Im going back to old albums and this week, the mood is poignant Tracy Chapmans Fast Car.

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    Fun Fact: Thích Quảng Đức, the monk in the picture was not protesting the Vietnam War, but rather the Catholic oppression of the Buddhist majority by the American puppet government.

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  • [–] 29 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Fast Car is a classic.

    Open invitation to you and everyone else to post what you're listening to on !eternalplaylist@crazypeople.online so even more people can enjoy. 💚

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  • [–] 16 points 9 months ago*

    Fast Car is one of those songs that always makes me cry.

    I've been listening to Bob Marley & the Wailers:

    Get up, stand up: stand up for your right

    Get up, stand up: don't give up the fight

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I'm listening to this 1995 masterpiece every day after my workout lately:

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago

    Great album

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    wardruna

    heilung

    myrkur

    skáld

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    I usually listen to punk and rock, but today I'm having a boiler replaced, and the gas engineer introduced me to Gold Radio, a UK based station. They've been playing classics from the 50s to the 80s, so I've heard loads of old songs that I haven't heard for years.

    Right now one of my favourites is playing though, Mister Blue Sky by ELO. Possibly one of the best songs of all time :D

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Killswitch Engage, mainly their 2002 and 2006 albums "Alive or Just Breathing" and "As Daylight Days", respectively.

    Aside from that, some of Timecop1983's albums, mainly "Night Drive" (2018), "Faded Touch" (2021), and "Searching for Tomorrow" (2023).

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    Album: "I heard that noise"

    By quickly, quickly

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    We gotta make a decision

    Leave tonight or live and die this way

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    Tracy Chapman is an amazing live experience. Seen her two times and I hope it can be three times!

    my playlist is usually random with a little of everything in it. But when I am feeling down about world events, hardcore punk is my everything

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    I saw The Midnight in concert last week so I'm deep into their discography at the moment.

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    Been on a kick to find some soul vibey female singers. A weirdly specific genre, but it's got some good vibes.

    Example Artists: Couch, Rijah

    They're really small, from what I gather, so that's always cool.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Trying to keep it lighter & instrumental this week after been on a bit of a metal streak

    Boards of Canada music has the right to children and campfire headphase, The Field, Tycho, Onra, Monster Rally, Bonobo, Ott, Com Truise

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    I've recently been a little addicted to the Eve6 album Eve6. Specifically Leech, Superhero Girl, and Tongue Tied. Been the CD I've been occasionally listening to my rip of.

    That, and Backyard Babies' Making Enemies Is Good.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    My favorite band Red Vox just put out a new album called Retcon:

    https://vine.bandcamp.com/album/retcon

    https://youtu.be/HRTah6VwE6c

    I especially like the song "Brother," it's a sad song so fair warning:

    https://vine.bandcamp.com/track/brother

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    Pino Daniele - Bella ‘mbriana

    https://open.spotify.com/album/4FcOe9YSXYcwb6nYY7qucR

    If you like sophistipop and fusion, you’ll love this album. Best of Italian sophistipop imo.

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    A lot of Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky

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    I'll be seeing a Rachmaninoff performance this month by the Atlanta symphony orchestra. Super excited!.

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    The Devils - Devil's Got It.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Somebody got me RBG by Dead Prez for Christmas, and it's still in heavy rotation.

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    Ye Vagabonds are on a US tour right now, and I'm so excited to see them I've been listening to them nonstop. A lovely Irish folk music duo of two brothers.

    My favorite recently:
    https://youtu.be/3WMBtCOzYks

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    Plantoid - FLARE. Album just came out and I'm enjoying it.

    https://plantoidworld.bandcamp.com/album/flare

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    I'm not sure if it's just by coincidence, however recently I've been getting various Lesbian singers recommended to me by YouTube. And they've been pretty fire.
    Chappell Roan, Girl in Red, Frances Forever (love the Space Girl song), etc.

    Usually some punk mixed in the playlists, from Crass to Mudrats (been fond of their song "I Hate Rich Cunts", very catchy). Along this vibe there's I guess closer to a punky UK Garage fusion with Cuppa Tea by EV.

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    "Bloodline" by Mon Rovîa and "What of Our Nature" by Haley Heynderickx and Max García Conover when I want lyrics,

    Makaya McCraven's "Techno Logic" "The People’s Mixtape" "Hidden Out" and "PopUp Shop" (4 EPs he released on the same day that are basically one inconveniently packaged double album), Sholto's "Letting go of Forever," and "Car Alarm" by Pat's Soundhouse when I don't

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Napple Tale OST by Yoko Kanno.

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    “Heatherhead” by Generationals

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    https://othersbynoone.bandcamp.com/album/book-i-dr-breacher

    https://othersbynoone.bandcamp.com/album/book-ii-where-stories-come-from

    Primo theater nerd progessive rock sprinkled with metal. My taste heavily leans towards exceptional instrumentation and harsh vocals, but this band's vocalist blew me away. It is immediately obvious that he was the lead in one to several of his high school's musicals and likely went on to study and train in a conservatory or university program. His delivery is nuanced and theatrical without going overboard.

    The instrumentation is stellar with an arrangement that accentuates and complements the vocals without fighting for space. Impressively, the combined runtime beats out Between the Buried and Me's Parallax 1&2 by 6 minutes. Like Parallax, the Breacher saga has enough variety in composition that the 2+ hours isn't a slog but an enjoyable journey that doesn't overstay it's welcome.

    FFO: Native Construct, Coheed and Cambria, Ludo's Broken Bride EP, BTBAM-like zaniness

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Crunching like mad for an exam currently. So justice and femtanyl to hype myself up while studying. (For me they work well since they don't have lyrics/they aren't easily comprehensible)

    And before going to sleep. Either caravan palace or Jamie Berry to calm back down. + a couple of songs from Mina Celentano.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    I've got two songs on loop at the moment: "Vancouver" by Kingfishr, and "Marlay Park" by Amble.

    They're coming to Melbourne soon, so I'm getting hyped.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    Black pumas did a good cover of this. I freaking love Black Pumas so much

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    I've been listening to a lot of Journey lately. I mean I've always liked Journey but they've really just been hitting the spot lately.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    Haim - Forever

    Trevor Something - What is real?

    Jeff Rosenstock's cover of Bizarre Love Triangle by New Order

    For the last one Jeff Rosenstock is a maniacal bastard because it's the only cover of Bizarre Love Triangle of it's kind, he's been literally offered money to make a full length cover and said no. I get his reasoning, but I hate that the world will never hear what could have been. The rest of the jam session is worth watching as it's phenominal.

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    slept on the floor still dreamt of you - meat computer is such a fun little album

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

    Relatedly, can you explain why you or why a looooot of people liked this song? I know I'm very not normal and I don't usually like what most people do. That said, I usually understand why most people like something, I just disagree.

    Fast car? I don't get it. I think it's fine, but it was massively popular. Wayyyyyyyyyy more than I thought it would be by my typical observations.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago

    It's a beautifully-written song with a lot of emotion. It tells a unique story that is both sad and uplifting.

    It's melodically interesting and Tracy's voice sounds amazing. It has a catchy guitar riff yet it isn't repetitive.

    It's a really nice song, do you like other singer-songwriters?

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 9 months ago

    It’s the chill of the album and of course Tracy’s empathy to others. Over the tracks is my fav. It’s haunting. It was previous but given the events at the mo it’s a reminder.

    She is very soothing

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    A playlist I made and have been playing a least once a day this week, no real category or anything just went with what I felt like adding:

    Tidal: https://tidal.com/playlist/957863ac-2f13-4035-aac1-97ec1c3073bb

    Youtube (one song missing): https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZeNdb-IjuBCN8S4wz2WFHd9O7h_4yNQe

    Anyone have any recommendations for sharing playlists easily? I use Tidal but know few others that do, and would rather not use youtube.

    Edit: here's a screenshot and text of the whole list if you want to use something else to make/listen to it: https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/48a1a0ad-e52d-4083-a2ad-46e97e8aa201.jpeg

    In text format: https://pastebin.com/5dB2CREs

    Also been listening a lot to Franco Battiato: https://youtube.com/@francobattiatovevo
    (Sort by popular if you haven't heard it before, the top songs there are all amazing).

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    Anamanaguchi - Anyway

    Origami Angel - Feeling Not Found

    CHVRCHES - Every Open Eye

    Bilmuri - AMERICAN MOTOR SPORTS (420CC EDITION)

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    Comfort fallback to my first introduction to Joni Mitchell - "Hits" - somewhat smallish but well curated compilation.

    Also, later found out they made a "Misses" compilation album, too, so I finally figured out what the album cover meant 😅

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 child)

    Well I've been playing this game called Pacific Drive. It's a driving game, but also survival horror. It's like Jalopy, but with the anomalies from S.T.A.L.K.E.R. The game is fantastic, I highly recommend it.

    Anyway, the soundtrack seriously slaps. They licensed music from independent and lesser known artists for the radio stations, and it's all super atmospheric and perfect.

    https://open.spotify.com/album/2tBP1dwFaPhamQJOuqo3nv

    (My apologies for the Spotify link, it's what I got)

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    Ghost

    Megadeth

    Anthrax

    Exodus

    Going to see all these bands in the next 7 days

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    My car CD changer (a Deezer playlist I add/remove albums to) currently has

    No Hard Feelings - The Beeches, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess - Chappell Roan, The Make it All Show - Skating Polly, Film Noir - Faouzia, Streetwise - Pretty Sick, Woman of Faces - Celeste, Lux - Rosalía, Dummy - Portishead, From the Pyre - The Last Dinner Party

    I think I'm gonna swap out Pretty Sick for some Beatles (Helter Skelter came on Flow and reminded me they exist). Probably swap Faouzia for something, I saw Mary Middlefield in New Release, so probably that. Poppy is in New Releases too, isn't she with Evanescence touring, so I'll give that a go. I thought about Full Moon Fever - Tom Petty, but I just didn't love it like I used to. The CD changer is due a refresh.

    I found a "Every UK #1 1952-2021" playlist. I might copy it, tidy it up, remove the Xmas singles and have that as a car playlist for a bit.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Oh I miss them. Under the seat? I’ve seen them on eBay recently.

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    Or in the boot.

    I just fake it with a Playlist these days. Add 5-10 albums to a playlist and swap albums out as and when. I do miss the 'skip album' button though, press that enough and you knew that CD needed pulling for something else. Now I'm furiously skipping tracks one at a time to get to the next 'CD', which encourages me to change that album faster, but is distracting while driving.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    I just got The Coup - Genocide and Juice
    whole album and have been enjoying the heck out of it even if I still can't find Sorry To Bother You physically.

    Otherwise I "discovered" Ghost: The Future is a Foreign Land has been hurting me in a nice way.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    Just discovered Masayuki Suzuki and been going through his discography. My vocal range is practically the same as him so I got a lot of new karaoke songs under belt.

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    Blue Oyster Cult Fire of Unknown Origin. We went to a record fair last week and I picked up a decent copy of it, I had it when I was a lad but lost it in multiple moves, so it's lovely and nostalgic.

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    I've been coming back to a eurobeat mixtape Hyundai put out a few years ago, playing over footage of a Nordschleife endurance race. Just playing the whole video, start-to-finish.

    Jessa Stebbins's music is great on its own, I've got a lot of her tracks on my own playlists already, but this arrangement combined with the sounds of revving engines and squealing brakes in between songs, adds another layer to everything.

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    Maroon 5- Songs About Jane, Olivia Dean- The Art of Loving,
    Jame Foxx- Unpredictable, Stevie Wonder- Talking Book

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago

    That fat white boy did nothing for the song except make it slightly worse.

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