What are you listening to?

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Lots of female artists lately

Caught Wet Leg a couple of times first tour, fun band

Waiting for Panic Shack first US tour, another fun band

Snail Mail can bring it

Sky Ferreira long awaited shows coming

Just found out about Fazerdaze

Hatchie put on great shows recently

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Now we remember that he wrote

Johnny Paycheckā€™s signature hit ā€œTake This Job and Shove Itā€

and Tanya Tuckerā€™s ā€œWould You Lay With Me in a Field of Stoneā€

Speaking of calling, thereā€™s Travis Trittā€™s "Hereā€™s a Quarter . . . " Okay, tough to explain in age of personal mobile number . . .

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Maryā€™s Danish

Melenas

The Go! Team

Love Metric but Brie Larson did it better

Santigold live

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971

Variousā€¦

Tullycraft

Spoon

Mandragora

The Fiery Furnaces

Fontaines DC

Charlotte Gainsbourg

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Phantogram

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972

Last one for the Classical fans. I got pulled over on the GSP for speeding while listening to this the first time on QXR.

Midori performing Ravelā€™s Tzigane
https://youtu.be/wn0XkLAM8eE

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@kaos I like how you play a lot of newer songs. One of my main sources for discovering new music is through the French radio station Fip. Thatā€™s where I heard Tim Bernardes first - though he still sounds ā€˜old schoolā€™ perhaps.

My main kick is finding old songs that still (or again) sound fresh today, like this one here.

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I adore Santigold! And ā€œThe Ickā€ is fantastic. Thanks for sharing!

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Well hereā€™s some nearly hundred year old Saturday morning music.

https://youtu.be/GAgt8H2pOec

https://youtu.be/b8NJ-MIfFHI

And hereā€™s some newer stuff for the vocal enthusiasts

https://youtu.be/NV-BqviN8_Y

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The guy produced countless hits, from Seal to Frankie Goes to Hollywood.

http://www.simpleminds.org/sm/people/th1.htm

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Thoughts from the peanut gallery - disclosure Iā€™m not a hater or a fan of horn or swift - but my friend in music biz just told me this the other day

the most recent taylor swift album showed that that jack antonoff hack has finally worn out his welcome. heā€™s the goddamn 21st century trevor horn, and his shit will become just as dated as trevor hornā€™s 80s shit

I guess the burn is she had 10/10 top ten. But I lean to his take.

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I remember not being a fan of Trevor Horn in the 80s. I mean he had so many hits, that in itself was off putting to any ā€˜seriousā€™ music lover - indeed probably the same as how some people look at Taylor Swift these days.

But itā€™s only after considerable time one can really judge someone with a lot of commercial succes. And the guy (Trevor Horn) made some great records, including more artistically succesful ones like Buffalo Gal. The same sentiment can be seen in the comments below the article in the Guardian.

But, no, itā€™s not music Iā€™d typically play a lotā€¦ :slight_smile: Was just triggered by the article. Though it raises an interesting question: what modern day commercially succesful music is also really good?

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Listening to Willie this morning. ā€œI told my mom I was a drug dealer. She said ā€˜Thank God youā€™re not writinā€™ songs.'ā€

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980

I have this discussion often and my answer is none. Of course thatā€™s hyperbolic and thereā€™s some good stuff that has some degree of commercial success. Folks disagree with me but Iā€™m still going with none. Country music, less than none. Jazz and blues some great stuff just not commercially successful in a big sense.

What would u or others say?

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national treasure

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Agree, in that there is none or at least very little that is both successful and good (to my ears). Just for the fun of it Iā€™ve just looked up spotifyā€™s hits of 2021 and the only song I can remotely stand is Harry Styles - Watermelon Sugar.

There is good stuff in for example France and Italy, as Iā€™ve learned by listening to local radio, but their success is limited to their home countries.

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I do confess to enjoying

https://youtu.be/bvWRMAU6V-c

Iā€™m also gratified by the success of Hamilton tho itā€™s been some time now.

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When I was a young man I would have agreed with you about country music, but over the past 20 years I have grown to enjoy it. The storytelling in country music is second to none. For variety it is getting there. How about a ā€œredneck bandā€ from Regina?
Dead South.

Not working for you? How about a bluegrass band from Norway?
Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra.

Another of my favorites by Dead South.

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Dead south is sorta cool I guess I didnā€™t really think commercially huge but youā€™re right.

Iā€™m more for what country was 50 years ago and older.

Iā€™m not saying thereā€™s no good country right now. That being said a lot of what I hear commercially played does sound more like the backdrop to a NASCAR/KKK/trump rally.

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It was country from 1975 to 2000 that I did not like with the exception of a few people like George Strait. But later in life I really like stuff done prior to 1975 by Johnny Cash and Hank Sr., Charlie Pride, Patsy Cline and Merle. Sorry for all the links, I just started to trip back in time a bit. LOL!
Johnny live at Folsom.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wG0fS4DoGUc
Hank.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg2oR91_r5I
Charlie Pride.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzHHvxNh4PY
Patsy Cline.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsRNCvHXHHU
Merle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKuc4nfJByc

Maybe I got a thing for steel guitars that developed late in lifeā€¦

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987

Me too.

Lots of good stuff up there and will have to enjoy later with a tear in my beer

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