What are you currently listening to?
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Jags
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I'll argue with them - Enter Shikari. New album, The Spark getting a bit of hype, absolutely brilliant album.
Going to see them on their album tour, in Liverpool, on my birthday
Baines' left foot
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Four Tet’s new album. Only 15 minutes in and it’s absolutely lovely.
What is my life?
johnnydawg68
Chairperson, People's Front of Saint Domingo
I'm going to have to listen to it all the way through. Not as impressed with the first few songs I've heard they released as singles. I hope this isn't a band that peaked right before their debut album.
coollino
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Have you listened to the new The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die album? It's gooood
johnnydawg68
Chairperson, People's Front of Saint Domingo
I'm going to see Matt Pond PA again on Friday night. I've banged on about them for beards now. For the life of me, I can't explain why they never got huge. This is the final album under that moniker and possibly the final tour.
@LocalNative @Alio @ijjysmith @RFUS and others this should be right up your alley. The best news is if they are, there's a back catalogue going back 15 years to discover.
@LocalNative @Alio @ijjysmith @RFUS and others this should be right up your alley. The best news is if they are, there's a back catalogue going back 15 years to discover.
johnnydawg68
Chairperson, People's Front of Saint Domingo
coollino
Player Valuation: £80m
I was becoming one of those bores who write off new conventional-ish guitar music so I'm glad this came around.
johnnydawg68
Chairperson, People's Front of Saint Domingo
Check out the Matt Pond PA post just above too...I forgot to tag you in that one.
coollino
Player Valuation: £80m
Will do, my gf was on this Wikipedia the other day and I can't for the life of me remember why.
ijjysmith
Calm
Oh man literally just played the first one and already know you’ve done it again mate!
johnnydawg68
Chairperson, People's Front of Saint Domingo
I have to give a shout out in memory of Tom Petty. I'm not sure how he is viewed in England, but Tom Petty is an icon here. I'm not sure there's an American artist who so uniquely represents a national zeitgest, if such a thing exists. As Marc Maron said in his most recent stand up special “Everybody loves Tom Petty and burritos”. If you look at the tributes online it's every type of fan/musician/generation/political ideology.
I found another good quote that sums him up as well: “Tom Petty’s music doesn’t necessarily demand a value judgment. It’s like having an opinion on tap water or concrete. Why bother? It’s just there, reliable to the point of invisibility. If it went missing, you would notice. But it’s never going missing, because Tom Petty has existed since the beginning of time, and will continue to exist until time is extinguished.”
As for my own words, I posted this yesterday on Facebook:
I'm not sure I know anyone who doesn't like Tom Petty at least a little bit. He was really great at the straight head Rickenbacker driven rock, but I've always had a soft spot for this weird little psychedelic song that doesn't have any the characteristics of a typical pop song that got played on the radio. Then, near the end, it explodes into this stomp worthy rocker until stops suddenly. It's not constructed like any top 40 hit I've ever heard, and it's certainly not the formula for radio play, then or now. So aside from loving it as a song, I respect the man, and his band, that wrote it. It's a shame Tom Petty won't come around here no more.
RIP TP.
I found another good quote that sums him up as well: “Tom Petty’s music doesn’t necessarily demand a value judgment. It’s like having an opinion on tap water or concrete. Why bother? It’s just there, reliable to the point of invisibility. If it went missing, you would notice. But it’s never going missing, because Tom Petty has existed since the beginning of time, and will continue to exist until time is extinguished.”
As for my own words, I posted this yesterday on Facebook:
I'm not sure I know anyone who doesn't like Tom Petty at least a little bit. He was really great at the straight head Rickenbacker driven rock, but I've always had a soft spot for this weird little psychedelic song that doesn't have any the characteristics of a typical pop song that got played on the radio. Then, near the end, it explodes into this stomp worthy rocker until stops suddenly. It's not constructed like any top 40 hit I've ever heard, and it's certainly not the formula for radio play, then or now. So aside from loving it as a song, I respect the man, and his band, that wrote it. It's a shame Tom Petty won't come around here no more.
RIP TP.
LocalNative
MOSHIRI OUT
Reminds me a little of We Are Scientists - quite a cool throwback guitar band. I actually remember having a song of theirs on my old iPod classic - can't for the life of me remember which one though.