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Post by Sydxelia on May 26, 2014 2:59:24 GMT
I discovered this song from 1971 just last week. It's an 11 minute acoustic number with a blues-y feel and a nice groove. What really hooks me, though, is when the falsetto vocals kick in. I can't stop listening to this. What music are you listening to?
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Post by Mezzaphor on May 26, 2014 3:13:29 GMT
I hit up two used music shops near my hotel yesterday and I still haven't listened to all of my haul yet.
Just finished Experience by The Prodigy. Really cheesy 90s rave music. Fun stuff.
Currently listening to The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society. I think I prefer these guys to the Beatles.
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Post by Sydxelia on May 26, 2014 3:18:16 GMT
Currently listening to The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society. I think I prefer these guys to the Beatles. Coincidentally, I just listened to this album for the first time the other day. Some good stuff here. I'm fairly certain that Green Day's "Warning" was inspired by "Picture Book".
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Post by Mezzaphor on May 26, 2014 3:54:44 GMT
The music is so upbeat, but the lyric "People take pictures of each other / just to prove that they really existed" is really bucking scary.
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Post by Mezzaphor on May 26, 2014 5:59:45 GMT
Listened to Sound-Dust by Stereolab.
The context for this one takes some explaining. Stereolab started off as a post-rock groop (back before "post-rock" crystallized to the "all crescendos all the time" nonsense that dominates the scene now) with a retro-futuristic edge. The retro-futurism and pop elements became a bigger and bigger part of their sound, until the groop was basically channeling pop music from an alternate universe where the Space Race never ended and where The Free Design were more influential than The Beatles. This was in the 90s, and Stereolab were loved by the music critics during this period. Then the groop released one mediocre album, and everything came crashing down. The critics tore the mediocre album to shreds, then gave middling reviews to all subsequent albums (if they didn't ignore them outright). Stereolab still had their fans, of course, but they never recovered their respect among the critics after that one album.
I say that because Sound-Dust is from the period after that one album. And it is really good. I'll need to listen to it a few more times before I can decide whether or not it's better than those critically-lauded 90s albums. But it's definitely on about the same level.
I think it's becoming clear that Stereolab didn't really decline—they just had dumbasses with short attention spans for critics.
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Post by Sydxelia on May 26, 2014 6:38:56 GMT
When I listen to the Isley Brothers' "That Lady," from 1973, it has to be the full 5:40 version. Those who listened to AM radio and bought the single were treated to an edit which repeated one of the verses, then faded out. Rather anti-climactic. Buck that. They missed out on the best part of the song: a three-and-a-half-minute killer guitar workout.
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Post by Sydxelia on May 26, 2014 6:49:24 GMT
I think it's becoming clear that Stereolab didn't really decline—they just had dumbasses with short attention spans for critics. A lot of good artists/bands were victims of dumbass music critics. I used to actually put faith in what Rolling Stone said in their record guides, with their zero-to-five-star ratings. Not so nowadays. My current attitude is "Who the f**k are they to tell me what music I should and shouldn't like?" Frank Zappa had no use whatsoever for music critics. This song, "Packard Goose," is one of his most scathing attacks. Needless to say, the lyrics aren't safe for work.
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Post by Sydxelia on May 26, 2014 14:20:50 GMT
My favorite mash-up: "Stayin' Alive in the Wall".
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Post by Mezzaphor on May 27, 2014 1:21:48 GMT
I've heard "Stayin' Alive in the Wall". Works surprisingly well. That Isley Brothers song was good stuff.
Just listened to Uncle Tupelo's No Depression. I'd heard their last album Anodyne before, but I think this is much better.
Currently listening to Rivulets & Violets' self-titled album. A band I only ever heard of because their guitarist was the producer for Five Iron Frenzy, the ska band who were almost my first favorite band. But R&V sounds nothing like FIF: they're instrumental dream pop on this album.
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Post by Applelight Limited on May 27, 2014 2:09:29 GMT
I'm too embarrassed to talk about my musical tastes. ;D
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Post by Sydxelia on May 27, 2014 6:23:49 GMT
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Post by Applelight Limited on May 27, 2014 12:34:21 GMT
I'm Applelight Limited and I like 'I need a hero'...because of the game saints row three.
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Post by Sydxelia on May 27, 2014 16:48:17 GMT
Eddie Holman is best known for his 1969 hit "Hey There Lonely Girl". Before that, he recorded a bunch of singles for the Parkway label, but they never did release an album by him. I have this 1965 song, "This Can't Be True," on a collection in mono. I was thrilled to find this YT upload of the song in stereo with a full ending, rather than the usual fadeout.
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Post by Mezzaphor on May 27, 2014 22:25:53 GMT
I'm Meta Four and I genuinely, without a trace of irony, like Haddaway's "What Is Love". I own the album.
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Post by Applelight Limited on May 27, 2014 23:09:17 GMT
I'm Meta Four and I genuinely, without a trace of irony, like Haddaway's "What Is Love". I own the album.That's a great song, no joke. P.S, I like the pet shop boys.
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