What Are You Listening To?

[haiduk]

Post cool music. Songs, albums, videos....

some metal to kick it off

[GoSpuffy]

Gold Rush by death cab for cutie has been stuck in my brain for a few weeks: https://youtu.be/XTPZWG5eLf8

[Priceless]

Ok this isn't music, but I've been listening to the free Big Finish Doctor Who audios on Spofity, namely the Main Range titles. If you're a Doctor Who fan you'll enjoy them, and just to recommend one I'd go for The Holy Terror.

[TriBel]

Pet Shop Boys new single. Okay but I've heard better. They're touring next year and playing Manchester. I stopped myself buying tickets 'cos it was ?500-600 for a pair but I'm regretting it now. I was hoping my lads had taken the hint and bought me a couple for Christmas but it seems they've frittered their spare cash on a fortnight in New York (selfish ingrates. I tried reminding them who it was who gave birth to them but to no avail. I've taken to sighing a lot in their company ).

[Stoney]

Just taking it as a straight what are you listening to, I just stepped back into the 80s when I was making lunch. I'm sure I would have said this was cool then, but dang look at that hair.

[StateOfSiege97]

these days, trying to write (deadlines tuesday
and 14 october), inspiration and concentration from:

baseball games... for baseball is the poet's sport—

(were this a poetry thread, i'd give you jack spicer's
brilliant baseball poems... "Pitchers are not human.
They have the ghosts of dead people in them.")


nick cave, always nick cave:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GWsdqCYvgw

(what can one say about a song that brings together robert johnson,
quantum physics, the assassination of MLK, jr., Miley Cyrus,
colonialism, desire, and... "Can you feel my heart beat....?")


cecil taylor:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDiT1DIcaa4

mashrou' leila

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF__cpsDmZk&list=RDNF__cpsDmZk&start_radio=1

(if you click "Show More" and scroll down, they have the lyrics in english)


and Quatuor Tana (have been listening to more recent recordings, but
couldn't find them on YouTube, so... )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Apvibx2nDpU

enjoy....

[flow]

My own Lucifer playlist!

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4OKilJT6f96Sleopp2faIo?si=gK-LzCETQ3WT5LL0MtKcMA

flow

[TriBel]

My own Lucifer playlist!

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4OKilJT6f96Sleopp2faIo?si=gK-LzCETQ3WT5LL0MtKcMA

flow

That's genius! So genius I'm gonna copy it!

StateOfSiege:

for baseball is the poet's sport

Not in the UK (England?) it ain't!

There's a breathless hush in the Close to-night—
Ten to make and the match to win—
A bumping pitch and a blinding light,
An hour to play and the last man in.
And it's not for the sake of a ribboned coat,
Or the selfish hope of a season's fame,
But his captain's hand on his shoulder smote
"Play up! play up! and play the game*!"

*Cricket

[StateOfSiege97]

TriBel
Not in the UK (England?) it ain't!

Well, Walt Whitman, Marianne Moore, among others...

But most of all, Jack Spicer:

Pitchers are obviously not human. They have the ghosts of dead

people in them. You wait while they glower, put their hands
to their mouths, fidget like puppets, while you're waiting
to catch the ball.

You give them signs. They usually ignore them. A fast outside

curve. High, naturally. And scientifically impossible. Where
the batter either strikes out of he doesn't. You either catch
it or you don't. You had called for an inside fast ball.

The runners on base either advance or they don't.
In any case
The ghosts of the dead people find it mighty amusing. The

pitcher, in his sudden humaness looks toward the dugout
in either agony or triumph. You, in either case, have a pair
of hot hands.

Emotion
Being communicated
Stops
Even when the game isn't over.

[TriBel]

This is our version of baseball. Dogs compulsory! You can see why we don't write poems about it!

[StateOfSiege97]

as Whitman said, baseball has
"the snap, go, fling of the American personality"

(not sure that is a good thing, but... )

however, no dogs allowed on the baseball field—

although stray cats do, on occasion, wander in—

and sometimes climb up the electronic scoreboard...

(and cats, too, have inspired many marvelous
poems: think Baudelaire.... )

[a thing of evil]

Heard it somewhere randomly last week and was blown away. The entire album is great as well, love it. I've been also listening to Oneohtrix Point Never a lot lately - it's that time of the year, you know? It's getting colder, it's getting dark sooner, I crave some nostalgic synthesizer melancholia.

[TriBel]

Pixx - 5 stars in The Guardian.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/jun/01/pixx-the-age-of-anxiety-review-riveting-cliche-free-electropop-joy

This in the car

[SpuffyGlitz]

Been listening to this on repeat, Asturias is my favourite

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDAHl54V0CU

The only other guitarist who comes close is Ana Vidovic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx7vOb7GNBg

[StateOfSiege97]

just found out that the ever-luminous Kim Gordon*
has a new album coming out 11 october—

here's an advance video for one of the songs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJl_9a6dp4g

*and, oh, she is a big Buffy fan...

[Puppet]

[Priceless]

Saw FKA twigs on Jools Holland the other week and she blew me away. Her album Magdalene is a stunner

[Priceless]

I am currently listening to Storm Front by Jim Butcher. the first Dresden Files book,read of course by James Marsters.

[flow]

Oh, I?d be interested to hear if you can recommend it, JM?s voice aside.

flow

[Priceless]

Oh, I?d be interested to hear if you can recommend it, JM?s voice aside.

flow

It's okay so far but I'm only on chapter 3. JM sounds great, thought very American It's set in modern day Chicago and sounds like a mafia involved whodunit, though with magic overtones. JM is playing a modern version Sam Spadey, Philip Marlowey type, private eye who's also a wizard.