Author Topic: What Music are you listening to in 2013? (Read 37067 times)

superaielman · « **Reply #750 on:** October 18, 2013, 01:02:19 AM »

Device- Close my eyes forever

Grefter · « **Reply #751 on:** October 23, 2013, 08:35:17 AM »

Gigamesh - All My Life.

So happy right now you guys.

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #752 on:** October 23, 2013, 10:32:27 AM »

This Mortal Coil - The Lacemaker

Grefter · « **Reply #753 on:** October 23, 2013, 01:10:34 PM »

Never mind, happiness solved.

Green Day - Brain Stew.

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #754 on:** October 24, 2013, 03:39:16 PM »

PJ Harvey - 50 Feet Queenie

Grefter · « **Reply #755 on:** October 24, 2013, 03:45:05 PM »

The Jezabels - Electric Lover.

Sierra · « **Reply #756 on:** October 26, 2013, 04:18:30 PM »

The Pixies: Monkey Gone to Heaven

Still kinda surprised this isn't a Snow thing. But I guess I shouldn't be.

Idun · « **Reply #757 on:** October 27, 2013, 05:59:19 AM »

Awwww yeeee'eeeeeea *clap clap clap clap thigh wobble twerk drop it like it's hawwwwwwwwwwwt*

Nicki Minaj - Roman Reloaded

bang mah shit bang it bang bang

dance withdrawals from dc!! D:<

BANG BANG
*booty bounce*

TranceHime · « **Reply #758 on:** October 27, 2013, 04:09:39 PM »

Clazziquai - Fiesta

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #759 on:** October 27, 2013, 05:41:31 PM »

Arcade Fire - Reflektor

So, yeah, this is a thing.

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #760 on:** October 27, 2013, 06:22:20 PM »

Arcade Fire - You Already Know

Holy crap, this is what happens when Arcade Fire decides to drown in early '80s Bowie and Motown so far. GUESS HOW ABSOLUTELY EXCELLENT THIS IS (answer: omgyes).

VySaika · « **Reply #761 on:** October 28, 2013, 06:38:21 PM »

A Fine Frenzy - Rangers

I think I've hyped this before, but this band is really good. Kind of upbeat and mellow at the same time, a blend I'm really fond of.

Lady Door · « **Reply #762 on:** October 28, 2013, 06:39:44 PM »

Thanks to Andrew playing Step Mania and downloading songs, I have been introduced to speedcore. This is precisely the kind of music I like to turn my brain off to. It's great to put on in the background while I'm working, or to listen to while working out.

The danger for me is in stepping up to terrorcore or higher: that many BPMs is awesome, but is going to get fatiguing if I listen to this repeatedly and for any great length of time.

Also, terrorcore (and some speedcore) is a little closer to death metal than I'd like a lot of the time. That is, despite being samples and remixes, it focuses a lot on topics I'd rather avoid, and it dodges too close to atonality to be any fun. Occasionally I get a good one -- completely random -- that samples from Family Guy, but more often it's stuff like "eat shit and die" and "listen you fuckers". Which, you know, ugh.

Where's my happy fun-times terrorcore?!

EDIT: lol. ask and ye shall receive. This one is remixing "It's a Small World" and voice clips from Anchorman.

superaielman · « **Reply #763 on:** October 28, 2013, 07:23:21 PM »

The Jezabels- Endless Summer

This may be my favorite new band I've heard in ages.

Sierra · « **Reply #764 on:** October 28, 2013, 08:42:40 PM »

Beethoven: 3rd Symphony

Take that, Napoleon.

It amuses me that Beethoven freaked out over Napoleon crowning himself emperor when he himself went through life sticking a "von" in his name to proclaim noble birth he didn't actually have. Balanced the man was not. (He got away with it anyway because Beethoven.)

Grefter · « **Reply #765 on:** October 29, 2013, 07:26:43 AM »

I meant to reply to this all day but haven't had a chance to actually listen to music so here is just a straight up response.

I think you are mixing up the emotional content than the lyrical content of metal there a bit Ash. Like I have mentioned in the past, Parkway Drive - Atlas is pretty much an album that is all about being more green and how we are killing the world. It is essentially a pretty positive album all up (a few songs of YOLO Carpe Diem lets fucking party all night stuff), but its metal, so it sounds super angry. Even speed metal stuff can have some breadth from your Slayer Raining Blood/Three Inches of Blood songs about killing a bunch of orcs to stuff like Parkway (and this is ignoring the amazing high fantasy epics of more melodic stuff that is easy to find like Nightwish. Who cover Phantom of the Opera and sing about fucking Tolkien and shit).

That said, totally understand wanting to avoid that kind of emotional content as well as some of the lyrical content.

I would actually recommend digging back into the past about 10 or so years and finding a genre called Happy Hardcore. It is high BPM dance tracks that is pretty much everyone pretending to be a Japanese Teenage Girl. It may as well be Hello Kitty converted into music form and pumped full of sugar.

I can't really vouch for any artists directly in the genre, but related band that I can pimp out is Happyland (uses Happy Hardcore aesthetic and more standard pop tunes). They have one album and should give you an idea of the flavour at least. They are a mash up of two other local Aussie bands that are great but not really in the genre (Regurgitator are electronic stuff, Spiderbait are a good rock group that when they have their female singer tend to be very upbeat (sounding).

Grefter · « **Reply #766 on:** October 29, 2013, 03:00:50 PM »

Empire of the Sun - DNA

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #767 on:** October 29, 2013, 05:52:54 PM »

Arcade Fire - It's Never Over (Oh Orpheus)

I might listen to some other album in like December at this rate.

Luther Lansfeld · « **Reply #768 on:** October 29, 2013, 06:47:25 PM »

Opeth - Heritage

Definitely like this band better when they aren't being as death metal.

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #769 on:** October 31, 2013, 04:59:41 PM »

Arcade Fire - Afterlife

Oh dear god.

Luther Lansfeld · « **Reply #770 on:** November 06, 2013, 11:33:28 PM »

Arcade Fire - Flashbulb Eyes

Not sure how to feel about this album.

Sierra · « **Reply #771 on:** November 07, 2013, 12:22:03 AM »

Like most double-albums, they safely could've axed 30% of the material and cut it down to one disc. I do like the first disc in general (though Flashbulb Eyes is a pointless blob of white noise) but found the second to be pretty throwaway on first listen.

Sierra · « **Reply #772 on:** November 07, 2013, 08:56:38 PM »

Amended somewhat on second listen, Supersymmetry can stay and Afterlife is genuinely good. Rest of the second disc is fluff!

Luther Lansfeld · « **Reply #773 on:** November 07, 2013, 08:59:16 PM »

Opeth - Hope Leaves

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #774 on:** November 08, 2013, 11:57:49 AM »

Quote from: El Cideon on November 07, 2013, 12:22:03 AM

Like most double-albums, they safely could've axed 30% of the material and cut it down to one disc. I do like the first disc in general (though Flashbulb Eyes is a pointless blob of white noise) but found the second to be pretty throwaway on first listen.

Second album is -glorious- and has pretty much the best songs in the collection. And I actually disagree with you - I don't think I could axe a single song in Reflektor, even though it's fucking -longer- than The Suburbs (and that one could stand to lose a third of its songs for absolutely no loss). Reflektor's probably the least inviting album they've made on first listen by far, but it -really- starts sticking with you as you delve into it. But then, I spent a full week listening to nothing but that album in order to collect impressions, so YMMV.

This Mortal Coil - The Lacemaker

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Author Topic: What Music are you listening to in 2013? (Read 37067 times)

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