Non-Classical Music Listening Thread!

[aligreto]

That's the proverbial nice selection of strings to your bow. But I'm not surprised, given some of the music you post in this thread.

Yeah, time and patience are always the first of the required attributes. And you're right about the competition, that there were always a number of fine players around. I'm not much of a guitarist, although I definitely benefited from knowing a guy who played professionally on a lot of commercial stuff but was also a keen amateur photographer  - I'd hand roll him some Tri-X and in return received a regular supply of 'Picato - All Steel Boogies'

Anyway, keep on keeping close to your roots.

Fair exchange is no robbery 
Cheers Nik 

[George]

Many years ago someone gave me a cassette tape with a recording of the Rodgers and Hart tune 'Where or When' and asked me to guess who it was. I listened and it clearly had that kind of Spector/Brian Wilson vibe going on. But I'd no idea of the performer.  Eventually they told me it was Dave Edmunds. So far, far away from 'Sabre Dance'. Anyway, hope you're enjoying that collection.

Thanks, yeah, definitely enjoying it. Always nice when I find something that both my girlfriend and I enjoy. That anthology is like an anthology of western music. 

[Mirror Image]

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For me, Marillion's best album and one of the greatest progressive rock albums I've ever heard.

[aligreto]

With The Beatles

[bhodges]

A treasure: The B-52's, live in concert on November 7, 1980 at the Capitol Theatre in Passaic, NJ

http://www.youtube.com/v/bVXfkG7q_0s

[aligreto]

Cat Stevens Catch Bull At Four





Another superb album. I find that there is great drive and energy in the music on this album.

[George]

Cat Stevens Catch Bull At Four



Another superb album. I find that there is great drive and energy in the music on this album.

Another nice one!

By the way, sent you a PM.

[aligreto]

Another nice one!

By the way, sent you a PM.

Cheers 

[aligreto]

ABBA: The Visitors





My favourite ABBA album of the lot. The songs, the production, the voice, the harmonies; especially the last two songs on the album. That ticking clock on the last track; time just ran out in the end unfortunately.

[San Antone]

Van's latest - is great.

[71 dB]

Just finished streaming Autechre's NTS Session 4 on Bleepstore

The last track 'all end' is the strangest I have ever heard from Autechre. It's 58 minutes long and consists basically of a continous sound (something like a combination of a complex chord played with organ and the sound of a waterfall) with tiny fluctuations and changes in time. Autechre's music can be very weird, but this was really weird even by Autechre's own standards.

[Tapio Dmitriyevich]

Just finished streaming Autechre's NTS Session 4 on Bleepstore

The last track 'all end' is the strangest I have ever heard from Autechre. It's 58 minutes long and consists basically of a continous sound (something like a combination of a complex chord played with organ and the sound of a waterfall) with tiny fluctuations and changes in time. Autechre's music can be very weird, but this was really weird even by Autechre's own standards.

Big Ae veteran fanboy here. Are you? You should have been at the Ae subreddit, WATMM or the chatmm replacement discord on those thursday, it was so much fun. People were reacting live to what they were listening to. I was there on NTS2-4, NTS1 was at my birthday unfortunately, i.e. no time for Ae. Well you can read the mega threads in Reddit or WATMM, lots of discussion, fun and memes. Big hype train of course.

The community majority IMO loves where they are going. And I do. My favourite track currently is tt1pd, to me it is a Hieronymus Bosch theme, mankind at dooms day. Cannot listen to "all end" too loud, I am convinced it would do harm to my ears. Too much permanent pressure on the ears! I love shimripl casual on NTS4 very much.

Related: Nice 2 hrs podcast about NTS here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_oJ-MNR79s

Instabought all NTS' right after the stream of course. I'm thinking about giving tt1pd a proper ending, since it unfortunately fades into the next track.

[aligreto]

Agnetha Faltskog





This one was released in 2013 and the high soprano voice had gone but the power, strength and depth were still there at that stage. It will be interesting to hear her later this year.

[Draško]

[Draško]

Really boring.

[SimonNZ]

Confidence Man - Confident Music For Confident People (2018)
Ryuchi Sakamoto - Thousand Knives (1978)

[Undersea]

ABBA: The Visitors





My favourite ABBA album of the lot. The songs, the production, the voice, the harmonies; especially the last two songs on the album. That ticking clock on the last track; time just ran out in the end unfortunately.

Good one! - the new material from ABBA later this year will be of interest.

[aligreto]

Good one! - the new material from ABBA later this year will be of interest.

Yes indeed. I hope that they try to resume from where this one left off and not try to emulate their Pop hits of long ago. This devopment is what I am particularly interested in.

[aligreto]

James Taylor: Sweet Baby James





This one is for George who did a kind deed for me recently.

[George]

James Taylor: Sweet Baby James




This one is for George who did a kind deed for me recently.

I'll see you your JT and raise you one Elvis Presley: