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luiysia wrote:

Lunch Money Criminals

also there might be a new album soon so that's neat

Thats pretty kind of really cool


good job

@Mokat
you really think he hasn't heard of the beatles

Last edited by bananaman114 (2013-01-19 21:04:50)

bananaman114 wrote:

luiysia wrote:

Lunch Money Criminals

also there might be a new album soon so that's neat

Thats pretty kind of really cool


good job

@Mokat
you really think he hasn't heard of the beatles

My brother knew a girl that had never heard of the Beatles.

I'm not sure how you make it to Junior year not hearing of them but someone did.

(Though obviously all40ne HAS)

Aidan wrote:

What prog-rock do you listen to?

Well, I listen mostly to classic prog - Pink Floyd, Genesis, Yes, King Crimson, etc.

By the way, I finally got my Internet back, so I will listen to your suggestions tomorrow morning. 

Ok, I'm finally back! Let's start where I left off.

Alternatives wrote:

Blink-182.

I was always somewhat familiar with blink-182. Though I never listened to them on a regular basis, I knew they were a quirky pop-punk band that, in all honesty, I actually like.

At the same time though, I never heard much of their discography, so for them, I found the song "First Date", a song I've never heard before. Let's listen to it.

Hm, nice, upbeat intro. The song's definitely a product of blink-182 with its simple lyrics and fast-paced beat. I like the lyrics on here, it follows a simple concept on how insecure some can get in front of their lover but they try to wipe it all off for their first date.

Of course the song is maddeningly catchy - sort of reminds me of early Green Day.

Hmm, not exactly gold star material, but I like it.

luiysia wrote:

Lunch Money Criminals

Listening to the EP you linked on Bandcamp. On the first track "The Game". I really, really, like it. I'm not sure yet if the other tracks are different, but this particular song has an edgy, jazzy feel to it, and I like the gritty vocals. Reminds me a bit of Steely Dan.

GOLD STAR.

ROSMan wrote:

Foo Fighters- Walk.
The singer of this band, Dave Grohl, was the drummer for Nirvana.

skip to 1:01 for the start of the song...

You may also find the music video quite funny. 

That video was hilarious.   

I love Nirvana and I really like Foo Fighters - I once heard a conception that if Kurt Cobain was the John Lennon of Nirvana, then Dave Grohl was Paul McCartney. I'm generally not a fan of post-grunge, but Foo Fighters are one of those few bands I really, really enjoy.

Really good song. 2013 and they're still at it. Good for them.

Since I already listened to a sizable selection of their discography, this is probably not gold star material, but this is very good nonetheless. 

veggieman001 wrote:

generosity wrote:

I strongly recommend múm, Sigur Rós, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, and Boards of Canada.

!!!
Second every single one of those proposals
For Sigur Rós, a great one to start with is Ágætis byrjun and for GY!BE, the CD version of F# A# ∞. The only múm album I have is Summer Make Good and it's pretty good but I haven't heard others for comparison. Boards of Canada I haven't listened to as much, but Music Has the Right to Children is the best of what I've heard.

I always thought that I needed to familiarize myself more with post-rock, and it seems now is a good chance to listen to some.

*looks up Ágætis Byrjun*

Oh, so that's why I see that album cover all the time.    Ok, so I found the song "Staralfur". Let's listen.

Hmm, good start, nice orchestra. I don't speak Irish, so I'm not sure what he's saying, but I think it's rather nice. This particular song reminds me of some sort of traditional tune set on an ambient soundscape.

Oh, the guitars just came in. Hmm. Interesting. Oh, no, then the orchestra comes back, nevermind. 

I rather like it, it's very soothing. I'm not sure if all their songs are like this, so please tell me if that's so, and I'll find a better example of their work, but for now, this is worth a GOLD STAR.

Now for GY!BE, let's listen to their song "East Hastings".

Are those...bagpipes? Yep, that's definitely bagpipes.    Hmm, I like the ambience this is setting up. All right, now we've delved into a spacier synth territory. Now the guitar comes in against the synthesizer backdrop. Rather eerie at this point. Let's see where this goes. It goes silent for a moment, and then the guitar slowly reappears. Hmm, sort of Pink Floyd-esque so far, similar to, say, the beginning of "Echoes". now the drums and bass have come in, looks like it's building up. All the instruments are getting gradually louder now. Now there seems to be a slight string quartet break. Hmm, at this point I can hear nearly inaudible singing in the background, as the guitar is being slightly picked. All the instruments are playing again, with the strings chiming in now and then. Just reached the 10-minute mark. Things are intensifying. Getting faster now. Much faster. It seems this is what it was building up to. After that section finished, we come into the third part, "Drugs in Tokyo". It starts off with sounds of a man over a transceiver, interspersed with some strange, out-of-this-world sounds. Rather atmospheric. Hmm, getting gradually louder. This probably is the build up to the last section. Speaking of which, 16-minute mark, the finale of the song, "Black Helicopter". Well, I hear what appears to be a siren. And some higher-pitched wailing in the back trying to mimick the siren. And that's the song.

Wow. That was great. What else can I say but, ANOTHER GOLD STAR.

Now for múm's song, "Nightly Cares". Hm. It starts off with a relaxing medley of keys - pianos, synths, the work. The vocals have come in now. The vocalist has a rather innocent, child-like quality to their voice that retains a bit of mystique. Now the drums have come in - can't tell if they're live drums or just electronically programmed. Either way it sounds nice. This is interesting. I really like how lovely and mellow it is.

I heard this album was an electronic/IDM album, and this probably is probably the least electronic track, but I still really like it.

Gold star? Sure why not. 

And now finally, "An Eagle in Your Mind" by Boards of Canada. Hmm, starts off with some moody synths - a drum sample is introduced a bit later. Has an interesting, minimalistic atmosphere. As is common with this style of electronica, the drums are a central part to the song. Halfway through, a subtle bass appears to come in, along with some surreal whistle-like sounds.

It's not bad. I wouldn't say I would come back to this all the time, but if I'm ever in an IDM mood, I might listen to the entire album.

lolfan85 wrote:

i dont know if you like it, but try lifehouse songs maybe blind, halfway gone, first time, hanging by a moment, or maybe all in..

Hmm, I remember flipping through radio stations a year or two ago, and a Lifehouse song came on. I can't exactly remember it now, but I remember it was a pop-grunge song in the style of Daughtry. That's really all I can remember. I remember the song being okay - it had a nice melody (can't remember which song).

Let's listen to the song "Blind" to see if it sounds anything like I remember it.

Hmm, it's definitely catchy. It actually sounds a bit like Matchbox Twenty, a band I admittedly quite like. This is not at all bad. One of the better post-grunge bands I've heard. I like how the vocalist (Jason Wade, according to Wikipedia) has a subtle grunginess in his voice, but he doesn't force it on the listener like a lot of other bands in the genre.

As much as I like it, I'm not sure if it's gold star material. Silver star maybe. If I'm ever in a fix for melodic post-grunge, I'd come to this.

MrFlash67 wrote:

http://www.scratch.mit.edu/ext/youtube/?v=dRHetRTOD1Q It's A Sin by Pet Shop Boys

I like the Pet Shop Boys. I've always been a sucker for synth-heavy 80's New Wave, but somehow I never heard this song. What I like about this song is that it goes past the typical 80's New Wave traditions and adds a Queen-level of majesty, an after-taste of pomp and cirumstance.

It has such a brooding, gothic atmosphere that I haven't heard in New Wave since a-ha's "The Sun Always Shines On T.V.".

This was released in 1987, and it's true that New Wave was less apparent in the latter part of the 80's then it was in the early part of the decade - being replaced by cheeseball soft rock artists such as Michael Bolton and Richard Marx, so the fact that this became quite a big hit is rather honorable.

Hmm...okay, you deserve it, GOLD STAR.

All right, I'll listen to one more and then take a break for now.

veggieman001 wrote:

"We're in This Together" by Nine Inch Nails

((you probably won't like it, but it's worth a shot))

Never really listened to the Nails before. I know that their style is industrial metal, that I've heard some people say is somewhat inaccessible at first listen. But who knows, maybe I'll catch the gist of it the first time. Let's hear it.

I like the intro, it's definitely building up to something. Yep, there's the drums. There's the guitar, set to a blazing, distorted tone. And there's Trent on vocals. Hmm, I can see what people say when they tell me that their music is rather impenetrable. It carries on a rather dissonant tone, and the guitars are distorted so much that they sound like white noise.

I would probably appreciate the song a bit more if I was more used to the sound of industrial metal, but since I never really kept my ears to that genre in the past, it's a bit new to me. Any newcomer to the genre could easily get turned off by the blunt viscerality of it all - but to me it's actually somewhat fascinating.

Really not sure what to think of it. It's not exactly my sort of genre, but I'm glad I listened to it, and I may just listen to a Nine Inch Nails song in the future, just for the heck of it.

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And that's it for now. I'll probably listen to more of your suggestions later in the day. Thanks guys again for suggesting all this great music. 

veggieman001 wrote:

All4one wrote:

veggieman001 wrote:

"We're in This Together" by Nine Inch Nails

((you probably won't like it, but it's worth a shot))

Never really listened to the Nails before. I know that their style is industrial metal, that I've heard some people say is somewhat inaccessible at first listen. But who knows, maybe I'll catch the gist of it the first time. Let's hear it.

I like the intro, it's definitely building up to something. Yep, there's the drums. There's the guitar, set to a blazing, distorted tone. And there's Trent on vocals. Hmm, I can see what people say when they tell me that their music is rather impenetrable. It carries on a rather dissonant tone, and the guitars are distorted so much that they sound like white noise.

I would probably appreciate the song a bit more if I was more used to the sound of industrial metal, but since I never really kept my ears to that genre in the past, it's a bit new to me. Any newcomer to the genre could easily get turned off by the blunt viscerality of it all - but to me it's actually somewhat fascinating.

Really not sure what to think of it. It's not exactly my sort of genre, but I'm glad I listened to it, and I may just listen to a Nine Inch Nails song in the future, just for the heck of it.

I've never really listened to "industrial" music before, besides NIN (who I'd probably say are industrial rock rather than industrial metal). It's definitely different than most of what I listen to, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. I like the power and conviction of the music, and I actually really like the dissonance. Though, not all of it is dissonant; there's also the beautiful piano pieces like on Still as well as "The Frail", and there "La Mer" from The Fragile which features mostly acoustic instruments (piano, drums, standup bass).

You know, after I let the song hang around in my mind after a while, I started to really understand its vibes, and now I really like it. I think it's really fascinating, as I said before, I may even seek out a NIN album in the near future.

Here ya go, GOLD STAR.

Last edited by All4one (2013-01-20 20:20:44)

I would definitely recommend these albums, artists are in parenthesis:

Clarity (Zedd)

Tangram (Reso)

Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites (Skrillex)

Split the Atom (Noisia)

4x4=12 (Deadmau5)

Escape From Electric Mountain (Feed Me)

These are electronic artists, so if you aren't that kind of person just keep on scrolling

Aidan wrote:

All4one wrote:

Aidan wrote:

What prog-rock do you listen to?

Well, I listen mostly to classic prog - Pink Floyd, Genesis, Yes, King Crimson, etc.

Have you ever listened to Emerson, Lake and Palmer?

Also while you're listening to Sigur Ros and GY!BE, you should try Mogwai.

And since the Pink Floyd discography is huge, I can highly recommend Atom Heart Mother (if you haven't already heard it).

Also the Flaming Lips if they haven't already been said.

I like your style

http://www.scratch.mit.edu/ext/youtube/?v=EcdPPd9nEwQ
I just heard this today
I think I've heard of the band before but anyway
it just sounded nice

All4one wrote:

ROSMan wrote:

Foo Fighters- Walk.
The singer of this band, Dave Grohl, was the drummer for Nirvana.

skip to 1:01 for the start of the song...

You may also find the music video quite funny. 

That video was hilarious.   

I love Nirvana and I really like Foo Fighters - I once heard a conception that if Kurt Cobain was the John Lennon of Nirvana, then Dave Grohl was Paul McCartney. I'm generally not a fan of post-grunge, but Foo Fighters are one of those few bands I really, really enjoy.

Really good song. 2013 and they're still at it. Good for them.

Since I already listened to a sizable selection of their discography, this is probably not gold star material, but this is very good nonetheless. 

Aw, man! Well, at least you liked the music video. 

King Crimson - The Power to Believe

here are some tracks

It's different from their classic stuff, but it's nice. Kind of got an industrial feel to it.

Last edited by Aidan (2013-01-21 18:52:56)

If you're ever looking to relax -- Majestic has some very nice electronic songs.

Everyone go listen to The Who right now.