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Jul 11, 2016 22:48:49 GMT
Post by Coil on Jul 11, 2016 22:48:49 GMT
So what do the rusties listen to when they aren't listening to podcasts? Favourite music, popular or obscure. Found an awesome new artist/band? Or generally just discuss music.
I'm kinda throwing this out as a result of my other recent thread, so I wanted to keep it open and inclusive.
To get the ball rolling, I'm an experimental musician (I wont post my own work here) so my listening tends towards the obscure. John Cage is a favourite along with Toshimaru Nakamura, Throbbing Gristle, Einsturzende Neubauten and Nurse With Wound. On a more conventional note; I like Talking Heads, Bauhaus, Siouxsie Sioux, Crass, Elvis Costello and Kraftwerk.
So what about you?
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Jul 12, 2016 8:05:16 GMT
Post by theoverlord on Jul 12, 2016 8:05:16 GMT
I have slightly more common tastes(?), listening mainly to rock through to heavy metal, usually listening to Judas Priest, Lordi, lostprophets, black sabbath and Dethklok. However these tastes can change with present company and the mood that I'm in. Recently I've been listening to five finger death punch and ex deo, which is a heavy metal band that sings about Roman history (battles, etc.) both of these bands I quite like now.
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Jul 12, 2016 9:07:23 GMT
Post by Oneiros on Jul 12, 2016 9:07:23 GMT
My musical tastes are very eclectic... and I considered myself to have a broad knowledge of world music until I met my boyfriend (ethnomusicology is a keen interest of his) There are few genres that there isn't something I will listen to (though jungle and chamber opera remain completely turn offs for me). Apart from the classic rock/pop of the 80s, my tastes span musicals, opera, lyrical & folk metal (e.g. Turisas), Eurovision, J-rock/pop, technogothic (e.g. E Nomine), country, Celtic/New Age/folk (e.g. Susan Aglukark) plus cross-genre stuff like Highland and Vacuum.
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Jul 12, 2016 9:11:08 GMT
Post by Coil on Jul 12, 2016 9:11:08 GMT
I've never heard of Ex Deo, but I've just listened to I, Caligvla on youtube. Liking what I hear. Nuclear Blast are a reliably brutal label. I'd recommend checking out Dimmu Borgir's In Sorte Diaboli album if you haven't already.
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Post by Coil on Jul 12, 2016 9:20:43 GMT
My musical tastes are very eclectic... and I considered myself to have a broad knowledge of world music until I met my boyfriend (ethnomusicology is a keen interest of his) There are few genres that there isn't something I will listen to (though jungle and chamber opera remain completely turn offs for me). Apart from the classic rock/pop of the 80s, my tastes span musicals, opera, lyrical & folk metal (e.g. Turisas), Eurovision, J-rock/pop, technogothic (e.g. E Nomine), country, Celtic/New Age/folk (e.g. Susan Aglukark) plus cross-genre stuff like Highland and Vacuum. What's your beef with chamber opera?! Also, I think that is the first time chamber opera and jungle have been in the same category and Turisas are awesome \m/
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Jul 12, 2016 10:22:36 GMT
Post by Oneiros on Jul 12, 2016 10:22:36 GMT
I think it's because I just haven't 'got' it - I've seen live performances and was left bewildered at what I heard. It may just be a tad too experimental for my liking - if you have any recommendations, though, I'd be willing to give it another go.
And I'm kinda pleased that Turisas are one of the few musicians I've actually seen live (when they came to London a few years ago).
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Post by Coil on Jul 12, 2016 10:41:52 GMT
What have you seen? Two of my closest friends have written chamber operas that were performed in london and I'd love to tell them that a man on the internet was bewildered by them. One of them could do with an ego check L'incoronazione di Poppea by Monteverdi is beautiful, as is Dido and Aeneas by Purcell. Baroque chamber opera in general is wonderful imo.
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Post by missnash on Jul 12, 2016 11:53:59 GMT
I love seeing what people's music tastes are! I'm a theatre buff, so it's mostly musicals... But That in itself covers such a broad spectrum of styles and genres I guess it just fundamentally boils down to music that tells a story? I sometimes get a lot of stick for it but if it's what makes you happy right? I set up a theatre company last year with a friend of mine in Norwich (doing more obscure musical) and it's going pretty well could never imagine doing Chamber Opera though! And if that bewilders oneiros I dread to think how you'd find the show we just put on... ...which was called Urinetown (the musical) - based on a dystopian future where because of global drought private toilets were banned and everyone has to pay to use company-owned amenities... It's a mad, dark (dark) comedy but fantastic we did it steampunk-y
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Jul 12, 2016 13:07:17 GMT
Post by Coil on Jul 12, 2016 13:07:17 GMT
I saw adverts for Urinetown on the tube! I wanted to go see it, but funds did not allow It's really cool that you were involved in that though!
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Post by Samwise on Jul 12, 2016 13:34:18 GMT
I love seeing what people's music tastes are! I'm a theatre buff, so it's mostly musicals... But That in itself covers such a broad spectrum of styles and genres I guess it just fundamentally boils down to music that tells a story? I sometimes get a lot of stick for it but if it's what makes you happy right? I set up a theatre company last year with a friend of mine in Norwich (doing more obscure musical) and it's going pretty well could never imagine doing Chamber Opera though! And if that bewilders oneiros I dread to think how you'd find the show we just put on... ...which was called Urinetown (the musical) - based on a dystopian future where because of global drought private toilets were banned and everyone has to pay to use company-owned amenities... It's a mad, dark (dark) comedy but fantastic we did it steampunk-y That sounds so intresting! I recently got into muisicals, and basically listen to nothing but at the moment. Mainly due to Hamilton (a musical currently only in Broadway New York, its a rap and hip hop musical about the first Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton) it sweeped the Tony's this year, the cast album won a Grammy and is HUGE in the US, Much smaller in the UK but will be coming across the sea to our tiny island next year!
In the same theme, the composer of that musical (Lin Manuel Miranda) created another one called "in the heights" which is currently being played in a Temporary Theatre just outside Kings Cross, if you guys get the chance its phenomenal , this ones is about Washington Heights, an area of northern manhatten where Hispanic community live, again sounds mundane but is absolutely fantastic!
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Post by missnash on Jul 12, 2016 14:29:45 GMT
I'm all over those two already! (on the waiting list for London Hamilton and should be seeing In the Heights in a few weeks!) I love Lin Manuel Miranda, he's an amazing talent! I tried to get tickets when I was in NY a week ago but it's near on impossible! I heard the term Hip-Hopera use to describe some of it, and I can feel myself geeking out at the thought of Lin Manuel possibly opening it when it transfers!
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Jul 12, 2016 14:46:59 GMT
Post by martyni on Jul 12, 2016 14:46:59 GMT
\m/ metal \m/ 90's cartoon theme tunes Live music Anything popular in 2001-2003
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Post by Coil on Jul 12, 2016 15:50:24 GMT
I'm all over those two already! (on the waiting list for London Hamilton and should be seeing In the Heights in a few weeks!) I love Lin Manuel Miranda, he's an amazing talent! I tried to get tickets when I was in NY a week ago but it's near on impossible! I heard the term Hip-Hopera use to describe some of it, and I can feel myself geeking out at the thought of Lin Manuel possibly opening it when it transfers! I was lucky enough to see In The Heights on Broadway in 2009 (I also got to see a production of Westside Story where the Sharks sang in spanish and was punished with The Adams Family musical...) It was fantastic. I was sceptical of it as hip hop isn't at all my thing, big I loved it. I hope you have a great time!
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Post by missnash on Jul 12, 2016 16:28:22 GMT
Haha. Oh the Adams Family musical... :/
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Post by Brave Sir Robin on Jul 12, 2016 23:23:36 GMT
I'm such a musical philistine. I basically only listen to vaguely mainstream stuff, but slightly random too and I just put artists I like on loop. Recently that has been nearly all Taylor Swift. In the past Fall Out Boy and Bob Dylan featured heavily.
You know what else was great? Glee. I spent months and months listening to nothing but stuff Glee covered. Good times.
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