Thank you people who recommended Heretic Pride. That was a good album.
Also I have been desperately trying to remember a single lyric from a song that was popular four years ago and I know the loose tune to, but can't remember anything else about.
It doesn't get played much and it's by Coldplay I think? I don't even know if I like it, I just need to know what it's called.
Does anyone know of music like "Pleather for Breakfas0"t? I'm not really sure what I'm looking for, considering I like the vocals, style... pretty much everything. Likewise for "Philistine", actually.
i still don't know how to really articulate how I feel about Run The Jewels 2 and Bestiary
like, the former, I don't think it's worse on a technical level than the first RTJ album, and I honestly think part of the reason I didn't like it was just that I don't really wanna hear people my dad's age rhyme about fucking people in the face while also making really, really juvenile raps about running backwards through fields of dicks and killing cunts in coliseums. It just seems out of character, but if I look back through the respective discographies of all involved I can demonstrably prove that it's not. maybe I've just lost my sense of humor.
and the latter, given how I've felt lately, I feel like I should be able to get some kind of catharsis out of what is honestly a very bitter album (I think it's bitter anyway), but it just seems like an album by a pair of embittered rap veterans for other embittered rap veterans. I feel like the record was made for the exclusive listening of people like Blueprint, Copywrite, R.A. The Rugged Man, etc., rather than me, a relatively average joe/jane.
I'm starting to wonder if I need to look to other genres of music, the only "rap" album that's really impressed me this year is You're Dead!. I downloaded Objekt's Flatland today, maybe I'll listen to that tomorrow and it'll wow me.
I completely understand. And I do think that broadening your horizons and looking outside of hip-hop would be good for your musical vocabulary and probably your outlook in general. It's a big world.
But on the other hand, I think that you might feel less put off by RTJ 2 if you come back to it after letting it sit for a while, when you're in a different mood and a different headspace. My mom talks about how not being in the right mood for a book can make her really dislike it when she first reads it, but coming back to it even a month later can be a completely different experience. And sometimes it isn't any different at all. But an album is generally less of a time investment than a book, so who knows.
Everything I've heard off of You're Dead! sounds amazing, though.
the solo album by mike weis (zelienople drummer) is surprisingly sick. incredibly dense drones with some terrifying dark driving demdike beats going on
actually it shouldnt be a surprise anything to do with zelienople is brilliant
Techno doesn't really sound like that. The instrumentation is too bright and dense and the beat is more oriented around that initial mid-range synth pulse than the bass/hi-hat pattern that comes in later where in techno the percussive aspect to the beat is more upfront than the melody.
Also, no embeds from YouTube. Slows down the page.
If you want a primer on good techno, Objekt is a reliably talented producer who just released a new album, Flatland, earlier this autumn. I would check it out.
There's generic EDM like David Guetta or whatever that has features of all of the above (but mostly trance) which probably best sums up what most people think "electronica" is more than wobblestep (the original term for the subgenre of dubstep that evolved into brostep; the name is pretty self-explanatory).
Planetary Assault Systems' The Electric Funk Machine or Temporary Suspension, Surgeon's Basictonalvocabulary, the Drexciya compilation albums (they fall somewhere in between techno and electro depending on the track in question but w/e), Shed's The Traveler, prolly something by Robert Hood too idk
speaking of electronic music Arca's Xen sounds really just sorta average and watching the p4k crowd flip out over it is both entertaining and frustrating
in 2004 pixies recorded their first new song in 10+ years after breaking up and it was not only recorded specifically for the shrek 2 soundtrack but it was also subsequently deemed not good enough for the soundtrack and replaced with accidentally in love by counting crows
in 2004 pixies recorded their first new song in 10+ years after breaking up and it was not only recorded specifically for the shrek 2 soundtrack but it was also subsequently deemed not good enough for the soundtrack and replaced with accidentally in love by counting crows
I still quite like The Pixies' classic material, but their recent output has indeed been quite inadequate for the most part.
Can someone suggest me some minor-key big band jazz that's energetic, boisterous, maybe even a little mischievous? Basically, like a "dark" version of Glenn Miller's "In the Mood".
Look for big band versions of Gershwin's "Summertime". It's a classic standard that is very un-major. Also: It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing...
Beyond that, my suggestions are going to get progressively less conventional and melodic.
in 2004 pixies recorded their first new song in 10+ years after breaking up and it was not only recorded specifically for the shrek 2 soundtrack but it was also subsequently deemed not good enough for the soundtrack and replaced with accidentally in love by counting crows
I still quite like The Pixies' classic material, but their recent output has indeed been quite inadequate for the most part.
Yeah, definitely. Their early work is pretty much uniformly brilliant, and their later pre-hiatus work is at least consistently interesting and inventive, but it seems like all of their verve and spunk got funnelled off into Kim Deal's other work when the band first broke up and they've been coasting on reputation ever since.
And this is why I just listen to the music, and don't bother with the visuals. The visuals are, more often than not, distractions. This is a particularly extreme case, but it rarely gets much better. The generic ones are boring, but the distinctive ones are almost always not what I had in mind.
Mariachi El Bronx is an idea that by all rights should have been a gimmick, and they somehow made it work. This month, they put out a third album, on which they added another gimmick on top of that, and somehow the result is sublime instead of a stupid mess.
I'm inordinately amused that they got D.J. Bonebreak from X to play marimbas on one song.
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thanks for reminding me
and thanks for the insight
Altima - "Burst the Gravity"
And this is why I just listen to the music, and don't bother with the visuals. The visuals are, more often than not, distractions. This is a particularly extreme case, but it rarely gets much better. The generic ones are boring, but the distinctive ones are almost always not what I had in mind.