What are you listening to, right now................

Stockcar86

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If there's one song about Nico ...

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For me the definitive song is "Nico on a Bike" by Wellington group from the late 80's The Inhalers

Tim

Post it!

Stockcar86

I'll try to find it. I think it is only on cassette somewhere, so need to find that, and convert to digital. Give me a couple of days...

nostrildamus

<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.elsewhere.co.nz/fromthevaults/4983/the-inhalers-nico-on-a-bike-1990/'>http://www.elsewhere.co.nz/fromthevaults/4983/the-inhalers-nico-on-a-bike-1990/</a>

dK

SS and MJB

mariner4life

In an effort to break out of my "listening to the same old shit for the last 20 years" i have started listening to Triple J. It turns out i have become my parents (i find myself saying phrases like "pffft this is just 80s pop remade" and "all this stuff just sounds the same") also i find the presenters annoying wanna-be cool pretentious dickwads. 
 
BUT, i have found a few tracks i really like. Here's a couple
 
A Love Devine bu Saskwatch 
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Around Town by The Kooks (taken a live version cause the video is fucking long)
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NTA

I did that last year M4L. Got sick of it when, as you say, the announcers all turned out to be raving dickheads. Picked up some good new music, but they'd play the fucking things to death just like commercial radio

Stockcar86

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I'll try to find it. I think it is only on cassette somewhere, so need to find that, and convert to digital. Give me a couple of days...
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no luck finding cassette. Might need to wait till I can get to Wellington - hopefully can pick up a copy from Slowboat records assuming that Steven Hinderwell from the band still works there

RL31

Finding love for the Pierces again...

mariner4life

I find this ridiculously catchy
 
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Tim

Tim

Crucial

Not sure whether to put this here or in the movie thread. Muscle Shoals documentary. Just caught up with it and it's a great watch for anyone interested in American modern music history. You need to get past the fact that Bono makes an appearance or two and that Keith Richards does a great impression of Bill Nighy in Love Actually. The rest is awesome. Sadly not enough movie footage in the studio, but then they didn't know they were making music people would still be interested in 50 years down the track. 
I guess RT has already seen this but here's a trailer anyway.

BTW Wilson Pickett is the man.

Tim

DJ Same on AOR Disco: 

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"I grew up listening to rock and pop of the 1980s until the summer of 1989 happened," he says. "Over those six weeks of school holidays everything changed. At the start I was buying Now That's What I Call Music. By the end of the holidays Deep Heat comps along with suede kickers, mustard tracksuit bottoms and hooded tops were de rigueur. A love affair with house and disco had started and this was probably the last great youth culture which took a hold of the whole nation. Amazing times.
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Skip to 2010. On my way home after a night shift working for the ambulance service listening to Rob Da Bank's excellent eclectic show I heard Psychemagik's edit of Fleetwood Mac's Everywhere and it blew my exhausted mind. Combining classic rock and pop with a dance floor sensibility it was just what I was looking for. I discovered the AOR Disco blog via a Google search and have never looked back." 
 
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AOR Disco 5th Anniversary mix:
 
<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://aordisco.blogspot.fr/2014/05/aor-disco-5th-anniversary-mix-by-dj-same.html'>http://aordisco.blogspot.fr/2014/05/aor-disco-5th-anniversary-mix-by-dj-same.html</a>

mariner4life

These guys have obviously listened to a heap of Kyuss and Fu Manchu, but it's pretty fucking good
 
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NTA

Saw this on TV tonight from JJJ "Like A Version" - enjoyed it a lot

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"So if it's a cover", I'm thinking, " let's check out the original! "

Well save yourself the trouble. The original (YouTube "Disclosure Latch") is pretty tepid - the only term i can think of is "lounge dance"

red terror

I continue to be gobsmacked at the ascending success of Swans, the loudest band in the universe. Never been in the Top 100 album chart, or anywhere close to it, yet their latest "To Be Kind" (<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.metacritic.com/feature/best-albums-of-2014-so-far'>currently rated the 2nd best album of 2014 so far at Metacritic</a>) recently made the Top 40 chart in USA and UK. Not bad for a 60-year-old noise-maker making 2-hour length albums with songs running in excess of 30 minutes.
 
Nice little doc from last year...

(Coincidentally-or-not, the current best-rated album of 2014 is "St. Vincent" by St. Vincent, who sings on the new Swans record. I saw both of 'em play a double-bill a couple weeks ago. T'was awesome... and loud.)

Stockcar86

I love this song so much from Graham Panthers new EP
 
<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://grahampanther.bandcamp.com/track/careful-selection'>http://grahampanther.bandcamp.com/track/careful-selection</a>
 
Sounds like a throwback to early 90's NZ indie music like Chicane or "O"

antipodean

Awolnation and Rudimental have been getting a lot of repeated plays lately. Benefit of having headphones on is people tend to think you're in a conference call and leave you alone so you can do some work.

The Silver Fern

What are you listening to, right now................