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I'm looking for upbeat rock music (not metal, please don't recommend anything that anyone might classify as metal) with horns and other orchestral influences. Suggestions? Feel free to assume I've been living in a cave for the last several years and am not familiar with even mainstream obvious answers to this question.
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Miscellaneous_T posted:I've always considered Daft Punk's Around The World to be required viewing. It's a pretty danceable song, too.
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Dec 16, 2012 02:07
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toe knee hand posted:I'm looking for upbeat rock music (not metal, please don't recommend anything that anyone might classify as metal) with horns and other orchestral influences. Suggestions? This is one of the catchiest songs I know, but they're not necessarily an "upbeat" band. Sigur Ros and Belle and Sebastian are great and feature lots of horn, cello, violin, etc, but are not always upbeat, either. What about funk? Listen to some James Brown or JBs or something. funkybottoms fucked around with this message at 04:36 on Dec 16, 2012 |
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Dec 16, 2012 04:25
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toe knee hand posted:I'm looking for upbeat rock music (not metal, please don't recommend anything that anyone might classify as metal) with horns and other orchestral influences. Suggestions? Are you open to ska music at all? There are plenty of bands who are more pop and rock influenced than the typical "ska punk" people are used to hearing. "A Shaky Truce" by The Pomps
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Dec 16, 2012 06:47
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toe knee hand posted:I'm looking for upbeat rock music (not metal, please don't recommend anything that anyone might classify as metal) with horns and other orchestral influences. Suggestions? These guys might do it for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg4CPaKzSUU
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Dec 16, 2012 11:55
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Eight Is Legend posted:These guys might do it for you: Ooh, I like these guys a lot! This is pretty good too. Thanks.
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Dec 16, 2012 14:14
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If you're going to listen to Foxy Shazam and want to avoid metal, be cautious with what albums you listen to. I personally love Introducing Foxy Shazam and The Flamingo Trigger, but you would not. Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE-kAIjhNz0
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Dec 17, 2012 03:03
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This is more a conversation piece than a "who I need to hear", but bear with me. Can anyone name some other bands that have like, a period inwhich they are so amazingly prolific it's almost hard to keep up? I have 5, I'm curious who else applies. The Smiths - 4 albums in 4 years, enough singles and B-sides to fill another 2. Stereolab - a band with as many compilations of their B-sides and 7" as proper albums Blur - the new 21 box set is a testament to just how damned much music they recorded, every album has another disc full of B-sides and non-album singles Pavement - the 2 disc versions of all of their albums bear this out The Smashing Pumpkins - after Siamese Dream, an outtakes/b-sides collection, then a double album, from which each single had an EP worth of material I'm curious if there are other bands that did this. Bands where there are albums, but so, so, so much more. Nothing more than a curiosity here. e: prolific can simply mean lots of albums - all of my examples are b-sides, but if someone's just straight releasing a lot of albums, that counts. Hell, The Beatles. MC Fruit Stripe fucked around with this message at 03:58 on Dec 17, 2012 |
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Dec 17, 2012 03:42
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Pogobubba posted:If you're going to listen to Foxy Shazam and want to avoid metal, be cautious with what albums you listen to. I personally love Introducing Foxy Shazam and The Flamingo Trigger, but you would not. Example: I'm so glad I saw Foxy twice during the Flamingo Trigger era.
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Dec 17, 2012 04:09
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:This is more a conversation piece than a "who I need to hear", but bear with me. The Fall have released somewhere around 30 full lengths since 1979 plus about as many a-sides/b-sides, rarities comps, live albums, etc. Guided by Voices put out three albums this year alone and Bob Pollard has more than 1500 songs under his name in the BMI. Ty Segall released three albums this year plus played on a bunch more. Jay Reatard at his peak output (early 2000s) was in a billion bands and put out about as many records. Useless Eaters have done a lot recently but I haven't been keeping up. Prince has been putting out consistently good music since 1978 (the stretch of work from Dirty Mind through Sign O The Times is perfect imo.) E-40 has released 7 albums within the past two years and they were all mostly solid. Lil B puts out a new mixtape/album practically every month with varying degrees of quality (although if you're not already a Lil B fan this probably isn't worth it.) Radio Spiricom fucked around with this message at 07:07 on Dec 17, 2012 |
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Dec 17, 2012 06:57
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Benn Jordan/The Flashbulb has a pretty solid amount of work out there since 2000. Same with Venetian Snares.
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Dec 17, 2012 08:14
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Muslimgauze also has had something like 200 releases since the early 1980s. Dying hasn't even slowed him down that much.
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Dec 17, 2012 09:09
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Agathocles have too many releases for me to count. Godstomper has said they'll do a split with just about anyone who asks them so they have a ton as well. David Tibet/Current 93 has had spurts of being very prolific over the years
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Dec 17, 2012 12:38
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Jandek. ~4-6 albums per year since 1980, most of them absolutely atrocious. Sounds like Derek Bailey if Derek Bailey secretly sucked at guitar instead of being secretly awesome at guitar. Ready for the House and Six and Six are actually pretty great if you're in the mood for eerie, sleepy, dissonant blues. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCCmKDNKpKA He's an acquired taste. I find him terrible and interesting and very very occasionally awesome. quadrophrenic fucked around with this message at 13:47 on Dec 17, 2012 |
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Dec 17, 2012 13:41
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:This is more a conversation piece than a "who I need to hear", but bear with me. How about Merzbow - 350 recordings according to wiki, though I'd say it's more edit: removed some divagation canis minor fucked around with this message at 14:54 on Dec 17, 2012 |
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Dec 17, 2012 14:10
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I don't believe anyone who claims to be a big fan of his. "Interesting" and "occasionally good" I can believe, but most of his music is amazingly bad. For content, The Wedding Present, one of my favorite bands, released a single every month for the year of 1992 and had each of the chart in the UK, a feat I believe only Elvis has equaled.
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Dec 17, 2012 23:38
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:This is more a conversation piece than a "who I need to hear", but bear with me.
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Dec 17, 2012 23:52
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Can anyone recommend any good books and movies based around rock and roll and its history. Same with any soul or mo-town and Woodstock '69. I barely know anything and there seems to be a lot out there and would hate to pick something up that's super lovely. This was the closest thread I could find to post this. Thanks!
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Dec 18, 2012 06:16
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AuntJemima posted:Can anyone recommend any good books and movies based around rock and roll and its history. Same with any soul or mo-town and Woodstock '69. I barely know anything and there seems to be a lot out there and would hate to pick something up that's super lovely.
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Dec 18, 2012 17:07
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lovely, dirty, party rappers. I dunno. I loving love these tracks but their respective artists don't really do much like them. I already know about spank rock and he's pretty rad. Also Kid Sister is awful and a lot of the 'similar artists' aren't really all that similar. Lilly allen is too english and MIA is too... MIA. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3z3KFtvAOk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZL0LJTJtzM Recommend me 
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Dec 18, 2012 23:51
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Looking for sort of alternative, indie, slightly folky songs, especially those that build. Some of my favourite songs at the moment are Below my Feet by Mumford and Sons, Us by Regina Spektor, Sun by Two Door Cinema Club, 1876 - The Brooklyn Theatre Fire by Wakey! Wakey!, 40 day dream and Janglin' both by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros and Dirty Paws by Of Monsters and Men. Pretty tame, probably cliche music taste but i'd really love to find some more songs that have that sort of building folk-pop sound to them.
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Dec 19, 2012 03:36
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That's one of my favorite types of music as well. Here's a band I came across recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBjfiTGu1jk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz4ZOAsjW6g Run River North, formerly Monsters Calling Home.
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Dec 19, 2012 05:41
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AuntJemima posted:Can anyone recommend any good books and movies based around rock and roll and its history. Same with any soul or mo-town and Woodstock '69. I barely know anything and there seems to be a lot out there and would hate to pick something up that's super lovely. I read a lot of books about punk when I was in high school, here are a few that stuck with me: Please Kill Me by Legs McNeil Poison Heart: Surviving The Ramones by Dee Dee Ramone (though apparently a lot of it is made up and half remembered, still interesting nonetheless) England's Dreaming by Jon Savage Get in the Van by Henry Rollins and yeah Farts is right, you're going to want a book that focuses on a specific era or style or scene, something overarching is going to miss details that could be important or make bad conclusions.
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Dec 19, 2012 07:23
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Agreed, you could do worse than doing a progression of Please Kill Me -> Our Band Could Be Your Life -> Rip It Up and Start it Again for what I think is an interesting time in American rock/underground/punk from 67 to about 89, something I find interesting at least. if you are in school check the music section of the library maybe for books like these, that's what I did anyhow.
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Dec 19, 2012 18:21
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big business sloth posted:Agreed, you could do worse than doing a progression of Please Kill Me -> Our Band Could Be Your Life -> Rip It Up and Start it Again for what I think is an interesting time in American rock/underground/punk from 67 to about 89, something I find interesting at least. if you are in school check the music section of the library maybe for books like these, that's what I did anyhow. To follow these up, I would recommend We Never Learn by Eric Davidson which is a pretty good history of the Garage Punk scene in the late 80s/90s. It's kind of scattershot and doesn't go super in depth into any specific bands (except maybe Davidson's own New Bomb Turks; I haven't revisited it since I read it when it came out in 2010) but it carries the torch of those previous histories into the 2000s. It's like any book about a scene that was never particularly popular in that there's a lot of handwringing over how all the Crypt/Estrus/Goner/In The Red/Sympathy/etc. stuff was the REAL PUNK of the 90s. Edit: If I recall correctly, Rip It Up and Start Again focuses mostly on the British side of things. If you're looking for an American Post-Punk history, Soul Jazz put out a book on New York's No Wave scene called New York Noise. Radio Spiricom fucked around with this message at 18:55 on Dec 19, 2012 |
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Dec 19, 2012 18:41
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dailydares posted:To follow these up, I would recommend We Never Learn by Eric Davidson which is a pretty good history of the Garage Punk scene in the late 80s/90s. It's kind of scattershot and doesn't go super in depth into any specific bands (except maybe Davidson's own New Bomb Turks; I haven't revisited it since I read it when it came out in 2010) but it carries the torch of those previous histories into the 2000s. It's like any book about a scene that was never particularly popular in that there's a lot of handwringing over how all the Crypt/Estrus/Goner/In The Red/Sympathy/etc. stuff was the REAL PUNK of the 90s.
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Dec 19, 2012 19:32
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It's worth looking into, and is well written (Davidson (along with like half the other dudes in NBT) has an English degree) but if I recall correctly you're a pretty knowledgeable person when it comes to that sort of music, so there might not be too much in there that you don't already know about. (Also, I'm assuming you're significantly older than me and may have experienced the scene firsthand.) I'm really young and only got to garage rock when Jay Reatard and Black Lips started blowing up all over the internet hype machine when I was like 14, so I discovered a lot of the stuff it covers through the internet. When I read it, it mostly just served to fill the knowledge gaps and introduce me to some stuff that internet sites seem to ignore.
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Dec 19, 2012 21:05
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Dance of Days is a good book about DC punk, just don't read the very last chapter wherein the author completely dismisses emo as a genre (after writing about Embrace an the like) and then goes on to praise Good Charlotte.
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Dec 19, 2012 21:09
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Inspector_71 posted:Dance of Days is a good book about DC punk, just don't read the very last chapter wherein the author completely dismisses emo as a genre (after writing about Embrace an the like) and then goes on to praise Good Charlotte. Ahahah what the hell.
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The Doo Do Chasers posted:Ahahah what the hell. I don't even know, man. It's a seriously great book and you I read the afterword and I was completely baffled. Everybody in the class I read it for felt the same way.
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Dec 19, 2012 21:49
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dailydares posted:It's worth looking into, and is well written (Davidson (along with like half the other dudes in NBT) has an English degree) but if I recall correctly you're a pretty knowledgeable person when it comes to that sort of music, so there might not be too much in there that you don't already know about. (Also, I'm assuming you're significantly older than me and may have experienced the scene firsthand.) I'm really young and only got to garage rock when Jay Reatard and Black Lips started blowing up all over the internet hype machine when I was like 14, so I discovered a lot of the stuff it covers through the internet. When I read it, it mostly just served to fill the knowledge gaps and introduce me to some stuff that internet sites seem to ignore.
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Eight Is Legend posted:big post with lots of videos Dang these are way cool and good, especially that PMtoday track, thanks! Interestingly I had seen those exact videos for Circa Survive and Pierce the Veil thanks to a friend so in love that they would be played multiple times in a row  Had no idea about that other Craig Owens thing and I will investigate! Smarmy Coworker fucked around with this message at 20:26 on Dec 23, 2012 |
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Dec 21, 2012 08:48
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Skittle Wood posted:Any recommendations of '00s bands for someone who loves '90s alternative rock and bands like Death from Above 1979, Cage the Elephant, Queens of the Stone Age, etc.? Trying to find some new favorites. Slightly old post but, you could check out these guys maybe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwLXBw3j5Ek Decibully - Who's Shadow? (sic.)
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Dec 22, 2012 17:46
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6tdlmx_GO4 Stuff like this.
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Dec 24, 2012 04:31
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So I posted here like a year back and never followed through with my idea, but THIS TIME I'm gonna do it I swear  I'm putting together a slide show of a round-the-world backpacking trip I did and am looking for cool music to use as a background. I think I'll start with The XX - Intro but I'm not sure where to go from there. I want like poppy uplifting cool music that makes you excited and say hell yeah. No rock or metal or anything. Any suggestions? edit: MGMT - Kids might make the cut. The hook is pretty sweet and kinda hits the mood I'm looking for. Laopooh fucked around with this message at 21:31 on Dec 24, 2012 |
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Dec 24, 2012 18:36
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Kevin DuBrow posted:That's one of my favorite types of music as well. Here's a band I came across recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBjfiTGu1jk These guys are amazing.
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Dec 25, 2012 17:24
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toe knee hand posted:I'm looking for upbeat rock music (not metal, please don't recommend anything that anyone might classify as metal) with horns and other orchestral influences. Suggestions? Kaisers Orchestra. They're Norwegian but there's not a hint of black metal to them. Definitely both upbeat and orchestral. They're incredible. By far the most popular band in Norway. One of the best live acts performing right now, even if you can't actually manage to see them. They just finished up an album trilogy that was absolutely massive in scale. Psycho under min hatt - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYxmjE6dY-M Belgravelsespolka (live) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xxqpYxIMy8s Svarte katter and Floshatter - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2HNaQdGJYU
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If anyone can help me find more industrial-esque dark dub music I would be appreciative (although any instrumental, low and slow dub music would be nice). In particular, I am realllllly keen on this album called Along the Corridor by Eraldo Bernocchi and Blackfilm. A few cuts, although I love the whole album: http://youtu.be/6b7_JclqN9g http://youtu.be/Tr07CjQanYg I am also a fan of King Tubby and Sub Oslo. The back catalogue of Eraldo Bernocchi is very nice; but he has nothing else like this from what I can tell. I was somewhat familiar with Blackfilm but his back catalogue is also very different from this album. Thanks again for any suggestions.
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Dec 26, 2012 18:16
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Sounds like you might enjoy Kryptic Minds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x7lMsUN_8o Or Old Apparatus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5eyOTeF_TI And Shackleton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi5fVlVRous Or Ekoplekz? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_HTj9VGjlE Check out everything on Mordant Music too
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Laopooh posted:So I posted here like a year back and never followed through with my idea, but THIS TIME I'm gonna do it I swear A friend of mine used this song for a holiday video he shot, sounds like it'll fit perfectly for what you are going for: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue1GAyf66ro
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