Just General non band specific Music Chat Thread !

[LithoJazzoSphere]

That cover...

[Stadler]

No surprise that's the album you pick.

What?!? That's a great album; the only song I don't care for is "The Zoo".

[hefdaddy42]

Just heard the new single from Jon Anderson & the Band Geeks.  Wow, that was great!

[pg1067]

Just heard the new single from Jon Anderson & the Band Geeks.  Wow, that was great!

I like True Messenger better than Shine On, but both are solid, and anyone who's a fan of Rabin-era Yes should check them out.  The life in these songs dwarfs anything that the Steve Howe Band has put out in the last decade.

JA and the Geeks are playing at a venue kinda near me next Friday.  I'm struggling with really wanting to see the show and not wanting to drive 80 miles each way or dropping a bunch of money on a hotel.

[SoundscapeMN]

BLACK MIDI "indefinitely over" 

https://www.nme.com/news/music/black-midi-are-indefinitely-over-confirms-bassist-and-frontman-3782676

[nick_z]

here's something to share, some might like.

On the Images & Words Discord, they do these "Listening Party's" and people can submit an album (1) for them for AOTY or Album of the Decade.

So they are taking submissions right now for the decade of 2000-2009. And for those who may be curious, here's a list of all the albums submitted so far

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13ElCKYDUQlFaKLryjP9KKsxQUvMmH5seKJx_ZuDmXQI/edit?pli=1&gid=1590182464#gid=1590182464

Kevin Gilbert - The Shaming of the True    2000-05-01   
Ayreon - Universal Migrator Pt.1 & 2    2000-06-20   
Radiohead - Kid A    2000-10-02   
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Yr Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven!    2000-10-09   
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory    2000-10-24   
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory    2000-10-24   
Opeth - Blackwater Park    2001-03-12   
Tool - Lateralus    2001-05-15   
Hammers of Misfortune - The Bastard    2001-06-01   
Kamelot - Karma    2001-07-09   
Björk - Vespertine    2001-08-27   
Maudlin of the Well - Bath    2001-08-31   
Converge - Jane Doe    2001-09-04   
System of a Down - Toxicity    2001-09-04   
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot    2001-09-18   
Green Carnation - Light of Day, Day of Darkness    2001-11-25   
Pain of Salvation - Remedy Lane    2002-01-15   
Silverchair - Diorama    2002-03-31   
Linkin Park - Reanimation    2002-07-30   
Beck - Sea Change    2002-09-24   
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia    2002-09-24   
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Yanqui U.X.O.    2002-11-04   
Symphony X - The Odyssey    2002-11-05   
Evanescence - Fallen    2003-03-04   
The Mars Volta - DeLoused in the Comatorium    2003-06-24   
Streetlight Manifesto - Everything Goes Numb    2003-08-26   
Kayo Dot - Choirs of the Eye    2003-09-01   
Oceansize - Effloresce    2003-09-29   
Anathema - A Natural Disaster    2003-11-03   
Disillusion - Back to Times of Splendor    2004-04-06   
Nightwish - Once    2004-06-07   
My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge    2004-06-08   
Necrophagist - Epitaph    2004-08-03   
Rotting Christ - Sanctus Diavolos    2004-09-20   
Magma - K.A.    2004-11-08   
Pat Metheny Group - The Way Up    2005-01-25   
The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute    2005-02-11   
Gospel - The Moon Is a Dead World    2005-05-10   
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois    2005-07-04   
Pendulum - Hold Your Colour    2005-07-25   
Opeth - Ghost Reveries    2005-08-29   
Protest the Hero - Kezia    2005-08-30   
Gojira - From Mars to Sirius    2005-09-27   
Boards of Canada -  The Campfire Headphase    2005-10-17   
Fightstar - Grand Unification    2006-03-13   
Dog Fashion Disco - Adultery    2006-04-04   
Pure Reason Revolution - The Dark Third    2006-04-10   
Tool 10,000 Days    2006-04-28   
SikTh - Death of a Dead Day    2006-06-06   
Frost* - Milliontown    2006-07-18   
Fall of Efrafa - Owsla    2006-09-01   
The Mars Volta - Amputechture    2006-09-12   
Natural Snow Buildings - The Dance of the Moon and the Sun    2006-09-22   
Rx Bandits - ...and the Battle Begun    2006-10-10   
ISIS - In the Absence of Truth    2006-10-31   
Brand New - The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me    2006-11-21   
Hiromi's Sonicbloom - Time Control    2007-02-26   
The Dear Hunter - Act II: The Meaning of, and all things regarding    2007-05-22   
Fair To Midland - Fables From a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times is True    2007-06-12   
Fair To Midland - Fables From a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times is True    2007-06-12   
Phideaux- Doomsday Afternoon    2007-06-21   
Epica - The Divine Conspiracy    2007-08-22   
Blotted Science - The Machinations of Dementia    2007-09-18   
Between the Buried and Me - Colors    2007-09-18   
Oceansize - Frames    2007-10-01   
The Ocean - Precambrian    2007-11-05   
Apes & Androids - Blood Moon    2008-01-22   
Have A Nice Life - Deathconsciousness    2008-01-24   
Protest The Hero - Fortress    2008-01-29   
Sculptured - Embodiment    2008-02-19   
Motorpsycho - Little Lucid Moments    2008-03-28   
Portishead - Third    2008-04-28   
Caramella Girls - Supergott (Speedy Mixes)    2008-05-01   
Textures - Silhouettes    2008-05-05   
Opeth - Watershed    2008-05-19   
Gojira - The way of all flesh    2008-10-13   
Frost* - Experiments in Mass Appeal    2008-11-14   
John Frusciante - The Empyrean    2009-01-20   
The Antlers - Hospice    2009-03-23   
Mastodon - Crack the Skye    2009-03-24   
Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle    2009-04-14   
Leprous - Tall Poppy Syndrome    2009-05-05   
Closure in Moscow - First Temple    2009-05-05   
Karnivool - Sound Awake    2009-06-05   
The Dear Hunter - Act III: Life and Death    2009-06-23   
Rx Bandits - Mandala    2009-07-28   
Porcupine Tree - The Incident    2009-09-14   
Between The Buried And Me - The Great Misdirect    2009-10-27   
The Red Chord - Fed Through The Teeth Machine    2009-10-27   
Krallice - Dimensional Bleedthrough    2009-11-10   
Rishloo - Feathergun    2009-12-08   

It might be interesting to see what a list around here might look like. I forget, but if we had an Album of the Decade thread back in late 2009/early 2010, what everyone's #1 record of the decade was, although that was 15 years ago, so there's a lot of people here now, who weren't here then, and of course tastes change, so the list might look different now anyway.

Going back to this - as noted above, I'd imagine there might be a "Favorites of 2000-09" thread somewhere on DTF...? If so, is there a way to unearth it? Not sure how easy it'd be to find it via the Search function, and the one existing "container" thread is for Top 50s and more recent song/album countdowns.

It would be fun to do a 2000-09 and a 2010-19...or even combined, maybe. 

[LithoJazzoSphere]

Search doesn't work as well as it used to, but if we did one for that decade it'd probably be with an outdated set of users.  We did this one a few years ago for each year.

https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php/topic,56309.0.html

It'd definitely be interesting to do a new one just for the decade of the 00s with the current batch of posters. 

Edit:  Actually, search seems to be working better today.  There are a few threads I'm finding kind of like that.

https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php/topic,21533

https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php/topic,26844

https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php/topic,24529

https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php/topic,54673

https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php/topic,54441

All being after/before my time.

[nick_z]

Nice, thank you Litho! I'll comb through these. I know we had Soundscape's thread on the best by individual years too.

But it'd be nice to have a revisit of this century's decades so far.

[twosuitsluke]

I'd be up for ranking those decades. 

[hefdaddy42]

BLACK MIDI "indefinitely over" 

https://www.nme.com/news/music/black-midi-are-indefinitely-over-confirms-bassist-and-frontman-3782676

That sucks!

[TAC]

For some reason, MSN keps giving me a ton of these types of things lately...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/news/best-metal-bassists-from-the-80s-that-you-probably-forgot-about/ss-BB1quDVQ?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=c7d939fb235d4d76a775e1754421b95e&ei=5#image=11


...but kudos for this list to include, Harris, Bello, Ellefson, and Grosskopf.

[wolfking]

For some reason, MSN keps giving me a ton of these types of things lately...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/news/best-metal-bassists-from-the-80s-that-you-probably-forgot-about/ss-BB1quDVQ?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=c7d939fb235d4d76a775e1754421b95e&ei=5#image=11


...but kudos for this list to include, Harris, Bello, Ellefson, and Grosskopf.

Funny seeing Myung on this.

[Adami]

Went with my wife to see Chris Thile the other night. I had seen some of his stuff on youtube. Fun folksy stuff. Turns out this was basically a one man mini-musical. His the dude and his mandolin and a few props. Told a 80 or so mininute musical story about moving to New York and falling in love with a weird bar and the story of that over the years. Insanely fun, compelling (I say this as a guy who doesn't drink or go to bars), immensely talented dude, very engaging and funny. Dude totally blew me away.

Would highly recomend Chris Thile to anyone who is more into modern folk/blugrassy style music. Dude also broke into a 5 or so minute Bach solo on his mandolin after the show since he felt it was too short.

[LithoJazzoSphere]

Yeah, he's easily my favorite mandolinist, and just a generally incredible all-around musician who can do it all and seamlessly blends ideas from myriad genres into his playing. 

[TAC]

Yeah, he's easily my favorite mandolinist, and just a generally incredible all-around musician who can do it all and seamlessly blends ideas from myriad genres into his playing. 

Wait, you have a favorite mandolinist? Is there like a list or something?

[LithoJazzoSphere]

Mandolin:

Chris Thile
Mike Marshall
Sam Bush
Sierra Hull

[TAC]

What did I walk into?

[Glasser]

Wait, you have a favorite mandolinist? Is there like a list or something?

 

[LithoJazzoSphere]

There are other kinds of music than rock and metal, you know. 

[Sacul]

There are other kinds of music than rock and metal, you know. 

yeah, the ones that suck and blow rite??!?!?!!

[HOF]

I'm a fan of Nickel Creek but I kind of found Thile's other band Punch Brothers hard to listen to. Super talented guy though.

[wolfking]

There are other kinds of music than rock and metal, you know. 

I think you've just opened yourself up to a permanent ban I'm afraid mate.

[hefdaddy42]

I think you've just opened yourself up to a permanent ban I'm afraid mate.

Doubtful.  He's right, and that list of mandolinists is legit.

I found Sierra Hull to be super fun to see live, and I got to meet her.  Totally bubbly and super nice.  I think she is playing the IBMA again this year, so hopefully I get to see her again.

BTW, modern progressive bluegrass musicians are just as skilled and virtuosic musicians as any popular rock/prog/metal musicians.  Just not as loud.

[Stadler]

Went with my wife to see Chris Thile the other night. I had seen some of his stuff on youtube. Fun folksy stuff. Turns out this was basically a one man mini-musical. His the dude and his mandolin and a few props. Told a 80 or so mininute musical story about moving to New York and falling in love with a weird bar and the story of that over the years. Insanely fun, compelling (I say this as a guy who doesn't drink or go to bars), immensely talented dude, very engaging and funny. Dude totally blew me away.

Would highly recomend Chris Thile to anyone who is more into modern folk/blugrassy style music. Dude also broke into a 5 or so minute Bach solo on his mandolin after the show since he felt it was too short.

Did he say what the bar was?

[twosuitsluke]

My favourite mandolinist is Kirk Skatvold, but he is also the only one I can name.

[LithoJazzoSphere]

Doubtful.  He's right, and that list of mandolinists is legit.

I found Sierra Hull to be super fun to see live, and I got to meet her.  Totally bubbly and super nice.  I think she is playing the IBMA again this year, so hopefully I get to see her again.

BTW, modern progressive bluegrass musicians are just as skilled and virtuosic musicians as any popular rock/prog/metal musicians.  Just not as loud.

Indeed.

And I've seen her live as well.  My mandolin looked at me with contempt when I came home after. 

[Adami]

Did he say what the bar was?

He did! Milk and Honey. Run by Sasha Petraske. Closed in 2020 according to Wikipedia after relocating.

[TAC]

BTW, modern progressive bluegrass musicians are just as skilled and virtuosic musicians as any popular rock/prog/metal musicians. 

I have no doubt.

Did someone say they weren't?

[LithoJazzoSphere]

This is perhaps not as relevant these days, but prog and metal fans used to place a premium on skilled (and often overt) musicianship and subverting commercialism, which bluegrass excels at, far more so than mainstream pop-country has, so it's interesting that it didn't appeal more to them.  But of course now values have changed a bit over the last couple decades (to the point that Taylor Swift can have a thread with thousands of replies, mostly positive, not that I have any problem with this). 

[hefdaddy42]

I have no doubt.

Did someone say they weren't?

No.  That's why I said BTW = By the way, which indicates bringing up something not previously addressed, but related.

[TAC]

    

[Stadler]

This is perhaps not as relevant these days, but prog and metal fans used to place a premium on skilled (and often overt) musicianship and subverting commercialism, which bluegrass excels at, far more so than mainstream pop-country has, so it's interesting that it didn't appeal more to them.  But of course now values have changed a bit over the last couple decades (to the point that Taylor Swift can have a thread with thousands of replies, mostly positive, not that I have any problem with this). 

Well, just supports my theory that the timeline goes "we like what we like" THEN we "backfill in why we like it", as opposed to vice versa. 

[wolfking]

Doubtful.  He's right, and that list of mandolinists is legit.

I found Sierra Hull to be super fun to see live, and I got to meet her.  Totally bubbly and super nice.  I think she is playing the IBMA again this year, so hopefully I get to see her again.

BTW, modern progressive bluegrass musicians are just as skilled and virtuosic musicians as any popular rock/prog/metal musicians.  Just not as loud.

Easy there boss, just having a laugh.

[hefdaddy42]

Easy there boss, just having a laugh.

I'm pretty easy.  That's what my wife tells me.

[ProfessorPeart]

It appears The Sword has reformed. I came upon them late and after they had stopped making rifftastic albums. No idea if they plan on making new music, but if they do I hope it in the vein of the first 3 or 4 records and not the last 2.

I still listen to those first 3 albums regularly.