- Songs from the Big Chair, by Tears for Fears
- The Seeds of Love, by Tears for Fears
- The Dream of the Blue Turtles, by Sting - not a fan of the light tinkly jazz title track, but the rest is more lounge singer.
- Ten Summoner's Tales, by Sting
- Security, by Peter Gabriel
- So, by Peter Gabriel
- Big Blue Ball, by Peter Gabriel et al
- Birdy Soundtrack, by Peter Gabriel
Category: music
A Little Dark Friday Music
Reelin in Saturday Music
Haunted by the Past Tuesday Music
- The Lady Wore Black, by Queensrÿche
- Don't Fear the Reaper, by Blue Öyster Cult
- Great Old Ones, by Darkest of the Hillside Thickets
- Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner, by Warren Zevon
- No Exit, by Blondie
- Zombie Prostitute, by Voltaire
- The Stranger, by Billy Joel
- The Curse of Millhaven, by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
- Bloodletting, by Concrete Blonde
- Transylvania, by Nox Arcana
- Halloween After Dark, Apple Music playlist
Samurai Sunday Music
- Paradox, by Hotei
- Electric Samurai, by Hotei - source of the Battle Without Honor or Humanity from Kill Bill
- Vocalo-Zanmai, by WagakkiBand
- Yasouemaki, by WagakkiBand
- Shikisai, by WagakkiBand
- Metal Resistance, by BABYMETAL
Thursday Morning Music
Capsule Silence XXIV
So speaking of Anamanaguchi, the new albums are part of a "game" you can get on their site, and it is fantastic. Easily the best game since E.T., the PDF in the app download (Windows & Mac in one zip file! Cats & frogs living together!) has a "17 stages of Joseph Cambell's MONOMYTH" slide which must be placed in all future slide decks, and Larold's story is so compelling it would make Hemingway cry. I found all the tapes for the rack + 3 extra, which shows the attention to detail in this game.
Techno Tuesday Music
- How Dare You, by Electric Six "I wanna have sex with somebody!" is the rallying cry we need right now.
- broken legacies, by mind.in.a.box
- Miku, by Anamanaguchi
- Capsule Silence XXIV OST, by Anamanaguchi
- Capsule Silence XXIV OST vol II, by Anamanaguchi
Science Fiction & Saturday Music
- Humble Bundle Adventures in Science Fiction Books: Runs until Oct18, and everything in this that I've read (Anderson, Bear, Brunner, Ellison, Foster, Silverberg, Steele, Sterling, Swanwick) is excellent, and I'm enjoying Sergei Lukyanenko's1 The Genome enormously. They've picked what looks like an all-good-stuff collection.
Saturday Music is a little spacey.
- Welcome to Earth, by Apoptygma Berzerk
- Harmonizer, by Apoptygma Berzerk
- You and Me Against the World, by Apoptygma Berzerk
- I adore the Night Watch books; but because of what they say, or because they're bound up in memories of rainy nights in Seattle reading at all-night cafés and public transit, very like the Moskva of the books? The first movie is great, but only about half the first book; the sequel movies are dire, some of the worst hatchet-jobs of adaptations I've ever seen. ↩
Rock 'n Roll Monday Music
- Alone, by Pretenders
- The Salentino Cuts, by UFO - UFO doing covers, but they're way above a bar band doing it.
- Sticky Fingers Live at the Fonda Theatre, by The Rolling Stones
- A New Career in a New Town, by David Bowie - details on davidbowie.com
- Infinite, by Deep Purple
There's several other new albums I've liked this month, just weirds me out to have more than a few new albums per year that I gave a shit about. Not to be that cranky old guy #getoffmylawn, but seriously, Kids Today™ don't listen to real music, so did all us olds just start listening again? Of course, one of those above is dead, and some others are so close you may as well put them in their coffins and start kicking in clods. But Chrissy Hynde's still kicking ass and breaking hearts.