What Are You Listening To Now?

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gigilo said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl2Jv4dzFqg

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf91dTrLkgA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qInMq7-CVqc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8a1WEjLqUw

Another manics day,like an atomic bomb landing still sound fresh and riffs are totally original and lyrical genius

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgKXBJ2LZKo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hw5ATh72I8
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Obedience to the law is free desire
Under curfew from sharp neon barbed wire
Wasting away this country, wearing like a born dead
Free heroin shots for those who will no longer beg
Spectators of suicide
Exploding in society's eye
Spitting glass from our mouths
Dying like yesterday
The only free choice is the refusal to pay
Life reduced to suicidal comforting
Cigarette death, it's suckling
Choked on the same lines that we've all said
Spectators of suicide
Exploding in society's eye
Spitting glass from our mouths
Dying like yesterday
You're gonna shoot us dead with the words we say
You're gonna shoot us dead with the words we say
You're gonna shoot us dead with the words we say
You're gonna shoot us dead with the words we say

Manic Street Preachers - Spectators Of Suicide (original Heavenly Version)



A couple more from the master JDB!!

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIWZaz7cNys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM6uRbXAyso

Last track always takes me back to my granddad dying in hospital when he was lying there for several weeks and how he must've been thinking,breaks my heart..
 
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Good man Gigs
One of the great bands
Richeys lyrics were so heavy weren't they, James did an amazing job fitting them all in.
 
The acoustic set that spectators of suicide on the links above is fantastic,he didn't want to play condemned to rock n roll because of all the riff so he said would play it if everyone sang it,really is worth watching so funny and all the riffs in it sound so good even though on acoustic.He was joking about not being able to sing'' sterile like a line of ****'' because it was so high..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1xMjf3D0BA
 
gigilo said:
Obedience to the law is free desire
Under curfew from sharp neon barbed wire
Wasting away this country, wearing like a born dead
Free heroin shots for those who will no longer beg
Spectators of suicide
Exploding in society's eye
Spitting glass from our mouths
Dying like yesterday
The only free choice is the refusal to pay
Life reduced to suicidal comforting
Cigarette death, it's suckling
Choked on the same lines that we've all said
Spectators of suicide
Exploding in society's eye
Spitting glass from our mouths
Dying like yesterday
You're gonna shoot us dead with the words we say
You're gonna shoot us dead with the words we say
You're gonna shoot us dead with the words we say
You're gonna shoot us dead with the words we say

Manic Street Preachers - Spectators Of Suicide (original Heavenly Version)



A couple more from the master JDB!!

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIWZaz7cNys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM6uRbXAyso

Last track always takes me back to my granddad dying in hospital when he was lying there for several weeks and how he must've been thinking,breaks my heart..
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Time for some stone roses love this piano versions by Richard Thomas he learn't them all by ear,really captures the soul and mood of the tracks especially if you know the lyrics,a must buy album,..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ILUpT2lWuE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGzEJ3vNM4s

One of the best darkest albums written,brett anderson at his vocal best..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdc6Sd0EhNQ
 
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Yes"


You can buy her, you can buy her
This one's here, this one's here, this one's here and this one's here
Ev'rything's for sale

For sale? dumb ****'s same dumb questions
Oh virgins? listen, all virgins are liars honey
And I don't know what I'm scared of or what I even enjoy
Dulling, get money, but nothing turns out like you want it to

And in these plagued streets of pity you can buy anything
For $200 anyone can conceive a God on video
He's a boy, you want a girl so tear off his ****
Tie his hair in bunches, **** him, call him Rita if you want

I eat and I dress and I wash and I still can say thank you
Puking - shaking - sinking I still stand for old ladies
Can't shout, can't scream, hurt myself to get pain out

I 'T' them, 24:7, all year long
Purgatory's circle, drowning here, someone will always say yes
Funny place for the social, for the insects to start caring
Just an ambulance at the bottom of a cliff

In these plagued streets of pity you can buy anything
For $200 anyone can conceive a God on video
He's a boy, you want a girl so tear off his ****
Tie his hair in bunches, **** him, call him Rita if you want, if you want

I eat and I dress and I wash and I can still say thank you
Puking - shaking - sinking I still stand for old ladies
Can't shout, can't scream, I hurt myself to get pain out

Power produces desire, the weak have none
There's no lust in this coma even for a fifty
Solitude, solitude, the 11th commandment

The only certain thing that is left about me
There is no part of my body that has not been used
Pity or pain, to show displeasure's shame
Everyone I've loved or hated always seems to leave

And in these plagued streets of pity you can buy anything
For $200 anyone can conceive a God on video
He's a boy, you want a girl so tear off his ****
Tie his hair in bunches, **** him, call him Rita if you want, if you want

Power produces desire, the weak have none
There's no lust in this coma even for a fifty
Solitude, solitude, the 11th commandment

Don't hurt, just obey, lie down, do as they say
May as well be heaven this hell, smells the same
These sunless afternoons I can't find myself

Two dollars you rub her tits
Three dollars you rub her ass
Five dollars you can play with her pussy
or you can lick her tits
Choice is yours

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IctXMG18wG8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd3C9aAupQI Album full version

Written y y richey Edwards then james dean Bradfield sings like this,best voice ever in british music plus playing guitar at some time,they were even going to release this as a single :lol: how he sings power produces desire to the 11th in commandment in one breat beautiful.richjey didn't make it easy for him..:lol::lol: sorry about all the exopletives but its too good not to listen too..
 
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gigilo said:
Yes"


You can buy her, you can buy her
This one's here, this one's here, this one's here and this one's here
Ev'rything's for sale

For sale? dumb ****'s same dumb questions
Oh virgins? listen, all virgins are liars honey
And I don't know what I'm scared of or what I even enjoy
Dulling, get money, but nothing turns out like you want it to

And in these plagued streets of pity you can buy anything
For $200 anyone can conceive a God on video
He's a boy, you want a girl so tear off his ****
Tie his hair in bunches, **** him, call him Rita if you want

I eat and I dress and I wash and I still can say thank you
Puking - shaking - sinking I still stand for old ladies
Can't shout, can't scream, hurt myself to get pain out

I 'T' them, 24:7, all year long
Purgatory's circle, drowning here, someone will always say yes
Funny place for the social, for the insects to start caring
Just an ambulance at the bottom of a cliff

In these plagued streets of pity you can buy anything
For $200 anyone can conceive a God on video
He's a boy, you want a girl so tear off his ****
Tie his hair in bunches, **** him, call him Rita if you want, if you want

I eat and I dress and I wash and I can still say thank you
Puking - shaking - sinking I still stand for old ladies
Can't shout, can't scream, I hurt myself to get pain out

Power produces desire, the weak have none
There's no lust in this coma even for a fifty
Solitude, solitude, the 11th commandment

The only certain thing that is left about me
There is no part of my body that has not been used
Pity or pain, to show displeasure's shame
Everyone I've loved or hated always seems to leave

And in these plagued streets of pity you can buy anything
For $200 anyone can conceive a God on video
He's a boy, you want a girl so tear off his ****
Tie his hair in bunches, **** him, call him Rita if you want, if you want

Power produces desire, the weak have none
There's no lust in this coma even for a fifty
Solitude, solitude, the 11th commandment

Don't hurt, just obey, lie down, do as they say
May as well be heaven this hell, smells the same
These sunless afternoons I can't find myself

Two dollars you rub her tits
Three dollars you rub her ass
Five dollars you can play with her pussy
or you can lick her tits
Choice is yours

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IctXMG18wG8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd3C9aAupQI Album full version

Written y y richey Edwards then james dean Bradfield sings like this,best voice ever in british music plus playing guitar at some time,they were even going to release this as a single :lol: how he sings power produces desire to the 11th in commandment in one breat beautiful.richjey didn't make it easy for him..:lol::lol: sorry about all the exopletives but its too good not to listen too..
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Die in the summertime was favourite song on the album but
The Holy Bible was heavy,heavy sh*t
4st 7lb was particularly grim
Probably my least favourite of those 3 albums before Richey disappeared.
 
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Think it's miles clear of the other albums revol,faster and other gut wrenching songs I don't like anything after this is my truth all wishy washy a bit commercial for m,e typical for bands once they reach the 40+ and richey was a genius anyway,this is james second fav song of all time can't remember which his fav was but also on holy bible..Music has to be thought provoking for me and usually darker the better,thats where the truth generally lies..
 
if you like dark try listening to THIRST by CLOCK DVA released in about 79/80 , a track called 4 HOURS is a fav of mine.
 
Happy Pet Sounds Day. 50 years since the release of the most influential album of the 60s. 2 of my favourite tracks. Just listen to the harmonies and the layering of voices and instruments. Enjoy.

 
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Good year for new albums so far. PJ Harvey and Radiohead have come out with solid releases as you'd expect, and also the new Moonsorrow album is very good, if you like Scandanavian Pagan Metal. Which I do :cool:
 
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Good call Archie. It's only in recent years that I have fully appreciated the genuine brilliance of this group. The harmonisation is stunning and purely musically they are arguably the finest ever in the genre.

genius in music is laughably thrown around far too often but there is more than a touch of it with the beach boys. This is a well known but stunning track in every single way.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UcWjqWVZrbI
 
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Pet Sounds is superb, thanks Archie

Quite a day May 16th 1966 as it also saw the release of Bob Dylan's 'Blonde On Blonde' which is damn good but a bit curate's eggish: too long really as is the case with most double albums. And unlike The Beach Boys, Bob has become a little corked with age

Youtube doesn't seem to have the actual album versions but these out-takes are pretty decent

https://youtu.be/5WS-TTNaLyg
https://youtu.be/ljbxm_sKC90

and just for Grasshopper

https://youtu.be/h0Zxd5jp-lI which is the album version

Back in the '70s and '80s I amused myself by writing reviews of LPs I owned and circa 1976 in the introduction to my NME-esque review of Blonde On Blonde I recall my Parker 51 scribbling summat like 'it's unbelievable this record is now ten years old' ...jeez

Folk, well the media really, bang-on about 1967 and the 'summer of love' being some kind of creative high point in pop culture but for me 1965 and 1966 were better: the best two Beatles LPs - 'Rubber Soul' and 'Revolver' and Dylans best two - 'Bringing It All Back Home' and 'Highway 61 Revisited'; and 'Pet Sounds'
 
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gigilo said:
Think it's miles clear of the other albums revol,faster and other gut wrenching songs I don't like anything after this is my truth all wishy washy a bit commercial for m,e typical for bands once they reach the 40+ and richey was a genius anyway,this is james second fav song of all time can't remember which his fav was but also on holy bible..Music has to be thought provoking for me and usually darker the better,thats where the truth generally lies..
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Drone said:
Pet Sounds is superb, thanks Archie

Quite a day May 16th 1966 as it also saw the release of Bob Dylan's 'Blonde On Blonde' which is damn good but a bit curate's eggish: too long really as is the case with most double albums. And unlike The Beach Boys, Bob has become a little corked with age

Youtube doesn't seem to have the actual album versions but these out-takes are pretty decent

https://youtu.be/5WS-TTNaLyg
https://youtu.be/ljbxm_sKC90

and just for Grasshopper

https://youtu.be/h0Zxd5jp-lI which is the album version

Back in the '70s and '80s I amused myself by writing reviews of LPs I owned and circa 1976 in the introduction to my NME-esque review of Blonde On Blonde I recall my Parker 51 scribbling summat like 'it's unbelievable this record is now ten years old' ...jeez

Folk, well the media really, bang-on about 1967 and the 'summer of love' being some kind of creative high point in pop culture but for me 1965 and 1966 were better: the best two Beatles LPs - 'Rubber Soul' and 'Revolver' and Dylans best two - 'Bringing It All Back Home' and 'Highway 61 Revisited'; and 'Pet Sounds'
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Last night's Brian Wilson concert in Liverpool was a proper case of being in the presence of genius. As Clive says, it's something of a devalued word these days but he is absolutely the foremost musical genius of my lifetime and it was a privilege to be there. This review (of last week's Manchester concert) is comprehensive and pretty much on the nail.
www.theguardian.com/music/2016/may/22/brian-wilson-presents-pet-sounds-review-a-spectacularly-moving-evening

My fears for his vocals were largely unfounded because it's more about the harmonies and his band reproduced those brilliantly. If anything, Brian's phrasing changes to accommodate his reduced vocal range gave the impression of an individual performance rather than a Beach Boys karaoke.
For anyone who hasn't seen it, the biopic Love And Mercy is an interesting, if probably sanitised, take on the recording of Pet Sounds. The title track is from his first solo album back in the 80s and is his theme and final encore song these days.

Time to go and dig out my 1966 mono vinyl copy of Pet Sounds.
 
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Cheers Archie. Good write up.

Its the layers of sound harmonising isn't it? No one else has pulled that off in such a manner in popular music surely? The lightness of touch. I don't know if this has ever been said before but it's reminiscent of Bach to me. Which is saying something of course
 
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