The ever-popular "Currently Listening" thread

Originally Posted by Pongo
Live after Death is my favorite live album. Good call.

At a very young age, I sat my two children down and showed them this clip

Iron Maiden - Hallowed Be Thy Name (live)

and said to them "when you hear Daddy talking about heavy metal, THIS is what Im talking about……"

Not sure what to call this. EDM, sort of trancey, squelchy, with piano and chorale bits. A classic from the period (93/94) nonetheless.
Diddy - Give Me Love (Original Mix)

Probably my favorite version of one of the best psych rock songs of all time…

Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity - Flesh Failures (Let The Sunshine In)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzHycVyT5-Q

Awesome funk - Tower of Power's Only So Much Oil:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrxRJ9HlfZk

Spektr's latest album The Art to Disappear

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_L-SI-Is1M

4th album from a pair of guys from France, they have been described as Industrial/Ambient/Black Metal. This one seems to use Twin Peaks as a bit of a theme.

Originally Posted by Pongo
Awesome funk - Tower of Power's Only So Much Oil:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrxRJ9HlfZk

Ooh, this is sick! Thanks for sharing, Pongo!

I cannot get enough of this jam!!

Ramsey Lewis featuring Earth, Wind and Fire - Sun Goddess

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS463tbX-HE

Lavender Blue by Marillion, the Single Version. I was about to cry over that, because it reminds me of my very first love at school (which was never going to last, then) …

A Roxy Music classic.
Same Old Scene (Extended)

Strange, but I never got into Roxy Music. Don't know why, but I never liked them enough to buy an album.

pibbur who has found yet another example of good music he doesn't like

Ah too bad. Their songs definitely grow on me after multiple listens. Headphones (or great speaker imaging) required. The atmosphere is just about perfect. They are deceptively simple on first listen, more interesting on re-listens. Check out the bass lines on Same Old Scene. Another few goodies.

Roxy Music - Angel Eyes (Re-Edit By Frank Tope & Dean Rudland)
Roxy Music - The Main Thing (Extended)

the whole Avalon album has got to be one of my most favorite albums of all time
Roxy Music - Avalon

Hard to pick a favorite track from it, but I think it's To Turn You ON.
or maybe Take A Chance With Me

EDIT: So many great songs. I've been listening to the full back catalogue. Wow! Truly a lot of proto-new-wave in their early stuff. Right now I am enjoying this one quite a bit.
Roxy Music - The Thrill Of It All

Originally Posted by Thrasher
Ah too bad. Their songs definitely grow on me after multiple listens. Headphones (or great speaker imaging) required. They are deceptively simple on first listen, more interesting on re-listens. Check out the bass lines on Same Old Scene. Another few goodies.

Roxy Music - Angel Eyes (Re-Edit By Frank Tope & Dean Rudland)
Roxy Music - The Main Thing (Extended)

I'll give them another chance.

pibbur

Originally Posted by kaos_war_monk
Spektr's latest album The Art to Disappear

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_L-SI-Is1M

4th album from a pair of guys from France, they have been described as Industrial/Ambient/Black Metal. This one seems to use Twin Peaks as a bit of a theme.

Thanks, never heard of these guys before. That's some heavy stuff! The industrial elements are great. I don't really keep up with this stuff, but most black metal I've heard is too synthy for me - I like these harsher tones more.

Watched the movie Hardware a while back and was reminded of two awesome tracks from yesteryear:

Public Order Ltd, the Order of Death… which isn't a metal track, as you might expect! Its a weird little early 80s synth track with Johnny Rotten doing a repeated voice over "this is what you want, this is what you get." Strangely brilliant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8Ne9sRcSrM

And on the old-school industrial side, Ministry's Stigmata. All the best riffs are simple… and this one somehow feels totally frenzied as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBi8U9hJy-E

RIVERSIDE - Reality Dream [Full Concert]

Originally Posted by Pongo
Watched the movie Hardware a while back and was reminded of two awesome tracks from yesteryear:

Public Order Ltd, the Order of Death…

That should be Public Image Limited. Thanks for reminding me of them. They were a favorite from way back when.
This post-punk track REALLY brings back the memories.
Public Image Ltd - Rise

Originally Posted by Thrasher
That should be Public Image Limited.

Oh yeah you're right! I'd never heard of them before to be honest, I just googled the tune after watching the movie because I liked it.

Ha brilliant! Just listened to Rise - thanks, turns out I know that one from years back, a bit of a blast from the past. I remember Beavis and Butthead watching the video to this and correcting Johnny Rotten throughout…. "Uh, you're white dude." Happy memories!

Another new album purchase from Trans-Siberian Orchestra called Letters From The Labyrinth. As usual here are a few links for those who might be interested.

Link - http://www.trans-siberian.com/news/t…yrinth-stream/

Link - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis…ESY4ywOHspJRAQ

Letters From The Labyrinth (Release date: Nov. 13, 2015) is TSO's first full-length album since 2009's Night Castle.

The overall concept is based on TSO's "Night Castle" (2009) and a dialogue between the wisdom of the past and the hopes for the future, via a correspondence between a child and an old friend of the child's grandfather.

"Letters From The Labyrinth" deals with subjects as broad as humanity's journey through the ages ("Time & Distance"), and as specific as bullying ("Not The Same"), the fall of the Berlin Wall ("Prometheus") and the world banking controversies ("Not Dead Yet").

Re: second link:

"This video is not available.

Sorry about that."

For all of them.

From the intros in the first link, I couldn't imagine listening to that, it's so hyper and high pitched. I can't see the appeal for either dancing, relaxing nor as background to anything, truly a very odd and jarring sound. Do you listen to it while trying to do 3 household chores at the same time within a very short time limit?

I went to see a performance of Wagner's Parsifal.

I liked the production value but I wasn't too thrilled about the theme of the stage direction. It is a story about (simplistically put) knights and the Holy Grail yet in this production it was set in what seemed to be a mad house/hospital where the knights were represented by the patients so it felt too out of place IMO.

Regardless, I was very impressed with the stage direction in the 3rd act and the lighting was done particularly well creating a lot of added atmosphere.

Here is a link to the prelude.

Here is another link to an extract of the work that happens to be one of my favourite moments in the opera. It may not exactly be easy accessible stuff, so of that (undoubtedly) small group of people who click on the link, I wonder what portion actually listens to it until the end .

Originally Posted by Couchpotato
Another new album purchase from Trans-Siberian Orchestra called Letters From The Labyrinth. As usual here are a few links for those who might be interested.

Link - http://www.trans-siberian.com/news/t…yrinth-stream/

Link - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis…ESY4ywOHspJRAQ

(Can't see the videos in link 2)

I recognise music from Mozart, Beethoven and Mussorgsky in some of the tracks in link 1.

Time & Distance (the Dash) --> Source
Madness of men --> Source
Mountain Labyrinth --> Source

I hope they at least get credited .

Originally Posted by lackblogger
I can't see the appeal for either dancing, relaxing nor as background to anything, truly a very odd and jarring sound. Do you listen to it while trying to do 3 household chores at the same time within a very short time limit?

A rather limited viewpoint if you ask me. Just out of curiosity, have you considered the possibility that some people may actually consider listening to music an activity on its own where they actively seek an emotional and/or intellectual stimulus.