I got Real Life as well, I am in the middle of "I wanted your Heart" on second hand daylight. From what I have read Secondhand Daylight features more experimental, synthesizer-based material, I like it. It reminds me of Bowie a bit, Brian Eno, and some of the horn usage reminds me of Pink Floyd as well. very good recomendation will listen to Real Life by the end of the day. had a big "music" weekend, picked up a bunch of different stuff, some Bowie albums, the Magazine albums, a couple Talking Heads albums, and a Tom Waits album swordfishtrombones. Maxed out the 80gig ipod and decided it was time to clean up the library, which took a good bit of time on Saturday, but was well worth it.
You're very welcome about the recommendations. This is why I like to post about music - I learn about new artists that I wouldn't have learned anywhere else and it gives me the opportunity to help others learn about artists they wouldn't have known anywhere else. I don't understand why this is such a big problem with some people. Just don't read the posts and threads. I, too, got a lot of music and over the next couple of days, I'm going to try and listen to: Intimacy - Bloc Party Sawdust - The Killers Antics - Interpol Mezcal Head - Swervedriver Split - Lush Spillane - John Zorn Naked City - John Zorn Lick My Decals Off, Baby - Captain Beefheart
How do you like Bloc Party? I have Silent Alarm, and its ok, but I dont really care for it enough to pick up another album. Just started in on "Definitive Gaze" - Magazine- Real life, and the vocals sound very much like Brian Eno from Here Come the Warm Jets, "Baby's on Fire". I really like Eno so, so far I have to give Magazine out of 5
I really don't know how I came across Bloc Party. I think they were recommended to me by Amazon due to the fact that I had bought CDs by Interpol. I'll tell you something - "Silent Alarm" along with "Turn on the Bright Lights" are my 2 favorite debuts by artists that started out in this decade. I wore "Silent Alarm" out for the first 3 months after I got it, lol. "A Weekend in the City" is different, a little denser and not as catchy. But it is one of those albums that gets better and better on each listen. It also includes my all-time favorite song by them in "I Still Remember". The third album, "Intimacy", hasn't quite clicked with me yet. I like "Signs" a lot and "Mercury" is okay but the rest of the album is sorta blah right now. I would strongly urge you to pick up "A Weekend in the City". Eno is pretty remarkable, isn't he? "Another Green World" is my favorite album by him - one of the most perfect albums ever made, IMO.
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I like his ambient work, but I feel his first three albums are his best: Here Come the Warm Jets, Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy, Another Green World. I only have two of his ambient albums, Music for Airports and Apollo, they are both good albums, but I prefer Apollo.
Like van, I favor his earlier stuff compared to the ambient stuff but I do like both. If you are a post-rock fan like Landlord, then I would think you would like his ambient stuff more. I love the first 2 Roxy Music albums and Eno plays a big part in those albums. As a result, I like the more glam/experimental stuff of his. Yet, "Another Green World" is such a great album because it is clearly a transition album from glam to ambient. Of his ambient stuff, I have the Airports album, Discreet Music, Apollo, and On Land and they are all great (I like On Land probably the most). However another great Eno album that isn't ambient and really more world music is the one with David Byrne, "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts".
As far as some of the "newer" bands I have been listening to: Heartless Bastards, the mountain ( I just got this album and its very good female vocals, blues rock / garage rock kind of stuff) Coheed and Cambria, all there albums are great The Black Keys, all there albums are great but Magic Potion is probably there best Spoon, kill the moonlight, ga ga ga ga ga Ghostland Observatory, delete delete i eat meat, paparazzi lightning Arctic Monkeys The Killers Hot Hot Heat kings of leon, there first few albums are pretty good
seconded - love all 3 of those, w/ here come the warm jets being my favorite. that album was at least 15 years ahead of its time. he nailed the my bloody valentine sound on here come the warm jets, and that was like 1972! i have a collaboration he did w/ harold budd, which is probably my favorite of his ambient series - i think its ambiet 2: the plateau of the mirror.
saw dirty projectors at antones last night in austin and ron jeremy was there for some reason. i dont think he came for the music, but was probably in town and just showed up there.
I was there too. Work is and will suck today (made the drive back to Houston overnight). "Gimme" into "Thirsty and Miserable" nearly killed me. Solid, solid show.
Had never heard of Dirty Projectors until you brought them up. I saw that they put out a Black Flag "cover" album, will have to check them out. Have a ton of Black Flag, really want to hear how Dirty Projectors "cover" there stuff. If you don’t have any Black Flag, Damaged is a great, so is Everything went Black as it covers a few of the vocalists before Rollins joined the band, Live '84 is a beast.
It's an acquired taste, IMO. I didn't like them the first few times I heard it, but it eventually grew on me. Their cover album (Rise Above) is actually a lose interpretation of "Damaged". He based the covers solely of memory (or so he claims). If you check it out, don't expect to find any strong similarities. Some of the lyrics are on track but for the most part, they're not. Last time they played in Austin they actually had Greg Ginn on guitar. That was pretty neat. Check it out and let me know what you think. Definitely my favorite band to come out this decade. PS: These girls can really sing.
everything about this guy's sound makes me want to not like it, but I can't help but like it. It's almost like pop without being bad, which is very strange for me.
my friend from h-town did the same thing - he had to work at 9. that was a great set from start to finish. saw them a few times earlier in the year and you can tell they have been playing a ton - the drummer was especially in fine form last nite too. the acoustic # and then doing a couple 'unplugged' songs w/ stand-up bass - hadnt seen that from them before. i think they played the whole album bitte orca - would liked to have seen some more older stuff, but either way i cant complain. closing w/ that song imagine was really nice. there were a ton of people talking throughout though - it was really annoying. and when ron jeremy showed up in the vip room everyone around me was freaking out about it for the rest of the show. one last complaint - the stage at antones is horribly positioned. move that thing to the back of the room.
van chief - the singer claimed he found an empty cassette tape when he was cleaning his closet and did the whole album from memory. d.p. is also easily my favorite band of the 2000's - i stumbled upon them at sxsw a couple years ago and have been a fan since. 3 of my favorite bands of the last 10 years have all come out of williamsburg, brooklyn - d.p., oneida and tv on the radio. somethings in the water there. they were on jimmy fallon a few weeks ago and questlove apparently was really into them. "Man. Dirty Projectors came into our room and demonstrated their awesomeness. How cool is it for them to do this?". He then Tweeted it again with the message, "dirty projectors really became a fav of mine after today" http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2009/09/dirty_projector_22.html the 2nd video there is them being recorded by questlove - good example of their amazing vocal stylings.
