Music shall be discussed here

[Stubblecat]

I'm sure that somewhere, several pages in, there's a music thread around here. But since even if does exist it hasn't been updated in a few months, let's start one anew.

We shall discuss the music we've bought, played, heard about, found secret download links for and gossiped about.

I'll begin with what I thought would be a cruddy pop album, but quickly became one of my favourites of 2008:



Yes. Katy Perry. The Rosa Parks of getting girls to make out with each other. The album is surprisingly band-oriented and (dare I say?) rocks quite hard in places.

Being a music geek (and having ran a music store for 8 years in my early days) I have an eclectic mix of tastes. Another fave of 2008 was Dennis Wilson's Pacific Ocean Blue reissue.


I'm a HUGE Beach Boys fan. It's a long story, but the short version is that the Beach Boys have yet to get the credit they deserve for shaping pop music in the 60s (and to some extent, the 70s).
Dennis was the first Beach Boy to make a solo album, and it stands as a beautiful & haunting collection of songs about broken love and a sad type of joy.


So... Yammer about whatever is on your playlist!

[Steve T Power]

Lately it's pretty much been the Japanese Version of The Music's Strength in Numbers (British rock-pop-club fusion)- that bonus disc is full of AMAZING tunes. Also been on a huge AC/DC kick (Gobbling up the remasters - Powerage in remastered form is one of the best blues-rock albums out of the '70's). And alternating between Sam Robert's Love at the End of The World (this guy just gets better and better!) and Matt Mays & El Torpedo - Terminal Romance (excellent!)

[Stubblecat]

If anyone's interested in a fantastic ongoing radio music-documentary series, hunt down The Ongoing History Of New Music, hosted by Alan Cross.

Alan has been doing this weekly series since 1993, and you can stream shows going back to 1998 online. Some throughful soul has turned all of those streams into torrents grouped by year, so that's handy.

I can't even explain how fascinating this series is. Even when he covers bands I have no interest in, he tells pretty compelling stories and always digs up lots of rarities and the like.

[molly1216]

it's not that i don't like katy Perry but i think the rosa parks analogy is tacky

[TemporalWisdom]

it's not that i don't like katy Perry but i think the rosa parks analogy is tacky

And nonsensical. How is a line drawn from "I Kissed a Girl" to Rosa Parks?

Actually, as much as I dig the HGOGA, I can't help feeling the song is tacky. She kisses no girls in the music video, sadly, and I have to think she has no interest in kissing girls if she couldn't even slip one a little tongue just for show. My conclusion is that she wrote the song just for the attention. Hell, even straight girls that make out with each other just to arouse males can't be accused of not putting their money where their mouths are. No pun intended.

[Gabriel Girard]

The cd I've listened to the most lately is After The Gold Rush by Neil Young - both achingly beautiful, creepy and rockin'.

5 last listens:

White Chalk - P.J. Harvey
Cruelty And The Beast - Cradle Of Filth
Raw Power - The Stooges
The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths
Blonde On Blonde - Bob Dylan

[Bill Treadway]

I've been listening to Blood, Sweat and Tears 4 constantly over the past few days. It had been a while since I last listened to it (mainly because I misplaced it around the house and didn't find it for 2 years). I know most prefer the second album with the big hits, but I always felt that BS&T 4 was their strongest and best album.

I've also been listening constantly to two John Cale CDs, Vintage Violence and Paris 1919. Simply amazing music.

And guilty pleasure time- The Monkees. Head and Instant Replay show a band that was evolving from the pop-music Beatles imitation into a band of real growth and talent.

[stypee]

I got all the U2 remasters which have been released so far.. The bonus discs are a little lame and the remasters themselves aren't exactly earth shattering. There is still a rather annoying hiss that plays through out the October album which for the life of me I can't figure out why they couldn't edge it out a bit.. I also have R.E.M. Murmur remastered which sounds much nicer.. Haven't listened to the second disc yet. I also have the 24k gold release.

My iPod has been wailing through half the Alanis Moriessette catalog on a constant basis for the past few months whilst driving to and from work. I really dig it..

[tucco]

[quote="Steve T Power"] Also been on a huge AC/DC kick (Gobbling up the remasters - Powerage in remastered form is one of the best blues-rock albums out of the '70's)

I have also been gobbling AC/DC remasters......Let There Be Rock is amazing. Especially "Problem Child"...the production is so clean and brutal and primal I can't help listen to it over and over...
High Voltage is also greatly improved with the remaster...and for being their first record (leaving the Australian version and T.N.T. albums out of it) it's actually one of their most consistent records.
Powerage is the overlooked masterpiece with nothing that jumps out at you, but lands on it's feet anyway.

[Stubblecat]

it's not that i don't like katy Perry but i think the rosa parks analogy is tacky

No. The analogy is correct. Just displeasing, that's all.