Topic: The Music Thread

Nice trance song Attitude by Y&Co. from Beatmania IIDX 8th style

Something 80's from Innocent Love by Sandra.

This is the one I currently have on repeat.

@Pizzamorg True Colors has a fantastic soundtrack. Kinda didn't notice the Novo Armor, Bon Iver similarity until your post. Really just know Anchor and Haven though, by name anyway... I know I've heard others while listening to Spotify.

@Kidfried speaking of female folk supergroups, I presume you know about I'm With Her? Find that I like about as many songs by them as I do boygenius.

@Kidfried cool. I also really can't recommend Sara Watkins enough. Aoife O'Donovan is also obviously very good but I feel like the former really doesn't get the praise she deserves. Her album Young in All the Wrong Ways is definitely recommended if you haven't heard it.

And I definitely know of Bonny Light Horseman as they seem to come up a lot on any kind of Spotify recommendations playlist but it's more of a passing familiarity as I couldn't name any of their songs. They're kind of on my "I'll get to them" list as any music lover knows there's just so much at any given time you're bound to let some slip through the cracks. Streaming has somehow both compounded and mitigated this.

Anyway also gotta give a shout-out for Joan Shelley for anyone who digs that delightful intersection between indie folk and country. Like literally any album but her eponymous album from a few years ago is a good place to start.

@Jimmer-jammer Also, how are you? Did you ever get round to listening to the Black Saint and the Sinner Lady by Charles Mingus? If so, what were your thoughts? it's easy to find on Youtube I believe.

He even does that like low voice thing Bon Iver does, which is weird.

I’m not normally a big musicals person but Starlight Express’ original cast recording is simultaneously one of the worst and best things that I’ve ever listened to. Like I guess it would be different when you see the people on roller skates pretending to be trains (????) in real life but it’s just so earnestly bonkers that it’s hard to criticise. They really need to chuck hundreds of millions at it like that rubbish Cats movie.

@AgentCooper I used to write a little blog, mostly about gigs I went to as I went to a LOT while at uni in London.

Now, I find following certain labels really useful for keeping up with some new stuff I might have missed. For instance, Big Scary Monsters in the UK release loads of stuff I seem to like so I’ll often check out their new artists.

I also listen to the Radio 1 Rock Show and the Future Alternative playlist/show too and find loads of new stuff through them.

I’m also signed up for emails from Banquet and Drift record shops and find some stuff through them too.

I don’t stream anything though. I buy most stuff through bandcamp and then have two playlists on my phone; one with the most recent albums I’ve bought (with a one in, one out rule when I get something new) and a second that I rotate albums every week or two for ones I haven’t listened to for a while.

I was listening to The Ape of Naples by Coil and I can’t stop picturing this guy

@AgentCooper I've felt the same for many years. When I was a kid buying music on vinyl, cassettes etc felt really special. I knew it was something that I wanted to experience and would spend ages digesting the sleeve notes and religiously listening over and over again until I'd memorised the play order and names of all the tracks. Even now if I hear a song from those days I'll start humming what would be the next track on the album.

I still listen to music mostly as albums now but I struggle to even remember album names now let alone track names and play order. I guess I just listen to so much stuff and usually while I'm working that I just don't process it in that way anymore. I also have less memories memories associated with those songs so it's not as easy to file them in any meaningful way. I guess that's not just down to not buying physical music any more though but is generally because this midlife I'm in is more mundane than back when I was a kid 😅

@AgentCooper Reading my uncle’s royalties was pretty grim. You can basically put a lifetime into music and get pennies in return.

@AgentCooper He was part of that whole wave of British post-hardcore/math rock in the 00s alongside Johnny Foreigner, Los Campesinos etc. We used to wind him up and say he was Inbetweeners-core, as in the sort of band that would turn up in the Inbetweeners. Honestly though, got great memories of watching them play live on BBC 2 and it’s pretty cool that his music is forever immortalised in the soundtrack of FIFA 10. However, that doesn’t pay the bills! It just goes to show that you really do have to make it like proper big to have any chance of living off the royalties. Touring Japan, the States, Australia and stuff is a short term deal, you basically have to land a single or two that gets used constantly in TV shows or the radio.

I'm hoping this does not start a new craze of bagpipe renditions of classic hip hop tunes! 😂

I know a lot of people disregard anything Pulp before His n Hers but they still have some great tunes from the 80s. Really wish I could have justified tickets.

@Kidfried That’s incredibly short notice for tickets for somebody as big as her!

The Atmos mix of Suede’s debut is pretty cool. It always sounded incredibly fuzzy so it’s nice to hear it cleaned up a bit.

@Jimmer-jammer I'm glad you enjoyed it and welcome back. I've been gaming less myself so using the site less, yes, order and chaos is what jazz is all about. I've been listening to this guy, have you heard of him - Charlie Hunter? He has a 7 string guitar where the bottom strings are bass strings, custom-made, and plays bass & guitar melodies at the same time, you should be able to find some stuff on youtube.

Everything else has been good just finished a short course in counselling psychology, which I've been focusing on recently as I would prefer that to a literary career.

Everything well in your neck of the woods? What have you been listening to lately?

I've had this version of this son stuck in my head for ages, can't get enough of it

Probably doesn't help that I've got the blues brothers soundtrack in the CD changer in the car 😅

I've been listening to a lot of King Gnu lately. Some of their songs are absolute bangers - especially their song 'Ichizu'. It's been the first song on my Spotify playlist for a while now. The music video below is actually quite cool too.

There are some flashing/strobe lighting and effects in the video so I'll throw up an Epilepsy Warning just incase.