[Music] The Grand Music Discussion Thread

[funeral_fog]

I'm enjoying the new Radiohead (or the first half of it..) quite a bit, but I wouldn't call it their BEST effort like some people are. To each his own I guess, I'll have to wait and see for a second half if there is one >_>

Been on an Emerson, Lake and Palmer binge as of late. Tarkus, Brain Salad Surgery and Trilogy really are very solid prog rock albums worthy of a listen, though the "lighter" tunes might turn a few people off..

Aside from that, it's all about Blind Guardian this week. If any Power Metal band deserves your unquestioning loyalty and worship, it's this one. SOMEWHEEEERE FAAAR BEYOOOOOND!

[backseatjesus]

I didn't do it last night, but tonight I'm listening to Metal Machine Music. I'm like 7 minutes in, and I'm actually enjoying so far.

[schismatics]

checking out some really ambient stuff at the moment. Helios is some of the greatest lay back and chill stuff I've heard.

[ZapX]

Look into Erik Satie. He's considered by many to be a forefather of ambient music. One of my favorite composers.

[Spud]

Just got the Mumford and Sons album as well as a new Battlefield Band CD. I got Time and Tide (easily my favorite) and Zama Zama.
When they come back to my area, later this year I will keep my eyes out for some of their earlier CD's

They have always had a special place in my heart.

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDiVyra7jd0&feature=related[/url]
Youtube doesn't do them justice so its the best I could find

They play Traditional Scottish

[Eva Yojimbo]

Going through King's X discography. I've said it before, I'll say it again: BY FAR the most underrated bands of the late 80s/early 90s. What other band combines the musical intricacy and instrumental adeptness of Dream Theater with the harmonic/melodic and song-centric style of The Beatles?

[schismatics]

Whoa Innerpartysystem just dropped off a new EP called Never Be Content. This thing is soooo freakin' dancey, they must have completely scrapped using guitars (what little they did anyways). The EP version of "American Trash" is strange sounding...I liked the original better. Also there's a significant lack of "meh" tracks as opposed to their full-length debut. Can't wait for the sister EP that's due out this summer.

[InstrumentalityOne]

I´ve been listening a lot to my past top-secret guilty pleasure lately.

Curtis Mayfield.

I just fucking love Curtis Mayfield, who else here enjoys Curtis Mayfield´s music?

[psy]

Venetian Snares - Colorless

I fucking love how diverse VSnares is when it comes to making music. It's hard to believe that someone who composed a melancholic and deep classical piece like this is the same guy that made an entire breakcore album out of sound samples of him and his girlfriend having drunken sex

[THE Hal E. Burton 9000]

Curtis Mayfield.

I just fucking love Curtis Mayfield, who else here enjoys Curtis Mayfield´s music?

I'm more of a Herbie Hancock fan myself, but Mayfield produced some good stuff

[Bomby von Bombsville]

I´ve been listening a lot to my past top-secret guilty pleasure lately.

Curtis Mayfield.

I just fucking love Curtis Mayfield, who else here enjoys Curtis Mayfield´s music?

How on earth does Curtis Mayfield's music constitute "guilty" in terms of its pleasure? One should feel guilty to not love his music.

If you want guilty pleasures, I'm listening to Dave Matthews Band of all things right now. The song "Crush." Really, I do think it's a terrific song. I remember getting this CD when I was 11 years old, not even really to the point where I was interested in girls yet (though not too far away from it), but because of this song, I knew exactly what it felt like to be "in love," as they say.

[MugwumpHasNoLiver]

If you want guilty pleasures, I'm listening to Dave Matthews Band of all things right now

I currently have a much better guilty pleasure. Yesterday I downloaded like five Dead or Alive albums. Completely vapid, ridiculously flamboyant, offensively gay and morbidly catchy eighties synth-pop.

WHAT I REALLY NEED TO DO IS FIND MYSELF A BRAND NEW LOVER, SOMEONE REAL NICE TO ME WHO DOESN'T NOTICE ALL THE OTHERS!

The front man, Pete Burns. My god, Pete Burns. It takes untold tides of charisma and stage presence to be able to pull off the level of gay that he operates at. It's almost inspiring. And the voice. Sweet Christ, that voice!

THERE'S SOMETHING IN MY HOUSE, MY HOUSE!

He's even more cancerously catchy than Gaga, and equally outlandish, but in a not nearly as interesting way. Curse you pop music, for taking advantage of my delicate, faggoty sensibilities!

LOVER COME BACK TO ME, YOU DON'T HAVE TO KNOCK ON MY DOOR, NO, LOVER COME BACK TO ME!

[Merridian]

^Goddamn. Thanks for reminding me how awesome 80s music videos were.

[THE Hal E. Burton 9000]

Dave Matthews Band?! ha ha ha, what a loser, are you gonna listen to Barenaked Ladies next too? or maybe ABBA and then Britney Spears?

I'm just kidding, of course

and to be fair, I have more than my fair share of guilty listening pleasures due to my hedonistic tendencies and upbringing, consisting primarily of sappy adult alternative stuff from the 1980's and 1990's, i.e. one-hit wonder "Barely Breathing", "Brick" by Ben Folds Five, "Bittersweet" by Big Head Todd and the Monsters, most anything off of Matchbox Twenty's Yourself or Someone Like You, chick rock like the music you would hear at Lilith Fair, CCM like Amy Grant and Michael W. Smith, most everything by solo Phil Collins, and everything ever recorded by Christopher Cross

"Sailing" is such a magical song

[Eva Yojimbo]

most anything off of Matchbox Twenty's Yourself or Someone Like You

Big fan myself. I was obsessed with this album when it first came out, and I still dig it today. Though I like The Goo Goo Dolls a little more now. Pretty much everything they did up to and including Dizzy Up the Girl was great. Gutterflower is when it all started going wrong.

[THE Hal E. Burton 9000]

I totally agree with you about the Goo Goo Dolls, though for me it was when "Iris" came along that I could not take it

for me somewhere between "Name" and "Long Way Down" is where the goodness was

[Eva Yojimbo]

Well, it was the success of Iris that sent them on their downward spiral to sellout land. But the album it was from, Dizzy Up the Girl, is probably my favorite from them and it was kinda a contemporary to M20's Yourself... so both hold a special place for me. I actually really liked Iris when it came out, but, fuck, radio just murdered it with overplay.

And let me just say that Falling Down is a killer song, and Conan was, like, way young (in that clip).

[THE Hal E. Burton 9000]

I actually liked a lot of Dizzy Up The Girl, and after hearing it the first time I felt like Iris was just OK and not as good as Name, but yeah, radio made me hate it like mad

[Eva Yojimbo]

I actually liked a lot of Dizzy Up The Girl, and after hearing it the first time I felt like Iris was just OK and not as good as Name, but yeah, radio made me hate it like mad

Black Balloon is probably my favorite thing from them. So damned haunting.

[Oz]

Yuki Kajiura and the singers she finds are GODLIKE.