What are you listening to right now?

Post by **stui magpie** » Thu Dec 15, 2022 8:02 pm

Mate, if it works for you, I'm happy for you. Maybe I'll give it another go sometime.

pietillidie · Post by **pietillidie** » Thu Aug 24, 2023 12:06 am

Noiseworks. Reminds me of high school.

pietillidie · Post by **pietillidie** » Thu Aug 24, 2023 12:29 am

Now Powderfinger. Reminds me of my pubbing days in St. Kilda and first year in South Korea. Odyssey Number Five was just right for the times.

roar · Post by **roar** » Thu Aug 24, 2023 8:37 am

Died Pretty - Free Dirt

Been on a bit of a Ron S Peno kick since his passing last week. Amazing frontman of a truly impressive band. Other projects - Superstitions, Darling Downs, and more - all quality, too.

R. I. P. Ron.

pietillidie · Post by **pietillidie** » Thu Aug 24, 2023 11:08 am

^Brilliant.

Post by **think positive** » Thu Aug 24, 2023 1:01 pm

Bruce Gonsalves wrote:Yeah Stui, I was similar. I've got my old Ipod jammed with albums, couple hundred vinyl 33's, couple hundred c.d's. What I found was I've got access to around 500 of my stuff but there is another 1500 albums that I would love to have at my disposal and voila, Spotify does it.

Even my ni idea about anything digital hubby can use Spotify, he loves it!

I’ve never tried, I will when I get a car with Bluetooth, mine stopped working a while back!

pietillidie · Post by **pietillidie** » Tue Aug 29, 2023 10:24 pm

I seem to listen to Midnight Oil more than ever before. I was so lucky to see them before Bones Hillman passed away. Apparently he never told anyone he had cancer until quite late, so they likely wouldn't have known that gig was one of the last they'd play with him.

I still marvel at the insight of the song Blue Sky Mine, which if you don't know is about the Wittenoom blue asbestos mine, which has killed some 2000 people to date, and done goodness knows what else damage.

https://asbestosdiseases.org.au/the-wittenoom-tragedy/

Just what was know back in the day? Plenty. Read the narrative after the 10 points on this page:
https://asbestosdiseases.org.au/wittenoom-chronology/

But the insight of the song is how people get leveraged into bad work. In this case, deadly work, whether through job insecurity, in the hope of a decent income, at the mercy of immigration policy (see the link above), in naivete, or whatever.

If the sugar refining company (CSR) won't save me, who's gonna' save me?

Blue Sky Mine by Midnight Oil wrote:Hey, hey-hey, hey
There'll be food on the table tonight
Hey, hey, hey, hey
There'll be pay in your pocket tonight

My gut is wrenched out it is crunched up and broken
A life that is led is no more than a token
Who'll strike the flint upon the stone and tell me why
If I yell out at night there's a reply of bruised silence
The screen is no comfort I can't speak my sentence
They blew the lights at heaven's gate and I don't know why

But if I work all day on the blue sky mine
(There'll be food on the table tonight)
Still I walk up and down on the blue sky mine
(There'll be pay in your pocket tonight)

The candy store paupers lie to the share holders
They're crossing their fingers they pay the truth makers
The balance sheet is breaking up the sky
So I'm caught at the junction still waiting for medicine
The sweat of my brow keeps on feeding the engine
Hope the crumbs in my pocket can keep me for another night

And if the blue sky mining company won't come to my rescue
If the sugar refining company won't save me
Who's gonna save me?
Who's gonna save me?
Who's gonna save me?

But if I work all day on the blue sky mine
(There'll be food on the table tonight)
And if I walk up and down on the blue sky mine
(There'll be pay in your pocket tonight)

And some have sailed from a distant shore
And the company takes what the company wants
And nothing's as precious, as a hole in the ground
Who's gonna save me?
Who's gonna save me?

I pray that sense and reason brings us in
Who's gonna save me?
Who's gonna save me?
We've got nothing to fear

In the end the rain comes down
In the end the rain comes down
Washes clean, the streets of a blue sky town

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ofrqm6-LCqs

Hence my signature.

Bruce Gonsalves · Post by **Bruce Gonsalves** » Wed Aug 30, 2023 6:59 pm

Yeah, have always loved the Oils. Also lucky to see the Oils at the Bowl in 2017 with Bones Hillman. How many people knew he was in the 'Swingers', Counting the Beat song?

Post by **LaurieHolden** » Thu Sep 14, 2023 11:47 am

I caught Living Colour at the Fortitude Valley Music Hall in BrisVegas last night.
I felt right at home in the crowd, many favourite rock t-shirts were being sported. I said to my mate, I recall seeing 50-year-old blokes like us at gigs when we were in our 20's. Then I said when Living Colour first toured Australia, I believe after they released Time's Up in 1990, the 40- or 50-year-olds would now be in their 70's.

Their music is a blend of hard-rock, funk metal / avant-garde jazz fusion.

The artist pedigree in the band makes for great reading.

Founding member Vernon Reid at 65 performed like it was his first tour.
Corey Glover hasn't lost any of the penetration and scale in his voice.
Bass player Doug Wimbish's pedigree as a session guitarist with SugarHill Records led a hip-hop medley, crowd went nuts.
William Calhoun is one of the great modern drummers.

What a sound. History should be kind to these blokes, you'll see and hear nothing like them. Amazing band on a number of fronts.

Rock on!

Bruce Gonsalves · Post by **Bruce Gonsalves** » Fri Sep 22, 2023 6:59 am

Thought I'd listen to some Nick Cave this morning on Spotify. First song was 'Bring it on'. Great song and very apt for today.

Go Pies.

Post by **Pies4shaw** » Sun Oct 15, 2023 6:41 pm

Post by **stui magpie** » Sun Oct 15, 2023 6:47 pm

50 years?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm5tsUjYVjk

pietillidie · Post by **pietillidie** » Tue Oct 17, 2023 11:19 pm

^My sister had their album when I was a kid. I can still remember a sketch - was it Eric Bana or the Comedy Company? - which showed Brian Mannix on the cover of a magazine called Bogue!

Great fun back in the day, with 50 Years being one of their rare serious songs.

Post by **LaurieHolden** » Wed Oct 25, 2023 5:36 pm

Not sure if many of you watch the J Kennedy Center Honors, but when it comes to music, there's some absolute crackers in there.

It still gives me a chuckle to see some of the DC matrons looking very uncomfortable the night they inducted LL Cool J.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dIyRKt ... otsome2014

pietillidie · Post by **pietillidie** » Sat Nov 04, 2023 10:28 pm

I Melt With You by Modern English. One of my fave naive 80s songs and a theme song of our relationship, now 11 years strong: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuN6gs0AJls

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What are you listening to right now?

LL Cool J Kennedy Center Honors 2017