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What do I do?
« on: 15 Oct 2006, 22:34 »
I have 30 free itunes songs, but they expire 10/17, I don't know what to buy.  I'm an new fan to indie music so my collection is fairly small.  Anyone have suggestions?
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Re: What do I do?
« Reply #1 on: 15 Oct 2006, 23:55 »
I think we should all suggest one song each. That way you get a bit of variety and you can pick and choose what sounds interesting to you.

I will suggest 'Young Folks' by Peter Bjorn and John. It's a pretty pop boy/girl duet by a band of punctuation-shy Swedes. It has a really, really great whistle hook which will get stuck in your brain.
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Re: What do I do?
« Reply #2 on: 16 Oct 2006, 00:17 »
Broken Social Scene - Fire Eye'd Boy as it is a great intro to BSS a band you should definately check out if you new to indie.
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Re: What do I do?
« Reply #3 on: 16 Oct 2006, 03:49 »
"The Tallest Man, the Broadest Shoulders, Pt. I: The Great Frontier / Pt. II: Come to Me Only With Playthings Now" - Sufjan Stevens

It's my favorite song by him, at least.
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Re: What do I do?
« Reply #4 on: 16 Oct 2006, 03:57 »
Saeglopur - Sigur Ros

(The forum no longer likes accents?  The real title has an accent over the 'o' and the 'a' and 'e' are joined.)

Great song off of a good album.  Good intro to post-rock, and other experimental stuff.  Also: S?gl?pur = Fucking awesome live.  Its a pity that iTunes doesn't have Agaetis Byrjun, but Takk... it pretty good too.
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Re: What do I do?
« Reply #5 on: 16 Oct 2006, 04:06 »
*obligatory mentioning of Jets to Brazil*
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Re: What do I do?
« Reply #6 on: 16 Oct 2006, 06:00 »
Valley_Parade didn't indicate a specific song, so I'll do it for him: "King Medicine"

And my suggestion is Jawbreaker- "Condition Oakland"

Hurry up, people, we only have a day!
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Re: What do I do?
« Reply #7 on: 16 Oct 2006, 07:49 »
Wilco - Via Chicago

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Re: What do I do?
« Reply #8 on: 16 Oct 2006, 08:07 »
Quote from: ImRonBurgundy? on 16 Oct 2006, 06:00

And my suggestion is Jawbreaker- "Condition Oakland"

I second that.

Also: Melvins - Revolve
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Re: What do I do?
« Reply #9 on: 16 Oct 2006, 10:15 »
Barenaked Ladies - Bank Job
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Re: What do I do?
« Reply #10 on: 16 Oct 2006, 10:18 »
Anal cu... errr i mean...

Mogwai "I Know You Are But What Am I?"
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Re: What do I do?
« Reply #11 on: 16 Oct 2006, 10:28 »
It'd help if we had a list of your current iTunes playlist, I think.
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Re: What do I do?
« Reply #12 on: 16 Oct 2006, 11:40 »
Mission of Burma - "Trem Two"
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Re: What do I do?
« Reply #13 on: 16 Oct 2006, 11:54 »
The Dismemerment Plan Gets Rich - The Dismemberment Plan

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Re: What do I do?
« Reply #14 on: 16 Oct 2006, 12:43 »
Islands!
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Re: What do I do?
« Reply #15 on: 16 Oct 2006, 12:52 »
I second Islands!

Specifically "Rough Gem"
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Re: What do I do?
« Reply #16 on: 16 Oct 2006, 13:45 »
My current stuff is 99.9% classic rock.

The only indie stuff I have is The Shout Out Louds, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, some Sleater-Kinney, and Stephen Malkmus.
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Re: What do I do?
« Reply #17 on: 16 Oct 2006, 17:09 »
Man Man-Black Misson Goggles
OR IF THAT IS UNAVAILABLE
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Re: What do I do?
« Reply #18 on: 16 Oct 2006, 17:14 »
Tapes n Tapes - Insistor.

Ignore the rest of the album though - that one songs shines above it all. It's not unlike Shout Out Louds, which made me think of it, plus I have the album on now...
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Re: What do I do?
« Reply #19 on: 16 Oct 2006, 19:14 »
The Sugarplastic - Very Stereo
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Re: What do I do?
« Reply #20 on: 16 Oct 2006, 19:18 »
Wolf Parade - I'll Believe In Anything.

Quick!  Someone use their suggestion on GY!BE.
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Re: What do I do?
« Reply #21 on: 16 Oct 2006, 19:20 »
I know I've already posted but time is running out so I think for any new indie collection Iron & Wine should be mandatory so I'd suggest -

Iron & Wine - Fever Dream,

Ohh, second wolf parade
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Re: What do I do?
« Reply #22 on: 16 Oct 2006, 19:40 »
A Silver Mt. Zion - Tho' You Are Gone, I Still Often Walk With You.
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Re: What do I do?
« Reply #23 on: 16 Oct 2006, 20:42 »
Quote from: 10101110 on 16 Oct 2006, 19:40
A Silver Mt. Zion - Tho' You Are Gone, I Still Often Walk With You.

True.
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Re: What do I do?
« Reply #24 on: 16 Oct 2006, 21:18 »
Thanks so much to everyone!

I'm going to get to buying, but please post more, I'm loving a lot of this stuff.
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Re: What do I do?
« Reply #25 on: 16 Oct 2006, 21:30 »
The Bad Plus - Prehensile Dream

do ittt.....
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Re: What do I do?
« Reply #26 on: 16 Oct 2006, 21:53 »
Weezer - Falling For You
Slint - Good Morning, Captain
The New Pornographers - Sing Me Spanish Techno
Wilco - Heavy Metal Drummer
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Head On
Fischerspooner - Never Win
British Sea Power - Fear of Drowning
Broken Social Scene - Almost Crimes (Radio Kills Remix)
Jenny Lewis and The Watson Twins - Rise Up With Fists
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Re: What do I do?
« Reply #27 on: 17 Oct 2006, 09:29 »
Skip that one Silver Mt. Zion song I told you, and just get the whole "Born Into Trouble As The Sparks Fly Upward" album...it's beautiful, and sad, and just freaking amazing.  I like this album better than anything else that group of musicians has done, including Godspeed You! Black Emperor's catalog.
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Re: What do I do?
« Reply #28 on: 17 Oct 2006, 13:13 »
now now, let's not get so excited here. "Born Into Trouble..." is indeed a great album, but I don't think it's better than GY!BE's Yanqui U.X.O.
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« Reply #29 on: 17 Oct 2006, 13:55 »
That song is on that album. Nothing SMZ have done is anywhere near as good as anything GY!BE have done.
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Re: What do I do?
« Reply #30 on: 17 Oct 2006, 13:56 »
So, Recent Vintage. Did you get any a' these?
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Re: What do I do?
« Reply #31 on: 17 Oct 2006, 20:04 »
To be technical, I never actually said it was BETTER, I just said I liked that album more...and for some reason, Yanqui U.X.O. is the one GY!BE that I haven't been able to completely get into...I absolutely love the rest of their stuff, but for some reason when I try to listen to that album, my music ADD kicks into overdrive...
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Re: What do I do?
« Reply #32 on: 17 Oct 2006, 20:41 »
Musical ADD cannot possibly override "Rockets Fall On Rocket Falls". Listen to that til you love it, then conquer the whole album.

PS. Why's the singin in SMZ gotta suck such a bad musicock?
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Re: What do I do?
« Reply #33 on: 17 Oct 2006, 20:51 »
That is some of the most atrocious warbling I have heard in my life, especially on Horses In The Sky...I just can't picture ANY other voice working in that setting...I think if you put a "good" singer to that backdrop, it would lose something in translation...this is just how I listen to SMZ, of course, but the thing that draws me to that band is how every song sounds so mournful, and broken, and desolate...Efram's voice conveys that so perfectly.  You couldn't be more right that he's terrible, but in context I think it's perfect.
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Re: What do I do?
« Reply #34 on: 17 Oct 2006, 21:38 »
Doris Henson - A Dark Time for the Light Side of the Earth
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Re: What do I do?
« Reply #35 on: 18 Oct 2006, 12:36 »
TV on the Radio - Blind.
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« Reply #36 on: 18 Oct 2006, 13:17 »
A Classic: Wire - Pink Flag

Also an exercise in patience: Shellac - Didn't We Deserve A Look At You The Way You Really Are

And I second Slint.
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Re: What do I do?
« Reply #37 on: 18 Oct 2006, 21:43 »
Acid Bath - Scream of the Butterfly
Alien Sex Fiend - Ignore the Machine
Anne Clark - Our Darkness
Backworld - The Orchids
Bauhaus - She's in Parties
Blood Axis - The Ride
Blue Oyster Cult - (This Ain't The) Summer of Love
Boyd Rice & Giddle Partridge - Bonnie and Clyde
Changes - Fire of Life
Coil - Loves Secret Domain
Current 93 - A Song For Douglas After He's Dead
Dead Can Dance - American Dreaming
Death in June - Symbols of the Sun
Ewigkeit - Strange Volk
Hawkwind - Hurry on Sundown
In Gowan Ring - To Thrum a Glassy Stem
Kraftwerk - Die Roboter
Laibach - Sympathy for the Devil (Who Killed the Kennedys?)
Magnet - Willows Song
The Meteors - My Daddy is a Vampire
Mot?rhead - Bomber
New Model Army - Green and Grey
Orange Goblin - Magic Carpet
:Of The Wand and the Moon: - In a Robe of Fire
The Sisters of Mercy - Lucretia My Reflection
Skyclad - Crux of the Message
Sol Invictus - Sheath and Knife
Strawberry Switchblade - Since Yesterday
Strawbs - The Hangman and the Papist
:wumpscut: - Turns Off Pain



...Because you need to save yourself from pitchfork-indie before you even get into it. I'd also prefer if you deleted itunes right now.
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Re: What do I do?
« Reply #38 on: 18 Oct 2006, 22:53 »
If you are American, totally download some Skyclad, because otherwise you are never going to find it anywhere else ever.
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Re: What do I do?
« Reply #39 on: 18 Oct 2006, 23:03 »
Quote from: muffy on 16 Oct 2006, 17:14
Tapes n Tapes - Insistor.

Ignore the rest of the album though - that one songs shines above it all. It's not unlike Shout Out Louds, which made me think of it, plus I have the album on now...

"COWBELL" MUFFY, "COWBELL"

Also, guys. The dude's thing expired. Unless there's a seventeenth month now, in which case, yeah.
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Re: What do I do?
« Reply #40 on: 18 Oct 2006, 23:16 »
Quote from: KharBevNor on 18 Oct 2006, 21:43
Acid Bath - Scream of the Butterfly
Bauhaus - She's in Parties
Blood Axis - The Ride
Coil - Loves Secret Domain
Current 93 - A Song For Douglas After He's Dead
Dead Can Dance - American Dreaming
Hawkwind - Hurry on Sundown
In Gowan Ring - To Thrum a Glassy Stem
Mot?rhead - Bomber
New Model Army - Green and Grey
Orange Goblin - Magic Carpet
:Of The Wand and the Moon: - In a Robe of Fire
The Sisters of Mercy - Lucretia My Reflection
Sol Invictus - Sheath and Knife
:wumpscut: - Turns Off Pain

I 2nd these that Khar mentioned, especially that New Model Army track, it's brilliant. What swell music taste you have!

I'm pretty much a n00b when it comes to indie music as well, at least any indie music that was released in the past 6 or 7 years or so. I basically went on an indie hiatus since I was somewhat disenchanted and disinterested in so much that was being recorded and released, and other genres completely dominated my record collection. I regret it now.

I really like the song "Wake Up" by The Arcade Fire right now though. ;)
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Re: What do I do?
« Reply #41 on: 18 Oct 2006, 23:20 »
Quote from: KharBevNor on 18 Oct 2006, 21:43
save yourself from pitchfork-indie before you even get into it.

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