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So I've been obsessively listening to Rilo Kiley's Under the Blacklight and good god does it hold up. And its maybe due to a feverish reaction to a dozen re-queing of "Give a Little Love", but this might be the most coherently told narrative in an album that I can think of. From "Silver Lining" all the way to the last track, among its plunking of guitar pop and blues heaviness, a story of a prostitute singing about her lover/pimp who's just passed away settled into my mind. "Silver Lining" is the woman, now much older, talking about her man needing her as a silver lining but now's she's gold, she's whole. "Close Call" is about her origin, as "a daughter of gypsies" who ran away to pickpocket and sell sex for money. "Moneymaker" is about a scounderel selling her for money, "15" is about when they met, and how she used him as much as he did her. "Breakin Up" and "Dreamworld" is about her leaving him after getting pregnant, and also incidental details about his poor upbringing and PTSD from fighting war overseas. And "The Angels Hung Around" and "Give a Little Love" is about her coming to visit him, only he's already died and is being buried. And being happy to have had the chance to love him and move on with her life. Sorry about the rambling, but my god do I love this album, even if my posts are reminiscent of Mel Gibson in Conspiracy Theory.
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cptn_dr posted:More people should listen to Porridge Radio imo Just got into them by looking up best of songs for 2020 Playlists on spotify. The album is great all the way thru.
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Bright Bart posted:I have mentioned Apologies to the Queen Mary once or twice before, without anybody pitching in. Not sure if that's because people are familiar with the album but have just moved on from this style of music or are unaware of the Wolf Parade debut. I'm a big fan of them and have seen them live, when they got back together a few years back. I like the singer's follow-up band, Sunset Rubdown even more, and especially the album DragonSlayer which I can only explain as epic indie rock? Lol its alot.
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Bright Bart posted:I still to this day come across people talking about the Battle of Britpop being played out between Oasis championing working and lower-middle class musical tastes on one side, with Blur what the middle upper-middle classes liked to hear on the other. That sounds like 90s British music journalism which is some terrible rear end poo poo.
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Nihonniboku posted:Broken Social Scene kills, they're so amazing. You just missed them doing their 20 year anniversary tour for You Forgot It In the People. I've spent years trying to find other bands that have a similar sound to them (rich, bombastic sound), but haven't really been able to come up with anything. Can't wait until they do the ten year anniversary for their self titled album which I found even more rich . And it did totally rewire my brain yup You wanna talk about bombastic I got bombastic https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlsZHYnNM0pYycKc_d6bwSe82wprNcYNc&si=H7jzenRsOk0Y1or2 Thunder Lightning Strike is such an amazing album
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priznat posted:I’m old AF and that would be 1993 for me which was also an incredible year for music. Lol been going thru this. Incredible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-17PT-NJpF0
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Ambitious Spider posted:The pixies/modest mouse/cat power tour is expanding. Definitely hype for that one. Haven’t seen pixies or modest mouse in ages. Saw Modest Mouse do one of their albums front to back, Lonesome Crowded West in nyc and its not even near my fav album of theirs and it loving rocked. They know how to do a show.
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bows1 posted:worth a 100 $ ticket? Its on presale right now... Saw them for like 50 bux I think. This is for the Cat Power and Pixies show right? I've heard people talking about not having a great time at recent Pixies shows, and if its for the Forest Hills stadium you're chancing a rain forecast. I prefer to buy tkts for the latter right before it happens personally. So yeah I wouldn't buy a tkt for 100 dollars on presale and just see how I feel before the show (I've had a pretty easy time getting tkts from stubhub for forest hills, might be the sizable number of seats).
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Omg the Gossip. I used to have a shittily downloaded CD of their first album I'd listen to on repeat and wonder why they never got bigger. gently caress that's a flashback E: quoting if this is the dumb reason why I fly to Cali this summer lol Nihonniboku posted:This lineup is incredible. There are going to be so many 40 year olds there like me. How is BSS so low on the billing, thats crazy to me
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Oooo they must be touring
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I saw stars perform for a Xmas in nyc and they might be oneof my fav bands to see live. They're so good
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Finally finishing my listen through of Brooklyn Vegan's best of 2023 albums list. Outside of a couple of albums like from Young Fathers and Indigo De Souza didn't find much I vibed with or would call best of the year. They definitely love their death metal tho. Gonna go check out NPR's and Pitchfork's list next. Anyone have a particularly good list to share?
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Looks like they're skipping nyc in favor of some apple orchard in the middle of nowhere way way upstate lol
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Captain_Person posted:Says you, A Weekend in the City is also fuckin great I saw them live a couple months ago and properly one of the best concerts I went to all year. They even made their new stuff sound great but alot of old pleasing stuff too. Sick band to see live they're all really good Drummer is particularly insane.
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Megabound posted:There should be more talk about Yeule, I did a quick search and there's 2 posts about her in NMD so: It's a good album but I'm a little more partial to her previous album that hit that electronic shoe gaze spot I love so much. https://youtu.be/Arfse3z5YzQ?si=Bn9dXvk9ruk7BLAx Might be my favorite song of the past few years just based on how often I listen to it. Would love to hear more of this Btw my videos don't automatically embed and I tried messing with the bb code to no avail. How are you getting yours to embed?
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Ambitious Spider posted:Here's a throwback electronicy pop song= Jack Antonoff, the producer of that album, band Bleachers also very much has its sound. But for stuff that sounds like that in recent year, sickly produced new pop, I suggest 100 gecs (https://open.spotify.com/track/4vwHBxN5OGtUqqUWvWClGd?si=XY9Wh6rsSjibuv3rqjmiUw), Rina Sawayama (https://open.spotify.com/track/43bYs8QkPdCdy5esfnmU1T?si=qAL0TEt0S8WGBLGz5FtaYQ), Ibibo Sound Machine (https://open.spotify.com/track/66nc0szStjBKa9iS5iW5Gh?si=RnjmbzKUTY2hQYsW0A4-RA), MUNA (https://open.spotify.com/track/5vYaBqOAT6JpZlAD3gO1AO?si=MXrKQi0GQC-gHCs6yUm9lA), and George Clanton (https://open.spotify.com/track/4Kh8w1MgC7LYHSbSX2lDzP?si=l4DT3uJXQSSAnRxWp-kU9A)
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Ambitious Spider posted:The first bleachers album is great but haven’t really been able to get into the rest of them. Oh yeah that's cool too. The first album is his best but he still has some good songs spread across the others, like https://open.spotify.com/track/3ySU5vwQB33iGulwcUL9qQ?si=0iG0982xQ0ezY0ZnKQEdig&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A10HKbC9lKDHGQvndGck6XJ and https://open.spotify.com/track/4lKg94fHZZ3pozsNFTew2x?si=Mgw5Jy_4QcGn2bT5EcA63Q
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Costco Meatballs posted:They are fairly well known and an older band - but The Weakerthans have some of my favourite lyrics in all of indie music. Literary and lyrical without being as, for lack of a better word, pretentious as other bands I'd describe similarly like the Decemberists. gently caress Winnepeg
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bows1 posted:Finally seeing Young Fathers tomorrow after they postponed their October show last year. Had these tickets for over a year now! Their Cocoa Sugar tour was one of my favorite shows ever Man wish I could see them tonight getting on a flight early tmrw morning
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ex post facho posted:anyone else listening to chappell roan Yeah her album is great. Popped up in my best 2023 album list crawl thru. Also like this song of hers https://youtu.be/VS6ixn2berk?si=wJkXUs6BR-mgx9lq
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Trig Discipline posted:I need to give the new one more listens before I could rank it with respect to the other ones, but I'm surprised to see people not liking Contra that much. I really enjoyed that album. Father of the Bride has about a half dozen excellent tracks and the rest of it can gently caress off into the sun. At some point I need to just remove the offending tracks from my library and then pretend like it was always just a great EP. I love Contra and it's my fav Vampire Weekend just based on vibes I guess?
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It's not called popularity music
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Trig Discipline posted:I'm pretty sure the secret is somewhere in here. Love this vid
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Listening to that new Justice album. It's good but kind weird that I like it alot when it doesn't really have any singles that jump out at me. It's just a consistent good time.
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Thanks for this. Looks like Gonzalez hired a completely different band than when I saw M83 like 3 yrs ago (fantastic concert btw). I think at one point he put an open call for bassists on instagram. Very James Brown of him.
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