I haven't heard Brodyquest in a very, very long time.

Let's never grow up, my fellow millenials.

>>14627

This track has been haunting me since it came out. In an odd way, it reminds me of Victoria Wood's work - something about the deep melancholy of everyday life, of the very narrow margin between being bored senseless and being totally overwhelmed, of how the spectre of our inevitable death heightens the most mundane moments into profound drama.

Heart 80s plays this song a lot. They're one of my favourite radio stations at the moment.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8D4hcrkI2xU

It's always weird when you look up a one-hit wonder, whose name is synonymous with precisely one song, on Wikipedia and read that they've
>released eleven studio albums, thirteen compilation albums, and thirty-four singles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Rush_discography

And what's happening at the end of the video, at 3:40? Are those meant to be her legs? How does she do that?

>>14632

>what's happening at the end of the video, at 3:40? Are those meant to be her legs?

They're the boots of the bloke she's thinking about in the black-and-white bits (0:30). Presumably Wilford Brimley picked him up on the way through town.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFouFuNgBRw

For a brief time in the 80s, Sigue Sigue Sputnik were vanguards of cyberpunk culture. Their music and band image were heavily influenced by Blade Runner, Max Headroom, Terminator 1, all that kind of thing.

Their debut album "Flaunt It" was produced by Giorgio Moroder, whose style was a perfect fit for the band. Just two years later, they switched to Stock/Aitken/Waterman, from which point everything tanked.

"Flaunt It" deserves to be listened to from beginning to end as a droll outlier of 80s pop culture that doesn't disappoint. Including the pioneering use of audio adverts for real products in between songs. You wonder why that didn't catch on.

Nothing to say about this one, it's just a banger.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVL-zZnD3VU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FziicPt9cs

Another Martha Wash classic.

I want to fill my soul with this, if only my speakers would play loud enough

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqaAs_3azSs

Mwahahahahahah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU6f8aJD1Z8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTnmvM0bSYs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sNHoNCroJ0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPlb9HoOCxs

I saw the Fugees live, back in the day. Can't remember if I liked it or not.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzIE4j3TOlE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU513suJZzY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5eBAQGhEHY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYbrhAk_IQs



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGy5tp_CDU0

Yin and Yang.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhLOOdI23bE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qObzgUfCl28

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2g-3M3CiHU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RUIeX6UCT8

One of my favourite 80s songs about summer. I liked it even as a younglad, but now that I'm middle aged, I understand its underlying theme much more profoundly, as this is meant to be a song about passing into middle age and reminiscing about being young and in love.

Alvvays have a cringe name and I hate that pseudo-‘90s faux-retro visual style that both these videos have, but the songs are great.

Apparently, this entirely innocuous bit of eurodance has become a far-right anthem. We're living in a simulation coded by Bethesda, it's the only plausible explanation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cQlVww0zKo

The Spanish in this song is appallingly incorrect.

>>14657
Sash! are unique in that their first four hits were in four different languages. Encore Une Fois (French), Ecuador (Spanish), Stay (English), and La Primavera (Italian), possibly even in that order. They also released Together Again a couple of years later, which was partly in English and partly in Danish. Meanwhile, the group themselves are German.(I am a huge Sash! fan).

I guess my point is: what did you expect?

>>14657
It's not too bad. There's only really one line I'd sake issue wtih, though in fairness there are only about four lines in the entire song.

Something about vámonos al viaje doesn't really feel right, I think more usually you'd say de, though even then that's still clumsy when followed by para buscar. Probably better if that whole first half just became vámonos a buscar or vámonos en busca de. Maybe the guest vocalist was being paid by the word or something.

>>14659

I find the opening line more bewildering.

"Dáme tu mano y venga conmiga".

He's switching from "tú" to "usted" all in the same sentence. "Venga" as an imperative goes together with the more formal "usted", not with the second-person singular of "tú". Either you're going to address somebody with "tú" or with "usted". You don't jumble the two together in the same sentence. So you'd either say "Dáme tu mano y ven conmigo", or "Déme su mano y venga conmigo". And, of course, it's "conmigo", not "conmiga". The latter is just gibberish.

IIRC, the backstory with the song at the time was that the singer was an Austrian or Bavarian calling himself "Rodriguez" who was the son of Hispanic immigrant parents. Which makes the whole thing even more unforgivable. But this was before social media and Twitter, probably even before halfway capable online dictionaries. So it flew under almost everybody's radar.

The official lyrics in the album booklet say "conmigo". I went off just now to find my CD and take a picture of it, but alas I couldn't find it. I did, however, rediscover this indie banger:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN7jEzk7ocs

Do you two think Viola Beach would have been successful on their own merit?

>>14666

They wouldn't have a big brass plaque on the Parr Hall, I'll tell you that for nowt.

>>14666
I could see them appearing on Later With Jools Holland, and me wondering who the fuck they are and why so many shit bands are all shit in the exact same way. But then, I am still bitter about the landfill-indie scene of 2004-2012ish. Viola Beach are worse than Yard Act, but that wouldn't have stopped them from being equally famous, if not slightly more famous. They probably would have a ceiling around the level of the Sleaford Mods. So I guess the answer to your question boils down to whether or not you consider Yard Act and the Sleaford Mods to be successful bands.

>>14668

Who the fuck are Yard Act?

>>14669
They're your new favourite indie band, but unfortunately for them, they are all currently still alive.

>>14666
To make me a revanant one must create a music video that godawful to honour me post-mortem.

>>14669
I think they're a Vic Reeves novelty group.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKA8irLaeVk

Compared to the single version, this extended mix features a beefed up bass and more of the glorious tom fills. As well as giving the quietly chugging Linn Drum a bit more room.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC4aTTf1tw4

Play is an incredible album to listen back to. A lot of that is probably to do with the musical influences of the late 90s coming together and it suffers in the second-half of the album but it's still an textbook example of what a great album is where you have a clear sound across the album but each track can stand on its own and it never gets boring.

Also the same artist >>14627 managed to also do bustin' which will probably become an example of a lost artform now that AI can just stitch together a song about whatever you want song by whoever you want. Still it captures the act of busting and then going to sleep - an activity I suspect we'll all undertake tonight but which has received a frightful lack of cultural recognition and isn't even a bad song.

>>14676
>the same artist >>14627 managed to also do bustin' which will probably become an example of a lost artform
I was thinking earlier that the ability to Photoshop joke images might be about to die out now that it's trivial to ask a machine to just fake it for you. I hope that doesn't happen, which means it definitely will.

Anyway, Neil Cicierega has done some very impressive things. He was also behind the Harry Potter Puppet Pals, and he released a whole series of concept albums in the same mash-up style as Bustin'. The first one was called Mouth Sounds, where a selection of songs are inspired or influenced by Smash Mouth's All Star:

Then came Mouth Silence, an album where no songs have any influence whatsoever from Smash Mouth's All Star. It's a much better album:

...and it's also full of Easter eggs about Smash Mouth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jw135y5IL7c

Russ Ballard is virtually unknown to wider audiences, but he has an extensive back catalogue and wrote many hit songs for very well known bands.

This is from series 1 of Miami Vice, early on from the two-parter Calderone's Return.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIanxOcpXsU

What I like about lady armpits is that they're subversive but they very rarely grow into a proper bush of armpit hair and even if they have some muscle it's usually still pretty androgenous. It feels like you have a real woman on your hands almost. I don't know why women bother shaving their underarms honestly but maybe that's my fetish.

>>14680

>I don't know why women bother shaving their underarms

Because Big Razor convinced them that hairy armpits - and legs - are filthy.

The precussion on this is so crisp it almost defies belief. The whole thing's great, best Bond track by far, but the drumming; amazing.

>>14682

Paul McCartney's songcraft was always legendary. When you really get into certain Beatles songs, the sheer genius of him and John Lennon is just hard to miss. My favourite is probably Strawberry Fields. It's so intricate and layered and nuanced that you discover something new within it almost everytime you listen to it again.

>>14680

I would definitely have a go on their thussy, but I imagine they would be quite annoying.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah6OHcUTIco

Everybody thinks Kayleigh is the standout track on Misplaced Childhood, but Blind Curve takes me back to all manner of younglad existential dread and emotional hurt that I went through and brooded over in my early 20s. Especially the first part of Blind Curve was the perfect soundtrack to that.

Katy Hudon (Perry before she got a famous) is good. Her whole album is here - quite valuable in originalcopy, over £600 last time I checked, though there seem to be reprints available these days.

>>14689
Ah, a fellow heterosexual male GFOTY enjoyer, a pleasure to meet you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E90_aL870ao

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2OjVFp54po

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emOKaGi8u5U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqyjQ6-avK8

Early Tiamat sounded like a goth Roxette. They're a bit grittier than that nowadays. This track from 1999 was more or less the only single that had some mainstream success.

This must contain one of the most gratuitous racial slurs I have ever encountered. My mum used to sing the first verse of this song, without the no-no word, to me all the time as a child.

>>14696

Could be worse.

>song that plays when you encounter a caterpillar

>>14698
I was expecting something more like this (minus the phone ringing because what sort of caterpillar would have a phone?!);
https://youtu.be/S_kxr-erXB8

If we're all currently "feeling" novelty lift music, legendary anime Lucky Star has you covered:

>>14700
I've recently enjoyed working to some... kawaii music from a zoologist who has made tracks for various bugs in the world around us. And there's a sequel album about the creatures of the Cambrian:

People talk a lot about the internet destroying humanity and remaking us into something far darker but it also sometimes enables exactly the right level of autism.

>>14701
And obligatory:

Fcukers make me want to buy a complete shitbox of a car and badly install a sound system.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlJeEZ6Qq98

I absolutely love this kind of retro 80s sound.

Literally cannot stop listening to this, YouTube has given up recommending me other things and just plonks this on my front page as my default video for waking up to.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A_tSyJBsRQ

Fresh summer vibes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lfgf9HatIHI

Jan Hammer was on top of his game during the mid-80s Miami Vice years. He created a profoundly recognisable sound mainly on the Fairlight CMI, the Memorymoog and the Yamaha DX7, and his MV instrumental soundtrack albums still hold up today.

He lost his edge in the 90s and after that, structuring his music mainly around MIDI samples that sound utterly generic and forgettable today.

Some of you might get a kick out of this;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMdibdxzu0c

Hans Zimmer's finest work:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9nZhdEdBKw

This song was never released in the U.S..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXnR7iZy0ZM

Possibly the sexiest tooth gap ever.


This was well after her nonce bait days.

When are we going to do something about inflatable orange frog-men stealing our women?

>>14725
I felt her technique playing Trophy Hunter was highly dubious, so much so it seemed almost contrived to be sexually suggestive. He's welcome to her.

>>14725

In order to defeat inflatable orange frog man, you must become inflatable orange frog man.

>>14727
Just like in my animes.

Can't remeber who posted them originally but thanks for putting me on to Magdalena Bay. Absolute top-tier stuff and the new album looks like it's going to slap.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfcWOPpmw14

>>14729
I like this. It's probably my favourite track of the year so far, but there's not been too many songs released in 2024 as of yet that I really like.

Norman Cook is still ace after all these years.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SEvHcgvt8M


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBTZmk3fJvM

>no views

Shame, it's cheeky narrative about dying, partners and getting trashed on wine.

Questionable record artwork aside this is very good "the evenings are getting shorter" music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qjii1Awrh8

>>14741

The GLC are really committed to making me feel old. I bet some of them are granddads now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyCngxkIaWo

It's rare to see an actual wizard on the drums. I believe they disolved since, I believe, and a recording doesn't quite capture it but seeing them live was a revelation in terms of what is possible in technical drumming.

Chippy Nonstop is back with some huge bangers.

I danced to this song on the millennium.

People underestimate how much change there was between 1999 and 2009 I reckon. In 2009 you would be listening to Black Eyed Peas I Gotta Feeling and drinking a watered down jack and coke.

>>14748

I deeply miss that sort of music. I'm a metalhead but I drive a Corsa with tinted windows and like to blast Mr Oizo and Daft Punk to confuse people.

I normally dismiss Calvin Harris as a cheap hack and copycat but he put out this one last year, which I kept hearing on the radio at work, and really gives me the vibe of that era. Very catchy track.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNqQZ6bKzzI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V4AscLidWg

Back in those days, I once saw Ville Vallo outside a nightclub when he arrived there with his entourage. A couple of equally goth looking band members plus a few insanely hot models who all emerged from one or two black Mercedes vans parked on the side of the road. There was a VIP party there at that club that night, which meant that common folk like my mate and me weren't allowed in. Which we only realised when we got there.

Probably a bit early for this sort of thing.

>>14752

I like a bit of Industrial.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reLhq-OFoLI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cnOvMFnRvs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlR9JqRFTZo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8b4xYbEugo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUg3rl4adDI

That's it for now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBAF55YMTfE
Not sure what language I should have taken as GCSE, but taking german was not enough.

>>14759


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPZC7JY6ziI


This is a bit more slow paced. German rap is probably not a good starting point to brush up your listening comprehension.

Why is the lad in music videos sometimes played by a white rabbit? This isn't the first time I've seen it.

>>14754
I've been listening to the album a lot over the summer. It still holds up across the entire thing although I get how they could never top it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqiZc1-xvSI

This is shit compared with Overload, but I thought I'd draw your attention to the fact that Siobhán is still absolutely fine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iP8_HvpcJg

>you need a babysitter, but I'm a facesitter.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rnx7icTHgZk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL5giQsHmDc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cXSz2XfS7A

The music they played at the Olympics (and now the Paralympics) is amazing. It's not the official Olympic anthem, which is shit, but apparently it's the "Victory Ceremony Theme":

I can't think of a better opening track to a debut album. It's such a perfect statement of intent. 22 years have passed since I first heard it, but it's so good that I'm only mildly horrified by that fact.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFlD_i7TgWw

>>14777
I was going to say this reminded me of Justice, but then I could only name them and two other French musical acts: Serge Gainsbourg and those lads in the masks who everyone thinks are good but are actually bad, and I've forgotten their name while typing this.

Posts from the care home.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOZ6ptqcbUc

Punk music.

>>14781
I thought I'd like that more if I had a better quality recording, so I looked one up but then I could make out the lyrics and it wasn't for me.

>>14778
I haven’t listened to this for probably 15 years. Then, 16 hours after you posted it, I was listening to the Radio 1 Breakfast Show and on the Ten-Minute Takeover, they just played it. This is a bizarre coincidence. Did you request it?

>>14783

Nope, just coincidence. Maybe there's something in the zeitgeist.

>>46603
What wolud actually exxcite you? This is weird, no metal, you have done that.

I feel like Audio Bullys were underrated, they came out with the album Ego War in 2003 toward the tail end of big beat's popularity. Prodigy were floundering trying to follow up The Fat of the Land, the Chemical Brothers already released Dig Your Own Hole in 1997, everyone had already heard Moby's Play on car adverts for the prior four years.

To me they really captured something about the early 2000s, though. It's like if the "kick it, Kev" kids somehow made it big. The rap lyrics were all about the pettiness of small time drug dealers in the suburbs. They also had a great sense of samples and came out with a little house banger:

Every few years I come back to a music video they made, as well, featuring a boy no older than 12 strutting up the street like a hardnut. Something about the exaggerated expressions that the kid just "gets", like he's been asked to do an impression of his dad. I'm not sure whether it's meant to be a commentary on the childish behaviours of adults, or whether it's saying we're forcing kids to adapt to a nasty world, but I've always loved it:

I have been listening to different versions of Fantasy by Earth, Wind & Fire for coming up to two hours now. This cannot be the behaviour of a normal mind. Even the usually superior Black Box version isn't doing it for me.

That young indie chick from 10 years ago has now made a song about the end of youth and how the years from now on just get faster and faster.

>>14794
It's coming up to the 21st.

Flute, you say.

Wastes so much breath, but can express so much. And if you don't know your fingering you won't make a sound. There's a reason "runs"s are part of the repertoire when learning this bastard of an instrument. If any of this sounds easy, try it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zic2jFZ745w.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osxYOg6J9C4
Why is electro swing so sexy?

>>14799

Furries.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbQgXeY_zi4

>>14799

It's completely sexless, like a lot of burlesque. It's the idea of sexiness without any actual lust. There's no tension, no anticipation, nothing that is remotely sweaty or nocturnal or illicit. Miles Davis is sexy. Etta James, Janis Joplin and Prince are sexy. Aidan Moffat is sexy even when he's trying not to be.

>>14801
Will you take the time to expand on that, a bit?

>>14802

I'm don't think I can pin it down precisely, but this is my best attempt to point towards it:

The most exciting thing about a kiss is the moment just before - the brief hesitation where you lock eyes and lean in but still aren't quite sure if you're going to kiss or not. The sexiest thing about music is the space between the notes. Sexy music needs that sense of anticipation and yearning, it needs to build something passionate out of stillness.

We know that apes will pay for monkey pornography and we know they can point to things they want. I bet you could set up an ape breeding programme like Tinder where they swipe on the ape partners they most like the look of.

Anyway:

Umi Portrait

This is one of my favourite Internet videos I've ever seen. I probably wouldn't even like the song without the incredible video that was made for it. It's historically accurate, too; people in the comments have identified everyone represented:

Never really thought about it before but yeah, no matter how bad the world gets it still only takes is one small spark of joy to bring the light back to life. I guess the good always wins out whether it be a laugh with a mate, a mountain sunset or the sight of a morbidly obese woman struggling up some stairs.

>>14803
I like your imagery. Are you talking about 'swing' or whatever the technical musical term is, where the artists play with the expectation and only maintain a beat so they have a structure from which to deviate. It's similar to good TV in that way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9arl4Nkq2t8

Incredibly addictive. And you'll learn to count to 5 in Mandarin.

GUNSHIP is really fucking cool. They're like a modern Pendulum mixed with synthwave and atmosphere. Each track I've experienced so far has a narator setting a scene, then hypes into the track alongside a bespoke music video.
What's more, they're Brisish - our people made this!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHAP3E5e2jc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trF4sGKwfEQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC5TBv3sfU

There's a Renault advert on TV with an absolute banger of a song in it that I didn't recognise. It sounds '80s, but I couldn't tell if it was actually from the '80s, or one of those hipster retro pastiches that came out this year.

Not only is it genuine OG '80s, but it's by Propaganda, whom somebody posted here a few months ago! I assume it wasn't the same song, but I can't find the post now. It must be in the previous thread.

>>14814
> Propaganda

A Secret Wish is one of the first albums I bought and still a favourite. Recommend it, if you like that track.

>>14813
>Blood For the Blood God
I can't get over how incredible this music video is. Did anyone else watch it? What did you make of it?

It seems to be a planet-spirit defending itself from some bio-mechanical entity, But toward the end the planet-spirit comes to be the thing that was initially attacking it and appears to go in search for its own victims.

The visuals are great, espeicially the nuances of the planet-spirits movement and the metamorphisis into the bio-mech thing at the end. There's a part where the spirit is in freefall, seemingly losing focus and wavering into a form that looks suggests humanity.

The ending makes me wonder if the narrator is infact this planet-soul, speaking of its own journey of becoming, rather than my initial assuption that it was the bio-mechanical entity.

The whole production is clearly inspired by Warhammer 40k, but I don't know whether it's an exploration of lore or merely a suitable backdrop.

Anyone know of a more appropriate place to talk about this stuff? My previous attempts to open such discussions here haven't landed well.

>>14817

I listened to the track but didn't pay close attention to the video. Your description doesn't sell it to me all that well. I was underwhelmed by the historical Palestine one too, even if that was someone else. I feel like you have a low bar for being impressed which is good as there'll be lots of more interesting (more nuanced, deeper or emotionally involved) things for you to enjoy in the future.

The music reminds me of Scandroid. Fun to listen to intensively for a few days until the gimmick wears thin then it never really appeals again.

>>14818
>the historical Palestine one too, even if that was someone else
That was me, and I am indeed someone else. I did what you did for the other song; I listened to it while doing something else and didn't actually watch the video.

>>14815

Propaganda were an interesting entry into the category of 80s German expressionism. They emerged from the Duesseldorf scene, which had also been home to Kraftwerk a decade earlier and which was one of the birthplaces of Industrial synth music. A Secret Wish is a memorable 80s record, despite some rough edges that denoted the band as being distinctly off mainstream.

The extended version of p:machinery which was released as a single is superior to the shorter album cut.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kadkQDc1Ts

The disadvantage of working with producer Trevor Horn and his colleague at ZTT Records, Stephen Lipson in those days (the latter was mainly responsible for A Secret Wish) was that they exercised very tight control over your instrumentation. In other words, except for your singer(s), most of your other band members like keyboardists or drummers wouldn't get to contribute all that much during the recording stage. It was all being done either in the Fairlight CMI or the Synclavier. The same happened with Frankie Goes To Hollywood, where only singer Holly Johnson actually worked with Trevor Horn live in the studio.

On the other hand, having your album produced by ZTT meant you got the polished, big-production sound that almost guaranteed you chart success. Much of what is today remembered as the sound of 80s mainstream pop music was shaped by Trevor Horn and Stephen Lipson at ZTT Records.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A8bV_IEgyI. Not sure why, but it sticks in my mind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y14Kp1DitpE

Loved this song back in the day.

It actually samples a Mellotron flute, which wasn't common in the 90s. You know, like the intro of Strawberry Fields Forever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qxVv0H2v5M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIEtJK7DKAA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbP9fd9aOko

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4eav7dFvc8



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmYi5u9BhtI

Dilettante - Honey

I think YouTube, AKA Google, only recommended this to me because I briefly used "My Location" on Google Maps today while I was in Manchester. Pretty good song though.

>>14828
I still think The Prodigy are Britain's second best band, only being beaten by The Beatles who, as we know, invented music.

>>14828
>>14829
>The Prodigy are Britain's second best band
I like most Prodigy tracks I've heard, but this one specifically -Out of Space - sounds like they've jammed 2 concepts together that they just couldn't otherwise finish. It's a classic for sure but it's so odd.

Last night, when we were all posting about Jodie Marsh's demands for men, Promise Me by Beverley Craven came on the online radio station I was listening to and I remembered how much I like it. I then decided that it's such a womanly song, and I like it, that I must be terrific company for any woman. It all sounds ludicrous to type out now, but my self-esteem completely flew off the charts. I was convinced that I was the literal perfect man. It's been a while since a song has made me feel that happy.

>>14830

>sounds like they've jammed 2 concepts together that they just couldn't otherwise finish.

It's not really two concepts as such. Half of that track is a direct sample of Max Romeo's Chase the Devil.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9oLSMSW4SI

I like this. The vocals are occasionally odd and the lyrics somewhat boring, but the overall effect of the song and video art feels very dramatic.

Sounds very similar to First Aid Kit.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfWSOs5YbQ8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEdeloa84Q8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHgYtKkSEDA

Ended up on the European bit of youtube again.

Want to hear some people play instruments made from whatever was in the shed?

When the bass kicks in at 1.54 it actually does slap. Good on them for recycling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtlGSak1iJE

The drop, from 01:00, is where it's at. Got those droning dubstep vibes I haven't heard since Mt Eden supporting a bouncy sampled vocal melody.
The lyical content and actual vocals are zoomer cringe but the entire effect is decent.
Wish I could talk about music properly, this is insane.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNv8K8AYGi8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D1PtJiat3g

It may be dad rock, but I like long winded album tracks like this which tell a story. The kind of music you really have to sit down and listen to in order to fully appreciate it.

I just ordered the CD album Love Over Gold by Dire Straits off eBay in "very good" condition for a fiver. Used CDs are dirt cheap nowadays. If you want to expand your classic rock CD collection, then now is the time. Before CDs end up going up in price, like vinyl.

Some places online have mint condition first pressings of Love Over Gold on vinyl listed for £100 and more. And some people are now trying to sell their first CD pressing of the same album for £40. Madness. How many times are you actually going to play and enjoy a £100 vinyl record, for fear of wearing it out and it losing its value. Fucking hipsters.

>>14842
>now is the time. Before CDs end up going up in price
I've been buying CDs for quite a while, now. Specialty and general charity shops mostly, but MusicMagpie is pretty good too. Must have up to 100 albums, most generic mass production but I have a few niche artists that're probably a bit rarer.
I keep most of them in CD binders as pictured. It's a little rough on the CDs themselves, but it's worthwhile for the space saved. I could always buy some replacement cases if I ever wanted to sell them and they'd probably polish up okay.
I believe CDs are still printed/burned(?) - I've picked up plenty of modern EDM genres online. It might be heading toward ordering direct from the publisher, different sort of market, though I don't really know.

I think I've said it before that Katy Perry's first album, Christian rock under the name Katy Hudson, is worth a fair few hundred these days. I found it online for £50, only to find after scrambling to order it that there were none left in stock - I like to think the seller realised its value and relisted it, but it might have been an old offer.

Oh, and never appologise for Dire Staits. I've only a couple of albums of thiers, literally greatest hits and Brothers in Arms. Was rarely keen on their American styled stuff - Skateway & Twisting By the Pool mostly. My favorites tend to be the moodier, atmospheric tracks like Private Investigations and On Every Street. Infact almost all of Dire Straits stuff is great for different reasons, it really depends on how you're feeling at the time.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1FsnwYJ3p0

>Fucking hipsters.
You say that, but the experience of using the CD/Vinyl is different to digital. I'm sure you're aware of the arguments. Placing the vinyl onto the plate, lowering the needle into the groove, etc, is ritualistic and enhances the entire experience of hearing to music (as opposed to just listening to it).
Coming from the CD point of view, I enjoy placing new discs into the player, reading through the leaflet, enjoying the artworks and presentation. The design of the discs can create almost a relationship between yourself and the music, reminding you each time you handle it what is contained within.
Even the tactile sensation of the modern card cases is interesting - Bicep for example selectively uses a course paper in their outer designs. Handling their cases is a distinct sensation.

To think I've typed 3 paragraphs of bullshit and don't even consider myself a collector. It's really facinating, even if your CDs are only representation of your attitudes though life rather than a distinct understanding or learning of music.

Dire Straits must be a very acquired taste, or otherwise, they're the dad rock band for people who don't like dad rock much at all. I love dad rock, which might be why I struggle to enjoy any of their albums all the way through, and I am exactly the kind of person who should like it because I primarily listen to music with good guitarists for me to copy. As great as Knopfler is, most of their stuff is just boring, with a handful of really good tunes here and there.

They're the kind of band I would actually prefer to listen to the Greatest Hits CD of rather than the albums. That said, here's the best version of Sultans of Swing you will ever hear:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKXnjrCLG0Y

>>14843

>Brothers in Arms

That's a very good album even if you don't normally gravitate towards their kind of sound. Production wise, it deserves its place as one of the most significant AOR albums of the mid-80s and perhaps the entire decade. It was also one of the very first CDs to be produced as a DDD. It's worth noting that that was a leap in itself. Before that, a fully digital production was normally the preserve of expensive audiophile classical music. It's taken for granted now because all modern music is digital at every stage.

That said, I prefer AAD to digital remasters. You just know when a CD uses an old analog tape master. I want to listen music the way it was made when a classic album came out in the 70s or early 80s, and not some younglad sound engineer's idea of how it needs to sound today.

Not sure what I am really on about, but oh well.

>>14845

Production makes a massive difference to music, but it's important to remember how subjective it is. The "best" production is very rarely that which sounds the cleanest and clearest, it's just the style of production you mentally (consciously or not) associate with the genre. I genuinely think the "improvement" in production techniques in the late 80s and throughout the 90s, continuing into the digital age, contributed to the downfall of rock and metal as a mainstream style of music. People might not have been aware that's what was happening, but I reckon it had a huge impact.

There's a series of videos on YouTube where somebody re-recorded some modern Metallica songs, using guitar tones and IRs of the mics, cabs and so on that recreate the sound of gear used in the early 80s. And you know what? It makes them a million times better. Suddenly riffs that you dismiss as the bland boring riffs of 60 year old hasbeens sound like old school thrash again. Not quite as good, but they don't sound anywhere near as shit, just by changing the guitar tone.

It's pretty mental.

>>14847

I blame the decline of metal and hard rock on things like hair metal and the overcommercialisation and selling out of big acts. Three words: The Black Album. The genre had just run its course.

I was a teenlad at the time, and there were still plenty of clubs that were playing 70s and 80s hard rock, but a lot of their patrons were on the wrong side of 30 with balding long hair. Some of my friends were still listening to Judas Priest and Motorhead, but generally, there was a growing shift among young people towards chart music and what would become idiosyncratic 90s mainstream pop, and even eurodance.

I listened to a bit of Foreigner tonight, namely the albums "4" and "Agent Provocateur", and what struck me was that much of it sounded, whats a good word... lively. Juke Box Hero ist a standout track that almost makes you feel like you are listening to them playing it in a small smoke filled basement club in 1980. It just sounds the way that music is supposed to sound. Analog tape gave it a kind of warmth and authenticity, where similar modern guitar rock music sounds almost completely sterile in comparison.

>>14848

>Analog tape gave it a kind of warmth and authenticity

It had far less to do with the analogue tape and far more to do with the speaker cabinets and microphones used to mic up the instruments, quality of the mic pre-amps, compressors (modern music is compressed to within an inch of its life with automation and dynamic levellers, back then when you only had a rack unit with a few knobs on it, you had to take a less aggressive approach) and the acoustic treatment of the rooms.

I would be money I can make a recording on analogue tape and digital that you couldn't tell the difference between- That's just the storage format. Those tapes were very high quality, they didn't have magic pixie dust in them that made recordings sound better (or "warmer" or "more dynamic" or whatever other audiophile gobshite buzzwords you might hear used). The production makes a massive difference yes, but it's really very little to do with analogue/digital; it's just that everything else about the recording process changed along with that transition.

>>14849

>compressors (modern music is compressed to within an inch of its life with automation and dynamic levellers, back then when you only had a rack unit with a few knobs on it, you had to take a less aggressive approach)

It's still a good idea to buy original-issue CDs that haven't been remastered. A good remaster can improve sound clarity and eliminate noise and artefacts, but a bad remaster, especially one with loads of dynamic compression, can entirely remove the music's soul and authenticity.

A few years ago I bought the remastered version of Simon and Garfunkel's album Sounds of Silence, and it was a massive disappointment. It just sounds flat and bland. That kind of folk inspired music with loads of acustic guitar really needs dynamic range to sound engaging, but whoever did the remastering almost completely stripped that.

>>14850

The problem there is the term "remaster" is essentially meaningless. A good remaster should bring up the level of the recording and ideally be a cleaner transfer. A lot of older records suffer from poor transfers where the original tapes were pristine but the process of pressing and producing the records from it was botched (or more likely simply cheaped out on.) However a lot of record companies will fairly frequently release "remasters" that are really re-mixes, which have had the volume levels, fades, and panning significantly altered, new post-effects applied, and sometimes even had parts fully re-recorded. Which nearly always sounds awful and worse than the original.

It happened in the transfer from vinyl to CDs, but it's also happening again as we go from CD to streaming, and as people are no longer listening on hi-fi systems but cheap earbuds and smartphone speakers. With the CD is was the "loudness war", with this new wave it's boosting the lower frequencies up into the midrange and concentrating a lot of detail into the upper mid and high frequency bands. This is absolutely not how you want to mix for a good sounding end result, especially for rock and metal, but it still applies to pop and electronic styles; but the result here is that you end up with a mix that sounds a bit more acceptable on a phone, but immediately sounds like shit if you listen to it on proper speakers.

>>14851

> but the result here is that you end up with a mix that sounds a bit more acceptable on a phone, but immediately sounds like shit if you listen to it on proper speakers.

It's not a new concept to produce your music with a view to your target audience's equipment. Bjorn Ulvaeus of Abba, who was involved in most of the sound mixing and mastering of their music, once said that the majority of their tracks were mixed so that they would sound good on budget record players with one-way speakers. Because they knew that that was the kind of system their teen and early 20s audience could afford.

It's no coincidence that a lot of 80s to early 2000s music was designed for home hi fi systems that more or less deserved that name, because it was the actual heyday of attainable home hi fi. Where a proper amp, speakers and CD player were the first major investment in a younglad's life, even before getting a moped or a car. I know because that's how it was for me and my brother, with both of us growing up during that time.

It's all about convenience and mobility today. Nobody is bothered by the shit quality of Spotify, because your £100 bluetooth speaker means you'll have no way of noticing anyway.

On the other hand, consumer home hi fi still isn't expensive, at any rate no more expensive adjusted for inflation than in the early 90s. My Onkyo amp cost £200 in 1990. That's about £500 in today's money. I'm in the market for a new surround sound amp at the moment, and I've been eyeing a 7.1 Denon receiver/amp which goes for something like £500. It'll sound better than anything Onkyo had on the market 34 years ago, and comes packed with features that didn't even exist back then. But it's no longer the kind of investment most teenlads fancy. Not just because there's no point setting up surround sound in your bedroom at your parents, or your own bedsit. But because it's not the way young people consume music anymore. And accordingly, the kind of sound that is produced for that kind of audience has little to do with high fidelity as you would traditionally understand it.

Just bought another classic CD off eBay, the Wall album by Pink Floyd. £6.99 for a used copy in good condition. Can't complain.

Always wanted to own it. All the tracks from it on Youtube, both on Pink Floyd's official channel and other channels that have ripped it, have all the limitations of Youtube's Opus 251 codec. Fine for listening on your TV or at low volume, but not that great when you want to turn it up a bit and immerse yourself in it.

I've had this stuck in my head for every waking moment of the last three days, so now you've all got to suffer.

>>14855


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UImrmDX39g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwdLSI9hfc0

This is really good for me right now as I stress that my house might be robbed, or the estate agents might have set me up inorder to evict me. It's just a person moving in for fuck sake.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVRuRlak9wo

Been listening to Jello Biafra and the Melvins lately. It's a kind of 'the more things change, the more they stay the same' trip from my teenage years but Never Breathe What You Can't See was a cracking album thanks to the performance from the Melvins.

The highlight of the album is 'Islamic Bomb' which dealt with the fear at the time of eskimos (of any sort of igloo) getting their hands on nuclear weapons and how of course countries will go for the bomb if it's the only thing that can keep them safe from getting stomped on. It also alludes to the double standard that the fear of an Islamic bomb had and the military-industrial complex's association with the war on terror (which was the style at the time).

The song ended up immediately dated as laplanderstan got the bomb after they recorded but the lesson holds true.

Caped Crusader also holds up even better now that we're bombarded with superheroes but goes further to talk about authority figures generally, including organised religion and even alluding to religious extremists of all types including multiple references to Islam (which was the style at the time). Also McGruff the Crime Dog about the police state and a song about airport security - yep. It does get weird hearing Jello Biafra whinge about hummers but I understand that they were the style at the time in the US and appear to have made him do his own /101/ post about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ6qf0FRAJA


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl7e77lh-78

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWnXw_xMuOo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0tjzVgrybQ

cumgirl8 - Karma Police

Street Sects - And I Grew into Ribbons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54W8kktFE_o

Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd is probably my favourite mid-70s album of any band. It's hard to say if they invented that fat, clunky 70s sound that was prevalent at the time, or if they were just copying it. Probably a bit of both. But the album is just as much a milestone of its point in time as The Wall would become in the late 70s and early 80s.

I posted iio - Rapture (Riva remix) a few months ago, because it's so much better than the original version. I listened to it many times over the next few weeks. Here it is again, so I can make my point:

My point is, the first result for Neo Cortex - Elements, another epic trance banger, has the exact same picture. I hope Google Image Search has diversified its results for "trance music picture" since these two videos were uploaded, 15 and 14 years ago respectively.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc-R0bSt5FA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7FU_mqhFGk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aci7i6B5gO0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6mzlOg6mXY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve-rxwKuqtI

An unusual song. Let alone the fact that it's by George Michael. He always was versatile, but he was pushing his own boundaries with this. And to great effect.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M60Cx5yl7Js

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Wif3PL27rM.
Can't say I knew these guys, but outside of my weirdly beloved genre of psy trance there's something about people screaming into a mic in a way that maybe might be damaging vocal chords while drums and string chords get played at max volume that makes my heart beat faster.

>Hydrogen Line
>Radio telescopes around the world receive a range of intense radio signals. After studying the data, scientists from different countries unanimously exclude the possibility of interference caused by cosmic noise. The signals arrive in a logical order at 1420 MHz (the frequency of neutral hydrogen atoms). At an international meeting of astrophysicists, the artificial origin of the signals is finally confirmed, and it is announced that the signals came from the KOI-3010 star system, located at a distance of 1213 light years from the Sun. Such a distance would create an obstacle to a response signal, which leads scientists to believe that the civilization sending the signal must surpass humanity in technological development by many hundreds and possibly thousands of years.

>Radio signals continue to arrive every year for seven years. During this time, all attempts to decode the signal fail.

>More and more countries stop fighting wars and start focusing on developing common international space technologies. For the first time, something is connecting people from around the world, regardless of nationality, culture, or religion. They become increasingly less focused on their own state and more deeply concerned about the planet as a whole. Fear of the unknown is pacifying human behavior.

>Despite enormous technological developments, the meaning of the messages remains unclear for hundreds of years. However, after studying the history of their ancestors during the first years of receiving the radio signals, scientists note that humanity, on the verge of self-destruction, radically changed its attitude towards the world around it. Wars and poverty started to end, the economic balance between countries began to stabilize, and more and more people gained access to education. Humanity learned to live in harmony with nature.

>Perhaps this was the meaning of the messages, thanks to which people have managed to move to intelligent civilization’s next stage of development...

This album is incredible if you need some space-themed atmospheric beep-boop music for the winter. If you'd like vocals then here's the opening track about a space probe traveling for eons across space and time in search of alien life. The video even ends with a written narrative about finding alien life.

>>14878
That synopsis just sounds like a radically dumbed-down rip off of Stanislaw Lem's His Master's Voice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mraMN1lILXY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfMr2QwzkV0
Regina Spektor - Us

These days it's all about "Official Visualizers". No one's making montages of montages of promo shots and album artwork for music they upload to YouTube anymore.

>>14880

Nice to know I'm not the only Richard Dawson fan here.

Barbra Streisand

>>14879
Man, you're going to hate this album. The bands name is even a word they invented to describe the fact that what you'll find within you is so much greater than what lies in front of you.

Some early '90s.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGw3w_njQ4g



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwBCyvBMgjQ

>>14884
>Londonbeat
Of the two songs by Londonbeat that I know, their other one is definitely my favourite:

>>14885

I like this one better.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHW8Qo1Yfgo

Still listening to Alex Cameron.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_nNUgIGjZw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep0GX7TiWa8
This is probably my favourite Death Grips song. Just stellar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf6xwpb61gU

Still one of my favourite mid-80s synthpop songs.

Unfortunately, this also marked the Human League's last genuinely good song before their decline.

Someone send me back, I wasted my youth.

RIP Quincy Jones.

The original version of this song was written by Chaz Jankel, bass guitarist for Ian Dury & the Blockheads. I love that fact.

>>14891


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EKspREtVZQ