Posted on 06/01/2020 8:47:22 PM PDT by Viking2002
This is my first vanity post, so bear with me. I just think a lot of us need to decompress from this COVID-19 donnybrook, the whole current state of civil upheaval, the so-called 'peaceful' riots, shootings, and lootings, and sundry other manufactured irritants in our lives. I, for one, retreat to music, either from CD or online playlists, and was wondering: what are you currently listening to that is lessening your bile and lowering your blood pressure? Is it rock, classical, country, pop, chamber, ambient, opera, electronica? Who are your favorite artists in any given genre? Are they a known quantity, or a more obscure artiste toiling away in the background? Feel free to post your faves without criticism, to share amongst each other. I think we all have found hidden gems that others of us have never heard, but will enlighten.
That is obscure.
Was never on a BOC album.
Written for the movie Bad Channels along with Demon’s Kiss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHetqGQ9o7Q
I was watching Trump alpha-stomp across Lafayette park with Dominance and Submission blasting.
:)
Richard Marx on my Pandora channel.
“Loved”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0mf8Dxv780&feature=youtu.be
I may try out for “The Voice” with this one.
Good choice. Currently on my playlist is Dream Theater- Scenes From A Memory.
Really? Trump? LOL
Try this:
Marita Solberg, Solveig’s song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8AD75_sNJM
Good band.
Good band.
Andrew Peterson...I listen to a lot of his music. You can listen to any of his albums, free of charge, through youtube,or a playlist of random samplings of different albums He’s been my favorite songwriter for the past 6 or 7 years. I say he writes music about where I live (physically, emotionally, spiritually.) He is a Christian song writer who has been around for years, but has started to “show up” more as some other well known Christian groups or singers have begun singing his songs.
In his last Album, Resurrection, Volume 1, he set out to write a liturgical hymn for the church. He used the book of Revelation for much of the lyric, he wrote it several years ago. Though it was written in 2018, it feels like he wrote it specifically “for such a time as this.” Here’s the link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIahc83Kvp4
And in one of his older songs, he has a song about marriage called Dancing in Minefields. It is whimsical, yet has deep insights about marriage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Gs3fg_WsEg
I think these two songs show how diverse his style of writing is, and why I find
it fulfilling.
The Mothers of Invention - Trouble Every Day.
I have 1 and 9. They are both great but I like the 9 better. Pierre Boulez/ CSO.
I’ve seen them a bunch of times in crazy venues, the best one being a WV roadhouse.
I showed up with a huge 35mm camera and casually positioned myself on the stage with them.
They must have thought I was “press” or something because no one threw me off the whole gig.
Wound up sitting on Buck’s Marshall stack while they all mugged it up for me.
A few years later, after playing Sturgis, they got “big” again and stopped playing roadhouses and county fairs.
One of those memories you’ll carry with you forever, really.
First time though was the Cap Centre, right at the end of the lasers and giant Godzilla behind the drum riser era.
Eric roaring onstage on his Low Rider was a trip.
I think it was the Fire Of Unknown Origin tour.
When they did Veteran Of The Psychic Wars, they brought an Oyster Cult dude out in chains and he played the kettle drum.
It was awesome.
Casting Crowns.
He was saying he was about to unleash the hounds of war upon the antis and meant to own the streets again.
IMO, he should have pissed on a tree in the park to prove his point, but I can’t have everything I want.
:)
Lothar and the Hand People , Machines.”
Almost no one ever talks about Sparks. They are an acquired taste, or for certain frenetic mood swings.
Quirky, silly but very tight and well orchestrated.
Todd Rundgren produced some of their early work.
Three of my Sparks favorites
A. Pineapple
B. I’m Under The Table With Her
C. Without Using Hands.
Joan Crawford has risen from the grave to do it!
Honeymoon Suite - New Girl Now
Loverboy - Queen of The Broken Hearts
I could sport 32" waist parachute pants, a ten-zippered Michael Jackson leather jacket and a bandana round the throat like nobody's business. LOL! After four years of choir, two years of private voice training, the Mike Reno hair, and a load of useless trumpet and guitar lessons in my youth, I could fake my way through it. *snicker*
Music for Airports is great
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