What Are You Listening To?

[transmogrifier]

Legend


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgNeBNMJFZs

[bac0n]

Saw her last year at Riot Fest. She totally killed it.

[transmogrifier]

Saw her last year at Riot Fest. She totally killed it.

Would love to see her in concert, even at 70 odd.

[Spun Lepton]

Today I'm working in our chat queue instead of talking on the phone all day, which means I get to listen to music all day.

Just fired up Sia's This is Acting. THAT VOICE. My god, it's like falling into a star.

[Philip J. Fry]

Out of curiosity, I gave Squeeze by The Velvet Underground a chance.

It was not awful. Is it anywhere near the canon VU albums? No. Is it original? Also no; sounds as if Doug Yule was trying to recreate Loaded (and it's nowhere in that level. Is it even a VU album? I don't think so. But none of the songs is what I'd call bad, some are even fun to listen. It seems as if it had been released as a Doug Yule solo album, or another name, it wouldn't be as hated as it is.

I certainly has heard waaaay worse shit.

[Spun Lepton]

After Hours by The Weeknd

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c1/The_Weeknd_-_After_Hours.png/220px-The_Weeknd_-_After_Hours.png

First time listening, mostly to see if I can drive that Blinding Lights song out of my head. It's been stuck there for two days. Decent album. Love the 80s influence. Haven't enjoyed every single song, but most of them are enjoyable.

[Dukefrukem]

After Hours by The Weeknd

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c1/The_Weeknd_-_After_Hours.png/220px-The_Weeknd_-_After_Hours.png

First time listening, mostly to see if I can drive that Blinding Lights song out of my head. It's been stuck there for two days. Decent album. Love the 80s influence. Haven't enjoyed every single song, but most of them are enjoyable.

It's my daughters favorite song.

[Idioteque Stalker]

Good album. Way too long, but still. Best Weeknd album since his mixtapes. "Hardest to Love" is my favorite.

[Ivan Drago]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwPB9FrhqjI

[Spun Lepton]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTTT0iarzI8

[Spun Lepton]

This one's for bac0n.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcjiYn3xXMg&feature=em b_rel_pause

[Idioteque Stalker]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKYWWfR_GKA

RIP Daft Punk. It's moments like this that make me wish people didn't throw around the word "iconic" so much. Legendary duo. I look forward to the music they make apart.

[DFA1979]

I love Daft Punk. On the other hand it had been 8 years since their last album so its no wonder they broke up.

I really like Taylor Swift's Reputation as an album. On the other hand Look What You Made Me Do is a track that could have been cut from the album. Delicate sounds more like her other stuff but I like that song lot.

[Spun Lepton]

Was deep in the depression hole when I was listening to this album regularly. Fired up again today just to see if it still holds some power. This song still gives me the chills.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoI4WFpiSH4&list=PLmeF 3g_kh5ylAkxgIpPQLZhsnhP-jr2Kn&index=8

[Spun Lepton]

Ooof. Apparently this song still has the ability to make me teary-eyed.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZik6-UPOPs&list=PLmeF3g_kh5ylAkxgIp PQLZhsnhP-jr2Kn&index=11

[bac0n]

Great album. Listened to it a LOT back in the day.

[transmogrifier]

Ooof. Apparently this song still has the ability to make me teary-eyed.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZik6-UPOPs&list=PLmeF3g_kh5ylAkxgIp PQLZhsnhP-jr2Kn&index=11

Back in the Limewire days, this song was mislabelled as a Radiohead one (with a different title, I think), so for the longest time I thought it was a Radiohead B-Side from The Bends/OK Computer era. Then I stumbled across The Sophtware Slump somehow and imagine my surprise....excellent album though

[DFA1979]

Ooof. Apparently this song still has the ability to make me teary-eyed.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZik6-UPOPs&list=PLmeF3g_kh5ylAkxgIp PQLZhsnhP-jr2Kn&index=11

That song cover looks like it is referencing the Dead & Buried (1981) poster for the movie by the same name. Sweet.

[Yxklyx]

Daniel Knox' latest album - Won't You Take Me With You

You should all check him out. He's a major cinephile, was working as a projectionist at The Music Box theater before the Pandemic. He played organ for a David Lynch presentation or something like that, related to Inland Empire.

[quido8_5]

Listening to Your Arms Around Me by Jens Lekman as I'm progressing through Night Falls over Kortedela. Such an amazingly beautiful and honest song. Hard to call it a highlight because the entire album is fucking fantastic.

[Torgo]

A pretty good French post-rock album that you can listen to the entirety of here:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbxFEljPOcE

[bac0n]

This new Cheap Trick album is exactly what the world needs right now.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Khk3RLGSeIs

[quido8_5]

Intended to go to bed at 10 last night. Started Skeletal Lamping and could not stop. Went to sleep pondering countless masterbation fallacies and phallocentric tyranny-- found myself in another wet nightmare.

[quido8_5]

One of the great overlooked albums of the decade: https://open.spotify.com/track/0NwMZz1Criwkq3cQUGnMv0?si=7L6A fztRTCyIzA6ZA6WuFg&utm_source=copy-link

[Torgo]

Colossus by Arcane Existence, which is one of the better metal albums of the year so far.

Here's one of the best tracks on it, The Altar:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt-P-ZEqDMQ

[dreamdead]

Still one of the most emotional songs I've ever heard. This live version captures it so well.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56dv3XHUISY&ab_channel=%EC%98%A8%EC%8A%A4% ED%85%8C%EC%9D%B4%EC%A7%80ONST AGE

[transmogrifier]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4TqBnVNriU

[DFA1979]

Top Albums Listened To In 2021:

Out of 115 albums. List is here (https://madman731.wordpress.com/2021/02/04/music-log-2021/)

1. What’s Going On, Marvin Gaye (Public Library)
2. The Party’s Over, Talk Talk (YouTube)
3. The Band, The Band (Public Library)
4. I Against I, Bad Brains (Public Library)
5. Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs, Marty Robbins (Public Library)
6. People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm, A Tribe Called Quest (Public Library)
7. Spin, Spin (YouTube)
8. Here Comes Everybody, The Wake (YouTube)
9. Call the Doctor, Sleater-Kinney (Half-Price Books)
10. The Pretender, Jackson Browne (Public Library)
HM: Carnaval, Spyro Gyra (YouTube)

[bac0n]

There's some great stuff in that list! I in particular have been on a Talk Talk kick lately. Such an underappreciated band. The Party's Over is killer from top to bottom.

And Gunfighter Ballads & Trail Songs is, IMHO, the greatest western album ever recorded. Only thing that comes close is Ennio Morricone's film score work.

[Torgo]

Infected Rain, a metalcore band from Moldova:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjgd_QMWphg

[Torgo]

Tony Martin's (Black Sabbath vocalist) solo album, Thorns:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kzz3FweHHmQ

[Torgo]

It's St. Patrick's Day, so I'm enjoying Irish djent band Shattered Skies:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ-mqu52NQE

[Torgo]

Industrial metal from Germany:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4e-xXpE18s

[Torgo]

Japanese alternative metal:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e9Q2y7ZOK0

[Torgo]

I'm really into the soundtrack to Poll Mine, one of the games in Jackbox Party Pack 8, of all things. The low-key Police vibes put me in a pleasantly mellow mood.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzOkLtLVCp0

[Idioteque Stalker]

I'm really into the soundtrack to Poll Mine, one of the games in Jackbox Party Pack 8, of all things. The low-key Police vibes put me in a pleasantly mellow mood.

Chill. Sounds like a Mac DeMarco cover band.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2_r94MwW18

[Torgo]

Glad you like it.
And now, for something completely different: some very good Swedish power metal from Lost Horizon, a short-lived band from the '00s. Daniel Heiman is a heck of a vocalist.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTLrxjIkONY

[bac0n]

When I become President, this song is going to replace Take Me Out to the Ballgame during the 7th Inning Stretch of all Major League baseball games, with the following additional stipulations:


The song will be sung not between but during the innings, when the ball is in play, performed live by Viagra Boys frontman Sebastian Murphy.
If Sebastian happens to get hit with an errant baseball, everyone gets a free tattoo of Sebastian's choice.
If Sebastian happens to get beaned with an errant baseball, everyone gets a free taco as well as a free tattoo.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjL7D33xpS4

Anyone wishing to know more about my presidential platform may consult my presidential exploratory committee, which consists of my wife and two pembroke welsh corgis.

[Idioteque Stalker]

New Kendrick Lamar, new Radiohead (kinda), and all I'm listening to is this song:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhtSxHJ88fY

"Of all the ways to eat a cake, this one surely takes the knife." Love that.

[Yxklyx]

The Art of Being a Girl - Julee Cruise

[Torgo]

If you're into Dungeon Synth, check out DIM's 2022 release, Steeped Sky, Stained Light. Here's one of my favorites on it:


https://youtu.be/sRvwmuVTFS8

[MadMan]

I'm going through album boxsets of music acts that I keep getting at Half-Price Books. Right now I'm enjoying Stone Temple Pilots' first five albums, with the second one being my favorite of the bunch.