December 15, 200915 yr And probably one of the most relaxing Drum & Bass tracks I have ever heard. It puts me in such a great mood and brings back really good thoughts. Submorphics: Sweet Passion YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.
January 26, 201015 yr Two of my old fellow percussion band geeks from Aurora, Ohio have started up a band in LA recently. Tim is ridiculously talented as a do everything musician (and apparently he can sing which I had no idea) and Craig is an awesome percussionist that can wow the hell out of you when let loose. There is certainly a lot of homerism in my feelings about them so I'll spare you but they're certainly not bad. http://www.myspace.com/timhartyband http://www.facebook.com/pages/TimHartyBand/217224576319#/pages/TimHartyBand/217224576319?v=app_6627984866
January 26, 201015 yr 1- weekly artist 2 - weekly tracks 3 - all time artist (since 02-2006) 4 - all time tracks (since 02-2006)
January 26, 201015 yr Been listening to a lot of Florence + the Machine, N.A.S.A., Grouper, Fever Ray and Air France lately. None of new, but all of it good.
January 30, 201015 yr I've really been digging the new track "Night by Night" by Chromeo lately: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppNC0uAaCv0
February 1, 201015 yr I've been listening to these alot on my road trips up & back to Louisville: Blitzen Trapper: Black River Killer EP Magnolia Electric Company: Josephine (apparently the lead from this band is from Lorain!?) One Eskimo (Duffy-esque?) ..and, at home, lonley nostalgia, the old Gin Blossoms New Miserable Experience (oldy but goody).
February 3, 201015 yr Say what you will.... "Naturally" by Selena Gomez & The Scene (the Dave Aude Remix, of course)
February 3, 201015 yr Not the newest, but I've been liking this a lot lately ;-) (*NOT* safe for work!) clevelandskyscrapers.com Cleveland Skyscrapers on Instagram
February 3, 201015 yr I heard this song on Radio France a few weeks ago and have been listening to it compulsively ever since. "C'est dit" by Calogero: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj2MbQFH4KA
February 9, 201015 yr For all the electronic rubbish posted on this thread, it's apparently necessary to mention that the halftime entertainment at the Superbowl was quite literally the first popular use of a sequenced synthesizer (or to be totally specific, the actual recording is an organ played to resemble a sequenced synthesizer): Probably the first true sequenced synth put to tape on a popular record, from 1973: Synthesizers are kind of seductive for the first hour or so you play with one, then you realize it's just the same crap over and over again. Everyone now thinks they're going to come up with a new sound, but the only new sound in the last 10 years is autotune, and it sounds a lot like vocorders from the 80's.
February 9, 201015 yr Not that I've heard, and I didn't even know it was "new" because it so closely resembles the vocorder effect. In the postwar time period the rapid changes in popular music styles was motivated in large part by rapidly evolving technology, both on the instrument and recording side. Electric guitars, high gain amps, synthesizers, 24-track recording, etc. all motivated significant changes in sounds. I think there's a parallel between digital recording and digital photography in that it's made it so easy to be "good enough" that people are increasing satisfied by the look and sound of good enough and don't recognize or are threatened by "better than good enough".
February 12, 201015 yr Here is a link to a more lengthy discussion of early synths, how complicated mixes were made before computers, and some terrific female backing vocals at 9:10: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWj2wH4hf4k I'd bet it's more expensive now than ever to hire some great backup singers in LA, probably $500/day. Backing singers used to be in all kinds of music but they're mostly gone now.
February 24, 201015 yr I've really been digging the new track "Night by Night" by Chromeo lately: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppNC0uAaCv0 Nice track Walker. Dave Brubeck is a longtime fav of mine. His "Jazz Goes to College" collection from the 50s/60s was partly recorded at Oberlin. Here's "The Song is You" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxQrMoDHX5E Other current songs: Sam Sparro's Black and Gold http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHuebHTD-lY, Alicia Keys Empire State of Mind Part II http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMS5xQ_V0TQ and Guillemots We're Here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqF1Ky8geo8. I'll spare you most of my classical songs except for Beethoven's Tempest and Bach's Brandenburg Concerto.
February 27, 201015 yr ^ I love Massive Attack. On a somewhat related genre, I have gotten into dubstep. A lot of it is kind of crazy and noisy, much like some Drum & Bass styles, and I don't really care for that. But much like a lot of the Drum & Bass I listen to, I just found some really chilled-out dubstep tracks.
February 28, 201015 yr Me likey Dave Horne's "Pushing Air" (Dan Stone remix): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOnH_djwjI8 Best enjoyed while also watching this (start it after the talking intro in the above video): "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
March 1, 201015 yr I am on Massive Attack kick at the moment.... Gotta say - I like their older work a lot more than the current stuff - they still have it, but I don't connect to the newer work as much: clevelandskyscrapers.com Cleveland Skyscrapers on Instagram
March 1, 201015 yr What kicked me off on a Massive Attack kick was an old promo CD for the old Sony "Modern Rock Live" radio show that I randomly decided to listen to when flippin through the CD book in my car. There was a killer live in studio version of "Karmacoma" on it that made me load some older stuff on my ipod and download the new album "Heligoland".
March 9, 201015 yr Bruce Springsteen Feat. Tom Morello - Ghost Of Tom Joad http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLFLrTnue9s and Tennessee Ernie Ford Sings 16 Tons
March 22, 201015 yr I'm hooked on spanish music right now and I really like Skaira's song Lo Hecho Está Hecho. EDIT: Video may be considered NSFW.
March 25, 201015 yr "Acapella (Dave Aude Remix)" by Kelis (you may know her as the one who's milkshake brings all the boys to the yard):
March 25, 201015 yr I'm hereby compelled, as I am from time to time, to post something that rids me of the icky feeling that inevitably accompanies anything European and electronic: Suicidal Tendencies-Institutionalized And who remembers this one? My band covered this one in 1995, a year after it was released. Oh, how the Mighty have fallen: YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.
March 25, 201015 yr I am hereby compelled, as I am from time to time, to post something that rids me of that sinking despondency I feel when I'm not listening to anything European and electronic.
March 26, 201015 yr yay the new goldfrapp is out -- this single is very 80's-esque! love this short ad for the album too Goldfrapp - Head First
March 27, 201015 yr >Senses Fail covered Institutionalized back in '05 and it's pretty good. Um, no. I just checked it out and I get the, um, sense that the cover was the band's idea, not the singer's, and the singer wasn't up for the task. He didn't have it in 'em. That's what rock & roll is about. You either rock or you don't. You just don't hop on the stage and commence rocking, it's your whole life and getting on stage isn't a big deal. There's not really an in-between. And I don't know why someone would attempt a literal cover of this song. Speaking of which, as of this week I'm on my third copy of The Stooges "Fun House", CD #2 having become excessively scratched permanently retired. I bought Funhouse #2 in 2002 to replace CD #1 which I probably bought around 1997 which replaced a dubbed tape. The Stooges - Loose I will probably go to my grave contending that this is the hardest rocking album of all-time, yet I have basically never heard it in public. Never on the radio, never at a bar with a TV. It's 40 years old and it still wallows in obscurity. Oh yeah, I just remembered the time when this album was played straight through at a wedding reception. All the old people ran for cover, one of the chandeliers caught on fire, and I split my pants.
March 28, 201015 yr yay the new goldfrapp is out -- this single is very 80's-esque! love this short ad for the album too Goldfrapp - Head First Got this the other day. The whole thing is awesome, like one reviewer said, "like a warm hug from the 80's." And I'm not even a huge 80's fan.
April 1, 201015 yr To me, the saddest day in history wasn't Sept. 11, 2001 or Dec. 7, 1941. It was Jan. 1, 1990 -- the day that the 1980s ended. :cry: OK, having said that, I have fallen in love with a newly released song that is already one of my favorites of all time. I don't even think a song like this was possible in the 1980s. It combines a 60-piece orchestra, a little bit of euro trance, an accoustical respite in the middle, and a vocalist with an attitude and a great set of pipes. This is like Pat Benatar meets The Bourne Identity and I love it!.... "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
April 5, 201015 yr Really digging Bear in Heaven, the new Yeasayer album, the new Pantha du Prince album and the new Gorillaz album.
April 5, 201015 yr ^I've always like Gorillaz; has there been a line-up change since the first album? Don't know the other three; what's the 411? I just saw the Black Lips in concert; purchased their middle album, Let it Bloom, and fell in love love with gritty DIY punk posturing all over again. IMO, these guys have a well deserved reputation for putting on a very energetic live performance!
April 5, 201015 yr Gorillaz hasn't really every had a change in line up, but Damon Albarn collaborates with different people. The first album he worked with Del tha Funkee Homosapien and Dan the Automator (two guys i like a lot) and then the second had producer Dangermouse and a bunch of other people being featured. I'm still absorbing this latest album. I really liked Demon Dayz. and i enjoy Stylo immensely. I'm sure it'll grow on me.
April 5, 201015 yr Albarn has evolved as a composer and an arranger, which is very apparent on the new album. It took DEMON DAYS a couple of listens to grow on me, and it looks like PLASTIC BEACH is following suit. But damn, is it growing on me.
April 10, 201015 yr Not really a favorite but for those on facebook check out the Twilight Singers fan page. It is loaded with great music videos from old R&B to electronic to Latin to straight up rock. I am not sure if Greg Dulli is making the posts himself , but whoever is doing it has a killer ear. I know Dulli was/is in the studio working on the new album so he maybe digging around for inspiration.
April 15, 201015 yr Me too on that new Yeasayer thing. It's...different. Been listening to stuff I picked up at a show here last Friday...some guy from Brooklyn, Brook Sizemore, and State School, originally formed in Dayton but now in Pbgh, came back to town to headline the show. Also that Natural Forces by Lyle Lovett (got that from the library of all places).
April 16, 201015 yr just started listening to some 8-bit stuff...fantastic. Anamanaguchi...unbelievable that people can make music from Nintendos.
April 23, 201015 yr Picked up Circa Survive's new record, "Blue Sky Noise." It's different. It's amazing. Many people are saying they changed too much from their older stuff, but I think the change is good and justified. It rocks harder than their other releases but they still throw their style in the mix. They did move to a larger label, but this is no "selling out" record. I love it!
April 25, 201015 yr "You know you feel blue/When you're out of sync with your CPU" Apples in Stereo - CPU This song cracks me up.
April 25, 201015 yr Been stupid into Eastern Euro roots/mash up for the last few months... Gogol Bordello - Not a Crime ...and for some reason the xx:
April 26, 201015 yr Jason Swartzman's (yes the kid from Rushmore) indie pop project Coconut Records. Great stuff. I'll embed some video when I get home.
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