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

[Randy Butternubs]

Also @Randy Butternubs , weren't you posting a lot of Sylvan Esso in the last thread? Have you heard the new album yet?

I've not listened to it yet, but I probably will on my drive home today. Or during one of my many walks this coming vacation.

 

[HandshakeLine]

I've not listened to it yet, but I probably will on my drive home today. Or during one of my many walks this coming vacation.

I saw their live set on KEXP a few days ago and it's pretty good so far! Nothing with the pure pop hooks of "Radio", but man, that was a jam.

 

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Slightly off target:

 

[T1K]

@Randy Butternubs I think you’d like this a lot

 

[Randy Butternubs]

@Randy Butternubs I think you’d like this a lot

About to start my Larryville walk in a few minutes. I'll give it a listen then.

 

[Empoleon8771]

I heard this song for the first time a few days ago on Pandora and I'm absolutely addicted to it.

 

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[HandshakeLine]

This is one of my favorite Spiritualized albums. I like that it's a much more personal album (due to its backstory) than most of Spaceman's other work (and I'm a huge Jason Pierce fan!). It's up there with Ladies and Gentlemen... in my eyes.

 

[Deport Ogie]

I love Scandinavian death-doom the way JR loves drafting Scandinavian goalkeeps.

 

[mrzeigler]

After watching a Rick Beato video on why Sting's songwriting stands out from all of his contemporaries, I've been listening to "The Soul Cages" pretty steady these past few days. Beautiful album.

If you're not familiar with Beato and you consider yourself a music nerd, you really ought to check out his "What Makes this Song Great" videos. Each one basically is an advanced music theory/engineering lesson.

Here's his take on The Cure

Boston

Tool

 

[Deport Ogie]

Beato is a good follow. I'm particularly fond of his WMTSG with Tool and Rush because I'm a huge nerd for complex time sigs.

Oh and to keep the music rolling, I also just discovered Nuclear Power Trio, a djenty instrumental outfit consisting of Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and Kim Jong-Un. Holy Hell, does Supreme Leader love playing him some drums, look how freaking happy he is. This is not a political post, please enjoy.

 

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This is one of my favorite Spiritualized albums. I like that it's a much more personal album (due to its backstory) than most of Spaceman's other work (and I'm a huge Jason Pierce fan!). It's up there with Ladies and Gentlemen... in my eyes.

"Let it Come Down" is tops for me. He recently said he's done making records and won't ever do a Spacemen 3 reunion.

 

[HandshakeLine]

"Let it Come Down" is tops for me. He recently said he's done making records and won't ever do a Spacemen 3 reunion.

Yeah, Let it Come Down is great, but sometimes a little... too much, but "Do It All Over Again" is a masterpiece of pop songwriting. Amazing Grace is my sleeper album, though.

I know there's horrifically bad blood between him and Sonic Boom, so I don't see a Spacemen 3 reunion happening ever, but I'm not so sure we've seen the last of Jason Spaceman. I feel like every album now he says is his last, despite putting out 3 since calling it quits. But on the other hand, if ever a guy deserved to just rest on his laurels, it'd be Pierce. He's put out an amazing body of work.

 

[Gurglesons]

This is my quiet little sanctuary on HFPens free of all the assholes.

 

[BlindWillyMcHurt]

This is my quiet little sanctuary on HFPens free of all the assholes.

Not ALL of them, buddy.

I'M here.

 

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Pittsburgh bands.

 

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Saw these guys a few times.

 

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Another Get Hip band:

 

[HandshakeLine]

Is Get Hip still around? I remember buying a Cynics album (No Siesta Tonite) by mail in the mid 90s. Sadly, I didn't get how good the Cynics were until a few years later. I remember thinking that they were too old fashioned for my mid-90s ideas of what punk was.

 

[OtherThingsILike]

Pittsburgh bands, you say?

 

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Is Get Hip still around? I remember buying a Cynics album (No Siesta Tonite) by mail in the mid 90s. Sadly, I didn't get how good the Cynics were until a few years later. I remember thinking that they were too old fashioned for my mid-90s ideas of what punk was.

Looks like it: Get Hip Recordings! – Get Hip or Get Lost

I think they were/are big in Spain.

I was never a big 80's garage rock fan but they put on good shows the few times I saw them. The guy that runs gethip and the cynics used to work as the used record buyer at Eides when it was on the North Side (PNC Park may be on that site now).

 

[HandshakeLine]

I wasn't either in the mid-to-late-90s until that same dude (I think) hipped my mom into getting me a Thee Headcoats album for Christmas one year.

How small the Pittsburgh underground was/is!