Grace Jones’ best-of album. Amazing.
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Why couldn’t Live have stuck with this funk rock style? 
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Not as often mentioned as being a band I’m fond of, but if you like The Mountain Goats and The Front Bottoms, you’ll definitely like their music. This fanvideo’s fantastic.
This is weirdly topical to one of my OCs right now. Always a happy coincidence when music you bumble into fits so well.
I really enjoyed their Throwing Copper album, but that slap bass rocks so hard!
It really reminds me of…
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Knock Me Down
…to which my friend describes as “before the Chili Peppers sucked.” 
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When Beavis and Butthead watched Live’s ‘I Alone’, their joke about the guy leaping around doing nothing probably being the drummer without a drumkit turned out to be a correct guess.
-Wade
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Oh yeah, I love the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ music from 1984 to 1991, haha. They peaked with Blood Sugar Sex Magik for me. I agree with your friend. They were best when Anthony Kiedis speed-rapped complete nonsense over funk metal and occasionally sang. They lost me when they lost the funk and he started mostly singing and occasionally rapping. XD
One Hot Minute is kind of interesting, there are some good riffs on there, but overall it feels a bit like Dave Navarro trying to make a Jane’s Addiction album with RHCP. I have to agree with one review I read, Dave tends to make them plod, and even the funky groove songs show he’s not quite on the same page. Like, John Frusciante would’ve probably chickenscratched some good rhythm guitar under Flea and Chad Smith’s groove in “Falling into Grace”, but Dave just vomits some talkbox drone. Dafuq XD
Still, some good stuff on there. “Coffee Shop” and “Shallow be Thy Game” bring some funk metal for sure. (Though I wish Dave had kept the blues cliché outro from the rough instrumentals tape for the latter, that was funny.) “Walkabout” is a nice easygoing groove - Dave’s Spanish guitar solo makes a bit more sense than his talkbox barf on “Falling Into Grace”, lol. “Transcending” has a great riff, could just go in circles forever. (Sadly they muck it up with a noisy outro that tries to be heavy and just plods.) And “One Big Mob/Stretch You Out” is good. “One Big Mob” at least shows Dave understood the ideal of a RHCP song: Chad Smith lays down heavy funk, Flea and Dave lock into a headbanging riff, and Anthony raps cool-sounding nonsense on top, haha.
I think Californication is basically their last decent album. It’s the last one that has a reasonably high funk quotient, lol. And even then I changed the tracklist using several B-sides to fit it more to my liking:
- Around the World
- I Like Dirt
- Fat Dance
- Get On Top
- Easily
- Scar Tissue
- Over Funk
- Purple Stain
- Californication
- Right on Time
- How Strong
- Bunker Hill
- Blondie
- Porcelain
- Gong Li
(Parallel Universe, Summer Time, Otherside, Saviour, Instrumental #1, This Velvet Glove, and Road Trippin’ without strings made a decent extra EP, I thought.)
Yeah, it’s like, why couldn’t they keep that kind of groove going for their post-grunge stuff? It’s not like Patrick Dahlheimer suddenly forgot how to play slap bass or Chad Gracey suddenly forgot how to play those ghost note grooves. 
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Felt like a bit of uptempo ditties:
I love the galloping drums.
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Sakima’s cover of Down is still so pretty. Very airy and dreamy vocals and a fun little flair in the musical backing. I prefer it to the original song’s rendition.
Certain songs evoke strong memories. This one takes me back to playing Darklands (1992). This might have been the first real time RPG with a pause action mechanic. My memory is a little foggy.
Anyway, this is one of the strangest Nirvana songs. It’s the chorus though, lifting you out of the discordance with such poise, that makes it work so well.
Nirvana - Hairspray Queen
The lyrics are so weird and cool…
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Vibing to some Carcass after playing the ECTOCOMP entry 39 Trillion and 1.
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A podcast on slasher movies I listen to (The Hysteria Continues) alerted me to the existence of this Italian video from 1985, in which Edwige Fenech, star of numerous Italian giallo in the 70s, performs live in a rubbery haunted house, in somewhat hilarious fashion for English-speakers – Ghostbusters?!
@Jamespking , are you able to explain what this Risatissima is?
-Wade
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One of the many sub-standard programs by Silvio Berlusconi in one of his channels. I don’t remember but I suppose the formula was the same as in any other of his creations: locker-room jokes, naked women, advertising.
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Right now I’m listening to an album by ZZTop. You know, 80s stuff.
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Currently listening to:
Just finished listening to before that:
Episode #200 of the “A Question of Character” novelty youtube account is compelling in an odd way.
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See, this is like old boring news for you but fascinating to me. I couldn’t for the life of me work out what the circumstances that would produce this Ghostbusters video could be.
-Wade
It’s Black Friday, the official beginning to Christmas Season, so I spent about 2 hours listening to Christmas music this evening as I took a walk. Listened to a smattering of Christmas songs by Bing Crosby, Burl Ives, Gene Autry, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Cascada, and various anime voice actors(Though I listened to the entire Christmas Album for Fushigiboshi no Futagohime and most of the songs from the Christmas album for Ojamajo Doremi(skipped the audio drama tracks and Yasai Samba since it’s inclusion is totally random(not a Christmas song or even a Christmas remix)… Also, wasn’t during my walk, but I did listen to the Sinatra family version of the 12 Days of Christmas earlier today.
Also, I realized I have a shortage of European Christmas music in my collection, so if anyone knows any Europop acts that have. released Christmas Albums, please give me recommendations. Also, looking for recommendations in languages other than English, Japanese, or Latin(at least, I’m assuming it’s Latin when English-speaking singers start singing religious Christmas songs in @ not English)… Also, listened to Felis Navidad while typing this post
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I’m a ‘heads down, get 5K words done’ type, so it’s absolute silence when I\m writing. I cant stand music playing. I’ve even tried ‘ambient sounds’, but they distract me too.
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I grew up on bands like Dave Matthews Band, which I revisited about half a year ago and started listening to them. Recently, however, I found myself humming a song of theirs which I knew very well yet hadn’t actually listened on Spotify to before. So I went and found it. His singing is done well along the track.