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Antagon 12.07.2019 11:14 PM

 

The Soup Nazi 12.07.2019 11:31 PM

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Beverly Hills Teens? Now you lost me - they didn't cover "September Gurls", did they? :confused:

Antagon 12.08.2019 12:01 AM

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Beverly Hills Teens? Now you lost me - they didn't cover "September Gurls", did they? :confused:

Just excess silliness itching to be put to use en lieu of an actual response.

The Soup Nazi 12.08.2019 12:12 AM

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Just excess silliness itching to be put to use en lieu of an actual response.


Well that's just perverse.

 

The Soup Nazi 12.08.2019 12:50 AM

 


"I can't listen to this song ["Beautiful Child"] without crying so I don't listen to it often. But there isn't a more beautiful or appropriate song to play us out of the seventies. There's a sense of loss and saying goodbye, but it's a sparse and restrained culmination of the studio techniques honed throughout the decade, many of which broke ground on Rumours, the seminal seventies record. 'Beautiful Child' takes all they learned about vocal overdubs and harmonies, and applies those techniques in the most light-handed way that is just so heartbreakingly beautiful. Despite the lushness, the vocal harmonies still manage to convey a deep loneliness, and it sounds to me like every vocal performance in the mix was performed in isolation. Every player and singer on the song sounds like they were standing a mile apart, like the drums were played across the freeway, the piano recorded with the lights off." Joanna Newsom on her favorite songs from the '70s


"On 'Get Yr Life Back', sensual memories of a lover are inextricably tangled with the products of the present-day wellness industry: 'And you smell like dark chocolate cocoa butter'. While plastic signs advertise 'Get your life back yoga', experience becomes user-generated content: 'Take out the voiceover/The Fleetwood Mac song/The clomping is too loud'.

This clomping is famously the sound of lamb chops, tissue boxes and a marching band, and the Fleetwood Mac song is that favourite of millennials (and music critic Simon Reynolds), 'Tusk', right? 'Yeah.' Does she like the song herself? 'I do. I just hear Fleetwood Mac everywhere right now. I mean, I love and relate to Fleetwood Mac. As a teenager I was into them but then really didn't pay any attention to [Tusk], then nine or ten years ago Bill [Nace] and I both discovered the album and would listen to it every day. It's weird how at the time it was such a hated record and now people love it. And now I've been consulting on this TV show based on a book called Daisy Jones & The Six, which is a fake oral history of a big band from the 70s that's supposed to be like Fleetwood Mac. So I've been reading about them. What a weird band they were. Really weird.'" from The Wire's "The World Of Kim Gordon" special

choc e-Claire 12.08.2019 02:11 AM

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You wouldn't say that had you seen them in 1991. My ears are still ringing.

I personally don't have anything against Ride - the new album's pretty good, and Nowhere is a deserved classic. It's just a meme I've seen about

choc e-Claire 12.08.2019 04:35 AM

 

choc e-Claire 12.08.2019 05:08 AM

 

Bytor Peltor 12.08.2019 05:07 PM

Various Artist - Strain Crack & Break: Music From The Nurse With Wound List (Volume One)

After years of mythology, misinterpretation and procrastination Nurse With Wound’s Steven Stapleton finally chooses Finders Keepers Records as the ideal collaborators to release “the right tracks” from his uber-legendary psych/prog/punk peculiarity shopping list known as The Nurse With Wound List, commencing with a French specific Volume One of this authentically titled Strain Crack Break series. Featuring some Finders Keepers’ regulars amongst galactic Gallic rarities (previously presumed to be imaginary red herrings) this deluxe double vinyl dossier demystifies some of the essential French free jazz and Parisian prog inclusions from the alphabetical “dedication” inventory as printed the anti-bands 1979 industrial milestone debut.

Antagon 12.08.2019 05:58 PM


 



Cause I had "Get Up" stuck in my head lately.

!@#$%! 12.08.2019 08:39 PM

give him a minute to get going

https://archive.org/details/uwethno-..._v2_Song01.mov

choc e-Claire 12.09.2019 05:47 AM

 

Antagon 12.09.2019 02:42 PM

 

Antagon 12.09.2019 03:34 PM

 

_tunic_ 12.10.2019 12:55 AM

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Atmospherical and mellow tunes for those melancholic December days.

 

With all due respect, you can listen to that album 11 months a year, but there's only one album for December:

 


You could even skip the traditionals, I often do, and only listen to tracks 2, 4, 7 and 8. Yeah, I even skip Just Like Christmas. It's too snowy.

_tunic_ 12.10.2019 10:00 AM

 


Dans Dans on the white vinyl

!@#$%! 12.10.2019 11:49 AM

im listening to a bunch of led zeppelin from an online playlist

sure, they incurred some excesses, which were of their time, and perhaps at times pandered, but a lot of what that band made is very fucking hard to beat

Antagon 12.10.2019 04:29 PM

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With all due respect, you can listen to that album 11 months a year, but there's only one album for December:



 


You could even skip the traditionals, I often do, and only listen to tracks 2, 4, 7 and 8. Yeah, I even skip Just Like Christmas. It's too snowy.


I see your point, but I generally try to eschew overtly christmassy things. No matter how much I like the artist/band. Christmas albums are like a personal pet peeve of mine. I can't really relate to them. Maybe I'll give those four a listen though. Let's see.

Antagon 12.10.2019 04:35 PM

Something wintery though ...


 

!@#$%! 12.10.2019 08:03 PM

pretenders (1980)

 


yes yes, you might have heard a couple of singles on your pop-pop’s AM radio, but this is a great little album as a whole.

(ok, maybe a couple of duds in there, but the a-side is great)

The Soup Nazi 12.11.2019 12:31 AM

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From 12.04.2018, 10:05 PM:

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[...] Hey, "Claire, no" sounded like "Caroline, No". (And yes, I'm aware that's a YouTube link. :D)


Antagon 12.11.2019 05:34 PM

 

Antagon 12.11.2019 06:16 PM

 

Antagon 12.11.2019 07:21 PM

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Okay, how did this album ever get to be as revered as it is? I just sat through close to an hour of running time, of which I only really enjoyed about 5 minutes or so (that would be the second track "Wild"). The closer "Irene" was okay too, but it didn't quite win me over. But the rest just sounded like lethargic drivel to me. There are little glimpses of interesting melodies that are immediately drowned in the pale, metallic sound, the awful penchant for overdoing the reverb and the less than excited vocals. *Shrugs*

choc e-Claire 12.11.2019 08:27 PM

Ha! The gaze server I'm on circlejerks that album completely, and I'd never listened to it. Glad to know that I shouldn't bother.

choc e-Claire 12.11.2019 08:52 PM

 

Severian 12.12.2019 08:37 AM

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Okay, how did this album ever get to be as revered as it is? I just sat through close to an hour of running time, of which I only really enjoyed about 5 minutes or so (that would be the second track "Wild"). The closer "Irene" was okay too, but it didn't quite win me over. But the rest just sounded like lethargic drivel to me. There are little glimpses of interesting melodies that are immediately drowned in the pale, metallic sound, the awful penchant for overdoing the reverb and the less than excited vocals. *Shrugs*


I don’t know, it’s like a really basic version of all the great shoegaze and dream pop we grew up with, but people either don’t seem to know that or don’t seem to care.

Antagon 12.12.2019 09:39 AM

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I don’t know, it’s like a really basic version of all the great shoegaze and dream pop we grew up with, but people either don’t seem to know that or don’t seem to care.

It's actually quite beloved elsewhere (6th highest rated for 2012 and 541st overall at rateyourmusic, as well as countless best-of lists). But, I just couldn't. You say really basic, I say bereft of everything that made those albums great in the first place. None of the lush, beautiful soundcapes, really bland and lifeless vocals and melodies that try to be chipper but get bogged down by the awful production. To me it sounded like an empty husk appropriating a few shoegaze and dream pop tropes without quite grasping why they were ever effective, let alone how to make them effective. But maybe that's just me. A lot of people seem to like it. I just needed to vent.

Antagon 12.12.2019 12:48 PM

 

Ana Frango Elétrico - Little Electric Chicken Heart


Two songs in. Lovely, really lovely.

_tunic_ 12.12.2019 01:53 PM

 


The perfect Christmas album :p

Antagon 12.12.2019 01:58 PM

 

!@#$%! 12.12.2019 02:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Antagon
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Okay, how did this album ever get to be as revered as it is? I just sat through close to an hour of running time, of which I only really enjoyed about 5 minutes or so (that would be the second track "Wild"). The closer "Irene" was okay too, but it didn't quite win me over. But the rest just sounded like lethargic drivel to me. There are little glimpses of interesting melodies that are immediately drowned in the pale, metallic sound, the awful penchant for overdoing the reverb and the less than excited vocals. *Shrugs*

most children overrate their own times is why

presentism/lack of perspective

!@#$%! 12.12.2019 02:42 PM

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Ha! The gaze server I'm on circlejerks that album completely, and I'd never listened to it. Glad to know that I shouldn't bother.

beach house can be okay. it’s just nothing to kill for.

choc e-Claire 12.12.2019 07:14 PM

 

Bytor Peltor 12.12.2019 09:33 PM

The Cush - Heavy Psych

NYCgaf16 12.13.2019 12:46 PM

Nirvana - All Apologies

Antagon 12.13.2019 06:19 PM

 

Severian 12.13.2019 11:16 PM

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Kind of a snoozer for me so far

_tunic_ 12.14.2019 04:34 AM

 


Exit In Darkness, the new collaboration EP from MONO & A.A.Williams. Digital release out now, physical release out January 24 via Pelagic Records!

Antagon 12.14.2019 05:46 AM

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Kind of a snoozer for me so far

I thought it was not quite as lovely and playful as Stratosphere, but it had its moments. I get your sentiment though. Will relisten some time.


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