[Music] What's the best song you have heard today? Share it here.

[Happy Exile]

I think this might be my favourite album of all time, and this one of the best pop songs ever written. My brain is cursed that I can't listen to music more than a couple of times without breaking it down instrument by instrument and the way it's been put together in infinite detail, pulling apart the harmonies and rhythms between voices and instruments, isolating individual instrument tracks etc etc. Often that can make a song have limited shelf-life before it's a mentally exhausting logical deconstruction exercise where the joy of the music is lost (and can make me unbearably snobby about some music too I'm sure) - this album and song is one of the few to survive that process and still hold the original enjoyment, or in fact where that process can add to the enjoyment. For example I could listen to the way this is built between 1m50 and 2m36 over and over again and never get tired of how it's put together block by block, instrument by instrument. I say I could, I mean that I do. (Possibly weirdly, the Pogues and Abba are the only other bands where I can still enjoy whole albums after 30 or 40 years of hearing them regularly and deconstructing the music in my head.)

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Fell into a Vowl wormhole yesterday. Worth it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhSOTeNJVAg

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I think this might be my favourite album of all time, and this one of the best pop songs ever written. My brain is cursed that I can't listen to music more than a couple of times without breaking it down instrument by instrument and the way it's been put together in infinite detail, pulling apart the harmonies and rhythms between voices and instruments, isolating individual instrument tracks etc etc. Often that can make a song have limited shelf-life before it's a mentally exhausting logical deconstruction exercise where the joy of the music is lost (and can make me unbearably snobby about some music too I'm sure) - this album and song is one of the few to survive that process and still hold the original enjoyment, or in fact where that process can add to the enjoyment. For example I could listen to the way this is built between 1m50 and 2m36 over and over again and never get tired of how it's put together block by block, instrument by instrument. I say I could, I mean that I do. (Possibly weirdly, the Pogues and Abba are the only other bands where I can still enjoy whole albums after 30 or 40 years of hearing them regularly and deconstructing the music in my head.)

Very interesting post. I probably approach music in exactly the opposite way in part to preclude dissection misery. When I had few records I would play them repeatedly, and soon found I could play along with most things. Staleness crept in. Ten years later I would listen to whatever was around and if I liked it, I found I had to deal with a great deal of hostility from some people close to me. For example Madonna. I was told to read about her and learn to hate her. So I refused. And later, eupohoric trance - I should not like that because it is simplistic crap. As time passed I firmed up my attitude which is enjoy the whole, analyse nothing, don't research the backstory of artists you like, and select what gigs you go too carefully to minimise the risk of audience 'whoopers'. And listen to as much new music as you can get your hands on. With all that in mind I can happily go back to the late 60s and listen to Traffic, Caravan, The Doors, Morning, High Tide and so on without melting into a deconstructed pool of dispair

 

[Happy Exile]

Very interesting post. I probably approach music in exactly the opposite way in part to preclude dissection misery. When I had few records I would play them repeatedly, and soon found I could play along with most things. Staleness crept in. Ten years later I would listen to whatever was around and if I liked it, I found I had to deal with a great deal of hostility from some people close to me. For example Madonna. I was told to read about her and learn to hate her. So I refused. And later, eupohoric trance - I should not like that because it is simplistic crap. As time passed I firmed up my attitude which is enjoy the whole, analyse nothing, don't research the backstory of artists you like, and select what gigs you go too carefully to minimise the risk of audience 'whoopers'. And listen to as much new music as you can get your hands on. With all that in mind I can happily go back to the late 60s and listen to Traffic, Caravan, The Doors, Morning, High Tide and so on without melting into a deconstructed pool of dispair

Really interesting! I get what you're saying. I can't control the fact my brain does it, it just "does". It's the same with, say, a painting - I can't look at the whole for more than a couple of seconds without breaking it down into sections, details, brushstrokes etc. Same with films - I'll spend as much time wondering about directorial and photographic choices, listening to the way the dialogue is put together, as watching the story (one slightly bizarre outcome of this is it's rare a plot twist is unexpected). I don't watch TV which I think is partly down to this - I just can't engage with TV drama or films on TV which I think is because on a small(er) screen the focus on plot is bigger and that doesn't align with the way I watch things. Not through choice, I just find it a bit unengaging.

Where this leads to probable snobbery with some music it's simply because having dissected it without really wanting to I can't hear it for it's qualities as a song anymore, just as the ponderous baselines or vocal or subjectively weak lyrics whatever. I totally hear you on being attracted to the untypical artists though - I got brutally taken apart at school because I liked Abba, Erasure (A Little Respect - another near perfect song in my mind), A-Ha, later some Crowded House via Fields of the Nephilim, Nine Inch Nails and so on - it's almost always been about individual songs for me than bands though because of the way my brain hears songs, I don't care whose made the song. Trance was a big part of my life too late 90s - for whatever reason I really connected with that. Today I listen to a lot of deeply unfashionable music whose target demographic is definitely not me - my current Spotify playlist has a K-Pop song with incredible harmonies, some rap that's objectively laughable I'm sure but I find the wordplay and rhythm of the words and the tone and pitch of the guys voice compelling, Taylor Swift, random US bands a long way from any kind of UK radio play, French heavy metal etc. It'll mostly all be different by next week though! It's partly why I love this thread - constant new things to hook into.

 

[pearl]

Really interesting! I get what you're saying. I can't control the fact my brain does it, it just "does". It's the same with, say, a painting - I can't look at the whole for more than a couple of seconds without breaking it down into sections, details, brushstrokes etc. Same with films - I'll spend as much time wondering about directorial and photographic choices, listening to the way the dialogue is put together, as watching the story (one slightly bizarre outcome of this is it's rare a plot twist is unexpected). I don't watch TV which I think is partly down to this - I just can't engage with TV drama or films on TV which I think is because on a small(er) screen the focus on plot is bigger and that doesn't align with the way I watch things. Not through choice, I just find it a bit unengaging.

Where this leads to probable snobbery with some music it's simply because having dissected it without really wanting to I can't hear it for it's qualities as a song anymore, just as the ponderous baselines or vocal or subjectively weak lyrics whatever. I totally hear you on being attracted to the untypical artists though - I got brutally taken apart at school because I liked Abba, Erasure (A Little Respect - another near perfect song in my mind), A-Ha, later some Crowded House via Fields of the Nephilim, Nine Inch Nails and so on - it's almost always been about individual songs for me than bands though because of the way my brain hears songs, I don't care whose made the song. Trance was a big part of my life too late 90s - for whatever reason I really connected with that. Today I listen to a lot of deeply unfashionable music whose target demographic is definitely not me - my current Spotify playlist has a K-Pop song with incredible harmonies, some rap that's objectively laughable I'm sure but I find the wordplay and rhythm of the words and the tone and pitch of the guys voice compelling, Taylor Swift, random US bands a long way from any kind of UK radio play, French heavy metal etc. It'll mostly all be different by next week though! It's partly why I love this thread - constant new things to hook into.

Wow, have enjoyed reading your posts. Are you a musician?

 

[pearl]

https://youtu.be/Ay_0hfyuTFw

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

I think this might be my favourite album of all time, and this one of the best pop songs ever written. My brain is cursed that I can't listen to music more than a couple of times without breaking it down instrument by instrument and the way it's been put together in infinite detail, pulling apart the harmonies and rhythms between voices and instruments, isolating individual instrument tracks etc etc. Often that can make a song have limited shelf-life before it's a mentally exhausting logical deconstruction exercise where the joy of the music is lost (and can make me unbearably snobby about some music too I'm sure) - this album and song is one of the few to survive that process and still hold the original enjoyment, or in fact where that process can add to the enjoyment. For example I could listen to the way this is built between 1m50 and 2m36 over and over again and never get tired of how it's put together block by block, instrument by instrument. I say I could, I mean that I do. (Possibly weirdly, the Pogues and Abba are the only other bands where I can still enjoy whole albums after 30 or 40 years of hearing them regularly and deconstructing the music in my head.)

Get what you're saying bigtime. There's something about the poppier end of The Cure that effortlessly hits the spot, decade upon decade. Would hazard a guess that you also enjoy The Lightning Seeds 'Jollification' for much the same reasons. Same effortlessly crafted pop tunes, same wistful inflection in the vocals. Oh and they're playing in Brighton town in the Autumn

 

[PTC Gull]

I think this might be my favourite album of all time, and this one of the best pop songs ever written. My brain is cursed that I can't listen to music more than a couple of times without breaking it down instrument by instrument and the way it's been put together in infinite detail, pulling apart the harmonies and rhythms between voices and instruments, isolating individual instrument tracks etc etc. Often that can make a song have limited shelf-life before it's a mentally exhausting logical deconstruction exercise where the joy of the music is lost (and can make me unbearably snobby about some music too I'm sure) - this album and song is one of the few to survive that process and still hold the original enjoyment, or in fact where that process can add to the enjoyment. For example I could listen to the way this is built between 1m50 and 2m36 over and over again and never get tired of how it's put together block by block, instrument by instrument. I say I could, I mean that I do. (Possibly weirdly, the Pogues and Abba are the only other bands where I can still enjoy whole albums after 30 or 40 years of hearing them regularly and deconstructing the music in my head.)

Can someone tell me what the video was? because as you can see its not coming up. Thanks

 

[Super Steve Earle]

Something sweet today, with not a lot to dissect

 

[Uh_huh_him]

 

[Ceej]

https://youtu.be/epqZrkxZ3_o

Tuneage

 

[Pevenseagull]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ReYu-qts2Dg


Probably put this up before

Listened to it again today

So it is here again

 

[OzMike]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LejMbZjZUvk

 

[Happy Exile]

Wow, have enjoyed reading your posts. Are you a musician?

Thank you. No I'm not, I had piano lessons for a couple of years growing up but nothing more.

 

[Barrow Boy]

This video never fails to re-affirm my love of rock music, I rate this live performance as one of the greatest pieces of rock ever recorded. Bon Scott was the best AC/DC vocalist, they possessed the greatest rhythm section of any rock band, and in Angus they had one of the greatest lead guitarists and showmen of all time.

 

[Happy Exile]

 

[BN9 BHA]

https://youtu.be/1VAnZXDSZCQ

 

[sams dad]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RtTWDv-yWM

Tony Blackburn played this on "Sounds of the 60's" this morning.
A soulful cover of The Doors song, it's my favourite version.

 

[pearl]

https://youtu.be/fdAxYw2V6T8

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

There are two different artists called Tryptamind. One is techno, techno, techno. The other is dreamy wave. I prefer tha latter. This is very slinky

The link will work if you click through.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2W9mX4IqHc

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