Music while building

[Gern]

There's a guy named Luca Stricagnoli I'm listening to at the moment. After hearing his version of 'Sweet Child o' Mine' I hear rumours that Slash had to go and have a lie down in a quiet room for a month; although he seems to be recovering and now just quietly cries himself to sleep every night.

[Peej]

There's a guy named Luca Stricagnoli I'm listening to at the moment. After hearing his version of 'Sweet Child o' Mine' I hear rumours that Slash had to go and have a lie down in a quiet room for a month; although he seems to be recovering and now just quietly cries himself to sleep every night.

Just checked out this guy on youtube as I had never heard of him before. What a guitarist. Amazing. May have to listen to some more next time I'm at the bench. Thanks Gern.

[Gern]

Thanks Gern.

You're very welcome. You might want to take a look at Mariusz Goli and Ewan Dobson.

[Guest]

This is a current snapshot of my "Modelling Mix" playlist.
It's mostly prog-rock/metal and old-school heavy rock/metal, mostly British but also some other influences. Virtually all songs are "upbeat" and driving because listening to sad and downbeat music isn't good for working IMHO because I only "get stuck" all the time...

The list contains some of the best albums ever recorded in the history of time and music so I hope it can be inspiring to someone? (It also contains a lot of "easy listening" music. Still good but perhaps not in the "best ever" category.)

Accept - Metal Heart, Balls to the Wall, Russian Roulette
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath, Paranoid, Master of Reality, Vol. 4, Sabbath. Bloody Sabbath, Born Again
Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence, Black Clouds And Silver Linings, Awake
Deep Purple - Stormbringer, Perfect Strangers
ELP - Tarkus
Frank Zappa - Over-Nite Sensation, Apostrophe
Gentle Giant - Three Friends, Octopus, GG at GG
Jethro Tull - Aqualung, Thick as a Brick, various live sessions
Judas Priest - British Steel, Painkiller, Sad Wings of Destiny, Rocka Rolla
King Crimson - Red, Larks' Tongues in Aspic, The construKction of light
Liquid Tension Experiment - 1 and 2
Mike Keneally - Boil That Dust Speck
Myrath - Tales Of The Sands (North African prog-metal)
Neal Morse - The Similitude of a Dream
Periphery - I, II and III
Pink Floyd - Animals, Dark Side of the Moon, p-u-l-s-e
Rainbow - Rising, Down to Earth, Difficult to Cure
Rush - Moving Pictures (Tom Sawyer and YYZ are phenomenally good!!!)
Wishbone Ash - "Best Of" mix

If you like (prog) rock and want to hear something fresh - and the best new album I've heard in many years, I can recommend Neal Morse - The Similitude of a Dream!
It's an amazing album by amazing musicians and it's not overly complicated like a lot of the music I listen to. You won't regret it!
Also King Crimson - Red is a must in any compilation. Hands down the best album ever recorded!!! (sorry all Beatles/Pink Floyd/Led Zeppelin/Jimi Hendrix fans...)

I seem to be stuck mostly in the 70's and the 80's with a large portion of my music catalogue but music back then were made by talented musicians and their instruments, not by a dictator producer/label with computers and auto-tuners!

I also secretly listen to Adele whom I think is one of the best singers in the world currently alive - but don't tell anyone...

[PaulTRose]

nice list......Sabbath stands out for me of course :smiling:

my tastes are wide and varied.......im a huge fan of Julie Fowlis.....so relaxing

[PaulTRose]

I also secretly listen to Adele whom I think is one of the best singers in the world currently alive - but don't tell anyone...

you might like this Norwegian fellow then :smiling6:.....been subscribing to him on youtube for a couple of years

[Guest]

you might like this Norwegian fellow then :smiling6:.....been subscribing to him on youtube for a couple of years

I've been following Leo from the start so I know what you mean.
His cover of Toto - Africa last year is his best ever production if you ask me! It's so good it earned a permanent spot in my car mix!!!

[PaulTRose]

think my fave covers are Feel Good and Californication

[Guest]

nice list......Sabbath stands out for me of course :smiling:

my tastes are wide and varied.......im a huge fan of Julie Fowlis.....so relaxing

Julie Fowlis was new to me but I like folk music so I'll give her a go tonight!

Black Sabbath are very special to me. So special that I even formed a Black Sabbath cover band many years ago and we were all big Sabbath fans!
Damn, miss those days going wild on stage and having lots of very pretty girls asking for your number... We recorded one rehearsal on video that I must dig up. I still have a working VHS player and I hope the tape has survived the years...?
I can probably still play every Black Sabbath song from start to end, album by album, every riff and solo today without thinking - that's how great they were!!!

I saw Heaven and Hell in Copenhagen on their first tour and apart from terrible acoustics, the performance was magical!!!
I'm so glad I managed to see Dio again before he sadly passed away

I don't know what additives you guys have got in the water in Birmingham but there must be something that created all those awesome bands in the 60's and 70's!
You don't find this anywhere else in the world! Not that many awesome bands in one town... A real mystery!

[Steve O]

Almost forgot one of my favorite bands the Doobie Brothers, had them on this morning whilst applying decals.

Steve.

[PaulTRose]

Julie Fowlis was new to me but I like folk music so I'll give her a go tonight!

i came across her a few years ago on a folk prog on BBC Radio 2........loved her music ever since even though i dont understand a word of gaelic

i know the rest of Scandanavia view the Finns as being a bit 'odd' but i assume you know of Steve n Seagulls?

[Guest]

i know the rest of Scandanavia view the Finns as being a bit 'odd' but i assume you know of Steve n Seagulls?

We from the north view them pretty much just like our neighbours. Neighbours that all drink vodka and carry long knives that is... hehe
Steve n Seagulls are well known in my neck of the woods and I know of several similar bands that just aren't on social media but still well known, and I love that type of twist between folk music and modern rock/pop/whatever!

Music is deeply rooted in most of Scandinavia and especially in the north. In my days virtually all kids played an instrument in school. It was just the norm.
That way a lot of talent was picked up. Today this is no longer the case and the instruments are swapped with console hand controls and very few kids actually get the opportunity to play an instrument, and this only if the parents do this. School have long since stopped doing this which is very sad...

[Gern]

I've been watching here with interest and I got an observation.

I may not be the world's greatest rock fan (I do listen to a lot of music but not while I'm at the bench), but even I know you don't go to a rock concert to sit quietly in your seat then give an appreciative round of applause at the end (It's not like the b****y Opera fer gossake!). You should be jumpin' about, stampin' your feet, chantin', head bangin', playin' air guitar or drums - or any combination.

If you're doing any of these, I can't see how you can be doing any modelling - an' if you ain't doin' 'em - you ain't listenin' to rock!

[Guest]

I enjoy listening to music while working. It makes me think properly and feels more relaxed.

[Guest]

I always stick my mp3 player on with my headphones so one minute it could be vivaldi the next Motorhead