Topic: The Music Thread

@Voltan @Jimmer-jammer Where do you stand on John Fahey?

@Jimmer-jammer Yeah his life story is really interesting, you should look him up on Wikipedia, he struggled with alcoholism and mental health issues later in his life before making a sort of comeback and making weird electric records inspired by Sonic Youth and the rest of that crowd, who he was hanging out with at the time, and who cited him as an influence, as I say, you should go and read about him because he was a very interesting guy, even founded his own record label to release his own albums and albums by lesser-known jazz and blues musicians as well. Will you listen to more by him, do you think?

Little Simz’ new album is really really good. Like probably one of the best albums this year. I’d definitely recommend it, even though I wasn’t a massive fan of her last album.

@nessisonett It is indeed. Have you listened to SAULT? She's on a few of their tracks and they're all brilliant

@Mergatro1d Not yet no! I’ve been making my way through the Mercury nominees though so I’ll get there eventually.

@Keith_Zissou You're welcome, I'm glad you enjoyed it, do you think you will listen to more of his work?

@Jimmer-jammer No problem, any time man.

@Keith_Zissou I have! I loved it, need to revisit that one though, so thanks for bringing it to my attention again.

@Keith_Zissou What do you like about Pacific Ocean Blue?

@nessisonett Where do you stand on Mingus Ah Um?

@TheBrandedSwordsman It’s a good album for sure. Not quite as incredible as Black Saint and the Sinner Lady but right up there.

@render Shaun Keaveny's last 6music show today, featuring the final segment of the Open Arms on 6music but he says the IP of the Open Arms rests with him and will be coming with him wherever he goes, "I'm hoping to get some work from them (the BBC)" "Have I said too much?" So hopefully he'll be on Radio 1 or something like that in the next few weeks/months/years. How are you? Will you keep listening at his new destination?

@TheBrandedSwordsman I’ve caught some of his shows over the past month or so but haven’t had chance to listen avidly. Really enjoyed when I have listened though so it’ll be interesting to see what he goes onto next. It’s almost a shame they don’t find him something similar to Jules Holland’s TV show as I think he’d be a good fit for something like that.

Been good to listen to everyone’s recommendations on this thread lately like Spoon, Sco, Smashing Pumpkins etc. Also got into the new Low Roar album - maybe tomorrow...

and Glassforms by Bruce Brubaker and Max Cooper...

"Objectively", this is absolutely terrible music - but it's terrible music done right lmao

@Keith_Zissou Excellent synopsis, I'll be sure to listen to it again. 'Surf's Up!'

Maybe not the right place for it, but I wanted to highlight some of my favourite composers ever in movies/TV shows/games. First, I absolutely love Steve Jablonsky. I first encountered his music when I watched Transformers in the cinema as a kid:

Then the next time I encountered Jablonsky's work, it was in Gears of War 3:

You can really notice the similarities in the tracks, both have such an epic feel to them.

The next composer I really like is Ramin Djawadi. I first stumbled upon his work when watching Prison Break, again as a kid:

Since then, I haven't really heard much from him until I started watching Game of Thrones:

And apparently, he also composed the music for Westworld, which I've yet to hear since I haven't watched the show yet. But yeah, these two are definitely my two favourite composers in media overall.

@LtSarge Steve Jabkonsky I mostly know from doing the Sims 3 soundtrack 😂

@nessisonett Definitely did not think he had composed the music for that type of game, lol. I can just imagine Arrival to Earth playing as one of the sims gets up from bed to go to the bathroom. Unnecessarily epic, lol.

@Jimmer-jammer What do you reckon of this? English rock band 'Killing Joke' 's second self-titled album from 2003, with Dave Grohl on drums. I was aware of the single as a teenager when it was all over the rock music channels, but just discovered the actual album last night. You may also be familiar with their single 'Love like Blood' from the 80s, I think that receives regular radio play.

@TheBrandedSwordsman It’s interesting Dave Grohl playing drums for them when Come As You Are was involved in a dispute for ripping off Killing Joke’s Eighties! But then both those songs also feature an extremely similar riff to The Damned’s Life Goes On…