OT: Open Music thread (and PSA)
by neurofarm on Oct 21, 2008 2:00 PM PDT
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PrintThere was a music thread on this site a while back, and a lot of people recommended a band called Of Montreal. I listened, got into them, and went to see them a couple weeks ago in DC. And holy crap, what an awesome show! It was one of the best concerts I've been to. So first of, thanks to the McCoven, and second of all:
Public Service Announcement: they are playing in SF in November, and I believe tickets are still available. If you like them, you should definitely go, because their live show is amazing. In that sense, they remind me a fair amount of one of my long time favorite bands, the Flaming Lips. There are lots of bizarre stage antics that get the crowd really into their shows, including people in animal suits. And I'm not sure I've ever seen a crowd as into a show as the crowd was at that one.
But enough about that. It's been a while since I've seen a music thread on here, so I think we need one for the coming baseball-less autumn months. What is everyone here into these days? I haven't gotten much new music of late and can always use some recommendations. Other new (to me) music I've been listening to:
Secret Machines (whose third album just came out)
Animal Collective (ultra-weird but fun and interesting)
Beirut (whom I'd highly recommend)
M.I.A. (in my opinion, a mix of some really great songs and some unlistenable songs).
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I still listen to Nick Cave… a lot. Probably more than I should.
Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen and The National have also gotten heavy play the last few weeks. Nothing new to me, but all stuff I really love. I’ve been getting into PJ Harvey over the last couple months as well.
I’ve finally started messing around with my last.fm recommendations and I have to say, I’m pretty impressed with how they’ve improved that system. They recced this band called Mansun to me over the weekend and inspired me to acquire their album “Attack of the Grey Lantern”, which I really liked.
I really like Fleet Foxes debut self-titled album, I’ve been meaning to get the EP they released this year as well.
I’ve also had a bit of a renaissance in my love for Lou Reed’s Berlin, which might be the greatest concept album of all time. I really need to pick up the live album of that which was just released a few weeks ago.
I’m trying to branch out more, though. I love Beirut, by the way.
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Berlin is amazing
Like 2 years ago on this site, I put it in my Top 5 albums. I still would, though I don’t listen to it that much because, hi, depressing.
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I've been scrobbling again..
And I’ve kind of noticed Nick Cave popping up in your playlist a lot. I couldn’t help but notice though….YOU LISTEN TO RUSH.
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I have like 100-something plays from Rush from back when i was trying to see what was good about them!
I didn’t find it. :(
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that's OK
it says that you and I have Modest Mouse in common, and I have never (knowingly) listened to a MM song on purpose.
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Polly Jean is one of the greats
her albums have great lasting power… Dry still sounds revolutionary to me.
Psycho killer, qu'est-ce que c'est?
Most recent albums I like:
T.I. – Paper Trail
Lil Wayne – Carter 3
DJ Khaled – We Global
don’t laugh but New Kids on the Block – The Block CD is pretty good.
Nelly – Brass Knuckles was OK
The Game – L.A.X. was OK
I expected Ne-Yo’s The Year of the Gentlemen to be better.
I can’t wait until November and December when Eminem, Ludacris, T-Pain, Kanye West, and Akon all come out with CD’s.
Favorite songs right now:
T-Pain – “Freeze” ft. Chris Brown
T-Pain – “Superman”
Akon – “I’m So Paid” ft. Young Jeezy and Lil Wayne
Kanye West – “Love Lockdown” and “Heartless”
T.I. – “My Life, Your Entertainment” ft. Usher and “On Top of the World” ft. Ludacris
New Kids – “Put it on My Tab” ft. Akon
Ne-Yo – “She Got Her Own” ft. Jamie Foxx and Fabolous
Ludacris – “Call Up the Homies” ft. The Game and Willy Northpole
Ludacris and T-Pain – “One More Drink” and “Chopped and Screwed”
Lil Wayne – “Mr. Carter” ft. Jay-Z and “Love Me or Hate Me”
If you like good dance beats, try out those songs.
proud father of the newly acquired Brandon Crawford..
I'm not gangster..
I just like good dance beats.
proud father of the newly acquired Brandon Crawford..
For those who like good dance beats...
Might I recommend Girl Talk, Spank Rock, and Chromeo
I support Roger Kieschnick in his quest to becoming the best Kieschnick ever to play professional baseball.
Yes you may recommend Girl Talk
No, you may not recommend Spank ROck
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I slightly liked Spank Rock’s debut!
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OK, let me rephrase
Step 1: Drink six or seven vodka Red Bulls
Step 2: Put on Spank Rock
Step 3:________________
Step 4: PROFIT
I support Roger Kieschnick in his quest to becoming the best Kieschnick ever to play professional baseball.
Step 1: Drink six or seven vodka Red Bulls
Step 1a: die.
Step 2: Put on Spank Rock
Step 3:________________
Step 4: PROFIT
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You got great taste...
but I’m not so sure about NKOTB, haha.
Although, they did release a pretty good song featuring Ne-Yo recently…
TI is my new favorite. Not only is The Paper Trail really good, he’s also doing stuff in the community.
"While conservatives tell you 'leave things alone and no one will lose,' and liberals tell you 'interfere a lot and no one will lose,' baseball says 'someone will lose.' Not only says it - but insists upon it! ... Democracy is lovely, but baseball's more mature." BVCE supports SF Dugout and Manny Burriss.
by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Oct 21, 2008 7:51 PM PDT up reply actions
You do know why he’s doing stuff for the community right?
proud father of the newly acquired Brandon Crawford..
Posesssion, guns, bad stuff.
"While conservatives tell you 'leave things alone and no one will lose,' and liberals tell you 'interfere a lot and no one will lose,' baseball says 'someone will lose.' Not only says it - but insists upon it! ... Democracy is lovely, but baseball's more mature." BVCE supports SF Dugout and Manny Burriss.
by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Oct 21, 2008 8:30 PM PDT up reply actions
Um...
The Beatles, Zepp, the Doors, the Who, Hendrix and Sabbath are my favorites.
Yes, much more my speed
I’m a fan of all of those, except for Black Sabbath – which I never got into. For me, Stevie Ray Vaughan would be at the top of that list. The list would also include The Fabulous Thunderbirds, The Eagles, Eric Clapton, The Rolling Stones, Robert Cray, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Most of the 70s Motown sound, and much more.
Lynyrd Skynyrd?
really?
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by SloIsLonelyForTheOrange on Oct 21, 2008 3:21 PM PDT up reply actions
Skynyrd..
I’ll only listen occasionally. I like them, but not enough I guess.
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I’ve never understood how Skynyrd are so much more popular than the Allman Brothers. They’re pretty similar, except the Allmans are better in every single way (better singer, better rhythm section, much better guitars – Allman/Betts > any guitar duo, better and more diverse songs). Weird.
..so allow me to present Tim Lincecum and Matt Cain as two sweet, sweet bottles of warming hooch.
I don’t know that Skynyrd is more popular outside of their two huge songs. They just had those catchy famous things that have become standards for whatever reason, and the Allman Brothers didn’t.
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Simple, KFC didn’t use The Allman Brothers for their commercials. Thus, Skynyrd will always be better.
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They really should have gone with Free Bird in those commercials. Unless they are saving that one for some really unbelievable deals.
by Gumbercules86 on Oct 21, 2008 8:58 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, you really don’t hear that song enough.
..so allow me to present Tim Lincecum and Matt Cain as two sweet, sweet bottles of warming hooch.
Ha!
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Idiot redneck/rock fanbase. Easily entertained.
ABB is definitely mo’ so’ ful.
That being said , One More From The Road was a favorite of mine…thirty years ago.
"Ain't got a hope in Hell - that's my belief." - Bon Scott
by victor frankenstein on Oct 21, 2008 4:26 PM PDT up reply actions
You may be right about many of Skynyrd's fans...
but I’m about as far from an idiot redneck, as they come. I also like The Allman Brothers Band. I don’t understand all of the animosity between LS and ABB fans. Whatever – I like them both.
I also like CSN, CSN&Y, Bob Dylan, The Doobie Brothers, Steely Dan, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Marley, Bonnie Raitt, Jimmie Vaughan, B.B. King, Buddy Guy, CCR, Janis Joplin, Santana, and U2 – just to name a few.
Lately
My BART ride playlists have included a lot of Flogging Molly, Social Distortion and Guster along with the regulars Foo Fighters, Beatles, Rolling Stones, Weezer and many others.
Giants! Giants! HELP US GOD!
I’ve really been digging the new Jenny Lewis album lately. Earlier this year, I quite like Porishead’s album as well as the new album by Kathleen Edwards (highly recommended if the whole alt-country thing appeals to you at all). Other good albums so far this year include the ones by Flight of the Conchords, Destroyer, She & Him, Joan As Police Woman, Sons & Daughters, and Tilly and the Wall.
Here was my top ten albums list from 2007:
1) The New Pornographers, Challengers
2) The Arcade Fire, Neon Bible
3) PJ Harvey, White Chalk
4) Tegan & Sara, The Con
5) Feist, The Reminder
6) Jesca Hoop, Kismet
7) Radiohead, In Rainbows
8) Lily Allen, Alright, Still…
9) Stars, In Our Bedroom After the War
10) Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, Raising Sand
What man? Which man? Who’s the man? When’s a man a man? What makes a man a man? Am I a man? Yes. Technically I am. - FotC
jcb9..
Are any of the following tracks on Raising Sand? I may buy because I have a live version of these and like them.
Rich Woman
Leave My Woman Alone
Fortune Teller
nothin’
Gone, Gone, Gone (Done Moved On)
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Well everyone around here knows me as the closed minded young-un who listens to old-fart music.
Wow..long title..Anyways I’ve been listening to music a lot more now it seems, and I’ve started to scrobble also. Probably listening to more music since I’ve gotten some more CDs and picked up a few more bootlegs. My main pleasures are Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, and Pink Floyd. The latest CDs I picked up are The Traveling Wilburys Collection, A Saucerful of Secrets, and Meddle. Again, the old-fart music.
But I’ve also, again, picked up a few bootlegs lately. The ones that are different than my regular music (I’ve picked up more of those too) are Gary Numan and some bluegrass ones (from Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2008). I’ve always kind of liked bluegrass, but never really listened to it that much before. My dad had a Gary Numan EP that I’d listen to, but never really gotten anything past that. Now I see..hmm..his songs are basically all the same.
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WalrusMan
Those of us over a certain age find your description of “old-fart music” highly offensive. Please use instead the more politically-correct term “experienced flatulence.”
Thank you.
Am I mad, in a coma, or back in time? Whatever's happened, it's like I've landed on a different planet. Now, maybe if I can work out the reason, I can get home.
I'm also a The Traveling Wilburys Fan
especially Vol. 1, which included Roy Orbison. What a great group of musicians.
agreed
I just recently heard Vol. 3 for the first time, and there seemed to be something missing without Orbison.
by rightcenterfielder on Oct 22, 2008 11:35 AM PDT up reply actions
Yea..
I liked Vol 3 the most for a while, but that was the first one I got. When I got the collection of them both I started liking Vol 1 more.
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It suffers because of Orbison’s absence, but it also just feels a lot less spontaneous. Like they’re trying too hard to have fun.
What man? Which man? Who’s the man? When’s a man a man? What makes a man a man? Am I a man? Yes. Technically I am. - FotC
I was surprised to learn..
Basically the tracks for Vol. 1 (besides Handle With Care) were all written and recorded in a day. Dylan had 9 or 10 days until he had to go on a tour, and they recorded 9 or 10 songs. Writing in the morning, recording in the night.
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I just listened to Vol. 1 again
and I can easily say that there’s not a bad song on that album. My favorite is probably Tweeter and the Monkey Man, with Margarita at the bottom of the list.
Lately, I’ve gotten a little obsessed with The Wrens, because The Meadowlands is such a ridiculously great album. Beyond that, I always listen to a ton of Dylan and Kinks, and…
WalrusMan had a great idea (that I’m sure that Ulnar Maws jerk would have never thought of). Last.fm pages are easier to use than normal talking.
(I’m embarrassed by how much of The Cure is on there. I like them, but I never knew I liked them that much.)
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Nothing wrong with The Cure. Well, with most of their albums, anyway.
What man? Which man? Who’s the man? When’s a man a man? What makes a man a man? Am I a man? Yes. Technically I am. - FotC
Oh, yeah
I like them fine, but they’re nothing close to my 5th or 6th favorite band.
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VERY HIGH COMPATIBILITY WHOOO
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
HELLS YEAH
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yes yes yes
Of Montreal is weird as shit, but very very good. Keep listening to animal collective, it’ll pay off.
As for me,
Mogwai’s new album The Hawk Is Howling just absolutely rocks. I’ve been listening to a lot of PJ Harvey, fleet foxes, the national (omg jpon we’re twins!), bowie, early modest mouse, handsome furs. I’ve gotten into the post-hardcore to the tiniest degree and bands like miracle of 86 and Jawbreaker have been breakin me in nice and easy. I’ve been digging deep into Atlantic’s jazz archives. Charles Mingus, Coltrane, Joe Turner and some Sonny rollins have been doing the trick.
Two bands that i’m seeing this week that i’m super pumped about: Born Ruffians and Octopus Project. Born Ruffians is bouncy fun twee indie that is surprisingly musically voluptuous, you might say. Octopus project is crazy indie electronica that plays in crazy time signatures and plays a theremin. Fun times.
As far as the usual rotation goes, everything has pretty much stayed the same. Wolf Parade, Animal Collective, Built to Spill, Architecture in Helsinki, Sunset Rubdown, Beck, Broken Social Scene, The Dodos for indie. Immortal Technique, Blackalicious, DJ Rectangle, MIA and some dangermouse for hip/hop. Blind Willie McTell is taking up all my blues space and i would highly reccomend anything of his. Miles Davis and John Coltrane get an hour of love per day.
So yeah, that’s the music i’m listening to.
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by SloIsLonelyForTheOrange on Oct 21, 2008 3:21 PM PDT reply actions
I like your taste in music.
Born Ruffians has a song called Kurt Vonnegut! I like it.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
that song
is like their fourth or fifth best and it’s still one of my favorite songs. I like Born Ruffians to an unhealthy degree and I thought it would wear off like other summer bands, but it really hasn’t, like at all.
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by SloIsLonelyForTheOrange on Oct 21, 2008 4:52 PM PDT up reply actions
Awesome, that’s a lot of great music you’ve listed there. I’ll check out some of the other stuff you’ve mentioned. Anythings specific to listen to from the Octopus Project? I love odd time signatures and I also love the theramin.
um
pretty much everything off of One Ten Hundred Thousand Million or Identification parade. Their newest, Hello Avalanche is great too and it has their best song, “Truck”. awesome awesome awesome band.
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by SloIsLonelyForTheOrange on Oct 21, 2008 4:50 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m pretty sure I’ll have low compatibility with most people because my listening tastes are all over the place.
that's the spice of life, or something
it’s great for discovering new stuff.
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Not just low...
VERY LOW
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Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
http://www.last.fm/user/takimoto23x
A little front loaded with Bartok and Ravel, had a listening quiz a couple days ago.
I support Roger Kieschnick in his quest to becoming the best Kieschnick ever to play professional baseball.
I canceled my last.fm account because I was getting all paranoid that the RIAA might be tracking me.
/hides 600 GB’s of music
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Just because she hasn’t been mentioned, I’ll go ahead and point out that Neko Case is amazing. Her album Fox Confessor Brings the Flood is probably my favorite album of the last three or four years.
What man? Which man? Who’s the man? When’s a man a man? What makes a man a man? Am I a man? Yes. Technically I am. - FotC
Shameless plug for SF Bay Area rezidents
I’m spinning at the Gallery Lounge this Friday night. It’s right by Mays Field, and is a really nice, low-key spot. If anyone is out and about on Friday night, please come on by! (And bring your friends!)
The MySpace
The Facebook
The flyer
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Listening to some Fieldtriqp right now, his Old Haunts album which you is pretty amazing.
http://fieldtriqp.experimedia.net/albums.html
Nice slice of ambient, IDM, and textural goodness.
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Bay City Ball
>> Listening to some Fieldtriqp right now, his Old Haunts album which you is pretty amazing.
Might be the worst sentence I’ve ever written.
Fixed:
Listening to some Fieldtriqp right now, his Old Haunts album which is pretty amazing.
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I believe you can download all (if not most) of his albums for free from the link I posted above. Some of the links are a little hard to find, but I think you can download the full copy of Old Haunts at the following link:
http://www.earstroke.com/EAR026.html
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Limiting this to albums from 2008
Favorites of the year so far:
TV on the Radio- Dear Science
Fleet Foxes- Fleet Foxes
Lindstrom- Where you go I go too
Crystal Castles- Crystal Castles
Thao- We Brave Bee Stings and All
Recent Purchases:
John Robinson- Who is this man?
Mount Eerie- Lost Wisdom
Department of Eagles- In Ear Park
The Week That Was- The Week That Was
I intend these to be my next purchases in roughly this order:
Okkervil River- The Stand Ins
Of Montreal- Skeletal Lamping
No Age- Nouns
Deerhoof- Offend Maggie
Beach House- Devotion
Jaguar Love- Take Me to the Sea
Friendly Fires- Friendly Fires
Psycho killer, qu'est-ce que c'est?
your purchases:
move up No Age. That album is all kinds of fuzzy good.
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by SloIsLonelyForTheOrange on Oct 21, 2008 4:57 PM PDT up reply actions
yea... I've heard a lot of really good things about it
it’s just that they don’t have it on emusic, and I’m always reluctant to spend the full $9.99 on an album. It’s just a matter of time though. It’s the same reason I put off buying the Fleet Foxes album eventhough I knew that I would love it. Not entirely rational… I should just bite the bullet and download it.
Psycho killer, qu'est-ce que c'est?
Really need to get that Okkervil River album.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
I’m a bit worried that I have already sufficiently covered their style with their previous albums, but I them enough that I will definitely pick it up.
Psycho killer, qu'est-ce que c'est?
It’s very good. No worries.
Adopted son of in limbo Brad Hennessey. Beloved for a stolen base much like Dave Roberts
by AndYourBirdCanSing on Oct 22, 2008 10:20 AM PDT up reply actions
08 Albums
Year of the Gentleman- Ne-Yo
Brass Knuckles- Nelly
Tha Carter III- Lil Wayne
Paper Trail – T.I.
Ego Trippin’ – Snoop Dogg
LAX – The Game
Untitled- Nas
and the old fogey music award goes to....
For some reason in the fall I end up listening to a lot of Loreena McKennitt, Dougie Maclean, Afro Celts, and Clannad.
[Folky-celtic stuff]
So far this year...
I’m giving the best album award to…
Frightened Rabbit, the Midnight Organ Fight
Also in the running…
the stand-ins
vampire weekend
I haven’t heard the whole album yet, but the Blitzen Trapper album that I’ve heard is good
My interests are all over the place (but pop-centric)
But currently, a bit skewed towards metal:
Mudvayne
Static-X
System of a Down
Slipknot
Rage Against the Machine (don’t really know where they fit in these groupings)
Asheru
Mos Def (only really his first album)
Kanye West
John Legend
Rihanna
Lily Allen
Weezer
Rise Against
OAR
Jack Johnson
Neglectful father of David Quinowski
are you grouping these together?
cause Weezer does not belong in the same breath or thought really as Jack Johnson.
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by SloIsLonelyForTheOrange on Oct 21, 2008 5:57 PM PDT up reply actions
even now?
"he walked 18; new league record! Struck out 18, another new league record! He also hit the sportswriter, the PA announcer, the bull mascot twice..."
by i did my job on Oct 21, 2008 6:26 PM PDT up reply actions
see
I am pretty sure they quit after they lost Matt Sharp. They were too torn up to hire some random tatted up douche named scott.
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by SloIsLonelyForTheOrange on Oct 21, 2008 8:51 PM PDT up reply actions
I'm in the same boat
It seems every new album comes with hopes of it being a return to Blue/Pinkerton, but those days are long gone.
by rightcenterfielder on Oct 22, 2008 11:44 AM PDT up reply actions
Yes, as best as I could.
Metal
Hip-hop
Pop pop
The rest (although all could be found on an “alternative” station, I think)
Neglectful father of David Quinowski
Jack Johnson will blow your goats
If your goats need blowin
"Forget it Donny, you're out of your element"-Walter Sobchak
by icanplaythird on Oct 22, 2008 10:51 AM PDT up reply actions
Jack Johnson does not belong in the same breath or thought really as music.
I support Roger Kieschnick in his quest to becoming the best Kieschnick ever to play professional baseball.
this just in
hating jack johnson is as played out as listening to jack johnson
Rafael Rodriguez: More tools than Home Depot.
+1
for black on both sides. that’s an amazing hip hop album.
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by SloIsLonelyForTheOrange on Oct 21, 2008 5:58 PM PDT up reply actions
another shameless plug
marcello, there’s a slim chance that you might not hate this band
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
Tobacco’s new album ‘Fucked up Friends’ is amazing. I recommend you all go and check it out now.
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"M.I.A. (in my opinion, a mix of some really great songs and some unlistenable songs)."
Best diagnosis of M.I.A. ever.
I see the future, and it is Pablo
VH1's 100 Greatest Hip Hop Songs over the last few weeks got to me
Been listening to a lot of hip hop stuff lately. Black Star, Public Enemy, Common, The Roots have been in heavy rotation.
"While conservatives tell you 'leave things alone and no one will lose,' and liberals tell you 'interfere a lot and no one will lose,' baseball says 'someone will lose.' Not only says it - but insists upon it! ... Democracy is lovely, but baseball's more mature." BVCE supports SF Dugout and Manny Burriss.
by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Oct 21, 2008 7:55 PM PDT reply actions
I had to watch Do the Right Thing for one of my classes today and now I just want to put “Fight the Power” on repeat.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
Fight the Power is so damn good.
"While conservatives tell you 'leave things alone and no one will lose,' and liberals tell you 'interfere a lot and no one will lose,' baseball says 'someone will lose.' Not only says it - but insists upon it! ... Democracy is lovely, but baseball's more mature." BVCE supports SF Dugout and Manny Burriss.
by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Oct 21, 2008 8:30 PM PDT up reply actions
Dead Prez anyone?
maybe some mf doom as well?
waiting for 2011....
+1 for MF Doom
"While conservatives tell you 'leave things alone and no one will lose,' and liberals tell you 'interfere a lot and no one will lose,' baseball says 'someone will lose.' Not only says it - but insists upon it! ... Democracy is lovely, but baseball's more mature." BVCE supports SF Dugout and Manny Burriss.
by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Oct 21, 2008 8:31 PM PDT up reply actions
yup
have you heard that John Robinson album? It’s pretty good… Doom produced it.
Psycho killer, qu'est-ce que c'est?
I will have to find this and listen to it.
"While conservatives tell you 'leave things alone and no one will lose,' and liberals tell you 'interfere a lot and no one will lose,' baseball says 'someone will lose.' Not only says it - but insists upon it! ... Democracy is lovely, but baseball's more mature." BVCE supports SF Dugout and Manny Burriss.
by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Oct 22, 2008 10:43 AM PDT up reply actions
Diggin' on
Jenny Lewis- Acid Tongue
Teanage Fanclub- Man-Made
Pavement- Wowee Zowee
Iron and Wine- The Shepherd’s Dog
Chris Walla- Field Manual
Not a lot of super new stuff but whatevs.
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Last.fm played me some Iron & Wine the other day and I quite liked it. Would The Shepherd’s Dog be a good place to start?
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I would start with Our Endless Numbered Days.
It’s not the first one but it is the best imho.
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I like The Creek Drank the Cradle the best I think. I’d suggest to start there, jp. Lots of really beautiful songs. Bird Stealing Bread and Faded From Winter are two of my favorites.
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And Upward over the mountain is a great song off that album, too. Really good record.
/hipster
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Yeah that is also a great album.
I just happen to be partial to Love and Some Verses and Sodom, South Georgia. Probably can’t go wrong with either album.
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you really can’t go wrong with Iron and Wine.
creek drank the cradle is probably on my top 10 best records. certainly top 10 best debut records.
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by The Gene Hackman on Oct 22, 2008 10:32 AM PDT up reply actions
Also
check out his album with Calexico. It is called In the Reins.
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That’s where I’d start…but I really dig Calexico.
And if you dont know Calexico, you should check them out.
They say some players get out of bed hitting; Pablo Sandoval doesn't wait that long
Did you get the new album?
I am waiting to get it until I have money. Garden of Ruin was good but it was no Feast of Wire.
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Carried to Dust
Just scored it at Aquarius last week. I havent spent much time
with it, but at first listen it recalls Feast of Wire in its instrumentation
as opposed to the stripped down feel of Garden Ruin.
Time will tell whether that’s a good thing or not.
Also of note: Sam Beam (Iron and Wine) sings on one track.
They say some players get out of bed hitting; Pablo Sandoval doesn't wait that long
I loved Rabbit Fur Coat, so I was disappointed that I only really liked about half of Acid Tongue.
I’ll probably give it a few more listens though. This time next week, I’ll be raving about it.
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Yeah, most of my love is for about half the album, too. But I don’t dislike any of the rest, so.
What man? Which man? Who’s the man? When’s a man a man? What makes a man a man? Am I a man? Yes. Technically I am. - FotC
Yeah, Rabbit Fur Coat is great but
I think I like the Rilo Kiley-ness of Acid Tongue. It kind of sounds like some of the songs from Under the Blacklight (also a fave).
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I absolutely hated Under the Blacklight, but I really like Acid Tongue.
What man? Which man? Who’s the man? When’s a man a man? What makes a man a man? Am I a man? Yes. Technically I am. - FotC
0_o
Hated Under the Blacklight. You must be part of Fake America!
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But seriously
Why do you hate it? I respect your opinion but it is so full of poppy goodness. It is like hating rainbows or puppies.
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I didn’t hate Under The Blacklight, but I’m not a huge fan. I think the only album of theirs I’d put it above is Take-Offs And Landings. It never really got to me the way More Adventurous or Execution of All Things did.
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The review from Sound Opinions pretty much sums it up. Here’s a link to listen to the review:
http://audio.soundopinions.org/streams/2007/08/riloreview.m3u
What man? Which man? Who’s the man? When’s a man a man? What makes a man a man? Am I a man? Yes. Technically I am. - FotC
And I also find myself agreeing with this part of Pitchfork’s review of the album: “Finding the band’s music polished to an almost blinding sheen, Blacklight is not a commercial album so much as Rilo Kiley’s conception (or misconception) of what a commercial album is. It’s their "Project Mersh”, an alternate-universe sell-out move. But beneath that surface— and Under the Blacklight is at first listen almost overwhelmingly surface— Rilo Kiley must know they’re full of shit. Either they’re utterly serious about their flirtation with the mainstream or they’re taking the piss with a wink. In both cases, the songs suffer a smothering slow death by context."
What man? Which man? Who’s the man? When’s a man a man? What makes a man a man? Am I a man? Yes. Technically I am. - FotC
Hmm. I don’t know or care whether they were trying to be more commercial (or whether they succeeded), but that reaction is just utterly the opposite of mine. The music has so much more range than the pedestrian indieosity of their earlier albums. Not sure whether the songs are quite as good, but they’re so much more fun to listen to.
I am not sure if I agree with Sound Opinions idea that this is a revisit of Rumors. It does have some Fleetwood qualities but as a whole it is not a rehash nor is it derivative. The album is glossy but the argument that Rilo Kiley is searching for an "alternate-universe sell-out move" sounds like the guys at Pitchfork starring at their Rilo Kiley t-shirts from 2001 and lamenting the fact that they aren’t the only ones who have heard of them now.
The album is a surface album but that does not mean it is bad. I don’t think many people would accuse Spoon’s Girls Can Tell of being the deepest album on the block but it is still great.
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Also, Pitchfork never much liked Rilo Kiley. In particular they really trashed Take-Offs and Landings as I recall.
What man? Which man? Who’s the man? When’s a man a man? What makes a man a man? Am I a man? Yes. Technically I am. - FotC
See, and I like Take-Offs and Landings
so I guess I am the musical idiot.
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It’s uneven, and the Blake Sennet songs are really bad (he got better on The Execution of All Things), but there are definitely some good songs there. Personally, as early RK goes, I like The Initial Friend EP more.
What man? Which man? Who’s the man? When’s a man a man? What makes a man a man? Am I a man? Yes. Technically I am. - FotC
But also also also, I’m surprised by your surprise. I think it’s fair to say it’s a divisive album. It got some really good reviews, even showed up in some top 10 lists. But it also was trashed by a number of sources, and was really hated by a pretty large number of hardcore Rilo Kiley fans. My reaction is actually mild compared to some.
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Yeah,
I am not a huge reader of music reviews. I am a big Death Cab For Cutie fan and they generally get trashed so I figure I will just like what I like, reviews be damned.
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I thought Pitchfork hated all Rilo Kiley though.
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Any Low fans in here? I really dig Low.
I’ve also been listening to a lot of OCS (or the Oh See’s for their newer stuff) lately. I’ve posted about them here a few times before.
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I like me some slow-core every now and then.
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Are they anything like Red House Painters? I love RHP.
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Umm...
yeah in that they are both slowcore. I think Sparhawk lists Kozelek as one of his big influences.
What do you think of Sun Kil Moon?
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Ghosts of the Great Highway is one of my favorite albums of all time. April was also quite good, though it didn’t quite live up to Ghosts.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
SALVADOR SANCHEZ
ARRIVED AND VANISHED
ONLY TWENTY THREE
WITH SO MUCH SPEED
OWNING THE HIGHWAY
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
GET OUT OF MY HEAD
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BOOTS WITH THE FUR!
(I know that’s not what you’re talking about)
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I dunno about the applebottom pants
But Loose Fur is fucking awesome.
Rafael Rodriguez: More tools than Home Depot.
Though I am sure that Sparhawk would hate that The Great Destroyer is my fav.
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Low
is awesome. And they’re from Duluth just two hours up the 35 from where i was born. love love love low.
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by SloIsLonelyForTheOrange on Oct 22, 2008 12:16 AM PDT up reply actions
Of Montreal is pretty treal
Every single one of their albums is completely bonkers in its own way. On one of the albums (hissing fauna, are you the destroyer?) the lead singer turns into his alter ego, a black transvestite named Georgie Fruit.
Satanic Panic in the Attic is my favorite album by them by a large margin.
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satanic panic is sweet.
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by SloIsLonelyForTheOrange on Oct 22, 2008 12:23 AM PDT up reply actions
Also, does anybody in the McCoven listen to Ween?
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Kevin Correia: the next Brad Hennessey
I hated Pure Guava with a fiery passion (sorry to any rabid Ween fans, who I understand love that album, but I wasn’t a fan), but otherwise I mostly like them.
The one I want to check out is White Pepper, which I haven’t heard.
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I’m a huge Ween fan. HUGE.
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well then
I may start responding to you only in obscure ween references
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by stealth snail on Oct 22, 2008 10:39 AM PDT up reply actions
I like you then, Jeff Goldblum.
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I haven’t liked much lately.
always down with most Neil Young albums though.
Fairley odd parent to Wendell
Hairy Byrds
I’m totally obsessed with that late-period Byrds stuff from ‘69-’71 when they grew ugly beards and became a shit-kicking country rock band. Clarence White was such an amazing guitarist and Roger McGuinn finally hit his peak as a songwriter (Chestnut Mare, Just A Season, Ballad of Easy Rider, etc.) That half studio/half live album Untitled is amazing.
Fave 2008 releases...
Bonnie “Prince” Billy – Lie Down in the Light
Perhaps BPB’s (aka Will Oldham) best since 2000’s I See a Darkness.
Folkier and county-rier than recent efforts but the female backing vocals
really add tons of depth. Maybe my favorite recording of 2008 at this point.
The Grails – Take Refuge In Clean Living
Portland-based post-rock instrumental heavyosity. Swirling garage psych
that could fool you into thinking your listening to contemporary Japanese
psych-core or 1973-era Grateful Dead.
Sun Kil Moon – April
Mark Kozelek’s done it again. Great songwriting and performance. Moody
and dark while spiritual and life-affirming. I dont know how he does it, but
I hope he keeps it up.
Portishead – Third
This will make alot of top recordings of ’08 lists and it is quite deserving.
Hank IV – Refuge In Genre
Local (SF) old-school (or maybe just old) punks keep getting better.
Catpower – Jukebox
Sure, Chan’s selling Lincolns (and tons of other shit) during the playoff
broadcasts, but I love everything she’s done, including this cover record.
Also, it’s been a great month of live music: Hardly Strickly, David Byrne
(my 1st trip to Davies Symphony Hall—what a place, what a show), and
Patti Smith at the Warfield.
They say some players get out of bed hitting; Pablo Sandoval doesn't wait that long
I really want to go up in the Marin Headlands in the morning and listen to Lost Verses while looking out over the Bridge and the bay.
lol cheesy :(
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PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
On topic?
The two month lines in Lost Verses always make me think of
the baseball season:
And ghosts of April ring…
Into the brisk late October
(they are not coupled like that in the song)
They say some players get out of bed hitting; Pablo Sandoval doesn't wait that long
I love Bonnie “Prince” Billy… I haven’t been able to get into the new Portishead that much though. I love the song “The Rip” but I have found the rest of the album to be somwhat disappointing. I’m not saying that I don’t like it; just that it probably won’t make my end of the year top-10 list.
Psycho killer, qu'est-ce que c'est?
For BPB fans, check out his live album, Summer in the Southeast I believe. It’s very good.
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Bay City Ball
Sun Kil Moon is stuck in my head at this very moment. (Carry Me Ohio).
Didn’t someone make a Chan Marshall- Sean Marshall pun during a gameday thread this year?
Recent concerts that I've attended:
In the last couple of months:
Earth, Wind & Fire at the Big Fresno Fair
The Guess Who at the Tulare County Fair
During the last year or so:
Foreigner at the Visalia Fox Theater
Kenny Wayne Shepherd also at the Visalia Fox Theater
I enjoyed all four of those shows.
And for those of you that live in the Bay Area:
I highly recommend Biscuits & Blues for those fans of the Blues. It’s a nice little venue with good food. I was up there with friends and family in September of last year. We watched several Giants – Dodgers games, and took in a show at B & B after one of the games. Joe Louis Walker was the act – he rocked the place.
OH, and how did I forget
Tommy Emmanuel? I’ve seen him twice in the last 14 months. He is absolutely amazing! This guy is one of the greatest guitar players in the world. He can do things with only an acoustic guitar that would make you swear that there were other instruments being played simultaneously.
I have weird taste in music
I don’t like much hard rock but I love Between The Buried and Me’s album Colors.
I downloaded Neutral Milk Hotel’s album In the Aeroplane Over the Sea yesterday but forgot to sync it to my Zune. I’ve heard fantastic stuff about it though.
I also love Andrew Bird’s Armchair Apocrypha and I want more of his music but I’m not sure what’s good.
I’ve also never been to a concert.
“Between The Buried and Me’s album Colors”
Is fantastic.
They’re my favorite band.
Nice to see them mentioned here.
“Milk Hotel’s album In the Aeroplane Over the Sea”
I was into them a little while ago.
They’re eh.
by AmorVincitOmnia on Oct 23, 2008 3:02 PM PDT up reply actions
I downloaded Neutral Milk Hotel’s album In the Aeroplane Over the Sea yesterday but forgot to sync it to my Zune. I’ve heard fantastic stuff about it though.
I love that album with the intensity of a thousand suns.
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Lately:
Still a lot of Doom Metal (neo acts such as Reverend Bizarre, and the Gates of Slumber) as well as classics like witchfinder general and saint vitus. I’ve been on a doom metal kick for quite a few months now.
otherwise,
Been listening to Garry Higgins’s Red Hash album, the new LSD March and Black To Comm, and a bunch of old hip hop 12 inches I have…
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I remember getting a St. Vitus album when I was 15. I didn’t get it. “C’mon, dammit….PLAY FASTER…grrrr, that’d be a cool riff if it didn’t take 30 minutes…PLAY FASTER.” I didn’t get it, and I’d just go back listening to Biohazard.
by Grant Brisbee on Oct 23, 2008 5:15 PM PDT up reply actions
more or less this
I didn’t get it back then either. It was especially weird that they were on SST. But now I love and appreciate both them and Pentagram intensely.
\m/
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Guess I’m alone in my liking of the Killers. Nirvana, Misfits, Metallica, Disturbed, Johnny Cash, Foo Fighters, Coldplay, the older Green Day, Weezer, The Ataris, The Hives, Queens of the Stone Age, Van Halen, AC/DC, and some occasional RHCP.
And some other small bands that aren’t worth mentioning, but I’m all over the place, just no modern country, no rap. Yeah, criticize me, but it’s what I listen to.
Insanity is just a state of mind.
Johnny Cash, Nirvana, and old Weezer, always and forever.
The Killers and The Hives, sometimes.
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well
weezer, the ataris and the hives find my way into my mix a lot.
Nirvana is great and I’ve been getting into some of the misfits stuff more recently. Mainstream doesn’t necessarily mean bad. The Beatles were mainstream.
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by SloIsLonelyForTheOrange on Oct 24, 2008 1:12 PM PDT up reply actions
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