NWR – The What Are We Listening To Thread

[Gavin Trott]

NWR – The What Are We Listening To Thread

This is, of course, Not Wine Related, but so is most of life, when it comes right down to it!

We are a community, so let’s take the time and opportunity to post here about our Music choices!

What do you like/love?

What is your newest discovery?

Do you have favourites?

Do you have a Desert Island Disc?

or anything music related!

Go to it!

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[dave vino]

What do you like/love?
U2, Crowded House, Midnight Oil, Noiseworks, Foo Fighters, Simon and Garfunkel, Cranberries

What is your newest discovery?
(newest for me) Arctic Monkeys

Do you have favourites?
Songs?
Bad – U2
Where the Streets have No Name – U2
Unguarded Moment – The Church
Flame Trees – Cold Chisel
Lilac Wine – Jeff Buckley
Sounds of Silence – S&G

Do you have a Desert Island Disc?
U2 – The Joshua Tree

[REDRUM]

What do you like/love?
Grew up with the likes of Nirvana, Beck, Ween, Pixies. ... but my tastes run the gamut from classical to jazz to hip hop to etc etc..

What is your newest discovery?
Haruomi Hosono. Japanese guy who has been some kind of wacky genius over decades and I can't believe I've only now found out about him.

Do you have favourites?
too many to list

Do you have a Desert Island Disc?
Beatles - White Album (OK that's two discs, but you know)

Also, WOMAD has been a musical fixture of mine for about a decade and it's nothing if not mind expanding.

[TiggerK]

Good to see a few NWR posts, always enjoy them elsewhere too, real insight into the people and personalities here, and we can get some good advice here and there too!

What do you like/love?
I've always said "Beethoven to Metallica, anything as long as it's good". Wide ranging tastes, but got a few favourites from my 'teenage discovering music' early-mid 80's era that always show up regularly.

What is your new(ish) discovery(s)?
Cog, Boy and Bear, Chainsmokers, The Beligerents are pretty fun, and I'm having a retro 70's hits revival which is revealing a few extra gems from the decade, it's even better than I gave it credit for. e.g Drivers Seat by Sniff n Tears, Gold by John Stewart, tasty tracks. (Obviously some great stuff came from the 70's, Bowie, Elton John, Queen , disco, punk... don't flame me)

Been really enjoying 'Darryl's House' on YouTube, Darryl Hall gets guests into his house/studio and they play each others songs, superb musicianship on display, very tasteful. Check out Darryl's House with Ceelo on Can't Go For That , Chris Daughtry - Out of Touch and with Ben Folds on piano solo - "Private Eyes"

Do you have favourites? Albums/Bands.... could be here all day!
Talk Talk - Anything but particularly Colour of Spring, my No.1 album.
Ultravox - Anything (inc Midge Ure) but particularly Rage in Eden, my No.2 album
The Fixx - First three albums.
Icehouse - Grew up with them, I'm a fan.
The Beatles - the Help album (esp Side 1), is a pop songwriting masterclass.
Sounds of Silence – S&G (nice one Dave, me too)
Peter Gabriel, Journey, Uriah Heap, The Doors....
Classical - Purcell, Beethoven, Chopin
Heavy Stuff - Metallica, Muse, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Accept, Black Sabbath
Uncool Oldies - Soft spots for some cheesy stuff by Roger Whittaker, ABBA, Disco inc Chic, Bee Gees etc

Do you have a Desert Island Disc?
Hard to pic just one to repeat and repeat, that's cruel... I'd sneak both No.1 and 2 above into the same vinyl sleeve.

[Gavin Trott]

Thanks everyone, hope I haven’t confused people. I just meant the intro to be .... let’s all chat about Music, not a Template to follow, like a List.

Probably my fault, just interested to hear everyone’s music tastes, interests, insights etc

New Discovery, if you’re like me and love Blues, Soul and Great music, and wow, what a voice .. check out

The Teskey Brothers.

I would swear they were black and from the USA, but no!

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[odyssey]

Much like Tim, love anything as long as it's good.

Rock music and modern incarnations have always been a firm favorite though - Beatles, Queen, Zeppelin, Bowie, Rolling Stones, Lennon, Eagles, INXS, U2, Police, Talking Heads, Crowded House up to somewhat more modern favorites such as White Stripes, The Wombats, Ball Park Music, Boy and Bear, Queens of the Stone Age, Hungry Kids of Hungary, etc.

Also love orchestral soundtracks, both movie (Williams, Zimmerman) and computer game (Skyrim, Assassin's Creed/Jesper Kyd)

I'll also be happy with the odd pop favorites through the eras, popular jazz, Bossa Nova.

Also like to support underrated musicians and smaller bands, no matter whether originals or covers, local or o/seas. A few tight funk covers coming out of Scary Pockets in the past 6 months, featuring a range of YouTube vocalists
Rocky Raccoon funk cover - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmdG2U2c0NQ
Bridge over Troubled Water funk cover - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgxPG7anBPQ
Crash Into Me funk cover - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syGlBNVGEqU

Right now listening to some high quality Uke sessions, and it wouldn't be uke without some Shimabukuro originals. "Dragon" still a firm favorite:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCatXrZnaY0

[odyssey]

Also rediscovered the joy of Sting's music,... his classic music that is. When he's not prancing around playing the lute singing obscure poetry.

Sting Live in Berlin is one of the greatest things I heard in the past few years. And yes, it has occurred to me that I'm officially old when I like to hear old and aging rocker favorites backed by a symphony orchestra. F it, embrace old age, I say.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lokTiFtiygg&t=1721s

PS If you like it, I can not stress enough how much I recommend getting the full show with visuals in HD. BluRay if you have to, if those old things still exist. I think stores still sell physical disks . You can google versions of it with slightly substandard sound quality on dodgy russian websites, if you trust them and want a sample of what the show's like. I won't link it here... use Google.

[dave vino]

Bridge over Troubled Water funk cover - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgxPG7anBPQ

Why do Funk musicians always look like they are sucking on a lemon when they play?

[Scotty vino]

Music. Where do I start..

Radiohead/Thom Yorke. Doves. Boards of Canada. Aphex Twin.Grandaddy.Something For Kate/Paul Dempsey. Turin Brakes.
Starsailor/James Walsh. Neil finn/Crowded House. Travis. Pollyanna . David Bridie.Thats the depressing /melancholy stuff.

Other randoms, Prince, George Michael, Bowie, Janes Addiction, Metallica, Slayer, Sepultura, Megadeth, Anthrax,
Faith No More, Fantomas, Tomahawk. Soundgarden/Chris Cornell (Chris you just broke my heart you bastard)
Pearl Jam, Alice chains. Mumford & sons. The Cure. IS robert Smith the greatest song writer? Probably
Band of horses, Mercury rev, Daft punk. Love early ACDC ...pure energy.!!! Jazz? Give me Mr M. Davis any day.
Weezer/The rentals or anything Rivers Cuomo. You Am I/Timmy Rogers..Blur/Graham Coxon greastest guitarist ever for me.
crikey im gonna stop there.....

New Stuff...Loscil. Rival Consoles. Sync24

All time fav is ..
Doves. Lost Souls.

Fav song of all is probably 'Pets' by Porno for Pyros.

[conformistpete]

What is your newest discovery?
Haruomi Hosono. Japanese guy who has been some kind of wacky genius over decades and I can't believe I've only now found out about him.
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Awesome that led me to Cornelius. A bit less electronic than Haruomi Hosono from what I've listened to this afternoon. Thanks!

[n4sir]

Coming off the mad week that was Eurovision, still in the mood for a bit of a novelty song...

[img]https://i.imgur.com/u1LP6eA.jpg[/img]

[paulf]

New Discovery, if you’re like me and love Blues, Soul and Great music, and wow, what a voice .. check out

The Teskey Brothers.

I would swear they were black and from the USA, but no!

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Funny that. I friend of mine sent me a link to some Teskey Brothers on Sunday.

Along the lines of sounding American without being American, check out the Track "Sylvia" by Norwegian dude Torgeir Waldemar. He's normally a bit more folk sounding but I reckon this is a cracking song

I cover a lot of territory too
Some local Favorites
instrumental - Silver Ray - Their album "This is Silver Ray" might be my most played album of the last 15 or so years.
- Cosmo Cosmolino - Gypsy Tango music I guess
- Tulipan - One album really, Manic Celeste - World in style
Blues Guys - Geoff Achison, Jeff Lang and Lloyd Spiegel - All excellent Guitar players
I've seen Ian Moss a couple of times in recent years and have been impressed
Art of Fighting - post rock in style. Haven't released anything in years but there is rumoured to be a new album out soon
The Twoks - a Violin and drums duo that makes use of live sampling to build songs. About as pop as I get but clever stuff

From Further afield - The Tea Party, Ben Harper, The Posies, Gomez, Beth Orton, Mad Season, Devin Townsend
Kristin Hersh is probably my favorite female artist, from her work with Throwing Muses, her solo stuff and 50ft Wave there is a lot of ground covered there.
More instrumental
- Rodrigo y Gabriela (Mexican duo with a heavy metal background playing Flamenco inspired stuff and the occasional Metallica cover)
- Russian Circles (Heavy instrumental 3 piece. a lot of lite and shade
- Acoustic players - Jon Gomm, Chris Proctor, Leo Kottke, Mike Dawes

I've found Spotify really great for finding new stuff or probably more often finding stuff that I have missed at the time.
Here's a few that have come from Spotify
- Magnonlia Electric Company / Songs Ohia (I'm late on the bandwagon here as the main man Jason Molina died several years ago)
- Mark Lanegan / Gutter twins (his side project with Greg Dulli from the Afghan Wigs )/ Twilight Singers (Dulli's side project)
- 16 Horsepower (sort of gothic Bluegrass if that makes sense)
- Moriaty
- Rishloo
- Villany
- Jawbox
- The Hellacopters
-A bunch of instrumental stuff ranging from stoner rock to Math Rock to Heavier - Yawning Man, Colour Haze, Maserati, Giraffes? Giraffes, From Monument to Masses, Pelican
- Japanese - LITE, Toe, Mono

I could go on and on but I'll stop there

[felixp21]

All time faves

Pearl Jam
Guns'n'Roses
Smiths
Xavier Rudd
Lou Reed
Iggy Pop
Rammstein
Led Zepplin

New Stuff

Haim
Fractures
Paolo Nutini
Tinariwan

Desert Island Album

How to build a seafaring yacht from a solitary palm tree.... idiots guide to.

failing that, I'd go for PJ Ten or GNR Appetite

[winetastic]

Of late I have been listening to a fair bit of post rock. Some highlights:
We Lost the Sea - Departure Songs
Sigur Rós - Takk...
Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone

Very relaxing, best paired with Nebbiolo in a big glass.

[Scotty vino]

Stagger Lee. Nick cave.

What a song. Love it.

[michel]

I am a Miles Davis fiend or alternative stuff like the Pixies
But I am rediscovering brian eno and wierd textured ambient stuff on Emit label played on CD via English Creek Amplifier and Quad speakers

https://www.discogs.com/label/931-emt

Listen if you dare with Barolo...

Great thread Gavin

[michel]

Of late I have been listening to a fair bit of post rock. Some highlights:
We Lost the Sea - Departure Songs
Sigur Rós - Takk...
Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone

Very relaxing, best paired with Nebbiolo in a big glass.

Sigur Ros live is exceptional.....

[Gavin Trott]

New Topic Within a Topic

Name 5 albums ... CD's for you youngies, that 'changed your life', and why.

Which 5 pieces of music stopped you in your tracks, changed your life, your listening habits

All at once, or post one per day!

Over to you!

Me 1) Van Morrison Astral Weeks ... changed my idea of what music could be, opened my eyes, and then made me a lifelong Van Morrison fan. Van the Man wonderful!

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[conformistpete]

Lots of Primus today. Getting me to the weekend. Might have to go a little more weird next and out on Ween.

[Scotty vino]

Metallica. Master of Puppets.
The album and title track just blew me away as a teenager.
Great songs, great melodies and some great technical playing all round.
One of the big reasons I picked up a guitar and never looked back.

[TiggerK]

Agree with Master of Puppets.

Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains the Same

Pink Floyd - The Wall (or Delicate Sound of Thunder)

Previously mentioned by me as fav's...

Ultravox - Rage In Eden

Talk Talk - The Colour of Spring

[Michael McNally]

1 - Regatta de Blanc - The Police

Our family bought our first sound system (cassette deck, amplifier and HUGE speakers) in 1980. At the store we got it from, we were allowed to buy one cassette each. My older brother went for this gem by The Police (I opted for 'Rumours' by Fleetwood Mac as I knew mum liked it - I was eleven). I listened to it so many times I could sing it from start to finish. Brilliant music.

Cheers

Michael

[dave vino]

Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms - Polished, precise, great songs, there was just something about it that grabbed me, the ability of it to have you tapping your toes/fingers while listening to it.

U2 - Joshua Tree - Atmospheric, moody, dark, I loved the postitve angst in their songs, the Edges guitar riffs the euphoric wailing from Bono.

Midnight Oil - Diesel and Dust - syncopatic, throbbing beats, lyrics with meaning and telling stories. Leading to air drumming every time.

Vangelis - Chariots of Fire - How music can fundamentally change and create senses of emotion and feeling in perfect harmony to what is happening on the screen. No dialogue required, the music talks.

Cold Chisel - Radio Songs - The ultimate good times with mates, singing along, shoulder to shoulder, invariably drunk, nothing technical just good, easy to enjoy music.

[felixp21]

Five of the greatest albums ever released.

Pet Sounds Beach Boys. Living in New Guinea at the time, my old man or the US B-52 pilots who shared the other half of our duplex in Port Moresby had this on every night, and as a 6-7 year old, I'll never forget it. Get it on vinyl now, the DRC of music.

Tannhauser Richard Wagner. Greatest opera ever written, the Latour of music. If you don't have goosebumps listening to the Pilgrim's march, you are clinically dead.

10 Pearl Jam. The La Romanee of Grunge music. Reckon I have listened to this album more than 5,000 times over the past 26 years. I'm 100 points on this album!!!

Appetite for Destruction Guns'N'Roses The Screaming Eagle of Hard Rock. Unbelievable vocals, incredible complexity, an utter masterpiece.

Ma Vlast Bedrich Smetana. Grew up with "the Moldau", possibly the greatest single piece of music ever dreamt up. I'm not religious, but if I were, I would assume God had a hand in composing this. Drink it with a 2004 Raveneau Les Clos and you will find everlasting peace.

[Scotty vino]

Crowded House, Temple of Low men.
Neil Finn at his absolute finest.
Timeless Beautiful songs.

Radiohead, OK computer.
Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood. What a compo.
What an album.

Doves, The Last broadcast.
The song 'pounding' on this album.
If this doesn't get you going nothing will.
Jimi Goodwin. The man has pipes.

Weezer, Pinkerton.
Dark, fuzzy lo fi pop at it's best.
Rivers Cuomo pours his heart out on this one.
Saw them perform this album live start to finish back in the late 90s.
One of my fave ever gigs hands down.

Slayer, Reign in blood
28 mins of unforgiving, unrelenting pure aggression and amazing playing.
Incredible energy, assault on the senses.

[TiggerK]

Radiohead, OK computer.
Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood. What a compo.
What an album.

Yes! How could I have forgotten this. Definitely changed my musical life, a masterpiece. Saw this tour on my first night in Sydney 20 years ago, mind blown again. Still remember it vividly.

Three others that come to mind particularly influential to me in my early (mostly pub rock) musical career were Nirvana - Nevermind, Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magic and Faith No More - The Real Thing. Think we covered nearly every song on all of them!

Oh and of course Metallica - The Black Album. Great songs but oh man that production by Bob Rock was killer.

[rooman]

We saw Eilen Jewel last week at the Leadbelly in Newtown. First lady of the Minor Keys and new Queen of Alt Country.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beN3Isqxgyk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbPrKHn59M0

[rooman]

Also on high rotation in the house is Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, a high energy R&B/Soul outfit from the South. Saw them last year at the Enmore, one of the best concerts I have seen in recent years/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2hxU4UG3dA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iAYhQsQhSY

[n4sir]

Displaying my tendancy to jump around music styles depending on my mood...

Jumped from Eurovision pop to Gary Moore heavy rock and blues, and then Jeff Healey, with a bit of Allanah Myles, Simple Minds and Mike + the Mechanics in between just for the hell of it.

Next week, who knows...

[michel]

Saw Slowdive live this year for the first time
They were excellent
I have always wanted to see Wire live
The Charlatans are touring
Seen them twice live and they over deliver
Even after the passing of the drummer from brain cancer.