what songs are you listening to RIGHT NOW

[Master Ray]

Marillion - Live In Chile.

[Tony S]

Seeing as it's 27 years today that Freddie Mercury died, I'm playing my favourite Queen album, 'Sheer Heart Attack'...

Great choice Master Ray    Queen was the first band I really got into - a few years before NMA came into my life. I love all their albums, but I have to agree, Sheer Heart Attack is my absolute favourite. They absolutely nailed it for the so-called "difficult 3rd album" !

[Tony S]

On a trip to Brittany back in the Summer, I became aware of a band called Ar Re Yaouank, and this track has been one I've lost count of how many times I've played since. I absolutely love this ! Especially the accordian solo that starts at 2:26  Sheer brilliance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be-XsszZ2yo

[Bunny]

On a trip to Brittany back in the Summer, I became aware of a band called Ar Re Yaouank, and this track has been one I've lost count of how many times I've played since. I absolutely love this ! Especially the accordian solo that starts at 2:26  Sheer brilliance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be-XsszZ2yo

Thats a lovely bit of celtic sound going on there. When you mentioned accordion, I thought the atypical French accordion songs.
Anyho. Wenn es Passiert-Wir Sind Helden who I was introduced to some ten years ago by a long lost German pal

[Tony S]

On a trip to Brittany back in the Summer, I became aware of a band called Ar Re Yaouank, and this track has been one I've lost count of how many times I've played since. I absolutely love this ! Especially the accordian solo that starts at 2:26  Sheer brilliance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be-XsszZ2yo

Thats a lovely bit of celtic sound going on there. When you mentioned accordion, I thought the atypical French accordion songs.

Yes, the whole Breton music scene is a really big thing, with a mixture of 'celtic rock' and traditional Breton Celtic music, which has many similarities to traditional Scottish and Irish music. Bagpipes are very common in Breton music for example. But they also have some of their own traditional instruments you don't tend to hear elsewhere, such as bombardes which are the high pitched, slightly harsh sounding pipes which you hear in this track. They have big Breton music festivals over there called "Fest noz". I'd love to go to one of those !

[Ghosttrain]

I love the Breton music scene was introduced to it via Alain Stivell by a Breton guy i met over here in Jersey over 40 years ago.........then Alain Simon with his work with Fairport Convention and Dan Ar Bras.As you say some great unusual instruments as well,can be very rocky and atmospheric in equal measures..best enjoyed with gallons of Cidre De Breton...... 

[Tony S]

I love the Breton music scene was introduced to it via Alain Stivell by a Breton guy i met over here in Jersey over 40 years ago.........then Alain Simon with his work with Fairport Convention and Dan Ar Bras.As you say some great unusual instruments as well,can be very rocky and atmospheric in equal measures..best enjoyed with gallons of Cidre De Breton...... 

Ah yes, Alan Stivell is another name I became aware of this year, and Dan ar Braz. Also of course Tri Yann, and especially their "Dans les prisons de Nantes" song, which you hear everywhere !   
As well as the cidre, there are also loads of good Breton bieres to enjoy too. Telenn Du was one I especially liked 
Actually, having had three holidays in Brittany in the last ten years, I've pretty much fallen in love with the region !

[Ghosttrain]

It certainly is a very Magical and Mystical place lots of Folklore.........

[fiddlesticks]

Right now I'm listening to my 17 year old daughter finger picking Pearl Jam covers in our front room. All self-taught, much better than her dad.

Ah well, better get practicing 😁

[Ghosttrain]

The Wilde Flowers archive recordings of a band that started The Canterbury Sound in the sixties,that went on to evolve in to acts such as  Soft Machine,Kevin Ayers,Caravan and Hatfield And The North..........wonderful English psychedelia,prog and whimsy.............wonderful stuff 

[Master Ray]

Probably not a favourite of many NMA fans, but I'm listening to Jean Michel Jarre's newest one 'Equinoxe Infinity' which is really rather good, every bit as good as much of the older stuff... always been quite the fan of JMJ.

[Master Ray]

Asleep by The Smiths... always listen to this tune on the turn of New Years Eve...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbuGWgYLqWk

[Bunny]

Asleep by The Smiths... always listen to this tune on the turn of New Years Eve...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbuGWgYLqWk

Oh eh. Bit of a dark subject matter for a "celebration".....absolutely beautiful song though

Currently listening to the Joshua Tree. From when U2 were fresh and inspired

[Ghosttrain]

Unknown Legend written by Neil for Pegi......what a beautiful song...but a very hard listen at this time 

[cthulhu]

A Perfect Circle - So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish

Time is money and money's time
We wasted every second dime
On diets, lawyers, shrinks and apps
And flags, and plastic surgery
Now Willy Wonka, Major Tom
Ali and Leia have moved on
Signal the final curtain call
In all its atomic pageantry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkHSmDxX1t4