[xaval]

Breaking the rules of 1 post per day, but I just noticed this will be my 1000th post here. I think it's appropritate to celebrate it with something music related 

 
Tsuyoshi Yamamoto Trio - Midnight Sugar
This is the album that turned me to Jazz for the first time. Older guys like me know this one for sure - I permanent demo disc on many audio venues. Maybe it'll will inspire some more newcomers..
Great care was taken in this recording with the analog audio equipement to mics positioning - it's all laid bare on the sleeve.
 

 
The opening track is just mesmerizing. I remember playing this one for the first time a few years ago at home when I still lived with my parents. My father came into the room astonished that I wasn't listening to the Stones or Led... he loved it too. Said it reminded him of the old piano bars sound, the only thing missing were the smell of cigars and the taste of scotch... he took care of that really fast. I wasn't allowed the experience lol
 
If you want to "see" a piano, or "feel" a double bass... welcome aboard. The drums "taste" like the caress of a woman in love... 
 
Tsuyoshi Yamamoto (piano) 
ISOO Fukui (bass) 
Tetsujiro Obara (drums) 

 

[Dr4Bob]

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[shultzee]

  U2 - Songs of Innocence.
 
I don't really like it so far. Maybe it takes some time to really get it ?
 

 
 
2nd listen here.  Pretty darn good but I have been a fan since they first came out.  3 1/2 decades now ......crazy.

 

[kurochin]

Bandcamp >> http://semanticarecords.bandcamp.com/music
 

 

[DLeeWebb]

 

[Kiwikat]

  U2 - Songs of Innocence.
 
I don't really like it so far. Maybe it takes some time to really get it ?
 

 
Honestly after 2 listens I can say I only really like 3 songs: Cedarwood Road, Sleep Like a Baby Tonight, and The Troubles.  I find the first half of the album just plain awful.

In general I find it hard to connect to this album.  No Line on the Horizon made "sense" to me immediately, and thus it is one of my favorites.  Not sure what they were going after here.  They said it is their most "personal" album... perhaps a little too personal?
 

 
Listening to Minecraft Volume Alpha tonight.  Absolutely wonderful background music for browsing forums. 

 

 

[zachchen1996]

Son Lux - Lanterns
 

 
Plan the Escape
 
 
 
Hozier - Take Me To Church E.P.
 

 
Like Real People Do
 
 
 
BT - A Song Across Wires
 

 
Vervoeren
 

 
S O H N - Tremors
 

 
The Wheel
 

 
Tech N9ne - Strangeulation
 

 
Sut Mig
 

 

[TJ Elite]

AVTechNO! - Remeariness
 

 

[philo50]

 

[StratocasterMan]

 
Lucinda Williams - Essence (2001)

 

[fnkcow]

 

[PleasantSounds]

 

[Quinto]

 

[ssrock64]

   
 
2nd listen here.  Pretty darn good but I have been a fan since they first came out.  3 1/2 decades now ......crazy.

   
Honestly after 2 listens I can say I only really like 3 songs: Cedarwood Road, Sleep Like a Baby Tonight, and The Troubles.  I find the first half of the album just plain awful.

In general I find it hard to connect to this album.  No Line on the Horizon made "sense" to me immediately, and thus it is one of my favorites.  Not sure what they were going after here.  They said it is their most "personal" album... perhaps a little too personal?

I very much like Songs of Innocence so far, actually. It's a bit of a return to form after more than a decade of sub-par pop anthems. The sound on this album is tighter and more concentrated than anything since the first track of How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb, but integrates some newer influences as well. There are hints of the Killers and Franz Ferdinand, as well as small homages to artists that originally influenced the band at the beginning. It has the driven, faster-paced sound that I've been missing from U2 for a long time now, updated to fit the scope of modern rock music.
 
In my opinion, it's their freshest and most complete release in years.

 

[MrTechAgent]