What are you listening to

[pochercoaster]

My co-worker gave me a CD with an extensive Annette Hanshaw playlist, who, if you don't pay much attention to when you're listening, just sounds like a cheery jazz singer. However, upon listening to the CD a second time, I have concluded that her music is kinda fucked up:





"...I never knew how good it was to be
A slave to one who means the world to me"

[...]

"I'll never leave him alone
I'll make his troubles my own
I love that man better than I do myself
I'm just no good when his arms are about me
What wouldn't do for that man
Oh there's not a thing I wouldn't do for my man"



Thing is, maybe I'm imagining it, but I detect some sarcasm in her voice, which kind of makes her music fantastic in a bizarre way.

So, what are you listening to?

Edit: oops, sorry for posting this in the wrong forum. /brainfizzle

[Overcast]

Annette Hanshaw can be a trip when you actually look at what she's getting at for sure. I got my first real look at her when I was watching Sita Sings the Blues, since she ends up being the voice of the feelings of Sita from the Ramayana. It works well.

Me I've been out in Japan for a while now, and I've hit on a couple things as I listened to the incomprehensible sounds that come over the airwaves(since I don't speak a lick) but one in particular still has my head and I even managed to buy it after a bit of work trying to figure out who the hell he is.



He would be Kenshi Yonezu, or Hachi as he is known as a Vocaloid composer. I got into him a couple years ago when he released his album Diorama independently, the song has a lot of undisclosed feelings type of lyrics now that I have the capacity to read them thanks to dedicated translators. But the composition is what draws me to him more than anything, the sound conveys an emotive concept even without a clear understanding of the lyrics, and it hit me to the core the first time I listened and still now a couple years later.

He released another album this year under a major label, I'm a bit more lukewarm about it since it doesn't quite capture me as much as Diorama, but it certainly is more experimental than I figured it would be when he got signed up.



He is also, as I said, a vocaloid composer of some renown. I dunno exactly how other folks feel about the vocaloids but I'm a big fan of those who know how to use them in a meaningful fashion.



Hachi ain't bad. So I also keep up with his vocaloid stuff as well. That I've felt pretty solid on even with his new stuff coming out.



You can totally hear his current musical style in what he's done now. Though I might personally feel it fits better with a singer like Gumi than his own voice. Back and forth about it though.

[Osterbaum]

Originally Posted by poch

Thing is, maybe I'm imagining it, but I detect some sarcasm in her voice, which kind of makes her music fantastic in a bizarre way.

I hope you're right 'cause otherwise those lyrics are pretty messed up.

Here's what I'm listening to RIGHT NOW LIKE ATM

[Seil]

[Amake]

Like a chump I only discovered Mr Tom Waits last year, but since then he's taken up maybe half my music listening time and a small supporting role in my novel, even though my friends have lazy ears and don't believe me when I tell them if you actually listen carefully there's a lot more going on with this guy's many inimitable voices than various degrees of drunken growling.

A lot of sadness and horror and wonder and love and pain and courage and dignity. A Little Rain, Hang Down Your Head, Downtown Train, Jersey Girl, Waltzing Matilda, On the Nickel, so many great things I'm not going to bother linking stuff.

[Seil]

Tom Waits, great American bullsh*t artist.

[Bum Bill Bee]

I just went on a Youtube Creature Feature marathon

[mauve]

Blah blah blah blah blah blah.

[Raiden]

One of the few cases where a movie tries to make a song that's catchy and ACTUALLY MAKES A GOOD CATCHY SONG. They successfully made a one-hit wonder.

[pochercoaster]