The Music Listening thread

[ShadySands]

[BruceVC]

 

Good song, commercial but good 

[Bartimaeus]

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Guys  this  song  rocks  !!!

 

 

Good song, commercial but good 

 

hey guys I don't know if you've ever heard of this little known band, but

 

​@Shady: though I was a big Psych fan, I hate musicals that aren't cartoons. I was never able to sit through it, so that was actually my first time hearing it. it was...uh...silly.

Edited November 3, 2017 by Bartimaeus

[ShadySands]

I've never seen a musical that I liked and often fast forward through any singing but I have to admit that I loved the Psych musical

Edited November 3, 2017 by ShadySands

[Bartimaeus]

I don't know what it is about people singing in a non-singing locale that makes me squirm, but there it is

[SonicMage117]

"I hate Christmas music when it's not even December"

 

If you hate Lindsey's Christmas music anytime of the year, you may want to get checked for that.

Edited November 5, 2017 by SonicMage117

[LadyCrimson]

Because despite what that other song says, music never dies.

 

[ShadySands]

Haven't shared this in a while

 

[injurai]

Because despite what that other song says, music never dies.

 

 

[Enoch]

I can't quite decide whether this is awesome or horrifying, but this is my 3.5-year-old son's current favorite song:

 

[Guard Dog]

It's the kind of night for multiple neat highballs of quality bourbon, jamming Guy Clark on the speakers and reflecting on my life and roads not taken.

 

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

[injurai]

I can't quite decide whether this is awesome or horrifying, but this is my 3.5-year-old son's current favorite song:

 

 

Crazy good song, how does a 3 year old get into something like this?

[algroth]

"I hate Christmas music when it's not even December"

 

If you hate Lindsey's Christmas music anytime of the year, you may want to get checked for that.

Yeah, I probably hate it any time, especially in December.

[algroth]

Digging this album quite a bit right now:

 

 

Edited November 8, 2017 by algroth

[injurai]

World Eater is quite the album. Are you into the world of electronic Algroth? I should really start posting more underground electronic stuff in here, since that's my main musical forte.

 

 

 

 

[algroth]

World Eater is quite the album. Are you into the world of electronic Algroth? I should really start posting more underground electronic stuff in here, since that's my main musical forte.

 

I am! I'm all for you sharing some more. Here's another album I've been really liking of late...

 

 

And if you're for really outlandish stuff and have the time, here's a 4h20m conceptual instrumental hip-hop album by Impossible Nothing (one of three he's released so far this year):

 

[algroth]

Also, Clark:

 

[injurai]

Christ, that's a massive piece of art. Who writes a 4 hour album?

 

I remember Iglooghost from Chinese Nu Yr, hadn't checked out any more since. Both of these works are pretty cool.

 

Now Clark, that guy is a class act.

[Enoch]

 

I can't quite decide whether this is awesome or horrifying, but this is my 3.5-year-old son's current favorite song:

 

 

Crazy good song, how does a 3 year old get into something like this?

 

He has certainly heard "kids' music" stuff at his preschool, but he is not yet aware that it is a thing that can be played in our car.  On our commute (the daycare/preschool is in my office building), we listen to music from my collection.  His Mom tends to reject most of the jazz ( ), and he really hates it if I try to sneak some NPR in, but a few things have stuck. 

 

This was his first favorite song ("Wobots!"):

 

 

I tried to build on this with more Kraftwerk, as their stuff has some really kid-friendly themes.  (Robots! Trains! Counting! Radiation!)  He still asks for this one sometimes, which he initially misheard as "Shoulders on my Tummy":

 

 

(Edit:  Not sure why that one ins't doing the imbedded-player thing.)

 

The rest of Trans Europe Express was pretty well received, too, although he tends to get bored with "The Hall of Mirrors." (Me, too, frankly.)  Based on all this, I should probably be working to acquire more electronica, as my knowledge of the genre basically stops circa 1982.  But, with two kids under 4 in the house (his brother is now 18 months old), time to explore new-to-me music is pretty scarce, so I've mostly been playing stuff that I already had. 

 

So we listen to the rock that is weird enough to hold my interest, and that isn't too vulgar to play in front of a kid who sometimes repeats interesting words.  Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds fits the first part of the bill, and Let Love In isn't super-objectionable on the second criteria.  (He's too young to grasp the somewhat menacing and misanthropic overall themes, so this is mostly based on what language I wouldn't want him repeating to his teachers at school.  I think there's an F-bomb in "Thirsty Dog," but it's pretty mumbly.  Suffice it to say that Cave's next album is off the playlist, though.) 

 

Anyhow, I think he likes the chimes in "Red Right Hand" more than anything else.  I played it for him and he asked to hear it again (and again and again, as kids do).  Once he learned the name, he started requesting it.  If it keeps the peace on the commute, I'm happy to play it 4 times over.

Edited November 9, 2017 by Enoch

[injurai]

Seems like he's sort of latching onto sounds that circumambulates new wave. You should play this for him:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOg5VxrRTi0

[Pidesco]

Tom Waits - Romeo is Bleeding

[algroth]

Talking Heads could be appealing. A couple of other acts from the time might have some nice tracks too, like Fad Gadget or Siouxsie and the Banshees, that have some of that gothy yet playful vibe to them. Coil's latter-day albums also kinda bridge the progressive electronic of Karftwerk, Tangering Dream and Klaus Schülze with the gothier and weirder stuff from post-punk and industrial (that might be more a rec for you than your kid though, Enoch).

Edited November 9, 2017 by algroth

[injurai]

[Katphood]

[SonicMage117]