Emily Haines - Reading In Bed
I heard this live acoustic version (http://xixax.com/files/jb/readinginbed_live.mp3) on the radio (with an added verse that you might recognize) and fell in love with the song.
Yes, I realized we don't really have a thread for individual song advocacy, so this is probably a good place to start some of that. Rare, overlooked, or undercelebrated tracks would be best. If you're listening to a particular album and want to talk about that, go here (http://xixax.com/index.php?topic=1631.0). This is a thread for songs.
And no, links to songs are not necessary. Names are all we need. I just happened to be obsessive enough about this song to find this radio version (which I ripped from this (http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/music_blog/archive/2009/04/theft_of_the_di_3.shtml)).
What a great thread idea ! Very nice song too
Strangely I am listening a lot to Teenage Dirtbag by Wheatus these days http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jJWQkVgDs4 :ponder: probably because of this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQcXsLhk11w
Quote from: Jeremy Blackman on May 17, 2009, 08:16:41 PM
Emily Haines - Reading In Bed
I heard this live acoustic version (http://xixax.com/files/jb/readinginbed_live.mp3) on the radio (with an added verse that you might recognize) and fell in love with the song.
Yea, some Emily Haines (of Metric) love!
I believe she's from Montreal ? Or at least Canada. Anyway she's so hot and charismatic in shows
Seriously, 'With God on our Side' - Dylan
anybody else here feel this song in your bones like I do?
Serious. Ly.
Quote from: Neil on May 31, 2009, 01:39:25 PM
Seriously, 'With God on our Side' - Dylan
anybody else here feel this song in your bones like I do?
Serious. Ly.
I do...and I'm a deist.
Neutral Milk Hotel - King Of Carrot Flowers, Pt 1
Quote from: Jeremy Blackman on July 20, 2009, 01:22:40 PM
Neutral Milk Hotel - King Of Carrot Flowers, Pt 1
ya know though, on a serious note; does it beat 'Two headed boy, Pt 2'
Both fucking great tunes
http://popheadwound.blogspot.com/2009/07/mp3-atlas-sound-walkabout-ft-noah.html (http://popheadwound.blogspot.com/2009/07/mp3-atlas-sound-walkabout-ft-noah.html)
Atlas Sound + Panda Bear - Walkabout
best song of the summer.
i agree. its a very good song and its a definitely a contender for my summer jam, up against:
young money - every girl (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wxbc3N6jGJI)
&
cymbals eat guitars - tunguska (http://pitchfork.com/news/35675-premiere-cymbals-eat-guitars-tunguska-stream)
I just discovered that this song has the highest play count on my iPod:
Mates of State - "Lullaby Haze"
There's a good reason. I can remember I was playing it repeatedly the week I discovered that album. Not only is it a musical masterpiece, it's addictive. Some moments in the song give me chills, like 1:43, with the rolling drums and piano, and the "oo-hoo" vocals, all very beautiful, evocative, and somehow perfect.
Note: Though it seems like a quiet song, it should be played loud.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLqOwiZ8n5I
Linton Kwesi Johnson - Fite Dem Back (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWL99jA-NPw)
fascist on the attack , nobody worry bout that
fascist on the attack , we will fight them back
We gonna smash their brains in \
cuz they ain't got nothing in 'em
[song ends at about 4:30mins into the video; the rest is silence]
ENJOY! :yabbse-smiley:
Great Floyd
Great cinema.
Posted this elsewhere, but this is where it belongs,
nice treat
Hope you have the spare time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f88NZ1sxWX0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f88NZ1sxWX0)
if you don't like this song and the following remix/sequel track you have mental problems:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t9ac7-uMRc&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq5YtipSjsw
if someone linked or talked about it somewhere else, sorry still getting database error. would love to here opinions.
Quote from: socketlevel on August 07, 2009, 12:29:41 AM
if someone linked or talked about it somewhere else, sorry still getting database error.
http://xixax.com/index.php?topic=7892.msg261879#msg261879
Musee Mecanique - "Sleeping In Our Clothes"
I mostly love the intro, about 0:00-1:50. But what a mesmerizing and masterful intro it is.
I really dig Musee Mecanique. I played a show with them when they came through oklahoma they stayed at our house and recorded a bit of a woodie guthrie song on our pro-tools set up. Really great people.
Regina Spektor - "Dance Anthem of the 80s"
Every time I think that this girl's exhausted the possibilities of what a human being can do with their voice, she pulls out something totally new and crazy and amazing sounding. Her whole new album is fantastic, actually.
Everything Everything - "My Keys, Your Boyfriend"
Fantastic and catchy song, actually very hard to find at the moment if you're not in the UK. I did find it here (http://depositfiles.com/files/07bm3jg8p).
whoa! that was interesting.
watching them do it live is crazy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APj5r9o_IJw
this would be the hardest song ever in rock band..
An absolutely fucking phenomenal and, frustratingly, almost completely unknown London artist:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb10rsZKswc
"the boy with the arab strap" on belle and sebastians' bbc sessions is the shit.
i was going to post a live video, but it turns out they're all dorks. the radio is their friend.
Completely digging this right now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIfKqgWPVvk&feature=player_embedded#
Quote from: Jeremy Blackman on November 25, 2009, 10:57:31 PM
Everything Everything - "My Keys, Your Boyfriend"
Fantastic and catchy song, actually very hard to find at the moment if you're not in the UK. I did find it here (http://depositfiles.com/files/07bm3jg8p).
I discovered some background info on this song, and the lyrics. It gets
much more interesting. The band posted this description of the song on their myspace blog (http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=253099360&blogId=506207791):
imagines what it would be like to try and have any kind of normal relationship if your country was being bombed constantly by an occupying nation, from the point of view of a self-obsessed, post-traumatic stress disordered R&B lotharioEDIT: See next post for lyrics...
Screw it, I just transcribed the lyrics myself. Used the original track, the music video, and a live in-studio video. It's a much more interesting song now...
Lucifer, you're lying dead
Crosses on the kitchen sink
Barb wire in the bathroom
I can't make new memories since
Flashbacks to the time
This shell-shocked apartment was the place
I met with your boy
It's a model thing yeah it's a model thing oh
He looked at me funny and I oh oh
Think our secret's out and I oh-oh-oh
I try to explain
But then munitions reign
And we're the epicenter oh
It's like I'm watching the A4 paper takin' over the guillotine
It's like I'm watching the A4 paper takin' over the guillotine
And I wanna know what happened to your boyfriend
Cause he was lookin' at me like whoah
Yeah right before the kitchen was a dustbowl
And tossin' me the keys and I can't forget how
Then everything just coming through the windows
And half the street was under my nails
It's like we're sitting in a Faraday cage
When the lights all fail
I fly through the walls
All pieces colliding and I
See Raymond apart
He's a-frowning now
Waggin' a finger at me boy
His knees bend the other way ah boy boy
Are you guys together honey b-b-boy
Oh but now I can't find his torso hm hm hm
I guess you're separated oh
It's like I'm watching the A4 paper takin' over the guillotine
I just wanna know...
It's like I'm watching the A4 paper takin' over the guillotine
And I wanna know what happened to your boyfriend
Cause he was lookin' at me like whoah
Yeah right before the kitchen was a dustbowl
And tossin' me the keys and I can't forget how
Then everything just coming through the windows
And half the street was under my nails
It's like we're sitting in a Faraday cage
When the lights all fail
The lights all fail
Lucifer, you're lying dead
I do believe there are more bases in sight
The lights all fail
Crosses on the kitchen sink
[Unintelligible]
Babies on the bullseye
I do believe there are more bases in sight
The lights all fail
I can't make new memories since 'ries since 'ries since
[Unintelligible]
And I wanna know what happened to your boyfriend
Cause he was lookin' at me like whoah
Yeah right before the kitchen was a dustbowl
And tossin' me the keys and I can't forget how
Then everything just coming through the windows
And half the street was under my nails
It's like we're sitting in a Faraday cage
When the lights all fail
And now everybody gotta go hungry
And everybody cover up their mouths
And I haven't seen the body count lately
But lookin' at your faces it must have been bad
And everybody answers their phone calls
But people say the army's on fire
It's like we're sitting with a parachute torn
But the airport's gone
Yeah, I'm really grateful to you for mentioning that song - it's become the tune of my winter, and I've been introducing everyone to the band. It wasn't until I'd listened to it a couple of times that I realized the video is essentially a pretty literal translation of the lyrics: guy meets up with friend to tell him he's been sleeping with his girlfriend, then they start getting bombed.
The reference in their description to an "R & B lothario" lends more credence to my theory that they're referencing R Kelly's Trapped in the Closet with the line "Cos he was lookin' at me like 'whoa'" (in a similar moment of stand-off between two guys over the issue of an adulterous woman in TITC Kelly sings, "Then he stepped to me, I'm like 'whoa'".)
"Bike" by Hotrats (early Pink Floyd cover). Produced by Nigel Godrich, apparently. Fantastic song!
Arab Strap - New Birds:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKAIht_TY78&feature=related
I forget how much I love these guys.
And, for a chaser - why not - First Big Weekend of the Summer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9Krvl7AEAs
Rusted Root - Send me on my way
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LSR72zy9eE
Haven't listened to this for a while now. It's seriously good :shock:
Bjorn Olsson - Tjorn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KKajoVvpt4
Instrumental song. Reminds me of the summer.
Everything Everything - Schoolin'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GR9cDNqkpHg&feature=channel
The latest from these guys, who are somehow quickly becoming one of my favourite bands despite having not even released an album yet (thanks again to JB for posting about them here!). Really just the freshest overall rock sound I've come across for a long time, and the first new British band I've got excited about in forever.
Quote from: children with angels on June 14, 2010, 07:10:48 PM
Everything Everything - Schoolin'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GR9cDNqkpHg&feature=channel
The latest from these guys, who are somehow quickly becoming one of my favourite bands despite having not even released an album yet (thanks again to JB for posting about them here!). Really just the freshest overall rock sound I've come across for a long time, and the first new British band I've got excited about in forever.
Got to say, I'm hooked.
I'm also a little annoyed that the US Itunes doesn't carry the music. I'll have to look for torrents when I get home.
Okay, has anybody found Everything Everything tracks in a downloadable format that isn't just from Youtube?
I'm dying here. iTunes has it in the UK store only and you can't use a US credit card to buy from the UK iTunes.
Also, my subscription torrent sites are all gone for me so I'm public only and they don't like me or my taste in music.
No, I got what little I have from UK Itunes. If you drop me a PM I could send you them though...?
Quote from: children with angels on June 17, 2010, 05:27:11 AM
No, I got what little I have from UK Itunes. If you drop me a PM I could send you them though...?
Good luck with that! This shit is DRM protected to the bone, isn't it?
I don't know the MEANING of the word DRM!
Seriously: I don't know the meaning - someone please explain it to me.
Digital rights management!
Meaning that the song you bought/downloaded on iTunes can only be played on your computer/your device and not shared.
But I am told by my coworker that iTunes songs are no longer DRMed... I don't know if that means you can send them to a friend, but I'd be surprised. Maybe! Try it.
also your name and email is attached to the songs so if RK decides to leak it to the rest of the internet it will be immediately traceable back to you. not that RK would do that.
I found the Schoolin' EP that has 5 versions of that same song. My brief research made it seem like they don't really have a full album, so if this is what you're looking for, I've found it online at 196 kbps (VBR).
http://hotfile.com/dl/43353859/f8c1326/590f9b45d826c31e9f2f25e48f290d01.rar.html
password: afterpre.com
I've tested it and it works just fine.
DRM workaround for iTunes songs: burn them to a cd from iTunes, then rip them back to the computer. You might even be able to do it without the cd with a cd-drive emulator like Daemon Tools or PowerISO, but I haven't tried it.
So, for the record: yes, apparently you CAN just email Itunes mp3s! Didn't even have to do the burn-to-disk strategy.
but it requires a password for someone else to play it?
Seemingly not...
Don't know if any of you have heard of Stornoway, but I've got their album on constantly right now. This song is awesome: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lT5PRfI1iY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lT5PRfI1iY)
Quote from: pete on June 20, 2010, 06:52:13 PM
but it requires a password for someone else to play it?
Yeah, he sent me those songs (Thanks again!) and they worked with absolutely no problems, I just drug them into iTunes then onto my iphone. They play just fine.
dragged
I think it's "droog".
Quote from: picolas on June 23, 2010, 01:03:41 AM
dragged
Haha... I don't know why I wrote "Drug" other than I was probably typing faster than I was thinking. I say "dragged".
And that would have totally drived me crazy too, Pic.
can someone hook me up the same way regularkarateface was hooked up?
I have an app where as long as I'm wearing Apple headphones, I can just think of the song and it will download to my iTunes on my iPhone. You have to wait a few minutes for the headache to subside before listening, but it's easier than queuing up a torrent. If there's a password, you just have to think of the string of characters and it enters it. I have a fat brain so I'm always putting in the wrong one lol. Sometimes I go through a whole weekend of just laying in bed listening to music.
I just downloaded an app where I found that witty.
Quote from: pete on June 24, 2010, 10:28:27 AM
I just downloaded an app where I found that witty.
as i with you
http://soundcloud.com/shamantis/j-biebz-u-smile-800-slower?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=facebook&utm_content=http%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fshamantis%2Fj-biebz-u-smile-800-slower (http://soundcloud.com/shamantis/j-biebz-u-smile-800-slower?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=facebook&utm_content=http%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fshamantis%2Fj-biebz-u-smile-800-slower)
Justin Beiber sounding like Panda Bear.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsoJea3jP1E
Quote from: samsong on August 22, 2010, 08:18:28 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsoJea3jP1E
Song of the year. I dare anybody not to like Cee-Lo.
Quote from: squints on August 21, 2010, 07:26:06 PM
http://soundcloud.com/shamantis/j-biebz-u-smile-800-slower?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=facebook&utm_content=http%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fshamantis%2Fj-biebz-u-smile-800-slower (http://soundcloud.com/shamantis/j-biebz-u-smile-800-slower?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=facebook&utm_content=http%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fshamantis%2Fj-biebz-u-smile-800-slower)
Justin Beiber sounding like Panda Bear.
This is also pretty amazing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ud7bF87A_w
His debut album is being released in the fall and it will be amazing. AMAZING
It's not his debut, but it will be awesome. The song, at first sounds like a gimmick, but after a couple minutes it really shines. I hope this becomes a top single just because it's a good song and it's nuts and I wanna see if we finally get the censors to agree to fuck. We've already gotten them to agree to shit on It's Always Sunny on FX.
KarlJan was referring the Swedish fellow that his link went to, not to the Cee-Lo song.
But hey, at least you didn't start a new page!
Quote from: polkablues on August 23, 2010, 03:17:55 AM
KarlJan was referring the Swedish fellow that his link went to
This confusion could be avoided if people labeled their fucking links.
I would never have checked samsong's link if you hadn't explained wtf it was.
Quote from: P on August 23, 2010, 03:39:08 AM
Quote from: polkablues on August 23, 2010, 03:17:55 AM
KarlJan was referring the Swedish fellow that his link went to
This confusion could be avoided if people labeled their fucking links.
I would never have checked samsong's link if you hadn't explained wtf it was.
^^ yeah.
also:
This video contains content from WMG, who has blocked it on copyright grounds. *
* im referring to sambong's cee-lo link, which song was it?
edit: new page, sorry stefen.
The song is called "Fuck You". It's pretty much everywhere on the Internet right now, so just do a search and you should be able to find a working copy.
That's the song right there: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAV0XrbEwNc
It's good as fuck (you)
Quote from: polkablues on August 23, 2010, 11:17:40 AM
The song is called "Fuck You". It's pretty much everywhere on the Internet right now, so just do a search and you should be able to find a working copy.
Listomania: Three Movie Scenes That Really Could've Used Cee-Lo's New Jam, "Fuck You."Everyone watch these:
http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/dc9/2010/08/three_movie_scenes_that_would.php
yeah it's alright i guess but it has little replay value and the constant swearing makes it feel like it's trying too hard.
anyway, i really like the new song by Ben Folds from his upcoming collaboration with Nick Hornby (he wrote all the lyrics). it's called From Above and you can hear a good chunk of it at the end of this interview (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SndvKoopswE#t=5m11s) where they discuss the album and the ideas behind it. a definite steal.
Quote from: P on August 24, 2010, 11:46:41 AM
yeah it's alright i guess but it has little replay value and the constant swearing makes it feel like it's trying too hard.
Is constant swearing a problem to you or is it just the over repetition of it? That's what seemed to bother me. The occurrence of vulgarity doesn't faze me much, but the song was probably a minute too long to me. I don't know, I'm not a huge Cee-Lo fan. I only liked half of Gnarles Barkeley.
Quote from: // w ø l r å s on August 24, 2010, 11:55:38 AM
Is constant swearing a problem to you or is it just the over repetition of it?
i have nothing against swearing by itself (obviously) in songs or otherwise, i was introduced to it early on through NWA and countless other mad cunts who pretty much made an art form out of it. it's the fact that the song has not much else going for it and it knows it. the reason it's "all over the internet" is not because it's some amazing song, it's just because ppl like swearing like they just turned 15 or something. it's embarrassing. the idea of the song is stupid too, OK we get it, she was obviously not that great a girl and the point is made in the first minute, why go on about it? jesus even Kanye (jesus 2?) made something interesting out of the standard gold-digger motif.
it's similar to my complaint against amateur films. constant swearing for no reason at all is LAME. being impressed by it makes you no different than someone who loves Boondock Saints.
It's a good-enough song, but it's a shame that it's so big because of the swearing. Cee-lo is great and he's had way better songs than this.
Quote from: // w ø l r å s on August 24, 2010, 11:55:38 AM
I only liked half of Gnarles Barkeley.
You mean the white half, you racist?
Is this the fastest played out song in history? 2 DAYS!
when I saw everyone posting it and without knowing anything about it I figured the lyrics would be exactly what the title suggested, and I was right. but I liked the song because of its execution - it's classy and catchy and for a gimmick it's surprisingly well thought out. I was just telling my friends the other day how joke songs don't try very hard anymore and mostly stay at the level of the SNL digital shorts or flight of the conchords - or much much worse. the gold standard for me would always be "every sperm is sacred" from monty python's meaning of life. they had one joke in that song but they carried it through with conviction, musicality and production. I was very glad that Fuck You's listenable outside of its one-joke premise. that's a step in the right direction.
Quote from: RegularKarate on August 24, 2010, 01:02:27 PM
It's a good-enough song, but it's a shame that it's so big because of the swearing. Cee-lo is great and he's had way better songs than this.
Quote from: // w ø l r å s on August 24, 2010, 11:55:38 AM
I only liked half of Gnarles Barkeley.
You mean the white half, you racist?
No I mean the songs (on St. Elsewhere, still haven't heard Odd Couple):
Go-Go Gadget Gospel
Crazy
St. Elsewhere
Just A Thought
Transformer
Who Cares?
Necromancer
ive been listening this all morning:
Haight-Ashbury - Favourite song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0hSWpgOjXE)
Kimbra - Settle Down (this could also justifiably go in the Music Videos thread):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1RcuPW5Veo&feature=player_embedded#!
i woke up today and watched the video of empire of the sun's standing on the shore on tv. that's a cool song...
also , la roux's in for the kill.
Chiming in late on Cee Lo Green's "Fuck You"...
I actually prefer the clean version, "Forget You." It's less distracting, and the change of phrase makes it more sad/meaningful than annoyingly aggressive.
Guster - Do You Love Me (sounds Christmassy)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k-VAlIPzKg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k-VAlIPzKg)
Avett Brothers - I and Love and You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqZZlL0l5Uk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqZZlL0l5Uk)
Austin is making me more into music I guess...
Conor Oberst - One Of My Kind
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vr8fCyx7HBY
Josiah Leming - Song Without a Reason (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coUzgWmEV2Y)
gorillaz -doncamatic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJQyTnD74gk
Not typically a big Coldplay fan but I can't help but like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1rYmzQ8C9Q (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1rYmzQ8C9Q)
This is featured in that new LG Optimus Primewhatever commercial, and it's my current obsession:
Laura Veirs - I Can See Your Tracks (http://youtu.be/YVITux76S0U)
The Flaming Lips - Frogs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-zDGlBlMlM
(https://xixax.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg715.imageshack.us%2Fimg715%2F2940%2Fgriny.jpg&hash=6148147cbe0c3b4b87b8891770de3218f90e809f)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qayc6yJXG-8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qayc6yJXG-8)
The punch brothers cover 'reptilla' by the strokes. Thumbs up.
Found this song earlier today, and have listened to it on repeat since then. It's that good.
Two Gallants - Nothing To You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVOcFme-ZUQ
Lykke Li - I Follow Rivers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZYbEL06lEU
Tiga - Shoes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlqUAzknpQ0
I can not get enough of this song under any circumstances.
Guy Clark - Cold Dog Soup
Great song. I wish more people knew about good ole' Guy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR-1Bgch_l4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR-1Bgch_l4)
I really have listened to this song like 70 times in the last two days
The Knife - We Share our Mother's Health (Ratatat remix)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt1ApAnbojI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt1ApAnbojI)
click to DL
http://www.indieshuffle.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/04-we-share-our-mothers-health-remix-of-the-knife.mp3 (http://www.indieshuffle.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/04-we-share-our-mothers-health-remix-of-the-knife.mp3)
This guy is really, really great.
This one is my favorite. Almost makes me cry
Jeffrey Lewis - The Chelsea Hotel Oral Sex Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlRanftUqO4
And this one is about him being raped by Will Oldham. Need I say more?
Williamsburg Will Oldham Horror
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwGhPnsCjDg
Looks like Bill from Freaks and Geeks
Quote from: KarlJan on April 25, 2011, 01:01:16 PM
This guy is really, really great.
This one is my favorite. Almost makes me cry
Jeffrey Lewis - The Chelsea Hotel Oral Sex Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlRanftUqO4
And this one is about him being raped by Will Oldham. Need I say more?
Williamsburg Will Oldham Horror
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwGhPnsCjDg
i've been listening to jeff lewis for YEARS. and those are mos def two of his best songs.
Robyn - Call Your Girlfriend (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6ImxY6hnfA)
I have a tremendous respect for pop songcraft, and this song embodies it. When melody, lyrics, and instrumentation just click perfectly, and you don't even mind when it gets stuck in your head for two straight days. Cool video, too.
The War On Drugs - Baby Missiles (http://soundcloud.com/onethirtybpm/the-war-on-drugs-baby-missiles?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=facebook&utm_content=http%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fonethirtybpm%2Fthe-war-on-drugs-baby-missiles)
Heard this last night on The World Café and I can't get it out of my head.
Quote from: polkablues on June 24, 2011, 06:17:02 PM
Robyn - Call Your Girlfriend (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6ImxY6hnfA)
I have a tremendous respect for pop songcraft, and this song embodies it. When melody, lyrics, and instrumentation just click perfectly, and you don't even mind when it gets stuck in your head for two straight days. Cool video, too.
oh man, i love robyn. well put. she's what a lot of people think lady gaga is.
This has really grown on me over the past few weeks. Really liking it right now.
Foster The People - Pumped Up Kicks (http://vimeo.com/fosterthepeople/pumpedupkicks)
Quote from: Sleepless on June 25, 2011, 08:16:30 PM
This has really grown on me over the past few weeks. Really liking it right now.
Foster The People - Pumped Up Kicks (http://vimeo.com/fosterthepeople/pumpedupkicks)
man i love this band....well actually...i love the first two tracks on their record which features "Pumped Up Kicks" and.....
Dogboarding (http://vimeo.com/21504557)
the rest of the album sucks.
EDIT:
Holy shit. I've never played a show where the entire front row is comprised entirely (http://vimeo.com/21927793) of hot blonde girls.......damn.
Quote from: squints on June 27, 2011, 02:32:54 AM
the rest of the album sucks.
Haha... I haven't listened to the album yet, but the minute I heard "Pumped Up Kicks", I was sure the rest of the album sucked.
It's a good song, but it's essentially just "Young Folks" by Peter Bjorn and John. That album has two good songs and the rest blows. I feel like some indie bands just want to release one good summer jam then don't really care what happens.
tUnE-yArDs - 'Bizness'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ1LI-NTa2s
Just getting into these guys/this gal. Really digging the album: Dirty Projector-esque experimentalism with deep grooves. Lovely stuff.
I want to like Tuneyards, but they seem too deliberate and self-aware, and then it doesn't work for me. I think I made the mistake of hearing a couple interviews.
I've not seen/read any interviews, but self-awareness and deliberateness are tricky things... I'd imagine that many people would probably say similar things about Everything Everything - a band I know we both like.
THIS (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqV5KzbNYIQ) is my favorite TuneYards Song. "Real Live Flesh"
Pretty cool was she does with just her voice and loop pedal.
Quote from: children with angels on June 30, 2011, 04:42:42 PM
I've not seen/read any interviews, but self-awareness and deliberateness are tricky things... I'd imagine that many people would probably say similar things about Everything Everything - a band I know we both like.
Yeah... Tuneyards is one of those things that I admire but that still doesn't work for me. It's probably the vocals (more than the self-awareness). I think it bothers me subconsciously that she's emulating some uber-specific cultural (African) vocals, and the actual execution is so forceful (and polarizing) that it could easily go one way or the other.
Quote from: Jeremy Blackman on June 30, 2011, 06:12:54 PM
she's emulating some uber-specific cultural (African) vocals
Hm, really? I hadn't heard this (in either sense), but clearly I need to find out more.
http://www.sfweekly.com/2011-04-20/music/tune-yards-w-h-o-k-i-l-l-oakland-new-releases-great-american-music-hall-african-music-experimental-pop/
She's thrilled about it, of course, but along the way, the socially conscious Connecticut native has ruminated deeply over every move — from even deciding to concentrate on her art at all, in lieu of, say, becoming a doctor or a pro bono lawyer ("It's something very recent for me to be like, you know what? Forgive yourself, you have to do this"), to allowing herself to exhibit her love for African music: "When I started tUne-yArDs ... I made a decision to forgive myself for what sounds were coming out," she says. "When I give my influences, I give who they really are: I took this yodeling style from Central Africa, and I took this chordal harmonic sense from Hukwe Zawose in Tanzania. It seems like a tightrope walk of sorts, because one could accuse me of political correctness in the same breath as thievery of African musical traditions."
Alright, I think I'm pinpointing it now.
On "Bizness," for example, particularly when she sings the "don't take my life away" line... She's not from Africa, and she doesn't have an African accent... so why is she putting one on so deliberately? I can buy the style emulation, but to take on even the vowel inflections is annoying. It's the same thing that annoys me about some white pop/R&B singers (e.g. Rebecca Black, Justin Bieber, and many others), who will sing things like "we so excited" with a straight face. Yes, I just compared Merrill Garbus to Rebecca Black... and while I don't think Merrill Garbus is nearly as bad, for me she's on the same spectrum. The fact that she admits as much doesn't make it less annoying.
I don't think she's putting on an African accent for that line at all. I think you're choosing to hear that based on what you already know and the things you've decided about her.
That said.... I find this music very fake and forced. The video makes me a little sick, it seems very 90s arthouse and it's not fresh at all... it sounds like Bobby McFerrin.
Thanks to breaking bad I discovered this:
Timber Timbre - Magic Arrow (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icJOkfS7ImA)
song features in S03E02.
Timber Timbre - "Demon Host" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irPIjJl4ByU)
This is another Timber Timbre song from that same album, and it happens to be my favorite.
They have a good sound, but call me when they write some choruses.
Quote from: RegularKarate on July 01, 2011, 11:17:43 AM
I don't think she's putting on an African accent for that line at all. I think you're choosing to hear that based on what you already know and the things you've decided about her.
That said.... I find this music very fake and forced. The video makes me a little sick, it seems very 90s arthouse and it's not fresh at all... it sounds like Bobby McFerrin.
Sorry, missed this. I agree about not quite hearing the African influence on the vocals, JB (except for maybe that, what - we might associate the sound 'way', or '-we', with African languages?).
RK - what 90s arthouse would you compare Tuneyards to? (n.b.: This is a request for recommendations, not a rhetorical challenge.)
The African "accent" on certain vowels is nitpicking and isolated and kind of subtle, so I'm not pushing that. However, the "African influence on the vocals" is not imaginary... it's her thing. Again, from the interview:
"When I give my influences, I give who they really are: I took this yodeling style from Central Africa, and I took this chordal harmonic sense from Hukwe Zawose in Tanzania. It seems like a tightrope walk of sorts, because one could accuse me of political correctness in the same breath as thievery of African musical traditions."
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THIS is a really really good song.
Listen here here (http://prettymuchamazing.com/mp3/tallest-man-on-earth-weather-of-the-killing-kind)
Huson Mohawke - "Thank You"
http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=137797424&m=137796243
College feat. Electric Youth - "A Real Hero" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DSVDcw6iW8)
you damn right.
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does having this stuck in my head all week make it a good song? I think Yes!
KREAYSHAWN- GUCCI GUCCI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WJFjXtHcy4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WJFjXtHcy4)
you guys hate me, I know.
oh man that fucking song, i put it on at parties and at the bar.
Sorry... annoying.
I just made THIS (http://soundcloud.com/stevenobeats/plunk-reloaded/s-AAsKm) at 4am two nights ago. I played it at a club tonight and it kicked ass.
it kinda sucks....
Quote from: Jeremy Blackman on August 15, 2009, 09:32:12 PM
Musee Mecanique - "Sleeping In Our Clothes"
I mostly love the intro, about 0:00-1:50. But what a mesmerizing and masterful intro it is.
So I was browsing iTunes to see if Musee Mecanique has made another album, and this happened:
- I see a playlist on the left called
20 Underappreciated Masterpieces- "Oh, that sounds interesting..."
- "Wow... 'Glass' by Bat For Lashes? I love that song!"
- "Number 2 is 'She Purred, While I Grrred?' That song
is a masterpiece! And totally underappreciated!"
- [looking further down the list]
- "Oh my God, this is freaking spot on! Creepy!"
- [processing]
- "Oh... right. I made this playlist."
In any case, here it is. Plenty of "really good songs."
http://c.itunes.apple.com/us/imix/20-underappreciated-masterpieces/id386512074
I'm not sure what the 2 songs are that have since fallen off iTunes, because they were originally there. But I'm sure they were amazing.
recently i've really gotten into Paul Simon. His album, 'hearts and bones' really does it for me. This song didn't make the album, but some of the melody and few lyrics did make it in the song, "when numbers get serious," as the video states. I searched online for this song on youtube, and all I found was a sub par cover.
So, here it is, a throwaway song that's better than any song I'll ever think about writing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoTb5bJa7hQ&feature=plcp&context=C33ca710UDOEgsToPDskI2eChCnb2yg1NKPHZPdh8N (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoTb5bJa7hQ&feature=plcp&context=C33ca710UDOEgsToPDskI2eChCnb2yg1NKPHZPdh8N)
So something happened and Troy from Community ended up recording the best song of 2011.
Childish Gambino - Heartbeat (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaqQ5rbh410)
No way, dude. Bonfire (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qL1B_r9nC9k). Not THE best song, but his..
One of my favorite songs from 2011 was Cass McCombs' County Line. I liked it the first time I heard it but the more I heard it the more I loved it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOcnITphyjk&ob=av2e (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOcnITphyjk&ob=av2e)
Don't Move by Phantogram (http://soundcloud.com/homoheadphonico/phantogram-don-t-move)
Holdin' On To Black Metal by My Morning Jacket (http://soundcloud.com/my-morning-jacket/holdin-on-to-black-metal)
D.D. by The Weeknd (http://soundcloud.com/danceyrselfcleaner/the-weeknd-d-d)
Absolutely love this song. What a melody...
Sign In, Dream On, Drop Out! (http://soundcloud.com/poppyandthejezebels-1/poppy-and-the-jezebels-sign-in)
^ Edited with a better version of the song.
Shedding a drunk tear to this beautiful piece of music right now...
Happy Thanksgiving...
Just go ahead and say this is the song of the summer.
Too bad i listened to it about 119 times this last weekend.
So over it.
It really is an irresistible groove. I'm puzzled by the Pharrell choice (really?), but they made it work.
It's typical Daft Punk, it's enjoyable and fun. But I'm glad it's not totally electronica-focussed or anything.
Quote from: ddiggler on April 23, 2013, 02:31:00 AM
It really is an irresistible groove. I'm puzzled by the Pharrell choice (really?), but they made it work.
Really? I think he was a great choice. The record sounds like a classic Neptunes/N.E.R.D tune, so Pharrell singing the hook makes complete sense to me. Between this song and the Robin Thicke/T.I collab, Pharrell has 2 of the hottest songs out right now.
the recording of pharrells voice is really weird. most noticable at the very beginning.
Quote from: squints on April 22, 2013, 07:59:53 PM
Just go ahead and say this is the song of the summer.
or if you prefer, as i do, the orchestral version:
Discovered an old new band.
Damn good.
"Tenderoni" by Kele. It might even sound good on 03's dance floor.
Also before I forget, "Shine" by Lee Scratch Perry. Well, at least the first minute or so. Masterful production by Andrew W. K. The production on "Fire" (off the same album) is also pretty innovative. Unfortunately all of Lee Perry's lyrics are instant self-parody.
ah cool, the bloc party guy. yeah thats pretty dancy man, i will give it a spin one of these nights.
"Aberlina" by Nacosta. I love this band's sound.
http://nacosta.bandcamp.com/
a very good friend of mine is almost done with his like..fifth album or something, and he just turned 21 a little while ago. super fucking proud of this dude. even if its not your shit, you have to admit this dude is talented and determined. this is his brand new video, self produced. straight out of alabama son.
ghost bear - bomb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzQ4go7QiVU
Real cool, positive vibes. On repeat
I think it's a great song, I think the progression, through the mess that the song is, works. I think it's emotional. I understand that some people may think it's bullshit.
so late to this party but this is the tits
Are you a "Laurel Canyon" fan, too? That's where I first heard it.
No I've been working my way through Mad Men and it was used in an episode of season 6
Not always a lyric person, but some songs demand it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afVS8gXwJfM
dont feel its worthy of a thread but is anyone here currently into the trend sadmusic?
Is it that Yung Lean stuff? Or something else? Regarding Yung Lean and friends; cool beats, intriguing aesthetic but that's about it. No other real value for me.
Quote from: O3 on October 26, 2014, 11:31:22 PM
dont feel its worthy of a thread but is anyone here currently into the trend sadmusic?
Is that a new, specific thing, or does it literally just mean music that is sad?
woop just saw this.
its a term referring to a type of hiphop that has been around for years, but has recently become a little bit more defined into a culture.
its basically hiphop that is steeped in the visual and audio essence of 90s low quality vhs type of things. stuff that was popular growing up in the late 80s early 90s. nintendo, sega, pokemon, anime, windows 95 apps. there is also heavy dependence on hallucinogenics, hydration, the ocean, space. very dreamy trippy stuff with a lo fi edge to it. i think these videos will describe it much better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGtOl6Fxzxk
Related:
http://xixax.com/index.php?topic=12386.0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyM_ZNrHZmo
You are the bravest boy I've ever met.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_L8FXX3YJQ
This track is exceptional. Wish his new album came out this year.
16 minute acoustic song from incredibly intense and under appreciated Newcastle singer/songwriter Richard Dawson.
Uses lots of local dialect and sings about childhood memories like he's having flashbacks from Nam.
Takes some talent to write a 16 minute acoustic track that doesn't get boring at any point. And that voice...holy fuck that voice...it's a weapon.
i know this wont be everyones cup of tea, but the latest song/collaboration with my buddy ghost, he always impresses the fuck out of me. new video::
"IF I WASNT ME ID RATHER BE DEAD"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLZ_I7J4uEQ
The new Father John Misty album leaked and it's excellent. Dense with orchestration throughout. The lyrics are a great mix of twisted black humor and earnest romanticism. I imagine it will be divisive.
Heard "Get Lucky" and had the urge to listen to "Instant Crush" again, which is definitely my favorite song from that album:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5uQMwRMHcs
And this cover is really good. Truly bizarre video, though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkBxRHvdvXM
rocking good stuff:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kszLwBaC4Sw
the new animal collective is so goood.
feel it :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DDHulO485k
I agree. One of my all-time favorites.
Another of my all-time favorites, which I was reminded of today:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03z4TKmX1Wc
Quote from: polkablues on December 12, 2015, 01:21:14 PM
I agree. One of my all-time favorites.
somehow this song makes me nostalgic over memories I don't have yet.... I don't think that I will fully understand this song until i'm a little bit older. know what I mean?
Quote from: KJ on December 13, 2015, 02:33:00 AM
Quote from: polkablues on December 12, 2015, 01:21:14 PM
I agree. One of my all-time favorites.
somehow this song makes me nostalgic over memories I don't have yet.... I don't think that I will fully understand this song until i'm a little bit older. know what I mean?
Definitely. I think the fact that the song itself is about nostalgia to an extent, or at least about looking back and realizing a chunk of your life has passed you by, really evokes that feeling.
I've been listening to this song a ton since I first heard it a few days ago. The video is obnoxious hipster bullshit, but the song is unimpeachable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv9YoYCKNoE
The video is so bad. The song gets way better when I listen to it alone. I listened to the song before I saw the clip, it was a weird experience. I love the song, then I watch that and...
There is definitely a Matthew Barney / Cremaster tinge to that video, except without the meaning.
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the thing a guy like me didn't feel inspired by during days of hipsters being some new thing (was that like ten years ago?), is the standard definition and application of hipsterism employed pure cultural materialism. a thing without its feeling, that was horrible to me! and it was some initial output of cultural overstimulation from the internet. peeps these days are into the feels, the human particulars, and i've missed sharing the feels with others because of course i have.
*successfully remembered the equal sign setup for the url w/text
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJu6Fh1FSEo
i dedicate this song to polka, who i know can appreciate quality pop: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvbUSZt3YsM
I was at a funeral yesterday and this video was played (by request of the deceased). It destroyed everyone.
FYI: Don't get the wrong idea, it's funny. Listen to it. And imagine a bunch of people crying.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCNvZqpa-7Q
i cried too, but because you gave me the context.
makes anomalisa more bearable for me.
I'm way late to the party on this one, but this song and video are both incredible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWZGAExj-es
i agree, however, i think that i prefer the visuals in this performance of the song;
After Nymphomaniac and this, I am now decidedly pro-Shia. I mean really. How many Disney stars have gone on to do nothing interesting?
I watched that SNL performance first, and initially I didn't believe that was actually a young girl dancing, because it couldn't be, right? Maddie Ziegler makes me want to become a fan of dance. (Definitely not going to watch Dance Moms, though.)
That girl is a complete force of nature. To be able to perform, at 11 or 12 years old, not only with that level of skill but with that complete lack of self-consciousness is astonishing to me. I'm convinced she's going on to great things.
Absolutely. I watched two of her performances on Ellen as well, and she seems to pour her soul into it every time.
I'll just post it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILTZ8qZbNK0
Anyone remember this song?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gprMZc_3Qas&list=RDgprMZc_3Qas
The Bangles' cover is pretty good too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO_fjjO5j7Y
Damn, I like both of those a lot.
Elvis Costello is one of my weird musical blindspots. I'm familiar with the hits, and I like everything I've heard, but I just never got around to diving into his output.
That whole album (When I Was Cruel) is good... has a very crisp sound and innovative bass lines. Not sure why people don't talk about it more. It's Elvis Costello's Punch Drunk Love.
Quote from: Myxo on September 16, 2016, 06:37:48 PM
Maggie Rogers - Alaksa
Man, I thought you we're going to post Thriller. Which actually is a really good song from a really good album. Possibly the greatest true pop release ever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cc_KSe6FUoU
Pete Yorn is back. I know you're all as excited as I am. This is a really good song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiUZqpWqAwA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaUdX5wSaKk
Obsessed with this for like a week. Neil Young can hit you emotionally out of nowhere. I'm not even a big fan and every now and then I chuck on a track from him and I get destroyed.
Quote from: Lottery on September 23, 2016, 12:59:36 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaUdX5wSaKk
Obsessed with this for like a week. Neil Young can hit you emotionally out of nowhere. I'm not even a big fan and every now and then I chuck on a track from him and I get destroyed.
Like you, I am not a huge Neil Young fan at all, but I had the same reaction with Tell Me Why a few months ago. There is something in the first seconds, the melody, that instantly hit me...It felt like a song I had a deep connection with, but I didn't even know who Neil Young was when I was a child. I didn't even know who he was three years ago.
I had the same thing with Out on the Weekend.
jeremy, as a fellow female singer fan i know you will appreciate this, i just found out about her, you may already know about her:
Love Melanie Martinez. I actually happened to watch the season of The Voice when she was a competitor, and stopped watching when she was eliminated. Some of her songwriting borders on precocious, but her voice is so good.
Here's a video of her singing one of my favorite Margot & the Nuclear So and So's songs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzA-miBqFsg
Random reminder that this is one of the best Weird Al songs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpMvS1Q1sos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMZpekgAcEo
We can go ahead and tear down all the churches, because that college acapella group has officially disproved the existence of soul.
I was going to post the original version of the song, but they were all low res. :(
I once played "Hide and Seek" for someone who had only heard the Jason Derulo version. I didn't tell him what it was, so his eyes popped out of his head when that section arrived.
It's for sure one of the great songs of all time, even if it has had a longer life as a meme than as a real song. I didn't even know about the Jason Derulo song; that's horrifying.
Ariana Grande, of all people, does a really good cover of it, using wired gloves that Imogen Heap helped invent to control the vocoder harmonies. Not a great video here, but it gives you the idea:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdJ5wjsRs0s
Nice.
But why does she let the audience distract her so much?
I looked up those gloves. This is great:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6btFObRRD9k&t=14m8s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6btFObRRD9k&t=14m8s)
Here's another lyric / song moment that's been in my head:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13j4LOBj_D0&t=1m9s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13j4LOBj_D0&t=1m9s)
An existential wail of sorts, then mournful acknowledgment:
Darrel, my son
The bastards won
Three contemporary lullabies. Play them for your children.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URh-lQ9NnP4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWZmzdpyUTY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUvPT9PYfF0
Many people could never get past the lyrics. But I believe "Shiny Happy People" is a masterpiece. It still sounds fresh, more than 25 years later. Remains one of my favorite songs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYOKMUTTDdA
It is a bit of a testament to REM's talent that they couldn't even take the piss out of vapid pop music without accidentally making a great song out of it.
I feel the same way about The Cardigans' "Lovefool".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI6aOFI7hms
That reminds me, I forgot to post this here. It's worth seeking out a HQ version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwOgcRMFeb4
I like the juxtaposition of this fully-tattooed dude in a hockey jersey singing a super earnest pop song about being in love.
A similarish artist (at least in terms of that contradiction) I really like is Fences:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxDDZci7FLI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbOX58srZGQ
Challenge anyone to find a better gospel album.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lypO8pt_8NQ
Another great one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfuVF8bxAag
http://lightintheattic.net/artists/279-pastor-t-l-barrett-and-the-youth-for-christ-choir
Article about him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN3d2tbQGwE
I already posted about Phoebe Bridgers today in the Lorde thread, but here's another one because I'm obsessed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSvWmY473e0
This is my favorite Prefab Sprout song.
Quote from: polkablues on September 28, 2017, 02:27:34 AM
I already posted about Phoebe Bridgers today in the Lorde thread, but here's another one because I'm obsessed.
omg, I just found out she sang lua with conor oberst, and was blown away her voice. had to go back and listen to the song you posted. very nice.
Her album is easily my favorite of this year. She's just great in every way.
Side note: Conor makes an appearance on the album, singing on the song "Would You Rather".
Quote from: polkablues on December 15, 2017, 10:08:20 PM
Her album is easily my favorite of this year. She's just great in every way.
Side note: Conor makes an appearance on the album, singing on the song "Would You Rather".
I listened to it and liked it a lot. my favorite artist was Elliott Smith at one point so it shouldn't be surprising that I enjoyed it.
what first happened was i saw Tash Sultana's street performance
she's huge, she's line three in the Coachelle lineup, millions of spotify listens.
then, and i heard the radio compare this to listening stations at record stores of the past, because of spotify i discovered a whole pocket of Australian music.
this has been my personal favorite. some of australian songs are better produced and sound more like songs. i like when the kids get emotional, personally. through my life i've learned this is the kind of music which gets me into social trouble, leaves me alone. this song isn't even about being alone, she's talking to a friend and complaining about the adult world, recalling childhood dreams.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k80JFxtifxs
one that sounds like a song. i was glad to come into contact with contemporary australian music via spotify
i'm falling in love with guided by voices. they are everything I love about music. I usually just wanna listen to catchy pop songs, and they can repeat some nonsensical shit to a simple riff for 1 and a half minute and make it feel like the most catchy and profound pop song you have ever heard. I don't know how they do it.
this song is perfect. like literally perfect. I can't imagine how music could be any better then this. what you need to to is to listen to it on repeat for an hour until you are convinced it's the best song ever. that's what I did.
I feel pretty much the same way about this GBV song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INN4DF2BgLs
yeah, this is really good too. I am happy I realized how much good stuff they made that isn't bee thousand and alien lanes.
hop along's new album is pretty good and frances quinlan continues to have one of the best voices around. as with harriet wheeler and sue tompkins (two other favorite voices of mine) she fronts a band that doesn't do anything original, but has a voice that makes it incredibly special to me. she has a way of spitting out every word as it if was the most important thing in the world. seriously, you can break down any of her vocal performances word for word and realize that she deliver every word
perfectly. this isn't just hyperbole. she's that good.
this song isn't from their latest album, but I think it's one of the best song to showcase her voice. just the way she sings "uh-huh, uh-huh" gives me goosebumps, honestly. also, who said indie rock was dead? it's better than ever!
okay, here's a song from their latest album too. "I- I don't know why". OMG.
that last goddamn song
yes
YES
the tiger is out
it makes me wanna jump around in bed and play air guitar or something idk fuck i need to contain my excitement
Quote from: KJ on April 14, 2018, 08:00:16 AM
sue tompkins
QuoteCalling you i mix two numbers up i mix them up
Two numbers calling you i mix them up!
Ting ting
Look around
Just information
In the leaves in the leaves in the leaves
Lgo lgo chi sound chi sound chi sound chi sound
If poss was lying awake invitation guess what
Coast to coast, vivid i'm a visitor here
I'm a visitor here
Don't fall don't fal-ter
Don't fall don't fal-ter
I still believe in getting low i still believe
<3
Quote from: KJ on April 14, 2018, 08:00:16 AM
sue tompkins
I swear this is my last post. it's just difficult to stay away from this thread now, because i'm overdosing on really good songs. I could quote all the lines from this song because it's one of the most beautiful songs I know, but I think it's better to just listen to her sing them. she makes them even better.
Life Without Building's live album is so good, I dont even mind the harsh memories it conjures, from the spring two years ago when i found it, luckily, while living in prague for a spell.
how did prague treat you? I had a bunch of friends who lived there (they studied graphic design, and film I think), and it seems like a nice place to live in. I have looked at a film school there... what did you do there?
Quote from: KJ on April 14, 2018, 12:05:46 PM
how did prague treat you? I had a bunch of friends who lived there (they studied graphic design, and film I think), and it seems like a nice place to live in. I have looked at a film school there... what did you do there?
I attended FAMU's NYU-Abroad 35mm program ~ That's where I made that Brainwash short film (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySLaBjQjO94)i think you caught in the 4210 Strand thread.
Prague is a beautiful, storied city with a strange air around it. Edited this post form calling them hostile, and xenophobic, because well their politic opinions shouldn't be generalized, of residents or people of anywhere. Also that's xenophobic in itself, isn't it? Drug culture seems dangerous there (it's too easy to cop a srs ziplock from somebody who was supposedly just getting you grass). Food was great. And the czech krona is quite cheap, so I feasted. The hostility I mentioned before stemmed from professors and many overheard conversations, because Syrian refugees were very much on the mind and tongue that Spring.
FAMU's facility is fantastic. The city in total has been so well preserved (from surrender, modestly, and to the reverberations of their dissident tendencies) that you feel centuries of culture all throughout the different neighborhoods. Amazing museums. A great place to get high off creativity. I just couldn't integrate with the locals, even after becoming a regular at a concert venue and in FAMU's basement dining-space/bar. Idk conversations where quite deadened by the air of an American and Czech is tough to learn (our teacher was shit).
If you know anybody who could put you in touch with Barrandov, then i say yeah GO! Barrandov is all the man-power and space of a Hollywood studio lot, with a more village-friendly vibe. To be honest, if I had the opportunity to take a job there I'd definitely return. And actually, I know somebody at BarrandovTV I could put you in touch with, if it does come to that PM me ~
Another good song from that spring:
Just pure songcraft. Beautiful and perfect.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2lhyP1xSSM
I like her songs and all but I am posting for polka:
June.
(https://media.pitchfork.com/photos/5e8f1c49ecfafc0008428b37/master/pass/Phoebe-Bridgers-Punisher.jpg)
Fuck yeah.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCK6Feqz7wY
^ Banger
https://youtu.be/mA96nYMaE3Y
I'm late to this album, but easily the most impressive and cohesive Hip-Hop album I've heard in a while.
Hobo Johnson is just the best.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-2LTXFjjGc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlH3fqSxWWU
btw putney, great project to highlight.
If you ever get a chance to see anyobdy from RUBYYACHT's collective live they're really chill to chat with and a treasure to watch perform.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMhs6ovhJqs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fK3EOqpjqug
been digging this tune for over a decade now, used to sing it when twenty was far off, now I'm in the midst of all dat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXTE6lvSmB0
hope y'all have an all right week ~
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vtGS6oSZNg
I don't think it's hyperbole to say that I'm currently obsessed with this song. It has fewer that 5,000 views so far, and at least 30 of them are from me. Just a sublime three minutes of music.
"That unapparent summer air in early fall. The quiet comprehension of the ending of it all."
It's wild how good the songs in that special are on a pure musical level. This one, "All Eyes on Me," "White Woman's Instagram," "Content"... beyond how well they work as comedy and as thematic elements of the overall work, they're also just really skillfully crafted pop music.
That one and All eyes on me are the ones i listen to outside the context of the movie.
I think the film is incredible btw. For me the best covid/lockdown related film from the last couple of years. His other specials are good sure, but with this one he made something that felt truly original and special to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mHagQEL4-E
It very randomly occurred to me to revisit this song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlaTBER_tUw
I dig it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmQX8-7v7RA
Time to boost some music that doesn't have nearly as many views as it deserves:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iB4XjXYw_M
Love this girl. Disaffected electro-punk pop with a dark sense of humor and great hooks. This is the music Machine Gun Kelly thinks he's making. Somehow only 1.4K views on this video so far. Needs more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXuPyy-6P-E
Very little information out there about this artist. She's Australian, she's released this song... and that's pretty much it. I get this chorus stuck in my head several times a week. At time of posting, it has fewer than 350 views. Needs more!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=od_GT-fnXBc
I posted another Tommy Lefroy song further up in this thread, and they have since released their first EP and become my favorite band, not necessarily in that order. They're going to be huge sooner than later, you might as well get in on the ground floor. This video, at this moment, is at 678 views. Needs more!!! Just look at these lyrics:
Buying garlic at the grocery the morning of Halloween
'Cause you're catching a cold and you're trying to get clean
But I joke with the store clerk, "We're looking for vampires"
And she fucking believes me
LA is crazy
They're so good, you guys. And this is probably only my third or fourth favorite song of theirs. They're all this good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6xn_4zrFmA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khIBo4xzdag