Non-Classical Music Listening Thread!

[steve ridgway]

This reminds me of early Human League although it's much more recent (2017).

[AnotherSpin]

Love The Sisters of Mercy (found them through the cybergoth subculture - this song: Lucretia My Reflection).

For me, there is just something about this era of musical production that I find appealing to my ears (I think it partially has to do with the early synth works), as I wasn't even born when a lot of this music came out - but 1979-1987 is my range for this kind of music (sweet spot is like 1982-1984).

We didn't choose to like this or that musician. As a child and in my early teens, I heard names from boys five or seven years older than me, and they sounded magical from the very first mention: The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Uriah Heep, Yes, Manfred Mann, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, and so many others. Who knows, perhaps in the Soviet Union it all seemed even more enchanting simply because it was so hard to come by.

[steve ridgway]

We didn't choose to like this or that musician. As a child and in my early teens, I heard names from boys five or seven years older than me, and they sounded magical from the very first mention: The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Uriah Heep, Yes, Manfred Mann, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, and so many others. Who knows, perhaps in the Soviet Union it all seemed even more enchanting simply because it was so hard to come by.

Ah, we had every new record in the shops, but once they were a year or so old they disappeared as if they had never existed. So we had virtually the same experience in searching out these legendary recordings in second hand record stores completely at random. I remember arguing with a store owner who really didn't want to sell me an irresistibly groovy Iron Butterfly album for 50p as she considered it too scratched  . I bought a few mail order as well, the first two Stooges albums arrived in the post from Canada .

[hopefullytrusting]

We didn't choose to like this or that musician. As a child and in my early teens, I heard names from boys five or seven years older than me, and they sounded magical from the very first mention: The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Uriah Heep, Yes, Manfred Mann, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, and so many others. Who knows, perhaps in the Soviet Union it all seemed even more enchanting simply because it was so hard to come by.

One of my primary hangouts when I was a kid was a used cd store - CD Trader, Lombard, Illinois - loved that place so much.

[hopefullytrusting]

Thanks to @steve ridgway , I looked up Fad Gadget.
Thanks to Fad Gadget, I went to Discogs to find out who his synth player was (David Simmonds).
Thanks to Discogs, I could look up all the things David Simmonds played on.

Now I have four more bands I like:

I Start Counting
Rosa Mota
NON  
S.I. Futures

Also, Mute Records looks like my kind of label.

[steve ridgway]

We also had record libraries that would let you borrow two or three records for a week at 10p each. So I'd pick anything that looked interesting and tape it on my music centre if I liked it. Along with the John Peel show, rewinding any tunes I didn't like and overwriting with the next thing he played.

[hopefullytrusting]

We also had record libraries that would let you borrow two or three records for a week at 10p each. So I'd pick anything that looked interesting and tape it on my music centre if I liked it. Along with the John Peel show, rewinding any tunes I didn't like and overwriting with the next thing he played.

Nice.

I super lucked out in where I happened to end up living. Access to three amazing libraries, full of odd music, as the towns were full of well-off, educated, progressive (read "hip") whites, plus an interlibrary loan system that was second to none. I was pretty much always maxed out in checking out cds, dvds, and books, lol - I was freaking Galactus, lol. 

[steve ridgway]

Thanks to @steve ridgway , I looked up Fad Gadget.
Thanks to Fad Gadget, I went to Discogs to find out who his synth player was (David Simmonds).
Thanks to Discogs, I could look up all the things David Simmonds played on.

Now I have four more bands I like:

I Start Counting
Rosa Mota
NON  
S.I. Futures

Also, Mute Records looks like my kind of label.

NON LOL. I remember this single that you could play at any speed but it also had an off centre hole to alternatively place on the spindle and it'd wobble around erratically making this horrible noise .

[hopefullytrusting]

Act's Laughter, Tears and Rage (just look at that lineage, and you know this disc is a banger):

[hopefullytrusting]

Thomas Leer's Emotional Hardware (what a discovery!)

[SimonNZ]

[hopefullytrusting]

No, I've not started my weekend early (it's only Wednesday, after all): The Soulful Moods of Marvin Gaye

[hopefullytrusting]

AI, as dangerous as it is, does come through when I need something specific: ESG (a band I cannot imagine coming across without AI)



avant-funk, post-punk, no wave - minimalism (stripping it all down bare) - really, really good stuff

[SimonNZ]

[71 dB]

Finally this CD arrived last night 0:32 AM:

Jane Wiedlin - Fur

Collecting pop music of the 80's on CD can be challenging especially if the artist isn't one of best known. I found this used copy on Discogs. It was by far the cheapest option, but I still had to pay 16.72 € for it delivered. The seller is in the UK, but Discogs has operating IOSS code. 2.81 € of the 16.72 € is VAT added at the check out. When this shipment arrived to Finland, I was asked to customs clearance it. This shouldn't have happened (IOSS should take care of that), but I was able to do the customs clearance with no additional cost. They simply needed to know the IOSS code which for some reason was unreadable on the package. They have too many packages to handle and it took almost two weeks for me to get the package after the clearance! When I got the package, I noticed the CN 22 customs declaration sticker had been put OVER the IOSS code! Just 1 cm more to the right and it would have been readable and there would have been much less hassle!