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cubanb

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I saw Air perform at coachella last year and really enjoyed their music. I was wondering if there are any Air fans here and if so , whats a good album to pick up?
 
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Triumph

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Get Moon Safari, Virgin Suicides soundtrack, and Talkie Walkie. Skip 10,000 hz Legend.

Moon Safari>>>Talkie Walkie>>Virgin Suicides>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>10,000 hz Legend
 
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Great King Bowser

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Have Talkie Walkie, but haven't had a chance to listen yet. Recommend some tracks?

Moon Safari was pretty damn good on the other hand.
 
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Dilbert

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Raoul Duke said:
Get Moon Safari, Virgin Suicides soundtrack, and Talkie Walkie. Skip 10,000 hz Legend.

Moon Safari>>>Talkie Walkie>>Virgin Suicides>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>10,000 hz Legend
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Hmmmm.

I would recommend either Talkie Walkie or Moon Safari as a starting point. I think the albums are roughly equivalent in quality...it just depends on your personal taste: Moon Safari is a little more kitschy; Talkie Walkie is a bit more poppy. (For what it's worth, I like Talkie Walkie more.)

I'd also recommend the reissue of their Premieres Symptomes EP very highly -- although most of the tracks are older, it feels like B-sides from Moon Safari. My personal opinion is that the soundtrack to The Virgin Suicides is highly overrated, but your mileage may vary.

The one thing we can ALL agree on is that 10,000 Hz Legend is among the worst albums EVER...and I don't say that lightly.

If you like Air's sound, you might also enjoy Bent (The Everlasting Blink is out in the U.S.; the new album Ariels is absolutely amazing, but import-only at the moment), Blue States (Nothing Changes Under The Sun), or Zero 7 (Simple Things).
 
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Burger

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Damn, I brought the Virgin Suicides soundtrack, and loved it.

Then I went and got 10,000hz Legend. Which was crap. I should go get the other two.
 
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cubanb

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wow, looks like ill stay as far away from 10000 hz legend as I can. Is that their latest release? Im wondering which albums the songs from coachella were off of.
 
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skip

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coachella was mostly moon safari and talkie walkie.

that was a surprisingly great show. fantastic drummer they had.
 
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Flynn

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I can't say enough good things about Moon Safari.
You should also check out Premiers Symptomes for their pre-album singles.
 
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number386

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Moon Safari is by far the pinnacle of Air's works, Truly an amazing albulm. Great now I cant get kelly watch the stars out of my head. Talkie walkie is also a great one. I must of repeated the surfing on rocket track 1000 times already.
 
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Diablos

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Say
Goodbye
Sunshine
Daylight
'Cause it's just another day
You will lose it anyway

Kiss
The time
That goes
Away
'Cause it's just another day
You will lose it anyway

You
You lust
In Space
In Time
'Cause it's just another day
You will lose it anyway




Best song ever. I was about to make an Air appreciation thread - no need for that.
 
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Flynn

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Also: The video for "All I Need" is fantastic -- shot by skater turned designer turned director Mike Mills.
 
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Fifty

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Diablos said:
Say
Goodbye
Sunshine
Daylight
'Cause it's just another day
You will lose it anyway

Kiss
The time
That goes
Away
'Cause it's just another day
You will lose it anyway

You
You lust
In Space
In Time
'Cause it's just another day
You will lose it anyway




Best song ever. I was about to make an Air appreciation thread - no need for that.
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Does the best song ever have a title?
 
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teruterubozu

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Talkie Walkie is fucking fantastic - heavy rotation on my iPod.

I've been getting into bands like these lately - Tahiti 80, Ivy, Air, Phoenix, etc. - ever since I saw "Lost In Translation" and heard Phoenix...
 
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COCKLES

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IF you like the kitsche 70's sound of Moon Safari, check out Ron Grainer's Omega Man soundtrack. Classic.
 
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mattiewheels

And then the LORD David Bowie saith to his Son, Jonny Depp: 'Go, and spread my image amongst the cosmos. For every living thing is in anguish and only the LIGHT shall give them reprieve.'
I won't stand for this shittalking about 10000 hz legend. That album's great, and I never understand the hate it gets. It's also the first thing I heard by air. Talkie Walkie's great too. Moon Safari has a couple of great songs on it, but it sounds too stereolab-esque for me.
 
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deadhorse32

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i'll just add that "10,000 hz Legend" has some good tracks. It's not the WORST album ever but it's the WORST Air album.

And "All i need" = One of the best song ever
 
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Burger

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10,000hz Legend has too many high frequency effects for me. Turn that shit up on my stereo and my town evacuates itself of animals.

It does have some good tracks on it though.
 
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nitewulf

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yeah, stay away from 10,000Hz Legend. on that note, stay the hell away from the recent Daft Punk album as well.
 
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Meier

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The recent Daft Punk is definitely disappointing.. it's almost too out there for its own good in my opinion. As for Air, my only exposure to them is with Moon Safari and Talkie Walkie and both are amazing as mentioned.
 
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God's Hand

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10,000 Hz is good. Not the best, but good. It's the first Air album I got. And the new Daft Punk album is really really bad. All the songs feel like they are a 5 second clip looped for 5 minutes.
 
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cubanb

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Picked up Moon Safari today. I like it a lot. I recognize some of it from the set at coachella. Thanks for the recommendations! I really like songs like Talisman and the first song on Moon Safari.
Ill pick up talkie walkie soon. Do any other bands have similar music to these albums of Air?
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I didn't see Jinx and cockles recommendations for other bands earlier in the thread. Anymore?
 
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nitewulf

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cubanb said:
I didn't see Jinx and cockles recommendations for other bands earlier in the thread. Anymore?
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you should definitely hit-up Thievery Corporation albums, starting with The Mirror Conspiracy. also check out Melody AM by Royksopp. all the artists jinx mentioned are very good, well zero 7's second was pretty bad, but that aside. another excellent duo is Kruder and Dorfmeister, yet another is Dzihan and Kamien.
 
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iced lightning

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nitewulf said:
you should definitely hit-up Thievery Corporation albums, starting with The Mirror Conspiracy. also check out Melody AM by Royksopp. all the artists jinx mentioned are very good, well zero 7's second was pretty bad, but that aside. another excellent duo is Kruder and Dorfmeister, yet another is Dzihan and Kamien.
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Great choices... especially Kruder and Dorfmeister. Check out The K&D Sessions, now! Their solo projects, Peace Orchestra and Tosca, are great as well.
 
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nitewulf

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Fresh Prince said:
Is it bad to say this reminds me of RPG music?
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yeah, because you know, it doesnt sound anything like rpg music. air is ambient pop/lounge/downtempo.
rpg music is usually piano based pop tracks and some orchestrated tunes.
 
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aoi tsuki

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10,000Hz Legend > The Virgin Suicides

i like both albums. The 10,000Hz Legend has a bit more of a darker electronic feel to it, but retains the trademark light and spacey tone of Air. The second half of 10,000Hz Legend is really my favorite, with Radian, Lucky and Unhappy, and Sex Born Poison as my favorite tracks. The Virgin Suicides works better as a soundtrack to the movie than as a standalone album, but there's a couple of gems in Dirty Trip and Playground Love.

On the note of Daft Punk, Discovery aside, they don't really have an album i could sit down from what i've heard and listen to in its entirety. Human After All was a little too gimmicky for me, but it started to grow on me. Technologic and Robot Rock stand out, and The Prime Time of Your Life and Make Love grew on me, but the album overall relied too much on voice synths and the classic Daft Punk singular sample reliance really showed on this disc. (Robot Rock got tired after the first minute.) Discovery is probably their most accessible album, with a good range of styles. Homework was mostly miss, outside of the tracks that got radioplay (Da Funk, Revolution 909, and Around the World).
 
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Jill Sandwich

the turds of Optimus Prime
There's an interesting little ditty on At Home With The Groovebox that I recommend.

These are good albums too:
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(Lost Horizons by LemonJelly)
 
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cubanb

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picked up talkie walkie and premiers symptones and I love them both. I have been listening to a lot of Air lately and the band is fantastic! :D
 
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