Red Baron Posted February 9, 2007 Report Posted February 9, 2007 Rick Astley. Never Gonna Give You Up... I had this song in my head all day at work today.
Guest Teq Posted February 10, 2007 Report Posted February 10, 2007 The Way We Walk On The Moon by Arthur Russell Could well be the greatest song I've ever heard. Sadly he died of aids in 1992.
Guest Oedipus Rex Posted February 11, 2007 Report Posted February 11, 2007 Sondre Lerche - Two Way Monologue Got this on someone's recommendation. Decent voice, decent strummy guitar, warm and sunny, basically pleasant MOR stuff--I believe Inc called this Starbucks music--that I can see myself listening to on a nice long drive in the spring with the sunroof open, maybe winding through endless Levittowny swaths of suburbia, thinking to myself about what my life would have been like if I didn't spend so many years up in a tourist-trap dump, isolated from good high schools, good grocery stores, any record stores, middle-class friends, and just a hell of a lot of, now in retrospect, much-welcome normality, but I've yet to form any sort of emotional connection with it in the vacuum that is me at my laptop. I don't think I will. Maybe I'd rather just listen to a Cubs game on the aforementioned trip. EDIT: Hey, this got kinda low-key and gloomy. Still vanilla, but an overcast vanilla. A tasty mixed metaphor.
Guest Oedipus Rex Posted February 12, 2007 Report Posted February 12, 2007 What do you think of the 8-Bit Kraftwerk or whatever it's called? Listened to a few on their myspace music page, and they're pretty cool, but novelties nonetheless.
justsoyouknow Posted February 14, 2007 Report Posted February 14, 2007 Elliott Smith - Someone I Used to Know You have no idea how fucking difficult it's been to track down Figure 8 for some reason.
Guest Oedipus Rex Posted February 14, 2007 Report Posted February 14, 2007 I don't have any idea. My friend gave me a copy in April along with some Mountain Goats. I didn't know I'd been taking it for granted.
justsoyouknow Posted February 15, 2007 Report Posted February 15, 2007 Two Best Buys here didn't have it, neither did Zia Records (the "independent" music chain). I eventually had to go to Stinkweeds.
Gary Floyd Posted February 15, 2007 Report Posted February 15, 2007 Current 93-Moonlight, You Will Say
justsoyouknow Posted February 15, 2007 Report Posted February 15, 2007 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UispCK7Q--M Three weeks from death, Elvis tearing up Unchained Melody.
cbacon Posted February 16, 2007 Report Posted February 16, 2007 Some leaks: Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank Track list is all messed up though. New Feist Track: My Man My Moon
cbacon Posted February 16, 2007 Report Posted February 16, 2007 Probably should have gone under the comments that don't warrant a thread thread >:
cbacon Posted February 16, 2007 Report Posted February 16, 2007 Actually, this useless thread should probably be turned into an album leak thread (:
Guest Oedipus Rex Posted February 18, 2007 Report Posted February 18, 2007 I'm czeching out Seamonsters by the Wedding Present. I think one of you rabblerousers had it as a sig for while, because I immediately recognized the cover art. PLAGIARISM!, maybe? This should be interesting, because it's from that time period which I've always thought of as a lull between the Smiths and the Britpop bands. Okay, guy has a unique voice.
Broward83 Posted February 20, 2007 Report Posted February 20, 2007 Deep In the Heart of Texas -- George Strait
PLAGIARISM! Posted February 20, 2007 Report Posted February 20, 2007 I'm czeching out Seamonsters by the Wedding Present. I think one of you rabblerousers had it as a sig for while, because I immediately recognized the cover art. PLAGIARISM!, maybe? This should be interesting, because it's from that time period which I've always thought of as a lull between the Smiths and the Britpop bands. Okay, guy has a unique voice. Yeah, that's me. It's my favourite album ever.
Giuseppe Zangara Posted February 20, 2007 Report Posted February 20, 2007 Seamonsters is the great, underrated break up album. A lot of "fuck you" heartache and a whole mess of pedals.
Edwin MacPhisto Posted February 20, 2007 Report Posted February 20, 2007 Seamonsters is one of the albums I actually entirely credit this board's various denizens for bringing me. And it is superb. It's so sleazy and weepy and demented all at once.
Giuseppe Zangara Posted February 21, 2007 Report Posted February 21, 2007 An aside: I don't think it's possible for girls to like Seamonsters. Sure, there are exceptions, but this is pretty much a "guy" album without any of the stereotypical trappings of what's considered masculine. That can be said for The Wedding Present as a whole, really. Smog is the only other indie band I know of where women I've played them for were at a loss as what to do with it. (Not that Smog and Wedding Present are much alike.)
Giuseppe Zangara Posted February 21, 2007 Report Posted February 21, 2007 Also, the first use of the distortion pedal on "Dalliance" is one of my favorite moments in music.
Edwin MacPhisto Posted February 21, 2007 Report Posted February 21, 2007 An aside: I don't think it's possible for girls to like Seamonsters. Sure, there are exceptions, but this is pretty much a "guy" album without any of the stereotypical trappings of what's considered masculine. That can be said for The Wedding Present as a whole, really. Smog is the only other indie band I know of where women I've played them for were at a loss as what to do with it. (Not that Smog and Wedding Present are much alike.) I've included scattered songs on mix discs for female friends. "Corduroy" went over all right, but I never heard a whole lot of praise for most of the tracks. Even though they're desperate love songs, Gedge's lyrics are pretty base at times, in that "Well, I'm still in love with you, and I'm fucking this other girl, but I promise it doesn't mean anything...maybe" kind of way. Such a naked show of both obsession and contempt; in my experience, most women don't handle those things too well, especially when they go together. I think I'll listen to this on the metro tomorrow morning and have a nice cheery day at work.
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