What music are you listening to / buying

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I'm starting to revert back to streaming local music files via Plex rather than Spotify/YT Music. It started with video game/anime soundtracks and other stuff (Jpop) I couldn't find on Spotify. Now I'm grabbing mainstream stuff that I would listen to on Spotify. Plex will analyze track waveforms and then provides a decent recommendation/DJ option.

I'm hearing more deep cuts from classic rock/AOR groups like David Bowie because my Plex library is hard limited to just what's on the server. Meanwhile Spotify will go out and find any kind of slop when I try "I'm Afraid of Americans" radio. It's nice to have a sense of control again.

[ian]

Today I was taken back to 1999 when 2 times came on the radio:

https://youtu.be/PbkInTnNQ28?si=YXAWL5pJIEnu50A
This song was EVERYWHERE for 6 months and then I never heard it or thought about it ever again untill today.

It could be up there with Lens Steal my Sunshine as an amazing true one hit wonder. Top 10 in multiple countries and then never being heard from ever again.

I wonder what happened to her? Wheres Todd in the shadows to tell me more about Ann Lee!

I also heard One More Time today. And for the first time in 4 years hearing Daft Punk didn't make me feel somewhat sad.
I was just happy to be listening to it. Out of nowhere and unexpected flicking through radio stations, this amazing tune came on, just like the first time I ever heard them. Except this time I wasn't being driven home from my Grandmothers (and Aunts) house in mums car... It was me driving mums car TO my aunt's house to drop some stuff off.

I was happy. Not conflicted, or sad, not one single hint of ambivalence... Happy. 2020 is the last time music made me happy with nothing else going on.

[Dr. Zoidberg]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baYXVHkEzUM

[ian]

I've bought some cheap used vinyls, well cheap as vinyls go.
These days if I get a song stuck in my head that I really want to listen to I check out eBay to see if I can find the record for a reasonable price. If I can I'll wait till I have the record to listen to it. If I can't find a reasonable price, I'll play it for free online.

The Buggles 7" single Clean Clean 1980 (I got it for the B side Technopop) $10.

Roy Orbison 12" album Mystery Girl 1989 (with bonus 12" single with the K.D. Lang crying). $30.

CCR. 12" album Willy and the Poor Boys 1969.
This has been pissing me off for ages because my dad DID have the album, but all we have now is the sleeve. I CAN'T listen to Down on the Corner or Fortunate Son from a sleeve.
$30.

$30 is a reasonable price for an album.. I'd probably pay $50 each for mint condition CCR albums. The band had more good songs in 1969 alone than the entire world has had since 2021. Come to think of of it, they probably had more good songs in 1970 alone than the entire world has had since 2021 as well.

[Dr. Zoidberg]

Guess what I just watched?

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Guess what I just watched?

Great flick, it's a top 5 movie for me with BttF, Dumb & Dumber, Billy Madison and Wayne's World. I've listened to my fair share of the Tommy Boy and Dumb & Dumber soundtracks.

[Dr. Zoidberg]

Guess what I watched last night?

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Bought these over the past month or so.

Duran Duran - Planet Earth 7''
Duran Duran - Save A Prayer 7''
Duran Duran - New Moon On Monday 12''
Simple Minds - Glittering Prize 12''
Simple Minds - Up On The Catwalk 12''
Roachford - Cuddly Toy 7"
Device - Hanging On A Heart Attack 7''
Holly Johnson - Love Train 7''

I got the 12'' singles from a place called Rare Records in Point Cook. A little pricey but they have a heap of cool stuff.

[ian]

At the risk of losing my Australian licence I've been listening to this:



Listening to this song is not what will cost me my licence, in fact it's one of the most Australian things ever recorded, it's that I haven't been in a pub in the last 8 hours and one of the most rigid rules in all of Australia is that if anyone wants to play or share this song, they have to have heard it in a pub recently... I don't make the rules, I've just abided by them untill tonight.

Any time it's ever been played on radio or TV, or shared on YouTube, the DJ or host or influencer must have heard it in a pub somewhere. Hunters and collectors are the most pub rock of pub rock, and this is their most pub rock song. It's just been a rule since at least 1995.
It's been stuck in my head all day out of nowhere.

As an aside, this was the last song I ever heard in a pub on the last day before the smoking ban.
I'd just finished my parma at the Bended Elbow in Ballarat in 2006, I was on my 7th or 8th beer, and I lit up one last cigarette right after my last bite at my table, I enjoyed the very last moments of a traditional pub being tolerable. As I was having an after dinner Marlboro red, and finishing my last Carlton Draught, this song came on, I finished my smoke and my drink but stayed to hear out this final pub song being played in a pub you could actually rightfully call a pub.
Shortly after the smoking ban came in the pub closed, along with a bunch of others.

These days you can't even take your food into the smoking area without cunts telling you off.

[melancholy]

Being an old fogey who basically stopped discovering new artists around the point that Skrillex started making noise, I am completely out of the loop on what’s even popular anymore. But a few weeks ago I got completely obsessed with a band called Sleep Token. I heard The Summoning and was so enthralled with the roller coaster of constant genre changes that I had to listen to the entire album.

[ian]

I heard The Summoning and was so enthralled with the roller coaster of constant genre changes that I had to listen to the entire album.

I'll check that album out. genres changing in the middle of a song was the exact thing that first sold me on twelve foot ninja when I first heard them.
I went in thinking I was in for metal and then before I got used to the unexpected swing jazz, I was listening to disco, and they very quickly become one of my favourite local bands.

It's the kind of insanity that I'm interested in, not seeing bands pigeon holed into what's expected of them. So cheers I'll give the album a listen when I won't wake anyone up.

[Dr. Zoidberg]

INXS - Listen Like Thieves 40th Anniversary Edition (vinyl)

It was 1/2 price from Amazon Resale (where they sell returned items). It's supposed to be in very good condition.

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These kids are pretty good.

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Spandau Ballet's Gold, 90s dance style!