What Are You Listening To Now? 6.0

[litfan10]

Seven Seas

Barock Project

 

[Blind_Justice]

Pagan Altar - The Room Of Shadows

My fave metal mag Deaf Forever recently had a huge Epic Metal special, complete with a "100 essential albums". I have a good chunk of them in my collection already and now go back through the list to find more stuff I might like. If anyone is interested, I could repost the list here and add my $0.02 to it.

 

[Blind_Justice]

Okay. It's official! I play in a band - and we are called "THEY DREAM OF STARFISH".

Buy our shit here:
https://theydreamofstarfish.bandcamp.com/releases

 

[litfan10]

Days of Insanity EP

They Dream of Starfish

 

[Blind_Justice]

cue Wayne's World: "We're not worthy! We're not worthy!"

 

[litfan10]

cue Wayne's World: "We're not worthy! We're not worthy!"

So when's the deluxe album with colored vinyl coming out?

Your fan base has questions!

 

[Blind_Justice]

So when's the deluxe album with colored vinyl coming out?

Your fan base has questions!

Before I try that, let's have enough tracks for a full-length first. I already feel kinda bad for charging for (mostly) the same tracks I put up on Soundcloud.

Then, I need to scrounge together around $3k in order to get a vinyl run off the ground. Considering that's basically the cost of our whole setup (which we paid for in <$1k bits and pieces over eight months), that's a lotta money. Considering my lack of advertising skills (I didn't even manage to seel more than one copy of my only book yet), I don't see them flying off any shelves.

Your confidence is heartening though.

 

[litfan10]

A Tower of Clocks

This Winter Machine

 

[Hypoxia]

My partner put ROBERT JOHNSON: KING OF THE DELTA BLUES on the turntable. Side 2 is halfway through.

 

[Blind_Justice]

The following line might deeply worry those who know my taste in music:

Miley Cyrus - Midnight Sky
https://youtu.be/aS1no1myeTM

It probably helps that she's riding a killer Synthwave backing track. It may be because in this video she looks eerily like a bleached version of one of my exes. And that fucked-up stripper look has an appeal I didn't know works on me.
Never thought I'd willingly listen to Miley fuckin' Cyrus, but what's normal these days anyway?

 

[Haulover]

The following line might deeply worry those who know my taste in music:

Miley Cyrus - Midnight Sky
https://youtu.be/aS1no1myeTM

It probably helps that she's riding a killer Synthwave backing track. It may be because in this video she looks eerily like a bleached version of one of my exes. And that fucked-up stripper look has an appeal I didn't know works on me.
Never thought I'd willingly listen to Miley fuckin' Cyrus, but what's normal these days anyway?

LOL

I've been told by some serious music aficionados that the new Taylor Swift album is very good.

Similarly, the latest Fiona Apple isn't too shabby, and is definitely worth a listen.





Okay - now back to our originally-scheduled programming of seriously intelligent and super-cool music!

 

[Lori_the_Hoosier]

King Crimson - Larks Tongues In Aspic, Island vinyl 1973

Found this enchanting new old-stock album with the retailer (Virgin Records, Oxford Street, London) sticky tag across the sleeve mouth hidden deep in hubby's dusty goldmine of old vinyl; it may have been one of his older brother's records, because Will would never have bought this, he was only 8 years old in 1973

 

[Blind_Justice]

I was neck-deep in Depeche Mode and Genesis at 8. Older kids on the school bus got me hooked.

 

[Lori_the_Hoosier]

I was neck-deep in Depeche Mode and Genesis at 8. Older kids on the school bus got me hooked.

When I was 8 I was still listening to the country stations in Indianapolis and Kokomo, and on a good day, Louisville. We had no TV, and school was kind of slip in, stay low, avoid the attention of the jocks and cliques, and slip out again end of day alive and still breathing, so I didn't have any friends to share teenage girl popstar stuff with; mamma liked country, so that's what we listened to.
I only found 80's New Wave when I went to college in 1985. My first husband was deep into Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman, Rick Wakeman, ELP, an English band, The Sweet, and Van Halen, so I got a lot of his preferences too.

 

[Handley_Page]

When I was 8 I was still listening to the country stations in Indianapolis and Kokomo, and on a good day, Louisville. We had no TV, and school was kind of slip in, stay low, avoid the attention of the jocks and cliques, and slip out again end of day alive and still breathing, so I didn't have any friends to share teenage girl popstar stuff with; mamma liked country, so that's what we listened to.
I only found 80's New Wave when I went to college in 1985. My first husband was deep into Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman, Rick Wakeman, ELP, an English band, The Sweet, and Van Halen, so I got a lot of his preferences too.

Rick Wakeman, ELP, The Sweet ? Oh YES !

meanwhile, this pop contralto got me every time. Jennifer Rush

 

[Lori_the_Hoosier]

Rick Wakeman, ELP, The Sweet ? Oh YES !

meanwhile, this pop contralto got me every time. Jennifer Rush

I have to say, 'The Sweet' classics ('Ballroom Blitz', 'Hell Raiser', 'Teenage Rampage', and 'Blockbuster') still get my head banging. Not too sure about 'Fox on the run' and 'Wig-Wam Bam', or 'Poppa-Joe', or the silly teenybopper pop stuff, but I was genuinely saddened when Steve Priest passed away last year.

I found a copy of the ELP fold-out album 'Brain Salad Surgery' in Will's pile of 'WTF is this record? albums that friends, family, and persons unknown dumped in the villa from days of yore, but it was unplayable; back in the day someone had spilled beer or something sticky on it and it had set hard.
I do have a CD of their 1992 'Black Moon' studio album lurking somewhere, which I bought more out of curiosity than anything else, and I can't find it now, but I do remember it didn't seem like they were trying very hard, they just shunted out an album because 'what the hey?'Definitely not ELP being prog, as I understand the definition of prog-rock, and more self-indulgent than anything

I still have my Rick Wakeman vinyl 'Journey To The Center of the Earth' and 'Retun to the Center of the Earth', and I found a copy of 'Rock and Roll Prophet' back at home, probably one of Will's brothers' purchases, Will is entirely not into Rick Wakeman, but he got and listened back to back to the entire 'War of the Worlds - The New Generation' re-recording and redubbing of the Jeff Wayne classic.

 

[Haulover]

King Crimson - Larks Tongues In Aspic, Island vinyl 1973

Lark's tongue is a classic!

I have to say, 'The Sweet' classics ('Ballroom Blitz', 'Hell Raiser', 'Teenage Rampage', and 'Blockbuster') still get my head banging. Not too sure about 'Fox on the run' and 'Wig-Wam Bam', or 'Poppa-Joe', or the silly teenybopper pop stuff, but I was genuinely saddened when Steve Priest passed away last year.

I found a copy of the ELP fold-out album 'Brain Salad Surgery' in Will's pile of 'WTF is this record? albums that friends, family, and persons unknown dumped in the villa from days of yore, but it was unplayable; back in the day someone had spilled beer or something sticky on it and it had set hard.
I do have a CD of their 1992 'Black Moon' studio album lurking somewhere, which I bought more out of curiosity than anything else, and I can't find it now, but I do remember it didn't seem like they were trying very hard, they just shunted out an album because 'what the hey?'Definitely not ELP being prog, as I understand the definition of prog-rock, and more self-indulgent than anything

I still have my Rick Wakeman vinyl 'Journey To The Center of the Earth' and 'Retun to the Center of the Earth', and I found a copy of 'Rock and Roll Prophet' back at home, probably one of Will's brothers' purchases, Will is entirely not into Rick Wakeman, but he got and listened back to back to the entire 'War of the Worlds - The New Generation' re-recording and redubbing of the Jeff Wayne classic.

I wasn't able to see many of those '70s acts live, but saw Wakeman and a full orchestra doing the full "Journey To The Center of the Earth" plus a few other pieces. A truly excellent show.

Funny thing : His son, then about 2 years old, came wandering onto the stage. Wakeman stopped the whole show, hurried the kid off stage into the arms of a caretaker, and re-started the piece.

That kid has since released several albums of his own, played with Yes - as Rick did in the early days - and was a member of Black Sabbath for a while.

 

[oggbashan]

Royal Ballet: Don Quixote: Kitri variation:

https://youtu.be/9lpR7yQ66mc?list=PLFEuShFvJzBwuoV5Xjx9Fpuvs45BSBgGI

 

[Handley_Page]

Royal Ballet: Don Quixote: Kitri variation:

https://youtu.be/9lpR7yQ66mc?list=PLFEuShFvJzBwuoV5Xjx9Fpuvs45BSBgGI

Well, Ogg, the music was nice, and that first ballerina skilled and attractive (if she was giving signs in place of a voice, I have not a clue what she said). And as for that second bit which looked more like a rehearsal for an Olympic gymnastic event (maybe crossed with an artistic/ erotic film), but practised in the near dark.

I'll settle down with Beethoven, I think. Maybe the 7th

 

[oggbashan]

More Don Quixote (with Carlos Acosta):

The Royal Ballet enjoying themselves:

https://youtu.be/5fKxzQ8ARTQ

 

[Acktion]

Firehouse - When I Look Into Your Eyes

 

[Haulover]

Credo : Against reason

(While on a training hike - slogging up a 1,100 foot / 1.5 mile hill ... twice )

 

[Haulover]

Phideaux : Snowtorch

(While on a training hike - slogging up a 1,100 foot / 1.5 mile hill ... twice )

 

[Haulover]

Threshold : Dead Reckoning

(While on a training hike - slogging up a 1,100 foot / 1.5 mile hill ... twice )

 

[Handley_Page]

More Don Quixote (with Carlos Acosta):

The Royal Ballet enjoying themselves:

https://youtu.be/5fKxzQ8ARTQ

Nice music but it lacked a translation, I think


Ah, but Callas is worth hearing.