Non Metal Now Listening

[Carnage]

Closig Time is fantastic, one of my favourites. A friend of mine named his pub in Galway after a track on it, and many's an evening I spent in his flat listening to Waits. All of the '70s stuff is class, I drop off after that. The '80s stuff does nothing for me, hit and miss from the '90s on but that run from Closing time to Blue Valentine is something else.

The Ol' 55? Always assumed that's what it had to be. Big choon.

That's the one, good spot. They've been having a lot of punk/metal gigs recently, incidentally. Brings me back to the days of O'Malley's. Mossy's a sound head.

[Carnage]

Madrugada: Industrial Silence: Deluxe Edition

[Maggot Colony]

Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St.
Rolling Stones - Goats Head Soup

Sticky Fingers and Exile are perfect albums. They're swampier sounding and more primal than the 60's material - Richards was hooked on the brown during this time so that must have influenced the direction they took.

Goats Head Soup suffers in comparison but is still a very good album.

[Yung Led Zeppelin]

Have had the Geese album, Getting Killed, on repeat for the last week. 

They caught my attention a while back when I saw they toured with King Gizzard but never checked them out at the time. Very much the current indie darlings and New York rich kids, I wasn't totally convinced on first listen (I think I enjoyed to opening track so much that I was a bit disappointed that wasn't really how the album continued), but went back to it and I'm hooked. Plenty little nods to the likes of Television and The Velvet Underground, etc, while still managing to be its own thing.

It's drawn the most hilarious range of comparisons I've seen from people, most seem to settle on Rolling Stones meets Radiohead, but I don't know about that at all. All I'm sure is, there's powerful rhythm section performances throughout and I have to hit play again right now

[StoutAndAle]

Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St.
Rolling Stones - Goats Head Soup

Sticky Fingers and Exile are perfect albums. They're swampier sounding and more primal than the 60's material - Richards was hooked on the brown during this time so that must have influenced the direction they took.

Goats Head Soup suffers in comparison but is still a very good album.

In my arrogant opinion, everything that The Rolling Stones did from "Aftermath" to "Exile On Main St." (EXCEPT "Their Santanic Majesties Request" which is shit on ice) is bulletproof.

I have tried with "Goat's Head Soup" but I could never get into it. "Angie" is about the only cut from it that I sort of half like.

The only other two Stones' records that I actively listen to start to finish now, beyond the ones above, are "Some Girls" and the 2016 covers album "Blue And Lonesome".

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

First heard of Geese a few days ago when Cillian Murphy bigged them up in an interview!

[Carnage]

Garbage: s/t

Their first two albums are mighty but having seen them 'live' in '98 that was the end of them for me.

[Carnage]

Rapeman: Two Nuns And A Pack Mule

[Maggot Colony]

The Cure - Disintegration

[Carnage]

Meat Beat Manifesto: Mindstream EP, Edge Of No Control EP
The Swell Season: An Evening At The Riverside Theatre

[StoutAndAle]

The Band - "Songs From Big Pink"

Love - "Forever Changes"

Dan Sartain - "Join Dan Sartain"

[Mooncat]

Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat

I'd never really given this one much attention before but I'm loving it now. There's something so engrossing about that Sister Ray groove. All 17mins of it!

Prob for another thread but seeing the Stones mentioned there, I have Cocksucker Blues lined up to watch tonight. Really looking forward to it!

[Eoin McLove]

Health- Vol 4 :: Slaves of Fear.

The artwork in this caught my eye and I've fired it on YouTube. Interesting and catchy stuff, like Everything But the Girl mangled by industrial  I dig it.

The song Black Static is so good.
https://youtu.be/Q8cmFAl5JPA?si=Ng5rnTqU9kiHkXW0

[Pentagrimes]

Rhythym of Black Lines  -  Human hand, Animal Band
Sure I've probably mentioned this before as it's an old favourite, bits of prog/psych, goth and 70s glam all tumbled together into something unique

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeR948aH9nA&t=626s

Nearest comparison I can think of is the first 2 Roxy Music lps colliding with Bauhaus

Out of print for the last two decades, sadly, no longer streaming anywhere that I know of (it was on the various services for ages but is only on youtube now), and I'd kill for a decent vinyl reissue of it because my cd is long lost to the sands of time.

[Mooncat]

Dungen - 4

Really cool album. Mostly instrumental psychedelia. If you're into the sound of early Tame Impala, this is the band they almost completely copped their sound from, except it leans more heavily into the psyche sound and is less commercial sounding. There's one song that's all wailing Hendrix leads that I really enjoyed.

Edit: disclaimer just to clarify, I mean Tame Impala were the ones who stole the sound, not the other way around.