Cpt Kirks 2pay wrote:Elliot Smith. Figure 8.
Chrishte I find this guy so hard to get into.
tried XO?
b - perfect - that's where those tracks are from, If I recall correctly.Cpt Kirks 2pay wrote:What is XO like? I want something a bit more quieter than Figure 8, more along the lines of the ballady moments of Good Will Hunting.
sleepflower wrote:Currently have the new klaxons album playing finally. Less mental than I expected. The first track 'two recievers' is particularly more chilled and amazing melody.
Not enough rave in nu-rave? Who cares.
sleepflower wrote:Currently have the new klaxons album playing finally. Less mental than I expected. The first track 'two recievers' is particularly more chilled and amazing melody.
Not enough rave in nu-rave? Who cares.
Keepcoolbutcare wrote:sleepflower wrote: Currently have the new klaxons album playing finally. Less mental than I expected. The first track 'two recievers' is particularly more chilled and amazing melody.
Not enough rave in nu-rave? Who cares.
hey, ME TOO!
i haven't liked what i heard of 'em so far, think nu-rave is one of the weakest names for a "scene", like, ever, but I'm not despising this as much as I thought I would...
AtomicHyperbole wrote:Is it worth buying? I mean, I've heard a couple of the tracks... the first, the single's pretty good... the guys themselves are pretty dull in interviews, but naturally iTunes only gives small samples.
AtomicHyperbole wrote:Really? Cos I love The Raptures last album, Pieces of The People We Love. Picked it up over xmas cos some of you had been banging on about it, a bit cautious because I remember they used to annoy me on XFM. But you, naturally, were right - it's a great album, I really dig Get Myself Into It.
Menomena's album is fantastic, although I think you already know that. I used to dig the Beta Band, but they got old a bit quick, can't really see that happening here...
Ribbons wrote:Gorillaz - "El Mañana"sleepflower wrote:playing a dj set at durr monday night.
not so special i guess, just good, and really fun to get into.
How'd the set go, sleep?
sleepflower wrote:Listening to the menomena album link. I am enjoying it, but the album goes into it's flow so quickly. Not sure it works yet. Love the music, but album wise I will decide after a couple of listens.
Listening to the Jeremy Walmsley album I got through the post next. Folktronica ( I hate labels but I'm a lazy writer). He is fntastic and realy speaks from a geeky (in a good way) heart bout life and love, not too pretentious or self important. Hope others can relate. He has a myspace that is his name.
Also he produced a girl named emmy the great. She also is on myspace and has an amazing song cally edward is deadwood. All in this thread should listen to that song. Complete beauty.
Cpt Kirks 2pay wrote:Ryan Adams - Love is Hell.
This MIGHT be growing on me. Didn't like it on first quick listen. Doubt it'll be as good as Heartbreaker though, but that is still growing too, so who knows?
sleepflower wrote:Indeed, very little rave, though I think it was produced by erol alkan, who is a joy division fan (tim am I right?)
AtomicHyperbole wrote:Dance music is such a wide label... it embraces stuff by my fave DJ Shadow, Aim, early Goldie, Bonobo, Cinematic Orchestra, Boards Of Canada... Klaxons have a couple of tracks which people can do big fish, little fish, cardboard box but it's still predominantly indie rock and doesn't go far enough INTO dance music to be part of that genre, not by seven miles.
mistertim wrote:AtomicHyperbole wrote:Dance music is such a wide label... it embraces stuff by my fave DJ Shadow, Aim, early Goldie, Bonobo, Cinematic Orchestra, Boards Of Canada... Klaxons have a couple of tracks which people can do big fish, little fish, cardboard box but it's still predominantly indie rock and doesn't go far enough INTO dance music to be part of that genre, not by seven miles.
That's exactly my point - There's such a huge spectrum of electronic / dance music out there, so for a guitar band to start pissing around with playing 'let me be your fantasy' on a microkorg and become hailed as a 'groundbreaking crossover act' or whatever is anathema to me.
mistertim wrote:an attitude which i think is prevalent among hipster-indie-kids (eurgh... but i can't think of a better term)
mistertim wrote:can be increadibly complex and sophisticated stuff. Even concentrating on recent acts - stuff from Ellen Allien and Apparat, Herbert and LCD Soundsystem (sorry, but this is a pretty electro-centric list) has shown that dance music is capable of having as much subtlety and intellegence as 'guitar' music...Therefore, the watered down simulations of dance music (based on the notion that dance is somehow mindless and vacuous) which are peddled by Klaxons, Shit Disco, and the like really don't cut it for me any more, sorry.
Keepcoolbutcare wrote:add !!! or chk chk chk or however the fuck you want to pronounce it to the more guitar based Hindie guitar bands...
ditto Maxi Gelt! & Playcolt
mistertim wrote:Hmm.... I actually don't mind !!!... 'Me and Giuliani Down By The Schoolyard' is one of the better 'dance tracks by guitar bands' I can think of, and their cover of The Magnetic Fields 'Take Ecstacy With Me' is great. I don't really know much more of their stuff though.
sleepflower wrote:For the record I do not think in any way that the klaxons album is a dance record. I also agree NIN is dancier!
At the moment just listening to that Mika album, saw it in the shop and thought I would give it a go (know nothing about it). I like it so far (3 tracks in). Reminds me a little of spacehog.
sleepflower wrote:redoing mercury?
I just think it was a good album.
Ribbons wrote:"Wind It Up".
AtomicHyperbole wrote:sleepflower wrote: redoing mercury?
I just think it was a good album.
Freddie Mercury.
Sorry, the single has been driving me batshit crazy on heavy rotation on the music channels... I utterly loathe it. Funny thing is, on the basis of the single, is the guy is masquerading as different when he sounds like an annoying Queen rerun. That plus the girl is scary.
Then again before that My Chemical Romance's single drove me fucknuts, and now I occasionally stick it on if I'm in the mood. You're not the only person to like Mika who I'd trust on music recommendations, just it's going to take a while for me to feed him through my taste filter...
AtomicHyperbole wrote:@TDLO - Eh?Going to have to explain that one, I just watched Daredevil and my braincells died from prolonged Affleck exposure.
What's your take on Mika, anyhow?
thedoglippedone wrote:AtomicHyperbol e wrote:@TDLO - Eh?Going to have to explain that one, I just watched Daredevil and my braincells died from prolonged Affleck exposure.
What's your take on Mika, anyhow?
Having not heard the album ( and not intending to ), I can only comment on the single - which is a pretty good pop song. That's all I got......
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