What are you listening to these days?

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Like the title says...

What are you listening to these days?

I'm absolutely terrible at looking into new music and not listening to the same 10-15 bands I have for the last 25 years.

What I've had in rotation lately...





Also, what's the last concert you attended?

For me, it was Fu Manchu at a small club in Detroit's Mexicantown neighborhood..

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I love this topic. Long rant but music is my life blood lol. It used to be pretty much Punk for me all the time. Im a huge Strung Out fan, been for 20+ years. Have every album, been to a ton of shows, got a record player and started buying all their vinyl i could find, i even have one of Jordan Burns drum sticks. With that being said, i would say my genre of music has slowly started to shift. The last few years i have totally been digging Reggae Rock or Alternative Reggae (whichever genre you wanna call it). It started with my brother introducing me to bands like Iration, Stick Figure, Dirty Heads. More of that chill beach vibe, completley different than Strung Out lol. Now my Pandora is all Reggae with the exception of my Strung Out Radio Station that is still in rotation. Ive really been digging The Elovaters lately. So much so that i got tickets to go see them in Napa next month. Its funny, my wife says ive been in a much better/happier mood since ive started listening to this type of music lol, and no i still dont smoke weed hahaha. My son also loves it, so we'll sing on our way to drop him off at school. It's just easier to listen to on long trips.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4VCTn0h03Q&list=RDI4VCTn0h03Q&start_radio=1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88lL3txT3DM&list=RD88lL3txT3DM&start_radio=1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKHsoZGolJQ&list=RDvKHsoZGolJQ&start_radio=1
 
WW_RANGER_X said:
I love this topic. Long rant but music is my life blood lol. It used to be pretty much Punk for me all the time. Im a huge Strung Out fan, been for 20+ years. Have every album, been to a ton of shows, got a record player and started buying all their vinyl i could find, i even have one of Jordan Burns drum sticks. With that being said, i would say my genre of music has slowly started to shift. The last few years i have totally been digging Reggae Rock or Alternative Reggae (whichever genre you wanna call it). It started with my brother introducing me to bands like Iration, Stick Figure, Dirty Heads. More of that chill beach vibe, completley different than Strung Out lol. Now my Pandora is all Reggae with the exception of my Strung Out Radio Station that is still in rotation. Ive really been digging The Elovaters lately. So much so that i got tickets to go see them in Napa next month. Its funny, my wife says ive been in a much better/happier mood since ive started listening to this type of music lol, and no i still dont smoke weed hahaha. My son also loves it, so we'll sing on our way to drop him off at school. It's just easier to listen to on long trips.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4VCTn0h03Q&list=RDI4VCTn0h03Q&start_radio=1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88lL3txT3DM&list=RD88lL3txT3DM&start_radio=1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKHsoZGolJQ&list=RDvKHsoZGolJQ&start_radio=1
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I'm in the same boat. Grew up listening to a lot of pop punk, metalcore... and its been switching to Iration, Rebelution...
 
WW_RANGER_X said:
I love this topic. Long rant but music is my life blood lol. It used to be pretty much Punk for me all the time. Im a huge Strung Out fan, been for 20+ yeThe last few years i have totally been digging Reggae Rock or Alternative Reggae (whichever genre you wanna call it). It started with my brother introducing me to bands like Iration, Stick Figure, Dirty Heads. More of that chill beach vibe, completley different than Strung Out lol. Now my Pandora is all Reggae with the exception of my Strung Out Radio Station that is still in rotation. Ive really been digging The Elovaters lately. So much so that i got tickets to go see them in Napa next month. Its funny, my wife says ive been in a much better/happier mood since ive started listening to this type of music lol,
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Check these guys out if you haven't! I recently bought their albums on vinyl.

Tunnel Vison



I fully understand the correlation between music and mood. I still listen to 90% punk, but definitely not as much Detroit and Boston hardcore as I did in my 20s
 
pandora and push shuffle...

anything from La Chona by los tucanes de tijuana, to kenny chesney, to dr dre or eazy e, motley crue, guns n roses, nsync, brittany spears, pennywise, blink 182, etc... etc so much shit is on my playlist / shuffle stations. Music is not anything special to me just something to have playing when i can or want it to not be quiet, but sometimes silence is fine as well.

only time i usually push next is just weird indie rock, or literally classic rock or or reggae. Unfortunately my wife likes classic rock and reggae so i have to leave it sometimes or better yet i just drive and then i pick the music.
 
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I started collecting records a few years back

I’m deffinatly going to check out tunnel bound, sounds like there stuff is right up my alley.

Xcomm looks like a bunch of youngester!! Pretty cool though

A couple albums that I discovered last year that found there way onto my daily cycle….

https://youtu.be/VlvP7Hna1Qo?si=UwzqHluc7GUqb8Qj

And

https://youtu.be/HEemt0qxryw?si=nCxFFWGXN7ilKZ-U

Both of these albums are Exellent

Last concert…. was back in June me and @bp built trecked to LA in his explorer to see brand new

Got a workout in the pit and came out mostly unscathed lol
 
This is likely my all time favorite album, they broke up long before I was of age to go see concerts, and if they ever do a reunion I'll travel a great distance to see it happen.



I acutally made the pilgrimage out to Sky Valley to see the sign and soak in the desert vibes 10 years ago.

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i started in hardcore punk about 25 years ago... hence my old screen name hxckidd.

in highschool it was strung out, afi, millencolin, bad religion, lagwagon, blink, mxpx

by the end of the 90s into early 2000s it was lots of melodic hardcore death by stereo, strife, poison the well, one king down, refused, boy sets fire, ignite, thrice (fun fact, i went to junior high and highschool withe a few of the members, and was good friends with them)

Then kinda transitioned into rockbilly for a while, 3 bad jacks, tiger army, horrorpops for a few years.

Now my newest music genre i listen to is this new country (never thought i would listen to it)
but wiskey meyer, ryan bingham, colter wall, koe wetzel

Now i have a list of liked songs that seem to mimic GG rap, to classic rock, or britney spears, to country, to metal.

Only thing i wont listen to is the new mumble rap bullshit. and 90s country.
 
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I don't know how well known either of these bands are south of my border, but I've been listening to both 25+ years.

I don't know how many times I've seen each of them live, but I've had a lot of great conversations with Murray and Chi (before his passing) over the years.


 
BlackJacket705 said:
Fun story,

I grew up in Timmins Ontario, home of Shania Twain. Her real names Ilene and my mom worked with her at Sears. She told everyone she was going to make it big in Nashville, of course no one believed her. Well I guess she showed them.
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That's awesome, I watched a documentary on her at some point recently. Pretty tough road she went down to where she is today.

My first job was washing cars at a Ford dealership back in the day out on the lot and the two dudes in the detailing bays would play the hit country station all day long since that song had recently come out. That song and Iris by The Goo Goo Dolls (playing from the service bays) were played at least once an hour the whole time I worked there that summer. I only listened to the classic rock and hard rock stations at the time so that was my first exposure to anything country besides Dolly Parton, Johnny Cash type radio songs I'd hear once in awhile elsewhere. Now I play her and Faith Hill's hits for my wife since she didn't grow up in America and doesn't know any American music besides jazz.
 
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I started collecting records a few years back

I’m deffinatly going to check out tunnel bound, sounds like there stuff is right up my alley.

Xcomm looks like a bunch of youngester!! Pretty cool though

A couple albums that I discovered last year that found there way onto my daily cycle….

https://youtu.be/VlvP7Hna1Qo?si=UwzqHluc7GUqb8Qj

And

https://youtu.be/HEemt0qxryw?si=nCxFFWGXN7ilKZ-U

Both of these albums are Exellent

Last concert…. was back in June me and @bp built trecked to LA in his explorer to see brand new

Got a workout in the pit and came out mostly unscathed lol
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Rise Against's SSotCC is their best album!
 
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