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ServoMST3K posted:Someone recommended Odessey and Oracle to me a few years back, and I was about to go buy it until I realized The Zombies was the same band I had heard for years as a kid (most notably Time of the Season) on the radio. I never liked that track for various reasons, mainly because it reminded me of a middling Bobby Darin song (I know this is a dumb opinion, I just can't help associating that song with Darin). Can anyone help me change my frame of mind so I can appreciate Odessey and Oracle on my first listen? I feel like I'm missing out on a great album. Time of the Season is not surprisingly the last track on the album, and sounds nothing like everything else on the album. It almost seems like it was thrown there because it was a single-esque song and the band just did it cause they were told to. (I have no idea if that's true, it's just what it's always seemed like to me.) I actually got 6-7 to really dig this album almost immediately at a party in college just by playing Care of Cell 44 (the first track on the album). I'm not sure if them all being a bit tipsy had something to do with it, but those most appreciative of exploring music almost seemed saddened they hadn't listened to it before. Heck, if anything get Rod Argent's album Ring of Hands - his band was just called "Argent", but he was in the Zombie and seems to be the only guy from the group to really make any kind of mark after Odessey and Oracle. It's a bit similar to Odessey, very light and airy, but with a more muscular early 70s sound, and so if you're skeptical of Odessey, jump into that first, if you like it, then you'll know you're missing untolds more joy in Odessey.
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This nihilistic death cowboy post-rock posted last page is pretty good. Thanks. For those who like instrumental rock (with lots of different influences, such as surf, country, jazz and latin music), here's Pata de Elefante - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rp5dx_qPmo All their albums can be downloaded via their own homepage: http://patadeelefante.com/pata/discografia.php Also drummer Gustavo Telles's solo project - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htDUFc9GQXs - is good stuff too, mellow country rock that'd probably sound like something from the US if it wasn't for the vocals in portuguese. Can also be downloaded very legally from here: http://albumvirtual.trama.uol.com.br/album/1128131240 As for me looking for something, I'd enjoy something like later Sonic Youth or something that sounds like the Rolling Stones in Exile on main street. I realized that I'm beginning to run out of good Stones songs to listen to.
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I'm looking for more acoustic folky stuff along the lines of Bon Iver/Elliott Smith/Ray Lamontagne/Fleet Foxes/Mumford and Sons/Matt Costa. I'm an old, overworked, unhip parent and and as such a decade or so out of touch. 
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Armed Neutrality posted:I'm looking for more acoustic folky stuff along the lines of Bon Iver/Elliott Smith/Ray Lamontagne/Fleet Foxes/Mumford and Sons/Matt Costa. I'm an old, overworked, unhip parent and and as such a decade or so out of touch. Check out Woods, mostly their more recent stuff. Maybe Grouper, Mount Eerie, Fursaxa and Six Organs of Admittance if you're by any chance looking for more esoteric stuff.
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Armed Neutrality posted:I'm looking for more acoustic folky stuff along the lines of Bon Iver/Elliott Smith/Ray Lamontagne/Fleet Foxes/Mumford and Sons/Matt Costa. I'm an old, overworked, unhip parent and and as such a decade or so out of touch. Nina Nastasia, any of the various Will Oldham incarnations (Palace Brothers, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, etc), Bill Callahan/Smog, the Mountain Goats, the Kingsbury Manx, Mojave 3, Bill Ricchini
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iron chic posted:Can I get some help with post-punk? I like Felt, and this dude D. Vassalotti and his band Merchandise. I know Joy Division and The Smiths...I guess I should probably check out Wire, too. Any others? I'm more interested in currently touring/diy type bands but classics are good too. It depends what kind of direction you want to go in with post punk. Since post-punk is a term generally used to refer to any experimental, independent or otherwise non-mainstream "rock" music either made in the late 1970s to the early 80s or greatly inspired by that period, it's a pretty broad genre. I have an obsessive interest in post-punk so I'll give you a long-winded answer whether or not you want it  In general, the "classic" post punk bands that everyone will recommend you to start with are those like Joy Division, Wire, The Fall, Gang of Four, Siouxsie & the Banshees and Public Image Ltd. These bands are all great! But there is much, much more. I think I can split post-punk into a few vague categories - Gothic/darkwave - obviously The Cure (especially their album Pornography), Siouxsie & the Banshees, Bauhaus, Killing Joke and Sisters of Mercy, but also bands like Sex Gang Children, The Wake, The Chameleons (!!!!), Xmal Deutschland, Malaria!, and more or less every band that was on the 4AD label in the early 80s. Also check out "darkwave" bands like KaS Product, Siekiera and Clan of Xymox. There are a lot of contemporary bands with a similar sound. Check out Pleasure Leftists, The Soft Moon, Puerto Rico Flowers and my favorites TV Ghost (who are also loving amazing live if you ever get the chance to see them). Bands like these are seriously a dime a dozen, the hard part is not finding them but finding ones that are genuinely good or at least interesting. Punk-funk, dance-punk, etc: Liquid Liquid, Gang of Four, ESG, Bush Tetras, James Chance & The Contortions, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Delta 5, The Slits (kinda), Au Pairs, later Orange Juice. For newer bands, 100% of the dance-punk of the early/mid 00s was directly ripped off of this stuff. Indie: You mentioned you like Felt. I love Felt, they are one of my favorite bands. It is hard (read: impossible) to find music that sounds exactly like Felt, but other 80s indie* is close-ish I guess. Check out The Pastels, Scars (best pop song EVER in my opinion), Orange Juice, Teenage Fanclub, Aztec Camera, The Go-Betweens, Josef K, The Wedding Present, The Feelies - NME's C86 mixtape is a good place to start. Also relevant is a lot of New Zealand indie music of the 80s - the so called "Dunedin Sound" - especially everything on the Flying Nun label: The Clean, The Verlaines, The Great Unwashed, The Dead C, The Terminals, The Chills Contemporary bands: just look around lol No wave/Noise: I'm grouping together No wave and Noise because I'm lazy. No wave was a weird, short-lived scene that emerged in the lower east side of Manhattan in NYC in like, 1976. It's post-punk only in that it could never have existed without punk; it's very strange and has little to do with everything else also considered post-punk. But anyways, some bands/artists to check out are Teenage Jesus & the Jerks, Mars, DNA, Y Pants, Swans, early Sonic Youth and pretty much anything involving James Chance or Lydia Lunch. For the noisepunkier side of things, check out The Birthday Party (Nick Cave's band before the Bad Seeds), Scratch Acid, Big Black, Flipper, The Jesus Lizard, Brainbombs. I actually can't recommend the Birthday Party, Scratch Acid, Big Black and Brainbombs high enough. This noisy punk/post-punk sound is pretty popular right now I think. Everyone is ripping off Brainbombs! haha. Listen to Slug Guts, Shoppers and Clockcleaner. I would also recommend you check out the current punk/post-punk/metal/noise scene in Copenhagan. The best-known band is Iceage, but there's lots of others too: Sexdrome, Skurv, Redflesh, Pagan Youth, Marching Church, etc. They are not all what I would describe post-punk, but very post-punk influenced. If you like black metal at all, I recommend listening to the Grå Fraktion compilation. Sorry if this post is hard to follow. If you have any like, I don't know, questions or something, you can PM me. *Yeah, that's right, indie was invented in the 1980s not 2002 
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Armed Neutrality posted:I'm looking for more acoustic folky stuff along the lines of Bon Iver/Elliott Smith/Ray Lamontagne/Fleet Foxes/Mumford and Sons/Matt Costa. I'm an old, overworked, unhip parent and and as such a decade or so out of touch. Besides the earlier mentioned also try Boy & Bear, Blitzen Trapper, Great Lake Swimmers, older Iron & Wine (maybe?), the new Radical Face album and The Unthanks, Also afgrunden I'm pretty sure most indie people know about Sarah Records and its other labels from the time.
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afgrunden posted:It depends what kind of direction you want to go in with post punk. Since post-punk is a term generally used to refer to any experimental, independent or otherwise non-mainstream "rock" music either made in the late 1970s to the early 80s or greatly inspired by that period, it's a pretty broad genre. I have an obsessive interest in post-punk so I'll give you a long-winded answer whether or not you want it Oh, thank you for this. I love what post-punk I've heard, but haven't ventured into it much beyond the obvious bands.
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Armed Neutrality posted:I'm looking for more acoustic folky stuff along the lines of Bon Iver/Elliott Smith/Ray Lamontagne/Fleet Foxes/Mumford and Sons/Matt Costa. I'm an old, overworked, unhip parent and and as such a decade or so out of touch. Have you tried Josh Ritter or M. Ward?
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Rollersnake posted:Oh, thank you for this. I love what post-punk I've heard, but haven't ventured into it much beyond the obvious bands. I have but I've apparently missed out on Shoppers, which loving rules, so thanks for that.
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Thanks so much FadingChord, Davincie, Funkybottoms and Slowdave. There's enough stuff in there to keep me busy listening and tracking down stuff for long, long time.
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I really like Black Keys El Camino and The Hives any recommendations for that high energy fuzzy garage sound?
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WarpZealot posted:Hello I'm looking for some new hip-hop music. I really enjoy listening to Gang starr, Little Brother, Nujabes, old RJD2 stuff, and The Sound Providers. Maybe some "Jazz Rap" stuff as well (love Pete Rock). also a big Nujabes fan and I just listened to Pete Rock thanks to your post. Love it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrIhZPAAcjI You might also like Fat Jon- http://youtu.be/tdMPAH14o6Q This RJD2 mashup is fun- http://youtu.be/1vycbVXdmwA more funk than hip hop but Beastie Boys- The In Sound From Way Out is my favourite album- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb7XPxf68z8 other hip hop faves = A Tribe called quest - Electric Relaxation http://youtu.be/ERQzl4xDpXk KMD - Sweet Premium Wine- http://youtu.be/VdubgJ-eGuw (from this thread) The Truth by Handsome Boy Modeling School - http://youtu.be/DL7tz03v8wc and of course, J-Dilla- http://youtu.be/Gh_DkwNguSY
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I'm looking for the best artists and songs of the Philly Soul era. I'm in love with The Delfonics and The Three Degrees and I want as much more of this as I can get. Where do I start?
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the Bunt posted:I'm looking for the best artists and songs of the Philly Soul era. I'm in love with The Delfonics and The Three Degrees and I want as much more of this as I can get. Where do I start? The definite Philly Soul collection is Love Train: The Sound of Philadelphia (spotify album: http://open.spotify.com/album/663hqwrhVT6rQafXM7MiMI ) Also check out Conquer The World: The Lost Soul of Philadelphia International Records (spotify album: http://open.spotify.com/album/36EyfRc4KIyWtqdIZw1xSX ) it's a good mix, no real big hits but still some great tracks. blakout posted:I really like Black Keys El Camino and The Hives any recommendations for that high energy fuzzy garage sound? Check out The Dirtbombs (I really like Ultraglide in Black: http://open.spotify.com/album/5dUbfMC2mz6nB9mIZlTV4z ) and King Khan And the Shrines (The Supreme Genius of: http://open.spotify.com/album/6y4c8PITtqcgQc1V2tyQfz ) ShutteredIn fucked around with this message at 06:09 on Jan 10, 2012 |
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I am a big fan of poo poo like Alkaline Trio's (HAR HAR EMO) OLD stuff, such as Goddammit. I'm having a fairly hard time finding similar artists, and would appreciate a little input here. I am familiar with a few allegedly similar artists such as the Maine and Against Me! Basically, can someone kindly point me towards some rough-sounding punk with darker themes? (yes, I am aware of the Misfits.  )
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The Random Hero posted:I am a big fan of poo poo like Alkaline Trio's (HAR HAR EMO) OLD stuff, such as Goddammit. I'm having a fairly hard time finding similar artists, and would appreciate a little input here. I am familiar with a few allegedly similar artists such as the Maine and Against Me! going off "rough sounding punk w/ dark themes": this is a little confusing because the misfits aren't rough sounding at all, very melodic, but maybe you'd like naked raygun? or the germs, subhumans (uk), the effigies, hot snakes, the mummies, flipper? I'm just spitballing here.
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I'm looking for stuff similar to Animal Collective and Zap Mama: African (or African-influenced) music that has chant-like vocals.
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big business sloth posted:going off "rough sounding punk w/ dark themes": I suppose I probably mainly thinking of the theme part of it and the Misfits came to mind. I see now how that is confusing. Thank you though, I will check all of these bands out!
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Those are all great bands (some of my favorites, in fact) and I recommend all of them, but I think you'd probably take more to bands like The Lawrence Arms, Jawbreaker, Avail, Hot Water Music, and Dillinger Four.
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blakout posted:I really like Black Keys El Camino and The Hives any recommendations for that high energy fuzzy garage sound? Why not check out the guy that Hives basically ripped off - The New Bomb Turks (i'm not being mean, they toured together and the Swedes embrace NBT as their main influence): http://youtu.be/Sqfko1QjrUE http://youtu.be/p9aC2kfAW9s The Dirtbombs - band from Detroit, two drummers, two bassists and a singing guitarist. These guys can play an old soul standard, then follow it up with a Cheater Slicks cover, just to wrap it up with an INXS song. Recently they released a record consisting solely of Detroit techno songs. http://youtu.be/xGRYPVNDnjQ Charlie & The Moonhearts (now known as Moonhearts) - three young guys from California playing sunny, overblown garage-rawk. They're good friends with Ty Segall, you should check his stuff out, too. http://youtu.be/8Waj65AyR1A http://youtu.be/hQlRZfqcEFA The Reigning Sound - the leader of this band, Greg Cartwright (also known as Greg Oblivian) is a living Memphis garage legend. He played in Oblivians Compulsive Gamblers (also great bands to check). Reigning Sound seems to be the most http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=va2Jnrtg7es http://youtu.be/SCfTeW9UdtI The Sonics - The band which started all this garage stuff. Fuzzboxes were not common in their days, so their guitarist ripped the membrane of his amp to make it sound dirtier. He succeeded. http://youtu.be/bMtk5Lor_0E
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The Random Hero posted:Basically, can someone kindly point me towards some rough-sounding punk with darker themes? (yes, I am aware of the Misfits. Rough dark punk coming right up: TSOL - first wave of American HC punk. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXQcCC6zBIc http://youtu.be/TojxS99Chzg Shards - newer band, similar to TSOL in some aspects. You can hear one song on the label site. Their LP is 4 bucks right now. http://www.sorrystaterecords.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=2243 and I left the heaviest for the last. Brainbombs, from Sweden. Doesn't get rougher or darker than this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s91fgiGWzLc http://youtu.be/FfF6XZTklto Terminally Bored fucked around with this message at 23:50 on Jan 11, 2012 |
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Terminally Bored posted:The Dirtbombs These guys are amazing live. Great show. I'd highly recommend going out to see them if you have the opportunity. I saw them open for BRMC. The frontman played the guitar with his teeth and closed their set by humping his ax into submission as the lights dimmed.
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Mick Collins is awesome but The Gories are way better than The Dirtbombs. You should also probably listen to Thee Headcoats in addition to the other stuff mentioned.
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Hey everyone =) I heard a pretty cool song today. It is Bloodhail by Have a Nice Life. I was wondering had recommendations for dark ambient music similar to that song =) Also I recently started listening to The Wipers and was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of other bands of a similar genre and equal merit? I'm not into anything really heavy like screamo, but I'll take a listen. I'm trying to expand my library. I've been on Last.fm but I didn't know if there were any other influential bands like the Wipers I was missing out on.
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RebBrownies posted:Also I recently started listening to The Wipers and was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of other bands of a similar genre and equal merit? Husker Du, Dinosaur Jr, and the Minutemen
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RebBrownies posted:Also I recently started listening to The Wipers and was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of other bands of a similar genre and equal merit? Wipers are a pretty unique band in that there aren't a whole lot of Punk/Post-Punk bands that have the same feel or evoke the same moods while also having the same level of musicianship as the band (well, mostly Greg Sage). As far as their contemporaries are concerned, Fang might be your best bet. Maybe not as influential or technically proficient as Wipers, but just as good. They released one really good LP (Landshark) and a few average ones. Then their lead singer went on a heroin binge and strangled his girlfriend. I guess just check out anything on SST/Amphetamine Reptile/Touch & Go from the '80s. Those labels did a good job of capturing the same feel that I think a lot of Wipers material has (especially the tail end of their early material), and pretty much all the artists signed to these labels around that time period are hugely influential. A lot of the stuff mentioned in big business sloth's post will probably be right up your alley, like Flipper, The Germs, The Effigies, and Naked Raygun. Hot Snakes are amazing, too, but they were basically just a Wipers tribute band. If you're looking for modern bands, White Lung, Red Dons, The Estranged, Merchandise, Milk Music, Autistic Youth, and Bloody Gears are all relatively similar (some more than others). Radio Spiricom fucked around with this message at 06:50 on Jan 12, 2012 |
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dailydares posted:Those are all great bands (some of my favorites, in fact) and I recommend all of them, but I think you'd probably take more to bands like The Lawrence Arms, Jawbreaker, Avail, Hot Water Music, and Dillinger Four. Terminally Bored posted:Dark rough punk coming up
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Thank you so much Dailydares and funkybottoms! I can't wait to start listening! That was really helpful!
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Definitely check out the Estranged. They're from the same town as the Wipers, but are a newer band and sound a ton like them. Maybe check out The History of Portland punk vol. 1 for the Wipers contemporaries. Edit: Daily Dares last sentence is what you want. A good half or so of the bands mentioned in his post are from Portland too, we can't really let go of our 80s sounds. the Observers would be another good bet, the Red Dons' frontman's old band The Doo Do Chasers fucked around with this message at 08:36 on Jan 12, 2012 |
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RebBrownies posted:Also I recently started listening to The Wipers and was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of other bands of a similar genre and equal merit? All of the above recommendations hold great merit. I can name one more modern band which takes directly from Wipers - Defektors from Vancouver, Canada. http://vimeo.com/30049193 http://vimeo.com/7179856 http://vimeo.com/7388822 Their LP, "Bottom of the City" ends with an epic, 7-minute version of their early song "Burning Light", not unlike "Youth of America".
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Anything out there like Lo-Pro or Ultraspank? Pandora recommends Korn, Sliknot, Drowning Pool, coal chamber, and Mudvayne. So basically Pandora is dumb as hell. I checked out Geffen records and they have a bunch of artists I already enjoy like Bush, Alien Ant Farm, Bloodhound Gang, Rise Against, etc. Still nothing similar to them as I would like. Any suggestions? (and before Finger Eleven's older, better stuff is recommended, I've got that )
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RebBrownies posted:I heard a pretty cool song today. It is Bloodhail by Have a Nice Life. That whole album is really, really good. I hope you've listened to other songs on Deathconsciousness. They're on the label Enemies List Home Recordings; I'd recommend checking out some other bands on there. Especially Giles Corey, Dan Barret's other band, and Afterlives. If you're specifically looking for dark ambient, I'm afraid I won't be of a ton of help, as I don't normally listen to that genre. Have A Nice Life is just so drat good, and their label seems cater specifically to that kind of gloomy, diy aesthetic, and less so specific genres.
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dailydares posted:Mick Collins is awesome but The Gories are way better than The Dirtbombs. This man speaks the truth. Blacktop is another great Mick Collins project. Nestled right between The Gories and Dirtbombs on the timeline, iirc. For more in the Detroit/garage-y/lo-fi sound, check out SSM, The Sights, or really anything Troy Gregory has put his hands on.
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Sad Mammal posted:I'm looking for stuff similar to Animal Collective and Zap Mama: African (or African-influenced) music that has chant-like vocals. If Animal Collective, then definitely Panda Bear and Deakin, probably A Sunny Day in Glasgow. African oriented: Tinariwen, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Tamikrest. Sadly I don't know anything that combines both - it's rather one or another.
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WarpZealot posted:Hello I'm looking for some new hip-hop music. I really enjoy listening to Gang starr, Little Brother, Nujabes, old RJD2 stuff, and The Sound Providers. Maybe some "Jazz Rap" stuff as well (love Pete Rock). If you like nujabes I can't recommend DJ okawari enough. Very jazzy beats with beautiful piano and vocals.
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virtualboyCOLOR posted:Anything out there like Lo-Pro or Ultraspank?
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Eh, I think they sound different enough not to sound like Staind. Plus Staind is incredibly loving terrible. Plus Ultraspank had more of an industrial sound mixed with "nu metal" while Staind was whiny bullshit nu metal. And while I get why Pandora made those recommendations, that doesn't make them correct. Pandora's been getting more and more useless in discovering new musing for the past 2 years anyway because of exactly what you mentioned.
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