What Are You Listening to Now 7.0

[ChloeTzang]

 

[Plathfan]

 

[Plathfan]

 

[Xxllrs69xx]

One of Lofi Girl's lofi sleep playlists.

...It's not working.

Lofi Girl got me through studies and covid.

 

[AlexIce]

My husband recently came into possession of some old Joan Baez records and we've been listening to them.

 

[Actingup]

Australian band Icehouse, an obscure 2013 live album 'Dubhouse' where they were having fun rearranging some old favourites (it's on Spotify if anybody's interested). Swapping between serious report writing and adding a few paragraphs at a time to a story under construction.
https://icehouse-ivadavies.com/discography/dubhouse/

 

[MetaBob]

Gonna link The National again. I know, there's drama there. Eff it, the subject is music not drama.

1. Glastonbury: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB3BD7884D4A98F4D&si=0d_l8ofsJG_JJ5Xk
2. The Sydney Opera House (starts at 9:07):

These days, after they played Game of Thrones, Aaron Dessner works with Taylor Swift, but the guys are still making music, last I heard.

 

[Actingup]

These days, after they played Game of Thrones, Aaron Dessner works with Taylor Swift, but the guys are still making music, last I heard.

I'd argue that a lot of the work with Taylor also constitutes making music....

 

[MetaBob]

I'd argue that a lot of the work with Taylor also constitutes making music....

No one said it doesn't.

 

[Actingup]

No one said it doesn't.

Oh sorry - I took the 'but the guys are still making music' the wrong way!

 

[MetaBob]

Oh sorry - I took the 'but the guys are still making music' the wrong way!

I figured. I meant 'the guys' in the sense of The National.

 

[XerXesXu]

Whacking - in 1988. Oldest example I've seen.

 

[MetaBob]

Junior Brown. Jump to the third vid if you're not familiar with Breaking Bad or its sequel. After he did a lot of other things, he did the theme to Better Call Saul:

The extended version, explaining how the showrunners met Junior (and Bryan Cranston) on the X-Files, and where he communicates to the showrunners (graciously) how it could have been better, and then it was:

Earlier, he did one of the most astonishing (genre-hopping!) things I've ever seen on Austin City Limits, much less anywhere else:

The rhythm guitarist in that last video, in orange, is his wife Tanya Rae. He plays the guit-steel he built himself throughout. Turn it up!

Hello, Texas blues.

 

[Plathfan]

 

[MetaBob]

A trance mix that I've returned to many times. Most tracks are electronic and instrumental, with simple chord structures and an insistent beat. Of the few vocals, all are female singers, and some of those have no lyrics.

I find that music like this can help me get deeper into writing:

 

[Plathfan]

 

[Plathfan]

A few sounds to cleanse the numerical abscess and heal the world.

 

[Actingup]

The Whitlams - "I make hamburgers"

I mentioned this in another thread and thought I'd better post it here. The lyrics are hilarious (in a cocky young male way) and could easily have been written as a Literotica story. How they ever got it played it on radio is beyond me. The song was number 79 in the influential Australian 1996 Triple J Hottest 100. Today I've been listening to the follow-up album, 'Eternal Nightcap', which was a smash hit in Australia, for good reason - it's absolutely superb.

Lyrics:
My first customer was Megan
She came in for a hamburger with the lot - no meat
"Hey that's a salad roll" I said and we started going out (sound of bedsprings)
My second customer was Susan
She came in for Diet Pepsi morning tea
Each day and I said "You don't need to be on a diet.
Do you wanna come out tonight?"
I said "I'll bring Gringo, he's got a lot of money
And he'll take us to the bars where they've got a view.
He'll buy us all those beers, they give it to you in bottles
They put lemon in the top it don't taste too bad, I'm telling you"

My third customer was Maria
She came in for hot chips and sauce
"More sauce" she said. I said "Now you're talking"
And she took me home to meet her mother (sound of bedsprings)
My fourth customer was Sandy
She came in for nothing I could see, except me
So it was I too, was eating a hamburger of sorts within an hour
I make hamburgers I get all the girls
And I take 'em out to dinner and I give 'em all a whirl
And if they work I keep 'em, if they don't I keep 'em too
But I teach 'em all how to be dirty girls like you

 

[bestkeptsecret678]

Am on a singer songwriter binge lately. This lady is a poet first, musician second.

 

[Blind_Justice]

Just finished a new track based on a four year old demo. Pretty happy how it came out. It's a bit of a departure for me since this hits way closer to Trance than my usual dreamy synth music.

https://soundcloud.com/christian-pohl-911553212%2Fi-dream-of-arps-2024

 

[Comentarista82]

If you know anything about Yngwie Malmsteen, you're aware of this exceptionally hard-to-work-with reputation, and what Paul says leading into the background of why he wrote this song is hilarious...although the song's killer ("Viking Kong"), as he indeed contained many Yngwie licks and tone in it.

 

[XerXesXu]

akuruyo-sheep

 

[BookishBabe0]

Torn. Natalie Imbruglia.

 

[Comentarista82]

I Cannot Tell a Lie by Paul Gilbert. Live @ NAAM.

 

[SimonDoom]

Since the anniversary is nearly upon us, I just relistened to Franklin Roosevelt's speech to Congress on December 8, 1941, asking for a declaration of war against Japan after the attack on Pearl Harbor. It was a superb, stirring, perfectly pitched speech, just right for the moment. He was a magnificent speaker, but his patrician Northeastern accent sounds odd to modern ears. I'm not sure that accent would work today, when it seems like most leaders try as hard as possible to dumb things down.