OT: What should I be listening to?
Okay, it's still the offseason, and we haven't had one of these in a long time. I'm in a bit of a rut when it comes to new music because my subscriptions to Magnet and Paste ran out.
My most recent purchases are:
Gorillaz - "Plastic Beach"
Nada Surf - "If I Had a Hi-Fi"
Neutral Milk Hotel - "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea"
She and Him - "Volume 2"
Frontier Ruckus - "The Orion Songbook"
What's in your CD player or iPod, and what should I be listening to?
Milan? i was at the palace show and i saw them after that at van andel. i wish they played more stuff off of opiate, but i cant complain, if they played every song i wanted them to the concert would be 5 hours long. enjoy your APC show too
Tool rocks live...I have seen them in Pontiac, DTE, Toldeo, Albuquerque, El Paso, Winston-Salem, Charlotte, and Vegas...they know how to put on a show.
Loosely related to TOOL (through A Perfect Circle) is Troy Van Leeuwen's other former band, Failure. They're effing amazing. Basically, anything Ken Andrews does is awesome.
didnt failure originally do the nurse who loved me? I love the APC version
The sporting life - the Decemberists ....... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuDVaWtNIpM
Rock:
Dredg
The Postal Service
Anberlin
Bloc Party
Brand New
Ska:
Mad Caddies: Keep it Going
Streetlight Manifesto: Everything Goes Numb
Hardcore Punk:
Rise Against: Revolution Per Minute
Rap/Hip-hop:
Hieroglyphics: 3rd Eye Vision
The Pharcyde: The Bizzare Ride II
Deltron 3030: 3030
Dr. Octagon: Dr. Octagonecologist
Soul of Mischief: '93 Til Infinity
Mos Def: The Estatic
Folk/chill:
Jack Johnson
Bright Eyes
Elliott Smith
Some good choices. Although for Rise Against, not as big a fan of Revolutions as Siren Song or Sufferer and the Witness.
Revolution is as good as it gets from Rise Against. Siren Song and Suffer had some good moments but doesn't have the staying power and consistency from Revolution.
But Revolution is different from both albums so it depends on your music taste
Punk Bands (or at least a sub-genre of punk) - these are mostly fairly new bands
The Menzingers
Polar Bear Club - particularly the album "Sometimes Things Just Disappear"
Gaslight Anthem - "Sink or Swim" is one of my favorite albums ever, regardless of genre
Titus Andronicus
Chuck Ragan (Hot Water Music) - His solo stuff is awesome
The Weakerthans - Every album is just plain brilliant
The Lawrence Arms (or most other chicago punk bands - alkaline trio, smoking popes, etc.)
Brand New
Heatless Bastards
I like all old punk bands, for the most part. But those are some (relatively) new bands that i apreciate.
Other Bands (non-punk) currently listening to, and also ones I have not seen listed.
Band of Horses, Broken Bells, Matt and Kim, The National, One Day as a Lion, Phoenix
I would agree with you that I prefer Rise Against's older stuff much better. For me it would go "Revolutions Per Minute" then "The Unraveling." Their new stuff sounds like Nickelback. Also, Tim is a preachy mofo. I like listening to music at shows, not to the frontman spew about how much he hates meat. If I wanted to hear some punk rocker talk for an hour, I'd go see Henry Rollin's spoken word tour.
EDIT: I also like most hipster stuff played at the neighborhood Chicago bars.
No offense, but I giggled at The Postal Service being listed as "rock," and then I full out laughed when I read further and saw you had a "chill" cateogry you left them out of.
I don't know why I put them in that category.
Excellent choice on The Pharcyde. I also want to add anything MF Doom as done especially his work with danger mouse as Dangerdoom on the album The Mouse & The Mask.
Do you watch Community? He plays Troy
Do you watch 30 Rock? He is a writer for the show
He does amazing stand-up comedy
...Oh, and he's also one of the best rappers out there. Check him out
A Flint Native who is getting some production help from Mo Cleaves, also a Flint Native (and Sparty :/ ). Jon Connor is a beast on the mic, and goes at every song with passion. Nice change of pace. Highly suggest you check him out.
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I'll say I feel bad for you for just NOW hearing the Neutral Milk Hotel album... one of my top 10's of all time. But here's some choices you will love. (And +1 for Fleet Foxes... good choice!)
1. Delta Spirit
2. Middle Brother
3. The Head and the Heart
4. Lucero
5. Trampled by Turtles
6. Manchester Orchestra
7. Kevin Devine
8. The Avett Brothers
9. The Gaslight Anthem
10. Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears
I dare you to not like any of these!
there was some dude who came to the blind pig last year who was doing the neutral milk hotel album on a ukelele, don't remember his name though
Aren't they from Ann Arbor?
Should listen to Ella Fitzgerald.
DL Blues - The Baseball Project; Reasons To Be Cheerful (Part 3) - Ian Dury & The Blockheads; Iko Iko - The Belle Stars; AM/FM - Chk Chik Chick; California Sun - The Dictators; G.T.O. - Ronny & The Daytonas; Future’s Bright - Richard Ashcroft; Amphetamine - Steve Wynn; Ring Of Fire - Social Distortion; I Saw Her Standing There - The Smithereens; Paperback Writer - Paul McCartney (Live - NYC); Help - Bananarama; Old White Lincoln - The Gaslight Anthem; USA - The Pogues; Who Do You Love - The Doors (Live); Cadillac Ranch - Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band (Live); Wild Weekend - Rockin' Rebels; Past Time - The Baseball Project
Porcupine Tree.
I recommend "In Absentia" or the latest, "The Incident."
Cosign
Marco Benevento, Velvet Underground, Ween, The Wood Brothers, Trombone Shorty, My Morning Jacket, Morphine, Garage a Trois, Medeski Martin and Wood, The Beatles, Allman Brothers Band, etc.
I just recently discovered XV, and I am glad I did. For being little known, and quite young, he has a TON of music out there. That alone obviously doesn't make him good, but if you like meaningful rap like Lupe Fiasco, I would suggest checking out some of his stuff. Lupe is great as well. Another guy I have been listening to a ton of is Blu. He is so much different than any other rapper I have heard.
But I also enjoy the yellow and blue, perry como and the hawaiian retro singers - their coverd by the muppets, hard to find lately.
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amazing band: Midlake. Their sound is both new and original, yet still sounds familiar. Really good stuff: I recommend the album 'Courage of Others'
They kind of remind me of Guggenheim Grotto. Not that well known her, but huge in Ireland.
If you like Sufjan Stevens and think you might like him even better if he were a little sleepier, check out Holly Miranda. She also gets bonus points for being from Michigan.
Also, epic soul: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh9v41hx5hs
if you like explosions in the sky, check out caspian and glass america. they're pretty tiny right now, but very talented bands gathering some steam in the boston area.
since the name's only been mentioned, once, I'll second ratatat.
not exactly breaking new ground here, but lately I've been listening to a lot of cake, hadn't done that enough lately.
edit: almost forgot, auld lang syne. sort of a folk-rock sound? hard to describe. just seems very americana, so it's not everyone's cup of tea, but they're one of my favorite discoveries of the last 6 months. I'd recommend them to anyone who likes the avett brothers, since touring with them was their big breakthrough to this point.
Also just found "God is an Astronaut." Pretty good stuff.
In this one thread I have expanded my music collection about 2x. Thanks, Magnus.
Fortunately no one will read this post.
I've come to have a recent appreciation for Bob Dylan ('65-'66, '96, '01). Also, Genesis (Peter Gabriel era, not Phil Collins era [that lowest common denominator appealin' marketer douche who at the same time was probably the most talented drummer of the progressive rock era]).
Fortunately no one will read this post.
Love the Gabriel-era Genesis...Nursery Crime (1971), Foxtrot (1972), & The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway (1974) are all incredible albums, with The Lamb slightly edging out the other two, at least for me.
And, if you like that...I strongly recommend Fish-era Marillion; in particular:
Script For A Jester's Tear (1983)
Misplaced Childhood (1985)
Clutching At Straws (1987)
Selling England By The Pound is just as good as the other three Gabriel albums, if not better.
Also, early Collins Genesis was excellent as well. Trick of the Tail and Wind and Wuthering are both amazing albums.
How in the world did I forget to mention Selling England By The Pound? To use a Lloydism, that was a "tremendous" oversight on my part.
Selling England was at one time my favorite, but has since been surpassed by Foxtrot, which is the most even album of the Gabriel era. If you're even half a prog fan, you can't go without "Supper's Ready." It's chief rival in terms of tremendous closers, of course, is "Cinema Show."
Both are absolutely beautiful. The technical proficiency of each combined with Gabriel's surreal genius sets them apart from most other prog IMHE.
Magnus, it sounds like you're into some indie stuff so here's a quick list of things I didn't see mentioned yet that you may like. The first two tend to provoke strong responses (either positive or negative).
Animal Collective - My Girls:
Merriweather Post Pavillion, Strawberry Jam, and Sung Tongs are all good albums.
Das Racist - Who's That? Brown
Above is the best music video I've seen in a long time, but this song is maybe a bit better:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVwnZMAgpT8
They've got two albums which you can download free from their website.
Also, this is just another great song with a sweet video:
Enjoy.
Regarding Sigur Ros and other bands who sing in a language I don't understand, I sometimes wish I knew what they were saying. But the fact that I don't understand the words (or nonsensical syllables as Sigur Ros has been known to do) actually makes me appreciate the music more. There have been many songs I've listened to where, while I liked the music, I couldn't get around sloppy lyrics or lyrics that don't fit the music itself. It's also why I like Explosions in the Sky, because their music is outstanding and they don't have the lyrics that could screw it up.
If you have the ability to put together powerful, beautiful music, you better be able to write a good set of lyrics for or you can just as easily ruin the song.
I'm a lyrics guy as well. Don't know if it's your style of music, but I don't think anyone these days writes lyrics and tells stories as well as The Drive-By Truckers and The Hold Steady. They're probably my two favorite bands of the current decade.
Conor Oberst is the best songwriter/lyricist around.
I feel like I should plug the band Funktion since they are from Michigan and are good if you're into that kind of thing.
Billy Talent is my favorite band but I'm one of the three Americans to think that (though they are multi platinum in Canada)
You can never go wrong with 90's alt rock
Some of the ones I've been listening to lately:
The Naked and Famous
William Fitzsimmons
Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson
The Sounds
Asteroids Galaxy Tour
There Will Be Fireworks
Jukebox the Ghost
Freelance Whales
I enjoy threads like these because I'm always looking to expand my musical collection. I've actually nearly filled up my 160 GB iPod with music (10 GB of space remains), though once I fill it that means I have incentive to actually take the time to go through my collection and delete the presumably significant number of duplicates I've acquired through the last 5-10 years.
Bill Callahan, Apocalypse
Bill Callahan, Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
Bill Callahan, Woke on a Whaleheart
Smog, A River Ain't Too Much To Love
You should listen to Bill Callahan.
The Tragically Hip - "Phantom Power"
Linkin Park - "Live in Texas"
Pete Yorn - "musicforthemorningafter"
Foo Fighters - "Wasting Light"
Gordon Downie - "The Grand Bounce"
He puts out real good stuff, socially concious rap. I didn't care for his lasers album, too much pop music in that for me. Other rap that is real old school and dope are the Outdoorsmen crew from Queens. If you like that old boom bap sound, you will love Action Bronson and Meyhem Lauren, great rappers.
Drive by Truckers
My Morning Jacket
Patterson Hood
The Avett Brothers
Janelle Monae
If you're into MF, then you would probably like Slum Village. Fantastic Vol. 2 is an absolute MUST if you are even a casual hip-hop fan. J-Dilla (their producer) was just pure magic, and it hurt the hip-hop community like hell when he passed. He was virtually unheard of for the most part, but we was widely regarded as "your favorite producer's favorite producer".
Edit: Plus they're from the D.
Slum Village....J Dilla....Black Milk....Apolo Brown...The Left