Topic: The Music Thread

@themcnoisy
Aye, true, shouldn't be an issue with this album, I reckon.
Two of my favourite artists for Synthwave are Robert Parker and Gunship. And of course you can go far wrong with Carpenter Brut.

Any you'd recommend checking out?

@LieutenantFatman yes Carpenter brut. I was lead there by hotline Miami!

@themcnoisy
Yep, same here!

@LieutenantFatman just listened to that link you posted and it's way cheesy. Decent though.

@themcnoisy
Yep, good cheese to chill out to.

@nessisonett I really dig early Wilco, before the mighty Nels Cline joined - not that he spoiled anything, I just prefer their earlier, more experimental sound.

@ralphdibny @themcnoisy @nessisonett @Thrillho @LieuetenantFatman

What do y'all think? I think she has an excellent command of the acoustic guitar and American Primitive Guitar style and isn't showy or flashy just ballsy and really feels her music, gets into the feel of it when she plays. Her technique is commendable, and she has clearly been studying the guitar for a long time. John Fahey nuts should love her, and hopefully she'll be making music for years to come.

She recently released Strange Lights over Garth Mountain, her debut album, and I urge you all to check it out.

@ralphdibny Have you heard Kendrick Lamar? (regarding rap) You might like good kid, mAAd City or DAMN as those are more traditional hip hop/rap (forgive me if I am giving an incorrect definition here) records.

@nessisonett I should really be posting this in the vinyl thread, but I will just say that I am planning on getting La Roux & MGMT on vinyl - are you a fan of either of those artists?

@ralphdibny Did you check out Kendrick Lamar? He might be more palatable to your tastes than most modern hip hop artists, also try clipping. they are modern hip hop with a twist - horrorcore, in fact, is the genre they draw from.

@Draco_V_Ecliptic I quite liked the Kendrick Lamar song that was on Marshall Mathers LP 2 so I thought he was quite good, but then I heard one of his famous solo songs that was called Drink or something, I didn't really get into that tbh. Just been playing games for the last few days so haven't been listening to any music, I normally listen to music when I'm in the car

@ralphdibny I was thinking of buying the slim shady Lp as I am a fan of early Eminem, whilst we're on that subject - I think that clipping. might be more up your street with their horrorcore style, I think that's closer to early Em than Kendrick is.

@Draco_V_Ecliptic I might check it out, I love the slim shady LP, it's one of my favourite albums. Plan Bs first album which I think was called something like Who needs actions when you've got words takes a lot of influence from early Eminem. Really good album

@Draco_V_Ecliptic I quite liked La Roux’s singles from back in the day but wouldn’t say I’m a massive fan or anything. I’m also at the wrong age for MGMT, young enough that I mostly just remember the same couple of songs being repeated everywhere to the point of annoyance. I’ve heard Little Dark Age is great though.

@nessisonett Little Dark Age is amazing, and Mgmt.

@nessisonett @themcnoisy what do you reckon of Brian Eno as a creative artist and producer?

@Draco_V_Ecliptic hope u had a great Chrimbo mate. Eno is a great producer.

@Draco_V_Ecliptic Yep, big fan of Brian Eno, more on a production side than the Roxy Music side of things. His work on Bowie’s Berlin albums is second to none. It was ingenious to stick 3 different microphones at varying distances for Bowie to sing into, that’s why the screaming on Heroes sounds that good.

@Draco_V_Ecliptic

So, I found this thread, I’ve posted my reply to you from the other thread. Probably won’t go down well as I’d imagine the frequenters of this thread have a diametrically opposed view of music to my own:

‘Sorry for the reply in this thread but I’m here now so here goes, as ‘uncool’ as it seems to most people I’m far more of a ‘visual’ than an ‘auditory’ person, which is not to say that I do not appreciate music but that it doesn’t ‘hit’ me in the same way it does most other people. Having said that, I frikkin loved the Death Stranding soundtrack. All of the From Soft games have unbelievably good scores and the Nier: Automata OST is phenomenal.
I rarely actually listen to music but every now and then a song ‘creeps’ in to my being and I can’t do anything but keep listening to it. No particular consistency of genre either, could be anything: James Blake - Retrograde, Galantis - Peanut Butter Jelly, Jay Z - Encore, Lourdes -Team, Radiohead - Karma Police, Midge Ure’s version of Bowie’s - The Man Who Sold The World... and many others. As boring as it sounds, I would normally have a podcast on in the background over having some music on though.’

@colonelkilgore I am increasingly becoming less interested in music, I go through phases, like trying to knock a soft-drink dispenser over (see Seinfeld) to the point where I lose interest in music almost entirely. I think I am more of a game person than a music person overall, despite my frequent contributions to this thread, maybe that's because I was much more musical in the past, and am slipping out of music only now. Thanks for sharing anyway though, and I appreciate the time you took to go into depth and respond to me here.