Let's find out!
Since music is as integral to my daily life as anything else, this journal is for that rather than typing stuff about my dumpster fire of a life. Don't hesitate to post anything you are listening to. Doesn't matter what it is, I will listen to it.
Let's go!
As I sit like a kid at Christmas waiting for the Spotify Release Radar to update....
Underworld - "denver luna" from their latest LP. DEFINITELY worth putting the headphones on for this one. Transportive.
Possibly the saddest song I ever heard. Don't lie and say you didn't cry by the end.
"Kentucky Avenue" - Tom Waits (
Blue Valentine)
Oh, and welcome to Journal Land! :love:
Quote from: innerspaceboy on Dec 12, 2024, 08:32 PMUnderworld - "denver luna" from their latest LP. DEFINITELY worth putting the headphones on for this one. Transportive.
That thuds very nicely! Gonna have to check out the full LP. A collab between Underworld and VNV Nation would be a cool old school crossover
Quote from: Trollheart on Dec 12, 2024, 11:18 PMPossibly the saddest song I ever heard. Don't lie and say you didn't cry by the end.
Damned fine song. There's something about artists who can be so emotionally evocative with straightforward no-frills writing that I love so much. Tom Waites rarely misses.
Some random Sunday morning listening
Wildly underrated artist
One of the best live recordings I've ever heard
Hope Xmas was good for you folks.
They've been milking this one track with new versions and remixes since 2017, but I still lap it up lol
Been back on an old(ish) school industrial kick
When I was still basically a zygote I got into things like NIN, Marilyn Manson, White Zombie, etc. and somehow had the brainfart to look at the credits in album sleeves to look at producer names and then use that as a way to find new music. Finding Dave Ogilvie lead me to Skinny Puppy and I picked up this track as a single. Had never heard anything so strange and interesting. Opened up a whole world to me.
Huppeh Noo Yeaaa
Mini list of some mostly chill listening.
Some Violet Cold. If you've not had the pleasure, stuff this in your ears and smoke it.
Good with some nice headphones or a big bad subhhwooofer
One of those fucking days. Big kick in the crotch. Tonight, drinks and pity party. Tomorrow, scrape up and get ready for more jabs and hooks to the teefs. Limp and shamble on, folks!
For the maybe... I guess 0 of you who understand Quebecois french lol
Youth Code has been pretty inactive in the past couple years, but hope they pop back up at some point. Sara Taylor's voice is so well suited for this stuff.
One of the dream collabs and the perfect track for it, but sadly not done in studio and resigned to shit quality clips
Youth Code are so great. I also hope to hear new stuff from them someday.
Sara Taylor did guest vocals on this track by Rhys Fulber a few years ago and I really dig it.
Quote from: Lexi Darling on Jan 19, 2025, 11:42 PMYouth Code are so great. I also hope to hear new stuff from them someday.
Sara Taylor did guest vocals on this track by Rhys Fulber a few years ago and I really dig it.
Nice! I'm also a big fan of Rhys Fulber's projects (and especially his remixes), so I'm pretty surprised I hadn't stumbled on this track before. Really appreciate you linking it! Long time Skinny Puppy fan, so it was so crazy in the mid 2010s for an electro industrial act like Youth Code to come out of nowhere and nail it so well. It's a pretty inaccessible subgenre in general, so doubly cool that Youth Code was also good at drawing a lot of new listeners in.
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I remember hearing Strapping Young Lad on Much Music (sort of the Canadian MTV) way
way back and loving it but not being able to track it down in stores. Kinda just forgot about them for a few decades lol, but recently took a listen to City, and holy effing ess what an absolute
beast of an album. A classic in metal and industrial, and you can really hear the influence from Ministry, thrash metal, and some big crossover between them and Fear Factory. Maybe even a seed for numetal buried in there at times.
The use of chopped and pitch lowered vocals that run along with the original vocal track is so cool in this.
Lana Del Rabies is up there among the best artist names ever.
You reminded me I need to listen to more Jason Isbell.
Just a point: some of your videos don't show up ("this video is not available") though that might be a country/region-specific thing? Anyway, it might be nice just to put the title and artist there so that we know, and if we want to, can go looking for alternatives. Just an idea.
Quote from: Trollheart on Feb 07, 2025, 11:19 PMYou reminded me I need to listen to more Jason Isbell.
Just a point: some of your videos don't show up ("this video is not available") though that might be a country/region-specific thing? Anyway, it might be nice just to put the title and artist there so that we know, and if we want to, can go looking for alternatives. Just an idea.
Yup, that would definitely be a country/region thing and I'll write out the artist and song names from now on. That last batch was
Lana Del Rabies - Disgrace
Dis Fig - Dissent, Shame
Pigface - Taiko
And this one is Trollheart - Scream From The Forest ;D
Peter Schilling - Major Tom
Apropos to nothing at all I swear... when country was more punk than current punk.
Woody Guthrie - All You Fascists Bound to Lose
Fun fact, again apropos to nothing at all, Guthrie once rented a NYC apartment from Fred Trump and hated the fucker so much for not renting to Black people that he wrote the song "Beach Haven Ain't My Home (Old Man Trump)" about him. Haven't been able to find any original recordings from Guthrie himself, but loads of of cover versions out there.
I must say, I prefer ice cream in the forest. :laughing:
And that Peter Schilling song has been on the TV recently, reminded me how good it is. Not easy to "rip off" Bowie and still write a great song doing it!
Quote from: Trollheart on Feb 10, 2025, 08:54 PMI must say, I prefer ice cream in the forest. :laughing:
And that Peter Schilling song has been on the TV recently, reminded me how good it is. Not easy to "rip off" Bowie and still write a great song doing it!
Ice cream, you scream, we all scream in Trollheart's forest. Speaking of that song on the TV, remember the incredible cover of it by Shiny Toy Guns that was made for a Lincoln commercial? It loses a bit of its retro charm, but her vocals are
fire.
Then there was the time that a Psychic TV track was used in a Volkswagon commercial. Wild that you have a project by Genesis P. Orridge (
the person who started industrial music, and even gave the genre it's name) on commercials. Big bonus troll points that the track is about Roman Polanski, specifically Sharon Tate's tragic murder and then Roman escaping justice for being a piece of shit pedo lol Someone in marketing
really didn't do their homework.
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Merry Friday
Glass Beams - Rattlesnake
Edit: Just cycled on here, but such an amazing hidden gem of an artist from Canada.
Mustafa - Stay Alive
Festive Tuesday.
The music scene is drastically lacking stuff making fun of rednecks
Ministry - Jesus Built My Hotrod (Redline/Whiteline Version)
The Revolting Cocks - Beers, Steers, and Queers (Take'em Right Off Mix)
Pigface - Eat Shit You Fucking Redneck
Buck Satan and The 666 Shooters - What's Wrong With Me
Jello Biafra x Mojo Nixon - Are You Drinkin' With Me Jesus
One of the more surreal things I've ever seen. No, it's not AI slop.
More weird shit
Ministry and David Hasselhoff doing Sweet Caroline
Front Line Assembly and Tiffany doing New years Day
Tiffany... yes, the one from the 80s. One of the oddest possible combinations, but it actually works really well!
Pig and Sasha Grey doing You've Lost That Loving Feeling
Pig and Sasha Grey doing That's The Way I Like It
If you want people makin' fun of rednecks, ICP have made a very successful career doing just that.
"Chicken huntin'" ICP
And as for odd collabs, how about David Gilmour and The Orb?
"Metallic Spheres in Colour" - David Gilmour and The Orb
Quote from: Trollheart on Mar 17, 2025, 04:03 AMIf you want people makin' fun of rednecks, ICP have made a very successful career doing just that.
"Chicken huntin'" ICP
I remember when people used to dunk on ICP and juggalos, but a couple years ago I watched a documentary on them and it was actually pretty eye-opening. They gave a lot of, often rural, youth who were outcasts or oddballs for whatever reason something inclusive to be a part of. Still a bit leery about the cultish aspects of that fandom, but better than them becoming a bunch of fascists.
Quote from: Trollheart on Mar 17, 2025, 04:03 AMAnd as for odd collabs, how about David Gilmour and The Orb?
"Metallic Spheres in Colour" - David Gilmour and The Orb
Nice! Haven't heard this before and am enjoying it. Reminds me of the Spawn soundtrack from way back where there were some good electronica/other crossovers. May start compiling these odd collabs.
One for you today.
Very good (or as we say here, particularly today,
go h-ana mhaith!). I've got quite a bit into the old Celtic Punk in the last few years. Think my favourite is the Dropkick Murphys:
"Shipping Up to Boston" - Dropkick Murphys
Quote from: Trollheart on Mar 18, 2025, 02:31 AMVery good (or as we say here, particularly today, go h-ana mhaith!). I've got quite a bit into the old Celtic Punk in the last few years. Think my favourite is the Dropkick Murphys:
Big Dropkick Murphys fan, myself (but wanted to link an Irish band). Can't even count how many times I've narrowly missed seeing them live. I've been impressed by how consistently good they've been over such a long time. If they're putting out something new, you can pretty well bank on it being solid. Some bands just understand the formula of what's worked for them and can still evolve with the times without losing sight of that.
Dropkick Murphys - The Lonesome Boatman
Found my way into Celtic punk way back with this gem
Flogging Molly - Devil's Dancefloor
How about one from your own fair country?
"Droppin' Like Flies" - The Real Mackenzies
Quote from: Trollheart on Mar 19, 2025, 07:38 PMHow about one from your own fair country?
"Droppin' Like Flies" - The Real Mackenzies
Nice! It took a minute to barely remember them. Gonna have to revisit their stuff!
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Lords of Acid are always fun. Absolute apex white people dancing on this one. I wonder how much editing it took to make it look like it was on beat :laughing:
Lords of Acid - I Sit On Acid (1988)
"I sit on acid"? Sounds painful and not at all advisable! :laughing:
Awesome piano version of one of my fav tracks. It connects all on its own, but if you've seen the anime it's from (86 Eighty Six) it hits hard and I'm not exactly a huge anime fan. That one is worth the watch.
Avid - 86 / Eighty-Six (Episode 22 version) ED [Piano] / Hiroyuki Sawano
Original (well, the english version) from the show
Hiroyuki Sawano - Voices of the Chord
On a somewhat nostalgic kick on a group I loved when I was living in Stockholm.They started as just a joke band between two friends, but gained quite a bit of momentum because their tracks are actually incredibly catchy. Swedes are so good at pop that even a completely silly unserious project sounds great.
Death Team - Fucking Bitches In The Hood
Death Team - So Fresh
Death Team - Messed Up
Death Team - Dolphin Style
Death Team - Work