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The 5-Star General Music Thread
The Green Eyed Monster
i blame hip hopRegistered User regular
i blame hip hopRegistered User regular
So here's the thing -- I listen to lots of different types of music, and while generally I really hate it when you ask people what they listen to, and they say, "everything," because everyone knows that's really a big fat lie, in fact that person does not listen to extremely experimental underground hip hop like Subtle or Themselves, nor does that person really groove on contemporary pop country like Keith Urban or something (because that shit really sucks), and that person may or may not listen to proto-art punk like Fugazi, but odds are the answer is "not," and so it's really lame to say you listen to "everything" instead of growing a spine, taking a stand, and actually enunciating your tastes with some kind of recognizable rubrick.
I like hip hop. I like indie rock. I like '70s funk and disco. I like '30s blues. I like the Beatles (note: this is a lie, too. I hate the Beatles.)
SO
while I may not like "everything," the truth is a sure like an awful lot covering a wide range of eras and style, and having to head into these indie rock threads to talk with people about indie rock, then head over to the hip hop thread to talk to someone about a new rap album, even though maybe the dude in the indie rock thread would like the new rap album I want to talk about, but he doesn't check the rap thread because he doesn't necessarily think rap is his thing, although he might be willing to check out a recommendation from me, and then of course all this is a moot point because the hip hop thread is on page whatever and I'm way too lazy to do a search so I can find and post in it again, so instead I just don't talk about the rap album I want to talk about on here, despite the fact that I'm sure there's plenty of people I could have an interesting discussion with in that rap thread, but the current setup is a little too stifling for a free flowing discussion of music in general, because I think generally most people on here listen to a wider range of genres than easily classifiable in one single thread.
So I want my general music thread back, dammit, because I want to talk about lots of different kinds of music with lots of different people, and the genre thing is too stifling.
FOR EXAMPLE
I've recently become very enamored with this new folk / country / bluegrass sound I found in the artist Langhorne Slim:
Langhorne Slim performs "Lord"
But I'll be damned if I just want to start a "Folk / Bluegrass" thread to talk about it and then receive a bunch of Neil Young and Bob Dylan recommendations from every idiot with an internet connection who only knows one folk or bluegrass artist and is excited to let the world know when they see a folk and bluegrass thread. I want to talk about it in here with people who have a wide, varying, expansive taste in music, because to limit oneself to discussion of specific genres is to limit one's ability to explore and discover contemporary music.
SO TO BEGIN
Recommend me a band you really like (and hopefully you think or know I haven't heard). I swear to god I will give an honest listen to each and every new band on the first page, and try to write an honest response of what I think, and ... from there ... we will talk music.
BUT THE METAL PEOPLE
You have your own thread for a reason.
I like hip hop. I like indie rock. I like '70s funk and disco. I like '30s blues. I like the Beatles (note: this is a lie, too. I hate the Beatles.)
SO
while I may not like "everything," the truth is a sure like an awful lot covering a wide range of eras and style, and having to head into these indie rock threads to talk with people about indie rock, then head over to the hip hop thread to talk to someone about a new rap album, even though maybe the dude in the indie rock thread would like the new rap album I want to talk about, but he doesn't check the rap thread because he doesn't necessarily think rap is his thing, although he might be willing to check out a recommendation from me, and then of course all this is a moot point because the hip hop thread is on page whatever and I'm way too lazy to do a search so I can find and post in it again, so instead I just don't talk about the rap album I want to talk about on here, despite the fact that I'm sure there's plenty of people I could have an interesting discussion with in that rap thread, but the current setup is a little too stifling for a free flowing discussion of music in general, because I think generally most people on here listen to a wider range of genres than easily classifiable in one single thread.
So I want my general music thread back, dammit, because I want to talk about lots of different kinds of music with lots of different people, and the genre thing is too stifling.
FOR EXAMPLE
I've recently become very enamored with this new folk / country / bluegrass sound I found in the artist Langhorne Slim:
Langhorne Slim performs "Lord"
But I'll be damned if I just want to start a "Folk / Bluegrass" thread to talk about it and then receive a bunch of Neil Young and Bob Dylan recommendations from every idiot with an internet connection who only knows one folk or bluegrass artist and is excited to let the world know when they see a folk and bluegrass thread. I want to talk about it in here with people who have a wide, varying, expansive taste in music, because to limit oneself to discussion of specific genres is to limit one's ability to explore and discover contemporary music.
SO TO BEGIN
Recommend me a band you really like (and hopefully you think or know I haven't heard). I swear to god I will give an honest listen to each and every new band on the first page, and try to write an honest response of what I think, and ... from there ... we will talk music.
BUT THE METAL PEOPLE
You have your own thread for a reason.
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Shake it off
Not the best video you've ever seen, but from an indie college group, im not sure what more you can expect,
love the music though.
another song sans video
Dream Killer
Arch,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_goGR39m2k
Not their best song from that album, but it's the only one with a video from it. They broke up a while back, but still remain one of my favorite bands ever.
Also, my favorite band ever,
Boy Hits Car
To show you the error of your ways, I present, Cynic
Apologies for the lack of a youtube link, but I'm at work
I could have done without the ironic indie posturing in the video. I like it best when I don't look at it. Also, first song is a lot better than the second song, but they're both good.
I like some metal, but primarily '80s metal or earlier. I know my Metallica records as good as the next guy, but the new stuff is too fast, too aggressive. Pretty much the more it sounds like Pantera, the less I like it, but by all means, this is a general music thread, please ignore my smarmy comment up top.
edit: whoops, I'm listening to the music, I swear, but I forgot my response: actually I like this a lot better than I thought. Good and theatrical, not too aggressive or fast. I can get down with stuff like this as a guilty pleasure from time to time in its overtheatrics and admittedly layered songwriting, just not all the time.
edit: Glad ya like it
This is stand up hair rock, though. Good songwriting, nice verse / chorus / verse / chorus / bridge / chorus, and like I said I'm a softie for strings. If it came on the radio on a roadtrip, I probably wouldn't change the station. Eh -- vocals similar to above, over-produced. I like the music more than the singing. How do you feel about Incubus? Incubus seems like a better version of this band to me. Also, do you kids not listen to Pearl Jam any more? I'd say Pearl Jam is somewhat similar musically (on some of their stuff), but Eddie Vedder's is a voice I enjoy more than this guy. Good songwriting.
Or have you heard Gomez? I actually kinda hate Gomez' music sometimes, but the bassy singer in that band can make up for a lot of it for me, because I like his voice so much.
So at this point I think we can admit I have a weakness for electronic sounds. Good thing those are trendy right now!
edit: also, this is really the Langhorne Slim I meant to link above, everyone watch it with me and agree we dread the next time our heart is broken, because this song is going to be on permanent repeat while we lie on our living room floors in five day old dirty clothes with veritable dune of empty beer cans around us:
Langhorne Slim "I Love You, But Goodbye"
That Vendetta Red song isn't the best by far, really. If you get the chance you should listen to some of their other stuff. I've always loved their sound and lyrics, can't really explain it.
I might like BHC so much because I've met and hung out with the guys and they are freaking awesome. The vocalist is a stuntman by day, rockstar by night.
Incubus is awesome. But Pearl Jam makes me cry on the inside. Honestly, it's his voice, I just can't stand it.
Now It's Overhead
This is good stuff. I'm not even sure what genre one would tag something like this as, seems something like an "alternative rock."
There's also an interesting Danish band, don't know how much circulation they get outside of Denmark these days, called Kashmir that you might really like. They have an alternative-esque sound like this, that ended up being more heavily influenced by Radiohead than anything the further they went, I reckon, but it was good, reminiscent of this. Here's one of their newer (? - more Radiohead influenced at least) things:
Kashmir - Kalifornia
Jayhawks - Haywire
Another from the same album:
Jayhawks - Dying on the Vine
Also: Cat Power!!
Cat Power - Love & Communication
Cat Power - Lived In Bars
And some older Cat Power:
Cat Power - Cross Bones Style
And a cover she did:
Cat Power - I Found a Reason
I'm also really into Foo's first album, right now. Read: songs that were not singles.
Foo Fighters - Good Grief
and
Foo Fighters - X-Static
That is basically what I'm into right now.
Now It's Overhead does a ton of stuff that doesn't really fit into a genre. The singer told me once that he called it 'Dark Pop' whenever someone asked him what they played. I love their stuff, but it might be hard to find outside of GA (they are from here).
Here is probably one of the best songs I've ever seen performed live. I'm not sure how well it translates into video, but this is the best recording I could find. He does a lot of chit-chat with the crowds, especially when he's into it, so just skip ahead a minute or so if you want.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rFjr4F5n8o
Seriously, the last part is so powerful live it's ridiculous. I saw it live before I ever heard it, so the way it just crescendos was just, I dunno. It doesn't help that I'm in love with the guy, I guess.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdTpmtiOqjI
takes fucking forever to start up.
The Ceremony that released Disappear last year?
edit- Nevermind. Different band. Although the Ceremony I was talking about is a pretty decent shoegaze outfit.
Smarmy is a nice little euphemism for it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW2UWyaWDPE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IAkATz9RSM
Those bands are The Books, and Menomena.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzTZzo40PUg
Also, Ceremony reminds me of pretty much every band I was in as a teen. Just pure emotion coming out all over the place. Have you ever heard of The Chariot? For some reason Ceremony reminds me of them a little.
Cat Power -- fantastic. I just sort of assume everyone has heard of her and loves her. I'm always kind of taken aback whenever someone hasn't or doesn't. Did you ever hear her track on the Handsome Boy Modeling School album White People? Because to hear her sing in a different context than bluesy folk stuff was a revelation.
Foo Fighters -- meh. I respect them, but I just can't get into their music for some reason.
Vaguely- I only recently evolved from old punk rock to hardcore. There's some amazing stuff going down in Southern California. (you're welcome by the way for the sig thing- it was hilarious)
moving on to more music discussion:
One of my favorite bands:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qszuET9YAhE
I would have given my left arm to be at this show:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOFGKPSrBhA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj9IAvv32wE
The band is Sleep and the song is Dragonaut.
Damien Jurado "Ohio"
Although truth be told I got those Books album, what? Like three, or actually I think four years ago? I was staying at my mom's house for a summer between semesters, and I got one books album, then just became obsessed with them. I bought everything I could get my hands on and listened the shit out of those things. It's hard to say which album I love most of all, they all really have their pluses (and their minuses). I think "Fatherless Bastard" is my favorite song by them at this point. Have you listened to Prefuse 73? He even did an entire EP of a song he did with the Books, and then remixed 8 different times, called Prefuse 73 Reads the Books. If you're into that sound, I bet you'd like Prefuse.
Menomena -- I don't even know where to start. I like I Am the Fun Blame Monster! a lot more than Friend and Foe, not to take away from Friend and Foe, I just love that album that much. Saw them perform live for free, it was a real treat. Love those guys. Every Radiohead fan in the world should listen to them immediately if they haven't already.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSiRWHXz6Ps
This is an actual music video of theirs, another song I'm partial to
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AvkyHCU7XU
The band name is Great Big Sea, they're out of Canada.
it's pure anger- that's what's so great about it. don't get me wrong i love folk and slower, more "mature" stuff as much as i do this, but it just fires me up.
Rebelution - Safe & Sound
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYo_SP26FBw
Red Elvises - My Love Is Killing Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMz8vGUQhas&feature=related
Can we be BFF now?
I love Prefuse; anything "glitch"y is worth a listen in my book. And one of the things I love most about The Books is, whatever they end up doing next, I know it'll be worth it. Like, some bands, you buy a couple albums, and that's kind of all you need, because they all tend to run together (Belle and Sebastian, I'm looking at you). But you never know what The Books are going to do next. Like, when Lost and Safe came out, I lost my freaking mind over it for 2 weeks straight, because they were songs. With singing.
And I think the songwriting in F&F is some of the best I've ever heard. "Wet and Rusting" is spectacularly close to perfection. I was a little confused about the Radiohead comment, but then I remembered that "My My" does happen to include what sounds like an impression of a Thom Yorke vocal.
(Quoting this because I think you missed it Celery)
My second video is just a fun rap song from a band called Swollen Members, it's titled 'Too Hot' you may recognize the beat as also being in the Jurassic 5 song 'Red Hot' they were made at the same time with the same producer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUyrUFCH-Mc
Holy shit. I will be getting this album as soon as I can.
Other than that I've got a rather eclectic set of artists that I fall in and out of, like
Jonathan Coulton
They Might Be Giants
Electric Six (they have some weird videos)
I tend to lean towards alt rock but if something hooks me I can appriciate it regardless of genre.
Excluding country.
Menomena is so great. They are even good live, which is amazing considering the amount of instrumentation they do with only 3 people. That drummer is like a goddamn machine.
I hope you've heard "I am the Fun Blame Monster"? And "Under an Hour," written as music to accompany a performance, is really good background music. No lyrics, just instrumentals. Something about the sax in their songs is what really does it for me a lot of the time, I think.
Oh, and I'm glad you liked Kevin Devine. Some of his recorded stuff might come off as cliched (and one of his songs actually talks about that--there's only so much you can do with a voice and an acoustic guitar), but if you can see him live, it will be cheap and good.