What are you listening to right now?

**slikrapid** · 14.05.16, 19:45

since the 'Eurovision Song Contest 2016' seems to be the topic these days, here are some of the better candidates (that got into the finals):

Barei - Say Yay! (Spain)
... reminds of 90's dance/house

Nina Kraljic - Lighthouse (Croatia)
...a nice dolores o'riordan meets enya combination

Dami Im - Sound Of Silence (Australia)
... pretty catchy chorus

**hellman** · 15.05.16, 20:49

**slikrapid** · 24.05.16, 20:50

Myrath - Nobody's Lives
... a promising return after several years of absence, when their previous release ended up on my yearly recommended list
... also, lyrics have a spiritual flair to them, which i feel able to interpret <line by line>

Life is not fading away <it needs to be lived through, it doesn't go away until this is done>
The future goes back in time <predestination>
Don't have a real existence, this is nobody's life <illusory materialistic existence>
Don't wait for any guidance <individual path>
Choices have been so hard <labyrinthine personal path>
There are countless ways, until you finally decide <countless possibilities folding into one outcome>
Maybe this life is the right one, the right one <the right one for what? finally achieving transcendence>

ما نِنسا موحال
الدنيا جنّة ونار
وحياتي مِلك يديك
خليتني في زمان
كلو عذاب و ويل
ليلي صار طويل
فك عذابي. آه

(chorus translation from arabic:
Not possible to forget, life is heaven and hell <dualism of life's experience, persistence of consciousness>
And my life is in your hands <god's hands>
Leaving me in torment and woe <being 'apart' from god>
My Night is lingering <my night = my life in spiritual darkness>
Take this agony away. Ah!) <prayer, readiness or desire to depart>

They missed the mark <societal conditioning/ignorance/fear of the truth>
Here on my mouth <speaks the truth>
Then came the light... <spiritual awakening>
Every path is the right way <everyone's path leads there>
Life's only a playground <illusory materialistic existence>
But now the call is sudden, claiming all of my lives <karma>
Now it's time to face blindness <senses fading away>
I'm not afraid to die <embracing the next step free of fear>
But I do know well, I haven't been enough alive <reincarnation>
Maybe this life is the right one, the right one <the right one for what? finally achieving transcendence>

**SBfreak** · 24.05.16, 23:21

Side B from Valerio Tricoli's new experimental, musique concrete LP named Vixit. His previous effort was one of the more interesting albums I've listened to that year.

**slikrapid** · 28.05.16, 22:22

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Dark Necessities

...good stuff, will quote a funny youtube comment: 'I hope there's a song about California on this album'

**eragooo** · 29.05.16, 17:10

**GoshXX** · 07.06.16, 22:12

**slikrapid** · 11.06.16, 23:50

Pet Shop Boys - What Have I Done To Deserve This

...the answer? karma
otherwise, the best pet shop boys song?
also, there are other connections to current sbi discussions, but i'll let you guess those for yourself