By David Futrelle
It’s Sunday, so I thought I’d take a break from the terrible and share some good, in the form of some music I’ve been enjoying a lot lately.
First, some videos, then a Spotify playlist featuring these songs and many others. In the case of Nadine Shah, it’s a different song b/c she doesn’t have a video for the song in my playlist. But it’s no loss; the replacement is just as good.
Oh, and the lyrics for one of these songs are based on text messages sent by the artist to her friends. Which results in a a lot of non sequitur surrealism. But which song?
Anyway, consider this an open thread. Share your current music favorites in the comments below!
And here’s the playlist:
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https://youtu.be/13YTbvYxc_o
https://youtu.be/Ir1e9IW3ndc
https://youtu.be/xZKtJGT1itk
I’ve just discovered and I’m really digging https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=al3Bc_CaVuI&list=PLZv2QeDyWpvZfjLs2-i-HypbwfPWeb1YI&index=18&t=0s
I have pretty eclectic taste where music is concerned: everything from Jordi Savall, Jill Tracy, Lisa Gerrard, Loreena McKennitt to Joe Bonamassa, early Genesis, etc.
Lots of soundtracks &, oh, yeah Tuva throat singing, pretty much anything that causes me to go, “Wow, that just raised the hair on my arms!”
OT but cute
Xavier Parkins is crowned Prom Queen
Check him out!
And I bought some cds off amazon today – old rocker stuff, and took a risk with an early Status Quo when they were psychedelic, not 3 chord tedium.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU-MYe0SL9Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JY89ZxVqEg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHlJ9CxlShw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJDZhw4BJEg
I really wish the edit option wasn’t gone.
Nick track – oddly enough had it playing when I loaded this.
Janet Devlin, “Things We Lost In The Fire”
@Makroth, I was going to link to The Colour out of Space, so I’m glad I checked your links first. I hadn’t heard of Ningen Isu until youtube recommended them to me recently; never knew how much I needed Japanese grandad metal until I heard it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbI79e5iZKs
How about Mongolian rock?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM8dCGIm6yc
Brain bleach:
An awesome new cover of Rivers in the Desert from Persona 5.
Dear Lord, doesn’t Charlotte Gainsbourg age?! ?
I haven’t been listening to much new music recently, but here’s a couple of random tracks from the last few days:
Anita Lane: she’s only put out a couple of albums, but that voice…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TylcuxIYW2Y
Some old-school EBM…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMmFdo6G8N0
… and some old-school Goth… such pretty, pretty boys! ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qxqq5vahHKk
… and some more recent (relatively speaking) Goth:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGlKLPbX8Wg
Are you sensing a pattern? ?
Last day of Pride, so I’m listening to this again:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rikj0WMGbDU
Thinking of all my friends who marched this month and in other months, those who were able to get married at last, those who didn’t live long enough to see marriage equality become a reality, and those who fight to maintain the right to marry.
In a few weeks, it will be 50 years since the Apollo 11 moon landing. This makes me feel very old, since I remember watching it. I expect I’ll be playing this track quite a lot this month:
I’ve been getting back in the Cocteau Twins again. Enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_Tj4bJ0VFw&list=RDL_Tj4bJ0VFw&start_radio=1
PJ Harvey. That is all.
@Moggie
Listened to it on the radio. Dad taped the actual landing – I’ve got the tape somewhere. Doubt it’ll still play, it’s rather old. 😛
Have this:
@Gijoel
I love Sulli’s new song! Not sure how I feel about her using dissociative identities as a metaphor in the MV though. It would be one thing if she experiences that herself, but she’s never said as much, so I really don’t like her using it as a rhetorical device. I’m waiting to see if she clears it up in an interview.
Lovely song though. Have you listened to the b-sides? Absolutely ethereal.
Bela Bartok– Violin Concerto; Rhapsodies 1 & 2 (Chung/Rattle)
Sir Michael Tippett – Ritual Dances; Praeludium; Prince Charles Suite (Tippett/ENP)
Evgeni Koroliov – JS Bach: Art of Fugue (Tacet)
Edgard Varese – Complete Works Of Edgard Varèse, Volume 1
Charles Mingus – The Black Saint & Sinner Lady
Nina Hagen – Fearless
Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly
Common – Be
Photek – Modus Operandi
Test Dept – Pax Britannica
Cabaret Voltaire – The Conversation
Cyndi Lauper – Night to Remember/Sisters of Avalon/At Last
Richard & Linda Thompson – Shoot Out the Lights
Talking Heads – Remain in Light/Fear of Music
Busy right no, so I’ll just drop this and come back later.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xYq4mlNiDTg
Well, looks like my previous post got in moderation. Must have misspelled my email address or something. Oh well, I’ll come up eventually.
@Gijoel
I’ve been listening to I Like (the idea of) You on repeat for a while now
@ Gijoel
And now I’m noticing that a lot of the songs in that list were songs I’ve been listening to, so now I’m thinking it’s just the you tube algorithm feeding me what I want. Never mind, then.
If you grew up in Canada in the ’70s it was hard to avoid the Irish Rovers. Their show ran for 7 years on CBC. But I’d never heard this late ’80s cut before a few days ago. It almost sounds like a Spirit of the West song.
And speaking of Spirit of the West, here’s their classic “Save This House.” Unfortunately singer John Mann was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s several years ago, and drummer Vince Ditrich has been suffering from kidney failure for several years, leading to the band’s demise.
And here’s the Stranglers on the Dutch show Toppop in 1977, deciding to show their displeasure at having to mime “No More Heroes.”
I’ve been throughly enjoying the new Specials album Encore (from february) – their first with new material since ’98.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_Y4VwDs_KE
Madness’ The Liberty of Norton Folgate from some years back now is also absolutely brilliant. (And has a great duet with Rhoda Dakar from the Bodysnatchers who’s also sung with The Specials.)
my jpop song of the summer, the aptly named “summer” from the idol group cy8er
https://youtu.be/XC3N46u8Eeo