Non-Classical Music Listening Thread!

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hopefullytrusting

Nomeansno's Dance of the Headless Bourgeoisie


hopefullytrusting

Minor Threat's Complete Discography (Oi! OI! Oi!)


hopefullytrusting

DRI's Dirty Rotten CD (still the best live band I've not seen live)


hopefullytrusting

Dead Kennedys's In God We Trust, Inc. (maybe the composers of the goat punk anthem)


San Antone

Nick Gusman and the Coyotes – 'Lifting Heavy Things'



St. Louis-based band Nick Gusman and the Coyotes craft a stylish rock and alt-country immersion throughout their new album, Lifting Heavy Things. Recorded live at Native Sound Recordings, the production's evident emotion and musicianship is consistently alluring. The act is praised for their live performances, and their magnetic, heartfelt spontaneity finds resonance in studio form as well via Lifting Heavy Things. (obscure sound)

foxandpeng

Today has seen some music by Avantasia, Unisonic, Primal Fear, and Masterplan...
"A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people ... then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbour — such is my idea of happiness"

Tolstoy

steve ridgway

Die Krupps: A Tribute To Metallica



Someone on Ex Twitter reminded me - just wondering whether I dare mention it ;) .

Christo

Tender love song "Die Liebe", by Laibach, communist Yugoslavia in the 1980s: watch these faces!
... music is not only an 'entertainment', nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found.    RVW, 1948

San Antone


Karl Henning

Quote from: Number Six on December 02, 2024, 06:11:22 PM


Alan Parsons Project: The Turn of a Friendly Card
I remember buying this LP back when it was released, but for the life of me I only remember "Time."

Separately, after I listen to In the Court of the Crimson King these days, the track which keeps playing in my inner ear is "I Talk to the Wind."
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

steve ridgway

Quote from: Christo on December 11, 2024, 07:10:53 AMTender love song "Die Liebe", by Laibach, communist Yugoslavia in the 1980s: watch these faces!

They certainly stood out with their fascist theatrics. I found them more entertaining though once they started doing cover versions (well, skipping the Let It Be album and moving quickly on to Sympathy For The Devil).

San Antone

Streetnoise is a 1969 album by Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger and the Trinity, originally released as a double LP.

It includes cover versions of The Doors' "Light My Fire", Nina Simone's "Take Me To The Water", Laura Nyro's "Save the Country", Miles Davis' "All Blues", Richie Havens' "Indian Rope Man", and "Let The Sunshine In" and "I Got Life" from the musical Hair. Driscoll covers this wide range of musical influences easily and with her highly emotive and distinctive vocals, and with Auger's intense Hammond organ, the album is instrumentally interesting, too.



I huge favorite for me back in the day ... one I haven't even thought about until I saw the Alan Parson posts.

Iota

Quote from: Christo on December 11, 2024, 07:10:53 AMTender love song "Die Liebe", by Laibach, communist Yugoslavia in the 1980s: watch these faces!

Laibach were the first time where I'd come across that roaring, anti-melodic type of vocal delivery, and I must say I was very struck. But then once the door had opened a flood of others followed. I don't actually know who began it all, but Laibach is always the name I associate with it.

Artem



...the ineffable elegance of her music belies a rhythmic complexity that bridges African, Afro-American and European traditions...

Self-released in the early 1960s. Ethiopian blues and jazz with Mompou and Gurdjieff.

Christo

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Quote from: Iota on December 12, 2024, 06:02:02 AMLaibach were the first time where I'd come across that roaring, anti-melodic type of vocal delivery, and I must say I was very struck. But then once the door had opened a flood of others followed. I don't actually know who began it all, but Laibach is always the name I associate with it.
Quote from: steve ridgway on December 11, 2024, 07:43:00 PMThey certainly stood out with their fascist theatrics. I found them more entertaining though once they started doing cover versions (well, skipping the Let It Be album and moving quickly on to Sympathy For The Devil).

In the 80s I had the idea, that Laibach's "fascist" style was purely a provocation in communist Yugoslavia: that's how it came across and that was quite special. Since the '90s I'm not so sure anymore, but I didn't really follow them since then. You are undoubtedly right.

Who certainly were ideologically extreme leftish syndicalists or something, in the '80s, was Test Department. I saw that group perform in Amsterdam in a big shed in the harbour docks in the darkness in 1984 or 1985, half a night long. The first four hours played Soviet symphonic music: mostly Prokoviev and Shostakovich. Then the steel drums with soundtracks over them began, about three hours of continuous musical protest against capitalism and exploitation, in front of three big movie screens with a smiling Thatcher next to war footage, all in B&W, etc.

Uplifting and exhilarating, though I was anything but extreem-left myself: I enjoyed -- though I was about the only one in the audience not dressed in black or gothic (I did not have such clothes as a student). Has anyone ever heard of Test Department since then? Live so much better than on CD:

EDIT: Actually 1987, because these appear to be some of the images: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhEcc29RfMo&list=RDEMxXXRzfP2q6809FiFFZjeBw&index=9
... music is not only an 'entertainment', nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found.    RVW, 1948

hopefullytrusting

Quote from: hopefullytrusting on December 03, 2024, 01:55:38 PMU2's The Joshua Tree (for when I need to feel an inflated sense of self-importance; I don't know why, but I equate this album, and band, with narcissism - nonetheless, their music is badass 8)):



Having to deal with students who are turning things in on the last day, so I'm playing all the hit singles from this album, currently to salve and soothe. :blank:

foxandpeng

Quote from: hopefullytrusting on December 14, 2024, 08:43:03 AMHaving to deal with students who are turning things in on the last day, so I'm playing all the hit singles from this album, currently to salve and soothe. :blank:

Not usually a massive fan of U2, but this album was top drawer.
"A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people ... then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbour — such is my idea of happiness"

Tolstoy

hopefullytrusting

Quote from: foxandpeng on December 14, 2024, 08:48:43 AMNot usually a massive fan of U2, but this album was top drawer.

Oh, I cannot stand the band outside of this album, but I've now moved onto better things: Korn's Life is Peachy



(this is helping me prepare for grade grubbers ;D)

Iota

Quote from: Christo on December 14, 2024, 02:27:48 AMWho certainly were ideologically extreme leftish syndicalists or something, in the '80s, was Test Department. I saw that group perform in Amsterdam in a big shed in the harbour docks in the darkness in 1984 or 1985, half a night long. The first four hours played Soviet symphonic music: mostly Prokoviev and Shostakovich. Then the steel drums with soundtracks over them began, about three hours of continuous musical protest against capitalism and exploitation, in front of three big movie screens with a smiling Thatcher next to war footage, all in B&W, etc.

Uplifting and exhilarating, though I was anything but extreem-left myself: I enjoyed -- though I was about the only one in the audience not dressed in black or gothic (I did not have such clothes as a student). Has anyone ever heard of Test Department since then? Live so much better than on CD:

EDIT: Actually 1987, because these appear to be some of the images: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhEcc29RfMo&list=RDEMxXXRzfP2q6809FiFFZjeBw&index=9

That gig sounds extraordinary! I can well imagine your exhilaration! I hadn't heard of Test Department, but the images from the miner's strike (1984/85) in the above video must have been very fresh, and feeling ran so high around the clash between Thatcher and the NUM (still does in some parts) that I imagine the anger provoked an extra intensity in the gig.

hopefullytrusting

Terminal Sleep - Live (perfect music to edit cover letters and resumes)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKzmpBriO-A

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