Tunes

thermalben started the topic in Tuesday, 28 Feb 2012 at 06:47 pm

Alright, time for some discussion on what yr all listening too. My iTunes inventory is getting a little stale so I'm up for some inspiration.

Currently loving The Drones' album "Havilah".. incredible songwriting and some of the best recorded guitars and drum I've heard in a long time. I'm a little late to the party with this album but it's on high rotation at the moment and will probably stay there a while. I've seen these guys live once (Fowlers, Adelaide) and fortunately they're incredible on stage too. Can't wait to see them again.

tearymasseuse Monday, 7 Jul 2025 at 04:27 pm new
blackers Monday, 7 Jul 2025 at 06:12 pm new

@TBB that riff has Rockwiz written all over it, that little segment break riff.
Sumat else heard recently that hit a nerve.
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blackers Monday, 7 Jul 2025 at 06:19 pm new

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basesix Monday, 7 Jul 2025 at 06:23 pm new

^ making your snare that dead while smacking it about that much has obtuseness written all over it.. could *almost* make the same sound hitting a collapsed cardboard box. Love it!!

blackers wrote:

blackers Monday, 7 Jul 2025 at 06:45 pm new

Shazam gives me this for you TBB. Can't say it is or is not Ai but there's a name to it.
Edit: Comes from an album of "commercial background music" - limited royalties? 2016 date would pre date Ai.
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truebluebasher Monday, 7 Jul 2025 at 11:52 pm new

Thanks Blackers... Yes! Ya simply pick a track for yer project & credit Audionautix.
Ok! Think tbb knows wotz goin on here...
Pollies lock yer internet ID for life...but Town Square content is reduced to a POSTCARD.

Families drop off Dead Nan's pics to Local Historical Societies then Getty feasts off the spoils!

Too many punters are declaring these tunes are ripped off...just as Getty was assuming copyright!
Same as Ai now own every rearranged tweaked version of every Rock Classic...
Simply play the Ai Version more often & next gen will convince Gran that it's the original!
Then the original is worth shit as punters think it sounds scratchy & dodgy!
Jason Shaw's Audionautix (All my Stuff...I'm a musical Genius)
https://audionautix.com/about-jason.php

Crew see free on trend content wiped reappear as paid content in Subscriber content
Anything that looks remotely like Fun / Fashion / Attractive content all repackaged for a price!

Rocker Chicks...
Comment : Who's here for John Carpi? Thumbs Up 4... (He's a prolific TV Theme / Jingle Dude)
Like let a few Accounts Lapse > YouTube assume licence! Got it!
This examples why tbb thinks it was once an (Alt / Cheap) TV Show Theme
Kinda like Mythbusters redo Themes...likely the Company's YouTube Licence that lapsed!

Assumed "Punk" Stash > YouTube comments suggest the same thing as tbb...they know this theme...
[Team DO5 Intro] YouTube Licence lapses > New Theme Title [What's it to ya Punk]

@Charlie of Five (Says) : "Now Terminated & I'm gonna make a Channel to rip off DO5!" Got it!

Green Daze rearranges American Idiot start riffs

Periscope sure sounds like it rips off that dead guy from Nirvana...Shh!

blackers Monday, 14 Jul 2025 at 06:04 pm new

Clean out the Monday cobwebs.
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tearymasseuse Wednesday, 16 Jul 2025 at 02:41 pm new
truebluebasher Wednesday, 16 Jul 2025 at 06:51 pm new

Gough chills out to the 70's Great Wall Soundtrack
https://www.naa.gov.au/sites/default/files/styles/carousel_single_image…

Wot the hell tbb...was Gough a Rock Hard Stoner?
Luv to keep the crew hangin'...Shh! Let the crew in on Gough's Secret!

Ben's Tunesmiths : "The Echo Wall seen in the photograph is in fact a musical instrument!"
"The Wall surrounds the Imperial Vault of Heaven in the Temple of Heaven in Beijing. Also known as the Whispering Wall, the acoustic properties of this round structure allow a person whispering along the inner wall to be heard around the other side!"

Albo spins a much noisier Great Wall Soundtrack

Albo (I have to say!) The Great Hall also played different versions of The Oils / Powderfinger / Paul Kelly
Oz Media Scrum : "We Prefer the Silent less painful 1972 version of Power & the Passion...Ouch!"

truebluebasher Wednesday, 16 Jul 2025 at 08:33 pm new

ICE Capades

First up Banned Band is from Christchurch...Yeah! Don't ask!
[ Blindfolded & Led to the Woods ]
https://www.stuff.co.nz/culture/350448652/nz-band-spends-20k-us-visa-ap…

Nov 2024 US 18 date Tour > Spent $20k on Visas
Denied : (Reason!)
Not Big Enough or well enough known in more than 1 Country > Pack of Losers!
Trump : [ Yer Fired ] Get outta here Punkz!
NZ Band was so pathetically evil they stupidly got banned before it was even cool to be banned in US.
Band was banned before Trump could even legally Ban them...that's a bit too punk guyz!
Wait for this...gets even more pathetic...

Mid July 2025 Ben's Tunesmiths were found guilty of promoting this banned unknown loser Kiwi band.
Plucking the band from obscurity to world fame for 6 mins 31 seconds...Eat Shit Grok!
YouTube (Warning!) This is a very Old Video Now...
(Please try not to enjoy it too much...No smiling...Promise!)

basesix Saturday, 19 Jul 2025 at 10:18 pm new

Goodbye Crown and Anchor.
you were pretty awesome, sticky and grimy.
certainly of heady decades in the Radelaide live music scene..
thanks for the invite @kookusmaximus and @HerminatorX.
Hundreds there tonight, and many Cranker stories and multi-gen smiles.
Hope the Ed Castle works, the soon-to-be-gutted Cranker will never be back.
The Freaks ruled throughout, Cranker's culled, 99% of developers are carrot cakes.

Absolute last drinks there tomorrow.. https://www.facebook.com/thecrankerhotel/
go if even to see the floorboards under where the pool tables were..

tearymasseuse Saturday, 19 Jul 2025 at 11:28 pm new

;)

seeds Monday, 21 Jul 2025 at 08:40 pm new

the sun has gone down
the moon has come up
and long ago somebody left with the cup
and oh no the sun has come up again

Haha no offence to these legends but it reminds me of how good we thought we still looked nearing midday the next day.
ps ^^ just gave carrot cake boy a run. Didn’t mind that

basesix Monday, 21 Jul 2025 at 08:48 pm new

^ good the Spiders From Mars are keeping busy.. that is gold! legends, indeed, the 'double-handed single-drumstick intermittent technique' is becoming a quirk of history among drummers.. that guy's a master..

for Calhoun

seeds Monday, 21 Jul 2025 at 09:27 pm new

and drummers grabbing snacks during lead breaks ;)

tearymasseuse Tuesday, 22 Jul 2025 at 09:11 am new

“Politics is the entertainment division of the military industrial complex”

;)

basesix Tuesday, 22 Jul 2025 at 07:30 pm new
seeds Thursday, 24 Jul 2025 at 08:35 pm new

Mark of Cain noice.
Don’t know why but system has come back to my radar.

basesix Thursday, 24 Jul 2025 at 08:35 pm new

some little Cranker birdies told me Grün got an emergency call from ...And You Shall Know Us By the Trail of Dead... unreal! : )

seeds Thursday, 24 Jul 2025 at 08:50 pm new
seeds Thursday, 24 Jul 2025 at 09:39 pm new

basesix wrote:

some little Cranker birdies told me Grün got an emergency call from ...And You Shall Know Us By the Trail of Dead... unreal! : )

How do you do those little thingies over the letters

basesix Thursday, 24 Jul 2025 at 09:49 pm new

copy and paste from an internet depiction of the word @seeds..
have a go now.. just Highlight, press ctrl C, then click where you want it, press ctrl V.

Try husker du.

I don't write anything original really,
mostly I just copy and paste from the BTN website.

(but I took a risk here.. ^ then wrote 'shall', not 'will' in the band title..
grammatically, I hope @thermal will/shall take it up in the green room)

seeds Thursday, 24 Jul 2025 at 09:58 pm new

Shit man I haven’t yet been banned for my prose so I think you’ll be right.
I don’t own anything but a phone(feels weird calling it a phone)
What’s a laptop let alone a pc?

basesix Thursday, 24 Jul 2025 at 10:02 pm new

highlight and copy across.. ?
it's pretty fun.. feels like a solid finish after an average ride
Hüsker Dü
oof, feels satisfying..
try Motley Crue..

seeds Thursday, 24 Jul 2025 at 10:03 pm new

Haha says the guy that doesn’t own a phone. It’s like the 17th century meeting of the sailors and the indigenous.

basesix Thursday, 24 Jul 2025 at 10:04 pm new

don't phones have a big red button that says 'make it so'?

seeds Thursday, 24 Jul 2025 at 10:05 pm new

basesix wrote:

don't phones have a big red button that says 'make it so'?

basesix Thursday, 24 Jul 2025 at 10:09 pm new
seeds Thursday, 24 Jul 2025 at 10:23 pm new

That was lovely. I’ve never heard the Pixies version.

basesix Thursday, 24 Jul 2025 at 10:43 pm new

I reckon we've gone as far as we can go, same as @sypkan.. (hehe)
joking.. no way we're at the end or the beginning of this loaf of bread,
we have to take responsibility for how we are as humans. That's our lot.
..without thinking we are tinkerbelle God dust, or irrelevant randomness.
Surely gotta try make a good hand out of our dodgy cards,
before we and our moment of biota boom naturally extinguishes?

seeds Friday, 25 Jul 2025 at 06:11 pm new

Is that, everything is up to date or up the date in Kansas City?
Oh wow I can’t do that let alone the whole movie.

seeds Friday, 25 Jul 2025 at 06:14 pm new

Learnt a thing or two watching this today

blackers Friday, 25 Jul 2025 at 07:51 pm new

seeds wrote:

some little Cranker birdies told me Grün got an emergency call from ...And You Shall Know Us By the Trail of Dead... unreal! : )

How do you do those little thingies over the letters

The little thingies are umlauts. Ä wonderfúl affectatioñ you can get by holding the key down on yer phöñë keyboard.
You're welcome.

seeds Friday, 25 Jul 2025 at 08:01 pm new

blackers wrote:

some little Cranker birdies told me Grün got an emergency call from ...And You Shall Know Us By the Trail of Dead... unreal! : )

How do you do those little thingies over the letters

The little thingies are umlauts. Ä wonderfúl affectatioñ you can get by holding the key down on yer phöñë keyboard.
You're welcome.

I’m getting fancy now hehe
Shit I’ve already forgotten

thermalben Friday, 25 Jul 2025 at 09:17 pm new

basesix wrote:

some little Cranker birdies told me Grün got an emergency call from ...And You Shall Know Us By the Trail of Dead... unreal! : )

Not quite an emergency call.. but still, what an honour! Now I just gotta remember how to play the tunes. Fortunately being Grun, a 30 min set will probably be three songs plus tuning.

blackers Friday, 25 Jul 2025 at 09:36 pm new

Awesome Ben, look forward to hearing about it
On another planet musically, there is this gem.
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R00ney Friday, 25 Jul 2025 at 09:55 pm new

thermalben wrote:

some little Cranker birdies told me Grün got an emergency call from ...And You Shall Know Us By the Trail of Dead... unreal! : )

Not quite an emergency call.. but still, what an honour! Now I just gotta remember how to play the tunes. Fortunately being Grun, a 30 min set will probably be three songs plus tuning.

Nice one !

mike oxhard Saturday, 26 Jul 2025 at 10:42 am new

you blokes have pretty good music taste, you might enjoy this little list I put together https://open.spotify.com/playlist/13XGJBQmHOAJLCjZX3a8Lj?si=9324a7544d6…

benskii Saturday, 26 Jul 2025 at 06:24 pm new

Hottest 100 Oz songs on the J's is turning out to be pretty great. I've been on double J for a few years now so I had low hopes but it's been a pretty good mix.

Distracted Saturday, 26 Jul 2025 at 08:00 pm new

The Veronica’s at no.3? They’re kidding.

blackers Saturday, 26 Jul 2025 at 08:40 pm new

benskii wrote:

Hottest 100 Oz songs on the J's is turning out to be pretty great. I've been on double J for a few years now so I had low hopes but it's been a pretty good mix.

Have read lots of complaints about recency bias. Don't have a problem with the kids liking different stuff. INXS and Hilltop Hoods seems a fair top 2.
Edit: the Veronica's? Who dat?

benskii Saturday, 26 Jul 2025 at 09:27 pm new

Yep same and I didn't vote so I can't complain about any recency bias. And it was never a station for people my age anyway.

I never got the love for the Veronicas but good on em for hanging around.

truebluebasher Saturday, 26 Jul 2025 at 10:08 pm new

Qld Health now mandate a heart palpitating lime cordial Breakdance before being committed...
Reckon these maniacs nearly broke tbb this time...gonna be a slow painful heartache recovery.
Rolling & squirming at their feet pleading for Air...'Can't Breathe'...being serious here >
They brand tbb the mental one for not being able to stomach their toxic brew!

[ Sign Here...for yer free Dope sample Punk! ]
Martini Mussolini has shaken up a Lime Cordial Cocktail for Cheap Tuesday....drink up tbb or else...(Gulp!)
Sure...tbb is jokin'...plan to hold out for a month...before they force it down me throat!
Qld [LNP] : "Make Qld mental outpatients...prisoners in Police State Hell Holes again!"

Cheer Up! Not as bad as it sounds...
[factcheck] 2015 Qld Psych Ward awarded outpatient tbb roadie rights to set up his fav local Band...
Not sure if that has caught on or if tbb is still the first & only truly fanatical Mental Groupie!

tbb's Mental Ward Breakout Plans (Include) > 10 year Relapse Tour Special
tbb will model swellnet lifeline contribution...earn [Grun] top billing on Lifeline's Loony Tunes Tour Bus!

Ben's Tunesmiths : "Can reverse osmosis a sea demon into yer Cordial Mix Tape tbb!"
swellnet drum circle : "We can roll out as many relapsibles as ya need tbb...just say the magic word!
"WTF...Like who mixes up Secret Sound with Magic Word...
(Just sayin' Ya don't need to mumble a Magic Word tbb...just gotta guess the secret sound Ok!)

tbb : "It's fine guys...think tbb has cracked the secret word sound...It's Ye Olde ' lime cordial recipe!"

mike oxhard Sunday, 27 Jul 2025 at 03:09 pm new

II can relate TBB I just finished a J that tasted like lime cordial

tearymasseuse Sunday, 27 Jul 2025 at 10:15 pm new
blackers Tuesday, 29 Jul 2025 at 08:33 pm new

Heard this week. Not in the Top 100 but a fun reminder of what is possible.
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blackers Tuesday, 29 Jul 2025 at 10:12 pm new

From Gero.
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tearymasseuse Thursday, 31 Jul 2025 at 01:38 pm new
basesix Sunday, 3 Aug 2025 at 07:52 pm new

Ahoy-hoy !!
'captain' theme tonight.. or 'all at sea sunday' at least..
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https://i.ibb.co/JFKLxD2D/captain-wot.jpg

Pigdogporter wrote:

Thanks Captain, I thought that pic would be in your Wheelhouse.

basesix Sunday, 3 Aug 2025 at 07:48 pm new

Ride, captains, ride.. (this one goes out to the Calhoun mystery ship)..