What Are You Listening To?

[zebraairforce]

i think you will like this song

http://8bitcollective.com/music/chibi-t ... +Love.%29/

[JoshF]

That tune cause my The Mack to return.

[Necrocheese]

Mercyful Fate - Melissa (album)

[Chakan]

Tanguy Ukele Orchestra. First time I've listened to it in years. My favorite tracks are Batman, Snake Eater, and Space Harrier. Try them first.

[otana_uk]

[Vejetto]

Plunking around overclocked remix site. Some of it is quite good.

[Chakan]

Dream Theater
Images and Words (1992)

This has to be my absolute favorite progressive rock album. The opener, Pull Me Under, and the closer, Learning to Live (can't find album version atm, sorry! this live version is ok and complete), total about 20 minutes and justify the purchase alone.

Here's the lyrics to Learning to Live, which was written about AIDs in the late 80s/early 90s when it was on everyone's minds:

There was no time for pain
No energy for anger
The sightlessness of hatred slips away
Walking through winter streets alone
He stops and takes a breath
With confidence and selfcontrol

I look at the world and see no understanding
I'm waiting to find some sense of strength
I'm begging you from the bottom of my heart
To show me understanding

I need to live life
Like some people never will
So find me kindness
Find me beauty
Find me truth
When temptation brings me to my knees
And I lay here drained of strength
Show me kindness
Show me beauty
Show me truth

The way your heart surrounds
Makes all the difference
It's what decides if you'll endure the pain
That we all feel
The way your heart beats
Makes all difference
In learing to live
Here before me is my soul
I'm learning to live
I won't give up
Till I've no more to give

Listening to the city
Whispering its violence
I set out watching from above
The 90's bring new questions
New solutions to be found
I fell in love to be let down

Once again we dance in the crowd
At times a step away
From a common fear that's all spread out
It won't listen to what you say
Once you're touched you stand alone
To face the bitter fight
Once I reached for love
And now I reach for life

Another chance to lift my life
Free the sensation in my heart
To ride the wings of dreams
Into changing horizons
It brings inner peace within my mind,
As I'm lifted from where I've spilt my life
I hear an innocent voice
I hear kindness, beauty and truth

The way your heart sounds
Makes all the difference
It's what decides if you'll endure the pain
That we all feel
The way your heart beats
Makes all the difference
In learning to live
Spread before you is your soul
So forever hold the dreams within your hearts
Through nature's inflexible grace
I'm learning to live...

Fun fact: it's #2 out of all time favorite progressive metal rock albums sandwiched between Queensryche's Operation Mindcrime and Tool's Aenima on this site's list. I bet you've heard those two before, though, and not this great CD.

[zebraairforce]

http://www.andorejr.com/post/origins-andore-jr

[Necrocheese]

Village People, Charlie Daniels band, and Nokturnal Mortum : Weltanshauung

[Chakan]

Figured I'd lists some podcasts/radio shows I like listening to:

-This American Life. Hell yeah. I try to catch it as often as possible. All shows are available as a pay download or for free as they air (newest one is free to stream/download), but you can get around that.

-Le Show. Harry Shearer (The Simpsons, Spinal Tap) puts on a weekly radio show that's broadcast on NPR and archived on the site every week. A pretty smart and often funny show that covers the new.

-Retronauts. This is one every single of you guys should be listening to religiously. Four or five gamers sit around, talkin' about classic video games, with each episode having a loose theme.

-RetroGaming with Racketboy Podcast. You've probably visited the site, now listen to the podcast. This is a newer show, but it's been fairly interesting. He did an interview with Brandon Cobb from Super Fighter Team, the guys who brought us Beggar Prince and Legend of WuKung.

-Limit Break Radio. A Final Fantasy XI podcast. Very good quality recordings, usually. Their release schedule is inconsistent. The link I've provided is the best episode they've put out.

-Pet Food Alpha. Another FFXI podcast. Most notable for being a trooper. As far as I know, they've never missed a week in their release schedule. Sometimes it can be pretty funny. Look for their year end clip shows to get the best of the best.

[Chakan]

Well, here's what I've been listening to this week. I don't think any of my forum members need introduction to the artist responsible for these albums.


MP3 player on my phone says I've listened to With Teeth the most. I know I've listened to "The Hand That Feeds" and "Right Where It Belongs" more than any other tracks. Most recently listening to The Downward Spiral, which I hadn't bothered playing this week.

[Necrocheese]

Oh shit. There goes industrial. JENGA

Alice Cooper was probably the artist I most recently listened to.

[otana_uk]

The Fragile was one of the albums that got me through my later youth :]

[Chakan]

I never got The Downward Spiral when it came out, for some reason I can't come up with. I actually ended up trading for a copy of Further Down the Spiral, which I enjoyed just as much anyway. I got Broken years later at the exact right time (was listening to more punk/industrial). The Fragile was a great album for that lonely period of my life. I was pretty busy during the mid 2000s, so I largely ignored With Teeth until Year Zero came out.

[Necrocheese]

Destruction: Released from Agony

Early German thrash metal with some very interesting lyrics in some songs that aren't typical of the genre.

Both of you in my opinion need to check out some industrial that I could send you if you're still interested in that genre. I personally prefer the darker, almost purely synthesized forms of industrial that generally fit under the darkwave or ebm categories. Feindflug and Psyclon Nine being two very good ones. Same goes for Dawn of Ashes, before they decided to be fucking losers and become an extraordinarily generic metal band.