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Re: Song Currently Stuck In Your Head
« Reply #600 on: June 13, 2009, 09:07:35 PM »

I'm going on three days with this one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUjqlVt6y2A

I thought that I'd try mixing it up with a little YouTube therapy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgS79IuGoHk

:nyoro~n:
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...but is it art?

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Re: Song Currently Stuck In Your Head
« Reply #602 on: June 14, 2009, 01:47:50 PM »

Tom Waits' voice sounds like someone backing slowly out of a gravel driveway.

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Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygYtwmyANZQ
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Re: Song Currently Stuck In Your Head
« Reply #603 on: June 15, 2009, 10:15:02 AM »

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Re: Song Currently Stuck In Your Head
« Reply #604 on: June 17, 2009, 11:16:16 AM »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j9xtEFoydI&fmt=18

A discussion on the evolution of Industrial, Industrial Rock and Post-Industrial would be absolutely fascinating, but not to anyone here.
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Re: Song Currently Stuck In Your Head
« Reply #606 on: June 18, 2009, 02:51:35 AM »

hell yes
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Re: Song Currently Stuck In Your Head
« Reply #607 on: June 19, 2009, 06:34:59 PM »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orjhVM5F4tw

The more I hear from this guy, the more I like him.
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Re: Song Currently Stuck In Your Head
« Reply #609 on: June 21, 2009, 01:24:46 PM »

I just noticed the Baccano intro and... I am very interested in the show based off of just that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yfNzvNd4PA
Remember: stuck in my head doesn't mean it's good.
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Re: Song Currently Stuck In Your Head
« Reply #610 on: June 22, 2009, 12:10:10 AM »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG8fugqFn9Q

Ahhhhh, Silversun Pickups (aka Smashing Pumpkins Part II and/or Sonic Youth: Done Right).
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Re: Song Currently Stuck In Your Head
« Reply #611 on: June 22, 2009, 08:40:42 AM »

Sonic Youth: Done Right.

 ::(:


MY HUMBLE COUNTER-POINT:

Sonic Youth already is what I consider to be a perfect band.  Noisy, textured with intricate riffs leading one of the most powerful rhythm sections, all pinned underneath the caterwauls of Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon and Lee Ranaldo, none of which could be described as professional singers but who amplify the tonality and force of the music. 

Silversun Pickups is a band that takes whatever texture and sonic uniqueness in noise and math rock and compresses it down so it's as generic as the next.  Taking shots at being M83, Mogwai or My Bloody Valentine while removing the creativity, social commentary and expansiveness of any of them lands the band squarely in the realm of generic top 40 bands with a fitting "alternative" label.

You want to see what progeny of Sonic Youth can do?  Listen to early ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-v90jFiWrs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFrEKQ5VHoc

And for reasons of why it's easy to love Sonic Youth:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNyYY75SkRU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdeTQPgh9SE




On a side note, the crackdown on the music in videos on Youtube is getting ridiculous.   Once it gets to the point where suits are going after people's gameplay videos because it contained a Weezer song, it gets ridiculous.

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Re: Song Currently Stuck In Your Head
« Reply #612 on: June 22, 2009, 11:29:37 AM »

As I understand it YT doesn't necessarily want the song off of there, they just want the poster to buy rights to it and agree to let them put a popup ad over the video with a download sales link.  Posters who kick up a fuss about that get legally bonked over the head.

:yarr:  Nothing personal, mate, it's just good business!
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Re: Song Currently Stuck In Your Head
« Reply #613 on: June 22, 2009, 04:00:31 PM »

MY HUMBLE COUNTER-POINT

:justasplanned:


Sonic Youth already is what I consider to be a perfect band.

You know what? They really are.

They have the look. They have the attitude. They have the humor. They have the venues. They have the prestige.

I just feel they're lacking with their music. Damn.


Noisy, textured with intricate riffs leading one of the most powerful rhythm sections, all pinned underneath the caterwauls of Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon and Lee Ranaldo, none of which could be described as professional singers but who amplify the tonality and force of the music.

You could have stopped at noisy. It borders on white noise, until they fall into pits of masturbatory riffing. I'm told that this is the sign of true emotional artistry, while I ask myself why I'm bothering to pollute my ears with these auditory cum buckets.

I want to be a fan. I really, really do. But nothing is catching me whatsoever. Same for their spawn.


Silversun Pickups is a band that takes whatever texture and sonic uniqueness in noise and math rock and compresses it down so it's as generic as the next.  Taking shots at being M83, Mogwai or My Bloody Valentine while removing the creativity, social commentary and expansiveness of any of them lands the band squarely in the realm of generic top 40 bands with a fitting "alternative" label.

Wouldn't agree with the generic labeling, but the compression point is dead on. A band that works to take their time and cut the fat is much appreciated in my tastes. Not hearing the Mogwai, but the M83 comparison is vocally apt. Yum.
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Re: Song Currently Stuck In Your Head
« Reply #614 on: June 22, 2009, 04:07:17 PM »

I feel as if what I'm seeing is merely a debate between a person who goes to concerts and a person who listens to recordings.

Am I correct in feeling this?
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Re: Song Currently Stuck In Your Head
« Reply #615 on: June 22, 2009, 04:16:57 PM »

See, where you hear "cut the fat", I hear "lose individuality".  The guitar is an instrument with a lot of subtle harmonics and acoustics, much of which is loss when sound engineers flatten out all of the instruments in a track so that the distortion doesn't blow out their precious microphones.

Never could get into Silversun Pickups.  They sound like Cave In, turning up their amps but not without any kind of force behind it.

You could have stopped at noisy. It borders on white noise, until they fall into pits of masturbatory riffing. I'm told that this is the sign of true emotional artistry, while I ask myself why I'm bothering to pollute my ears with these auditory cum buckets.

The white noise complaint always felt like the mark of someone with an unrefined ear, as though a band which tries to achieve an aggressive tonality to their guitar playing while deliberately avoiding pop traps is something to frown upon.  Their arrangements can be chaotic, dipping out at the last moment from what your ear wants to hear.  It's challenging, engaging music but it takes more than a passive listen to really appreciate.  It's not a pop, single band that you appreciate because of a hook in one song.

Daydream Nation is their most accessible album by far, creating an almost nightmarish world born out of the end of the Reagan era that it came from.  It ultimately doesn't go for the nihilist kitsch that Trent Reznor would make BILLIONS OF DOLLARS on, but forces the brain to kickstart itself into thinking.

As for what came from then, it's a little bit harder to pinpoint.  Noise rock, shoegaze, industrial, even grunge owes a huge debt to the path Sonic Youth paved, but the real progeny lies in the often neglected math rock.  Bands like Fugazi, the New Year, June of '44, Chavez and Silkworm delve into the promises Sonic Youth was making.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uxjzMyhT8E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqZzFvONbIs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsToqOEZnxQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKr45j6S_qQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdUJioYWcqg


Love getting a chance to really spar over music.  I've been feeling indignant because my co-workers insist on playing either death metal or Andrew Lloyd Weber rock all day, and those just feel like intellectual dead ends.

I feel as if what I'm seeing is merely a debate between a person who goes to concerts and a person who listens to recordings.

Am I correct in feeling this?

 :lol:  Not at all.  I'm trying to avoid turning this into a "my band is better than your band" cock-showing contest, I just love me some Sonic Youth and take it as an opportunity to offer up some of my other favorite bands as well.

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Re: Song Currently Stuck In Your Head
« Reply #616 on: June 22, 2009, 04:45:13 PM »

distortion doesn't blow out their precious microphones.

Delightfully guilty. Finding modern rock that gently caresses their wavelengths wasn't too difficult, but finding one with similar tuning aspirations as to Sonic Youth was damned tasty.


Never could get into Silversun Pickups.  They sound like Cave In, turning up their amps but not without any kind of force behind it.

Cave In could be seen as more aggressive, and spacious. I'd equate them more with the Foo Fighters and their approach to verses, but with the goofy melodics muted out.


It's challenging, engaging music but it takes more than a passive listen to really appreciate.  It's not a pop, single band that you appreciate because of a hook in one song.

In my listening habits, I search for the latter to find the former. I'll give Daydream Nation a full spin.

Thanks for the June of '44, dood. My vile intentions hath borne fruit.
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Re: Song Currently Stuck In Your Head
« Reply #617 on: June 22, 2009, 06:28:38 PM »

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Re: Song Currently Stuck In Your Head
« Reply #618 on: June 22, 2009, 07:01:11 PM »

GOD DAMN IT.

I'll be in my bunk.

Again.
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Re: Song Currently Stuck In Your Head
« Reply #619 on: June 22, 2009, 08:31:27 PM »

Randomly linked to this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FCHk_gSwKo

And this cacaphony came to mind as a result:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-gocswLwsc&feature=related
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