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really enjoying this. great example of a band i've heard bits and pieces of but never really jumped in. thanks for putting the playlist together.
they sound kind of like if the Happy Mondays were a good band.
i love the Happy Mondays though.
Great to hear. They've really transitioned through so many sounds over the years. Their first album is more post punky than I realized, then they got all Madchester-y, then blues rock, then noise/electronic rock and back again. They get a little less love on here than I'd expect for a band that worked with both MBV and Chem Bros on the same album.
yeah the changes are pretty wild! i wasn't crazy about the "Give Out But Don't Give Up" tracks, a little too bluesy for me, but then "Kowalski" started and it's all weird and noisy and i'm like hell yeah we back.
I didn't put a few of the most popular songs, and just went for a nice variety of my favorite stuff from them. You can put it on shuffle if you want, but the order I have it in isn't bad at all.
Realized I had another old playlist that I could repurpose into something for this thread. Here's a sequenced primer for Ed Banger Records:
At 2 hours, it's a bit longer than I would have liked but 1) there's a lot of artists I wanted to include 2) Justice really doesn't have enough music to warrant their own primer IMO but they're obviously Ed Banger's biggest success to date so it's impossible to not have a lot of them and 3) I've loved Ed Banger forever and every time I go back to listen to their output it still shocks me how many bangers they have! Hope you all enjoy this slice of French house as much as I do.
I didn't put a few of the most popular songs, and just went for a nice variety of my favorite stuff from them. You can put it on shuffle if you want, but the order I have it in isn't bad at all.
I listen to Sigur Ros quite a bit and I'm going to have to give this one a listen as I can only place a few of them by name. Seeing as how you left out some of the most popular songs, I would have included Kveikur or Brennisteinn, but those are just personal favorites of mine. I'm looking forward to this one.
Tried to make it flow, other than the fun throwback rocker to start it out, though it's sort of a cool transition to see where his sound once was and what it ended up becoming. Also, on my personal playlists I have the original version of Borderline downloaded instead since it's much better imo.
I have more of a genre request: new rap (within last 5 or so years) from younger artists that isn't (a) all over the radio or (b) from the huge artists who have been around for decades. I wanna hear the up-and-coming stuff
if you like Earl, MIKE is solid. I also dig Armand hammer
Here's a primer for Elliott Smith that no one realized they wanted. I think he was one of the best songwriters of the late-90s and gets forgotten about sometimes.
5.5/four tet, daphni b2b floating points, avalon emerson 5.12/neil young 5.19/mannequin pussy 5.21/serpentwithfeet 5.25/hozier 6.12-16/bonnaroo 6.28/goose 6.29/goose 9.17/the national + the war on drugs 9.23/sigur ros 9.27-29/making time 10.17/air
Post by snowmanomura on Jul 18, 2020 10:32:35 GMT -5
One of the most consistently good indie rock bands over the last 20 years, here is a spoon primer.
I went chronological, because I think it does a good job of showing their transition from 3-piece Texas rock band that wanted to be Wire to adding a piano player, using synths and vibraphones, and getting more experimental sounds and working with Dave Friddmann (Mercury rev, Flaming Lips, MGMT). They do a lot with relatively "simple" songs - great hooks and riffs, Britt Daniel's surpsingly large vocal range and mix of emotional vulnerability and sometimes wry humor. They've put out 9 studio albums, and all but their debut are pretty equally represented here. This is a dope band and i'd say that even if they weren't from the same small texas town as my in-laws or didn't write a cool song about my hometown (can I sit next to you)
This was tough. Tried to keep the features to a minimum and focus on solo work. Shame that Nostalgia, Ultra and Endless aren't on Spotify.
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5.5/four tet, daphni b2b floating points, avalon emerson 5.12/neil young 5.19/mannequin pussy 5.21/serpentwithfeet 5.25/hozier 6.12-16/bonnaroo 6.28/goose 6.29/goose 9.17/the national + the war on drugs 9.23/sigur ros 9.27-29/making time 10.17/air
One of the most consistently good indie rock bands over the last 20 years, here is a spoon primer.
I went chronological, because I think it does a good job of showing their transition from 3-piece Texas rock band that wanted to be Wire to adding a piano player, using synths and vibraphones, and getting more experimental sounds and working with Dave Friddmann (Mercury rev, Flaming Lips, MGMT). They do a lot with relatively "simple" songs - great hooks and riffs, Britt Daniel's surpsingly large vocal range and mix of emotional vulnerability and sometimes wry humor. They've put out 9 studio albums, and all but their debut are pretty equally represented here. This is a dope band and i'd say that even if they weren't from the same small texas town as my in-laws or didn't write a cool song about my hometown (can I sit next to you)
I Could See The Dude, The Agony of Laffitte, and All The Negatives Have Been Destroyed are all solid early songs that should be on here. Laffitte in particular, as it’s the song about getting dropped from their first label and changing their sound from Pixies knock-off to the modern format.
One of the most consistently good indie rock bands over the last 20 years, here is a spoon primer.
I went chronological, because I think it does a good job of showing their transition from 3-piece Texas rock band that wanted to be Wire to adding a piano player, using synths and vibraphones, and getting more experimental sounds and working with Dave Friddmann (Mercury rev, Flaming Lips, MGMT). They do a lot with relatively "simple" songs - great hooks and riffs, Britt Daniel's surpsingly large vocal range and mix of emotional vulnerability and sometimes wry humor. They've put out 9 studio albums, and all but their debut are pretty equally represented here. This is a dope band and i'd say that even if they weren't from the same small texas town as my in-laws or didn't write a cool song about my hometown (can I sit next to you)
Don't Make Me A Target, Black Like Me, Stay Don't Go
And then we're into "just listen to the live stuff" era of the dead. Godchaux had left and was replaced with Brent Mydland. He was arguably the best overall keyboardist/singer the dead ever had, he was just there in the 80's, and 80's dead suffers from what everyone in the 80's did - a little bit too much cheese. The highlights are here, and none of them are bad songs, but there is steady decline in quality studio output in the 80's, and their last offical album, Built to Last in 88, was...meh. By this point in their career they had become a live band, and their studio output wasn't indicative of their shows. so...typical jam band?
Gonna pick on snowmanomura again here. I think you’re criminally underselling late era Dead here. It’s fair that none of these albums have the hit rate of Workingman’s or American Beauty, but each album has 3-4 tracks that hold up and are the basis of listening to any 80s Dead. Some of the best Jerry tracks in particular are from this era, like Althea (probably top 5 all time for the band) and Black Muddy River. The era marked them moving from theaters to arenas and eventually stadiums, and experimenting with the bigger sound necessary to fill those spaces. There were some misses, sure, but also plenty of hits, including Touch of Grey which is just a great song despite being the band’s only “radio song”. It’s definitely different from the 70s era, but it’s just as essential. You can easily hear how these songs coexisted with Dire Straits/Steely Dan, and how the band ended up with Bruce Hornsby playing keys after Brent’s death. Also, how you gonna call Brent their best keyboardist/vocalist, but not include a Brent track on the playlist??
One of the most consistently good indie rock bands over the last 20 years, here is a spoon primer.
I went chronological, because I think it does a good job of showing their transition from 3-piece Texas rock band that wanted to be Wire to adding a piano player, using synths and vibraphones, and getting more experimental sounds and working with Dave Friddmann (Mercury rev, Flaming Lips, MGMT). They do a lot with relatively "simple" songs - great hooks and riffs, Britt Daniel's surpsingly large vocal range and mix of emotional vulnerability and sometimes wry humor. They've put out 9 studio albums, and all but their debut are pretty equally represented here. This is a dope band and i'd say that even if they weren't from the same small texas town as my in-laws or didn't write a cool song about my hometown (can I sit next to you)
I saw them again on the Beck/Cage the Elephant tour last summer and afterwards made the comment to my wife that Britt Daniel's voice is incredibly sexy. They are, as noted above, such a consistently excellent band.