The last band I got into properly was The National, and I heard them for the first time over a year ago.
Since then nothing I've heard or read about has grabbed me. I just find myself going over and over my old music collection.
Am I doomed, or have I just been unlucky this past year?
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Check out www.myspace.com/guildeangang. Might no be what you are into straight away but give it a week and you won't be able to get it out of your head!!
Retribution Gospel Choir?
You might dig 'em.
foals
as much as they are the subject of mockery on here these days, I still think they're actually quite good
Wow!!!
I have the opposite problem - too much new stuff to listen to and too little time.
Give me a genre/style etc you want to hear and I will give you a classic.
Well,
It's not that I'm not HEARING new music, I just don't like any of it.
I think my problem is that, of any given genre, I'll like SOME of the bands within it, rather than liking the genre as a whole. Example: My favourite band of all time is Mogwai, but I just can't get into Sigur Ros, Mono, or EITS, or any of the other contemporaries you would think I'd be all over.
I'd like to hear something that has a proper tune, is interesting and experimental, but retains it's pop sensibilities.
I do not want to hear any so called math-rock for the record.
And soz Kane, I just don't like Foals!
actually,
scrap 'interesting and experimental' from that...
I want to hear some proper SONGWRITING again you know? Not all this twiddly disco nonsense that's filling the airwaves
P.S
How come everytime i come onto this bloody forum I end up sounding like my dad??
Maybe I should ask him for some recommendations.
proper songwriting - yes yes
some of these might do it for you:
Eugene McGuinness
Fireworks Night
Left With Pictures
Horsebox
Sincerely,
Your Dad.
I will try all those
Thanks Dad
it is balls tho
i dont agree with all the jerky fretboard wankery of the foals. and i especially dont like the way they look.
i just think that type of music is poo-er than a cows arse. give me some acoustic chords and a harmonica anyday.
why does it matter what they look like
i dont particularly like the look of lots of bands i listen to... doesnt mean they dont make nice music.
Okkervill River?
I don't know if it's your cup of tea, but the last album was really quite beautiful.
But it's not super new. The Atlas Sound album is great, but is more drone-y and ambient. Thats all I can think of right now.
Enough for me to be going on with
thanks!
Man after me own heart!
well
for proper songwriting you need Spoon's most recent album.
nyc favourite
i'm currently crazy about this band from brooklyn called standing nudes. i happened to catch them by accident a couple summers ago when i was in nyc and i was blown away. i just got their cd a little while ago - it's called 'ghost story'. they're pretty pop but total rock dogs. the bass player plays these really cool, melodic beatles basslines, the drummer and lead guitarist are total metalheads and the singer/songwriter is all fleetwood mac. she's got a lovely voice. check their myspace out www.myspace.com/standingnudes
Fuck Buttons
I wouldn't worry about it..
..most of it's shite.
I did suspect that might be the case
FUCK BUTTONS
yeah yeah
I will, I promise
are you old?
or just stupid?
i'm
currently listening to 'the last waltz' by the band.
that's how much new music i like.
the national are good though, eh?
are you
retared or bored?
Maybe you need to branch out and hit up some new genres that have scared you in the past?
You're going to suggest I listen to Nine Inch Nails
Aren't you?
Errrm.
Yes.
and Slipknot. and Faith No More.
.....maybe a cheeky throw of Korn?
No? I'll get my trench coat.
neither
i just prefer the band to, say, whoever's shit that i'm meant to like this week.
i'm in no way interested in 'genres' as a concept anyway, just whether it's good.
like, bob dylan's good, slint are good, the smiths are good, afhan whigs are good, faith no more are good, de la soul are good.
other bands less so...
I don't think he was talking to you mate
See post above yours!
:D
yea.....
That comment was directed at the fool above you...its all good though, I feel like we've all bonded a little.
Anyone round mine for pizza and COD4 tonight?
So..
The National album came out last year.
Thats means in the 53 years or rock and roll.
52 years were great then about a year ago it turned terrible.
What are counting as the
beginning of rock and roll?
Im using 1955
of course this could be argued but we would be going rather off topic.
I kind of use Elvis Pressley as the start of Rock and Roll and though he was active in 1954 I attribute 1955 to when he recorded most of his Sun material
Wasn't ACTUALLY what I was saying
Or even implying.
Did I actually say 'There has been NO good music made since the National'?
No, I did not, however, I have not HEARD anything that I have LIKED since then.
Jesus.
So you are saying there is good music but you don't like it?
No
I'm acknowledging that I haven't HEARD ALL MUSIC created since the release of the last National album
Have you heard ALL the music?
No but I have heard a selection of music since The Boxer
a small amount was better and most was worse.
Well
I haven't found anything in the selection of music i've heard since that I've been able to really get into.
Most things i hear I think are OK, or bad, but I haven't been able to get my teeth into anything.
It's not like I sit in a chair drooling waiting for the National to release a new album so I can dust off my iPod.
Hmm maybe pop music is not for you
have you considered any other hobbies, such as dusting?
I don't see why
this article has offended you so much. It was a fairly banal off hand comment designed for people to suggest new music to me.
I don't really feel the need to justify myself to you regarding music and whether it's 'for me' but needless to say I won't be losing sleep over it.
I was only messsing about
but normally when someone says there has been no good music since 19xx translates to I stopped looking for new good music in 19XX
try
Fleet Foxes
Beach House
High Places
Why? Alopecia
El Guincho
The Dodos
Born Ruffians
Times New Viking
Atlas Sound
music is still alive and healthy in 2008
Perhaps I have been lazy
but that was kind of the point of this thread, to get some suggestions, which I now have.
Maybe just unlucky
I feel there's less out there at the moment I like, I certainly feel I have to search more to find something I think 'wow!' about. At the moment I need large doses of ROCK and have no time for anything twee or whimsical.
'new'
rhymes with 'pooh'
therefore
stick to the old stuff :)
hmmm...
you like Mogwai, want tunes. Try Oceansize - great musicians, good songs that border on post-rock, massively under-rated.
...or maybe don't bother listening to new music and listen to the old stuff you already like - you only live once!
don't worry about 'new'
music then, just try and find more music that's been around for a while but you haven't discovered yet.
If you like good songwriting have a listen to Masterfade by Andrew Bird (a song I'm currently obsessed with)
Well you're not trying hard enough
For all the crap indie haircut bands du jour, there's an equal pant-load of exciting, fresh stuff just waiting to be dug up. You just have to look for it. God, it's so easy nowadays, what with Myspace and blogs, YOU'RE NOT TRYING HARD ENOUGH.
I mean, you like The National for crying out loud.. you're not a completely lost cause.
a few samples
The Dodos new album Visiter is rather good.
Pop sensibility returned with Mystery Jets but that album might not be deep enough for you.
Do check out Foals' album, I had been waiting for that release for 2 years now and am impressed with it despite it being different to the demos which were much more cutting and abrasive.
Toe - I'm so into this chilled out progressive rock outfit from Japan, download their EP new sentimentality - http://no-datta.blogspot.com/search?q=toe and let me know what you think, 4/5 tracks that will blow you away in terms of the drumming alone :)
Hope these recommendations help
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5 new(-ish) albums that you may like:
The Boggs - Forts (www.drownedinsound.com/release/view/12185)
Radar Bros - Auditorium
(www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/album-radar-bros-auditorium-chemikal-underground-786384.html)
American Music Club - The Golden Age
(www.bbc.co.uk/music/release/bpf9/)
Why? - Alopecia
(www.drownedinsound.com/release/view/12968)
Charlottefield - What Friends Are For
(www.drownedinsound.com/release/view/12508)
the boggs
the boggs are RAD. i saw them playing with standing nudes who i mentioned above. saw them a few times in nyc actually. they play the blues like total punks. incredible musicians too, although the line-up seems to constantly change a bit around jason friedman. don't think i've seen them with the same line-up twice.
That Charlottefield album is ace
took me a few listens to get into it though.
I'm in a similar situation.
Instead of keeping up with all the new bands you all cream yourselves over, I am currently listening to Rival Schools, and have pretty much only listened to Ryan Adams in the past few weeks...
I find a lot of the newer stuff soulless. I'm talking about the likes of Battles, Animal Collective, and even Foals to a certain extent. They're good fun, but that's about it.
how dare you call animal collective soulless
absolute bastard
if you like the national
try My Morning Jacket, Midlake, Fleet Foxes, Dead Meadow.
For great modern songwriters that are as good as the best from the past try Elliott Smith, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Caribou, Dungen, Liars, Yeasayer
Great suggestion Fleet Foxes
I reallly am enjoying all I have heard from them
.
Looking at your music taste, try;
http://www.myspace.com/frightenedrabbit
http://www.myspace.com/thetwilightsad
I've heard good things about both
I will actually be checking out all these suggestions when i get home, I'll report back with any that grab me by the balls.
have you got all the
National albums? just listen to those if not!
I have
and I do, as well as Pavement (to the guy below).
I'm starting to think maybe all was good just the way it was and all I've done is open a can of irrelevant worms.
And that was the most valuable lesson of all...
And that The Boxer is one of the best albums of the past year and a half and deserves to be listened to forever and ever and ever...
I think it's slowly overtaking Alligator
as my favourite.
Slowly mind...
^ ^^
AGREED!
Just listen to Pavement
It worked for that guy in the other thread.
most new music is terrible
however, if you really like the national have you listened to clogs?
shoegaze-tastic, predating the national (and still going), but contains members of them.
suberb stuff.
theres a band called
high places, from brooklyn, that i heard last week, that are pretty good likes, they've got a album/ep collection out at the moment, called 03/09-07/09. and its mighty fine.
www.myspace.com/hellohighplaces
^ this
High Places are amazing, that album is brilliant, considering it isn't even really an album.
She & Him
I'm going to keep repeating that name until someone pays attention.
M Ward and Zooey Deschanel channel oldies like Carly Simon and the like. A little bit country, a little bit classic pop.
alot of people....
... making out this guy has a problem. just seems like he's normal. it's really only hipsters, teenagers and people with too much time on thier hands that listen to all that new crap.
most people discover one new band or artist that they really love every year. this year for me, oceansize.
but.....
... just to prove i'm not above makign an effort, i'll go and find out what the national and foals sound like.