What Are You Listening to Now 7.0

[litfan10]

I'm looking forward to this, too!

Hey Neil! Hope you are doing well.

Honestly, the next three weeks are killer for potentially great new music:

This week: Star One and Jonas Lindberg and the Outsiders

Next week: Tears for Fears

Week after: Marillion and Flower Kings.

I would say my bank account is quivering but I preordered all these when first announced so the damage is already long done.

 

[litfan10]

Got mine today. The biggest change to previous Star One albums is the MUCH bigger cast of singers with the Ayreon-like "one song per singer" setup Arjen has used recently. There are some recurring voices like the Jansen sisters as backing vox but the small ensemble vibe is gone.

Very, very fat mix, the guitars CRUSH.

Also, in complete contrast to her recent Nightwish work, Floor Jansen sings like a BEAST!

As I'm listening oh yeah, Arjen's DNA is all over this but what phenomenal guitar work (arguably Arjen's best) and the vocals are fantastic.

IMHO much stronger than the last couple Ayreon's.

 

[Blind_Justice]

Sacrae Symphoniae nr. 1

Weserbergland

SERIOUSLY? A band names itself after an (admittedly very beautiful) rural region in Germany? LOOOOOL!!

On second thought, there's no shortage of American bands calling themselves after US locations (America, Kansas, Boston). Still, "Weserbergland" is... not the first thing I'd call MY band. If we were in the market for location-based names.

 

[litfan10]

SERIOUSLY? A band names itself after an (admittedly very beautiful) rural region in Germany? LOOOOOL!!

On second thought, there's no shortage of American bands calling themselves after US locations (America, Kansas, Boston). Still, "Weserbergland" is... not the first thing I'd call MY band. If we were in the market for location-based names.

Now America is an American band, Kansas is from Kansas and Boston is from Boston. Weserbergland, however, is from Oslo, Norway.
The new album, Sacrae Symphoniae nr.1, is odd; I have to give it another try after I get Star One out of my system which won't be any time soon.

 

[Haulover]

Hey Neil! Hope you are doing well.

Honestly, the next three weeks are killer for potentially great new music:

This week: Star One and Jonas Lindberg and the Outsiders

Next week: Tears for Fears

Week after: Marillion and Flower Kings.

I would say my bank account is quivering but I preordered all these when first announced so the damage is already long done.

Good news (though not for my bank account )

I've been out-of-country for a month, and life is just now getting back to normal.

I'm looking forward to many new listens in the upcoming weeks!

 

[Bramblethorn]

Howard Jones - What Is Love

 

[litfan10]

Howard Jones - What Is Love

Love Jones! He's on tour now with Nick Beggs on bass.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Love Jones! He's on tour now with Nick Beggs on bass.

I don't know the rest of his work very well, but that song has been there for me a couple of times when I needed it.

 

[litfan10]

Origins of Life

Pulsar

 

[litfan10]

I don't know the rest of his work very well, but that song has been there for me a couple of times when I needed it.

I've been a Jones fan since his work first came out in the eighties - such unique, happy music.

Try "No One Is to Blame" or "Things Can Only Get Better.". They all have that same sweet melodious feel as " What Is Love. "

His current bassist, Nick Beggs, is a favorite of mine from many prog acts, but more importantly as a contemporary with Jones as the song writer and bassist of Kajagoogoo "Too Shy."

 

[Nylonian]

HEALTH - Dead Flowers

 

[Lori_the_Hoosier]

it's nearly 3AM, and only Sarah Vaughan singing 'My funny Valentine' will do. Vesper Martini for a nightcap, a warm, fluffy robe, and Sarah's smoky voice; it really doesn't get any better...

 

[Misshotndeep]

Chillhop Winter Essential 2021

 

[YourgirlfriendLaura]

New TfF?

Good news (though not for my bank account )

I've been out-of-country for a month, and life is just now getting back to normal.

I'm looking forward to many new listens in the upcoming weeks!

Tears for Fears have a new album out? It will be wicked, I'm sure....

 

[litfan10]

Tears for Fears have a new album out? It will be wicked, I'm sure....

Hi Laura!
Yep, Roland and Curt are back together with a ten song new album, first in thirteen years I believe. Initial reviews are very good. I have high hopes.

Be well and stay healthy.

 

[Lori_the_Hoosier]

Discovered a hidden gem in hubby's vast and eclectic collection. Elkie Brooks, Pearls, from 1981. Amazing voice, some torchy songs that really wrap around you (Pearl's A Singer is a great showcase for her husky, slightly raspy voice) and soaring ballads like 'Don't Cry out Loud'. For some reason she never made it to the US, I certainly never heard of her, but now that I have, I'm entranced.

 

[BaldAndHorny]

Thank You - Led Zeppelin

 

[Lori_the_Hoosier]

Cold Heart - Elton John & Dua Lipa

Nice version!

 

[litfan10]

Revel in Time

Star One

 

[Handley_Page]

The Shirelles: Will you still love me tomorrow

 

[litfan10]

Always Be There

Vast Conduit

 

[ChloeTzang]

Dua Lipa and Black Pink - Kiss and Make Up

 

[Haulover]

Tool-Lateralus

Excellent!

 

[Dudeqwe]

 

[Bramblethorn]

LotL - My Constellation. Kind of Tears For Fears feel to this one.