The Music Listening Thread...

[cayton]

Didnt post a link earlier in thread so found 1. This is what my 12 year old listens 2 (amber pacific)

YouTube - Amber Pacific You're Only Young Once

[TylerStroud]

Postal Service did a version of Against All Odds (The Phil Colins one) which is AMAZING. Ill link you Matt. It was in Wicker Park. Which was a decidedly average film.

YouTube - The Postal Service - Against All Odds

[TomPich]

Wow, really like The Postal Service 10/10 - my kind of tunes for sure. Have heard of them before, and almost went to one of their gigs, but haven't really listened to much of their stuff. Definitely going to check out a load more of their stuff on spotify.

Edit: Love all this plinky plonky beepy tune stuff. I reckon TomPich has a very similar taste in tunes to me.

The Postal Service have only ever released one album, Give Up.

They are a side project to the lead guy from Death Cab For Cutie. The whole album was done by sending vocals and samples back and forth hence the name postal service.

I doubt they'll ever release another album. Shame you didnt go and see em live, doubt they'll perform again unless they put together the long awaited second album.

I 100% advise getting the give up album, probably one of the best albums i own.

[TomPich]

Postal Service did a version of Against All Odds (The Phil Colins one) which is AMAZING. Ill link you Matt. It was in Wicker Park. Which was a decidedly average film.

YouTube - The Postal Service - Against All Odds

Yes i have this I can send it to whoever wants it as its not protected. v nice tune.

[TylerStroud]

You got MSN dude?
doosh-noodle@hotmail.com

[Dice Man]

Postal Service- Such Great Heights: You may not believe me on this, but I could have written this song. 3 years ago I thought about writing this exact song exactly as it's recorded here and then I decided not to, because it essentially would not be a piece of music but just me talking over some beeps and clicks for 4 minutes. I've just got to the guitar solo bit at 3 minutes and it's just the same fucking note over and over with a bend at the end, and then repeated but the note below it! This is musical genius of the highest order! If only I'd thought of that bit when I first wrote this song I would be rich by now. 0/10.

Regina Spektor- Blue Lips: This is another of those recent female singers who are really over-rated. This song is poorly written and the arrangement of piano and string section is a poor choice. Some people just think adding strings to something immediately makes it +2. They have all the ingredients here for a 9/10 but they have failed to put it together properly. The end of the song is particularly hideous. Is this even a song anymore? You can't just fucking repeat a few lyrics with a semi-nice voice and it be good music. There has to be a bit of actual tune in there. 3/10.

Ben Folds- Army: This starts off pretty well. The audience saxophone/trumpet thing is a great idea, although I can't actually hear them now the song has started. Good tune, good band, good verse/chorus format and nice interludes. He can play piano well too. This is the sort of gig you'd like to be at despite not knowing any of their stuff. OK he got to the audience participation bit and that worked so well. I'm surprised they pulled it off given about 20 seconds of preparation. 9/10.

Fitness Club Fiasco- Out One Day (It wont let me listen to the middle one): This starts with some potential, but if it's going to be as simplistic as just a guy with a piano and some slight female backing vocals he needs to have a better voice. OK it's picked up a bit now with some drums. I'm looking ahead and it says it's 4 minutes long. I can imagine being through with this at 3 minutes TBH. OK it got half way through and it's basically starting the song all over again. This is just a 2 minute song repeated. Oh wait it stopped before it got to the drummy bit again. This was OK but there's no real indication of great talent or musical ability contained here. 4/10.

Tobiah- I Love Your Music: This has started off well with some nice squiggly synthesising, however it's becoming increasingly nonsensical. It sounds like computer game music. OK there are some lyrics. WTF this has become just a drone. Ah the good tune has come back. Is this the sort of thing people dance to in clubs? If I had to dance to this I'd just to be throwing my arms everywhere and jumping to no rhythm at all, like I'm trying to get rid of a wasp under my shirt. I could probably listen to this for like 15 minutes, although not too loud, because the slow part of the tune is good and you can sort of blank out the lyrics and squiggly bits. 6/10.

Ronald Jenkees- Stay Crunchy: If this was a Muse song I would be getting enthusiastic about it but it looks like he's just going to be forever playing the same bit over and over and it won't lead anywhere. Actually it does sound pretty good, although it would be much better if it were an actual song. 2.30 in and I'm bored now. He's now slowed up and virtually nothing is happening. Ah good it ended prematurely. 4/10.

Postal Service- Brand New Holiday: It'll be hard for these guys to produce something worse than the last song. Goddamn this beeping is annoying. Do they have somebody playing a dial-up connection? The guy isn't even singing, he's just talking. Ah I'm glad to see this is only 2 minutes long. It is therefore better than the last song. 1/10.

Figurine- Impossible: If I could listen to just the drum track on this it would improve the song. Everything they're adding over the top of that is just making it pointless and rubbish. LOL these guys are hardly even talking, they're actually mumbling! And now there's a woman mumbling trying to do her best to make you ignore her completely. Nothing of musical significance has happened so far in this song. WTF with the end? It sounds like a xylophone made of milk bottles that they've trained themselves to play in the least pleasant way possible. This is worse than the first Postal Service song but I've already committed myself to that being 0/10 so this is also 0/10.

Postal Service- Against All Odds: OK nothing has happened in the first minute. How can anybody seriously believe this is music? The guy's just saying the original lyrics as if they're a fucking poem. OK the track has now started. Ah the original tune is finally being represented. It's still pretty boring though. It'll get some points, but these guys have done a good job of making this song as bad as possible. The guitar parts probably saved this from being utterly atrocious. 2/10.

I 100% advise getting the give up album, probably one of the best albums i own.

For this to even be logically possible you must own only one album.

OK I will throw something different out there.

Firstly, this:

YouTube - CkY - 96 Quite Bitter Beings

I'm putting this forward because of the propensity in this thread of really simple tunes. This has got the most sick/simple riff ever. Anybody who's watched much Jackass will recognise this as some of the backing music for the Bam Margera stuff. Quite a few of their tracks are on the Jackass soundtrack and they have some other really awesome riffs elsewhere.

And now for a bit of classic electric guitar. Look on the right of the video to see the line-up for this incredible instrumental track: one of the best rock line-ups ever. I'm going to see Jeff Beck tomorrow (who IMO is better than Clapton) and he should play this (even 40 years on).

YouTube - BECK'S BOLER0 (extended version)1966 - Jeff Beck/Jimmy Page

This is one of those tracks that if you play full volume and your neighbours come round to complain you should be legally entitled to knee them in the groin and play air guitar to this track over their static body.

[jingjangjong]

Never heard of these guys before but like it. When/where are they playing in Bristol? I may also check them out.

Louisiana 8pm sat

[TylerStroud]

I agree with Matt and against Dice. Which is strange since a lot of the time i see you on MSN with a song in your comment and i think "Yeah good tune."

The Regina Spektor stuff is definitely love // hate but she's been around for a fairly long time (like Ben Folds has) in different guises and has a bit more of a cult following. Her lyrics are clever, her songs are beautiful, and shes an insanely talented pianist.

The Ben Folds Army song is one of my favourite of his but if you wanted to you could go through most of his stuff and I love it all.

The CKY stuff is shit.

[CitrusSR]

I'm liking this thread, it's interesting how everyone likes different things, some of the tracks people post I think "wtf is this shit!" but it's always good to give other kinds of music a chance! Not heard anything I think is great yet though, but I liked Dices "CkY - 96 Quite Bitter Beings". I remember that from Jackass, its weird 'cos I randomly had it in my head the other day and thought to myself "I should try and find out what thats called" - so cheers

I quite liked Tobiah - I Love Your Music, though it did sound a bit retro-computer-game-ish which lost it points 6.5/10

Figurine- Impossible was ok, not sure on the vocals though...I did like the 'hoover noise' samples, not heard them since banging hard house tracks of the late nineties/early 2000's and was interesting to hear them on a different style of song so they score points for that. 5.5/10


I will throw out another track, which I think is great, there seems to be a lot of tunes being produced recently that are similar to the trance of the late 1990's and this is one of them I can just imagine being on some random dancefloor or in a hot place outside on the terrace when I listen to this. It honestly makes my hair stand on end everytime I listen to it....

Anyway, I've hyped it up too much and a lot of you don't seem to be in to this sorta thing so I will shut up.... its fucking good though whether you like it or not!!

Also - give it a chance to kick in, the start is the part where the DJ would be mixing it into the previous track. (The bit from about 1 min to 4 mins is the best bit. EDIT - the part after the breakdown on 4 mins is pretty epic too!!)

YouTube - Pryda - Melo (Original Mix) HQ


Again, that's the softer side to my taste though so I will post one more turn this one up load or it won't sound as good

YouTube - Plan B - No good (Chase & Status Remix)

[PokerWoody]

YouTube - Sandy Denny - 3.10 to Yuma (Alternate Take)

I can see exactly why you like it - girl singer, folky, etc - but all I could think is that it would be significantly better if Johnny Cash was singing it. Not bad though. I think perhaps the right mood would make it better.