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Music Monday — What are you listening to? (New Year's Edition 🥳)

Michael Tharrington on January 01, 2024

cover image source: Giphy Happy New Year! Last week, it was Christmas and today it's 2024. 🎉 While I don't believe there is yet a true New Year ge...
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New Year's morning I actually discovered a new artist that goes by the name DES ROCS.

He's a young rocker that I believe plays all the instruments on his album. Here's a video of his tune "Dream Machine"...

He's got a pretty awesome voice that at times reminds me of Freddy Mercury.

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Saurabh Rai

This one is also cool 👇

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Michael Tharrington

Oooo great track! I hadn't heard this one before but it's cool. Rock on! 🎸

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Thomas Bnt • Edited

Cool style, for moving and dancing, but also chill a MAX after parties! 🕺

And another cool music for Petit Biscuit, one of my favorite musicians :

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Saurabh Rai

@thomasbnt you should try these two as well:

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Thomas Bnt

The first is okay! The second is great! Thanks! 🕺🏼

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Michael Tharrington

I agree! I'm really digging that second one. 🔥

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Michael Tharrington • Edited

Ooooo I'm really liking the Petit Biscuit song... also, great name lol!

Cool list of acoustic tunes as well!

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Michael Tharrington

Ooooo wow, these are some excellent selections, Stefan. 🙌

I've seen the Prince one! Purple Rain in the freaking rain... it doesn't get much better than that. That damn guitar solo blows me away. And actually, I saw Prince live before he passed — it was pretty dang close to this point in time, I saw him in probably 2010-2011ish because I remember it was my senior year of college. He's phenomenal!

And so is Marvin Gaye!! I've not seen this performance of his so am popping this one on right now. Wow, what a cool version of the national anthem — loving the drum machine haha!

Here's a cool Marvin Gaye (and James Jamerson) story for ya that I recently saw on Digging the Greats:

Figuring Out “What’s Going On” | Breakdown & Analysis - YouTube

Watch the Full Edit of this video (which is 15 mins longer) at http://www.patreon.com/diggingthegreatsThere's so much more on the Digging The Greats Patreon ...

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Stefan Moore

I'll dig into this tonight. Here's one for Kendrick Lamar Damn

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Michael Tharrington

Oooo a deep dive! Hell yeah. Thx for this... I don't know enough about Damn, so this'll be good!

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Paweł Ciosek • Edited

Focus Flow! 🎧 Let's start working on the new year resolutions! 🤓

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Thomas Bnt

Ooh I approve 🕺

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Michael Tharrington

Got my stamp of approval on this one too. Love me some lofi!

By the way, this ain't finished, but I've been working on my own chill lofi jam here. It's a wav file, so may or may not work for ya!

Also, just know that this was kinda just me jamming on guitar on top of a little bit I concocted. At some point, I stop playing guitar and adjust something (can't remember what) so if it sounds like I faded out weirdly, that's kinda because I did, haha. 😅

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Bala Madhusoodhanan

LP

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Michael Tharrington

Good stuff, Bala! 🎸

Actually, I was thinking about ya the other day cause I heard a tune that reminded me of "Helvetica"... check out this tune and lemme know what ya think.

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Bala Madhusoodhanan

will add this .. I am away on personal time off. Would need the new recommendation when i do code reviews :-).. thanks for sharing... .. for some reason this track reminds me of Stranger things .. ....

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Michael Tharrington

Oooo hope you enjoy your time off! And I can def hear a Stranger Things connection to this. Those old school synths!

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Saurabh Rai

Welcome @michaeltharrington let me share some really cool songs coming in from South America (all are by Tainy).



Till then, see you next week. . . . onto making another awesome playlist.

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Michael Tharrington

Ooo alright, I'll give these a whirl! Hahaha, great image of Ahhhnold running!

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Ben Sinclair

Well I think today's very much a Groove Salad Classic day for me on SomaFM.

somafm.com/player/#/now-playing/gs...

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Michael Tharrington

Sweet!! I really like this, Ben.

I honestly can't easily tell which songs I'm listening to with this player, but it doesn't bother me that much. I bookmarked this page and maybe I'll look up the album later to dig into the individual tracks. It's some good stuff.

Whatever I'm listening to right now kinda reminds me of Thievery Corporation's Outernational Sound and that's very much a good thing! 🙂

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Arika O

The last album of an Australian band called "Boy & Bear".

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Michael Tharrington

Nice!! This rocks, Arika. I hadn't heard of Boy & Bear before but I like their sound a lot. Seems like they have a good variety of tunes on this album too.

I listened to a lot of the previews and "Apex" is so groovy... that one instantly caught my ear. But really all of these sound like good tunes. They got some really cool vocals — backup vocals too!

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Arika O

Yes, I also like them a lot. I listen to them since they first started but this must be my favorite album until now. I think I like "Magnus" the most, but "Apex" is in the top 5 :D.

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Keith Solomon

My son is playing Cyberpunk this morning…reminded me of this…

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Michael Tharrington

Wow! I didn't realize Cyberpunk had such a damn good soundtrack, haha... good eclectic mix!

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Keith Solomon

That’s not even the soundtrack (though, that’s good too)…that’s literally what they did for the mission titles. I didn’t even realize until I played one that was called Boat Drinks (like the Jimmy Buffett song), and really looked at the list. Not gonna lie, my mind was blown a little bit…

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Michael Tharrington

Haha! That's freaking awesome. That's a cool creative constraint they gave themselves. Good catching it!

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Nayana

I'm here for recommendations, my playlist is also bored of Taylor at this point😅

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Bruno Santos • Edited

Started the year listening to Wasted Years from Iron Maiden, classic tune with great lyrics for the occasion

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Michael Tharrington

Rock on! 🤘

My wife came into the room, looked at the screen, and said "Iron Maiden?!" I turned to her and responded "Just workin" haha!

Great tune! I had never seen this music video either and it feels kinda random, but I dig it, haha.

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Baragu

listen to ultralight beam by kanye west

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Michael Tharrington

Oooo I got you covered here, Baragu!

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Renan Ferro

I'm watching this: youtube.com/watch?v=3hYxLywvjms

Soo goooodd! Happy new year to everyone, let's make this year wonderful 🤟

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Michael Tharrington

This is a lotta fun! I had no idea about The LeeVees or Hanukkah Rocks. Lovin' it!! Great suggestion, Renan, and happy new year to ya! 🙌