Topic: The Music Thread

@TheBrandedSwordsman Hey, man! Sorry for the late reply, had to take a break for a bit for various reasons. I have listened to it! I thought it was pretty great and offered a wealth of musical variety. I’m still as amazed as always with the genre’s ability to thread the line between chaos and control so effectively. How have you been? What are you listening to lately?

The Atmos mix of Suede’s debut is pretty cool. It always sounded incredibly fuzzy so it’s nice to hear it cleaned up a bit.

@Jimmer-jammer I'm glad you enjoyed it and welcome back. I've been gaming less myself so using the site less, yes, order and chaos is what jazz is all about. I've been listening to this guy, have you heard of him - Charlie Hunter? He has a 7 string guitar where the bottom strings are bass strings, custom-made, and plays bass & guitar melodies at the same time, you should be able to find some stuff on youtube.

Everything else has been good just finished a short course in counselling psychology, which I've been focusing on recently as I would prefer that to a literary career.

Everything well in your neck of the woods? What have you been listening to lately?

@TheBrandedSwordsman I haven’t heard of him but I’ll check Charlie Hunter out. I’ve seen that kind of thing before - very cool.

As of late I’ve been listening mostly to podcasts, orchestral music and quite a bit of August Burns Red. Their latest, Death Below, is excellent (as usual) if you like that kind of thing.

I hope the counselling works out for you! I never really believed in that stuff until I had a nervous breakdown two years ago and now I truly believe counselling is an essential part of the human experience, particularly for anyone dealing with trauma. Glad to hear from ya!

I've had this version of this son stuck in my head for ages, can't get enough of it

Probably doesn't help that I've got the blues brothers soundtrack in the CD changer in the car 😅

I've been listening to a lot of King Gnu lately. Some of their songs are absolute bangers - especially their song 'Ichizu'. It's been the first song on my Spotify playlist for a while now. The music video below is actually quite cool too.

There are some flashing/strobe lighting and effects in the video so I'll throw up an Epilepsy Warning just incase.

Poor Sinéad O’Connor. One hell of a life.

@Jimmer-jammer Did you listen to Charlie Hunter? How are you? Thoughts if you listened to him? What sort of orchestral works did you listen to? Wayne Shorter, who died recently in his nineties, wrote a jazz/classical piece called Emanon which I believe you can find on Youtube. I can post a link if you like, or it's on Spotify if you have that.

@TheBrandedSwordsman Hey! I checked him out and really like what I’ve heard! The ability to essentially play two instruments at once is impressive, to say the least. When I say orchestral music, I mean I’ve been listening mostly to film and game composers. Been on a Soken kick (obviously😂) as of late. I think Final Fantasy XVI as a whole might be right your alley, actually. Beyond that I’m doing well, thanks! Very busy as always. The kids are growing fast and keeping me on my toes! Take care.

@nessisonett R.I.P Sinead O' Connor. As a lifelong fan of music as I'm sure you are, what is one or two genres from youth that you don't see yourself going back to? Mine would be rock and metal, since listening to jazz and hip hop almost exclusively for the last few years I just prefer a different type of vibe now, arguably you could say that rock and hip hop both have elements of aggression, but I say that in hip hop it's more about confidence, and you can pick up similar vibes in jazz that also exist in hip hop. People say jazz is the mother of hip hop. Anyway, over to you

@TheBrandedSwordsman Hmm, I kinda keep my options open in terms to genres and stuff. The sort of music that I won’t go out of my way to listen to (prog, a lot of metal) it’s the same stuff that I never really enjoyed growing up either.

@Kidfried The only YYYs album I own is the one from last year as they’re a band that kind of passed me by. The album Karen O did with Danger Mouse (Lux Prima) from a few years ago was pretty good too!

I haven’t been to a gig in so long but have one in a week I’m really looking forward to. Some great emo music from Hot Mulligan and Spanish Love Songs. Both released new albums this year with the latter only coming out this week. A bit more synthy than their other stuff but it’s growing on me.

@PixelDragon I love big festivals, went to a 4-day one this year - but while I still can endure camping at one just fine (did so last year), I'm glad we chose to stay at an airbnb this time
And even with that, my legs were near non-functional by the end of day 4 - but to be clear, when I go to a festival, I go to the festival. I will start with the very first band of the day and stay there till the end of the headlining show.

Also, Decapitated are one of the tightest live metal bands out there. Poland's always been pretty good in the extreme metal department (although these days it seems to have moved from death metal to black metal by a significant margin)

@Jimmer-jammer I thought I'd take the time to introduce you to another jazz titan; Sun Ra. He is no longer with us, unfortunately, but I am sure his music will always stand the test of time.

Hope you like it!

@TheBrandedSwordsman Thanks! I’ll check it out and let you know what I think, though you haven’t really steered me wrong in the world of jazz yet.

My Walkman’s belt has most likely died, it’s stopped spinning. Gutted, Apple Music’s trial ran out so I’ve literally been listening to music on tape cause I can stick my headphones in it. YouTube’s rubbish for streaming music with how many adverts you get now and it’s a little bit of a faff messing around with my turntable just to stick in my headphones. Maybe I need a Discman, CDs are cheap 😂

@nessisonett That sucks buddy, a cd Walkman would be a great replacement. I was still using one until 2010 alongside a really rather fantastic minidisc player, fond memories of both and surprisingly robust, alas I succumbed to the lure of streaming. I still think about buying another minidisc.

@AgentCooper It’s when I start to think about it, that I realise how useful things like minidiscs and tapes still are. Even now, streaming is a mess of subscriptions and such. You really needed to have scanned all your CDs into iTunes in about 2007 because my laptop doesn’t have a disc drive so I can’t even just download hard copies onto my phone that way. If you want to listen to an owned copy of an album on the go then I guess you either pay iTunes prices or you get a Walkman.

@nessisonett I buy all my music but digitally and as much as possible through bandcamp as, I believe, that is the maximal way for artists to get the money, particularly on the infrequent "bandcamp Fridays" where the site waives any take.

I gave up buying CDs as I realised I literally bought them, got them onto iTunes, and then shelved the CD. I buy a couple of vinyl records a year for albums I have already got digitally but have really enjoyed so that I still have some physical media and vinyl is clearly the coolest way to own it too

I have my music on my phone with two playlists. One of new stuff with eight albums on and a one-in, one-out system when I get something new. A second playlist of albums that I change every other week where I go through iTunes alphabetically and choose albums I haven't listened to in the last 12 months and only one album by an artist.

It's been a cool way of revisiting albums I haven't listened to in ages while also enjoying new stuff too.

I'm up to 35 albums/EPs from this year so far!

@Thrillho Yeah, I’ve got a fair amount of records too but they never did make that Vinylman 😉

I think I might actually own some albums through Bandcamp over the years, partly buying them digitally to support the artists and then some albums that I bought physically through there which gave free digital copies!