Ray of Light (Album) -
Madonna
I reckon this will be the most unexpected album I'll add to my library this year, considering how most of the music in my library is nowhere close to the sound of this album. I ended up listening to it because a few nights ago I was trying to think of what Madonna songs I know, and while looking through her album list I spotted this one and felt I recognized the artwork. Turns out this album is one my dad bought when I was a kid and I really liked the album when I heard it back in '98, but forgot all about it until now. I'd say the song that sticks out to me most is Shanti / Ashtangi because 1) I always remember a song from my childhood that had "shanti" in the lyrics but never knew enough to be able to look it up with a lyric search and had no idea who sang it before now and 2) the whole song is actually a Hindu Sanskrit prayer called Shankaracharya that was adapted for an up-tempo techno song. I never understood the lyrics to the song as a kid and now I know it's because it wasn't in English to begin with, rather than me just being typically bad as a kid at deciphering lyrics in songs.
(Jan 5th, 2024, 05:34 PM)ShiraNoMai Wrote: [ -> ]I forget what made you even look up Madonna songs to begin with? Still amusing
I believe it was a question on Reddit asking who was better between Lady Gaga and Madonna or something along those lines.
For whatever reason I was in the mood to just listen to a ton of Spyro the Dragon OST's all day today even while driving, and I usually don't listen to game OST's while driving unless it's one that suits driving in the first place like Jak X.
A Jagged Gorgeous Winter -- The Main Drag
I really like this song. It's cute and quirky, and I'm always digging stuff like that. However, my introduction to this song was Rock Band 2, and this song SUCKS to play on Rock Band 2. Not because it's hard, but because it's BORING (at least on Guitar). So, I hated whenever the song came up on the setlist, because I knew I was in for 3.5 minutes of snooze. It does become decently tricky during the ending half, but it's mostly dead air.
Oh, and the version used on Rock Band 2 is not the original album version; the version on Rock Band 2 is a re-record that has guitar flourishes and a drum fill added in to make it actually worth playing on Rock Band 2. It also means that the back half of the song is basically all vocals on the original album version. Lucky for us,
they did upload the Rock Band 2 mix to Spotify. According to Genius.com, this is the version they play live nowadays, so that's weird. Another weird case of Video Games dictating the trajectory of other media. The last time I heard about this was when Buckethead started
playing the Jordan solo from Guitar Hero 2 during live shows. Jordan on Guitar Hero 2 has a (one take) solo that was explicitly designed to be absurdly hard and, more importantly, was written explicitly for Guitar Hero 2. Jordan never had a fully composed version before that point. So, yeah, that was weird randomly looking up Jordan on Youtube, and hearing him actually break into the solo at a live show.
Too Scary, Didn't Watch ("EYES OF MY MOTHER", "MY BEST FRIEND IS A VAMPIRE", "CRIMES OF THE FUTURE", "DOG SOLDIERS")
This is a horror movie podcast that details the movies from the subject of the episode name and reviews them, sort of like how
Dead Meat does in their Kill Count videos. Was listening to these on our long trip to and from Orlando this past weekend with a friend. That first movie in that list, The Eyes of My Mother, is insanely fucked up. It's a short movie, 77 minutes long, but god it felt like it never
ended in the way it was described. Anyway the podcast is very good, I like the cast, good folk.
Helena - My Chemical Romance
Wet Wet Wet - Wishing I Was Lucky
Cult of Personality -
Living Colour
It's so weird not hearing the static sound at the beginning of the actual song release.
Vangelis - Alpha
A great modern instrumental track, IMO
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Snake Eater - Cynthia Harrell
Y'all already know what it is.
Celldweller (full album), currently
After briefly listening to a recent remix of a song in the album and deciding to myself why bother, the originals are too good I'll just listen to them. Although to be fair Klayton's own remixes are damn good too, just the one I initially listened to was...OK at best but nah.
Also yes Snake Eater.
Through the Never (Album) -
Metallica
I have a class assignment to make a tour poster for a band and decided to just go with Metallica, and to get myself in the mood/vibe I decided to play this live album of theirs across yesterday and today. I would like to know what live album of theirs on Spotify is the best one overall but I'm not willing to listen through each one myself to decide what I like the best.
Kamelot - Seal of Woven Years (in a playlist)
followed by Infinite & Divine - I Feel Alive
It's been too long since I had added these songs to a playlist of mine, said playlist is the one I have on my phone which is considered a backup if my mp3 player is low on battery life if I hadn't bothered to charge it/accidentally left it on.
The Diary of Jane - Breaking Benjamin