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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: Silent on 28 Nov 2008, 13:40
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Any suggestions? I browsed the forums for a while and got some ideas, but I really didnt see a topic like this. Im really interested in expanding my music collection, and I really am tired of the same manufactured sound in a different key. Ah the irony, I am listening to Staind as I write this :-P
Sorry if this has already been done 100 times,
Silent
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You should check out the mediaf!re thread.
bands to search for:
pavement, wilco, flaming lips, sloan, owls, new pornographers, neutral milk hotel, meat puppets, liars, big black, architecture in helsinki, weatherkans, unicorns . . .
This has been done 100 times, but don't worry about it.
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Hüsker Dü (try Zen Arcade first), My Bloody Valentine (their second album, Loveless is brilliant), Mission of Burma, Guided by Voices (Under the Bushes Under the Stars), Modest Mouse (The Lonesome Crowded West), the aforementioned Big Black, Pavement (start with Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain) and Neutral Milk Hotel (In the Aeroplane Over the Sea).
Also, Arcade Fire, Spoon, Okkervil River and Portishead.
Shit, did I mention Bedhead, listen to Bedhead (very slow indie rock), Pixies (anywhere is good) and Sleater-Kinney.
Oh, Polvo and Lungfish as well.
If you want to listen to Liars start with either last year's self-titled album or their first, They Threw Us in a Trench and Stuck a Monument On Top.
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I concur on Pavement, The Flaming Lips, and Neutral Milk Hotel.
You might also want to check out a little band called Sonic Youth.
However, I think you should start with Slanted & Enchanted for Pavement, and for the Flips, start with Transmissions From The Satellite Heart.
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This thread is made entirely of win so far.
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Shit, did I mention Bedhead, listen to Bedhead (very slow indie rock)
Silent, you're about to view your very first indie argument.
Bedhead... Is BORING... Very slow is an understatement.
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Oh no you did not.
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I agree with all of the bands posted so far. Modest Mouse, Flaming Lips, Sonic Youth, Pavement, Guided By Voices, Neutral Milk Hotel, My Bloody Valentine, etc. are all some of my favorite bands. I'd also recommend Broken Social Scene, Pixies, Dinosaur Jr, Archers of Loaf, Superchunk, and Built to Spill.
Good luck, future musical elitist.
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Shit, did I mention Bedhead, listen to Bedhead (very slow indie rock)
Silent, you're about to view your very first indie argument.
Bedhead... Is BORING... Very slow is an understatement.
Their music is a thing of slowly unfolding dark beauty, in this way it can be emotionally brutal yet soothing. How can you find this "BORING"?
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Unless you have a major bluegrass allergy, check out Nickel Creek's final album, Why Should the Fire Die? and Chris Thile's solo album Deceiver. They are bluegrass with a pop slant and pop with a bluegrass slant, respectively.
Also I have been enjoying Sebastian Granger's new album. (formerly of DFA 1979)
Lastly, check out any of the mountain goats' hi-fi albums (try The Sunset Tree) and Shearwater's Rook. Both of these are beyond great.
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This thread is made entirely of win so far.
Dungen.
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Thanks a ton for all the suggestions, im downloading them as I type this. On a side note, it turns out I already had some indie that I didnt even know about! Modest Mouse and Spoon were two of my favorite bands already. Although they werent mentioned here, Offspring did their best work as an indie band before signing with Columbia.
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To go along with the Superchunk suggestion, I recommend giving Mac McCaughan's solo stuff, Portastatic, a listen as well. He makes some excellent tunes on his own.
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I'd have to say the first thing you should get is Arcade Fire's Funeral.
It was my first real indie album, and the first album I'd ever really loved.
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You fucking people.
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I couldn't find large images with the domestic cover.
Also that Bedhead crack has earned this thread this:
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On a side note, it turns out I already had some indie that I didnt even know about! Modest Mouse and Spoon were two of my favorite bands already.
Modest Mouse only counts if you listened to it in chronological order. You can go for several albums and say "Hey this is pretty excellent" and then you reach 2004 when they signed to Sony and became a singles-and-filler band.
You should listen to RX Bandits. Indie ska. They're the only ska band that doesn't lick the shaft.
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Jesus christ dude have you heard first-wave ska? It's nothing but good.
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Also, The Specials and The English Beat.
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Boys Life is rad. I like Departures and Landfalls more than their self-titled though.
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The National. Albums-Boxer is their best one, but Alligator isnt bad
O and the Hold steady are pretty frikken good too. download stay positive first
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Unnngh Boys Life.
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MEDIAFIRE'D.
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Has anybody mentioned Ted Leo yet
Go listen to Ted Leo
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I'm only recent to an indie education myself, but I have to suggest Cloud Cult.
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They're classified more in the Post Rock direction, but Broken Social Scene is pretty awesome. One of the biggest things about indie as a whole is that it's a giant envelope, and people stuff all sorts of things in there. It may be possible to recommend some "staples" of the genre, but as with anything large, there will be certain sides of it some people like looking at more than others. If you tell us the sorts of sounds you currently like, it will be easier to give you starting artists that you enjoy, as you make your first steps on the path to hipster glasses and unwarranted pretentiousness.
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The Specials, nothing but awesome
Modest Mouse has already been said, but maybe start with The Moon and Antarctica. IMO, their best album.
Television (Marquee Moon)
Band of Horses (maybe start with Cease to Begin)(if that is even indie, I'm not entirely sure)
Mystery Jets
The Skatalites (ska, not indie, but awesome)
Minus the Bear (particularly the song Knights)
Silkworm
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If you want something that is a little weirder and more experimental, check out Animal Collective, start with the album Feels.
If you want something made of pure amazing rock goodness: Do You Like Rock Music? by British Sea Power.
Same goes for The Runners Four by Deerhoof. Seriously.
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PAGING THE QC ANTI-DEERHOOF SOCIETY TO THIS THREAD, NOW.
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Yeah, Deerhoof blows.
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PAGING THE QC ANTI-DEERHOOF SOCIETY TO THIS THREAD, NOW.
Sup
(you know, I actually like their music. It's that Yoko Ono wannabe who does their singing that makes me want to kill myself every time I try to listen to them)
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every single one of you is doing it wrong
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Presents!
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(you know, I actually like their music. It's that Yoko Ono wannabe who does their singing that makes me want to kill myself every time I try to listen to them)
I don't really understand the Yoko Ono comparison. Is it supposed to be insulting?
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if you really want to "get into" indie music just effing watch the movie Dig!
you cunts
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Also Chesire Cat you forgot to put the standard emoticon whenever mentioning Slint:
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(you know, I actually like their music. It's that Yoko Ono wannabe who does their singing that makes me want to kill myself every time I try to listen to them)
I don't really understand the Yoko Ono comparison. Is it supposed to be insulting?
If you have ever heard Yoko Ono sing, you will know exactly what I am talking about.
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I have heard Yoko Ono sing but I don't see much similarity between the two. Yoko Ono's singing is pretty much just comepletely unrestrained, manic wailing. I guess I might be able to see a comparison on some of her later stuff where she dials back the caterwauling like "Kiss Kiss Kiss" but even then there is an intensity in her delivery that I don't really get from Satomi's singing. Satomi's voice is just so calm, no matter how rockin' the rest of the music is.
I dunno though, I'm not as familiar with Yoko's later stuff as I am with her first two albums, which are absolutely ridiculous.
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I am with michaelicious on this one here. Satomi's singing is really laid back, save for the earlier more noisey Deerfhoof released stuff. I really don't understand the hate towards deerhoof at all.
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tl;dr
*facepalm* You're missing what I'm saying. Satomi's voice fucking sucks, Yoko Ono's voice fucking sucks.
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i hardly even know what indie is :oops:. i need some sugestions for bands for geting into good music, i only and i mean only listen to the beatles so sudgestions would be nice...
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Well you could do the daring thing and scroll upwards...
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Modest Mouse, Pavement, Broken Social Scene, Pixies, Built to Spill.
I have not listened to the others this guy mentioned but this pretty well covers it.
Mediafire thread has an awesome Built to Spill album right now HINT HINT NUDGE NUDGE GO FUCKING GET IT
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i hardly even know what indie is :oops:. i need some sugestions for bands for geting into good music, i only and i mean only listen to the beatles so sudgestions would be nice...
Surely there must be other music you enjoy? Also, which Beatles albums and songs do you enjoy? Their material varied quite a bit.
But, building off what little you've given us:
Olivia Tremor Control
Beulah
Sloan
Caribou
The New Pornographers
All Girls Summer Fun Band
Belle & Sebastian
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if you like the beatles you will love olivia tremor control
it's a scientific fact
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I will throw out some bands that you will likely have an incredibly difficult time trying to find. However, if you listen to them, you will be rewarded. No, really. There are a bunch of virgins waiting for you after you listen to these artists.
Charlie Mars
Alt-country, listen to his self-titled album
Chris Trapper
Mixes and matches his styles, listen to Hey, You
The Pushstars (Chris Trapper's old group)
Alt-rock, listen to Opening Time and After the Party
Cosmic Rough Riders
Scottish band, relatively mellow, listen to Too Close to See Far
The Samples
Folksy, listen to Return to Earth
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Er. All of those bands/artists have their own website with a store.
Yeah, if you want to pay for music before you listen to it. I just mean it is very difficult to find them on any sort of file-sharing thing to download the music first. Or perhaps my corner of the country just kind of sucks in music-sharing.
Note: I do buy music to support artists I like! I just like to listen to stuff and check it out before I buy it. I am a cheap-ass college student, after all.
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Or perhaps my corner of the country just kind of sucks in music-sharing.
but... it's the internet.
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Interesting fact: broke college students bought more albums before the internet.
There is no getting around the fact that a lot of people download music, enjoy it and never pay a dime for it. Even used record stores are going out of business left and right.
It's sad. :cry:
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I just realized how dumb that sounded. My campus has a DC++ hub, which everyone on campus can share files through. I do not use Limewire or Kazaa or any of those, since my school cracks down on people who use those. So I am limited to what is being shared by the other people on campus.
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Jesus why would you use Limewire or Kazaa anyway? :?
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Interesting fact: broke college students bought more albums before the internet.
There is no getting around the fact that a lot of people download music, enjoy it and never pay a dime for it. Even used record stores are going out of business left and right.
It's sad. :cry:
Tell me about it. Favorite record store, Exile on Main Street, just went out of business. I was heartbroken, especially since I knew the guys who owned it.
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Interesting fact: broke college students bought more albums before the internet.
Interesting fact: tuition, and records used to be cheaper based on inflation before the internet
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Interesting fact: broke college students bought more albums before the internet.
Interesting fact: tuition, and records used to be cheaper based on inflation before the internet
Point.
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Interesting fact: easier to find rare, hard-to-find music on the internet. I found a recording of some Spike Jones in 5 minutes on the internet that has taken my dad like 15 years to find a hard copy of and still hasn't been successful.
I also get music on the internet because the only independent music shop I like (Amoeba Music in Berkeley) is like 9,000 miles away and I really don't feel like sending a mail-in order and having to wait not just for the normal 6-8 weeks, but also another 2-3 weeks for the damn diplomatic pouch to come in. I always make a point of buying things from them if I'm in town, though. True story: overdrafted on my bank account doing that once. That was fun.
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this thread helped me a lot, got some awesome cd-ideas in here :-D.. And i'm pretty sure i've never even seen any of these bands in any cd-shop in my god be damned country.. Cept maybe in the capital in some tiny shop that smells odd and has no windows.. This saddens me, cause i love buying cd's
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True story: overdrafted on my bank account doing that once. That was fun.
I have slightly more self-control than you. I just charmed people into buying me records. :-D
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Interesting fact: tuition, and records used to be cheaper based on inflation before the internet
Actually CDs used to be MORE expensive than they are now when I went to college.
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There's a huge gap at the major stores when smaller artists have really expensive CDs where pop groups have cheap CDs that are almost always on sale.
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I don't know what major stores you go to, but at, say, Best Buy, pretty much anything on Matador is around $10, and most other indie stuff they carry is also cheap. I think everything I've bought there that's on Arts and Crafts has been around $11? And the Conor Oberst solo album on Merge was maybe $12, max? And none of those are sale prices.
However, the point is you should order CDs directly from the label, because that's cheap and gets the label the most money.
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wow thnks a ton music suggesting people!
i hardly even know what indie is :oops:. i need some sugestions for bands for geting into good music, i only and i mean only listen to the beatles so sudgestions would be nice...
Surely there must be other music you enjoy? Also, which Beatles albums and songs do you enjoy? Their material varied quite a bit.
But, building off what little you've given us:
Olivia Tremor Control
Beulah
Sloan
Caribou
The New Pornographers
All Girls Summer Fun Band
Belle & Sebastian
well i listen to japanese music some but mostly just for the extra language exposure
my mum also gave me a devil doll album, quean of pain, some of the songs remind me of my life so i like them even if some of them them are in a sickeningly Sven-Bianchi-country-music way :-P but the rest are fine i guess...
Um, I like the Sgt. peppers album, i have that ant the #1, help, abby road, lennon legend, & ringo star's time takes time. my fav song probably across the universe. also like: yesterday, cant buy me love, lucy /i/t sky /w diamonds, black bird, a day in the life, i've just seen a face, fixing a hole, we can work it out, within you without you, she's leaving home :cry:, from me to you, the fool on the hill, ticket to ride, good morning good morning, Help!, you say goodbye, Norwegian wood, paperback writer, strawberry fields forever, with a little help from my friends, the night before, when I'm sixty-four and Maxwell's silver hammer :laugh:.
:| oops went a bit overboard, sorry :-P
also, even of the beatles I havent listened to that many of their songs... :|
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also, even of the beatles I havent listened to that many of their songs... :|
I know what you mean. I, too, was raised on a steady diet of the Beatles as I grew up. I recently made a playlist of my -favorite- Beatles music, and could not trim it down to less than 150+ songs. But the songs you listed. Top notch. "I've Just Seen a Face" and "She's Leaving Home" are some of my absolute favorite songs. Ever.
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you say goodbye
I'm not making fun of you but this is funny.
Also that is so many emoticons that i can't even use proper grammar. Don't do that.
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you say goodbye
I'm not making fun of you but this is funny.
Also that is so many emoticons that i can't even use proper grammar. Don't do that.
Holy fuck, did not even notice that. The song is called Hello Goodbye. You are sure you are a Beatles fan, Seasmoke? And seconded on the emoticon usage. Did not want to chew you out, since you are a newbie, but now that someone else has mentioned it... do not do that again.
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Any list of Best Beatles Songs that doesn't include "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" is deeply flawed.
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The guy might type like a spastic chimp, but I don't recall him saying that his list was their best songs, just the ones he had.
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Interesting fact: broke college students bought more albums before the internet.
There is no getting around the fact that a lot of people download music, enjoy it and never pay a dime for it. Even used record stores are going out of business left and right.
It's sad. :cry:
Tell me about it. Favorite record store, Exile on Main Street, just went out of business. I was heartbroken, especially since I knew the guys who owned it.
It is sad.
I buy.
Someone mentioned Lungfish earlier, I second that. Also there are the old 97's and Son Volt. Check em out.
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What comes to mind is Broken Social Scene, Bloc Party, The Shins, Dinosaur Jr.
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if you like the beatles you will love olivia tremor control
it's a scientific fact
Actually, some Beatles fans will start attacking me when I tell them that there's a band called Olivia Tremor Control out there that totally does the Beatles justice.