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Post by mekon on Apr 6, 2021 8:22:35 GMT
I must admit to becoming 'stuck in my ways' as regards music. I still listen to a wide array of stuff, it's just barely any of it goes past about 2005 now.
When I was into skateboarding the videos used to be gateway to cool indie music and american punk. Then when the Playstation was actually able to play real music stuff like Wipeout meant you once again heard new tunes and then films like the Matrix started to move away from entirely orchestral soundtracks and things like Pulp Fiction etc meant more music. I haven't randomly bought stuff for years, the last time I did was over a decade ago when I picked up an acid jazz compilation for no reason.
Then again when I turn on radio and listen to some that shit and I can sort justify it. What's with all this talking over a high hat ? Literally some cunt talking like they are pissed over a high hat pattern.
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Post by spentcase on Apr 6, 2021 12:04:11 GMT
For as eclectic as my music tastes are, my heart is in the early 90s grunge/indie rock scene.
Most people my age love 80s music, but that synthy vibe always felt too watered down and commercial for me, even when it first came out.
Pearl jam, nirvana, Alice in chains, stone temple pilots and rage against the machine really felt like the music that I'd been waiting for when I first heard it.
What Meeks said really struck a chord with me. Back then I would buy all I could of a band on the basis of a single song.
One of the best songs from back then was 'Bright Yellow Gun' by Throwing Muses.
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Post by pantah on Apr 6, 2021 17:43:31 GMT
90’s is my go to decade when guitar based bands came back with a bang. Supergrass were the pick for me.
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Post by roobarb on Apr 6, 2021 18:24:31 GMT
I lost interest in new music in the late '90s I suppose; my last memory of WOW WHAT IS THIS from around that time is "OK Computer". Had a thing going on for "Californication" but that was more about The Time, The Place and The People.
Subsequently, I was mostly listening to Radio 2 and BBC Radio London irrelevance but in 2006 I stumbled across "I Bet You Look Good On The Dance Floor" by Arctic Monkeys; MIND BLOWN and played that to death on Youtube, bought the album but didn't really play it to death and that was that. More importantly, my faith in TEH YOUNG PEOPLES and the future of humanity in general was restored by this one track. I believe VER KIDS are the future. I thank my Gawd fairly often that I haven't raced down the BOOMER GAMMON dead end street that too many of my contempories have chosen.
The last album I got all unneccessary over was "The Race for Space" by Public Service Broadcasting. Shortly after, I acquired DAB receiving equipment and 6 Music informs my new musical interests. It ain't the John Peel show but that groovy fucker went and died, yeah?
Ugh. Currently immersed in "From The Heart Of Town" by Gallon Drunk; before that, "Spooky" by Lush.
TL:DR
There's music for everyone. Find and enjoy.
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Post by mekon on Apr 6, 2021 18:45:28 GMT
Think the last time I heard something and tracked it down was probably some of the tunes on Drive (AND NOT THE FUCKING SHIT ZANE LOWE RESCORED VERSION - FUCK OFF ZANE LOWE!)
This lead to me listening to stuff like M83 but the moment I discovered them so did some fucking ad agency and their tunes were on PC World adverts so ruined for me.
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Post by Droog on Apr 6, 2021 19:06:03 GMT
I find that I've no space for new music and haven't had any spare space since around 2005 maybe? I'm pretty sure that Kasabian is the last group to make it into my collection. Although I stopped listening to anything they did after 2009.
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Post by Eddie The Bastard on Apr 6, 2021 21:39:24 GMT
Yeah its weird here too.
I had a mate that worked in a record shop in Soho in the 1990 era. He mentioned bands before they made it big. I used to buy tapes when on the road with work to keep it fresh. It must be decades since I purchased something you can hold. I don't even think I have paid to download anything.
A combination of not enough time and too many other distractions.
I'm happy enough with a music channel on in the background or radio 6 for its randomness.
I love the Sleaford Mods.
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Post by mekon on Apr 6, 2021 21:54:37 GMT
I've a hacked copy of Spotify and I barely use it. Could be listening to anything but I can't be arsed.
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Post by armstrongracer on Apr 12, 2021 21:57:26 GMT
For those of a certain generation who still remember crackejack pencil's and Jenny Hanley's hotpants.
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Post by elnoodle the reasonable on Apr 12, 2021 22:23:38 GMT
That's one of my favourite covers Armie. It's utterly sublime and develops the song like a cover should.
Also, Nick Cave is breathtaking live.
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Post by armstrongracer on Apr 12, 2021 22:43:06 GMT
+1 to all that. Unfortunately Cov 19 put the mokkers on me seeing him in Barcelona this year.
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Post by spentcase on Apr 13, 2021 10:06:52 GMT
Big fan of Nick Cave.
At the risk of being a bit mainstream, I love 'Nature Boy.'
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Post by elnoodle the reasonable on Apr 24, 2021 1:05:12 GMT
Watching the Kate Bush hing on BBC4 and fuck me, that lassie has delivered music of an extraordinarily high quality since she was a teenager. Many of us have learned to play instruments clumsily and maybe tried to write a song. Talent like that really puts you in your pathetic little place.
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Post by armstrongracer on Apr 25, 2021 11:02:29 GMT
Saw that too, you up doing late night whiskey as well? Her talent was incandescent, bright & strong willed beyond her years would have been easy to get railroaded by the record company into recereating Wuthering Heights & chasing singles. Apparently she dated Hugh Cornwall of the Stranglers for a bit. Theres a story in his biog that the record company advised her not to visit him when he was banged up in Pentonville for drugs. She went anyway, fair fucks. Respect.
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Post by roobarb on May 6, 2021 14:41:54 GMT
I've noticed there's been a trend for female vocalists from the mid-'00s onwards to not fully enunciate their words; like their mouths are half closed or summat. Like really bad ventriloquists. Maybe I'm just getting old and the successfully suppressed gammon gene is fighting for acknowledgement of it's miserable existence. Fucking love this though.
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