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Re: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?

Wed Apr 22, 2015 12:15 am

Ocean - Will The Circle Be Unbroken
 
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Re: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?

Wed Apr 22, 2015 9:43 pm

Opeth's 4th album "Still Life" is fan-damn-tastic. Never thought I'd say that about anything with death growl vocals on it. I think my new goal in life may be to get my *kids* to say "OMG, turn that damn racket down!" :lol:
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Re: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?

Wed Apr 22, 2015 10:07 pm

Holy crap, JBI likes Opeth! If you haven't listened to it yet, check out the album Damnation. It's super mellow with clean vocals throughout, and yet it's my favorite Opeth album. Here's the full video of Lamentations (Live at Shepherd's Bush Empire 2003), where they play Damnation in its entirety, starting with "Windowpane", which is a favorite of mine. Damnation is straight prog rock, and it's fantastic. Åkerfeldt is love, Åkerfeldt is life.
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Re: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?

Wed Apr 22, 2015 10:31 pm

Dizik wrote:
Holy crap, JBI likes Opeth! If you haven't listened to it yet, check out the album Damnation. It's super mellow with clean vocals throughout, and yet it's my favorite Opeth album. Here's the full video of Lamentations (Live at Shepherd's Bush Empire 2003), where they play Damnation in its entirety, starting with "Windowpane", which is a favorite of mine. Damnation is straight prog rock, and it's fantastic. Åkerfeldt is love, Åkerfeldt is life.

Opeth is a rather recent thing for me. I picked up Heritage and Pale Communion last December, and have been working my way through their back catalog since then. I still like Pale Communion the best (I'm a big '70s prog rock fan and PC has a huge retro prog feel to it), but yes, I agree -- Åkerfeldt is a genius. And yeah, Damnation is probably my second favorite after Pale Communion. Heritage has some great stuff on it, but seems a bit unfocused... IMO whereas Pale Communion and Damnation are masterpieces, Heritage seems more of a glorious hot mess.
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Re: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?

Thu Apr 23, 2015 12:28 am

Listening to the 'How To Save A Life' album by The Fray.
 
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Re: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?

Fri Apr 24, 2015 1:54 am

Madonna - Borderline
Another HDtracks purchase. I've never actually owned Madonna's first album on CD--just tape and vinyl (and FLAC sourced from the tape). Gotta say I'm really digging the HDtracks version. Quite an upgrade.
 
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Re: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?

Fri Apr 24, 2015 3:33 am

Tony Bennet: Fly Me to the Moon, mellow!
 
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Re: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?

Sun Apr 26, 2015 8:40 pm

Shakin' Stevens - This Ole House
 
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Re: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?

Mon Apr 27, 2015 12:28 am

Catey Shaw - Human Contact (Speaker Of The House Remix) Link
 
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Re: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?

Mon Apr 27, 2015 12:32 pm

Lean on by Major Lazer/MØ. (How do you pronounce Ø anyway?) Never heard of either of those groups, so this might just one a one-hit wonder thing. I do like the way they combined trap and EDM styles into something, well, actually nice to listen to rather than annoying as hell/full of sound effects.
 
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Re: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?

Mon Apr 27, 2015 4:59 pm

ELO - Shangri-la
That last minute - man, what a way to end a (spectacular) album.
 
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Re: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?

Mon Apr 27, 2015 9:58 pm

Quite possibly my favorite song of all time (and a personal fantasy!) (´▽`)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11Nq6PzY0xA

Baby's got an atom bomb / A motherf**king atom bomb
Twenty two megaton / You've never seen so much fun
Baby got a poison gas / Baby got a heart attacks
Baby got a pain on tap / Baby gimme some of that
Baby got a nobel prize / Given for the perfect crime
Baby got an alibi / Baby got eight more lives
Baby got a satellite / Baby got second sight
Baby got a masterplan / A foolproof master plan
Baby got purple hair / Baby got a secret lair
Baby got an army there / I ain't ever seen baby scared
Baby got a crystal ball / Baby doesn't care at all
Baby's having too much fun / Baby got an atom bomb

Baby got a fleet at sea / and a submarine called Emergency
She got a motorcade / She got a monorail
Going coast to coast on a campaign trail
Playing deck of cards in an armored car
She got a kung fu star as a bodyguard
She got a juju charm / She got a magic spell
She got a genie / all three is working well
She got a TV show / She got a shopping mall
She got a miracle / she doesn't want at all
She got a monument at a great expense
She got a head of state and a president
She got destiny, she got supremacy
She got every little thing from A to Z
She got it all down tight, she got nothing wrong
She got the whole wide world singing baby's song~
 
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Re: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?

Tue Apr 28, 2015 11:10 am

The Pretty Reckless - Going to Hell

Listening, meaning it's stuck in my head and won't go away, but I'm ok with that.
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Re: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?

Tue Apr 28, 2015 11:15 am

Dire Straits - Six Blade Knife

Found a CD of their first album while doing some spring cleaning and now this track is stuck in my head. Soo good!
 
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Re: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?

Tue Apr 28, 2015 11:20 am

jihadjoe wrote:
Dire Straits - Six Blade Knife

Found a CD of their first album while doing some spring cleaning and now this track is stuck in my head. Soo good!

And very well recorded to boot.
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Re: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?

Tue Apr 28, 2015 11:45 am

I always get Heavy Fuel stuck in my head.
 
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Re: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?

Tue Apr 28, 2015 12:02 pm

Captain Ned wrote:
jihadjoe wrote:
Dire Straits - Six Blade Knife

Found a CD of their first album while doing some spring cleaning and now this track is stuck in my head. Soo good!

And very well recorded to boot.

Mmmm... yes. Probably still my favorite Dire Straits album. I've even got the original vinyl pressing, purchased back in the day when it came out. (Yeah, I'm that old... :lol:)
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Re: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?

Thu Apr 30, 2015 1:38 am

REO Speedwagon - Shakin' It Loose
 
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Re: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?

Thu Apr 30, 2015 10:14 am

Break it up by Foreigner us stuck in my head right now. The good old '4' album.
 
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Re: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?

Thu Apr 30, 2015 10:19 am

jackbomb wrote:
REO Speedwagon - Shakin' It Loose

localhostrulez wrote:
Break it up by Foreigner us stuck in my head right now. The good old '4' album.

You guys are giving me flashbacks to my college years... :lol:
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Re: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?

Tue May 19, 2015 4:34 pm

Hmm, this is interesting. I bought a copy of the new Taylor Swift/Bad Blood remix on iTunes (I know, I know :lol:), and it's further from the noise floor than the CD (both converted to 256 or 320kbps mp3 with iTunes). And there's actually more dynamic range - it still hits the peak in places (where it truly should be loud). I guess that's what "Mastered for iTunes" means?

Even in the loud parts, I've seen too many things that just hang right at the peak of the VU meter. Not nearly as much here. Yep, just makes me hate it even more when songs try to break VU meters...
 
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Re: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?

Tue May 19, 2015 8:01 pm

Scott McGill - Awareness

Totally whacked-out instrumental avant-garde rock/funk/fusion. Fantastic stuff!
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Re: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?

Tue May 19, 2015 11:57 pm

Sing to the Night by Shred Kelly

edit: the music video is awesomely Canadian - completely worth watching several times over
 
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Re: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?

Wed May 20, 2015 12:34 am

Killswitch Engage - Disarm the Descent

Excellent album appealing to my harder musical tastes.
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Re: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?

Tue May 26, 2015 5:53 pm

Not so much now as in the near future, as Amazon just dropped me a present on my doorstep.

Yes, Progeny: Seven Shows from Seventy-Two. The tour that gave us Yessongs. Recorded from 10/31/72 through 11/20/72, all official board recordings. For Yes-haters, this precedes Tales From Topographic Oceans, but it was down time on this tour that led to TFTO.

I lurves me some Roger Dean artwork.

EDIT: Listening now to "Close to the Edge" from 10/31/72 - Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto. First track I've listened to from the lot and I wonder why this wasn't the version on Yessongs. I can only hope it gets better from here.
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Re: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?

Wed May 27, 2015 11:28 am

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Opeth's 4th album "Still Life" is fan-damn-tastic. Never thought I'd say that about anything with death growl vocals on it. I think my new goal in life may be to get my *kids* to say "OMG, turn that damn racket down!" :lol:


Welcome to the world of real music. :) Opeth's Orchid and Blackwater Park were my first foray into the wonderful world of Swedish Death Metal, and after that there was no turning back!

Currently listening to Kalmah, Moon of My Nights. An excellent Finnish death metal band and masterful track!
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Re: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?

Thu May 28, 2015 1:45 am

Crystal Gayle - Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue
 
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Re: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?

Thu May 28, 2015 5:16 am

Theme from 'A Fistful of Dynamite' - Ennio Morricone
Can't get enough of 1:10 through 1:33 and 2:25 through 2:48.
 
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Re: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?

Fri May 29, 2015 4:59 pm

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Re: What are you listening to RIGHT NOW?

Sat May 30, 2015 2:19 am

Leonard Cohen - First We Take Manhattan

Fleetwood Mac - Over My Head

Three Dog Night - The Family Of Man

Candi Staton - Young Hearts Run Free

Tommy Castro - Callin' San Francisco

Norman Greenbaum - Spirit In The Sky

Lobo - Me And You And A Dog Name Boo

The Velvet Underground - Oh! Sweet Nuthin'

Patsy Cline - She's Got You

David Bowie - Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes! :D

The Moody Blues - The Story In Your Eyes

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