Non-Classical Music Listening Thread!

[AnotherSpin]

I thought that by looking at the titles that it might be about a relationship maybe forming and then dissolving and perhaps a person looking back.  Then again, I didn't listen to much of it.

Do you know why he named the album that?

PD

No idea

[SimonNZ]

[drogulus]

    In 1970 I went to see the Tony Williams Lifetime in Portchester, N.Y in a small theater. I was baffled by them since my larval concept of fusion was Larry Coryell.

   

[Iota]

RIP Karl Wallinger.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68540877

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

Rush: The Spirit Of Radio: Greatest Hits 1974-1987



Good anthology for folks like me, who like their hits but don't feel like digging into the individual albums. 80 minutes of proggy goodness!

[Karl Henning]

[DavidW]

Tool: Lateralus, The Weeknd: Starboy, Billie Eilish: When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

I still remember my excitement on seeing Discipline in the record store. "They're back!"

Going back to Discipline for a moment. Listening to the title tune, I thought: "This would make a great keyboard piece." Turns out I wasn't alone in thinking this; I got on YouTube and found:

But hey, that wasn't all. There's a great version of this for percussion too:

[DavidW]

Arcade Fire, Neon Bible

[Todd]

[SimonNZ]

Opens with a superb cover of Richard and Linda Thompson's "I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight" and includes an equally fine version of "Barbara's Song from Threepenny Opera. And I was gladdened to hear her do Kate Bush's "The Kick Inside".

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Opens with a superb cover of Richard and Linda Thompson's "I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight" and includes an equally fine version of "Barbara's Song from Threepenny Opera. And I was gladdened to hear her do Kate Bush's "The Kick Inside".

I have not heard of her before, but it sounds like she might be right up my alley!  Is this a fairly recent album?  And does she play by herself or has a band?

PD

[DavidW]

For those on phones that it is The Jesus and Mary Chain Glasgow Eyes.

[SimonNZ]

I have not heard of her before, but it sounds like she might be right up my alley!  Is this a fairly recent album?  And does she play by herself or has a band?

PD

This is her second album from 1978 - the same year as Kate Bush's debut, from which she covers. There's also a Kate and Anna McGarrigle sone which would also have been a recent release, and interesting choices of songs by Sandy Denny and John Lennon.

Its with a band, but with multiple guest musicians on each track it has a wide variety of band sound.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

This is her second album from 1978 - the same year as Kate Bush's debut, from which she covers. There's also a Kate and Anna McGarrigle song which would also have been a recent release, and interesting choices of songs by Sandy Denny and John Lennon.

Its with a band, but with multiple guest musicians on each track it has a wide variety of band sound.

Thanks!

PD

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Listening to the first CD from that 50th anniversary boxed set of the Beatles' Abbey Road (which was remastered by Giles Martin).  Sounds great to me though I don't have a CD of the original A.R. to compare it to.

PD

[AnotherSpin]

Today release -- Dweezil Zappa's new version of classic Deep Purple album. Sounds sweet.

[71 dB]

I have been checking out newer LIQUID. I especially liked the samples of the Still EP, but unfortunately it will never be available as downloads (forget CD). Only 300 vinyl copies exist (sold out long ago). The curse of liking extremely marginal music...

[Iota]

The sensationally talented Jacob Collier's arrangement of The Flintstones theme music. He also plays just about every instrument under the sun (not that I warm to everything he does, though do to him, he seems a very likeable/humble kind of guy in the circs, and his breathtaking ability is undeniable).
Was reminded of it by the clip of an undergraduate playing every instrument in a movement from Shostakovich 10 posted in the Composing Forum .

[71 dB]

I discovered accidentally the German pop band Chyp-Notic and somehow I like their music: It combines 80s synth pop and eurodance of early 90s in a way that works for me surprisingly well. The music incorporates a lot of the mood of the music from that era when I got into music listening and appears nostalgic to me for that reason. I even ordered the albums Nothing Compares, 1990 and I Can't Get Enough, 1992 on CD. So much easier than sunshine pop of early 70s! 

I got interested of exploring German (and central European) bands of the era, because it seems to be easy to get that music on CD from Germany used. I am listening to Sandra now on Spotify, but her music seems a bit bland to my ears. Her hit song Everlasting Love played a lot on radio around 1987 and is semi-nostalgic to me and the song Loreen is nice, but otherwise the music doesn't do much for me (I have listened to her first and third albums from 1985 and 1987 so far).