| 2/5/2006 8:16 PM |
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So what music have you been pounding your ears with lately. Here a few of my recent obessions:-
Neutral Milk Hotel - In paticular their album Aeroplane over the Sea, an amazing body of work, a classic from start to finish, lyrically mind blowing - totally changed my thinking on the way an album can be made.
The Decemberists - Picaresque - similar to NMH but i didn't think people wrote songs like this anymore, a total breath of fresh air to my jaded ears!
Devendra Barnhart - Cripple Crowe - an enjoyable alternative to the usual onslaught of noisy guitars and whiney indie music. For someone who looks like Charles Manson/Vincent Gallo and has a curious interest in children it makes for an intriguing listen!
Animal Collective - Feels - Sounds like Mercury Rev (Deserter Songs era) on magic mushrooms or the Flaming Lips on ether. A complete mind f**k of an album. Take from that what you will! I would love to see this band play live to to witness how these bona fide mentalists make such bewildering music!
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THE DARK ONE New Member Posts:34  
| 2/6/2006 10:36 AM |
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The decemberists are excellent! i would love to see them play live, i too have only recently discovered this band, the mariners revenge on their album picaresque is a brilliant tune.
I love the neutral milk hotel, that album is amazing, my girlfriend turned me on to them about 8 months ago, i havent stopped listening to it,the songs are simple but the lyrics are very complex, they are another band i would kill to see play live aswell.its a pity that they are no more.
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palace Basic Member Posts:392
| 2/6/2006 11:00 AM |
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just adding my wholehearted agreement with your love of the nmh and decemberists albums
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Unicron Veteran Member Posts:1696
| 2/6/2006 1:47 PM |
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I've listened to Picaresque a couple of times in the last week and it's not been doing much for me, I'm seeing them at ATP so maybe live they'll convert me. I hated that NMH album when I first heard it but after about a dozen listens I love it.
I think the Banhart album is his weakest thusfar and I'm just not getting Feels.
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BinokularVeteran Member Posts:1665
| 2/6/2006 9:14 PM |
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Obsession is a bit strong a word but lately I 'ave mainly been listening to Ladytron, The Concretes, Sonic Youth and Captain Beefheart, aaaar!*
*I dunno why I added that last "aaaar" bit, I just get the urge to talk like a pirate when I think of Cap'n Beefheart, No reason. aaaar!
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UnicronVeteran Member Posts:1696
| 2/6/2006 9:56 PM |
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The first concretes album or has the new one leaked?
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| 2/7/2006 9:32 AM |
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I have only just started listening to The Postal Service. For shame! What sort of stuff is Cpt Beefheart?
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| 2/7/2006 11:03 AM |
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Wilco's recent double live.
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Vent My Spleen Advanced Member Posts:500
| 2/7/2006 1:36 PM |
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Is the Wilco live album any use Marko?
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UnaVeteran Member Posts:1721
| 2/7/2006 3:09 PM |
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I've been obsessed with Neutral Milk Hotel and Devendra Banhart for a while now, but I've mainly been listening to an awful amount of Prince (sometimes you forget that he really is king of the world) and the new We Are Scientists record, and anything and everything by Death Cab For Cutie.
Also going through the Coheed and Cambria back catelogue like a mad yoke. Can't make it to their gig tonight unfortunately :(
And for some strange reason, the new Liam O Maonlai album has been getting an awful lot of time on my stereo
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silentsighNew Member Posts:67
| 2/7/2006 7:07 PM |
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Wilco live album is absolutely superb!
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BinokularVeteran Member Posts:1665
| 2/7/2006 9:21 PM |
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Originally posted by Unicron
The first concretes album or has the new one leaked?
The first (I think), simply called "The Concretes", I'd just heard so much good about them and read somewhere that my favourite unsigned band Havana Guns sounded a bit like them and it was cheap so I just took a chance and bought it. I like it, a lot.
Dwight, Captain Beefheart could probably be rougly described as very bizarre 60s take on blues-rock. It's tempting to use the word "psychedelic" but that I don't think its entirely fair to describe it as that, it's just very unusual. I'd reccomend starting with the "Safe as Milk" album myself, I could never really totally get into "Trout Mask Replica" to be honest, although maybe if I gave it enough time I might. This probably gives a better overview: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Beefheart
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| 2/7/2006 10:23 PM |
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i have been listening to we are scientists alot
the kooks insiide in the inside out i think his voice is deadly
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UnicronVeteran Member Posts:1696
| 2/8/2006 11:43 AM |
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Originally posted by Binokular
The first (I think), simply called "The Concretes",
Assuming I'm thinking of the right band there's one song on that that may be called "You can't hurry love" which is fantastic but I didn't think the rest of it stood up as well. |
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| 2/8/2006 2:34 PM |
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Elmore James - Immortal
Missy Higgins - The Colour of White
Pet Lamb - Tenderness
and anything by Broken Social Scene in preparation for Saturday night.
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| 2/8/2006 9:36 PM |
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only got who could win a rabbit by animal collective.the rest as good?it's some song
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BinokularVeteran Member Posts:1665
| 2/8/2006 9:44 PM |
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Originally posted by Unicron
quote:
Originally posted by Binokular
The first (I think), simply called "The Concretes",
Assuming I'm thinking of the right band there's one song on that that may be called "You can't hurry love" which is fantastic but I didn't think the rest of it stood up as well.
I'd agree in a way, that track stands head and shoulders above the rest of the album, a lot of the songs are quite slow and languid but without the kind of tension that allowed a band like Galaxie 500 to pull off albums full of similarly decadent songs. If you're in the right mood for it however it's a really enjoyable listen, an album to nod off to sleep to, and I don't mean that in a bad way. I really like the way their lead singer seems to push her vocals ever so slightly beyond their range so her voice *just* cracks pleasantly and the arrangements where they've used so many instruments, but simply not for the sheer hell of it. Every texture is supposed to be there, they haven't used it to create a Phil Spector "wall of sound" or a pastiche of the Beach Boys or the Motown sound (though the Motown influence is definitely there) like so many bands would do in a similar situation either by accident or design. Not quite up there with the best albums I've heard in the last 12 months, but pretty good nonetheless. |
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