What are you listening to right now?

freelunch · Post by **freelunch** » Wed Jul 03, 2024 6:44 pm

Jaymann wrote: ↑Mon Jul 01, 2024 5:35 pm How do you get those lists from Spotify?

I'm a sucker for charts and stats and Spotify doesn't give me enough info - my lists come from last.fm, based on music I stream from Spotify, Apple, and YouTube, and occasionally play from CDs.

freelunch · Post by **freelunch** » Wed Jul 03, 2024 6:45 pm

Jaymann · Post by **Jaymann** » Wed Jul 03, 2024 9:10 pm

freelunch wrote: ↑Wed Jul 03, 2024 6:44 pm
Jaymann wrote: ↑Mon Jul 01, 2024 5:35 pm How do you get those lists from Spotify?
I'm a sucker for charts and stats and Spotify doesn't give me enough info - my lists come from last.fm, based on music I stream from Spotify, Apple, and YouTube, and occasionally play from CDs.

Great, I will try it. Spotify has the info but it's on 3 or 4 screens.

Jaymann · Post by **Jaymann** » Wed Jul 03, 2024 9:43 pm

Classic Shoegaze. Technically not an instrumental as a drowned out vocal hits during the final minute.

freelunch · Post by **freelunch** » Thu Jul 04, 2024 8:57 pm

Skinypupy · Post by **Skinypupy** » Fri Jul 05, 2024 1:36 pm

Octoploid is the new band with members of Amorphis and Barren Earth. I almost gave it a miss entirely because of the incredibly stupid name, but this is really good stuff. Melodeath that is very reminiscent of "Tales From the Thousand Lakes"-era Amorphis. A fun mix of death, prog, folk, stoner doom, psychedelic, and even pirate metal with some funky organ grooves and even Gregorian chants thrown in for good measure.

In short: Really stupid band name, really great music.

freelunch · Post by **freelunch** » Sat Jul 06, 2024 7:27 pm

Post by **ImLawBoy** » Mon Jul 08, 2024 11:01 am

Finally got around to listening to the new Black Crowes album yesterday. I was a big fan of the Crowes back in the day, but when they released the first single off this album my reaction was "meh". It kind of sounded like a song that didn't make the cut as filler for an early album. The rest of the album is pretty great, though. I'm guessing they released that song to remind people of the Black Crowes sound after so many years away, but it had the ironic effect of making me not excited for the album when I should have been.

Skinypupy · Post by **Skinypupy** » Mon Jul 08, 2024 5:27 pm

Bill Leeb from Frontline Assembly has his first solo album coming out in September. The first single off that album dropped today

It's basically just FLA with a different name. Which is fine (I adore me some FLA) but it seems odd for him to basically go do literally the exact same thing as his main band...only solo.

freelunch · Post by **freelunch** » Tue Jul 09, 2024 7:56 pm

freelunch · Post by **freelunch** » Wed Jul 10, 2024 6:17 pm

Skinypupy · Post by **Skinypupy** » Thu Jul 11, 2024 10:33 am

Wind Rose (the "dwarf metal" band) teamed up with Deep Rock Galactic for a song on their upcoming album. It's all incredibly silly (like everything they do), but is awfully catchy.

freelunch · Post by **freelunch** » Fri Jul 12, 2024 5:00 pm

freelunch · Post by **freelunch** » Wed Jul 17, 2024 4:21 pm

AWS260 · Post by **AWS260** » Wed Jul 17, 2024 11:12 pm

hitbyambulance · Post by **hitbyambulance** » Thu Jul 18, 2024 4:42 pm

freelunch wrote: ↑Tue Jul 09, 2024 7:56 pm

i didn't know this was a thing - listening now

(ok i vaaaaguely remember this now...)

freelunch · Post by **freelunch** » Thu Jul 18, 2024 11:47 pm

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Fri Jul 19, 2024 12:14 pm

HELL YES

Skinypupy · Post by **Skinypupy** » Fri Jul 19, 2024 2:09 pm

Smoove_B wrote: ↑Fri Jul 19, 2024 12:14 pm HELL YES

Those medleys were a lot more fun back in the 80's when I knew the original songs. I was only familiar with a couple of the songs in that one.

My lawn...get off it.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Fri Jul 19, 2024 2:34 pm

‘Weird Al’ Yankovic on ‘Polkamania!,’ Why He Won’t Release Another Album

“Weird Al” Yankovic: I wanted to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of my last album by doing a medley of what I thought were a dozen of the biggest songs of the last 10 years. I just kind of went through the charts. Every song in the medley is a No. 1 song and pretty iconic. And they just seem like the likeliest candidates to me. As far as the order, you have to end strong with Taylor and start strong with Billie. Other than that, I had to play around with my accordion to see what chord progressions led to other chord progressions the easiest. So, it’s just a little bit of a puzzle, as it always is.
...
I said it at the time and I am sticking with it: Mandatory Fun is most likely going to be the last traditional album that I ever release. I just wanted to focus on other things. I haven’t retired from making music. My output in the last 10 years has not been terribly prolific but I’m still putting things out here and there. I am just tired of the album format because there were so many limitations for me, one being that a lot of my humor is topical. And if I get a great idea for a song and it’s topical, I then need to come up with 11 more songs to release the whole album. So, releasing singles seems to be a better way for me to go.

YellowKing · Post by **YellowKing** » Fri Jul 19, 2024 9:19 pm

Skinypupy wrote:Those medleys were a lot more fun back in the 80's when I knew the original songs. I was only familiar with a couple of the songs in that one.

And most of those songs were 5-10 years old.

AWS260 · Post by **AWS260** » Sat Jul 20, 2024 6:20 pm

coopasonic · Post by **coopasonic** » Sat Jul 20, 2024 6:39 pm

YellowKing wrote: ↑Fri Jul 19, 2024 9:19 pm
Skinypupy wrote:Those medleys were a lot more fun back in the 80's when I knew the original songs. I was only familiar with a couple of the songs in that one.
And most of those songs were 5-10 years old.

I knew 5, and 3 of them are on pretty regular rotation. I'd call that pretty good for an old man.

I've been mostly using Spotify DJ for the last couple months but it is starting to get repetitive, even when it is playing recent stuff I don't usually listen to, it's the same songs over and over. It does surprise me occasionally when it goes back to the 90s and plays something I haven't thought about in decades.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Sat Jul 20, 2024 8:20 pm

I spent the day downloading all of my purchases from Amazon, since, as a lapsed subcriber, I can't play music that I purchased through their app in anything other than shuffle mode.

YellowKing · Post by **YellowKing** » Sun Jul 21, 2024 8:51 am

coopasonic wrote:I've been mostly using Spotify DJ for the last couple months but it is starting to get repetitive, even when it is playing recent stuff I don't usually listen to, it's the same songs over and over.

"Hey, I'mma play you some songs you've been listening to a lot lately."

THAT'S BECAUSE YOU'RE THE ONE PLAYING THEM OVER AND OVER.

I switched to Spotify from Amazon Music because my friends all told me the algorithms were so much better, but it's the same. I'd say a good 90% of the songs it plays are things that are already in my liked songs list. And the playlists it generates are usually a good 75%.

freelunch · Post by **freelunch** » Sun Jul 21, 2024 5:44 pm

YellowKing wrote: ↑Sun Jul 21, 2024 8:51 am I switched to Spotify from Amazon Music because my friends all told me the algorithms were so much better, but it's the same. I'd say a good 90% of the songs it plays are things that are already in my liked songs list. And the playlists it generates are usually a good 75%.

I play my own playlist or (more frequently) select the albums I want to listen to. I switched from Amazon Music to Spotify because the former's preponderance of bootlegs made it a pain to browse artist catalogues. Also, I thought there would be more social interaction on Spotify. Turned out I was about a decade late for the second thing.

Currently listening to:

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sun Jul 21, 2024 8:09 pm

I gotta say ...you guys listen to some awful sounds ...hhahhahahhaa....to each his own. I say this in jest...dont want to offend anyway....we all have our likes...but man ..

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Mon Jul 22, 2024 10:45 am

Unagi · Post by **Unagi** » Mon Jul 22, 2024 10:48 am

I don't see Boba Fett as a sit-down guy. They should have put the emperor on drums, on his big throne.

freelunch · Post by **freelunch** » Mon Jul 22, 2024 6:27 pm

AWS260 · Post by **AWS260** » Mon Jul 22, 2024 10:41 pm

I am on an XG kick. Their latest single is really good. Well, at least for the first 80%; it gets kind of slow and repetitive toward the end.

I kind of feel sorry for the group's singers. They are fine, but the rappers are on another level.

Jaymann · Post by **Jaymann** » Tue Jul 23, 2024 2:26 pm

A live rocker from Garbage. See if you can catch Shirley flipping off the crowd.

freelunch · Post by **freelunch** » Tue Jul 23, 2024 5:54 pm

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Tue Jul 23, 2024 5:58 pm

Procession of the Military Night Watch in Madrid, Op. 30 No. 6
Berlin Philharmonic/Karajan
Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805)

https://theclassicalstation.org/player/

freelunch · Post by **freelunch** » Tue Jul 23, 2024 6:41 pm

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Wed Jul 24, 2024 2:19 pm

freelunch · Post by **freelunch** » Wed Jul 24, 2024 7:18 pm

Jaymann · Post by **Jaymann** » Thu Jul 25, 2024 12:05 pm

Heard a snip of this on the Godzilla & Kong movie, and it reminded me what a great song it is. 1982 - way ahead of it's time.

freelunch · Post by **freelunch** » Thu Jul 25, 2024 4:36 pm

hitbyambulance · Post by **hitbyambulance** » Thu Jul 25, 2024 5:25 pm

Funeral Tears / Поезд Родина - Frozen Tranquility [split EP]

Ukrainian / Russian funeral doom from some years ago