What Music Are You Listening to Now?

Cackalacky · Mar 28, 2014

NDBoiler said:
Darius Rucker - Wagon Wheel

Me and Hootie partied big time back in the day... Just sayin

Beach Week 1993-1996!!!!

ACamp1900 · Mar 28, 2014

NDBoiler said:
I don't like country at all either but you're right. I'll have to check that other one out. Btw where you been on CoC? Haven't seen you on there in a while

I've been on every day, just not jumping into the convos much... I've donated quite a bit in the past week... I'm farming some things...

NDBoiler · Mar 28, 2014

ACamp1900 said:
I've been on every day, just not jumping into the convos much... I've donated quite a bit in the past week... I'm farming some things...

Word

ACamp1900 · Mar 28, 2014

Just left you a message....

tussin · Mar 28, 2014

The Steeldrivers - self titled album. Must listen for any bluegrass fans on here.

tko · Apr 7, 2014

In honor of Nicco Fertitta

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Rhode Irish · Apr 17, 2014

Illmatic XX

Crazy Balki · Apr 17, 2014

New Chevelle album, La Gargola

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mre2SmEFF_c

Bluto · Apr 18, 2014

This is the only song and video anyone ever needs to listen to or see ever. If their bass player or drummer ever quit I'm all in.

Bullet - Stay Wild (Music Video) - YouTube

Cackalacky · May 9, 2014

Baroness: Yellow & Green
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Amazing.

dublinirish · May 9, 2014

ozzman · May 9, 2014

I love yellow and green. amazing album.

the killer be killed album is really, really good

Exclusive Full Album Stream: Killer Be Killed's Self-Titled Debut - MetalSucks

Irish Cowboy · May 9, 2014

I've been listening to The Long Run album by The Eagles lately. Great album all the way through. I never would have heard songs like Tge Disco Stragler, Those Shoes, Tge Greeks Dont Want No Freaks, etc. without buying the CD.

dublinirish · May 16, 2014

Buster Bluth · May 22, 2014

ACamp1900 · May 22, 2014

Listening to Marc Broussard right now at work... yesir.

Whiskeyjack · May 22, 2014

The imagery's not very subtle, but this is a cool video for an awesome song:

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Bubba · May 22, 2014

Rack Em · May 22, 2014

All day, everyday

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Cackalacky · May 22, 2014

Whiskeyjack said:
The imagery's not very subtle, but this is a cool video for an awesome song:

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Do you like Kyuss?

RyCo1983 · May 22, 2014

tussin said:
The Steeldrivers - self titled album. Must listen for any bluegrass fans on here.

LOVE those cats.

I'm stuck on Sturgill Simpson's new album...have been since my preorder came in.

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RuntheBall · May 22, 2014

Would you guys quit posting shit music in here? [Just kidding, to each his own] To maintain the integrity of this thread:

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Others:
Mason Jennings
Seawolf
Real Estate
Delta Spirit
Allah-Las

Also thanks for the Trampled by Turtles Dublin. I'm seeing them in a couple of weeks. Also going to see Jeff Tweedy and Jake Bugg (Didn't get ticket to Conor Oberst/Dawes this weekend though).

Whiskeyjack · May 28, 2014

Cackalacky said:
Do you like Kyuss?

Never heard of 'em. Any tracks you'd recommend?

Just read an interesting article titled "How Heavy Metal Tracks the Wealth of Nations":

Popular music styles are often closely connected to the social situations where they first began. Rock 'n' roll grew out of the heady culture of American cities following the Great Migration and World War II, as formerly rural blacks brought rapidly evolving jazz and rhythm and blues into cities. Decades later, the disinvested inner cities of 1980s America helped foster the rap and hip hop that we listen to today.

Heavy metal is a strange case, then. The music sprouted originally from working-class kids in economically ravaged, deindustrialized places like Birmingham, England. Even today, it seems to be most popular among disadvantaged, alienated, working-class kids.

But take a look at the map below, which I wrote about two years ago, and have been thinking again about over the past couple of months. It tracks the number of heavy metal bands per 100,000 residents using data from the Encyclopaedia Metallum. The genre holds less sway in the ravaged postindustrial places of its birth, but remains insanely popular in Scandinavian countries known for their relative wealth, robust social safety nets, and incredibly high quality of life.

When I wrote about this map back in 2012, commenters had all sorts of explanations for why heavy metal spread so far north so intensely. Metal’s emotional darkness, some said, reflected northern Europe’s long, cold winter nights. The fury of the music and the violence of some of its lyrics resonated with Scandinavia’s pagan past, what with all those Viking raiders and Berserkers. One commenter suggested that the music correlated worldwide with high levels of alcoholism.

Indeed, a decade-old article by Mark Ames, “Black Metal Nation: What do Norwegian Dirtheads and Richard Perle Have in Common?” suggests that metal might be the adolescent id that is simmering beneath Northern Europe’s outwardly complacent façade. “Norway,” he wrote, “is not only a completely humorless society … but … a deeply oppressive society, in a recognizably bland, caring, pious, Social Democratic way.” Metalheads experience their boredom, he speculated, as “real suffering.” According to this logic, metal may instead be the product of affluent societies, a countercultural backlash for the privileged.

I thought it would be fun to dig a little deeper into the economic and social factors associated with the popularity of heavy metal across various nations. I’m not a metal head but have long been a Black Sabbath fan. They were the first rock band I ever saw in concert and I cut my teeth on guitar playing "Iron Man" and "War Pigs" in my middle school band.

So with the help of my Martin Prosperity Institute colleague Charlotta Mellander, I examined the connections between heavy metal and a range of economic and social factors. What we found may surprise you. Mellander, who is Swedish, attributes Scandinavia’s proclivity for heavy metal bands to its governments’ efforts to put compulsory music training in schools, which created a generation with the musical chop to meet metal’s technical demands. (As The Atlantic noted last fall, this has helped the region excel in pop music as well). As always, I point out that correlation does not equal causation and points simply to associations between variables.

What we found is that that the number of heavy metal bands in a given country is associated with its wealth and affluence.

At the country-level, the number of heavy metal bands per capita is positively associated with economic output per capita (.71); level of creativity (.71) and entrepreneurship (.66); share of adults that hold college degrees (.68); as well as overall levels of human development (.79), well-being, and satisfaction with life (.60).

The bottom line? Though metal may be the music of choice for some alienated working-class males, it enjoys its greatest popularity in the most advanced, most tolerant, and knowledge-based places in the world. Strange as it may seem, heavy metal springs not from the poisoned slag of alienation and despair but the loamy soil of post-industrial prosperity. This makes sense after all: while new musical forms may spring from disadvantaged, disgruntled, or marginalized groups, it is the most advanced and wealthy societies that have the media and entertainment companies that can propagate new sounds and genres, as well as the affluent young consumers with plenty of leisure time who can buy it.

Cackalacky · May 28, 2014

Whiskeyjack said:
Never heard of 'em. Any tracks you'd recommend?

Members of Queens of the Stone Age were formerly apart of Kyuss. They originated in the early 1990s as part of the Stoner Rock scene.

My personal favorite album is "Welcome to Sky Valley" however "Blues for the Red Sun" is pretty much a massive album however you cut it.

WtSV is a series of "movements" that consist of multiple related songs. Very cool set up if you can handle 20 minute long pieces.

Movement I – 17:47 (Josh Homme, Brant Bjork)
"Gardenia" – 6:54
"Asteroid" – 4:49
"Supa Scoopa and Mighty Scoop" – 6:04
Movement II – 14:50 (Homme, Scott Reeder)
"100°" – 2:29
"Space Cadet" – 7:02
"Demon Cleaner" – 5:19
Movement III – 18:19 (Homme, Bjork, Reeder, Mario Lalli)
"Odyssey" – 4:19
"Conan Troutman" – 2:12
"N.O." – 3:47
"Whitewater" – 8:00
"Lick Doo" – 0:57 (Hidden Track)

Demon Cleaner is probably one of my favorite tracks but you have to listen 100 degrees and Space Cadet to get to it.

Cackalacky · May 29, 2014

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St. Paul & the Broken Bones - Full Performance (Live on KEXP) - YouTube

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