OT: Whatcha Listening To?

[Ghost of jas]

So many early-2000's post-punk revivals egregiously indebted to this band lol



This album came on next. I don't know what it is, but it sounds like Lou Reed replaced Morrissey in the Smiths and it's awesome.

Only Life is great, as is, The Good Earth. I love ‘Slipping Into Something’. The ‘80’s were such a great decade for ‘Modern/College’ Rock.

 

[eco's bones]

Pretty sure I have the first Feelies album. Killing joke I had two or three early records of theirs though they might have been cassettes. I'm not sure I still do. Sisters of Mercy--I have the Alice and Reptile House EP's--I know I got one of them at 99 records on McDougal St. That store is probably not around anymore. It was kind of down the street from Bleecker Bob's. I also got their first album. I played the crap out of both those EP's. They were awesome.

 

[aufheben]

Pretty sure I have the first Feelies album. Killing joke I had two or three early records of theirs though they might have been cassettes. I'm not sure I still do. Sisters of Mercy--I have the Alice and Reptile House EP's--I know I got one of them at 99 records on McDougal St. That store is probably not around anymore. It was kind of down the street from Bleecker Bob's. I also got their first album. I played the crap out of both those EP's. They were awesome.

1). Got tickets to see Tool/Killing Joke at Prudential Center...almost as excited to see KJ as I am Tool

2). Nighttime is one of the best albums of the ‘80’s, on a par with Sisters of Mercy, First and Last and Always, and Echo & the Bunnymen, Ocean Rain.

3). Supposedly, Dave Grohl drummed on one of Killing Joke’s later albums, as a way to make up with Nirvana stealing the riff from ‘Eighties’.

I’ve never heard Sisters of Mercy.

 

[LORDE]

Fear inoculum was sold out at target by 1 pm on friday. I would not have expected that even with the 13 year wait. Had to buy it on itunes but haven't listened to entire album yet.

The packaging is worth buying it... I think I read they were doing another round of printing the limited edition.

 

[Ghost of jas]

I’ve never heard Sisters of Mercy.

They're pretty much the godfathers of goth

 

[eco's bones]

I’ve never heard Sisters of Mercy.

This is probably 1982 or 83...somewhere in there.

 

[Edge]

I love these two lines:

“So, picking up the pieces, now where to begin?
The hardest part of ending is starting again.”

 

[Brooklyn Rangers Fan]

I love these two lines:

“So, picking up the pieces, now where to begin?
The hardest part of ending is starting again.”

Damn slant rhymes.

 

[aufheben]

I despise all of ye who were teenagers/adults during the 1990s...



Also can't stick a toe into the Britpop pool without mentioning this one. Favorite album of mine over the last two years. How to make a good music video: stick a bunch of cocaine-fueled adolescents in a small well-draped room:

 

[aufheben]

 

[aufheben]

This album blew my mind the first time I heard it. Sometimes records find you at exactly the right time in your life.

 

[aufheben]

 

[Ghost of jas]

I despise all of ye who were teenagers/adults during the 1990s...



Also can't stick a toe into the Britpop pool without mentioning this one. Favorite album of mine over the last two years. How to make a good music video: stick a bunch of cocaine-fueled adolescents in a small well-draped room:

I LOVE the first Suede album, and Animal Nitrate is one of my all-time favorite songs. Forget Blur and Oasis, this hands down was the best Britpop album of that era.

 

[SingnBluesOnBroadway]

Been pretty obsessed with this song of late.

 

[aufheben]

I LOVE the first Suede album, and Animal Nitrate is one of my all-time favorite songs. Forget Blur and Oasis, this hands down was the best Britpop album of that era.

I agree with every word of this sentence. I guess that's what happens when you're unabashedly obsessed with Morrissey and Bowie but have the talent to pull it off. Bernard Butler is just a brilliant guitarist too. He actually uploaded a how-to video for Animal Nitrate to YouTube; How cool is that? There's another YT vid where this guy plays along with "Moving"...f***ing nuts. God, and what an epic album cover. I like Oasis, but this is definitely better than any Oasis album, and the rest of Britpop is sooo goofy. My favorite track is actually "She's Not Dead"; if you haven't seen this, here is an epic live version:



I'm not kidding, I first heard it at the beginning of 2017, and it's my most played album since. I'm so f***ing out of touch with contemporary music.

 

[Ghost of jas]

I agree with every word of this sentence. I guess that's what happens when you're unabashedly obsessed with Morrissey and Bowie but have the talent to pull it off. Bernard Butler is just a brilliant guitarist too. He actually uploaded a how-to video for Animal Nitrate to YouTube; How cool is that? There's another YT vid where this guy plays along with "Moving"...****ing nuts. God, and what an epic album cover. I like Oasis, but this is definitely better than any Oasis album, and the rest of Britpop is sooo goofy. My favorite track is actually "She's Not Dead"; if you haven't seen this, here is an epic live version:



I'm not kidding, I first heard it at the beginning of 2017, and it's my most played album since. I'm so ****ing out of touch with contemporary music.

What is this contemporary music you speak of? Right now I’m listening to Exorcism by Killing Joke from their 1994 album Pandemonium.

 

[aufheben]

What is this contemporary music you speak of? Right now I’m listening to Exorcism by Killing Joke from their 1994 album Pandemonium.

That's creepy man, I just got back from walking the doge and put on "Requiem". I wish I had better associations with that song than drinking 16oz six-packs of the absolute shittiest malt liquor on earth up in Hamilton Heights. Who am I kidding, that's a Grade A song association...

It was something with a snake on the can lirl.

Contemporary music to me is still like Turn on the Bright Lights or something . I'm lazy, and there's just too much to keep track of. If anything good comes out that I'll like my friend just shoots me a text. Not for nothing but unless you have a record player, a lot of music over the last 20 years has the volume cranked up to 11 and generally just doesn't sound amazing. Oasis, it all started with them. Those first two Oasis albums sound f***ing terrible.

 

[Ghost of jas]

That's creepy man, I just got back from walking the doge and put on "Requiem". I wish I had better associations with that song than drinking 16oz six-packs of the absolute ****tiest malt liquor on earth up in Hamilton Heights. Who am I kidding, that's a Grade A song association...

It was something with a snake on the can lirl.

Contemporary music to me is still like Turn on the Bright Lights or something . I'm lazy, and there's just too much to keep track of. If anything good comes out that I'll like my friend just shoots me a text. Not for nothing but unless you have a record player, a lot of music over the last 20 years has the volume cranked up to 11 and generally just doesn't sound amazing. Oasis, it all started with them. Those first two Oasis albums sound ****ing terrible.

There is so much music from the past 80 years or so that it’s hard to be interested in “contemporary music”, at least in my case.

 

[Brooklyn Rangers Fan]

I LOVE the first Suede album, and Animal Nitrate is one of my all-time favorite songs. Forget Blur and Oasis, this hands down was the best Britpop album of that era.

Nah, I very much like the first Suede album, but Oasis gets unfairly nicked because of a) how huge they (briefly) were, and b) the drama between the Gallaghers.

Speaking of Oasis, what's the best concert everyone's seen? Mine was Oasis at the Beacon before they imploded.

 

[eco's bones]

Been pretty obsessed with this song of late.

At least one of them--the bass player seems to be a Rangers fan.

 

[eco's bones]

That's creepy man, I just got back from walking the doge and put on "Requiem". I wish I had better associations with that song than drinking 16oz six-packs of the absolute ****tiest malt liquor on earth up in Hamilton Heights. Who am I kidding, that's a Grade A song association...

It was something with a snake on the can lirl.

Contemporary music to me is still like Turn on the Bright Lights or something . I'm lazy, and there's just too much to keep track of. If anything good comes out that I'll like my friend just shoots me a text. Not for nothing but unless you have a record player, a lot of music over the last 20 years has the volume cranked up to 11 and generally just doesn't sound amazing. Oasis, it all started with them. Those first two Oasis albums sound ****ing terrible.

In the late 70's and throughout the 80's people would come over to see me and I'd be playing punk rock of one kind or another and it was always the same complaints--'they only know how to play three chords' and 'what horrible production'. The three chord thing was always a lot of horseshit and the lack of production was one of the most endearing things about those 70's-80's punk bands--I knew that right away when I first listened to the Clash's first album. That raw sound just fed into the momentum of the music and emphasized the vocals and lyrics perfectly. Compared to their second album Give 'em enough rope which was produced by a guy who used to work for Blue Oyster Cult it was night and day and that rawness and edginess kind of disappeared----not nearly as satisfying for me anyway.

 

[aufheben]

@jas Whataya know, Suede documentary from 2018 lol [edit:] LOL @ Ricky Gervais' reaction to "Britpop".

In the late 70's and throughout the 80's people would come over to see me and I'd be playing punk rock of one kind or another and it was always the same complaints--'they only know how to play three chords' and 'what horrible production'. The three chord thing was always a lot of horse**** and the lack of production was one of the most endearing things about those 70's-80's punk bands--I knew that right away when I first listened to the Clash's first album. That raw sound just fed into the momentum of the music and emphasized the vocals and lyrics perfectly. Compared to their second album Give 'em enough rope which was produced by a guy who used to work for Blue Oyster Cult it was night and day and that rawness and edginess kind of disappeared----not nearly as satisfying for me anyway.

It always makes me laugh how well-produced and pleasing to the ear Never Mind the Bollocks is. It's so polished and genuinely sounds good.

Even punk records they might have spent all of 5 minutes producing, the fact that they were producing it for vinyl, the utilitarian nature of it, gives them a good sound, even with cheap instruments/mistakes/lo-fi. It doesn't sound "good" like an orchestra, but you can hear everything in it. Like a shitty bass guitar with its original set of strings, or a half a drum kit held together by duct tape, you can hear it. Same with the CD pressings when CDs first came out. Those things were being made in Germany to sound as good or superior to vinyl, it wasn't just the loudest medium possible, or something you can hear while you're streaming it in your car. Makes me want to start really collecting first CD pressings of those punk/post-punk (even though starting a CD collection in 2019 is completely insane,) you can still find like-new ones for a couple of bucks now because no one uses CDs anymore.

The production on London Calling was obviously very different than their first album, but that original CD sounds so goddamn good, you can turn the volume up and up but it never starts to irritate your ears, it's crazy (to my millennial self anyway). I'm telling ya, people are gonna get wise, and CDs are going to become the "new vinyl" for people, and in a few years, they're not gonna be dirt cheap anymore.

 

[Ghost of jas]

Nah, I very much like the first Suede album, but Oasis gets unfairly nicked because of a) how huge they (briefly) were, and b) the drama between the Gallaghers.

Speaking of Oasis, what's the best concert everyone's seen? Mine was Oasis at the Beacon before they imploded.

Gotta disagree...while I liked a few things by Oasis, they were far too cliche-ridden for my liking. That first Suede record was far more interesting IMO.

 

[eco's bones]

@jas Whataya know, Suede documentary from 2018 lol:


It always makes me laugh how well-produced and pleasing to the ear Never Mind the Bollocks is. It's so polished and genuinely sounds good.

Even punk records they might have spent all of 5 minutes producing, the fact that they were producing it for vinyl, the utilitarian nature of it, gives them a good sound, even with cheap instruments/mistakes/lo-fi. It doesn't sound "good" like an orchestra, but you can hear everything in it. Like a ****ty bass guitar with its original set of strings, or a half a drum kit held together by duct tape, you can hear it. Same with the CD pressings when CDs first came out. Those things were being made in Germany to sound as good or superior to vinyl, it wasn't just the loudest medium possible, or something you can hear while you're streaming it in your car. Makes me want to start really collecting first CD pressings of those punk/post-punk (even though starting a CD collection in 2019 is completely insane,) you can still find like-new ones for a couple of bucks now because no one uses CDs anymore.

The production on London Calling was obviously very different than their first album, but that original CD sounds so goddamn good, you can turn the volume up and up but it never starts to irritate your ears, it's crazy (to my millennial self anyway). I'm telling ya, people are gonna get wise, and CDs are going to become the "new vinyl" for people, and in a few years, they're not gonna be dirt cheap anymore.

There was a lot of overdubbing on the Never Mind the Bollocks record. The problem was Sid Vicious really didn't know how to play his bass guitar. They got Glen Matlock--the original bassist who had been fired to do a couple of the tracks--the rest were done by Steve Jones and he couldn't play both guitar and bass at the same time. So that was well produced but they were signed to a major label (actually they bounced around to several major labels) and so they had all the studio stuff and engineers that these entities could provide. The Clash were signed to a major too--so ditto but then they got that rawer sound--they worked a lot with Jamaican reggae guys though. The Buzzcocks may have been the first to really produce their own records but soon after the independents came along and they didn't have the same resources that the major labels did--they were like start up companies not major corporations. The thing sometimes with amateurs is that they don't necessarily go by a rulebook. New ideas develop--people experiment. That can be both fun and interesting.....though sometimes maybe it doesn't work out as intended.

 

[aufheben]

Nah, I very much like the first Suede album, but Oasis gets unfairly nicked because of a) how huge they (briefly) were, and b) the drama between the Gallaghers.

Speaking of Oasis, what's the best concert everyone's seen? Mine was Oasis at the Beacon before they imploded.

I like Oasis. Always thought it was funny what douchebags they were.

Battles @ South Street Seaport, NYC, Aug 31st 2007

That was the week we moved into our freshman dorms, and classes hadn't started yet. My friend who was a sophomore took myself and my roommates down for the show and it just completely blew our poor little heads all over the place. New to the city, summer night, watching ships slowly rock in the background while this insane band played the most absurd music, even by math rock standards. That was a real "broadening horizons" moment for me. I can't articulate how perfectly it suited the scene.

Singer/guitarist son of an avant-garde composer, guitarist/keyboardist from Don Caballero. Crazy. This is the single from that album that was subsequently played to death in our dorm. Any time you see a 3-piece drumset with a lone crash symbol mounted 10 feet high, you know you're in for trouble. Still one of the most hideously infectious songs I've heard in my entire life.



Also, My Bloody Valentine the following fall. That was...well exactly what you'd expect that to be like . My body was ready.