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

[MOSQUITO FIGHTER]

Kassi Valazza

https://youtu.be/BRDjgrlyku8?si=yQDIL9gvksKQPjSC

Charley Crockett

https://youtu.be/abf8hijakx8?si=ZSHnuGqVbdUQSlth

[AGermanArtist]

I prefer Redbar's cover.
I'm a sucker for simple post-punk/goth basslines like The Sisters of Mercy's Lucretia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oznmYr0TVJY

[Lemnear]

Mina - Se Telefonando (1966) (music by Ennio Morricone)

Spoiler

The wonder of the night
open to the sea
surprised us, strangers
you and I.
Then in the darkness your hands
suddenly on mine,
this love of ours grew too quickly.
If by calling
I could say goodbye,
I would call you.
If, seeing you again,
I were sure you weren't suffering,
I would see you again.
If, looking into your eyes,
I could tell you enough,
I would look at you.
But I can't explain to you
that our newborn love
is already over.
If by calling
I wanted to say goodbye,
I would call you.
If, seeing you again,
I were sure you weren't suffering,
I would see you again.
If, looking into your eyes,
I could tell you enough,
I would look at you.
But I can't explain to you
that our newborn love
is already over

[RGC]

Mina - Se Telefonando (1966) (music by Ennio Morricone)

Spoiler

The wonder of the night
open to the sea
surprised us, strangers
you and I.
Then in the darkness your hands
suddenly on mine,
this love of ours grew too quickly.
If by calling
I could say goodbye,
I would call you.
If, seeing you again,
I were sure you weren't suffering,
I would see you again.
If, looking into your eyes,
I could tell you enough,
I would look at you.
But I can't explain to you
that our newborn love
is already over.
If by calling
I wanted to say goodbye,
I would call you.
If, seeing you again,
I were sure you weren't suffering,
I would see you again.
If, looking into your eyes,
I could tell you enough,
I would look at you.
But I can't explain to you
that our newborn love
is already over

It's jarring every time bandcamp notifies me of another Morricone release. Takes a moment to realise it must be another expanded edition of an earlier release.

[RGC]

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.

I found out too late that he's playing in my city in a few months. Sold out. Stupidly got rid of all my Numan CDs in the mass purge of ~2018 (along with my entire physical collection, so I guess ~150-200 albums). Idiot.* Weirdly though, since I ditched spotify last year and started building up a CD+mp3/flac library again, it mostly comprises stuff I didn't own last time around. My tastes have definitely shifted about with passing years, but there are still one or two discs I'll be buying back!

* It stings to this day that the guy who bought the bulk of my collection asked me to box and send everything as cheaply as humanly possible, and not include protective padding. He was happy to accept that some of the CDs would get damaged in transit, i.e. clearly looking to maximise any profit on individual resale by avoiding high postage costs. No interest in the music itself. I'd taken such good care of them up to that point as well, with no discs that skipped or didn't read.

[vol.2]

Stupidly got rid of all my Numan CDs in the mass purge of ~2018 (along with my entire physical collection, so I guess ~150-200 albums). Idiot.* Weirdly though, since I ditched spotify last year and started building up a CD+mp3/flac library again, it mostly comprises stuff I didn't own last time around. My tastes have definitely shifted about with passing years, but there are still one or two discs I'll be buying back!

I had a couple big music losses in the 90s that really got me to hoard. I had my car broken into while I was in a 7-11 and they stole my giant CD folder that had 1000+ in it. I vowed to stop buying anything on CD that I could get the LP for. Then in the late 90s, I needed money and I stupidly sold some of what would turn out to be very valuable records now. All my OG Joy Division and every Tom Waits album were in that stack plus a lot more. I ended up rebuying some of it, including the JD LPs for a lot more. Honestly though, I'm really glad I filled out my collection when things were like $5-10 a pop. But in both cases, there was certainly a lot of things I didn't rebuy. I don't have any interest in listening to Waits anymore for one. I feel like he's really an adolescent kind of musician. Or like Primus is another example of something I really liked as a 14 year old boy that I would never care about now.

[RGC]

Stupidly got rid of all my Numan CDs in the mass purge of ~2018 (along with my entire physical collection, so I guess ~150-200 albums). Idiot.* Weirdly though, since I ditched spotify last year and started building up a CD+mp3/flac library again, it mostly comprises stuff I didn't own last time around. My tastes have definitely shifted about with passing years, but there are still one or two discs I'll be buying back!

I had a couple big music losses in the 90s that really got me to hoard. I had my car broken into while I was in a 7-11 and they stole my giant CD folder that had 1000+ in it. I vowed to stop buying anything on CD that I could get the LP for. Then in the late 90s, I needed money and I stupidly sold some of what would turn out to be very valuable records now. All my OG Joy Division and every Tom Waits album were in that stack plus a lot more. I ended up rebuying some of it, including the JD LPs for a lot more. Honestly though, I'm really glad I filled out my collection when things were like $5-10 a pop. But in both cases, there was certainly a lot of things I didn't rebuy. I don't have any interest in listening to Waits anymore for one. I feel like he's really an adolescent kind of musician. Or like Primus is another example of something I really liked as a 14 year old boy that I would never care about now.

I'm with you on Waits EXCEPT for Heart of Saturday Night -- one of the albums I've retained throughout any and all purges. It's a bit of an anomaly among his other work though, being warm and mostly accessible. An absolute gem, imo. For the occasional Joy Division fix, these days I find a compilation will suffice. If I did come across any of their albums on disc at a flea market I'd likely rebuy, but chances are slim and I'm not about to go hunting online. CDs seem to be going the way of retrogame carts, with prices on anything decent gradually creeping up, and lots of folk like me holding onto the albums they're repurchasing.

The thing that'll prevent my physical collection reaching silly numbers this time around is that I'm buying a mixture of discs and digital. That should at least delay the process of overloading shelves.

[vol.2]

I'm with you on Waits EXCEPT for Heart of Saturday Night -- one of the albums I've retained throughout any and all purges. It's a bit of an anomaly among his other work though, being warm and mostly accessible. An absolute gem, imo.

With Waits I suddenly woke up one day and found his singing annoying. I never could recover from that. If there is an exception (if there was an exception), it would be some of the material on Closing Time. A few of those songs are tied very closely to my first big relationship breakup. There will be forever an association with those songs that I can't undo. But I don't find that particularly a good reason to have it hanging around if you know what I mean. There's enough crap out there in the world to trigger me that I don't have to go doing it to myself on purpose.

But all that said, I don't think he's bad at all. Waits is a great songwriter when he wants to be. I think it's mostly the presentation that I get hung up on, and the fact that he's clearly in love with his own gravely voice. I find it to be uncomfortably on-display or something like that.

[RGC]

I'm with you on Waits EXCEPT for Heart of Saturday Night -- one of the albums I've retained throughout any and all purges. It's a bit of an anomaly among his other work though, being warm and mostly accessible. An absolute gem, imo.

With Waits I suddenly woke up one day and found his singing annoying. I never could recover from that. If there is an exception (if there was an exception), it would be some of the material on Closing Time. A few of those songs are tied very closely to my first big relationship breakup. There will be forever an association with those songs that I can't undo. But I don't find that particularly a good reason to have it hanging around if you know what I mean. There's enough crap out there in the world to trigger me that I don't have to go doing it to myself on purpose.

But all that said, I don't think he's bad at all. Waits is a great songwriter when he wants to be. I think it's mostly the presentation that I get hung up on, and the fact that he's clearly in love with his own gravely voice. I find it to be uncomfortably on-display or something like that.

I kinda respect him for sticking to his guns as far as idiosyncratic presentation is concerned. He knows what kind of showman he wants to be, and it's hard to argue he doesn't deliver effectively on that, even if he's not for everyone. That said, I haven't repurchased any of the albums of his I got rid of during the purge, so maybe Waits has had his day with me too (with the exception I mentioned). I can definitely relate to going off a vocalist though, having been through similar with Billy Corgan recently. Actually, I'm not even sure I ever liked his voice, but I dug SP's overall sound. Was listening to Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness in the kitchen the other day, and my partner walks in and remarks, "What's this nasal shite?". I realised she had a point!

[vol.2]

I can definitely relate to going off a vocalist though, having been through similar with Billy Corgan recently. Actually, I'm not even sure I ever liked his voice, but I dug SP's overall sound. Was listening to Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness in the kitchen the other day, and my partner walks in and remarks, "What's this nasal shite?". I realised she had a point!

Hahaha.

Yeah, weirdly enough I also revisited SP recently. The first two came out when I was a teenager, and I loved Siamese Dream. Melon Collie I never bought, but I remember liking some of the songs on the radio. That was about the time that I got off the radio in general and became more interested in digging into what record stores were hiding on their shelves.

I didn't specifically dislike Corgan or anything, I just kind of grew out of that kind of music? Not sure how else to put it. I still like pop, but SP scratched a particular itch that I had as a teenager that didn't seem to do anything for me later on. OTOH, I continued to like Radiohead and still love those early albums to this day. In 1995, I would have probably rated them both about equal and would not have been able to predict my evolving relationship with either.

But getting back to SP. I re-listened to Siamese Dream and I enjoyed it well enough for the nostalgia, but I'm not especially drawn to it anymore. My intention was to find a good karaoke song that I could add to my repertoire, but I'm unsure about it now. If I do add a SP song, it will probably be Mayonnaise. There are times that Corgan rises above the whine and delivers a really solid anthemic performance, and I think that's when he's at his best. Mayonnaise epitomizes that to me. It's a little whiny, but you'll never beat that out of him. I think Mayonnaise would be a crowd pleaser though. People love an anthem.

[AGermanArtist]

The unreleased Random Factor remix of Ricardo Villalobos' Easy Lee

[Marc]

Lots of Mastodon. RIP Brent. So sad.
Also, the new Deftones fucking rips.

[NYN]

Thanks for the 'tones comment, Marc. I don't keep up with current album releases, in favour for discovering missed tunes. Would've eventually discovered it, though after 5 years now is better. Glad they still do it. For the money, no less. I read up that they're not one of the 1% music millionaires. Keeps the sound honest, I feel. Aah, those track names... I am tickled.

[Sweatlord_STG]

The theme song of B Gata H Kei. I loved this show, it was so funny, we had to pause all the time just to laugh.

https://youtu.be/DBuSGgGOTDs?si=hESk1Mzf0baY8Nuo

[vol.2]

Lots of Mastodon. RIP Brent. So sad.

Damn, was unaware. I listened to a lot of Mastodon in the early 2000s, but haven't kept up with them. Last time I saw them play live was probably 2003 in NYC. Very, very good live act.

Recently been listening to Pat Metheny, Letter From Home, 1989.