Non-Classical Music Listening Thread!

[Le Buisson Ardent]

I was a radio presenter some years ago, and interviewed a band called Insomnium, from Finland. 4 members - 2 PhDs, one heart surgeon, and an MSc who was mayor of his Finnish city. Intelligence and creativity all in one. Lots of bright folks out there in the metal world.

Insomnium might be worth a listen? Also recommend the latest album by Winterfylleth that I'm hearing a great deal since its release.

Not that you are necessarily looking for metal recs 🤓

Thanks, but about as metal as I get are Black Sabbath and Tool. I have very little interest in metal as a genre, but these two afore-mentioned bands are the exception.

[AnotherSpin]

Soft Tissue, new album from Tindersticks

[Iota]

I was a radio presenter some years ago, and interviewed a band called Insomnium, from Finland. 4 members - 2 PhDs, one heart surgeon, and an MSc who was mayor of his Finnish city. Intelligence and creativity all in one. Lots of bright folks out there in the metal world.

Haha, quite a lineup!

Insomnium might be worth a listen? Also recommend the latest album by Winterfylleth that I'm hearing a great deal since its release.

It may well be. I like anything I like, and your anecdote is as good an excuse as any to give it a whirl. Will strike when the wind is in the right direction.

[foxandpeng]

Haha, quite a lineup!

It may well be. I like anything I like, and your anecdote is as good an excuse as any to give it a whirl. Will strike when the wind is in the right direction.

Hope it proves to be of interest, when you get there 🙂. They are gifted individuals!

[San Antone]

I must have missed the connection between opera and heavy metal somewhere up thread ...

[NumberSix]

I must have missed the connection between opera and heavy metal somewhere up thread ...

Costumes and face paint? 

[NumberSix]

Miranda Lambert: Postcards from Texas

Well I didn't even think to ask the armadillo
Just what it was that he'd done
All I could do was drive
And pray that I survive
Cause arma-damma-dillo had a gun

Don't try and call my bluff
Honey you can't make this **** up

[Florestan]

Costumes and face paint? 

Well, I can think of no more appropriate Divinités du Styx invoked by Gluck's Alceste than these ones:



 

(And if it turns out they are PhDs and MSc, all I can say is: such a waste of intelligence and creativity is saddening...)

[NumberSix]

Paul Stanley performed Phantom of the Opera on stage. That's the same thing, right?

[Florestan]

Paul Stanley performed Phantom of the Opera on stage. That's the same thing, right?

They chose him probably because he didn't need any make-up. 

[NumberSix]

The Fabulous Thunderbirds: Struck Down
(2024)

[71 dB]

Autechre - Chiastic Slide

[NumberSix]

The Jayhawks: Xoxo


This is pretty good alt country by way of 90s power pop.

So, Tom Petty? Yeah, not the first time I've thought it about their music.

[drogulus]

    The Tonyvishnu Orchestra

    I saw this lineup. John was playing some kind of crappy pawn shop electric.



     Yeah, that's it. It's a Mustang, a real POS from Fender.

   

[Bachtoven]

Dying Fetus' newest album is so brutal and technical--but also catchy at times.

My old technical death metal band Psypheria played with them once--they are really nice guys and very down to earth. (We also played with Morbid Angel, Nile, Cannibal Corpse, Immolation, Deicide, Crytopsy, Arch Enemy--you name 'em!)

Here they are in concert:

[Bachtoven]

Thanks, but about as metal as I get are Black Sabbath and Tool. I have very little interest in metal as a genre, but these two afore-mentioned bands are the exception.

Then don't even bother checking out Dying Fetus or any of the other bands I mentioned in my post!   (Unless out of sheer curiosity!)

[steve ridgway]

Being in a technical death metal band sounds fun @Bachtoven - what instrument did you play?

[steve ridgway]

Dying Fetus' newest album is so brutal and technical--but also catchy at times.

My old technical death metal band Psypheria played with them once--they are really nice guys and very down to earth. (We also played with Morbid Angel, Nile, Cannibal Corpse, Immolation, Deicide, Crytopsy, Arch Enemy--you name 'em!)

Here they are in concert:

Played a few minutes and it sounds fine but we have enough death metal in the car player for a good mix now .

[71 dB]

SPOTIFY:

Katy Perry - 143

KP used to be one of my favourite pop artist. Her second album Teenage Dream is imho a pop masterpiece. The last decade of her career has been like watching a terminally ill person fade slowly away. Each album has been worse than the one before. This has worked, because the starting point was so high in quality, but there are limits to everything. Her previous album Smile had only one great pop song (Daisies). I almost didn't get the CD.

So, Katy Perry dropped her new album, 143. I had very low expectations for it. Women's World is  lacklustre and the music video to it is a total mess. Lifetimes was better, but still very boring and generic house pop. The album has trap influences. Katy Perry isn't a trap artist. These are purely commercial choices to make the album sound cool (and familiar) for new generations. The music on this album simple (even for pop), generic and boring. It is content slop. There are no good songs on this album. The best songs (All the Love and Wonder) have potential and could became good songs with more ambitious production. There is no way I am going to spend money on this album. Even Smile felt like waste of money and it was clearly better that this one. In fact it is hard to believe an artist such as Katy Perry released a garbage album like this one. Yes, maybe this is made just to made some money, but this feels like a total flop. How much will this sell and make money? Katy Perry is insanely rich. What is the point of this? If there is no urge to create great music that has meaning to the creator, why bother? The only "accomplishment" this album is able to do is to rape Crystal Waters' Gypsy Woman. I would retire if I was her...

Rating: 1/5.

[Todd]