The Jacques Villeneuve Music Thread

watka · Post by **watka** » 20 May 2015, 12:19

Heading to Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona next week. Should be a good laugh, especially Run the Jewels, Dan Deacon and Simian Mobile Disco. The Strokes headlining will be entertaining too!

http://www.primaverasound.es/index

Post by **Nuppiz** » 20 May 2015, 13:39

This wrote:The Finnish forum members are probably hiding with shame in their caves (with private sauna) after the Eurovision semi-finals

Still can't get used to the idea that Australia is participating. Kudos to the presenter for 'accidentally' confusing the name Australia with Austria.

I'm not. I never supported the choice of PKN as our Eurovision representative, and predicted that they would fail. And I was right. :glasses:

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 20 May 2015, 14:40

I was wondering to myself "why do the UK never get eliminated in this semi-finals? We're terrible every year!". I just found out we get into the finals automatically every year. Does anyone know why? We haven't done much to justify that free pass for a long time!

madmark1974 · Post by **madmark1974** » 20 May 2015, 14:52

watka wrote:Heading to Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona next week. Should be a good laugh, especially Run the Jewels, Dan Deacon and Simian Mobile Disco. The Strokes headlining will be entertaining too!

http://www.primaverasound.es/index

Looks quite interesting, though I have to admit I've only heard of about 25% (at best) of the acts on the bill.

On a slightly more 'commercial' note, I am off to Radio 1's Big Weekend in Norwich this Saturday (though the Sunday is a lot more commercial than the Saturday) with the wife, looking forward to Snoop Dogg, Rudimental, Muse, Fall Out Boy and Florence+The Machine amongst others.

Quite rare to find acts like that coming out here to East Anglia and we were very lucky to get tickets. The whole thing is on TV (BBC Red Button during the day, then BBC3 or 4 in the evening), so it's all set up to record, will be nice to have it to look back on in the future. I'll report back next week ...

Post by **Londoner** » 20 May 2015, 15:59

A trio of Britpop 20th anniversaries in the past week or so. Firstly, Supergrass - I Should Coco. Secondly, Paul Weller - Stanley Road. Both of those turned 20 years old last week. And finally, given that it turns 20 this Friday, Pulp - Common People.

Post by **Nuppiz** » 20 May 2015, 18:03

Biscione wrote:I was wondering to myself "why do the UK never get eliminated in this semi-finals? We're terrible every year!". I just found out we get into the finals automatically every year. Does anyone know why? We haven't done much to justify that free pass for a long time!

Harry Enfield has the answer.

Since 2000, "The Big Four" - UK, France, Spain and Germany - have automatically qualified for the final as they are the biggest financial contributors to the EBU. In 2010 they were joined by Italy, so it's now "The Big Five". Besides these only the host country is allowed a free pass to the final, except this year when they have Australia trolling around as well.

Nessafox · Post by **Nessafox** » 20 May 2015, 21:13

Nuppiz wrote:
Biscione wrote:I was wondering to myself "why do the UK never get eliminated in this semi-finals? We're terrible every year!". I just found out we get into the finals automatically every year. Does anyone know why? We haven't done much to justify that free pass for a long time!

Harry Enfield has the answer.

Since 2000, "The Big Four" - UK, France, Spain and Germany - have automatically qualified for the final as they are the biggest financial contributors to the EBU. In 2010 they were joined by Italy, so it's now "The Big Five". Besides these only the host country is allowed a free pass to the final, except this year when they have Australia trolling around as well.

However, that leads me to question how Spain even gets the money to be a 'big contributor'. Talk about priorities in government finances.

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 20 May 2015, 23:32

Nuppiz wrote:
Biscione wrote:I was wondering to myself "why do the UK never get eliminated in this semi-finals? We're terrible every year!". I just found out we get into the finals automatically every year. Does anyone know why? We haven't done much to justify that free pass for a long time!

Harry Enfield has the answer.

Frankly we'd have way better chances than most years if we entered Harry with Loadsamoney :facepalm:

AdrianBelmonte_ · Post by **AdrianBelmonte_** » 26 May 2015, 05:59

"Someone" is recording a music video near Barcelona, "that person" posted pics of the gas station where the video is being recorded, no need to be very smart to realize who I'm talking about...

As soon as "that person" posts the music video i will put it here

CoopsII · Post by **CoopsII** » 26 May 2015, 09:47

AdrianBelmonte_ wrote:"Someone" is recording a music video near Barcelona, "that person" posted pics of the gas station where the video is being recorded, no need to be very smart to realize who I'm talking about...

Post by **Ataxia** » 26 May 2015, 09:51

AdrianBelmonte_ wrote:"Someone" is recording a music video near Barcelona, "that person" posted pics of the gas station where the video is being recorded, no need to be very smart to realize who I'm talking about...

As soon as "that person" posts the music video i will put it here

Is it Aerond?

AdrianBelmonte_ · Post by **AdrianBelmonte_** » 26 May 2015, 16:20

"That person" isn't neither Aerond nor Julio Iglesias, also, "that person" have more Grammys than both of them :glasses:

Post by **Bobby Doorknobs** » 26 May 2015, 16:33

AdrianBelmonte_ wrote:"That person" isn't neither Aerond nor Julio Iglesias, also, "that person" have more Grammys than both of them

Hey, for all you know Aerond could be Eric Clapton

AdrianBelmonte_ · Post by **AdrianBelmonte_** » 28 May 2015, 21:51

After recording a music video on Spain, "that person" came back to England to beat a world record yesterday (Most live concerts on different cities in 12 hours), and, of course, "that person" did it with 7 gigs

EDIT: Today, "that person" tweeted a pic of the cover art for that song from the music video, you can see it on my avatar

EDIT2: "That person" released the new song, here it is

CoopsII · Post by **CoopsII** » 05 Jun 2015, 10:55

I'd be amazed if there were any Pop Will Eat Itself fans on here and even more so if they like the current incarnation of the band but this is a fine album anyway.

Barbazza · Post by **Barbazza** » 05 Jun 2015, 16:35

I like their late 80s / early 90s stuff a lot but everything after 'Get the girl, kill the baddies!' left me totally cold.

Post by **Bobby Doorknobs** » 13 Jun 2015, 01:41

And here we have a Finnish music video starring Mika Salo! (Skip to 2:40)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IFZXQfO2NU

Post by **Nuppiz** » 14 Jun 2015, 18:08

Simtek wrote:And here we have a Finnish music video starring Mika Salo! (Skip to 2:40)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IFZXQfO2NU

>1999 Ferrari driving suit and helmet
>Pirelli cap
:facepalm:

Post by **Ataxia** » 14 Jun 2015, 20:53

I love this song. Really liking their stuff.

Nessafox · Post by **Nessafox** » 19 Jun 2015, 03:23

What is the first piece of music you guys ever bought?

For me it's this song, which is very out-of-character for me, being the punkrocker of the forum. But it really intrigued me when i heared it a lot on the radio as a kid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuXOUvFtUC8
I don't think it's known outside of Belgium, and even here many people have forgotten about it.
Aside for nostalgia, it is still a good track even to todays standards.

CoopsII · Post by **CoopsII** » 19 Jun 2015, 08:08

This wrote:What is the first piece of music you guys ever bought?

And I'm not ashamed :dance:

DanielPT · Post by **DanielPT** » 19 Jun 2015, 08:40

This wrote:What is the first piece of music you guys ever bought?

And for me it was a compilation cd called Nº1 from Sony from which the only tracks I can remember were this and this which is curious for the first song since the CD was from 1994. The second one I bought was this one:

It would then take many years for my next buy.

dr-baker · Post by **dr-baker** » 19 Jun 2015, 09:04

First music I bought was a single on cassette tape from WH Smith's. It was either C'est La Vie by B*Witched or Honey to the Bee by Billie Piper. I then moved onto ABBA Gold on CD after that.

CoopsII · Post by **CoopsII** » 19 Jun 2015, 09:08

dr-baker wrote:First music I bought was a single on cassette tape from WH Smith's. It was either C'est La Vie by B*Witched or Honey to the Bee by Billie Piper.

Do you fight like your da?

Jan Magnussen · Post by **Rob Dylan** » 19 Jun 2015, 09:47

The first piece of music I ever bought was a CD of "Selling England By The Pound" by Genesis. I was just an average, popular 13-year-old kid, right? :S

Post by **tommykl** » 19 Jun 2015, 11:48

Oh lawdy, that was a while back...

Probably Green Day's American Idiot.

dr-baker · Post by **dr-baker** » 19 Jun 2015, 12:55

CoopsII wrote:
dr-baker wrote:First music I bought was a single on cassette tape from WH Smith's. It was either C'est La Vie by B*Witched or Honey to the Bee by Billie Piper.

Do you fight like your da?

Ja.

Post by **Bobby Doorknobs** » 19 Jun 2015, 13:31

Mine was a Bob Dylan compilation album.

Post by **Nuppiz** » 21 Jun 2015, 18:06

The first album I remember buying?

DOSBoot · Post by **DOSBoot** » 22 Jun 2015, 06:15

Well for me it was the Men in Black soundtrack that I bought back in 1998, when I was 12.

AdrianBelmonte_ · Post by **AdrianBelmonte_** » 23 Jun 2015, 11:57

AdrianBelmonte_ wrote:"Someone" is recording a music video near Barcelona, "that person" posted pics of the gas station where the video is being recorded, no need to be very smart to realize who I'm talking about...

As soon as "that person" posts the music video i will put it here

And, as i promised, here it is

Rabbi Gordon · Post by **Rabbi Gordon** » 26 Jul 2015, 20:35

Here are two former GP2 drivers' new careers:
Hiroki Yoshimoto - Apparently he has been in music with his band do-a for quite a time. They actually started 2 years before Hiroki's first GP2 start.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fnR-VcYwBo
Honestly, it sounds totally okay.

Hamad Al Fardan - GP2 Asia driver, who wasn't that bad when he wasn't crashing. Now being as Arab as he can, he is in Drag racing AND... hip-hop. I can't really say anything, as hip-hop is not my kind of music, not to mention Arabic hip-hop.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTPCSBUOF6g

Bonus Sakon

CoopsII · Post by **CoopsII** » 06 Aug 2015, 19:24

AdrianBelmonte_ wrote:"Someone" is recording a music video near Barcelona, "that person" posted pics of the gas station where the video is being recorded, no need to be very smart to realize who I'm talking about...

Hey, guess what? I saw this video t'other day AB and I quite enjoyed it. I confess to never having even heard of Foxes before you started your relentless campaign on her behalf but I thought it was a damn good 80s-style choon. She didn't look very comfortable doing the dance routine, mind, but who am I to judge?

roblo97 · Post by **roblo97** » 04 Sep 2015, 16:21

Well, this morning, I bought the new Iron Maiden album, The Book Of Souls and wow, the wait of 5 years since The Final Frontier, which I also bought today, have been so worth it.

Jocke1 · Post by **Jocke1** » 05 Sep 2015, 16:38

roblomas52 wrote:Well, this morning, I brought the new Iron Maiden album, The Book Of Souls and wow, the wait of 5 years since The Final Frontier, which I also brought today, have been so worth it.

I have all previous fifteen albums on CD and Killers on vinyl but haven't ordered tBoS yet.

How's Bruce's voice holding up, Rob?

roblo97 · Post by **roblo97** » 07 Sep 2015, 17:17

Jocke1 wrote:
roblomas52 wrote:Well, this morning, I brought the new Iron Maiden album, The Book Of Souls and wow, the wait of 5 years since The Final Frontier, which I also brought today, have been so worth it.

I have all previous fifteen albums on CD and Killers on vinyl but haven't ordered tBoS yet.

How's Bruce's voice holding up, Rob?

It is holding up good on the album, Jocke.

CoopsII · Post by **CoopsII** » 08 Sep 2015, 08:07

roblomas52 wrote:Well, this morning, I brought the new Iron Maiden album, The Book Of Souls and wow, the wait of 5 years since The Final Frontier, which I also brought today, have been so worth it.

Do you mean you 'bought' the albums or are you explaining that you've transported them to where you are right now? I brought my ipod to work today like I always do and over the weekend I finally bought 'Live shite Binge & Purge' by Metallica.

roblo97 · Post by **roblo97** » 08 Sep 2015, 10:37

CoopsII wrote:
roblomas52 wrote:Well, this morning, I brought the new Iron Maiden album, The Book Of Souls and wow, the wait of 5 years since The Final Frontier, which I also brought today, have been so worth it.

Do you mean you 'bought' the albums or are you explaining that you've transported them to where you are right now? I brought my ipod to work today like I always do and over the weekend I finally bought 'Live shite Binge & Purge' by Metallica.

Yes, I meant 'Bought', Thanks for pointing that out, I have amended the post now.

CoopsII · Post by **CoopsII** » 29 Sep 2015, 12:52

Jan Magnussen · Post by **Rob Dylan** » 29 Sep 2015, 16:52

After remembering how good Modern Vampires of the City was, I decided a few weeks ago to listen again to the first two Vampire Weekend albums. I must say, even though I didn't think very much of them the first time I listened to them, in retrospect they're both pretty good albums, and I'm super excited for what they're going to come up with next.