What are you listening to, right now................
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Bit of Brucey on a rainy day...
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@majorrage said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@mn5 Listened to Tiny Music & No.4 today and have concluded that after Core, for me, STP are purely a best of band. Some good songs in there, but not enough to have me listening to them all the time.
Sour Girl is cracking track.
It is. One of many top tunes from them. Tiny Music was a very good album too ( a step down but that’s no surprise, no band can keep up that level of awesome )
I need to listen to No 4 again, that’s today’s car music sorted !
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I had a "holy fuck I'm getting old" moment the other week, Metallica's Black Album turned 30 years old. It wasn't even my first Metallica album
The Black Album cops waaaaay more shit than it deserved. Metallica's old school thrash-head fans saw it as "selling out man" because you know, fuck them for having the money to actually spend on production. It was a huuuuuuge move away from the direction of Justice, which was just 9 really fucking long intricate songs. It's far more accessible, which i guess the thrash heads hated? But that doesn't change the fact that it's consistently excellent (2 filler tracks i reckon) and at times both fast, and heavy as fuck.
They just re-released it, remastered of course, but also with a project where a heap of artists did covers of the various tracks. I don't like most of them, but the flamenco version of Struggle Within is fucking great.
The best part of the re-release is having the Tushino Airfield concert now on Spotify. Metallica have always been an excellent live band, and this is them at the peak of their powers.
yeah, the Black Album isn't heavy at all...
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@mariner4life Off to Spotify I go to add a few to my playlist
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@mariner4life said in What are you listening to, right now................:
I had a "holy fuck I'm getting old" moment the other week, Metallica's Black Album turned 30 years old. It wasn't even my first Metallica album
The Black Album cops waaaaay more shit than it deserved. Metallica's old school thrash-head fans saw it as "selling out man" because you know, fuck them for having the money to actually spend on production. It was a huuuuuuge move away from the direction of Justice, which was just 9 really fucking long intricate songs. It's far more accessible, which i guess the thrash heads hated? But that doesn't change the fact that it's consistently excellent (2 filler tracks i reckon) and at times both fast, and heavy as fuck.
They just re-released it, remastered of course, but also with a project where a heap of artists did covers of the various tracks. I don't like most of them, but the flamenco version of Struggle Within is fucking great.
The best part of the re-release is having the Tushino Airfield concert now on Spotify. Metallica have always been an excellent live band, and this is them at the peak of their powers.
yeah, the Black Album isn't heavy at all...
….at least you can hear the bass on this album. Metallica Rule. What a band.
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@mn5 said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@mariner4life said in What are you listening to, right now................:
I had a "holy fuck I'm getting old" moment the other week, Metallica's Black Album turned 30 years old. It wasn't even my first Metallica album
The Black Album cops waaaaay more shit than it deserved. Metallica's old school thrash-head fans saw it as "selling out man" because you know, fuck them for having the money to actually spend on production. It was a huuuuuuge move away from the direction of Justice, which was just 9 really fucking long intricate songs. It's far more accessible, which i guess the thrash heads hated? But that doesn't change the fact that it's consistently excellent (2 filler tracks i reckon) and at times both fast, and heavy as fuck.
They just re-released it, remastered of course, but also with a project where a heap of artists did covers of the various tracks. I don't like most of them, but the flamenco version of Struggle Within is fucking great.
The best part of the re-release is having the Tushino Airfield concert now on Spotify. Metallica have always been an excellent live band, and this is them at the peak of their powers.
yeah, the Black Album isn't heavy at all...
….at least you can hear the bass on this album. Metallica Rule. What a band.
arguably the best band of the 80s and early 90s
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@mariner4life said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@mn5 said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@mariner4life said in What are you listening to, right now................:
I had a "holy fuck I'm getting old" moment the other week, Metallica's Black Album turned 30 years old. It wasn't even my first Metallica album
The Black Album cops waaaaay more shit than it deserved. Metallica's old school thrash-head fans saw it as "selling out man" because you know, fuck them for having the money to actually spend on production. It was a huuuuuuge move away from the direction of Justice, which was just 9 really fucking long intricate songs. It's far more accessible, which i guess the thrash heads hated? But that doesn't change the fact that it's consistently excellent (2 filler tracks i reckon) and at times both fast, and heavy as fuck.
They just re-released it, remastered of course, but also with a project where a heap of artists did covers of the various tracks. I don't like most of them, but the flamenco version of Struggle Within is fucking great.
The best part of the re-release is having the Tushino Airfield concert now on Spotify. Metallica have always been an excellent live band, and this is them at the peak of their powers.
yeah, the Black Album isn't heavy at all...
….at least you can hear the bass on this album. Metallica Rule. What a band.
arguably the best band of the 80s and early 90s
Personal opinion or album sales ? Either way Gunners make a compelling case too.
Quite a few personal favourites I’d throw in the mix too but in terms of huge bands hard to go past those two.
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“The Cuervo Gold/The fine Colombian/Make tonight a wonderful thing,” sings the narrator of “Hey Nineteen,” and then he sings it again, as if that’ll make it true. The narrator of the bouncy, Michael McDonald-enhanced “Time Out of Mind” seems to be in a pretty good mood, but it’s only because he knows he’s going to go somewhere later and smoke heroin until L.A. morphs into Lhasa. Everyone’s alone, or together in a way that’s worse than being alone; every lyric is a one-sided dialogue.
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@broughie said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@tim never really looked into the lyrics but that’s a sad state. People together but in their own world. Looks like people on their iPhones. Tasty guitar as always. Typical Steeley Dan number.
You should listen to The Dan’s catalogue again and take the lyrics in. They are usually deeply cynical and often leave you with questions that you’ll never get an answer to. They’re like little slices of life that make you think about what happens before and after.
The song Hey Nineteen seems to be about an older guy who hooks up with a 19 year old then realises he has nothing in common with her. She doesn’t know who Aretha Franklin is. She want to dance and he doesn’t like dancing. The only thing that makes it bearable is that he’s going to get off his face.
The track Gaucho is one of my favourites. It’s hilarious and cringy. I want to know the story of these ridiculous people.
And the musicianship is, for my money, head and shoulders above everything else in rock. If I could only listen to one band for the rest of my life it would be Steely Dan.
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@mn5 said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Personal opinion or album sales ?
Reading the avclub.com article on that album of 53 covers that @mariner4life mentioned - one of the things which blew me away was....
Metallica has never sold fewer than a thousand copies a week since it was released 30 years ago.
Which somehow, seems even more impressive than the boring:
certified 16 times platinum, it has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide, and still remains the best-selling album in the United States ever since Nielsen began its Soundscan tracking in 1991.
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@jc said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@broughie said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@tim never really looked into the lyrics but that’s a sad state. People together but in their own world. Looks like people on their iPhones. Tasty guitar as always. Typical Steeley Dan number.
You should listen to The Dan’s catalogue again and take the lyrics in. They are usually deeply cynical and often leave you with questions that you’ll never get an answer to. They’re like little slices of life that make you think about what happens before and after.
The song Hey Nineteen seems to be about an older guy who hooks up with a 19 year old then realises he has nothing in common with her. She doesn’t know who Aretha Franklin is. She want to dance and he doesn’t like dancing. The only thing that makes it bearable is that he’s going to get off his face.
The track Gaucho is one of my favourites. It’s hilarious and cringy. I want to know the story of these ridiculous people.
And the musicianship is, for my money, head and shoulders above everything else in rock. If I could only listen to one band for the rest of my life it would be Steely Dan.
I like the Dan loads but wouldn’t quite put them on that sort of pedestal, as brilliant as they are. Their concert was great but there was absolutely zero interaction with the crowd, none of the ‘Wellington you’ve been a great audience’ type stuff you usually get.
