OT: The Jukebox: What are you listening to?

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Hans Zimmer is incredible. The only score of his I haven't been a big fan of was True Romance, but I have a feeling that was Tony Scott looking for a specific feel than it was bad work by Zimmer.

If you like film soundtracks, I highly, highly recommend Clint Mansell's 'The Fountain' score - 'Death Is The Road To Awe' is one of my favourite pieces of music ever, let alone from a film.

Very different from either of those guys, but Nobuo Uematsu is another amazing composer (best known for the Final Fantasy games). I challenge anyone to listen to the Advent Children version of 'One-Winged Angel' without getting just the most jacked up.
Uematsu is great, honorable mention to Yasunori Mitsuda as well.
 
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Perturbator and Carpenter Brut for me these days:
(amazing videos even if you aren't a synthwave fan)



 

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This board has an eclectic taste in music.

I’m not as sophisticated as you guys. I will go with pop music. Good, bad, cliche ... pop is for me.

Also Katy Perry is hawt.
 

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Thought I'd leave this here too in case anyone is interested. Man oh man is this some innovative stuff. Nothing out there like it.

 

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I'm not familiar with Mitsuda's work, though I know of Chrono Trigger (and, of course, Mario Party) - Any particular soundtracks I should check out?
IMO Chrono Cross is one of the best video game soundtracks of all time, still listen to it to this day.
 

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Ahh the Ditch trilogy. Well done sir.
I didn't even know it had a name, but it definitely feels like a trilogy.

Aside from the recent Neil Young obsession I tend to gravitate between jazz, blues, soul, folk.... tough to pick a favourite but Thelonious Monk, John Fahey, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, Mississippi John Hurt, Howlin' Wolf, Townes Van Zandt are all up there among others.
 
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This board has an eclectic taste in music.

I’m not as sophisticated as you guys. I will go with pop music. Good, bad, cliche ... pop is for me.

Also Katy Perry is hawt.

Nothing wrong with liking what you like :D I like Katy Perry too (though I hate her most recent stuff and her haircut). My GF has been playing Taylor Swift's new album a lot and I definitely dig it. I also love Lady Gaga. Hell, I'll even admit that The Chainsmokers actually make pretty good tunes.
 
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Nothing wrong with liking what you like :D I like Katy Perry too (though I hate her most recent stuff and her haircut). My GF has been playing Taylor Swift's new album a lot and I definitely dig it. I also love Lady Gaga. Hell, I'll even admit that The Chainsmokers actually make pretty good tunes.
I saw Lady Gaga back in 2009, right after Bad Romance and Telephone came out - She was awesome, what a performer. I haven't been a big fan of a lot of her new stuff (and have outgrown some of her older stuff), but I have a ton of respect for her.
 

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I saw Lady Gaga back in 2009, right after Bad Romance and Telephone came out - She was awesome, what a performer. I haven't been a big fan of a lot of her new stuff (and have outgrown some of her older stuff), but I have a ton of respect for her.
Yeah, her ideas about performance and image are fascinating. She's a real talent. There's a fantastic documentary about her making her new album on Netflix that's quite well done and worth the watch. It does a very good job showing the difference between her as a person and her as a performer. I've listened to the new album once or twice and while I don't think I'll ever like it enough to buy it, it's still a good listen.
 
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I'm not familiar with Mitsuda's work, though I know of Chrono Trigger (and, of course, Mario Party) - Any particular soundtracks I should check out?
Koji Kondo. All of them. Also the FF2 battle tune is epic. Or is it FF4? the numbers change region to region for some reason.
 
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We certainly are. Gonna be a rager for sure!!
I played a lot of bars and they all sort of melded together over time . IIRC the bovine was a dark and weird place. But my mind is hazy for reasons I cannot legally discuss until later this year.. Haha.
 

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Also, the album following, Zuma, is really great too. I love most of Neil's stuff, something good on every album.
 
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