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El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010
Where do I start with Jonathan Richman? As well as Hawkwind?

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El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010
I like emo, but I'd say the the emo of the last 20 years (except Braid and the Hotelier) is kinda lost on me.

Put together a starter pack, please.

El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010

Toe Rag posted:

So you want emo released after 1997? Emo is means different things to different people, so not really sure what you’re looking for. Have you listened to stuff like Life at These Speeds, Stop It!!, Yaphett Kotto, City of Caterpillar, I Robot, Orchid, etc.?

The closer it sounds to the bands listed the better, I guess. Emo I enjoy: American Football, Braid, Sunny Day Real Estate, Texas is the Reason, Embrace, the Hotelier.

I believe I tried City of Caterpillar but it was pretty screamo-ish IIRC (unless I'm mixing them up with someone else) and I did not care for it.

El Gallinero Gros fucked around with this message at 00:16 on Apr 12, 2018

El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010
Can you guys help me think of modern hiphop that is more boom bap in terms of production style? The last 5 years or so oughta do it...

El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010

Kvlt! posted:

Where do I start with the Cure if the only album I've listened to is Disintegration (which I liked)?

Pornography and Head on the Door.

El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010

Dirty Mind

El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010

Kvlt! posted:

Dub music? I love the dub-inspired basslines of stuff like Bauhaus and I'm a big fan of the dub versions of Israel Vibration and Peter Tosh albums. Looking for "traditional" dub, not as much modern electronic-type stuff.

Virtually anything involving Lee "Scratch" Perry

El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010

Junpei posted:

I've listened to a couple of singles from both Blur and Oasis (Former: Song 2, Girls and Boys, Coffee and TV, latter, Wonderwall, Live Forever, Roll With It), but never listened to the full albums of either, where do I start with both of them?

Blur's first great record is Parklife, my personal favorite is 13.

Pretend Oasis doesn't exist after their first 2 records.

El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010
Gonna go to bat for it and say that I real like Brain Drain by the Ramones

El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010

XBenedict posted:

The 90's and beyond started focusing on collaboration more than anything, but produced some really cool results, such as The River in Reverse (Allen Touissant), Painted from Memory (Burt Bacharach), and Wise Up Ghost (The Roots). You will find wildly varying reviews on Brutal Youth, though I am personally fond of it, and it should be part of the Costello experience.

Other than that, the outstanding highlights are All This Useless Beauty, which contains his recording of the amazing McCartney co-written song "That Day is Done", and his newest album Look Now, which sounds, at points, a lot like old Elvis Costello.

Edit: I just noticed that "That Day is Done" is only on the bonus disc in the CD package. IDK if it is available on stream. It normally appears on an album by The Fairfield Four, who sing backup on this track.

I also like Brutal Youth a lot

El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010
Where do I start with...

Pelican
The Knife
Quicksand

El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010

hatelull posted:

The only have three LP's. Their first album, Slip is a necessary slab of post-hardcore awesomeness. The follow up, Manic Compression is just as deadly.

After that, they broke up. If you really like the lead singers voice and his guitar tones go check out Rival Schools. If you're a completionist Quicksand reformed last year and released a third record to very mixed reviews.

I like Rival Schools a bunch, both the video game and band!

El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010
I recommend Pegboy. Poppy but not oversly so, melodic as hell.


Also, Dillinger Four.

El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010

Blast Fantasto posted:

Up To Here and Day For Night are my favorites.

Trouble at The Henhouse for me

El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010
T-Rex

El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010
HEALTH

El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010

Terminally Bored posted:

Cobain and Buzzo (Melvins frontman) were high school buddies.

There's a story where Kurt was playing In Utero for Dale of the Melvins and the track "Milk It" came on and apparently Dale sorta made a WTF face because the track is basically a ripoff of "It's Shoved".

Here's a quote from King Buzzo making a top 5 list of his favorite Nirvana songs from mp3.com

https://mp3.com/article/guest-playlist-buzz-osbourne-of-the-melvins-shares-his-favorite-nirvana-songs

quote:

"Milk It” Of course I like this song! Of course I like it because it’s a total, TOTAL ripoff of a song I wrote called “It’s Shoved.” It’s on our Bullhead record which I think came out in ’91… Listen to both back to back and then tell me if I’m crazy… Well, I am crazy, but not because of THIS song.

El Gallinero Gros fucked around with this message at 15:09 on Aug 2, 2019

El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010

internet celebrity posted:

Xiu Xiu? I've heard Girl With Basket of Fruit but I know they have a lot of range in their sound. What's something in their discography that's a bit more accessible?

Give their Twin Peaks album a shot, too.

El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010

hatelull posted:

Killing Joke?

I am likely not seeing TOOL on this recent tour, but seeing the opener made me realize I not super familiar with these guys other than the association with Martin Atkins and hearing "Love Like Blood" a few times in my blurry college days.

Night Time, their self titled debut, and a later gem is Hosannas from the Basement of Hell

El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010
Scratch Lee Perry

El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010
Stag is also good if you want experimental stuff

El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010

Terminally Bored posted:

Not sure if they were the most important (who was?) but their influence really was huge. They are a post-punk band people will know even if they never heard of Mekons or The Fire Engines and think The Fall really was MES with someone random on bongos. Lots of JD stuff remains iconic to this day: the album covers, the sparse production, Curtis delivery. There were tons of bands since that rode on that aesthetic alone, some still do.

Specifically, his gran?

El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010

Terminally Bored posted:

Read The Big Midweek if you haven't already. Legit one of the best music autobiographies out there.

Or the recent Have A Bleedin Guess, Paul Hanley is great too.

I haven't but I've heard Smith's quote about "If it's me and yer gran on the bongos, it's the Fall", which is really funny and a touch egocentric

El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010
The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Lightning Bolt

El Gallinero Gros fucked around with this message at 16:42 on Mar 30, 2020

El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010
Sun Kil Moon

El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010

ultrafilter posted:

Hearing about the recent death of Little Richard reminded me that I don't know much about pre-Beatles rock music beyond a few songs that my parents and their friends played when I was growing up. What should I listen to learn about that era?

Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Jerry Lee Lewis (do NOT read about him if you have trouble separating art from artist)
Los Bravos
Buddy Holly

El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010
Ike and Tina Turner also. Jokes about Ike's shittiness aside, they made good music together.

El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010
TMBG

Flood, maybe?

El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010
Myrkur

El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010

Fenrir posted:

Well, there are only 3 albums and a couple EPs. M is the straight up blackened metal album, Mareridt has a little of that but it's scaled back dramatically, and Folkesange is just what it says on the tin - pure folk album with no metal to be found altogether. Pick your poison basically.

Which one is the shoegazey one?

El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010

hexwren posted:

i would instantly lay down money for a borisleep big band lp

Co-sign, I'll listen to anything involving Pike, and I like Boris a bunch

El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010
Also the 2nd Gravediggaz album, The Pick, the Sickle & the Shovel

El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010
Anti-Flag.

El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010
There are zero bad Screaming Trees albums. Zero. Invisible Lantern and Uncle Anesthesia are the best loved ones.

Check out Lan's solo stuff too. Man was prolific.

El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010
I love Claypool-Lennon Delirium, it's some of the catchiest stuff Les has done in a bit

He also wrote a fiction novel that I've heard positive things about

El Gallinero Gros fucked around with this message at 23:37 on Mar 13, 2022

El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010
IMO the best albums in terms of enjoyability are Dare to Be Stupid, Bad Hair Day, and Running With Scissors

El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010

Franchescanado posted:

I like that anecdote. And when Al talked to Ben Folds about doing a style parody, "Why Does This Always Happen To Me", Ben Folds asked if he could play piano on the track. So in a way, it's a pastiche and an official song.

Mark Knopfler did this as his condition for allowing "Money for Nothing" to be parodied

My favorite anecdote is Al calling Kurt Cobain, Kurt agrees, pauses and goes "Wait, it's not gonna be about food, is it?" and Al tells him it'll be about how nobody understands Kurt's lyrics and Kurt just laughed and said "Go for it"

El Gallinero Gros fucked around with this message at 20:44 on Jun 15, 2022

El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010

IUG posted:

I’m in the same boat where I have just “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots”. I had “At War with the Mystics” in my queue to try next. Is that one not recommended? I saw that there was a Flaming Lips thread, and saw there’s a drastic drop off in quality at a certain point.

It's very good. But also investigate the album before Yoshimi, "The Soft Bulletin"

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El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010
Her self titled album from 2014 is still my favorite of hers, but I also really enjoyed Masseduction.

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