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What have you been listening to this week?
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as well, we'd love to see your hauls :)
Feel free to give recs or discuss anything about each others' listening habits.
You can make a chart if you use last.fm:
http://www.tapmusic.net/lastfm/
Remember that linking directly to your image will update with your future listening, make sure to reupload to somewhere like imgur if you'd like it to remain what you have at the time of posting.
Devin Townsend - Evermore.
Apart from this, I have been listening to some Gojira and Opeth again.
Bit of a mixture this week actually: https://i.imgur.com/nQ7BNJ2.jpg
I'm seeing Metallica in two months so have been listening to them a bit to get ready for it. A lot of the other stuff is from a classic rock playlist I've got.
I've been listening to different ambient mixes from youtube. Nothing special in itself, but as a person who listens to dark-themed heavy songs and gangsta rap, the negative tone does affect your mentality, even if only subliminally.
Ambient mixes counter this, giving a "stress free" enviroment for your mind and ears. This could be placebo, but I think it wouldnt hurt to give this a try. Im less aggressive on the road and I believe I come off as a friendlier person.
I have a thing for melancholy and maybe a bit depressing music too and had a talk with a redditor a while ago who actively avoided it as an experiment and he said it actually worked and change his mindset. I don't find i being a "problem" for me as I listen to other kinds of music too but I found it interesting. It's no secret that your mood attracts certain types of music so I can see how you can be caught in a loop of ever increasing "depression" if you don't branch out once in while.
Listening to a lot of Beastie Boys lately.
I wasn't a fan of them when I first heard them, but that's turned out to be a shockingly incorrect assessment.
I first heard them with Intergalactic when I was a teen. It was quirky.
A year or two ago, I heard Dara O'Briain mention Sabotage.
It's so good. That fucking guitar riff in the beginning won me over right that second.
Sounds like it's an outlier of a song from their discography, which is a damn shame. That thing is classic.
A lot of King Crimson. Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Epitaph, Starless, etc etc.
Also listening to Justice's Woman Worldwide recording. Really nice mixes of their songs.
I recently showed my wife the movie Phantom of the Paradise, which is a bizarre and fantastic musical from the 1970s.
It was directed by Brian de Palma and all of the music and lyrics were written by songwriting legend Paul Williams.
All of the tunes in the movie are extremely catchy. I’ve listened to the album four or five times this week.
Elia y Elizabeth - Alegría I got deep into old school South American funk recently, this is one of my favourites that I've discovered so far, if I'm not mistaken it's Colombian. Highly recommend the genre as a whole.
I heard this song a while ago: Noise by Robbie Nevil. I found a copy in bad quality on the dunes of the Internet and started looking for a better version. For a time, it looked like the song didn't even exist, as far as the Internet was concerned. I searched the man's Wikipedia page, I looked through his lyrics, I even pirated his whole discography so I could listen to every song there and confirm my suspicion: that it was his, but misnamed, like these things tend to happen.
Nope. Not one.
Until today.
I remembered the song and found a crappy version on YouTube – the only one available, it seems. So I thought: let's search for it!
Just my luck: I found a Genius Lyrics entry for it. Turned out, it was Robbie Nevil, but this song was never in his discography. It was from an odd album called "Teen Pop", which was apparently performed by someone called "Extreme Music".
Extreme Music is a label which hosts a whole lot of songs and music tracks on their website. Teen Pop was but one of the hundreds of albums they host. Not sure what the story is, but the song was there, in good quality. I found it.
Other than that... Getting into the albums I wanted to listen to for a while; imbibing them passively while I work. Today, I found another good song from the repertoire of Rollins Band: Starve. It's intense, full of hardcore guitar – exactly what I'm looking for from the man.
EDIT: oh, and I've just found this fucking amazing soundtrack by a bunch of people who are, for all intents and purposes but legal, are Linkin Park. White Noise, from the sountrack to Mall.
Some great Russian folk:
https://soundcloud.com/ko66mel/01a
Sadly she stopped posting music since a while.
A lot of good music out right now. I was initially not a fan of Billie Eilish's new album 'WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?', I found the lyrics kinda boring, but I have come to appreciate other aspects of it a lot. - Pop (I think)
Periphery's new album 'Hail Satan' I think it is called? is great, really enjoying it. I don't care for their past work as much. - Metal
And finally, The Comet Is Coming's 'Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery' is pretty unique, i really like it. - Jazz
JPEGMAFIA - Veteran
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uATMmh2NBSE
Schlomo - The End
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6donLhXBvU
Korn, Jeffree Star, Aliene Mariage, Ozuna