post by: Snarky on Fri 03/11/2023 08:05:38
(https://i.imgflip.com/84rewh.jpg)

The Beatles - "Now and Then"

Just out of curiosity, really. It's... OK?

DJ Shadow (featuring Run The Jewels) - "Nobody Speak"

I'm old enough that a song from 7 years ago feels like "a recent track" to me. But then I guess it's been 25 years since I first heard DJ Shadow.
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Post by: Laura Hunt on Sat 04/11/2023 07:57:38
Quote from: Snarky on Fri 03/11/2023 08:05:38The Beatles - "Now and Then"

Just out of curiosity, really. It's... OK?

I went in quite cynically and found it unexpectedly poignant. But maybe it has to do with how old McCartney looks in the video (81! My god!), and having the sudden hunch that maybe he's pulling a Bowie and setting things up as a last goodbye...

I've never followed any of the Beatles' solo careers with much interest, but every once in a while I take a dive and find a gem here and there. This one is from his latest studio album in 2020, a bluesy/gospel-y piece that reminded me of Antony and the Johnsons on a first listen, and when I showed it to a friend she said it reminded her of Johnny Cash. So now I can see both, like one of those duck/rabbit optical illusions:


Quote from: Snarky on Fri 03/11/2023 08:05:38DJ Shadow (featuring Run The Jewels) - "Nobody Speak"

I'm old enough that a song from 7 years ago feels like "a recent track" to me. But then I guess it's been 25 years since I first heard DJ Shadow.

Hahah, love it.

I'm old enough to remember when El-P was known not for being part of Run The Jewels, but as a member of Company Flow and one of the most revolutionary producers in the underground hip-hop scene. Kids these days!

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Post by: Snarky on Sat 04/11/2023 10:47:12
Quote from: Laura Hunt on Sat 04/11/2023 07:57:38I'm old enough to remember when El-P was known not for being part of Run The Jewels, but as a member of Company Flow and one of the most revolutionary producers in the underground hip-hop scene. Kids these days!

I didn't get into it when I posted the She Wants Revenge song, but I did a double-take when I found out that the singer is the same guy who raps seven minutes of non-stop pop-culture references on "Bug Powder Dust":

Bomb the Bass (Kruder & Dorfmeister remix) - "Bug Powder Dust"

This was always one of my favorite K&D tracks.

PJ Harvey - "Lwonesome Tonight" [sic]

On Halloween I went to a PJ Harvey concert (the last show on her I Inside the Old Year Dying tour), and I haven't been able to get this song out of my head ever since. I'm not even sure I really like it. :-\

So I've been listening to all sorts of stuff to get it off my mind...

Caroline Konstnar - "For Free?"

Her songs are always good fun, and I think tracks like this and "The Jellyfish Song" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfLT58_YVW8) show that she's actually a pretty good singer.
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Post by: Laura Hunt on Sat 04/11/2023 12:06:25
Quote from: Snarky on Sat 04/11/2023 10:47:12Bomb the Bass (Kruder & Dorfmeister remix) - "Bug Powder Dust"

This was always one of my favorite K&D tracks.

K&D are soooo good, their mixes are great for AGS coding sessions.

Quote from: Snarky on Sat 04/11/2023 10:47:12PJ Harvey - "Lwonesome Tonight" [sic]

On Halloween I went to a PJ Harvey concert (the last show on her I Inside the Old Year Dying tour), and I haven't been able to get this song out of my head ever since. I'm not even sure I really like it. :-\

I find the album as a whole pretty whatever, but I love that song. Also the opening track and I Inside the Old I Dying are fantastic. Everything else, eh.
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Post by: Snarky on Sat 04/11/2023 12:41:41
Quote from: Laura Hunt on Sat 04/11/2023 12:06:25I find the album as a whole pretty whatever, but I love that song.

The whole album is apparently based on her epic poem Orlam (which I have not read), and to me it seems like, just as you might expect when they all draw on the same material, all the songs occupy the same space lyrically, tonally and musically (even as some are more successful than others). I really miss more variety, and can't help but feel that it's all a bit samey, twee, and dopey in that "prog-rock tune about Gandalf" way. (On the other hand I'm somewhat glad that she's moved on from the political material of her last two albums, which I thought never rose above the banal—though when she performed "The Words That Maketh Murder" last week it felt newly relevant.)

I do love Polly, though, and even if a whole album of this stuff is a bit much for me, I'm sure there are tracks I'll come to appreciate, just as Uh Huh Her (by far her weakest album) included gems like "The Desperate Kingdom of Love" and "The Darker Days of Me & Him."
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Post by: AndreasBlack on Sat 04/11/2023 14:00:51

Her best song from a none-fan. Generally speaking The modern beats and rap/asmr vocals usually don't do it for me, but this one is really good, i must say :-D
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Post by: Creamy on Fri 24/11/2023 22:43:15
It's all because of @Mandle
I was wondering what song he used for his last game (https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/2705-the-weird-thing-under-the-bed/).
Turns out it was a tribute from Weird Al Yankovic (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EStEiPVcyPA) to They Might Be Giants. And down the rabbit hole I fell.
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Post by: TheFrighter on Sun 11/02/2024 17:58:56

This song won the 2024 edition of Festival della Canzone Italiana:


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