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[sombrasoubrette]

I have a pretty good variety of music going, but when I'm sitting at home on my computer and I pull up Winamp I usually listen to stuff that's pretty much "indie" standards, you know, the Decemberists, Spoon, Neutral Milk Hotel, Pavement, New Pornographers, sometimes Broken Social Scene and the Arcade Fire, once in a while Wilco, stuff like that. Anyway, my current repertoire for lazy nights, much as I love it, is starting to cry out for some new additions. Ideas?

[Jackie Blue]

I have an idea.  Sign up for last.fm and go nuts.

But, more specifically, the one album at the moment I would recommend as being completely utterly fucking awesome is Gowns' Red State.  It is stunning.

[Katherine]

I second the last.fm recommendation.  I love that site so much. SO MUCH.

[supersheep]

I recommend Boyzone.

[JimmyJazz]

Well, you like Pavement, and the were influenced a great deal by the Fall. Get THis Nastion's Saving Grace by them. Some Elephant 6 (the pool of musicians Neutral Milk Hotel is derived from) groups you should check out arethe Olivia Tremor Control, Apples In Stereo and Of Montreal. A lot of the Arcade Fire's vocals, to me, sound like Will Sheff from Okkervil River, whose Down the River of Golden Dreams is a fantastic album. Uncle Tupelo was Jeff Tweedy's band before WIlco, and Son Volt is another band that emerged after the break up of Uncle Tupelo. Check em both out.

[imapiratearg]

If you're going to get some Okkervil River, get Black Sheep Boy.  It is such a wonderful album.

I also recommend some Stars, since you seem to like that kind of stuff.  I also saw you liked Pavement so, assuming you don't already listen to them, I would recommend both old Built to Spill and Modest Mouse.  For the former, anything that isn't their new album, and the latter, anything that isn't their last two albums (although, I'm quite partial to Good News for People Who Love Bad News.).

[Tom]

though in reference to modest mouse's latest album, 1/4 of the album is relatively enjoyable and so is the song King Rat.
I shall recommend you some Cursive and the Good Life, Tim Kasher is a brilliant writer (music and lyrics) and musician. The music is either a little angry or angry (cursive). The later is more pop than the former.
I alos recommend Of Montreal's latest and anything with Spencer Krug in it aswell as the Tapes n' tapes.
Then there is Andrew Bird, he writes brilliant songs that hang somewhere near baroque pop and indie rock.

[IronOxide]

Is it cool to say Anal Cunt again?

I think it's cool to say Anal Cunt again.

[imapiratearg]

Cursive

YES.  The Ugly Organ is absolutely brilliant.  Their new album is pretty sick too.  I guess I can't say much about Modest Mouse's new album.  I've only heard "Dashboard."

[jeph]

DAFT FUCKING PUNK

[a pack of wolves]

Is it cool to say Anal Cunt again?

I think it's cool to say Anal Cunt again.

Can we use Arsedestroyer instead? That way if anyone doesn't realise it's a joke they'll hear a good band instead of a rubbish one.

I'm going to recommend the first few Idlewild albums. Hope Is Important, 1000 Brokwn Windows and the Captain mini-album are all excellent examples of that kind of indie rock mixed with punk people used to do a lot back in the '90s with some entertainingly precocious lyrics. Hope Is Important is a decent effort too and might be preferable if you want a greater degree of pop sheen and more strings in the background even if it does have some quite weak songs on it. Sadly, after that album they became a sub-par version of REM and have been utter rubbish for years now.

[TheFuriousWombat]

the one album at the moment I would recommend as being completely utterly fucking awesome is Gowns' Red State.  It is stunning.

Hey, a fellow fan! This album is absolutely incredible. They put on a killer live show too. Check 'em out for sure (although don't expect a very typical indie-rock album).
I would also recommend "No Flashlight" by Mount Eerie and "The Glow pt. 2" by The Microphones (essentially the same band (Phil Elvrum/Elverum fronts and is the only dominant member of both)).

[CamusCanDo]

I am going to recommend the following:

Pinback
The Weakerthans
The Unicorns
Wolf Parade
TV on the Radio
Tokyo Police Club
The Most Serene Republic
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
Silver Jews
The Pillows
Jets to Brazil

Plus what everyone else has said.

[Tom]

am I the only one who doesn't like TV on the Radio?

[Ernest]

Here's an idea: instead of making hackneyed, useless threads asking people to give you music, instead lurk on the forums and read what people talk about.  Look at the Sendspace thread.  That's what it's there for.  So you can get some music you should have.

[Liz]

This is true, Tommy, but you have to admit that people basically recommend all the same stuff for anyone that puts up a thread, unless they get really specific.

[Jackie Blue]

DAFT FUCKING PUNK

No, no, a thousand times no.

I seriously don't get this new "electro is the new indie" trend.  Where were you people when FSOL and Death In Vegas were releasing far superior albums in the 90s?  That's right, you were snobbishly ignoring "electronic" music in favor of angular guitar riffs.

Feh, I say.  Feh.

NB: This is a drunk post.

[CamusCanDo]

Where were you people when FSOL and Death In Vegas were releasing far superior albums in the 90s?

I was being seven years old and shit.

NB: This is a drunk post.

Noted.

[amok]

Get the National album I just put in the Sendspace thread.

Also: Painbastard, Ashbury Heights and Din [A] Tod.

[imapiratearg]

am I the only one who doesn't like TV on the Radio?

I don't.   

[Ernest]

then you're a fag

[Liz]

If you hate list threads, don't post in them. Wait for someone who has a boring office job doesn't mind answering silly questions.

Pssh, no, I love list threads. But if it's essentially the same one fifty times over, it starts to get a little old.

[Jackie Blue]

Where were you people when FSOL and Death In Vegas were releasing far superior albums in the 90s?

Fair enough, but I stand by the assertion that there are a lot of albums that do the same general thing as Daft Punk and Justice yet do it so much better that it's ridiculous so I get a bit irate when those two bands, in particular, are brought up.

[amok]

A more productive approach would be to provide the names of some of those albums. Unless what you were intimating by quoting yourself there was that FSOL are doing the same general thing as Daft Punk in which case I just don't know.

Regardless, and with due respect to the drunken nature of your first post, recommending electronic bands isn't the same as claiming they're the 'new' anything. Can't we all just get along and like electro and indie?

[Liz]

Well I certainly do, so I would say yes to your query.

[Jackie Blue]

Regardless, and with due respect to the drunken nature of your first post, recommending electronic bands isn't the same as claiming they're the 'new' anything. Can't we all just get along and like electro and indie?

Of course we can.  I certainly enjoy a lot of very different music.  I just think it's annoying that suddenly a lot of indie fans are like "WHOAH I JUST DISCOVERED ELECTRONIC MUSIC BECAUSE OF THIS AWESOME BAND JUSTICE" or whatever, as though all the great electronic stuff of the past decade+ didn't exist.

I mean, I'd go so far as to say Exit Planet Dust and Dig Your Own Hole are more fun than anything Daft Punk has ever done, current OR ancient.

[Tom]

Well I certainly do, so I would say yes to your query.

I second this. If your in Australia, or iTunes Store has been nice enough to stock their EP,  listen to Grafton Primary. Relativity is a fun song and we all love fun don't we?

[Edible]

If you like electronic music go for I am robot and proud they fucking WIN

[Spinless]

I apologise for this thread. It started off innocently enough, but a few people have been outrageous cocks. Congrats to Amok though, who is on top form as usual. Go team!

Somebody recommended Cursive! And then praised the Ugly Organ. As if recommending Cursive to somebody who ask for things like "New Pornographers, Broken Social Scene, Wilco" wasn't funny enough.
I'm undoing this recommendation. As much as I love Tim Kasher, Ugly Organ is 'fans only'. Meaning...if you're going to get into Cursive...
Don't get that one. It's the boring one. Start with Domestica. It's still their strongest album, still has all their best songs, even their most recent sets contain a lot of material from this album. After that, there is no 'essential' cursive, but the Burst and Bloom EP and the last album, Happy Hollow are great listening. The 8 Teeth to Eat You split with Eastern Youth was inspired. But, either get Domestica, or don't bother really.
The Good Life? One amazing album. One very good album. Two that were okay. You want Album of the Year. Horribly depressing album, love it. Acoustic ballads about this couple that won't get back together. Sounds awful on paper. Then there's 'Blackout', which is full of electronic sounds and bleeps and is about a guy who is generally unhappy and drinks a lot because he's really insecure.

Cursive is angry, I guess. But Cursive albums always have upbeat endings. The Good Life, may seem poppier at first, but they have less hooks than Cursive, way more layers to the music and are much, MUCH more downbeat. Each Good Life album has been pretty miserable the whole way through. Cursive are the angry band, sure. But the Good Life ain't exactly something you want to listen to when you're home alone sucking a glass if you know what I mean.


Sure, you could be recommending good music...but really it seems like an oppurtunity to just whore bands out without consideration for the original post. That is why I am going to recommend...
*glances at CD pile*
Uhm...
The Beta Band-Three EPs*

Totally sounds like what you asked for.


(No, really though folks. It's nice to share, but keep within the confines of the request. A lot of this thread is like if I asked for punk and you told me to get into Gravenhurst. Leave your weird fetishes at home, freaks)

[Tom]

I didn't mean to be a dick, it's just that that is kind where a started and have moved on from there.

[SeanBateman]

I have an idea.  Sign up for last.fm and go nuts.

But, more specifically, the one album at the moment I would recommend as being completely utterly fucking awesome is Gowns' Red State.  It is stunning.

meh.

[Johnny C]

Somebody recommended Cursive! And then praised the Ugly Organ. As if recommending Cursive to somebody who ask for things like "New Pornographers, Broken Social Scene, Wilco" wasn't funny enough.
I'm undoing this recommendation. As much as I love Tim Kasher, Ugly Organ is 'fans only'.

I so completely disagree with this. The Ugly Organ is the first Cursive record I heard and I was absolutely rapt throughout.

Domestica is pretty good and starts the song-cycle notion that carried through to The Ugly Organ but the latter record is vastly superior.

[amok]

Of course we can.  I certainly enjoy a lot of very different music.  I just think it's annoying that suddenly a lot of indie fans are like "WHOAH I JUST DISCOVERED ELECTRONIC MUSIC BECAUSE OF THIS AWESOME BAND JUSTICE" or whatever, as though all the great electronic stuff of the past decade+ didn't exist.

While I take your point, people gotta start somewhere. If someone who didn't listen to electro before broadens their horizons and ends up even checking out some stuff by the older bands you mentioned because of that awesome 'new' sound Justice have, then at the end of the day everyone wins.