Non-Classical Music Listening Thread!

[NumberSix]

Roine Stolt: The Flower King

Nerdy guitar prog is nerdy. I like this album.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Never really listened to him.

Here's a few:

This is an album that I listen to often of his:

Hmm...youtube isn't allowing it.  It's of his songs from Mirror Blue

'You are not alone' ...from listening to a late Eagles' CD.  RIP Glenn Frey.    The songs, the harmonies, the instrumentation, the recordings.  It's from the Eagles' "Long Road out of Eden".  So much to love on this album.

PD

[NumberSix]

Here's a few:

This is an album that I listen to often of his:

Hmm...youtube isn't allowing it.  It's of his songs from Mirror Blue

'You are not alone' ...from listening to a late Eagles' CD.  RIP Glenn Frey.    The songs, the harmonies, the instrumentation, the recordings.  It's from the Eagles' "Long Road out of Eden".  So much to love on this album.

PD

Thanks for the RT suggestions. I will look into it.

I listened to Hotel California earlier today for the first time in awhile. The whole album still sounds great to me.

[steve ridgway]

Tangerine Dream: Phaedra Out-Takes 1



I lost my enthusiasm for revisiting 1974 rock music in general and deleted it from my player - apart from TD which I find particularly absorbing.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Thanks for the RT suggestions. I will look into it.

I listened to Hotel California earlier today for the first time in awhile. The whole album still sounds great to me.

That's a great album!  One of the few that I've purchased *new on LP (as of this point in time).  Looking at Wiki, they were nominated for Album of the Year (this was in 1977), but alas, lost.  Good news:  it was to Fleetwood Mac's Rumours.

*I should have said "for a second time".

Man, that was a tough year in music!

PD

[71 dB]

SPOTIFY:

Vangelis - 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992)

This was surpringly boring and long-winded. Not even 55 minutes long, but it one felt like it was 100 minutes! The last track felt like it never ends! Jesus! 

[foxandpeng]

Well, the Strauss, Ravel and RVW are 'easier' because they're four hours long. That kind of easy. I'm not sure whether you'll find the music rewarding or not, but this is music that has meant something to me, so that's why I recommended it.

Also, not all rock music is 'easy' of course. There's plenty of challenging music within this genre that doesn't play to the dumb crowds.

Absolutely. Not so much rock, really,  but I embed more easily into black/death/melodic death metal,  so very much appreciate your awareness of 'the dumb crowds'.

Certainly worth a punt on those pieces you've enjoyed too 😀

[Le Buisson Ardent]

Absolutely. Not so much rock, really,  but I embed more easily into black/death/melodic death metal,  so very much appreciate your awareness of 'the dumb crowds'.

Certainly worth a punt on those pieces you've enjoyed too 😀

Well, metal is a difficult genre to get into, so these bands definitely don't play to the dumb crowds. I know several metalheads that are intellectual people and like a wide variety of music. I just like people who aren't stuck in one genre and that's it. I prefer to be around people who understand that it's not about the genre, but what they get out of it emotionally/intellectually.

[foxandpeng]

Well, metal is a difficult genre to get into, so these bands definitely don't play to the dumb crowds. I know several metalheads that are intellectual people and like a wide variety of music. I just like people who aren't stuck in one genre and that's it. I prefer to be around people who understand that it's not about the genre, but what they get out of it emotionally/intellectually.

I was a radio presenter some years ago, and interviewed a band called Insomnium, from Finland. 4 members - 2 PhDs, one heart surgeon, and an MSc who was mayor of his Finnish city. Intelligence and creativity all in one. Lots of bright folks out there in the metal world.

Insomnium might be worth a listen? Also recommend the latest album by Winterfylleth that I'm hearing a great deal since its release.

Not that you are necessarily looking for metal recs 🤓

[Le Buisson Ardent]

I was a radio presenter some years ago, and interviewed a band called Insomnium, from Finland. 4 members - 2 PhDs, one heart surgeon, and an MSc who was mayor of his Finnish city. Intelligence and creativity all in one. Lots of bright folks out there in the metal world.

Insomnium might be worth a listen? Also recommend the latest album by Winterfylleth that I'm hearing a great deal since its release.

Not that you are necessarily looking for metal recs 🤓

Thanks, but about as metal as I get are Black Sabbath and Tool. I have very little interest in metal as a genre, but these two afore-mentioned bands are the exception.

[AnotherSpin]

Soft Tissue, new album from Tindersticks

[Iota]

I was a radio presenter some years ago, and interviewed a band called Insomnium, from Finland. 4 members - 2 PhDs, one heart surgeon, and an MSc who was mayor of his Finnish city. Intelligence and creativity all in one. Lots of bright folks out there in the metal world.

Haha, quite a lineup!

Insomnium might be worth a listen? Also recommend the latest album by Winterfylleth that I'm hearing a great deal since its release.

It may well be. I like anything I like, and your anecdote is as good an excuse as any to give it a whirl. Will strike when the wind is in the right direction.

[foxandpeng]

Haha, quite a lineup!

It may well be. I like anything I like, and your anecdote is as good an excuse as any to give it a whirl. Will strike when the wind is in the right direction.

Hope it proves to be of interest, when you get there 🙂. They are gifted individuals!

[San Antone]

I must have missed the connection between opera and heavy metal somewhere up thread ...

[NumberSix]

I must have missed the connection between opera and heavy metal somewhere up thread ...

Costumes and face paint? 

[NumberSix]

Miranda Lambert: Postcards from Texas

Well I didn't even think to ask the armadillo
Just what it was that he'd done
All I could do was drive
And pray that I survive
Cause arma-damma-dillo had a gun

Don't try and call my bluff
Honey you can't make this **** up

[Florestan]

Costumes and face paint? 

Well, I can think of no more appropriate Divinités du Styx invoked by Gluck's Alceste than these ones:



 

(And if it turns out they are PhDs and MSc, all I can say is: such a waste of intelligence and creativity is saddening...)

[NumberSix]

Paul Stanley performed Phantom of the Opera on stage. That's the same thing, right?

[Florestan]

Paul Stanley performed Phantom of the Opera on stage. That's the same thing, right?

They chose him probably because he didn't need any make-up. 

[NumberSix]

The Fabulous Thunderbirds: Struck Down
(2024)