Well, lately I'm beginning to listen the folk and instrumental music and I find a lot of interesting bands.
A cute, old song from someone who passed away too early.
Dua Lipa! Remind me to tell her that!
It's a bloody class song and it's weird that it's not more famous. I suppose people just know Love Shack, which is also good but in a very different way.
Yes, they made some fine dance rock. Love Shack is probably acting like a screen hiding two really good albums. And maybe even the rest of Athens music scene. So many great bands are eclipsed by one accidental hit. (don't know why I'm thinking about Talk Talk and their last 2 albums here/ultra depressing different style of music).
Yeah their first 2 albums are amazing. Along with loads of other things from the post-punk/new wave era. The exact nomenclature of both being slightly confusing as ever. It's basically my main stream of musical influence in what I listen to, but the B-52s had missed me as dancey art-pop for some reason. I love Love Shack and always mentally bracket it with Dee-lite even though they're not similar.
I know 2 Talk Talk songs It's My Life and Life's What You Make It, though they've always seemed like runner's up to Depeche Mode. Who kinda did the opposite of the B-52s in going from cheery to moody. But yknow Talk Talk stand up to a Goth night in my youth, all Depeche Mode, The Cure, Joy Division, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Killing Joke, Sisters of Mercy etc.
Oh no, for Talk Talk I was thinking about their late period, the last 2 albums, Laughing Stock especially, which are two very special things, that inspired many artists in the post rock genre (from Tortoise to Mogwai, Godspeed You black emperor, etc…). It's something very special and you would never imagine by listening to it that its the same guys who wrote "it's my life". I find it beautiful, but Mark Hollis's voice and lyrics can get on some people's nerves. ANd I won'twrite "special" again.
CDs I haven't listened to in a long while. And now I can't get She's in Parties out of my ear, again.
I'll give it a whirl as I do like Mogwai.
Naive melody, great ! Hasn't listened to this one since a long time. Arcade fire covered it very nicely.
I couldn't find a very good version of the Arcade Fire one, weirdly it popped up in one of my streaming radio station things as a string quartet cover by Unwoman. Which I can't find a video for. It's different to other string versions I found as it's all about the sorrowful cellos, some of the other ones almost sound like baroque chamber pieces. Vom.
I'm not sure I approve of this one but I do like Postmodern Jukebox.
I don't know them. It's nice. It's such a great song, and I love Byrne so much. Not only for what he did with Talking Heads.
It's mostly folk by the way.
If you are listening to this then let's sing together!
You-know-what reminded of this odd-one-out song that I used to listen to a lot, from Chvrches' debut album.
Not linking the official video, because the production work on the album version does a vastly better job of hiding how the guy can't sing to save his life.
I listened to the UK Hot 50 on Spotify and realized that the 3 rock songs were the only ones that weren't collaborations between at least 2 artists, and that all the songs sound the same.
As such, I can't really say who i was listening to, but 80% of the songs had some combination of Ariana Grande, Cardi B, Khalid. Less of them featured Ed Sheeran than last time.