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T Bowl posted:The Crowded House cover is the best because I say it is the best because only my opinion matters because the other opinions are diarrhea. Also because Amelia Meath 
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life goal: get u someone who looks at you like Meath looks at her bandmate here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5ivBnosEJo
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I like the new Judah and the Lion single https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AigOUsOEhSY
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Jul 6, 2017 17:45
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Stream of the new Toro Y Moi album, really good stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rPOuZ4vY50
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New HAIM album is out and it's good. It took me several listens to really appreciate all the songs on the first album, so I'm not expecting to immediately like this as much on the first listen, but I'm optimistic. I think what happens with their albums is there are almost too many good hooks, so your brain doesn't have room to get grabbed by all of them right away. Oh, and if you haven't already heard the... not sure what to call it, but that thing artists are doing lately where songs from the upcoming album start appearing on streaming, but they're not really "singles" either... Anyway, the album version of "Right Now" is drastically different from the video version, which is good since it's the second-to-last track.
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I really like the second half of the Haim album. Mainly Walking Away and Right Now. I mainly love how it's mixed. Not as powerful as their first album but it's pretty nice. Paperback Writer fucked around with this message at 23:21 on Jul 7, 2017 |
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Jul 7, 2017 16:03
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RedneckwithGuns posted:Stream of the new Toro Y Moi album, really good stuff: Yeah I liked this album quite a bit.
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Jul 7, 2017 16:28
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All of those AV Undercover links were dead to me, I hope someone posted the Sharon Van Etten and Shearwater cover of Stop Draggin My Heart Around.
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The GWAR version of Carry On Wayward Son is unquestionably the best undercover
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Henchman of Santa posted:The GWAR version of Carry On Wayward Son is unquestionably the best undercover GWAR rocks in general. Their cover of She Bops and West End Girls are also great performances. It's like, they have fun with it but they aren't slacking off.
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Henchman of Santa posted:The GWAR version of Carry On Wayward Son is unquestionably the best undercover I liked West End Girls a bit better but they're all great. Bands wish senses of humor are always better at this kind of poo poo.
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Jul 7, 2017 18:33
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The Haim record is really loving boring in my opinion and I loved the first one. It has like 2 solid songs, the rest is forgettable. The only saving grace is the production is pretty cool I think but yeah doesn't save the weak rear end songs.
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I've honestly never understood the appeal of Haim. They have pretty voices and everything is done extremely well, but their music is so deeply and intensely boring that I'm just baffled by people's response to them. It's like if everyone suddenly got incredibly excited about a perfectly toasted slice of plain white bread. However this is also my response to U2 and they're obviously doing quite well for themselves so I guess I just don't get blandcompetencecore or whatever that style of music is called.
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Jul 7, 2017 22:26
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Trig Discipline posted:I've honestly never understood the appeal of Haim. They have pretty voices and everything is done extremely well, but their music is so deeply and intensely boring that I'm just baffled by people's response to them. It's like if everyone suddenly got incredibly excited about a perfectly toasted slice of plain white bread. However this is also my response to U2 and they're obviously doing quite well for themselves so I guess I just don't get blandcompetencecore or whatever that style of music is called. U2 is still, somehow, running on the fumes of the 90s. All That You Can't Leave Behind was the equivalent of a little carburetor spray, but after that I think the machine is always seconds away from rattling itself apart.
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Even in the 90s when they were brand new I was just baffled by their popularity. You know how in Westworld there are some things the robots are prohibited from seeing, and they just look all confused and say "it doesn't look like anything to me"? That's me with U2.
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Jul 7, 2017 23:59
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The best AV Undercover is Screaming Females' cover of Shake it Off (non-Youtube link because they are unavailable in Canada or something???) http://www.avclub.com/video/screaming-females-cover-taylor-swift-220209
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Trig Discipline posted:Even in the 90s when they were brand new I was just baffled by their popularity. You know how in Westworld there are some things the robots are prohibited from seeing, and they just look all confused and say "it doesn't look like anything to me"? That's me with U2. Trig Discipline posted:Even in the 90s when they were brand new I was just baffled by their popularity. Trig Discipline posted:Even in the 90s when they were brand new Uhhhhh Wikipedia posted:U2 are an Irish rock band from Dublin formed in 1976.
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I kinda thought that was wrong even as I was typing it, because I had vague memories of friends trying to convince me U2 weren't boring by making me watch the Red Rocks video at some point in the 80s. They do seem like they've been around forever, but I chalked that up to how boring they are.
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Their big breakout was released 87 so it's not that crazy.
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It's baffling that so many indie bands try to follow the U2 progression to stadium concert hits and they always end up completely terrible.
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Trig Discipline posted:I've honestly never understood the appeal of Haim. They have pretty voices and everything is done extremely well, but their music is so deeply and intensely boring that I'm just baffled by people's response to them. It's like if everyone suddenly got incredibly excited about a perfectly toasted slice of plain white bread. However this is also my response to U2 and they're obviously doing quite well for themselves so I guess I just don't get blandcompetencecore or whatever that style of music is called. I found U2 to be interesting up until after around 2000 or so. I think before then, they were really expanding from their original post-punk sound. Songs like New Years Day have a great New Order-ish vibe to them, and as the 80s went on, they expanded a bit. Obviously, Angel of Harlem sounds nothing like a Joy Division song. As far as Haim - I don't know, they make fun little songs. Although, I don't think I can ever see them live. Their bassist just makes the most horrifying facial expressions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXEIPHDFokI It's a great song. But Jesus, the bassist looks like she's in pain. Edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXEIPHDFokI&t=184s - Here's the performance at the point where she either looks like she's going to kill you or... what the gently caress is that facial expression? Cemetry Gator fucked around with this message at 14:57 on Jul 8, 2017 |
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U2's best of 1980-1990 and 1990-2000 are two collections I still listen to a lot. They've got some excellent singles under their belt. I really love the Batman song they did, also the one for the Tomb Raider movie (that movie, if nothing else, has a fantastic soundtrack)
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Ratios and Tendency posted:Their big breakout was released 87 so it's not that crazy. In the Name of Love came out in 84, Sunday Bloody Sunday came out in 83. Joshua Tree was a breakout album, but they were already huge. Not a huge U2 fan, but genuinely curious about their legacy. The Gen X consensus was that they were uniformly great through Acthung Baby, but I wonder how those earlier songs sound to younger generations. Edit: I have to accept that I just don't care about Broken Social Scene anymore. Like, I can't even tell if the new album is objectively well done because it feels so far from what I'm interested in hearing in 2017. The Modern Leper fucked around with this message at 16:07 on Jul 8, 2017 |
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The Modern Leper posted:In the Name of Love came out in 84, Sunday Bloody Sunday came out in 83. Joshua Tree was a breakout album, but they were already huge. I know some huge U2 fans but I think most of the generation finds them dull or associates them with forcing their album on our phones
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Are we allowed to rant in this thread? I'm getting reaaaallll sick of all these female-fronted shoegaze/dreampop bands featuring sinuey, washed-out vocals against chopped-up minimalistic backing tracks. Spotify insists on stuffing my Discovery Weekly playlists full of this stuff and its all hot, same-soundy garbage. Hrrrmmpff 
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Cyril Sneer posted:I'm getting reaaaallll sick of all these female-fronted shoegaze/dreampop bands featuring sinuey, washed-out vocals against chopped-up minimalistic backing tracks. Spotify insists on stuffing my Discovery Weekly playlists full of this stuff and its all hot, same-soundy garbage. Would that include Sylvan Esso? Because I am not sick of that at all yet. Not that she would count as indie, but sorta along these lines I am kinda disappointed with the new Lorde album. Most of what I liked musically about her first one has been watered down in this one, and the writing has taken a substantial hit. Not that it was ever amazing, mind you, but when your refrain is "hard feelings...these are what they call hard feelings" you need to sit back down and maybe put some loving work in.
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Trig Discipline posted:Would that include Sylvan Esso? Because I am not sick of that at all yet. Sylvan Esso fits the genre, but she's on the better end of the spectrum, I'll grant her that.
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I ordered Richard Dawson's new album, Peasant a few weeks ago. While I was waiting for it to arrive I was listening to it on Spotify hoping I wouldn't get bored of it. I didn't. It's a heavy-ish at times, yet melodic folk album, reeking of Northern England and all that's good about the area. Somewhat a concept album it's themed around life in medieval times. A lot of what I look from music I really get into is the ability to pull me out of a continued train of thought, not shock schlock or out-there for the sake of it, but different enough that it'll interrupt whatever is going on with you and burrow it's way into you for consideration. Peasant has this aplenty, but keeps is songcraft together enough that there's progression and movement to each track, which some people might think was missing from his previous album. Give it a listen if you like guitars, folk, or arresting, idiosyncratic guitar and vocals. (There's also kids singing, and it really works.) Scientist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo6O4gpySg4 Ogre: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfaW-yD7DoA
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Cemetry Gator posted:I found U2 to be interesting up until after around 2000 or so. I think before then, they were really expanding from their original post-punk sound. Songs like New Years Day have a great New Order-ish vibe to them, and as the 80s went on, they expanded a bit. Obviously, Angel of Harlem sounds nothing like a Joy Division song. Bass faaaaace~ I'm pretty sure it's an image thing. She's not as much of a looker as the other two so she pulls those ridiculous faces while they play. Fans seem to like it, at least. The new album's a disappointment. Drowning in needless studio bullshit.
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New Waxahatchee album is streaming, it's good. http://www.npr.org/2017/07/10/534316416/first-listen-waxahatchee-out-in-the-storm
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Some new/not new at all Canadian indie stuff I've heard and liked on CBC Radio 2 lately and wanted to share: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO_EtERPI3Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upuFf_JlfF8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NQxiGZuKrs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgNenEe0VcE Also does this loving song sound like U2 or Coldplay to anyone else? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AM-yv0bcrEU
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Oxxidation posted:Bass faaaaace~ They are all average at best in the looks department but do enough with their image to boost themselves for the hipster masses.
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Just ran into this and it's Wes Anderson as gently caress but quite nice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRVxoAclJlI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kp_0GThdZDQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXtPOczx92I His voice is so purty 
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Last week's PHC was a re-broadcast from November, so sorry if this has been posted, but did anyone catch The Staves? Blew me away. I thought they were just another Wailing Jennies, but oh no they're not. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rseP3svn5fY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMGP7XMOwuA
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Cyril Sneer posted:Are we allowed to rant in this thread? I hope that rant doesn't include chastity belt. 
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Cyril Sneer posted:Are we allowed to rant in this thread? Meanwhile Chromatics will never loving release Dear Tommy.
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pap schmear posted:Last week's PHC was a re-broadcast from November, so sorry if this has been posted, but did anyone catch The Staves? Blew me away. I thought they were just another Wailing Jennies, but oh no they're not. I've been a fan of the Staves for quite some time. They have the best rendition of Chicago by Sufjan Stevens I've ever heard. I think I even like it more than the original. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS8OZp8bCak
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incoherent posted:I hope that rant doesn't include chastity belt. Chastity Belt are really something. Pretty good progression across their albums. I love Julia's voice, their lyrics, and the couple of Lydia and Gretchen tracks on their latest album. I love it when bands switch singers.
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Cage the Elephant covered Whole Wide World for their new album and it's pretty awesome https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYGakznEllM
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