OT: The Semi-Annual, Taste Optional Music Thread: Post Your Mid-Winter Blues Music
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Deport Ogie
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I mean if we want to talk about bands finding their original sound....
IF went out and got Chris Broderick and suddenly sounds like it's 1999.
Randy Butternubs
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Said lineup, but only listing bands I care about or have interest:
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Future Islands
Empire of the Sun
M83
Hot Chip
Caribou
The Walkmen
The Bravery
STRFKR
Metronomy
Cults
oh, and Peaches just for f*** the Pain Away
and then about 10 other bands
HandshakeLine
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Walkmen were fierce every time I saw them. No joke. Looked like a bunch of prep school dweebs, melted peoples faces.Said lineup, but only listing bands I care about or have interest:
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Future Islands
Empire of the Sun
M83
Hot Chip
Caribou
The Walkmen
The Bravery
STRFKR
Metronomy
Cults
oh, and Peaches just for f*** the Pain Away
and then about 10 other bands
Factorial
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BlindWillyMcHurt
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HandshakeLine
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Man, RIP to the other one of the only 2 good members of the Byrds. 
Ugene Magic
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HandshakeLine
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Thee OhSees are amazing. Just fantastic weird psyche rock that will blast your face.Vagina with teeth looking SMF's....
This is exceptional.
BlindWillyMcHurt
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Vagina with teeth looking SMF's....
This is exceptional.
Hell yeah! Like HSL said they're a pretty far out band. But they have some terrific grooves, too and aren't SO far out there that you can't bob your head to a lot of their stuff. I've been wearing them out lately. Here's another track off that same album from the above if you dig that one:
They're really, really excellent live, too...
Gurglesons
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was supposed to go see them tonight. found a copy of this record recently. bassist got breast cancer lame.
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HandshakeLine
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I'm still a huge Coachwhips fan, Dwyer's previous band, but they are aggressively lofi.
BlindWillyMcHurt
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Just an FYI but the band goes by like seriously at least five different names and have like 19ish total albums.
I'd check out "Mutilator Defeated At Last," "Orc," "Smote Reverser," and "Protean Threat" to start.
EDIT: AND "Castlemania" haha
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Gurglesons
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Never could get into the Oh Sees. Reminds me of when everyone thought the Men was amazing and I was like just sounds like normal college rock.
the album cover for face stabber or whatever with the orc rocks tho
the album cover for face stabber or whatever with the orc rocks tho
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HandshakeLine
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Man, the Men were only cool with Vice interns and idiot A&R men.
They got pelted off stage with empty beer cans at the Empty Bottle when I saw them years ago.
BlindWillyMcHurt
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It's OK pixies. I still think you're pretty cool.
I never saw much in The Men, either FWIW
Ugene Magic
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Just enough to antagonize anyone.
DanielPlainview
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The National are gearing up for a new album in April. First couple of singles:
Bands that have been around a long time almost always hit a period where creativity declines or they lose the underlying passion that drove their music to begin with. Instead of hanging it up, they go for sound changes, more pop-oriented tunes, and/or resort to more collabs. We all know what I'm talking about, I assume.
The writing was on the wall for The National in 2019 with I Am Easy To Find. The album, better described as a soundtrack than a true The National album, was all together inferior to their previous work. More electronic, more poppy, more collabs. Rylan, a song they'd kicked around at live show for maybe a decade or more, and Where Is Her Head being the only songs I go back to from that album.
It's fine. The songs aren't necessarily bad, they're just not as good, to me anyway. Still, I do bemoan the apparent decline of my favorite band since high school (Alligator era).
Bands that have been around a long time almost always hit a period where creativity declines or they lose the underlying passion that drove their music to begin with. Instead of hanging it up, they go for sound changes, more pop-oriented tunes, and/or resort to more collabs. We all know what I'm talking about, I assume.
The writing was on the wall for The National in 2019 with I Am Easy To Find. The album, better described as a soundtrack than a true The National album, was all together inferior to their previous work. More electronic, more poppy, more collabs. Rylan, a song they'd kicked around at live show for maybe a decade or more, and Where Is Her Head being the only songs I go back to from that album.
It's fine. The songs aren't necessarily bad, they're just not as good, to me anyway. Still, I do bemoan the apparent decline of my favorite band since high school (Alligator era).
Man, RIP to the other one of the only 2 good members of the Byrds.
I was gonna protest thinking you meant CSN&Y, cause they had only two cool dudes and he was not one of them, his best thing was donating semen to all those lesbian couples in music industry
HandshakeLine
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Actually really the only member of the Byrds I don’t like is McGuinn. I find him insufferable on his own. But Gene Clark is really the Best Byrd.
BlindWillyMcHurt
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Good I'm glad I'm not the only one.
HandshakeLine
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Really the only band I can remember evolving a lot over the last 30 years successfully was Low and that’s sadly over now that Mimi Parker passed away.
Good guitar player but don’t let him write the lyrics.
