Everything he did up to and including Imperial Bedroom (my favorite) is totally essential imo. Again imho, his first 5 years as a major recording artist rivals any 5 year period by any other artist/band in history including, you know, Dylan and the Beatles and stuff.

A big part of the reason I haven't yet submitted my Essential 80s List for Persons Who Believe They Are Hip is because I can't decide which Costello tune to include.

Talking Heads recommendations?

I've been mostly ignoring the exploration of '00s indie rock and the like, so while waiting for some '80s advise, I'm playing The Walkman. I only heard of them last night (Pitchfork lists) (though they seem to've been pretty popular), but I get the impression they're considered overrated by a lot of hipsters. I'm a few tracks into Bows + Arrows, and find it pretty cool.

Another band I'm preparing to spin: The Books.

Thoughts on either?

Thanks, I'll check them all out (thank God I don't mind steeling, because -- having just done the math -- I have about $16,000-worth of music in iTunes. Can that be right?).

Edit: Man, I'm really flooding this thread, lately. Sorry.

Remain in the light, and 1977

as a movie fan also, i tell you to watch stop making sense ASAP.

I now have it downloading, friend.

but those cables are red, yellow, and white.



oh, and I figure this is the proper place to ask. I've been seeing posts for the past 2 years about this "animal collective" mumbo jumbo, and I've finally decided that I should probably check them out. however, after searching (and this thread only mind you), I've found approximately 437 posts mentioning what I'm assuming is every single song they've ever written. so where would be a good place to start to see if I'd like them or not? just like maybe 5 songs.

is there some sort of bear with a keen logistical sense on this board that may know the answer to this? I sure hope so.

By anything but a consensus, their most approachable songs are the first two songs off Feels, "Did You See the Words," and "Grass." Feels is easily my favorite of their records, and though I'm not as gizzed up on it as Wang is, it's a really cool album, at worst.

Edit: In case you saw it, I retracted my tantalizing offer, due to unforeseen technical problems. Here: http://btjunkie.org/torrent/Animal-Collect...ownload.torrent

Animal Collective is awesome, I would just download everything you see, but I can pick a couple songs for you I guess.

Leaf House, Winters Love, We Tigers, Peacebone,and Fireworks are probably my 5 favorite songs if I had to choose.

Also check out some of the solo stuff especially Panda Bear if you like what you hear.

ah sweet. thanks guys. I'll get them when I get home this afternoon. got a road trip tomorrow evening and I need some new music to listen to. this should help.

I am skilled in the art of war and military tactics and music reccomendation.

Animal Collective are an odd band, as they generally take a few listens to decide whether or not you hate them. If I were going to put together a handful of songs, it'd probably look something like:

"Did You See the Words" - Feels

"For Reverend Green" - Strawberry Jam

"Peacebone" - Strawberry Jam

"Winter's Love" - Sung Tongs

"Who Could Win a Rabbit" - Sung Tongs

"Leaf House" - Sung Tongs


That's six songs, and it's as sparse a list as you're going to get. "Did You See the Words" feels to me like their most accessible song. I have a feeling if you listen to some of their stuff a few times, Shake, you'll come to like them. They're weird, and you are also weird.


Wang

Behind the Wheel - Depeche Mode

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000X65W4...E8AHKJZS3E8KWPY
Amazing. I've watched the whole thing once, but I'll be starting it again.

It ain't hard to tell. I excel, then prevail. The mic is contacted; I attract clientele. My mic-check is life or death, breathing a sniper's breath, I exhale the yellow smoke of buddha through righteous steps. Deep like The Shining, sparkle like a diamond. Sneak a Uzi on the island in my army jacket lining. Hit the Earth like a comet -- invasion. Nas is like the Afrocentric Asian; half-man, half-amazing. 'Cause in my physical, I can express through song; delete stress like Motrin, then extend strong. I drank Moet with Medusa, give her shotguns in hell, from the -- spliff that I lift and inhale: it ain't hard to tell.

ok, maybe I'm just stupid, but I've downloaded that utorrent thing, then I went to this site, clicked on the thing, clicked ok or whatever I believe, and now its just sitting there at 0.0% and not moving. I've never done these before, am I doing something wrong?

i think wang is right.

the yellow, red and white cables you're referring to carry a composite video signal (yellow) and stereo audio (red and white). a component video signal divides some of the color information into separate paths so as to minimize interference. RGB analog component video is probably what Thom is referencing.

/nerdery

ugh i have lost all music downloading sources.

i refuse to get into torrents.

i will have to do the unthinkable...

pay for music

You probably don't have the proper ports configured. I don't know enough about it to trouble shoot it over the internet. Do you have AIM? I can try transferring it that way.

As a student, how? Like I said, I have $15,000-worth, all stolen. I would need to spend at least $50-80 a week, which I could afford, because I'm bizarrely financially secure, somehow, but most hip people couldn't, I would guess. I don't know how 99% of music fans put together the scratch for any kind of respectable collection, especially not knowing what they're paying for. That 15K doesn't include the shit albums I've chucked or archived.

I'm loving Burial so much right now.

In my experience, DangerMouse seems to be batting 1000. I don't think I've heard a record he's produced that didn't trash my vag.

Shake, roadtrip assistance is on the way. I'm hosting Feels for you, as well as poorly sequenced mixtape. They going slow as ****, though. It may be hours. (Actually, that probably means nothing to you, since you seem to be on a normal schedule, and thus are sleeping while I play CoD 4 and worry about mixtape upload speeds, and I'll probably have posted them and will be sleeping by the time you're awake.)

Feels:

http://www.mediafire.com/?cngmi4v9wdx

Mixtape:

http://rapidshare.com/files/71208611/An_Ed...Export.rar.html

I think it was just my internet being a retard. Right before I went to bed (like an hour after it started) I saw that it was starting to download. When I woke up just now it had finished. I have a cable connection and it gets slower than dial up between 6 and 10 pm. Thanks for your help too. I always get confused and angry when something doesn't work 100% correct the very first time I use it. I am an impatient whore.


ah, and another little gem for the roadtrip

No problamo.

Edit: Also, lemme know what you think of the "tape."

Several people: suggest awesome albums that've gone under the Pitchfork-type critical radar.

All I know is that in a couple weeks, I will probably have new radiohead tracks.

Right now listening to The Departed Tango by Howard Shore Marc Ribot Larry Saltzman (from movie the Departed. duh.)

Is The Big Doe Rehab ever going to leak? Shit.

I've been listening to a little of that new Burial album, just little snatches of it here and there when it shows up on my iPod shuffle.

The song "Archangel" has been repeated at least once everytime it's shown up so far.

Hey, Wang (or anyone else, but I say you specifically because I know you're getting into Def Jux and you're also logged on):

I uploaded this for runthemover, but if you haven't heard it, it's one of my favorite hip-hop albums, and contains some of the coolest DJing I've ever heard: RJD2's Deadringer.

Cool. I'm shipping it to my desktop now.

I tried downloading the mixtape yesterday morning, but didn't save it and freaking winzip screwed it up and I lost it. since you have to wait like 120 minutes to try it again, I haven't had a chance to download it until now. I'll tell you when I get a listen.


as far as Animal Collective, I listened to Feels on the way down here. I'm sure this comparison has been made before, but they remind me a lot of Modest Mouse. Just with a lot more acid. I liked it, especially the first song (can't remember what its called), but found that I kept waiting for the rest of the cd to "get going", if that makes any sense. I'm gonna check out the other ones icebearwang and others have recommended. I can see myself getting into them.


also, I haven't checked back in the thread, did yorke ever upload that 80's mix he listed the songs for? that looked good.

edit: GOD DAMN IT. I forgot to bring a blank cd to burn it on. wait a second, maybe I have one in my computer case. hold on!


hoozah! extra blank cds! much better.

woo 200th page

Revisiting Led Zeppelin.

Sound of silver talk to me. Makes you want to feel like a teenager. Until you remember the feelings of: a real-life emotion of teenager. Then you think again...

just started listening to the mixtape dutch, and I really like it so far. "when I say nigger, you say nothing" haha, that is awesome. I've gotten to about the 4th song so far.


also, as of late I've been listening to dark side of the moon rather often. I really think this is one of, if not the most awesome full album ever made.

Yeah, as overhyped as that record was, it kinda' dropped without much attention to how cool it actually was. It was knocked for sounding a lot like NIN, of which I'm not traditionally a fan, and I don't think the comparison is off, but I think the sound works. He doesn't have the vocabulary of my boyfriend Busdriver or the like, but in some ways he's smarter; that "Niggy/Nothing" exchange being a good example of his sweetness. The whole record is actually legally free to download: http://music.download.com/saulwilliams/360...-101085574.html

I just watched The Devil and Daniel Johnston. Incredible. Watch it.

Is anyone a fan of his music? Anyone know where I should start?

Ok, I guess I'm now a dutch mixtape fanboy. dig it dutch. and in that vain, and I'm fully prepared to be called a flaming faggot here, but I especially enjoyed the ryan adams song on it. anybody have any recommendations for good stuff from him? I very much hate just getting the most popular hits off of limewire since they're usually pretty much the worst ones. people are such faggots.

Really? Man, I must've gotten hip without realizing it.

There's really not that much Ryan Adams out their that I like. His first solo record, Heartbreaker, is probably his best, but weirdly my favorite album is what I used to think was some kind of EP, but turned out to be a 5-track bonus disc from Gold. Gold is alright, but the bonus tracks alone back it a worth-while download/purchase.

I'm glad you liked it; I figured the most indie thing I could do was stick a country song or two on there.

thats country? come on man, you're from georgia. you know that ain't country. but yeah, the next step in your indieness should be a wu-tang song followed up with some seldom scene. its the next natural step.

Well, yeah, I was stretching it for effect, but I'll worn you: his better stuff is more-or-less country, generally. Maybe not. I don't know.

Definitely hooked on Our Endless Numbered Days by Iron & Wine right now. Such a quiet yet powerful album.

RJD2 is great, good live show too. But for me, I'm still a bigger DJ Shadow fan....

Not a huge fan of his music, but it's not bad. I would get the album that contains the early recordings (I think it's called Songs of Pain) and then try Fun.

Thanks (I'd already downloaded his discography, but he's recored an album a year since like '79, so I didn't know where to start, since a lot of it is really awful).



Any like the Decemberists? I've been ignoring them for some reason, even though they seem to have a strong presence on most music sites and forums. downloaded most or all of their stuff, but again, don't really know where to dive in.

My Decemberists boner has been flexed many times in this thread. I'd start with Picaresque, then go to Her Majesty, The Decemberists, then Castaways and Cutouts, and then The Crain Wife, which is my least favorite of the full lengths, but I still dig it. My personal favorite is Her Majesty... but I'd still recommend starting with Picaresque. From there, you can hop on the EPs, starting with The Tain, then the 5 Songs EP. I've seen The Decemberists and Colin Meloy solo live a whole bunch of times, and it's always good. One of my favorite live bands.

You da man.

Well, Yorke, your mixtape has officially had a tangible impact on my life.

While listening to my iPod on shuffle, The Lung popped up, and I realized how much I loved Dinosaur Jr. So I listened to the song a few times, etc., etc. Then a girl from my Econ class walked into the computer lab, and for some reason I have a huge thing for this mousy chick. In order to buck myself up to start a conversation with her, I decided I would listen to The Lung three times, and then go speak with her.

Starting... now.


Wish me luck.