Weirdness Posted April 28, 2005 Report Share Posted April 28, 2005 Been on my mind to post this one for awhile. Any live or studio music will do, but something that has really impressed you or kicked your ass as of late...O.K.George Harrison-Dark Horse --one of those records that had been inherited from here or there but never got any play until recently. The emotion on this is something else, lines like "I'm a dark horse", "goodbye happiness...hello loneliness" are so raw, so powerful......so then, please share as this seems a good way to bring to light the really good shit that we've been exposing ourselves to in the past little while... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Palms Posted April 28, 2005 Report Share Posted April 28, 2005 The upcoming album by Spoon, Gimme Fiction, is a wonderful indie rock album. The band writes songs, arranges them, then tears the arrangements apart and deconstructs their songs to see what they end up with. An interesting way to write and record.The upcoming new album by The Red Chord on Metal Blade is my heavy album right now. They are more metalcore than metal, but they have an insanely quick drummer and can move from grind to slow doomy parts with ease.Also still loving the Swedish hippie rock band Dungen. Essentially a one man band, the dude is 24 years old and sounds like he recorded in 1968. If you like UK freakbeat and psychedelia you would freak for this guy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AD Posted April 28, 2005 Report Share Posted April 28, 2005 I really like that Spoon album too... Just got it a couple days ago but it is really growing on me.Really digging Eisley. If you like wicked harmonies with angelic girly voices this is great.And the Fiery Furnaces, while they don't 'move me,' they are awesome.AD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Del Posted April 28, 2005 Report Share Posted April 28, 2005 SlowCoaster has been kicking my ass on a fairly regular basis for awhile now. Hamilton and the two most recent Ottawa shows are all amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StoneMtn Posted April 28, 2005 Report Share Posted April 28, 2005 Kings of Leon Album: Youth and Young ManhoodI'm surprised how much I'm digging these guys lately, for pretty much straight ahead rock n roll. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paisley Posted April 28, 2005 Report Share Posted April 28, 2005 Nouvelle Vague (click SOUND AND VIDEO, turn up volume)punk and new wave songs done with a bossa nova groove... the concept sounds like it'd be crap but its actually really good, I listen to it while I'm working... tunes like the Dead Kennedy's To Drunk To Fuck, XTC's Making Plans For Nigel, Depeche Mode's Just Can't Get Enough and Joy Division's Love Will Tear Us Apart... someone told me the girl who does the singing wasn't familiar with the songs when they asked her to sing them so she just sang them how she thought they should go from the lyricsseriously a nice listen... fun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradm Posted April 28, 2005 Report Share Posted April 28, 2005 I agree with Del about Slowcoaster. I've also been really impressed with Mr. Something Something.I also think I spent most of yesterday listening to Radio Keneally, and I'm astonished at the amount of music this guy has: full-shred guitar, great acoustic stuff, well-written songs, 20th-Century avant-garde stuff, solo piano, the man is simply amazing.Aloha,Brad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gr8FuL Posted April 28, 2005 Report Share Posted April 28, 2005 My buddy sean taylor, dropped me off a bedouin soundclash cd, a week or 2 ago, It has not left my cd player....I dont even skip 1 song, the whole cd is just Amazing!!! Its good music for a good time, puts me in a great mood whenever i hear it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paan Posted April 28, 2005 Report Share Posted April 28, 2005 That latest Sharon Jones album has me moving all the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouche Posted April 28, 2005 Report Share Posted April 28, 2005 George Harrison-Dark Horse --one of those records that had been inherited from here or there but never got any play until recently. The emotion on this is something else, lines like "I'm a dark horse", "goodbye happiness...hello loneliness" are so raw, so powerful...I've got all of George Harrison's albums. He is amazing.What's been moving me alot these day's is just listening to Kevin Breit's unbelievable guitar work. There are some unbelievable high-ranging chords that he nails using a combination of slide, relative harmonics and a hint of dissonance that rings in my head for days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Low Roller Posted April 28, 2005 Report Share Posted April 28, 2005 It's wicked that everybody has so far recommended something different. I think we're on the verge of a massive musical explosion ala 1991 because there is so much music out there now, that it is becoming almost impossible to stay up to date. Thank goodness for this message board.I'm currently seriously hooked on Iron & Wine. We're talking a major folk talent here. I just got the Woman King EP, and it was in keeping with the quality and mood of the preceeding discs with a sensational subdued voice, and a simple yet perfectly fitting acoustic guitar. Every single song is a song you want to play for your girlfriend while sitting on your front porch on a rainy summer evening.On the electric front I am mightily impressed by Interpol's two studio albums. They are by far the frontrunners in the rebirth of new wave music. Many have compared them to Joy Division, but there is a lot more to this band than a simple carbon copy of the legendary band.Gomez is cool too!Finally, I've always praised the virtues of the White Stripes, and more specifically the blues skills of one Jack White. I recommend everybody tries to hunt down an acoustic show that Jack White did on the John Peel show (04-02-03), more specifically Jack's version of Loretta Lynn's Van Lear Rose. It's wicked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamilton Posted April 28, 2005 Report Share Posted April 28, 2005 Apparently there's a new White Stripes album coming out really soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Low Roller Posted April 28, 2005 Report Share Posted April 28, 2005 Boing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d_rawk Posted April 28, 2005 Report Share Posted April 28, 2005 I throw my support behind SlowCoaster and the new Spoon album as well. (and if you like Bright Eyes, Spoon's Brit Daniel and Bright Eyes released a neat little mutual EP last year called "Home, Vol. 4" that's worth listening to) Can't wait to hear the Sharon Jones disc. Both Okkervil River and Magnolia Electric Co. have been doing it for me lately. I'm not totally sold on MEC's studio release, but the live "Trials & Errors" is bursting with all sorts of Neil Young-like flavours! Emotionally powerful stuff without being the least bit hokey or sentimental. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Palms Posted April 28, 2005 Report Share Posted April 28, 2005 Make sure to see Magnolia Electric Co if you live out west - touring from Victoria to Winnipeg starting next week! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guigsy Posted April 28, 2005 Report Share Posted April 28, 2005 i've been really big on NQ Arbuckle, lately. sing-songy twang rock outta the t-dot - sixshooter records... i only have his latest cd, Last Supper In A Cheap Town, but i listen to it a lot... simple kinda lyrics that just make a lot of sense in that 'fuck, thats what i've been meaning to say!!' kinda way... raspy just got outta bed voice... and really nice to listen to musicianship. i recommend... wholeheartedly, i do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomFoolery Posted April 28, 2005 Report Share Posted April 28, 2005 Nuthin' new, but I've been fully digging Stevie Wonder's Innervision lately. Its my go-to album of late. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
headygouda Posted April 28, 2005 Report Share Posted April 28, 2005 I've been a huge Paul McCandless fan for years, ever since I first heard him with Bela Fleck in 1994. But only recently decided to check out his contributions to the group "Oregon" with Ralph Towner & Glen Moore. They had an amazing tabla player, Collin Walcott who sadly died in an accident on tour. They recruited another master tabla player Trilok Gurtu, and he's on the dvd I have. Pretty amazing stuff. Holy Moly. I've only been able to find a few live shows and a DVD as well, and not sure where to start with studio albums as the group has composed 25+ albums in ~40 years.Check it out at www.oregonband.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timouse Posted April 28, 2005 Report Share Posted April 28, 2005 stephen fearing. i've heard " the longest road" a hunderd times, but it never fails to choke me up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Evil_Mouse Posted April 28, 2005 Report Share Posted April 28, 2005 Speaking of choking up, the title track to Dr. John's Creole Moon - that mournful sax at the beginning - brings a terrible lump to the throat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenenbaum Posted April 28, 2005 Report Share Posted April 28, 2005 artist: ARIEL PINKalbum: The Doldrums (2004)if you dig Syd Barret/Daniel Johnston eccentricity + Guided By Voices lo-fi complexity + 60/70's am pop radio hits you'll lose your mind over this guy! This guy's borderline genius + crazy but purely genuine, no shtick! Highly addictive! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kc Posted April 29, 2005 Report Share Posted April 29, 2005 Burnt Sugar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d_rawk Posted April 29, 2005 Report Share Posted April 29, 2005 "BURNT SUGAR is a territory band, a neo-tribal thang, a community hang, a society music guild aspiring to the condition of all that is molten, glacial, racial, spacial, oceanic, mythic, antiphonal and telepathic.""we don't strive to be original, but aboriginal"That's some wild stuff.Is it too late to throw a vote in for LCD Soundsystem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaimoe Posted April 29, 2005 Report Share Posted April 29, 2005 (edited) Anthony & The JohnsonsThe KillsM. WardThe Snow Patrol ( their single from their last album )The Eels - any fan of Iron & Wine and M. Ward would love The Eels' brand of dark folk and rock. Edited April 29, 2005 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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