Music The Music Recommendation Thread: Post Your Jazzy Tunes.

[Deleted member 88]

 

[Husky_Khan]

Spoiler: The Highwaymen

I'm going to pull a bit of a fast one--usually when this group gets referenced there's a particular song that is referenced. If anybody hasn't listened to 'Highwayman' by The Highwaymen (Cash, Nelson, Jennings and Kristofferson), go and do it. It's one that's very rightly remembered.
One that's very similar to it in theme and message (and tune/tone, honestly) that I actually prefer, however, is 'American Remains':

Can't rightly articulate why, now that I think about it. I suppose because it's more explicitly optimistic/hopeful in it's presentation? Something of the same reason I love the final verse or so of 'Highwayman', there's a more explicitly optimistic/hopeful sentiment throughout 'American Remains'?

Oh God... I loved the Highwaymen songs I heard... and they're such good songs I've heard so far that I just wish they were all way, way longer. It's still surreal to think that these four Country superstars somehow came together in a supergroup in the eighties like the damned Avengers and I didn't even know about it until I bought a best of Johnny Cash album.

Course my favorite Highwaymen song is... Highwaymen.



Just gives me chills when I listen to it after such a long time. Waylon has such a magically smooth voice but all of them are super distinct singers. I love the thread of living memory/reincarnation that connects Old West banditry, sailing, dam construction and interstellar travel altogether. It feels like such a 60's and 70's New Age concept, which is something they obviously had lived through. But anyways yeah... the last lines of each of their solos is definitely an optimistic end to the colorful lives of their musical personae. Makes you feel at peace with it all. Life well lived and all that jazz country.

Johnny Cash's smile at the end of the video kills me too. RIP.

Spoiler: Live Performance of It

 

[Laskar]

So... All I've come here to say is "Heavy metal pulp puppet show."



Yeah. I ran across this album about ten years ago, and on a random lark I decided to revisit it. The whole album is surprisingly good for being a solo project Devin Townshend threw together in his garage. Scratch that, it's really good.

"Greetings, Humans. I am Ziltoid, the Omniscient. I have come far, from across the Omniverse. You shall fetch me your universe's ultimate cup of coffee. Black. You have five Earth minutes. Make it perfect!"



"Commander."
"Yeth, Captain Thiltoid?"
"Have the Humans delivered their ultimate cup of coffee?"
"I have it right here, thir."
*Slurps*
"Fetid! How dare they present this to me! Foul! They hide their finest bean. Prepare the attack!"



"Humans. We are your Ziltoidian overlordz. Resistance is futile."



If you listen to nothing else, listen to this. It's my favorite song on the album. It's got the best elements of the album all working in concert: smooth instrumentation and vocals, sick guitar and percussion progression, and Ziltoid hamming it up with the Planet Smasher.

 

[Duke Nukem]

This song is very nostalgic synthwave.

 

[LordSunhawk]

 

[prinCZess]

Abney Park is fun, but I think 'Airship Pirate' might be the high-point of their repertoire.

Spoiler: Blues-Rock-y Goodness

Been on a slight kick through the music bookmarks inspired by being referred to Sturgill Simpson's Netflix special 'Sound and Fury', that is...bonkers Heavy Metal (the movie) style animation set to country/electronica. Blues Saraceno and C2C are two other ones that pop out to me in somewhat similar vein, and is catchy stuff I think--the former being more traditional, while the latter has some of the same funk/electronica genre-fusion stuff to it.




Hank Williams III is buried in my bookmarks as well in somewhat-similar vein, though treads much closer to the country line than blues or rock. Still fun though.

Spoiler: Generic Genre Suggestion

Bobaflex is fun in that rock/punk line-treading, 'fight the system' rock. Not anything groundbreaking in terms of...anything, really. But like Nickelback or Shinedown or such, it's fun music to rock out to in a car...And 'Bury me with my guns on' has perhaps the most fun chorus of anything they do.



In '80s hair band'...news? 'Gorky Park' deserves some credit/attention just for...I dunnow, embodying perestroika so aptly, and using it to make some of the 'rock and roll' part of 'blue jeans and rock and roll'.


And to close things off...Disco!


There's differences, but Boney M occupies that same headspace as ABBA or Michael Jackson...It's just hard stuff not to dance to...And that's about all there is to say about that, because that's all the recommendation it really needs

 

[PsihoKekec]

There is always time and place for power metal

 

[DarthOne]

 

[Tzeentchean Perspective]

Some examples:
Front 242:



Hawkwind:



Iron Claw:



Thrash Gang, who did the Soundtrack for Cybernetics Guardian:



Prong:



Whoever did the soundtrack for MD Geist:

M.D. Geist - "Violence of the Flame"

Joe Hisaishi:

Venus Wars - Asu e no Kaze - Joe Hisaishi

Whichever Russian bands contributed to the Paranoia Soundtrack:

Paranoia - soundtrack : Battle 2

Frontline Assembly:

Front Line Assembly - BioMechanic

Genocyber OST:

Genocyber OST 1: 07 Assault

Burzum:

Rundgang Um Die Transzendentale Saule Der Singularitat

Buckethead:

Buildor 2

Votoms soundtrack:

装甲騎兵ボトムズ BGM集 Vol 2 Armored Trooper Votoms Soundtrack

Andrew Hulshult:

DUSK - Erebus

Dark - Zero Time - 1970

Молчат Дома (Molchat Doma) - Судно (Sudno)

Breaking Benjamin - Blow Me Away (Lyrics)

Blue Oyster Cult: ME 262

 

[prinCZess]

prinCZess got to show-off the 80s-cliche that is 'Streets of Fire' to someone who'd never seen it.
Which gives her the perfect chance to make this comment and then be a shill for it and other stuff it reminds her of!

Spoiler: Streets of Fire

It's not really a music recommendation, but if you've not seen 'Streets of Fire' and have any appreciation for a kind'a oddball, '80s pretending to be 50s pretending to be Old Western noir', it's fun. More fun, and relevant to this thread, is the bits and bobs of musical accompaniment that make it into a near-musical--'Sorcerer' notable for being Stevie Nicks-written (and you can definitely tell--she also has a version of it) and being a good soft-rock time-capsule.
And then there's Nowhere Fast:


I think it nails that foot-tapping, drive-fast, sing-along kind of tone really well.
In some fun, cross-cultural globalization stuff that may or may-not be of interest to folks, it (the song and the film) got used as 'inspiration'/ripoff-material in Japan in terms of visuals and sound. THAT then got an English interpretation/version when it came over to the US so...yay for visible cultural exchange and reinterpretation/re-presentation/modification? Just kind've a neat background element of obvious influences flowing back-and-forth that I'm kind of a sucker for.

Spoiler: Other similar

Pat Benatar and Lee Aaron, the former much more famously than the latter, also occupy that same avenue of foot-stomping, kind've-cliche but fun rock and roll that is just on the verge of being silly or tongue-in-cheek while (usually) not going into territory that's too cheesy...At least in my own opinion.


'The Legend of Billie Jean', which is another rock musical from the 80s is...not a great movie and definitely crosses into cheese and probably isn't worth watching unless you have a thing for that particular runaway schoolkid rebel yell type of movie, but it produced a very fun song in 'Invincible'.



Dunnow for sure, but I've always entertained the idea 'Line of Fire' might've partially been an inspired companion-piece to Tommy Shaw's 'Girls with Guns'. Even if not, they work together, I think.



Then, in the continuing story of my nerdy Youtube recommendations and cliche music...I like the call-and-response going on here and every now and then I like how sax can get used in somewhat softer/jazzier/pop-ier rock to make it stand out a bit in ways it wouldn't otherwise.



And to close things off, something modern...But still not modern!
I can't help it. I have a strange love for this new-agey, cliche electronica that builds itself around nostalgia and...I dunnow, genre conventions? Not sure what else to call it (in case it's not obvious my music education/knowledge amounts to 'I like the sound of that!' and, maybe, identifying instruments...Maybe).

 

[Deleted member 88]

Wildly speculative documentary. But hey had a great theme.

 

[Deleted member 88]

 

[Marduk]

 

[Duke Nukem]

 

[Duke Nukem]

When Money comes marching home again, Hurrah! Hurrah! We'll give it a hearty welcome then, Hurrah! Hurrah! The men they'll be my property If they don't work, I shoot through their knee And we'll all feel great when Money comes marching home Anarchy and the N.A.P. Hurrah! Hurrah! Will guarantee my liberty Hurrah! Hurrah! Mexicans I will underpay With roses they will strew the way And we'll all feel great when Money comes marching home Get the hell off my property Hurrah! Hurrah! Get a taste of my M60 Hurrah! Hurrah! My legal wrath is ready now To place a bullet in your brow And we'll all feel great when Money comes marching home No governments, no archdukes Hurrah! Hurrah! Just recreational McNukes Hurrah! Hurrah! And let each one never pay tax that makes the statist's heart relaxed And we'll all feel great when Money comes marching home

 

[bullethead]

Here's an anime version of Top Gun music:


And the American cover:

 

[Tyzuris]

 

[Tzeentchean Perspective]

 

[Cherico]

New York

 

[Deleted member 88]