Topic: The Music Thread

@nessisonett I already knew the first two, less familiar with the second two, agree 100% that those are his two masterpieces. Ascension features Pharaoh Sanders, does it not?

@nessisonett Speaking of Pharaoh Sanders......

What do you think?

@TheBrandedSwordsman I absolutely loved Promises. Cool to see it up for the Mercury and it somewhat makes the other entries look pedestrian in comparison.

@nessisonett Yeah definitely, it's great that Pharaoh Sanders is still working to release material such as that, when many musicians his age are already long-retired.

@TheBrandedSwordsman If by long-retired you mean dead then sure 😂

@nessisonett 😂

@mookysam interesting. The ear thing. Otosclerosis is what I came up with. Not to minimize what it's like to live with but yeah kinda fascinating as I've never heard of that. If it's any consolation my son had scoliosis so bad he had to have a spinal fusion surgery that was both the scariest thing I've ever had to deal with and the coolest procedure I've ever known anyone to have (in terms of what exactly goes into a spinal fusion). But anyway, hope the hearing aids help.

Never listened to anything in spatial audio. No music anyway. Sounds like it'd be atrocious. Unless the artist went in with that in mind, like you say. Something Trent Reznor would do. Or Imogen Heap.

And yeah I'm with a new isp that actually has data caps standard. There's definitely gonna be a period of adjustment for me.

Probably the crunchiest song ever recorded. And also the reason that I believe that lo-fi production can add to a song. And by lo-fi, I don’t mean a student with a trust fund whining about how daddy doesn’t love them into GarageBand.

Former Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison died at 46.
I can’t say I was a big fan (in fact I prefer Slipknot’s albums he didn’t play on) but it’s shocking news nonetheless. So young 😧

@Voltan @Jimmer-jammer R.I.P Joey Jordison. My former band covered (sic) or the song that comes directly after that on the first album, I forget if (sic) is title of that song or just the intro that comes before it, nevermind, I think our drummer did a great job on that one anyway, and it was great fun learning the guitar riffs, our vocalist didn't do too badly either! all-in-all, a successful cover, and he will be a much-missed legend.

@nessisonett @Voltan @Jimmer-jammer @render This is what I have been listening to today, after I heard a couple of songs from it on last night's Confidential show (Iggy Pop on 6music) In case the link doesn't work search Youtube for Delta Kream by The Black Keys - that's the title of the album.Tell me what you think?

@Jimmer-jammer I'll check that out - the album is called Delta Kream and is by The Black Keys. If you search on Youtube for it and have a listen, let me know what you think!

Also thanks for the comment on the cover, I didn't find the guitar parts too challenging but I was in a traditional melodic death metal band prior to that so I'm sure that had something to do with my ability to play that song.

Hello. I wrote this

I’m also playing keys in it and singing some harmonies but unfortunately couldn’t be in the video

@Voltan Awesome tune!! Can't believe you didn't make the video.

@render Unfortunately the distance mattered this time 🤷‍♂️

Kinda funny to see British Sea Power rebrand as Sea Power due to the connotations associated with ‘British’ these days. At least there probably won’t be a GB News meltdown over it given the crossover potential between Farage and BBC 6Music is rather slim.

@nessisonett They're another band I always feel I should have listened to more than I ever did. I only have "Do You Like Rock Music?" which is a pretty great album and never listened to anything else.

I'm just impressed that they're still going!

@Thrillho The Decline of British Sea Power is a really great album as well. One of those bands who were totally passed over at the time in favour of blander alternatives like Bloc Party and Elbow. The sort of band who’d be in a tiny 4 line article in an issue of NME with the Kaiser Chiefs on the cover.

(I actually googled the issue that their semi tiny review of Decline of BSP appeared in and lo and behold, Bloc Party were on the cover. I rest my case.)

@nessisonett As I’m sure I’ve said on here before, I rotate albums off my phone every couple of weeks and put stuff on I’ve listened to in ages. The first Bloc Party is still a stunner but the second one I still really don’t like at all. I also had forgotten how great Franz Ferdinand’s debut was too.

Going to Leeds festival in 2005 was peak era for that lot; Kaiser Chiefs (introduced by Peter Kay!) followed by Franz Ferdinand one night, Muse headlining the other. I remember seeing the Kooks in one of the tents and it was bedlam. The less said about them the better though.

@nessisonett @Thrillho Totally agree British Sea Power are an awesome band, and Decline is a great album, shame they never quite got the exposure they deserve. In fact when I listened to 6 music more back in the day they did get a lot of coverage on Guy Garvey's show along with Doves and Turin Brakes.

Elbow though never reached higher than Cast of Thousands for my money. I saw them at a festival the year that album came out and they must have had no more than 50 people watching. Same festival years later after they went mainstream and it was packed. Just goes to show that what's good isn't always popular and what's popular isn't always good.