Non-Classical Music Listening Thread!

[Iota]

Excellent, I should check that album out!

Do you know Bowie's 'It's No Game' Part 1? Fripp is great on that and he and Bowie are dynamite together, the louder the better! It has one of my favourite endings to any track.

[Karl Henning]

Excellent, I should check that album out!

Do you know Bowie's 'It's No Game' Part 1? Fripp is great on that and he and Bowie are dynamite together, the louder the better! It has one of my favourite endings to any track.

That's an album I don't know nearly as well as I ought. What a smashing track!

[Karl Henning]

... then at 13 I was getting into traditional jazz, then about 15, getting into Parker, Parker With Strings. I loved the Parker With Strings album, phenomenal [...] I had no idea how anyone could be that good [...] about 20, Hendrix and Sgt Pepper and Bartók string quartets and Stravinsky, and my great epiphany was, I was hearing all these different kinds of music, but for me they were one Music. There was no difference. It was like you have lots of different musicians speaking different dialects, but the Music is One and this was my epiphany. And I was just about to go to University to take the green estate management to take over my father's real estate firm and coming back from the Majestic Hotel one night, "A Day in the Life." I didn't know who it was and it came on the radio and suddenly at the end there's this piano chord and ... and then I couldn't go on to University in Real Estate. It had to change, and so I said to my mother and father, "Look...." So then I went on to London to unemployment and ignominy.

[hopefullytrusting]

In my opinion, this is the album that most encapsulates drill as a genre: Young Pappy's 2 Cups Part 2:



If you don't know what drill is, think of a normal sentence - let's say it has 10 words in it - in drill that sentence would have 11/10 words being explicit/obscene/profane - so be prepared if you decided to dip your toe.

[steve ridgway]

In my opinion, this is the album that most encapsulates drill as a genre: Young Pappy's 2 Cups Part 2:



If you don't know what drill is, think of a normal sentence - let's say it has 10 words in it - in drill that sentence would have 11/10 words being explicit/obscene/profane - so be prepared if you decided to dip your toe.

LOL the Sex Pistols Bodies is nearly 50 years old now .

[hopefullytrusting]

LOL the Sex Pistols Bodies is nearly 50 years old now .

Those are not at all comparable. For me, Bodies is more akin to metal-type lyrics, especially deathcore - like Infant Annihilator or Pig Destroyer - drill, at least for me, is very different - it is a lived (embodied) nihilistic violence - many of the drill artists end up murdered or murdering, usually before the age of 21 - Young Pappy, himself, was murdered at 20.

[steve ridgway]

Those are not at all comparable. For me, Bodies is more akin to metal-type lyrics, especially deathcore - like Infant Annihilator or Pig Destroyer - drill, at least for me, is very different - it is a lived (embodied) nihilistic violence - many of the drill artists end up murdered or murdering, usually before the age of 21 - Young Pappy, himself, was murdered at 20.

Ah, fair enough, I didn't realise it was a way of life/death rather than just an entertaining pose. Thanks for the info.

[hopefullytrusting]

Ah, fair enough, I didn't realise it was a way of life/death rather than just an entertaining pose. Thanks for the info.

Yeah, ironically (or not), the only one to "escape" the life was Chief Keef. Lupe Fiasco, a true rapping legend and someone I would recommend to almost anyone, once said that "Chief Keef scares me."

One of the coolest Lupe collabs (with Sentrock, an amazing artist): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGqx0C1Hkq4
Lupe lecturing at MIT (he is a professor at Johns Hopkins): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBHRsYhYb-o

[steve ridgway]

One of the coolest Lupe collabs (with Sentrock, an amazing artist): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGqx0C1Hkq4

That seems a bit more upbeat . I never got much into rap although quite enjoy Dälek having followed them up after coming across their collaborations with The Young Gods and Faust.

[hopefullytrusting]

That seems a bit more upbeat . I never got much into rap although quite enjoy Dälek having followed them up after coming across their collaborations with The Young Gods and Faust.

Lupe is an awesome dude. On his first album he wrote a rap song about skateboarding, lol - it is pretty good.

I also get people not getting into rap. For me, I view it like country - you are either going to like or or you aren't - there really aren't any middle-ground rappers or country singers. (I am also the wrong person to ask because - my screen name is quite literal - I can always find something good in what I am listening to.)

[steve ridgway]

I can always find something good in what I am listening to.

I must have so many things in my collection you'd love if only you knew about them .

[hopefullytrusting]

I must have so many things in my collection you'd love if only you knew about them .

I have recently purchased all of the All Music Guide The Definitive Guide series.

About to discover a lot of things I never knew.

[Karl Henning]

[Todd]

Enjoyed a nice Labor Day Weekend outing at the Portland مهرجان العرب.  Heard a couple bands playing music from across the Arabic world.  The instrumentation mix was sweet, the songs most appealing.  The second act, The Occidental Tourists, were joined by some "exotic" dancers - the legitimate type - adding a bit of pep and joy.  Nice.

[steve ridgway]

Tangerine Dream - Phaedra Out-Takes

[hopefullytrusting]

First band I've heard in a long time where it physically hurts to listen to their music:

Pigliacci's Higher Altitudes of Mania (sick title)



Keywords tagged: death metal, punk, deathgrind, grindcore, powerviolence, Detroit

You will most definitely feel the grind and the powerviolence, lol.

[Todd]