What music do you listen to currently?

[Clyde]

@thelostsoul If you've the slightest interest in science and rap music, be sure to try some more songs from Baba Brinkman. I really "dig" his music, rhymes, and video style.

As for Germany's different idoms, I'll quote the German cabaret artist Volker Pispers:

"Anständig Deutsch", wo wird das denn gesprochen? Waren Sie da schon mal? Sind Sie Deutscher? Können Sie sich an einem schwäbischen Stammtisch artikulieren? Die meisten Kölner können doch in der Eifel nicht mehr nach dem Weg fragen, so sieht das doch aus!“

[Riverstorm]

@thelostsoul - I agree. I took a one day grammar course through work about 5 years ago. The professor ended the session by saying (paraphrasing here) but to always remember that English (any language really) is a living and breathing thing that is always changing. She said some words will die and new ones will be born. What is correct today will be wrong tomorrow.

Hence the word whom which is a great word but it's slowly dying from the English language and is hardly used anymore.

Here the major dictionaries add a few new words every year. That were born from pop culture or whatever and now they are common words used in daily life.

Also dialect and specific words or pronunciation of words is very regional. What people say in the south here is very normal and accepted as proper verbiage but you say that same phrase in the north and you will get mocked a little, but in a good way.

Like how we have "spirited" conversation about emulation on this site it's interesting to go on a grammar site and watch those guys and gals debate proper grammar and usage of words. It's kind of funny but they get really deep on the subject.

That rap was really good. I love some of the words you guys use overseas.

[thelostsoul]

The whole time, I have this little sketch in my mind. It is not a music and more about grammer, but I think it fits to the current topic we talk.

[Clyde]

@thelostsoul Haha, I didn't know this one, thank you! (One of my friends sometimes calls me a grammar nazi. 😄)

[Riverstorm]

That was a classic guys, that video was funny.

I am curious is saying "Grammar Nazi's" offensive to you or others nationally? You do hear it here occasionally but being from Germany you have a much deeper understanding and know if it's "ok". I am actually fine when you use it.

I grew up pretty hard core and love jokes about any nationality including my own but for "open" speaking I like to stick with grammarian! ;)

[Clyde]

@Riverstorm said in What music do you listen to currently?:

I am curious is saying "Grammar Nazi's" offensive to you or others nationally? You do hear it here occasionally but being from Germany you have a much deeper understanding and know if it's "ok". I am actually fine when you use it.

That very much depends on the particular person. Some would find it very offensive to make fun of a dark time in our history where millions of people were persecuted, imprisoned, tortured, and killed. But others see humor as a good way to disempower the mythos around the (Neo-)Nazi and extreme right-wing movement. I am with the latter most of the time, as long as they make fun of the oppressors and not of their victims. And I don't take any offense at being called a Grammar Nazi. If anything, I see it as a complement. 😉

Besides, Hitler and Nazi jokes are very common among Germans, our comedians, and media. The movie "Iron Sky" is a prominent example from the last decade. If you didn't see it yet, I can highly recommend it. Fun fact: It's half in English and half in German, as Germans speak in their language and people of other nations speak English. Thus, there were multiple versions in German cinemas: one with German subtitles for the English parts, one with English subtitles for the German parts, and one without any subtitles for people who understand both languages. 😊

[Riverstorm]

@Clyde - Yes an incredibly dark time but well said and I appreciate you sharing. Text books can only take you so far and then you need to rely on others sharing thoughts and experiences. You can't get a better opinion on the subject than someone that was born and raised in Germany. :) It doesn't sound nearly as offensive as I originally thought others might perceive it so that's excellent.

I completely agree using humor to disempower. A sense of humor is priceless in my opinion. You'll read about celebrities doing some really "stupid" things and the tabloids eat them alive. Many times to diffuse the situation they may do a show like Saturday Night Live. It seems in our culture when you make fun of yourself it's not nearly as "news" worthy and tends to die out pretty quickly after that.

I agree it definitely helps to know your target audience. When I get together with the guys I grew up with we hold nothing back and are quite vulgar and insult each other frequently but none of us thinks twice about it because we know each other so well and take it in jest.

You do hear "Grammar Nazi" here regularly and it is usually meant to be light-hearted or maybe mild sarcasm if someone is doing it all the time. The target, as you said, usually takes it as a compliment. Especially if among friends but not so much with casual acquaintances.

Grammar was one of my worst subjects in school so I have to put effort into it. I have grammatical snafu's in my writing all the time so that video above was hilarious. Thanks for the suggestion on the movie. I'll see if I can locate a copy of Iron Sky to view.

[mitu]

@Clyde I thoroughly enjoyed Iron Sky goofiness and silliness. I remember when the movie was just an idea/trailer and it seemed so over the top that it would become a cult classic.
They were planning a sequel and - lo-and-behold - it was just released last month.

[Clyde]

@Riverstorm said in What music do you listen to currently?:

@Clyde - Yes an incredibly dark time but well said and I appreciate you sharing. Text books can only take you so far and then you need to rely on others sharing thoughts and experiences. You can't get a better opinion on the subject than someone that was born and raised in Germany. :)

I'll have to point out though that the vast majority of Germans living today never had to live through theses times. The contemporary witnesses are literally dying out with an ever increasing rate, and the rest of us only know our gruesome heritage from said text books, movies etc.

With this in mind, aside from serious lore, humorous depictions of those times may help to keep the memory alive, lest we forget what human beings are capable of under the right wrong circumstances.

@mitu Glad you liked Iron Sky. And yes, its sequel just came out. I only thought of it after I wrote my last post, and I didn't want to edit it just for that detail. So, thanks for the addition. 😊

Ah, for @$#&! sake. Although not "music I'm listening to currently", here's the trailer for anyone too lazy to look it up themselves:

[Riverstorm]

@Clyde - Part sci-fi...party silly, nuff said, I'm in. It looks like it's on Netflix so I am good to go.

Saddled dinosaurs in part 2 that alone makes it worthy. :)

[Riverstorm]

@mitu said in What music do you listen to currently?:

it seemed so over the top that it would become a cult classic.

Some of the best cult classics are just silly nonsense comedic parodies. :)

[Riverstorm]

@Clyde - So...Netflix in the US doesn't have Iron Sky as I was going to watch it last night. Searching Google said it did but being searching in Netflix last night it did not. So...I'll have to poke around a bit so I am able to view it. =/ Boo on Netflix. It sounds like a perfect movie for the (my?) International section. I suppose each country has the others movies in the International section. :)

I agree with you on concerts (having a standing area). I don't know if the trends are changing or if it's because these older bands have better response to full seating throughout the whole venue.

It used to be that the stadium seating around the edges was of course seats and the floor right in front of the stage was standing room only.

It might still be that way with younger bands here but I don't know. I haven't been to any concerts in recent years where the band has not been playing for at least 30 or 40 years except Metallica did have standing room only on the floor.

[simpleethat]

@Riverstorm it is included with Amazon Prime if that's an option for you.

[Clyde]

@Riverstorm Thanks for the answer. Besides, the seating topic was raised in the mame2003-plus backdrops thread. 😉

[Riverstorm]

@simpleethat - Amazon Prime is an option. I found it last night, I appreciate the tip. :)

@Clyde - Definitely, I saw it there and answered here. I thought it might be a better fit here since it's related to music. I wasn't sure if UDb23 was ok if we kept chatting about music since he didn't answer your last question. I have terrible thread drift. I may drift for days off topic before I find the mainland again. :)

[Clyde]

@Riverstorm I concur that it's a liiiitle more fitting (or less off-topic 😉) here than in the backdrops thread.

[quicksilver]

I owned this game for the TG16 when I was a kid. All the music is chip tunes of Beach Boys hit songs such as "I Get Around," "Fun, Fun, Fun," "California Girls," and "Help Me, Rhonda".

[Clyde]

I'm currently like to listen to the music from the YouTube channel Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell. The channel's team creates short but thoroughly researched animated videos about many topics from science or other aspects of the world we live in.

The music alone is available here:
Soundcloud: https://bit.ly/2FYpr0J
Bandcamp: https://bit.ly/2NQA7oL
Facebook: https://bit.ly/2GIoZlH
Youtube: https://bit.ly/2CZ6PeN

One of my all-time favourites is the track from the Dyson Sphere video:

[thelostsoul]

@Clyde Kurzgesagt, one of my favorite channels. :> That's a nice tune and its composed for that channel.

[KN4THX]

I have been YouTubing and watching my old playlists from my 20s partying days. Man I miss those times. This isn't really music, but covers of tv or games.

Piano - Return to Zanarkand :

Ninja Gaiden Cover along with game:

FFVII Classical Guitar -

If you're from the States you'll remember this song : David The Gnome (Don't judge me or him he does AWESOME stuff) -