What Are You Listening To?

Awesome.  I liked the prog stuff too.

nkotb wrote:
New GBV showed up about a week early.  It's a ripper IMO…less of the prog stuff they've had on the last few and more punchy indie rock.  Best since…Warp and Woof, maybe?  Which is funny as that's only 6 years so not long, but also like 13 albums apart.

Much more into the stuff with catchy hooks.

I dig the prog stuff too…just feels too weighted with those jams recently IMO.

Trainspotting soundtrack

hutch wrote:
Trainspotting soundtrack

i realize this is a bit grim, but i thought years ago this would be a great playlist for a funeral/wake.  starts with Lust For Life, gets reflective with Blue Blue Day and then the party gets started…

First Constant Follower.

Now Madi Diaz.

I sold my copy a few weeks ago on my online store which is nearing 6500 orders (just got 4000th positive feedback) but before I did I shipped it I listened to it and decided it was really good so I bought it again. It’s not a super easy album to find out in the wild but this music is so passé-sadly- that it goes for a pittance on discogs. Anyways the albums between his early 50s breakthrough to the I left my heart in San Francisco “comeback” about 62 seem to have sold very little but I find them really underrated. It makes me sad that this type of music: Jazz vocal performances of the great American songbook might as well not exist to the young but such is life: each new generation buries the previous one and thus was the music of many generations ago now…

I hope you didn’t just buy it back from whoever you sold it to.

grateful wrote:
I hope you didn’t just buy it back from whoever you sold it to.

No…that’s impossible but would be funny

hutch wrote:
I sold my copy a few weeks ago on my online store which is nearing 6500 orders (just got 4000th positive feedback) but before I did I shipped it I listened to it and decided it was really good so I bought it again. It’s not a super easy album to find out in the wild but this music is so passé-sadly- that it goes for a pittance on discogs. Anyways the albums between his early 50s breakthrough to the I left my heart in San Francisco “comeback” about 62 seem to have sold very little but I find them really underrated. It makes me sad that this type of music: Jazz vocal performances of the great American songbook might as well not exist to the young but such is life: each new generation buries the previous one and thus was the music of many generations ago now…

That time in the 1990s when seemingly overnight every fucking "modern rock" radio station pretended to love his music. One of the weirdest music psyops in history.

Justin wrote:
That time in the 1990s when seemingly overnight every fucking "modern rock" radio station pretended to love his music. One of the weirdest music psyops in history.

This was also the era of those monks putting out Chant, Crash Test Dummies, and Eric Clapton's milquetoast MTV Unplugged on Modern Rock Radio. I felt like everyone was "on something" but me.

Yup….Tony has the record for comebacks….that wasn’t even his last one! Then he had one when he did that album with Lady Gaga….

Personally I welcome that sort of thing….

Within a few decades nobody will remember Billie Holiday! The greatest American singer ever!! Or likely even #2 Sinatra. Glad I will be long gone

Julian, wrote:
I felt like everyone was "on something" but me.

How do you do, fellow kids?  Wait - I feel like everyone is "on something" but me…Does anyone else here think that folks are "on something"?

Julian, wrote:I felt like everyone was "on something" but me.

<a href=“ https://youtube.com/shorts/oPkxPqCZrMA?si=FipX4WveL04gs51a”>That wasn’t the first time</a>

If you are going to reel me in with a record title then this is how to do it.

Vanity Mirror - Super Fluff Forever

from their bandcamp page

The album plays like a cabinet of bedroom pop curiosities, filled with sonic signifiers that point in many directions: ringing six-string power chords, Echoplex-treated flute pirouettes, effervescent vocal harmonies, sepia-toned parlor piano rags, blurry Casio synthesizer mirages, fuzztone melodies, and wistful jangle-pop arpeggios.

https://vanitymirrorband.bandcamp.com/album/super-fluff-forever-2


I also spent way to much time trying to track one of the many Dream Machines, Vanity Mirror once did some gigs with.  When I figured which one it was it was a trail of a  deleted Instagram account and Bandcamp releases.  It would appear the married couple in the band must have a nasty separation and thus all the content removal.

TOM SAWYER - RUSH (Funk Cover)

forget skynet - this is how AI will be the end of us.

Simon and Garfunkel- Sounds of Silence



Trying to erase the memory of the disturbed cover of sounds of silence which was playing at the Halloween store….so bad it really disturbed me

hutch wrote:
Simon and Garfunkel- Sounds of Silence

Trying to erase the memory of the disturbed cover of sounds of silence which was playing at the Halloween store….so bad it really disturbed me

It's so fucking dreadful, yet there are people out there who actually think it's one of the best covers of any song of all time. They are clearly people who listen to very little music beyond what the DC101's of the world foist upon them.

In search of new Dad Rock it's how they themselves classify it

Eades - Final Sirens Call

https://eadesband.bandcamp.com/album/final-sirens-call

Hailing from Leeds, England and while looking for information on them I found a blog called Music Is To Blame and they have an interview series called Such and Such Is To Blame and theirs's is of course entitled "Eades: Wilco Is To Blame"

https://www.musicistoblame.co.uk/2025/05/eades-wilco-is-to-blame.html