OT: Whatcha Listening To?

[Maximus]

Anytime I'm taking a long drive with the top down, listening to this extremely underrated Bob Seger tune puts a smile on my face...

 

[aufheben]

Early Pavement, gotta check in every 6 months

Hot take: Wowee Zowee is the best Pavement album:

 

[Bob Richards]

 

[aufheben]

I might actually prefer Deafheaven's New Bermuda to Sunbather:

Good god does THIS bring me back.

To this day I still use one of the song titles off this album for a beater e-mail address I've have since, well, 2001. Lol.

 

[lucky13]

Holy crap this album just brings me back to the summer of 02...so many great songs on this one

 

[ColonialsHockey10]

Holy crap this album just brings me back to the summer of 02...so many great songs on this one

It really is a classic.

The Souls went to my high school actually. Parts of the ‘Gone’ music video are filmed there.

 

[SingnBluesOnBroadway]

 

[aufheben]

Remember this song from ~2000? It was in some European cellphone commerical or something and exploded. The Dandys actually went on to have a very nice career. One of the few bands who made music videos that actually added to the song rather than detracting from it. Good band. Neo-psychedelic Brit Pop band that wasn't actually British.



Speaking of the Dandy Warhols, the Brian Jonestown Massacre have, like clockwork, released yet another album. The Brian Jonestown Massacre is insanely their eighteenth studio album (then again, this is the same band who released three incredible albums in 1996 alone,) and somehow they've made it this far before finally going self-titled. Like most of their albums from this decade, Anton has once again thrown their entire discography into a blender, and graciously poured out another for fans of the band to slurp up.

 

[ReggieDunlop68]

 

[NCRanger]

Another band I love musically, but cannot stand their politics...(i.e. Dropkick Murphys)

 

[RangerBoy]

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My favorite song by The Police.

Invisible Sun.

 

[chosen]

Another band I love musically, but cannot stand their politics...(i.e. Dropkick Murphys)

Wayne Newton?

 

[MyLoveIsBlue]

Darn good Dylan cover.

 

[RangerBoy]

Robert Smith. The Cure. A Forest.



This is so good.

f*** Robert Palmer.

The best Cure song ever from their album Wish. My favorite Cure album. From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea.

 

[bernmeister]

Chicago/Harrison/Clapton/Joel

the classics

 

[rangers1314]

About to dive into the new The Hold Steady album

 

[eco's bones]

Another band I love musically, but cannot stand their politics...(i.e. Dropkick Murphys)

Speaking of the Murphy's--I like them quite a lot but what I like the best is their early stuff--when they were a 4 piece hardcore punk band. Basically they're a rock band now that sometimes plays punk rock music--other times the Celtic stuff shines through more. But anyway I'm a labor union person--that's kind of in my wheelhouse. Streetdogs with the Dropkicks former singer McColgan are more political than they are though. But punk rock music and left wing politics have always kind of gone hand in hand. It's kind of like country music and right wing politics.

 

[Lua]

Comin at ya with a shoegaze dreamypop slapper for the boys

 

[aufheben]

This band makes some weird f***in' music videos, man:

 

[aufheben]

Comin at ya with a shoegaze dreamypop slapper for the boys

Dreampop GOAT. Sounds like DIIV. This video is so distracting though.

1) Is that the guy who won't stop saying "what?" in Pulp Fiction? 2) How am I supposed to to pay attention to the music when there's a 21-year-old Jennifer Connelly rolling-skating in a white tank-top?

And now I have to watch this random movie I've never heard of until now. LOL. Thanks, guy.
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If you wanna hear some rare contemporary shoegaze that will likely blow your speakers, check this out. It's off a 22-track bootleg, don't remember if it's live or a demo, or even where the hell I found it for that matter, but I've never heard any other distortion/fuzz/lo-fi that sounds quite like it. Starjuicetorch by Astrobrite:

 

[Brooklyn Rangers Fan]

Dreampop GOAT. Sounds like DIIV. This video is so distracting though.

1) Is that the guy who won't stop saying "what?" in Pulp Fiction? 2) How am I supposed to to pay attention to the music when there's a 21-year-old Jennifer Connelly rolling-skating in a white tank-top?

And now I have to watch this random movie I've never heard of until now. LOL. Thanks, guy.
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If you wanna hear some rare contemporary shoegaze that will likely blow your speakers, check this out. It's off a 22-track bootleg, don't remember if it's live or a demo, or even where the hell I found it for that matter, but I've never heard any other distortion/fuzz/lo-fi that sounds quite like it. Starjuicetorch by Astrobrite:

1) Frank Whaley, yes, and 2) music, what music?

 

[aufheben]

Some more shoegaze stuff. No doubt one of these graphics has already made its way here, but they're really well done (also funny,) and it's easy to miss a few albums [large images].

Spoiler: Shoegaze Album Tree v1.0

Spoiler: Shoegaze Album Tree v2.0

 

[NCRanger]

Speaking of the Murphy's--I like them quite a lot but what I like the best is their early stuff--when they were a 4 piece hardcore punk band. Basically they're a rock band now that sometimes plays punk rock music--other times the Celtic stuff shines through more. But anyway I'm a labor union person--that's kind of in my wheelhouse. Streetdogs with the Dropkicks former singer McColgan are more political than they are though. But punk rock music and left wing politics have always kind of gone hand in hand. It's kind of like country music and right wing politics.

When I was growing up, my uncle played in an Irish folk band. I used to get taken to hear them play, and I absolutely hated it. As I got older, I came to appreciate it a lot more. Then going to Ireland, I actually started to like it. Hearing Celtic music done in a rock/punk arrangement was something I really enjoy now.

My politics are almost undefinable. I'm basically libertarian, but not Libertarian. I'm on the right, but certainly not alt-right. I'm a Republican, but I get as angry with most of them as I do the other side.

 

[HockeyBasedNYC]

Waiting for the Tool album to drop next week.

I guess I can hold out a few more days, after waiting, uh... 13 years. lol

 

[NYRFANMANI]

Good to know about the Tool album, thx! I always have this anecdote when someone drops Tool:

Rock am Ring 2006, just saw Korn at the main-stage - absolute mayhem, search a video on YouTube if you want to see it (kinda), it was threatening - after Korn Tool was scheduled ... and I had no clue back then who they were and that it would have probably blown my mind beyond any measure. I was desperately waiting for Jamiroquai that night, they played last at the alternate stage, so I went there early. I watched Nelly Furtado perform, tear up to the crowd she was performing for, seeing mid-aged metal dudes head-bang and sing along to "I'm like a bird", wouldn't wanna miss that, but I did miss Tool in the process.

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What a great year that was 2006, I saw: Stone Sour, Dir en Grey (not my style, but shit was crazy, like self-mutilation crazy), Deftones (meh, horrible live, but the singer checked the crowd and stopped at some point because people were going nuts), Korn (total apocalypse, saw mutliple people that had to get pulled out of the mess, that was the crowd), Nelly Furtado (just a beautiful gig and "Maneater" came out that year, was waiting for that song and it was hot), Jamiroquai (nothing to say really, fans know it's the shit), Cradle of Filth (some dude that was with us took us to the gig, we left soon after it started lol), Opeth (45 mins on stage, three songs), Kaiser Chiefs, The Darkness (fun), Reamonn (German Schnulze - love ballad pop; singer maybe got hit by a piss carton) ... perfect band to open for METALLICA. Obviously the shit. Always the best experience Rock am Ring at Nürburgring.