OT: ♫ The Music Thread ♫

[JESSEWENEEDTOCOOK]

The album Death From Above put out last year was fantastic.

Another band that’s in my backlog.

 

[Tawnos]

Another band that’s in my backlog.

Do it now.

 

[UnSandvich]

@jas @aufheben

I need new **** to listen to.

Give me some suggestions, please.

Thanks.

Queens of the Stone Age (can provide song/album recommendations as desired)

 

[aufheben]

@jas @aufheben

I need new **** to listen to.

Give me some suggestions, please.

Thanks.

@Bozle

Don Caballero - American Don (2000)


Suede - Suede (1993)


Perfect from Now On by Built to Spill (1996)


Expanded Drawing by Polvo (1996)
Polvo - Exploded Drawing (1996) [Full Album]

154 by Wire (1979)
Wire - 154 (Full Album)

 

[aufheben]

@Bozle Some other stuff I think you'd like alot

• A Storm in Heaven by The Verve (1993)
  
• Mezcal Head by Swervedriver (1993)
  
• Microcastle by Deerhunter (2008)
  
• Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space by Spiritualized (1997) <-masterpiece
  
• Peng! by Stereolab (1992)
  
• Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain by Pavement (1994)

f*** the 90's were great. Also, Boards of Canada > Radiohead; Can and Neu! you should find if you haven't already

 

[JESSEWENEEDTOCOOK]

@aufheben if you didn’t see my rankings post, Pavement is in god-tier.

That band is easily in my top-5.

Also, thanks.

 

[aufheben]

@aufheben if you didn’t see my rankings post, Pavement is in god-tier.

That band is easily in my top-5.

Also, thanks.

Didn't have a chance yet, just wanted to hook you up real quick.

 

[Rongomania]

Also I wanna do this little ranking here for my own posterity;

God-tier:

Paul Simon, Bob Dylan, Alvvays, Pavement, the Beatles, the Smiths, Velvet Underground/Lou Reed, Nickelback, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Radiohead, The Clash, Pink Floyd, My Bloody Valentine, Kanye West

Elite:

The Replacements, New Order, Joy Division, The Stone Roses, Bruce Springsteen, Vampire Weekend, Guided by Voices, Oasis, Van Morrison, the Modern Lovers, Pixies

Other bands worth mention: the Strokes (I know they basically have one album but it’s an all time great pop record), Arcade Fire, Neutral Milk Hotel, Wilco

Bands/artists I need to listen to/listen to more of: Miles Davis, Tom Waits, The Cure, the Kinks, The Jam, Elvis Costello,

These four especially. They’ll change your life such an amazing way.

I am fortunate enough to work at a really fantastic music venue where I’ve seen all types of elite insanity. Songwriter as well (nothing you’d know - yet).

Been around music a long time, keeping my ears open was the greatest thing I ever did. Just enjoying the ride and keeping it moving.

A top five is so, incredibly hard to think about, really.

Current top picks:

Serge Gainsbourg (Birkin stuff mostly)
Curtis Mayfield (everything, impressions too)
A ton of tropicalia/various Brazilian music (Tim Maia/Jorge Ben/Veloso/Zè etc.)
John Martyn/Nick Drake
Always Tom Waits
Anything Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry ever produced is pretty mind blowing.

The list goes on and on. Music is life.

*edit*

Not ‘a long time’ I am only 31 !

 

[HatTrick Swayze]

I'd pay good money to watch a Zeppelin elitist who hates everything tear these guys apart.

And I quite enjoyed it, but you know what I'm talking about.

You rang??

I can handle the sound "inspiration", hell Zep did the exact same thing (if not worse) with various blues tracks especially on the first album.

What I can't handle is the complete style "inspiration" or especially copying Robert Plant's stage mannerisms. Bridge way too far for me. Shows how desperate the music business is for mainstream rock bands < 30 y/o in 2018. They are talented though so maybe they will expand their sound as they mature and be worth following.

On a semi-related note, don't even get me started on Post Malone. Thought the world did Fred Durst already.

Time for my coffee.

 

[Ghost of jas]

You rang??

I can handle the sound "inspiration", hell Zep did the exact same thing (if not worse) with various blues tracks especially on the first album.

What I can't handle is the complete style "inspiration" or especially copying Robert Plant's stage mannerisms. Bridge way too far for me. Shows how desperate the music business is for mainstream rock bands < 30 y/o in 2018. They are talented though so maybe they will expand their sound as they mature and be worth following.

On a semi-related note, don't even get me started on Post Malone. Thought the world did Fred Durst already.

Time for my coffee.

Yup...just heard something from Greta Van Fleet on the radio, and it sounded how much could the lead singer mimic Robert Plant without understanding what Plant actually brought as a singer. Been there, heard that. Kingdom Come called and said, ‘dude’.

 

[JESSEWENEEDTOCOOK]

i think desolation row might be dylan’s best song

 

[Bob Richards]

 

[Holocene]

Another band that’s in my backlog.

Definitely give their first album a listen too.

 

[silverfish]

@Bob Richards how are you gonna post flava in ya ear and it's not even the remix.

Related: Craig Mack is a bigger bust than Hugh Jessiman.

 

[aufheben]

Also I wanna do this little ranking here for my own posterity;

God-tier:

Paul Simon, Bob Dylan, Alvvays, Pavement, the Beatles, the Smiths, Velvet Underground/Lou Reed, Nickelback, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Radiohead, The Clash, Pink Floyd, My Bloody Valentine, Kanye West

Elite:

The Replacements, New Order, Joy Division, The Stone Roses, Bruce Springsteen, Vampire Weekend, Guided by Voices, Oasis, Van Morrison, the Modern Lovers, Pixies

Other bands worth mention: the Strokes (I know they basically have one album but it’s an all time great pop record), Arcade Fire, Neutral Milk Hotel, Wilco

Bands/artists I need to listen to/listen to more of: Miles Davis, Tom Waits, The Cure, the Kinks, The Jam, Elvis Costello,

These albums are considered to be The Cure's "Trilogy": Pornography (1982) / Disintegration (1989) / Bloodflowers (2000)

FYI, Pornography is very dark. IIRC they were doing a ton of drugs at the time. The album has a fantastic sound, but it is definitely not a pick-me-up.

Another trilogy to consider is Sonic Youth's EVOL (1986) / Sister (1987) / Daydream Nation (1988). Daydream I think is the best album of the 1980's.

Under the Bushes Under the Stars by Guided by Voices (1996) is one of my favorites, aside from the unapproachable Bee Thousand (1994).

 

[Roo Returns]

These albums are considered to be The Cure's "Trilogy": Pornography (1982) / Disintegration (1989) / Bloodflowers (2000)

FYI, Pornography is very dark. IIRC they were doing a ton of drugs at the time. The album has a fantastic sound, but it is definitely not a pick-me-up.

Another trilogy to consider is Sonic Youth's EVOL (1986) / Sister (1987) / Daydream Nation (1988). Daydream I think is the best album of the 1980's.

Under the Bushes Under the Stars by Guided by Voices (1996) is one of my favorites, aside from the unapproachable Bee Thousand (1994).

Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me (1987) will forever be my favorite Cure album.

 

[aufheben]

Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me (1987) will forever be my favorite Cure album.

I'll have to give it another listen.

 

[Roo Returns]

I'll have to give it another listen.

It's very funky and poppy but goes all over the place. It's long too like 75 minutes.

Being a big fan of LA bands from the 80s like RHCP, Jane's, Fishbone, etc. I remember Dave Navarro talking about how Robert Smith's guitar playing influenced him. He was probably referencing earlier Cure albums because by 1987 he was already 20 and in Jane's Addiction, but one minute into the first track "The Kiss" you can hear that distorted wahwah that Navarro would make famous on Nothing's Shocking which came out about a year later.

The Cure and Love And Rockets are two bands who really influenced all the "first wave" of alternative bands I got into as a teenager in the mid-90s.

 

[Don Chytil]

@Bozle Some other stuff I think you'd like alot

• A Storm in Heaven by The Verve (1993)
  
• Mezcal Head by Swervedriver (1993)
  
• Microcastle by Deerhunter (2008)
  
• Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space by Spiritualized (1997) <-masterpiece
  
• Peng! by Stereolab (1992)
  
• Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain by Pavement (1994)

**** the 90's were great. Also, Boards of Canada > Radiohead; Can and Neu! you should find if you haven't already

Microcastle and Crooked Rain are two of my favorites. Halcyon Digest by Deerhunter is also a fantastic album. My favorite Stereolab is Dots and Loops, but Peng is great, too.

Two albums that I've been obsessed with recently that are similar-ish (in the sense that they would be considered indie rock but are a bit "out there") would be Destroyer's Kaputt and Ariel Pink's Before Today. Both are more recent (2011 and 2010 respectively, I think), but both albums channel 70s and 80s music and take a lot of influence from that era.

Also, what's everybody listening to from 2018? I've been really digging the Nicolas Jaar/AAL album. Some albums coming out soon that I'm excited for:
DJ Koze (tomorrow, May 4th)
Beach House (May 11th)
Parquet Courts (May 18th)

 

[aufheben]

Microcastle and Crooked Rain are two of my favorites. Halcyon Digest by Deerhunter is also a fantastic album. My favorite Stereolab is Dots and Loops, but Peng is great, too.

Two albums that I've been obsessed with recently that are similar-ish (in the sense that they would be considered indie rock but are a bit "out there") would be Destroyer's Kaputt and Ariel Pink's Before Today. Both are more recent (2011 and 2010 respectively, I think), but both albums channel 70s and 80s music and take a lot of influence from that era.

Also, what's everybody listening to from 2018? I've been really digging the Nicolas Jaar/AAL album. Some albums coming out soon that I'm excited for:
DJ Koze (tomorrow, May 4th)
Beach House (May 11th)
Parquet Courts (May 18th)

I was kind of shocked to find out that Crooked Rain was recorded in New York City. It's such a SoCal record.

 

[JESSEWENEEDTOCOOK]

I was kind of shocked to find out that Crooked Rain was recorded in New York City. It's such a SoCal record.

Now I’m shocked, too.

 

[JESSEWENEEDTOCOOK]

2018 will be defined by the new Death Grips

also waiting on that new mbv thats supposedly coming out

 

[Bob Richards]

@Bob Richards how are you gonna post flava in ya ear and it's not even the remix.

Related: Craig Mack is a bigger bust than Hugh Jessiman.

Unbelievable. I come here to make friends and share good times and yet I am being bamboozled for my abstinence against remixed versions of songs.

 

[JESSEWENEEDTOCOOK]

Unbelievable. I come here to make friends and share good times and yet I am being bamboozled for my abstinence against remixed versions of songs.

my favorite remix

 

[Machinehead]

@jas why is Jim Morrison disliked?

I always thought The Doors were solid but I'm not big enough a fan to really know anything about it.