BenJepheneT
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okay masks off i just want recommendations I'm in a musical rut and nothing seems to click with me and I don't want to exhaust my backlog because I want to keep them fresh from being fed up to listen to
here's some of mine
I'll add a little description on the side to tell you what to expect from these bangers, don't worry
The Brave Little Abacus
Just Got Back From Discomfort - We're Alright
So the first thing you'd think from listening to this "this guy shouldn't be allowed near a microphone". Imagine Spongebob reaching an emo phase and screaming Nine Inch Nails, that's what to expect. Though the production value and sound mixing can be put on par with ketchup packets, the strong point this emo album holds is the sheer visceral emotion it brings. In some way, the barely held structure of the album and the sudden use of N64 sound effects and the trumpets give the indie album a sort of flair that can't be rivalled. It gives this weird sort of feeling like a diary of a misunderstood, downtrodden teenage kid being presented in an angry music form.
Long story short, listen to the first 5 minutes of pile! no pile! pile! and see if you like it. If you do, you probably would like the rest of the album.
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Neutral Milk Hotel
In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
This is hard to explain but if I have to describe it, it's like Scandavanian folk song played by a rock band amplified through an Xbox Live microphone. That's all I'm saying. If that entices you, you would probably love this album, along with its Anne Frank references and nonsensical lyrics and the two best instrumentals to ever be tied into a collection of absolute bangers.
[untitled] and Holland, 1945 gets me on my feet every time.
Pink Floyd
Wish You Were Here
There's not much to say in this, other than I absolutely love the shit out of all 9 parts of Shine on You Crazy Diamond and that Have a Cigar, though an enjoyable song, should not be in this album whatsoever. It's the classic progressive, psychedelic rock the classic band is always known for at their peak, in my humble opinion.
The way I look at Shine on You Crazy Diamond is like seeing all the highs and lows of your past history, seeing it with the strumming beats of guitars and the swinging saxophones, all of it to culminate to a quote, telling us to Shine and keep on doing so. I relate this heavily to the main character of the story I'm working at so you could definitely say it's emotional bias doing its part.
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
Imagine a spiral down the depths of hell. Not the fiery kind of hell, but the purgatory kind of hell. A hell which the only screams you can hear are yours and the distant past memories in your head. Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven starts off strong with Storm, an absolute opening that still kicks me in the feels every fucking time. The way the strings elevate you into the highest of emotions, only to leave you hanging by the ten-minute mark and slowly pull you down into the emotional darkness of introspection and having it amplified at Static. Sleep starts off with a quote about Coney Island, where the darkest of the tracklisting come to life, only for the last track of the album, Antennas to Heaven leave you with a choice; to either get consumed by that darkness or just discard your mind and let it be.
In short, this doesn't make sense. It's a one hour + instrumental that keeps on going without much variation besides sad violin and static supermarket announcements. But if I got that kinda vibe from it, you probably can too.
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Luciferian Towers
Melancholic anger is probably the way to describe it. All 3 parts of both Bosses Hang and Anthem of No State presents this controlled but violent rage to tear down and wreak havoc among something. Anything. A government. An establishment. And best of all, it doesn't give a Good VS Bad scenario within the music. No tune or rhythm to symbolise heroic feats and the struggle through wickedness. Just the feeling of being sick of it all and tearing it down.
The Chameleons
What Does Anything Mean? Basically
I just like the way it sounds.
The Smiths
The Queen is Dead
Imagine The Beatles but depressed. No, I'm not done yet. Imagine them being depressed, but being grown out of it, and are now singing for the hell of it without a care in the world, while indulging in their sadness once in a while as a form of cope. It starts off mild but sets a tone for the rest of the album for you to hear. It's got this retrospective vibe in the tracks as if they're laughing at old things or just ranting about some guy they hated back in the bar in the 70s or some shit. Sometimes they sing about the future and talk about what they want to do, which brings me to my favourite track in the whole album.
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out is some king shit. Listen to it.
Coachwhips
Bangers Vs. Fuckers
Is the most 5/10 album I've ever heard and it's a definite 9/10 from me. It's basically Noise Rock but with some semblance of cohesion for it to be classified as Garage Rock. It's got all the things you'd come to expect from a Garage Rock album; lots of static, banging drums, shitty vocal quality and just noise in general.
Okay, I have to admit, this is something of a personal taste. There is absolutely nothing special to be lauded upon in this album other than being really fucking good at what it set out to do. It's built like a Greatest Hits album but every track has a sense of cohesion with the other, giving this consistent 30 minute bang fest of trashing snares and violent riffs. This is a "listen to one, listen to all" kind of scenario but it also leaves you, me at least, wanting more.
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Orange
Smoking hot jazz disguised as "blues". I think it's best to describe this as New York underground music. It's a blue-collar type shit with sudden bursts of riffs and low, deep-throated vocals sounding like those stock "oh yeah" sound effects. The sound has a very special type of "sexy" imprinted into it. To put it in a language you could understand, it's something that'll get women from the late 80s supremely wet.
Not convinced to listen? Alright. Remember that opening scene from Baby Driver with the guy shouting Bellbottoms and Blues Explosion? Yeah, it came from this. If you like that, you'll like this.
Small Faces
Ogden's Nut Gone Flake
Look, it's old British fun. It has the happy la-di-da vibe with the occasional narration from an old man as it transitions into ballads after ballads of feel-good songs. But it's no acoustic, sit-in-a-picnic-under-the-sunlight kind of feel-good. It's The Beatle's Helter Skelter cut in half and spread across all the other songs. It's classic British rock, all in all.
Death Grips
The Money Store
It has sound, and the guy screams every once in a while. It's a "my type of shit" sort of thing. If you like experimental stuff go for it. There's no set genre for Death Grips' music. It's basically lots of sound and lots of screaming.
Anderson Paak.
Ventura
Feels. It's the kind of album you listen to on bed while you hug your pillow and imagine a loving trad wife hugging you back while the vocal goes "Do you wanna make it better?" It's the kind of album you listen to when you lay your head on your wife's lap. It's the kind of album you hold hands with your crush in high school under a lit bus stop in a rainy night, knowing very well that it will be delayed and even then, the trip would take a long time.
It's a mix between modern rap and the slow romantic songs from the mid-90s. Some good shit, I'd say.
Code Elektro
Triads
Cyberpunk Synthwave. Again, it's a "my type of shit" kind of an album. Lon, drawn-out, oppressive tunes to elevate the atmosphere of a cyberpunk city in a rut, with the occasional fast-beat tunes to show a sense of survival and rising revolution to paint the chaos of being a beast in the neon-washed urban jungle. To make it simple, it's the kind of music best listened to in an underground subway while wearing a black hoodie. It's less of a collection of songs but more like atmospheric tunes.
Night Train probably proves my point the most.
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i have more but i don't feel like listing them out, at least for now.
got any good stuff for me?
here's some of mine
I'll add a little description on the side to tell you what to expect from these bangers, don't worry
The Brave Little Abacus
Just Got Back From Discomfort - We're Alright
So the first thing you'd think from listening to this "this guy shouldn't be allowed near a microphone". Imagine Spongebob reaching an emo phase and screaming Nine Inch Nails, that's what to expect. Though the production value and sound mixing can be put on par with ketchup packets, the strong point this emo album holds is the sheer visceral emotion it brings. In some way, the barely held structure of the album and the sudden use of N64 sound effects and the trumpets give the indie album a sort of flair that can't be rivalled. It gives this weird sort of feeling like a diary of a misunderstood, downtrodden teenage kid being presented in an angry music form.
Long story short, listen to the first 5 minutes of pile! no pile! pile! and see if you like it. If you do, you probably would like the rest of the album.
Neutral Milk Hotel
In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
This is hard to explain but if I have to describe it, it's like Scandavanian folk song played by a rock band amplified through an Xbox Live microphone. That's all I'm saying. If that entices you, you would probably love this album, along with its Anne Frank references and nonsensical lyrics and the two best instrumentals to ever be tied into a collection of absolute bangers.
[untitled] and Holland, 1945 gets me on my feet every time.
Pink Floyd
Wish You Were Here
There's not much to say in this, other than I absolutely love the shit out of all 9 parts of Shine on You Crazy Diamond and that Have a Cigar, though an enjoyable song, should not be in this album whatsoever. It's the classic progressive, psychedelic rock the classic band is always known for at their peak, in my humble opinion.
The way I look at Shine on You Crazy Diamond is like seeing all the highs and lows of your past history, seeing it with the strumming beats of guitars and the swinging saxophones, all of it to culminate to a quote, telling us to Shine and keep on doing so. I relate this heavily to the main character of the story I'm working at so you could definitely say it's emotional bias doing its part.
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
Imagine a spiral down the depths of hell. Not the fiery kind of hell, but the purgatory kind of hell. A hell which the only screams you can hear are yours and the distant past memories in your head. Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven starts off strong with Storm, an absolute opening that still kicks me in the feels every fucking time. The way the strings elevate you into the highest of emotions, only to leave you hanging by the ten-minute mark and slowly pull you down into the emotional darkness of introspection and having it amplified at Static. Sleep starts off with a quote about Coney Island, where the darkest of the tracklisting come to life, only for the last track of the album, Antennas to Heaven leave you with a choice; to either get consumed by that darkness or just discard your mind and let it be.
In short, this doesn't make sense. It's a one hour + instrumental that keeps on going without much variation besides sad violin and static supermarket announcements. But if I got that kinda vibe from it, you probably can too.
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Luciferian Towers
Melancholic anger is probably the way to describe it. All 3 parts of both Bosses Hang and Anthem of No State presents this controlled but violent rage to tear down and wreak havoc among something. Anything. A government. An establishment. And best of all, it doesn't give a Good VS Bad scenario within the music. No tune or rhythm to symbolise heroic feats and the struggle through wickedness. Just the feeling of being sick of it all and tearing it down.
The Chameleons
What Does Anything Mean? Basically
I just like the way it sounds.
The Smiths
The Queen is Dead
Imagine The Beatles but depressed. No, I'm not done yet. Imagine them being depressed, but being grown out of it, and are now singing for the hell of it without a care in the world, while indulging in their sadness once in a while as a form of cope. It starts off mild but sets a tone for the rest of the album for you to hear. It's got this retrospective vibe in the tracks as if they're laughing at old things or just ranting about some guy they hated back in the bar in the 70s or some shit. Sometimes they sing about the future and talk about what they want to do, which brings me to my favourite track in the whole album.
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out is some king shit. Listen to it.
Coachwhips
Bangers Vs. Fuckers
Is the most 5/10 album I've ever heard and it's a definite 9/10 from me. It's basically Noise Rock but with some semblance of cohesion for it to be classified as Garage Rock. It's got all the things you'd come to expect from a Garage Rock album; lots of static, banging drums, shitty vocal quality and just noise in general.
Okay, I have to admit, this is something of a personal taste. There is absolutely nothing special to be lauded upon in this album other than being really fucking good at what it set out to do. It's built like a Greatest Hits album but every track has a sense of cohesion with the other, giving this consistent 30 minute bang fest of trashing snares and violent riffs. This is a "listen to one, listen to all" kind of scenario but it also leaves you, me at least, wanting more.
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Orange
Smoking hot jazz disguised as "blues". I think it's best to describe this as New York underground music. It's a blue-collar type shit with sudden bursts of riffs and low, deep-throated vocals sounding like those stock "oh yeah" sound effects. The sound has a very special type of "sexy" imprinted into it. To put it in a language you could understand, it's something that'll get women from the late 80s supremely wet.
Not convinced to listen? Alright. Remember that opening scene from Baby Driver with the guy shouting Bellbottoms and Blues Explosion? Yeah, it came from this. If you like that, you'll like this.
Small Faces
Ogden's Nut Gone Flake
Look, it's old British fun. It has the happy la-di-da vibe with the occasional narration from an old man as it transitions into ballads after ballads of feel-good songs. But it's no acoustic, sit-in-a-picnic-under-the-sunlight kind of feel-good. It's The Beatle's Helter Skelter cut in half and spread across all the other songs. It's classic British rock, all in all.
Death Grips
The Money Store
It has sound, and the guy screams every once in a while. It's a "my type of shit" sort of thing. If you like experimental stuff go for it. There's no set genre for Death Grips' music. It's basically lots of sound and lots of screaming.
Anderson Paak.
Ventura
Feels. It's the kind of album you listen to on bed while you hug your pillow and imagine a loving trad wife hugging you back while the vocal goes "Do you wanna make it better?" It's the kind of album you listen to when you lay your head on your wife's lap. It's the kind of album you hold hands with your crush in high school under a lit bus stop in a rainy night, knowing very well that it will be delayed and even then, the trip would take a long time.
It's a mix between modern rap and the slow romantic songs from the mid-90s. Some good shit, I'd say.
Code Elektro
Triads
Cyberpunk Synthwave. Again, it's a "my type of shit" kind of an album. Lon, drawn-out, oppressive tunes to elevate the atmosphere of a cyberpunk city in a rut, with the occasional fast-beat tunes to show a sense of survival and rising revolution to paint the chaos of being a beast in the neon-washed urban jungle. To make it simple, it's the kind of music best listened to in an underground subway while wearing a black hoodie. It's less of a collection of songs but more like atmospheric tunes.
Night Train probably proves my point the most.
i have more but i don't feel like listing them out, at least for now.
got any good stuff for me?
You are an interesting human being.