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nescience:
--- Quote from: houn --- Beaucoup Fish by Underworld
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Nice! Born Slippy is my ringtone! Rawks also on the middle-of-nowhere Washington Staters (which i assume since you moved to Seattle). Yea 509.
What was the topic again? Oh yeah, indie 101. Listen to the Velvet Underground, the Pixies, Sonic Youth, the Jesus and Mary Chain, the Talking Heads, Wilco, the better part of the Elephant 6 collective... oh fuck it, there should be a Beginner's Mixes forum.[/quote]
Spartan Pho3nix:
I should write the "n00bs guide to intro indie"
Maybe I will. That'd be fun.
Houn:
Spartan Pho3nix:
The Soft Bulletin coming down the pipe. I promise to feel guilty for my evil ways just as soon as piracy goes out of style. ;)
To be fair, I haven't had enough time to give all of it the decent attention it deserves - but throwing it all into one playlist and hitting Random, those two are the ones that immediately caught my attention. But, like I said, so far, I haven't heard anything I DON'T like, heh. I'll give the MM another go around, and I'm loading up that Shins I've got for Personal Attentive Review right now, actually.
*edit* I'd read and appriciate any info you're willing to commit, heh. Seems like a daunting task, seeing how personal tastes account so largely into people's reception to things like music, though.
nescience:
Actually, Middle of Nowhere was Western Montana. Instead of the flat dry farmland you get in *edit*Eastern*edit* Washington, you get rocky mountains and dry, scrubby trees. Only real difference is that Mountains block Radio Reception, where as Farmland does not. And yeah, Underworld rocks. For the longest time Beaucoup Fish was my favorite album, but lately I'm torn between it and Everything Everything (CD Version, I fully intend on purchasing the DVD if I can ever find it).
Lessie... Pixies did that song on the end of Fight Club, no? *Googles* Yup, "Where is My Mind". I'll have to check them out, yeah, along with the rest.
Undirected Question:
Where does one go to learn how to identify all this music? In browsing about, I've already confused myself trying to wrap my head around terms like Indie-rock, Indietronic, Basement, Post-Basement...
Ouch. I think I just sprained my left cortex.
Spartan Pho3nix:
Crap. Point number one - NEVER random.
I always play full Albums. It's much better.
Even if you only listen to the full album when you first download it and sort out what tracks you like (i never do this, but you can if you want).
But give em a full through.
Secdonly, the pixies pwn. Doolittle doolittle doolittle. I actually like bossanova after that, but i'd have to recommend surfer rosa just due to commmon preference.
Houn:
--- Quote from: Spartan Pho3nix ---Crap. Point number one - NEVER random.
I always play full Albums. It's much better.
Even if you only listen to the full album when you first download it and sort out what tracks you like (i never do this, but you can if you want).
But give em a full through.
Secdonly, the pixies pwn. Doolittle doolittle doolittle. I actually like bossanova after that, but i'd have to recommend surfer rosa just due to commmon preference.
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Yeah... Well, seeing as I kinda took a shotgun approach to this, I found myself with a large amount of stuff to listen to very quickly. Seemed appropriate to just Random it and see what shook loose.
Though I'll agree with you, there is something infinately enjoyable about listening to a complete album in it's proper order. Especially when you discover that they link together into a loose narrative of mood and tempo. Or something. I should probably refrain from pretending to know how to describe music, hehe.
Oh, and before I forget, there was another album I came across a few months back that very nearly melted my brain. It's called "Dub Side of the Moon" - a Reggae Revisioning of Pink Floyd's infamous and often laser-accompanied Dark Side of the Moon. I was skeptical at first, but after listening to it, I'm convinced that Dark Side was always intended to be Reggae, and Floyd just had it all wrong. Blod Statement? Perhaps, but sleep deprivation emboldens the n00bs. ;)
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