VT’s Music Chat

[villa4europe]

37 minutes ago, Xela said:

Everyone should just listen to Pink Floyd all the time. 

Maybe at the top of the list of bands that I just don't get, never found even 1 song that I really like, got nothing from them 

[Designer1]

I've mentioned this a few times on here before, but for the last 6 or 7 years I've listened to a minimum of 3 new albums a week.

It's never become a chore because 3 albums isn't much out of a weeks worth of listening and it's lead me down some superbly eclectic paths which have introduced me to bands I'd never heard of and come to love.

I love, absolutely bloody love finding a new band or album that really does it for me. Generally couldn't give a toss about genre or what year its from as long as I like it. 

My other sources of info on new stuff or stuff I might have missed is basically a couple of like minded mates and funnily enough, this place.

Music is such a huge, fascinating and entertaining world. I just love it.

 

[Mark Albrighton]

5 minutes ago, mjmooney said:

As I suggested in my above post, I'm not one of those people that just listens to the same old familiar 'classic rock' tracks on repeat - I mean, I love The Beatles, Stones, etc., but I don't really need to ever hear those 'greatest hits' ever again - they're already hardwired in my memory anyway. But I do still keep discovering previously unheard gems from 'back then' and new recordings by young bands playing in those older styles - we're actually in a golden age for that. 

On stuff that is from “back then” that you have discovered...do you ever get a sense of why you might have missed it the first time round? 

The singer/band never got the necessary exposure at the time or you just would’ve been more interested in other acts? 
 

[Seat68]

31 minutes ago, Designer1 said:

I've mentioned this a few times on here before, but for the last 6 or 7 years I've listened to a minimum of 3 new albums a week.

It's never become a chore because 3 albums isn't much out of a weeks worth of listening and it's lead me down some superbly eclectic paths which have introduced me to bands I'd never heard of and come to love.

I love, absolutely bloody love finding a new band or album that really does it for me. Generally couldn't give a toss about genre or what year its from as long as I like it. 

My other sources of info on new stuff or stuff I might have missed is basically a couple of like minded mates and funnily enough, this place.

Music is such a huge, fascinating and entertaining world. I just love it.

 

I have a few people on here who I trust with music, music that is never going to be on my radar, usually at the metal end. I tend to give a listen to what they are listening to. It allows me to broaden my scope outside of pop and country. Then you have some posters who post old indie albums I have either forgotten or missed and again that makes up my listening. As you say its not a huge impact on time as I am sat in my house for about 10 hours a day “working”. 

Edited May 12, 2021 by Seat68

[villa4europe]

6 minutes ago, Designer1 said:

I've mentioned this a few times on here before, but for the last 6 or 7 years I've listened to a minimum of 3 new albums a week.

It's never become a chore because 3 albums isn't much out of a weeks worth of listening and it's lead me down some superbly eclectic paths which have introduced me to bands I'd never heard of and come to love.

I love, absolutely bloody love finding a new band or album that really does it for me. Generally couldn't give a toss about genre or what year its from as long as I like it. 

My other sources of info on new stuff or stuff I might have missed is basically a couple of like minded mates and funnily enough, this place.

Music is such a huge, fascinating and entertaining world. I just love it.

 

Have you ever done the rolling stones top 500?

I did 2 albums a day, sometimes it's a grind but you'll find some absolute gems, Elton John and Sam Cooke were the big winners for me

Might try and do the new list but I think it set out to purposefully offend with its ranking and get trending 

[useless]

I've noticed the people who say that they don't listen to new music anymore or don't get excited by new music anymore, usually always have better music taste than those who claim that they love listening to new music.

[bickster]

54 minutes ago, Xela said:

Everyone should just listen to Pink Floyd all the time. 

This puts you in the Cosmic Scally ballpark

NB There's nothing wrong with Floyd

[mjmooney]

20 minutes ago, Mark Albrighton said:

I believe their stuff takes up more shelf space than anyone else for me (even taking into account the double albums). 

I still don’t own everything they released. The band regularly slating the likes of “Ummagumma” and “Atom Heart Mother” certainly didn’t make me want to rush and check them out. Although I think the live stuff at Erdington on “Ummagumma” is well regarded.

”A saucerful of secrets” is probably the most notable absence from my collection.

I have everything up to and including Wish You Were Here, nothing beyond - and I greatly prefer the pre-Dark Side of the Moon Era. Atom Heart Mother is actually my favourite. 

[Xela]

15 minutes ago, villa4europe said:

Maybe at the top of the list of bands that I just don't get, never found even 1 song that I really like, got nothing from them 

I think i was in my 30's before I listened to their stuff. Prior to that I'd just heard of Another Brick In the Wall and that was it. 

Comfortably Numb, Wish You Were Here and Time and probably 3 of the most lauded. Epic songs. Comfortably Numb (Pulse concert) is immense. The guitar solo is amazing. 

Echoes (Pompeii) is another song I can't get enough of along with Shine On You Crazy Diamond. 

I know its sounds a bit pompous, but its more like art than music. 

 

[Seat68]

I have Dark Side of The Moon, The Wall and I feel I have Animals. I quite like them but outside of those animals and some early Syd Barrett stuff I would struggle to name a song. 

[mjmooney]

17 minutes ago, Mark Albrighton said:

On stuff that is from “back then” that you have discovered...do you ever get a sense of why you might have missed it the first time round? 

The singer/band never got the necessary exposure at the time or you just would’ve been more interested in other acts? 
 

Both. There was a HUGE amount of stuff coming out from the mid 60s onwards, but relatively few channels for hearing it - the weekly music papers, one or two good DJs on Radio 1... and word of mouth. If you missed it (and it wasn't a chart hit), it was gone, the next band had come along. But nowadays, loads of specialist reissue labels, and crucially, internet forums (VT included) and streaming apps. I could probably spend the next six months listening to nothing but (say) previously unheard San Francisco psychedelic bands from 1966. Not to mention scores of young bands playing music totally in that genre. And that's just one era, just one genre. Arguably there's actually too much of it, but as football managers with big squads are wont to say, it's a nice problem to have. 

[Brumerican]

51 minutes ago, Brumerican said:

Never if you're intelligent.

I don't actually mean this. Was just a tongue in cheek retort to new music being for the "gullible". @mjmooney

All the "new" music I'm listening to at the moment is The Traveling Wilburys. 

[chrisp65]

17 minutes ago, useless said:

I've noticed the people who say that they don't listen to new music anymore or don't get excited by new music anymore, usually always have better music taste than those who claim that they love listening to new music.

Better musical taste?

c’mon.

 

[Mark Albrighton]

7 minutes ago, mjmooney said:

I have everything up to and including Wish You Were Here, nothing beyond - and I greatly prefer the pre-Dark Side of the Moon Era. Atom Heart Mother is actually my favourite. 

Yes I think I remember you saying that one of those albums I referenced was a favourite of yours (it’s not often I see praise for those in passing). I’m sure it has it devotees, I know Gilmour still regularly plays “Fat Old Sun”. Been a while since I listened to it, but I remember feeling positive towards “Obscured by clouds” which is obviously pre “Dark Side...”.

10 minutes ago, Xela said:

I think i was in my 30's before I listened to their stuff. Prior to that I'd just heard of Another Brick In the Wall and that was it. 

Comfortably Numb, Wish You Were Here and Time and probably 3 of the most lauded. Epic songs. Comfortably Numb (Pulse concert) is immense. The guitar solo is amazing. 

Echoes (Pompeii) is another song I can't get enough of along with Shine On You Crazy Diamond. 

I know its sounds a bit pompous, but its more like art than music. 

 

My dad used play them a bit in the car (along with Mike Oldfield, Bob Marley, Simon & Garfunkel).

I was about 17 when I got into them properly. I lived walking distance from school so when a study period was on the time table I would watch my dad’s VHS copy of that Pulse gig, my maths and physics text books remaining in my school bag, my grades later reflecting that decision.

[mjmooney]

32 minutes ago, Designer1 said:

Music is such a huge, fascinating and entertaining world. I just love it.

Same (despite my fully admitted blind spots). I am the most musically obsessed person I know, my friends make jokes about it. 

[Seat68]

I have said something along these lines before but I really enjoy reading someone talk knowledgeably and enthusiastically about music on here. 

[mjmooney]

The point about the vast amount of music available rather emphasises my point about not falling prey to Fear Of Missing Out - it's inevitable, so don't worry about it. If anyone pities me for my utter ignorance of a genre that fills their world with joy, I would counter with some enthusiasm of mine that they would find equally baffling. But I wouldn't press them to persevere with it at the expense of their own 'thing'. 

[Designer1]

28 minutes ago, Seat68 said:

I have said something along these lines before but I really enjoy reading someone talk knowledgeably and enthusiastically about music on here. 

I would love to sit in a pub, have a pint of Bathams and chat to some of the regular music thread contributers on here.

Now that would be a good night.

[il_serpente]

1 hour ago, mjmooney said:

I have everything up to and including Wish You Were Here, nothing beyond - and I greatly prefer the pre-Dark Side of the Moon Era. Atom Heart Mother is actually my favourite. 

Funky Dung FTW!

[bickster]

Going back to another thread from earlier and Levi’s 501 commercials, I’m currently playing this