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FrumpleOrz
Feb 12, 2014

Perhaps you have not been to the *Playground*.
The *Playground* is for Taalo and for Orz, but *Campers* can go.
It more fun than several.
You can go there for too much fun.
Does anyone know anything that is similar in tone to Bee Thousand by Guided By Voices? I've been listening to that like crazy lately and just emits this vibe that makes me think of "coolness" whenever I listen to it. Almost like the more rocking tracks off of The Velvet Underground & Nico, if that makes sense. I just love the tone of Bee Thousand so much and if there's anything else out there similar, I want to hear it.

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funkybottoms
Oct 28, 2010

Funky Bottoms is a land man

FrumpleOrz posted:

Does anyone know anything that is similar in tone to Bee Thousand by Guided By Voices? I've been listening to that like crazy lately and just emits this vibe that makes me think of "coolness" whenever I listen to it. Almost like the more rocking tracks off of The Velvet Underground & Nico, if that makes sense. I just love the tone of Bee Thousand so much and if there's anything else out there similar, I want to hear it.

Yo La Tengo and Pavement are the first things that spring to mind, although if you're into GBV you might already be familiar

shiksa
Nov 9, 2009

i went to one of these wrestling shows and it was... honestly? frickin boring. i wanna see ricky! i want to see his gold chains and respect for the ftw lifestyle

JoeRules posted:

It's been asked a couple of times over the years in this thread, but none of the recommendations that I saw are really doing it for me - I'm searching for stuff very similar to Death From Above 1979 - stuff that's driven by distorted bass (or is just bass/drums) and sort of danceable. The closest stuff that comes to mind is some Head Automatica stuff and if you squint just a bit, Royal Blood.

Whitey Houston is less dancey, but it's pretty much the closest thing i can think of to another band that sounds like DFA. If you're less stringent on being only bass and drums check out CSS, The Rapture, and basically everything Manoli posted on the last page.

stay depressed
Sep 30, 2003

by zen death robot

JoeRules posted:

It's been asked a couple of times over the years in this thread, but none of the recommendations that I saw are really doing it for me - I'm searching for stuff very similar to Death From Above 1979 - stuff that's driven by distorted bass (or is just bass/drums) and sort of danceable. The closest stuff that comes to mind is some Head Automatica stuff and if you squint just a bit, Royal Blood.

double dagger is what dfa1979 wished they sounded like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lK84LvXVtg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M77E5alYHZo

KevinHeaven
Aug 26, 2008

I run the voodoo down
Lately I've been into reggae covers of black pop songs from the 60s and 70s. These are favorites:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAmjXwIadPo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sxhh_rkMvP4

I'm simply looking for more songs like the ones above, or perhaps a compilation of this poppy kind of reggae. Plus for organ-heavy stuff too. Thanks. And by the way, I am already familiar with the likes of Dekker and Cliff.

KevinHeaven fucked around with this message at 00:24 on Aug 12, 2014

Blast Fantasto
Sep 18, 2007

USAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
What are some other good bands/artists like Public Image Ltd? Early post-punk I guess.

Edit: Oh and the more nihilistic the better. And I already love Joy Division, forgot to mention that.

Blast Fantasto fucked around with this message at 16:44 on Aug 12, 2014

Declan MacManus
Sep 1, 2011

damn i'm really in this bitch

Blast Fantasto posted:

What are some other good bands/artists like Public Image Ltd? Early post-punk I guess.

Gang of Four, Magazine, Siouxie and the Banshees, Wire, early XTC, The Fall

Declan MacManus fucked around with this message at 16:50 on Aug 12, 2014

FrumpleOrz
Feb 12, 2014

Perhaps you have not been to the *Playground*.
The *Playground* is for Taalo and for Orz, but *Campers* can go.
It more fun than several.
You can go there for too much fun.

Blast Fantasto posted:

What are some other good bands/artists like Public Image Ltd? Early post-punk I guess.

Edit: Oh and the more nihilistic the better. And I already love Joy Division, forgot to mention that.

Flipper's "Generic" always felt similar to me.

Pomplamoose
Jun 28, 2008

FrumpleOrz posted:

Flipper's "Generic" always felt similar to me.

Hahahaha, good one.






kloa
Feb 14, 2007


Any recs similar to Wolf Alice?

me your dad
Jul 25, 2006

Declan MacManus posted:

Gang of Four, Magazine, Siouxie and the Banshees, Wire, early XTC, The Fall

Also check out Television (Marquee Moon), Suicide (self titled), and Pere Ubu (Modern Dance).

me your dad fucked around with this message at 23:17 on Aug 12, 2014

ThePineapple
Oct 19, 2009
Looking for more (good) music like the following. Not sure what to call it... Asian/Chinese style music?

Tan Dun - For the World
Legend of Korra credits music

Marv Hushman
Jun 2, 2010

Freedom Ain't Free
:911::911::911:

Blast Fantasto posted:

What are some other good bands/artists like Public Image Ltd? Early post-punk I guess.

Edit: Oh and the more nihilistic the better. And I already love Joy Division, forgot to mention that.

If you want nihilism, I don't think there's a bigger concentration of dirges than Sleep No More by The Comsat Angels. Later works are for fans only, and typical attempts to become radio/tv friendly.

Second the Pere Ubu suggestion--try Ray Gun Suitcase, which splits the difference accessibility and noise. Accessible noise, I guess. Give it time.

If you do end up liking G4's barbed wire guitar sound, I recall this being borrowed to good effect on The Slab by Hunters and Collectors. A bit less serious, though. Shame no one's returned the favor and stolen that bass line.

Happy hunting. And collecting.

Ras Het
May 23, 2007

when I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child - but now I am a man.

Blast Fantasto posted:

Edit: Oh and the more nihilistic the better.

No Trend.


KevinHeaven posted:

Lately I've been into reggae covers of black pop songs from the 60s and 70s. These are favorites:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAmjXwIadPo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sxhh_rkMvP4

I'm simply looking for more songs like the ones above, or perhaps a compilation of this poppy kind of reggae. Plus for organ-heavy stuff too. Thanks. And by the way, I am already familiar with the likes of Dekker and Cliff.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darker_Than_Blue:_Soul_from_Jamdown,_1973%E2%80%931977

Declan MacManus
Sep 1, 2011

damn i'm really in this bitch

I wrote my recommendation before you added the nihilistic part so I'd just recommend diving headfirst into No New York

HP Hovercraft
Jan 1, 2006

one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse

Blast Fantasto posted:

What are some other good bands/artists like Public Image Ltd? Early post-punk I guess.

Edit: Oh and the more nihilistic the better. And I already love Joy Division, forgot to mention that.
The Pop Group, 23 Skidoo, This Heat, James Chance & The Contortions, The Birthday Party, Chrome.

a false
Mar 5, 2009

I DECIDE
WHO LIVES
AND WHO DIES

JoeRules posted:

It's been asked a couple of times over the years in this thread, but none of the recommendations that I saw are really doing it for me - I'm searching for stuff very similar to Death From Above 1979 - stuff that's driven by distorted bass (or is just bass/drums) and sort of danceable. The closest stuff that comes to mind is some Head Automatica stuff and if you squint just a bit, Royal Blood.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIrbAOTTEvk this band is pretty similar to DFA79

ManoliIsFat
Oct 4, 2002

Misc posted:

Some great great GREAT recommendations in this post. Thanks so much. I grew up in Dayton, Ohio; seeing Brainiac changed my life.

:) I'm so glad. If you want any followups, tell me what you like and I'll see if I can remember some other stuff. There's nothing like being cool as hell and 18.

I just thought of another band you'll probably love https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEs_yFFMyP4 Red Light Sting. I'm so mad I can't find this record anymore: most of my records from this time were misplaced/jacked. They have split with Hot Hot Heat which is absolutely untouchable. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoMz8Ysn_bI HHH were AMAZING and so weird on that split, and then went in a totally lame direction

(I have only recently started listing to those count your lucky stars records like the one in your av. omg love it so much, hits all the right notes for me)

ManoliIsFat fucked around with this message at 07:06 on Aug 15, 2014

M42
Nov 12, 2012


Came across these two songs on soundcloud and really liked them:

https://soundcloud.com/woodzsthlm/youth-choir-mp3-mstr?in=woodzsthlm/sets/yearwalk-ep
https://soundcloud.com/woodzsthlm/reaching-feat-ian-boom-olle-grafstrom?in=woodzsthlm/sets/yearwalk-ep

Not really sure what to call it, some kind of laid back... something. Anyone know similar music? Especially like the background tone that Reaching starts out with (not musically inclined, nooo idea what the word for it is).

LionYeti
Oct 12, 2008


Let me get this out of the way, I am a terrible person with bad musical taste in this regard. Can anyone recommend some big dumb EDM/Trap stuff? I know the heavy hitters Diplo, Aoiki, Skrillex, Flosstradamus. Any others worth listening to?

Invisible Ted
Aug 24, 2011

hhhehehe
I'm looking for unusual/reclusive music like this: http://modernscar.bandcamp.com/album/nineteen-or-the-pale-oblivion-of-the-western-fog

Especially The Joke and Monolith.

Music about/surrounding isolation, not just in lyrics but in the above's case, use of samples and unusual production. Modern Scar's entire discography is rife with that kind of stuff, but I've listened to pretty much all of it and haven't found anything that has quite that feeling.

regulargonzalez
Aug 18, 2006
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WHEN THE RICH GET RICHER I GET HORNIER :a2m::a2m::a2m::a2m:

Invisible Ted posted:

I'm looking for unusual/reclusive music like this: http://modernscar.bandcamp.com/album/nineteen-or-the-pale-oblivion-of-the-western-fog

Especially The Joke and Monolith.

Music about/surrounding isolation, not just in lyrics but in the above's case, use of samples and unusual production. Modern Scar's entire discography is rife with that kind of stuff, but I've listened to pretty much all of it and haven't found anything that has quite that feeling.

I feel like Godspeed You! Black Emperor is kind of in this vein, particularly F♯a♯∞

Invisible Ted
Aug 24, 2011

hhhehehe

regulargonzalez posted:

I feel like Godspeed You! Black Emperor is kind of in this vein, particularly F♯a♯∞

Already on that train. Godspeed and Grails are two favorites, should've mentioned.

regulargonzalez
Aug 18, 2006
UNGH LET ME LICK THOSE BOOTS DADDY HULU ;-* ;-* ;-* YES YES GIVE ME ALL THE CORPORATE CUMMIES :shepspends: :shepspends: :shepspends: ADBLOCK USERS DESERVE THE DEATH PENALTY, DON'T THEY DADDY?
WHEN THE RICH GET RICHER I GET HORNIER :a2m::a2m::a2m::a2m:

Invisible Ted posted:

Already on that train. Godspeed and Grails are two favorites, should've mentioned.

In that case, maybe Future Sounds Of London - Dead Cities. Completely different style of music from the others listed, but one of my favorite albums. It's what I imagine the soundtrack to a post apocalyptic world would sound like.
First two tracks won't directly apply (in, again, my opinion it's the sound of the apocalypse and the immediate aftermath) but the rest should.

Heavy Hands
Jan 1, 2006

Helmut
the
Mysterion
Seems my previous request might have been too vague. So here's something a bit more specific. Can anyone recommend bands/songs that are similar in sound to this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3SWu_4s75w

Thanks again!

izationalizer
Jul 2, 2012

I don't know what the hell's in there, but it's weird and pissed off, whatever it is.

Heavy Hands posted:

Seems my previous request might have been too vague. So here's something a bit more specific. Can anyone recommend bands/songs that are similar in sound to this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3SWu_4s75w

Thanks again!

Wow. You've thrown me a curveball with this one! I'm somewhat amazed because a.) I've never heard of this, despite the fact that it comes from the era of which my knowledge runs deepest ('77-'82), and b.) it's a very unique song/sound, and not much is springing to mind re: similar artists. The post-punk and sing-speak aspects remind be vaguely of The Fall, but you probably already know about them, and I wouldn't consider the two all that similar in sound anyway.

On the other hand, something about it rings a bell; if something comes to mind, I'll let you know.

Oh, and: I dig it, so thanks for sharing! It's not every day that I learn about new (old) post-punk.

funkybottoms
Oct 28, 2010

Funky Bottoms is a land man

Heavy Hands posted:

Seems my previous request might have been too vague. So here's something a bit more specific. Can anyone recommend bands/songs that are similar in sound to this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3SWu_4s75w

Thanks again!

Art Objects?

FrumpleOrz
Feb 12, 2014

Perhaps you have not been to the *Playground*.
The *Playground* is for Taalo and for Orz, but *Campers* can go.
It more fun than several.
You can go there for too much fun.

Heavy Hands posted:

Seems my previous request might have been too vague. So here's something a bit more specific. Can anyone recommend bands/songs that are similar in sound to this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3SWu_4s75w

Thanks again!

Gary Wilson and the Blind Dates maybe?

EDIT: drat it, I keep listening to this song! It's super rad and I don't think Gary Wilson is close at all anymore. Maybe kind of. Here's Chromium Bitch but it seems less sparse and more just weird.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mi6WrPIyOB8

The only thing that I can think of that gets a similar tone is this old band from town here that had somewhat of a similar tone to that on one song. They were called Round About Her Throne and their song Scared has some similar whispery vocals (in a way) and that kind of lonely tone. It's track two, "Scared," in this link. It's all I could find for it.

https://myspace.com/roundabouther/music/songs

Wow, this has been a rambling edit.

FrumpleOrz fucked around with this message at 00:16 on Aug 19, 2014

KojjOdd
Aug 6, 2014

ThePineapple posted:

Looking for more (good) music like the following. Not sure what to call it... Asian/Chinese style music?

Tan Dun - For the World
Legend of Korra credits music

Everything from this album.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXOZumQl4Ss

Franchescanado
Feb 23, 2013

If it wasn't for disappointment
I wouldn't have any appointment

Grimey Drawer
Two of my favorite albums lately have been 10cc's first album and The Bonzo Dog Band's second album The Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse.

I like that they're tongue in cheek and self-aware, but they aren't trying too hard. They make legitimately good songs that borrow certain styles from bands (such as 10cc's song Rubber Bullets being in the style of Beach Boys) or genres (Bonzo Dog's Beautiful Zelda being influenced by bubblegum pop and doo wop) but make it their own.

Another plus is their albums have a huge variety of styles, from Doo Wop to dance tunes to lounge songs. They're weird, all over the place, and just really fun. This is especially true with Bonzo, who are considered the Monty Python of music, and I love their weird tangents in between their more straight-faced songs.

Any recommendations on something in the same vein? Any range of styles and it doesn't matter how weird it gets.

funkybottoms
Oct 28, 2010

Funky Bottoms is a land man

Franchescanado posted:

Another plus is their albums have a huge variety of styles, from Doo Wop to dance tunes to lounge songs. They're weird, all over the place, and just really fun. This is especially true with Bonzo, who are considered the Monty Python of music, and I love their weird tangents in between their more straight-faced songs.

Any recommendations on something in the same vein? Any range of styles and it doesn't matter how weird it gets.

Ween, Frank Zappa, Butthole Surfers, Red Krayola, the Unicorns/Islands, Camper van Beethoven, Flaming Lips, The Frogs, Half Japanese

Declan MacManus
Sep 1, 2011

damn i'm really in this bitch

In addition to the above, Mr. Bungle and Captain Beefhart. Dead Kennedys also inject a lot of humor into their music but you don't get genre roulette going on

Invisible Ted
Aug 24, 2011

hhhehehe

regulargonzalez posted:

In that case, maybe Future Sounds Of London - Dead Cities. Completely different style of music from the others listed, but one of my favorite albums. It's what I imagine the soundtrack to a post apocalyptic world would sound like.
First two tracks won't directly apply (in, again, my opinion it's the sound of the apocalypse and the immediate aftermath) but the rest should.

This didn't really do it for me, though I can't really pin why. I think I'm looking for more personal sounding music (as in focusing on the individual, doesn't have to be focused on the artists personal life) rather than something as large scale.

Henchman of Santa
Aug 21, 2010
Adding to weird stuff like Mr. Bungle and Ween, Dog Fashion Disco are worth listening if you like heavier stuff at all.

Dopilsya
Apr 3, 2010
I'm not entirely sure what the genre is called (electro or synthpop maybe?) but can anyone recommend things like this? Stuff that's electronic, kind of poppy, but not "happy", I guess?

It doesn't have to be in Arabic, but I would prefer a female vocalist and it not being in English if at all possible.

wearing a lampshade
Mar 6, 2013

can anyone recommend me stuff similar to or influencing these two bands: Battle Ruins (their latest album) and Stone Dagger?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPOUftahzFk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kzx6Qkb-gaY

Marv Hushman
Jun 2, 2010

Freedom Ain't Free
:911::911::911:

Franchescanado posted:

The Bonzo Dog Band...They're weird, all over the place...
I was watching Magical Mystery Tour a few months ago, which has oddly become more watchable over time, and these guys show up in one scene. I remembered them from the credits on Elton John's Honky Chateau. However, I was not prepared for them to sing a song called Death Cab For Cutie..

Nordick
Sep 3, 2011

Yes.

albany academy posted:

can anyone recommend me stuff similar to or influencing these two bands: Battle Ruins (their latest album) and Stone Dagger?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPOUftahzFk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kzx6Qkb-gaY
Arkham Witch, maybe?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-iOwQpnbLQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaMj1GwjaEo

Sad Mammal
Feb 5, 2008

You see me laughin
I'm looking for some good dive-bar kitsch. High energy, skuzzily produced, catchy jingles. Stuff like The King Khan & BBQ Show, Wavves, Bass Drum of Death, Gerty Farish, and Girls in the Eighties. I'm already familiar with Lightning Bolt and the Fort Thunder circle.

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Franchescanado
Feb 23, 2013

If it wasn't for disappointment
I wouldn't have any appointment

Grimey Drawer
Thanks for the recommendations, guys. I'm pretty well versed in most of the weird bands that were given (Ween and Frank Zappa are two favorites, I've seen Islands live), but I'm going to check out The Frogs, Mr. Bungle, Dog Fashion Disco, Red Krayola, Camper Van Beethoven, and Half Japanese. I mainly use Spotify, so my choices are pretty limited for each of these.

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