OT: Watcha Listenin' To? Part VII ["And his hair was perfect"]
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Amother new one from Wet Leg - this album is going to f***ing rule
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Appleyard
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Listening to L.A. Woman in full right now for the first time in probably 15 years.
Ofc listen to songs off it all the time... but in full without a break? I guess I was 15 or so last time. Or maybe 16-17 when GF at the time loved the album too.
Sooooo good.
Ofc listen to songs off it all the time... but in full without a break? I guess I was 15 or so last time. Or maybe 16-17 when GF at the time loved the album too.
Sooooo good.
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I recently discovered that the first two B-52 albums from the last 70's are early new wave gems. Picked this up on vinyl for $4 over the weekend and listening now. Its good shit if youre into stuff like Talking Heads, Devo, etc.
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Awesome album.
Give Me Back my Man is probably in my top ~100 or so songs ever. So epicly sung with so much emotion.
Always been on my list of: "songs will 100% cover when put together my supergroup that includes my brother on guitar, a friend who is way too good to be in my group as he is a touring drummer who has spent years as a pro musician, and my failed popstar friend who played Glastonbury once on rhythm who I will probably kick out as his musical taste sucks, and one of my other friends who is actually a classical guitarist on bass.. ahaha."
Tbf the only time this supergroup will likely ever play is at my wedding reception if/when I get married. (with me as frontman ofc) Though "Give Me Back my Man" seems inappropriate for such an event.
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Probably my fave song from them...
I also realised the other day that one of my friends looks very similar (not stylistically, just facial structure etc) to Siouxsie and now I cant unsee it.
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Lindberg
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Hold on... neither of you two like The Wall?
@Captain Dave Poulin
I'm not sure how long winded of a rant this needs to be.
I don't need to hear any more attempts to convince me - I heard about a billion of them 40 years ago. Thanks anyway.
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The Wall is fine but not nearly as good as Dark Side, Wish You Were Here, or Animals.
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For the first time in a while I jammed most of Abbey Road on drums tonight. I started playing at a very young age, and whenever I jam that album it takes me back to when I was 7 or 8 years old and playing along to my Mom's album.
I loved the bass line in this song back then. I guess I had good taste even at that age. Paul is/was an amazing bassist with very original lines.
Oh, btw, the music still holds up for me 40 years after I was that little kid playing my Dad's old drums in the attic
(edit - it sounds very hollow over laptop speakers, but through a decent sound system it sounds much better. I have my laptop hooked into my TV/soundbar and it friggin rocks through that. Probably sounds good through headphones too, I would guess)
I loved the bass line in this song back then. I guess I had good taste even at that age. Paul is/was an amazing bassist with very original lines.
Oh, btw, the music still holds up for me 40 years after I was that little kid playing my Dad's old drums in the attic
(edit - it sounds very hollow over laptop speakers, but through a decent sound system it sounds much better. I have my laptop hooked into my TV/soundbar and it friggin rocks through that. Probably sounds good through headphones too, I would guess)
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A billion and one... here we gooooooooooooooo
Just kidding.
That aside... there's a lot of really good music out there being made but lots of it just doesn't hit the radio now. Technology was a bain to music, being able to digitize it really knocked the quality a lot. Now everything is auto tune this, his rhythm sucks so we can just manipulate that, repeat 3 chords over to some ridiculously badly written lyrics that'll be so repetitive it'll catch on.
You don't go from writing prog rock to writing garbage like George Strait's music. (well he didn't write most of it but that's another story)
Makes me wonder what Frank Zappa would think now.
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I've really fallen into quite a love for jam band music the past few years. I find when I'm playing guitar that improv is what I enjoy the most. It's so much fun when you can lock in with another musician and jam for 15 minutes straight. One band that really blew me away lately is 'Goose'.
They've got some really great covers too, which can be a good jumping on point.
They've got some really great covers too, which can be a good jumping on point.
Yeah, we can agree that country music is not just terrible shit garbage, but actively making people even stupider than they already were.
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This is an indisputable fact.
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mja
Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt
This happens too often to me. I'm listening to the NJFZ Official Wild Card I, AKA College Radio, when I hear a track I've never heard before and instantly get hooked. I hit Siri up for the name of the track / band and discover this cool little obscure band. Listen to the record and get hooked on a couple of other tracks. Now I'm anxious to hear more....except the band seems to be defunct and just put out the one record. Anyway, here are a couple of dreamy shoegazey gems from a seemingly now kaput Big Hush, not to be confused with some rapper of the same name.
mja
Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt
Co-sign on a big fat yawn for The Wall. In addition to never really having had a Beatles phase, I've never ever had a Pink Floyd phase, although Wish You Were Here is undoubtedly a great song.
I have a complicated relationship with U2. New Year's Day, for example, is a song I've loved since I was a wee lad. Ditto Sunday Bloody Sunday. Meanwhile, I hated the Joshua Tree because I found it unbearably pretentious before I even knew what the word pretentious meant.
There's almost always one tune I can't help but love off of their later albums but there are others I absolutely loathe. Acrobat off of Achtung Baby? An unheralded gem that's the highlight of the album for me. That cringey paean to Joey Ramone of off that bizarre record they downloaded for everyone? Woof.
"Acrobat" is one of my faves off "Achtung," too. I would bet you anything that whether you remember it or not, you saw a video/videos from "Joshua Tree" as you were hearing the songs for the first time, and that's why you found it pretentious. It makes sense if you got that from the videos for "Still Haven't Found" or even "With or Without You" - less so just based off the songs themselves.
mja
Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt
I distinctly remember hating the videos for Still Haven't Found and Where the Streets Have No Name, so there's likely some truth here. I can't hate With or Without You, even with the pretentious video.
I don't hate any of them personally lol. The only problem I have with them is that I have played them too much. Well no, there's one more thing I mentioned to Rebel a long time ago. The mixing on those is awful in the sense that they are WAY too quiet. I'm sure if you have a sound system in your house they are fine, but just listening to them on headphones on iTunes or whatever, they are insanely quiet even cranked.
The first vinyl albums I got (aside from "Star Wars," "Empire," and "The Hobbit") were "Outlandos d'Amour" and "Under a Blood Red Sky." I cranked the living shit out of "Electric Co." (on headphones) and it was nice and loud. Even my cassettes of it and "War" - for example, on "Like a Song" or "Seconds" - it was fine. After that, though, it has just been awful. The one other song it always drives me crazy on is "Train in Vain." I have never once heard that song at an appropriately ear-splitting level.
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