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Post by Lobster on Jul 31, 2020 14:39:38 GMT
What's everyone listening to?
Myself, I think Fontaines D.C. have probably just released the album of the year, for the second year in a row!
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Post by Firestick Frank on Jul 31, 2020 14:44:44 GMT
I keep winding my wife up with the theme tune to the hit Sky Atlantic TV series The Affair - it’s called Container and it’s by Fiona Apple and I’ve got it on repeat. My wife loves the show but hates the song.
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Post by Wortleyblue on Jul 31, 2020 14:46:33 GMT
Listening to Gold Radio all the hits from 50s 60s 70s & 80s when music was music
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Post by Lobster on Jul 31, 2020 14:49:02 GMT
I keep winding my wife up with the theme tune to the hit Sky Atlantic TV series The Affair - it’s called Container and it’s by Fiona Apple and I’ve got it on repeat. My wife loves the show but hates the song. Her latest album holds the distinction of being the most critically acclaim album ever, according to Metacritic. I've listened to it a couple of times, not sure it's my cup of tea but I can tell it's good. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2020 15:02:40 GMT
Just bought 4 albums of Charlie pride on CD. Now on repeat and driving wife mad.
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Post by Lobster on Jul 31, 2020 15:03:02 GMT
Listening to Gold Radio all the hits from 50s 60s 70s & 80s when music was music I've got into a bit of lockdown routine of watching the Top of the Pops reruns from the late '80s. on BBC Four It's sad really seeing how esteemed the charts used to be compared to what it is now. Yeah, there was some rubbish in the charts then too, but at least there was diversity. Some early rave and hip-hop in there, the start of Madchester with the Stone Roses and Happy Mondays, but also the odd operatic piece, and stuff like The Blow Monkeys and All About Eve that seems very adult. Plus there'd always be metal bands like GnR and WASP in there. Probably me showing my age, but I had the misfortune of listening to the Top 40 recently and to me it just sounds like the same song played 40 times. |
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Post by Firestick Frank on Jul 31, 2020 15:09:21 GMT
Agree with that, I have no idea of the charts these days and tend to play a continuous repeat mix of 80s pop/new wave, 90s dance/house and your standards like Oasis and Blondie.
I literally only listen to Heart Dance on the radio or my own choices on Spotify.
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Post by Wortleyblue on Jul 31, 2020 15:34:48 GMT
Agree with that, I have no idea of the charts these days and tend to play a continuous repeat mix of 80s pop/new wave, 90s dance/house and your standards like Oasis and Blondie. I literally only listen to Heart Dance on the radio or my own choices on Spotify. Ahhhhhhh the gorgeous Debbie Harry |
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Post by g1 on Aug 1, 2020 13:50:58 GMT
Agree with that, I have no idea of the charts these days and tend to play a continuous repeat mix of 80s pop/new wave, 90s dance/house and your standards like Oasis and Blondie. I literally only listen to Heart Dance on the radio or my own choices on Spotify. Ahhhhhhh the gorgeous Debbie Harry suffered at my hands many a time |
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Post by g1 on Aug 1, 2020 13:52:17 GMT
I've just started listening to forgotten hits and acts then jerico ten pole Tudor midnight oil also punk and new wave
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2020 13:57:35 GMT
Swords of a thousand men what a run out tune for the blues
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Post by archwhopper on Aug 1, 2020 15:06:32 GMT
Sure i heard us running out to status quo's "down down" when mccarthy and bignot were in charge 3 years ago
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Post by South Wirral Blue on Aug 3, 2020 16:57:24 GMT
Listening to Gold Radio all the hits from 50s 60s 70s & 80s when music was music I've got into a bit of lockdown routine of watching the Top of the Pops reruns from the late '80s. on BBC Four It's sad really seeing how esteemed the charts used to be compared to what it is now. Yeah, there was some rubbish in the charts then too, but at least there was diversity. Some early rave and hip-hop in there, the start of Madchester with the Stone Roses and Happy Mondays, but also the odd operatic piece, and stuff like The Blow Monkeys and All About Eve that seems very adult. Plus there'd always be metal bands like GnR and WASP in there. Probably me showing my age, but I had the misfortune of listening to the Top 40 recently and to me it just sounds like the same song played 40 times. I started watching the TOTP repeats when they reached episodes from 1982 about 3 or 4 years ago. I'm really in to early 80's New Wave, particularly electro/synthpop, and subsequently discovered some excellent tracks that had (somehow) passed me by like See You by Depeche Mode. The chart rundowns still make for interesting segments too. I also think there was a particularly strong representation of British bands back in the early to mid 80s. Obviously the likes of Spandau Ballet, Culture Club and Duran Duran were prominent internationally but you also had lesser known artists producing some great sounds like Imagination and Sade to name a few. I've found most mainstream music to be pretty awful for the last decade. As you say, it's probably just an age thing but most of it is just unbearable in my opinion and overly generic. |
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Post by Ian H Block on Aug 3, 2020 17:07:30 GMT
I've got into a bit of lockdown routine of watching the Top of the Pops reruns from the late '80s. on BBC Four It's sad really seeing how esteemed the charts used to be compared to what it is now. Yeah, there was some rubbish in the charts then too, but at least there was diversity. Some early rave and hip-hop in there, the start of Madchester with the Stone Roses and Happy Mondays, but also the odd operatic piece, and stuff like The Blow Monkeys and All About Eve that seems very adult. Plus there'd always be metal bands like GnR and WASP in there. Probably me showing my age, but I had the misfortune of listening to the Top 40 recently and to me it just sounds like the same song played 40 times. I started watching the TOTP repeats when they reached episodes from 1982 about 3 or 4 years ago. I'm really in to early 80's New Wave, particularly electro/synthpop, and subsequently discovered some excellent tracks that had (somehow) passed me by like See You by Depeche Mode. The chart rundowns still make for interesting segments too. I also think there was a particularly strong representation of British bands back in the early to mid 80s. Obviously the likes of Spandau Ballet, Culture Club and Duran Duran were prominent internationally but you also had lesser known artists producing some great sounds like Imagination and Sade to name a few. I've found most mainstream music to be pretty awful for the last decade. As you say, it's probably just an age thing but most of it is just unbearable in my opinion and overly generic.  |
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Post by Lobster on Aug 13, 2020 8:13:46 GMT
2020 Britain summed up in four minutes
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Post by Ian H Block on Aug 13, 2020 8:31:31 GMT
2020 Britain summed up in four minutes Sounds a bit like the Young Knives. |
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Post by Si on Aug 14, 2020 8:18:52 GMT
Probably not many people's cup of tea on here, but Taylor Swift's new album is outstanding!
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Post by Firestick Frank on Aug 14, 2020 9:29:24 GMT
Listening to a Grand Theft Auto: Vice City playlist that someone put together on Spotify.
Absolute classics in there like Laura Branigan, Spandau Ballet, Human League and Animotion.
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Post by Lobster on Aug 14, 2020 10:15:42 GMT
Probably not many people's cup of tea on here, but Taylor Swift's new album is outstanding! To be fair, I've always thought as pop music goes, her songs aren't bad. Not sure I can sit down and listen to an album though! In keeping with my post-punk tastes, the new Protomartyr album is a real grower, and I also love 'Tower of Age' by a band called Lithics, although it's way too abstract to be widely liked! |
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Post by g1 on Aug 16, 2020 11:55:04 GMT
I'm listening to the clashes greatest hits can't beat protest punk
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Post by ivawhopper on Aug 16, 2020 20:20:54 GMT
Anyone heard internet friends by knife party? Cracking tunage.
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Post by mabinogion on Sept 22, 2020 16:43:32 GMT
Rage Against the Machine, Manic Street Preachers & a dash of Stiff Little Fingers - Hanx!
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Post by Lobster on Nov 6, 2020 23:14:16 GMT
Enjoying punk and new wave night on BBC Four tonight.
Also pleasantly surprised to hear the criminally underrated Post War Glamour Girls on the trailer for this drama. Not even sure if they're still going but they never got the audience they deserved even in the niche of post-punk.
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Post by jedthehumanoid on Nov 9, 2020 10:59:22 GMT
Enjoying the new Mogwai single - you sort of know what you're going to get with them at this point but I'm fine with that, they're still great. Colin Stetson makes an appearance on the album too so that should be interesting when it's released.
Also been listening to a lot of The Handsome Family recently after picking up the anniversary edition of Through The Trees. The bonus CD has a live recording from Telford's Warehouse circa 2001. If 16 year old me had known what I know now I'd have been there.
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Post by Lobster on Jan 3, 2021 18:23:13 GMT
Best albums of 2020?
I will sugggest:
Fontaines D.C. - A Hero's Death
Sorry - 925
Sweeping Promises - Hunger For a Way Out
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Sideways to New Italy
Girls in Synthesis - Now Here's an Echo from Your Future
Lithics - Tower of Age
Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters
Mush - 3-D Routine
Deftones - Ohms
Metz - Atlas Vending
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Post by Ian H Block on Jan 3, 2021 20:25:16 GMT
Best albums of 2020? I will sugggest: Fontaines D.C. - A Hero's Death Sorry - 925 Sweeping Promises - Hunger For a Way Out Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Sideways to New Italy Girls in Synthesis - Now Here's an Echo from Your Future Lithics - Tower of Age Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters Mush - 3-D Routine Deftones - Ohms Metz - Atlas Vending Working Men’s Club is album of the year for me. |
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Post by jedthehumanoid on Jan 4, 2021 11:25:52 GMT
Best albums of 2020? I will sugggest: Fontaines D.C. - A Hero's Death Sorry - 925 Sweeping Promises - Hunger For a Way Out Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Sideways to New Italy Girls in Synthesis - Now Here's an Echo from Your Future Lithics - Tower of Age Fiona Apple - Fetch the Bolt Cutters Mush - 3-D Routine Deftones - Ohms Metz - Atlas Vending My personal favourites... Erland Cooper - Hether Blether Moses Boyd - Dark Matter North Atlantic Drift - Pillars Orville Peck - Show Pony EP Julianna Barwick - Healing is a Miracle Pictish Trail - Thumb World Mirry - Mirry The Soft Pink Truth - Shall We Go on Sinning So That Grace May Increase? And not really new (just a stripped back re-recording) but The Sophtware Slump on a Wooden Piano by Grandaddy is great. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2021 11:35:05 GMT
Just looking at these and feeling every bit of my 75 years, never heard of any of them, always been a country and Western fan can't beat 3 deaths per verse.
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Post by jedthehumanoid on Jan 4, 2021 11:47:15 GMT
Just looking at these and feeling every bit of my 75 years, never heard of any of them, always been a country and Western fan can't beat 3 deaths per verse. Orville Peck might be up your street. I'd say try his songs 'Dead of Night' or 'Big Sky' to get a taste of what he's about. |
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Post by Lobster on Jan 4, 2021 12:09:40 GMT
Just looking at these and feeling every bit of my 75 years, never heard of any of them, always been a country and Western fan can't beat 3 deaths per verse. To be fair I don't think many people will have heard of mine, except maybe Fiona Apple and the Deftones. It's mostly post-punk, which is my thing.
I'm half your age and I'd be equally clueless about mainstream chart music.
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