I need some new music

[Obi Chris Kenobi]

Feel free to recommend some music for me to try and listen to, as I'm getting a bit bored of whats currently on my ipod.

 

[Byron The Bulb]

All of this

 

[Garth]

To be honest, your first post isn't all that helpful. I would love to recommend you some stuff though.

First what music do you like?
Throw out a few names and I'll see what I can come up with.

Also, have you thought about signing up with Last.fm? It basically creates a database of what you listen to, and off the back of that suggests other bands/artists that you'll probably like? I've gotten into quite a bit thanks to the recommendation feature there.

 

[Obi Chris Kenobi]

Anything. Yeah I have a last.fm account, had one for years, but the thing is it recommends similar artists to what I listen to, and I'm getting bored of what I listen to. I need something new.

I'll open myself up to ridicule: http://www.last.fm/user/chriswok

 

[BUTT]

Zombie Apocalypse

 

[Garth]

Have you got Spotify? If not, you should get it. Now.

Then try some LCD Soundsystem, Talking Heads, Of Montreal, Decemberists, Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster, Sparks, The Hives, The Hold Steady, Be Your Own Pet & Gogol Bordello.

Those are some of my favourite bands that I noticed aren't anywhere on your Last.fm profile.
I'm on there as http://www.last.fm/user/Garth_Green if you want to have a look for any other ideas, that is, if you like the sound of my suggestions.

I'm pretty sure all of the above bands are on Spotify, so you can stream a whole bunch of their stuff without having to waste your time downloading stuff that you might not like.

 

[Obi Chris Kenobi]

Actually, I've got LCD and Talking Heads on my ipod, but rarely listen to them, or have them come up on random. Think I'll sort that out tomorrow.

 

[BruiserBrody]

Tom T Hall

Lee Hazelwood and Nancy Sinatra's album from 1968ish is good

Fats Domino

 

[FroGG_NeaL]

Ammie Mann

 

[HarleyQuinn]

Within Temptation
The Donnas

 

[Obi Chris Kenobi]

I'll give some of these a go at the weekend. And wow The Donnas! Been years since I've heard any of their stuff? They still going, perhaps touring with Kittie? Wait are Kittie even still going? Oh crap, my knowledge of girl music is so bad.

 

[Garth]

Did you get around to listening to LCD Soundsystem/Talking Heads at all today? If so, thoughts?

 

[HarleyQuinn]

I'll give some of these a go at the weekend. And wow The Donnas! Been years since I've heard any of their stuff? They still going, perhaps touring with Kittie? Wait are Kittie even still going? Oh crap, my knowledge of girl music is so bad.

The Donnas put out a CD in 2007 and a Greatest Hits Comp last year. As for Kittie, they released this album last year so they're still going as well.

 

[Obi Chris Kenobi]

Did you get around to listening to LCD Soundsystem/Talking Heads at all today? If so, thoughts?

I've always semi liked Talking Heads, so it was good to give them a bit of a listen today. Listened to the live album 'Stop Making Sense', which is basically all their hits but still decent. Starts off pretty bare and seems to build up with each track.

 

[Czech]

Yeah, that was sort of the idea, to add the band members one by one (well, the P-Funk sidemen pretty much all come in together for whichever song's after "Found a Job," I don't remember offhand) so that they could build up the intensity. They also take care not to show the audience till the very end of the film so that they're not hectoring the viewer into enjoying the concert. Byrne and Demme put a fair deal of thought into this project. If you haven't seen the movie yet and are only going off the album, you should hurry up and track it down. I'm not sure why Talking Heads is twinned with LCD Soundsystem up there as though there's any sort of significant stylistic/conceptual link between the two, but that's okay.

I don't remember what you tend to like (is this the Muse dude or is that one of the other Britons?) and I didn't really read this thread above the last post, so I recommend Jens Lekman's Night Falls Over Kortedala, something that anyone should appreciate on one level or another. In the event that you are indeed the Muse dude, you will appreciate the pleasantly overwrought arrangements on many of the songs, which fall along a sort of Scott Walker/2003-pres Belle & Sebastian continuum. The leadoff track is hard left, "I'm Leaving You Because I Don't Love You" is hard right, and the rest are in between (though maybe "Friday Night at the Drive-In Bingo" kind of goes off on a little tangent of its own), with all the smothering strings and brass you'll ever need. The highlight of the album is "A Postcard to Nina," possibly the finest addition to the canon of indie songs about lesbians since Weezer's "Pink Triangle," though I suppose that's not saying much. Jens is a Swede, so his singing has that weird affected sound of someone fighting like hell to mask his native Nordic tongue, you know, kind of like ABBA, but there's no song on here quite as perfect as an all-timer like "Dancing Queen." And that's fine, because there are still lots of really really really good songs on here, though, and each one has a chorus or a hook or a quirk or a little instrumental break or some little musical moment that's so totally awesome and brilliant that you will love it to death or even wish it would never end (or at least be significantly protracted beyond its allotted 15 seconds or so). To wit,

opener: the big orchestral crescendo into and including the chorus
track 2: 3:14 to the end
track 3: the chorus
track 4: the chorus but shit really all of it
5: 2:14 to 2:35, 3:11 to the end
6: 2:27 to 2:45
7: all of it but especially the chorus
8: 2:43 to 3:12
9: just the whole coda
X: okay maybe this one's quirks are a little annoying. mulligan!
ll: the saxophone
12: the doo-wop vocalizations! It's almost like a trip-hoppy remix/cover of a Freak Out! outtake. and coda, 2:53 to the end. Oh the brass.

But in spite of all that cherry-picking, the whole thing is pretty spectacular from wire to wire. This came out in 2007, a year in which I probably gobbled up about 30 to 40 new releases, but somehow I didn't discover this one until about two months ago. I'm not sure how this one eluded me for all these years while I devoted time to forgettables like Windmill and Immaculate Machine, or outright stinkeroos from experimental electronic bands nobody cares about (but if you remember my love for an album called Blind Cave Salamander, that hasn't wavered). No matter; I've already listened to it enough to make up for years of lost time, and I'd probably go back and slot it at #2 for its year behind Wilco's Sky Blue Sky, an album I'll dare to love in spite of many Wilco fans calling it "boring dad-rock." And so should you! Also, considering the gentle affable awkwardness of many of the songs, I am beginning to suspect that "Jens Lekman" is merely a nom de plume for our Kinetic,

and thus we as Real TSMers have a mandate to support our scene. Link is provided, so no excuses for not being able to track it down. Also, I think I've doled out enough praise to enough artists in this post that I should be able to stave off the stupid meme about me hating everything, if only until my next post.

 

[Smartly Pretty]

Awesome demo of "Postcard to Nina":

http://www.tullycraftnation.com/mp3s/nina.mp3

 

[Precious Roy]

I'm not sure why Talking Heads is twinned with LCD Soundsystem up there as though there's any sort of significant stylistic/conceptual link between the two, but that's okay.

James Murphy is definitely a huge Talking Heads fan. I haven't listened to the first album in a while, but offhand Us v. Them and Get Innocuous off Sound of Silver definitely show the influence

LCD Soundsystem - US v Them

which also brings up the question, am I the only one who thinks North American Scum is some sort of a tribute to Werewolves of London

LCD Soundsystem - North American Scum

 

[Obi Chris Kenobi]

Cheers Czech I've got that downloading now.

I am the Muse Dude haha so should be interesting to give this one a listen. Haven't tried any LCD yet, so I'll probably see whats cheap when I get paid on Monday or download (EVIL!). Interesting you mention Wilco as I've started to get into them over the last year or so.

There's something bleak but exciting about Wilco, not sure what it is, perhaps its the low-fi Fuzz and different structure to the music.

 

[FLAM]

Yeah, Jens Lekman is one of my favorites. Anytime I listen to him, his albums go on repeat.

 

[Mattdotcom]

Stop Making Sense is on YouTube, and you're doing a disservice to yourself by just listening to it. After you're done, there's also a documentary that covers the early, European leg to the proto-Stop Making Sense tour and a concert televised in Brazil that has King Crimson's Adrian Belew on guitar with the Stop Making Sense crew (which results in having upwards of three or four guitarists on some songs).

 

[Byron The Bulb]

And if you're going to be watching Talking Heads concerts on YouTube, you might as well also invest the time to watch the Live in Rome concert from 1980 which owns so hard that you don't even know.

Talking Heads - Live in Rome 1980 - 10 Born Under Punches

Fffffuuuuuuuuuuccckk

 

[Precious Roy]

Tina Weymouth is smoking hot in that video. Damn.

 

[Mattdotcom]

I guess that's the one I meant. Brazil, Rome, whatever.

 

[Gary]

Give_Peas_a_Chance-_21_Obscure_Hits___Jazzy_Gems

I pretty much love this. You should give it a shot.

 

[Obi Chris Kenobi]

Downloading now. Give it a listen tomorrow or Monday.