What music are you listening to? #66 No need for a title.

[EgonSpengler]

Postmodern Jukebox released a jazzy cover of No Doubt's "Don't Speak" in September. Haley Reinhart is her usual knockout self, and the guy playing the xylophone is a riot.

 

[thetrooper]

How the hell did this song elude me for so long?

 

[EgonSpengler]

Front 242 popped into my head, for some reason.

I wondered to myself, "Is industrial music dead?" I'd kind of lost track of it the last 25 years or so, I have to admit. I looked at Pitchfork's "33 Best Industrial Albums of All Time" from June 2019, and was pleased to see 4 albums from the last decade, which I will have to investigate further. Also, I hadn't yet 'followed' Einsturzende Neubauten on Spotify, a grievous oversight that's now been corrected.

 

[thetrooper]

Lots of good stuff in your link @EgonSpengler but the list is too short and the term 'industrial' too broad in my opinion.

... and many thanks for the reminder:

 

[thetrooper]

Not enough Rammstein in thread:

 

[Chukchi Husky]

Seventh Wonder - The Promise

 

[thetrooper]

How the hell did this song elude me for so long?

Another version (and for the love of the big G; don't play this on some horsehockey device):

 

[Broken_Erika]

 

[Narz]

Most modern hip hop is a steaming pile of **** but cardi-b is great!

 

[Chukchi Husky]

Majestica - Ghost of Christmas Past

 

[Narz]

 

[Chukchi Husky]

After Forever - Imperfect Tenses

 

[thetrooper]

A friend of a friend told me it's a damned shame we don't do Jarre and penguins in these threads. So here we go;

 

[EgonSpengler]

I looked at Pitchfork's "33 Best Industrial Albums of All Time" from June 2019, and was pleased to see 4 albums from the last decade, which I will have to investigate further.

Abandon (2013) by Pharmakon is outstanding. She's a one-woman show, it seems, and was only 21-22 when she did this album. As with any industrial/noise music, it won't be for everybody, but if you like to hang out with folks like Diamanda Galas and Swans once in a while, I recommend checking this out. Fans of droney doom metal - Boris; Nadja - will also find something to like, I think. I did some quick Googling to see if she's touring, but it doesn't look like it.

"Crawling on Bruised Knees"

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Darn it. I can't mention Nadja and not post "Stays Demons" again for like, the 3rd or 4th time. And I just realized I didn't yet have it on my 'Favorite Songs' list in Spotify.

 

[Broken_Erika]

 

[Chukchi Husky]

Kansas - The Pinnacle

 

[Kyriakos]

It's the late 90s, again

 

[EgonSpengler]

A long time ago there was a David Sylvian song I really liked, but I have no idea what it was called, or what album it was on, or anything helpful. I think it was sometime in the early '90s, but I can't be sure that's when the song or album came out. So I figured there were worse things than to listen to everything David Sylvian ever recorded. I didn't go all the way back to Japan, but I'm pretty sure the song I heard all those years ago wasn't Japan. It could have been one of his collaborations with Ryuichi Sakamoto, I guess. One of the early albums, I think it's Alchemy (1985), is all instrumentals, which is fine, but who listens to David Sylvian's music to not hear him sing?

"Nostalgia" from Brilliant Trees (1984) isn't the song I'm looking for, but I like it.

 

[EgonSpengler]

It's the late 90s, again

I was just listening to Dubnobasswithmyheadman (1994) the other day. I guess that's mid-'90s.

"Dark and Long"

From Skunk Anansie, I really liked "Charlie Big Potato"

 

[EgonSpengler]

Here's a '90s deep cut for the old folks. "The Gentleman Who Fell" (1994) by Milla Jovovich, from The Divine Comedy. 19 years old, just after Dazed and Confused. I still think this song is cute, but I'm glad she didn't quit her day job. The Fifth Element was only a couple years later.