What Song Are You Currently Listening To?

[Kupar 13,341]

6 hours ago, MidoriLemonade85 said:

And… for every time I drive past the airport ✈️https://youtu.be/siwpn14IE7E

You've prompted me to dig out another old classic I love: 

 

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Edited July 31, 2022 by Kupar

[Ozabot 63,319]

 

 

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Just so much joy in this song 🙂 

[Pontepee 62]

I joined a few months ago and already feel like I know some of you folks pretty well. For reasons I know you will understand I am still a bit scared about revealing too much that could identify me so I've not posted a lot but keep really wanting to. You are genuinely a kind bunch of folk! So as I massive music fan I thought I could make a splash (get it) here. 

I am loving the second Alex Cameron album at the moment, Forced Witness. It's a concept album broadly told from the perspective of a guy who is living a secret double life on the Internet. (don't really know why I relate). 

 

https://youtu.be/lpPm0S5GX0c

 

Please tell me how to properly link a youtube video

[gldenwetgoose 21,500]

Hi @Pontepee - Huge thanks for your kind words - so glad you’re enjoying your time here and getting to know us. 
 

Normally just copying and pasting in the YouTube link should pop in the clip itself as you see above.  I’ve just tried it and it gives an ‘age related content’ message - so maybe that’s the reason. 

[Kupar 13,341]

Just now, gldenwetgoose said:

Normally just copying and pasting in the YouTube link should pop in the clip itself as you see above.

I find it embeds properly when I do it from a PC, but from a phone it just appears as a text link. No idea why. 

[Kupar 13,341]

10 hours ago, Pontepee said:

I joined a few months ago and already feel like I know some of you folks pretty well. For reasons I know you will understand I am still a bit scared about revealing too much that could identify me so I've not posted a lot but keep really wanting to. You are genuinely a kind bunch of folk! So as I massive music fan I thought I could make a splash (get it) here. 

I am loving the second Alex Cameron album at the moment, Forced Witness. It's a concept album broadly told from the perspective of a guy who is living a secret double life on the Internet. (don't really know why I relate). 

 

https://youtu.be/lpPm0S5GX0c

 

Please tell me how to properly link a youtube video

Wow! I like the song, and the video is great too. I tend to get emotionally quite involved in some songs / stories and I really hope the two protagonists are OK! Thanks for sharing.

(I have said it before, but I like this forum thread so much. It's introduced me to so much music I would never have found otherwise.)

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Edited August 5, 2022 by Ozabot

[Pontepee 62]

On 8/3/2022 at 8:02 AM, Kupar said:

Wow! I like the song, and the video is great too. I tend to get emotionally quite involved in some songs / stories and I really hope the two protagonists are OK! Thanks for sharing.

(I have said it before, but I like this forum thread so much. It's introduced me to so much music I would never have found otherwise.)

Thank you. Realy glad to hear you l say that. Like I said previously I'm massive music fan and particularly lyrically driven music. The kind of thing you have to listen to, understand, and really can feel. 

It's great track, and so is the whole album, which is loosely written from the perspective of the same protagonist. 

It's worth noting that is not autobiographical, it is written from the point of view of a fictional character. It's quite self deprecating and he's relatable but not nessessaly a nice guy (but he knows it). 

Also the girl in the video is Alex Cameron's wife, she's in a lot of his videos. She's an actress and was the new Headteacher,  Hope, in the Netflix Series Sex Education if you've seen that. 

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7 minutes ago, Pontepee said:

Thank you. Realy glad to hear you l say that. Like I said previously I'm massive music fan and particularly lyrically driven music. The kind of thing you have to listen to, understand, and really can feel. 

It's great track, and so is the whole album, which is loosely written from the perspective of the same protagonist. 

It's worth noting that is not autobiographical, it is written from the point of view of a fictional character. It's quite self deprecating and he's relatable but not nessessaly a nice guy (but he knows it). 

Also the girl in the video is Alex Cameron's wife, she's in a lot of his videos. She's an actress and was the new Headteacher,  Hope, in the Netflix Series Sex Education if you've seen that. 

Thanks for the extra information. I am so behind the times when it comes to music really, but I too like songs where you have to listen to the lyrics (from the confessional singer-songwriter tradition think Joni Mitchell, Paul Simon, Suzanne Vega ... but there are many, many others of course). The point you make about knowing you're not really nice is an interesting one: that's there in some of Joni's work too (but in her case it's autobiographical lol).

Oh - I didn't realise that was Alex Cameron's wife (and I am one of the few people on the planet that hasn't seen Sex Education - we don't do Netflix; I know, I know...). 

[Pontepee 62]

11 hours ago, Kupar said:

Thanks for the extra information. 

You're more than welcome. I'm a font of useless knowledge about weird obscure bands that no one has ever heard of 🤣

[Pontepee 62]

Discovered this for the first time tonight. An absolutely mesmerising performance by the beautiful Angel Olsen. Couldn't take my eyes off it.  A great example of why you don't have to be technically musically brillliant to make brilliant music! @KuparI feel like she is channeling Joni so I hope you enjoy

 

 

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[Pontepee 62]

8 minutes ago, Sophie said:

 

What a classic! 

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[gldenwetgoose 21,500]

 

Before lock down, my friends' band used to have a regular residency slot on Friday nights - I never tired of trying to get them to add this to their set list.   It almost worked...

[Pontepee 62]

54 minutes ago, gldenwetgoose said:

 

Before lock down, my friends' band used to have a regular residency slot on Friday nights - I never tired of trying to get them to add this to their set list.   It almost worked...

Brilliant track but can't help but sing the version from the Who musical, Tommy. With Elton John as the pinball wizard. What crazy times.