Topic: Drowning out the heatwave (Read 8526 times)

Dimmukane · « **on:** 07 Jul 2010, 16:19 »

So for those of you not in the Northeastern US, it's REALLY HOT. Code Red air alerts and days of 105+ weather for the last week and a half. What I'm looking for is music that feels appropriate to this suffocating blanket of heat. I'm thinking along the lines of some decent garage desert/krautrock, slow jazz-type music, caustic two-piece bands, anything that evokes a shimmering oasis in the light of a blood-red sunset or the fever dreams of a Southern man indulging in too much achewater.

Ideas to start:
Brightblack Morning Light
Titan
Tweak Bird
Akhmed
Mammatus
Harvestman

Any other good stoner/shoegaze is also fair game.

Lummer · « **Reply #1 on:** 07 Jul 2010, 16:30 »

KVELERTAK

....and Torche.

Scandanavian War Machine · « **Reply #2 on:** 07 Jul 2010, 16:32 »

I was gonna say Tweak Bird, but you're obviously already on it like bonnets, so I'm gonna go with something completely different instead and recommend Shapes Like Dinosaurs, a fucking kickass math-rock band that has been blowing my mind one piece at a time for a while now.

check out the song "Grandaddy" if you can because it is The Shit.

sean · « **Reply #3 on:** 07 Jul 2010, 20:26 »

ive always found daturah is a pretty good hot day band and that kind of falls in what yr looking for.

Thrillho · « **Reply #4 on:** 08 Jul 2010, 09:24 »

Isn't there a Motown single called 'Heatwave'?

Christophe · « **Reply #5 on:** 08 Jul 2010, 10:01 »

...which was also covered by The Who.

onewheelwizzard · « **Reply #6 on:** 08 Jul 2010, 10:05 »

"Summer Sessions Vols. 1, 2, and 3" by Causa Sui.

Case closed, basically.

I'm mean, you COULD find more music that was good, but you don't really NEED to.

BlahBlah · « **Reply #7 on:** 08 Jul 2010, 12:32 »

uh, guys

creedence clearwater revival

Scandanavian War Machine · « **Reply #8 on:** 08 Jul 2010, 14:29 »

if you interpret the lyrics right, Bad Moon Rising is about the zombie apocalypse

therefore I approve wholeheartedly

rynne · « **Reply #9 on:** 08 Jul 2010, 15:45 »

Dub reggae, for my money, it the only appropriate music for oppressively hot, sticky summer days.

Inlander · « **Reply #10 on:** 08 Jul 2010, 17:28 »

Quote from: DynamiteKid on 08 Jul 2010, 09:24

Isn't there a Motown single called 'Heatwave'?

Not just a single, one of Motown's most famous songs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQ-aDCZ5kxg

Catacombs · « **Reply #11 on:** 08 Jul 2010, 20:48 »

I third CCR. Also, maybe Queens of the Stone Age, and I always thought the Black Keys would sound good in hot weather (incidentally I live in Jersey and have been suffering the heat too, but haven't been listening to the Keys, although I started Attack & Release about 25 minutes ago).

JD · « **Reply #12 on:** 08 Jul 2010, 20:59 »

Smith Westerns is pretty great

scarred · « **Reply #13 on:** 08 Jul 2010, 21:06 »

I've been listening to a lot of still unfortunately-genre'd chillwave artists like Memoryhouse, Jamie Long, Bathcrones, and CFCF.

JD · « **Reply #14 on:** 08 Jul 2010, 21:09 »

Drowning out a heatwave with chillwave? You're a silly man.

scarred · « **Reply #15 on:** 08 Jul 2010, 21:10 »

Did not even realize that. hurrrr

David_Dovey · « **Reply #16 on:** 09 Jul 2010, 00:28 »

Sludge metal ya dumb jerks

scarred · « **Reply #17 on:** 09 Jul 2010, 00:30 »

all i got from that was "listen to chillwave at half tempo with yr subwoofer turned up to 11"

David_Dovey · « **Reply #18 on:** 09 Jul 2010, 00:31 »

Well then you weren't paying attention and also you're probably a bit "special"

scarred · « **Reply #19 on:** 09 Jul 2010, 00:43 »

that's what the doctors say

Spluff · « **Reply #20 on:** 09 Jul 2010, 00:49 »

Those kind of temperatures require bass-laden, fuzzed out, balls to the wall stoner rock.

aka listen to Slo Burn you fucks

JD · « **Reply #21 on:** 09 Jul 2010, 00:50 »

I hear you dovey. or read you, whatever

Thrillho · « **Reply #22 on:** 09 Jul 2010, 03:05 »

Quote from: Inlander on 08 Jul 2010, 17:28

Quote from: DynamiteKid on 08 Jul 2010, 09:24
Isn't there a Motown single called 'Heatwave'?

Not just a single, one of Motown's most famous songs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQ-aDCZ5kxg

Certainly worth listening to, then.

De_El · « **Reply #23 on:** 09 Jul 2010, 08:33 »

Definitely danced to 'Heatwave' at my friend's bday party last night.

i've been really into this guy Bryan Moon. His stuff is suuuuper laid back, just chill hip hop grooves built from samples. He's still developing as an artist, but he's got great shit to build on.

Besides that, I've been all over Boards of Canada and some tropicalia, like Os Mutantes and Gilberto Gil.

Johnny C · « **Reply #24 on:** 09 Jul 2010, 12:22 »

Quote from: Zombiedude on 08 Jul 2010, 21:09

Drowning out a heatwave with chillwave? You're a silly man.

how did it take so long to make this joke

eddie · « **Reply #25 on:** 09 Jul 2010, 12:25 »

Eskimo by The Residents, the only sure anecedote to the heatwave.

JD · « **Reply #26 on:** 09 Jul 2010, 14:38 »

Quote from: Johnny C on 09 Jul 2010, 12:22

Quote from: Zombiedude on 08 Jul 2010, 21:09
Drowning out a heatwave with chillwave? You're a silly man.

how did it take so long to make this joke

mere moments

pwhodges · « **Reply #27 on:** 09 Jul 2010, 14:53 »

You may find some ideas in this old thread. The first track of my offering (Summertime by Gershwin) is pure heatwave music, I'd say.

Scandanavian War Machine · « **Reply #28 on:** 09 Jul 2010, 15:25 »

can't believe I didn't think of this until now, but: All Girl Summer Fun Band!

it's perfect summer music! I mean, it has "summer" in the name, come on!

spoon_of_grimbo · « **Reply #29 on:** 09 Jul 2010, 15:31 »

i'd go with Torche, Fu Manchu and Kyuss. all three (but particularly Torche) have those melodic guitar parts that, for me at least, evoke images of heat haze above an asphalt road.

also, i'm not sure how many on here would agree, but i've always found that Less Than Jake's "Hello Rockville" to be perfect summer/hot weather music, and likewise Alkaline Trio's "Good Morning" (in spite of the snow/cold references in the lyrics).

Johnny C · « **Reply #30 on:** 10 Jul 2010, 10:36 »

Quote from: Zombiedude on 09 Jul 2010, 14:38

Quote from: Johnny C on 09 Jul 2010, 12:22
Quote from: Zombiedude on 08 Jul 2010, 21:09
Drowning out a heatwave with chillwave? You're a silly man.

how did it take so long to make this joke

mere moments

relative to the length of the thread i mean

JD · « **Reply #31 on:** 10 Jul 2010, 10:49 »

ah

I misread what you said

David_Dovey · « **Reply #32 on:** 12 Jul 2010, 06:14 »

Quote from: Sam on 09 Jul 2010, 06:45

oh, and DJ Screw when it's muggy as hell always

Lock and Sticky, thread over.

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