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Music Monday — What are you listening to? (Music from Your Twenties Edition)

Michael Tharrington on July 31, 2023

cover image source: Giphy A while back ago we had a Teenage Days Edition where I asked you folks to share some of your favorite tunes from your te...
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Michael Tharrington • Edited

One of my favorite groups in my early 20's was LCD Soundsystem... they're still one of my faves! All of their songs are good to me, but "Home" is def one of my faves... the lyrics always hit me hard. The music video is super fun too:

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mywaySQL

Thank you for reminding me

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Michael Tharrington

Awww yeah! Happy to do so. They're such a great band. You got a favorite track by them?

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mywaySQL

Hi, I'm listening to "This Is Happening" right now.
My favorite songs are probably "Somebody's Calling Me" and "Pow Pow".

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Michael Tharrington

OOoo yes! "This is Happening" is a wonderful album. And those are 2 damn good ones right there!

I just tuned into "Pow Pow" for the first time in a long while... so good. Following it, the London Sessions version came on too... also so good. 😀

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mywaySQL

I got goosebumps... so it's very good too... 😀
I hadn't heard this version before. Thx

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Michael Tharrington

Woot! You're very welcome. Always nice to bump into a fellow LCD fan! 🙌

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mywaySQL

Do you know this band? My favorites in my company. Unfortunately, the sound quality on youtube is poor.

youtube.com/watch?v=LUWJfZSw40I

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Michael Tharrington

Oooo no! I hadn't heard this one before.

This is pretty dang cool though! The music is badass. It feels kinda gyspy-esque and dark... I love the haunting vocal lines that come in during the chorus.

Also, great music video!!

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Mike Gates

Ooo, my 20s were when I embraced my nerdier musical side. I've always been a fan of nerdcore (mc chris, Beefy, etc.), and I liked a lot of music from anime -- Naruto in particular.

But I think the song I'm going to share is when I first heard of Jonathan Coulton, thanks to this being the theme song of a show I loved when I was 20 (and still do today): Code Monkeys.

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Michael Tharrington • Edited

Also, this reminds me of a post I saw on DEV a while ago by a programmer with some hip hop chops.

Here's his YouTube channel:

I'm a full time programmer and I love making rap music. I see a lot of humor in the profession/industry, and thought it would be fun to combine the two. iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/%24stdout/1462513581 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5dthHxDshaRB9IElwEfVgW Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/stdoutrap SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/stdoutrap Twitter: https://twitter.com/stdoutrap

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Michael Tharrington

Haha! This is rad. I love his picture with the flowers too! 💐

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Mary Olive

Aw, man. I'm sad I missed this one. I'm a little late to the party, but here's a loved one harking back to my 20s from The Violent Femmes, sounding surprisingly undamaged by time in this KEXP show from 2017. (clip starts at "American Music", but I recommend the whole show.. :) ).

Violent Femmes - Full Performance (Live on KEXP) - YouTube

http://KEXP.ORG presents Violent Femmes performing live in KEXP's gathering space. Recorded August 2, 2017.Songs:Blister In The SunPlease Do Not GoAmerican M...

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Michael Tharrington

Haha, better late than never!

This is so awesome, Mary. I hadn't thought about the Violent Femmes in a long while... glad to see (hear!) that they still got it.

What a fun show! I started from your link into American Music (excellent!), but I think I'm gonna have to go back to the beginning to catch the whole show as you suggested.

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Valeria

Guess what I was doing in my twenties (and not that I ever stopped tbh) ;-)

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Michael Tharrington

Lol!! This is sooooo good, Valeria. 😆

So I take it you like WoW, eh? Rock on!! 🎸

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Valeria

Guilty! I do :-)

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Gregory Porter &The Metropole Orchestra, Full concert, Paradiso. - YouTube

Music in collaboration with Radio 6. -Broadcast in the sign of the Radio 6-concert jazz singer Gregory Porter gave together with the Metropole Orchestra in D...

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Michael Tharrington

Oh yes!! 🙌 Gregory Porter is amazing and wow, hearing him backed by an orchestra is so nice. I've not heard this performance before, but I love it.

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eshimischi • Edited

Metropole Orchestra is just wow too. Really looove this performance by Gregory, on repeat

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Rachel Fazio

Listening to this right now (me...in my twenties...)

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Michael Tharrington

Woooaaa! I like this a lot. It's soooo funky! I'm, watching on YouTube (my platform of choice) and the lyrics are shared on the video... just wow, I really like them. 🙂

Thanks for sharing, Rachel!! This is super cool.

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Michael Tharrington

Wow, this is lovely! I really like this kind of meditative, electronic, ambient music. Thanks for sharing, Writwik!

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Michael Tharrington

Awesome! What a powerful acapella performance. 😀

Also, such a cool video — I really like the perspective from behind with the tree to the side and the sun coming up!! It's kind of mysterious how we never see the singer's face.

Cool stuff! Thanks for sharing, Rafaf.

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