Topic: The Music Thread

Does somebody interested with Super Eurobeat songs ?

@nessisonett Have you heard any Alice Kemp? Her stuff is hard to track down but very good, I think she may still have a record or two on ebay. Spotify should have her stuff too, or you can just listen on her bandcamp. Let me know if you need links

@nessisonett What do you think of this song?

@Draco_V_Ecliptic Ehhh, I dunno. Not huge on it but then I’ve never been a big fan of Foo Fighters other than maybe their first album. They have a song every once in a while that’s not too bad though like Everlong.

@nessisonett Dave Grohl is pretty much the "straight man" of rock, to use an antiquated expression, no hard living or excessive vice - he only drinks coffee!

@Draco_V_Ecliptic He’s seen first hand what it did to Kurt Cobain and he’s one of the few surviving grunge dudes so you’d think that would affect him tbh. Eddie Vedder’s the only surviving frontman out of the big 5 Seattle bands which is crazy to think. Cobain, Staley from AiC, Weiland from Stone Temple Pilots and Chris Cornell from Soundgarden are all gone now. It’s a sobering thought.

Also worth noting that ‘straight edge’ was coined by Ian MacKaye of Fugazi and Minor Threat, he was the first to really talk about choosing to abstain from the sex and drugs part of rock and roll.

@nessisonett And do you think that "straight edge" is a worthwhile philosophy for a rock star?

@Draco_V_Ecliptic I assume so in the sense that it’s probably going to make you live longer. Whether you value living life to the fullest more than living a long life, I guess that’s up to the person.

@nessisonett Wise words.

@Draco_V_Ecliptic
Yo.
Have you ever heard this song ?

@Anti-Matter Thanks for the song, it isn't really my sort of thing but I am still happy to discuss it, I think that it has a lot of positive energy to it, and is made for dancing in night clubs. Perhaps in the 80s.

@Anti-Matter Captain Jack’s self titled song is a bop. Still, my favourite of the high energy Eurodance is Blümchen’s Herz an Herz.

@nessisonett
Wow, Happy Hardcore song. 😀
Like i heard oftenly on DDR.
Btw, if you like Happy Hardcore songs from European artist, i think you like this Happy Hardcore song too.

@nessisonett What's your take on experimental and avant-garde music in general? i.e noise music and field recordings. I am already aware that you like avant-garde jazz

@Draco_V_Ecliptic I go back on forth on things like field recordings. I really love ambient music and stuff like that but sometimes it can be less ambient and more just genuinely boring. If I’m going to listen to experimental stuff then there has to be a point to it, it can’t just be weird for weird’s sake. It’s probably why I’m not huge on The Residents. I do like Captain Beefheart though.

@nessisonett Beefheart is popular with my family and family friends, Stuart Maconie played The Residents on his Freak Zone show on 6music recently, I thought they sounded pretty good - but I haven't ordered any of their albums. I know what you mean about weird for weird's sake, but with a lot of these field recordings and things like noise music, it gets closer to a purer expression of art, does it not?

(Unless it's just an album of tweeting birds, for example)

@Draco_V_Ecliptic I just like there to at least be some listenable quality to an album. With art you can look at it for 5 seconds then make a judgment. I’d rather not listen for an hour to some dude warbling over cows mooing!

@nessisonett Lmao.

@nessisonett ,your top 10 classic rock albums?

@Draco_V_Ecliptic I’m not really a classic rock person, down near the bottom of my sorta tastes. I’ll still give it a go!

1. Revolver - The Beatles
2. Green River - Creedence Clearwater Revival
3. Acabou Chorare - Novos Baianos
4. Paranoid - Black Sabbath
5. Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
6. Who’s Next - The Who
7. Eat a Peach - The Allman Brothers Band
8. Let it Bleed - The Rolling Stones
9. Fragile - Yes
10. Meddle - Pink Floyd