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MigMac

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Music Faves
« on: October 14, 2024, 03:54:25 AM »

As this section is about anything, why not talk about music.

I could live without books and possibly films but not without music. Except maybe military marches I can appreciate about anything from jazz to classical through pop-rock. I'd say I'm rather a pop-guy though. Faves include The Beatles, Kate Bush, Lana Del Rey, Pink Floyd, PJ Harvey also Shiina Ringo and Utada Hikaru for J-pop.

This was released 40 years ago on this very day, Cloudbusting by Kate Bush:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WataeV4WsI4

« Last Edit: October 14, 2024, 04:22:26 AM by MigMac »
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ceratophyllum

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Re: Music Faves
« Reply #1 on: October 14, 2024, 04:35:28 AM »

I was mostly a prog. rock / synth-pop guy but I got bored of the repetitive structure of pop songs (intro, verse1,chorus, verse2,chorus, optional bridge, verse3, outro). I kept wanting the intro or bridge to be the whole song, without all the dumb rhyming lyrics and repetition.  For example,  Pink Floyd's "A Momentary Lapse of Reason" begins brilliantly with "Signs of Life": back in the 9th grade I'd never heard anything like that. But the rest of the album is pretty much all boring mediocre dinosaur-band, guys-with-guitars stuff.
AFAIK, Signs of Life is forgotten and was never done live but Learning To Fly (instantly appealing, but boring once you get to know it) is on all the classic rock stations.

Then in 1989,  I found Jean-Michel Jarre: Oxygene, Equinoxe, Champs Magnetiques, and Rendez-vous and I was done with prog-rock and pet shop boys. However, Jarre kind of lost it in the 00s and started making repetitive techno-sounding crap, often in collaboration with young idiots.

Now I'm looking for a new favourite symphonic synth wizard one-man-band.

No, I don't think much of Vangelis: while one mustn't speak ill of the dead, I think almost all his catchy songs are either variations on Chariots of Fire (which sounds a lot like Jerusalem, btw) or  hideous, tedious, cacaphonous experiments (Heaven & Hell, Beauborg, Soil Festivities to name a few).
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Re: Music Faves
« Reply #2 on: October 14, 2024, 10:32:39 AM »

My music favorites are uh, let me check my Itunes, apperently the most listened to music on this computer is "Possum Pizza Song" which I pulled of a Prank site that I found while hitting the random button on Wiby.

Followed by "Here comes the future" by World Party and Back Stabbers by the O'Jays.

Beyond that I am sucker for TWRP, the PROTOMEN and various Y2K topic bands. Yes it is weird that two of my favorite bands are costume bands.
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BIg_Macintosh

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Re: Music Faves
« Reply #3 on: May 30, 2025, 01:19:45 PM »

As this section is about anything, why not talk about music.

I could live without books and possibly films but not without music. Except maybe military marches I can appreciate about anything from jazz to classical through pop-rock. I'd say I'm rather a pop-guy though. Faves include The Beatles, Kate Bush, Lana Del Rey, Pink Floyd, PJ Harvey also Shiina Ringo and Utada Hikaru for J-pop.

This was released 40 years ago on this very day, Cloudbusting by Kate Bush:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WataeV4WsI4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eO-Es71yV0&t=15

Can you get behind something like this?
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smilesdavis

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Re: Music Faves
« Reply #4 on: May 30, 2025, 02:07:11 PM »

sounds like someone recorded an autechre liveset with RealAudioplayer
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BIg_Macintosh

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Re: Music Faves
« Reply #5 on: May 30, 2025, 02:33:44 PM »

sounds like someone recorded an autechre liveset with RealAudioplayer

true :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKyw-74yWk0
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ssp3

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Re: Music Faves
« Reply #6 on: May 30, 2025, 02:40:46 PM »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eO-Es71yV0&t=15
Can you get behind something like this?

I've been to clubs where such music is played. Not exactly my cup of tea, but why not. It has its place. Like everything else.
I certainly hear influence of this piece there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_NStTkSRQw
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BIg_Macintosh

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Re: Music Faves
« Reply #7 on: May 30, 2025, 03:03:06 PM »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eO-Es71yV0&t=15
Can you get behind something like this?

I've been to clubs where such music is played. Not exactly my cup of tea, but why not. It has its place. Like everything else.
I certainly here influence of this piece there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_NStTkSRQw

I think that song could be quite a bit faster with some harder drums :P
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smilesdavis

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Re: Music Faves
« Reply #8 on: May 31, 2025, 06:04:34 AM »

sounds like someone recorded an autechre liveset with RealAudioplayer

true :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKyw-74yWk0

ah vsnares i met him when he lived in vienna we hung out
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BIg_Macintosh

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Re: Music Faves
« Reply #9 on: June 02, 2025, 01:29:17 AM »

sounds like someone recorded an autechre liveset with RealAudioplayer

true :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKyw-74yWk0

ah vsnares i met him when he lived in vienna we hung out

that's pretty cool, do you have a copy of "Venetian Snares – A Tape For Bob From Aaron" by chance?
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