What album are you listening to v.8

[twosuitsluke]

Luke, do you know these London boys?  I've heard about them for years and never got around to checking them out.  The vocals aren't exactly my thing, but damn the music is such a blast I don't mind terribly much.  Seems like a possible intersection of some of our interests, an exact middle ground between a variant of my root/influence section of the day and a few other things and some of the stuff on your EP in my final round, makes me wanna listen to it again.

Everyone in the UK knows The Pogues, as Fairy Tale of New York is always played to death at Christmas. I assume this isn't a thing in the States? I can't say I've ever listened to a whole album of theirs though. I'll give this a go, just for you 

[LithoJazzoSphere]

^ Top 50 act for me. Try "Rum,Sodomy, and the Leash" as well.

Already on it!

Everyone in the UK knows The Pogues, as Fairy Tale of New York is always played to death at Christmas. I assume this isn't a thing in the States? I can't say I've ever listened to a whole album of theirs though. I'll give this a go, just for you 

It could be a thing in some big cities likely more amenable to the sound such as Boston, but nowhere I've heard personally.  There's a decent amount of variety on the album, and most are much more lively than that one. 

[TheHoveringSojourn808]

David Bowie - Let's Dance

[TheHoveringSojourn808]

Miles Davis - Porgy & Bess

[ReaperKK]

Fink - Biscuits For Breakfast

[nick_z]

Moon Tooth - Phototroph

Man I love this band.

This album is great - and the title-track is fantastic!

[Grappler]

Iron Maiden - A Real Dead One
Iron Maiden - No Prayer for the Dying

Kreator - Hate Uber Alles

[hefdaddy42]

Miguel Atwood-Ferguson - Les Jardins Mystiques Vol. 1

Miles Davis - Porgy & Bess

Good stuff

[Glasser]

Today at work...

Nice Tim! Do you get paid to listen to music?

[TAC]

Nice Tim! Do you get paid to listen to music?

Hah! I wish. I have it on while I work. If I'm at my work station for most of the day, I can get some good amounts of music in, but it's really all background music while I work.

[TheHoveringSojourn808]

Porcupine Tree - Stupid Dream

[nick_z]

Two of my favorites from 2024 so far...Chelsea Wolfe delivered, and then some. And that Transit Method album is so incredibly tasty (I know, I already pimped it twice...it's hitting the spot, what can I say)

And the Avantasia album...hadn't revisited it in a while, and I really enjoyed it. Lots of fun.

Finally, the Stormruler...a bit of a random revisit too, just came across it again. Waaaay too long (and, what, ten or so interludes?), but it's well-done melodic black metal with more than a bit of Dissection influence. Also, it sounds great (not quite used to such nice, audible bass in this genre)

[wolfking]

[ReaperKK]

Amendfoil - Skyline Escape

[TAC]

Never really given Eidolon a good listen. I need to change that.

[wolfking]

Withering Scorn is really just another Eidolon album, with better vocals (compared to these two albums anyway).  Nothing spectacular but I just love Glen's heavy thick guitar tone.

Their last album (Parallel Otherworld) actually has Nils from Pagans Mind which was really good Eidolon with a class vocalist.

[TAC]

[nick_z]

I don’t think I even knew about this album!

[TAC]

I don’t think I even knew about this album!

Yeah, came out in 2005. It's the 3rd of the 4 albums that came out in the Neilson/Simpson (drummer and guitarist who replaced original members Kelly Smith and Michael Gilbert after the High album) era.

[Bluefish]

[hefdaddy42]

Monuments - In Stasis

[TheHoveringSojourn808]

Kikagaku Moyo - Kikagaku Moyo

[hefdaddy42]

Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic

[TAC]

Today at work..

[TheHoveringSojourn808]

Father John Misty - I Love You, Honeybear

my guy

[wolfking]

Another solid outing.  Although I think The Cold wins the battle between the two easily!

[TheHoveringSojourn808]

Caroline Polacheck - Desire, I Want To Turn Into You: Everasking Edition

[TAC]

Another solid outing.  Although I think The Cold wins the battle between the two easily!

Easily? Interesting.

[LithoJazzoSphere]

Caroline Polacheck - Desire, I Want To Turn Into You: Everasking Edition

This was one of my favorites of last year, and it looks like the special edition has a bunch of bonus tracks, so I'll have to check those out. 

[wolfking]

Another solid outing.  Although I think The Cold wins the battle between the two easily!

Easily? Interesting.

The Cold felt more......I dunno, organic?  Heavy? Original?  It kinda had a 90's feel in some songs but heavier which I liked.  I'll have to spin DOD in the car but yeah, based on a listen to each, The Cold wins.

[TheHoveringSojourn808]

Caroline Polacheck - Desire, I Want To Turn Into You: Everasking Edition

This was one of my favorites of last year, and it looks like the special edition has a bunch of bonus tracks, so I'll have to check those out. 

i agree! it was #2 in my 2023 list, incredible record

[nick_z]

Caroline Polacheck - Desire, I Want To Turn Into You: Everasking Edition

This was one of my favorites of last year, and it looks like the special edition has a bunch of bonus tracks, so I'll have to check those out.

Yep, really liked that one, will have to give these a listen.

Another solid outing.  Although I think The Cold wins the battle between the two easily!

Easily? Interesting.

The Cold felt more......I dunno, organic?  Heavy? Original?  It kinda had a 90's feel in some songs but heavier which I liked.  I'll have to spin DOD in the car but yeah, based on a listen to each, The Cold wins.

Like I said, I have never heard Dreams of Death...I haven't listened to The Cold in a long time but I, too, remember it being quite good. It's probably time for some F&J revisits.

Some listens from today:




That Ritual Dictates album (from 2022) is very intriguing. Goth-y, but in a slightly different way.

And, man, I love FII. I loved it back then (yes, it was different and a step down from Awake, but it still felt so full of cool and unexpected ideas) and I love it now.

[TheHoveringSojourn808]

The Replacements - Tim

[Metro]

On an ELP kick today.

Brain Salad Surgery
Pictures at an Exhibition
Trilogy
Self Titled
Tarkus

[TAC]

The Replacements - Tim

Great name for an album