What music are you listening to? #63: YEAH TOAST!

Chukchi Husky · May 15, 2019

Amorphis - Amongst Stars

Lexicus · May 16, 2019

Birdjaguar · May 16, 2019

Jimmy Dale Gilmore doing the Grateful Dead:

Link to video.

H4run · May 17, 2019

EgonSpengler · May 17, 2019

Lexicus said:

If I had to pick a favorite Aretha song, it'd be either "Rock Steady" or "First Snow in Kokomo." Don't tell anyone, but I'm a little fatigued with "Respect" and "Think." Aretha's one of those artists who, if you only ever listen to commercial radio, you'd think only did 2 or 3 good songs.

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I've been rewatching Mindhunter on Netflix the last couple of weeks. Among other things, it's got a decent soundtrack. I had Gerry Rafferty's "Baker Street" stuck in my head for about 4 days. But now it's "I Wouldn't Want to be Like You" by The Alan Parsons Project that I can't get rid of. I'm not big into what used to be called 'soft rock' - I think the Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack that so many people rave about is kind of mediocre, as an album* - but there are some songs that hit me at just the right angle. Just goes to show that you shouldn't write off an entire genre. I used to have a friend who didn't like metal, but Danzig always made her giggle. Go figure. Is soft rock even a thing anymore? In my mind, I strongly associate it with the '70s. "Baker Street" blends rock and folk, but it's nothing like the "alternative folk revival" that we got later (Elliott Smith, Ani DiFranco, et al). And it introduced the mighty '80s Saxophone Solo, for which one may simultaneously love it and hate it. I'm somewhat bummed out to find that both Rafferty and saxophonist Raphael Ravenscroft have died in recent years. I mean, they weren't young-young, but they weren't terribly old, either (64 and 60, respectively).

* I think it's great as character development, though. In the context of the movie. Peter's relationship with his mom. You know what I mean, if you've seen it.

Lexicus · May 17, 2019

EgonSpengler said:
Aretha's one of those artists who, if you only ever listen to commercial radio, you'd think only did 2 or 3 good songs.

Tbh I don't know much of Aretha's music :blush:

a friend showed me that one and I really like it.

Kyriakos · May 17, 2019

EgonSpengler said:
If I had to pick a favorite Aretha song, it'd be either "Rock Steady" or "First Snow in Kokomo." Don't tell anyone, but I'm a little fatigued with "Respect" and "Think." Aretha's one of those artists who, if you only ever listen to commercial radio, you'd think only did 2 or 3 good songs.

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I've been rewatching Mindhunter on Netflix the last couple of weeks. Among other things, it's got a decent soundtrack. I had Gerry Rafferty's "Baker Street" stuck in my head for about 4 days. But now it's "I Wouldn't Want to be Like You" by The Alan Parsons Project that I can't get rid of. I'm not big into what used to be called 'soft rock' - I think the Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack that so many people rave about is kind of mediocre, as an album* - but there are some songs that hit me at just the right angle. Just goes to show that you shouldn't write off an entire genre. I used to have a friend who didn't like metal, but Danzig always made her giggle. Go figure. Is soft rock even a thing anymore? In my mind, I strongly associate it with the '70s. "Baker Street" blends rock and folk, but it's nothing like the "alternative folk revival" that we got later (Elliott Smith, Ani DiFranco, et al). And it introduced the mighty '80s Saxophone Solo, for which one may simultaneously love it and hate it. I'm somewhat bummed out to find that both Rafferty and saxophonist Raphael Ravenscroft have died in recent years. I mean, they weren't young-young, but they weren't terribly old, either (64 and 60, respectively).

* I think it's great as character development, though. In the context of the movie. Peter's relationship with his mom. You know what I mean, if you've seen it.

Imo Mindhunter was a terribly bad series (at least s1, which i saw). They even managed to ruin that serial killer interview character when they just copy/pasted 3/4 of everything he says from his irl interviews. The other 1/4 was utter garbage. TFY :shake: