Spoon is great. I'd start out with Gimme Fiction or Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, then move on to Girls Can Tell if you like that. Never listened to Transference, don't know how that stacks up to the rest, but those 3 albums I mentioned are really good.
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Spoon is great. I'd start out with Gimme Fiction or Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, then move on to Girls Can Tell if you like that. Never listened to Transference, don't know how that stacks up to the rest, but those 3 albums I mentioned are really good.
Kill The Moonlight is their best album imo. Very Atmospheric
Yeah, Ga^5 is definitely the best album to get to know them. But to be honest, except for their debut album every one of their albums is worth listening to. To me they are one of those rare bands that maintain a certain consistancy of quality troughout the years. With Kill the Moonlight as the slightly better album. A Series of Snakes is by the way the most guitar heavy record by them.
However, I am loving the new Pelican album:
Yup. Best album they've done since Fire In Our Throats...
ShinobiFist
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I forgot this thread was on GAF. Anyway. Digging the new "Unwound" album, Kid Is Gone. It has a great collection of tracks. One of the most underrated bands from the 90's. Here's a sample playlist from the group. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi7sGgVRo5g&list=TLYJl39b7HiqLqHutcUzAi4DNIvCVDIYZI
The collection of songs have a lot of gritty dark tracks by this group. Amazing record if you like that 90's dark Post-Hardcore sound. You guys are going to dig the drums, so raw.
The collection of songs have a lot of gritty dark tracks by this group. Amazing record if you like that 90's dark Post-Hardcore sound. You guys are going to dig the drums, so raw.
Screaming Meat
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I forgot this thread was on GAF. Anyway. Digging the new "Unwound" album, Kid Is Gone. It has a great collection of tracks. One of the most underrated bands from the 90's. Here's a sample playlist from the group. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi7sGgVRo5g&list=TLYJl39b7HiqLqHutcUzAi4DNIvCVDIYZI
The collection of songs have a lot of gritty dark tracks by this group. Amazing record if you like that 90's dark Post-Hardcore sound. You guys are going to dig the drums, so raw.
Wait, they have a new album...? I thought they split ages ago? If not, that's blooming marvellous news.
squidhands
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Spoon is great. Check out Divine Fits, another band that Brit is in. They've only put out one album, but I may actually like them more than Spoon.
It's a 3 LP box of early Unwound stuff.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=86112661&postcount=2802
The Numero record label is repressing all the Unwound vinyl and releasing them as box sets.
http://www.numerogroup.com/catalog_detail.php?uid=01520#
Screaming Meat
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Ahhh, right. Cool. Shall purchase!
Saw Local Natives in Amsterdam yesterday. The kick off for their new European leg of gigs touring together with Cloud Control. Cloud Control did very good, new songs sound great live. Local Natives was as brilliant as always. That Sun Hands performance at the end was God tier. I can't think of a better way for them to end their set.
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This came out today, in Australia. Really, really loving it. It's been a while since I've listened to something so unashamedly earnest.
NotTheGuyYouKill
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This thread. Is. Awesome.
beato_angelico
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damn. my last wave of used cd buys was satisfying but definitely more expensive (25 ). I got:
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
The Cure - Disintegration
Bjork - Vespertine
The White Stripes - Elephant
I probably could've done a lot more damage if I felt like it. Like, $20 worth, and seeing as they were $0.50/$1 each (except the Poi Dog Pondering, which was the 'full' $5), it would've been.... something.
And then there was the vinyl section... got a pretty nice Chuck Mangione album for 5 cents. I like having record stores around.
equippedwithtowel
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I guess you didn't like CD1 then? Because that's the popular opinion right now, CD2 > CD1.
I love both CD's about equally. There are some songs that are weaker than others, but overall I think this is a very solid record which is entertaining to listen the entire way through, and I definitely wouldn't shorten it, unlike Suburbs which I felt could had done with 4 or 5 songs less.
Well they were pretty insanely popular weren't they? They had a pretty massive crowd when I saw them in Austin anyways.
I loathe them.
Well they were pretty insanely popular weren't they? They had a pretty massive crowd when I saw them in Austin anyways.
I loathe them.
Had to Google what Loathe means and I was disappointed to find out
But I'm from The Netherlands and over here they played gigs in venues for 300 people tops, no idea they played big crowds in the States.
equippedwithtowel
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Outdoor Miner
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Still think Neon Bible is their best record. I'm sure I'm in the minority on that one.
I'll raise my hand and say Neon Bible is also my favorite AF record. Although that is being disputed by Reflektor right now.
Oh, so it's a difference in semantics. OK
Yeah, I can't say I love every song here, but right now I love most of them. And I can't say I dislike any track either (except the Hidden Track which isn't really a song at all). Overall I think it's a very solid record, although I agree to a certain extent with some of the criticisms that Reflektor doesn't flow as well as the earlier records, especially on CD1.
equippedwithtowel
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Reverse that, and wer're good. But I'll keep any further discussion to the OP
On the other hand I've been listening to Iggy Pop heavy over the past few days.
China Girl is now my jam.
FrenchMovieTheme
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lots of good music in this thread and some stuff i'll have to check out
equippedwithtowel
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I liked Speedy Ortiz, but those are the big three.
People can cry mainstream all they like, but they put out consistently great stuff.
A Song for Ellie Greenwich, by Parenthetical Girls, is amazing. I've listened to it dozens of times this week alone.
National in particular is a band who I feel like will still stand up in 20 years, they can be as mainstream as they please as far as I'm concerned
Mainly for Boxer though
equippedwithtowel
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Boxer is a minor masterpiece. If The National ever top Apartment Story or Fake Empire I'll be impressed.
NotTheGuyYouKill
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So now, what cool bands are you listening to?
Beyond Nine Inch Nails, there aren't many! That's why I'm here! Haha.
Here's my top 20 for the year right now
The Knife - Shaking the Habitual
Tim Hecker - Virgins
William Tyler - Impossible Truth
The National - Trouble Will Find Me
Gris - À l'Âme Enflammée, l'Äme Constellée...
Dwig - Forget the Pink Elephant
Colleen - The Weighing of the Heart
Jeremiah Cymerman - Sky Burial
M.I.A. - Matangi
Emma Louise - Vs Head Vs Heart
Julia Holter - Loud City Song
Arve Henriksen - Places of Worship
Justin Timberlake - The 20/20 Experience
Cut Copy - Free Your Mind
Huerco S - Colonial Patterns
Gorguts - Colored Sands
Koch-Schutz-Studer - Walking And Stumbling Through Your Sleep
Kyle Hall - The Boat Party
Pat Metheny - Tap - The Book of Angels Vol 20
Ulver - Messe I.X-VI.X
equippedwithtowel
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We Doing This?
Tentative top 20 in rough order.
Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
Arcade Fire - Reflektor
Kurt Vile - Walking On a Pretty Daze
The National - Trouble Will Find Me
Volcano Choir - Repave
Sigur Ros - Kveikur
Silence Yourself - Savages
Random Access Memories - Daft Punk
My Bloody Valentine - mbv
Groenland - The Chase
The Joy Formidable - Wolf's Law
Speedy Ortiz - Major Arcana
The Bones of What You Believe - CHVRCHES
Monomainia - Deerhunter
We Are The City - Violent
Youth Lagoon - Dropla
No Joy - Wait to Pleasure
The Weekend - Kiss Land
Board of Canada -Tomorrow's Harvest
Outrun - Kavinsky
And that's limiting it to general indie, Yeezus and Doris would probably crack an all genre top 20
Tentative top 20 in rough order.
Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
Arcade Fire - Reflektor
Kurt Vile - Walking On a Pretty Daze
The National - Trouble Will Find Me
Volcano Choir - Repave
Sigur Ros - Kveikur
Silence Yourself - Savages
Random Access Memories - Daft Punk
My Bloody Valentine - mbv
Groenland - The Chase
The Joy Formidable - Wolf's Law
Speedy Ortiz - Major Arcana
The Bones of What You Believe - CHVRCHES
Monomainia - Deerhunter
We Are The City - Violent
Youth Lagoon - Dropla
No Joy - Wait to Pleasure
The Weekend - Kiss Land
Board of Canada -Tomorrow's Harvest
Outrun - Kavinsky
And that's limiting it to general indie, Yeezus and Doris would probably crack an all genre top 20
Not Synthpop, but French Films is one band I would really recommend when I hear the word New-wave. They are more Surf Rock New wave than anything else. If you are familiar with The Drums, then these guys are quite similar. And they are bloody amazing.
Golden Sea: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HrysKg1te0
When People Like you Filled the Heaven: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll_zedrlAjA
Juveniles: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zlus0matAXE
Latter Days: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f245DvqY8us
Convict: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViO_hZV4epo
If you want more synth based New Wave, then there is Sakanaction (If you don't mind Foreign music), We are Standard, San Cisco, Glen Check, The Brixton Acadmey, etc...
Sakanaction: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZbXHt3xPr8
We Are Standard: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_hzpL7LNFE
San Cisco: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukNOaKeUEQY
Glen Check:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKSv0rxbduM
The Brixton Academy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1B7lEzomIQ
The Whitest Boys Alive: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvxi0l8eKkg
If you need more recommendation, let me know. I have written a long post some time before to another Gaffer about todays New Wave bands
Jedeye Sniv
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Album of the year so far is Los Campesinos! NO BLUES so far. It's nearly perfect.
Got the new future of the Left record yesterday, paid money and everything for it. Not all that impressed for far, it's a bit too 'knowing' and tongue in cheek even for them.
Got the new future of the Left record yesterday, paid money and everything for it. Not all that impressed for far, it's a bit too 'knowing' and tongue in cheek even for them.
Vampire On Titus
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iiiiimmm right heeerrreeee and i dont wanna fight anymooree
Have you heard any Dinosaur Bones?
Filthy Slug
Crowd screaming like hounds at the heat of the chase/ All the colors of the rainbow flood my face
Yo, thanks to Fidelis and you, I checked out Los Campesinos!
I have been missing out on some incredible shit with this band. I've had Romance is Boring on repeat during everything I've done for the past week or more. That includes the gym, boning, and going to the post office to pick up some quality comics that almost got lost in the shitty USPS system.
No Blues is great as well.