What are you listening to ...right now?

[Magical Realist]

"Disturbed" cover for "The Sound of Silence"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9Dg-g7t2l4

[C C]

One of the few songs contended to be in the Locrian mode, but few actually believe it due to the harmonic problems[1]. OTOH, here's one that truly is, thanks to being nothing but bare melody: Dust to Dust/The Gravedigger's song.

Björk: "Army of me" ... https://youtu.be/jPeheoBa2_Y

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/jPeheoBa2_Y

- - - footnote - - -

Why Locrian Mode doesn't exist: Of all the seven modes derived from the major scale, Locrian is the only one considered to be a “theoretical mode”–one that our ears cannot actually hear. While there are supposed examples of Locrian mode, naysayers can argue that while these songs appear to be Locrian on paper, we hear them as a combination of chords borrowed from different parallel modes (“modal interchange”) or as being in a relative key.*

First, let’s explore what makes this particular tonality so interesting. Locrian is the only mode with a tritone interval and no perfect fifth (relative to the root note, not between the other notes of the key–in other words there is fi but no sol [see solfege chart]). This means that the root chord of a Locrian song is a diminished triad, which is comprised of the root, a minor third, and a tritone (the tritone would be called a diminished fifth in this context). It is this tritone that makes a diminished triad inherently unstable. While root chords are supposed to sound like a point of resolution or finality, tritones are so unstable that some say our ears can usually only hear them as going somewhere; we cannot hear a I diminished triad as ‘home.’

[Kornee]

A cough cough slightly different themed musical style: Mike Oldfield's 2008 Music of the Spheres. Orchestral backing and expected great choice of singer(s):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLh8CAmpjUE 128kbps quality, but no track times.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWjY0RpUDd0 96kbps but includes individual track times (in the comments section).

[Leigha]

Brief and melancholy for this stormy day …

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/hgWl6k9gFdk

[Magical Realist]

Vance Joy..."Riptide"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ_1HMAGb4k

[Magical Realist]

Harry Styles..."Music For A Sushi Restaurant"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5m6ScpU0yY

[Kornee]

Pumping music for nostalgic space(d out) trippers. We're going back - way back, into time....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QKQlf8r7ls
Heading in the general direction of Andromeda galaxy i'd say. Pays to start out with a full tank. And plenty of munchie bars.
Lucky that in real space adventure sci-fi, one never has to s**t or p**s. Just chatter and go into action as required. Neat.

[Magical Realist]

The Neighborhood..."Sweater Weather"

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

[C C]

Crossroads (original; not a Robert Johnson cover)
https://youtu.be/PfJWOXL6LvQ

Jul 29, 2022 - Alexandr Misko & Alexander Boldachev: "Crossroads"

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/PfJWOXL6LvQ

[C C]

Dark Blues Music to Escape to...
https://youtu.be/zB3gtxYHmeY

TRACKS:
00:00 - Voices from the Attic
05:22 - Dark Solace
13:20 - Walk Through the Valley
17:33 - Pajamajam
29:05 - Before You Go
35:17 - Red Sunrise
41:50 - The Stranger
46:03 - Blues Therapy
50:24 - The Suspense is Killing Me

July 24, 2022 - Justin Johnson: "Dark Blues Music to Escape to..."

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/zB3gtxYHmeY