What are you listening to Escapists? (February 2016 Edition)

[Antari]

The month of love is here. What will you be listening to this month? Will you be listening to something with the one you love? Will you be listening to music that brings up memories of loves past? Will you be avoiding everyone as much as possible? Or is there another reason entirely for your musical choices? Let us know. Genre is wide open.

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There is definitely some weird music crawling out this month ...

 

[MysticSlayer]

Avantasia released a new album a few days ago, and that's taken up pretty much all my time. I absolutely love it, and while I'm still not sure if it is better than The Scarecrow, it's definitely one of their best albums (which is saying a lot coming from me):

Spoiler: Here is the official teaser from Nuclear Blast. As far as I can tell, it is the only song from the album on YouTube right now.

 

[happyninja42]

Recently started listening to If These Trees Could Talk again. This album in particular, but most of theirs is great background music to zone out to.

Spoiler: Album: Malabar Front

Let's see, dusted off The Real Thing by Faith No More recently.

Oh! And I fell in love again with The Fountain soundtrack. Another album to listen to in the quiet and the dark, must like ITTCT above.

Spoiler: Together, We Will Live Forever

And a plethora of individual songs by various artists that always orbit my personal soundtrack.

 

[Sleepy Sol]

Spoiler: clipping - Body and Blood

Spoiler: The Wonder Years - My Life as a Pigeon

Spoiler: Future of the Left - Arming Eritrea

Experimental hip-hop, pop punk, and noise rock. Good stuff all around.

 

[Sassafrass]

As of right this minute?

Spoiler: This is What You Are

Chills every time I hear it.

 

[DrownedAmmet]

I heard D-WHY for the first time the other day and immediately fell in love with his shit.

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Spoiler: some green in my pocket and some coffee in my cup

Spoiler: time is money if I had it I'd spend it on you

Spoiler: I don't even smoke, but someone should probably roll one

His lyrics are so fucking on point, just about every song I hear of his has at least one line that kicks my feels right in the ass

 

[mantistoboggan]

Neil Young's Harvest

 

[FPLOON]

The music from Lethal League... The game was given to me as a gift from one of my Steam friends... and, my glob, have I've been missing out hard on this shit!

Spoiler: Turkish Mix

Spoiler: Ordinary Days

Spoiler: Urabon

Spoiler: RE

Other than that, one of my other friends linked me this because he noticed that I have Undertale in my Steam Library:

Spoiler: Mom's Spaghetti

Spoiler alert: It's more than just "Mom's Spaghetti" that gets inserted into the lyrics...

And the rest is off <url=http://psycosis91.tumblr.com/post/134296898050>Tumblr, which I "forgot" how to enable "correctly"...

 

[Vanilla ISIS]

The 1996 album Becoming X by a band called Sneaker Pimps.
It's pretty sweet.

Spoiler: Sneaker Pimps - 6 Underground

 

[SquidVicious]

Been really enjoying the new Massive Attack EP Ritual Spirit. It's been nearly 6 years since they last released something new and I was lukewarm on that album, but this EP absolutely kills it. I'm really hoping this is a small slice of what to expect on their next album. This is probably my favourite track from it.

Spoiler: Massive Attack - Take It There

 

[Hazy992]

This has been stuck in my head for weeks. Thanks Vine

 

[happyninja42]

This has been stuck in my head for weeks. Thanks Vine

Oooh, I like that one. It kind of reminds me of the following 2 songs, sort of.

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and then

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You might dig those.

 

[EscapeGoat_v1legacy]

So recently I saw a guy called Remi Harris live and by God was he awesome. He's a guitarist who plays gypsy jazz much like Django Reinhardt and this song in particular completely opened my eyes to the whole genre.

Spoiler: Remi Harris - Montagne Sainte Genevieve

On the subject of musicians and genres pretty new to me, a good friend on my music course recently introduced me to Frank Zappa and this song is one I've just fallen in love with, though a number of people on the course think it's just a racket. Their loss, this is genius.

Spoiler: Frank Zappa - Zomby Woof

And finally, on the game music front, I really really dig the soundtrack from Undertale. All of the major boss themes are just perfect pieces of music but this one is the stand out by far.

Spoiler: Toby Fox - Megalovania (from Undertale)

 

[pookie101]

watching/listing to grease live.. great performance.

also listening to the life is strange sound track.. love it

 

[SckizoBoy]

Anything by Thomas Bergersen/Two Steps From Hell... particularly Empire of Angels/Victory (from Sun/Battlecry respectively).

God, that man's awepicsome like his music!! -_________-

 

[Barbas]

In this old building, I'm currently listening to the faint whooshing of the computer fans and the irregular pattering of drops from the ceiling tiles - I think there's some sort of trouble with the air conditioning. For music, I like to go back to 'Hold My Hand' by U.N.K.L.E., a song that I've really dug since watching a surprisingly dark film called Trance.

 

[King of Asgaard]

Well I recently finished the first part of the latest Shadowrun "trilogy", Returns. I played it last because of the somewhat mixed feelings it had on release (while by no means a bad game, it was far from perfect and the imperfections were quite glaring), and I must say it rather impressed me for a number of reasons. Here's one of those reasons:

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[The Jovian]

Currently I am discovering the Ellie Goulding is growing on me-

Spoiler: I like this now.

-that Pitbull doesn't suck so much anymore-

Spoiler: Best song by the guy who screwed up MIB3's theme song, ever.

-that I'm still waiting for fun. to come back-

Spoiler: Please take your own advice guys.

-and that before One Direction came along there was a British boy band that I can actually stomach.

Spoiler: More of this, less of creepy emotional manipulation please.

There was also Macklemore's comeback-

Spoiler: And now I want a moped.

-Paramore's best song-

Spoiler: Can somebody give her a hug?

-the most appropriate low-key song to write a book to-

Spoiler: So tranquil.

-and finally, an adventure of a lifetime.

Spoiler: Woo Hoo, indeed.

 

[happyninja42]

Currently I am discovering the Ellie Goulding is growing on me-

Spoiler: I like this now.

Same here. I've found the few songs of hers that I've heard, are quite enjoyable. I think her most recent single is sort of meh, but otherwise, she's not that bad. It's pop music that doesn't hurt my brain, or leave me with indigestion.