Topic: The Music Thread

@TheBrandedSwordsman Probably Black Saint of course and then Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus. All over the place for sure but in a really fun way.

@johncalmc I have one 64 hour playlist that I just put any song I like into. Been adding to it since about 2014 and it’s interesting to see my tastes changing.

@nessisonett I wish I had one of those. I have a playlist called "Every Song I Have Ever Liked" that I add every song I like to but I started it long after I joined Spotify so it's not really chronological or autobiographical since loads of songs were added at the same time when I first did it. It's 400 hours long.

Weirdly gutted about coming so close with Eurovision. I obviously get why Ukraine won and beating them would have been a foreign policy disaster but it does feel as if we just came on the wrong year!

Limp Bizkit, the cast of Allo Allo, Napalm Death, and the Cheeky Girls... together at last.

Noel Edmunds on the bill without Mr Blobby!

Blobby will be there. That lad never misses the chance to show Edmunds up.

Currently revisiting the NIN back catalogue. I'm finding that some of the early albums that I listened to when I was a teenager are still my favourites but the With Teeth album has got something about it...

Apart from NIN I've listened to plenty of Filter and Rammstein but wanted to see if anyone could recommend anything I've missed?

Viagra Boys* are playing in my city tonight. It's sold out. When it sold out, I was like "oh well, I didn't buy tickets, so that sucks, but I've already seen them so it sucks a little less".
Today, an email reminded me that I did in fact buy those tickets - it was 2 years ago and the date was moved twice due to covid.
So I guess I'm seeing Viagra Boys tonight.
Classic Voltan

* a groovy post-punk band from Sweden
Music video for reference

@Voltan Definitely a case of paying it forward for the future you. Enjoy the gig 😄

@Voltan Brilliant, I wish I’d gotten tickets to see them in Edinburgh but I was skint at the time! Hope you enjoy, they’re a great band and definitely the sort who’d be better live.

@nessisonett Yeah, I already saw them in 2019 and it was great.
This time it's a bigger venue but one I'm not familiar with - hopefully it will be at least as good

Fell down a rabbit hole of late 00s Scottish gang diss tracks. Lyrics are laughable although I doubt anyone else can even understand them! Also have absolutely no clue how Yat Yat has 1.7 million views 😂

Well Viagra Boys were brilliant. Nice venue too, pretty big one - I'd say there were about 1k people there (educated guess).

Üdü Wüdü by Magma. My first zeuhl album and I really really enjoyed it. All in a weird fictional language because hippies but it results in a crazy alien rock opera vibe. It’s probably less of a hard sell these days than back in the 70s though, with Sigur Rós being fairly big and also using a made-up language.

New STEPS music was so great ! 😎

@render Saul Williams maybe. He had an album produced by Trent Reznor. It's his best imo. Album has a long name I don't remember. He also has a song from an earlier album called Act III Scene 2 which is probably one of the greatest rap/rock songs I've ever heard.

@zupertramp Thanks 😀. Not heard of him before but will have a listen, especially if Trent Reznor had something to do with production.