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12-14-2012, 06:50 AM | #1 |
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Help! Music Recommendations
OK, so back in middle school, my first favorite band was Nirvana. I also liked Green Day. Then I fell in love with the Pumpkins, and as I listened to Radiohead and The Cure, they also became two of my favorite bands. I was also a huge Zwan fan, and through Pajo I got into Slint, Mogwai and Papa M. Around the same time, Bjork also became one of my favorites. Sigur Rós soon followed. I also liked some Brazilian music like Chico Buarque and Cordel do Fogo Encantado.
With Papa M's Whatever Mortal, I got into indie countrish/folkish music. I really got into Bonnie Prince Billy's I See a Darkness and Ease Down the Road. In 2004, I discovered Joanna Newsom and Sufjan Stevens, and they became my favorites of the decade. That was also when I began to love Modest Mouse/Ugly Casanova and Neutral Milk Hotel. One year later, I got into the Arcade Fire, the National, Broken Social Scene, Yo La Tengo, Antony and the Johnsons and bunch of other bands. From then on, I started finding fewer new bands I liked each year, until maybe 2009 or 2010, when my new discoveries almost came to a halt. I hate Billy's new stuff and Billy. I didn't really enjoy In Rainbows, and King of Limbs lost me completely. The last Bjork album I loved was Medulla (the new ones have a few good songs, but that's about it). I love the Milk-Eyed Mender and Ys, but never really got into Have One on Me (I still have hope I will, though). With Sufjan, I was worried I'd be disappointed with his next album after Illinois and the Avalanche, but the Age of Adz was actually really, really good. He managed to avoid my growing weariness towards indie folk - I still love the old stuff, but I just can't get into people like Bon Iver, Fleet Foxes, etc. I love banjos but I'm tired of them. I almost resent them at this point. In the past couple of years, the only musicians I really got into were Pavement, Shugo Tokumaru and mewithoutYOU. I think they are all good, sometimes even amazing, but not enough to be called favorites like the Pumpkins used to be or like Sufjan is now. So... help? Surely there is some amazing music out there that I could still love? This isn't a bitter rant about the current state of music because I realize the problem is mostly me. Still, do you have any recommendations of stuff you think I could enjoy? Last edited by Rairun : 12-14-2012 at 07:07 AM. |
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12-14-2012, 07:02 AM | #2 |
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I really liked No Age's Glitter, but then I didn't care about the rest of the album. I thought Grimes' Oblivion was interesting, but I'm not sure I could love her unless her music is more varied. I still love the post-rock albums I fell in love with, but new things have started to sound the same to me.
I've grown kind of suspicious of beauty. I still love the older pretty folk songs, the ones I have a connection with, but new ones sound artificial. It almost mirrors the way I used to love photographs of beautiful places, and now they are boring to me. Now I like some street photography, mostly - human things that are flawed, imperfect, but still beautiful in a way. Basically, I don't want music that sounds pretty, but I also don't want noise without any heart. |
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12-14-2012, 07:17 AM | #3 |
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I only know and love a couple of Smog albums - I think I could get into others. The other day I also really enjoyed seeing RM Hubbert playing Car Song live, which he wrote with Aidan Moffat. It's beautiful but not pretty; and the lyrics have all these specificities that really ground it in a specific time and place. I only know a few Arab Strap songs, though.
This is to say I know more or less where to look when it comes to old bands I don't know well yet, but I have absolutely no clue about newer bands. |
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12-14-2012, 07:26 AM | #4 |
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i think it's silly to act like new music is letting you down when it seems like you've done some exploring and you're getting kind of jaded at how much there is
nothing wrong with standing pat man, you certainly are doing your research so you know whatevah i really loved that last no age album so i dunno if i can help you Last edited by Trotskilicious : 12-14-2012 at 07:35 AM. |
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12-14-2012, 07:28 AM | #5 | |
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Refused - Shape of Punk to Come Swans - My Father Will Guide Me a Rope Up to The Sky Swans - The Seer Fucked Up - David Comes to Life (best handled in four song bursts) have you listened to the Youth, man? |
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12-14-2012, 07:31 AM | #6 |
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i mean really how much punk rock have you listened to in general
just sounds like maybe you need to inject some hardcore into your life |
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12-14-2012, 07:33 AM | #7 |
someone more...punk rock?
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augie march
wonderful lyrics |
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12-14-2012, 07:37 AM | #8 |
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also keep in mind i really hated age of adz, just sounded like more radiohead re-visitations
if you're okay with that maybe other lives would be your bag |
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12-14-2012, 07:52 AM | #9 |
someone more...punk rock?
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i still haven't heard that. michigan and illinois sounded basically exactly the same to me, although i heard the latter first. but he's certainly got that 5/4 thing down pat and it doesn't sound like anything else. and the arrangements are still pretty fricking impressive
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12-14-2012, 09:02 PM | #10 | ||
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Also, Sonic Youth have been in my list forever (love some of their songs), but no, I've never delved deep into their discography. I should fix that. Quote:
And yeah, I agree, Illinois and Michigan are very similar in style, but not so much in mood. Seven Swans is a lot sparser than either of them, and arguably better. Age of Adz only really sank in after I heard it live. It's basically Sufjan writing songs like he's always done (the busy, instrumental kind) with electronic-based instrumentation, plus a very different singing style and a different lyrical approach. I can kind of see what Trots means, he's not breaking new musical ground (like, say, the Pumpkins weren't great innovators), but I do find the album unique as a whole. Also, the All Delighted People EP has one of the best songs he's ever written: the Owl and the Tanager. It's pretty different from his other music. Gut-wrenching stuff. Brilliant lyrics. |
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12-14-2012, 10:27 PM | #11 |
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well punk is definitely a direction to go in if you're tired of beauty and want noise with heart
also fugazi i should say swans is not punk perse but it is dark, noisy, and strangely beautiful |
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12-15-2012, 03:22 PM | #12 |
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i didn't give 'have one on me' the proper attention it deserves at first either. it's fantastic though, give it another chance
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12-15-2012, 06:49 PM | #13 |
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Listen to Boris - Pink
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12-15-2012, 08:42 PM | #14 |
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yeah bro seconded
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12-16-2012, 07:23 AM | #15 |
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pink was the first boris album i listened to and i was so disappointed. feedbacker changed that
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12-16-2012, 02:37 PM | #16 |
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do you know Red House Painters/Sun Kil Moon? Kozelek is a first class songwriter
Start with Rollercoaster (s/t) by Red House Painters, Songs for a Blue Guitar by Red House Painters, and Ghosts of the Great Highway by Sun Kil Moon |
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12-16-2012, 02:50 PM | #17 |
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12-16-2012, 07:18 PM | #18 |
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hey maybe i'm just picking scabs here but how would a folk music fan not hear of mark kozelek
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12-16-2012, 07:18 PM | #19 |
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i hate that shit and i know who he is
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12-17-2012, 01:33 AM | #20 |
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wutttt
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12-17-2012, 02:23 AM | #21 |
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i think you should listen to these bands
why? lower dens caribou castevet (the chicago punk band I have no idea if the black metal castevet is any good) sharon van etten |
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12-17-2012, 03:36 AM | #22 |
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Ryan Adams – Heartbreaker, Cold Roses
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12-17-2012, 04:11 AM | #23 |
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heartbreaker is so fucking good
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12-17-2012, 04:13 AM | #24 |
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COME PICK ME UP
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12-17-2012, 04:22 AM | #25 |
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STEAL ALL MY RECORDS
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12-17-2012, 04:22 AM | #26 |
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mostly I like amy and shakedown
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12-17-2012, 08:39 AM | #27 |
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sharon van etten was a pleasant surprise at fun fun fun fest
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