what song are you listening to?.... thread...

[rong]

I lasted about 1 and a half minutes, that's pretty good going.

And I've totally never said that before. Honest!

[aubreymcfate]

lol sweet, i'll consider it a victory of sorts!

since you liked bob moses, also check out "i aint gonna be the first to cry" "grace" and "far from the tree"

[wufwugy]

Music I last listened to? Fucking Frou Frou. Correct yourself before you wreck yourself

[MadMojoMonkey]

So much great music came out of the Russian revolution. I got interrupted in the middle of both pieces. I will listen again and report back.

That drum solo is great - legendary, even - but I can see why 1:30 was a splitting point. It was where I realized this is not an intellectual exercise in the slightest.

@rong: Fast is not always good, but the lyrics on that song make up a ton of ground. I clicked on your side link and I think I'd have to listen to it a million times to pick out the subtlety he's doing on the last 2 beats of the main riff. I just think he limited himself too much by a lack of syncopation as he goes through it. It's really all about the exactly correct accent on every tap that makes a brilliant drummer. He seemed really focused on which drums / cymbals he was hitting, but not how hard to hit them. Nonetheless, the lyrics save it. So maybe the drums will make more sense later. Sometimes the trouble with truly brilliant subtlety is that it's so subtle.


I really like the first 60 seconds of Jane's Addiction "Ted, Just Admit It". Really, the drums hold down the next 60 seconds, too, but there's enough other stuff going on at that point in the song that the drums become more static with only sporadic fills.

It seems cliche to mention the solo in Dave Brubeck Quartet "Take Five". Really all the drum work on that album is subtle in just the right ways. Like, "Oh don't mind me, guys. I'm just playing in 6/8 for a bit. What's that? Yes, I know you guys are in 4/4. You think it's weird? No prob. I had 4/4 in my pocket all along."

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But how 'bout some of this?

Damn that's a fine album for "house" music, if I do say so. Both Uninvisible and Combustication were my study themes when I needed to grind them text books.

[Luco]

Ginger Baker

Also, Bonham LDO. Playing Guitar Hero: Metallica gave me a massive appreciation for Lars Ulrich too

[aubreymcfate]

love medeski martin & wood


this song is baller

[Jack Sawyer]

[oskar]

https://soundcloud.com/michaelprowaznik/duft

This is an austrian trio I like very much. Sometimes they are too much math, but I think this one is really enjoyable to listen to, until I try to figure it out, and then it's more of a chore. This walks a thin line between cerebral and groovy and does it very well imo.

[triumphant cracker]

[oskar]

Jennifer Charles does a lot of featuring.

http://grooveshark.com/#!/s/Heart+St...s/52lYEJ?src=5

http://grooveshark.com/#!/s/Stranger...n/2GQ1Wm?src=5

My grooveshark thingy: http://grooveshark.com/#!/oskar669
There isn't much not to like about grooveshark.

[OngBonga]

love medeski martin & wood


this song is baller

Out fucking standing. I haven't heard this since my dj'ing days.

[MadMojoMonkey]

Jennifer Charles does a lot of featuring.

http://grooveshark.com/#!/s/Heart+St...s/52lYEJ?src=5

http://grooveshark.com/#!/s/Stranger...n/2GQ1Wm?src=5

My grooveshark thingy: http://grooveshark.com/#!/oskar669
There isn't much not to like about grooveshark.

That singer. On the 2nd one (Strangers on a Train), she did something sexy on my ear... I am violated.

I may have to confess infidelity to my lady, now.

[OngBonga]

I never fucking learn. So I have The Beatles playing from page 14, and before it's finished I go back to page 13, forgetting that it will stop the current song. EVERY FUCKING TIME.

Have some drug music...

[aubreymcfate]

ong I would love to see some of your dj setlists, your appreciation of that song says a lot.

I've used grooveshark before to find songs and it's always served me well, so i made one: http://grooveshark.com/#!/fayesakell

Oskar, have you used last.fm? if so would you recommend grooveshark over it?

thread contribution:



^^ truly one of the most tremendous classical piano pieces you'll ever hear in your life, ever. This piece literally gives me what feels like an asthma attack it's so goddamn good.

[aubreymcfate]

That singer. On the 2nd one (Strangers on a Train), she did something sexy on my ear... I am violated.

I may have to confess infidelity to my lady, now.

If you like that check this out...



that whole album is amazing. This song is also the shit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eRaikxlHwA

[OngBonga]

Most of the reggae dub and ska I played can be found somewhere in the Trojan box sets.

Here's one of my favourites, if ska is on the menu then this is a must...

[MadMojoMonkey]

This Prokofiev piece reminds me of myself. I mean, I'm nowhere as developed as this - not even close - but I write piano music heavy in chromaticism while keeping the melody driving most of the time, w/ rhythmic breaks and syncopation that floods the sheet with ties when I step outside of the main flow.

I think I found a new friend.

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Being violated means I liked it? What up with you guys?

Seriously, though: that style of sexy-jazz makes me uncomfortable. I'm a bit of a prude.

[OngBonga]

I'm listening to that Lovage song now, it's lovely. I'm a sucker for those beats and her voice.

[OngBonga]

Well I was listening to it until I FUCKING SUBMITTED THAT POST

I never learn.

[MadMojoMonkey]

Well I was listening to it until I FUCKING SUBMITTED THAT POST

I never learn.

Click the YouTube button on the bottom right, and it opens in a new tab.

[OngBonga]

Click the YouTube button on the bottom right, and it opens in a new tab.

I did know this yet I never do it.

[aubreymcfate]

This Prokofiev piece reminds me of myself. I mean, I'm nowhere as developed as this - not even close - but I write piano music heavy in chromaticism while keeping the melody driving most of the time, w/ rhythmic breaks and syncopation that floods the sheet with ties when I step outside of the main flow.

I think I found a new friend.

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Being violated means I liked it? What up with you guys?

Seriously, though: that style of sexy-jazz makes me uncomfortable. I'm a bit of a prude.

um MMM my heart just skipped a beat. As I believe I've mentioned earlier in this thread, I've engaged in a rather torrid love affair with Prokofiev this year, and he is the only composer that I put on the rank of Beethoven as all-consuming musical idol. I'm continuously astonished every time I listen to him. I could go on forever, I'm consciously stopping here.

This song also reminds me of myself in terms of my identity. It's one of Prokofiev's earlier pieces (I believe he wrote it while attending conservatory) so he hasn't really figured out space yet. It also adheres to traditional harmony way more. (I mean check out Sonata 8, Movement III - it's straight up prog rock) It's an overwhelming torrent, constantly checking and agonizing over itself and like, goes into these insane rapid modulating fractals, it's fucking nuts. Anyway that resonates because I'm easily excitable and forget to breath, haha. I identify with him from a compositional standpoint too -- he's taught me a lot this year.

A lot of people refer to Prokofiev as an atonal composer, but I don't think he was. He was the master at synergizing chromaticism and diatonicism.

From this book:

Unlike the atonalists, who seek to destroy the tonal foundations of music, Prokofiev consistently advocated clear-cut, functional harmony.

“The construction of a composition on a tonal basis may be compared to building on rock, whereas construction without a tonal basis is like building on sand,” he maintained. “Tonal and diatonic music has much greater possibilities than music that is atonal and chromatic.”

I'm reading this long ass dissertation by Deborah Rifkin called "A Theory of Motives for Prokofiev's Music." It's basically a dense music theory analysis of how Prokofiev's use of "wrong notes" actually participates in tonal coherence, rather than being anomalous to the structure. Let me know if you're interested, I'll send it to you. Prokofiev has posed a big problem for music analysts over the decades, and for a very long time, no one could offer any real compelling analysis of Prokofiev's startlingly original compositions. Not that I've been studying Prokofiev for years or anything, but Rifkin seems like the most accomplished person doing this level of analysis on Prokofiev.

Anyway, yeah. Prokofiev=A+++

[OngBonga]

Ok so I'm listening to this Lovage album and it's produced by Kid Koala. No wonder it's so good.

[triumphant cracker]

[oskar]

Oskar, have you used last.fm? if so would you recommend grooveshark over it?

http://www.last.fm/user/oskar669
haven't used last.fm in forever. There was a player for gnome that would scan your library, compare it to last.fm, search related tracks from your library and add them automatically. It was the best player ever, but it was a one man project and eventually stopped working, and that was the end of last.fm for me. - link for reference. grooveshark is the thing that comes closest to that. apparently you can scrobble grooveshark as well. should be the same as with spotify, only without the ads. For now anyway.

[oskar]

I somehow managed to miss this throughout 2014.

And while we're at the subject of artists who would be better off with a bag over their head:

[daven]

[oskar]

Ok, so you herd some of my favorite musicians in vienna together, you even make a trailer for your dumbass concert, and then you send it out five hours before the concert. I'm friends with five of those idiots on facebook and this is the first I hear of this. AND YOU WONDER WHY THERE ARE SO MANY DRUMMER JOKES.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v...type=2&theater

They also got the date right, but not the day and misprinted Pamelia Kurstins name. How these people get an audience, I don't know.
anyway... so much for music I won't listen to

https://soundcloud.com/snarebert/sportsex

[OngBonga]

Icelandic reggae is a thing.

[givememyleg]

been jamming to this a lot lately

[oskar]

^^ This would make fantastic night driving music.

There is no bad time for Jose Feliciano.
http://grooveshark.com/#!/s/Light+My+Fire/4Rzehz?src=5

Werner Herzog sountracks make great reading music.
http://grooveshark.com/#!/album/Requ...Herzog/5981064

Savant is really fun on headphones.
http://grooveshark.com/#!/s/Stargate...x/6HH4TE?src=5

[OngBonga]

[oskar]

[aubreymcfate]

fucking transcendent

[Springbok]

These gentlemen probably belong to the best pop / rock bands of all time (my opinion of course)

[Springbok]

Remeber this?

[Savy]

[Savy]

[OngBonga]

I found the second and third coolest bitches in Iceland...

[OngBonga]

fucking transcendent

This is my favourite person in the world. If there was a way I could fuck this woman's voice, I would do it.

[spoonitnow]

[vatopkr]

I am believer. American Authors

[jostone6]

[jostone6]

[Jack Sawyer]

[oskar]

HOLY SHIT DAVID FUCKING BOWIE!

[spoonitnow]

This is ridiculously good for being a joke song for a cartoon.

[OngBonga]

I listend to about a minute of that in the hope that me and spoon could perhaps connect in music, if nothing else.

Alas, it's shit hop.

Not all shit hop is shit though. Just most of it.



That Bowie tune is weird. Not sure if I like it or not. Gonna have to come back to that one.

[rpm]

you're welcome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99KkbFjZR20

[oskar]

Fabulous Austrian Trio forever and ever 100 years Fabulous Austrian Trio. running around in fabulousaustriantrio time. www.fabulousaustriantrio.com 100 years fabulousaustrian trio. all day long! forever 100 times over and over. oh 100 years!





http://www.amazon.com/Living-Raphael...ving+the+dream

[Fnord]

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6Pt78m42L0" target="_blank">

[Eric]

Fnord, Nice to see you posting! Feels like old times.

I'm listening to Heart-Shaped Box by Nirvana.

[OngBonga]

I'm listening to Heart-Shaped Box by Nirvana.

I wish I could eat your cancer when you turn black. Hey.

[OngBonga]

[oskar]

been on a Rammstein binge over the last couple of days. Started by watching their Madison Square concert in full. I used to listen to Sehnsucht on loop when it came out in 97 and then forgot about them. But what a band.

[MadMojoMonkey]

Adele. Not really my kind of music, but damn, she's amazing.

Then Walk Off The Earth did a cover, and I was like...
How do you improve an Adele song?

Like this:

[oskar]

[oskar]

[OngBonga]

[oskar]

Die Antwoord pre-release mixtape!

https://soundcloud.com/dieantwoord/s...n-this-mixtape

[spoonitnow]

listening to all ur cuck lib tears as the trump train goes toot toot up hillarys ass

[oskar]

good week in music for me:
discovered Stadium Arcadium by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. One of the best sounding albums I've ever heard. Found it's mixed by some Andrew Scheps guy. Looked him up, found this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnrGMHhnqrw
RHCP are releasing a new album. Die Antwoord just came out with a new video hours ago... new album soon.

Chris Dave is fucking sick:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2s...ley-pt-2_music

[oskar]

00:00 Grim And Frostbitten Moongoats Of The North
01:03 Forlorned Invocations Of Blasphemous Congregations Of Lustin Goat Sodomizing Satannis
01:58 Gazing At The Blasphemous Moon
02:32 Bloodlustfully Praising Satans Unholy Allmightyness In The Woods At Midnight
03:17 Nocturnal Cauldrons Aflame Amidst The Nothern Hellwitch's Perpetual Blasphemy
04:44 Transfixing The Forbidden Blasphemous Incantations Of The Conjering Wintergoat
05:44 Masterbating On The Unholy Inverted Tracks Of The Grim + Frostbitten Necrobobsledders
06:30 Awaiting The Blasphemous Abomination Of The Necroyeti While Sailing On The Northernmost Fjord Of Xzfgiiizmtsath
07:09 Lustfully Worshiping The Inverted Moongoat While Skiing Down The Inverted Necromountain Of Necrodeathmortem
07:52 Awaiting The Frozen Blasphamy Of The Necroyeti's Lusting Necrobation upon The Altar Of Vuxrfszzzisnzf
08:44 Summoning The Unholy Frozen Winterdemons To The Grimmest And Most Frostbitten Inverted Forest Of Abazagorath
09:24 Entranced By The Northern Impaled Necrowizards Blasphemous Incantation Amidst The Agonizing Abomination Of The Necrocorpse
09:44 Grim and Frostbitten Gay Bar

[bigred]

Highly Suspect - My Name is Human
Low Roar - I'll Keep Coming
Beach House - Depression Cherry (album)
Crystal Castles - Amnesty (I) (album)


I heard the new Solange album is amazing but I haven't listened to it.

[oskar]

[OngBonga]

One of the greatest tunes of the 80's, from a band who've done their fair share of shite.

[oskar]

[oskar]

[xubuntu69]

[wufwugy]

This song got me through the nightmare of econometrics

[supa]

I was looking for the music thread and found the drunk thread instead... which is appropo... but I'm gonna leave this here anyway. My band playing a live radio gig a few weeks ago. Thanks for listening.

https://youtu.be/3CXm9FW9wLM

[oskar]

[Savy]

[VanDam]

Awesome, thanks for sharing.

[aubreymcfate]

this one's for ong