I challenge all of you to post one song which manages to push as many of your musical buttons as is possible, a song which could have been written by the world's best market-research team, with a target demographic of you. It doesn't have to be your favourite song (shouldn't be, one could argue) but it does have to come as close as any song can to summarising everything you love about music.
My profferance is Whateley by Thumpermonkey, who deserve some ILX exposure, especially for having composed something this preposterously widescreen and perfectly suited to my most egregious indulgences
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCT7kioyXSU
Looking forward to seeing what you come up with!
― once a week is ample, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 22:47 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHqUGfQpmcs
― Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 22:55 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFv53VolRj8
― sriracha bishop (get bent), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 23:19 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0fn-xyaGHE
It's this particular performance as much as the song(s); the aggression, the rhythmic drive, the wildness of the solos (especially the guitar and bass solos)...I have the CD of this performance and have listened to it too many times to count.
― 誤訳侮辱, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 23:25 (eleven years ago) link
Can - Mother Sky
― Trip Maker, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 23:34 (eleven years ago) link
Arthur Russell - In the Light of the Miracle (the long "World of..." version)
― fish frosch (seandalai), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 23:51 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PakAiTZWAs
― gesange der yuengling (crüt), Wednesday, 3 October 2012 00:04 (eleven years ago) link
actually more like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUzctEOvsh4
― gesange der yuengling (crüt), Wednesday, 3 October 2012 00:09 (eleven years ago) link
I love questions like this but it's hard...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPNt0x8FVHw
― jim, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 00:21 (eleven years ago) link
^ actually NSFW (sorry)
― jim, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 00:23 (eleven years ago) link
Hybrid's "If I Survive" was a surgical strike on my demo in 2000: trance & breaks dilettante that treasured Julie Cruise/Twin Peaks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w6nMEjCUrE
― ‽ Interrobang You're Dead ‽ (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 3 October 2012 02:16 (eleven years ago) link
i'm a bit burned out on it these days but it's hard for me to argue that this doesn't contain pretty much everything that makes a song rule for me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtSgGBPrIuM
― linalooool (electricsound), Wednesday, 3 October 2012 02:21 (eleven years ago) link
ha crooot
― Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Wednesday, 3 October 2012 02:52 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHFbzaf8FX8
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 3 October 2012 03:37 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VttRxzhAXLg
― bell biv devo (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 3 October 2012 03:42 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMqpxHY2nFs
― bell biv devo (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 3 October 2012 03:43 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipknPnm1x4A
― flopson, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 03:50 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym8oRvFk37Q
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 3 October 2012 04:06 (eleven years ago) link
Not my favorite song or even my favorite artist, but everything I love: Poppy, hooky arrangement, female vocals, decent bass playing, smart (or "smart" depending on yr POV) lyrics, a melancholy at odds with the arrangement, chimey guitars . . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ItXkcLvFn8
― a shark with a rippling six pack (Phil D.), Wednesday, 3 October 2012 12:36 (eleven years ago) link
― a shark with a rippling six pack (Phil D.), Wednesday, 3 October 2012 12:37 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ7CU9QIHAA
― vegetarian beef (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 3 October 2012 14:27 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NiESshnj6A
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 14:38 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeSoJn3NI1s
― *triumphant sauce horns* (crüt), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 20:38 (eleven years ago) link