OT: The Semi-Annual, Taste Optional Music Thread: Post Your Feel-Bad Hit of the Summer

[HandshakeLine]

You can listen to Grace around your kids too if you’d like.

Hallelujah has really taken a hit over the years. I remember in like 2001 thinking it was the apex of covers. Now I hate it.

Live at Sin-e is still a hell of an album though.

I go through phases where I appreciate Buckley, and times when I feel that he's a hell of a singer who got too complicated for his own good.

 

[Gurglesons]

Live at Sin-e is still a hell of an album though.

I go through phases where I appreciate Buckley, and times when I feel that he's a hell of a singer who got too complicated for his own good.

He's a little overrated, but Grace is a pretty damn good album that doesn't really sound like much else.

 

[HandshakeLine]

He's a little overrated, but Grace is a pretty damn good album that doesn't really sound like much else.

It's got some great tunes, some meh tunes, some self-indulgent vocal runs, and a really dated sounding production. I tend to find that the solo versions of the songs from Sin-e are more my taste than the full band stuff. Strokes and folks, I guess.

 

[Gurglesons]

It's got some great tunes, some meh tunes, some self-indulgent vocal runs, and a really dated sounding production. I tend to find that the solo versions of the songs from Sin-e are more my taste than the full band stuff. Strokes and folks, I guess.

The production doesn’t sound dated to me at all. Probably up there in one of my favorite produced records.

 

[Jacob]

 

[tom_servo]

This is cool. You ever listen to Lindstrom? Similar inspiration.

 

[Andy99]

Forgot what a killer baseline this was and great 80s pop tune...anyone who doesn’t have her albums Joan Armatrading and Walk Under Ladders is really missing out...

 

[HandshakeLine]

The production doesn’t sound dated to me at all. Probably up there in one of my favorite produced records.

I think it's mostly the Alesis reverbs on it, that shit sticks out like a sore thumb to me, plus the Mesa Boogies. Maybe I overdosed on Talk Talk records a while back. I don't think it sounds bad, per se, it just sounds VERY mid-90s "slick" to me. That's why I like the Sin-e record more-- it's stripped down and a little rougher.

 

[Jacob]

This is cool. You ever listen to Lindstrom? Similar inspiration.

Never heard of them but I like it.

I like College & Futurecop! a lot as far as synthwavey stuff.

 

[Gurglesons]

I think it's mostly the Alesis reverbs on it, that shit sticks out like a sore thumb to me, plus the Mesa Boogies. Maybe I overdosed on Talk Talk records a while back. I don't think it sounds bad, per se, it just sounds VERY mid-90s "slick" to me. That's why I like the Sin-e record more-- it's stripped down and a little rougher.

Well Laughing Stock IMO is the best sounding album of all time so makes sense

 

[T1K]

Forgot how awesome Taking Back Sunday is

 

[Randy Butternubs]

Thanks to Baby Driver for introducing me to this song:

 

[Tender Rip]

It's got some great tunes, some meh tunes, some self-indulgent vocal runs, and a really dated sounding production. I tend to find that the solo versions of the songs from Sin-e are more my taste than the full band stuff. Strokes and folks, I guess.

Intellectually I think I am on board with most all of that. At the same time I was at an amazing concert with him at a time none of this seemed like a pastiche (and I was 17, slightly high and holding on to firm titties in a sea of 50.000 people).



... as for something completely different, I had my boys (4 and 7) in the tub for a shower tonight and left them for a while with one of my playlists on... Came back to an insanely giggling 7 year old and nonplussed 4-year old at the end of Bobby Brown Goes Down...

Wtf. did I do... wifey won’t like the notes from school about juniors’ newfound vocabulary. This I know for a fact.

 

[Factorial]

 

[Factorial]

Thanks to Baby Driver for introducing me to this song:

The prototype JS song:

 

[Factorial]

Thanks to Baby Driver for introducing me to this song:

I saw them at Graffiti in Pgh on this tour. Great show.

 

[HandshakeLine]

Intellectually I think I am on board with most all of that. At the same time I was at an amazing concert with him at a time none of this seemed like a pastiche (and I was 17, slightly high and holding on to firm titties in a sea of 50.000 people).



... as for something completely different, I had my boys (4 and 7) in the tub for a shower tonight and left them for a while with one of my playlists on... Came back to an insanely giggling 7 year old and nonplussed 4-year old at the end of Bobby Brown Goes Down...

Wtf. did I do... wifey won’t like the notes from school about juniors’ newfound vocabulary. This I know for a fact.

I never saw him live myself, but when I first moved to Chicago, a sound man friend gave me a bunch of bootlegs of Buckley and said he was one of the most electrifying performers he ever saw.

 

[Factorial]

 

[Factorial]

 

[T1K]

These guys are blowing up on Spotify. Looks like they just started their group at the end of February. I’ve been listening to this song on repeat.

 

[Andy99]

These guys are blowing up on Spotify. Looks like they just started their group at the end of February. I’ve been listening to this song on repeat.

sounds like they’re trying to be the next LCD Soundsystem, which I don’t mind....

 

[Factorial]

 

[Factorial]

 

[DanielPlainview]

Every so often I come back to it and it sticks in my head for weeks

 

[Deport Ogie]

Feelin' old school. Last month was Aqualung's 50th anniversary and holy crap do I love this album. Sometimes my buds and I discuss perfect albums, ones on which there isn't a single bad song or bad moment and I think Aqualung should be on that list. This song in particular has one of my favorite all-time rock piano riffs.