Topic: The Music Thread

@Thrillho I like Mogwai (Kids Will Be Skeletons is probably one of my favourite tracks from back in the day)

Haven’t listened to them for a few years though, I’ll get them on Spotify.

@kyleforrester87 I really liked their last album (Every Country's Sun) and they did the soundtrack to a film killed Kin which is worth a listen too (even if the film is supposed to be rubbish).

Phil Spector dying is a weird one for me. I absolutely love his Wall of Sound production style with The Ronettes among others and it led to genres like shoegaze but then he was a convicted murderer. It’s hard to really feel anything when he was, in the simplest of terms, a very bad man.

Woooow, so the BBC went with ‘talented but flawed’ to describe Spector. Yeahhhh, like the ‘talented but flawed’ Doctor Harold Shipman then. Jeez.

@Thrillho you got me listening to this now, haven’t heard it in years! Used to love this track

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=p3uIwEY27DQ

@Thrillho @kyleforrester87 I've got The Hawk is Howling, and plan to get Happy Songs for Happy People, have either or both of you heard Glasgow Mega-Shake?, now that is a "bangin'!" track.

@TheBrandedSwordsman
Banging music ?
Try to listen this DDR A20+ song. 😉

@nessisonett What have you been listening to recently? I tried the Plantasia album and it felt like something was growing inside me Decided to seek medical help! lmao (just joking, obviously)

@kyleforrester87 I'm not sure I've heard that one as I don't think I have their earliest albums still.

@TheBrandedSwordsman I guess you mean "Glasgow Mega-SNAKE"?

I've always been a fan of Remurdered as I like the fact the second half sounds like it could have been the soundtrack to an industrial level from the Shinobi games on Mega Drive.

65daysofstatic are still the kings of this sound though and I will never tire of hearing this track. It is one that I will never get tired of hearing live (remember the days when we used to get to see bands live??).

I saw them headlining 2000 Trees festival a few years ago in the absolute pouring rain and it was amazing when this came on. I think I've seen them five or six times live but never seen Mogwai!

@Anti-Matter Blimey, that's a bit intense

Perfectly suited to the car race I was doing in Yakuza 5 while it was on though!

@Thrillho I'm not massive on 65DOS for some reason. A "friend" of mine used to like them a lot, I guess I just associate them with him. But whenever I actually listen to them I enjoy them.

I really like this one:

@Thrillho
You haven't seen what it looks like Hyper Twist on Challenge level 18 from DDR A20+ 😉
It was really Hyper Twisting your legs.

Anyway, i'm listening to this TOHO EUROBEAT song.

@Thrillho Mega-snake it is, Mega-snake indeed - I was getting confused with the character from Aqua Teen Hunger Force lol, Master Shake was his name right? Did you ever watch that show? Yeah, personally I prefer Mogwai to 65daysofstatic but that's just personal taste. Glad you had chances to catch them live so many times, I hope you catch Mogwai once this pandemic is all over and done with.

@kyleforrester87 @TheBrandedSwordsman I actually like 65dos' more recent stuff. We Were Exploding Anyway and Wild Light are my favourites.

@Anti-Matter Good lord. I have no idea how anyone could manage that

@TheBrandedSwordsman I listened to the Star Wars: A New Hope soundtrack last week. I can’t remember why I did but it was interesting hearing the tracks outside their context. Basically every track is iconic as well.

@nessisonett I can imagine, I loved that movie and all of the original trilogy when I saw it, I've only seen one of the recent new ones but I enjoyed it, the first one that was set after the original trilogy and wasn't a prequel. I've heard good things about The Mandalorian as well. Have you seen that? With regard to soundtracks, you might like some of Jonathan Snipes from Clipping. 's soundtrack work, Mope is my favourite score by him.

@TheBrandedSwordsman Sorry for the late reply mate, I've had a busy few weeks.

I've checked out J G Thirlwell and Simon Steensland and Divide and Dissolve, thanks for the tips, I'm liking the atmosphere D & D, and I suspect Thirlwell & Steensland will be played quite a bit in my office the future.

I'm currently listening a lot to Melinoë from Akhlys - which is more black metal-like but also very high on oppresive moods.

@ShaiHulud Glad you enjoyed it, I tried playing a bit of black metal on guitar once but it didn't really work out. It was more like Enslaved than Emperor. Are you an Emperor fan? Those first four records are killer!

@TheBrandedSwordsman Yep, big Emperor fan here! I also enjoy a lot of Ihsahn's solowork - bar the saxophone-riddled albums as they make me nervous listening to them.

@ShaiHulud I should give his solo work a go then. Is it basically black metal then? I play the guitar as I mentioned before - do you play any instruments? or do vox?