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het
Nov 14, 2002

A dark black past
is my most valued
possession

Slim Jim Pickens posted:

I'll try to narrow this down as much as possible, it's a pretty vague question, even in my head.

Are there any songs/bands that work with really simple and crisp and dominating synth melodies that are backed by other, less produced sounds?
I mean, really simple, stuff you could play with only one finger on a keyboard, plus a garage-sounding bunch of other instruments to give some life and energy.
A comparable example would help a lot, even if it's "like this, but with/without X"

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regulargonzalez
Aug 18, 2006
UNGH LET ME LICK THOSE BOOTS DADDY HULU ;-* ;-* ;-* YES YES GIVE ME ALL THE CORPORATE CUMMIES :shepspends: :shepspends: :shepspends: ADBLOCK USERS DESERVE THE DEATH PENALTY, DON'T THEY DADDY?
WHEN THE RICH GET RICHER I GET HORNIER :a2m::a2m::a2m::a2m:

Slim Jim Pickens posted:

I'll try to narrow this down as much as possible, it's a pretty vague question, even in my head.

Are there any songs/bands that work with really simple and crisp and dominating synth melodies that are backed by other, less produced sounds?
I mean, really simple, stuff you could play with only one finger on a keyboard, plus a garage-sounding bunch of other instruments to give some life and energy.

New Order?

Slim Jim Pickens
Jan 16, 2012

het posted:

A comparable example would help a lot, even if it's "like this, but with/without X"

Sure, I heard Endless Fantasy by Anamanaguchi playing and I liked how the synth sounded from about 1:01. I think the chiptunes that start at 1:30 are a little grating though.

Also, a friend was over and he played something in Japanese with a similar sounding synth, only there was sort of garagey rock backing and clearly somebody going nuts banging on their keyboard as hard as they could.


Oh, I enjoy New Order but they're more brooding than what I was thinking about.

SpiritualDeath
Jul 2, 2009

shaping your brain like pottery
The Units are the best match I know of. (to your original request, that is--not as sure after the Anamanaguchi thing)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0Jbm1D80L8

Slim Jim Pickens posted:

Also, a friend was over and he played something in Japanese with a similar sounding synth, only there was sort of garagey rock backing and clearly somebody going nuts banging on their keyboard as hard as they could.
That sounds like a description of Polysics.

Ras Het
May 23, 2007

when I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child - but now I am a man.

Slim Jim Pickens posted:

I'll try to narrow this down as much as possible, it's a pretty vague question, even in my head.

Are there any songs/bands that work with really simple and crisp and dominating synth melodies that are backed by other, less produced sounds?
I mean, really simple, stuff you could play with only one finger on a keyboard, plus a garage-sounding bunch of other instruments to give some life and energy.

https://soundcloud.com/janefondaaerobicvhs

Koivunen
Oct 7, 2011

there's definitely no logic
to human behaviour

Slim Jim Pickens posted:

I'll try to narrow this down as much as possible, it's a pretty vague question, even in my head.

Are there any songs/bands that work with really simple and crisp and dominating synth melodies that are backed by other, less produced sounds?
I mean, really simple, stuff you could play with only one finger on a keyboard, plus a garage-sounding bunch of other instruments to give some life and energy.

Pinkerton era Weezer?

Lampsacus
Oct 21, 2008

We're heading under summer here in New Zealand so I'm prepping my playlists. Last year it was Primal Scream's Screamadelica all summmer long.

This year? Something along the lines of

The first MGMT album, psychedelic folk pop, young people driving down a country road.

Ideas?

funkybottoms
Oct 28, 2010

Funky Bottoms is a land man

Lampsacus posted:

We're heading under summer here in New Zealand so I'm prepping my playlists. Last year it was Primal Scream's Screamadelica all summmer long.

This year? Something along the lines of

The first MGMT album, psychedelic folk pop, young people driving down a country road.

Ideas?

if it's not too obvious for a Kiwi, Flying Nun put out a lot great records by bands like the Bats, the Clean, Tall Dwarves, Bailter Space, the Verlaines, etc, etc (aka "the Dunedin Sound"). for something more along the lines of Screamadelica's trippy, kitchen-sink approach to styles, maybe check out the Beta Band's Hot Shots II, Super Furry Animals' Rings Around the World, or Islands' Return to the Sea.

Skittle Wood
Dec 10, 2005

I've been really enjoying bands like Cult of Youth, Death in June and the Birthday Party. Any other bands in a similar vein I should hear?


Slim Jim Pickens posted:

Sure, I heard Endless Fantasy by Anamanaguchi playing and I liked how the synth sounded from about 1:01. I think the chiptunes that start at 1:30 are a little grating though.

Also, a friend was over and he played something in Japanese with a similar sounding synth, only there was sort of garagey rock backing and clearly somebody going nuts banging on their keyboard as hard as they could.


Oh, I enjoy New Order but they're more brooding than what I was thinking about.

How do you feel about Future Islands?

a_gelatinous_cube
Feb 13, 2005

Can anyone recommend me some cyberpunky Drum and Bass, or anything that sounds similar to this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPUp2PiCYBY

Slim Jim Pickens
Jan 16, 2012

Skittle Wood posted:

I've been really enjoying bands like Cult of Youth, Death in June and the Birthday Party. Any other bands in a similar vein I should hear?


How do you feel about Future Islands?




SpiritualDeath posted:

The Units are the best match I know of. (to your original request, that is--not as sure after the Anamanaguchi thing)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0Jbm1D80L8

That sounds like a description of Polysics.

It wasn't Polysics, but thanks everyone for these reccs!

Koivunen posted:

Pinkerton era Weezer?

I wasn't thinking of Weezer when I wrote my post, they're pretty much on the nose of what I was thinking about.. without loud synths. Oh well.

Declan MacManus
Sep 1, 2011

damn i'm really in this bitch

Slim Jim Pickens posted:

I wasn't thinking of Weezer when I wrote my post, they're pretty much on the nose of what I was thinking about.. without loud synths. Oh well.

A lot of their Songs from the Black Hole material features very prominent synth work.

Kmlkmljkl
Sep 21, 2014


AT NIGHT I GET SO LONELY I JERK IT FURIOUSLY TO THE SIMS
Anyone got something similar to Long Range? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7j__MHoCyE

Franchescanado
Feb 23, 2013

If it wasn't for disappointment
I wouldn't have any appointment

Grimey Drawer

Lampsacus posted:

We're heading under summer here in New Zealand so I'm prepping my playlists. Last year it was Primal Scream's Screamadelica all summmer long.

This year? Something along the lines of

The first MGMT album, psychedelic folk pop, young people driving down a country road.

Ideas?

Hockey
Harlem Shakes
Dodos
Fruit Bats "The Ruminant Band" album
Early Beck
Beulah's "The Coast Is Never Clear" album
Some Andrew Bird

Edit: And some Akron/Family

Franchescanado fucked around with this message at 19:14 on Nov 28, 2014

Vorenus
Jul 14, 2013
I've been getting into a bit of country music lately, not a big fan of most of the country radio hits but I do like several songs by artists like Garth Brooks, Jason Aldean, etc. What I'm really looking for is stuff more along the lines of Old Crow Medicine Show or Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. Specifically songs like Wagon Wheel and Fishin in the Dark, and anything upbeat and violin-heavy. FWIW, I've gone through a lot of Trampled By Turtles and it's not bad but it doesn't quite grab my interest.

Thanks for any and all recommendations.

BigFactory
Sep 17, 2002

Vorenus posted:

I've been getting into a bit of country music lately, not a big fan of most of the country radio hits but I do like several songs by artists like Garth Brooks, Jason Aldean, etc. What I'm really looking for is stuff more along the lines of Old Crow Medicine Show or Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. Specifically songs like Wagon Wheel and Fishin in the Dark, and anything upbeat and violin-heavy. FWIW, I've gone through a lot of Trampled By Turtles and it's not bad but it doesn't quite grab my interest.

Thanks for any and all recommendations.

Dave Rawlings Machine, Punch Brothers, Flying Burrito Brothers, Little Feat.

Ewar Woowar
Feb 25, 2007

Hi NMD, I would like some alt-country (I guess that's what you'd call it?) recommendations in the same vein as Pavement - Father to a Sister of Sister of Thought and Parquet Courts - Uncast Shadow of a Southern Myth . I love that slide guitar sort of sound :)

strap on revenge
Apr 8, 2011

that's my thing that i say

Lampsacus posted:

We're heading under summer here in New Zealand so I'm prepping my playlists. Last year it was Primal Scream's Screamadelica all summmer long.

This year? Something along the lines of

The first MGMT album, psychedelic folk pop, young people driving down a country road.

Ideas?

I quite like this guy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LbOIG_8GNg

The Leck
Feb 27, 2001

Slim Jim Pickens posted:

I wasn't thinking of Weezer when I wrote my post, they're pretty much on the nose of what I was thinking about.. without loud synths. Oh well.
This might be too obvious based on "Weezer, but with more synth", but The Rentals?

me your dad
Jul 25, 2006

Vorenus posted:

I've been getting into a bit of country music lately, not a big fan of most of the country radio hits but I do like several songs by artists like Garth Brooks, Jason Aldean, etc. What I'm really looking for is stuff more along the lines of Old Crow Medicine Show or Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. Specifically songs like Wagon Wheel and Fishin in the Dark, and anything upbeat and violin-heavy. FWIW, I've gone through a lot of Trampled By Turtles and it's not bad but it doesn't quite grab my interest.

Thanks for any and all recommendations.

Check out Uncle Tupelo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7CGkuLEs5U

Sun Volt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIHtFySoo6U

Bayham Badger
Jan 19, 2007

Secretly force socialism, communism and imperialism types of government onto the people of the United States of America.

I'm still getting into country myself, and I came to OCMS and Trampled By Turtles by way of Uncle Tupelo and Son Volt, as recommended in the post above, as well as Jay Farrar's solo stuff, but also the Old 97's - they are definitely upbeat and engaging. I may have a soft spot in my heart for them out of sentimental reasons, so your mileage may vary.

Also, some of Steve Earle's stuff might fit the bill. Copperhead Road and Transcendental Blues are what I'm most familiar with.

Rockzilla
Feb 19, 2007

Squish!
I'm looking for new music to run to. Right now I'm listening to a lot of The Go! Team, Daft Punk, Justice, Death From Above 1979, Japandroids, Sleigh Bells and cheesy 80's action movie stuff like Stan Bush or this.

Recommendations for anything rock-ish, electronic or cheesy would be appreciated.

buglord
Jul 31, 2010

Cheating at a raffle? I sentence you to 1 year in jail! No! Two years! Three! Four! Five years! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!

Buglord
I'm looking for artists that sound like 90s punk rock or whatever. I was introduced to Yuck lately and they were great. Sparklehorse's less melancholy sounding songs like Someday I'll Treat You Good scratched that itch too. I already investigated Pavement and Teenage Fanclub but they're mostly hit and miss. It's hard to narrow down what i'm looking for other than saying more like this song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz7vyrFhFE8

funkybottoms
Oct 28, 2010

Funky Bottoms is a land man

Avocados posted:

I'm looking for artists that sound like 90s punk rock or whatever [?]. I was introduced to Yuck lately and they were great. Sparklehorse's less melancholy sounding songs like Someday I'll Treat You Good scratched that itch too. I already investigated Pavement and Teenage Fanclub but they're mostly hit and miss. It's hard to narrow down what i'm looking for other than saying more like this song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz7vyrFhFE8

Dinosaur Jr, Yo La Tengo, Guided By Voices, Superchunk, maybe Sugar... and there's something else that i feel i should be mad obvious but can't pull. if you want more of the shoegaze aspect, the Swirlies and Drop Nineteens might work, too.

regulargonzalez
Aug 18, 2006
UNGH LET ME LICK THOSE BOOTS DADDY HULU ;-* ;-* ;-* YES YES GIVE ME ALL THE CORPORATE CUMMIES :shepspends: :shepspends: :shepspends: ADBLOCK USERS DESERVE THE DEATH PENALTY, DON'T THEY DADDY?
WHEN THE RICH GET RICHER I GET HORNIER :a2m::a2m::a2m::a2m:

Avocados posted:

I'm looking for artists that sound like 90s punk rock or whatever. I was introduced to Yuck lately and they were great. Sparklehorse's less melancholy sounding songs like Someday I'll Treat You Good scratched that itch too. I already investigated Pavement and Teenage Fanclub but they're mostly hit and miss. It's hard to narrow down what i'm looking for other than saying more like this song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz7vyrFhFE8

Sleater-Kinney, particularly their 2nd and 3rd albums (Call the Doctor and Dig Me Out, respectively).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbmZi_VS4ZM

In fact, that track you posted sounds like a bit noisier, slightly uptempo version of Don't Talk Like from their fourth album. Or at least the guitar reminds me of it a bit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8EnSmXiYpo

e: If you like the noisy, fuzzed out sound of that Yuck track you might prefer SK's last album The Woods. Not punk, just intense, driving, noisy fuzzed out indie rock with punk memories. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iIC1GdDMeo

regulargonzalez fucked around with this message at 07:07 on Dec 3, 2014

VenusInFurries
Apr 12, 2014

<3 tsalaroth
Shot in the dark here, as I've not seen many people talk about Techno.

I found the Black Asteroid remix of Bloody Beetroots' Keep On Dancing, and liked it a great deal.

I'm looking for more Techno like this. Monotone, hammering, speedy and wholly unapologetic about its monotony. So far the best I've found was Shed's I Come By Night.

I hope someone here cares about techno and can point me in the right direction :ohdear:

edit: On another note of "poo poo I Found And Want More Of": Foreign Beggars & Tommy Lee - Mind's Eye. I'm really digging the combination of the vocals from Foreign Beggars with the synthy/harsh music, does this strike a chord with anyone else?

VenusInFurries fucked around with this message at 13:23 on Dec 3, 2014

FluxFaun
Apr 7, 2010


I want to expand my musical tastes a bit. I heard a bunch of Flobots stuff recently, and I'd like to figure out more like them. Sadly, pandora seems to think I want gangster rap, which I don't. I can't friggin stand gangster rap. I also really like the Epic Rap Battles of History, and I'd love to hear more rap battles, but I have no idea where to start. Help?

buglord
Jul 31, 2010

Cheating at a raffle? I sentence you to 1 year in jail! No! Two years! Three! Four! Five years! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!

Buglord

funkybottoms posted:

Dinosaur Jr, Yo La Tengo, Guided By Voices, Superchunk, maybe Sugar... and there's something else that i feel i should be mad obvious but can't pull. if you want more of the shoegaze aspect, the Swirlies and Drop Nineteens might work, too.

regulargonzalez posted:

Sleater-Kinney, particularly their 2nd and 3rd albums (Call the Doctor and Dig Me Out, respectively).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbmZi_VS4ZM

In fact, that track you posted sounds like a bit noisier, slightly uptempo version of Don't Talk Like from their fourth album. Or at least the guitar reminds me of it a bit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8EnSmXiYpo

e: If you like the noisy, fuzzed out sound of that Yuck track you might prefer SK's last album The Woods. Not punk, just intense, driving, noisy fuzzed out indie rock with punk memories. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iIC1GdDMeo

I'll check these out when I get home. Thanks buddies. :buddy:

coaxmetal
Oct 21, 2010

I flamed me own dad
that noised out punk sounds really good, I like that Yuck track. Gonna check it out too.

What would you call the guitar effect at the start of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV31EHwtayo

ignoring the rest, though its fine, im interested in things that sound like/use the stuttered guitar at the start. Not so much a genre thing, just wondering if anyone else uses a similar effect/sound, esp on that acoustic guitar sound.

Also, is there anyone else that sounds like Sleigh Bells?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiwcUdX7XMw

Al Cu Ad Solte
Nov 30, 2005
Searching for
a righteous cause
I really like A Perfect Circle and just recently listened to Ashes Divide by the same lead guitarist and loved it, particularly Sword and Forever Can Be. I'm not that big into Tool. And recommendations? Yes, I'm aware of how silly this is.

Kmlkmljkl
Sep 21, 2014


AT NIGHT I GET SO LONELY I JERK IT FURIOUSLY TO THE SIMS

Kmlkmljkl posted:

Anyone got something similar to Long Range? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7j__MHoCyE

anyone?

regulargonzalez
Aug 18, 2006
UNGH LET ME LICK THOSE BOOTS DADDY HULU ;-* ;-* ;-* YES YES GIVE ME ALL THE CORPORATE CUMMIES :shepspends: :shepspends: :shepspends: ADBLOCK USERS DESERVE THE DEATH PENALTY, DON'T THEY DADDY?
WHEN THE RICH GET RICHER I GET HORNIER :a2m::a2m::a2m::a2m:


Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works vol 1

EmmyOk
Aug 11, 2013

coaxmetal posted:

that noised out punk sounds really good, I like that Yuck track. Gonna check it out too.

What would you call the guitar effect at the start of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV31EHwtayo

ignoring the rest, though its fine, im interested in things that sound like/use the stuttered guitar at the start. Not so much a genre thing, just wondering if anyone else uses a similar effect/sound, esp on that acoustic guitar sound.

Also, is there anyone else that sounds like Sleigh Bells?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiwcUdX7XMw

Blood Red Shoes are kind of similar, male and female vocalists

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-yxwXIrQ-E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXu-Q4EsaFA

Kvlt!
May 19, 2012



Can you recommend me some epic psychedelic albums? As in the type of stuff that you'd do a bunch of acid or DMT and then put on and have a crazy journey.

Febreeze
Oct 24, 2011

I want to care, butt I dont
I've been in a melancholy mood lately and I've been looking for those kind of slower sad/nostalgic songs. Anything fairly ambient or in this vein:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q22BmqDjdus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=It4WxQ6dnn0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5ywY80Jh-M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxQuRpfmhNA

Also while I'm at it I really like most everything Jose Gonzales does, both his more solo unplugged stuff and with more production in Junip. I think it's his voice & style of singing combined with everything I like, so if there's stuff out there in that vein I'd love to find it.


Kvlt! posted:

Can you recommend me some epic psychedelic albums? As in the type of stuff that you'd do a bunch of acid or DMT and then put on and have a crazy journey.

Shpongle makes me feel like I'm on an acid trip even without taking drugs, so I'd start there on "Are you Sphongled". Especially Divine Moments of Truth.

KevinHeaven
Aug 26, 2008

I run the voodoo down
Can anyone here recommend me some jangly pop-rock kind of like this--https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGR_bUYe-PA and the Byrds and early Beatles?

regulargonzalez
Aug 18, 2006
UNGH LET ME LICK THOSE BOOTS DADDY HULU ;-* ;-* ;-* YES YES GIVE ME ALL THE CORPORATE CUMMIES :shepspends: :shepspends: :shepspends: ADBLOCK USERS DESERVE THE DEATH PENALTY, DON'T THEY DADDY?
WHEN THE RICH GET RICHER I GET HORNIER :a2m::a2m::a2m::a2m:

KevinHeaven posted:

Can anyone here recommend me some jangly pop-rock kind of like this--https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGR_bUYe-PA and the Byrds and early Beatles?

The Smiths, maybe?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgxEJOi6GtA

strap on revenge
Apr 8, 2011

that's my thing that i say

Kvlt! posted:

Can you recommend me some epic psychedelic albums? As in the type of stuff that you'd do a bunch of acid or DMT and then put on and have a crazy journey.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mqk2tewN1A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPc3WKZzrQs

89
Feb 24, 2006

#worldchamps
EDIT: This may be better for a new thread, so ignore this.

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Declan MacManus
Sep 1, 2011

damn i'm really in this bitch

Kvlt! posted:

Can you recommend me some epic psychedelic albums? As in the type of stuff that you'd do a bunch of acid or DMT and then put on and have a crazy journey.

Days of Future Passed, Song Cycle, Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space, Aoxomoxoa, Tomorrow (self-titled)

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