NationStates Jolt Archive

Using the search feature it appears its been 4 months since we have had one of these and I'm having a day off which means...

tell the audience what music your listening to now and what music track you have dug up recently (we all do this surely?)

I'm stuck listening to stars remix album which is terrible (album of remixes really) I have to be honest, though I recently dug up this gem:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MShJ8h7cEbE

edit: finally a video for this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUSTbVXvFnI

Using the search feature it appears its been 4 months since we have had one of these and I'm having a day off which means...

tell the audience what music your listening to now and what music track you have dug up recently (we all do this surely?)

I'm stuck listening to stars remix album which is terrible (album of remixes really) I have to be honest, though I recently dug up this gem:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MShJ8h7cEbE

I'm not going to name what music I am listening too, it is enough for you all to know that it is indeed the hippest music going, I'm hip and thats all you need know!

I'm not going to name what music I am listening too, it is enough for you all to know that it is indeed the hippest music going, I'm hip and thats all you need know!

a Mika fan eh? :p

Lick me in the ass by Mozart
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lick_Me_in_the_Ass

Currently listening to a lot of French electro-house. I currenty masturbate to Genesis by Justice: http://youtube.com/watch?v=lfHc7JO2fKc

http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/8630/kkbbqimage02vt5.jpg

The King Khan and BBQ show: Shake Real Low (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxsHy6ZH_6A)

Also my current favorite band right now along with BBQ aka Mark Sultans and King Khan aka Blacksnake' other projects.

Music Inspired By The Lord Of The Rings by Bo Hansson, recorded in 1972 on the only 8-track in Sweden. On the famous Charisma record label. Prinarily laid back organ-based noodling.

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s25421.jpg

On vinyl, of course.

It doesn't even register on the 'hip' scale.

I'm still in shock at Lick Me in the Ass.

Anyway...

Broken Social Scene (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_Social_Scene) is a Canadian indie rock supergroup, a musical collective currently including nineteen members, formed in 1999 in Toronto, Ontario.

Broken Social Scene (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_Social_Scene) is a Canadian indie rock supergroup, a musical collective currently including nineteen members, formed in 1999 in Toronto, Ontario.

haven't they broken up?

a Mika fan eh? :p
You want to be really hip?

It’s all about the minimal techno (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4RJsDuW4Q4)...

It’s all about the minimal techno (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4RJsDuW4Q4)...

curse those water balloon planes!

haven't they broken up?

Is that a joke because of their name? I don't really follow them, just listen to their music a lot. However I think they have a new album coming out next week and another next year.

been listening to Sepultura a lot recently :)

i don't 'dig up' songs, but rather old bands.

but my favourite is still Testament, followed by Andy McKee

http://www.last.fm/user/PureMetal/

i also listen to Planet Rock (http://www.planetrock.co.uk/) a lot :)

Is that a joke because of their name? I don't really follow them, just listen to their music a lot. However I think they have a new album coming out next week and another next year.

august-ish they went on hiatus (hence Stars etc) I think there is an album coming up with loads of guest appearances though :)

curse those water balloon planes!
Curse Villalobos, Eulberg and Hawtin for keeping me up dancing till 5.00 am.

Curse Villalobos, Eulberg and Hawtin for keeping me up dancing till 5.00 am.

I'd pay to see the dancing

The Exies - Kickout
Injected - Burn it Black
And The Academy Is - The Phrase That Pays


Current top of my list.

Anything Nightwish
and I just downloaded some old disney music, under the sea etc....funny!

Anything Nightwish
and I just downloaded some old disney music, under the sea etc....funny!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcbazH6aE2g

oh God I'm going to have to bump this

65daysofstatic is what I'm listening to as I type.

Recently I've been listening to the Hellset Orchestra, Pelican and Radio 4.

oh God I'm going to have to bump this
Patience is a virtue. :p

I’d pay to see the dancing
I charge £6 p/h, plus extras.

Recently I’ve been listening to the Hellset Orchestra, Pelican and Radio 4.
Huzzah for digital radio!

I just discovered a great little heavy metal record store nearby, so I've been spending some time there.

I just picked up albums by Nightwish and Rhapsody of Fire.

Huzzah for digital radio!
Erm...I meant the band...

Right now,Shaman, a nice Finnish folk metal band.Edguy,In Flames and Machinae supremacy most notably this days.

Erm...I meant the band...
How confusing.

Regina Spektor and Amy Winehouse.

copying others so I can appear hip is what I do best! yay me!

In my head right now is Faster by Manic Street Preachers. They're utter shit, except for the first two albums, which were brilliant. I miss Richey:(

This week, I aaaave bin mostly listenin to Howard Moon and Vince Noir. I'm caught in a hoodoo trance!

Though not particularly "hip" I've been listening to these two songs quite a bit, as I have them both stuck in my head a lot lately.

Corneille - Reposez en paix (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33nYAMYoeZM)

Grand Corps Malade - Midi 20 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVuSgGWFssc)

copying others so I can appear hip is what I do best! yay me!

In my head right now is Faster by Manic Street Preachers. They're utter shit, except for the first two albums, which were brilliant. I miss Richey:(
The Holy Bible is utter shit? :confused:

http://www.last.fm/music/Unexpect
My favourite band at the moment. If by "hip" you really mean "utterly insane genius", then thats certainly hip :D

The Holy Bible is utter shit? :confused:

Mis-typed that like, I meant three.

Everything post-Richey is a shite on the name of music

Knotthole Glade;13046710']Right now,Shaman, a nice Finnish folk metal band.Edguy,In Flames and Machinae supremacy most notably this days.

Shaman, you mean Korpiklaani?

Anyways, I listen to black metal and viking metal mostly, with some melodic death metal thrown in.

Some bands I like:
Falkenbach
Windir
Hypocrisy
Amon Amarth
Darkthrone
Immortal
Marduk
Naglfar
Myrgrav
Gorgoroth
Bathory
Ensiferum
Turisas
Emperor
Korpiklaani
Enslaved

I listen to music based not on what is hip, cool, or in taste (because the popular stuff is generally crap). but rather on quality.

Musical quality: the general degree of guitar riffs and lyrics in a particular song, evaluated on the basis that faster and more complex note structures are inherently better in quality, and that senseless repitition of words regarding drug deals, gang violence glorification, and the abuse of "bitches" all automatically eliminate any type of quality.

Ooh, I forgot that the 80s was cool again in Britain. Therefore, I list my ultra-cool bands:

Metallica
Slayer
Megadeth
Anthrax

:p

copying others so I can appear hip is what I do best! yay me!

lolz you copied me. I feel special.

I recently discovered King Crimson:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=T9ZRjsUzuHQ

According to an analysis of the characteristics of "thumbed up" songs in my two favorite Pandora (http://www.pandora.com) stations, I tend to prefer music which features (in order, from strongest to weakest preference):


Acoustic sonority
Extensive vamping
New age aesthetics
Minor key tonality
Overall meditative sound
Vocal harmony
Prominent percussion
Repetitive melodic phrasing
Groove based composition
Folk roots/influences
Instrumental arrangement


I'll need one of the resident musicians to explain a few of these :D

I am currently listening to this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgI5cQLkNu0

Surprisingly I have found I like this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKAG2Q7Bik4
But that is mostly because the first band did a cover of it which can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5qHfqcWIDo

Imogen Heap.

I Know I'll See You Dead, by A Place to Bury Strangers. I've been listening a lot to that, and the rest of their album. It's like MBV + Big Black! Sorta? Maybe? Fine, not quite.


Also been listening to Earth, all of their stuff from now to 1990. 'specially Earth 2.

The Holy Bible is utter shit? :confused:

It has its utterly shitty moments, and yes, even utters shit.
:
http://bible.cc/malachi/2-3.htm

Gotta love the context-grubbers argue this one. As well as Judges 1:19.
As well as Mark 11:20.


But the first one's the best ... it's a poopy reference! w00t!

According to an analysis of the characteristics of "thumbed up" songs in my two favorite Pandora (http://www.pandora.com) stations, I tend to prefer music which features (in order, from strongest to weakest preference):


Acoustic sonority
Extensive vamping
New age aesthetics
Minor key tonality
Overall meditative sound
Vocal harmony
Prominent percussion
Repetitive melodic phrasing
Groove based composition
Folk roots/influences
Instrumental arrangement


I'll need one of the resident musicians to explain a few of these :D

No!

The three CDs I've been listening to the most lately are

George Thorogood and the Destroyers- self titled.

The Reverend Horton Heat- Spend a night in the box

and the Three Bad Jacks- self titled.

No!

¿No?

¿No?

Well ... maybe.
:)
I'll toss out Dead Can Dance to you. It meets a lot of your requirements?

Right now I'm listening to "Still Raining, Still Dreaming" by the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Recently I rediscovered Passages (http://www.philipglass.com/html/compositions/passages.html), an amazing collaboration between Ravi Shankar and Philip Glass. It really blows my mind.

I just picked up the latest Machine Head disc, The Blackening , and I'm really enjoying it.

I'm pissed that I can't find any more Blind Guardian in this fucking town! :mad:

I keep buying every In Flames CD I find that I don't already have.

...that's the latest, anyways. :)

I enjoy:

Billy Talent
Breaking Benjamin
Coheed and Cambria
Deadbird
Ektomorf
Flogging Molly
Godsmack
Marduk
Nonpoint
Papa Roach
Rage Against the Machine
Rammstein
Sum 41
System of a Down
Third Eye Blind
Walls of Jericho
Zao

I'll toss out Dead Can Dance to you. It meets a lot of your requirements?

Indeed. Dead Can Dance be the "artist seed" for my best station.

I developed a taste for a sort of dark ambient music after playing Uru: Ages Beyond Myst (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uru:_Ages_Beyond_Myst). The game is OK (although I'm not nearly smart enough for all the puzzles and such), but what most impressed me was the atmosphere. Brilliant.

So, I can just sum up all the previously mentioned musical characteristics as simply "music to play Myst by." :D

I'm listening to La Fraction. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQG9qu2H1p0) Not that song quite yet, but the same album.

Indeed. Dead Can Dance be the "artist seed" for my best station.

I developed a taste for a sort of dark ambient music after playing Uru: Ages Beyond Myst (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uru:_Ages_Beyond_Myst). The game is OK (although I'm not nearly smart enough for all the puzzles and such), but what most impressed me was the atmosphere. Brilliant.

So, I can just sum up all the previously mentioned musical characteristics as simply "music to play Myst by." :D

Howzabout the Quake soundtrack (Trent Reznor - shareware) and
some of the ambient works by Aphex Twin?
Another - Eric Serra's The Fifth Element soundtrack?
Thomas Newman has some really good stuff too.
I'm sure i've got a few other ideas, but i'm partially distracted right now.

Ooh, I forgot that the 80s was cool again in Britain.

Sez the NME.

http://www.phicons.com/wp-content/themes/adsense_ready/images/salt_pinch.jpg

Sez the NME.

http://www.phicons.com/wp-content/themes/adsense_ready/images/salt_pinch.jpg
But NME is surely the greatest sociometer we have? I mean, it's been telling us what to think for ages now, it must eventually get it right :p

Shaman, you mean Korpiklaani?

Anyways, I listen to black metal and viking metal mostly, with some melodic death metal thrown in.

Some bands I like:
Falkenbach
Windir
Hypocrisy
Amon Amarth
Darkthrone
Immortal
Marduk
Naglfar
Myrgrav
Gorgoroth
Bathory
Ensiferum
Turisas
Emperor
Korpiklaani
Enslaved
Yep,now it's Korpiklaani but i find the shaman sound more to my taste.Nice bands you listen to,did you try Finntroll?They're fun,you might like them.