What are you currently listening to?

[GaijinPunch]

My record collection was recently stolen. Just before that, I had been trying to find old new wave albums I missed for one reason or another. So, I'm doing that now digitally, as I doubt I'll try to rebuild it until I feel settled in a place for more than a few years (which is not on my horizon). Gary Numan's entire catalog is hard to miss. So, I got Replicas and loaded it on my phone. Definitely digging it. Have a few others in the queue by him and others, but I'm going to let this one settle in first.

[MOSQUITO FIGHTER]

I've been dabbling in country music. I'm not sure why now. I used to actively hate on this genre in my youth. I guess after many years of listening to electronic stuff might as well do a 180 I guess. The authenticity and slow pace is kind of refreshing.

Jason Isbell, Charley Crockett, Colter Wall, Sturgill Simpson, Billy Strings, Red Clay Strays, Turnpike Trubadors, Arlo McKinley, Margo Price

[Lord British]

My record collection was recently stolen. Just before that, I had been trying to find old new wave albums I missed for one reason or another. So, I'm doing that now digitally, as I doubt I'll try to rebuild it until I feel settled in a place for more than a few years (which is not on my horizon). Gary Numan's entire catalog is hard to miss. So, I got Replicas and loaded it on my phone. Definitely digging it. Have a few others in the queue by him and others, but I'm going to let this one settle in first.

Dude wtf, sorry to hear

Did you hear the first couple John Foxx albums after he left Ultravox?

https://youtu.be/uxoEfuluwI4?si=_EAN3CccBnlLBG8z

And here's a more obscure artist
https://youtu.be/zXzoqI6xP3U?si=LuSnqYVnn6iUFhKl

[BIL]

My record collection was recently stolen. Just before that, I had been trying to find old new wave albums I missed for one reason or another. So, I'm doing that now digitally, as I doubt I'll try to rebuild it until I feel settled in a place for more than a few years (which is not on my horizon). Gary Numan's entire catalog is hard to miss. So, I got Replicas and loaded it on my phone. Definitely digging it. Have a few others in the queue by him and others, but I'm going to let this one settle in first.

Christ, sorry bud. Had a total reset myself years ago, but it was a hurricane that ruined everyone's shit front to back, easier to say fuck it and move on. You'll get back to where you were quicker than you think!

[vol.2]

My record collection was recently stolen.

Oh lord. Records aren't like something you just pick up a whole box and run with. Sound like there's a bit of a story to this one. Whatever the situation, sorry to hear about it. That blows.

Did you hear the first couple John Foxx albums after he left Ultravox?

Those are both great. The Garden is a bit harder to get into IMO; it's very good, but it's a lot less pop and more on the progressive synth side and less dance oriented than his work with Ultravox and the singles from his first solo album. It's more like a continuation of the more artsy and adventurous songs from the first Ultravox album that weren't really on the second and third album.

And here's a more obscure artist
https://youtu.be/zXzoqI6xP3U?si=LuSnqYVnn6iUFhKl

Wild. His aesthetic is like a cross between David Sylvian and Ryuichi Sakamoto on the cover of Left Handed Dream.

[Lord British]

My record collection was recently stolen.

Oh lord. Records aren't like something you just pick up a whole box and run with. Sound like there's a bit of a story to this one. Whatever the situation, sorry to hear about it. That blows.

Did you hear the first couple John Foxx albums after he left Ultravox?

Those are both great. The Garden is a bit harder to get into IMO; it's very good, but it's a lot less pop and more on the progressive synth side and less dance oriented than his work with Ultravox and the singles from his first solo album. It's more like a continuation of the more artsy and adventurous songs from the first Ultravox album that weren't really on the second and third album.

And here's a more obscure artist
https://youtu.be/zXzoqI6xP3U?si=LuSnqYVnn6iUFhKl

Wild. His aesthetic is like a cross between David Sylvian and Ryuichi Sakamoto on the cover of Left Handed Dream.

I was actually gonna throw in a Japan track too but I thought I posted enough

[Lord British]

File under: songs for weddings

https://youtu.be/Mi6WrPIyOB8?si=6K_43tnHYwoQ-Lcg

[Steven]

Just got back from Mémoire éternelle.



I've been waiting for this day for almost two years now. Innocent Grey's CEO Sugina Miki is the closest thing there is to an auteur in the visual novel industry, and he saw a Youtube video where an orchestra had played some stuff from Innocent Grey's Flowers series and absolutely loved it. Since the series' 10th anniversary was coming up in about half a year at that time, he started talking about how he wanted to do this himself, then he finally announced it several months later on the series' 10 anniversary, April 18 of last year. It's exactly one week shy of a year since then and it finally happened. It's really really nice to go do a thing that you've been anticipating impatiently for like a year and a half and it actually surpasses expectations; this was one of the best concerts I've ever been to.

Innocent Grey never does any unless it's super lavish, so literally everything the company does is extravagant beyond reason, and this was no exception; the event isn't even technically over yet because of course there's the accompanying 10th anniversary art gallery that starts tomorrow, although I'm going on Monday morning because I figured there'd be less people. They structured this in a similar fashion to one of their games, in this case as a four-act, three hour orchestral concert that went in order from spring to winter playing a suite of music from each game, complete with new monologues from the voice actors between acts, new artwork that you of course pay five or six-figure amounts for during the gallery, a new and surprisingly long art book with said new art and more and new short stories printed on thick, luxurious paper, and full versions of all of the openings and endings with the original singers. The conductor/arranger was of particular interest: it was legendary Mega Drive sound god Iwadare Noriyuki, who made the equally legendary Cube sound driver, which was used by him when he worked on Gleylancer, Zero Wing, Langrisser, Langrisser II, After Burner II, and probably some more stuff that I can't remember right now. I'm going to go talk to him in about three weeks or so at a different game music event, so it will be cool to find out what he thinks about all of this music. I'm especially curious to see if he was the one that decided on the setlist.

[Lemnear]

Angelo Branduiardi - Il Signore Di Baux (1979)

Spoiler

The lord of Baux built
his house on the rocks.
The lord of Baux built
his house on the rocks.
The footsteps of a thousand knights
mark his paths.
By night, his icy thoughts
keep watch from above.

The lord of Baux built
his house on the rocks.
His dogs moan in their sleep
dreaming of a hunt.
His lady sits at the banquet
with a wistful look in her eyes.
Fire and warmth in your halls,
and dances, colours and merriment,
songs and noise and echoes of laughter
in your house, lord of Baux.

The lord of Baux built
his house on the rocks.
And it remains there
and watches years go by.
Like the flight of birds towards the sea
is the shadow of his thoughts.
The salty wind
has painted his halls in white.
Fire and warmth in your halls,
and dances, colours and merriment,
songs and noise and echoes of laughter
in your house, lord of Baux.
The lord of Baux built
his house on the rocks.
The lord of Baux built
his house on the rocks.

Angelo Branduardi - Ballo In Fa Diesis Minore (1977)

Spoiler

I am Death and wear a crown,
I am for all of you lady and mistress
and I am so cruel, so strong and harsh
that your walls won’t stop me.

I am Death and wear a crown,
I am for all of you lady and mistress
and in front of my scythe you’ll have to bow your head
and walk to the gloomy Death’s pace.

You are the guest of honor at the dance we are playing for you,
put your scythe down and dance round and round
a round of dancing and then one more,
and you’ll be no longer the lady of time.

Le Orme - Gioco di Bimba (1972)

Spoiler

Like under a spell, she wakes up at night
Quietly walks with her eyes still closed
As if she’s following a magical song
And on the swing she keeps dreaming.

The long night gown, the milky white face
The moonlight shines on her thick hair
The wax statue stretches out on the flowers
While jealous elves peek at her.

Swing, swing, the wind pushes her
And catches stars for her wishes
A sneaky shadow crawls out from the wall
In the little girl’s game a woman is lost.

A scream in the morning, in the middle of the street
A rag man cries out for his tailor
Bewildered, he keeps repeating:
“I didn’t want to wake her like this! I didn’t want to wake her like this!”

Angelo Branduardi - L'apprendista stregone (1996)

Spoiler

With my breath, the breath of a volcano, I'll cancel
the chill in this room
and with the flight of an arrow I'll pierce
that pale, distant moon.
I'll be there and I won't, I'll continue
my invisible dance,
leaving no traces on snow, I'll be delicate,
you'll say yes to me or you'll say no.

Silence will have the voice I have
and its hands will be long enough,
it will be made of waiting and understanding, but
I'll know what I don't know yet.
what I don't know yet.
You'll say yes to me or you'll say no.

With my heart, the heart of a pencil, I'll correct
mistakes made by time
and with the pace of a watchman I'll make sure
it stops or goes on more slowly.
I'll be there and I won't, I'll speak to you
with every fragile accent
I'll be a trace on the snow, I'll be snow,
you'll say yes to me or you'll say no.

I'll be ink on the manuscript
and you'll have me in black and white
maybe it will be the eyes or the tarots, but
I'll know what I don't know yet,
what I don't know yet.
You'll say yes to me or you'll say no,
you'll say yes to me or you'll say no.

You'll be alone in your sun or I'll be alone.
You'll say yes to me or you'll say no,
you'll say yes to me or you'll say no.

[BIL]

On loop 8hrs writing home.

Apologies for Kanye, appalled onlookers. He's a moron narcissist, but also a traumatised black nerd who lost his mom atop that. 3;



^ me and my buddies booking it out of social media for AD199X ;w;7

quality heartful post

ta Lem will enjoy investigatng

[vol.2]

Apologies for Kanye, appalled onlookers. He's a moron narcissist, but also a traumatised black nerd who lost his mom atop that. 3;

Haha. I love how Kanye fans always feel the need to apologize for him. Shows a lot of hutzpah!

Now talk about Lou Reed, there's a real grade-A asshole that I can really get behind, no pun intended. If you're going to be a terrible human being, just commit to it I say. Don't leave things half done.

I joke. They are both miserable and I wonder sometimes why I still love the art. I wish we didn't have to know about the things they do sometimes, but with some of them they can't seem to keep their stupid mouths shut.

[BIL]

Not into him at all honestly, just every now and then new acquaintances send me stuff like this, and I have to pretend to be shocked at his middleschooler idiocy. He's like a hip hop Yngwie. Mahfuckas like him a dime a dozen where sensitivity is despised as weakness, the poor bastards. (Malmsteen/West-level talent being considerably rarer, ofc!)

EDIT: Bahahaha. Tonight, from HAWT new drop and "CUCK" album opener WORLD WAR 3 (not to be confused with KOF99's far more compelling Ikari Team BGM, which you can enjoy on the landmark Arrange Sound Trax, a latter-days triumph for SNK Sound Team)

A Racist Black Guy?! Middle England Can't Believe This One Weird Trick

She wanna hop in a 'Rari
She wanna hop in a 'Rari
She wanna hop in a 'Rari
She wanna hop in a 'Rari

I see that look in her eyes
She wanna hop in a ride
I said, "Are you ready to die?"
I said, "Are you ready to die?"

Oh no! Celebrity death in a sporty car! It is the freshest, most rebellious, without causeful move I have ever seen! What will he do next - ride a motorbike straddled by his naked pornstar ex-wife?!

They tellin' me that I'm a bully
I'm antisemitic, fully
They sayin' I'm actin' like Hitler
But how am I actin' like Hitler
When I am a fucking ▓▓▓▓▓▓?

That august philosophical exercise, the chicken and the egg! Thanks YE! Maybe Hitler and those who'd call you that word should both fucking neck themselves while we get on with our lives? Maverick Gordian solutions here, don't thank me, we detest racists of all colours and creeds in outer muttfordshire

I always like his songs I've happened across over the years though. COUSINS an [insert boilerplate rock journo effusion] indeed! (I do genuinely feel terrible for him about his mother, could believe it when old friends say that's when he lost it)

[Lemnear]

On loop 8hrs writing home.

Apologies for Kanye, appalled onlookers. He's a moron narcissist, but also a traumatised black nerd who lost his mom atop that. 3;



^ me and my buddies booking it out of social media for AD199X ;w;7

I love this sound...it sounds poorly made and I like that.

[Lord British]

Here's another one Lemnear

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3uqyOld_NM