What are you listening to at the moment?...

[travisbickle34]

NIN and Tool never grow old for me

[Styler]

(still love NIN though)

I'm glad you added that I've grown out of a lot of music over the years but there's no denying that Mr Reznor is a very talented man. What do you think of the Pretty Hate Machine remaster? I think that overall the more electronica based industrial has stood the test of time better than noisy guitar driven bands like Ministry.

With regards to Prog, I like a lot of prog through the ages from Yes, King Crimson and Jethro Tull (Although they didn't like the label) through to bands like Rush, Marillion, Ayreon and The Tangent.

[senor_robusto]

Dependent on the exact prog or industrial, I'm in agreement

hey gavin,
for me, i'm talking about 'classic' prog: yes, emerson lake palmer, king crimson, soft machine etc etc....... though my main love would be krautrock from the early 70's!!! as for industrial, it has to be throbbing gristle, coil, (very early) psychic tv (basically anything that involved the guys who invented the term & the original experimentalists, genesis p-orridge, peter 'sleazy' christopherson, chris carter, cosey fanni tutti)!!! when i was younger i loved anything connected with 'industrial'...... nine inch nails, ministry, revolting cocks, LARD, spk, test department, die krupps..... have to say i grew outta that stuff years ago (still love NIN though)!!!

alex

[travisbickle34]

ditto, styler me ol' mucker, ditto!!!

alex

Dependent on the exact prog or industrial, I'm in agreement

[senor_robusto]

Surprisingly no I'd say, I think there are a fair few "alternative" music fans here although I must admit to not being much of a fan of the bands you mentioned. Give me some Prog or Industrial any day

ditto, styler me ol' mucker, ditto!!!

alex

[Superbrother]

Well into these guys at the moment.

Great news yesterday as I managed to get some tickets to Deathcab for Cutie at Nottingham Rock City - roll on July!

[Styler]

So is saying I'm currently listening to acdc's thunderstruck or that I'm delighted the prodigy are supporting linkin park this year out of place ?
Andy

Surprisingly no I'd say, I think there are a fair few "alternative" music fans here although I must admit to not being much of a fan of the bands you mentioned. Give me some Prog or Industrial any day

[Bigboned]

So is saying I'm currently listening to acdc's thunderstruck or that I'm delighted the prodigy are supporting linkin park this year out of place ?
Andy

[Tzusskin]

Andy McKee's Drifting is one of my most often watched vids on Youtube, awesome playing.

[SmokeyDave]

Prog rock this morning with The Decemberists "Hazards of Love".

[Styler]

Went to see Andy McKee recently and just can't get his tunes out of my head. He is flawless live and I would highly recommend you go and see him if you get the chance.

Here is his amazing cover of Everybody Wants to Rule the World and another of his own songs.

[seeacon]

I love apocalyptica! Also, I got engaged last year, so may have to steal the idea for the wedding.. Think I've heard a bit of head cats, but not enough to remember. may look into them again. I like a bit of psychobilly too, and this thread reminded me: have you heard any Bourbon Crow? Wednesday 13's (Murderdolls, Frankenstein Drag queens, etc) country band. Someone told me about them ages ago, but totally forgot until I read this, think seeing "psychobilly" and "bluegrass" in the same place reminded me

[Tzusskin]

That sounds excellent, I love crossover covers! I'm already looking for some of their stuff . Are you familiar with The Baseballs (Rockabilly covers of chart songs, among others)? If not, I'd reccomend, if you like that sort of stuff.

I shall have to take a look, i quite like a bit of Rockabilly (along with the occasional bit of psychobilly - try The Horrorpops or Rev. Horton Heat). have you heard any of The Head Cats? Lemmy Kilmister's rock and roll band, some great Buddy Holly covers on Youtube but I can't find anything studio recorded yet.

This morning's bus ride was to the tune of Saxon, might go with a bit of Whitesnake or Tracy Chapman later depending on what sprits the denizens of the number 77 are in.

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Now I'm home and not sitting at my work desk with the heavily restricted internet access that our illustrious lords and masters see fit to bestow upon us mere mortals, I can post a video of another... I suppose you could call them a crossover of sorts, group I have seen a couple of times. 4 guys from Finland going by the name of Apocolyptica. All classically trained cellists whose first album was Metallica by 4 Cellos and this song is taken from that, Nothing Else Matters.

My wife and I actually had this being played at our wedding (3 years ago, our anniversary was somewhere between Monday and Tuesday - we got married on 29/2/2008 .) as everyone came in then the Metallica version afterwards.

Anyway, enough of my rambling, onto the melodies:

[seeacon]

I went with some Hayseed Dixie and the album, A Hot Piece of Grass

For those who don't know these boys, they are 4 musicians from Nashville who started off with a load of bluegrass style covers of AC DC tracks, hence the group's name but have then moved onto covers of Kiss, Queen, The Rolling Stones (thier version of Paint it black is awesome), The Scissor Sisters and a fair few others. .

That sounds excellent, I love crossover covers! I'm already looking for some of their stuff . Are you familiar with The Baseballs (Rockabilly covers of chart songs, among others)? If not, I'd reccomend, if you like that sort of stuff.

[michael69]

i guess it's a bit cliched, but here's what i've been listening to during my cigar moments:





apologies for posting more than 1 video, just felt i should share these blissful recordings with you all, hopefully you'll get 'that' cool mood i get when burning off a lovely cuban!!!!

all the best,

alex

As a bit of a jazz man, this is all great stuff (obviously) and goes well with a stogie.....

cool school..... check out bill evans (waltz for debby album in particular) if you want to kick back with a smoke!