Non-Classical Music Listening Thread!

[71 dB]

I discovered accidentally the German pop band Chyp-Notic and somehow I like their music: It combines 80s synth pop and eurodance of early 90s in a way that works for me surprisingly well. The music incorporates a lot of the mood of the music from that era when I got into music listening and appears nostalgic to me for that reason. I even ordered the albums Nothing Compares, 1990 and I Can't Get Enough, 1992 on CD. So much easier than sunshine pop of early 70s! 

I got interested of exploring German (and central European) bands of the era, because it seems to be easy to get that music on CD from Germany used. I am listening to Sandra now on Spotify, but her music seems a bit bland to my ears. Her hit song Everlasting Love played a lot on radio around 1987 and is semi-nostalgic to me and the song Loreen is nice, but otherwise the music doesn't do much for me (I have listened to her first and third albums from 1985 and 1987 so far).

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Some tracks from George Harrison's "Live in Japan".  Including While My Guitar Gently Weeps...a moving rendition of a great song.

[SimonNZ]

With lyrics!

[AnotherSpin]

Melody Gardot - Sayonara Meu Amor

[Peter Power Pop]

Current listening:

Engelbert Humperdinck – Essential (2021)

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Richard Thompson:  Acoustic Classics

So many classics.  His talent and intelligence...what can I say.

[Henk]

John Moreland - Visitor

[Henk]

[SimonNZ]

Jessie Buckley and Bernard Butler - For All Our Days That Tear The Heart (2022)

Jessie Buckley is the actress who played Prince Andre's sister in the BBC War And Peace and the pregnant woman who spent too much time in her firefighter husband's hospital room in Chernobyl - and comes from a singing background.

Bernard Butler is the former guitarist with Suade

I was very impressed by this. At times sounding like David Sylvian's Spirit Of The Beehive, at other times like Heather Nova's Oyster (both albums I love).

[Karl Henning]

Interesting.

[brewski]

Quite off my usual beat: Firas Zreik & Ensemble, in a program called New Journeys in Arabic Music, live from Roulette in NYC. Liking it a lot.

Zreik is a virtuoso at the qanun, or zither, and the musicians in his group are great, too.

-Bruce

[AnotherSpin]

"1914" is the name of the death metal band from Lviv, Ukraine.

[AnotherSpin]

Lal Shahbaz Qalandar's content adapted for western ears.

[71 dB]

I am a 2020s hater. I hate what the World has become. This is the first decade in my life when I feel I don't belong to this reality at all (I have always felt I'm living on the wrong planet because of my personality/neurotype, but before this decade I felt I can connect to the World at least in some ways). I have almost nothing to offer the World and vice versa. Almost all the stuff that is good in the World is stuff that existed before. Sunshine on my face still feel nice. Pop music from 2010-12 sounds still cool. Recently I say the movie "Day of the Jackal" from 1973 and it was surprisingly good! This decade don't get credit for those things.

In order to cope with the misery of 2020s I have been listening to certain type of music from 1990-92 that feel nostalgic. I have been buying that kind of music online on CD. This has helped a lot. I now understand why older people live in the past. I was born in 1971. The World has become too "modern" for me. I am not against advancements in technology, but so much good has been destroyed as a side effect. Artificial Intelligent is cool, but the cost will be insane: a lot of people will be unemployed living in poverty while the profits go to ultra rich people. We are losing humanity. We are losing so much. Somehow we are creating a World were most people do nothing but struggle to survive instead of technology creating us ALL a paradise. So, that's why I rather live in the past while acknowledging only the best things of today. So, I listen to music such as this (a side project of Saint Etienne from 1991):

For me it is totally irrelevant if this kind of music is objectively bad or crap for somebody else. This music means surprisingly much to me.

[AnotherSpin]

Yungchen Lhamo - Tibet, Tibet

[AnotherSpin]

I am a 2020s hater. I hate what the World has become. This is the first decade in my life when I feel I don't belong to this reality at all (I have always felt I'm living on the wrong planet because of my personality/neurotype, but before this decade I felt I can connect to the World at least in some ways). I have almost nothing to offer the World and vice versa. Almost all the stuff that is good in the World is stuff that existed before. Sunshine on my face still feel nice. Pop music from 2010-12 sounds still cool. Recently I say the movie "Day of the Jackal" from 1973 and it was surprisingly good! This decade don't get credit for those things.

In order to cope with the misery of 2020s I have been listening to certain type of music from 1990-92 that feel nostalgic. I have been buying that kind of music online on CD. This has helped a lot. I now understand why older people live in the past. I was born in 1971. The World has become too "modern" for me. I am not against advancements in technology, but so much good has been destroyed as a side effect. Artificial Intelligent is cool, but the cost will be insane: a lot of people will be unemployed living in poverty while the profits go to ultra rich people. We are losing humanity. We are losing so much. Somehow we are creating a World were most people do nothing but struggle to survive instead of technology creating us ALL a paradise. So, that's why I rather live in the past while acknowledging only the best things of today. So, I listen to music such as this (a side project of Saint Etienne from 1991):

For me it is totally irrelevant if this kind of music is objectively bad or crap for somebody else. This music means surprisingly much to me.

You don't belong to this reality illusion at all. You are reality.

[SimonNZ]

Lal Shahbaz Qalandar's content adapted for western ears.

I remember "Tracery", "Fault Lines" and "Avenue" being favorites from that.
Would that all such crossover albums were so interesting.

[SimonNZ]

Yungchen Lhamo - Tibet, Tibet

I once traded a copy of Tim Buckley's Starsailor album (the one that has the original "Song To The Siren") with a friend for his copy of Yungchen Lhamo's Coming Home album. No regrets.

[AnotherSpin]

I once traded a copy of Tim Buckley's Starsailor album (the one that has the original "Song To The Siren") with a friend for his copy of Yungchen Lhamo's Coming Home album. No regrets.

I was a big fan of Real World releases 20 or so years ago. Didn't listen for years, and now it sounds fresh again

[steve ridgway]

I have almost nothing to offer the World and vice versa.

Just don't confuse the World with the human race .