OT: ♫ The Music Thread ♫

[Ben Grimm]

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[eco's bones]

I still will never understand the appeal of Taylor Swift to anyone over the age of middle school girls. They say it's like Michael Jackson; her music doesn't have that soul, groove, or musicianship.

Anyone heard the new Opeth? It's on my list when I have the motivation.

Planes Mistaken For Stars put out a posthumous album after their singer passed away. Curious to hear it to end the year.

I don't understand the appeal on a lot of things. She's just one of them.

But we're all different to some degree. Someone likes this someone likes that. Some people like just about everything. I've never found it easy to like any group that found mass appeal and it doesn't matter the genre. Oh, it's popular......then it must suck. I admit that's kind of f***ed up but that's the way it's always been with me. Along the way I've lost interest in complaining about what other people like. If they try to stick it in my face I'll either be annoyed or dismissive but otherwise I leave it alone and tune out what I don't like.

A complaint I do have. I can see if there's a political candidate you don't like using your song telling them---suing them if necessary to stop is fine and dandy but prostituting your music in service of a political candidate at least on a national level is a bit much.

By the way that goes for priests and preachers too.

 

[Matt Rentfree]

Remember the 90's. Massively underrated sleeper artist. Plays every instrument and produced the record himself.

 

[Fantast100]

 

[Ben Grimm]

Merry Christmas! I hope you like these 2 X-Mas offerings.

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[nyrage]

I picked up the Interstellar soundtrack by Hans Zimmer because of all the interstellar talk lately. Darn you, @nyrage . Darn you to heck.

Darn me? You should thank me. It's the greatest soundtrack of all time. I would sit in a theater in the dark just to hear it loud.

I cannot believe that Zimmer didn't win an Oscar for it. Grand Budapest Hotel? It was a good movie, but best original score? Holy cow, biggest snub since Interstellar not being nominated for best picture. American Sniper? The Theory of Everything? Boyhood? Imitation Game, etc?

I will never bring up Shakespeare in Love beating out Saving Private Ryan after the 2014 snubs of all time.

 

[nyrage]

Merry Christmas! I hope you like these 2 X-Mas offerings.

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The first thing I did when I worked at Atlantic/Elektra/Warner was to replace the last page of Metallica's signed contract with a photocopy.

I started out in the Royalties dept. Every quarter, I used to have to bring million dollar checks to their A&R guy for the band. The guy has such a big crush on me and would bribe me with anything Metallica-related just to hang out with him.

Lots of great stories back in those days. Later on I worked for the Atlantic executives doing all kinds of things I shouldn't mention. So many great memories though.

 

[RempireStateBuilding]

I caught a stream of a King Crimson show from the 80s and it gave me a whole new appreciation for this band. I've tried listening to them before because I always hear them referenced as an enormous influence for all sorts of bands, but I never heard anything that hooked me until Beat and Discipline. Both albums have been on repeat for a couple weeks now.

 

[Ben Grimm]

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I'm gonna post albums.