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Re: Music
You'll rarely find me in this thread, but James McMurty is absolutely brilliant but obviously won't appeal to everyone. The guy is a master storyteller. His latest album, Complicated Game is full of real gems. The 8th track, "Carlisle's Haul" nails it for me. It's where I grew up as well, in the same industry. This is music worth "Listening" to.
00:00 Copper Canteen
05:47 You Got to Me
12:31 Ain’t Got a Place
15:54 She Loves Me
19:41 How’m I Gonna Find You Now
24:47 These Things I’ve Come to Know
28:56 Deaver’s Crossing
33:56 Carlisle’s Haul
42:59 Forgotten Coast
47:27 South Dakota [Explicit]
53:46 Long Island Sound
01:02:16 Cutter
00:00 Copper Canteen
05:47 You Got to Me
12:31 Ain’t Got a Place
15:54 She Loves Me
19:41 How’m I Gonna Find You Now
24:47 These Things I’ve Come to Know
28:56 Deaver’s Crossing
33:56 Carlisle’s Haul
42:59 Forgotten Coast
47:27 South Dakota [Explicit]
53:46 Long Island Sound
01:02:16 Cutter
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Re: Music
That was pretty easy going in a powerful 'sounds of home' way. It reminds me of Neil Young and indeed Crosby Stills and Nash (playing here soon - surprised you haven't tickets for that one). Bob Dylan too. All in a genre of commentary and protest over local issues and 'the times'. If the songwriter strikes shared issues and experience, then I can imagine it really leaves a mark. Same way punk hit the perfect note for (disenchanted) UK youth in the late 70s.sundaymorningstaple wrote:You'll rarely find me in this thread, but James McMurty is absolutely brilliant but obviously won't appeal to everyone. The guy is a master storyteller. His latest album, Complicated Game is full of real gems. The 8th track, "Carlisle's Haul" nails it for me. It's where I grew up as well, in the same industry. This is music worth "Listening" to.
p.s. I don't see any limits to what music might be posted here. It's all about sharing things others might not have heard of before; your suggestion being a very good example.
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Re: Music
Mrs JR8 has pretty easy-going taste in music; pop/dance, upbeat and fun stuff. Duran Duran is the one big thing that means a lot to her. I like their music since they came on the scene when I was a teenager, but wouldn't pay to go and see them. So one time a few years back she paid! And to my surprise it was a great show, and a really fun night
I have similarly surprised my wife by taking her to see AC/DC, Motorhead, Deep Purple, The Prodigy and so on. Next up is Crosby, Stills and Nash, and already she's going on jokily about how ancient the music is... but we'll see eh
I wouldn't invite her to certain things, anything too heavy like genuine punk, or too dark like say the Ninch Inch Nails. So in a way I suppose I've judged where to draw the line in the sand for her in such matters.
Well, I drew my own line in the sand re: who she is going to see this pm; One Direction, right here in Sunny-SG! Not least since she's chaperoning some mega-fan teenage relatives
'These Photos Perfectly Capture What It Feels Like To Be A Dad At A One Direction Concert'
http://www.buzzfeed.com/javiermoreno/th ... .cnAlPWJ3o" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The pix in the link sum-up precisely how I fear I'd feel. It's certainly going to be interesting getting a de-briefing on this evening!

I have similarly surprised my wife by taking her to see AC/DC, Motorhead, Deep Purple, The Prodigy and so on. Next up is Crosby, Stills and Nash, and already she's going on jokily about how ancient the music is... but we'll see eh

I wouldn't invite her to certain things, anything too heavy like genuine punk, or too dark like say the Ninch Inch Nails. So in a way I suppose I've judged where to draw the line in the sand for her in such matters.
Well, I drew my own line in the sand re: who she is going to see this pm; One Direction, right here in Sunny-SG! Not least since she's chaperoning some mega-fan teenage relatives

'These Photos Perfectly Capture What It Feels Like To Be A Dad At A One Direction Concert'
http://www.buzzfeed.com/javiermoreno/th ... .cnAlPWJ3o" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The pix in the link sum-up precisely how I fear I'd feel. It's certainly going to be interesting getting a de-briefing on this evening!

'Do it or do not do it: You will regret both' - Kierkegaard
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Re: Music
The night of a One Direction concert, I saw plenty of fathers with defeated looks while walking their gleeful daughters, nieces, and wives.JR8 wrote:Mrs JR8 has pretty easy-going taste in music; pop/dance, upbeat and fun stuff. Duran Duran is the one big thing that means a lot to her. I like their music since they came on the scene when I was a teenager, but wouldn't pay to go and see them. So one time a few years back she paid! And to my surprise it was a great show, and a really fun night![]()
I have similarly surprised my wife by taking her to see AC/DC, Motorhead, Deep Purple, The Prodigy and so on. Next up is Crosby, Stills and Nash, and already she's going on jokily about how ancient the music is... but we'll see eh![]()
I wouldn't invite her to certain things, anything too heavy like genuine punk, or too dark like say the Ninch Inch Nails. So in a way I suppose I've judged where to draw the line in the sand for her in such matters.
Well, I drew my own line in the sand re: who she is going to see this pm; One Direction, right here in Sunny-SG! Not least since she's chaperoning some mega-fan teenage relatives![]()
'These Photos Perfectly Capture What It Feels Like To Be A Dad At A One Direction Concert'
http://www.buzzfeed.com/javiermoreno/th ... .cnAlPWJ3o" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The pix in the link sum-up precisely how I fear I'd feel. It's certainly going to be interesting getting a de-briefing on this evening!
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JR8 wrote:Soft Machine on Hoepla 1967
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtYFVtNlpKg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Wonderful!!
'Daevid Allen, prog-rock innovator - obituary
Avant-garde musician who became a luminary of the psychedelic counterculture through his bands The Soft Machine and Gong.' [continues]
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituar ... tuary.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Re: Music
So progressive metal band Tool is back in business, recording a new album
http://consequenceofsound.net/2015/03/t ... new-album/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
this is awesome news, for people who haven't heard Tool before here you go.
http://consequenceofsound.net/2015/03/t ... new-album/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
this is awesome news, for people who haven't heard Tool before here you go.
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more prog metal , Engine - Fascination Street
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That was pretty coolrajagainstthemachine wrote:more prog metal , Engine - Fascination Street
I struggled with the Soft Machine and Gong I heard but always needed to delve deeper to really know them. I did at one time get into Hillage who was in Gong, this album had some of the Utopia people on it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM9oNigAIrI" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
When I first heard Ozric Tentacles they reminded me of a latter day Gong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXAaDqPl7oY" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Re: Music
Awwww, yisss...rajagainstthemachine wrote:So progressive metal band Tool is back in business, recording a new album
http://consequenceofsound.net/2015/03/t ... new-album/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
this is awesome news, for people who haven't heard Tool before here you go.
This is glorious news.



FYI: Tool member Adam Jones directed those videos; yup, some of the darkest stop-motion animation around.
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Re: Music
Porcupine tree -this band takes a lot of my airplay now.
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As well you should and good selections, though they are nothing new and part of the 2-decade Neo-Prog scene, and that the very top of it. Heavily influenced by Pink Floyd BTW, that band you never really got into....rajagainstthemachine wrote:Porcupine tree -this band takes a lot of my airplay now.
Thought you listened to harder stuff, and they have harder stuff, like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMEwM3YHiME" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
If you like them, check out Steven Wilson's solo stuff, he's the key guy in PT
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actually I was going to say they reminded me of pink floyd, whose influences i can hear in many of their songs, I just began with one of their albums called In Absentia. I plan to listen to almost every album nowBrah wrote:As well you should and good selections, though they are nothing new and part of the 2-decade Neo-Prog scene, and that the very top of it. Heavily influenced by Pink Floyd BTW, that band you never really got into....rajagainstthemachine wrote:Porcupine tree -this band takes a lot of my airplay now.
Thought you listened to harder stuff, and they have harder stuff, like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMEwM3YHiME" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
If you like them, check out Steven Wilson's solo stuff, he's the key guy in PT

Thank you for that song I will check it out now.
I am expanding my horizons to stuff I never bothered to check out and there is a gold Mine

one of the other bands on that list is Opeth.
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