What are you listening to?

[mongers]

ZZ Top's 'Rio Grande Mud' album, so good I'm listening to it straight away.

Be sure to listen to Ministry's tribute to this album, called Rio Grande Blood. 

Thanks for the tip, Duque

[Admiral Yi]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_f16t1JGHo

The We Five, You Were On My Mind

This popped up on my youtube feed.  I'm totally obsessed with this song now.

[garbon]

ABC - Poison Arrow

[Eddie Teach]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_f16t1JGHo

The We Five, You Were On My Mind

This popped up on my youtube feed.  I'm totally obsessed with this song now.

Used to be a staple of the oldies stations I listened to.

[Admiral Yi]

The original, 1963, Ian and Sylvia.  Pure folk, kinda downbeat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-g203otiYU

Different video of the We Five version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-7QHWJOzbE

Not only is it an incredibly catchy folk/pop song, I love it as a cultural artifact.  Part of the electrification of folk and the transition to pop/rock. In this video the lead is a kinda dumpy looking girl with a great alto voice.  Compare her look with the first video I linked.  Professional makeup, professional hair, professional outfit.  Dumpy to hottie just through production values.  The backers haven't figured out how to play air guitar convincingly in the black and white.  It's like the real life That Thing You Do.  I love the fact that an ubernerd could play rhythm guitar on a hit song in the 60s.

[mongers]

Elton John –  Pinball Wizard
Thin Lizzy – Whisky In The Jar
Toto – Hold The Line
Mott The Hoople – All The Young Dudes
Meat Loaf – Deadringer For Love
Lynyrd Skynyrd –     Freebird
Free – Wishing Well
Moody Blues, The – Nights In White Satin
Ike & Tina Turner – Nutbush City Limits
Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel – Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me)
Santana – Black Magic Woman
John Miles – Music

[Josephus]

Nice playlist

[mongers]

Nice playlist

I have to admit not mine, it was an old compilation cassette I had for years as a teenagers.

So on finding it a while back I made up an MP3 album or folder to recreate the sensation of listening to it. 

[Syt]

I checked out Metal Hammer's top 3 albums of 2017 since I'm a bit out of the loop these days.

1. Mastodon - Emperor of Sand
Quite all right, but I have to be in the right mindset for their progressive style, and yesterday was not such a day.

2. Myrkur - Mareridt
A Danish death metal band with, unusually, female vocals. (Wikipedia says it's her project) Just beautiful.

3. Code Orange - Forever
Loved the dirty, aggressive sound of the album. Not fond of them cutting the sound in the middle of the playtime of a song, in the middle of a chord before going on with something else. When streaming that mostly has me checking if Spotify crashed or my connection went down. Heck, the last track ends mid-word.



Also, you know how sometimes you used to love a song to death and when you go back to it after year it's not as good as you remembered?

Fortunately that's not the case for Nocte Obducta's Und Pan Spielt die Flöte - if you're in the mind for an epic 15 minute composition, here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lb4jxEowH0

[Tamas]

Not fond of them cutting the sound in the middle of the playtime of a song, in the middle of a chord before going on with something else. When streaming that mostly has me checking if Spotify crashed or my connection went down. Heck, the last track ends mid-word.

EDGY

[Syt]

Not fond of them cutting the sound in the middle of the playtime of a song, in the middle of a chord before going on with something else. When streaming that mostly has me checking if Spotify crashed or my connection went down. Heck, the last track ends mid-word.

EDGY

Well, judge for yourself - they were nominated for a Grammy for their song Forever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ9JVxQVQy4 (which doesn't really pull the "let's pause a few seconds" thing). I actually like their sound, reminds me a bit of the 90s.

[Liep]

Also, you know how sometimes you used to love a song to death and when you go back to it after year it's not as good as you remembered?

Yes, in recent years though it hasn't happened as much. I guess my taste in music has improved and stabilized somewhat since my youth.

[Syt]

Dunno, why, but this parody song reminds me of Admiral Yi: Wheeler Walker, Jr - Puss in Boots

https://vimeo.com/214063099

Must be the language.

NSFW (features topless women and sexually explicit lyrics)

[The Minsky Moment]

Bobby Hutcherson, Montara (1975)

World's greatest vibes player leads mini Latin big band.  Very 70s album although mostly in a good way.

[Liep]

Our national music icon Kim Larsen died today, I don't think there's anything Danes from any age group can agree more on than him being the best there has ever been in Danish pop rock.

Gasolin - Det bedste til mig og mine venner

RIP