Kotaku readers! How are you? Would you care to join us in tonight’s open thread of random chitchat and maybe even some video game conversation to end your day? This is the off topic thread in which to do it.
So let’s do it! Since it’s Tuesday, we like to have a theme to these threads. This is a recurring one, in which we talk about the music and podcasts and books we’ve been listening to. Me? I’ve been playing some Robyn, some Anamanaguchi and some Wye Oak recently. I’ve also been listening to the 8-4 Play podcast and NPR’s Planet Money wrap-ups. I miss the Kotaku podcast!
Recommendations and advice about good things to listen to are encouraged in the comments.
I’ve snuck in OCRemix’s Heroes vs. Villains to work today. Soooooo gooooood! It’s free, too! Go find the torrent for it on OCR’s website and download it! 😀
Yeah OCremix for me – Some techno beat from Ecco the dolphin ive been listening to, cant remember the title. And layzie bone new life http://youtu.be/8jMK4gBOiKI
Triple J.
The Portal 2 – Songs To Test By
Iron & Wine – The Shepherd’s Dog
Listening to VAST (as I have everyday for a decade or so) and the new albums from Incubus, Interpol and Kanye.
Foo fighters – wasting light!
Machine Head, new song is amazing.
Yes… yes it is 🙂 Cannot wait for the new album!!
Lately I’ve been cranking two Pain albums; Psalms of Extinction and Cynic Paradise.
I’ve been hammering the new Beastie Boys record, which makes me want to throw in some of their old stuff too. Been loving it.
At work we have Beastie Boys Fridays.
It’s just every album playing all day. It’s the best 😀
anything Ska
good call, getting into Big D and the Kids Table at the moment!
Triple J
The sword, brocas helm and blind guardian.
Podcast wise – Rant Theory (ranttheory.blogspot.com). 3 Aussie gamers just sitting around having a chat about games and it’s hilarious!
Music – Foo Fighters Wasting Light has been getting a good workout in the car on the way to work.
Just picked up Revelator by the Tedeschi Trucks Band last week, been playing that a lot. I love me some Derek Trucks.
OCremix and some J-pop
Grum – Heartbeats
Fantastic album, an electronic bland of 70’s 80’s synth from modern times!
Triple J right now but ive been enjoying the Going Quantum channel on YouTube as of late.
Also I hate to be that guy but isn’t it Wednesday not Tuesday?
It’s a US Kotaku article.
Usually I don’t publish these thingmies – but I was curious about what you guys were listening to, so I put it through.
Band “Eloy”;Album “Floating”… some good old fashioned German Prog
Found it by listening to Sony’s Qriocity Service… Some really weird stuff in there especially the 70’s Italian pop
I had my first go of that over the weekend – great mix of obscure stuff I’d never have discovered otherwise.
Listening to some Sevendust, Unearth and Machine Head at the moment 🙂
Battles – Gloss Drop. get amongst it.
yeaahh Battles.
The Devil Wears Prada – With Roots Above and Branches Below & Zombie EP. Got hooked back in after hearing the new track yesterday.
Mm..new track is solid. I still think the new August Burns Red song trumps it though. http://www.augustburnsred.com/
Cannot wait for ABR’s new album based on the first four tracks released. Devil Wears is going to be choice too.
Oh man, that new August Burns Red track is slick. Pretty pumped for both albums.
Agreed. You can hear the production value differences with Adam D on the helm in relation to the TDWP, as opposed to Sturgis. Good to see them trying something different for a change. Should be a jackhammer of a record too.
The Nursing office printing out ‘War and Peace’ on the printer behind me…
For. The. Last. Six. God. Damn. Hours.
Ahahahaha.
Update: They’ve moved onto ‘The Complete And Unabridged Works Of William Shakespeare’.
Seriously, what the hell are you women printing?
Update: it’s stopped.
Oh, it’s out of paper.
The Cure.
Been binging since the opera house gig
JEALOUS
I can’t stop listening to Sabaton’s Coat Of Arms CD at the moment. I’ll try and put something else on but I always end up just going back to Coat Of Arms.
LASERS – Lupe Fiasco
Shaolin vs Wu-Tang – Raekwon
Bad meets Evil – Eminem & Royce da 5″9
Wasting Light – Foo Fighters
Unplugged – Lil Wayne
Mainly The Mars Volta, Blind Guardian and a little bit of Slipknot, really looking forward to the coming Blind Guardian gig in Sydney.
No podcasts, though i’ve been reading through book III of the Dark Tower series.
Lately I’ve had one song stuck in my head and I’m loving it.
Chiodos, the song is titled “I didn’t say I was powerful, I said I was a Wizard.”
Fantastic song with an awesome as title.
Buried Inside (all three albums)
Swollen Members (only the good albums)
and some old Nas (illmatic, it was written)
Illmatic is my favourite album of all time.
It’s pretty hard to go past, most of his other albums have a couple good songs but it’s hard to go anywhere but down when your first album was illmatic.
I think my favourite album of all time is Party Animals by Turbonegro. No jokes that thing is perfect start to finish.
Opeth.
The answer is almost always Opeth.
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소녀시대, f(x) and IU
Been stuck on K-Pop for most of the year. Dam its catchy.
Some Flogging Molly, bit of Dropkick Murphys and listening to I Am Legend on audiobook on my crowded train home.
Oh and some video game soundtracks (i.e. 8-bit Link’s Awakening & Sonic 2 de-scaled and stuff).
I went and saw the Murphys live once… awesome gig.
I couldn’t hear for 3 days afterwards.
I saw them at Wollongong youth centre in 99 i think. Same thing though, couldn’t hear shit afterwards. I remember being pleasantly suprised when watching The Departed.
Awesome. I’m kicking myself that I missed the chance to see them a while back (last year?). I went drinking with some friends and we started singing some of their music a while back. I lost my voice for about a week.
I went to work for the rest of the week.
I just nodded when people talked to me… Lord knows what the hell I agreed to during that week.
The new arch enemy album ‘Khaos Legions’
Amazing album. Probably my new favourite and have been a fan for 10 years. All metalheads need to pick this up NOW!
Fucked Up – David Comes to Life
Twist Again – Bodies of Water
DMST – & Yet & Yet
Volumes, Periphery and Veil of Maya
Whitechapel and the Acacia Strain, cant wait to see A/S at soundwave!!!
Orbital 2. 😀
I’m a fan of rock/metal, but I’ve been in the mood for some “lighter” sounding music. My most played songs recently:
(Band – Song)
Deadsoul Tribe – Stairway to Nowhere
Opeth – Harvest
Opeth – To Rid the Disease (and the rest of the Damnation album)
Iron – Wood Kid (yeah, the Assassins Creed trailer got me hooked on this awesome song)
Oh, I had no idea Iron was used for the Assassin’s Creed trailer, but it is a really great song.
Was that a subtle hint that I got the band/song name the wrong way around? 🙂
Murder by Death – Red of Tooth and Claw
They’re rock with a few country elements (not death metal like a few people have thought), and really, really good. Check them out: http://murderbydeath.bandcamp.com/
Also been listening to a lot of Radiolab recently. It’s a podcast run by an american public radio station about interesting things. Very informative, excellent production.
The soundtrack for the excellent Frozen Synapse and the soundtrack for VVVVVV.
Skrillex. That is all.
There’s a new Haujobb EP on the way so I’ve caught one of the B-sides from that. The reissue of Mindless Self Indulgence’s “Tight”. Spaceghostpurrp’s “Blvcklvnd Rvdix 66.6 (1991)”. Hondalady’s “Gimme A Break”. I should be listening to more of Death Grips’ “Exmilitary”. A lot of Clams Casino instrumentals. The Das Racist mixtapes. Need to get the new Dananananaykroyd/Weird Al/Lonely Island albums. Some Naked City whenever the iPod skips onto it.
The Dear Hunter – The Color Spectrum (The Complete Collection)
Fear.FM
Finding new music for a upcoming set.
the sound of office boredom…
Devin Townsend/Strapping Young Lad, Opeth and Porcupine Tree.