Friday Morning Music Thread
by Jeff Sullivan on Jan 27, 2012 9:47 AM PST
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What's a strange or interesting way you learned about an artist or band you wound up liking?
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From the preacher's son of my parent's church
Listening to Lamplight Symphony from Songs for America on a bootleg recording of a Kansas concert before they were known by just about anyone, in his basement room while doing things imminently worthy of having sermons aimed at us.
I learned about Yo La Tengo via an Onion article about hipsters circa 2002.
The article featured other bands I liked – I think Death Cab and the Dismemberment Plan – so I thought I’d give YLT a try. They turned out to be one of my favorite bands.
I ended up discovering As Tall As Lions because a girl happened to be doing laundry at the same time as me: 3am on a Monday night.
She was listening to them on her Ipod and had me put on her headphones when I asked what she was listening to. Fell in love with the band almost immediately.
Rock Band 1 & 2
I stopped listening to the radio about 1992, but learned to love a lot of songs I heard in the Rock Band and Rock Band 2 games.
Fell in love with Little Dragon watching some Australian music network while I was laid over in Hong Kong.
I guess it isn’t weird that I found good music on a music network but it was Australian and I was in Hong Kong so that is kinda strange I guess.
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I've found a lot of music over the last couple years through snowboard movie soundtracks.
Though now its more common for me to recognize music in that scene that I’ve already heard elsewhere. For example, The Art of Flight (which you don’t have to be a snowboarder to appreciate at all, its fantastic) makes awesome use of three songs from Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming.
I’ve also found music by getting out my phone and SoundHound-ing whatever Chipotle is playing, but they tend to get repetitive.
A long time ago, in college, I found out about Fugazi from a random research article I was reading about crime in Washington DC
I don’t remember why Fugazi was mentioned, or why I followed up on it, but I’m glad I did.
I saw a Black Flag logo on a fanzine once and it fascinated me so I bought a couple records
and that began a multi-year love affair with that band.
My best friend just spent a semester in Ireland
She came back and gave me a CD for this Irish garage band she saw at a club once. It’s pretty amazing, actually. They’re called The Minutes.
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When Blake Lewis was on Amsr
Aaron Curry is the first Seahawk since Walter Jones to have a legitimate shot at Hall of Fame induction - John Morgan
by Fearless Frog on Jan 27, 2012 6:36 PM PST via mobile reply actions
When Blake Lewis was on American Idol a few years ago, he wore a Blue Scholars t-shirt.
I didn’t give it a second thought until someone on some forum made note of that fact. So I looked them up (think I found their MySpace page), listened to their song “No Rest for the Weary”, and thought it was terrific. Been listening to them ever since.
Aaron Curry is the first Seahawk since Walter Jones to have a legitimate shot at Hall of Fame induction - John Morgan
by Fearless Frog on Jan 27, 2012 6:38 PM PST via mobile reply actions
I bartended at the Crystal Ballroom in Portland.
It seemed for the first couple of years that there wasn’t a month went by that someone I’d never heard of knocked me over. Saw Sleater-Kinney, Rockin’ Ronnie Dawson, moe and a lot of local bands I still go see today.
"People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring". ~Rogers Hornsby
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