What Are You Listening To Now ?

Philly_Q

Kittyfrisk said:

Philly_Q said:

I'm at on online conference listening to a young person talking about the value of employer branding in the modern workplace...

Did you get to choose the style of iron that they were branded with?

It was metaphorical branding, quite a lot like this:

RocknRollDave

jdgm said:

Sco-Mule.

John Scofield and Govt Mule 2CD live.

Glorious; Sco in full fusion god mode, guitar screaming with the Mule pounding along beneath.

There are some bloody fantastic exchanges with Haynes.

I must revisit this album. Big Mule fan, but this one never quite clicked with me. Maybe it’s time.

joetele

An album that was hugely influential for me in my 20s. Not just the guitars, but the drumming too, which is majestic. 

The Appleseed Cast: Low Level Owl Volume 1.

https://deepelmdigital.com/album/low-level-owl-vol-1

joetele

Baroness - Blue Record 

Vintage65

The new Alvvays album, with production, mixing & engineering by Shawn Everett.

EricTheWeary

https://youtu.be/MvOE2ZwWrKE

Zoolooter

Just discovered Hamilton Leithauser and discover this track with Kevin Morby. Exceptional stuff IMO.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H34EoPqfq8g

Vintage65

Alvvays live, with a track from their new album.

joneve

Hundred Reasons - who are arguably one of my top 3 favourite bands of all time - released their first new music in FIFTEEN YEARS today, out of the relative blue - whilst also announcing a new album. 

I've had the new single on loop for nearly 2 hours. It's fucking ace. 

Vintage65

joneve said:

Hundred Reasons - who are arguably one of my top 3 favourite bands of all time - released their first new music in FIFTEEN YEARS today, out of the relative blue - whilst also announcing a new album. 

I've had the new single on loop for nearly 2 hours. It's fucking ace. 

This one?

joneve

Vintage65 said:

joneve said:

Hundred Reasons - who are arguably one of my top 3 favourite bands of all time - released their first new music in FIFTEEN YEARS today, out of the relative blue - whilst also announcing a new album. 

I've had the new single on loop for nearly 2 hours. It's fucking ace. 

This one?

Yessir. 

Was buzzing for the tour this year, until it was postponed - and was getting excited again for the date in march. Even more excited now it'll be in support of a new album. 

roberty

I remember this being on in the car when I was a kid. It's a low key banger. Excellent all round, in particular the vocals and the guitar solo

Haych

Don't laugh, but I'm listening to this right now - and doubly don't laugh, but I think it's a bloody brilliant album:

joneve

roberty said:

I remember this being on in the car when I was a kid. It's a low key banger. Excellent all round, in particular the vocals and the guitar solo

We must have the same dad, as I have the very same memory. 

But yes, absolute top drawer banger. Genesis purists probably turn their nose up at it - but We Can't Dance is an absolutely solid record. 

RocknRollDave

Simple Minds - Direction of the Heart

https://youtu.be/fiycWJyviZQ

EricTheWeary

RocknRollDave said:

Simple Minds - Direction of the Heart

https://youtu.be/fiycWJyviZQ

@RocknRollDave did you see them on Later last night? I caught the end of it and wondered if you knew about it. 

RocknRollDave

EricTheWeary said:

RocknRollDave said:

Simple Minds - Direction of the Heart

https://youtu.be/fiycWJyviZQ

@RocknRollDave did you see them on Later last night? I caught the end of it and wondered if you knew about it. 

I did indeed, thank you .

Grumpyrocker

I'm really enjoying Nita Strauss' new single The Wolf You Feed featuring Alyssa White-Gluz. Fantastic vocal performance, and a banging solo.

roberty

joneve said:

roberty said:

I remember this being on in the car when I was a kid. It's a low key banger. Excellent all round, in particular the vocals and the guitar solo

We must have the same dad, as I have the very same memory. 

But yes, absolute top drawer banger. Genesis purists probably turn their nose up at it - but We Can't Dance is an absolutely solid record. 

I had it on in the car the other day for old times' sake. Some interesting production decisions! It is at the very least an entertaining listen

I'm a bit of a philistine in that I prefer Bowie's 80s work

Blueingreen

I've been listening to the podcast "A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs" by Andrew Hickey. He's up to song 156. Available on Spotify etc.

 I started with the 60s stuff (around song 100) and worked my way forward, skipping the early rock'n'roll that I was less interested in, but once I caught up I went back to the start and am now making progress through the early stuff.  It's got me more interested in some 50s artists than I ever expected to be. Not that I wasn't interested in 50s stuff before but my taste in that era has tended more to the jazzy than pop - Miles, Sinatra, Dinah Washington and Louis Jordan rather than Elvis or Lloyd Price or Carl Perkins.

Being honest I find Hickey himself a hard guy to like, he can be pompous and judgemental, but he's the kind of geek you probably have to be to pull this kind of thing together - his research is obviously meticulous and thorough.  As a friend put it, he's done a huge amount of boring work so you don't have to.  I find I'm sticking with it despite rather than because of Hickey's personality.

Won't be for everybody but if it sounds at all your kind of thing you might pick a song or two that matters to you and give it a try.