The Default Thread: Music Edition.

[SoulDischarge]

They don't recognize Skrewdriver. Thing's broken.

[SoulDischarge]

Or, actually surprisingly, Public Enemy.

[mountmccabe]

It has Public Enemy for me! It takes 19 steps to get from them to CHVRCHES.

[heart cooks brain]

Also the videos are often hilarious unrelated.

Kirsty Stegwazi was a member of Seaville
[video]
South Seaville Real Estate 27 Siskin Lane for Sale Call Maggie at 800-732-4753

[zircona1]

Agreed. Both that song and Mary Had A Little Drug Problem are fucking soo great.

I really like 'Mess', because it's about a hoarder (I think) and I've written a song about a hoarder.

[santasutt]

Bananarama to Gordon Lightfoot in 15 steps.

[djbionik]

that site is way too addicting. THanks.

[FEELS]

First thing I did was Minutemen to Prince. 14 steps

[getbetter]

I really enjoyed listening to The Clits' "Excuse me" EP and it's nothing mind blowing but it has a strong base line.They are on spotify if you want to give it a listen.

[malcolmjamalawesome]

I GOT MY EYES ON YOU

[Ardentbiscuit]

I went to trivia at a bar and they had a category called, EDM artist or CAPTCHA code...

[getbetter]

Leonard Cohen’s first public musical performance

I'm just started this but thought it was worth sharing.

edit: I think it may just be a spoken word/reading poetry out aloud

[djbionik]

I went to trivia at a bar and they had a category called, EDM artist or CAPTCHA code...

Oh this made me chuckle. That's funny.

[FEELS]

Tonight I've been listening to Belle & Sebastian for the first time in forever.... I forgot how good they are at making the perfect pop song.

[Jordanp]

What's the largest amount of steps you've had between artists? My first one was from Fats Domino to At the Gates: 11 steps.

hold steady to the knife in 22 steps

[djbionik]

Just got gifted an old 300 cd player today, and a couple weeks ago I was gifted a sound system. SO MUCH HAPPY.

[getbetter]

I wish I was in a band and we did abstract noise cover of "Hey Hey We're The Monkees".

[TomAz]

To do this, I looked at the music listening behavior of a quarter million online music listeners from a wide range of music services powered by music intelligence company The Echo Nest (my employer). First, I created a chart of the top artists in the entire country, and another of the top artists in each state. Then, I went through the chart for each state to find artists that have the biggest bump in their rank on the state chart, when compared to the national chart. These are the most "distinctive" artists for that state -- the ones that people there like way more than people in other states do.

[TomAz]

LOL @ Kentucky.

[bmack86]

I know Luke Bryan but not Bonobo. Looks like I need to get with California.

[TomAz]

It seems weird to me that I know Bonobo and you don't. Like, that never happens.

[kreutz2112]

New Sunny Day Real Estate song coming on record store day. Yay.

http://pitchfork.com/news/54177-sunn...survive-split/

[IceyHotshot]

Hiss Golden Messenger is primarily frontman MC Taylor and Scott Hirsh and is currently based in Durham, NC. I first heard the band when researching Hopscotch 2012 (which is in NC) and my introduction was with 2012's Poor Moon on Paradise of Bachelors. It's a truly lush record incorporating a lot of different styles, told from the perspective of a relatively new father grappling with doubt and faith. Taylor studied folklore at UNC, and as Grayson Currin expresses far better than I can, "Poor Moon thrives on an absolute Pan-American musical alchemy, where classic country and bar-band rock, pristine bluegrass and subversive funk whittle their own way into the same perfect grooves. This is new music that uses the past like a catapult-- into songs that understand their pedigrees without kowtowing to them. "

Just this year 2010's "Bad Debt" was reissued. It was originally pressed to CD in a very limited run, and almost all copies were destroyed in the London riots warehouse fires. Taylor was not able to get the rights from the label to release this songs until relatively recently. This record is very spare, and to me is the perfect example of what one man and an acoustic guitar can do. The lyrics are front and center and really hit a deep nerve. Consider "The Serpent is Kind (Compared to Man)":

Part by,
design
Hard times,
Are just a drop of rain
So let the rain
Come on
Behind, behind comes the sun

Essentially I'm posting about this band because they are the most exciting thing on my radar right now. I went and bought digital/CDrs of the pre-Bad Debt stuff that was self released, and pretty soon I'm going to delve into Taylor and Hirsch's former band, The Court and Spark.

[bmack86]

Recently I feel like I've been reading a book famous for its ending rather than its contents, as I've, in the past six months, truly delved into Rod Stewart's catalog. The Faces stuff and his early solo records create a large and amazing body of work, and if something had happened Rod Stewart would have been one of the most revered icons in the history of rock. The first four solo records are unimpeachable, front to back, and the Faces were as much hit as they were miss. I mean, the British version of The Office used a song from his first solo record as its theme, and it was just as great there as it is on the album. Few artists reached that level of success ever, and yet Rod has found a way to squander it magnificently. How the same guy who could come up with that fabulous interpolation of Street Fighting Man or Gasoline Alley be the bleached monstrosity that still leeches around talk shows today? I can't think of any single artist who's slipped further, unless we go outside of music to people like George Lucas.

[Gribbz]

I know Luke Bryan but not Bonobo.

You need to get on that.

[bmack86]

I did. I wasn't thrilled, I wasn't bored. There were definitely some interesting parts.

These old Rod Stewart albums kill it though.

[roberto73]

I can't think of any single artist who's slipped further, unless we go outside of music to people like George Lucas.

Scott Walker.

I kid.

[Phantasma Del Mar]

That Jay Z/Daft Punk track is really bad.

[TallGuyCM]

Well fuck. I got a bit of a bug to dig into the whole desert rock/Palm Desert music scene, made a Spotify playlist, put it on shuffle and it's 10 for 10 with spectacular tracks, many artists of which I hadn't heard of before.

Check it out here if you're interested.

[Phantasma Del Mar]

So this is happening:
http://www.theverge.com/2014/3/26/55...heir-new-album