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Having so much fun with the shuffle thread, I thought why not do it with tracks you guys choose yourselves, rather than leave it to the vagaries of the Gods of Randomness? So, choose your favourite songs - any genre, any artist, any era - limit it to ten per post per member if you can, and I'll listen and give my considered opinion, which I know with a couple of dollars will buy you a cup of cheap coffee, but hell, it's all in fun. Ideally, try not to post again until someone else has posted after you, and obviously, be both patient and understanding: you all know there's a lot of your music I won't like, but as ever, I'll do my best to review it fairly and in an unbiased manner.
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Yeah, well, I'll try. If nothing else, it will be fun watching me trying to understand what it is you see in your music. I know that's how you see me
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but you know
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If music be the food of love, someone hand me a menu I can read, for god's sake! What kind of restaurant is this anyway?
Go on then...
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Wait just one tension-popping second! Where the hell did Saulaac's post go?
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I know it was here. I seen it! That is to say, I saw it! Deleted it, did you? And I never even got a chance to ridicule it!
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TH, I have a confession to make.
Indeed, there was NOT some mithtake. I deleted my post because I wrote it under the influence of a few too many beers and when I woke up the next morning I realised it was a pretty crap jazz funk library playlist with too much swearing. So I discretely deleted it but little did I know that you had already seen it and that Lexi had given it a like (sorry Lexi for your wasted outpouring of love for library jazz funk!). :banana:
Well, the proper thing to do would be to repost it, but I've first got to remember what the playlist was. Something about Alec Gould and Herbie Hancock. Oh well, will get back to you once I find my notes.
J-j-j-jazz? Uh, no hurry son. Take your time. How does Christmas 2028 sound to you?
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Just trying to learn the bass part to Sky Cruiser by Alec Gould, and knowing me, it will probably take me until 2028 until I can play it. So yes, challenge is on, Trolls! (And thank you Lexi for once again liking my earlier post. You are a darling).
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This didn't work out clearly, and I got football to write about. Laters! Or, possibly, just the one later. But not now.
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GOAT MIX :P
1. Front Mission 3-The bar
2. Leatherbäl - Never Rest
3. Part time- How do i move on
4. Bring me the horizon - Underground big {Headfullofhyena}
5. Scala -17765744j
6. Meshuggah- The faultless
7. Molchat Doma - Cyaho
8. A perfect circle - THe nurse who loved me
9. Hamadryad- Still They Laught Pt.2
10. Zhanna Bichevskaja & Gennadiy Ponomarjov- Pokajanie Покаяние
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NORG!!!!!!!
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Whats good homez ? Hows Life
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Since you were the only one who bothered, Norg, Imma do your list (TH desperately tries to pretend he knows "street", other than with a Sesame before it) so I'm off to listen and will come back with a review once I'm done. Thanks for breathing life - if only temporary life - into a dying thread.
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Quote from: Norg on Nov 01, 2024, 08:04 PMWhats good homez ? Hows Life
What's happenin'
@Norg?
Also, what's the deal, I thought you were running for President this year?
Alright Trolls, if you insist - off the dome, 10 tracks I'm a big fan of:
1. The Fall - Bill Is Dead
2. Tchami - Missing You
3. A Tribe Called Quest - Get A Hold
4. Massive Attack - The Spoils
5. The Chameleons - Up The Down Escalator
6. John Lee Hooker - One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer
7. Pulp - Glory Days
8. The Hot Boys - We On Fire
9. Killing Joke - Europe
10. Leftfield - Chant of a Poor Man
Thanks guys. Unfortunately, your timing couldn't be worse, as I'm knee-deep in football reports at the moment. But I will get to your music, never fear. Just have to get through the FA Cup first round, Match of the Day and the return of the Champions League, then I'll be right with you.
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I'll post something when you're less swamped, my friend 🙂
Great thread idea!
I'll join in too. I saw this thread much too late but I'll give you some time to free up before dropping my list.
I'm down to post mine too once you're more free, TH.
It seems you and I align pretty well on the new age/electronic side so I'd love to share some more of that kind of stuff that I think you'd dig.
Love the new avvy, Lexi! Is he/she yours? So cute!
Quote from: Trollheart on Nov 02, 2024, 07:06 PMLove the new avvy, Lexi! Is he/she yours? So cute!
Thank you! And yes, she is mine; her name is Francesca, I have some more pics of her in the pet pics thread assuming the links haven't expired.
Well, colour me suprised! It seems the thread is
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so I guess
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Quote from: Lexi Darling on Nov 02, 2024, 07:21 PMThank you! And yes, she is mine; her name is Francesca, I have some more pics of her in the pet pics thread assuming the links haven't expired.
Just gorgeous!
And the cat is lovely too.:shycouch:
I love how she seems to be saying "No photographs! I deserve my privacy just like anyone else!"
Quote from: SGR on Nov 01, 2024, 11:09 PMWhat's happenin' @Norg?
Also, what's the deal, I thought you were running for President this year?
uhhh no i dont really care much for polotics TBO it does nothing for us poor middle class folks :P
Quote from: Trollheart on Nov 02, 2024, 02:33 AMThanks guys. Unfortunately, your timing couldn't be worse, as I'm knee-deep in football reports at the moment. But I will get to your music, never fear. Just have to get through the FA Cup first round, Match of the Day and the return of the Champions League, then I'll be right with you.
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for a sec i thought u meant football like the NFL i was like u watch the NFL ..??? but no Fifa americano LOL soccer
review my stuff like a astrologer studies the universe in his wet dreams ?
Quote from: Norg on Nov 03, 2024, 08:15 AMfor a sec i thought u meant football like the NFL i was like u watch the NFL ..??? but no Fifa americano LOL soccer
Sorry, we don't consider that football. Football originated in England, so soccer will always be football to us; your sport is American Football over here.
Quotereview my stuff like a astrologer studies the universe in his wet dreams ?
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November 19th^
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Track: "The Bar (China)"
Artist: Koji Hayama/Hayato Matsuo/Shigeki
Genre: Video game soundtrack
From: Front Mission 3 OST
Year: 1999
Personal familiarity (album): None
Personal familiarity (artist): None
Comments: Not what I had expected at all. Sort of a bluesy ballad, instrumental of course, but no beep-beep-beep or mad squealing keyboards. Quite lovely in fact. Pleasantly surprised, and I suppose just illustrates how we - or at least I - tend to make rash pre-judgements and take things at face value. Mostly piano driven with some nice harmonica, very relaxing.
Rating: :4stars:
Track: "Never Rest"
Artist: Leatherbäl
Genre: No idea
From: Don't know
Year: Fucked if I know
Personal familiarity (album): Zero. as I have no idea what album it's from, if any
Personal familiarity (artist): Zero
Comments: Thanks Norg! An incredibly obscure artist, whose odd spelling makes it even harder to look them up. Got nothing on my usual sites, ended up with Google, who directed me to Reverbnation. They had little information, showing only one album, and this ain't on it. So I got nothing. As for the music? Sounds kind of like 70s hard rock when it starts, then has a sort of EMF "Unbelievable" riff going through it. The vocal is female but I can't say it appeals to me. I see words like "splatterfest", "Fetish ball" and, um, "Revenge of the pigs", so maybe some sort of punk thing? Not sure. Certainly don't like it though.
Rating: :2.5stars:
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Track: "How Do I Move On"
Artist: Part Time
Genre: Indie Pop/Dream Pop
From: 4th album PDA
Year: 2013
Personal familiarity (album): None
Personal familiarity (artist): None
Comments: The problem with having to research these artists (mostly to find out who they are and what albums these tracks come from etc) is that occasionally you stumble across a nasty story, and it seems that this guy was a serious abuser of women, leading to all of his content being deleted from most record outlets and presumably online too. I don't know him and I don't want to pre-judge, but given that he admitted the allegations it makes hard reading. Putting that to one side for now, I want to concentrate on the music.
There's a nice sort of jangly guitar but the vocal is, to me, quite muddied and reminds me of Morrisey sort of. There are some small elements maybe of Deacon Blue here, but overall it's all right but nothing I'd be rushing out to buy. Oh right: you can't buy his music anymore as nobody stocks it. Serves the abusing cunt right.
Rating: :2.5stars:
Track: "Underground Big (Headfulofhyena)" ??
Artist: Bring Me the Horizon
Genre: Not sure
From: Don't know
Year: Not a scooby
Personal familiarity (album): Shrug
Personal familiarity (artist): I've heard one album (that one with the big long name I'm not going to write down)
Comments: Look, once again you guys have got to help me out. If you want me to review your music give me a source. I have searched through BMTH's discog and I don't see this on any of them, and now I kind of get the feeling it may be some collaboration with a rapper or something? I don't know these things, so do me a solid and give me the information I need. It's a pain in the hole searching for this stuff.
Speaking of a pain in the hole, so is this. Basically a rapper doing what rappers do behind possibly music by BMTH - although it doesn't sound anything like the album I heard, so I'm confused. More like listening to a hip-hop track maybe, but it's definitely not for me. Strike three.
Rating: :2stars:
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Track: "17765744"
Artist: Scala
Genre: Dream Pop
From: 2nd album To You in Alpha
Year: 1998
Personal familiarity (album): Nada
Personal familiarity (artist): Zilch
Comments: Sort of a drum loop or something and... that's more or less it. A driving repetitive guitar riff doesn't make the piece any more interesting for me. Not going well Norg, I'm afraid.
Rating: :2.5stars:
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Track: "The Faultless"
Artist: Meshuggah
Genre: Progressive Metal/Technical Death Metal/Djent
From: 9th album Immutable
Year: 2022
Personal familiarity (album): None
Personal familiarity (artist): Have heard of them, but never heard anything by them
Comments: Slightly more in my wheelhouse now, if I am clutching on by my fingernails to avoid being thrown out. The guitar riffs are great, the sort of Egyptian theme running through the riff is cool, the vocal, scratchy and raw, I could live without, but overall, not bad. Got a kind of doom metal vibe going through it at times, too.
Rating: :3.5stars:
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Track: "Cyaho"
Artist: Molchat Doma
Genre: Synthpop/Coldwave/Darkwave/Gothic Rock
From: 2nd album Этажи (Etazhi)
Year: 2018
Personal familiarity (album): Nyet
Personal familiarity (artist): Nein
Comments: I think I would be correct to say that this is the first Belarusan band I have ever heard. Certainly the first synthpop one. Sounds a bit soulless now to me I have to say (suppose the tags coldwave and darkwave should have been a bit of a giveaway). Not bad for what it is, but definitely not something I'd be listening to again, comrade!
Rating: :3stars:
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Track: "The Nurse Who Loved me"
Artist: A Perfect Circle
Genre: Alt-rock/Art rock/Hard rock
From: 2nd album Thirteenth Step
Year: 2003
Personal familiarity (album): None
Personal familiarity (artist): I've heard of them, that's it
Comments: Not quite sure if this is going to explode into some sort of hard rock seether or anything, but it's certainly started off nice and relaxed, with an almost mono vocal and some piano and whistling, vaguely Beatlesesque or maybe Julian Lennon, very pleasant. No it stayed that way. Enjoyed that.
Rating: :4.5stars:
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Track: "Still they Laugh Pt 2"
Artist: Hamadryad
Genre: Progressive Rock/Neo-prog
From: Debut album Conservation of Mass
Year: 2001
Personal familiarity (album): None
Personal familiarity (artist): Nary a screed (Irish way of saying none)
Comments: This is more like it! A prog band, nice. Very firmly in the old wheelhouse now. A short piece, just over two minutes, with some nice reflective guitar that gets quite Steve Rotheryesque at times, and a vocal that gets a little histrionic at times, but overall really nice. Would have preferred a longer track to be able to judge the band better, but I like what I hear here (hear, hear!) and will probably seek this band out to check out more.
Rating: :4.5stars:
Track: - Pokajanie Покаяние
Artist: Zhanna Bichevskaja & Gennadiy Ponomarjov
Genre: No idea
From: Not a clue
Year: Ya got me
Personal familiarity (album): N/A
Personal familiarity (artist): None
Comments: Nice sort of laid-back ballad but I have no clue who these people are, nor where the song comes from. Information like that is key, especially when the artists are not English, or at least don't sing in English. Nothing I can tell you, but the song is nice.
Rating: :4stars:
Average rating: :3.5stars:
In future, then, if you could either give me the album each track comes from, or, as SGR has helpfully done, throw down a list of YouTubes, this will help me and make this a more enjoyable task than it was.
TVM.
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Here are some things I currently enjoy:
- Oingo Boingo - Private Life (https://youtu.be/yuxss1kBQWw?si=-4oJpNUPPDYU84tl) (from Nothing to Fear from 1982)
- The Replacements - Alex Chilton (https://youtu.be/xDASfSMHHPQ?si=yQ0n6pknoyx9dbUd) (from Pleased to Meet Me from 1987)
- Fever Ray - Kandy (https://youtu.be/HpxEXMIY64c?si=G_97NbGRwUCgjLZp) (from Radical Romantics from 2023)
- The Prodigy - Girls (https://youtu.be/REUVZ9DS4wE?si=jvY5ozbYli7BIyIR) (from Always Outnumbered Never Outgunned from 2004)
- 10cc - Don't Hang Up (https://youtu.be/z7QdOo-Fa8w?si=SYm2glEIrahMl-Op) (from How Dare You! from 1976)
- King Crimson - Dinosaur (https://youtu.be/R64NQnWyz_g?si=QSfK8fuxPyMTWvJi) (from Thrak! from 1995)
- Thulsa Doom - Lady Nina (https://youtu.be/-T8eHehxmO4?si=dG2xpqLhPU5sUvHe) (from A Keen Eye for the Obvious from 2017)
- Hatfield and the North - Your Majesty Is Like A Cream Donut (incorporating Oh What A Lonely Lifetime) (https://youtu.be/n8CVBWjVoN8?si=O9Q0kIpQp8TpKFwH) (from V (Virgin sampler) from 1975)
I figured this was enough as the last track is a little lengthy 🙂 I also made an effort to keep out some things I know you despise 😄
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Track: "Bill is Dead"
Artist: The Fall
Genre: Post-punk, probably
From: I have no clue. The Fall have over 30 fucking albums and I will be damned for all time before I go through them all to find out where this comes from. I don't even like them.
Year: Don't know, but 1990 or before, as the video is from that year.
Personal familiarity (album): N/A
Personal familiarity (artist): Heard a track or two. I loathe this band. Yes, nice and unbiased, I know.
Comments: It's nowhere near as bad as I had feared. Nice kind of I guess it's indie guitar feel to it, is it? The keyboard riff running through it is sweet, but I just hate Smith's laconic, almost bored delivery on the vocals. It's not going to get as bad a rating as I had expected though.
Rating: :3.5stars:
Track: "Missing You"
Artist: Tchami
Genre: Not a clue
From: I refer you to my answer on The Fall track
Year: No idea
Personal familiarity (album): N/A
Personal familiarity (artist): None
Comments: Another one I'd have to wade through albums, remixes, compilations and collaborations to find, and I just ain't doing it. Gimme the information I need, or accept that I just won't be filling that in. I have a feeling this may be house, given the miniscule amount of that genre I've heard and also given SGR's love of it, but for me it's a shrug. I mean, there's nothing wrong with it, but I'm not interested in it. Sorry, not missing you Mr. Tchami.
Rating: :3stars:
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Track: "Get a Hold"
Artist: A Tribe Called Quest
Genre: East Coast Hip-hop/Boom Bap (there it is again! Anyone going to enlighten me here? Still sounds like a booby-trapped sandwich!)
From: 4th album Beats, Rhymes and Life
Year: 1996
Personal familiarity (album): None
Personal familiarity (artist): A vague, passing familiarity if anything
Comments: Sort of sounds a little chanty when it starts, like Gregorian monks or something, but the tempo is slow and kind of coasting along, in no particular hurry. It's... okay.
Rating: :3stars:
Track: "The Spoils"
Artist: Massive Attack
Genre: Trip-hop/Downtempo
From: No idea; I checked all their albums (even the soundtrack one) and no dice
Year: Nil fhios agam (Irish for I don't know)
Personal familiarity (album): N/A
Personal familiarity (artist): I've heard two albums
Comments: Like this a lot. Very laid back, which I assume is usually their vibe as they possibly say though probably not any more. She has a very soulful voice and the backing music is almost ambient in its way. Best so far by a mile.
Rating: :4.5stars:
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Track: "Up the Down Escalator"
Artist: The Chameleons"
Genre: Post-punk, Gothic Rock, Dream Pop
From: Debut album Script of the Bridge
Year: 1983
Personal familiarity (album): None
Personal familiarity (artist): None
Comments: Even before I hear a beat, I love the idea, though of course it's just me: a bunch of lizards barrelling up an escalator that's coming down, all fading into the background as they camouflage themselves so nobody can see them, creating havoc and chaos. Ah well, so much for my crazy imagination: let's see what the music is like. Surprisingly, in tempo and rhythm it sort of fits in with that vision, edges of Big Country there and maybe a touch of Bono and the lads with a slice of Lloyd Cole, with or without The Commotions. That singer sounds very familiar... Not at all bad, lads. Just don't go getting stepped on all right?
Rating: :4stars:
Track: "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer"
Artist: John Lee Hooker
Genre: Blues
From: Dinnae ken
Year: No clue
Personal familiarity (album): N/A
Personal familiarity (artist): Who doesn't know the blues legend?
Comments: If I wasn't going to go through 30 albums by The Fall, I sure as hell ain't going through Hooker's 6,178! Anyway I can imagine what this is going to sound like, and it does. I prefer my blues slow, to be honest, those soul-wringing, regret-drenched "my girl done left me" type, preferably with a large slice of squealing guitar solo, but hell, this is classic. Surprised to realise I do actually know it, or if I don't, someone copied it and I know that song. Unassailable, as someone used to say. No ice in yours, right, SGR?
Rating: :5stars:
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Track: "Glory Days"
Artist: Pulp
Genre: Britpop
From: Sixth album This is Hardcore
Year: 1998
Personal familiarity (album): Just the singles from it
Personal familiarity (artist): I know a few songs and have reviewed one album (not this one)
Comments: I like the almost proggy synth intro, then the piano cuts in perfectly, and Jarvis Cocker's understated voice complements it well. Picks up nicely and rocks along smoothly. I need to listen to more Pulp.
Rating: :5stars:
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Track: "We On Fire"
Artist: Hot Boys
Genre: Gangsta Rap/Southern Hip-hop/Dirty South
From: Debut album Get it How U Live!!!
Year: 1997
Personal familiarity (album): None
Personal familiarity (artist): None
Comments: Now this was almost fun! The perils of not having the pertinent information; I checked under THE Hot Boys and I got a German psychedelic folk rock band from the 1970s! With all the tracks in German! I thought, nah, surely can't be? And it ain't. But you see, if I'd had the album we would never have come to this hilarious pass. Anyroad, on we stagger. A contender for my "Music for Witches" thread, surely?
These guys are funny. I love the video, though I must admit, the chances of the ATF sending an all-black squad after them are, at best, unlikely. I love the symbolism of their jumping into a white car to escape, and there's a whole lot of "What kinda nigga" which is very amusing. Sure made me smile.
Rating: :4stars:
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Track: "Europe"
Artist: Killing Joke
Genre: Post-punk
From: 5th alum Night Time
Year: 1985
Personal familiarity (album): None
Personal familiarity (artist): I've heard the odd song
Comments: Very 80s indeed; transports me right back to my 20s. Yes, I was 20 once. I was. I can prove it. Well, maybe not. Ah, those ringing, clashing guitars so beloved of one Echo and any number of his Bunnymen, as well as, um, many more. New Model Army, That's another one. And The Stranglers. Maybe The Smiths, though I wouldn't know. Anyway I'd have to say the song is not very distinguishable, quite generic for bands of the time, but as I say, it takes me back. What do you mean, hopefully it'll leave me there?
Rating: :3.5stars:
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Track: "Chant of a Poor Man"
Artist: Leftfield
Genre: Breakbeat, Dub Techno, Trip-hop, Big Beat, Dub
From: 2nd album Rhythm and Stealth
Year: 1999
Personal familiarity (album): None
Personal familiarity (artist): None
Comments: Sounds like some version of reggae perhaps? Also sounds like there may be a duck playing the synth. Kind of engaging, perhaps hypnotic. Really not bad at all.
Rating: :4stars:
An interesting choice of time periods, mostly from the 1980s and 1990s. Different.
Average rating: :4stars:
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Quote from: Trollheart on Nov 21, 2024, 11:53 PMNext up: (https://scd.community/avs/avatar_284_1728687649.png)
i am excited! :love:
i delete my playlists after the day is over so that nov19th one is gone
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLL6aKcXALC1tVMY7XNAhXnW7GEs7l3i0n
this is todays ^
ill leave up for as long as needed
i also have a november 2024 playlist with a few albums i like that I keep all the time
Yeah. If you're going to delete a playlist within a day please don't submit it for consideration, or at least keep the details. Otherwise you put me under pressure I'm not prepared to be under. I do these as I get time and as I feel like it, not to anyone's schedule, and if I should go to do yours and it's gone, not only will I be unable to review it, I'll be reluctant to take on others of yours.
sorry bro u know how those old Russian bands are its kinda hard to track down the info :P
i got three 4 Stars from troll ill take that has a W !!!
Quote from: QuantumSync on Nov 22, 2024, 01:17 AMhttps://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLL6aKcXALC1tVMY7XNAhXnW7GEs7l3i0n
this is todays ^
ill leave up for as long as needed
i also have a november 2024 playlist with a few albums i like that I keep all the time
Right that won't work. There's like 50 tracks or something there. Either choose up to ten or give me another list; I'm not doing anything of that length.
And now, in a change to our scheduled programme...
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Track: "Private Life"
Artist: Oingo Boingo
Genre: New Wave/Zolo(?)/Post-punk/Dance-punk
From: 2nd album Nothing to Fear
Year: 1982
Personal familiarity (album): None
Personal familiarity (artist): I've vaguely heard of them, but heard nothing from them.
Comments: This sounds like something right out of the 1980s new wave scene all right; kind of an Echo and the Bunnymen/Cure feel about it, mixed in with touches of Icehouse perhaps, the barest tinges of Yazoo? Good and bouncy and quite catchy, good powerful guitar - has an edge of It Bites about it - and a nice hook. Sweet.
Rating: :4stars:
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Track: "Alex Chilton"
Artist: The Replacements
Genre: Alternative Rock/Punk Rock/Power Pop
From: 5th album Pleased to Meet Me
Year: 1987
Personal familiarity (album): None
Personal familiarity (artist): I think I suffered through one of their albums before, courtesy of Frownland
Comments: Pretty raw and aggressive, which I probably would expect, though not as abrasive as my only other foray into their music. It's not my thing but I guess it's okay. A bit basic for my tastes.
Rating: :3stars:
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Track: "Kandy"
Artist: Fever Ray
Genre: Art-Pop/Synthpop/Post-industrial/Darkwave/Kuduro (?)/ Electropop/Indietronica
From: 3rd album Radical Romantics
Year: 2023
Personal familiarity (album): None
Personal familiarity (artist): None, but I do know of his brother Black Man...
Comments: I think I'd have to say this is okay but it doesn't stand out to me. The synth riff is the most interesting thing about it, other than that it doesn't have much to recommend it, to me anyway. It's not that it's bad, just, well, there.
Rating: :2.5stars:
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Track: "Girls"
Artist: The Prodigy
Genre: Big Beat/Electroclash (?)/ Grime/Post-industrial
From: 4th album Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned
Year: 2004
Personal familiarity (album): None
Personal familiarity (artist): I've heard maybe one or two tracks
Comments: Is it meant to have that drop-out thing, the gap in it? Very annoying. A bit chaotic; almost sounds at times like a Prince song, very funk/soul, but with a beat behind it just this side of techno. Confusing. Not for these ears, son.
Rating: :2.5stars:
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Track: "Don't Hang Up"
Artist: 10cc
Genre: Art-pop/Progressive pop/Pop Rock/Art Rock
From: 3rd album How Dare You!
Year: 1976
Personal familiarity (album): I've heard it but it was decades ago (my brother was a 10cc fan)
Personal familiarity (artist): Yeah I know them reasonably well, as above
Comments: I must admit, I always loved the cover of Bloody Tourists! - probably wouldn't get away with a title like that today, uptight world that we live in. But this is from their third album, and the one, I think, that built on the success of the previous album, which had taken them out of the realm of obscure British pop band and to international fame. With hits like "I'm Mandy, Fly Me" and "Art for Art's Sake", this shows the band perhaps at close to their best. This is a nice little ballad, typical of Godley and Creme's talent for writing simple love songs (everyone knows "I'm Not in Love", right?) played mostly on piano. Lovely. Takes me right back to that collection of my brother's which he kept in the top half of his wardrobe, and from which I filched my first Genesis album.
Rating: :5stars:
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Track: "Dinosaur"
Artist: King Crimson
Genre: Progressive Rock/Industrial Rock/Experimental Rock/Progressive Metal
From: 11th album Thrak
Year: 1995
Personal familiarity (album): None
Personal familiarity (artist): Some; I've been working my way through their discography, with mixed results
Comments: Ah yes, King Crimson! The band you have to have been into or you can't be a proghead, officially. Well, I never was into them, never heard anything by them until a few years ago, and as noted above, began going through their albums in order, many of which impressed me, some of which did not. This comes from a later period, almost twenty-first century (Schizoid) men at this point, so could be a lot different to what I've heard up to now. I see the tags "industrial" and "experimental", which are usually red flags to me.
So, a track from Thrak! eh? Sounds like the album was named either after an alien bounty hunter or a sound-effect used in comics. "Take that! Whack! Bokko! Thrakk!" Yeah. Anyway, what's it like? Well I certainly like the big orchestral opening, then the guitar riff slicing through it is sweet, and who's singing? Not Wetton or Lake I think - Adrian Belew, it says. Can't say I've heard of him, but he's good. Yes I can see the metal tag being used, but experimental? Industrial? Don't see it. Decent song though. Oddly, reminds me of late Don Henley for some reason. The horn near the end is cool, and the reprise of the orchestral strings very nice indeed. Overall, consider me impressed, if not yet quite a fan. Another step along the road.
Rating: :4stars:
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Track: "Lady Nina"
Artist: Thulsa Doom
Genre: Hard Rock
From: 4th album A Keen Eye for the Obvious
Year: 2017
Personal familiarity (album): None
Personal familiarity (artist): None, other than the connection with Conan
Comments: When I saw this I thought, surely not? A cover of the old Marillion tune from the 1980s? But of course it isn't. Hold on: you're telling me that's not Phil Lynott singing? Well, duh, of course not: the guy is dead. But if he ever needed a change of scene, this guy could join Lizzy and everyone would think it was the iconic Irish frontman. Amazing.
Sorry, I got a bit caught up with how much he sounds like Lynott, so didn't really listen to the song. Now that I do, it's meh. I mean, it's okay, standard hard rock which sounds more like it belongs firmly in the 1970s than the 21st century, but I'm adding a star for the incredible similarity in the voices. Uncanny.
Rating: :4stars:
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Track: "Your Majesty is Like a Cream Donut (incorporating Oh What a Lonely Lifetime)"
Artist: Hatfield and the North
Genre: Canterbury Scene
From: First compilation album V
Year: 1975
Personal familiarity (album): None
Personal familiarity (artist): A little; I'm not big into the Canterbury Scene
Comments: Not to be confused with the Metallica prog rock tribute band, Hetfield and the North, these guys were one of the mainstays of a side of prog rock I don't particularly enjoy, the Canterbury Scene. The ridiculously long title was typical of prog rock bands at that time, the likes of Van der Graaf Generator, Genesis and Yes seeming to think really long titles were cool. They're not: they're a pain to type, guys. But there it is. It was, as they say, a different time, when if you presented a prog rock producer with a song that ran for ten minutes they'd shrug and ask you to come back when you had finished it.
As expected, this rambles all over the place, and if you like CS, jazz fusion etc you'll probably love it. I don't hate it, but I sure don't love it. Just not my (Canterbury) scene I'm afraid. Oh. Surprised to find vocals coming in after four minutes; I assumed it was an instrumental. Probably would have been better had it been.
Rating: :3stars:
So let's see what the average is overall then.
Average rating: :3.5stars:
Hey, nice! Thank you so much for the reviews,
@Trollheart 😊 Well done!
The only 5 star you gave was for 10cc. I will say its a fantastic track. Their songs were always very well produced and this one has a lot going for it, being beautiful, catchy and tongue in cheek melodramatic / funny.
I know I've been going on about Hatfield.. for years and years. I Should shut up about them, but I just find it fascinating that this song wasn't released on any of their albums, instead just ending up on a sampler showcasing some talent that Virgin had signed. So it's a very obscure track from them, but brilliant still.. despite your meagre 3 stars 😄 Also the first part of the title is from a Monty Python sketch. Oh and much of it was re-used in their second album's prog epic Mumps.
I'll shut up now.
Also, Oingo Boingo is Danny Elfman's old band from before he became a movie composer. They are actually great.
Thanks again! 👍
Okay that's it till Shhon gets his shhit together. I'm out of selections, so feel free to drop some on me.
Alright, I'll double dip - I was pleasantly surprised how much you seemed to enjoy my last selection Trolls! :)
I tried to make this one a bit more contemporary.
The Chemical Brothers - "Live Again" (For That Beautiful Feeling, 2023)
Too $hort - "Blow The Whistle" (Blow the Whistle, 2006)
How to Dress Well - "Words I Don't Remember" (What Is This Heart?, 2014)
Cephas & Wiggins - "Man Without A Future" (Cool Down, 1996)
Low - "Disappearing" (Hey What, 2021)
The XX - "I Dare You" (I See You, 2017)
Beach House - "Wishes" (Bloom, 2012)
Smashing Pumpkins - "Set the Ray to Jerry" (The Aeroplane Flies High, 1996)
Underworld - "Nylon Strung" (Barbara Barbara, We Face A Shining Future, 2016)
Chromatics - "Cherry" (Cherry, 2017)