Friday (Midday) Music Open Thread

Bands that I would say are kind of similar are Dirty Projectors and Department of Eagles, but to me they seems quite unique. I would love to find someone else similar as well, hopefully someone on here can help.

Thanks for reminding me!

and I love the first album they did after eating Big Business (who are full touring and recording members of the Melvins, by the by) even more. It’s called (A) Senile Animal and if you like the Melvins you should definitely pick it up if you haven’t already.

The Thrill Is Gone, from the new Statik Selectah album

Tramp The Dirt Down.

It is now among my five or 10 favorite albums ever.

I only listened to the singles when it first came out but I listened to the whole thing last year and it’s quite good.

I recently dug up Okkervil River’s “Down the River of Golden Dreams” (I’m sure this will be a surprise to all of you) after many years of owning it and not listening to it and thought “hey, this is all right!”

I’ve had similar experiences recently with Sonic Youth’s “Murray Street”, which I mostly used to listen to for “Disconnection Notice”, the first Stone Roses album over the summer (curiously, I had liked the second one better, though I find “Ten-Storey Love Song” to be agonizing), and a number of Tom Waits albums since getting into him a few years ago, and most recently it was discovering that I really liked “The Black Rider”, but refuse to listen to it any time other than in the fall, and that there were some rather brilliant songs on “Foreign Affairs”, like “Muriel” and “Burma Shave”.

Really gloss over The Talking Heads More Songs About Buildings and Food, preferring Fear of Music, 77, and Little Creatures. I heard one of the songs from the album on a podcast and thought it was a great Talking Heads song that I wasn’t familiar with.

Turns out it was on More Songs About Buildings and Food so I went and listened to the album in its entirety and now it’s my favorite Talking Heads album!

but a friend of mine is so I get the occasional track pop up on my facebook news feed.

Climbing up the Walls by Radiohead.

This is mostly off the top of my head, but….

Cat Power – Nude as the News (with music video!, which is one of the reason why it makes it over other songs on the same album)
The National – Brainy (mostly for its lyrics)
Portishead – Seven Months (don’t fuck around with Beth Gibbons because she is scary)

No One Sees You Like I Do

The Rake’s Song by The Decemberists
(More popular and well known but still creepy) Polly by Nirvana

Flower by Liz Phair.

Is The Decemberists – The Rake, I mean it’s all about killing your children because you want to go live the life of a bachelor again. Actually, a lot of their songs. I mean you think oh it’s a whimsical song about sailors and nautical adventures, but then it’s actually sad songs about sailors raping princesses or ladies of the evening.

Drive By Truckers – That Man I Shot, how a man deals with killing someone during war. It’s pretty haunting, and even more amazing and haunting live. I mean this verse right here kills me every time,

“That man I shot, I still can see him
When I should be sleeping, tossing and turning
He’s looking at me, eyes looking through me
Break out in cold sweats when I see him standing there”

I think Jumpers by Sleater-Kinney is pretty disturbing as well with some beautiful lyrics.

Ride The Wings Of Pestilence by From First To Last

Chorus:
“I’ll hide you in my walls
Your body will never be found
I’ll wear your skin as a suit
Pretend to be you
Your friends will like you more than they used to”

I thought these threads were more about exposing some of the lesser-known stuff people listen to.

But I don’t really like either of those bands much anymore. They aren’t TERRIBLE but they are decidedly average.

And Drake seems less terrible than most mainstream rap.

they’re both great choices.

I need to revisit it soon.

I think their best work is Brighter Than Creations Dark, it’s insanely good. Give them time, it took me a little bit to really get into their stuff, but now they’re one of my favorites.

Other acts you might want to check out, Heartless Bastards and Neko Case.

Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson
Son Volt
Richard Buckner
Old ’97s

What does he do on stage? I’m assuming it’s not like a Girl Talk show with a bunch of underage girls rubbing him while he plays with his mp3 player.

RJD2 has always been chill-out/driving/cleaning the house music for me.

The Horror!

Incubus was excellent as a live act, and although I was (and still am) very lukewarm on their recorded material I still have them in high regard as a live band, at least back then. Also at that show was Taproot. Had not ever heard of them before, and they rocked my socks off during that show and I became a pretty solid fan

Experienced Coheed and Cambria for the very first time as an opener for Thursday many years back, and they’ve become one of my most favorite groups as well

Only good live:
Alexisonfire – Great energy, the crowd was into every song even though they weren’t an opener. Never could stand their records.
Sims – Opened for POS, was excellent, recorded stuff is meh.

Instant fan:
Westbound Train – Impeccable live performance.

A little different, I saw the Aggrolites live, and then after that I could never listen to their recorded material again.

Doves were good in their own right, but My Morning Jacket completely blew them out of the water. I became a fan on the spot. For a while, they were one of those “only good when they’re live” bands for me, but I’ve since learned to really enjoy their albums.

I like their records okay, but seeing them live is one of the most mind-blowing experiences I’ve ever had.

but Debussy’s Nocturnes are there.

I wrote about it as part of a paper for a music class once. Good times.

Though if I were to recommend a starting place, it’d be "Fox Confessor Brings the Flood’, and that just barely beats out “Blacklisted”. I think “Blacklisted” is the better album, but “Fox Confessor…” is a little easier to get into.

Regardless, you should listen to “Deep Red Bells”, which is track 2 on “Blacklisted”. It’s pretty much the ultimate Neko song: incredible song writing, amazing vocals, and a fantastic outro.

I love stuff like Agalloch, but can’t stand stuff like Lamb of God.