What Are You Listening To Now ?

Mattharrier

Philly_Q said:

Mattharrier said:

Station - More Than The Moon. I'm finding it hard to categorise this, it's New Wave of Classic Rock apparently, and it fits the description I suppose, but whatever it is I'm enjoying it.

I just listened to a couple of tracks - I'd say they're from the more middle-of-the road end of the late-80s American hard rock spectrum, a bit like Firehouse or Tyketto or something.

I'd have called that hair metal at the time (although some people never liked that term), maybe AOR.  I see Wikipedia now, retrospectively, calls all those bands glam metal, although I never thought of Firehouse or Dokken as "glam".

"New Wave of Classic Rock" is a strange description, they're saying it's "new" but nobody would have called that style classic rock in the 1980s.  It seems like the main qualification for being called classic rock is really just being around a long time.

God, all these stupid labels....

Yes, that sounds about right - hints of 80s Bon Jovi etc coming through occasionally.

The NWOCR label is because they were in a magazine article about it (which is where I came across them). It's a silly label anyway - classic rock is itself a bit daft as it covers such a wide range of music and such a wide period of time, but new wave of classic rock is even more silly.

EricTheWeary

https://youtu.be/9qYpVf4XqPI

Lil Bob and the Lollipops. 

1960s RnB also later part of the Northern Soul catalogue. Camille ‘Lil’ Bob the grandfather of Kemah Bob ( the woman with a strange voice on House of Games). Great voice. 

Mattharrier

Tedeschi Trucks Band - Made Up Mind. Nice, bluesy, Americana etc. Damn that Derek Trucks can play a nice bit o' guitar

EricTheWeary

EricTheWeary said:

https://youtu.be/9qYpVf4XqPI

Lil Bob and the Lollipops. 

1960s RnB also later part of the Northern Soul catalogue. Camille ‘Lil’ Bob the grandfather of Kemah Bob ( the woman with a strange voice on House of Games). Great voice. 

I hadn’t realised how well covered this song is including Robert Cray and Los Lobos. 

Tab Benoit as well if you wanted to hear a more guitar oriented/ stripped down version. Would be a fun song for a blues band repertoire.

https://youtu.be/lNthXL0ZEkw

Snap

Right now, Squid. Off to see them tonight. I like them.

ewal

Low - Hey What of course

Deadman

Villagers - Becoming a jackal

hollywoodrox

Rolling Stones - stripped 

joetele

Mattharrier

Lots and lots of Jason Isbell, currently Something More Than Free.

joetele

Been an another Deafheaven stint of late. 

personalnadir

Boygenius - wound up buying the CD from Japan, couldn't find it anywhere else

mudslide73

Grumpyrocker

Right now having a big flashback to my youth. While searching for something else ended up finding footage of Mourn, Anathema, and headliner Cathedral from one gig I went to in Manchester in 1995. Really surprised this footage even exists.

Reverend

Grumpyrocker said:

Right now having a big flashback to my youth. While searching for something else ended up finding footage of Mourn, Anathema, and headliner Cathedral from one gig I went to in Manchester in 1995. Really surprised this footage even exists.

Not in that footage but the main riff from Awakenings is mine. In fact most of the riffs on the album are too.

Reverend

Today's Plays

Paradise Lost - Shades of Grey
Napalm Death - From Enslavement To Obliteration
Jailcell Recipes- Energy In An Empty Tank World

Darren

King Diamond - Conspiracy. So far this morning. 

FarleyUK

The Stranglers - Dark Matters. Awesome album! Especially love This Song, although I’ve found myself randomly humming riffs from several other songs on here. 

Mattharrier

Larkin Poe - Reskinned and Self Made Man. Roots music, some wicked slide guitar and some stomping riffs. Really good stuff.

Sambostar

Love that I can also sing it.