Revival of the "What Music You Listening To?" Thread....

[DThomas]

Have you heard of Monster Magnet DThomas ? 2 standout songs from them are "negasonic teenage warhead" and " space lord ".

I think I heard them a couple of years ago, but I never fully got into them. They have some decent stuff, but I've always preferred Kyuss for that kind of stoner metal vibe.

Everything deserves a second chance, so I might give them another go soon.

 

[DThomas]

I knew I'd forget some albums, and I'm shaking my head that I forgot these classics:
The Who - Who's Next
George Harrison - All Things Must Pass
John Lennon - John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
Syd Barrett - The Madcap Laughs
Todd Rundgren - A Wizard, A True Star

John Lennon's first solo album rivals some of his Beatles material. It's so raw and personal. Just listen to Lennon absolutely shredding his vocal chords during the last minute of this song. You feel all the pain and raw emotion coming through. Absolutely spine-tingling.


Another classic Lennon vocal track. He sounds demented at some stages. Kick arse tune:


This track is a incredible. The "I don't believe in..." section gives me goosebumps. Ballsy move from Lennon writing about how he doesn't believe in God considering when it was released. Ringo Starr's drum fills are just genius. Is there a more underrated drummer than Ringo?


And I've always loved this lo-fi album closer. It's like all the emotions that he has built up over the length of the album have just beaten him down. He sounds defeated. Pretty depressing, but also beautiful and haunting at the same time:


Why, oh why, did John Lennon have to be killed?

 

[76woodenspooners]

Give me Chocolate

Baby Metal ...

 

[Seedsfan]

 

[76woodenspooners]

Funny, I heard that on the radio today when I was driving here ...

 

[Chilli Con Incarnate]

Everyone should be listening to Stonefield. Saw them at Meredith back in December and they were excellent. They are a group of sisters from Victoria, the eldest has a great sounding voice for rock. The youngest is still doing VCE I believe. I bought the album the other day and it is pretty solid. This is the flagship song:

 

[76woodenspooners]

The soundtrack of my current travels ...

 

[DThomas]

Oh lawd! Tame Impala just released a cover of 'Stranger in Moscow' by Michael Jackson, and it is just freaking glorious!

Kevin Parker is a musical God! He can literally do no wrong! I know what I'll have stuck in my head for the rest of the week. "Hooow does it feeeel?" Bliss.

 

[DThomas]

Scott Asheton, drummer of the legendary protopunk band The Stooges, died yesterday. Both Asheton brothers are gone now. They were a kickarse combo of guitar and drums to The Stooges sound.

Some classic tracks:

 

[DThomas]

Been getting majorly into The Flaming Lips again for the past week. One of the most unique bands ever. Here are my 3 favourite songs by them.

This song is damn near perfection. The chorus and outro are so beautiful. Goosebumps.


So uplifting and dreamy - no wonder Tame Impala covered this song. I got seriously obsessed with this song a couple of years back. I still love it just as much as I did on the first listen.


A darker track from their latest album 'The Terror'. Spooky brilliance. The drumming is farking incredible!


I don't know how they do it, but The Flaming Lips seem to get better with each album. Wayne Coyne is a madcap genius. Who else would think of making a 24 hour song - surely the longest song ever made? I've listened to about 3 hours of that 24 hour song, and I plan on listening to the rest over the space of the next couple of weeks. I've also listened to all of their 6 hour song. Both are surprisingly entertaining for the entire duration. You'd think they would get boring, but they don't.

 

[Copeland]

Fukcen sik as

 

[Quicky]

Here's a random one, but I don't care, it's a quality tune.

Dolly Parton - Joelene

 

[DThomas]

Here's a random one, but I don't care, it's a quality tune.

Dolly Parton - Joelene

Not a Dolly Parton fan, but The White Stripes version is friggin' amazing:

 

[DThomas]

Oh yeah, and I finished listening to that 24 hour Flaming Lips song yesterday. Some bits were thrilling, some were exhausting and some were tedious. It starts off with a beautiful and sad song, which should definitely be used on an album somewhere, then there's this chaotic section with intense drums and evil choir sounds. It lasts for about 2 and a half hours. F*cking exhausting and draining, but really cool at the same time! Then there's a 7 hour section (yes, 7 hours! F*ck me dead!) of basically a 30 minute loop of music with slight variations between them. My god, this bit was so hard to get through. It was cool the first hour or so, but holy shit - 7 hours! Christ. There was some cool ambient bits for a couple of hours, and then the 7 hour section returned for another 2 hours, but it was varied and sounded way cooler this time around. There was an amazing high synth riff thing that locked into the groove perfectly that they used a couple of times throughout it - probably my favourite thing of the whole track. Then there was this bizarre section that lasted nearly 3 hours of synths making this farting noise. Absolutely terrible and annoying. If I hadn't gotten through 16 hours, I probably would have skipped this bit, but I stuck through it, and then it explodes into another intense section that lasts for another 2 hours. This section is the 2nd best part of the song, behind the opening. Then the opening returns with a different mood. Glorious ending - probably because I wanted to finally hear an actual "song" by the time it came around.

I didn't actually sit there and listen intently for the whole time - that would be f*cking insane! I had it on as background music while I did other stuff, and I only listened to a couple of hours each day, rather than the whole way through. You'd have to be either mental, or have no life to stay up for 24 hours listening to it all the way through.

They're condensing it down to a 1 and a half hour song and releasing it in a few weeks. I'd definitely listen to a condensed version again, because there's a lot of good stuff on it, but the bad stuff brings it down. There's no way in hell I'll ever listen to the entire thing again. Too much repetition and filler. I love The Flaming Lips so much, but they're at their best with actual songs and semi-structured jams and releasing albums, rather than extended structureless improvisations. I think only 5 or 6 hours contained drums, which made the rest of it pretty damn boring. They needed drums for more of it so that you could groove along with it. The bits with drums just elevated everything else around it. Their drummer, Kliph Scurlock, is extremely underrated, and definitely one of the best modern drummers. So underutilised on this track.

Now I can say that I've listened to a 24 hour song. Yay me!

 

[DThomas]

Just gorgeous:

 

[Quicky]

Just discovered these guys, another quality group out of WA.

Ruby Boots - Oh Lover
https://www.triplejunearthed.com/jukebox/play/track/3093756

Fricken epic!

 

[DThomas]

I just discovered this guy from Victoria who records bluesy kind of tunes, but with weird guitar effects. Badass.



He's supporting Tame Impala on one of their upcoming tours, which is how I discovered him. Looking forward to a full-length release.

 

[DThomas]

This is pretty cool. Some psych-poppy, synthy music with swagger from Gap Dream. Makes you want to strut around.

 

[Obese Arachnid]

I just discovered this guy from Victoria who records bluesy kind of tunes, but with weird guitar effects. Badass.



He's supporting Tame Impala on one of their upcoming tours, which is how I discovered him. Looking forward to a full-length release.

I know you love your music but.....

 

[DThomas]

I know you love your music but.....

 

[Vicky Park]

Vale AC/DC anyone? Come on, credit where its due! One of the best live bands ever, if a bit harsh on the ears.

 

[DThomas]

Vale AC/DC anyone? Come on, credit where its due! One of the best live bands ever, if a bit harsh on the ears.

To be honest, they probably should have retired a long time ago. They have classic tunes, but it's not like they've been doing great things lately.

My favourite AC/DC song is actually from the 90s and is featured on the soundtrack to the completely underrated Arnold Schwarzenegger film 'Last Action Hero'. Check out the ridiculous video with Arnie dressed as a schoolboy playing guitar.

 

[DThomas]

Haha, I've been listening to the lyrics from one of the D.D Dumbo tracks that I posted ('Dinghy'), and they're hilarious!

"There's a ghost in my mirror, a goblin in my sleeping bag,
He's not the spooning kind, it's the coldest winter I've ever had!"

Genius! Check it out here again:

 

[DThomas]

Reasons why Dave Grohl is awesome! It's a massive image list, so I'll put it in spoiler tags so it doesn't clog up the thread:

Spoiler: click for AWESOMENESS!

 

[Ulahoopski]

If you claim that good music was being made in the 80s, then your opinion is immediately invalidated.

The bulk of all the good music ever recorded was between the early 60s and the early 70s - Before that, music was okay, but pre-Beatles music just didn't have the general quality. After that period, in the late 70s, disco and hair-band rock started emerging, the 80s was just an embarrassment, the 90s wasn't much better (but salvaged by a return to guitar rock), and the 00s was just a cesspool of pathetic wannabes and reality contest winners.

It's pretty clear that good music began in 1962 - Consider the fact that The Beatles AND Bob Dylan both made their first releases that year, and it's pretty undeniable. Granted, Motown had been going for a few years by then, and Elvis Presley, Sun records, and Chess records had refined the blues and brought them to the greater public years earlier, but the overall calibre of music saw a sharp increase as of 1962.

Of course, there are large exceptions to every rule - In a period where disco reigned supreme, it was also the golden age of punk rock. In period where Simple Minds and Frankie Goes To Hollywood were charting, hip-hop was reaching the mainstream for the first time. In a period where Vanilla Ice was getting sued by Queen, the rise of grunge put guitar rock back on the road to respectability.

In a period where Britney and Christina have basically made you feel like vomiting with their music, the game has changed and post-modern sampling and referencing has given alternative music a reflexive quality that hearkens back to a day when popular music was good.

There's good and there's bad in every period, but the suggest that the 80s deserves mention as some kind of golden age of music is certainly spurious.

There's good music in every era if you look for it. Popular music is rarely the best music.