Non-Classical Music Listening Thread!

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Wonderful songs and singing! 

PD

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Blind Willie McTell.

[Todd]

A second new Chili Peppers album this year.  Stylistically like the last one.

[Todd]

[Todd]

Ruth Radelet, The Other Side

[SimonNZ]

[Todd]

The Snuts, Burn The Empire

[Todd]

[geralmar]

1963

Much better than one might think.

[foxandpeng]

Dream Theater
Images and Words

I keep meaning to listen to more Dream Theater. So I am.

[George]

So I declare a holiday
Fall asleep, drift away

[George]

[Todd]

Debbie Gibson sings Christmas tunes, with duo partners for a couple ditties.  Perfectly mediocre.

[Todd]

Spicy.  The inventive and fun instrumentation, high levels of grooviness, and at times discordant lyrics result in the most striking new pop music listening for me since I found Father John Misty.  Need to hear me some more Rubblebucket.

[Papy Oli]

Earlier on today:

Mogwai - Special Moves (Live)

Top Notch. A personal favourite.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Finally getting around to listening to my friend's copy of the Cocteau Twins' CD Treasure.  Quite interesting!  Enjoying the sound world that they are creating.

PD

[Todd]

Babehoven, Light Moving Time

[Todd]

[71 dB]

XL-Recordings: The Third Chapter ∙ Breakbeat House ∙ XLCD-109

[71 dB]

Roxy Music - Avalon

Produce Like a Pro YT channel did a video about this album. Since this is a group that I know almost nothing about, I listened to the album on Spotify. It is ahead of its time by about 5 years. Very modern production for 1982. The music has a nice nostalgic feel to it. I like it. I'm also planning to check out the other albums. Interesting to hear how much the early stuff differs from this late stuff. Generally I am not into glam rock so I probably dislike it...

...talking about disliking something, the cover art of Roxy Music's albums is among the worst I have seen in a way that it tries to be cool/provoking, but is very much against my taste and does annoy me. I hate the medieval helmet on the cover of Avalon for example and the red "ROXY MUSIC" over the sunset sky looks stupid and cheap. Even the silhuette of the bird looks annoying. I would expect cover art that bad from a third rate Finnish* band operating on near zero budget, not from Rock and Roll Hall of Famers. That said, cover art is just cover art and it is the music that counts.

* Here in the north sunsets really look like that so that kind of aesthetics is quite Finnish and common here. Maybe that's why it looks for banal for me?