What music are you streaming?
I threatened to make this tread a few weeks back so here it is.
Putting this out there to try to get more people in involved in a discussions about music. I know there is a thread out there but I thought we could maybe hear more voices.
I usually stream on a Sonos set up and I use Amazon and XM most of the time.
Today it is a cool rainey day so I started out with the two ep's by Minor Threat. Then I thought I need some epic tunes. So what could be more epic than some Prog? So I'm going with the live Porcupine Trees album "Anesthetize".
Putting this out there to try to get more people in involved in a discussions about music. I know there is a thread out there but I thought we could maybe hear more voices.
I usually stream on a Sonos set up and I use Amazon and XM most of the time.
Today it is a cool rainey day so I started out with the two ep's by Minor Threat. Then I thought I need some epic tunes. So what could be more epic than some Prog? So I'm going with the live Porcupine Trees album "Anesthetize".
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“Sincerely, Black Lipstick” Album favorite songs:
1)opening track B.O.B.F.O.S.S.E.
Fav lyric: ....if the world is a stage, then the whole damn world should bow to us.
2) Grandma Airplane
3) Shallow
“Converted Thieves” Album favorites:
1) opening track Voodoo Exonomics
fav lyrics: when the winners of the world have left you broken and bruised, honey we are the crew for you, when the winners of the world have kicked the shit right out of you, we can kick that shit back in
2)Serpentz
fav chorus: hold on to your baby tight, or i’ll Pry her from your arms, cause sure as I know wrong from right, I know what I want and, no lady so lovely should left alone, with me
3)Hot Sinners
4)Ease back
”Elizabeth we deserve the best so I’ll do my best to keep my Lebanese nose to the grind stone and try to earn some dough cause although money can’t buy happiness it can buy us lots of the accessories / Elizabeth let’s not worry bout money more than we worry bout us. It’ll be another problem we ignore when we -ease- back- / leave the bill collectors begging on their knees as we - ease - back ”
5)Yesterday’s horoscope was right
“Let’s drink for days, till we forget our own names”. “We’ll take a stand, butt naked with bruises on our hands”. “Like an open fly we’ll let it all hang out”
6)Memorial Day Miracle
”when the ball leaves my hand, I can feel, the love of the Lord, his grace in my touch, his mercy and his will, and when the crowd erupts and cheers I can hear a heavenly chorus and it sounds something like this”-then goes into the most righteous guitar roaring
7)Self Centered & Determined. Fav song on album. “With the power and power to pick as the pick hit the strings like an axe hits the dirt, we’re digging up trash, throwing back the gold, cause we’ve been told talent doesn’t mean a thing if you haven’t got the guts, you can get anything you want you want it bad enough. That’s cool...that’s cool....that’s cool...that’s cool cause I dig”
“Four Kingdoms of Black Lipstick EP
The OG! Love em all except track 4.
“I don’t care, I do t care about shit except for getting on and getting lit, I don’t care I don’t care about shit except for you hun, your the shit. Goddamn what a pair of hips, goddamn sweetie, Isabel’s lips, goddamn what a pair of thighs goddamn what a pair. Tell me now who you be with, tell me now who you be with, tell me now who you be with, wanna kick it with you / sleeping on the hardwood floor, wake up and my neck is sore, goddamn is that what’s sleepings for, if it is I can’t hang, but you’re sleeping in that soft soft bed and, think you might have room for one more and, tell you what if you let me in, you can kick it with me...Sugar”
“So Kobe, pass the jay”. “Drugs are just groceries”
Then digging deeper down memory lane, listening to the pre-Black Lipstick band called the Kiss Offs and their 2 albums on Spotify. That’s been me for a solid 2 weeks now when I’m streaming music in the car.
i was gonna post something about I don't like apps that just play random stuff after your first choice. But I just let it play on MyHeart and the the random picks were pretty good. Thing is I guess it's when you start out with one type of music and end up in some place you never intended to go. For instance I put in Joy Division and a number of songs down its playing Styx.
thats a great album. I had a 12’ of Hey Ladies which had a great instrumental of that and Shake Your Rump. I lost that one before the nineties ended.
June 1st this comes out.
We took my 13 year old nephew to Amoeba in Los Angeles yesterday to buy some records and let him pick the tunes and he did a fine, fine job. LCD Soundsystem's Sound of Silver, Radiohead's Kid A, and Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane, Over the Sea #ProudUncle
I ended up picking up Songs: Ohia's Didn't It Rain on vinyl which has launched a bit of a kick. I'll probably get back on that train after the Neko record I'm listening to (Middle Cyclone) ends.
@Chinaski I haven't heard of Whyte Horses. What's their thing?
Neko Case has been a constant for me about the mid 2000’s. I like her album Blacklisted the most followed by Fox Confessor. If you didn’t notice she is also in The New Pornographers.
I like Neko Case, but it's been mostly casual. I think Middle Cyclone is the only record I've done much bonding with. One of the things I need to correct. I'll check out those two. Thanks for tossing them out. For the New Pornographers, I just get kind of blocked with them on the larger picture. They definitely have some tracks that I really like and on paper I should be a big fan. They certainly have a sound that I am inclined to get really into, but I just never whole heartedly get there. For what it's worth, I really, really love AC Newman's first solo record. That's a real favorite of mine.
Not sure how they popped into my head but they did, a band that I may or may not have brought up in the larger music thread a long time ago that I think really deserved more attention is Apollo Sunshine. Particularly their second record which is self titled and goddamn amazing. If you check it out and aren't feeling the first track don't let that stop you. I think it's probably the weakest song on the record, but it's just gravy from there. Here's one of my favorite tracks from it:
as far as Amoeba goes.. two words = sensory overload!
I loved back in the day the local Tower was opened late every night.
I remeber when I was a kid. I used to go to this record near Whittier college , Lovell’s records. We had a earthquake in 87. A big chunk of the town was leveled. The one store was one of the few left. It’s still there but last time I went it didn’t have the New York Dolls cd I wanted, typical.
https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2018/03/05/590963571/tower-records-founder-russ-solomon-has-died-at-age-92
In Brea ca they have a building that has all the Tower signs on the vacant building. They closed all those down around 06 07 I think.
I didn’t feel real bad when they went under. For years they had been selling single cd for around 20 bucks. If it was on sale maybe 15.99. After they were gone it was hard to find a album for more than 13.99. I was in Target today and most cds were around 11.99 or less.
Yeah, Amoeba is nuts. I hadn't been in around 10 years and it was even more glorious than I remembered.
Rainy day, I'm thinking I'm going to have a Belle and Sebastian day. Kick it off with Push Barman to Open Old Wounds.
@Travis ; Belle and Sebastian fan here. High five. Some of their heavy stuff is so damn heavy. I pretty much cannot listen to "Fox In The Snow" without getting teary eyed cause it makes me think of my younger brother, who is sort of a fox in the snow. "The Boy Done Wrong Again" is another one of my favorite 'sad bastard music' songs from B&S.
RE: Push Barman to Open Old Wounds "Dog On Wheels"!!! love that song.