Topic: The Music Thread

@Jimmer-jammer Cool, I prefer Baroness' earlier material personally, i love the artwork on their albums though.

@Jimmer-jammer Yeah shame to hear about his accident right? What were your thoughts on that?

@TheBrandedSwordsman Yeah, I go back and forth on Isis but Panopticon is a great album. I haven’t listened to Baroness though, I should definitely check them out.

@Jimmer-jammer Yeah, I mean it isn't really the same thing but I've definitely experienced some troubles in my past, not ones that I would care to share on here unfortunately, but yeah, ultimately, these things do teach us, and it's about responding to them in a healthy, mature way to make us better people. I ordered Yellow and Green tonight.

@nessisonett Try the albums First and Second, The Red Album, The Blue Record and then if you want to see how they transitioned to a different style - Yellow and Green.

@Jimmer-jammer Yellow and Green, definitely, although Red is a close contender. You? How are you anyway and what music have you been listening to recently?

@nessisonett Did you listen to Baroness yet? Let me know what you think when you've listened.

@Jimmer-jammer I'll have to check that out, all I remember about The Used is that Kelly Osborne was dating the singer at one point, he screams majestically at the end of one of their songs, and, according to Jack Osborne, the singer's bandmates call him cauliflower d**k. 🤣

@Jimmer-jammer I checked out The Canyon by The Used, not really my preferred style, focusing more on jazz again now. Did you listen to The Night Monitor?

@Jimmer-jammer Panopticon is probably my favourite album by them. It's super hard to find for an affordable price on vinyl, though.

@Jimmer-jammer Let me know what you think if you do listen to The Night Monitor. @nessisonett Try Gwennifer Raymond for a more accessible version of what John Fahey used to do on the guitar.

Mogwai getting #1 in the album charts this week is pretty awesome. I’m liking the album and “Ceiling Granny” is easily my favourite track.

I also picked up the new Hold Steady album which is alright. Finally, I got the latest album by AK/DK who I hadn’t heard of before (they’ve got a few albums now) and I’m liking that to. Strong Holy ***** vibes.

@Thrillho It’s brilliant that they’ve managed #1 after all these years. Although it also points to sales of albums being rather low which probably isn’t good for the industry!

@nessisonett You can only beat what’s put in front of you. But still pretty awesome for them.

@Thrillho What other stuff do you like to listen to besides Mogwai and the other artists you mentioned recently? @nessisonett What are your favourite albums at the moment?

@TheBrandedSwordsman I listened to Lesser Matters by The Radio Dept which was really great so I’ve basically had that on repeat. I’m swamped with work at the moment so it’s mostly been 90s rave music as it helps me concentrate.

I decided to check out the latest synthwave album from Droid Bishop today. Great fun, enjoyed the whole album.

https://droidbishop.bandcamp.com/album/music

@nessisonett I tried that album, it wasn't too bad! Have you heard of Nerija? They are a jazz collective from London who feature Nubya Garcia, who played on the Universal Beings album by Makaya McCraven, on saxophone. Might be worth a listen if you're interested? I had the pleasure of seeing them live before the first lockdown and they were truly magnificent in concert.

@TheBrandedSwordsman No I haven’t heard of them but I’ll give them a go. Some stuff is good to zonk out to while working so I’ll need to find out if that album’s a good one for it!

I have a tendency to randomly binge a certain type of music for two or three days before moving on to something else. So like two weeks ago it was modern remixes of old jazz songs/electroswing, and then last week I just listened to Pixies a lot, and now I've somehow fallen into a Psytrance and Progressive Trance rabbit hole and there's no end in sight.