Post the latest (or current) album and artist that you listened to (are listening to), a short description of what kind of music it is, the media it was from (cd/online music store/etc), and where you got it.
Now playing :
Artist : Ali Farka Toure Album : Savane Genre : African blues/rock/traditional Media : Compact disc Source : BMG music
I'm not up with current music anymore, so maybe this thread will help me find some new music for my audio library. Feel free to post more than once. The more music the better. 
The last album I bought last week from iTunes is the latest Rise Against album. I can't remember the name of it and I haven't listened to it much. Genre is rock I guess.
Judging from the other thread, I think it's a good thing I don't have the bandwidth to watch that video...
It's a great video. If you're into schoolgirls, and don't mind the music, that is.
My latest acquisition ("The German Years", a compilation of Moondog's later works) is from the 1970's, so I don't think it counts as "current". When I buy music, I buy CDs - best way to make sure I won't have to put up with DRM nonsense, and my car's cd player plays them without any conversion whatsoever 
On to the next disc!
Artist : Liz Phair Album : Somebody's Miracle Genre : Rock/Alternative Media : Compact disc Source : BMG music
I just bought the "French Funk Experience" by "Kid Loco", but at the moment I'm listening to "Fillenium Malcon" by "My Milky Way Arms".
So there.
Last time I've listened to Asia - Alpha, right before it it was Asia - Asia. The newest album I've acquired was Asia - Omega (released last year) along with live compilation of King Crimson (it was a Cirkus). Besides these you could mostly find albums and compilations from Yes and The Doors on my shelf.
So I guess I'm not in touch with current music either (and I don't think I can count latest Asia album in, well I could but it's not mainstream). So progrock predominantly for me 
The last song I listened to is There She Is, by superstar4410, me, and Matthew Leverton.
The last album I listened to is about a decade old now:
Artist : Ben Folds Album : Rockin' The Suburbs Genre : Piano rock? Media : CD ripped to MP3 files Source : Probably half.com
If you're looking for something recent that's decent, I have listened to Cee Lo Green's Lady Killer album a good number of times. I would classify it as "old school" R&B, but I have no clue what the rest of the world classifies it as
Infected Mushroom - Vicious Delicious; 2007, psytrance, Direct Connect, a random user on a random east european server.
Artist : Dream Theater
Album : All of them (favoring Octavarium and Systematic Chaos)
Genre : Progressive Metal
Media : MPEG Layer-3
Source : Google
Artist: Nightwish Album: End of an Era Genre: Symphonic Power Metal Media: MP3 Source: google?
I don't really listen to albums.
Artist : Metroid Metal (Stemage) Album : Varia Suite Genre : Metal Media : OGG Vorbis Source : Band Camp
This playlist from Blalock has some great songs within, all tied together with various spoken word clips regarding dreaming/waking etc. Really nice to listen to if your at a loose end.
Gogol Bordello - Start Wearing Purple
Gypsy punk. 
The album that I've been listening to most recently is (just bought it recently):
Artist: Taylor Swift Album: Speak Now Genre: Country, Pop Media: CD, ripped to iTunes/iPod. Source: Big Machine Records, apparently, though I don't really see what relevance the record label is...
If you're looking for something recent that's decent, I have listened to Cee Lo Green's Lady Killer album a good number of times. I would classify it as "old school" R&B, but I have no clue what the rest of the world classifies it as
Is that the album with "Fuck You" on it? That's an awesome song, and he's clearly a good singer. Is the entire album good? I only like to buy albums from artists that are awesome from beginning to end. If every track isn't perfect or near perfect (i.e., you can enjoyably listen to the whole album on repeat over and over again) then I generally feel like I got fucked and throw the CD away. 
Artists should be perfectionists, damn it. 
Kitty Cat: very nice!
Is that the album with "Fuck You" on it?
Indeed it is. I find the entire album to be enjoyable, with the exception of the song Bodies. I tend to skip it when listening through. Despite that blemish, the album is awesome, and I think it will stand the test of time.
I got his previous album, Cee-Lo Green... Is The Soul Machine, but I didn't really care for it as much. It's a rap album, while Lady Killer is most definitely not. (I do like some rap music, and there are a handful of tracks on there that are good, but I can't really listen to the whole thing in one sitting.)
Mumford and Sons
A satisfying breath of fresh air in a day in age where everyone calls hip-hop and rap "music".
This, my friends, is real music.
Artist : Within Temptation
Album : The Unforgiving
Genre : Gothic?
Media : Compact disc
Source : Sony Music Europe
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This, my friends, is real music
Everyone has their own tastes. Stop thinking yours are better than everyone elses .
Everyone has their own tastes. Stop thinking yours are better than everyone elses .
It's safely assumed that "good music" is just an opinion. The same can't be said about "the ultimate answer to life" such as religion.
Their bikes make them uncool and their music suck. 341 people on YouTube agree with that.
Everyone has their own tastes. Stop thinking yours are better than everyone elses
Never!
Granted, I suppose I shouldn't dismiss genres altogether like that. However, it's talentless garbage like this that floods that music industry which ticks me off. People actually think that piece of trash (along with other "artists", autotuned, talentless, etc.) is talented. I mean...really?
The only reason people like him get anywhere is because they either know people, have connections, have good producers (who are the people who should receive the real credit in these cases), or give off some kind of viral public appeal to hipsters.
Real music is hard to come by these days.
It's safely assumed that "good music" is just an opinion. The same can't be said about "the ultimate answer to life" such as religion.
Why are you such a religion fascist lately?
Real music is hard to come by these days.
LOOL!
Why are you such a religion fascist lately?
I get tired of the religious people throwing it in my face, implying I'm deficient or something.
Ah.. well that's a bitch. Suffice it to say that I'm religious and would never throw it in your face. I don't claim to have all the answers, I just believe what I believe and let other people do the same. If you want to have a discussion about it, wellll... maybe, but discussions of that nature usually turn into arguments and nothing is solved or learned anyway so it's usually a waste of time.
In another thread, a member blithely stated that god told him to do something. What would you think if I said Santa Claus told me to do X, with the assumption that I thought this was perfectly acceptable?
See what I mean? I'm not going to discuss it because your mind is made up, you're only asking the question to antagonize.
I get tired of atheists claiming my belief in God makes me deficient.
This thread is for music, let's keep it that way if you don't mind.
Artist : Hearts Of Space Album : Exotica Genre : Mix of Indian electronic music Media : wma file recorded from the radio Source : hos.com - program 431
Second last album I bought (all the music I've bought in the past few years minus a couple cds is from iTunes) was "The Longest EP" by NOFX... it's alright. Genre: Punk.
However, it's talentless garbage like this that floods that music industry which ticks me off. People actually think that piece of trash (along with other "artists", autotuned, talentless, etc.) is talented. I mean...really?
The only reason people like him get anywhere is because they either know people, have connections, have good producers (who are the people who should receive the real credit in these cases), or give off some kind of viral public appeal to hipsters.
Talented rappers are very few and far between so it isn't the kind of genre that is booming with new talent. Talent is relatively rare, but the recording industry is itching to exploit the popularity, and unfortunately the popular kids will buy anything they think is popular (i.e., they have no actual taste). This makes it easy for a record label with some money to make it appear that an artist (of any genre, really) is popular, which means sales, which means profit.
Rap is awesome, and some hip hop is enjoyable, but you have to watch for the talent. Most of it does suck. It's hard to fake rap or hip top talent. The music is most often a repeating sequence so while it needs to be enjoyable, it's usually not the focus of a track which is probably why producers usually don't get praised for a single track. The lyrics are what I tend to focus on. You can mostly tell who has actual serious talent and who's just faking it. The really talented producers get notoriety for a career of awesome beats (e.g., Dr. Dre). It helps if they also rap too.
Real music is hard to come by these days.
Are you f*ing kidding? Real music was hard to come buy two centuries ago, before the invention of the radio, the grammophone, and pretty much all other means of recording and distributing music. Back then, when you wanted music, you had two options: play it yourself, or have someone else play it for you.
Compare that to 2011: You don't even have to get out of your f*ing chair to download and play music, and the choice is abundant. The biggest problem is to tell the good stuff (music you like) from the bad stuff (music you don't like). Even music that isn't exactly raging popular, and appeals to a relatively narrow audience, can usually be acquired if you click a few times more. A few months ago, I ordered Hermeto Pascoal's "A musica livre" album (very experimental, hard to follow, mind-blowing to me, complete noise to many others, recorded in the 1970's and last issued in the early 1990's by a Japanese company) from a vendor in New Mexico, had it shipped across the Atlantic Ocean, and held it in my hands about a week later, for less than 30 euros (including shipping), in mint condition. So basically, some guy with long white hair and a beard recorded this album in Brazil almost 40 years ago, the tapes were then remastered (in the USA, IIRC), then baked into CDs in Japan some 20 years later, and one of those CDs was shipped first to New Mexico and then to the Netherlands, another 15-20 years or so later.
And it wasn't hard at all.
The actual sorting through it all to find the music you like can be hard if you're actively trying. I tend to just not worry about it and let the music that I like find me.
Yeah... one has to let go of the fear to miss out on great music. Yes, of course you're going to miss out. You'd have to have thousands of years at your disposal to listen to ALL the music, and you'd probably still need centuries to listen to all the good music. It would be equally silly to try and find ALL the nice people in the world and be friends with them, just because there's way too many of them (ain't that a nice thought?)
I'm posting my latest music. This is a composition-to-be. I have no idea how to continue this march. So far there's the intro and the A part, which repeats. Note that many parts are missing, like the 2nd and 3rd trumpet in the A part. I feel I have to decide on the structure before I do anything else. Though I have some candidates for melodic themes for the other parts.
Svartholm is this fortress:
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Some friends of mine playing in a band...info follows:
Artist: Sound Proof 101
Lead: Micah Batson
Bass: Tim Rogers
Drums: Eric Turner
Genre: Rock
Demo CD Release March 2011
Phases of The Moon or Phases of The Moon
Solace or Solace
Control or Control
Talented rappers are very few and far between so it isn't the kind of genre that is booming with new talent.
You really do talk a lot of shit sometimes. Did you read that on Wikipedia? 
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You really do talk a lot of shit sometimes. Did you read that on Wikipedia? .
No, that's my personal opinion. If you can't rhyme well, or are consistently saying fewer than ~7 words between a pause (or per "line"), then you need to give up... Rap is about delivering a lot of clever rhymes in short succession while telling a story or sending a message. Random rhymes are not interesting or relate-able, slow or weak rhymes are boring as fuck. It's really quite simple.
In the example cited by Jessy Lenney above, the first six lines of the second verse are:
Spent a couple dollars on my engine
motor roaring when I back out the garage
Gin got me drunk as f-ck stumbling out the bar
Plus I'm struggling tryna find the keys to my car
Cause I be going hard, roll the camera
Life just like a movie, I'm the star
He doesn't rhyme engine and garage with anything anywhere. So basically you get to the fourth line without any rhymes. Rhyming bar, car, hard, and star is like 3rd grader stuff, and he's not even doing it with an interesting message. It's like every line or two is a completely unrelated thought. Not to mention, he has "hard" is the middle of his 5th line which basically means that the 5th line too doesn't rhyme with anything (i.e., ends with "roll the camera"). Not to mention it doesn't flow well together at all. That shit sucks, and that style of slow, childish, message-less rhyming seems to be pretty common these days; though it's especially prominent in "Southern rappers". For example, Lil' Wayne, for all his fame and success, usually sucks hard, IMHO.
Even Drake, who is getting all kinds of attention all of a sudden, isn't very good from what I've heard. His rhymes are pretty weak and slow too. It's nothing impressive.
I can't even listen to that shit. I listen primarily to Eminem and 50 Cent, and old stuff from Dr. Dre and Tupac and other affiliated rappers.
For an arbitrary "statistical" comparison, let's look at the character, word, [and "line"] counts for the song Forever by Drake (featuring Kanye West, Lil' Wayne, and Eminem; two of which are way over-hyped). This song is actually pretty good, despite only having one seriously talented rapper in it. I grabbed the lyrics from the Web and joined the lines up the way that I believe they should be joined. It's not always easy to say though so consider the line counts extra superficial. I wrote the lyrics to a file named lyrics.txt. The file contained only the verses with an artist header that looked like this: [artist name]. If you don't speak sed, tail, head, or wc: sed is used to match a single verse at a time by artist, tail is used to remove the artist name header line, head is used to trim the following artist's header line and a blank line in between verses, and wc outputs the line count, word count, and character count; respectively. Note that since there was no artist header after Eminem's verse I only trimmed one line instead of two.
$ sed -nr '/[Drake\]/,/^[/ p' lyrics.txt | tail -n +2 | head -n -2 | wc
17 150 776
$ sed -nr '/[Kanye West\]/,/^[/ p' lyrics.txt | tail -n +2 | head -n -2 | wc
22 202 1058
$ sed -nr '/[Lil Wayne\]/,/^[/ p' lyrics.txt | tail -n +2 | head -n -2 | wc
16 161 813
$ sed -nr '/[Eminem\]/,/^[/ p' lyrics.txt | tail -n +2 | head -n -1 | wc
19 223 1172These statistics basically support the way that I would grade the complexity and skill of the verses, with one exception: Kanye West wasn't even rapping for two lines in the beginning.
$ sed -nr '/[Kanye West\]/,/^[/ p' lyrics.txt | tail -n +4 | head -n -2 | wc
20 186 980Ah, that's a bit better. There are a few other lines that I think are ridiculous and shouldn't count, like "old money Benjamin Button, whaat, nuttin" (WTF is that?), but I'll leave those in for argument's sake.
This pretty clearly shows that Eminem has considerably more words (next runner up was Kanye West with ~37 fewer words and he even had an extra line...) and more characters than the other artists.
The word/word and character/character ratios for x / Eminem:
Kanye West: 0.834 0.836 Lil' Wayne: 0.722 0.694† Drake: 0.673 0.662‡
† This suggests to me that not only does Wayne spit fewer words, but they're shorter/simpler words on average.
‡ Same story as Lil' Wayne; suggests to me shorter/simpler words on average.
None of these other artists even come close to Eminem, in this song or in any other song. Reading through the lyrics yourself should confirm this for you. The file that I used (which probably has a few errors in it; I didn't write the lyrics out myself) is attached. And for the record, each of these 3 insufficient rappers had relatively good verses in this song compared to their other material (even though Kanye West had a lot of ridiculous filler, he still did have a couple of clever rhymes to pull him back up with the others).
/2￠
Thumbs up for those listening to "Nightwish" and "Within Temptation".
On the subject of rap, I really like
I don't listen to much rap though as no one else around me listens to rap and so I have no one to siphon music from
bambam: Are you telling us that you made a shell script to judge the quality of rap lyrics? 
bambam: Are you telling us that you made a shell script to judge the quality of rap lyrics?
That's a brilliant idea.
On the subject of rap, I really like [Eminem - Kim] and [Eminem - Stan]
^ This. Both of which are on the Marshall Mathers LP, my favorite Eminem album.
I don't listen to much rap though as no one else around me listens to rap and so I have no one to siphon music from
bambam: Are you telling us that you made a shell script to judge the quality of rap lyrics?
I inlined it, but I guess you could say so ... 
I'm not saying that it's an accurate way to measure quality. It's certainly not scientific in any way. It is what it is.
A couple of good rhymes, but overall it sucks.
For me, I plugged Antigravity into Pandora and already found a nice selection of music.
I stumbled across this in reddit.
Now I was listening to this:
The last albumn that I bought was probably the latest "The Berzerker" albumn. Not as strong as their previous albums in that there are fewer standout tracks, but it still delivers their theme very well. My favourite song off that album is
The latest songs that I have "scouted" (as in downloaded to see if its shit or not, honest), is scar symmetry's discog. At first I thought that they were lame but they have grown on me. My favourite album from them is "Pitch Black Progress". I may buy it, IDK. T think this song is pretty good:
this one makes me smile:
Sound pretty good at 1:24+ or 3:12+
[PS] I also attached some 64kbps .ogg files of random sections that I've been working on myself. 5.ogg is my attempt at a tune in 3/4 time.
I got 2 videos with their music up right now...
Phases of The Moon
Solace
Here's what I'm listening to now :
Artist : Hearts Of Space Album : Sakura Genre : Traditional Japanese music Media : wma file recorded from the radio Source : hos.com - program 871
C'mon people, post more music! Or else post good places on the internet to listen to music before you buy it.
bassdrive.com
drum and bass
heard about it from someone here on a.cc
I use to listen my local radio... A little bit of everthing...
These days I'm mostly listen this:
http://www.allegro.cc/files/attachment/603862
Trying to finish it... a gay song for my gay game...
Trying to finish it... a gay song for my gay game...
It's light hearted, but I wouldn't go so far as to call it homosexual...
It sounds good, except for the staccato parts near the later middle of the song. They're too staccato, try giving them a little more sustained sound.
I like that AMCERASOLI.. sounds good even outside the context of a game. Something you could add vocals to and it would still sound good.
Trying to finish it... a gay song for my gay game...
In the original meaning it's "happy", so...
Thanks guys... Well yhea since I'm used to hip-hop-rap music this sounds too much "happy" for my, but it's good for my game.
And yes I might add some voice to the song, who should I call? Beyoncé or Jennifer? 
because I worked with Lady Gaga but I don't like how she works.
Beyoncé or Jennifer?
Bouncy or Jello? Please no, not Jello.
because I worked with Lady Gaga but I don't like how she works.
Because it's so much work putting up with a half-dressed woman all the time...
And yes I might add some voice to the song, who should I call? Beyoncé or Jennifer?
Matthew.
As you wish.
Spot-on, Matthew. You're truly gifted.
I know you have it on a loop and are singing along.
♪♪♪♪ These days ... a gay song ... so gay gay gay gay ♪♪♪♪
"Elijah went up to heaven in a whirlwind" 2 Kings 2:11 (NIV)
In this?
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Discussion?
JUST KIDDIN !!!
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WTF!!!?? Look what you have done to my song!! 
I hate you I hate you!! MOM COME HERE!!
Edit: Wait a minute! I say "Gay" just once!
It's safely assumed that "good music" is just an opinion.
Your opinion is wrong. Good music is designed by an artist to express complex emotions and meaning, deeply and accurately.
Music isn't good just because people "like it". I like lamp.
I'm also about to listen to the slip.
I browse dubstep on Beatport all the time. Drum and Bass/Dubstep and metalcore make up the bulk of what I listen to right now.
http://vimeo.com/21604065
http://vimeo.com/13639493
Solely for the purdy slo-mo visuals. I'd inline them, but they'd turn into Appleton.