What are you listening to?

yourfriendclaire · Post by **yourfriendclaire** » Mon May 18, 2020 12:07 pm

Also did anyone else love to buy those Grammy nominee compilations on cassette in the 90s?! I remember being very attached to the 1995 compilation: Mariah Carey's "Hero," Boyz II Men, Joan Osborne's "What if God Was One Of Us?"

RCH · Post by **RCH** » Mon May 18, 2020 12:30 pm

How could I have forgotten Empire Records? And Trainspotting and Romeo + Juliet.

I remember snagging the free compilations at the Tower Records cash register.

yourfriendclaire · Post by **yourfriendclaire** » Mon May 18, 2020 1:14 pm

And Romeo + Juliet!!! Yes! That Garbage song!!

ritchey · Post by **ritchey** » Mon May 18, 2020 3:19 pm

My huge soundtracks:
Batman (Danny Elfman score, NOT the cool Prince one—I didn’t understand that they were two diff albums until people at school mocked me for having the wrong one. I still loved it)

Early high school was very much about the Robin Hood soundtrack w the Bryan Adams ballad

Gross Pointe Blank was huge for me, I believe that is where I first heard Under Pressure

Singles and Reality Bites of course, major

Dudes SAY ANYTHING

Pulp Fiction, the first time in my life I heard any “cool” “vintage” music, thank you hipster tastemaker sir

Natural Born Killers was huge, “sweet Jane” was my high school boyfriend’s and my song and he requested it at prom and the DJ said “this is for Mallory from Mickey,” how truly lame and creepy is that?? I loved it

The Desperado soundtrack w the dire straits and the link Wray was major sex/romance vibes with my intense post high school boyfriend who welded footrests into his fuckin motorcycle just for me to ride behind him and then etched my name into them with some sort of blowtorch tool to mark me as his forever passenger (he was a Cancer) our song was “so far away” off this soundtrack

I do NOT remember the clueless soundtrack but I bet it’s great

alexshred420 · Post by **alexshred420** » Mon May 18, 2020 4:25 pm

The best Smashing Pumpkins song is on that Singles soundtrack.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Mn-3EqaO0E

Evan.V.N.S.J. · Post by **Evan.V.N.S.J.** » Mon May 18, 2020 7:42 pm

alexshred420 wrote: ↑Mon May 18, 2020 4:25 pm The best Smashing Pumpkins song is on that Singles soundtrack.

And the best Red Hot Chili Peppers song is on the Coneheads soundtrack

every time either one of these songs comes up I can't not think of the other sorry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XcN12uVHeQ

as an added bonus, the music video for this is TRULY insane and if you haven't seen it since the 90's please do yourself a favor and take this journey

yourfriendclaire wrote: ↑Sun May 17, 2020 10:17 am I’ve been loving the recent Sakomoto YouTube content! Did you see the solo improv for China? Dreamy

I had not, but I listened to this today and it was great! A true hero

yourfriendclaire · Post by **yourfriendclaire** » Mon May 18, 2020 8:37 pm

Oh those PEPS

a thing I’ve been doing recently to annoy [mention]joni[/mention] is simply say the words “Sir Psycho Sexy” out loud

ritchey · Post by **ritchey** » Tue May 19, 2020 5:07 am

Just FYI there's some hot Peps on my Gen-X playlist.
I sent my playlist to a fellow member of Gen-X but one who is on the older end of the spectrum, whereas I am on the younger end. He first commented on how alienated he felt by my "mid 90s sweet spot" of Boyz II Men and "More Than Words" etc. Then he noted he was disturbed by how much Peps was on there, and specifically he said: "I have always thought of them as one of the worst bands of all time. Truly just garbage music. But you people love them." I felt proud in this moment. YOU DON'T GET IT, OLD MAN

m o l l y · Post by **m o l l y** » Tue May 19, 2020 5:12 am

I was JUST thinking about how "cute" the band name Red Hot Chili Peppers is. Think of them having a beer after practice and shooting names back and forth and then being like, "YEAH, AWESOME! RCHP is soooo cool!!! We NAILED it! I love you, guys!"

m o l l y · Post by **m o l l y** » Tue May 19, 2020 5:27 am

And I literally cannot physically stop myself from contributing to the soundtracks of my life convo:
10 year old me hanukkah presents were - The Nightmare Before Christmas cd and a discman, which meant a lot of valuable time in bed memorising ALL of the songs and lots of Danny Elfman exposure.
Pulp Fiction- HUGE
Natural Born Killers - I thought I was the baddest and coolest kid in the history of middle schools everywhere. That Cohen song though. This album both excited and terrified me.
The Spice Girls Movie - was fun for irony and then just became this thing I listened to.
HELLO, Forrest Gump!
Later:
Oh brother where art thou
The Royal Tennenbaums
This 1981 French porno called Diva which I have literally NEVER EVEN SEEN - A regular at the record/book store I worked at in Hollywood 100 years ago walked up the the counter and bought that record and then handed it to me. And was just like, "I assume you don't own this, every time I see it I want to buy it because I love it so much. Here, it's for you." It's a mix of arias and these instrumental original minimalist pieces that kind of sound like an Eric Satie song run through a 1981-machine.
Soundtracks are just the best, man. It is my favorite section of a record store.

ritchey · Post by **ritchey** » Tue May 19, 2020 5:58 am

oh my god, Forrest Gump. The UBIQUITOUS soundtrack of late high school. All that Boomer shit! It was a double-disc soundtrack. I wore that shit OUT

yourfriendclaire · Post by **yourfriendclaire** » Tue May 19, 2020 8:29 am

I loved when you worked at that bookstore! Right next door to the Scientology Celebrity Center and that hideous cafe the Bourgeois Pig. What I wouldn’t give to browse those shelves! I’m feeling strongly nostalgic about the city of Los Angeles running at full capacity

m o l l y · Post by **m o l l y** » Tue May 19, 2020 8:36 am

Sometimes I wonder what life would be like if I just kept on describing rare books to the internet while Scientology ladies watched me through binoculars. I think I'd probably be queen of LA by now.

richjensen · Post by **richjensen** » Fri May 22, 2020 11:21 am

kids put me on to ARCA - @@@@@ today

RCH · Post by **RCH** » Tue May 26, 2020 1:18 pm

Anyone on this board who is from the state of Colorado needs to wise up and get obsessed with this album:

I'm the only one here who idolizes Katie Lee and I'm sick of it. Imagine being from the Rocky Mountain state and someone Hoover Dam-adjacent knows something you don't? Couldn't be me!

meadows · Post by **meadows** » Tue May 26, 2020 2:24 pm

oh that looks very good

meadows · Post by **meadows** » Tue May 26, 2020 2:27 pm

I made a playlist for exercise- I'll just mute whatever YouTube video I'm following and play this and it's improved my motivation!

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5TOvy ... bED41B2OQg

ritchey · Post by **ritchey** » Tue May 26, 2020 2:45 pm

RCH THANK YOU!!! Psyched to discover this

RCH · Post by **RCH** » Tue May 26, 2020 4:56 pm

You're welcome for my having discovered it and passed it on to you

ritchey · Post by **ritchey** » Tue May 26, 2020 5:01 pm

A true gift

Evan.V.N.S.J. · Post by **Evan.V.N.S.J.** » Wed May 27, 2020 3:48 pm

https://youtu.be/lSY1tyuR3WQ

tim · Post by **tim** » Thu May 28, 2020 8:53 am

old news to all, I'm sure. fav track atm: hypnotize

Post by **joni** » Thu May 28, 2020 12:40 pm

[mention]RCH[/mention] YES. Feeling this.

[mention]Evan.V.N.S.J.[/mention] LOVE this. It was recently remastered and you can get it on vinyl on Bandcamp.

Evan.V.N.S.J. · Post by **Evan.V.N.S.J.** » Thu May 28, 2020 5:12 pm

That's awesome. I am ashamed to admit I only found this through random Spotify recommendations after listening to hours of chill Ryuichi Sakamoto beats to study and relax to, but it blew me away

meadows · Post by **meadows** » Wed Jun 03, 2020 2:13 pm

https://youtu.be/XfuVF8bxAag

yourfriendclaire · Post by **yourfriendclaire** » Wed Jun 03, 2020 2:16 pm

Oh man I love that record <3

alexshred420 · Post by **alexshred420** » Wed Jun 03, 2020 2:34 pm

New Run The Jewels is great:
https://us-preorder.runthejewels.com/pr ... 4-download

Free, but you can also choose to donate to National Lawyers Guild Mass Defense Fund at checkout. The donation link didn't come up for me so I just donated directly.

alexshred420 · Post by **alexshred420** » Wed Aug 12, 2020 2:26 pm

AG Cook dropped a 50 track album today and it's pretty rad thus far (I'm 9 songs in)
https://agcook.bandcamp.com

richjensen · Post by **richjensen** » Thu Aug 13, 2020 5:41 pm

been on a Ma Rainey kick.. this one.. the horn riffs..1924.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P8-35k ... fYtFG1gws4

yourfriendclaire · Post by **yourfriendclaire** » Thu Sep 17, 2020 3:42 pm

This is embarrassing but since you're all my good friends:

[mention]joni[/mention] and I went hard on some early-career Red Hot Chili Peppers last night. For some reason it blew my mind that the Peps were releasing albums in the mid-'80s. I think of them as such a '90s band. This despite the fact that I have READ and LOVED Anthony Kiedis' autobiography "Scar Tissue" (alt title: "Blow Jobs I Have Had"). I think I was feeling particularly housebound and crazy and I got into a zone hippie-dancing on the rug to tracks such as "Behind The Sun," which is about a talking dolphin:

https://youtu.be/zffHLA_KM5M

Anyway felt good

Later I purchased an ill-advised Peps t-shirt on eBay

jjstratford · Post by **jjstratford** » Fri Sep 18, 2020 9:48 pm

Ive been listening to Mall Musak
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU_YuU9 ... martRaydio

yourfriendclaire · Post by **yourfriendclaire** » Mon Sep 21, 2020 12:34 pm

Man, Muzak keeps coming up for me recently.

In Hard Times, the book about the Great Depression I recently recommended in the "What Are You Reading?" thread, there's an oral history from the CEO of Muzak—did you know it was that old? Muzak has existed since before radio. The founder of Muzak invented a way to transmit music over electric lines in the '20s—that's the original tech. It was during the Depression that the company started to focus on worker productivity and moved away from transmitting popular music to recording custom-made music in 15-minute blocks that ramp up in speed and alternate with 15-minute blocks of silence to alleviate burnout. Full-on mind control stuff. The CEO quotes a bank teller who worked in the small loans department of a bank during the Depression, she says something like "the Muzak makes this place less gruesome."

And then I was leafing through a virtual copy of Mondo 2000 the other day (as you do) and read a Psychic TV-era interview with Genesis P-Orridge, where they talk about how industrial "Musick" is the anti-Muzak, in that it uses the sounds of the industrial world to reveal itself, rather than concealing or cushioning the listener from those sounds.

That interview (plus some relevant segments pilfered from internal Muzak Corporation publications) is here, if anyone's curious:

https://archive.org/details/Mondo.2000. ... up?q=muzak

RCH · Post by **RCH** » Mon Sep 21, 2020 6:03 pm

Wow! So maybe in comedies near the 20's, when they used funny "boop-boodaloop" type music while someone was working too fast and making a mess of it, it was a lampoon of factory music? Did Ford blast ragtime at his men twice a shift? I'm starting to get some real Mr. Show ideas from too little knowledge.

Imagine if Ford's rival wanted to save money on a sound system, so he had some trained pigs up on a balcony for horn sounds, hens for the melodic line, and a mule keeping time.

yourfriendclaire · Post by **yourfriendclaire** » Tue Sep 22, 2020 9:48 am

lol @ "Mr Show ideas"

Tangentially this reminds me of good ol' Modern Times, and I would be remiss if I did not share this clip, one of my all-time favorite funnies, of Charlie Chaplin on cocaine eating mashed potatoes:

https://youtu.be/3ykdb8Zen-o

yourfriendclaire · Post by **yourfriendclaire** » Mon Sep 28, 2020 2:55 pm

The new Michael Rother slaps

https://music.apple.com/gb/album/dreaming/1526673177

marijke · Post by **marijke** » Wed Oct 14, 2020 4:15 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziHahB8BAvo
I would like to listen to a full album of slow sad sabbath songs.

marijke · Post by **marijke** » Wed Oct 14, 2020 4:29 pm

Also listening to Maggot Brain and Beethoven sonatas - usually the Appassionata - on repeat.

When I get romantic and wish I lived in another time I remind myself about dentistry!

meadows · Post by **meadows** » Wed Oct 14, 2020 5:53 pm

damn, that sabbath

RCH · Post by **RCH** » Thu Oct 15, 2020 10:22 am

I love that Sab!

Discovering that early Oz Sabbath rules has been a delight of my adult life. Heavy like dredge in a shipping channel. A young English freak who for some reason is a Soul singer. Heavy metal for me to slowly spin around to like a goth flower child.

meadows · Post by **meadows** » Thu Oct 15, 2020 11:05 am

I'm in an old country zone, as per the dictates of fall.

https://youtu.be/tKleTa94dC8

m o l l y · Post by **m o l l y** » Thu Oct 15, 2020 12:56 pm

Kitty For President.

meadows · Post by **meadows** » Thu Oct 15, 2020 1:19 pm

Kitties for President

alexshred420 · Post by **alexshred420** » Thu Oct 15, 2020 1:25 pm

Destroyer's Rubies, my first or second favorite Destroyer album?

yourfriendclaire · Post by **yourfriendclaire** » Wed Oct 21, 2020 10:20 am

Swooping in here with a vigorous recommendation for the many mixes produced by Slow Grind Fever, a DJ party in Melbourne that focuses on early rock n' roll, soul, crooner jazz, blues, oddities, and general swinging, spooky, sweet tunes from the first half of the 20th century. We're just playing these on repeat.

http://www.slowgrindfever.com/mixes

Here's a seasonal teaser:

https://youtu.be/7fE2gEmYm04

meadows · Post by **meadows** » Wed Oct 21, 2020 10:25 am

oh whoa, heck yeah!

alexshred420 · Post by **alexshred420** » Fri Oct 30, 2020 12:56 pm

Just remembered Zounds, this early UK punk band that released one album on Crass's label.

They're fucking great and a little more "listenable"/melodic than Crass lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QTK83tSnEs

Complete discography if you're on evil Spotify like me
https://open.spotify.com/album/52ZF9hp1 ... _7i_RWEOfA

marijke · Post by **marijke** » Mon Dec 07, 2020 12:13 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g4dkBF5anU

marijke · Post by **marijke** » Mon Dec 07, 2020 12:24 pm

Layered in multiple tabs

yourfriendclaire · Post by **yourfriendclaire** » Tue Dec 15, 2020 8:09 pm

Popping in here to share the only good Christmas song:

https://youtu.be/GOzi-gD7-ts

alexshred420 · Post by **alexshred420** » Wed Dec 16, 2020 9:01 am

I've been listening to so much Benoît Pioulard (his real name is like "Thomas Smith" or something, I guess you need a fake fancy French name to be successful in ambient) but particularly this one, which has a very cool cover of Aphex Twin's "Stone In Focus": https://pioulard.bandcamp.com/album/radial