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[QUOTE=cathal6606;44790827]Gonna need some EDM/ house/ drum and bass recommendations Dont care if its pleb music as long as its intense[/QUOTE] [url]http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1250191[/url] cya
Hi guys. Is anyone willing to share some music, that is similiar to the link posted below? [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ANB0gRhaEk[/url] Thanks!
[IMG]http://o.scdn.co/300/8d1bbb4704fb88969cf8ba4225e9c27d1d1c8093[/IMG] [B]Artist:[/B] Masta Artisan [B]Album:[/B] Rapper's Liebe [B]Genre:[/B] Hip-Hop [B]Info:[/B] The album follows Johnny Jackson, a nervous college student who has never ever had a girl. The album follows Johnny as he meets a girl, becomes her friend.
[img]http://www.metal-archives.com/images/3/6/5/4/365470.jpg?4319[/img] [b]Artist:[/b] Wardruna [b]Album:[/b] Runaljod - Yggdrasil [b]Genre:[/b] Nordic folk/ambient/dark folk [b]Year:[/b] 2013 Wardruna's second album, it's just so fucking awesome to listen to, and also makes up a majority of the music used in the tv show Vikings. Listen [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLU9gcqeOWU]here[/url]
[IMG]http://seanishere.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/panic-at-the-disco-pretty-odd.jpg[/IMG] [B]Pretty. Odd.[/B] by [B][I]Panic! At The Disco[/I][/B] "Things are shaping up to be pretty odd. Little deaths in musical beds. So it seems I'm someone I've never met." Echh, Panic! At The Disco. What can I say? I actually really like them. Well sorta. Your mind might immediately wander to how pretentious they are putting an exclamation point in their name, or "I Write Sins Not Tragedies", (Which isn't a bad song but more on that later) or some of their more recent stuff like "The Ballad of Mona Lisa" (Also not bad but hold on), or probably their newest stuff like "This Is Gospel"(Also not bad hold the fuck on) or "Miss Jackson" (This one is pretty bad okay we've reached it). You see Panic! At The Disco was a guilty pleasure way back when they first came around. They were essentially pop punk emo bullshit pretty run of the mill like their contemporaries Fall Out Boy, Alexis On Fire and so on. But okay. Yeah fine. MOST of their new stuff is pretty shit. But there's a very good reason for it. As well as a reason why I actually really recommend this album. Now again this takes some long winded exposition and I'm sorry for that but you really do need context. It'll make sense with that. I promise. *sparkle sound effect for a scene transition* Now for the time being let's ignore the fact that my significant other really digs this band. (And thinks Brendan Urie is the cutest but she's wrong Ryan Ross is cuter). You see way back in the magical year of 2004ish there existed a band in Las Vegas that was really similar to its contemporaries. You know, pop punk kinda stuff. The kind of music we tend to like when we're 14 or a teenage girl or both. Now you see this band had a strange allure. They approached pop punk stuff in a very weird way, almost avant garde and psychedelic. It was definitely a lot like Fall Out Boy, or The Raconteurs, or Paramore or whatever. But it had this crazy romanticism style in everything. This band which was made up of Ryan Ross and Spencer Smith (also sometimes with Brent Wilson) had vocalist Brendan Urie and bassist Jon Walker join in the frey and they became Panic! At The Disco a while later. Now when they released their debut A Fever You Can't Sweat Out, it was pretty successful. And for good reason, it's a really good album. And that mainly has to do with the whole differentiating approach to pop punk that they chose. Instead of the common emo stylings that was popular at the time they went for this crazy vaudevillian concept. And by they I mean Ryan Ross. Really that album is all him and this is probably the sole reason why Panic's new stuff is pretty bad. Ryan Ross is fantastic is what I'm getting at. The lyrics, which on Fever are fantastic, are all him. The whole concept of the album being a caricature of the victorian era and vaudeville themed (Which by the way is the reason they're called Panic! At The Disco with the exclamation mark and everything, it's both a play on the way newspapers and headlines were written and also has to do with the idea of them being pretentious assholes, as vaudeville often dealt with), was Ross's idea. So yeah you can probably see how being a smart and interesting take on pop punk works out. Mash the new with the old with the older. You know, post modernism. "So what the fuck does this have to do with this album?" As you are no doubt yelling angrily at your computer screen. Well kinda everything. This album is the direction Ryan has always wanted to go. Retro Rock. A smart diatribe on pop music. This album is in many ways a lot like The Beatles and The Rolling Stones psychedelic years. It's commonly compared to Sgt. Pepper in how it makes you feel. I think this album manages to do something more though. There's a lot going on here. It's not just an homage to the 60s and 70s its a loveletter to the modern, baroque, classical, romantic and victorian periods of history. It's also a loveletter to fittingly a lover as well. It certainly deals with that a lot. And it really makes you feel like something we all kinda long for. Somebody to share your life with, or at least your time. Somebody to be truly at home and comfortable with. And this album really does make you feel that. Comfort. Familiarity in the unfamiliar. Like a long road trip with someone you love. Like all the best dates you've ever been on. Like all the best kisses and fucks you've ever tasted. And it doesn't beat you over the head with it. It's not an album "about love" its an album that loves. It's influences, it's experiences, the whole lot. It's comfortable, it's wonderful, it's heart breaking, it's lovesickening and it's comely and homely. It's a lot of damn things that you really need to experience as a whole and the full way through. Seriously give it a chance, you might just become infatuated with it like I did. And now I guess I have to face the elephant in the room. Why is there this diamond in the rest of the shit of their more recent stuff? I guess it's due to Ryan Ross leaving. Like I said that dude is very good at what he does. He seemed to have great ideas and dared to try and execute them and make true labours of love. The whole theme of the band was entirely his inception. So when he left it kind of fell to pieces. It's probably why Panic became a generic pop band. Brendan himself has apparently stated that he was more interested in the pop side of their music while Ryan was focused on the psychedelic retro sound. Their followup Vices & Virtues is basically iffy. It took 2 years to make because part way through Ryan left and Brendan and Spencer had to basically come up with the thing by themselves, and neither of them had the talent for songsmithing like Ryan. Vices & Virtues essentially sounds like a mashup of the first two albums, baroque pop mixed with electronica and vaudeville with a hint of steampunk. Vices has amazing instrumentation and creativity but it ultimately has nothing holding it together. It's no surprise reallly that the best off Vices were produced or based off of Ryan's work that he made right after Pretty. Odd. One of the songs just being one of his own. And so yeah, their newest album Too Weird To Live, Too Rare To Die! is essentially just kind of pop garbage. The only notable tracks being the beginning and the ending, This Is Gospel and The End Of All Things respectively. It sort of tries to tie itself together with a cool theme of the sleazy vegas culture but unfortunately executes it pretty badly. To sum this up, don't let the notions of Panic being a shitty pop punk band let you detract from this masterpiece. They were once actually really good. BONUS ROUND: Go check out Take A Vacation! by The Young Veins. It's Ryan's current band which includes Walker and some other dudes. It's a very good album as well and seems to be a good place for you to pick up after you listen to the first two Panic albums. Thanks for reading this verbose fiasco. [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVJWKrUvX9k&list=PLAED1994FF9DEE799"]Here's the full album on Youtube for your troubles.[/URL]
I've been really digging Mac Demarco as of late, like, so fucking much. That chill laid back groove he got really works. Anyone have anything like him?
[QUOTE=Funktastic Dog;44874864]I've been really digging Mac Demarco as of late, like, so fucking much. That chill laid back groove he got really works. Anyone have anything like him?[/QUOTE] Mac DeMarco had a little band going on before he became his own thing. It was called Makeout Videotape and their album Ying Yang is honesty just as good if not better than his current album Salad Days but a lot less popular. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQZtvdZxr2Q[/media] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NShAW0Z1G6c[/media]
Jambinai - Difference [img]http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/74850840/1.jpg[/img] This is one of the most interesting things I've heard recently Metal music played on traditional Korean instruments. It works really well
[t]http://images.cdn.bigcartel.com/bigcartel/product_images/137973049/max_h-1000+max_w-1000/saor-aura-cover.jpg[/t] Band: [B]Saor[/B] Album: [B]Aura[/B] Genre: [B]Atmospheric Celtic Black Metal[/B] Year: [B]2014[/B] The album Roots quickly ended up on my "Albums of 2013" list. Fairly unsurprisingly, Aura is definitely "Albums of 2014"-material! This time with more celtic folk, post-stuff, and drumming by everyones favourite (of course he is don't you deny it) Austin Lunn! So listen in and feel the bens and glens o' bonnie Alba! [video=youtube;a41bIBvqTP0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a41bIBvqTP0[/video]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/2N1cDiY.jpg[/t] Band: 8 Eyed Spy Album: 8 Eyed Spy Some pretty neat no wave stuff. Has a no wave cover of I Want Candy. It's pretty rad.
[t]http://eihwazrecordings.com/distro/images/panopticon%20-%20roads%20cover.jpg[/t] Band: [B]Panopticon[/B] Album: [B]Roads to the North[/B] Genre: [B]Atmospheric Black Metal/Blackgrass[/B] Year: [B]2014[/B] Now y'all are surprised, huh. Me! Recommending Panopticons latest release! You never thought you'd see the day. If you know panopticon since before you probably know what's in store: Anarchistic blackened bluegrass from Kentucky with a big heaping of norse paganism and awesomeness. But what a twist! This album isn't political. This has more of the philosophical/personal/spiritual material, kinda like '...on the Subject of Mortality'. And it sure is awesome! As usual! [video=youtube;9SIbKRZFmYU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SIbKRZFmYU[/video]
[t]http://en.metal-tracker.com/torrents/images/778120.jpg[/t] Band: [B]Vagrond[/B] Album: [B]Temporal[/B] Genre: [B]Post-Black Metal[/B] Year: [B]2013[/B] And here we have an album I discovered just yesterday that was definitely worthy of a rec. Aussie Depressive Post-Black Metal with hints of Blackgaze of the highest quality! Also [URL="http://vagrond1.bandcamp.com/"]released as pay-what-you-can[/URL], which is always a plus. Highly recommended for fans of Post-Black! [video=youtube;ETl5qtEp81M]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETl5qtEp81M[/video]
sorry sven, but i'll have to break your black metal streak here [img]http://photo1.bababian.com/upload13/20090222/486A103D93D4B6ED5C9D81877562803E.jpg[/img] [url=https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/natural_snow_buildings]Natural Snow Buildings[/url] [url=https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/natural_snow_buildings/ghost_folks/]Ghost Folks[/url] if you're not familiar with NSB's music, they're a fusion of lo-fi folk and drone this album however, coming from their earlier years, is more focused on combining lo-fi folk with post-rock, with a bit of drone spicing it up it's very accessible and one of their shorter albums (only about an hour and 5 minutes) and absolutely fantastic the lo-fi sound might take some getting used to, but it's such an incredible and emotional album that it's worth getting into my favorite track is probably "...", which is just this weird 3 minute track of muffled sounds, but the atmosphere is so insanely dense that i can't help but completely drown in it whenever it plays, i wish it was longer the album is free on Last.FM, but is sadly only 128kbps, though that doesn't matter [I]that[/I] much considering how low quality the sound is regardless worth picking up for anyone whose interested in atmospheric, lo-fi music [quote][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcncSV_C3_k[/media][/quote]
Okay. I've been listening to an anthology of Tim Buckley's songs for a couple of years now, but I've never really been able to appreciate one of his albums fully. Song To the Siren and Lorca had some highlights, but the abstract parts of the album were just not appealing to me at all. Could someone please suggest to me an album of his that they really liked?
[QUOTE='Poesidan [GAG];46321825']Okay. I've been listening to an anthology of Tim Buckley's songs for a couple of years now, but I've never really been able to appreciate one of his albums fully. Song To the Siren and Lorca had some highlights, but the abstract parts of the album were just not appealing to me at all. Could someone please suggest to me an album of his that they really liked?[/QUOTE] Happy Sad is really good but if you didn't like Lorca I don't see much hope in you liking Tim Buckley's other music. [editline]25th October 2014[/editline] Starsailor is a really nice one too.
[QUOTE=Mamok Zalku;44863353][IMG]http://seanishere.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/panic-at-the-disco-pretty-odd.jpg[/IMG] [B]Pretty. Odd.[/B] by [B][I]Panic! At The Disco[/I][/B] "Things are shaping up to be pretty odd. Little deaths in musical beds. So it seems I'm someone I've never met." Echh, Panic! At The Disco. What can I say? I actually really like them. Well sorta. Your mind might immediately wander to how pretentious they are putting an exclamation point in their name, or "I Write Sins Not Tragedies", (Which isn't a bad song but more on that later) or some of their more recent stuff like "The Ballad of Mona Lisa" (Also not bad but hold on), or probably their newest stuff like "This Is Gospel"(Also not bad hold the fuck on) or "Miss Jackson" (This one is pretty bad okay we've reached it). You see Panic! At The Disco was a guilty pleasure way back when they first came around. They were essentially pop punk emo bullshit pretty run of the mill like their contemporaries Fall Out Boy, Alexis On Fire and so on. But okay. Yeah fine. MOST of their new stuff is pretty shit. But there's a very good reason for it. As well as a reason why I actually really recommend this album. Now again this takes some long winded exposition and I'm sorry for that but you really do need context. It'll make sense with that. I promise. *sparkle sound effect for a scene transition* Now for the time being let's ignore the fact that my significant other really digs this band. (And thinks Brendan Urie is the cutest but she's wrong Ryan Ross is cuter). You see way back in the magical year of 2004ish there existed a band in Las Vegas that was really similar to its contemporaries. You know, pop punk kinda stuff. The kind of music we tend to like when we're 14 or a teenage girl or both. Now you see this band had a strange allure. They approached pop punk stuff in a very weird way, almost avant garde and psychedelic. It was definitely a lot like Fall Out Boy, or The Raconteurs, or Paramore or whatever. But it had this crazy romanticism style in everything. This band which was made up of Ryan Ross and Spencer Smith (also sometimes with Brent Wilson) had vocalist Brendan Urie and bassist Jon Walker join in the frey and they became Panic! At The Disco a while later. Now when they released their debut A Fever You Can't Sweat Out, it was pretty successful. And for good reason, it's a really good album. And that mainly has to do with the whole differentiating approach to pop punk that they chose. Instead of the common emo stylings that was popular at the time they went for this crazy vaudevillian concept. And by they I mean Ryan Ross. Really that album is all him and this is probably the sole reason why Panic's new stuff is pretty bad. Ryan Ross is fantastic is what I'm getting at. The lyrics, which on Fever are fantastic, are all him. The whole concept of the album being a caricature of the victorian era and vaudeville themed (Which by the way is the reason they're called Panic! At The Disco with the exclamation mark and everything, it's both a play on the way newspapers and headlines were written and also has to do with the idea of them being pretentious assholes, as vaudeville often dealt with), was Ross's idea. So yeah you can probably see how being a smart and interesting take on pop punk works out. Mash the new with the old with the older. You know, post modernism. "So what the fuck does this have to do with this album?" As you are no doubt yelling angrily at your computer screen. Well kinda everything. This album is the direction Ryan has always wanted to go. Retro Rock. A smart diatribe on pop music. This album is in many ways a lot like The Beatles and The Rolling Stones psychedelic years. It's commonly compared to Sgt. Pepper in how it makes you feel. I think this album manages to do something more though. There's a lot going on here. It's not just an homage to the 60s and 70s its a loveletter to the modern, baroque, classical, romantic and victorian periods of history. It's also a loveletter to fittingly a lover as well. It certainly deals with that a lot. And it really makes you feel like something we all kinda long for. Somebody to share your life with, or at least your time. Somebody to be truly at home and comfortable with. And this album really does make you feel that. Comfort. Familiarity in the unfamiliar. Like a long road trip with someone you love. Like all the best dates you've ever been on. Like all the best kisses and fucks you've ever tasted. And it doesn't beat you over the head with it. It's not an album "about love" its an album that loves. It's influences, it's experiences, the whole lot. It's comfortable, it's wonderful, it's heart breaking, it's lovesickening and it's comely and homely. It's a lot of damn things that you really need to experience as a whole and the full way through. Seriously give it a chance, you might just become infatuated with it like I did. And now I guess I have to face the elephant in the room. Why is there this diamond in the rest of the shit of their more recent stuff? I guess it's due to Ryan Ross leaving. Like I said that dude is very good at what he does. He seemed to have great ideas and dared to try and execute them and make true labours of love. The whole theme of the band was entirely his inception. So when he left it kind of fell to pieces. It's probably why Panic became a generic pop band. Brendan himself has apparently stated that he was more interested in the pop side of their music while Ryan was focused on the psychedelic retro sound. Their followup Vices & Virtues is basically iffy. It took 2 years to make because part way through Ryan left and Brendan and Spencer had to basically come up with the thing by themselves, and neither of them had the talent for songsmithing like Ryan. Vices & Virtues essentially sounds like a mashup of the first two albums, baroque pop mixed with electronica and vaudeville with a hint of steampunk. Vices has amazing instrumentation and creativity but it ultimately has nothing holding it together. It's no surprise reallly that the best off Vices were produced or based off of Ryan's work that he made right after Pretty. Odd. One of the songs just being one of his own. And so yeah, their newest album Too Weird To Live, Too Rare To Die! is essentially just kind of pop garbage. The only notable tracks being the beginning and the ending, This Is Gospel and The End Of All Things respectively. It sort of tries to tie itself together with a cool theme of the sleazy vegas culture but unfortunately executes it pretty badly. To sum this up, don't let the notions of Panic being a shitty pop punk band let you detract from this masterpiece. They were once actually really good. BONUS ROUND: Go check out Take A Vacation! by The Young Veins. It's Ryan's current band which includes Walker and some other dudes. It's a very good album as well and seems to be a good place for you to pick up after you listen to the first two Panic albums. Thanks for reading this verbose fiasco. [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVJWKrUvX9k&list=PLAED1994FF9DEE799"]Here's the full album on Youtube for your troubles.[/URL][/QUOTE] Great write up! Sadly, The Young Veins broke up citing personal reasons carried over from Panic!. Jon Walker released a free album called Connections recently. Sadly Ryan isn't doing much as of recent.
[IMG]http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/97988409/III+BBNG.png[/IMG] Band: BADBADNOTGOOD Album: III Genre: Jazz Year: 2014 [video=youtube;caY0MEok19I]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caY0MEok19I[/video]
[t]http://f1.bcbits.com/img/a0747429254_10.jpg[/t] Band: The Microphones Album: Mount Eerie Genre: Avant Folk (experimental) Year: 2003 My favorite album of all time. One needs to realize the brilliance behind Phil Elverum's dynamics in this album. At points, the album has this profound ability to hit extremely hard, but in a matter of seconds it turns around and becomes something ethereal and soft. Give the album a chance, though. The first song is 18 minutes long, but realize that this album is completely based around a conceptual story, so just listening to a couple songs off of it does not do it justice. The song below is one of the more accessible songs. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlW8DFbOY0Y[/media]
Band: Slowdive Album: Pygmalion Genre: Shoegaze/post-rock Year: 1995 A lot of people know Slowdive's album Souvlaki, which is considered one of the most well known shoegaze albums. I like that album a lot, but I personally think that Pygmalion is not only their better album, it's one of the best albums ever. I can't even begin to describe how this album makes me feel. It's such a beautiful, swirly, mysterious album. I don't listen to it very often because I have to be in the right mindset for it, but I don't think I'll ever get tired of this album. [video=youtube;MolWR6X29Zc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MolWR6X29Zc[/video]
[URL="http://www.last.fm/music/Colugo/Hello+Yellow+Fellow"][IMG]http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/8841013/Hello+Yellow+Fellow+cover.jpg[/IMG][/url] [URL="http://www.last.fm/music/Colugo/Hello+Yellow+Fellow"]Colugo - Hello Yellow Fellow[/URL] Released in 2008, It's some silly, quirky electronic music. Noteable songs on it are "Make us all happy" and "Jim Thompson" I listen to this album alot, one of my favourites. Sadly only available at 128kbps at last.fm, he probably had the files in a higher quality, but he lost them.
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