What are you listening to?

[Duque de Bragança]

#aislop
#uchronia
#synthwave

AI slop for Sheilbh: brutalism, (retro-)futurism AND nostalgy, nuclear power, TGV; techno-optimism as in progress will solve everything (no bats to save here remember) etc. Back then 8-bit micro-computers were high-tech cf. Thomson MO5 & TO7.
Gloire à Giscard ! 
Some industrial projects shown on the video were actually cancelled under VGE but who cares? Plus some started before, or Franco-British. 

P-S: Giscardpunk (sic) is really franglais inspired by steampunk (don't ask)

[Jacob]

Most recently: Cowboy Junkies and Social Distortion

[Syt]

Yes, those are almost everywhere now, but what about music?

[Jacob]

[frunk]

No idea Brainiac got back together.  Still sounds like music from the future despite being made 30 years ago.

RIP Tim Taylor

[Josephus]

Most recently: Cowboy Junkies and Social Distortion

Interesting mix.

Love the Junkies myself...even their later stuff.

I used to see them at a club in Toronto, the Grapevine, back before and around the time the  Trintiy Sessions came out. Margo was a friend of a schoolmate of mine (In fact she went to the same university as I did, she studied social work) and I got to meet her a few times back then.

[Savonarola]

Marvin Gaye - Here my Dear (1978)

I knew of this album by reputation, but had never heard it before.  Marvin's advance and royalties were the settlement for his divorce to his first wife, Anna (Berry Gordy's sister.)  He initially went into the studio to make a cheap and quick album, and instead made this... one of a kind double album which details his feelings for Anna, their adopted son and the divorce.  It's good, it's brutally honest, but listening to it it's hard not to think, "Marvin, you know that's the boss's sister you're singing about, right?"  It's a lot like "What's Going On" or "Let's Get it On" where the songs bleed into one another.