What are you listening to?

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I wear a 16 Horsepower T-shirt when I go to Mass

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Just watched the last Sufjan Stevens video, directed by Luca Guadagnino. Stevens is a genius that crafted wonderful songs like 'Chicago' or 'Visions of Gideon'. His album 'Carrie and Lowell' makes me cry, literally. So sad and beautiful

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Hearing BRTD bash first-wave punks made listening to Cleveland's finest a bit obligatory.

Excellent choice. A list of the best post-punk and/or new wave songs would be great. Love that period

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What have you got in that paper bag?
Is it a dose of Vitamin C?
Ain't got no time for Western medicine
I am Damo Suzuki

(Mark E. Smith)

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It's the 30th anniversary of 'Spiderland', a cult masterpiece crafted by a bunch of 20 year old kids from Louisville.  The drums in this track are amazing

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An era-defining classic, and one of the most important albums of my teenage years.

Call me a massive contrarian (because I am), but "For Dinner..." was always my favorite track. The menacing, insistent quiet reminds me of Webern or Morton Feldman at their most sinister.

I like all the songs, but undeniably the album's highlight comes after 'For Dinner'. Actually that track works as a an interlude between the devastating 'Washer' (the nadir) and 'Good Morning Captain' (the climax). I don't know if I love 'Nosferatu Man' because of the reference to a German expressionist film, or because of the killer drums with those odd and changing time signatures (clashing with the guitars and the spoken words)...

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Splendid cover in English language of a classic song of Greek rebetiko.  Brendan Perry of Dead Can Dance sings and plays all the instruments. The original song is by Anestis Delias  (1936), a bouzouki virtuoso born in Smyrna (Turkey) before the population exchange

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Mitski is the best