I was introduced to this song by my mate Bruce, when I stayed with him on the Italian Riviera, just after it came out. The whole album became the 3am soundtrack to my extended 28th birthday celebrations.
I've posted this before but I was reminded of how I came to know it reading @sheepnik 's post about New Zealand.
Randomly wandering around Vienna, I got talking to an Australian girl and we ended up hanging out most of the weekend. When she came to visit me in London a few months later, she brought this with her.
🎶 All my friends are fuck ups
but they're fun to have around ... 🎶
🔊🔼
I am usually the one you tells people to listen to songs, so this one is hard. I am going to go with an Eric Nam track since my best friend always told me how good his music was but it took me forever to finally listen.
This one goes back to a long time, to my early days on the internet. As a first year student I discovered the joys of having a computer room in my halls, and so the internet / usenet. I ended up making friends with someone in New Zealand, and we talked a lot about music, and sometimes sent each other tapes. This introduced me to Chris Knox, and then Tall Dwarfs, and the rest is musical history.
One of my earliest kpop fandom friends was a huge B1A4 fan. It's their fault I caught my 2nd bias CNU ... it all started when they told me to listen to the song OK
https://youtube.com/watch?v=YVgWQyGOTvk&si=ippFnd93dprQ2AOM #TuneTuesday#SongsYouWereToldToListenTo
Bring On The Night- The Police
Decades ago, when I was a teenage dirtbag listening to Maiden & Priest, my religion teacher (of all people) suggested we do an album swap. I believe I gave him Hysteria by Def Leppard. He gave me Regatta de Blanc. I didn’t want to admit that my mind was blown at the time, but it was.
@Kitty's #TuneTuesday features @AqiDrago's theme: #SongsYouWereToldToListenTo.
Hmm. The easy answer would be most of the songs listed from 22nd January, 2023, or the date when I joined this fine instance of Mastodon. The easier answer is to pull a random band from that myriad, and thus we arrive to
#TuneTuesday#SongsYouWereToldToListenTo
I have an online friend who has a seemingly infinite amount of great and obscure bands to recommend so it's kind of hard to pick one here. But I went with this one because it's my favorite among all the things he recommended me:
When I started properly following KPop in 2017, I lamented to a friend - who was full-on EXO-L - that so many of these artists seemed to be lip-synching, and that I liked singers who I knew could actually sing. 'Well then', she said, 'listen to this!'...
Baby Dont Cry - EXO's Chanyeol, DO, Baekhyun and Suho (2013)
Several years ago, a dear friend (who is sadly not on fedi) told me that if I liked such-and-such, I should try Anna Meredith. Truer words never spoken.
I now unreservedly LOVE Anna Meredith. She's such an extraordinary and unique musician. Techno bangers, new and traditional interpretations of Vivaldi, electropop, education projects, arrangements of Prince songs for cello and tuba... there's just nobody like her.
And on top of all this, she's a really rather fantastic person. First time I ever saw her live, it wasn't touring an album or anything like that. It was as part of a project to help women and NB people into songwriting. Her career is as much that sort of thing as it is composing and performing.
Oh, and she makes brilliant videos too. Which is why I've gone for this track, Paramour.
In 2002, a friend of mine told me to give a try to Dream Theater.
"Images And Words" was my first listening.
Now, I know every single note of this album.
"Pull Me Under" was the first song he made me listen to. That's why is so special to me.
Another band Paul introduced me to recently is Heavenward. From there, I searched out Kamtin Mohager's other/past projects (The Chain Gang of 1974; Teenage Wrist) and, in turn, artists they collaborated with (The Naked and Famous; Softcult). Five for the price of one!