Non Metal Now Listening

[Carnage]

The Cure: Glastonbury 2019 audio rip.

[Giggles]

The tension in the chord progression, the way the sax solo melts in from the vocal scream, the simple but emotional lyrics... Roger Waters isn't what you'd call a beautiful singer, but this tune gets at the emotions so it does

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Discovering Sieben here by listening to Ogham Inside the Night. Loving it so far. I'm prob far behind any neofolk heads here with this discovery, but if not, would recommend.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Dead Can Dance - Within the Realm of a Dying Sun

In a parallel universe somewhere, there exists a David Lynch directed Bond movie that Anywhere Out of the World is the theme tune to.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Was there not an 80s pop thread?? Anyway, some of ye may have seen this doing the rounds, a playlist of every track from Now That's What I Call Music volumes 1 to 114. Fairly front-loaded for a playlist I reckon 
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6QB6Bs8Xgu8HVoXrUOiUUk?si=9P4mUxA-TwSBNBwQ3XNljQ&pi=e-xoOOa8sEQjKy&nd=1&dlsi=a26d376a1f9940e7

[Mooncat]

The Cult - Love. Went down really well with a few drinks on my day off yesterday.

[Ducky]

Dead Can Dance - Within the Realm of a Dying Sun

In a parallel universe somewhere, there exists a David Lynch directed Bond movie that Anywhere Out of the World is the theme tune to.

Gonna use this when I'm describing DCD to someone again

NP - Way Out West - "Intensify". Can you wear out CDs? Because this has seen so much actions over the years it'd be a candidate.

[The Wretch]

The Cult - Love. Went down really well with a few drinks on my day off yesterday.

An absolute fucking classic.

As are 'Electric' and 'Sonic Temple'. All very different, and yet all of that material works perfectly well together live.

[Don Gately]

Great band, listened to Sonic Temple to death when it came out, still do.

[Jward]

Dead Can Dance - Within the Realm of a Dying Sun

In a parallel universe somewhere, there exists a David Lynch directed Bond movie that Anywhere Out of the World is the theme tune to.

Good call! 


This is a great interview with Angelo Badalamenti explaining how he wrote Laura Palmer's Theme with David Lynch directing

Amazing

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

One of the top 10 videos on YouTube right there, watched it so many times. Always on for one more though! 

[Jward]

On a Badalamenti run atm

He has some lovely stuff

Found this article (https://www.vulture.com/2017/05/twin-peaks-secrets.html):

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This Previously Untold Twin Peaks Story Is Perfectly Eerie
By Paula Mejia

Since the mid-1980s, director and noted coffee enthusiast David Lynch and composer Angelo Badalamenti have together conjured some of the most visceral cinematic worlds, from Blue Velvet's sinister, sunshined streets to the seemingly serene Pacific Northwest logging town of Twin Peaks. The dynamic between Badalamenti's sound and Lynch's vision makes the world of Twin Peaks — where slinky jazz, soap-opera cliff-hangers and rumbling reverb co-mingle amid sawmills and waterfalls — feel real beyond the screen.

It's especially evident in how the musical linchpin of Twin Peaks, "Laura Palmer's Theme," was written — even before the series started shooting back in 1989. The story goes that one day Badalamenti was at his Fender Rhodes, with Lynch sitting to his right. "Okay, Angelo, we're in the dark woods now," Badalamenti recalled Lynch saying in the 2007 documentary Secrets From Another Place: Creating Twin Peaks. "And there's a soft wind blowing through some sycamore trees. And there's a moon out and there's some animal sounds in the background, and you can hear the hoot of an owl." From there, Badalamenti began to play a monotone, low-register C note that gradually rose into an A-flat, G, B-flat, and, finally, a high E that would become the lilting theme tune of Twin Peaks' deceased heroine, Laura Palmer. Badalamenti wrote the song in 20 minutes and in a single take, according to Clare Nina Norelli's Soundtrack of Twin Peaks book.

Yet the creative symbiosis between Badalamenti and Lynch goes even deeper beyond what we hear and see, says Dean Hurley, Lynch's music supervisor. Over the phone, Hurley tells Vulture that once, while studying Badalamenti's MIDI notation for "Laura Palmer's Theme," he noticed something astonishing. "The MIDI notation of 'Laura Palmer's Theme,' you look at it and you're like, 'What's this a picture of?'" Hurley says. "You look at it and it's actually ... Twin Peaks. Fucking eerie." That's right: The image below illustrates how Badalamenti unconsciously conceived the song to open in a low-voiced motif, climb upward, peak, cascade downward back to the low motif, once again climb, then fall in the very same shape as the show's namesake.



Lynch and Badalamenti were just as flabbergasted with the discovery, Hurley says. "I showed David the photo and I was like, 'What does this look like to you?' and he said, 'Yeah, twin peaks. What about it?'" Hurley says. "And I told him what it was, and he just started shouting, 'It's cosmic! It's cosmic! It's cosmic!' and then he was like, 'That would make a great T-shirt.' And then I sent it to Angelo, and Angelo was just like, 'Whoa ... this is scary ... but very cool!"

"When I originally saw this it was like, 'Man, this really speaks to what's going on here,'" Hurley says. "It's ethereal, it's spiritual, it is cosmic. The whole show and the whole concept is literally in the DNA of the music that was written before it was even filmed." It's also evocative of the near-telekinetic collaborative relationship between the two. "Angelo is amazing ... the connection is just straight from his brain to his hands and he can play in real time, you know, whatever David's talking about," Hurley says, adding: "I can't think of a better poetic representation of their collaboration than that image."
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Mad isn't it ??!

I know a lot of music rises & falls, but still, 'tis gas

[StoutAndAle]

Iron Mountain - "Unum".

https://ironmountain.bandcamp.com/album/unum-2

Leoos introduced me (and a few others) to this record some time ago. There is just something about it that wrenches at me. I don't know what it is exactly.

As the drone of "Bonfires" builds, the lone uilleann pipe kicks in and pierces through almost like a call to arms before the band start in earnest, I dunno... - the hair on the back of my neck stands up. There's a trad-folk post-rock with Native American buzz going on.

My wife walked in one day when day when I was listening to it, I restarted the album and was trying to explain to her why it was so great when I found myself beginning to openly sob/weep/bawl about how great it was. This was in the throes of COVID and I was "essential" - going to into work every day with my head melting not knowing what to expect/what I'd have to deal with so my mental health might not have been at 100%!!!   

Leoos, Ochoill, myself and few others had a daily album recommendation thing going to keep each other sane during the dark days of C19 - every single day someone picked a record - we listened and either lauded or slagged it off with no ill-will... usually... (there was some wild, wild shit picked - we all had to listen to fucking B*Witched one day    ).

Some great albums (and there were literally hundreds of picks) were recommended that I had never heard of. I have played this to death since then, I still love it.

Have 4 cans nicely cooling and I'm be listening to this on the back deck shortly.

[Carnage]

Just listening to Bonfires now and it's class. Like Can and Horslips did mushrooms, shagged and when their progeny was born it turned out Planxty was the father all along (though the Afro Celts were nervous for a while). Definitely one to investigate further.

[Ducky]

Dead Can Dance - Within the Realm of a Dying Sun

In a parallel universe somewhere, there exists a David Lynch directed Bond movie that Anywhere Out of the World is the theme tune to.

Good call! 


This is a great interview with Angelo Badalamenti explaining how he wrote Laura Palmer's Theme with David Lynch directing

Amazing

Ta for posting this, the Twin Peaks OST is probably my most heavily spun soundtrack of all time.