The Default Thread: Music Edition.

[bmack86]

Yes, yes it is. I love that album so much.

[bballarl]

Looks like I need to listen to Eureka and Halfway to a Threeway next.

[bmack86]

Moreso Halfway to a Threeway for that same sound. Eureka is great, but it's more in the American Primitive vein. Really excellent acoustic music. Reminded me of Leo Kottke.

[bballarl]

I am blasting a pretty awesome Grooverider mix so I don't have to listen to my roommate and his gf on her last night in town. Yay.

[westcoastpirate]

Any album recommendations for driving through Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks? Atmospheric stuff that will complement the scenery?

[TallGuyCM]

Any album recommendations for driving through Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks? Atmospheric stuff that will complement the scenery?

Ask in here:

http://www.coachella.com/forum/showt...-Other-s-Lives

I got some absolutely stellar recommendations a few weeks ago for a long drive.

[westcoastpirate]

Ask in here:

http://www.coachella.com/forum/showt...-Other-s-Lives

I got some absolutely stellar recommendations a few weeks ago for a long drive.

Thank you! That's the thread I was originally looking for.

[bmack86]

I've posted two videos on youtube. They're both fairly popular, and I just watched them again for the first time since I recorded each. Check em:





Edit: Both these have as many views as they do because they were posted on Pitchfork.

So this whole post is basically boasting, besides the video. Oh well, modesty is for chicks.

[TallGuyCM]

Congrats B!

[hawkingvsreeve]

Speaking of videos, have we discussed this somewhere?

[SepaGroove]

This new Japandroids album is fucking amazing.

Reminds me of high school for some reason.

[nosurprises12]

If you enjoy the show Classic Albums or the more straight-forward 33 1/3 books, the recent P4K doc on The Lonesome Crowded West is fairly interesting. A lot of the old footage has been around for a while, but it was cool to hear the band members and producers/engineers talk about the recording process.

[TallGuyCM]

An old friend just asked me for some song recommendations on the topics of love and longing. Any suggestions?

[knytt]

Maybe these?

The Love I'm Searching For - The Rentals
To Be Of Use - Smog
Sixteen, Maybe Less - Iron & Wine/Calexico
Bookends Theme - Simon & Garfunkel
Remember The Mountain Bed - Billy Bragg & Wilco
Hellhole Ratrace - Girls
Across the Sea - Weezer
Younger Us - Japandroids
We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed - Los Campesinos!
Good Things - The Menzingers
I Wish I Knew - Sharon Van Etten

[Drinkey McDrinkerstein]

An old friend just asked me for some song recommendations on the topics of love and longing. Any suggestions?

Here's a few off the top of my head

[TallGuyCM]

I had been meaning to check out Insignificance by Jim O'Rourke for years. It is, in fact, as good as the reviews have indicated.

I'm pretty sure I've asked for O'Rourke recommendations more than once on this board before, but hadn't actually gotten around to listening to him until I put Insignificance on today. Fucking amazing. That last song (and its last 2 or so minutes)...!!!

[bmack86]

THe part I love most is actually the brief horn part at the end of the first song. It's like a gut punch. Definitely my favorite O'Rourke release.

[bmack86]

I read an article about potential best albums of all time, and one commentor posted one of the most bizarre lists I've ever seen:

Talk Talk – Colour of Spring
Men at Work – Buisness as Usual
Santana – Axbraxas
Beatles – Sgt. Pepper
Nirvana – Nevermind
Limp Bizkit – Significant Other
Steely Dan – Aja
Stone Roses

I want to meet this person.

[xuclarockerx]

lol Men at Work. Great album, but not sure how I feel about that inclusion.

Intriguing list, I too would like to pick this person's brain.

[Still-ill]

I'm pretty sure I've asked for O'Rourke recommendations more than once on this board before, but hadn't actually gotten around to listening to him until I put Insignificance on today. Fucking amazing. That last song (and its last 2 or so minutes)...!!!

It's just tough because he's put on so many masks over the years. But, I will say he does have a certain fingerprint to his music, you always can tell when he's involved. I've listened to about 27 of his releases with his various bands, collaborators and monikers, and it's rare that you even question that he is involved in some way, shape or form.

[buddy]

big fan of insignificance. i was hoping he'd bring eureka to atp ny, since his toyko atp was cancelled, but insignificance at atp ny would have me there no doubt.

[zircona1]

In the 'recommend an album by an artist' thread, I mentioned Swans. A few weeks ago, I got The Great Annihilator and I really enjoyed it.

Yesterday I listened to Soundtracks For the Blind for the first time and I was like, WOW. So many of the tracks are creepy, yet beautiful and powerful (several of them remind me of Godspeed You! Black Emperor, who I am a fan of).

Today I listened to My Father Will Guide Me A Rope Up From the Sky, I enjoyed it.

So, yeah, I've been on a big Swans kick lately, with still more from them I wanna listen to. Really excited to see these guys in September.

[TallGuyCM]

Do you ever have one of those days where you just say fuck it, I'm gonna listen to a shit ton of albums I never have before? Today was one of those days for me. Some of the bands I was familiar with but just hadn't heard the album, others were bands I had never listened to before.

Dinosaur Jr. - Beyond - This was the only original lineup album that I hadn't yet put on. There are some really fantastic songs on here, but a few that aren't anything special as well. The end of "Pick Me Up" was definitely the highlight. B.

Sparklehorse - Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot - First time listening to the band. I had been meaning to forever. This album is fucking incredible. Can't wait to put it on again. A+.

Yo La Tengo - Electr-O-Pura - Maybe it's because this was the first time I've listened to a YLT album with headphones, but this might be the best album I've heard from them. I mean, a band could use "Flying Lesson (Hot Chicken #1)" as a template for an entire career if they wanted to. At least as good as I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One in my book. Ira's a fucking genius. A.

The Drones - Wait Long By the River and the Bodies of Your Enemies Will Float By - I usually have a hard time with vocals like on this one, but the music was so good it was easy to forgive. Lots of Neil influence for sure. These guys really need to be added to ATP so I can see them with a belly full of whiskey. B+.

Bad Brains - Bad Brains - First time. So good. I really liked how the dub tracks were thrown in there to buffer the mayhem a bit. A.

Jay Reatard - Watch Me Fall - Nice, energetic album. But kind of sing-songy, and nowhere near the adrenaline rush that I love about Blood Visions. B.

Caribou - The Milk of Human Kindness - Very, very solid album, even if it is much less consistent than Up in Flames. "A Final Warning" is amazing. A-.

[buddy]

Definitely try Good Morning Spider for Sparklehorse, as well.

[SoulDischarge]

And since he already committed suicide thanks to pirating, you don't have to feel guilty about not buying his music.

[TallGuyCM]

[cutterbutter]

[mountmccabe]

Spotify is tempting me, mainly due to its integration with your local music and gigantic classical and opera selection... but holy living fuck their player is the least intuitive thing I've ever used. You can't clear the play queue? You can't save anything other than by creating endless playlists?

[getbetter]

In the 'recommend an album by an artist' thread, I mentioned Swans. A few weeks ago, I got The Great Annihilator and I really enjoyed it.

Yesterday I listened to Soundtracks For the Blind for the first time and I was like, WOW. So many of the tracks are creepy, yet beautiful and powerful (several of them remind me of Godspeed You! Black Emperor, who I am a fan of).

Today I listened to My Father Will Guide Me A Rope Up From the Sky, I enjoyed it.

So, yeah, I've been on a big Swans kick lately, with still more from them I wanna listen to. Really excited to see these guys in September.

Listening to Soundtracks For the Blind for the first time in it's entirety it such a magical moment in ones' life.

[Miroir Noir]

A series of recent tweets from Ian Cohen of Pitchfork:

For fuck's sake, can more bands sound like Sugar?

I wouldn't have to say that kind of shit if we just told our kids the truth that "Everlong" is better than anything Nirvana ever did.

Also, fifteen copies of "File Under: Easy Listening" are in every used CD store, but "Gift" is nowhere to be found on YouTube. #thefuck

This all seems accurate to me. Discuss.