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Bands/Songs You Are Listening To
Topic Started: Feb 10 2011, 03:50 PM (23,452 Views)
BigMac
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Black magic.





Wait....that might be racist....
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Apr 16 2012, 12:36 AM
-Gotye, for not showing like a little bitch. I wanted to hear him, too, and see if he was worthy of all the hype he's getting. Nope. Gonna have to check him out on Spotify.

I've just heard "Somebody That I Used to Know", and I like it a lot. Not sure how he is overall, though. Being a no-show is pretty damn douchey, however.
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Been listening to some Delta Rhythm Boys, some Edmundo Ross, and some Laura Nyro.

Also, have fun with this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQYZPwEdPoo
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Listening to all these F-Zero songs is making me seriously consider re-playing my SNES copy of the game. :D
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I haven't done one of these in a while. Again. Marathon post incoming!

Starting with my Kate Bush phase.

Kate Bush - Every album
She's not as prolific as, say, Rush (one of the few groups who's been around anywhere near as long as she has), but you know what they say: quality over quantity. Kate Bush has definitely put out a shitton of quality music. It's rather hard to describe, but her music is all very beautiful and very little of it is straightforward at all. I'll prolly wind up listening to her more/getting all of her work. It's awesome.

I'd recommend 50 Words For Snow, The Sensual World, and The Kick Inside to anyone who might want to try her out. The first album is extremely piano/string-driven, the others are a bit more varied and even have a relatively straightforward song or two.

The Main Drag - Yours As Fast As Mine
If you played RB2, you played A Jagged Gorgeous Winter, and I'd say it's a good indicator of what to expect from the album. Unfortunately it's also the best song, though I'd say it was a decent album.

Kalafina - Red Moon and Seventh Heaven
I bought this with my $4 credit from Amazon. My reasoning was pretty much, "everything else I want has a chance to go on sale eventually, this doesn't". Anyway, I think I prefer this to Seventh Heaven; it seems more varied to me. There are some songs that seem electronic-influenced, others that seem orchestral, and still others that seem more rock-esque.

Ihsahn - Eremita
If you liked his last album, After, you'll like this. Luckily I did. This is a continuation in the same sort of proggy/jazzy direction that After took. Like its predecessor, you can't really understand everything that's going on with just one listen, so I'll have to get back to this.

Metric - Synthetica
I enjoyed Youth Without Youth, so I was hoping the album would be good as well. I'd say this is the best Metric album I've heard, easily better than Fantasies and Old World Underground.

Bjork - Post
I include this mostly to say I finally bought it and it's still fucking awesome.

Cat Power - You Are Free
I *like* Cat Power's voice well enough, but much of the music on the album is too slow and sparse for me to really get into. I can't say it's bad music, but I'm definitely happy that I didn't spend more than $3 on this.

The Physics - Love is a Business
Listened to this because dat Coronas on Madrona is so sexy. That's obviously the highlight of the album, but it's not like everything else sucks. If you like rap with chill beats and good lyrics, well, I'd definitely recommend this.

Regina Spektor - What We Saw From the Cheap Seats
Easily the best all-around effort I've heard from her yet. No song is superior to Machine IMO, but the album as a whole is a far more cohesive and catchy effort than Eet, Soviet Kitsch, or really anything else I've heard from her.

Amanda Palmer - Who Killed Amanda Palmer
Been going through an Amanda Palmer phase because of her Kickstarter. I still can't believe that it raised over one million dollars. Who needs a label with that kind of fan support? Anyway, the album is a lot softer, more piano-driven, and lacks that dark aesthetic that The Dresden Dolls' music generally has.

The Kickstarter seems to be something altogether different from the three songs she's posted for her backers, and it seems like her most ambitious work yet. Everyone should get this shit.

Sara Barielles - Kaleidoscope Heart and Once Upon Another Time
Seems like the overarching theme of this post so far: female singers whose primary instrument is the piano. You'd be right in saying that I love that sort of thing, and Sara Barielles doesn't disappoint.

Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music
Listened to this because El-P produced it. Of course, the production is top-notch. The rapping is also competent, but there aren't really many tracks that grabbed my attention here, outside of Butane, which also featured El-P rapping.

El-P - Cancer For Cure
Easily the "worst" El-P album. Then again it doesn't really have anything like DeLorean or Poisenville Kids. It doesn't have a track that will immediately jump out and grab your attention. Perhaps that had something to do with my impression. *shrug*

Beach House - Bloom
Lightning will disagree with me here, but I still think this is superior to Teen Dream. Where I think we'll agree is that it's an early contender for album of the year. It's yet another one of those gorgeous, ethereal albums that are hard to describe but so damn wonderful to listen to.

Silversun Pickups - Neck of the Woods
I still don't know what to feel about this album. Nothing on it grabbed my attention like The Royal We or Lazy Eye did on the previous two albums. Hell, I think the Seasick EP was better than this, and that had only three songs.

The Dirty Dozen Brass Band - Twenty Twelve
Treme - Season Two Soundtrack
So much good New Orleans music here. The former album, as one might expect of the group, sticks mostly to New Orleans jazz, but also branches out and jazzes up The Rolling Stones' Paint It Black. It's quite different from the original but still good. As for the Treme soundtrack, the highlight is obviously Al Johnson & the Soul Apostle's "Carnival Time", aka "that one song they use in the Mardi Gras episodes". Outside of that, personal highlights would include Donald Harrison's "Hu Ta Nay" and Dr. John's "You Might Be Surprised".

Immortal Technique - The Martyr
Offered as a free download and it's better than The 3rd World, and he charged money for that more accessible garbage. Anyway, this seems far closer to his first two albums in both lyrical content and beats, while being somewhat more produced than those albums. However, the songs themselves still aren't as good as most of those first two albums. Still worth a listen, especially at the price of *free*.

Laura Marling - Alas I Cannot Swim
I'm not a huge fan of most folk. The male singers and the slow, sparse songs are generally turnoffs. However, I do love me a good female voice and even though the music is slow, it still seems like something is always going on in Laura Marling's music.

2Pac - All Eyes on Me
I'm not sure I get the hype. Sure, he's a good rapper, the beats are good, and all that jazz, but I got the impression more than once that modern rappers would get lambasted for some of these songs. It seems to me that Tupac gets away with some of the things he says because he's Tupac.

That said, I enjoyed this more than I thought I would since he gets FF7/NGE levels of praise from rap fans.

I'm getting lazy and skipping the rest of the Coachella artists I listened to. Can't really add much that I didn't say in my Coachella post, anyway, other than that I enjoyed all the albums I did get around to checking out. So I don't see much of a point.

Polica - Give Up the Ghost
The name has some weird C that I'm way too lazy to type. Like the one that's in facade, but who types that shit lol. Listened to it because I saw "oh, hey, these guys are from Minny, awesome!" Anyway. The drumming steals the show; it's like Mute Math or some shit on crack. That said, I'm also a fan of the female vocalist, as you might expect of me.

Les Discrets - Ariettes Oubliettes
Think "Alcest meets post-rock" and you'd have the essence of this album in a phrase. It kicks a lot of ass; I recommend that you listen to it nao if that description appeals to you.

Also another contender for that wonderful "album of the year" description.

Dr. John - Locked Down
It's rather hard to describe Dr. John. You can't really say his modern music is like Iko Iko, which was relatively straightforward when compared to much else of what he's done. It's also not New Orleans jazz, so yeah. Hard to describe. About all I do know is that this is a great album, if not a bit slow at times. It's one of my early "album of the year" candidates.

fun. - Some Nights
Way, way overrated. I suppose "We Are Young" is kind of catchy, but it's also the best song on the album, and it wasn't that good.

Epica - Requiem For the Indifferent
Easily their best effort since Consign to Oblivion. Unlike with the last two albums, some of the songs here actually sound like symphonic metal (as opposed to sounding like a symphony), and few to none of the tracks overstay their welcome.

Now, Now - Threads and Neighbors
It would be very accurate to call them Minnesota's answer to (newer) Tegan and Sara. It may be Amazon's description, but it works so well that I've taken to using it myself.

Ellie Goulding - Lights
One of the best comparisons I can think of off the top of my head is to... Well, Lights. A female vocalist who blends rock/electronic... Yup, that sounds kinda like what Lights does.

Grynch - Perspective
I think I'll end this post with one of the best and most chill rap albums of the year so far. Hell, if I were to pick a rap album of 2012, it'd be either this or the new Hail Mary Mallon. (or perhaps the new Aesop Rock when that drops)
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The new Word Alive album......so so so so so so SICK.
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Vieira151
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You guys should all listen to Pandora's Pinata by DSO. It is freaking awesome. Crazy, but awesome.
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Recently, I've been listening to Oasis' (What's the Story) Morning Glory? record, and I know I'll have it on repeat for a while.

Also been listening to Silverchair's Freak Show record. I like it a lot, but I can see how it would kind of get old after a while.

After Lump was in RB2, I bought TPOUSA's self titled album, and me being me, I love it because it's so eccentric. The lyrics are not conventional, but really weird and that adds to why I love it so much.

Primus is always in my playlist, but especially their most recent record, Green Naugahyde. It's a little bit of a departure from the Brown Album, and like Antipop it's definitely cleaner. There are a few harder songs on the album, and a lot of voice effects on Claypool's vocals. I like it, but it's a lot different from classic Primus.
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A great song made a thousand times better.
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cscrocker
Jun 27 2012, 08:44 AM

She has a great voice, and a nice clean spin on it, but I think part of why I like the original better is Louis' gravely vocals.
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My entirely too early 2012 album power rankings? Sure, why not?

I obviously have not listened to everything that has come out yet, I obviously won't, it's one person's opinion, it will change in the remaining six months due to new releases, etc. In other words, take with a generous grain of salt.

1) Nightwish - Imaginaerum
I thought to leave this off because it's "super obvious", but then it's not really a faithful list. Anyway, it counts; it officially came out on January 6th, even my legal digital version from 2011 says 2012, etc.

2) Beach House - Bloom
3) Regina Spektor - What We Saw From the Cheap Seats
4) Les Discrets - Ariettes Oubliettes
5) Ihsahn - Eremita
6) Hail Mary Mallon - Are You Gonna Eat That?
7) Epica - Requiem For the Indifferent

8) The Shins - Port of Morrow
The only one of these I haven't mentioned in a previous post. Anyway, I think the thing I like about this is that it's not the super slow and mellow The Shins I had known previously (and grown bored with, by and large). I must say I like the change of pace.

9) Dr. John - Locked Down
10) Metric - Synthetica


Honorable Mentions:

Ladyhawke - Anxiety
Cynic - The Portal Tapes

Amanda Palmer and the Grand Theft Orchestra - Theatre Is Evil
The *only* reason it's here is because it's not out yet. Each of the three songs Amanda Palmer has released to her Kickstarter backers kicks a lot of ass. I expect great things of the remaining ~10 "proper" songs.


It's been a good year for music so far when I can leave out a favorite artist (El-P and his Cancer For Cure) and still put together what I feel is a pretty damn solid list of albums.
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Jakey
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I've been listening to A Day to Remember for about 7 months or so. I literally find all of their songs incredibly catchy.
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The Sword. Man, they are a complete riff-fest. Awesome.
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Just listened to Macklemore's new single: "Same Love". Man, I don't know how he does it, but he never disappoints. This song is powerful, and the lyrics are well-written and true. The songs he writes that are fun, catchy, and hilarious are obviously great, but the serious and deep songs he writes are on just a whole other level.

http://soundcloud.com/macklemore/macklemor...ryan-lewis-same

Take a listen. Also, Mary Lambert has a beautiful voice.
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This.

'Nough said.
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