The Dancing Thumb (aka: music recommendations)

[ihavefivehat]

Yeah, the monolithic 4 CD box sets can be intimidating, but they're usually worth listening to. The nice thing I've been finding while doing this is that if you have the individual tracks tagged with the year they came out, you don't actually end up listening to the entire set back-to-back.

 

I'm up to 1929, which in my library is full of some really fantastic folk music. This one's from the Anthology of American Folk Music. (An absolutely phenomenal compilation which played a large part in launching the folk revival of the late 50's/early 60's, but that's a whole other story.).

 

[Max Ernst]

Why would you not be looking to that?

I don't like anybody in four hour blocks.

[TheLastBaron]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2JFauL7f9M

 

This is pretty rad.

[juv3nal]

My musical wanderings have recently taken me to Ruth Etting

playlist:

 

[Roswell47]

Hauntingly beautiful 11th century Icelandic hymn:

[BadHat]

Since the theme here seems to be beautiful things, here's something really pretty I was just reminded of. It's a reinterpretation of Massive Attack's Teardrop.

 

[melmer]

New A perfect Circle "By and Down"

http://www.spin.com/articles/a-perfect-circle-by-and-down-stream-three-sixty-greatest-hits/

edit: not very exciting, i thought they had a new album but its a best of

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More excitingly this is a quality chip tune album Anamanaguchi – Endless Fantasy

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Even more excitingly i think i may have discovered a way of getting unlimited free minutes with spotify

[Nappi]

Psychic by Darkside (Nicolas Jaar and Dave Harrington) is fantastic! Check it out:

 

Paper Trails

[Apelsin]

 

Familjen - Huvudet i sanden (Head in the sand)

 

Really like this video. As far as Werewolves go, I really like this kind of design of mostly being a very hairy human with big teeth. Sort of reminiscent of how Bigby in A Wolf Among Us looks when he is "wolf-ing" out.

 

 

This one is also good

[Max Ernst]

Somehow I managed to miss White Lung's records from last year. Rectifying it now. Here is a cool live performance:

 

 

If you need a studio recording to convince you, here you go:

 

[Apelsin]

That band is too cool to have feelings.

[Frenetic Pony]

This should have been the poster song for GTAV:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW8UlY8eXCk

 

Or should have been had the audio director had a better sense of music. It's the absolute perfect tone for GTAV and oddly as relevant today as it was in 1979. The lyrics are hilarious when you can actually understand them.

[Patters]

Seeing these guys on Tuesday

 

 

Been really enjoying Amorphis recently too:

 

 

[BadHat]

I keep meaning to get some Baroness, everything I've heard from them has been pretty tight in a Mastodon-but-sludgier sort of way. Which album/s would you recommend dive in with?

 

Listening to this and studying is super chill. Live jazz interpretations of Ghibli music.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtLB6Z8G4bI

[Nappi]

I keep meaning to get some Baroness, everything I've heard from them has been pretty tight in a Mastodon-but-sludgier sort of way. Which album/s would you recommend dive in with?

 

First & Second EPs are my favourites, but I don't know what is their current availability. The EPs are somewhat different from the color albums (much heavier than the later releases, at least), so if you have liked the singles, you might prefer Red, Blue or Yellow & Green. Of those, my favourite is the Red Album - I think.

[TheLastBaron]

Baroness is so good.

[Hermie]

I enjoy Baroness, but prefer a bit tighter, rockier bands, such as Graveyard, Rival Sons or Spritiual Beggars.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXriaYdhYec

 

[feelthedarkness]

man, Hsingen Blues is so damn good. Too bad the record after it was a clunker. 

 

You should peep the MAGIC CIRCLE record! Boston dudes. Sabbathy!

 

 

 

 

[toblix]

[melmer]

This album is awesome

Feed Me – Calamari Tuesday

I'm going to coin it high brow dubstep

[Thrik]

Bit of C2C vibe off this guy:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiPWSKpo9OQ

 

C2C of course being behind one of my favourite albums in years.

 

 

[Tupperward]

I found this group thanks to Radio Lab, but I found it's super relaxing for Dota 2. It's about the length of a match and because it's so rhythmic it keeps rage to a minimum. WARNING: It may sound like a murderer is stalking you.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcY5czIND-A

[miffy495]

RIP Lou Reed:
 

 

 

[Max Ernst]

Lou was cool. He organised a concert for dogs. He wrote an album with Metallica that was awful in every way an album can be bad. These are the worst things he did musically, and they are still kind of awesome just because they were conceived and then executed.

 

Let's remember the good (weird) times:

 

http://youtu.be/LIK2Mssh_NQ

[clyde]

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