What are you listening to right now?

[celebaelin]

My Sanctdaemonium dryadales playlist - looped.

I'm tempted to rework the lyrics to Seven Hundred Elves to produce something a little more in keeping with a Tolkienian aesthetic.

Chorus
Seven hundred elves from out the wood
Foul and grim they were                                                                                           Proud and prim they were
Down to the farmer's house they went
His meat and drink to share

There was a farmer in the west and there he chose his ground
He thought to spend the winter there and brought his hawk and hound
He brought with him both hound and cock alone he begged to stay
And all the dear that roamed the wood had cause to rue the day

He felled the oak, he felled the birch, the beech nor poplar spared
And much was grieved the sullen elves at what the stranger dared
He hewed him baulks and he hewed him beams with eager toil and haste
Then up and spake the woodland elves: "Who's come our wood to waste?"

Chorus

Up and spake the biggest elf and grimly rolled his eyes:
"We'll march upon the farmer's house and hold on him assize
He's knocking down both wood and bower, he shows us great distain
We'll make him rue the day he was born and taste of shame and pain."                  taste of deepest shame

Chorus

All the elves from out the wood began to dance and spring
And marched towards the farmer's house their lengthy tails to swing (!)                  the forest's gifts to bring
The farmer from his window looked and quickly crossed his breast
"Oh woe is me," the farmer cried, "The elves will be my guests."

In every nook he made a cross and all about the room                                               Corn dolls he placed on every beam and fires in every grate
And off flew many a frightened elf back to his forest gloom                                       So weeping many a woodland elf turned from their true estate
Some flew to the east, some flew to the west, some flew to the north away
And some flew down the deep ravine and there forever stay

Chorus

[jenny]

Very trad folk style!

[celebaelin]

Tartini Violin Sonata in G minor ''Devil's Trill Sonata''

This is the account of its creation as reported to the French astronomer Jérôme Lalande

One night, in the year 1713 I dreamed I had made a pact with the devil for my soul. Everything went as I wished: my new servant anticipated my every desire. Among other things, I gave him my violin to see if he could play. How great was my astonishment on hearing a sonata so wonderful and so beautiful, played with such great art and intelligence, as I had never even conceived in my boldest flights of fantasy. I felt enraptured, transported, enchanted: my breath failed me, and I awoke. I immediately grasped my violin in order to retain, in part at least, the impression of my dream. In vain! The music which I at this time composed is indeed the best that I ever wrote, and I still call it the "Devil's Trill", but the difference between it and that which so moved me is so great that I would have destroyed my instrument and have said farewell to music forever if it had been possible for me to live without the enjoyment it affords me.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violin_Sonata_in_G_minor_(Tartini)#Background

[emily]

Bob marley, and god help me

He's just on the radio so..

[celebaelin]

Extreme - Am I Ever Gonna Change

[celebaelin]

In the 30 months or so since I last checked (which is longer than I thought it was EDIT: I posted on Genesis on Oct 25 2023 in fact so it's more or less exactly 12 months) King Weed have released 5 (er... 3) new albums and on that basis we're probably due another in the next month or so!  I have some catching up to do!

EDIT:  Actually checking back on the old site I had registered the release of the first two of these to some extent (The King & The Weed, or at least a single from it, and Genesis) but still - three albums in 12 months is going it some - especially if there's another one out within a month or so which I'm guessing there will be.

I seem to have some memory of the cover of The King & The Weed but I think it was a single release or something of that ilk at that point.  This may in fact be true as I made no mention of the album release on the old site; I guess I missed it somehow.

[celebaelin]

Until today I didn't know that this was a Monty Python reference.

[celebaelin]

Playing at the same time is a scene in which Athena Rayne is being VERY vocal about her enthusiasiasm for her work.  I think it adds something to the track!

[jenny]

I've just been reading a Robert Galbraith (aka J K Rowling) novel in which the music and lyrics of Blue Öyster Cult feature heavily, so I'm listening to this:

[suze]

That was one of the songs which got me into rock music when I was still quite a small person.

Which is fine until you realise that it's about performing suicide.

[jenny]

Judging from the quoted lyrics in the novel, most of their lyrics were pretty dark. This was the only one I actually remembered.

[celebaelin]

Y&T - Hurricane

What you might call 'a bit rough around the edges' but still a favourite over 40 years on.

Catching snatches from the other tracks on that album has made me quite nostalgic in fact; I know it so very well.  Any Friday night for about 2 years if I was going out Earthshaker would be the last thing I heard before leaving the flat - I was on an adrenaline high before the evening had even begun; in retrospect somewhat strangely nothing bad ever resulted from that.

[celebaelin]

Michael Angelo Batio - Hands Without Shadows

[celebaelin]

Joe Bonamassa - Sloe Gin live

Joe Petrucci - Glasgow Kiss

[celebaelin]

^Sloe Gin again currently.

I'm having one of those nights I get infrequently when my body refuses to recognise the concept of sleep.  I don't really need to eat but may end up doing so as a displacement activity

Y&T are playing Rock City in Nottingham on Saturday and for a couple of reasons it doesn't look like I'm going to be able to make it.  I suspect the illness I'm experiencing (more accurately the unwelcome and rather more troublesome - and for once non gastro-intestinal - after effects of a very mild sniffle I had at the start of the week) is going to make going to a rock gig a bad idea.  That might change during the course of tomorrow and Saturday pre-gig but I fear that this time round when I'd sort of made plans to haul my carcass off to see Mr Meniketti again I'm probably going to be doing something a lot less self-congratulatory and a lot more prosaic than seeing the band which characterises what passes for individuality in terms of the evolution of my musical taste.

My playlist has moved on to

John Petrucci - Terminal Velocity btw

It's just occurred to me that the last time I saw Y&T it was with their original lineup and all of the other three are now dead : (

Because I'm in one of those moods I'm going to suspend the playlist and tell anyone who's interested a little story about the Y&T track Beautiful Dreamer.  This is the track that my GF at the time of my severe Y&T fixation demanded that I get hold of.  How she'd even heard of it I've no idea as she wasn't a fan of the band or indeed the genre but that was not ultimately the point.  The fact that it was on an album that was never released in the UK and that in those days of yore (marked by methylated spirit powered gramophones and when analog was a length of beech stump you used to weigh the plastic lid of your deck down with to stop it from vibrating) I had no realistic possibility of finding out what album it was on let alone getting hold of a copy (it's on the first album - the self titled Yesterday & Today from 1976; back when they were a prog rock band).  By some quirk of fate the young lady in question was later resident in Nottingham and may, though I'm not sure, have moved back there in more recent times.

This is the original

This OTOH is the version from the 1991 release Yesterday & Today Live

perhaps it'll make an appearance in Nottingham on Saturday in some form.

[celebaelin]

As mentioned in the Help! thread I've just reset the graphic equaliser settings on my soundcard which had somehow got back to the 'flat' default and am now listening to my 'Hot Licks' playlist in all it's properly sound balanced glory.  Oh yessiree bob that's the way to do it!

[Bondee]

Nov 5, 2024 9:41:05 GMT celebaelin said:

... the 'flat' default and am now listening to my 'Hot Licks' playlist in all it's properly sound balanced glory.  Oh yessiree bob that's the way to do it!

You're 'avin' a bubble, intcha?! It's no good unless it's got trouser flapping, gut rumbling, floor shaking, earthquake causing levels of bass.

Which leads me nicely on to...

Nails - Every Bridge Burning

On lovely "transparent forest green" vinyl.

Their previous albums have been out and out grindcore, but after a complete change of line-up - founding member Todd Jones aside - they seem to have mellowed and there's now a massive Motörhead influence in their sound.

[crissdee]

If they have "mellowed" into Motorhead they must have been quite.......intense before!

Many years ago, when I was driving a van full of ceramic tiles to earn my daily bread, I got talking to a young lad at a depot out in Essex about musical preferences. He said he was into heavy metal, and I replied that I liked a bit of Motorhead myself.

"Ah" he replied "The "Abba" end of the market."

[Bondee]

Nov 5, 2024 23:50:05 GMT crissdee said:

If they have "mellowed" into Motorhead they must have been quite.......intense before!

You could say that.

Incidentally, that's the album I counter with whenever there's some ignorant bastard sodcasting their shitty dance music - and it's invariably shitty dance music - on the bus/train.

Nov 5, 2024 23:50:05 GMT crissdee said:

"Ah" he replied "The "Abba" end of the market."

Me and him would've been having words!

[celebaelin]

Nov 5, 2024 20:57:08 GMT Bondee said:

Nov 5, 2024 9:41:05 GMT celebaelin said:

... the 'flat' default and am now listening to my 'Hot Licks' playlist in all it's properly sound balanced glory.  Oh yessiree bob that's the way to do it!

You're 'avin' a bubble, intcha?! It's no good unless it's got trouser flapping, gut rumbling, floor shaking, earthquake causing levels of bass.

Which leads me nicely on to...

Nails - Every Bridge Burning

On lovely "transparent forest green" vinyl.

Their previous albums have been out and out grindcore, but after a complete change of line-up - founding member Todd Jones aside - they seem to have mellowed and there's now a massive Motörhead influence in their sound.

When I can hear Gary Moore's pick sliding along a wrapped string before he starts playing the live version of Still Got the Blues (and occasionally at other points) and I more generally start hearing sections of guitar part that are normally buried in the rhythm I call it 'properly balanced'... and awesome.

I wish there was some way of illustrating the difference over the net and saying I prefer this to this but of course it all depends on your playback settings.

Speaking of which currently Frank's in the house

Zappa - Rat Tomago

[Bondee]

Nov 6, 2024 12:03:41 GMT celebaelin said:

When I can hear Gary Moore's pick sliding along a wrapped string before he starts playing the live version of Still Got the Blues (and occasionally at other points) and I more generally start hearing sections of guitar part that are normally buried in the rhythm I call it 'properly balanced'... and awesome.

I wish there was some way of illustrating the difference over the net and saying I prefer this to this but of course it all depends on your playback settings.

I wasn't being entirely serious. I know exactly what you mean. My amplifier has a "direct" button that bypasses the EQ circuit. I often use it when I'm listening to the chilled end of my collection.

Which, once again, brings me nicely to...

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD

The title is a reference to the number of Palestinian deaths caused by Israeli military attacks on Gaza as of 13 February 2024.

No Title = What gestures make sense while tiny bodies fall? What context? What broken melody? And then a tally and a date to mark a point on the line, the negative process, the growing pile.

GY!BE are well known for their atmospheric recordings. This album is no different, but the atmosphere is clouded with anger.

[celebaelin]

Nov 6, 2024 20:07:03 GMT Bondee said:

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD

I actually created a new GE preset for that which makes it more listenable - though I suspect you'd say the bass was still too low!

[Bondee]

Nov 7, 2024 19:38:11 GMT celebaelin said:

Ha! Probably. I'll take it down to 9.5, but no lower!

\m/

[celebaelin]

A recording (and video) from the Y&T Nottingham Rock City gig on 2nd November.

Rescue Me from the Earthshaker album.

www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&sca_esv=dbde45d60f3f4c4d&q=Y%26T+nottingham+rock+city&tbm=vid&source=lnms&fbs=AEQNm0Aa4sjWe7Rqy32pFwRj0UkWd8nbOJfsBGGB5IQQO6L3JxdWbs3CkcdlHyEbrNaWhotMJs9T6Ysmviw_2YPsUINQuu4rvokH92yVx82RDPZbFp1b8FppjNR-HNU8ZXuqbK0EiVi1h7qk6FPvAC25nieRNBXOMM1cC1hK8ITFJUpxiWt6dJDaPZtw331UpqukdR5EITFE&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi55Ifv2dWJAxVUWUEAHRvvAFQQ0pQJegQIFBAB&biw=1920&bih=927&dpr=1#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:98a88381,vid:UnNNdfgfcu8,st:0

The first time I ever heard that was this performance

Joey Alves, Dave Meniketti, Leonard Haze, Phil Kennemore (the actual personel from the two gigs represented although the photograph is c. Contagious era ie 1987)

The initial album release looked like this btw

Dave Meniketti, Steph Burns, Phil Kennemore, Jimmy de Grasso