What are you listening to, right now................
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@MN5 said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@voodoo said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@raznomore said in What are you listening to, right now................:
I didn't listen to a lot of hard rock as a kid. So my tastes are mostly hiphop and rnb. I like the classic rugby bus stuff too - Eagles, Johnny Cash, Kenny Rogers etc but My favourite stuff is lo-fi hiphop as below. Nas & Damian Marley not really lo-fi but I've been listening to it all day today.
I had similar experience, I took ages to come around to rock and grunge. My teens were all hip hop, rap, rnb. Cypress Hill, Snoop, NWA, plus all the way softer stuff like Bobby Brown, Boyz To Men, R Kelly (oops) etc
How bout Naughty by Nature( not cos I hate ya ), Tupac, Wu Tang, OutKast etc?
In saying that the 90s was the best era for rock bar none.
I've never been a one style of music guy. I used to mix it up often depending on what mates I was hanging out with, the brown ones it was more hip hop and rap in the 90s, the lighter skinned ones more rock, the fuckwits in my hostel meant I listened to way too much Counting Crows.
I used to thrash Outkast. Ms Jackson and Hey Ya were the 'big' singles from them but I always preferred the slightly smaller:
Bombs over Bagdad
I Like the Way You Move
I used to thrash Ghetto Supastar (and Return of the Mack) much to my flatmates disgust. It took me ages to figure out it was based on Islands in the Stream, I think I only figured it out when I was singing along one time and inadvertently started singing the Islands in the Stream lyrics. Also cracks me up that Ol' Dirty Bastard just stumbled into the recording studio by accident and then wound up being a key part of the track.
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Ah what a song π -
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@R-L said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Belinda is my favourite ranga of all time
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@R-L said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Ah what a song πCharlie is a fine woman!
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@R-L said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@pakman don't see the appeal but then I'm just jealous of her hair really.
I see you have a little anthem at the moment with your above song... Is it stuck in your head!
And π back
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@R-L said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@pakman I've never seen that band before, I know the songs but never expected them to look like that. Nice chilled song.
John Lennon had it on his personal jukebox.
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@Virgil said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Top Gun has one of the best sound tracks, back in the day 90% of my collection was sound tracks
I added this CD to my collection a few years back. Not specifically for the Berlin track though.
I'll put a plug in for The Lost Boys soundtrack. One of my favourite 1980s teen movies too.
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This much talent shouldn't be allowed together for more than a few minutes in case it disturbs the Earth's equIlibrium...
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@dogmeat said in What are you listening to, right now................:
so Paul Weller has become the third artist (after Lennon and McCartney) to have had a UK #1 album in five consecutive decades
Not excited by it TBH but it is an achievement
Should have been six decades but the way the record company released stuff in the late seventies early eighties probably scuttled that.
The Jam's contract was an album a year and that didn't change so some releases were single only.
Some quite odd stuff where although album sales momentum was often off the back of hit singles the albums were being released 3 or 4 months after a single release and with no other track hitting the charts.
Hits like Going Underground weren't even attached to an album and That's Entertainment released in the dead zone of January well after fans already had the song on the album released the previous year.
Setting Sons deserved a number one spot in 1979 but beaten out by Greatest Hits albums by Abba, Diana Ross and Rod Stewart in the pre xmas release rush.I guess the recent number ones gain an advantage of album sales being not what they used to be though.
This latest album On Sunset is one of my favourite releases of recent years though. Takes a few listens but there is some real craft going on there.
Sometimes it is quite interesting to go back over Weller's releases and you find album tracks that didn't catch with you back at the time but seem more relevant now.
One thing is for sure he really absorbs a hell of a lot of music, is always looking ahead and isn't afraid to try things.