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[pmcd9]

I love Yohshimi.  Ego Tripping is good enough to be a Paul McCartney single.

I hooked up with a guy at work and we've been trading disc like mad.  I've acquired lots and lots of stuff.  The Smiths, Moz, Bjork, Early REM, Brian Eno, Portishead, They Might Be Giants. Bob Dylan and much more.  Lots of stuff i've never heard of.

I'm letting it sink in slowly via i-pod shuffle.  Mostly i'm listening to Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Neil Young, and Neko Case.

~Paul

[misterqueue]

Mmm.. Bjork.. my secret long time obsession.

However if you like the Bjork I suggest Broadcast, Metric, and of course, Blonde Redhead.

[KeithHernandez]

I love early R.E.M.  Also, for the Flaming Lips fans out there, especially The Soft Bulletin, you should check out the Super Furry Animals.  They have recorded some songs together and are kind of similiar (Kind of).  Is there someway I can like put a sample song somewhere for people to download, or something?

Brian Eno and Dylan are awesome as well.  Eno produced Remain in Light by the Talking Heads if you somehow haven't heard that.  I don't know, maybe you didn't know that.


If you have Strangeways, Here We Come by the Smiths just listen to the first song on the album and you'll be a fan.

See, I think "Buggin'" is just about the most perfect Flaming Lips song ever.


I really liked Dear Catastrophe Waitress and I'm kinda meh about the Life Pursuit.  I really hated Fold Your Hands... and still think of Sinister and Arab Strap as a single album, since they came out like four months apart.

First of all, it is either Buggin' or The Gash, but, yeah, they are pretty much perfect songs for any bands standards.  I didn't really dislike yoshimi, it is just not great, but the new one is especially boring, to me. 

Piazza, New York Catcher was the only song I liked off of Dear Catastrophe, for obvious reasons.  I really just quoted this part to say I mainly like Sinister, Arab Strap and Tigermilk by Belle and Sebastian, but never knew if I liked Sinister or Arab Strap better.  I had no idea that they were released so close together, but that is a hell of a way to look at it.


And You are the Quarry has a couple decent songs, but more in like a kind of pretentious asshole way, not in a good song way.  If that makes sense.  Everytime a band/ artist takes him or herself to seriously it ends up in a shit record.  Which is my main problem with the new Neil Young.  It rocks, but it is like the lyrics are written by a 15 year old who thinks he fuck*ng knows everything.  It kind of makes me dislike Neil Young in general, but I can't go that far.  I mean the man made Deja Vu and After the Goldrush.

Edit: I kind of need to rephrase that.  About Young:  Take your art seriously, but don't tell the listener what to think.  If you are going to anyway, don't write like an angsty teenager.  It makes you seem like a person who takes himself very seriously, but not his art.  Which is the complete opposite way a cool musician should be (see the Flaming Lips).

And

First of the Gang to Die off of You are the Quarry is great.  Best song since the Smiths.

Jesus, I have a 12 page paper due in 12 hours, it is now midnight and I haven't started it, but I can post like 2 pages worth of crap about music.  This paper is even about music, I just hate doing stuff I perceive as work.

[Mite]

Sorry I got on your case, Keith. I'm still a little confused about loving The Soft Bulletin but hating Yoshimi, as in my head they are almost the same album, but that's cool. The hipsters who listen to Pitchfork instead of oh, say, actual music have just gotten on my last nerve.

Incidentally, I think that's the closest I've ever gotten to flaming someone in the history of the internet. No wonder my post count at the Straight Dope message board is insignificant.

About the new Neil Young - I heard a little bit of it on NPR yesterday, and it didn't catch my attention much. I'm sorry he didn't feel like there were any young musicians raising a fuss about the president. Either a) he doesn't listen to many young musicians (Radiohead and Green Day even get airplay!) or b) the president don't care what no long haired punks have to say about him, anyway, so why bother. It sorta made me a little pissy. Of course, it hasn't taken much, the last couple of days.

Iron and Wine and Calexico's album In the Reins came out last year, and it's beautiful. I've been listening to it over and over and over.

[KeithHernandez]

Yea, I stopped reading pitchfork about a month after Yankee Hotel Foxtrot by Wilco came out.  I really dislike hipsters as well.  I am just saying I find Yoshimi boring.  The Soft Bulletin is so much more complex and lyrically challenging.  I guess I dislike straight forward cliche lyrics, and I perceive Yoshimi to be that way.  Although the lyrics aren't really cliche at all, are they?  I don't know, I can understand how you like it, I guess it just got stale with me really quick, but I can still listen to Soft Bulletin twice a week or so.  That is how I define a good album.  The only thing I would disagree with you on is that they are the same album. 

I really hate coming off badly, but sometimes expressing opinions on things that are based on opinions alone on the internet can be hard to do without coming off poorly.

Sorry if I came off like an asshole as well.  I have been writing a paper for like 8 hours straight over Caetano Veloso.  Who knew it was so hard to write a 12 page paper over the person that started Tropicalia?  Well, I know now.  If I quit fuck*ng around and reading this message board I would be done by now, but as it is I pulled an all nighter.  Awesome study habits.  If anyone wants to check out some awesome music though, I couldn't recommend Caetano Veloso or Os Mutantes more, especially if you don't care whether or not you can understand the lyrics.

I have been reading some of these music threads and people here probably have the best taste in music of any message board I have ever been to.  There was some talk of listing your top bands in a previous thread, could we start a new thread dedicated to that?  Maybe like have some samples if there is any place that host it that someone knows about?

I am buying the new Starlight Mints today though, I'll tell you if I like it if you would like.

[jough]

I agree that The First of the Gang to Die was the best song on You Are the Quarry, but it's certainly not solo-moz's best (that would be something from Your Arsenal, and which song it is would change nearly every time I'd try to pick one).

I know what you mean about Yoshimi being dull - I mean, it's meant to be such as a soundtrack to a never-made Anime film, right?  Is that the idea?  I find it pleasant background music.  And I like that one part about not letting the automatons eat me.

That Piazza song from the penultimate Belle et Sebastian is probably the only song I didn't like from DCW.  Go figure.

I haven't heard the Starlight Mints, so I'll have to check them out.  I also like early R.E.M.   Strangeways, though, is not the Smith's best album (that would be The Queen is Dead) and now that I think about it, it's probably their worst album.  Which is to say, it's still very good.

I also like early Warner Bros. R.E.M.  I think from Green through New Adventures in Hi-Fi are about as good as pop music gets (barring the lapses of things like Radio Song or Ignoreland).

Also, Keith, are you familiar with the Velvet Underground?  They are the best band ever.  Just thought you should know.

[KeithHernandez]

Recently I have been listening to a lot of stuff I has amazed with in high-school. 

Lots of Lou Reed/ Velvet Underground, Bob Dylan, Flaming Lips and the Stone Roses.  I don't know how one can listen to anything else at this point.  Also, the Talking Heads and the Clash are getting hell of spins on my record player.

Word. 

Honestly, I haven't listened to much solo Moz.  My friend burnt me a copy of Your Arsenal, but I have never gotten around to listening to it.  I really just loved Marr and Rourke

My favorite Smiths album is The Smiths, but Strangeways is my second favorite.  I was just telling him to listen to the first song on the album.  I forgot what it is called... A rush and a push and the land is ours or something.  I don't know, Queen is Dead is awesome too.  I like them all equally, except Meat is Murder.  And the two compilations are awesome as well.

Yea, R.E.M. was pretty much awesome until they started releasing crap albums (the last three, all after new adventures). 


The Starlight Mints are okay, I wouldn't put that much effort or money into getting it.  If you can download it easily it might be worth it.  They are from my town and I was just seeing if anyone else had any experience with them. 

Sorry about bringing up the Lips again, I was just responding to Mite.  That is the same reason I brought up the Starlight Mints as well.

Edit: I made a top 25 bands thread, which placed VU at 7.  Ah, anyday it could be as high as 2 (nothing can ever beat Dylan between 63 and 68, for personal reasons) or as low as 15.

[Drygioni]

I love early R.E.M.  Also, for the Flaming Lips fans out there, especially The Soft Bulletin, you should check out the Super Furry Animals.  They have recorded some songs together and are kind of similiar (Kind of).  Is there someway I can like put a sample song somewhere for people to download, or something?

Super Furry Animals are certainly awesome. Some of their songs are just perfect: Slow Life is just fantastic. Fantastic fantastic. I'm not so sure on the Flaming Lips comparison, but any band that drives around Britain in a massive tank cannot be bad.

[KeithHernandez]

I'm not so sure on the Flaming Lips comparison, but any band that drives around Britain in a massive tank cannot be bad.

The comparison is almost deeper than music, although I think their music is fairly comparable. 

SFA Drives around in a huge tank.  The Flaming Lips run around in a big crowd surfing ball.  The aesthetics are the same I guess.

Both are like neo-psychedelic and started out kind of the same.  Really though, if you like the Flaming Lips you will probably like SFA, unless you just like the Lips cause they are cool.

[V-Adore]

I also like early Warner Bros. R.E.M.  I think from Green through New Adventures in Hi-Fi are about as good as pop music gets (barring the lapses of things like Radio Song or Ignoreland).

I'm the only person on the face of the earth who likes Radio Song, aren't I?

Ah, well. Ignoreland we can agree sort of sucked, in the sense that it was still better than most other music.

[jough]

Oh, c'mon.  You liked the idiotic KRS-1 on that too?

[FlipConstantine]

Because this is highly tangential to this thread, was I the only person who never noticed that "Blue Flowers" samples Yoshi's voice? 

That's so fuck*ng cool.

Anyway carry on with your discussion, don't mind me.

[V-Adore]

Oh, c'mon.  You liked the idiotic KRS-1 on that too?

I wouldn't say I liked it, but it didn't bug me that badly, and the rest of the song was good. So there!

[wombat]

My MP3 player is haunted by KRS-1.  It came with some music already loaded, and no matter what I do, I can't delete some of it  - I think Jimi Hendrix refused to go away, too.

[jough]

Why would you want Jimi Hendrix to go away?