Non-Classical Music Listening Thread!

[Todd]

On a perfect, sunny, late summer day, I managed to hit two different local festivals, a Tibetan festival and a Serbian festival.  Both had dancing, prayer, and culture-specific live folk and popular music.  The Tibetan festival also had extended group chanting.  So much better than the interwebs.

[hopefullytrusting]

Tomorrow, start to finish - Electric Youth's Studio Albums:
Innerworld
Breathing
Memory Emotion
Come True
North of Normal

[SimonNZ]

[AnotherSpin]

Even if the story of John Lennon cruising in his psychedelic Rolls-Royce Phantom V, lost in the swirling melancholy of the continuously repeated A Whiter Shade of Pale, lacks documentary proof, it undeniably captures my imagination.

Lennon was famously fond of the song, once calling it "the best song ever written." He praised its dreamy, surreal quality as the perfect "dope song." His 1965 Rolls-Royce Phantom V was repainted in 1967 with flowery motifs, becoming an icon of the counterculture.

I am far from Lennon and would never have the courage to repaint my car in such a way, yet A Whiter Shade of Pale is playing on repeat for the third time right now.

[Henk]

Listen to Beat of Your Drum  by David Bowie on Qobuz https://open.qobuz.com/track/67020880

A song by David Bowie I like. It's positive. 🎶

[hopefullytrusting]

Kilo-G's The Sleepwalker



One of the most important rap albums ever:

Read this amazing pieces of writing in Oxford American: https://oxfordamerican.org/web-only/the-sleepwalker

[hopefullytrusting]

Another classic album: Merciless's The Awakening



Amazed they are still rocking (started in 1986).

[brewski]

Mike Reid and Joe Henry: "Sleeper Car" from their new album Life and Time. Seeing these two live in concert later this week, thanks to friends who are longtime fans.

[hopefullytrusting]

Time to worship Satannnnnnnnn...

Hadez's Aquelarre; Masacre's Brutal Aggre666ion; Momentum's In Absentia Christi

[Todd]

Time to worship Satannnnnnnnn...

Time for some unsatan:

[hopefullytrusting]

Okay, just learned something new about myself: I am a Steve Winwood (Tom Lord-Alge) fan.



Is this the path to get in touch with my whiteness ...

[SimonNZ]

"Few things here to read / but the Nibelungenlied"

[Todd]

[SimonNZ]

[SimonNZ]

1960

suggested further listening after the Baptist album on the sidebar on the Smithsonian site

[brewski]

Last night a friend mentioned Karla Bonoff, whose name I hadn't heard in decades, so revisited this version of "Someone to Lay Down Beside Me" by Linda Ronstadt.

[brewski]

Fun listening to a 1960s garage punk band from New Mexico that I've never heard of, The Outer Limits.

[hopefullytrusting]

Epic power doom metal: Candlemass's Nightfall (might be the height of this particular style)

[hopefullytrusting]

The epic-fantasy-power metal arc: Unleash the Archers's Phantoma



Found them by asking Copilot for metal music similar to the book, Wings of Renewal:

[Mister Sharpe]

Last night a friend mentioned Karla Bonoff, whose name I hadn't heard in decades, so revisited this version of "Someone to Lay Down Beside Me" by Linda Ronstadt.

I saw her live many years ago and was nothing short of enthralled with her and her backing band. Came to love these two albums of hers (below), later ones rather less so (both silvered well); also saw her with the band Bryndle. BTW, Restless features one of the most moving performances ever of the traditional the Water is Wide, which I understand the band grew quite tired of.