Topic: The Music Thread

Poor Sinéad O’Connor. One hell of a life.

@Jimmer-jammer Did you listen to Charlie Hunter? How are you? Thoughts if you listened to him? What sort of orchestral works did you listen to? Wayne Shorter, who died recently in his nineties, wrote a jazz/classical piece called Emanon which I believe you can find on Youtube. I can post a link if you like, or it's on Spotify if you have that.

@nessisonett R.I.P Sinead O' Connor. As a lifelong fan of music as I'm sure you are, what is one or two genres from youth that you don't see yourself going back to? Mine would be rock and metal, since listening to jazz and hip hop almost exclusively for the last few years I just prefer a different type of vibe now, arguably you could say that rock and hip hop both have elements of aggression, but I say that in hip hop it's more about confidence, and you can pick up similar vibes in jazz that also exist in hip hop. People say jazz is the mother of hip hop. Anyway, over to you

@TheBrandedSwordsman Hmm, I kinda keep my options open in terms to genres and stuff. The sort of music that I won’t go out of my way to listen to (prog, a lot of metal) it’s the same stuff that I never really enjoyed growing up either.

@Kidfried The only YYYs album I own is the one from last year as they’re a band that kind of passed me by. The album Karen O did with Danger Mouse (Lux Prima) from a few years ago was pretty good too!

I haven’t been to a gig in so long but have one in a week I’m really looking forward to. Some great emo music from Hot Mulligan and Spanish Love Songs. Both released new albums this year with the latter only coming out this week. A bit more synthy than their other stuff but it’s growing on me.

@PixelDragon I love big festivals, went to a 4-day one this year - but while I still can endure camping at one just fine (did so last year), I'm glad we chose to stay at an airbnb this time
And even with that, my legs were near non-functional by the end of day 4 - but to be clear, when I go to a festival, I go to the festival. I will start with the very first band of the day and stay there till the end of the headlining show.

Also, Decapitated are one of the tightest live metal bands out there. Poland's always been pretty good in the extreme metal department (although these days it seems to have moved from death metal to black metal by a significant margin)

@Jimmer-jammer I thought I'd take the time to introduce you to another jazz titan; Sun Ra. He is no longer with us, unfortunately, but I am sure his music will always stand the test of time.

Hope you like it!

My Walkman’s belt has most likely died, it’s stopped spinning. Gutted, Apple Music’s trial ran out so I’ve literally been listening to music on tape cause I can stick my headphones in it. YouTube’s rubbish for streaming music with how many adverts you get now and it’s a little bit of a faff messing around with my turntable just to stick in my headphones. Maybe I need a Discman, CDs are cheap 😂

@AgentCooper It’s when I start to think about it, that I realise how useful things like minidiscs and tapes still are. Even now, streaming is a mess of subscriptions and such. You really needed to have scanned all your CDs into iTunes in about 2007 because my laptop doesn’t have a disc drive so I can’t even just download hard copies onto my phone that way. If you want to listen to an owned copy of an album on the go then I guess you either pay iTunes prices or you get a Walkman.

@nessisonett I buy all my music but digitally and as much as possible through bandcamp as, I believe, that is the maximal way for artists to get the money, particularly on the infrequent "bandcamp Fridays" where the site waives any take.

I gave up buying CDs as I realised I literally bought them, got them onto iTunes, and then shelved the CD. I buy a couple of vinyl records a year for albums I have already got digitally but have really enjoyed so that I still have some physical media and vinyl is clearly the coolest way to own it too

I have my music on my phone with two playlists. One of new stuff with eight albums on and a one-in, one-out system when I get something new. A second playlist of albums that I change every other week where I go through iTunes alphabetically and choose albums I haven't listened to in the last 12 months and only one album by an artist.

It's been a cool way of revisiting albums I haven't listened to in ages while also enjoying new stuff too.

I'm up to 35 albums/EPs from this year so far!

@Thrillho Yeah, I’ve got a fair amount of records too but they never did make that Vinylman 😉

I think I might actually own some albums through Bandcamp over the years, partly buying them digitally to support the artists and then some albums that I bought physically through there which gave free digital copies!

Listening to this now, great stuff.
It's from her second album, amazing positive vibe-filled jazz music.

@nessisonett What are your thoughts on Jay Z?

@TheBrandedSwordsman Depends what you mean by that! Always been one of my least favourite rappers of the East Coast bunch from that period but he’s a good producer. Not a big fan of him cheating on Beyonce though 😂

@nessisonett Who is your favourite East Coast rapper then? I personally love Wu Tang and their various associated works such as the Only Built 4 Cuban Linx albums.

@Jimmer-jammer What were your thoughts on the Sun Ra album?

@TheBrandedSwordsman Such a hard one, there’s so many to choose from. Nas and all of the Wu-Tang Clan including their solo stuff are fantastic, it’s got to be MF DOOM though, he was technically born in London but moved to New York young enough to absolutely be part of that scene.

I’ve just seen that SiM has a new album releasing at the end of the months. They’ve released a few of the songs as singles and they absolutely slap!

In last time I listen much of historical songs like Sabaton and RADIO TAPOK. It's great and very powerful songs

@nessisonett Some good choices there man, and sorry about the late reply, I love MM FOOD by MF DOOM, anagram of his name obviously, haha!. Anyway, going back to what we were saying before about Jay Z, don't you rank any of his best albums as at least reasonably good? i.e Reasonable Doubt, The Blueprint, The Black Album and 4:44. Those are my favourites by him and ,arguably, all classics. I highly recommend listening to at least Reasonable Doubt, if you haven't heard it already, and getting back to me. It may change your mind.