rolling enlightening music discussion thread

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It's hard to write anything too soon about them because it takes so many listens for the layers, details and surprises to reveal themselves. My third listen on headphones on a train ride is what put it over the top for me. After finishing it I was wobbly with vertigo. It felt like the songs corresponded with the neighborhoods that whizzed by, each packed with years of memories and emotions. It's like traveling in an unfamiliar country with a lover, having an intense conversation, getting drunk, arguing, and ending the night at 3 a.m. exhausted from intense make-up sex.

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― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, September 11, 2008 9:39 AM Bookmark

Please tell me that's about Alphabeat.

even worse, TV On The Radio

But am I the only person who thinks it's amazing that Norman Cook was in The Housemartins (and Beats International; and The Mighty Dub Katz; and...) before he was Fatboy Slim? Even when "The Rockafeller Skank" hit, no one seemed to think it was a big deal.

-- Kevin John Bozelka, Monday, March 31, 2008 9:38 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

― banriquit, Monday, 31 March 2008 21:47 (5 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

right about now, funk bozelka brutha

― bug, Monday, 31 March 2008 23:45 (5 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Classic material

That Chris Gow revival is the worst shit on ilm for a long time.If you're gonna have gay circle jerk in-gags, at least include hte phrase "SNAKES ON A PLANE!" on them

― Dom Passantino, Friday, February 15, 2008 12:05 AM (7 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah, man! as opposed to the usual self-congratulatory, 'look, ma, i'm cooler than these nerds! no really!!', horseshit being heaped on as it it were going outta style here, right?

weren't you kids breastfed? or are y'all just despereate for any kind of attention you can get? sheesh...pathetic.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/noodle_vague/detector-1.jpg

oh, lordy! the truth--it hurts!!!

it hurts in the butt

oh, the pain. oh, the agony.

anusol ftw

Britney Spears - Circus

Bring back the paedos and Britishes talking about pop, they were a lot more bearable than this.

be careful of what you ask for, dude, you just might get it.

I apologize for the brief answer before, but you have to consider Pop music in 2008 is too far away from what pop music was in the 60's. I just don't see Harpsichordes working on pop nowadays, perhaps in some sort of ironic hip-hop summer hit but I really don't see it working as a common tool in the studio.

Horns on the other side...

― Moka, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 14:32 (16 minutes ago) Bookmark

^^maybe English isn't this dude's first language though?

you have to consider

He did zing me the other day ;_;

Wait I just realized you asked without vocals in which case neither does curses! or knightlife work, wicked tunes either way. The rest do have vocals though.

Mainly check out Delorean, think they might be up your alley.

― Moka, Monday, 22 September 2008 15:18 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
*with vocals :P

― Moka, Monday, 22 September 2008 15:18 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
This forum really needs some sort edit function.

― Moka, Monday, 22 September 2008 15:19 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
It does have suggest ban function though.

― sharmuta (wilter), Monday, 22 September 2008 15:20 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
as well a bunch of douchebags lurking around.

― Moka, Monday, 22 September 2008 15:46 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

big winner here
MGMT "oracular spectacular"

It's nice that even now unheard songs by the VU can be found...

― Mark G, Thursday, October 2, 2008 2:07 AM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol deej otm

But whatever the soundtrack, both songs possess a sexual subterfuge exemplified by a line in the 1996 movie Independence Day: “This could be our last night on Earth. You don’t want to die a virgin, do you?”

Do you know I heard a rap song that sampled the first guitar part of "This Charming Man" on this airplane I was on today...it was in someone's headphones. It tortured me to hear the first part of Marr's guitar line over and over and over against my will and without being able to hear the SECOND part and then some asshole rapped over it. Disgusting. What a way to sample a song and ruin the whole fucking thing.

― The More You Live The Faster You Will Die (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Saturday, 4 October 2008 16:12 (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

any post on the vu/stooges poll thread

except mine ;)

There is a sheer "WTF is happening" joy about listening to extreme metal bands that I really don't find anywhere else. I speak as someone who likes the Decembrists as wel as Paysage D'Hiver.

― Soukesian, Friday, October 17, 2008 6:51 PM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark

i'd say listen to all of them first, then decide which you like best and purchase

― Kevin Keller, Sunday, 9 November 2008 16:25 (Yesterday) Bookmark

haha ^_^

haha that is truly enlightening

Pointless thread. I loathe this collectivistic, slightly fascist "we" attempts on ILM.

― Vision, Saturday, November 22, 2008 6:49 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

nothing more enlightening than describing a music message board on the internet as "slightly fascist"

actually in my personal experience the younger folks I know are by and large not that into new music (which I find rather perplexing). A general survey of anecdotal evidence:
- a woman in her early 20s who, when we sat down to play some songs together, all she knew/wanted to play was Ani DiFranco and Bonnie Raitt. (Annie DiFranco was old and lame 15 years ago when *I* was in college!)
- another woman in her early 20s who's predominatly interested in old-timey bluegrass stuff, the Carter Family, etc.
- my 18 yo cousin who told me all new music sucks (particularly the Dave Matthews Band, which is what all his fellow college students are into) and spent most of his time while we were visiting ripping old funk/soul and 70s rock stuff off of my hard drive

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, November 27, 2008 11:09 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

hm thats weird, i met three people in their twenties recently who only listen to top 40 radio... maybe its a regional thing?

― ♪☺♫☻ (gr8080), Thursday, November 27, 2008 11:17 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I dunno, the first is from Humboldt via Texas, the second is from Michigan and went to school at Smith, and the third is from Chicago.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, November 27, 2008 11:34 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Post your Audiosrobbler userlink so we can always watch what you're listening to

^^^jesus fucking christ the last 100 posts on this thread are just some of the worst in ilx history

the all-uk aspie ilm allstars wiping sitting alone in the dark and judging people

^^ posts without very much self-awareness

hahaha this is great:

My radio is amazing but probably noone else would agree with me.

― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, November 28, 2008 6:29 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

never fear, dom, i'm certain that the other kids won't laugh at you too hard (just so long as you remember to play 'nice').

^^ posts without very much self-awareness

― :) Mrs Edward Cullen XD (max), Friday, 28 November 2008 16:29 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

My room is very well luminated.

heat v. light

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dom man in him room

Thanks for posting these everyone. The next ones to usually come are:

Clash Magazine
Drowned In Sound
Muzzle Of Bees
Gorilla Vs. Bear
Fact Magazine
NME

― Fastnbulbous, Sunday, November 30, 2008 3:49 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

saddest post in ilm history

wow

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god, ew

the planets align:

just snuck into my personal top ten

― k3vin k., Wednesday, December 3, 2008 7:35 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

just snuck into my personal top ten

Ditto.

― ilxor, Thursday, December 4, 2008 1:33 AM (30 seconds ago) Bookmark

lol

szyzgy of enlightening musical discussion

good x-files ep

I was reminded of how much I love her songwriting recently when I discovered that Fearless, Love Story and Change (that Olympic Song) have all been released so far off the new album. Fearless is by far my favourite, esp. in because of its lyrical specificity, which is always one of the strongest things about Taylor's work. (hands through your hair, absent-mindedly making me want you, dancing in the parking lot, in a storm in her best dress, fearless) Love Story throws in some fairy-tale Romeo/Juliet stuff but is also quite good.

I'm worried that she might fall into the trap of hewing too closely to a formula that admittedly works really FUCKING well. I don't see her fucking it up, though. In my Taylor binge this week, I downloaded the two post-album EPs which are uneven, but Christmases When You Were Mine and I Heart ? are both delightful and point in interesting directions for her (achingly gorgeous christmas songs and bluesy organ-drenched mandolin pop?).

No matter how the rest of the album is, Fearless's breezy anthemic whatever will be gracing my headphones on repeat for a while.

― the other Alex in MTL, in fact (Alex in Montreal), Sunday, October 19, 2008 2:55 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

What's it like!

― Tá a fhios agam, nach bhfuil? (I know, right?), Friday, December 5, 2008 2:02 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink