OT: The Semi-irregular Music Thread

[BergyDGD]

All-Time Bands/Music
Top-5 Bands/Artists
1. The Wonder Years
2. Four Year Strong
3. Every Time I Die
4. My Chemical Romance
5. Modern Baseball (newer band, but thrown in because I've been unable to listen to anything else since their new album came out)

Top-5 Albums (really just my favorite albums by the above bands
1. Suburbia, I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing by The Wonder Years
2. Rise or Die Trying by Four Year Strong
3. Ex-Lives by Every Time I Die
4. The Black Parade by My Chemical Romance
5. You're Gonna Miss it All by Modern Baseball

Top-5 Songs (in no particular order, really)
-"Came Out Swinging" by The Wonder Years
-"Everlong" by Foo Fighters
-"Konstantine" by Something Corporate
-"No Son of Mine" by Every Time I Die
-"Bakefest at Piffany's" by Dads

Current Bands/Music
Top-5 Bands/Artists Right Now
1. Modern Baseball
2. Dads
3. Gates
4. Aaron West & The Roaring Twenties
5. Every Time I Die

I don't even know how I stumbled into this thread so a Bruin fan coming in peace but this list right here is awesome. Although I would put The Menzingers and Alkaline Trio over Every Time I Die and MCR but that's just my personal taste. Anyway the part that caught me was Modern Baseball I also haven't been able to listen to anything besides their new album. So glad to see them touring with The Wonder Years this fall, can't wait to see them October 3rd. The Wonder Years I find myself going back and forth on which album I like beter The Greatest Generation or Suburbia but both are top albums for me. What are you guys putting in the water in PA because you guys have been churning out great pop-punk bands one after another, Modern Baseball, The Menzingers, The Wonder Years. FYS are from around here, Worcester, MA good people, solid beardcore. Going further back one my punk faves Anti-Flag hail from the Steel City.

 

[Shady Machine]

Yeah no idea how I missed that post. I'm meh on Wonder Years (although I haven't listened to the newest album), but I love Four Year Strong and ETID.

 

[Syrinx]

I don't even know how I stumbled into this thread so a Bruin fan coming in peace but this list right here is awesome. Although I would put The Menzingers and Alkaline Trio over Every Time I Die and MCR but that's just my personal taste. Anyway the part that caught me was Modern Baseball I also haven't been able to listen to anything besides their new album. So glad to see them touring with The Wonder Years this fall, can't wait to see them October 3rd. The Wonder Years I find myself going back and forth on which album I like beter The Greatest Generation or Suburbia but both are top albums for me. What are you guys putting in the water in PA because you guys have been churning out great pop-punk bands one after another, Modern Baseball, The Menzingers, The Wonder Years. FYS are from around here, Worcester, MA good people, solid beardcore. Going further back one my punk faves Anti-Flag hail from the Steel City.

Glad you found it and you are welcome to hang here as long as you like. We even let a Flyer fan participate in our Beer thread for awhile.

 

[tom_servo]

Really like this song. Very groovy, soft rock R&B.

 

[tom_servo]

The Wild Bunch were a production team from Britain that included the guys who formed Massive Attack, plus Tricky, plus Nellee Hooper.

Neneh Cherry is an '80s rap/dance artist who released a track with Michael Stipe one time and recently released a new album.

Here's a classic jam from the above that I never really appreciated until now.

 

[BHD]

Starting to get into Biffy Clyro. Don't know why I didn't listen to them sooner.

 

[tom_servo]

Thanks again Pitchfork:

"Since 2012's Children of Desire, Merchandise has seemed like a band destined for some glorious festival center stage on the horizon. They sounded big—Disintegration big, Big Country big—even when they were still considered a punk act, by default of their preference for small DIY venues. And on "Green Lady", they sound huge—like the middle of your FM radio dial, if it started to expand outward and claim all the nearby stations as well and possibly start blotting out the sky.

The first sounds—a THX swoosh of synths and a programmed woodblock drum—directly recall Prince's "Sign o' the Times", in case you were looking for some ready signifiers of their ambition."





Wow, do I want to hear that entire album.

 

[tom_servo]

And just because sometimes I feel like flooding this thread, two awesome-sounding female-fronted punk-pop acts:

 

[Zen Arcade]

This is pretty interesting. There have been a bunch of black metal/post-rock/shoegaze/ambient whatever bands flooding the market as of late because bands like Deafheaven became critical darlings.

This band takes that sort of idea, but goes in a different direction with it. They've got the fast, tremolo picking, blast beats and all of that stuff, what they don't have is the standard, raspy black metal vocals. The vocals are pretty much strictly sung, and have an ethereal vibe almost like a band like My Bloody Valentine, if the music behind them was sped up x100.

They've only released a couple of very short EPs so far, I'm curious to see what they can with a full length album.

 

[Allie Kitsune]

This is pretty interesting. There have been a bunch of black metal/post-rock/shoegaze/ambient whatever bands flooding the market as of late because bands like Deafheaven became critical darlings.

This band takes that sort of idea, but goes in a different direction with it. They've got the fast, tremolo picking, blast beats and all of that stuff, what they don't have is the standard, raspy black metal vocals. The vocals are pretty much strictly sung, and have an ethereal vibe almost like a band like My Bloody Valentine, if the music behind them was sped up x100.

They've only released a couple of very short EPs so far, I'm curious to see what they can with a full length album.

A bit much for me, I'm afraid. I think I'd have to stick more with bands like Children of Nova or Artifex Pereo. Same sort of singing style, but leaning in a more prog/post-hardcore (at least, this is what a friend of mine who I asked about them. I still don't understand how to recognize something as "post-"anything yet...) direction than a black metal one...

 

[Zen Arcade]

A bit much for me, I'm afraid. I think I'd have to stick more with bands like Children of Nova or Artifex Pereo. Same sort of singing style, but leaning in a more prog/post-hardcore (at least, this is what a friend of mine who I asked about them. I still don't understand how to recognize something as "post-"anything yet...) direction than a black metal one...

Children of Nova weren't too bad, aside from the singer over extending himself a bit at times, at least on the Complexity of Light. I haven't heard their other stuff.

Everything is post something or other now, it seems like. I don't even know what post-hardcore is anymore, it used to be stuff like Fugazi.

I dug that Astronoid track mainly because of the vocals, that sets them apart from the other bands playing that style right now.

Most of the bands that use that vocal style have a much more laid back sound, one of my favorites:



When I read your post, I thought you said it was too much for you but you preferred Children of Bodom and I was really confused, because well...

 

[stepdad gaary]

now that we're headed in the "post-blahblah" direction...

it really is such a shame that jonny craig is such a weirdo because this band could have been great. I still maintain that he's the best singer in all the sub-genres of metal

 

[Shady Machine]

now that we're headed in the "post-blahblah" direction...

it really is such a shame that jonny craig is such a weirdo because this band could have been great. I still maintain that he's the best singer in all the sub-genres of metal

Totally agreed. Johnny Craig has a really, really good voice. He's also just as good if not better live than on recording. I can't see the youtube video but which band of his is that? Dance Gavin or Emorosa? Too bad he's a **** head.

 

[stepdad gaary]

Totally agreed. Johnny Craig has a really, really good voice. He's also just as good if not better live than on recording. I can't see the youtube video but which band of his is that? Dance Gavin or Emorosa? Too bad he's a **** head.

Dance Gavin Dance- lemon meringue tie

 

[Valarukar]

Lost In The Dream by The War On Drugs.

Hard to describe. Psychedelic/shoegaze americana maybe. Can hear some Dylan and Springsteen in there.

 

[cajal]

I never noticed this thread before, sorry if the replies to the OP's original 'questionnaire' are really late:

All-Time Bands/Music

Top-5 Bands/Artists

Stan Kenton's Orchestra
Depeche Mode
Police
Art of Noise
Smashing Pumpkins

Top-5 Albums

Music for the Masses
Mother's Milk
Siamese Dream
Ghost in the Machine
Daft (Art of Noise)

Top-5 Songs
Run like Hell
Medea's Meditation and Dance of Vengeance
Beatbox (Diversion 1)
Message in a Bottle
Ana Ng


Current Bands/Music
Top-5 Bands/Artists Right Now

Black Keys
Disturbed
Lots of the bands I listed in the 'all time' category are still putting out albums, so a number of those

First album you just thought about
Clerks Soundtrack

5 CDs on the player right now (I realize some of you have never seen a CD - please play along )

Synchronicity
City of Glass
Delta Machine
OK Computer
License to Ill


Last 5 Albums You Bought/Downloaded

Tron soundtrack
Dancer in the Dark soundtrack
Bernstein's recording of the Planets (lost my original years ago)
Radiohead's Greatest Hits (WalMart impulse buy for the car)
Brothers


Styles of Music
Favorite styles

Jazz (anything but something called 'smooth' jazz, whatever that quiet storm crap is - think Sade); 80s/90s 'alternative'; classical; classic rock; hard/industrial rock

Styles you don't listen to

Country
Rap - only the stuff that sounds like an idiot with a bass explosion and nothing more
Country again
Any sort of religious music found on the radio while driving
The above referenced 'smooth jazz'

Desert Island Album

Stan Kenton's Orchestra Live at Redlands University

Best Concert attended: Lollapalooza 92 at Star Lake

 

[stepdad gaary]

Desert Island Albums is an interesting discussion. My top 3 would probably be:

Dance Gavin Dance- Downtown Battle Mountain
Yelawolf- Trunk Muzik 0-60
Tool- Lateralus

 

[Zen Arcade]

This whole album is gorgeous, and has the added bonus of pissing off a bunch of people because there's no screaming and Pitchfork liked it.

 

[Randy Butternubs]

As of now, Glass Animals's Zaba gets the album of the year for me. My favorite song on that album:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-7rQziYNsU

 

[djt153]

anyone have any recent recs for someone whose favorite band is the go-betweens?

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

Let's go right for some obscure death. I'm a sucker for every element this band brought in.

 

[iamjs]

stumbled across this on the way home from work today. Had it on my phone for almost a year, yet it never really surfaced when I ran my MP3s at random until today. If you were to ask them what three bands influenced them, I bet they would say Joy Division, Joy Division, and New Order (which is basically post-JD)

Zen Arcade will appreciate this next one

I don't know how I overlooked this EP. Had I not stumbled upon Real World (which might be my favorite Husker Du song now) on a compilation the other night, I would have never found this.

 

[Zen Arcade]

Zen Arcade will appreciate this next one

I don't know how I overlooked this EP. Had I not stumbled upon Real World (which might be my favorite Husker Du song now) on a compilation the other night, I would have never found this.

Nice.

Metal Circus is pretty overlooked in general, it has one of my favorite Husker Du songs on it, First of the Last Calls.

I guess it gets lost in the shuffle because the three records that came out after it were so good.

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

"Diane" is my favorite off Metal Circus. I suppose that's the cliche pick.

 

[Zen Arcade]

"Diane" is my favorite off Metal Circus. I suppose that's the cliche pick.

That's a good choice too, that's also a great song to play for people who don't know about it and the story behind it.

They're just bobbing their head along, then "wait? what did he just say?"