OT: The Semi-irregular Music Thread

[Allie Kitsune]

Bought the Collapse (not to be confused with Collapse Under the Empire) digital discography, because I'm a sucker for Post-Rock and Instrumental Prog.

 

[PennDanzig]

Yo post some links too so we can vibe 2 ur vibes n vibe 2gether.

I've been listening to this record a lot lately.

 

[Zen Arcade]

Also love punk. New Jack Swing. Afro beat. The good kind of country music. Ambient. Bjork. Slayer. Public Enemy. Giorgio Moroder. The Byrds. Brian Eno. Wu-Tang Clan. Prince. Led Zeppelin. Scott Walker. XTC. TLC.

Years ago I made a Rhapsody playlist of random stuff and put it on when I went to sleep. It was basically a bunch of calm stuff like Songs: Ohia.

I didn't know anything about Scott Walker, but I threw some of his stuff on there because I thought it would be standard​, singer songwriter type stuff. I woke up very abruptly at around 4am to the song Cossacks Are.

 

[DegenX]

I think I might be the only one here who's into jam bands and roots type music
Lately, I've been listening to a lot of 'primal' Dead, late 60's stuff with Pigpen. And these guys ...

 

[RizzleMcRib]

All-Time Bands/Music
Top-5 Bands/Artists
The Beatles
The Stooges
Queens of the Stone Age
The Beach Boys
Pink Floyd

Honorable Mention - The Seeds / Jawbreaker

Top-5 Albums
The Beatles - Revolver
The Strokes - Is This It
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
The Beach Boys - Smiley Smile
Cave In - Until Your Heart Stops

Honorable mention - Weezer - Pinkerton / Jawbreaker - 24 Hour Revenge Therapy

Top-5 Songs
The Beach Boys - Feel Flows
The Beatles - A Day in the Life
The Zombies - This Will Be Our Year
The Stooges - Down on the Street
The Rolling Stones - Under My Thumb

Honorable Mention Pink Floyd - Interstellar OVerdrive / The Get Up Kids - No Love





Current Bands/Music
Top-5 Bands/Artists Right Now
Tame Impala
Benjamin Booker
Spoon
Pissed Jeans
Black Lips

Honorable Mention - Kikagaku Moyo





First album you just thought about
The Zombies - Odessey and Oracle

5 CDs on the player right now (Last 5 records I listened to)
Robert Calvert - Captian Lockheed and the Starfighters
Hawkwind - In Search of Space
Deep Purple - In Rock
Modern Lovers - Rock N Roll With the Modern Lovers
Pink Floyd - A Saucerful of Secrets


Last 5 Albums You Bought/Downloaded
Dead Milkmen - Big Lizard in My Backyard
The Haunted (Canadian 60s garage) - The Haunted
Black FLag - Jealous Again EP
Simply Saucer - Cyborgs Revisited
Arthus Brown - Fire / Rest Cure single



Concerts
Best Concert You've Ever Been To
At The Drive In / Jimmy Eat World (Clarity release) or Converge / Cave In / Dillinger Escape Plan (UNtil You Heart Stops release)

Last Concert You Went To
Brian Wilson - Pet Sounds 50th

Worst Concert You've Ever Been To
Enuff Z'Nuff

Biggest Concert Dissappointment
Appleseed Cast

Artist you'd most like to meet/drink with
Josh Homme

Band that you'd love to see in concert but it can never happen
The Beatles (Obviously)
The Who with Keith Moon

Styles of Music
All but I lean toward 60's psych and garage.

Favorite styles
Good

Styles you don't listen to
Bad

Desert Island Album (you get 1 album for eternity)
I want to say Revolver just because to me it's the greatest album of all time, but I will go with the White Album just because it's 2xLP so I can go back and forth between the 2.

 

[Harvey Birdman]

Going to Thrice, Deftones, and Rise Against tonight. Should be an awesome show.

 

[HandshakeLine]

I think I might be the only one here who's into jam bands and roots type music
Lately, I've been listening to a lot of 'primal' Dead, late 60's stuff with Pigpen. And these guys ...

Nah, I dig a ton of that too, though I think a lot of modern roots/jam stuff is too self-conscious and cutesy for me.

 

[RizzleMcRib]

Even though this album came out in 2014, it is still a breath of fresh air considering what's going on music-wise these days.

 

[DegenX]

Nah, I dig a ton of that too, though I think a lot of modern roots/jam stuff is too self-conscious and cutesy for me.

I think you get that in any genre. And occasionally, the navel gazing stuff isn't so bad. I mean, say what you will of me for it, but I do like the Chris Robinson Brotherhood It can get kind of formulaic, though.

Edit ... The genres can get kind of formulaic, not CRB per say

 

[Harvey Birdman]

Best Concert: Real Big Fish, Against Me!, Gold Finger, Bad Religion, and NOFX.
- Runner Up: Fishbone, Stone Temple Pilots, Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Honorable Mentions: Nine Inch Nails, Black Label Society, Iron Maiden, Slipknot, Killswitch Engage, Rob Zombie

First Album: Greenday: Dookie

Top Five Bands:
- Rolling Stones
- Nine Inch Nail
- Clash
- Led Zeppelin
- Slayer

Artist I Would Most Like To Meet:
- Tie Between: Henry Rollins (Black Flag & Rollins Band) & Trent Reznor (NIN)

*Side note, not music, but if you ever get to see Henry Rollins do a Spoken Word show, go, he is amazing.

Current Bands In My Primary Playlist:
- Slayer
- Devil You Know
- Slipknot
- Mastodon
- System Of A Down

* I delete my playlists every month so I have to update them and make them fresh and new mixing in new stuff and dropping old stuff or trying new combinations

 

[tom_servo]

Years ago I made a Rhapsody playlist of random stuff and put it on when I went to sleep. It was basically a bunch of calm stuff like Songs: Ohia.

I didn't know anything about Scott Walker, but I threw some of his stuff on there because I thought it would be standard​, singer songwriter type stuff. I woke up very abruptly at around 4am to the song Cossacks Are.

Have you heard the older Scott Walker stuff? Scott 1-4. Check out Scott 4. Excellent '60s baroque pop.

 

[HandshakeLine]

Have you heard the older Scott Walker stuff? Scott 1-4. Check out Scott 4. Excellent '60s baroque pop.

Yaaaaas

 

[tom_servo]

Screen grab of where one of my Spotify-generated mix is right this second. They do a pretty good job, whilst I might not be a die hard aficionado of every band here, I do like all of these with varying degrees.

I've been listening to some Godflesh here and there. Check out Jesu (if you haven't already) which is Justin Broadrick's current band.

 

[Zen Arcade]

Have you heard the older Scott Walker stuff? Scott 1-4. Check out Scott 4. Excellent '60s baroque pop.

Yeah, I kind of explored his whole catalog after that.

Also jumping in on the Jesu recommendation.

 

[clefty]

Well, I like to think Godflesh is still is current band...

Seriously though, I do know Jesu.

 

[Allie Kitsune]

Top 5 Bands :

-King Crimson
-Stone Temple Pilots
-VAST
-Garbage
-Mothers of Invention/Frank Zappa

Top 5 Albums (based on preference, not on influence)

-Spirit - "12 Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus"
-Orgy - "Vapor Transmission"
-Stone Temple Pilots - "Tiny Music"
-Cloudkicker - "The Discovery"
-Baddies - "Build"

 

[vodeni]

Top 5 Bands :

-King Crimson
-Stone Temple Pilots
-VAST
-Garbage
-Mothers of Invention/Frank Zappa

Top 5 Albums (based on preference, not on influence)

-Spirit - "12 Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus"
-Orgy - "Vapor Transmission"
-Stone Temple Pilots - "Tiny Music"
-Cloudkicker - "The Discovery"
-Baddies - "Build"

now we are talking some serious stuff here

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

I've been listening to some Godflesh here and there. Check out Jesu (if you haven't already) which is Justin Broadrick's current band.

Obviously, the best thing Justin Broadrick ever did was side 1 of Napalm Death's Scum.

 

[Brandinho]

Obviously, the best thing Justin Broadrick ever did was side 1 of Napalm Death's Scum.

Songs of Love and Hate IMO. I don't expect many would agree as it seems to be criminally overlooked, but I think it's by far the best thing Godflesh have put out.

 

[PennDanzig]

Obviously, the best thing Justin Broadrick ever did was side 1 of Napalm Death's Scum.

YES. I second this opinion.

 

[BrookswasHere44]

Pittsburgh people should go check out The Flatliners and Garrett Dale at Mr.Smalls on Sunday

 

[Bart9349]

Going to Thrice, Deftones, and Rise Against tonight. Should be an awesome show.

That should have been a great show, indeed.

I love this video of the lead singer from Rise Against (Tim Mcllrath) playing acoustic guitar throughout the streets and trains of Budapest.



Thrice is an underappreciated group. And the Deftones are ... the Deftones. That's a great combo for a show.


I'd love to see Five Finger Death Punch, but I'm getting a little too old to deal the craziness of live shows these days.

 

[mrzeigler]

Top albums ... those that I love start to finish, every track

• Counting Crows — August and Everything After
• David Bowie — Earthling
• Beck — Odelay
• Bernard Haitink & the London Symphony Orchestra — Beethoven Symphony No. 9
• Cake — Fashion Nugget
• Eric Johnson — Ah Via Musicom
• Fury in the Slaughterhouse — Mono
• Josh Ritter — So Runs the World Away
• Laurie Anderson — Mister Heartbreak
• Lovage — Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By
• Matt & Kim — Grand
• Midnight Oil — Blue Sky Mine
• Moby — 18
• NIN — Pretty Hate Machine
• Paul Simon — Rhythm of the Saints
• Peter Gabriel — Music from The Passion of the Christ, So, Us
• Rush — Power Windows
• Rusted Root — When I Woke
• Sigor Ros — all of them
• Toad the Wet Sprocket — Coil, Dulcinea
• U2 — Joshua Tree, Zooropa, Achtung Baby, All That You Can't Leave Behind
• Van Morrison — Astral Weeks

Best concerts I've been to — Top Petty's PGH show a couple years ago, U2 Elevation show in PGH, Midnight Oil at Starlake on their Earth & sun & Moon tour, Peter Gabriel's WOMAD tour at Starlake in the early '90s, Tori Amos at the Byham. Rush was always good but since they played every song almost exactly as it appeared on album, it's tough to pick a favorite -- maybe the "Presto" tour.

Last concert I saw — U2 Joshua Tree anniversary tour

Worst concert I've ever been to — glad to say I don't have any that qualify. Stevie Nicks talked waaaaay too much between songs (sometimes 5-7 minutes!) during her show a couple of months ago, but when she sang, she sounded good.

Biggest concert dissappointment — Disappointed in myself for leaving Star Lake after NIN's set and walking out before David Bowie took the stage. Two weeks later, I bought Bowie's "Outside" (which he was touring on at the time) and fell in love with it.

Biggest surprise — I went for Tears for Fears last month and was pleasantly surprised by the show Hall & Oates put on ... they apparently realized that their studio sound from the '80s didn't age well, and so they transformed almost all of their songs.

Artist you'd most like to meet/drink with ... Simply because she seems like a blast during her meet/greets: Rihanna

Band that you'd love to see in concert but it can never happen ... get me a time machine, and I would make Vienna, May 7, 1824, as my first destination — to see the premiere performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. I'd love to see the moment that a musician -- after the song ended -- approached the deaf composer (who was still conducting) and turned him around to see the crowd's ovation.


Desert Island Album — Maybe Sigur Ros' Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust, but I'd likely have a different answer on a different day.

 

[tom_servo]

I wish Werewolves of London by Warren Zevon was like 20 minutes long.

 

[T1K]

The discovery playlists on Spotify are really great. It's kinda expensive, but easily worth the money.