Today, I have mostly been listening to ...

Bridgehouse

The Hoover. Goddam chores

Deadman

Drive by truckers. Had their first album and kind of forget about them. This 2016 stuff is great:

TTBZ

The Mars Volta - Bedlam In Goliath. It's just nuts.

TTBZ

Revisited The Bronx today. Forgot how much I love this band

Deadman

TTBZ said:

The Mars Volta - Bedlam In Goliath. It's just nuts.

Saw them supporting RHCP. They were the better act on the night.

Zoolooter

dtr

builttospill

Reading Writing and Arithmetic by The Sundays, 'Can't Be Sure' is just beautiful

andyp

My mate recommended a German radio station to me the other day, turns out he was right... it's brilliant if you're my sort of age as it plays all the stuff I grew up with through my teens. It's called Rock Antenne Alternative. Anyway... they played Little Things by Bush the other day and that prompted me to dig up the Sixteen Stone album on Apple Music.

I had a double CD version of this in my teens that I listened to more times than I could count. A while back (maybe 10 years now) I loaned it to my brother who flipped his car into a field with my precious CD in the car. He wrote the car off and the CDs within were lost to the wildlife of Aberdeenshire. I've not heard a single Bush track in that intervening time and who knows how long before that crash it was since I last listened to it... maybe 5 years. So, the point of this long drawn out backstory is that today I put said album on at work and I still remember every single bit of it from 12-15 years ago. It's amazing how music sticks with you over such a long time.

I still like it, but it's quite "of its time" in a way. It transported me straight back to being 15 or 16 when it came out. I've tried to explain to people how music can do this (notably Mrs. P) and they just don't get it somehow.

(For the record, I never quite got on with any of their other stuff, but this one is an absolute classic for me that I now need to buy again).

not_the_dj

I'm just so cool I've been listening to the newly released T'Pau box set.

UnclePsychosis

I've been Hip-Hoppin' today.

Mos Def, Gang Starr, Tribe Called Quest, Talib Kweli, Nas. 

Good times.  

rpr

 

lasermonkey

richardhomer

Been one of my favourite albums for the last 30 years - but listened to it in full for the first time in years today. It's utterly timeless:

Grunfeld

Echo & The Bunnymen
The Fountain.
Which has been sitting on my drive for nearly 8 years unplayed.
And it's my favourite thing they've ever done. 

Philly_Q

Grunfeld said:

Which has been sitting on my drive for nearly 8 years unplayed.

Amazed it still works, you must have run over it loads of times.

ArchtopDave

Deadman said:

Drive by truckers. Had their first album and kind of forget about them. This 2016 stuff is great:

Excellent Album. I particularly love the opening track "Ramon Casiano", and "Sun Don't Shine" makes uncomfortable sense after you read the liner notes.

Octahedron

TTBZ said:

The Mars Volta - Bedlam In Goliath. It's just nuts.

Isn't it?! @TTBZ I of course stole my username from The Mars Volta, the title of one of their albums.  

But that's just because I felt it sounded cool. It's also my favourite TMV. But I wouldn't say TMV are one of my favourite bands. That album, The Bedlam in Goliath, I think you really have to be in a certain kind of mood to listen to it because when I listen to it I feel like my head is going to explode sometimes! It's too intense and just... like, it comes rushing out of the gate like a bull. It smashes you in the senses right from the second you press play. There's no intro, nothing, just a smack in the face. Crazy. 

TTBZ

Haha yeah that's why I love it. I think deloused is still my favourite but I've not had a chance to listen to all their albums yet! I went off this sort of thing for a long time then when I looked again they had a lot of albums, not sure where to start haha 

Octahedron

TTBZ said:

Haha yeah that's why I love it. I think deloused is still my favourite but I've not had a chance to listen to all their albums yet! I went off this sort of thing for a long time then when I looked again they had a lot of albums, not sure where to start haha 

De-loused was good. Frances the Mute was good. Bedlam is just nuts. Amputecture I found to be too mellow. Same with Noctourniquet. Neither of those two did. Octahedron is my favourite because it's got a bit of the crazy but it's quite progressive, I dunno, I just feel like if they tried to write songs for Led Zepp - the epics, then this is what they'd sound like!