I am completely enchanted with my latest Spotify find: Songs to test headphones with This is a playlist that ignores the "genre" tag, and simply plays amazing sounding songs. And it is SO REFRESHING getting to hear a variety of music! My wife and I listened to this in the car while we were out the other day, and I clicked the heart button on 10 songs in a row! I need to find other playlists that ignore genre and just play great music...
NIN because of Pandemics and Insurrections. The Downward Spiral is in my heavy youtube rotation now because of course but here's one that I missed until just now. NIN and Tori Amos got me through a LOT in the early nineties, and NIN works again now: When I grade exams or write projects or work on my Pathfinder campaigns I listen to synthwave compilations. It's usually pretty background-music but every now and again I have to dance in my chair: Dorian Electra is my boo. They did a video all dressed up and femmy and it was weird. That is not this one. Adam and Steve is maybe better, but - did you know the Village People were still around and doing stuff? Weird! And I'm just going to put this right here:
I forgot you used to do choir shit. Of course me laddy here can appreciate a crafty sea shanty. Yo soy very irish, btw. And I have the privilege of that not mattering!!
En-masse in-person choral singing will probably be one of the last things to come back to the world writ large. Covids impact on music is going to be one of the most interesting parts of the whole thing retrospectively. Theres institutional knowledge that isn't transmitting the way it usually does and the selective pressure against artists is very non straightforward.
I was out for a walk listening to Killing Joke. "On All Hallows Eve" came on. The thought "two million dead" came unbidden and I fought tears. Unsuccessfully. Old haunts and habits invoking loved ones and friends. The graveyards forgotten, the churches are empty now. I recall the times past and how much I miss you all. Wake up! Reborn! Join in and celebrate! Make noise! Wake up the great dead with reverence. On all hallow's eve. Endless drumming; rituals to wake up the dead. Bring gifts and spirits, good wine- just cheese and some bread. Incense of cigars and spices, pleasures we shared. Light up the graveyards to show how much we all care. Wake up! Reborn! Join in and celebrate! Make noise! Wake up the great dead with reverence. On all hallow's eve.At last the dark years of grieving come to an end.
Did you catch the entire table's-worth full of stuff falling over @4:01? Hahahahhah edit: aw, other 'tubers saw itAaron Parks - The Shadow and the Self
Haha, yeah. I watched that back a few times. Somewhat related, but it reminded me of this amazing dropped stick recovery at 12:09 in this video.
Heh, smooth recovery! I always had a stickbag when I marched drumline, but I don't remember ever dropping during a show. We had some pretty whack "visuals", too, like after the drum break, when we weren't playing for one bar, it was "stick devil horns to jesus on the cross". We also pretended to be smoking a bong at one part in a cadence with our sticks. A few of us thought about going into drum corps or staying on drumline at university, but no dice. Cool story
Ichika Nito hit 1M subs: The bridge beginning @1:01 is why the end of my right hand's middle finger currently has a nipple-shaped blister: Syncopated, quickly-muted sixteenth notes at 125 BPM on bass guitar: You will be mine.
I’ve been listening to Zen Frisbee. I’m gonna be making music with two of the members. I’m pretty excited. I think I’d even like to start a band once the world returns to normal-ish. Play some live shows. I’ve posted this album before but it’s worth sharing again. It’s an awesome album, imo. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNw20UuAwkxBgqsOPUiGjI7x415jNWzAh
Bro, you're already, like, a band. Embrace that. Do you think everyone just casually writes and performs their own content in between their professional and parental life? They don't. :)I think I’d even like to start a band once the world returns to normal-ish.
Thanks for that. It's nice to hear that someone thinks of me in those terms. Today I saw an advertisement for a poster that had 4000 little dots on it and every week you are supposed to color one of the dots in. You are getting closer and closer to no dots left. 4000 weeks equals 76 years. I'm not sure what I'll regret not having done when I am 76 years old, but I don't want, "making music," to be one of them. Onward!
I've been trying to listen to a new album every day, mostly been able to stick to it. Here's the best ones I've listened to so far: NNAMDI - BRAT - really cool fusion between math pop and indie hip-hop. sunn - Life Metal - really sonically rich drone metal. Holly Herndon - PROTO - avant garde electro-pop. Really cool production. The Microphones - It Was Hot, we Stayed in the Water - Somehow I'd never given this a listen, despite loving their other albums. Great lo-fi freak folk. Billy Woods/Kenny Segal - Hiding Places - excellent rap album. Really inventive and personal lyrics, killer production. Also just stumbled upon this, which is awesome: --- Anyone have suggestions for albums to add to my list? I'd love some ideas, feel like I'm getting into a rut.
This week I discovered World Domination Enterprises released some of their old material last year and that made me stupidly happy. Go Dominator Woke Up Just In Time On Bandcamp: