What're you listening to?

[KingODuckingham]

Songify the Room (You're Tearing Me Apart)

I cannot believe how catchy this is

[Chrysophylax Dives]

Viagra Boys, Punk Rock Loser.

My 2 year old daughter and me watch this video as I put her to bed. The song ends 'I'm loose!' and my daughter demands the song by pointing at my laptop and telling me 'MaMoose!'

Edit. I had to edit this because I got the age of my daughter wrong. I have too many kids!

[Chrysophylax Dives]

As canon has it, the tower the stairs of which Elendil climbed when he wished to look beyond the horizon was built by Elves, though they gave it to him as a gift (along with two others of lesser height).

This is by the same band - the Viagra Boys. The lyrics are really wonderful and may even have some bearing on the Elf-towers and stones of The Lord of the Rings, or so the song suggests to me.

Ain't No Thief

Burglary is at the very heart of Hobbit canon.

[Drifa]

Classic!

Your head is humming and it won’t go
In case you don’t know
The piper’s calling you to join him
Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow?
And did you know
Your stairway lies on the whispering wind?

[Chrysophylax Dives]

Inspired by the stairway to heaven, another band from the same era who on occasion channel Tolkien and Middle-earth. Do you know Traffic? They were from Birmingham (like Tolkien), and rented a house on the edge of the Berkshire Downs (Bombadil country) in which they made some amazing music. I watched a documentary on them on YouTube and this song was said to have been the moment the music came together.

Traffic, Dear Mr. Fantasy

[Chrysophylax Dives]

Trying to find a song to wake you all up. This is the best i could find.

Blitzkrieg Bop!

[Drifa]

I am awake underground.

Underground
Rattle big black bones in the danger zone
There's a rumblin' groan down below
There's a big dark town, it's a place I've found
There's a world going on underground

They're alive, they're awake
While the rest of the world is asleep
Below the mineshaft roads, it will all unfold
There's a world going on underground

All the roots hang down, swing from town to town
They are marching around down under your boots
All the trucks unload beyond the gopher holes
There's a world going on underground

[Chrysophylax Dives]

That is pretty good! And makes me feel even more irked by my present shape as a Thrush. As a tree, at least my roots went down, down, down, underground.

I was wondering if the Admins would let me 'donate' my Thrush tribute identity to you in tribute for your Chubb-Baggins riddle? Probably not, but Admin prodding is always something to do when bored. Talking of which, I still miss @Fuin Elda.

[Chrysophylax Dives]

That song by the Jam blew my little mind when it came out - i was about 13 and remember hearing it on my radio-alarm clock waking me up for school one day (probably a Wednesday). It seems very old when i see the video now - angry, spotty young men from London, not punks but mods (very important to be aware of those distinctions back then if you did not want to get beaten up).

This is the best song by the Jam, in terms of lyrics. It still sends me back to the London of the 1970s and 1980s that i grew up in.

[Chrysophylax Dives]

Dunno why i'm posting The Jam as i don't really like them (mods = yuk!) Here is a song to stir the bones of an Englishman!

[Chrysophylax Dives]

Yay! delete all the above. finally found a song that is actually appropriate. This from 1932, when J.R.R. Tolkien was mid-way through writing The Hobbit.

[Arnyn]

*prods back* Woops.

[Fuin Elda]

Uhhhh The music I've MOSTLY been listening to is not Plaza friendly I will admit. Most recent song I've grabbed however is Sweet and Dark by Miles Hardt

[Chrysophylax Dives]

i like this. bit old now maybe.

Phat Bollard, Millionaires

[Chrysophylax Dives]

When i play too many songs on this thread is always a sign its time to step up and on. This is the band i came in on above, and one of the good things i found this year. this song is the second of two, the first titled 'i aint nice.'

Viagra boys. Creatures

[Chrysophylax Dives]

Have not seen live music for years. All my experience is via youtube these days. These seem the best punk outfit out there. This song is dedicated to the Admins.

Amyl and The Sniffers. Security

[Dungeon Delver]

Going back to a well enjoyed favorite "Servants" - Zeal & Ardor

[Drifa]

Jack's Lament

[Chrysophylax Dives]

Blubbery Hellbellies - Punk Rock Brought Us Together (But Country Tore Us Apart)

[Chrysophylax Dives]

Thomas Tallis: Lamentations of Jeremiah I

[Silky Gooseness]

As per @Chrysophylax Dives request here is the last song I listened to, which somebody linked to on the internet

https://youtu.be/LZ398CqoDjA?si=Z-r-jyvHlmGjo270

[Dungeon Delver]

Sifting through some comfy synth, I found a glorious warm and comforting split album: Snawfuss / Hermit Knight - Rendezvous

Naturally, I recommend it to anyone and everyone.

[Chrysophylax Dives]

I'm trying to wean myself off of this thread. Maybe this is the last? Another artist from the slim stream of tradition received from my mum.
Van Morrison - And It Stoned Me

[Drifa]

Van the man. Don't wean. It's always fun to hear other people's choices in music. And sometimes you discover new tunes that you enjoy.

I have been working and listening to Lou.

[Chrysophylax Dives]

You are a bad influence on me, Drifa. Another song about the thin blue line: Smiley Culture, Police Officer.

Them didn't look the type of police me could give a fiver...

[Drifa]

Sifting through some comfy synth, I found a glorious warm and comforting split album: Snawfuss / Hermit Knight - Rendezvous

Naturally, I recommend it to anyone and everyone.

I really enjoyed this.

[Chrysophylax Dives]

Sifting through some comfy synth, I found a glorious warm and comforting split album: Snawfuss / Hermit Knight - Rendezvous

Naturally, I recommend it to anyone and everyone.

I really enjoyed this.

Look, I do appreciate this is real nice stuff. And I'm not trying to knock it off the spot, honest. But as I said, I need help to wean myself from this thread, and the Dwarf does not help, and I am in the middle of researching my Tolkien studies post and so listening to the Sex Pistols and, basically, this one is a live concert from 2007 and I wish so much I was there right now - o yes! Just look at those people in the audience! And look at the Pistols - they are old men. Even older than me!

Sex Pistols Anarchy in the UK, London 2007

PS. Some French subtitles have been added for northern Dwarves.
PPS. But look, am I not right? Are not all of these people, band and audience, Hobbits? Look carefully. These are original mushroom artists.

[Drifa]

No hobbits with spikes?

Gloria

[Chrysophylax Dives]

This Hobbit has spikes.
Amyl and the Sniffers - Herz

[Dungeon Delver]

If we want something hobbit-y why not try Hole Dweller. Each album or EP is a part of a narrative of one "Jamwine" with old school dungeon synth sounds combined with the mandolin.

[Chrysophylax Dives]

If we want something hobbit-y why not try Hole Dweller. Each album or EP is a part of a narrative of one "Jamwine" with old school dungeon synth sounds combined with the mandolin.

Right, really and truly the last thing I want is a passionate argument about anything, least of all Hobbity music. I come in peace and pretend no authority. I just say what seems to me.

I like the Hole Dweller track, and I can see why it counts as hobbity. But it is a Shire hobbity of a certain medieval feel - one expects a church with bells not too far away. It is a Christmasy hobbity, and that is 100 per cent true hobbity, no argument.

But I give you as alternative a track from My Life in a Hole in the Ground, debut album of African Head Charge (1981).

Hobbits were always a bit Christmasy, and all about comfort. But in the original story of Bilbo Baggins Hobbits are not so much the folk of the English countryside but suburban creatures. As such, I encourage you to think of the groups of Hobbit lads and lasses gathering in the evenings, lighting a bonfire on the side of a hill having a wild party. I reckon the music would be more like this, at least in Undertowers.

[Chrysophylax Dives]

Bill Bailey, Unisex Chip Shop (the second half of this performance is reminscent of a plaza game).

[Chrysophylax Dives]

This place is like a central London office tower on weekends. Like posters work a 9 to 5, and then clock off. Require overtime to post on weekends or something. What is really weird, though, is that it is also like a retirement home.



Reasons to be cheerful. Pt. 3

[Chrysophylax Dives]

Ahh. Even better is England's Glory, also by Ian Dury.

[Chrysophylax Dives]

Last on Ian Dury. This is one of the first songs I turned my children on to. A morning and return home from school song.

Jack shire George

[Drifa]

Where did you get that photo of me????

Ian Dury,

I rediscovered these guys this week. Teenage Head - Disgusteen

[Chrysophylax Dives]

I was trying to work out if that photo was me and you.
We share much musical tastes, Dwarf. Your rediscovery sent me back to the Cramps.

But I am supposed to step away from all that 80s music. How about:

Alpha Blondy - Jerusalem

Btw, @Drifa. Playing the last Ian Dury to my children prompted a proud father moment when my son explained the song in terms of what he called "Gollum time". When pushed to explain the phrase it turned out that Gollum time is experienced in a classroom with a clock the invisible movement of the long hand of which is the only thing in the entire room worth checking.

[Drifa]

Counting time and riddles was all he knew. Smart kid,

I am spending my afternoon in the mines with Foxtrot , day dreaming that I was a Watcher of the Skies (and I don't mean watching for lizard's shedding their tales), and not a canary in a coal mine.

Then felt I like some watcher of the skies
When a new planet swims into his ken; Homer

[Chrysophylax Dives]

Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold,
And many goodly states and kingdoms seen

Never listened to Genesis before (put off by a teacher when I was about 11 who told the class that Genesis was her favourite band). But that is pretty good. Will listen more.

I love this song so much. It hits me a bit like LZ Tangerine. But this one makes me so sad.
Alpha Blondy - Sweet Fanta Diallo

[Chrysophylax Dives]

The Devil Makes Three - Do Wrong Right

[Chrysophylax Dives]

Time for something in Hebrew (but I give a version with subtitles). The name of this band means The Fish-Snake.

HaDag Nahash - Consolation Song

[Chrysophylax Dives]

@Silky Gooseness, I feel I owe you a song, and this classic of Jamaican Ska seems an appropriate choice.

Prince Buster - Judge Dread

[Ephtariat]

I'm listening to Joni Mitchell, a whole concert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-he9mzrjCU

[Drifa]

Oh, a cat after my own heart! I love Joni!
Welcome, @Ephtariat! Thanks for posting. I will have a listen.

[Chrysophylax Dives]

Oh, a cat after my own heart! I love Joni!
Welcome, @Ephtariat! Thanks for posting. I will have a listen.

Oi, oi, oi! Dwarf! You have told off me and others before for posting chat on the riddle thread without first supplying at least a token guess. Don't see how this thread is different - if you want to chat, gotta post a song.

The Specials - Skinhead Symphony

[Drifa]

Up Your Nose With A Rubber Hose

[Chrysophylax Dives]

Praise Da Dwarf

[Ephtariat]

Oh, a cat after my own heart! I love Joni!
Welcome, @Ephtariat! Thanks for posting. I will have a listen.

Thanks for your welcome. Today I'm going Classical. :-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAI4-9yc6kA

[Drifa]

Classy!

The Battle of Evermore

[Chrysophylax Dives]

Nice, Drifa. You ever listen to Sandy Denny (vocals) in Fairport Convention?

Meet on the Ledge