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-james-
18-09-2015, 06:10 PM
Nonsense title ✓

Post ten songs you've been enjoying, or whatever other music related bollocks you fancy.

Bernanke
19-09-2015, 08:28 AM
So, Libertines dropped a new album. Huh.

CJay
19-09-2015, 01:21 PM
I've finally got into Carrie & Lowell (Sufjan Stevens). It's a bit depressing, obviously, but the lyrics (and atmosphere) are great.

Not sure which song is my favourite but 'Should Have Known Better' probably takes it.

It really is outstanding. I would say No Shade in the Shadow of the Cross or Eugene are my favourites, but I tend to only listen to the album as a whole.

Spoonsky
21-09-2015, 12:50 AM
I've been listening to some pretty far-flung music recently:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpsjSHUeW_E


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MI53mGK-DA


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epJ-cP_VHqE


I've really come to see 'world music' as so much more interesting than the majority of stuff made here.

Luca
21-09-2015, 12:53 AM
Watching Spoon going through the stages of his life from a bird's eye view is great. The phase of rejecting mainstream/Western music is upon us. :cool:

Spoonsky
21-09-2015, 01:55 AM
And you weren't even there to see my Owl City days.

igor_balis
21-09-2015, 01:02 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG700BojpH0

This is a good song. The cover version by The Fall is pretty good too.

Spammer
21-09-2015, 01:18 PM
Firelflies is a banging choon by Owl City.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeYJxXBPtRU

This song is the fucking balls. Shit, that emotion. She's singing about being a black woman in a U.S. ghetto too, so as a white British male that was brought up in a leafy suburb of Sheffield I can completely relate to that shit.

I've had it on repeat for a few days and I ain't bored of it yet. Anyone alive in the 90's will recognise a couple of lines used as samples too.

leedsrevolution
21-09-2015, 01:37 PM
Firelflies is a banging choon by Owl City.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeYJxXBPtRU

This song is the fucking balls. Shit, that emotion. She's singing about being a black woman in a U.S. ghetto too, so as a white British male that was brought up in a leafy suburb of Sheffield I can completely relate to that shit.

I've had it on repeat for a few days and I ain't bored of it yet. Anyone alive in the 90's will recognise a couple of lines used as samples too.

I really enjoyed that.

CJay
21-09-2015, 10:10 PM
For those who've enjoyed Carrie and Lowell, here's a similar sounding track from some rodeo score thing Sufjan did this year:

Wild Horses (https://soundcloud.com/isitherightword/wild-horses)

It's so good. On that note, I've spent the evening sorting out my collection of his unreleased material. If anyone's interested I have 54 tracks of outtakes, rarities, covers, etc.

Raoul Duke
21-09-2015, 10:11 PM
Ryan Adams, 1989 :cool:

igor_balis
23-09-2015, 07:14 PM
Here's a song I'd forgotten about for about 5 years:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56tjK3HRFjU

still great.

Raoul Duke
23-09-2015, 07:56 PM
Dreams by Beck (off the FIFA 15 soundtrack is boss.

Blitz
23-09-2015, 08:21 PM
You guys should Jeremy Loops a listen. Uses a loop pedal and everything. Big in South Africa (we've got a good music scene:halm:) and has become a bit more international in the last year or two.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PjBa3GrTWA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQVFjXxWslw

Alex
27-09-2015, 02:28 PM
Ryan Adams, 1989 :cool:

I've just bought a copy of this. This is such an Adams thing to done. :D

It sounded pretty good on first listen. Very Springsteen in places. I have no real knowledge of the source material though, bar a couple of the singles. I feel like I should listen to it now, if only for a bit of a reference point.

I can see it's raised a bit of debate online too, namely about the media reaction to it being a little bit condescending to Taylor Swift. Which is do think is a somewhat valid point. Even though he obviously did't mean it that way it all, and she seems more excited about it than anyway.

Alex Ferguson
27-09-2015, 05:27 PM
Been listening to this on Spotify.

http://i.imgur.com/lylvM6G.jpg

Great late 70s/early 80s soul.

Spammer
28-09-2015, 08:26 PM
I've currently got Buckethead's discography on the go, which is 1.7 days' worth of music. Been going through it since Friday.

Buckethead :drool:

Raoul Duke
28-09-2015, 09:00 PM
Listening to The Stones today.

Also - the FIFA 16 soundtrack is pretty mega.

Alex Ferguson
28-09-2015, 09:55 PM
I've currently got Buckethead's discography on the go, which is 1.7 days' worth of music. Been going through it since Friday.

Buckethead :drool:

The man who has released, on average, an album every 3-4 days this year so far.

Spammer
28-09-2015, 10:07 PM
The man who has released, on average, an album every 3-4 days this year so far.

Oh my shit.

Yeah, maybe my 'discography' is a bit outdated then.

Alex Ferguson
28-09-2015, 10:10 PM
I have New Album Releases on my blog subscription list and he's on there every other day. 164 albums since 2013 and counting.

Spammer
28-09-2015, 10:44 PM
That is genuinely batshit.

Do you reckon they're all complete improvs? I mean he is that good so it wouldn't surprise me, but fucking hell.

Alex Ferguson
28-09-2015, 11:54 PM
I think he's creative enough to just make music off the bat. A modern day Frank Zappa with a KFC bucket on his head.

The Merse
28-09-2015, 11:57 PM
Here's a song I'd forgotten about for about 5 years:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56tjK3HRFjU

still great.

Shit the bed. Kate Jackson.

She was my 'solo material' for quite a while in the mid noughties.

igor_balis
29-09-2015, 12:58 PM
One of the best songs by one of the most underrated bands of the 80s. Fucking Prefab Sprout, they're more than a shit name and that song about hot dogs.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3Rh2hnDtAg

CJay
05-10-2015, 12:54 PM
Who's your favourite composer? :cool: This piece is from a score Sufjan did for a ballet last year. It's so wonderful that I uploaded it for you guys to listen to.

https://soundcloud.com/ceejay92/04-i-breathe-the-air-of-mountains-and-their-unapproachable-heights

Is there a way to embed Soundcloud tracks?

igor_balis
05-10-2015, 02:50 PM
I like Chopin a lot. Brahms's 4th is probably my favourite full orchestral piece, especially the first movement. Proper goosebumps and shit.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckuUq7im8H4

The Lark Ascending is just about the perfect piece of classical music though I reckon.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR2JlDnT2l8

Sufjan Stevens is ridiculously talented. I've not actually listened to anything he's done since the Illinois album...maybe I should rectify that.

Benny
05-10-2015, 03:23 PM
Been into The Flatliners recently, very punk rock sort of stuff.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ut4qQbwZDVU

Alex Ferguson
06-10-2015, 12:56 PM
New album out later this year. This came on my iPod yesterday.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5-L0mq2JjU

Magic
06-10-2015, 01:04 PM
Been listening to this stuff lately:

Fabulous song, it takes me elsewhere to a desolate place, like Detroit or something, in search of a girl I'll never get. Like Dr Hannah Fry.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWW4wySZz8E

I just love this. It reminds me a bit of Placebo.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86EwvXYG7vA

Another tremendous song. Very deep.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7bLzcg-DBk

Magic
06-10-2015, 04:25 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXBc0c4sj_I

Tubes
06-10-2015, 05:07 PM
Gig prep for Friday has been fun.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb0uX2petW8

Alex Ferguson
06-10-2015, 10:45 PM
Gig prep for Friday has been fun.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb0uX2petW8

Love Quantic. Got any Bonobo in there?

Clunge
07-10-2015, 06:55 AM
Someone reminded me of the existence of Hell Is For Heroes a couple of days ago. They were ace.

bruhnaldo
07-10-2015, 02:51 PM
Bloc Party is back :drool:

Well, half of Bloc Party :(

Also a new solo Kele EP before years end :drool: :drool:

Magic
07-10-2015, 03:04 PM
Did you hear the live session at Maida Vale? Apparently they did some warm up gigs in LA before coming over here.

bruhnaldo
07-10-2015, 03:16 PM
Nah I haven't yet, I see some vids online and a full set link (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p034fd7m) apparently as well. tbh I just heard about that and the new confirmed lineup this morning.

I knew they were going to do new stuff but didn't realize it was already happening. I'm pretty out of the loop music wise I'll admit, don't really have a "go-to" site when it comes to stuff like that. I knew Matt Tong (drummer) had left the band but didn't realize the bassist left as well.

My music updates generally come from word of mouth, "New Releases" on spotify, or typing the words I hear of songs playing in clothing stores with "lyrics" at the end into google.

Any recommendations greatly appreciated as such.

-james-
09-10-2015, 10:03 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tk9Oh7YI828


Alright this is great.

Tubes
09-10-2015, 11:05 AM
Love Quantic. Got any Bonobo in there?

Yes, love Bonobo. Pretty much the whole of that record label is fantastic. One of the best indies around.

Alex Ferguson
09-10-2015, 08:28 PM
Yes, love Bonobo. Pretty much the whole of that record label is fantastic. One of the best indies around.

Tru Thoughts? Absolutely brilliant label.

Raoul Duke
09-10-2015, 09:36 PM
There's a new 5-song Decemberists EP which is lovely

Bernanke
10-10-2015, 01:10 AM
Alright this is great.

Came here to post this. Not usually all that impressed by Blake, but this is excellent.

igor_balis
13-10-2015, 10:52 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJGLp33KsFE
:drool:

Magic
13-10-2015, 10:56 AM
Well that was shit.

igor_balis
13-10-2015, 11:01 AM
go fuck yourself

phonics
13-10-2015, 11:01 AM
Not sure about your upbringing Igor but as the son of Brummies myself my childhood was full of Ska from Coventry.

The Beat :cool:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_-7fqUMuyg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RaE0KbbNsg

Magic
13-10-2015, 11:02 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9YcVkqn4S4


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyDjRd0Tjss

:drool:

igor_balis
13-10-2015, 11:28 AM
Not sure about your upbringing Igor but as the son of Brummies myself my childhood was full of Ska from Coventry.

The Beat :cool:



Mirror in the Bathroom is a fucking tune, though I first heard it when one of the blokes was on the identity parade on NMTB.

I was brought up in Rugby which is about 10 miles down the road from Cov, so I was always quite aware of Ska, though with the exception of my mum occasionally playing her Specials greatest hits CD I didn't ever hear much as a kid. She's more into northern soul really.

Oh, that reminds me...when I was in a bar in Riga some dorky Latvian teenager in a Less Than Jake tshirt got chatting to me and my mates, and the fact I was from Coventry (ish) and liked the Specials was worth a constant supply of free drinks and an introduction to this fit girl he knew.

phonics
13-10-2015, 11:31 AM
Did he give you a pork pie hat?

igor_balis
13-10-2015, 12:16 PM
no

-james-
19-10-2015, 12:26 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keke7BGzJPI


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky9Ro9pP2gc


Album's out on Friday. I intend no hyperbole when I say that I'm expecting it to be one of the best albums ever made.

phonics
19-10-2015, 12:53 PM
The look of that woman/msuic video reminded me of this classic


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxNe9jWNuEU

Magic
19-10-2015, 01:05 PM
She's in my shameful lustage thread. Newsom could write me to orgasm tbh.

Still a pretentious whore.

CJay
19-10-2015, 01:22 PM
dino - woof! Those two songs sounds amazing. I haven't listened to much of Newsom's stuff apart from Have One On Me. Will definitely be checking Divers out.

Magic
20-10-2015, 07:22 PM
Can I just say F.F.S are the biggest disgrace of a band going, but their new stupid song Police Encounters is horribly catchy.

Bam bam diddy diddy bam bam diddy diddy bam bam diddy diddy POLICE ENCOUNTERS.

-james-
20-10-2015, 08:59 PM
Album's out on Friday. I intend no hyperbole when I say that I'm expecting it to be one of the best albums ever made.


It's leaked. It's a winner.

Raoul Duke
20-10-2015, 09:00 PM
The Joanna Newsom stuff sounds great.

You lot heard EL VY?

It's got Matt Beringer from The National in it. Bit more poppy/dance-y than their stuff:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYr2FWnSaAo


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUAOwceIzRM

Magic
20-10-2015, 09:02 PM
RTTM is a good song.

Wanted to see Foals live, £50 a ticket. Fucking lol.

Toby
20-10-2015, 10:56 PM
I'm going in February and it was only £30. At the Hydro though so that'll sap most of the enjoyment from it.

CJay
21-10-2015, 10:03 AM
It's leaked. It's a winner.

Nice. Is the overall sound similar to those 2 songs? I can't get Sapokanikan out of my head.

-james-
21-10-2015, 07:19 PM
Nice. Is the overall sound similar to those 2 songs? I can't get Sapokanikan out of my head.

I suppose. It's pretty varied; there are some really baroque-y bits, strings like off Ys, animal noises, and even some hints of a synthesizer.

It gets better with every listen. Anecdotes is song of the year/decade.

CJay
23-10-2015, 11:56 AM
I just bought it. I've only listened to the stream so far, so differentiating between the tracks has been difficult, but as an overall piece of music it's incredible. I'm surprised Pitchfork only gave it an 8.5.

-james-
25-10-2015, 07:36 PM
It's just so good. And I needed an avatar.

Spoonsky
26-10-2015, 09:58 PM
Grimes has released a new song. On first listen it's a bit shit.

CJay
27-10-2015, 12:31 AM
It's just so good. And I needed an avatar.

It's on non-stop repeat for me at the minute. The last two verses in Anecdotes are so good. :drool:

Do you think it's her best, or too early to say?

-james-
27-10-2015, 10:51 AM
I don't think it's quite as good as Ys, but I think I prefer it to Have One on Me.

The "Amora Obscura" bit of A Pin, Light Bent is probably my favourite bit, I kind of wish the album ended there. The actual ending is great, but the first half of Time, As a Symptom seems a little cheesy and overdone to me. And I think that's my only gripe.

Seeing her next week. :drool:

Magic
27-10-2015, 10:55 AM
Caught these guys on with Marc Riley the other night, fucking brilliant:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHzGqgCldS0

Magic
11-11-2015, 04:06 PM
Any of you shithouses in to the Sleaford Mods? I'd heard 'No-one's Bothered' on the radio a few weeks ago but I saw them on Jools and they were fuckin' awesome.

wullie
11-11-2015, 04:08 PM
I can't get past the lead singer/whatever guy. I think I just hate anything to do with mods as a rule.

Magic
11-11-2015, 04:17 PM
Fucking digging Ratboy at the moment too.

Anyway, going back to the Streets. My teens. :cool:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m8qJbEY6lo

Spoonsky
12-11-2015, 01:18 AM
Divers has grown on me a lot, it's really beautiful and so singular once you adjust to her voice and the harp. I do think that if you took the first three songs and the last three songs, plus The Things I Say and possibly Divers, it would be a much stronger album, the rest just seem like filler. But that's not much of a complaint as I can just skip through. The beginning three are just incredible and A Pin-Light Bend is so good as well, it reminds me a bit of this:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSiooa1Kym0

Raoul Duke
12-11-2015, 08:03 AM
The new Dylan bootleg album is incredible :drool:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UG8Hi-fpyLI

mugbull
12-11-2015, 08:14 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhPab-vRA7Y

Yeah this thread is pretty much all indie that's fair, but a little bit of bass-heavy house isn't a bad thing every now and again. This track is unique as fuck, haven't heard much like it before.

CJay
12-11-2015, 03:39 PM
Divers has grown on me a lot, it's really beautiful and so singular once you adjust to her voice and the harp. I do think that if you took the first three songs and the last three songs, plus The Things I Say and possibly Divers, it would be a much stronger album, the rest just seem like filler. But that's not much of a complaint as I can just skip through. The beginning three are just incredible and A Pin-Light Bend is so good as well, it reminds me a bit of this

Goose Eggs and Same Old Man are the only 4* tracks in my library. I love You Will Not Take My Heart Alive and Waltz Of The 101st Lightborne Elite. Fantastic album.

Spammer
12-11-2015, 03:42 PM
Listening to the first album I had which I listened to so much that I knew the lyrics to every song on it:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rNlvcftnhaA/SuKPw_7BJ9I/AAAAAAAAK5M/Wp3k-0cIq1E/s1600/Limp+Bizkit+%E2%80%93+Chocolate+Starfish+and+the+H ot+Dog+Flavored+Water+%28Special+Edition%29+.jpg

Can still sing along to all of it :cool:

Magic
13-11-2015, 04:00 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJwKKKd2ZYE

Amazing tune, just ran it through my proper speakers and the bass is KILLAH.

Best thing is the dumb ass is facing 25 years in jail as this video is basically a testimony. :D

igor_balis
14-11-2015, 04:01 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07Fp-omNXCw

Raoul Duke
16-11-2015, 12:11 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKjkxl6un3U

Bob Sacamano
16-11-2015, 02:34 AM
Rediscovered this gem :drool:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCZ1YteCv5M

Toby
18-11-2015, 10:02 AM
666783082435989505

...with a new album to follow? :yn:

-james-
18-11-2015, 05:29 PM
Still not listening to much other than Divers. Track ratings:

Anecdotes - 10
Sapokanikan - 9
Leaving the City - 8
Goose Eggs - 9
Waltz of the 101st Lightborne Elite - 10
The Things I say - 8
Divers - 9
Same Old Man - 8
You Will Not Take My Heart Alive - 9
A Pin, Light Bent - 10
Time, as a Sympton - 9

The two short tracks work really well on the album, I just wouldn't listen to them on repeat like some of the others.

Saw her live a couple of weeks ago. Incredible, obv. Main complaint was the same as last time I saw her; percussion and other bits being too loud in the mix at parts. Kind of spoiled Divers, and the stripped back version of Leaving the City posted above is better than with the slide guitar and moog bits incorporated.

Goose Eggs was a big highlight, she sounds incredible on it. Only show on the tour to get a Sawdust and Diamonds encore as well. :meep:

Spoonsky
18-11-2015, 08:22 PM
For me Waltz of the 101st Lightborne Elite is by far the weakest on the album. The Things I Say is still the one that's been most in my head recently, even if it's the same melody over and over.

Magic
18-11-2015, 08:42 PM
Her breasts look delightful in the video for Divers. Don't get the fuss though. She's just a pretentious poet who can play the harp and sounds like an old woman.

Magic
20-11-2015, 01:36 PM
Is the Mercury Music Awards on TV tonight?

BBC4 9:30PM. :drool:

Henry
07-12-2015, 08:43 PM
Nathaniel Rateliffe was good on TGI Friday, so I've decided to borrow some of his songs from the interweb.

Toby
28-12-2015, 04:57 PM
New LCD Soundsystem track out for Christmas and strong rumours of a possible reunion tour next year.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3kPH2MJzlg

Please be true, please be true, please be true.

Toby
05-01-2016, 01:58 PM
Confirmed today that they are headlining Coachella this year. I imagine they'll do at least one UK festival as well. I can't be arsed with that so hopefully there's a standalone tour on top.

Magic
05-01-2016, 01:59 PM
Nevermind that, GnR are playing it too. :drool:/:harold:/:sick:

Josh
05-01-2016, 02:06 PM
Confirmed today that they are headlining Coachella this year. I imagine they'll do at least one UK festival as well. I can't be arsed with that so hopefully there's a standalone tour on top.

Fingers crossed for it to be Glastonbury. Wouldn't be surprised if it was Bestival like Outkast did in 2014.

igor_balis
06-01-2016, 03:21 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfKn8AkffNo

Fucking love The Go-Betweens. Third best Antipodean band after TISM and Crowded House.

Alex
09-01-2016, 03:16 AM
I know almost nothing about David Bowie (I've nothing against the guy at all, I've just never properly listened to him for some reason) but I've taken a punt on his new album and I really like it.

phonics
13-01-2016, 05:32 PM
The verse at the end of this :cool:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoI2C6pW9AQ

Raoul Duke
13-01-2016, 07:16 PM
This came up on my Spotify Discover Weekly the other day: https://open.spotify.com/track/36oDZlkwz35nVK4JWlp5W1

Lovely chilled out indie mix.

Giggles
13-01-2016, 07:21 PM
What constitutes indie these days or is it older stuff?

Raoul Duke
13-01-2016, 07:26 PM
There's some on there which is more dance-y, but it's got Alela Diane on there, who's kinda folk/indie:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-_-l_NaDcw

EDIT: she's on Rough Trade, who are about as indie as it gets...

Manc
14-01-2016, 10:17 PM
I've absolutely hammered Chvrches recently. Right up my alley.

-james-
01-02-2016, 04:04 PM
Enjoyed giving The Futureheads' first album a listen today. It's aged pretty well compared to some of the tat from that era.

igor_balis
01-02-2016, 04:09 PM
Enjoyed giving The Futureheads' first album a listen today. It's aged pretty well compared to some of the tat from that era.

Nostalgia. :cool:

I did the same thing the other day. I listened the fuck out of that album, often as an accompaniment to grinding for levels on runescape. I was such a cool 14 year old.

Decent Days and Nights is a hell of a tune.

Samadini
01-02-2016, 04:42 PM
Funnily enough I picked these up from second hand shops the other day.

http://s16.postimg.org/7obbugg91/oioi.jpg

igor_balis
01-02-2016, 04:48 PM
Ahh, skip to the end was a great single too.

igor_balis
05-02-2016, 04:52 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJdVDw_TR5s

What a fucking tune. We need more indie supergroups.

Raoul Duke
05-02-2016, 07:14 PM
A few good 'uns I've been into recently (some old):


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBLWDF2nfP8


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia5l8b3tkSM


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgY4GnLGsLQ


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UsYbProrac

bruhnaldo
05-02-2016, 07:35 PM
i've heard the new Bloc Party is abjectly awful, which wouldn't surprise me given half the band fucked off.

haven't had a chance to give it a proper listen

Raoul Duke
06-02-2016, 11:43 AM
i've heard the new Bloc Party is abjectly awful, which wouldn't surprise me given half the band fucked off.

haven't had a chance to give it a proper listen

I gave it a brief run through - it's pretty crap. The single is just some kinda Crazy Frog-sounding ringtone shit.

There's also some weird religious overtone to it all as well.

-james-
07-02-2016, 07:08 PM
http://instantclassic.bandcamp.com/album/lines

For fans of jazz/ambient/clarinets/good music

-james-
15-02-2016, 05:03 PM
Animal Collective collective album is out this week, sans Deakin who is meant to be putting out his first solo effort this month.

I've heard it plenty of times and I still don't know whether I like Floridada (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw2ssNnA_Es) or not. I don't think I do, but it's possible it sounds decent on an album. I thought the last one was pretty shit, mind, so I'm not holding out massive hope.

Very excited about the prospect of a Deakin album though, just based off the fact that the only two songs of his that seem to exist are both fucking (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9370NKVD58A) fire (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gN-bXwtJ1s).

Magic
15-02-2016, 05:05 PM
I really liked Florida. I hate it now, though.

Also Riosin Murphy is absolute fucking shit.

Why do stations persevere with playing live music from festivals? It sounds absolutely fucking shite, 6 Music festival in Bristol has been poisoning the airwaves the whole weekend and today, Julian Cope sounded like someone was tanking him up the arsehole. Awful stuff.

Bob Sacamano
17-02-2016, 06:27 PM
Taken me a while but finally got into Gary Clark Jr's second album. A little different from Blak and Blu but starting to think just as good.

Cold blooded :drool:

Giggles
17-02-2016, 06:54 PM
Can't remember why, but I downloaded the Johnossi album Transitions yesterday for my travels and it was quite good.

Shindig
17-02-2016, 07:00 PM
I played that first Futureheads effort to death. There's only one duffer on it.

-james-
19-02-2016, 02:26 PM
Animal Collective collective album is out this week, sans Deakin who is meant to be putting out his first solo effort this month.

I've heard it plenty of times and I still don't know whether I like Floridada (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw2ssNnA_Es) or not. I don't think I do, but it's possible it sounds decent on an album. I thought the last one was pretty shit, mind, so I'm not holding out massive hope.

Very excited about the prospect of a Deakin album though, just based off the fact that the only two songs of his that seem to exist are both fucking (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9370NKVD58A) fire (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gN-bXwtJ1s).

Initial impression is that AnCo album is unfettered trash. Mon the Deak.


Seeing this lovely lady tonight:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0_LuSW61GI

phonics
19-02-2016, 02:30 PM
Do you live in the 80s Dino?

-james-
19-02-2016, 02:35 PM
I'm not sure I follow.

igor_balis
19-02-2016, 02:40 PM
I'm reading through populist ( http://freakytrigger.co.uk/populist/ ) at the moment. Some bloke has been going through every UK number one single since the very start (Al Martino in 1952) and reviewing them. They're really well written reviews, if a bit pretentious. Gives his honest opinion on all the songs, but also gives little snippets of history and background information to put them in context and shit. Makes for very informative reading, but also gives me an excuse to listen to shit loads of antiquated pop music.

Perhaps unsurprisingly the most enjoyable reviews are of the records he really hates. This extract from his review of the 3rd (!) Jive Bunny number one is possibly the best bit of music journalism I've ever read:


The Mastermixers lift the march-time and riff and in their hands it immediately becomes a grim press-gang, redolent of the very worst aspects of the “party season”: the heartless forced fun of Christmas. Listening to it is like being pressed against a wall by some wobbling, braying, sodden monster who excuses all offences with the sprig of mistletoe clutched in their clammy hand.

It’s an introvert’s nightmare, and we are all introverts compared to Jive Bunny. For the first time the record acknowledges his malign presence: the “March” sections are extended to make room for a satanic hypeman crying “JAAAAIVE BUNNEH!” every fifteen seconds. The producers also drop in the occasional sample – “What the hell is going on?” asks a voice, perhaps a tactic to make the record seem like a spontaneous explosion of zany hijinks to which only boring straights could possibly object. (We’ll see this kind of thing again: Noel Edmonds, for one, is taking notes)

Serj
22-02-2016, 08:17 AM
New Animal Collective album is actually surprisingly okay. After the negative reactions everywhere I was expecting something worse than their last. It actually has a much nicer flow than that one. They could have restricted this "hocketing" thing to one song, though. While not horrible, it's the third successive album of mostly background music with some nice moments thrown in, so they might as well call it a day now, I think.

Samadini
22-02-2016, 09:20 AM
Didn't realise there was a new Explosions In The Sky album coming out. Got it on pre-order now. :drool:

-james-
03-03-2016, 08:11 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWoVU7Zd894

How catchy is this. :drool:

CJay
03-03-2016, 08:25 PM
Disappointed is right.

Giggles
03-03-2016, 08:43 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWoVU7Zd894

How catchy is this. :drool:

That seriously needs some more production.

Magic
03-03-2016, 08:49 PM
I love Field Music. And School of Seven Bells.

igor_balis
09-03-2016, 01:20 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4kKNz6RMWo

:halm:

igor_balis
11-03-2016, 03:13 PM
This song is fucking haunting me.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35g25AMNOX4

-james-
11-03-2016, 08:14 PM
I'm sure there were some Smith Westerns fans here. Frontman Cullen Omori's debut streaming here: http://consequenceofsound.net/2016/03/stream-smith-westerns-cullen-omoris-solo-debut-new-misery/

Half way through, sounds very promising.

The Merse
13-03-2016, 10:38 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79ZP946eNVQ

Can't stop listening to Kano's latest LP. Can't help but forgive him for the last two albums as a result.

Also, picked up Billy Braggs Life Is A Riot With Spy vs Spy 12" for £8 in mint condition :drool:

Raoul Duke
13-03-2016, 10:58 PM
There's a new Jeff Buckley album out - more unreleased stuff.

Here's a few recent finds (although they're all kinda old).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PG9Rh-qmdg


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G5H6vcKZaY

(apparently fronted by Owen Hargreaves)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOValSt7YOY

Magic
25-03-2016, 12:22 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQhqikWnQCU

-james-
06-04-2016, 05:35 PM
https://deakinjams.bandcamp.com/track/golden-chords

AT LAST

Alex
11-04-2016, 05:08 PM
The new Frightened Rabbit album is really good. Probably not as good as the last one (which I was borderline obsessed with for a time) but a top effort all the same. They've definitely surpassed The Twilight Sad as my favourite of the miserable, Scottish bands.

Giggles
11-04-2016, 05:11 PM
I like the new Weezer album.

Alex
11-04-2016, 05:23 PM
Yes, the new Weezer album is great! California Kids is easily the best single they've made in fuck knows how long. The whole thing reminds me a bit of the Green album. Short, punchy and (mostly) poppy. And I loved that album. I fucking love Weezer in general, though. I'm glad they seem to be back on track with the last record and now this one.

Although I always seem to find merit in whatever they put out, even the albums that get critically derided as shit. Admittedly there has been some actual shit over the last 10 years or so. But even at their absolute worst though, Rivers is too good of a song writer not to strike gold at least a couple of times an album.

Giggles
11-04-2016, 05:28 PM
I didn't even know they were going but I used to love them and seen the album pop up on Google Play over the weekend. Looks like I've two more to listen to that I missed as well.
Really was surprised at how good it was though. Easily up there with older stuff, which a lot of bands don't manage this far on. The opening and closing songs are brilliant.

Magic
11-04-2016, 05:44 PM
Animal collective are absolutely awful live. They were on session on 6 music today. :sick:

Raoul Duke
11-04-2016, 05:56 PM
The new Iggy Pop album is pretty good. It's got Josh Homme and Matt Helders on it.

Spoonsky
29-04-2016, 02:47 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDOQw4wose0

Dunno how I missed this when I was into them, it's so much better than the official version (and anything else they've made in the past ~10 years).

Raoul Duke
03-05-2016, 07:11 PM
New Radiohead:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI2oS2hoL0k

-james-
10-05-2016, 02:52 PM
How fucking good is Identikit though.

The Merse
10-05-2016, 07:04 PM
Been back filling vinyl from Holy Roar and Specialist Subject records recently, particularly as their stable have been playing Bristol a heck of a lot of late. More Than Life's Love Let Me Go probably the best of the lot, miserable South West Hardcore in the vein of Dead Swans. Giant's Break The Cycle is a lot like early Offspring skate punk with some hardcore tendencies whilst Muncie Girls debut is like a feminist early Green Day played by Elastica.

Also loving Kano's new album.

Magic
10-05-2016, 07:10 PM
I remember previously saying I didn't 'get' Jamie XX and In Colour.

Can I retract that now because I absolutely get it. :drool:

Lewis
12-05-2016, 11:14 PM
I'm sure Mancunians will close ranks and say it's brilliant, but The Stone Roses' comeback song (if you want to call it that) is terrible. It sounds like Status Quo have tried to do a Madchester tribute album, but done it worse than you would have expected.

Raoul Duke
13-05-2016, 07:22 AM
Yeah, it's not all that really, is it. The Radiohead album (on first listen) is another one where they've forgotten to put any songs on it again.

I wish it was 1996 again :(

Shindig
13-05-2016, 08:55 AM
Stone Roses new'n is very erm... Stone Roses.

Magic
13-05-2016, 09:48 AM
The new Radiohead stuff really is a load of self indulgent piffle. I hate how everyone wanks over it instead of taking an objective view point just because it's Radiohead.

-james-
13-05-2016, 10:08 AM
The new Radiohead stuff really is a load of self indulgent piffle. I hate how everyone wanks over it instead of taking an objective view point just because it's Radiohead.

What a pish argument. Nobody's going to pretend they like it because it's radiohead. See: the album they released before this one.

Giggles
13-05-2016, 10:31 AM
Radiohead have always been drivel. Thom Yorke singing sounds like me trying to order a bag of chips after 17 pints.

Magic
13-05-2016, 10:33 AM
What a pish argument. Nobody's going to pretend they like it because it's radiohead. See: the album they released before this one.

Really? Have you listened to 6 music lately? They are gushing over it, especially that EXCLUSIVE ALBUM PLAY. It was crap and sounds more like a concept album.

Also heard they were on This Morning as well? For that? Lol.

Magic
13-05-2016, 10:34 AM
I did think Mark Pritchard feat Thom Yorke - Beautiful People was a fantastic song, though.

Alex
13-05-2016, 04:38 PM
I think the new Radiohead album is a really strong piece of work. Definitely better than King of Limbs (which I didn't hate), more interesting. Some beautiful sounds on there, I keep noticing new little moments that I really love. Like, I just fully picked up on how awesome the string arrangements are on "The Numbers" whilst listening to it in the car on the way home from work just now.

igor_balis
13-05-2016, 10:13 PM
I'm sure Mancunians will close ranks and say it's brilliant, but The Stone Roses' comeback song (if you want to call it that) is terrible. It sounds like Status Quo have tried to do a Madchester tribute album, but done it worse than you would have expected.

It is fucking rubbish. The best review I read of it was 'it sounds like The Bluetones doing a cover of the Going for Gold theme tune'.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0pvFulUd98

Spot on.

Boydy
13-05-2016, 10:14 PM
The Stone Roses were always shit.

igor_balis
13-05-2016, 10:23 PM
The Stone Roses were always shit.

Oh, you big iconoclast! I dunno, I disagree. Plenty of good songs, and the first album is great although hugely overrated.

Boydy
13-05-2016, 10:25 PM
:D

Some of their songs were alright but that's about it. I just don't see what all the fuss is/was about them.

Giggles
13-05-2016, 10:25 PM
I always preferred Second Coming, though a lot of that could be because the debut sounds like it was recorded through a paper bag.

Lewis
13-05-2016, 10:25 PM
The start and end of the first album is great. The middle five songs make for a right chasm.

Shindig
13-05-2016, 10:28 PM
I enjoyed their debut. Its a shame latter-day Stone Roses isn't just Ian Brown's solo efforts with more guitars. Also, the Manics Street Preachers song for Wales Euro 2016 squad is kinda ... I dunno. Its like, shit and amazing.

igor_balis
13-05-2016, 10:29 PM
The start and end of the first album is great. The middle five songs make for a right chasm.

I agree with the exception of Bye Bye Badman, which I think is also great.

igor_balis
13-05-2016, 10:35 PM
Also, the Manics Street Preachers song for Wales Euro 2016 squad is kinda ... I dunno. Its like, shit and amazing.

Listening now, this is fucking amazing. The bit in the middle where they go through the names, fuck me.

Bill Drummond of the KLF said in his book that he nearly made the Scotland World Cup song in 1998, which I think would have been a laugh.

Magic
14-05-2016, 06:51 AM
I heard the Roses new song yesterday and Lewis was spot on with the Quo/Madcheshter observation. So much so I wondered if I subconsciously heard it like that because I read the post the other day. Bizarre.

Magic
16-05-2016, 09:22 PM
Anyone hear the father John Misty interview on Rad/Mac the other day? My face was contorting. Utterly embarrassing and cringeworthy.

Alex
16-05-2016, 09:30 PM
No, what did he do?

I saw him live last week, he was very good.

Magic
16-05-2016, 09:49 PM
He was just being a monumental arsehole. The interview is on youtube iirc.

Magic
16-05-2016, 09:51 PM
https://youtu.be/yX9-OEk7LCg

:sick:

wullie
17-05-2016, 09:24 AM
New Divine Comedy album announced plus tour later in the year. Leamington Assembly in October, here we come.

igor_balis
17-05-2016, 10:09 AM
New Divine Comedy album announced plus tour later in the year. Leamington Assembly in October, here we come.I'll almost certainly go as well. Wanna go smack afterwards ? X

wullie
17-05-2016, 10:40 AM
I've been reading horror stories about the bouncers at that place in the student paper, throwing girls down stairs and all kinds of nonsense. Ah, to be young.

CJay
18-05-2016, 05:43 PM
New song from upcoming Okkervil River album: http://pitchfork.com/news/65547-okkervil-river-announce-new-album-away-share-new-song-okkervil-river-rip-listen/

http://www.stereogum.com/1877535/preview-okkervil-rivers-call-yourself-renee-from-new-album-away/mp3s/

That teaser has tones of a more upbeat Black Sheep Boy I reckon. :drool:

Magic
18-05-2016, 06:05 PM
The new single from Field Music isn't half good. They've impressed me more every one.

igor_balis
01-06-2016, 09:27 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qYXRDAsL7o
This largely forgotten wussy 90s indie track has been stuck in my head all fucking week. Great tune.

Samadini
02-06-2016, 07:01 AM
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SjfspM5sDIA

Fuck knows how to embed.

Bernanke
08-07-2016, 01:47 PM
Hamilton is something truly special.

Oimoi
10-12-2019, 11:30 PM
Half Man Half Biscuit - Look Dad No Tunes
Korey Dane - Lovesick In A Hotel Wildfire
Gang of Youths - Fear and Trembling
Spanish Love Songs - It's Not Interesting
Japandroids - Near to The Wild Heart of Life
Craig Finn - Jester & June
Jason Isbell - 24 Frames
Brian Fallon - Little Nightmares
PUP - If This Tour Doesn't Kill You, I Will
The Wedding Present - My Favourite Dress

phonics
23-12-2019, 06:19 PM
anyone got good Christmas stuff? I’ve been asked to put together a playlist and 90% of it is just Christmas In Harlem, that Sia Christmas album and the new Wllie Goulding single.

igor_balis
23-12-2019, 10:14 PM
Half Man Half Biscuit - Look Dad No Tunes
Korey Dane - Lovesick In A Hotel Wildfire
Gang of Youths - Fear and Trembling
Spanish Love Songs - It's Not Interesting
Japandroids - Near to The Wild Heart of Life
Craig Finn - Jester & June
Jason Isbell - 24 Frames
Brian Fallon - Little Nightmares
PUP - If This Tour Doesn't Kill You, I Will
The Wedding Present - My Favourite Dress

You couldn't score in a tower block

phonics
24-12-2019, 12:57 AM
Oimoi replying to a thread from 2016 with no fanfare is distinctly 2019.

John
13-01-2020, 11:32 AM
This 'beef' between Stormzy and Wiley seems like something new on these shores. It can't be often that the biggest recording artist in the country has released a song about what a prick someone is for sending their mum away to safety rather than picking up a shotgun and protecting her himself.

The song itself is really good though.

Spikey M
13-01-2020, 11:56 AM
Wiley is approaching prime levels of cringe at the moment. He seems to do nothing but get drunk and rant on Twitter.

phonics
13-01-2020, 12:21 PM
He’s a nut job. Friend of a friend was his manager for a bit. Seemed to get the job because Wiley was having a chimp out on the phone to his then manager and just sacked him and named the first person he saw as his replacement.

Baz
13-01-2020, 12:57 PM
Stormzy calling him a fossil was so cuttingly accurate. :lol:

Offshore Toon
13-01-2020, 06:00 PM
Wiley is unhinged, but he's got what he wanted. Whether you think he won or not, everybody is talking about the genre and his individual numbers have shot up shortly before he's due to drop an album. Stormzy's team have done well but it's easy to see through his manufactured bollocks.

Alex
13-01-2020, 07:08 PM
I've become weirdly fixated with The Rolling Stones recently.

Obviously I haven't made it as a music fan to my mid-thirties without being broadly aware of their more significant output, but they are one of those bands I never really properly delved into up until this point. I think part of it is Jagger and Richards being the larger-than-life almost caricatures of themselves that they are now, and them mostly existing as this money-making juggernaut of a touring machine for the majority of my lifetime, it somehow put me off properly exploring all their work.

Anyway, that was a mistake. I've been working through a couple of albums at a time. I'm up to Goats Head Soup and It's Only Rock & Roll, both of which are ace and seem to have suffered from a degree of "yeah, but it's not Exile is it...." critical prejudice.

phonics
13-01-2020, 08:02 PM
I've become weirdly fixated with The Rolling Stones recently.

Obviously I haven't made it as a music fan to my mid-thirties without being broadly aware of their more significant output, but they are one of those bands I never really properly delved into up until this point. I think part of it is Jagger and Richards being the larger-than-life almost caricatures of themselves that they are now, and them mostly existing as this money-making juggernaut of a touring machine for the majority of my lifetime, it somehow put me off properly exploring all their work.

Anyway, that was a mistake. I've been working through a couple of albums at a time. I'm up to Goats Head Soup and It's Only Rock & Roll, both of which are ace and seem to have suffered from a degree of "yeah, but it's not Exile is it...." critical prejudice.

It's funny doing full album listens with those bands that are as legendary as they are. You realise that you know a huge amount of their library without ever being aware that the song you heard in the background of some random tv show was a Stones B-side.

I claim to this day that the only reason Example has a music career is this track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpVKJMc_UDo

phonics
13-01-2020, 08:05 PM
Unrelated:

Is it just me or has the opinion on Red Hot Chilli Peppers taken a massive shift this generation. People seem to get very angry about their existence in a way I never knew people disliked them that passionately.

phonics
13-01-2020, 08:07 PM
This 'beef' between Stormzy and Wiley seems like something new on these shores. It can't be often that the biggest recording artist in the country has released a song about what a prick someone is for sending their mum away to safety rather than picking up a shotgun and protecting her himself.

The song itself is really good though.

Just thinking about it, was it Wiley who had a go at Dizzee Rascal for running away after getting stabbed in Ayia Nappa?

Jimmy Floyd
13-01-2020, 08:07 PM
There's a great verse on a Saint Etienne song from approx 2005:


Gary can't believe the Claremont Road pitch is going to be covered in executive housing
He talks about the Newcastle game, Boncho's debut
But Tony can hardly hear him
They took the jukebox out, and the Aussie bar staff are playing the Red Hot Chili Peppers
He tells them what he thinks
Manages to keep it clean
Buys another round

They knew.

phonics
13-01-2020, 08:10 PM
I'm not sure how that even scans lyrically let alone understand the meaning.

Jimmy Floyd
13-01-2020, 08:19 PM
It doesn't, it's spoken word. But I'm pretty sure back in those days mainstream opinion was RHCP were living legends. I think they went out with Obama if not earlier.

Alex
13-01-2020, 08:21 PM
They read like something Mark E. Smith or Half Man Half Biscuit would write. I shall have to look that up now.

Alex
13-01-2020, 08:32 PM
It's funny doing full album listens with those bands that are as legendary as they are. You realise that you know a huge amount of their library without ever being aware that the song you heard in the background of some random tv show was a Stones B-side.

I claim to this day that the only reason Example has a music career is this track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpVKJMc_UDo

Yeah, it's weird how prevalent they are in pop culture. It's almost more pervasive than the Beatles in a way, because they don't tend to license things very frequently.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6c1BThu95d8

I previously had no idea this was a Rolling Stones song, for example. But I must have heard it on about ten separate occasions in relatively high profile adverts or TV shows over the course of my life.

Clunge
13-01-2020, 09:50 PM
Unrelated:

Is it just me or has the opinion on Red Hot Chilli Peppers taken a massive shift this generation. People seem to get very angry about their existence in a way I never knew people disliked them that passionately.
I recall RHCP being a big thing when I was 13-18 ish, secondary school through college. Now I feel, despite them being a thing for the best part of four decades, they were relevant for about... six months. When BSSM came out. That album is still magnificent. Everything else is pretty much dross though, save Scar Tissue. That song still stacks up for me.

Raoul Duke
13-01-2020, 10:11 PM
I've got heavily into Half Man Half Biscuit recently. Lovely stuff.

mugbull
13-01-2020, 11:23 PM
Unrelated:

Is it just me or has the opinion on Red Hot Chilli Peppers taken a massive shift this generation. People seem to get very angry about their existence in a way I never knew people disliked them that passionately.

They're definitely still the most widely liked band of all time (at least in america) and they have the quality to back it up

igor_balis
14-01-2020, 02:50 AM
Hmhb are fucking class.

bruhnaldo
14-01-2020, 03:49 PM
They're definitely still the most widely liked band of all time (at least in america) and they have the quality to back it up

You think so? I'd think Foo Fighters or like Dave Matthews or something.

mugbull
14-01-2020, 05:48 PM
You think so? I'd think Foo Fighters or like Dave Matthews or something.

I’m sure lots of people like Foo Fighters but most people know at least like 12 RHCP songs. Foo Fighters, maybe 2 or 3, and they’re not as good.

I don’t know a thing about Dave Matthews, maybe it’s a generational thing

Alex
14-01-2020, 05:52 PM
Dave Matthews is massive over there, isn't he? I always forget about him. It's one of those things that never really seemed to make it across the pond. I'm not sure I could name a Dave Matthews song. Sort of like Phish. Aren't they quite a big deal too?

bruhnaldo
14-01-2020, 05:58 PM
Dave Matthews Band has really weird cult like fans just like Phish so ya kinda.

Giggles
14-01-2020, 06:54 PM
The RHCP stopped being good when they stopped the funk and went middle of the road radio. Don’t know what they’re at now.

Shindig
14-01-2020, 07:22 PM
There was a time when I thought Californication was a good album but I can't be arsed with it now.

igor_balis
14-01-2020, 08:26 PM
I, like most people, still love most of the music I did when I first properly got into music (around 12-13ish), with two major exceptions - RHCP, and The Libertines. I find something quite embarrassing about them now.

Not entirely sure what it is though, and it's probably pretentious and stupid to try to work backwards and figure out why I think they're crap, but I think part of it is how I definitely fell for the illusion of albums like Californication and By the Way being PROPER SERIOUS MUSIC then at some point the scales fell from my eyes and I thought oh actually this is a load of wank. If I'd never loved them so much I'd probably be a lot more indifferent towards them.

I do think Higher Ground is a proper banger in fairness though.

Oh, and on the topic of songs I love by bands I hate:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLdJQFTnZfA

just me?

Giggles
14-01-2020, 08:29 PM
Everlong is their best song.

phonics
14-01-2020, 08:47 PM
I’ll still get a bit drunk and bang on Papa Roach so I have no high ground.

Shindig
14-01-2020, 09:08 PM
I bought two Papa Roach t-shirts in my life. They lie in the rubble of a former house which ... is fitting.

bruhnaldo
14-01-2020, 09:21 PM
Songs I love by bands I hate hmm..


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQOBUrRaPU0


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKopy74weus


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM4vblG6BVQ

mugbull
14-01-2020, 09:40 PM
RHCP were absolute fire even through Stadium Arcadium, haven’t listened to an album of theirs since then

Giggles
14-01-2020, 09:51 PM
Same thing as Bruh.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eCv0bXFppc



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sseeWU25RvA


I tried to get a Strokes one too but they're just irredeemable.

Baz
14-01-2020, 10:05 PM
I tried to get a Strokes one too but they're just irredeemable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8-tXG8KrWs

Shindig
14-01-2020, 10:06 PM
The End has No End is good. As is What Ever Happened? I think I've come to a realisation that Ride are a mostly shit band, too. But Leave Them All Behind is so damn awesome.

Alex
17-03-2020, 09:04 PM
I've been listening to Swans quite a lot recently, who are a band I don't really have much experience with up to this point. They're great. I'm just sort of working my way through from the beginning and it's been quite a fascinating progression so far.

Alex
27-03-2020, 12:42 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NbQkyvbw18&feature=emb_title

Good old Bob. Drops his first original recording in eight years to cheer the world up, and it's a 17 minute rumination on the assassination of JFK. :D

It's very good though. It's also his longest studio recording to date, interestingly. He has just described as being an unrealised track he recorded "a while back", but I'm hopeful it's a sign of a new album of original material.

Jimmy Floyd
27-03-2020, 12:50 PM
His studio vocals are not really any worse now than they ever were. Presumably needs to dunk his throat in warm honey before every line though.

Alex
27-03-2020, 01:08 PM
No, they're not really. His voice actually started to suit him more the older he got, in my opinion, peaking around the turn of the century.

When he was young it was a lot more nasal and, being full of youthful exuberance still, he would quite often really go for it vocally, with varying degrees of success. When he got older and the effects of (I'm guessing) smoking heavily for most of his life made it a lot more gravelly, he just settled on this more laid back, gruff style of delivery which suits him perfectly. He sort of naturally morphed into his own take on the kind of grizzly old bluesman who he admired in his youth. It suits him down to the ground.

It does not translate well live though, and I say that as somebody who has willingly seen him live four times. :D

Jimmy Floyd
27-03-2020, 01:45 PM
His 60s stuff does not agree with me but Blood on the Tracks is one of my favourite albums. He had a kind of happy medium on that. I'll seek out some of his later stuff over the weekend.

Raoul Duke
27-03-2020, 06:26 PM
His 60s stuff does not agree with me but Blood on the Tracks is one of my favourite albums. He had a kind of happy medium on that. I'll seek out some of his later stuff over the weekend.

Start with Time Out Of Mind. Fantastic album (also closes with a 16 minute long bluesy thing where he goes to buy some eggs)

Alex
27-03-2020, 08:33 PM
Absolutely. Time Out of Mind is a masterpiece and not only my favourite Bob Dylan album but actually just my favourite album, period.

Giggles
27-03-2020, 08:37 PM
His studio vocals are not really any worse now than they ever were. Presumably needs to dunk his throat in warm honey before every line though.

Has always been the worst voice ever in music. Whatever good points he has in songwriting are lost on me because he’s horrendous to listen to.

EDIT: Sorry, 2nd. Forgot about the Strokes.

Jimmy Floyd
28-03-2020, 11:20 AM
Played TOOM last night, enjoyed it very much at surface level (especially a run of tracks in the middle) but might need a few more listens to fully appreciate.

Alex
28-03-2020, 06:41 PM
Good man Jim. It definitely rewards repeated listens. This whole unfortunate episode is really a great time to delve into the depths of Bob's catalogue, plenty to discover!

niko_cee
16-10-2020, 04:35 PM
The remake/cover of Love Fool took me back when I first heard it the other week.

Up next an urban re-imagining of Kiss Me by Sixpencenonethericher . . .

Raoul Duke
16-10-2020, 11:02 PM
Matt Berninger (singer from The National) has an album out.

Also - everything I've heard from the upcoming Nick Cave at Ally Pally thing has been fantastic :drool:

-james-
23-04-2021, 12:39 PM
Ten songs (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7BSaLu5sUQhgrsaaRVeY2d?si=PIBLT8ZtTw2gZgk9FaYH2A) I have listened to a lot lately, just as Jesus intended. In order of accessibility, I guess?

Doja Cat ft. Sza - Kiss Me More (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EVVKs6DQLo)
Real sound of the summer vibes from this. I generally find everything Doja Cat does to be pretty irresistible.

Arab Strap - Fable of the Urban Fox (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU9oJdInC84)
It's almost too on the nose but I love it if only for the "these streets" line. Their new album is really good albeit with the odd skippable track.

Bibi Flash - Histoire d'un soir (Bye bye les galeres) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSZU8h-Pr8Y)
I found this after hearing a rubbish recent house remix. The original, from 1983, really evokes about 1pm at a southern European music festival, mildly hungover clutching a six euro pint of Heineken. In a good way.

Blanco - Anakin (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snLsL9nz1Dk)
London rapper that seems like the full package. Expecting big things.

Armand Van Helden - My My My (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_m2VM2FZq5Y)
Random mid 2000s mainstream house album track that I can't stop listening to. A dramatic sample and some good drums are all you need for this sort of thing.

Haru Nemuri - underground (https://open.spotify.com/track/3g57A5itgFFugQY8zGrcKH?si=D9pnbS0LRpivHRL_J16wVw)
I finally found some good J-Pop guys. It exists. Unda-gu-roundu.

WEDNESDAY CAMPANELLA - Medusa (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5fO-WXd9W8)
As above.

HYO & 3LAU - Punk Right Now (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOxlPu_rizU)
Yeah OK I'm going through a phase alright.

SOPHIE - JUST LIKE WE NEVER SAID GOODBYE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z3N79ktprw)
https://i.imgur.com/AkV97jb.png

Namasenda - I Could Die (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nlyntr7kbcE)
Swedish nu-gabber PC Music banger. All good words individually, and as a result this song is very good.

Raoul Duke
12-06-2021, 03:16 PM
Discovered this recently and been obsessed with it: Broken Bells (Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/album/3I8KeGHFTNvp9ArIyf375i)) - it's a collaboration between the guy from The Shins and Dangermouse. There's a couple of albums, both great.

-james-
11-08-2021, 08:54 AM
TEN SONGS

Sharon Van Etten & Angel Olsen - Like I Used To
Hot Chip - Atomic Bomb (William Onyeabor cover)
Neil Young - Words (Between the Lines of Age)
Arctic Monkeys - Star Treatment
Oneohtrix Point Never & Rosalía - Nothing's Special
Panda Bear - Butcher Baker Candlestick Maker
Moa Pillar - Volvo
DJ Python - ADMSP
The Knife - Pass This On (7" Rip)
Kaleida - Think (Actress Tone Two Mix)

Alex
11-08-2021, 11:09 AM
:cool:

Mention of Star Treatment has made me want to bring Tranquility Base back into rotation. Long enough has passed now (it just sounds like new release hyperbole if you say it a week after it's come out) that I can legitimately say that is my favourite Arctic Monkeys albums. Even if it felt a bit more like a Turner solo affair.

Raoul Duke
11-08-2021, 11:24 AM
There's a new Willy Mason album out which is pretty good - kinda goes a little Tom Waits in places, almost dancey at other times.

Alex
11-08-2021, 07:10 PM
There's a new Willy Mason album out which is pretty good - kinda goes a little Tom Waits in places, almost dancey at other times.

I'm going to be all over this. It must be a decade since he released anything new? I saw him live in a whim a couple of years ago (I kind of forgot about him to be honest) and he was really good, seemed like a proper sound bloke. Put on a cracking show. He said he was dabbling in some new stuff at the time.

Alex
11-08-2021, 07:12 PM
In the spirit of backing the ten songs revival:

Stephen Malkmus - Black Book
PUP - Yukon
3rd Bass - Triple Stage Darkness
Randy Newman - Last Night I Had A Dream
Darc Mind - Visions of a Blur
The Beths - River Run: Lvl 1
Joni Mitchell - California
Melvins - A History of Bad Men
Crimeapple & DJ Skizz - Wet Dirt
The Wedding Present - Take Me!

Serj
12-08-2021, 03:59 PM
Swans - Sunfucker
St. Vincent - My Baby Wants a Baby (probably my song of the year so far)
Rina Sawayama - STFU!
Daughters - Less Sex
Ween - I Can't Put My Finger on It
Fever Ray - Keep the Streets Empty for Me
Yves Tumor - Kerosene!
Black Midi - Talking Heads
Low - In Metal
Melt Yourself Down - Fix My Life

CJay
18-08-2021, 09:58 AM
Indie folk fans - get Mutual Benefit in your ears. Gorgeous music. I don't listen to any album in particular, just put his (their - it's a rambling collective seemingly) music on shuffle.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDOWwBnpKiE


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-jmFx0A1rk

Raoul Duke
18-08-2021, 03:24 PM
Liked that CJay :thbup:

The second one is a cover. I heard it on an advert somewhere ages ago.

CJay
18-08-2021, 07:09 PM
Liked that CJay :thbup:

The second one is a cover. I heard it on an advert somewhere ages ago.

Yeah they covered the entirety of Vashti Bunyan’s album Just Another Diamond Day from 1970. It’s lovely folksy music - the original album and the cover album - but the strings they add on some of the songs really enhance them.

Apparently Bunyan released that album to no acclaim at all and she basically quit music as a result, but it gradually came to be considered a classic and she released her next album 35 years later in 2005. :cab:

-james-
02-09-2021, 09:19 AM
:cool:

Mention of Star Treatment has made me want to bring Tranquility Base back into rotation. Long enough has passed now (it just sounds like new release hyperbole if you say it a week after it's come out) that I can legitimately say that is my favourite Arctic Monkeys albums. Even if it felt a bit more like a Turner solo affair.

I think I'm in the same boat now, which is quite a comeback considering I didn't like it much at all when it came out. The two prior albums really feel quite poor in comparison now, feels like they finally nailed the correct amount of arrogance/up own arseness on TBHC; it works quite well within the concept. Be interesting to see what they do next.

-james-
02-09-2021, 09:19 AM
Ten songs:

Deliluh - Amulet A
audiobooks - The Doll
Angel Olsen - Safety Dance
Skrillex, Starrah & Four Tet - Butterflies
Sugababes - Run for Cover (MNEK remix)
Porter Robinson - dullscythe
Jon Hopkins - Neon Pattern Drum
Overmono - So U Know
Stuck - City of Police
Kanye West - Jesus Lord pt. 2

Raoul Duke
02-09-2021, 10:57 AM
Ten Songs:

Tropical Fuck Storm - Rubber Bullies
Alain Johannes - Endless Eyes
The Bluetones - Marblehead Johnson
Willy Mason - If There's a Heart
John Vanderslice - Exodus Damage
Waxahatchee - St. Cloud
Beck - Blue Moon
The Blasting Company - Candy
AC/DC - Back In Black
Nirvana - Sliver

Serj
02-09-2021, 11:16 AM
Tropical Fuck Storm - Rubber Bullies

So, so good. :cool:

Have you listened to their new album? I've only heard it once so far and not a lot has stuck. I loved the debut, but the second one I wasn't quite as fond of.

Raoul Duke
02-09-2021, 05:01 PM
So, so good. :cool:

Have you listened to their new album? I've only heard it once so far and not a lot has stuck. I loved the debut, but the second one I wasn't quite as fond of.

I've listened to a few bits - that seemed the best song by far. There was a good cover of a BeeGees song too :D

-james-
12-01-2022, 05:06 PM
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5nQyOBuFcvmVcsiluxXyWw?si=ec2693a5cc3343f4

Dijon - The Dress
Martha Skye Murphy - Stuck
Taylor Swift - All Too Well (10 minute version)
BADBADNOTGOOD - Time Moves Slow
Charli XCX - Track 10
Massive Attack - Cool Monsoon
Jenny Hval - Jupiter
Richard Dawson & Circle - Ivy
Tei Shi ft. Blood Orange - Even If It Hurts
CURRENTMOODGIRL - My Own

That Richard Dawson record rules.


Henki is the epic joint record from Richard Dawson, the diminutive Geordie troubadour, and Circle, the genre-straddling pioneers of The New Wave Of Finnish Heavy Metal. Unlike any metal album you have heard before, Henki’s seven tracks deal with special plants throughout history, making it the greatest flora-themed hypno-folk-metal record you’ll hear this year.

His vocals were pretty much made for 70s metal style riffs.

Serj
12-01-2022, 06:02 PM
Wait, Richard Dawson has made a metal album? :drool: I thought Peasant was fantastic and 2020 really good, so I'll definitely give that a listen.

A friend recommended The Metallica Blacklist to me and I've been listening to it on and off the past couple of days. It's various artists covering songs off Metallica's self-titled (aka 'The Black Album'). Some songs - the popular ones - get several versions, leading to there being twelve (TWELVE) versions of Nothing Else Matters on the thing.

It's obviously much too long, and a good part of it is dross, forgettable, or both, but I'm really enjoying some reinterpretations. The country takes work especially well (Jason Isbell for Sad But True, Chris Stapleton for Nothing Else Matters), Rina Sawayama doing Enter Sandman is lots of fun, both punk versions of Holier Than Thou (by Off! and The Chats, respectively) make a lot of sense too. Then there's instances when the song just becomes something entirely different, like Kamasi Washington making My Friend of Misery a jazz number or Through The Never as an atmospheric R&B song (for lack of a better description).

Even on shuffle it's just way too much repetition to listen through, though. I'll probably not get the tune of The Unforgiven out of my head before next year.

-james-
06-02-2022, 10:07 AM
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7sPR87JwvIJskCABRmETDh?si=db6e04f340ac47e5

FKA Twigs - oh my love
Jordaan Mason - Avalanches
Deltron 3030 - Positive Contact
Danny L Harle - On a Mountain
Cassandra Jenkinks - Hard Drive
Destroyer - Suicide Demo Walker
Jockstrap - 50/50
Sonique - It Feels So Good
Dame Area - Centro di Gravità
Lena Platonos - Ti Nea Psipsina

Reg
04-04-2022, 09:57 AM
-james- I've been meaning to reply for ages just to say I like Dijon, too. Although I've mainly just played 'Talk Down' dozens of times. Quite simple, singalong goodness.

Did you like the Blood Orange album Freetown Sound?

--

It could be 10 Chili Peppers tracks cos I've been devouring their new album (an almost guaranteed love for anyone who's a fan), but here're some others as well:

Red Hot Chili Peppers - She's A Lover
Paul Weller - Above The Clouds
The Avalanches - The Wozard of Iz
Jeff Rosenstock - 9/10
Charles Mingus - The Man Who Never Sleeps - Live
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Could You Be Loved
Alice Coltrane - Krishna Krishna
Erykah Badu - Honey
Sublime - KRS-One
Angelo Arce, Madlib, Wildchild - Manifestin

-james-
26-05-2022, 09:04 PM
-james- I've been meaning to reply for ages just to say I like Dijon, too. Although I've mainly just played 'Talk Down' dozens of times. Quite simple, singalong goodness.

Did you like the Blood Orange album Freetown Sound?


Yeah Blood Orange is great stuff. I loved the song he did with Tei Shi last year (Even If It Hurts).

Ten (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4tulVntEp7VlYow9RGg6aH?si=0838daf9ceb24496):

Nico - Janitor of Lunacy
Jay Z & Beyonce - 03' Bonnie & Clyde
Massive Attack - Safe from Harm
Part Chimp - Worms
Dani Im - Sound of Silence
The Simps - Tesla
Peggy Gou - I Go
Evasion 85 - Van La Ka Vante (Omar Mendez TD Fix)
Idris Muhammad - Could Heaven Ever Be Like This
Wet Leg - Angelica

Baz
27-05-2022, 11:11 AM
Join the TTH MIXTAPE on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/blend/taste-match/ee6566408a924cc2?si=DPxFCkg1R2ytr9RSKcoqnA&fallback=getapp&blendDecoration=5f9c38d2

Raoul Duke
01-07-2022, 10:38 PM
Been re-falling back in love with Joanna Newsom recently. Specifically Have One On Me and Good Intentions...:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKqF5ZsBY2o

Clunge
02-07-2022, 08:38 AM
Saw LCD last night and although they didn't play this, it placed it front and square in my mind.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GpLkFv-CKU

Offshore Toon
02-07-2022, 10:11 AM
Were they good? I remember when they closed the Other Stage at Glasto a few years back and it was incredible. Ever since then I've had 'dance yourself clean' in my head every night at festivals.

I actually tried to shower this year by signing up to that Lost Horizons nudist colony, but the queues for showers were far too long and, upon closer inspection, I'm fairly certain they're more gypsies than nudists.

-james-
02-07-2022, 10:40 AM
Yeah that Glastonbury show is possibly my favourite gig of all time. Just the perfect festival show. I wish I could find the BBC coverage of it.

-james-
02-07-2022, 10:52 AM
Been re-falling back in love with Joanna Newsom recently. Specifically Have One On Me and Good Intentions...:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKqF5ZsBY2o



There's so much great footage of her shows. This is a favourite (that bit starting around 5:30 holyshit):


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs9k3D7Cads

We must be due some new stuff soon. Hopefully a return to form after Divers (though I do love Divers lol).

igor_balis
02-07-2022, 12:02 PM
A colleague and her boyfriend are hosting a lil get-together today. Ryan in IT made a collab playlist, and host's boyfriend was like ohhh I dunno I like some pretty weird music. Finally we convinced him it's cool, we have some pretty esoteric/shit taste, and as we anticipated some fucking Belgian industrial symphonic metal he shyly shared a link to a ....does it offend you, yeah song. Lol.


Next day at work host was like 'no serious he does like some really weird stuff, you heard of yard act?"

What the fuck kinda foo fighters BBC live lounge bubble would you have had to be sheltered in to think a ubiquitously popular post -punk band like that is a bit of a risky out there selection. Bless.

Clunge
02-07-2022, 09:23 PM
Were they good? I remember when they closed the Other Stage at Glasto a few years back and it was incredible. Ever since then I've had 'dance yourself clean' in my head every night at festivals.

I actually tried to shower this year by signing up to that Lost Horizons nudist colony, but the queues for showers were far too long and, upon closer inspection, I'm fairly certain they're more gypsies than nudists.
They were on fine form - fourth time I’ve seen them and this was probably the best. Dance Yrself Clean is always absolutely enormous live.

Shindig
02-07-2022, 09:41 PM
So I made my way through those Faith No More albums I picked up last week.

The Real Thing
Good. To be honest, this is the Faith No More stuff I'm more familiar with. I really love the funky, slappy bass that runs through it. There's so much energy to it, even beyond the obvious hits like Epic and From Out of Nowhere. And there's a good cover of War Pigs.

Angel Dust
Their best album by miles. More funky and the lyrics get a little smarter. Everything's Ruined is an absolute banger and it should be the anthem for the Binance Thread. It sounds relentless before deciding to tap out with Easy.

King for a Day
Who could've guessed the drop-off was coming? This album doesn't do a lot for me and mostly sounds like something Kerrang would push hard for. Evidence is a rare highlight and it could've been a better effort if they leaned more into Mike Patton being a sleazy lounge act. I couldn't quite see where the Metal tag was coming from until these albums. They're trying but it sounds very of it's time, to me.

Album of the Year
Slightly better. Ashes to Ashes is pretty good but the funk has completely gone. Mike's voice gets deeper, the songs sound darker and then there's this:


Following the album's release, Faith No More toured with Limp Bizkit in 1997, who were frequently booed by Faith No More's fans

Ironic, as they sound nu-Metal as fuck, at this point. I'll give Sol Invictus a listen but I really want to give Introduce Yourself and We Care a Lot a listen.

Clunge
03-07-2022, 08:06 AM
The Real Thing is a pretty much flawless album.

Manc
26-07-2022, 11:56 AM
Any fans of Built to Spill? Somehow passed me by.