OT: The Semi-Annual, Taste Optional Music Thread: Post Your Mid-Winter Blues Music

[ChaosAgent]

It's Kendrick Day!!!!!

 

[Factorial]

 

[HandshakeLine]

Since we were doing guitar chat a bit ago, the Pro Reverb finally made it up from Slovakia:

Also pictured: '64 Selmer Little Giant, 2007 Gretsch 6120, and this is on the turn table:

 

[Factorial]

 

[HandshakeLine]

Hell YES. Mono Men rule. Those Estrus albums are grimey in the best way.

On similar note, how about the almighty Neanderthals?

 

[Factorial]

Hell YES. Mono Men rule. Those Estrus albums are grimey in the best way.

On similar note, how about the almighty Neanderthals?

I had never heard of them but see they have a Get Hip release.

Estrus records was (is) really cool.

 

[Factorial]

Spoiler

 

[BlindWillyMcHurt]

 

[HandshakeLine]

I had never heard of them but see they have a Get Hip release.

Estrus records was (is) really cool.

The Neanderthals are basically an Eddie Angel (Los Straitjackets) project. Dude is a living treasure.

 

[Gurglesons]

This album rocks.

 

[Dipsy Doodle]

Beefheart is my Batsignal.

Great track.

 

[Randy Butternubs]

Listened to this "oldie" on my commute today:

 

[HandshakeLine]

Listened to this "oldie" on my commute today:

Justice is kinda unfairly mocked because they were EVERYWHERE in the early 2000s, but man, they did some bangers. I think most of those Ed Banger/French Touch records have stood the test of time, actually.

Similarly:

 

[BlindWillyMcHurt]

 

[BlindWillyMcHurt]

 

[Gurglesons]

Justice is kinda unfairly mocked because they were EVERYWHERE in the early 2000s, but man, they did some bangers. I think most of those Ed Banger/French Touch records have stood the test of time, actually.

Similarly:

Man Phoenix rocks.

 

[Trade]

Recently rewatched We Jam Econo. SST Records in the 80’s was so f***ing legendary. Praise be to Greg Ginn.

 

[Factorial]

Recently rewatched We Jam Econo. SST Records in the 80’s was so f***ing legendary. Praise be to Greg Ginn.

Negativland recorded and used an angry call from Greg Ginn after the fallout of the U2Negativland put out on SST (starts at the 45 second mark):

 

[Trade]

Negativland recorded and used an angry call from Greg Ginn after the fallout of the U2Negativland put out on SST (starts at the 45 second mark):

That’s hilariously on brand for Ginn. I’ve read/watched plenty of things that point to him being an incredibly douchey POS.

 

[pistolpete11]

Y'all seem to like a lot of punk or punk-adjacent stuff. What are anybody's thoughts on Parquet Courts?

I really liked a lot of stuff off Sunbathing Animal and Content Nausea. There was some stuff that was unlistenable noise to me as well, but for the most part I liked them enough to buy them on vinyl. I've been trying to get into their most recent full length albums (Human Performance, Wide Awake!), but they aren't quite hitting the same.

They are a little outside of the norm of what I listen to. So I don't know if I just caught them at the right time before or if I just need to keep giving the newer records a listen.

 

[Trade]

Y'all seem to like a lot of punk or punk-adjacent stuff. What are anybody's thoughts on Parquet Courts?

I really liked a lot of stuff off Sunbathing Animal and Content Nausea. There was some stuff that was unlistenable noise to me as well, but for the most part I liked them enough to buy them on vinyl. I've been trying to get into their most recent full length albums (Human Performance, Wide Awake!), but they aren't quite hitting the same.

They are a little outside of the norm of what I listen to. So I don't know if I just caught them at the right time before or if I just need to keep giving the newer records a listen.

Their most recent album Sympathy For Life (like a lot of their albums) ranges sooo much in sound. The song Pulcinella reminds me of Songs: Ohia or Red House Painters. Plant Life and Zoom Out sound very Talking Heads. They have some majorly whacky songs intertwined and some that lean more towards their more punk-y earlier stuff.

So to your last point, given their sound varies so much, it only makes sense to like some of their stuff more than the rest.

Wide Awake! is the album that introduced me, specifically the song Tenderness. So going from that to some of the other tracks in their discog is a major leap.

 

[BlindWillyMcHurt]

Y'all seem to like a lot of punk or punk-adjacent stuff. What are anybody's thoughts on Parquet Courts?

I really liked a lot of stuff off Sunbathing Animal and Content Nausea. There was some stuff that was unlistenable noise to me as well, but for the most part I liked them enough to buy them on vinyl. I've been trying to get into their most recent full length albums (Human Performance, Wide Awake!), but they aren't quite hitting the same.

They are a little outside of the norm of what I listen to. So I don't know if I just caught them at the right time before or if I just need to keep giving the newer records a listen.

I like most of what I've heard. I admit I haven't heard their last two albums aside from maybe a track or two off of "Wide Awake!"

I really dig all of "Light Up Gold" though, their second album. This is the opening track.

 

[Gurglesons]

Y'all seem to like a lot of punk or punk-adjacent stuff. What are anybody's thoughts on Parquet Courts?

I really liked a lot of stuff off Sunbathing Animal and Content Nausea. There was some stuff that was unlistenable noise to me as well, but for the most part I liked them enough to buy them on vinyl. I've been trying to get into their most recent full length albums (Human Performance, Wide Awake!), but they aren't quite hitting the same.

They are a little outside of the norm of what I listen to. So I don't know if I just caught them at the right time before or if I just need to keep giving the newer records a listen.

The one singer Andrew was in one of my favorite bands ever, Teenage Cool Kids. Definitely worth a peep.

 

[pistolpete11]

Their most recent album Sympathy For Life (like a lot of their albums) ranges sooo much in sound. The song Pulcinella reminds me of Songs: Ohia or Red House Painters. Plant Life and Zoom Out sound very Talking Heads. They have some majorly whacky songs intertwined and some that lean more towards their more punk-y earlier stuff.

So to your last point, given their sound varies so much, it only makes sense to like some of their stuff more than the rest.

Wide Awake! is the album that introduced me, specifically the song Tenderness. So going from that to some of the other tracks in their discog is a major leap.

Tenderness was a standout for me as well, but unfortunately it was one of the few between the 2 albums after a couple of play throughs... and the one that ends "f*** Tom Brady!"

I didn't not like them, so I'm going to give them a couple more shots.

I like most of what I've heard. I admit I haven't heard their last two albums aside from maybe a track or two off of "Wide Awake!"

I really dig all of "Light Up Gold" though, their second album. This is the opening track.

I don't know if I've listened to Light Up Gold, but I've heard that song before. It's kind of hard to forget about the "forget about it's".

 

[dogthateats]

There are a few beloved/well regarded bands that every song just sounds the same to me. Even when they release a new album. Anyone else?