What're you listening to?

[Merewyn]

Well I was on a Christmas music kick for a bit, but now I'm back on my groovy indie rock vibes.

Peachy - The Haunting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JskvnaMWX5s

[Drifa]

Nice, @Merewyn

River by Robert

[Chrysophylax Dives]

I Fought The Lore

[Chrysophylax Dives]

I have reviewed the opening post of this thread, and there are, in fact, no rules. Arnyn acquitted

Just let us know what music you've been listening to, or if you're not listening to anything, what are your favourite songs and artists?

The OP clearly states that posters are to indicate what music they have been listening to, or fav. songs and artists. Neither your ruling above nor the post that I reported contained or indicated any reference to music.

I would appreciate an explanation very much as I am currently composing a hard hitting article on anti-Dwarvish bias for the Mirrormere Reflections. Thank you!

Police and Thieves

[Rivvy Elf]

@Tree they aren’t required to post any links to music. So Arnyn is fine. Not all music can be found on YouTube and there’s the stipulation of wanting to share the link.

I’m not listening anything right now other than the quiet of my room. I like listening to various soundtracks to tv series like Gundam: the Witch from Mercury.

[Chrysophylax Dives]

@Rivvy Elf, the OP requests that if you do not post a link you still indicate the music that you like. So your post above is OK. But the ruling of Silky Gooseness and the post by Arnyn are not.

Newtown Neurotics - I get on your nerves

[Rivvy Elf]

@Tree Not all music can be found on the internet.

Also not at all what Dwim meant. The thread was created just to share music. What led you to believe that Dwim would clamp hard on anyone responding to someone saying “oh I heard that song before” by saying “you didn’t post any song you like! Follow the rules!”

So let’s get this thread back on track. Still not listening to anything right now. Would probably listen to an ost tomorrow.

[Chrysophylax Dives]

@Rivvy Elf, you are just giving me a random interpretation of Dwim's post that suits the admin interests. Silky Gooseness gave a ruling above based on the OP. Therefore we must read the OP carefully. This is what Dwim says:

Dwim wrote: ↑Sat May 23, 2020 9:45 am
Just let us know what music you've been listening to, or if you're not listening to anything, what are your favourite songs and artists?

Getting this thread back on track entails first of all sorting out the rules, and second receiving some apologies for the rough justice that has been handed out by the plaza admins. It is the admins - the other two, I will say - who derailed this thread.

Conflict - The Arrest

[Silky Gooseness]

My rebuttal: Dwim’s words quoted opening post are not stated to be a rule and therefore may be treated as a suggestion. There are no rules stated in the opening post and therefore only general plaza rules apply.

On topic, we recently did a music quiz over Christmas where I listened to, amongst other things, a haunting mash up of Carol of the Bells and Metallica’s “One”…

[Drifa]

What Can You Do With A Brat Like That? lol

[Merewyn]

I've recently been trying to listen to more positive music, as current life events have got me stressed and depressed and the "my trans experience" and "midwest angst & depression" and "you can't go back" playlists have gotten a LOT of play lately.

so today, i'm listening to "Blue in the Dark" by Bearings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apweyGEqyoM

[Arnyn]

Here you go, little @Tree.

You and me, we are like anarchy. (Content warning about the video - for our more sensitive members maybe. It's just got a few weird moments?)

[Chrysophylax Dives]

Here you go, little @Tree.

I am now officially scared, o large and terrifying Ranger.

Here for you, with no ulterior meaning at all, but the song I ended up with putting my daughter to sleep (she gave me her virus!), one of the few punk bands to age well: The Stranglers - Skin Deep

[Chrysophylax Dives]

@Arnyn, I'm sorry I was so rude!
Madness - Shadow Of Fear

[Arnyn]

I saw your first song. It was a nice change for a listen.

Fear seems about right.
Royalty

[Chrysophylax Dives]

O Ranger, I will try much harder to keep a polite tongue, especially when talking with you. It was just New Year and I was excited. Will not happen again. I am a tree not a dragon.

Paranoid

That Skin Deep song really got under my skin, so to speak. The video helps.

[Drifa]

I don't care who sings this; I always get goosebumps. David Bowie And the moon rose over an open field

[Chrysophylax Dives]

Miscegenation, the oldest but greatest story in the book.

Madness - Embarrassment

That's Camden Town in the opening shot, that is. The canal is just down the road but the tube station first. Not that my trip down memory lane is of any interest to you - but that is what this thread is, no? The music we are listening to right now is always a vector of our individual hopes and fears for the future, present sense, and memories, and just about all the tracks we give here are old numbers. Jesus Hooligan was my only new discovery in months and months. Anyway, I grew up too little for punk proper and so into these Ska or Two-Tone days of the early 1980s, and only many years later did I work out how all these bands like Madness, the Specials, the Selector, the Beat were all of them covering the music of Jamaica's Prince Buster. Anyway, while all the other bands mixed black and white musicians, Madness from down my way were all white, and in their pub years had some National Front following. Years and years later, which is to say a year or two back, I watched a documentary on London music in which Sugs (Madness singer) pointed to the other side of Madness, the cockney-London vibe, inspired by Ian Dury.

[Chrysophylax Dives]

Long Shot Kick De Bucket - Specials (live, 1979)

[Chrysophylax Dives]

Freezing Up Orange Street - the Prince

[Chrysophylax Dives]

Traffic - John Barleycorn Must Die

[Chrysophylax Dives]

David Peel & the Lower East Side - Up Against the Wall

This song foreshadows the Cave comix posts. I only learned of the song - and the artist - from the comic.

[Drifa]

Sweet...
Bilbo's Song by Colin John Rudd

[Chrysophylax Dives]

A Fairbairn song of Undertowers. Slow, but with growing passion and power.

Fairport Convention - a sailor's life

[Chrysophylax Dives]

Motörhead - Ace Of Spades

[Chrysophylax Dives]

Song for @Drifa - to chase away the new year blues! A classic, which I have most surely linked before, and all the better for that.

Hendrix version of - All along the watchtower

[Chrysophylax Dives]

And echo by @onthetrail - where are you?

Hendrix - Machine Gun

[Chrysophylax Dives]

I'm sure I posted this just recently, but it is so good - and pertinent. @Drifa, another one for you.

SAHB - Framed

I picture a song about a plaza mugging on this very music thread by two rogue admins. But that is just me :)

[Morfindel]

Lingalad - Occhi d'ambra. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFvRwbAdSa4 This Italian folk-rock-Tolkien inspired group has been my favorite for decades.

[Ephtariat]

The Stones - You can't always get what you want. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef9QnZVpVd8
I eventually always return to the Stones, so I suppose no stone is left unturned.

[Chrysophylax Dives]

Time for an anarcho-punk classic.

Zounds - Can't Cheat Karma

[Drifa]

Motörhead - Ace Of Spades

I like!

love me forever

[Chrysophylax Dives]

Lemmy is God, as they say. And that acoustic Ace of Spaces is just superb. You ever listen to Hawkwind, Drifa? Lemmy was in Hawkwind before Motorhead. They were the Stonehenge festival band.

Hawkwind - The War I Survived

[Chrysophylax Dives]

Here is Lemmy playing with Hawkwind in a classic from 1972, when J.R.R. Tolkien was still alive! Imagine if you could hook up all the energy of this concert, musicians and audience together, and feed it into the plaza riddle machine.

Hawkwind - Silver Machine

[Chrysophylax Dives]

@Drifa, I double posted a Zounds song so I'll replace one of them with this classic, which is the source of the name of my third son.

Stanley Holloway - The Lion And Albert

[Drifa]

Good tunes, Hill!
I like the whole live album, particularly this song, for a few reasons. -> Kimberly

[Chrysophylax Dives]

Most excellent, Drifa! For a few reasons.

Here is a Valentine's song for you.

The Damned - New Rose (1976)

[Chrysophylax Dives]

Yard Act - 100% Endurance

[Aikári Salmarinian]

My own heartbeat.

[Chrysophylax Dives]

My own heartbeat.

Nice to read you here, Aiks. Can you actually hear your own heart?

Hawkwind - Ghost Dance

I don't suppose anyone actually read my Russell comixs on the Cave thread, but this video shows the real thing. Those were the days!

[Arnyn]

This one Warning: it's pop music.

[Chrysophylax Dives]

This one Warning: it's pop music.

Fairy - Come Dwell in Undertowers

[Arnyn]

Ice Fairies

[Chrysophylax Dives]

The Drifters - Warm Your Heart

[Chrysophylax Dives]

Aiks, can you really listen to your own heartbeat?

African Head Charge - A Bad Attitude

[Chrysophylax Dives]

Can - Mushroom

[Aikári Salmarinian]

In pure silence, yes I can hear and feel it.

[Chrysophylax Dives]

Cool!
Aiks, what you hearing right now as you read this sentence?

Hawkwind - Hurry on Sundown

[Aikári Salmarinian]

The engine zoom from my PC, a ticking clock, the rumble of a door for the wind in the house, the rustling of wind in the branches of the trees, a sigh of myself, the constant tapping of the keyboard and babbling people on the street, chirping birds, cars that drive by etc. In other words it is not silent at daytime.

[Chrysophylax Dives]

Wow!
Thank you for that, Aiks. I will read nothing better all day. Just for once I post no music but remain with the sounds in your words from your head from outside your head. Thank you again!