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counterpoint: an arcade fire song intended to prevent teen suicide is pretty obviously going to be as blatant and direct as possible. i really like the song, especially the second verse and the "it's not painless / she was a friend of mine" bridge. it's clear the band lost someone close to them along the way and while it's not a perfect song, it has an impact on people struggling with depression and who may have overcome suicidal thoughts at one point (such as myself)
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Why didn't I know there were new Haim singles, why am I always late to this stuff Why are their songs so good despite always consisting 80% of a single loving hook over and over again
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CRINDY posted:counterpoint: an arcade fire song intended to prevent teen suicide is pretty obviously going to be as blatant and direct as possible. i really like the song, especially the second verse and the "it's not painless / she was a friend of mine" bridge. it's clear the band lost someone close to them along the way and while it's not a perfect song, it has an impact on people struggling with depression and who may have overcome suicidal thoughts at one point (such as myself) if you really wanted to prevent teen suicide then having them listen to arcade fire sounds like a terrible idea
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Do teens even like Arcade Fire?AwwJeah posted:In the past, the worst criticism I've ever been able to levy against arcade fire is maybe I thought a song or two was boring. This is the first time I've ever thought I was listening to an actively bad song from them. This is a good post 
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Real Name Grover posted:Do teens even like Arcade Fire? Also The Suburbs won a Grammy for album of the year 6 years ago, but that's not exactly an album I've heard people talk about a lot outside of internet forums and a select group of friends, even after the Grammy win.
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Arcade Fire are like, dad rock to most teens nowadays. Also, EDM is what the vast majority of people under 21 listen to for the most part at this point. T Bowl fucked around with this message at 16:53 on Jun 19, 2017 |
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Jun 19, 2017 16:50
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The new Kevin Morby album is awesome and so is this article about it: http://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2017/06/16/532586685/kevin-morby-explains-his-new-album-city-music-track-by-track The actual song City Music is my favorite if you want an idea.
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Real Name Grover posted:Do teens even like Arcade Fire? arcade fire was my favorite band starting when I was 14. i was a weird teen, though.
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T Bowl posted:Arcade Fire are like, dad rock to most teens nowadays.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfedYa_JovE Killers...so um yeah. Better than the arcade fire single. dont @ me
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incoherent posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfedYa_JovE I heard this on the radio for the first time the other day and can't loving stand it haha
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incoherent posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfedYa_JovE 
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:I honestly don't know which I dislike more, this or the new Arcade Fire
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What inspires a band to do an ironic-male-ego anthem in 2017 AD
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Super Furry Animals are reissuing a remastered version (remastered by Kliph Scurlock, the drummer that was recently kicked out of The Flaming Lips) of their CLASSIC album Radiator and just released one of the unreleased songs they're offering, a "cover" of The Smiths' 'The Boy With the Thorn in His Side." Apparently it was rejected by the magazine that commissioned the cover. I wonder why. https://soundcloud.com/salvolabel/sets/super-furry-animals-the-boy
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i dont know... i really dont see whats bad about either of the new arcade fire songs? they didnt floor me or anything, but they seemed pleasant enough to listen to. i also think people are really rose-tinting arcade fires earlier stuff, because honestly, neither of these songs would be out of place on funeral--musically or lyrically.
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I like both songs and am pretty excited for the new album. IMO they'll never top Funeral, but that doesn't mean I can't enjoy this new stuff.
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jeffLebowski posted:i dont know... i really dont see whats bad about either of the new arcade fire songs? they didnt floor me or anything, but they seemed pleasant enough to listen to. i also think people are really rose-tinting arcade fires earlier stuff, because honestly, neither of these songs would be out of place on funeral--musically or lyrically.
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So they Day Wave guy was awesome live. I don't think anyone on here talks about him, and he seems to be shut out of discussions from most major music publications. Anyone on here get into his stuff? I would describe it as like Wild Nothing and dream pop like that mixed with a more pop punk vibe in the simplicity of songs and lyrics. Super catchy stuff.
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T Bowl posted:So they Day Wave guy was awesome live. I don't think anyone on here talks about him, and he seems to be shut out of discussions from most major music publications. Anyone on here get into his stuff? I would describe it as like Wild Nothing and dream pop like that mixed with a more pop punk vibe in the simplicity of songs and lyrics. Super catchy stuff. I've seen him a couple of times, but honestly the only lasting memory I have of his performances is a decent cover of Ceremony by New Order.
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interpunct posted:I've seen him a couple of times, but honestly the only lasting memory I have of his performances is a decent cover of Ceremony by New Order. Yeah that was probably my favorite part haha.
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Have you even listened to Funeral in the last several years? does this week count? obviously, this stuff is subjective, but yeah... i dont think id bat an eye if everything now was squeezed in after neighborhood #1 or rebellion (assuming the overall production was constant).
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Speaking of high ticket prices... just got ticket prices for The Avett Brothers, whom I have seen multiple times and they're great, and they *start* at $42 before fees with the highest being $85 before fees. What the gently caress??
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jeffLebowski posted:does this week count? 
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BonoMan posted:Speaking of high ticket prices... just got ticket prices for The Avett Brothers, whom I have seen multiple times and they're great, and they *start* at $42 before fees with the highest being $85 before fees. What the gently caress?? What the gently caress is the appeal? Just go see Jared & The Mill for like $12.
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:It doesn't even sound close to any of the stuff on Funeral though haha, thats why i said its subjective: because i disagree. but ultimately its all a matter of opinion and kind of a pointless comparison though, so i guess i shouldnt have made it. my main point was that i just dont really see whats so supposedly terrible about the new songs. its not like they sound drastically different from whats come before. anyone hearing them cold would immediately recognize them as arcade fire. dont take that as a rabid defense, though. i think theyre alright. enjoyable enough and thats it. i was just surprised by the reaction in the thread.
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T Bowl posted:What the gently caress is the appeal? Just go see Jared & The Mill for like $12. They put on a super great high energy show. And we've been following them since 2006 (I like them but they're my wife's fave band). It's definitely worth it at $45 but that's the ceiling.... $85 fuckkkk no. But I also checked around and it's apparently the venue as most other venues aren't going that high for them.
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Does anyone else feel like they get overwhelmed with trying to hear stuff nowadays? New stuff is a big part of it, especially with the whole Spotify or other paid streaming service and a basically endless amount of music coming at you all the time... I love so much of it but can't seem to keep up. I feel like I get stuck on a handful of things and spend too much time with them when there are so many other new albums/artist coming out at a breakneck pace that some of it just gets lost in the shuffle. I sometimes try to go back but the onslaught of my favorites at the moment, nostalgia of old releases, and potential new great stuff makes it all one huge mental cluster gently caress if you obsess over music like most people who occupy this thread probably do to a high degree.
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T Bowl posted:Does anyone else feel like they get overwhelmed with trying to hear stuff nowadays? New stuff is a big part of it, especially with the whole Spotify or other paid streaming service and a basically endless amount of music coming at you all the time... I love so much of it but can't seem to keep up. Not only do I feel like this but I feel like it's making me feel more negatively about music in general. I love Spotify's Release Radar and Discover Weekly because they really do help me discover new music. But at the same time I feel like it's developed this stupidly high bar of "what gets on a playlist and what doesn't" in my brain to where I start thinking "man there just isn't a whole lot of great music right now." But in reality I think it's just both the barrier of entry to hearing new music and the barrier of entry to *making* music are so impossibly low right now that, in reality, we do just get exposed to a lot of mundane poo poo.
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T Bowl posted:Does anyone else feel like they get overwhelmed with trying to hear stuff nowadays? New stuff is a big part of it, especially with the whole Spotify or other paid streaming service and a basically endless amount of music coming at you all the time... I love so much of it but can't seem to keep up.
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I've saved 21 albums to my Spotify collection in the last month. Even when I sit down with the immediate purpose of listening to several in a row, I still can't catch up. I only listened to half of the new Big Thief before I had to move on to last week's seven (SEVEN!) new albums I was interested in, and I still have two or three of those to go. Streaming creates content overload.
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 alert:I read a study that said the median age people stop listening to new music artists is about 32 or 33. I'm 30 and my desire to seek out a new band to get into is very low these days. I tend to look forward to new releases from artists I already love, and otherwise just listen through my 1200 or so albums on iTunes and the hundreds of custom playlists I've made for myself over the years. Every so often (like every 3-6 months) I'll get a hankering for something different so I'll plug my favourite artists, in whatever genre I feel like listening to, into a recommendation engine like Last.fm, and check out 5 or 6 bands based on that. Rarely anymore do those new bands stick with me and become a regular favourite though. (I know that recommendation websites like this tend to narrow your taste into really specific areas rather than expose you to stuff you'd never consider listening to, but  )I aspergerfully keep lists of what I consider my top 20 or so bands, updating every year (or sometimes more often), and over the last 5 years especially only one or two bands has displaced any of my old favourites. I'm okay with all of this! The bands I love are still putting out music and I have so much to listen to that I know I like. I just don't feel the pressure to keep up with a music scene or know what's new and what's getting big these days. I'll know I'll probably come across new stuff I like serendipitously (is that a word?) in the future and if I miss an album or two I might like, no big deal. You kids can have your spotifies and your jjj hottest 100s
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I definitely have that feeling sometimes as well, although I think streaming services have been helpful for me in that regard. Without them, I'm almost certain I'd be even more tied down to my old favorites, especially at this stage of life where I don't really have much time to just sit at my computer with headphones on. (I suspect the time people stop getting into new artists is suspiciously close to the time they have kids, and they emerge from the haze 20 years later with no idea what happened in music during that time.) Any time I hear about some artist or album that I'm remotely curious about, I can go ahead and listen to it (in the car, usually). I think almost every album I've bought in the past 5 years is either from an artist I've known about since college, or an album where I did a "try before you buy" on streaming services and would not have otherwise given it a chance. That being said, I'm definitely getting into some new ruts. Most of the time I don't do "radio" since I can't pre-download it. Moreover, genre-wise, it's a bit of a struggle to find something I like that isn't similar to the white boy pop-rock I grew up with. That's the biggest challenge right now. Once in a while I go for broke and play through the chart-toppers playlist on Google, but it doesn't usually do much for me. Then again, if I were to do that 20 years ago I'd be hearing Backstreet Boys, so that shouldn't be too surprising. *begrudgingly bookmarks Foo Fighters thread* Sir Lemming fucked around with this message at 16:04 on Jun 21, 2017 |
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No such thing as too much music IMO and I thank whoever the investors are that continue to pump Spotify full of money so I can listen to any music I want whenever I want. I've discovered so much new stuff since I got Spotify premium, I think it's just lovely.
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http://ilovestvincent.com/#tour St. Vincent just announced a tour, so hopefully news of a new album will be forthcoming.
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T Bowl posted:What the gently caress is the appeal? Just go see Jared & The Mill for like $12. Thanks for this recommendation, its p good.
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Yeah Spotify was used for that study on when the average person stops listening to new tunes and yes it mostly has to do with children. http://www.avclub.com/article/new-study-shows-people-stop-listening-new-music-33-218752 I still don't have kids but I'm friends with a lot of people who still don't in the early 30s who all have basically given up on new music. I still am weirdly obsessed with new music and finding new artist and whatever is being hyped at the moment but maybe the feeling of being overwhelmed by it all is the old man creeping in to my soul.
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(Sandy) Alex G puts on a great live show if anyone is on the fence about going.
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interpunct posted:http://ilovestvincent.com/#tour I read somewhere album by the end of the year? She said it will be a "sea-change" in her sound. So I am very excited. She has really mastered the aesthetic, though. The tour announcement video is 
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New Ariel Pink! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwe76N7J0EI New El Goodo! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBCuycMndn0 Good day for music.
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