What are you listening to?

Fender said:
Of course, I can't miss this omnipresent album. Trying to understand what's going on in the head of the biggest pop star of the present. And that's exactly what you learn on The Tortured Poets Department, because Taylor Swift is and has always been above all a confessional songwriter and storyteller who slips into existing shapes like in a dress or jacket. The aesthetics she chooses for her respective albums is always part of the story (this is not different with Bob Dylan - only pants rather than dress). Recently flawlessly implemented in the mood music at the blue hour of Midnights. It is a bit surprising that she chooses a very similar aesthetic on the successor, which is about separations. But maybe it takes the acoustic cocooning of the cosy sounds (of Aaron Dessner and Jack Antonoff), determined the sound since Swift's coming-of-age album Folklore to heal the sore soul. The charm of The Tortured Poets Department is at least initially not necessarily musical in nature, but rather more textual. Should not surprise with an album with this title. Of course, you also listen so spellbound, because you otherwise only know celebrity couple separations remotely from the "Gala" that is out at the hairdresser's, and not first-hand. You look for the sensation and also find something toxic when the most popular woman in the world sings about her not so well-known ex lines like And I'll forget you, but I'll never forgive / The smallest man who ever lived. But the lyrics that she scatters in the glittering mid-tempo synth pop cocktail like a match letter poison are already masterclass.
(Initially written in German and hopefully the translation isn't too bad)


SView attachment 6723
Click to expand...
Smoothly produced mediocrity 😜😁😎. (IMHO)
 
i certainly enjoy all the backgroung info/personal anecdotes that @Fender throws into his posts. thanks so much for taking the time to put that stuff in! 🙏 i wish i was that knowledgable about who produced the albums i love and what was happening in the cultural moment at the time etc! 👏 🙇‍♂️
i'm not a swiftie tho, and probably never will be! :ROFLMAO:
 
"many if not the most love and need pop."

There has and always will be 'pop' music - but much of the last 2 decades has been corporately produced & heavily promoted rubbish (again imho😊). In contrast, for example, Bob Dylan, or Springsteen gave us pop but always so much more. 😎
 
Fender said:
Not only the first solo album from a Beatle, but also the first Apple album!
Never forget, how we were excited by Dream Scene with its Indian vocals moving back and forth between the loudspeakers over backwards electronic loops. Sensational new then.
Click to expand...
It's certainly a bit of an odd album, I never realised that it was almost entirely an instrumental album.
 
I thought I might as well play another weird George Harrison album, this one being his second release from 1969.

IMG_0318.jpeg
 
1000002376.pngWow, I can see colour again!! 😂 Green and Blue to begin with I guess - baby steps... absolutely spectacular stuff from my favourite homegrown Irish band right now! 🍀 This live version is even better than the album version... If you haven't already had a listen to this album, you owe it to yourself to check it out. 👌
 
Hi All,
Decided to start my evening listening session with the album: Famous Blue Raincoat by Jennifer Warnes. She ....as a singer IMHO is one of the most underrated musical talents of my era. (hitting 63 in 3 weeks time myself, to put things in perspective;) ) Everybody probable knows her from the movie Dirty Dancing and the duets she did on that soundtrack. But....somehowe she always seems to operate under the radar, at least here in Europe. I am so glad I saw her live in Antwerp back in 1992 at The Night of The Proms performing Joan of Arc by Leonard Cohen. In fact.....that performance pointed me to Cohen and made me a life long fan of him. She had some serious collaberations with Cohen during their subsequent careers. Back to Jennifer Warnes. For me .... her voice has such a quality and emotional depth in it, while retaining some sort of innocence and sadness. Everytime I hear her participating on a Cohen song ( as a backing vocal or on her own at this album ) the hairs on my arms reach out to the sky. She does that to me, I can't help it. :) See this clip to see what I mean.

Enjoy your own musical gems and have a good one everybody.
Martin.

IMG_1918.PNG
 
No more war 🎶 Songs for these troubled times

I kept the faith and I kept voting
Not for the iron fist but for the helping hand
For theirs is a land with a wall around it
And mine is a faith in my fellow man
Theirs is a land of hope and glory
Mine is the green field and the factory floor
Theirs are the skies all dark with bombers
And mine is the peace we knew
Between the wars



 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top