OT: Friday "What are You Listening To?" Thread
It's been awhile since we've had an off-topic music thread (and switching it up from the drinking threads), so here goes:
I'm on a huge Dawes, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros and Alabama Shakes kick.
What is everyone listening to on this fine Friday?
Cheers.
August 3rd, 2012 at 12:59 PM ^
My iPhone on shuffle. Songs from artists like Billy Joel, Linkin Park, Wiz Khalifa, Skrillex, Lee Brice, Darius Rucker and The Black Keys, just to name a few.
This One's For Him (Guy Clark tribute)
James McMurtry
Waylon Jennings
Black Keys-Thickfreakness
The Band
Streaming KCRW Eclectic radio back on the East Coast.
Texas in July, Memphis May Fire, WhiteChapel, Of Mice & Men, and The Devil Wears Prada for me today.
Around here. Love Prada and WhiteChapel, I'm going to check out the other bands you put up.
Went to Mayhem Festival, saw WhiteChapel for the second time and they are great live.
The other day was the first time I've seen The Devil Wears Prada, but they were awesome, also got a pick from the guitarist.
I'm pissed that I missed Mayhem Fest, I really wanted to see Slipknot live.
I love Protest The Hero! I haven't listened to much Animals as Leaders, although I keep hearing about them. I will have to check them out. I really like Mutiny Within as well. Not as well known, and they only have one album out, but it was really well done in my opinion.
I usually don't get to talk about music all that much since most of my friends cant stand the music I listen to. Oh well, I know this stuff isn't everyone's cup of tea.
If you like Hardcore punk stuff you may like a band called La Dispute.
Solid stuff there. I listened to quite a bit of August Burns Red this morning.
I have been listening to Periphery's new album since it came out a month ago as well. I love that stuff.
One of my favorite live shows was seeing Parkway Drive, and Everytime I Die open up for Killswitch Engage.
I saw ABR live a few years ago when they were touring with Underoath. They put on a great concert. I am actually going to see them again in a month or so on their new tour.
They were touring with All That Remains and by the time I found out they were playing, it was sold out.
If you have a chance to see As I Lay Dying, do it, they are easily the best live band I've seen.
I saw As I lay Dying right after they released Shadows are Security, I was blown away by them. They've become one of the bands I can count on to always put out a solid album.
Plus Lambesis is awesome singing for Austrian Death Machine.
I saw both All That Remains and As I Lay Dying when they toured together a few years ago. I almost didn't make it because I had a really bad fever at the time. I barely made it through the concert, but was glad I went. From what I remember, both All That Remains and As I Lay Dying put on a fantastic show.
Nice to see fellow metal flks here....
Currently listening to some Pig Destroyer...it's been that kind of day
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This may be off-topic but you clearly have the best username and the best avatar on mgoblog IMO.
Baseball is one hundred and sixty two grueling games played in more than a dozen cities. Now, on the field we conserve our energy; on the road we conserve our food. Everywhere we go there's free food! Take a piece of cake for example. Now, I wrap it up in my vomit bag, I take it back to the hotel, put it on ice, and in the morning, vwala! Breakfast! Conservation, Henry! Managing resources! That is the key to baseball!
My Sharona by The Knack & Turning Japanese by the Vapors
Best two "one hit wonder" ever IMO
Florence and the Machine. Saw her Tuesday and been on a F+M kick since.
The album is incredibly impressive. Really neat interpretation of a lot of my classical favorites.
Shuffle
and Glassjaw
Columbia University's radio station. Commerical free jazz at an appropriate workplace volume.
Just bought the new Edward Sharpe album, thanks for the reminder in the OP
Beethoven's Symphony #9.
This is a relatively new development somebody suggested to me to improve the flow of my writing and I happened to have a stack of CDs from my grandpa when he passed away -- there's no words so it won't interrupt your train of thought, meanwhile the changing meter and flow of the composition will get in your head and you'll subconsciously match the rhythm of your writing to that.
Whenever you come across a paragraph I've written that flows like:
"POW-iamb-iamb-iamb-y, POW-iamb-iamb-iamb-y-POW-iamb-iamb--iamb-y, amby, amby POW "
...you can tell Ludwig has come up on the playlist again. When it's time to do an emphasis/punchline/reveal in the sentence, I go off the rhythm of the composition to jolt the reader to attention. This was at the crescendo of the 9th:
While I mean to eventually include
how teams played Michigan as well,
and I won't make the mistake of treat-
ing anything GERG did as canon
unless it involves hair product
This is how I studied throughout college. Though I had a slightly different angle. Complex instrumental music (and yes, the lack of human voice is key!) had the effect of silencing the ever-stirring chorus of ideation and allowed me to focus my attention on the concepts expressed in what I was reading. It also had the effect of providing constant, automatic cognitive stimulation. Very effective, indeed!
Jay-Z's Reasonable Doubt has been on repeat today. I'm only 22, so I didn't discover it until about 6-ish years ago, but damn is it a classic. Love it.
I'm going to see Justice and M83 in Toronto this weekend, so I've been listening to a lot of both of those groups to get myself jacked.
GASLIGHT ANTHEM - handwritten
"My Favorite Things" - Coltrane
"Quiet Little Voices" - We Were Promised Jetpacks
"Gratisfaction" - The Strokes
"Girl From The North Country" - Bob Dylan
"Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa" - Vampire Weekend
Oceania
I'm more partial to Gish & Siamese Dream, but yeah they are awesome. Mayonaise is probably one of my favorite songs of all time.
I'm thinking about Denard and listening to "Call Me Maybe."
This should help!
Animal Collective and Grizzly Bear. Both have new LPs coming out soon and I couldn't be more pumped.
Nice Greenwood avatar, his score for 'There Will Be Blood' was absolutely genius.