OT: Watcha Listening To? - Part II

[Bluenote13]

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[Bluenote13]

I'll be at the Radio City Music Hall one. Didn't realize they were doing Brooklyn Steel, too, otherwise I would've been at that one.

Brooklyn Steel show is streaming free Sunday!!

Wilco Announces Brooklyn Steel Live Stream

 

[aufheben]

For a nice sunny day:



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@GeorgeKaplan you ever hear the Swirlies? They're like ca. Isn't Anything My Bloody Valentine's dropout younger brother. Has all the hooks, tremolo, male/female vocals, etc., but it's more loose and burnt-out feeling. Definitely a goofy sarcastic charm to it, which I guess is necessary when you're still putting out shoegaze albums in 1996.

 

[GeorgeKaplan]

For a nice sunny day:



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@GeorgeKaplan you ever hear the Swirlies? They're like ca. Isn't Anything My Bloody Valentine's dropout younger brother. Has all the hooks, tremolo, male/female vocals, etc., but it's more loose and burnt-out feeling. Definitely a goofy sarcastic charm to it, which I guess is necessary when you're still putting out shoegaze albums in 1996.

That’s the only Swirlies album I’ve heard, and I go through like a little binge every now and then where I’ll listen to it a bunch, but when I’m not binging it, I can never remember what it sounds like for some reason. Bright side of that is I get that little ‘new thing that I like’ rush before it all comes back to me

 

[MyLoveIsBlue]

Very early Janis Joplin before see was famous. Really good.

 

[Ghost of jas]

Right now, Silversun Pickups, ‘Swoon’ and the song “Lazy Eye”, the New Pornographers, (especially the new single and “Mass Romantic”), Neko Case, ‘Blacklisted’ and ‘Fox Confessor Brings the Flood’, and the Apples in Stereo, ‘The Discovery of a World Inside the Moone’ are all in heavy rotation for me. I also checked out the Yeah Yeah Yeahs ‘Fever to Tell’ which I really like.

 

[YoSoyLalo]

every time I revisit Brian Jonestown Massacre I find new songs to obsess over

Most underrated band on the planet

 

[LokiDog]

Luke Combs and Whiskey Myers on heavy rotation right now with some Cody Jinks mixed in.

 

[NYRKindms]

Voice Of the Wetlands Allstars from jazzfest
featuring Tab Benoit, Dr. John, Cyril Neville, Anders Osbourne, Big Chief Monk Boudreaux, Johnny Vidacovich, Johnny Sansone and Waylon Thibodeaux

 

[nyrmetros]

Amon Amarth
Sabaton

 

[SnowblindNYR]

I listened to a few Bob Dylan songs and I think I dig them! I never really listened to him before.

 

[Brooklyn Rangers Fan]

I listened to a few Bob Dylan songs and I think I dig them! I never really listened to him before.

Brilliant songwriter. Gawdawful singer.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

Brilliant songwriter. Gawdawful singer.

It's funny there was this guy on the train that would come in and sing "knocking on heaven's door" and I looked it up once and found that it was a Dylan song and then listened to it thinking that the guy on the train had a better rendition.

 

[eco's bones]

Voice Of the Wetlands Allstars from jazzfest
featuring Tab Benoit, Dr. John, Cyril Neville, Anders Osbourne, Big Chief Monk Boudreaux, Johnny Vidacovich, Johnny Sansone and Waylon Thibodeaux

That sounds interesting.

 

[YoSoyLalo]

Brilliant songwriter. Gawdawful singer.

Always felt like Dylan being a bad singer was a bit overblown. At least from the perspective of pure technical singing ability - ya his singing VOICE isn’t good, but in terms of being able to hit notes properly, he’s fine.

 

[NY Lito]

Menzingers’ new album is excellent.

 

[NYRFANMANI]

Take any work from Nobuo Uematsu tbh, I just happen to listen to this one atm.

 

[Ghost of jas]

It's funny there was this guy on the train that would come in and sing "knocking on heaven's door" and I looked it up once and found that it was a Dylan song and then listened to it thinking that the guy on the train had a better rendition.

Dylan’s voice on ‘Knockin’ on Heaven’ Door’ is perfect in the same way Tom Waits’ voice on the album ‘Rain Dogs’ is perfect. It fully captures the world-weariness of the song. Everyone else who ever sings that song completely misses that nuance, especially the God-awful version by Guns’n’Roses.

 

[Ghost of jas]

Brilliant songwriter. Gawdawful singer.

I take it you have never listened to ‘Blood on the Tracks’. Dylan, like Springsteen, is not a great voice in the manner of someone like Otis Redding, Sam Cooke, or just about every lead vocalist in the Temptations until Dennis Edwards left. But, he has an earthy quality that lends a mature tone. And in some instances, it adds weight to the subject matter...’Like a Rolling Stone’ or ‘It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue’ for example.

 

[Edge]

Dylan is someone you appreciate over a cup of coffee or a glass of wine; when you can relax and focus on the lyrics and contemplate the world around you.

He's not a guy you listen to when you want an inspirational walk to work, or are in the mood for a powerful song that you crank throughout your house while looking to blow off steam or clean.

Now doing a complete 180 from that topic, I've been revisiting Motorcycle and Jes. "As the Rush Comes" came up on my phone the other day, and it kicked off a revisit.

 

[McRanger]

I take it you have never listened to ‘Blood on the Tracks’. Dylan, like Springsteen, is not a great voice in the manner of someone like Otis Redding, Sam Cooke, or just about every lead vocalist in the Temptations until Dennis Edwards left. But, he has an earthy quality that lends a mature tone. And in some instances, it adds weight to the subject matter...’Like a Rolling Stone’ or ‘It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue’ for example.

That's my favorite Dylan album and one of favorite over all.

 

[McRanger]

Dylan is someone you appreciate over a cup of coffee or a glass of wine; when you can relax and focus on the lyrics and contemplate the world around you.

He's not a guy you listen to when you want an inspirational walk to work, or are in the mood for a powerful song that you crank throughout your house while looking to blow off steam or clean.

Now doing a complete 180 from that topic, I've been revisiting Motorcycle and Jes. "As the Rush Comes" came up on my phone the other day, and it kicked off a revisit.

You could probably cobble together a small playlist of electric songs like Subterranean Homesick Blues, Maggie's Farm and LaRS (or even better some covers, Watchtower alone probably has 10 rocking covers) for anger cleaning.

But yeah I am drawing a blank on inspirational walking songs.

 

[Ghost of jas]

You could probably cobble together a small playlist of electric songs like Subterranean Homesick Blues, Maggie's Farm and LaRS (or even better some covers, Watchtower alone probably has 10 rocking covers) for anger cleaning.

But yeah I am drawing a blank on inspirational walking songs.

Dylan’s work has an understated anger. LaRS, Baby Blue and Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright all have an underlying anger, but, it’s not bang your head against the wall anger.

I know people get caught up in the voice of a generation thing with Dylan, but what I take from him is examination of personal relationships, similar to why I think Court and Spark and not Blue is Joni Mitchell’s best album. Sweetheart Like You is one of my favorite Dylan songs, as well as Tangled Up in Blue.

 

[Brooklyn Rangers Fan]

I take it you have never listened to ‘Blood on the Tracks’. Dylan, like Springsteen, is not a great voice in the manner of someone like Otis Redding, Sam Cooke, or just about every lead vocalist in the Temptations until Dennis Edwards left. But, he has an earthy quality that lends a mature tone. And in some instances, it adds weight to the subject matter...’Like a Rolling Stone’ or ‘It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue’ for example.

I know how that's how it's supposed to be, and in very rare instances it works that way for me – but for the most part I just find it grating. (Feel the same way about Bruce, BTW.) Just one man's opinion of course.

 

[NYRFANMANI]

sry, if re-post.