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The last Album You Listened to.

  • 15-10-2020 11:30pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,635 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    Maybe someone has done a thread like this before, I dunno. But there should be one. There's a "what's the last movie you watched thread" in the film forum and a "what's the last book you read" thread in the literature forum, so let's have the equivalent for music. There's a thread for new albums in the Alternative and Indie forum, but sometimes you just wanna post about older stuff and discuss it all.

    So here we are:

    Anyway.

    So the last thing I was listening to was Music Has The Right To Children by Boards of Canada.

    I was listening to some Aphex Twin and one of BoC's songs automatically came on after the playlist finished and, yeah, BoC still and will always kick ass.

    The glitches. The hypnotic beats. The ethereal loops and spooky melodies. Does anyone do it better?



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  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,528 Mod ✭✭✭✭iamstop




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭ednwireland


    start to finish kate rusby hand me down


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,904 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    Listened to the Joshua Tree in full for the first time in ages this evening. I prefer Achtung Baby but Red Hill Mining Town is a song that I'll never get tired of hearing.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    Being listening to ooodles of techno and house the last while. But I only have an old CD player in the bedroom and I have been listening to Morcheeba - Big Calm.

    5021732401793.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,104 ✭✭✭✭loyatemu


    looking at my Spotify history, the last album I listened to start to finish was Nick Cave's "The Good Son" - I love his 80s and early 90s stuff, the later albums I find a bit hit and miss, but "The Good Son" is one of his best.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 12,904 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    loyatemu wrote: »
    looking at my Spotify history, the last album I listened to start to finish was Nick Cave's "The Good Son" - I love his 80s and early 90s stuff, the later albums I find a bit hit and miss, but "The Good Son" is one of his best.


    Yeah, I think any album that had Blixa on it was great.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,980 ✭✭✭s1ippy




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 696 ✭✭✭Lockheed


    Start to finish, most recent was Substance the 2010 compilation album by Joy Division
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtSFtvXgeRk&list=PLiN-7mukU_RG2S66H04bGUamMiGUqs8Qt


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,635 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    s1ippy wrote: »

    Fuck Tom Brady.

    Yeah, liked that album a lot. Their previous album Human Performance also had a lot going for it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,457 ✭✭✭✭Kylta


    Babylon by bus. Bob Marley.
    I do need a journey back to youth every now and again


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,426 ✭✭✭KaneToad


    Nebraska - Bruce Springsteen


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 600 ✭✭✭thebronze14


    Ancient Melodies of the Future - Built to Spill...Came up randomly on my Spotify and liked what I heard


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 685 ✭✭✭luketitz


    The Scientist Rids the World of the Curse of the Evil Vampires - The Scientist


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,696 ✭✭✭dasdog


    luketitz wrote: »
    The Scientist Rids the World of the Curse of the Evil Vampires - The Scientist

    That's a pretty good choice



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,173 ✭✭✭Declan A Walsh


    The last album I listened to was We Can't Dance by Genesis.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 281 ✭✭mehico


    Listened to Rust in Peace by Megadeth a few evenings ago. I found the cd while doing a bit of a clear out, still sounds good.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,740 ✭✭✭4Ad


    Fleet Foxes new one...bored me....and I like Fleet Foxes...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,536 ✭✭✭✭murpho999




    Letter to You - Bruce Springsteen's new album. Only came out on Friday. Listened to it twice already and I think it's fantastic


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,528 Mod ✭✭✭✭iamstop




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,635 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    Last few things I listened to:

    Juju by Siouxsie and The Banshees.

    Really great this one. Don't know why I had never listened to it before: it's a classic. Post-punk that threads the fine line between darkness and accessibility with aplomb. Fantastic vocals, really cool guitar work and a dynamite rhythm section. A killer album.



    Sign by Autechre

    I think I admire Autechre more than I love them. I've tried my best to keep up with their recent output, but, jesus, there's just so much of it. So it came as a shock to see them release a conventional ordinary straight ahead single disc album. It's, by far, the most accessible stuff they've put out recently: very ambient, even warm sounding though it could still be a bit of challenge to a lot of people; Conventional song structures are still not what you'll find here. Good music for a soundtrack if you're looking out the window of a train, or omnisciently floating over a thrashed post-industrial landscape.




    Visions of Bodies Being Burned by clipping.

    Some of this I really love, it's the most cohesive and impressive clipping record that I've heard. Some of the production is amazing - loads of little details and unusual touches and how they construct the beats out of noise, but can still make them oddly flow and groove: it's pretty cool stuff and when it really comes together with the flow and storytelling of Daveed Diggs it can be very satisfying. The album has a few songs though that don't fully take off and the rapping isn't always 100% engaging - it can be hit and miss. And sometimes the whole album and their shtick is so overly dark and serious that it come across as a bit try-hard and not totally sincere, but I don't know, I still like what I heard so far and I think it'll improve with further listens.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,695 ✭✭✭Chivito550


    Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen

    Listening to a lot of the Boss and U2 at the moment.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,175 ✭✭✭tritriagain


    Chivito550 wrote: »
    Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen

    Listening to a lot of the Boss and U2 at the moment.

    I'm with you. Listen to other stuff but always go back to these two. Brings back great memories of great live gigs.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,173 ✭✭✭Declan A Walsh


    The last album I listened to was Violator by Depeche Mode.


  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 11,780 Mod ✭✭✭✭Say Your Number


    Royal Tea, the new one by Joe Bonamassa, it's decent enough.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,445 ✭✭✭run_Forrest_run


    Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son

    It's been a long time since I've listened to some Maiden stuff and I popped this on with the intention of just listening to the opening track but I ended up listening to the end, great band.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,816 ✭✭✭Relikk


    If anybody is interested in Progressive Rock or Jazz Fusion then this is a great listen. It has elements of both, veering more on the Prog side of things. Exceptional musicianship.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 600 ✭✭✭thebronze14


    Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have it so Much Better. Forgot how good it was


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,173 ✭✭✭Declan A Walsh


    The last album I listened to was Reading, Writing and Arithmetic by The Sundays.


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 12,887 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    All Blessed by Faithless, their first in 12 years. Excellent! :D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,009 ✭✭✭✭Kintarō Hattori


    Working through Covid at a desk in my bedroom at some point I realised there was a lovely Yamaha amp and Wharfedale speakers doing nothing. I went out and got myself a CD player and decided I was going to start buying 'The Top 100 albums' to get myself listening to artists I wouldn't normally have. First on the list is Rumours by Fleetwood Mac. I'd never listened to an album of theirs.

    It's a very good start to this journey.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,173 ✭✭✭Declan A Walsh


    The last album I listened to was Tango in the Night by Fleetwood Mac.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 696 ✭✭✭Lockheed


    Today, Animals by Pink Floyd.


    Always a treat to listen to a PF album start to finish.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,173 ✭✭✭Declan A Walsh


    The last album I listened to was Oh Mercy by Bob Dylan.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,173 ✭✭✭Declan A Walsh


    The last album I listened to was Suzanne Vega by Suzanne Vega.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,173 ✭✭✭Declan A Walsh


    The last album I listened to was New York by Lou Reed.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 448 ✭✭Thesiger


    Northern Exposure 1, Disc 1 - Sasha & Digweed.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,173 ✭✭✭Declan A Walsh


    The last album I listened to was Days of Open Hand by Suzanne Vega.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,635 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    I was listening to Funeral by Arcade Fire over the past few days. Getting reacquainted, it had been a good few years since I listened to it. It's as amazing still to be honest. I can't listen to it without being transported back to the Winter of '05 and having it on the go in my discman - remember those - for an extended period. That was the time of my first proper romance and the songs really do bring back so many of the wild wondrous emotions of that time.

    But, even taking that into account, objectively it's still an absolute knockout of an album. No song is bad, most are unbelievable. It was so fresh at the time - there was nothing else like it. But now I really appreciated how confident and marvelously layered all the songs are. And there's a euphoria to it, but with a bit of darkness that stops it from becoming sappy.

    I got a lump in my throat for this one -



    Yeah, I know, we've all heard it a million times. But it immediately made me think of hearing it constantly a the end of the night in the local indie club and every sloshed person in the room - which is to say, everyone - getting all melodramatic and singing along like a fool. That was normal life, guys, wasn't it great? And to think we took it for granted...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 696 ✭✭✭Lockheed


    The Idiot by Iggy Pop



    enough said :p


  • Site Banned Posts: 2,799 ✭✭✭Bobtheman


    Just listened to bruce springsteen new album.
    Letter to you.
    Not impressed. Nothing original in my view sound wise or theme wise. By the numbers


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,173 ✭✭✭Declan A Walsh


    The last album I listened to was Best..1 by The Smiths.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,173 ✭✭✭Declan A Walsh


    The last album I listened to was Still Got The Blues by Gary Moore.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,173 ✭✭✭Declan A Walsh


    The last album I listened to was Live in the City of Light by Simple Minds.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,484 ✭✭✭DelBoy Trotter


    Bruce Springsteen - Letters to You


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    Bruce Springsteen - Letters to You


    Snap;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,068 ✭✭✭BraveDonut


    The last album I listened to was After the Goldrush by Neil Young


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,484 ✭✭✭DelBoy Trotter


    Snap;)

    I watched the documentary of it on Apple TV the other night and enjoyed it, so stuck the album on today and have been impressed!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,205 ✭✭✭jiltloop


    Working from home has been great for being able to listen to music while plugging away.

    Today I listened to the new Actress album - Karma & Desire. based on a recommendation from a friend. I was a few songs through it and then realised that I had actually listened to it already a couple of weeks ago and hadn't liked it. I find it quite repetitive and draining in parts. The 2nd listen invoked the same feeling about the album. I'm absolutely not averse to repetitive music, quite the opposite generally in fact but this I did not gel with.

    I then moved on to Jyoti - Mama, You Can Bet! which again was another recommendation that i had really enjoyed a few weeks ago. Never heard of Jyoti before but I was very impressed with this, it's warm, jazz tainted, great vocals and a good mix which really grabs your interest.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    Mike Oldfield's AMAROK. It is quality and a great listen.

    amarok_tracks_full_0.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,205 ✭✭✭jiltloop


    IAMAMORON wrote: »
    Mike Oldfield's AMAROK. It is quality and a great listen.

    amarok_tracks_full_0.jpg

    I love Mike Oldfield but am not aware of that album, must give it a listen.

    My Dad was a big Mike Oldfield fan back in the day and we always listened to his albums when dragging a caravan around Ireland on family holidays. Brings back great memories and I think a lot of the music still stands up well.


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