Topic: The Music Thread

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.

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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.

@Thrillho @render That was such a weird time for British music. There was a time when Kaiser Chiefs and Kings of Leon were like the biggest bands in the UK. It’s as if the public missed having bands like Blur and Oasis in the charts so just pretended that they still liked ‘rock’ music.

@nessisonett came here to say I really enjoyed The Bravery's Sun and the Moon album, which, I was thinking was also around that time but just looked it up to learn they aren't even British. Really thought they were this whole time.

Conversely, it was only a few years ago I found out Dusty Springfield was British.

Needless to say, I don't always know much about the people I listen to lol.

@nessisonett @Thrillho That seems to be the way with music, like there's a fad and all of a sudden there's a lot of like sounding bands out there. It's like they were there all waiting in the wings for just one of them to break through knowing that there would be a need to fill the space with loads more bands that sound the same.

For me that seemed to culminate with the Artic Monkeys who I never really appreciated, but perhaps I was just too old. They pretty much out Kaisered the Kaiser Chiefs and all the rest and seemed to go on to be the face of British music for a while.

@zupertramp I'd forgotten about The Bravery until you mentioned them. They were around that time and seemed to be one of those bands that were there and gone in the space of one album.

@Jimmer-jammer Cool, cheers for the share. Can't wait to hear it in game. Austin's name is a seal of quality when it comes to game soundtracks for me.

@Jimmer-jammer and @nessisonett What do you reckon of this?

@TheBrandedSwordsman I feel bad for Lil Wayne tbh because there’s a massive trope spread around by metalheads that black people can’t play the guitar. Sure, Lil Wayne isn’t a very good guitarist but Sid Vicious was a god-awful bassist and people still love the Sex Pistols.

@Jimmer-jammer Yeah, in other words give up the guitar? I'd agree with that @nessisonett What about all the great jazz guitarists of yesteryear and even the present day such as Charlie Christian, Grant Green and the present-day Jeff Parker? Plus there's the black guy in Animals As Leaders (metal group).

@TheBrandedSwordsman Well yeah, there’s plenty of fantastic guitarists of all backgrounds. Nile Rodgers never comes up because certain sections of metalheads never look outside their own genre, and he’s one of the most influential guitarists of all time. I’m one of the approximately two people that quite liked Kid Cudi’s Speeding Bullet 2 Heaven though, despite it being a mess. I like when artists actually try to do something new even when it doesn’t completely pan out. I respect Kid Cudi a lot for making a weird grunge album because that’s the sort of music that he loves instead of the music he’s expected to churn out an album at a time.